Great time travel

Chapter 165: Ten Days in Suzhou

Just as Qian Qianyi, Qu Shixu, and other famous scholars and gentry families in the south of the Yangtze River were talking about the strategy of resisting the Qing Dynasty and saving the nation on the Huqiu Thousand People Stone, there were a group of people pushing and shouting at the same time on a stone bridge outside the Huqiu Mountain Gate. Pulling their throats, arguing with each other.

Although someone had put up a sign on the bridge that read "Stay where you are," the people outside the door obviously didn't take this warning seriously.

I saw a thin, handsome young man in Confucian uniforms, facing the group of Fushe scholars who guarded the stone bridge, and said angrily: "... Get out of the way! This Tiger Hill is a famous place in the world, and it is not your own. Ancestral property, you can come, why can't others come?"

And the people who rushed to the side of the stone bridge heard the young man's reasoning, even if they didn't intend to go in to watch the excitement, they all raised their fists and shouted to cheer: "...Yes! This Tiger Hill is here again. It's not your own private property, how can you occupy it like this at will!"

The middle-aged scholar who was ordered to guard the gate, seeing that he seemed to be outraged by the public, had no choice but to bow again and again: "...Everyone, stop making trouble, we occupy Tiger Hill to discuss world affairs, and the space on the mountain is limited, so there is no room for more people." People, if there is any accident, please everyone Haihan."

"...No! Isn't this looking down on us? The so-called major events in the world are everyone's responsibility, why don't you let me wait to discuss them together! The current situation is in chaos, the wild ambitions of the Tartars are poisoning the south of the Yangtze River, and Suzhou is also at stake. These lives are at stake How can you just rely on yourself to be arbitrarily arbitrarily judged?"

However, the young man who took the lead to break through the door was so unreasonable that he didn't let others go. Seeing someone helping out, he became more confident, raised his head, and yelled loudly: "...Anyway, I must listen to the countermeasures of the gentlemen! It’s God’s will to grow on your own body, and it’s God’s will to be squeezed so that you stumble off the cliff, which one should you care about?”

"...We also have good intentions..." The middle-aged scholar guarding the gate couldn't help being a little panicked when he saw that more and more people gathered by the bridge, and the handsome young man in the lead kept messing around.But the young man took the opportunity to lean over and shouted: "... Let it pass? If we want to stop it again, we will have to force our way in!"

However, the middle-aged scholar guarding the gate took a closer look, and suddenly smiled at the young man in Confucian uniform who led the way through the gate: "...Hahaha, girl, the people who are gathering in Huqiu today are either the gentry and celebrities, or the officials and scholars. What is the purpose of a girl who wants to join in the crowd of men?"

When her identity was revealed suddenly, the girl in men's clothing turned pale immediately, and said in surprise, "...you, how did you recognize..."

"...Hehe, girl, although you have taken off the hairpin ring, the ring hole on the root of the ear is still there, how can you escape the eyes of the lower class!" The middle-aged scholar who guarded the gate stretched out his hand to stroke his beard, and said with a proud smile, " ... You were far away just now, so you didn't see it clearly, but now you come closer, don't you just pretend to be self-inflicted?"

The girl in men's clothing reached out her hand to touch her earlobe, her face turned red for a moment, she stomped her feet and said angrily: "...you, you bully! I, I..." She hesitated a few times, couldn't help being out of breath, and even covered her face and choked up.And the people who followed her and booed also realized this, and there was a lot of discussion for a while:

"...Hehehe, the old man is really blind. It turns out that she is a girl. I said she is so petite!"

"...Such a beautiful little girl, disguised into this appearance, must be secretly meeting some love brother!"

"...Tsk tsk tsk...Looking at her pink face and peach cheeks, she looks like a tender lotus root in a pond. I don't know which younger generation has such a good fortune..."

"...Hey, what a downfall! She ran around without even a maid, this girl is so unruly!"

"...Uh, judging by her temper and demeanor, I guess she is not a decent girl!"

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Under the accusation of thousands of people, the eyes of the men around her gradually became obscene, and the girl in men's clothing was ashamed and angry for a while, but she couldn't hold back her face to play in public... Fortunately, when she was so ashamed and angry, , but saw a young scholar brought by Eguanbo approaching slowly, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he shouted loudly, "...Chen Zilong! I was looking for you so hard! Why didn't you come to see me in Suzhou? I?!"

Chen Zilong, a well-known Songjiang scholar over there, was originally talking to a few friends beside him, when he heard the call of this girl in men's clothing, he was taken aback for a moment.It wasn't until the girl took off the kerchief on her head, revealing her long hair like a cloud, that she suddenly realized, and quickly leaned over and stretched out her hand to hold her.

"...Oh! How could it be you! Yang Yinglian, when did you arrive at Tiger Hill?"

"...I just arrived at Huqiu, and I haven't entered the door! I was stopped! What a bad luck!" The girl in men's clothing rubbed her hands, exhaled white gas, and said displeasedly, "...and, Don't call me Yang Yinglian, my girl's surname is now Liu, and her first name is Yin, so you must remember clearly..."

"...Hehe, your new name is eerie and weird. You don't distinguish between willows and willows. You hide your real name and do this. It's even more majestic than your old name!"

Seeing the two flirting and cursing each other, the scholars next to them couldn't help being a little curious, and even showed some ambiguous and envious expressions, "...Brother Chen, this little lady... Could it be the confidante you made in Suzhou? Why don't you give me an introduction?"

"...Hehe, okay, okay, let me introduce you to everyone. She is the daughter of Xu Fu from Shengze Town Guijiayuan. She met me in Songjiang last year. Although she is not very old, she is very smart. Even Tian Rugong (Zhang Fu) praised her poems and essays!"

As he spoke, Chen Zilong took Liu Rushi and introduced them to the Fushe friends next to him. Liu Rushi also responded to them one by one, calmly.Seeing that she was just a weak teenager in her teens, everyone dared to go out of the city to enter Tiger Hill by herself, they couldn't help secretly praising her for her courage and extraordinaryness.

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——The girl in men's clothing standing at the foot of Huqiu Mountain and calling the door is the famous prostitute in the late Ming Dynasty, 16-year-old Liu Rushi.

Liu Rushi, originally surnamed Yang, was born in the 46th year of Wanli (1618). He was smart and eager to learn when he was young, but because of his poor family, he was plundered and sold to Wujiang as a maidservant since he was a child.In the first year of Chongzhen (1628), Liu Rushi was adopted by Xu Fo, a famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River. He named himself "Ying Lian", which means "self-pity in troubled times".

At the beginning of the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), Liu Rushi was married by his adoptive mother Xu Fo and Zhou Mou, a bachelor who was over sixty years old, was his concubine.University student Zhou was born as the number one scholar. He often held her on his lap and taught her to read poetry and literature, which made other wives and concubines jealous.But only a few months after the marriage, Zhou suddenly died suddenly. Because Liu Rushi did not have children, he was not tolerated by the head of the family, so he was forced to leave the court, and immediately took a flower boat in Suzhou and Songjiang to resume his old business as a brothel.

When he lived in Songjiang, Liu Rushi (also called Yang Yinglian at the time) had many contacts with Fushe scholars and Donglin Party members. He often dressed in Confucian men's clothing, talked about current affairs, and sang poems with them, and made amazing remarks. , very popular with those Jiangnan literati at that time, as if playing the role of courtesan of later generations.Many young celebrities, including Chen Zilong and Zhang Pu, were once her guests.Among them, Chen Zilong has the best relationship with her, and has a vague relationship with her.

Afterwards, Liu Rushi returned to Suzhou and changed his name to Liu Yin until not long ago. Chen Zilong didn't know about the word Rushi.

(Although Liu Rushi was listed among the eight beauties of the Qinhuai River by later generations, she was actually a famous prostitute in Suzhou, and she basically lived in Suzhou and Songjiang. There is no conclusive evidence to prove that before she married in Congliang, she had Go to Nanjing Qinhuai River to grab business with local flower boats.)
After introducing each other and answering the ceremony, everyone looked at Liu Rushi's bright eyes and teeth, his extraordinary demeanor, and Chen Zilong's handsome appearance and heroic spirit.And after Chen Zilong exchanged greetings with Liu Rushi, and described the excitement of the long-lost reunion, he blamed her for being a weak woman who shouldn't rush out of the city in such a time of chaos, let alone take part in the men's fight against the Qing Dynasty and save the nation. event.

Unexpectedly, Liu Rushi said coquettishly instead, "...you guys, don't these honest gentlemen always talk about family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, and care about everything? Now all gentlemen are speaking freely on the stone of thousands of people. Even though you are a woman, can't you care about it?"

Regarding Liu Rushi's rebuttal, Chen Zilong coughed dryly, and was about to say something when he suddenly felt the ground shake slightly.Involuntarily turning around and standing on tiptoes, he looked into the distance, as if a cloud of dust, snow and mist was rising up in the wilderness at the end of his sight.

And the rest of the people gathered in front of the Huqiu mountain gate also gradually stopped making noise at this time, and vaguely felt a strangeness in the air.

So someone used both hands and feet to quickly climb up a big tree next to him, set up an arbor with his hands and looked into the distance. When Dang even trembled suddenly, he almost fell headlong, and at the same time, he let out a heart-piercing cry. Shouting: "...it's the Tartars! The Tartar cavalry is coming!!"

Suddenly, there was silence in front of the mountain gate of Tiger Hill, and everyone was dumbfounded, as if they couldn't believe it.

But at the next moment, everyone reacted and fled in all directions in an uproar.Due to the narrow road, many people trampled on each other, and even a few unlucky ones were squeezed into the icy midwinter river, and could only float and sink and shout for help.

In this extreme chaos, Chen Zilong first looked at the mountain gate of Huqiu, hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth, shouted "Xiaosheng is rude", then hugged Liu Rushi's delicate body, Then, ignoring her struggle, he ran towards a black-covered boat moored on the river next to him... After that, Chen Zilong personally grabbed a paddle, pushed the boat away from the shore with the boatman, and headed desperately towards the distant place. Cross it out.

At the same time, on the Qili Shantang Street behind them, the neighing of the Tartar war horses and all kinds of tragic wailing sounds could already be heard.

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In the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Qian Qianyi and Qu Shixu, the leaders of Donglin, sent their children to spread famous posts. In the name of Donglin and Fushe, they invited the gentry from all directions to a meeting in Huqiu, Suzhou, to discuss the preparation of volunteer soldiers and the defense of their homes.Then he formed a "righteous alliance" and elected Qu Shixu as the leader of the alliance to preside over military affairs.

However, the Tiger Hill Conference had been planned for many days before and after, and it could not be kept secret, so the news leaked out before the alliance meeting was held.
At that time, Huang Taiji, the captive chieftain, drove out of Nanjing, and issued an order to gather troops at the Zhenjiang Ferry, preparing to cross the river to the north and crusade against Dorgon, the traitor in Xuzhou.Unexpectedly, before the army was assembled, a spy came to report that someone in Suzhou had gathered a crowd to make trouble. Huang Taiji, the captive chief, ordered to turn around and march eastward, first to attack the rioters in Suzhou.

At noon on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Huang Taiji personally led thousands of captives and rode to the outskirts of Suzhou.Qian Qianyi, Qu Shixuzheng and hundreds of Jiangnan scholars gathered at Thousand People Stone in Huqiu. They couldn't avoid it for a while, and almost all of them were killed.Among the people present at Huqiu, there were only a few dozens of people including Songjiang scholars Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi. When the captives arrived, they boarded the river boat in time and escaped along the waterway.

After killing all the scholars in Huqiu, the Qing army marched into Suzhou along Shantang Street.The prefect of Suzhou and the gentry in the city heard about the change in Huqiu, and hurriedly closed the city gate, preparing to hold on.However, there is a shortage of major generals and no equipment in the city.The Qing army attacked the city with artillery, and the guards fled in a hurry. The prefect of Suzhou committed suicide by taking poison in the lobby of the yamen.At this point, the entire city of Suzhou had fallen, but after the city was broken, the people still refused to accept it. A righteous man armed with a bow and arrow attacked the captive chieftain Huang Taiji at night and shot him in the right shoulder.Huang Taiji, the captive chief, was furious with pain, so he ordered the massacre of the city for ten days, rewarded the soldiers, and set an example to others...

As a result, the Qing troops from all walks of life were overjoyed, and rushed into the city one after another, killing and looting wantonly, without sealing their swords for ten days, and killing more than half a million people.After this catastrophe, Suzhou, a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River known as heaven, has become like hell—those smart and lovely immature children like flowers and girls, kind and kind old parents, literary and elegant Confucian scholars, Knowledgeable and wise men, hard-working farmers, shrewd and smooth businessmen... all kinds of people, under the butcher knife of the Qing army, all became rotten corpses that filled the streets and alleys and silted up the rivers.

According to the descriptions of the survivors, when the Qing soldiers retreated, the city was already full of babies, some lined with horseshoes, or with human feet, their hearts and brains were all over the ground, and the sound of crying filled the fields.Walking through a ditch and a pond, piles of corpses are piled up, brothers and feet are pillowed together, the blood is stained with snow, and the pond is flat.The road was littered with corpses, rotten skin swelled, and flesh and blood collapsed.The filth and stench are overwhelming, and after being exposed to the sun, the smell will become even worse. Even though it is a severe winter, it is still smelly for hundreds of miles... All kinds of horrific places are really too numerous to describe.

However, when the prosperous and beautiful city of Suzhou was gradually being destroyed in blood and fire, His Majesty Huang Taiji, who was the chief culprit, lived in the luxurious villa of Emperor Wenzong Qian Qianyi in the southeast, located under Fushui Rock in Yushan Mountain. Fushui Villa, fully appreciate the elegant style of Jiangnan gardens...