Chapter 361: The treacherous traitors
The furious Huang Taiji roared and fell dejectedly on the chair, with blue veins rising from his fist. Fan Wencheng's death and Li Yongfang's death made him feel more and more terrifying as the Jinyiwei.
"It's just omnipresent!"
Huang Taiji said to himself, he thought Li Yongfang could completely defend Guangning City, and when his strength was accumulated enough, he could point troops to Jinzhou.
At that time, if you attack with Li Yongfang's eight banners, you can continue to squeeze the Ming Dynasty west of Ningyuan City, and you can also get the opportunity to contact Lin Dan Khan's tribe, and even get an outlet for the sea.
As a smart Tartar, Huang Taiji did not really look at the sky from a well. He also had his own source of information. He also learned that the Ming Dynasty's victory over the Zheng pirate group in the Battle of Ryukyu was also known. After knowing that this imperial fleet was in the Tianjin area not far from the pass, he felt even more uneasy.
At the same time, Huang Taiji began to regret agreeing to let Dorgon sign the bullshit agreement. He originally thought that he would return the uninhabited Liaodong Peninsula that was plundered by his Qing Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, which made him lose a sea outlet now, and is even compressed east of Jinzhou. If he wants to go to sea, he has to cross the Sai Mountains, which is extremely inconvenient.
But Huang Taiji doesn't need to regret it now, and what's worse now is that Guangning City is also lost, so his Qing Dynasty can only hide in this land north of the Liao River.
However, Huang Taiji was unwilling to sit there and wait for death. What he hated the most now was the Jinyiwei. This institution that was originally only showing off his power in the pass has now repeatedly violated his rebellious scales. Huang Taiji felt that he needed to take some measures.
"Transfer the order and closely examine the Han people who surrendered everywhere:
Those who don’t want to shave will be killed immediately!
Those who do not want to learn Manchu's words will be killed immediately!
Those who leave the city without authorization shall be killed immediately if they are not my will!
Each Han Chinese was numbered, and each household was counted on the list. Each ten households were one A, and each ten A was one Guarantee, and it was assigned to the prescribed area for residence. If a Ding left the prescribed area without authorization, he would be killed immediately by the Jinyiwei spy! The Jia Zheng in the area where he belonged to was also killed immediately!
Each household of bannermen is not allowed to raise slaves of unknown origin, and their slaves must also be registered and booked. If any slaves are lost, all the slaves in their tribe will be killed, and their masters will also be dismissed from their titles!"
The rampant activities of the Jinyiwei made Huang Taiji start to closely monitor the Han people, which is undoubtedly a heavier blow to the Han people who are still under the control of Jiannu (also called the occupied areas). The people who did not shave and still maintained the customs and language of the Han people began to have to shave and change their clothes. They had to do some trade freedom and now they were restricted in the prescribed space like prisoners to produce survival resources for the Qing nobles.
However, this strict surveillance measure has no effect on the real traitors, especially some literati who defected to Jiannu. They now regard themselves as ministers of the Qing Dynasty. Without Huang Taiji's shaving order and practicing Manchu language order, they had already begun to shave off their buns and learn Manchu language, and were proud of wearing a manchu jacket.
There are even people like Li Shutai who have completely regarded Huang Taiji as his master. Under the deep Confucian system, they even had to be buried with his Qing Dynasty.
Although they concealed their selfish desire to betray the nation and the Ming Dynasty by being a member of the Qing Dynasty, who should be loyal to the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty as the monarch, Li Yongfang's head still made them realize that it is not enough to deceive themselves by themselves. The Ming Dynasty did not choose to forgive you because of this. These traitors, especially those who are still loyal, can at least feel that their lives are under great threat.
Zhu Shichang was originally a guerrilla in the Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Tianqi, Nurhaci surrendered to the capital of Shengjing City. Like Li Yongfang, as a traitor who surrendered to Jiannu, he thought he could protect the rest of his life with the Tatars. Although he had a lot of masters, he could do it. At least he could grab the wealth of the Han people from time to time. As long as he did not steal the people and the people's coated slaves, even if he died, the superiors would not blame him.
Therefore, Zhu Shichang enjoyed the feeling of being able to act as a mighty person in front of his compatriots under the power of Jiannu. However, the Han people who defected to Jiannu, especially those who were assassinated by the Jinyiwei one after another, made him no longer feel at ease to oppress the Han people in the area controlled by Jiannu.
Fortunately, Huang Taiji, like Nurhaci, still trusts him quite much now, and asks Zhu Shichang to be responsible for the city defense of Shengjing City. However, Zhu Shichang always has a premonition that he would accidentally be assassinated by a Jinyiwei lurking in Shenyang City.
Although he is now trying his best to implement Huang Taiji's purge policy, killing many innocent people, and extorting and looting a lot of money, he still dares not leave the house and hides at home on the grounds of being sick, and gives all other matters to his subordinates.
Even at home, Zhu Shichang was awakened in the middle of the night whenever there was any disturbance. He was so scared that he was sweating coldly. After half a month passed, even though he was not sick, he lost more than ten pounds and added countless whites.
When he went to Hongwenguan to meet Huang Taiji, even Huang Taiji was very surprised. Of course, he understood what he was afraid of. For this reason, he could only persuade him with kind words and gave him a title of third-class Ahahanihafan.
However, Zhu Shichang had no intention of being happy.
Bao Chengxian, who also surrendered to Jiannu in the second year of Tianqi, was even more frightened than Zhu Shichang.
As a Grand Secretary of Hongwenguan, Bao Chengxian knew military operations just like Fan Wencheng. He was even more clear about the current situation outside the pass than Zhu Shichang. He knew that the Ming Dynasty had now controlled the areas of Monan and Ningjin, and the so-called Qing Dynasty had actually been surrounded by the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Bao Chengxian, who was more flexible, did not have the "awareness" of following Jiannu with his heart and burial with him like Li Lutai, nor did he have no choice but to be afraid like Zhu Shichang. He took the initiative to find the Jinyiwei in Shengjing City through various means, and wanted to pass the news of his return to the Ming Dynasty to the Jinyiwei.
Bao Chengxian was lucky, and he also participated in this cleaning activity against the Jinyiwei. However, he and Zhu Shichang took advantage of this to plunder the people and made great fortunes. He used this to capture a secret contact point for the Jinyiwei in Shengjing City. However, he used his power to release these Jinyiwei and conveyed the news of his return to the Ming Dynasty to Zhu Youxiao through these Jinyiwei.
Zhu Youxiao did not immediately express his opinion after learning about it, because he is also very confused now. According to his original intention, these traitors who betrayed the Ming Dynasty are people he hates very much. It is impossible for him to have another ending except by cutting them into pieces!
Chapter completed!