"During the Chongzhen period, the country collapsed, and officers and soldiers were not as good as thieves. These officers and soldiers who were not as good as thieves surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and various atrocities that occurred in various places were inevitable."

Zheng Zhonglei analyzed it rationally. In his opinion, the Manchu city massacre was true, but most of the perpetrators were Han troops. Therefore, it was biased to calculate all the accounts of Manzhou people, not the attitude of history. If we really want to liquidate the culprits, we should liquidate the Ming troops who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, not Manzhou people.

"Why did those surrendered soldiers carry out massacres? They are not trying to cover up their evil deeds of killing and robbing. Therefore, I never thought that the Manzhou people ordered the massacre of the city, which was unwise. After Manzhou entered the pass, they respected Confucius and respected Confucianism, just like another Yuan Dynasty. Let me ask, since ancient times, which regime dared to order the massacre so blatantly? Could it be that they would cut themselves off from our China? I would like to say objectively that the Manzhou people did not have the bad habit of massacres, and the massacres were all Han troops. Therefore, we cannot slander them arbitrarily just because they are our enemy."

"I heard from Lord Zheng's tone, I seem to have a good impression of the Qing Dynasty?"

Qi Guangsha, the head of the Ministry of Works, who was a Jinshi from Dingwu En, the Anhui native who passed the imperial examination the year before yesterday, was amused by what Zheng Zhonglei said and couldn't help but ridicule him.

This made Zheng Zhonglei nervous. He didn't want people to misunderstand that he felt close to the Qing Dynasty and hurriedly said: "I just hope that everyone will look at the Qing Dynasty's massacre fairly and objectively, not that they have any good feelings for the Qing Dynasty. I think my Zheng family also fought against the Qing Dynasty with their clan. There are many people who died in the family, so how can I have a good impression of the Qing Dynasty? Lord Qi cannot talk nonsense."

"Yeah?"

Qi Guangxia said coldly: "Why did Lord Zheng take the imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty earlier? It is logical that there is family hatred and national hatred. Lord Zheng doesn't take the imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty. If it is not good, he will not be a survivor and he will not leave the countryside."

This incident made Zheng Zhonglei a little angry and snorted slightly: "Mr. Qi, what we are discussing is how to study history, and what does it have to do with whether I take the imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty? If you use this to determine that Zheng has a good impression of the Qing Dynasty, then most of the people present will be told by you?"

A considerable number of officials present had taken the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty. Zheng Zhonglei brought them in, which undoubtedly made them "everyone was in danger", so they accused Qi Guangsha of being unreasonable.

"Mr. Qi, everyone is the same dynasty. Please pay attention to your words and do not ruin the harmony between colleagues."

The censor who had previously supported Zheng Zhonglei was also disgusted with Qi Guangsha. Seeing so many people standing by their side, he couldn't help but speak a little heavier.

Qi Guangxia frowned slightly, then relaxed, chuckled, and said, "Okay, since everyone is talking about history, then I'm blunt, what Lord Zheng said just now is biased. As far as I know, the old slave slaughtered me three million Han people in Liaodong. At that time, I'm afraid there were not so many surrendered troops to commit crimes for him? It can be seen that the massacre of the city in Manzhou has long been normal, and it is not objective to blame it on surrendered troops to cover up the robbery."

"It is outside the pass, how can it be equivalent to the matter inside the pass?" The censor disagreed.

"Are the people outside the pass not my Daming people?"

Qi Guangsha also became angry. He never thought that in the eyes of this censor, the people of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass were not worth mentioning.

The censor realized that he had made a mistake and said, "I am not saying that the people outside the pass are not my Ming people, but are just talking about the matter. How many places in the two capitals and 18 provinces were directly slaughtered by Manzhou people? I think those surrendered troops have done a lot, so these things have nothing to do with the Manzhou people. I tend to look at them differently."

"I'm afraid it may not be?"

An official from Dali Temple suddenly said: "Yangzhou City was ordered by Duoduo, Prince Yu of the Qing Dynasty, and Haoge directly commanded the manchu troops to massacre the city. Prince Duanzhong of the Qing Dynasty, Boluo, Prince Heshuo of Mandahai, etc., carried out a large-scale massacre in Fenzhou, Zezhou and other places in Shanxi. Dorgon ordered the massacre in Tongguan, Jinan, Datong and other places. All of these places were directed by Manchu troops. How could it be said that the Manchu people did not have the bad habit of massacre?"

"South of the Yangtze River, there are many people who are directly slaughtering the city by the Manchu soldiers. It is this Nanchang City. Wasn't the Manchu soldiers from the north led by Beile Tan Tai from the Qing Dynasty to break the city? So why is the culprit no longer related to the Manzhou people? I can't understand this." Qi Guangsha looked at Zheng Zhonglei and others with dissatisfaction.

Zheng Zhonglei was speechless for a moment, but an official behind him said, "There are few soldiers in the house. No matter how much they kill, they will never be able to kill billions of dollars. The most evil ones will be the surrendered army and the thieves. This cannot be denied, right?"

"Surrendered army? Bandits?"

Qi Guangxia laughed furiously: "So, lord, before Jiashen, did these surrendered thieves massacre cities on a large scale in various parts of our Ming Dynasty, slaughtering hundreds of thousands or even millions at a time? Why did this happen again and again after surrendering to the people of Manzhou? "

"this"

The officials were not without conscience. They hadn't thought about it just now. Now, when they thought about it, this matter was really related to the people of Manzhou. Because even if the military discipline of the officers and soldiers during the Chongzhen period was not good, they had the act of killing good and taking credit, such as Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing and others who once massacred tens of thousands of people as military merits, they often plundered the troops, but there were no such things as Yangzhou, Nanchang, Jiangyin, Jiaxing, Datong, Fuzhou, Chaozhou, Guangzhou, and Sichuan who killed millions at one time and died out in the entire city. The large-scale massacre was still the matter of the former Ming army and bandits surrendering to the Qing army. Therefore, whether the Manzhou people were the culprit of the massacre should be a foregone conclusion and cannot be embellished.

The Dali Temple official who helped Qi Guangsha speak said again: "I have never heard that the master would bite people without ordering it. Moreover, every time the Qing army massacred the city, most of the robbery income belongs to the Manchu soldiers. It is not difficult to see that the fact of the massacre was instructed by the Manchu people. They are not the culprits, but who is the culprit!"

Many officials who had previously thought that Zheng Zhonglei and others had reasonable analysis also nodded at this time and agreed with what Qi Guangsha and the official of Dali Temple said. I think those surrendered troops surrendered to the Qing Dynasty because they were afraid of the Manchu soldiers. So without the consent of the Manchu people, how could they dare to do their own things unless they didn't want to live anymore.

Outside the crowd, a young voice sounded, "Actually, you all forgot the fact that the people of Manzhou do not want to slaughter the city directly, but because they have few people and cannot kill them, so they drive the surrendered army to slaughter the city, thus allowing them to return with a full load. In the final analysis, the Qing Dynasty was not a Chinese person. In the heart, they just regarded my China as a place for hunting, robbing and making money, so that they could slaughter the city and beasts in my Ming Dynasty. "

The person who spoke was Wang Ziwen, a native of Jiujiang, and is currently a member of the Ministry of Works. In addition to Wang Ziwen, several officials refuted the "objective" analysis of Zheng Zhonglei and others. Their words were fierce and even pointed out that Zheng Zhonglei and others had ulterior motives, called justice, but they were actually the culprit.

This made Zheng Zhonglei and the censor feel frightened. Fortunately, all the officials present were all from the six ministries and nine ministers, and there was no personal army, otherwise God would know what would happen.

Although these officials are arguing hard now, they are essentially on the same boat, otherwise they would not have been "escorted" by their personal troops to visit the Holocaust Memorial Hall. Some people have even made a lot of efforts in the previous "retrospective" trend.

"After saying so much, what if it was done by Manzhou people, what if it was not done by them, things always pass. Do we really want to keep these things in our hearts and really think that like them, we will go to the north to slaughter them all in the future?"

The censor of the Censorate was indignant and believed that Qi Guangsha and his friends had read all the books. The sage said "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and filial piety", and they forgot the word "benevolence, righteousness" and they could not achieve it. What is China? Benevolence and righteousness means to use virtue to transform all directions and make the four barbarians return to their hearts. Isn't it the great way of the saints?

"A dog bites a person, can he still bite him like a dog? If this is the case, what is the difference between this person and a dog?" Zheng Zhonglei was stubborn.

"We can't bite it back, but we can kill the dog with a stick. Only in this way can the dog know what the consequences of the offender of me, China." Qi Guangxia said coldly.

Prince Ziwen of Tanhua squeezed past the front several times, came to Zheng Zhonglei, glanced at them, and then slowly said: "As far as I say, what if we bite it back? The people of Manzhou are not dogs. Why can't we do what they can do? I have decided. When I return to Nandu, I will write a letter to the court, asking the King of Qi to lead the Northern Expedition, and to deal with him, the old and young Manzhou, to shock the four barbarians!"

Others may be a bit awe of Tanhua, but Zheng Zhonglei is a minister of the official department and a prominent place for the censors of the department, so he did not let the mum. He snorted and said, "Tanhualang, we are well-read poetry and books, in order to govern the country in the world, but we are not a beast."

"It is useless to say more. Brother Zheng, let us go. They want to be beasts, and let them do it. We will be good for human beings. Establishing our hearts for the heaven and earth, establishing our destiny for the people, inheriting our unique knowledge for the past sages, and opening peace for all ages is what we do!"

The censor of the Censorate saw that the number of officials standing on their side was getting smaller and smaller, so he pulled Zheng Zhonglei away from the place.

"Bah, these people are worthy of peace for the whole world?" Looking at Zheng Zhongda and others leaving, Qi Guangsha couldn't help but spit.

"They are old." Prince Wen of Tanhua shook his head slightly.

"Are you old?"

Qi Guangsha and the officials of Dali Temple were stunned when they heard this. Zheng Zhonglei was in middle age, how could he get old?

Wang Ziwen pointed to his head and said to them: "It's old here."

"Maybe."

Zheng Zhonglei also shook his head and stopped talking about this. Everyone has their own thoughts and their own opinions on things. He cannot force others to accept his ideas. It is really nothing to say that the so-called different ways and do not plan for each other.

After experiencing this small storm, the officials gathered together to talk about their own opinions. After the time came, they returned to the hall.

In the hall, Ding Zhixiang and Jiangxi Governor Li Zhicui and others were there. Seeing that the officials had all come out, they led them out of the hall and went to the inn to rest. There was still a schedule for the next two days, and the time was tight, so it was impossible to delay at all.

When passing through the middle of the square full of names of the victims of the massacre, Qi Guangxia felt that there seemed to be a few people missing in the team. It felt something was wrong. He looked at it a few more times and couldn't help but ask the people around him in confusion: "Where are Zheng Zhonglei and the others going? Why aren't they in the team?"

"Which Zheng Zhonglei?" The official was stunned, "The official department is in charge?"

"It's him."

"I don't know, maybe I'll leave first."

"Leave?"

Qi Guangsha was very confused, but he didn't think much about it. He was incompatible with these people, so he didn't care about what he did.

In the Memorial Hall, several personal soldiers were dragging out several corpses, and long blood marks were dragged out from the ground.

On the inside of the Corpse Pavilion, Pan Xuezhong, a private army, looked at the pile of white bones in front of him, with no expression on his face. The red lanterns hung above him, making his face gloomy and terrifying.

"I don't want you to die in a mess. Your Highness has a life. From now on, I will not let benevolent and righteous people, and don't forget the people of history. Therefore, I will put you here specifically so that you can know why you are dying."

After saying that, Pan Xuezhong leaned out and placed the three heads in front of him on the pile of bones.

These three heads belong to Zheng Zhonglei, the former censor of the Censorate and an official of the Ministry of Rites.

I don’t know if it was done intentionally or if I really refused to close my eyes, but my three heads were all wide open.
Chapter completed!