Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 64

Hejian Mansion, Guhuai Village.

The name of Guhuai Village comes from the fact that there is a thousand-year-old pagoda tree at the entrance of the village, with a canopy like an umbrella.It is said that when Bao Gong was the magistrate of Yingzhou, he tried a case under this locust tree and defended the people.

Most of the residents in the village are surnamed Fan, and there is a statue of Baogong enshrined in Fan's ancestral hall.Every year during the Spring Festival, the family holds sacrificial activities, and they must first worship Baogong before offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

In the afternoon of this day, the villagers were working in the fields when they suddenly heard people neighing.Looking up, I saw smoke and dust billowing, and a group of Manchu Qing soldiers came galloping on horseback.

This Qing army held a yellow flag and was led by a mighty man.This man's eyes were like lightning, his beard stood upside down, each root was like a thorn, and he was full of energy and arrogance.

When he came to the field, the man said in unfamiliar Chinese: "I, Oboi, was given the name 'Batulu', the number one warrior in the Qing Dynasty, and the commander of the Yellow Banner Guard. The land of this village has been occupied by me. , you are my slaves!"

Following the hair-shaving order, Dorgon issued an enclosure order, the purpose of which was to win over the nobles of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and let them wantonly occupy land.

The Jiannu Tartars who had just entered the customs had not yet entered the farming civilization, and they still had many barbaric habits.Their biggest purpose in waging war is to snatch people, land, gold, silver, and women, to satisfy their own selfish desires, and they don't care about the lives of ordinary people.

The villagers were shocked and frightened, and at the same time indignant.The land that has been born and bred here for generations embodies the blood, sweat and affection of the people. When the Tartars come, they will take it away easily. How can there be such a reason in the world?

A gray-haired old man said: "This is our home, our homeland..."

Before he finished speaking, Oboi rushed over with a big gun in his hand, the point of the gun pierced into the old man's stomach, he lifted it up, the old man's body flew into the air and then fell down, and he died immediately.

"You dog tartar, you are too deceitful!" Many people shouted.

"Kill them all!" Obai waved his hand.

The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty went on a killing spree, and many people died on the spot.The living people fled desperately and ran back to the village, but the iron cavalry of the Qing soldiers followed closely.

Among them was a young man in his 20s named Fan Xing.He rushed back to his courtyard in a hurry, pushed away the side rooms and shouted: "Uncle, the Tartars have slaughtered the village, you should quickly hide!"

"What?" An old man who hadn't shaved his hair and was dressed in the old Ming style was lying on the hospital bed. He was Fan Jingwen.

After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Fan Jingwen handed over the letter left by the emperor, but refused to surrender and was thrown into a prison.Later, when Li Zicheng escaped from the capital, a prison chief took advantage of the disorder and released Fan Jingwen, and he fled back to his hometown.

Fan Xing couldn't help talking, carried Fan Jingwen to the backyard, and hid him in the pile of firewood.

"Uncle, keep hiding, my nephew can't continue to serve you." Fan Xing kowtowed, ran to the front yard, grabbed a hoe and ran out.

Fan Jingwen heard horrific screams, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, fire, and tartars yelling viciously.It was not until the dead of night, when there was no movement at all, that he quietly got out.

Blood and water flowed across the yard, and the ground was filthy.The whole nephew's family died, and Fan Xing was lying at the gate of the courtyard, his intestines leaking out.

"Heaven and earth are not benevolent and regard everything as a straw dog. God, open your eyes and see the crimes committed by the Tartars!" Fan Jingwen cried bitterly.

Suddenly he heard footsteps again, he didn't dare to stay any longer, dragged his sick body and escaped from the village, heading south all the way.

Go to the south to see the emperor, and you must see the emperor again before you die!
When Aobai slaughtered Guhuai Village, Fan Wencheng was trying to dissuade Dorgon, saying: "Prince Regent, since the enclosing order was issued, massacres of villages have happened frequently. How did the Qing Dynasty stay stable?"

Dorgon didn't speak, and Duoduo said: "What's the big deal, at worst, go back outside the pass!"

"Shut up!" Dorgon was very angry with Duoduo recently, he said, "I sent you south, but you didn't accomplish anything, how much trouble did you cause me, people like Azig and Aobai have been following me Fighting openly and secretly. If it weren't for the purpose of winning over them, would I have issued an enclosure order?"

Doduo shut his mouth resentfully, yawning one after another.Duo ErGun disliked him and drove him away.

Fan Wencheng continued: "If the regent still has ambitions, he should put the people first, even if he pretends to be. Li Zicheng sits in Xi'an, Chongzhen resumes production in the south, and the Qing Dynasty is full of dangers. How can we take it lightly?"

"Just listen to you, stop the land enclosure order for now." Dorgon took a puff of tobacco and asked, "You said that Li Zicheng is not to be feared, and Chongzhen is our biggest opponent. How should we deal with him?"

Fan Wencheng said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I think we should first send spies south to inquire about the situation. After finding out the situation of Chongzhen, we must gather an army to go south, at least to occupy the Jiangbei area and drink from the Yangtze River. Taking history as a guide, if we can capture Jiangbei, Chongzhen I can’t afford to bother with the waves.”

"Mingshun and Mingshun have already formed an alliance. Will Li Zicheng sit idly by when we attack Chongzhen?"

"Regent, please rest assured that Li Zicheng will not be successful. I can be sure that if we attack Dashun, Chongzhen will definitely help, but if we attack the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng may not abide by the covenant. What's more, I have arranged for Chen Hongfan to buy Niu Jinxing , presumably it will work.”

Dorgon nodded and said: "That's great, but it's not so easy to install spies?"

"Regent, many refugees fled to the south recently, this is our chance!" Fan Wencheng said this, his eyes lit up, "Chongzhen, I underestimated you before, now I have to fight with you!"

……

Since the implementation of the Enclosure Movement in the Qing Dynasty, the people in the north have suffered unbearably. After many people were displaced, they began to miss the Ming Dynasty.

Even some country gentry and landowners lamented in private: "It's better to be in the Ming Dynasty. Why did you just think about surrendering?"

In particular, I heard that the Jiangbei area had a bumper harvest this year, and the emperor exempted the three salaries and encouraged land reclamation. Many refugees ran south to return to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty.

Many refugees gradually came from outside the city of Xuzhou. Li Cunming led Yan Ermei and Gong Yonggu to stand on the city wall, watching the porridge sheds.

"Your Majesty, look, these people have all shaved their hair and have rat tails on the back of their heads. They are no longer citizens of the Ming Dynasty. Why give them porridge? They should just starve to death!" Gong Yonggu said.

Gong Yonggu's words do not represent his own opinion, many people hold the same opinion.

In particular, members of the Donglin Party in Nanjing are most keen on moral judgments, and have published many memorials, hating the refugees and officials who went south, saying that they have lost their integrity.

Li Cunming said: "Youfa is an obedient citizen of my Ming Dynasty, and Wufa is a refugee of my Ming Dynasty. I have always held such a view. Gong Aiqing, don't be like a pedantic nerd, let alone a hypocritical hypocrite. There are many things in the world that are not true." It’s either black or white. There’s no heart when it comes to deeds, and there’s no saint when it comes to heart!”

"The common people can't help themselves, so why should we care about it? What's more, the population in the south is also declining, and everything is in ruins. Only someone can revive our Ming Dynasty!"

Yan Ermei said: "The emperor is far-sighted and broad-minded, no less than Tang Taizong! It's just that the minister is worried that Manchu spies will be mixed in among the refugees. These people have all shaved their hair, and they can't distinguish Han people from Manchus at all."

Li Cunming smiled and said, "I already have an idea."

Then he took out a piece of paper full of words, handed it to Gong Yonggu, and said: "Go, if you really caught a Tartar spy, I will do whatever you want, and let you vent your grievances."

Gong Yonggu got down from the city wall, led a thousand royal guards and five thousand soldiers, opened the north gate and said, "Listen, all the refugees, enter the city through the north gate. Line up and enter the city one by one."

It was finally possible to enter the city, the refugees cheered and there was a long queue at the gate of the city.But people soon discovered that something was wrong, and they had to conduct extremely strict searches and interrogations before entering the city.

Gong Yonggu stopped a suspicious man and said, "I see that your legs are bent and you have bowed legs. You should ride horses all the time. Tell me, are you a Tartar?"

"No, it's not..." The man shook his head, reported his hometown, and spoke Chinese fluently.

He thought it was all right, but he heard Gong Yonggu say: "Come on, follow me and recite a tongue twister. If you eat grapes, don't spit out the grape skins, and if you don't eat grapes, you spit out the grape skins."

After the man read it, he spoke very slowly, with a faint accent from outside the customs.

Gong Yonggu smiled slightly: "One more, the shoulder pole is long and the bench is wide, and the pole is tied to the bench, but the bench does not allow the pole to be tied to the bench..."

As soon as the man opened his mouth, he revealed his secrets: "The shoulder pole is long and the bench is wide, and the pole is tied to the bench, but the stool does not allow the pole to be flat on the stool..."

There are many mistakes, and the accent outside the customs can no longer hide it.

Gong Yonggu laughed loudly, then said coldly: "Take it, kill it!"

This is the method Li Cunming taught Gong Yonggu to identify spies, first to see if there are signs of bow-legged legs, then listen to the accent, and then use tongue twisters to further confirm.

The biggest advantage of tongue twisters is that it forces people to reveal their accent inadvertently, and the second is whether they speak fluently.An accent is something that is innate and engraved in the bone marrow. Once the speaking speed increases, it is often difficult to hide it.

Yan Ermei laughed out loud: "Your Majesty, this method is absolutely perfect!"

Li Cunming smiled and said: "I told Gong Yonggu dozens of tongue twisters, which are enough for him. With these three axes, I can't guarantee that no one will slip through the net, but at least nine out of ten spies will be caught. Military division, Take this method to officials in various regions in Jiangbei, and let them follow suit."

From then on, whenever refugees want to enter the city, they have to say a tongue twister, and there is no repetition.

There are eight hundred pacesetters rushing to the north slope, gray chemical fertilizers turning black, cowherds falling in love with Liu Niang every year, phoenixes painted on pink walls...these spies are endless, and the Tartar spies want to die.

Li Cunming laughed enough, and his tone became serious: "The Tartars have sent spies, and I should retaliate by sending spies into the capital!"

(End of this chapter)