Chapter 152: Chronicle of the Ten Days
The sky finally gradually dimmed under the blood-red light of the setting sun. Nanjing City fell into the night again. The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties that had been killed for several days had ushered in a rare tranquility. There was no sound of gunfire, no shouts of killing, and no screams. Everything seemed so quiet and peaceful.
In the Liangjiang Governor's Office, Xiao Yungui, Zuo Zongtang, Li Shourong, Wang Kaiyun and others were still handling official duties. Xiao Yungui had a headache about these documents on weekdays. He always asked Zuo Zongtang and his staff to handle these trivial matters. Because he had to manage an army of more than 100,000 people, all kinds of trivial matters such as eating, drinking, defecation, and sleeping were inevitable. He could not think of so many things alone, so he selected many literate old brothers to join Zuo Zongtang's staff as the center for handling government affairs in the West Palace.
But today he stayed unpredictably and worked with Zuo Zongtang and others to deal with military and political affairs. The reason was very simple. He was afraid that he would think randomly when he had nothing to do. Although he had seen this kind of collective massacre scene in Changsha, today was different. He personally ordered these bannermen to lose their lives, including those elderly, weak, women and children who had no ability to resist. He did not dare to recall the bloody scenes, for fear that he would show a slight fear or regret in front of his subordinates.
Zuo Zongtang seemed to see his intention, but he did not point it out. He also buried himself in the military and political affairs like him. In the yamen lobby, there was no word of victory and laughter, and the whole atmosphere was very depressing and sad.
After changing three giant candles on the yamen, it was already late at night. Everyone felt tired and hungry, but no one stopped the errands and was still writing quickly, or discussing how to deal with a political matter.
At this moment, a fragrance floated into the hall, and Hong Yuner's crisp and pleasant voice floated in: "Everyone take a break and eat some refreshments to fill your stomach."
When everyone looked up, Hong Yuner and Li Xuanji walked up to the hall together. They each carried two food boxes, and the fragrance was constantly emitted from the food boxes.
Xiao Yungui frowned and looked at Hong Yuner. The four-eyed girl looked relaxed, as if nothing had happened. She saw the two women put the food box on the table and opened it. Li Xuanji smiled and said, "Everyone come and try it. This is the refreshment made by the Queen of Xi and the sisters of our female camp. There are osmanthus cakes, glutinous rice balls, and scallion oil pancakes. Let's eat some before making it."
Zuo Zongtang and others put down their brushes and looked at Xiao Yungui. Xiao Yungui laughed dryly, but it was not easy to disobey the two beauties' kindness and said, "Eat everyone, don't be restrained, just don't let the oil and water stain the documents." Everyone chuckled a few times and stepped forward to eat, and the depressing atmosphere weakened a lot.
While everyone was surrounding Li Xuanji for food, Xiao Yungui secretly pulled Hong Yun'er aside and frowned and said, "Did you take the wrong medicine? You are in the mood to make refreshments at this time? Didn't you cry secretly during the day?"
Hong Yuner pursed her red lips and whispered: "People actually have a habit, which is that whenever they do something they don't want to do, they will find a lot of reasons for themselves. I found a reason in the evening, so I relaxed a little."
Xiao Yungui said suspiciously: "What's the reason?"
Hong Yuner sighed lightly and said, "The fate of the flag-men in the city seems to be miserable, but those who have read the "Ten Days of Yangzhou" will not think so. This "Ten Days of Yangzhou" is a book written by Shi Kefa's aide and survivor of Yangzhou City Massacre Wang Xiuchu. The full text is only more than 8,000 words, but it faithfully records the tragic situation in Yangzhou at that time. It is also known as the top ten extraordinary books in history and geography, including "Shangshu", "Zuoshi Spring and Autumn", "Shan Hai Jing", "Historical Records", "Han Shu", "Shui Jing", "Shui Jing", "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Bird of Baiyi", etc. This book and "Jiading Tu"
Books such as "City Records" were listed as ** when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was revising the Siku Complete Book, and were destroyed. For this reason, these books were brought to Japan by the fugitive Han people and were preserved. Due to the news of the Qing Dynasty blockade, the Yangzhou City Massacre was even known during the Qing Dynasty. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that this book was passed back to Middle-earth by a thoughtful person from Japan, and the truth was revealed to the world. When I read this book, I just read it as a general historical material. I wrote it down tonight, and at this time I could understand the tragic situation of the Yangzhou City Massacre back to China."
Xiao Yungui said oh, and Hong Yuner continued: "You and I are both liberal arts students. In fact, everyone should understand that since the birth of human beings, the mutual killing has never stopped. The integration between various races is actually based on mutual killing. Although it is frustrating, it is a practical matter. The Spanish versus the Incas, American colonists versus the Indians, ancient Romans versus the European continent, and Genghis Khan versus the Eurasian continent, how tragic the killings brought about by these broken things? But this is the path that we humans cannot avoid from barbarism to civilization, and even after the two world wars, everyone basically learned civilization. But unfortunately, even if the level of civilization in later generations is extremely high
In modern times, the oppression of the weak race by powerful races has never stopped. Finally, I figured out one thing: since we are Han people and since we are a group, we naturally have to put the interests of this group first. When we need to deprive the interests of other groups, even their lives, to satisfy our own group's interests, we can only follow the will of our group's interests, otherwise we will be unlucky. This cruel reality is inevitable. Since we agree with Mr. Zuo's words, there is no need to feel guilty, open our minds and work towards our goals, and realize the great cause of our Han people's rejuvenation as soon as possible, so that we can end this killing one day earlier, instead of always having this unsolvable knot in our hearts."
After pondering for a while, Xiao Yungui sighed: "Your self-repair function is indeed powerful, and I feel ashamed of myself."
Hong Yun'er gave him a blank look and said, "Sister, my family was not in good condition, so I had to comfort myself in everything. It's not like you. If something happens, someone will settle it for you."
Xiao Yungui smiled bitterly and said, "Every family has a difficult sutra. When my parents divorced when I was a child, I suffered a lot. Do you think I am a good life?" Seeing Hong Yuner's strange eyes, Xiao Yungui hurriedly changed the topic and said, "You wrote the "Ten Days of Yangzhou" and was published to the Edict Office for publication. There are other books such as "Jiading City Massacre" that were destroyed by the Qing Dynasty. You can write as much as you remember and give it to the Edict Office for publication and printing, and let tens of thousands of copies spread everywhere. In short, we must start to strengthen public opinion propaganda, and we cannot let the people think that we are just a group of people who are easy to kill. Moreover, these books that reveal the truth can allow the people to see the true face of the Qing Dynasty. Even if Zeng Guofan wrote the "Edict to Counter Guangdong" later, we can still win the lead."
This edict was established during the Yong'an system. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attached great importance to the custody of archives. The edict was not only in charge of edicts, but also collected all household registrations, lists, military books, and family books. It was then added to the responsibilities of publishing various official documents and classics. The Celestial Empire stipulated that "each two Sima book of the military book is one book for the head of the soldiers, and each soldier is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade commander is five soldiers is one book for the brigade commander is one book for the brigade commander, each brigade command
The military book was created with four books, and they were distributed to the general, general, and edicts. They also required that "if there is any addition or death, they should be transformed at any time and submitted step by step". They also stipulated that the family book was also "like the military book" and the four books were collected in one style, and one of them would be sent to the edicts. However, later Hong Xiuquan ordered the edicts to collect books from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and destroy them in order to achieve the unique purpose of worshiping God's religion. What is the difference between this practice and the tyrant Qin Shihuang's burning and burying scholars, and the mosquito prison in the Qing Dynasty? For this matter, Yang Xiuqing even asked his Heavenly Father to come down to earth to advise.
The Taiping Army of the West Palace has its own edict office, which manages all the classics and archives of the West Palace and has also published some documents, but most of them are geographical pictures and texts on both sides of the Yangtze River, which is convenient for marching and fighting. It is the first time that a large number of tens of thousands of books were published.
Hong Yuner nodded and said, "This method is good, I will start to do it afterwards." Then a charming smile appeared on her face and said, "You are relaxed. If you arrange something that is so laborious to me, what will you reward me if you finish it?"
Seeing that she suddenly began to act coquettishly towards her, Xiao Yungui felt aroused in his heart and teased, "I'll give you my whole body?"
Hong Yun'er spat and said, "Do you really care?" After that, she turned around and walked away with a red face.
Looking at Hong Yuner's swaying back, Xiao Yungui licked his lips and thought to himself that when he had time, he would have to deal with this girl. It has been so hard for the past few months. Following Xiao Yungui suddenly thought that as the two met day after day, the so-called hatreds in the past seemed to have slowly disappeared. It seemed that the two of them regarded each other as the closest person in the world. If they had not traveled through time, Xiao Yungui might not have discovered it. In fact, this four-eyed girl has many benefits.
While Xiao Yungui was thinking about it, Li Xuanji brought a plate of osmanthus cakes and whispered: "Xiwang, please have something."
Xiao Yungui came to his senses and took the plate with a smile. His thief eyes stared at Li Xuanji and kept looking at him. He felt embarrassed and ran away with a blushing face. Xiao Yungui was very happy and secretly considered whether he could have a double flight in the future. He was thinking about despicable and dirty things in his mind, and forgot those unpleasant things behind his mind.
Unfortunately, Xiao Yungui's good mood did not last long. A messenger from Bai Zetang rushed to the hall and handed a secret letter to Zuo Zongtang. Only Xiao Yungui, Hong Yuner and Zuo Zongtang could disassemble the secret letter. Zuo Zongtang originally wanted to show it to Xiao Yungui first, but when he turned his head, the boy stared at the two girls in the hall, knowing that the Western King could not see it at this time, Zuo Zongtang smiled bitterly and read it himself.
After reading the secret letter, Zuo Zongtang's expression changed drastically. No matter what Xiao Yungui was thinking, he quickly stepped forward and said, "The King of the West, there is something big!"
Xiao Yungui came to his senses, took the secret letter and took a quick look. The smile on his face disappeared, and then the blue veins on his forehead burst out. He couldn't help but pull out the gong's throat and shouted angrily: "Who is this the random rumors?! I'm going to peel him off!"
Chapter completed!