One hundred and fifteen, torture and recover stolen goods (Part 2)

On the other side of the Imperial Garden, Hojo Shihiko, who served as the deputy chief of the torture camp, was also showing his Japanese torture and "competing for beauty" with the eunuchs in the Central Plains.

——I saw Hojo Shihiko wearing a gorgeous samurai outfit, kneeling cross-legged on a bamboo mat, with several tea stoves, tea pots and tea bowls beside her, and two attendants in the brocade clothes were shaking fans to make tea for him, as if they were holding a tea ceremony in the wild.

However, in front of the bamboo mat with the fragrance of tea was floating, there was a big bronze tripod that was brought from somewhere, and the firewood was piled up below. Among the tripod filled with clear water, a young man of Manchu with a large tie and a sad expression was boiled alive. At this time, he was scorched by the boiling boiling water... First, his body was covered with blister scars, and then his skin was burnt and his flesh fell off...

However, facing the miserable scene in front of him, Hojo Shihiko smiled lightly, "...Tsk tsk, while listening to the struggle of life passing away, he felt the fragrance of high-quality tea powder... Well, this 'living tea' rumored on Kyushu Island is indeed the most elegant and infinite tea ceremony... "

Behind him, there were more than a dozen trembling and hard-working officials wailing and dancing the "raised straw raincoat" - they were all tied up with oiled strawcoats, and then let the cruel officials ignite the fire with a smile. For a moment, they screamed and provided the accompaniment of background music for "living tea"...

I have to say that even if I am slightly inferior in creating pain, at least to the degree of perversion, the above punishment is indeed world-class.

In addition to these unlucky guys who are being tortured, those who are waiting in line to torture and recover the stolen goods, but have not yet come yet, are also in great pain at this time... Not only is it psychological pain, but also physiological pain - they are all stuffed into the stand cage.

In Feili's eyes, these guys who were "watching the trial" had heavy shackles and chains on their bodies, and their hair was tied to iron nails. But even so, the torturemen did not let them be at ease, but clamped their feet with wooden boards, and heavy chains and shackles were wrapped around their backs and chests. From the weight, as long as the time was a little longer, these poor people might have their ribs broken...

But this was only a small part of the abuse - after concocting the prisoners in this way, the eunuchs in the torture camp stuffed them into a hardwood cage of height and small size. In order to close the cage, they had to lower their heads, and finally they couldn't stand up straight and couldn't sit down, like a sardine squeezed into a can. Many officials and gentry were old and weak, and they were unable to hold on for too long in the cage. Often, they died before they could be tortured.

For example, just as Feili was patrolling, an elderly and weak retired official in a blood-stained stand cage finally couldn't stand it anymore. Suddenly, he made a few "hehe" sounds from his throat, then he stared at his eyes and stretched out his legs, and stopped moving.

"...Heavenly killed, and another old guy died, and his health is really bad."

Seeing this, a middle-aged eunuch from the torture camp walked over to the side of the station cage, reached out to try the old man's breath, and then cursed impatiently, and waved his hand to the followers behind him, "Hurry up, drag the old man down and throw it on the pile of dead people outside the palace gate, and then ask his family to take a thousand taels of silver to collect the body, otherwise they will take it to add food to the zombies in the military camp outside the city."

The two little eunuchs responded immediately, but did not take action immediately, but said hesitantly:

"......This... Sir, in the past few days, we have sent more than a thousand corpses to the remaining fifty werewolves in the army. This has caused these beasts to eat overeating in recent days. It is said that they have suffered from gastrointestinal diseases in batches and collapsed on the ground all day long... If we send the corpses over again, the Red Rou Master who is in charge there will be no choice..."

"... Then drag it to the mass grave in the suburbs to feed wild dogs or throw them into the Qinhuai River to feed fish."

The middle-aged eunuch hesitated and quickly made a decision, "...Fresh meat for feeding animals is not easy to deal with, and wild animals that eat people are everywhere."

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Seeing such cruel and bloody scenes in front of you, even though Feili thought she had excellent psychological tolerance, she couldn't stand it. She couldn't help but whisper to Madam Yayi'an: "...this... wouldn't it be nice to kill so many people in one go?"

"...What's the matter? Anyway, there are more corrupt officials in Nanjing than bull's hair. It's okay to die ten thousand of them. What's more, the nobles and children of the Eight Banners in the capital who occupy a large part of the capital have basically confessed their convictions and are willing to donate all their property to save their lives. As for the remaining hard bones that are unwilling to pay for their lives, tsk, the Han officials are actually the Qingliu..."

Madam Yayi'an said this indifferently, and pointed to the last hundred "meat tickets" in the imperial garden, and sighed with some melancholy, "...Ah, even the master of Man is surrendering now. I really don't know why these coat slaves are holding on."

"...Hmph, the prisoner and the sect sected the stick to get money. This has never been seen in ancient and modern times, and it is also a miserable thing that has never been seen in ancient and modern times. It is obvious that you are the bandits and bandits. You are definitely unable to be the leader of the country. How can you let down the teachings of the saints and bow your knees to your bandits?"

At this moment, a middle-aged Confucian scholar in a cage next to him suddenly had the last bit of energy, cursed at the top of his voice, scolded Yayi'an and Feili, "......... There have been prisoners of the country that have been destroyed since ancient times, and those who have been killed and fleeed have been punished. As for torture and torture, I have never heard of it."

Feili was a little confused for a moment when she heard the above obscure words, but Yayi'an's father-in-law immediately reacted and turned to laugh at him and said, "Oh, you are so stupid that you are reading. Who said that after you enter Beijing, you will be the ruler of the dynasty? They are just here to make money and make money, and they will retreat and leave.

Hehe, you literati who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and are full of thieves and prostitutes. Maybe they think that no matter how the dynasty changes, as long as someone wants to be the lord of this country, you literati and officials have to use you literati to govern the country and act like a respectful and polite person, right? So they stay in this dangerous city and want to see the scenery? Tsk tsk, who thought that they didn't want this country at all, your charming eyes were just throwing them to the blind."

Then, he ignored the middle-aged Confucian scholar who was flushed and cursed with his mouth, and turned to Feili and smiled, "Haha, it was the Eight Banners' children who were more aware of the current affairs and knew that the Great Jin Dynasty would have no place for them to live in the world. I heard that our family was willing to help them move to the concession and avoid the revenge of the Han army, so they all obediently offered their belongings..."

"...what, let all the 300,000 to 400,000 Eight Banners immigrate to the Shanghai Concession? How can you do this randomly?"

When Feili heard about this, she was immediately frightened to death, "...There are only 10,000 or 20,000 Chinese expatriates in Shanghai, and their territory is not large enough, so how can we accommodate 300,000 to 400,000 people? At that time, I am afraid that the situation will be out of control. Why don't you discuss it with me in advance?"

"...Haha, how could our family not know the importance of this? So we only said to help them move to the concession, but we didn't say which concession it was."

Madame Yayian smiled cunningly, "... Our family vaguely remembers that the female Japanese Regent Miss Ryuhime Mitsui seemed to have said that the Japanese archipelago had sharply decreased in the war and plague last year, and the land was abandoned. However, several vassal states in the northeastern border were still fighting endlessly. So the original capital Edo Castle, and the Yokohama Concession, which you Westerners, had to be abandoned and turned into a wilderness, and urgently needed population replenishment... In this way, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to all the 300,000 to 400,000 Eight Banners children go to the Yokohama Concession to open up land and farm.

"...This... our country's concession on the Japanese Islands has moved to Nagasaki. As for the original Yokohama Concession, the land has long been abandoned and returned to the country. It seems that it should be... the territory of the Tachibankan."

Feili said with some confusion, then sighed, "...Well, just stuff these Eight Banners children over. The princes and names in the northeast and Kanto are fighting, and people will die every day. I will definitely not think that they have ruled too many farmers..."

In fact, if the population of 300,000 to 400,000 Eight Banners could be brought to the Japanese islands, from Emperor Kumaze, Mitsui Regent, to the names of the princes of various vassals, and the officials of the court, they would probably be welcomed with both feet.

But if they were under the rule of the famous Japanese princes and became farmers, they would definitely not have any comfortable life. The legal basic tax rate there was as high as 40% of the people, that is, the government collected 60% and the people kept 40%. In addition, some sporadic taxes, the lords in various places basically had to collect about 80% of the rent from the grain harvested by the farmers every year.

A heavy tax rate like the above can only be achieved in a peaceful and peaceful year. If there is a temporary expense of war or creation, and taxes on other names need to be increased, then the people will not even have basic food rations left, and they can only survive by eating wild vegetables in a good year.

But even if it is so miserable, it is not a harsh rule in the Japanese archipelago. The harsh rule that can really induce violence is to collect rent in the territory of 40,000 stone according to the standard of 60,000 stone, and the people also have to bear the labour of 100,000 stone. Even if you donate all the crops grown in the field and sit at home and starve to death, you still can't get enough taxes... To be honest, it's really not easy to be able to endure this step before rebelling.

Of course, these spoiled Eight Banners children would endure after they moved across the ocean to the Japanese islands, and how many people would not be able to survive and die in an extremely miserable manner. Feili and Yayi'an would not care about it. On the other hand, they would only think that these parasites should suffer more and did not kill them immediately. If they let these guys survive for a few more days, they would be considered a bargain.

In fact, if the princes and celebrities in Japan were really unprepared and could not accept so many immigrants, Feili had a more cold-blooded backup plan - put them in slave ships and sent them to Nanyang, and sold them to the plantation of elves to do hard work...

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Just as the "tolerant and stolen stolen" movement in Nanjing was in full swing, good news was frequent on the battlefields across the country.

On December 10, the gentry of the townships of Chongming Island joined forces to train the township heroes, expelled the county magistrates appointed by the court, and announced the establishment of the ** autonomous government.

On the same day, Zhejiang Army veteran Yang Xien led his troops to conquer Dantu, seized 300,000 stones of grain, 20,000 taels of silver, and captured more than 4,000 official troops.

On December 11, Guo Bo, the former commander of the Jingjun Jingjun of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the current vice president of the eunuch party, led more than 200 confidants to easily capture Wuhu City, an important town in Anhui in the west of Nanjing. A small number of green camps remained in the local area. The regiment trained without fighting and fled, and the Wuhu prefect was in no way out.

On December 13, the former Duke of Qi, the governor of the Weihai Army, Liu Yefei, the current commander of the Jianghuai Army, led a five thousand troops across the river and headed south to conquer Jiangyin County. The Jiangyin County Magistrate and the local Green Camp General surrendered, thus destroying the last imperial army in Jiangsu Province.

On December 16, four days after Nanjing fell, the last field army of the Great Jin court that could fight, His Highness Wanyan Chubai, the King of Wei, temporarily stationed in Fengyang, the 50,000 troops to fight for the royal army. Seeing that the entire Henan Province behind him had changed its flag, the capital ahead had fallen into the hands of foreigners. The situation was in despair, and he was immediately in a dilemma, and his eyes were full of enemies, and the morale of the army quickly collapsed and disintegrated.

Taking this opportunity, a large number of spies from the Party took the opportunity to infiltrate activities in the army and bribed and won over most middle and low-level officers. Late at night on the 16th, a comprehensive mutiny broke out in the Southern Expedition Army. King Wanyan Chubai of Wei was panicked and failed to command a few personal soldiers to suppress the troops. He was forced to abandon the army and flee at dawn.

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The next day, on December 17, the Huai Shang ** Government was established in Fengyang. Subsequently, the ** Governments in Hefei and Suzhou were established one after another, and more than 30 counties in northern Anhui have since been separated from the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

On December 20th and 21st, Li Huamei led the Li family fleet and the borrowed Western merchant fleet to carry more than 12,000 Zhejiang infantrymen, plus several miscellaneous armed forces of the ** Society, sailed up the river, bombarded and landed to attack two important towns along the southern Anhui River, Tongling and Runzhou.

Although the fortifications of these two important cities are quite solid and the number of defenders is nearly 10,000. However, after the fall of the capital, the imperial army guarding the two cities had no fighting spirit. Almost as soon as they heard the sound of cannons, they took off their clothes and scattered, even the prefects of the two places were no exception.

Emperor Kant, who had just arrived in Runzhou on the 19th, saw that all the officials around him were dispersed, and he had to decisively abandon the city and flee south, trying to avoid the Yangtze River waterway, and flee everywhere in the rural areas in southern Anhui. Most of the followers and guards were scattered, and their situation became increasingly embarrassing.

On December 23, Liu Yu's black flag army nominally conquered the entire Fujian territory. Prefectures and counties in various places pulled off the Yellow Dragon flag and announced that they were on the spot.

On December 24, Daming, Baoding, Cangzhou and other places on the Hebei border announced the change of flags and established the Hebei ** government.

On December 27, after counting the seized food and fodder and letting the soldiers take a break, Zhejiang Governor Li Huamei decided to take advantage of the victory and continue attacking, and ordered his veteran Yang Xien to stay in Runzhou, and he took the senior veteran Wen Desi of the Party, and his mobs like the gang members, to command the fleet to continue to travel through Jiangxi and advance to Anqing City, the last important riverside town in Anhui Province that has not yet been changed.

Wanyan Qingde, the governor of Anhui who was guarding the provincial capital of Anqing, was the royal family Bele, who called himself a gangster in troubled times. Before the Li family fleet approached, this man had a speech to the officials and gentry in the city, claiming that he would fight to the end in Anqing City to protect the last territory for the court.

Of course, in order to allow this loyal governor to carry out resistance to the end, this military expenditure is obviously indispensable. After the speech, the model soldiers and soldiers of the governor's yamen immediately dispatched to visit wealthy households and businesses throughout the city, holding swords and guns from door to door, and they asked them to "voluntarily raise funds". Soon they raised 5,000 taels of gold, more than 40,000 taels of silver, and more than 20,000 stagnant of copper coins.

Therefore, the governor claimed that the salary raising work had been successfully completed, the Anqing city was as solid as a soup, and the defenders in the city were even more skillful and had enough food. As long as the whole city held on one hand, they would be able to defeat the enemy in one battle, which would make the rioters beat their heads and bloody and frightened...

However, no matter how passionate the declaration was, it could not hide a pale and tragic fact. When dozens of sail warships of the Li family fleet flowed upwards and finally arrived at the river outside Anqing City, thousands of defenders who had temporarily pieced together on the city walls found that they had not even received a penny of military pay, but even the minimum supply of food had been inexplicably cut off for three days.

What happened next became natural. These hungry and cold soldiers immediately mutinized, left the city defense fortifications and tied up the military officers and broke into the governor's yamen for military pay. Unexpectedly, the yamen was empty, from the governor's lord to the minor officials of the clerk, all had already escaped. And the tens of thousands of taels of silver military expenses that had just been collected were gone...

——How is this recruitment of military pay? It is obviously because of the intention of having the right not to expire or invalidate it, so I can make a big deal at the last moment.

Seeing this situation, the soldiers who were consciously deceived had to scatter in disappointment. Some of them even opened the city gate and welcomed the ** army in - the last provincial capital in the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, and since then they have gone down without fighting.

After successfully seizing the provincial capital Anqing, Li Huamei announced the establishment of the Anhui ** government, with Wen Desi, the most famous and oldest Democratic League Prime Minister in the ** camp, as the governor of Anhui. But except for Anqing, the other major cities along the river in Anhui Province were basically under the actual control of her Zhejiang army. In this regard, the governor of Wen Desi, who lacked strength, could only express his apology.

In short, as of December 27, all provinces across the country have announced their restoration, and the old dynasty seems to have been kicked into the garbage dump of history.

However, in the midst of the jubilation of celebrating the success of the ** and the restoration of the whole country, everyone seemed to have forgotten a fact intentionally or unintentionally - the last two powerful figures of the old dynasty, whether they were King Wanyan Chubai of Wei or Emperor Wanyan Dezhao of the Emperor, were killed before they could even lead their necks...

——Even a grasshopper after autumn can usually jump a few times in the cold wind, let alone the vassal king who once lived in eight seats and the emperor who was the emperor of the Nine Five?

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