Chapter 336: Two Great Scholars
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Guangdong sent people to report the victory to the emperor and brought more than 200 heads of the Tartars in Manzhou Province that had spread like wildfire in Kunming City.
When Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang learned the news, many officials and people who had arrived after hearing the news had gathered outside the city. If it weren't for the special period of Kunming now and the gates entering and leaving the city were strictly investigated, there would probably be more people coming out of the city.
There were too many people coming to watch, afraid that there would be thousands of people. The Ming army guarding the city was afraid of some chaos, so they sent two thousand generals to lead several teams of troops outside the city to maintain order. Kunming Prefecture also sent more than a hundred yamen runners to help, so as not to get rid of something wrong.
When King Li Dingguo of Jin was two famous kings and killed the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, Kunming City was far behind, so he had no impression of these two great victories. Now, as the emperor moved to Kunming, even the barons knew about the great changes that had taken place in the Ming Dynasty over the past ten years. He was also very curious about the Manzhou Tartars who had seized the Ming Dynasty. They were naturally afraid of the curious and were naturally afraid. They had to be afraid, because the rumors were rumored that the Manzhou Tartars were tyrannical beasts and would slaughter the city every time they went to!
Now Guangdong suddenly came to report a great victory and sent more than 200 Manzhou Tartars' heads to Kunming. The old and young men in Kunming were naturally sensational. They all wanted to see what the Manzhou Tartars' heads looked like. Is it more eyes or ears than our Han people, otherwise they would have liked to eat people so much yesterday?
The first thing I heard was the idle people who often wandered around the city gate. These guys were very familiar with the soldiers guarding the gate. They found a familiar soldier and knew what was going on outside the city after asking for a moment. Then they got into a friendship and left the city to watch the fun. However, these guys acted like heroes in the city on weekdays, but when they saw the Tartars who were taken from the jar of wine, they vomited half of them on the spot. The rest half covered their mouths and ran into the city as if they had seen ghosts, which made people laugh at them. Some of them were familiar with them and joked that they were not good at it.
Many of the onlookers were preparing to enter the city, some people were visiting relatives, some were buying things, and more were carrying vegetables from their own vegetable fields to the city for sale, and many were carrying firewood. There were also several horse gangs from all over the country who were traveling to Kunming for commercial goods. Now they were no longer in the city and were watching the fun there.
Seeing the Taiping Army's team stopped here and surrounded many officers and soldiers, the people were naturally curious. As a result, just like those idle people, they saw the people who were well-coded and piled up like Xiaojingguan, and the people were shocked. Even the butchers were so angry that they saw it. After all, with so many heads in front of them, the scene was really scary, and they looked at it in broad daylight.
Some women have never seen such horror scenes, and they are all scared and fainted on the spot. The children who are ignorant and forced to squeeze in to watch the fun are scared and cry a lot. The people in the horse gang usually go through mountains and rivers and eat just from the knife. However, few of them are scared, but they are pointing at the fingertips. It seems that they are saying that the Manzhou Tartars are not so good, and there is nothing to scare.
I was so scared that I was so scared that I was so scared that I was so scared that I was so scared that I was so scared. After asking again, I found out that these individual heads were the Manchu Tartars who had taken over the Ming Dynasty. The people naturally burst into cheers.
People of the same clan shared the same hatred and enemy in these people. Even though these people outside Kunming City had not been harmed by the Tartars, they still subconsciously called him good, not for anything else, just because they were Han people.
The Han people and the alien Tartars have been incompatible since ancient times, either you die or I live.
Of course, not all the onlookers were Han people. Yunnan was located in a remote place and there were many tribes in the territory. These tribes controlled by the chieftains mostly supported the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Yongli. However, there were also a few who contacted him after Sun Kewang's army invaded Yunnan, trying to be the inner supporter, and a few even fantasized that they could be the king of Yunnan like Shadingzhou back then. The people of these tribes were mixed in the crowd and saw the heads of the Manchu Tartars, and they were also different in their minds.
There were also many officials in the crowd watching, but most of them were small officials in green robes. They didn’t see a single official in red robes. After hearing the news, they all hurried over to see the Tatars in Manzhou with their own eyes. Most of them were not from Yunnan provinces, but from other provinces who came from Zhaoqing with Emperor Yongli, including from Guangdong and Guangxi, from Jiangxi and Fujian, and even from Zhili in northern China, most of them were in their thirties and forties.
I saw with my own eyes that many of the low-ranking officials were in front of me. Although they were civil officials, none of them were shocked by these heads, and none of them vomited. They all gritted their teeth and looked at the heads of the Tartars. From their expressions, we can see that behind each of them there was a tragic past that they couldn't bear to look back on.
The more people watched, the more excited Liang Shuanghu and his men became, because this was the only way for them to show the Taiping Army's great achievements to the people of Yunnan.
Before coming, Zhou Shixiang summoned Liang Shuanghu and Guo Shao and repeatedly emphasized that this time he not only escorted these Tartar heads to Kunming, but more importantly, after arriving in Kunming, he would do everything possible to promote the prestige of the Taiping Army to officials and the people, so that everyone in Yunnan would know that there was a Taiping Army in Guangdong that was no worse than the elite troops under the King of Jin.
In order to hide his identity, he arrived in Kunming successfully in order to hide his identity. Liang Shuanghu had no chance to promote it. Now he finally had a chance, and he felt sorry for him if he didn't show off. Several times, he picked up one or two Tartar heads and shook them at the people and the officials around him, telling them how these Tartars were defeated by them and how they cut off their heads.
Liang Shuanghu tried hard to show the Taiping Army's "martial arts" to the people of Yunnan, but Guo Shao was a little anxious. The general said that he had entered the city to report to them, but after so long, there was no movement in the city. What happened to him just come to watch the fun.
When he came, Duke Xiang of Song told Guo Shao that when he went to Kunming to offer victory, the emperor would definitely meet him as the envoy to report the victory, ask for details of the war in Guangdong, and then as usual, he would definitely receive a reward, but the court arranged for them to report the victory to the emperor, Duke Xiang of Song himself did not know how the court arranged for them to report the victory to the emperor, so he would do it as long as Guo Shao arrived at the place and cooperated with the court.
Now that I have been lying at the city gate for so long, I still haven't seen any movement in the city. Guo Shao can't help but become suspicious and guess.
The Ming army guarding the city outside the city and the officials who rushed to hear the news also found it strange that the teams from Guangdong had arrived for half an hour. Even if they were delayed, the officials in charge in the court should arrive. There is no reason to let the teams from outside the city have been there for so long.
What is the court doing? Isn’t this a shame the soldiers’ hearts?
The officials whispered, feeling dissatisfied with the delay in making arrangements by the court.
Liang Shuanghu was also impatient and was about to ask the Ming army guarding the city what was going on, but the crowd heard a clamor: "Here, come, come!"
What's coming?
Liang Shuanghu looked over the city gate, and in his sight, he saw two sedan chairs coming out of the city gate. The sedan chairmen walked very quickly, and it was the officials in the sedan chair who were urging him tightly. Behind the sedan chair, there was a large group of officials following them. Seeing their breathlessness, he knew that the journey must have not stopped.
After the sedan chair fell, two red robe officials walked out of the sedan chair, and then walked towards this side one by one. When the Ming army guarded the city saw that the two were saluting. The former deputy general Liang Mingyuan also came with him.
Seeing this attitude, Liang Shuanghu knew that these two people must be high-ranking officials, so he asked Guo Shao: "Who are they?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Those who wear red robe must be the high-ranking officials. Let's just wait." Guo Shao signaled Liang Shuanghu not to speak nonsense and wait patiently.
The two came here, Fu Gang, the second assistant to the cabinet and Guo Zhiqi, the Grand Secretary. They both rushed over after hearing the news in the cabinet.
He beheaded more than 200 Tartars in the Manchus, captured more than 800 Han flag soldiers and more than 3,000 Green Camp soldiers, and captured thousands of battalions and more than a dozen Manchus soldiers. A Manchus leader surrendered to the Taiping Army. How did this news not make Fu Gang, the second auxiliary cabinet assistant excited?
Guo Zhiqi was even more happy that the Taiping Army was able to win two victories near Guangzhou and also sent the heads of the Tartars of Zhen Manzhou and the captured Manzhou military flag to the court. This great clerk who was sent to the Yongli court to laugh out loud. In terms of rewards, the general of Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang, made contributions to the Taiping Army, and the governor of Guangdong Lianchengbi, made contributions to him. He was even more successful, but Guo Zhiqi and Fu Gang went out of the city together for some credit, but he also had to see the heads of the 214 Zhen Manzhou Eight Banners soldiers with his own eyes.
After Fu Gang and Guo Zhiqi arrived, the people knew that the high-ranking officials had arrived, so they automatically separated from both sides. Under the escort of the officers and soldiers, Fu Gang and Guo Zhiqi came to the Taiping Army's convoy.
"Experience!"
Fu Gang did not say a word to Liang Shuanghu, and Guo Shao urgently ordered the officials of the Ministry of War who accompanied him to check their heads again.
The officials of the Ministry of War were familiar with this kind of thing. Several people came forward to see so many people waving their heads. First, they took a breath of air conditioner, and then each of them picked up a Manzhou soldiers' head and started to test it. One was tested and nodded. After a while, the 214 heads were verified one by one. After checking the seized Manzhou Eight Banners Military Banners, several War Department officials were excited to report to Fugang that it was indeed correct.
In fact, Fu Gang knew that he could not make a mistake from the expressions of the officials of the Ministry of War when they first tested the heads, but he still waited patiently until the end. After the final determination, the excited Grand Secretary Fu no longer knew what to say. At this moment, there was no more words to describe the joy and excitement in the heart of the second assistant in the cabinet. If it weren't for the nobles of the cabinet, the people were watching, I was afraid that Grand Secretary Fu would have already jumped up cheering.
Chapter completed!