Han’s Son is Not a Slave

In Tianjiadong, Jingzhou, Baihu Si Guoxiao, the second town of the Taiping army who led the army to suppress the chieftain, was stunned. He did not expect that the hundreds of Qing troops and local soldiers on the opposite side would be so unbearable. His soldiers were just a charge. The Qing army And the soldiers collapsed. The leader of the Qing soldiers still wanted to hold on, but no matter how he shouted, no one of the battalions under his command was willing to turn back and fight the Taiping Army, and those soldiers even ran into the mountains and forests as soon as possible.

The Taiping army won such an easy victory, only Liao Lanqi, the native officer of Luchidong, who led the troops to help, widened his eyes.

"It's not worth the congratulations."

Having said that, Si Guoxiao still has a sense of accomplishment in his heart. In terms of military strength, he has only more than 200 soldiers in his guard, and only more than 300 people under Liao Lanqi, a native official. As a result, he was one to two and won easily. It is false to say that he is unhappy.

"Lord Baihu, I know that there is a path leading to Deni's stockade."

Thinking that there was a lot of grain in the stockade of Deni, which was collaborating with the Qing soldiers, and there were a lot of people in the stockade, Liao Lanqi's eyes became very eager.

Liao Lanqi is a hereditary native official in Western Hunan. According to the official position of the Ming Dynasty, he is a fifth-rank official, and the young 100-household adult in front of him is only from the sixth-rank, but he does not dare to put on the air of a fifth-rank official. Lawton volunteered, and ran very diligently.

Liao Lanqi doesn't care what others think of him or what his subordinates think of him, he only knows that his ignorant clan brother Quanzhai called the Taiping Army butchered a dog and left him, and the whole family was hanged on the official road. The corpse was exposed on the stake. And he knew the current affairs and was the first to ask the Taiping Army to surrender while the local officials were still watching. Not only did he get the good official certificate issued by the Taiping Army, but he also became the first local official in Western Hunan to receive the nameplate of the new Han people. He even went to Chenzhou to meet the Taiping army commander, and he was praised by the other party himself. He promised that he would personally grant him the post of counselor to protect Jing after the settlement of Xiangxi. Obtained the property of the stockade.

Such glory and real benefits, but the sacrifices made by the people in the whole village have since changed their surnames to Han, wore Han clothes, opened schools to teach Chinese characters and spoken Chinese, and it was worth it. If from now on he is no longer the humble native official in the mouth of those state and county officials, but truly becomes the official of the Ming Dynasty, becomes a parent in one place, and the stockade can also produce talents and masters, no matter how Liao Lanqi calculates this transaction is cost-effective. Therefore, he was willing to sacrifice his life for the Taiping Army. Of course, the premise is that the Taiping Army really stood firm in the two lakes as that Zhou Dashuai said, and if the Qing soldiers could not stand still, he would have to think about his clan. On the Qing side, they are also relatively tolerant to these native officials. As long as they are willing to submit, they will not be held accountable for the past.

"The Qing soldiers have no guts, and the stockade of Nadni will be handed over to you, and the things and people will belong to you as before, but it is necessary to make a unified book and select some young men to be incorporated into the army."

"Don't worry, my lord, I understand this humble job!"

Before setting off, Si Guoxiao had overstepped his orders, so he readily agreed to this matter. Liao Lanqi also knew the rules of the Taiping Army, so naturally he had no objection, so he was going to lead someone to capture Denis' stockade. Si Guoxiao thought for a while, fearing that Liao Lanqi's soldiers would be unusable, and ordered a general banner leader to **** him in the back.

"Thank you sir!"

With a Taiping army capable of fighting to support him, Liao Lanqi was more confident. After thanking him, he was about to turn around and leave, but Si Guoxiao stopped him again. Liao Lanqi's heart sank, thinking that Si Guoxiao also took a fancy to the money, grain and goods of Deni's stockade, and was thinking about how much to share with him, but heard Si Guoxiao say: "I think about it and still don't worry, although the Qing army has no You are brave, but there are also a lot of people. Denis is protecting his own nest. If the fortress refuses to defend, your people may suffer too many casualties. So, you take all those prisoners with you. If the attack goes wrong, Then I told the prisoners to go to the village."

On the way to Tianjiadong, Si Guoxiao's troops broke through two Tusi villages, captured more than 100 soil soldiers, and captured a group of Qing soldiers, about 70 people, and more than 40 others. Bandits, there are Han and natives. Liao Lanqi suggested that these prisoners should be trapped, but Si Guoxiao said that it was useful to keep these prisoners. The commander explained that these prisoners are strategic resources. Even if they can’t be soldiers, they can be taken back to do some coolies, but they can’t be sent to Guangdong or Guangxi. It can also be cultivated if it is compiled, and it is too wasteful to kill it in vain.

Liao Lanqi doesn't know what strategic resources are, but he is right. I have been in chaos for 20 to 30 years today, not to mention other places, just this Hunan, the population is also sharply reduced, the Han people don't talk about him, but the chieftains are all people. Ding took it seriously. Some stockades often sent people down the mountain to kidnap Han Chinese as slaves, in order to get more people to produce labor for them.

In recent years, Liao Lanqi has also done a lot of things that go down the mountain to catch Han people, and he has done not one or two evil things, but a lot of evil things that make families separated. However, the official government in western Hunan is constantly changing. Today is the Ming Dynasty, tomorrow is the Qing Dynasty. The officials themselves do not know when their heads will fall, and naturally they have no time to pay attention to the evil things done by the native officials. After the Taiping Army came, the first thing was not to rush to ask for food, but to launch troops against these native officials and chieftains. The Taiping Army is not only an army of the Ming Dynasty, but also an army of the Han people, so anyone who dares to offend the Han people or oppress the Han people will be suppressed~www.NovelMTL.com~ All the key points in Baojing are posted with bulletins In addition to asking the chieftains, bandits, and remnants of the Qing army to lay down their weapons and surrender at the designated place, the above emphasized the inviolability of the Han people. It was stated that if a chieftain kidnapped a Han man for a living, then the soldiers would immediately be sent to slaughter his entire village.

At first, this list of chieftains did not matter, but after several stockades were uprooted by the Taiping army, and the men, women and children in the stockade were cut off by their heads, the chieftains immediately understood that the Taiping army’s list was not a threat. , and it is not the empty words of the government in the past, but a real announcement that can kill people.

The chieftains dare not send people down the mountain to arrest the Han people, thinking that the well water will not break the river, your Taiping army is powerful, we can’t afford it, but the Qing soldiers are also powerful, wait for the Qing soldiers to come, you Taiping army rabbit The tail doesn't grow either. You can do what you want at that time. After all, capturing the population of Han people is a thousand-year-old custom in western Hunan. If you don't capture the population of Han people, how can the stockade survive.

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Author's Note: The capture of the population of Han people still happened from time to time after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

It has rained heavily in the past two days, and there is no outer block, so I work hard to write. There are two more, and the time is after the early morning, so there is no need to wait. (To be continued.)