Dominate the Country

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Capturing Wuchang City is not a problem at all.

The escape of the two naval battalions at the beginning of the war reflected the fighting spirit of the Wuchang defenders. After Chen Yongsheng led his troops to capture Phoenix Mountain, the army bombarded the city with artillery while trying to launch an attack on Wushengmen. As a result, it was unexpectedly discovered that the Qing army had not blocked Wushengmen yet.

Several explosive charges in a row blew up the Wuchang City Gate, which was made of iron sheets and made of solid wood and reinforced with iron nails. There was also a thousand-pound gate inside. However, the texture of this thousand-jin gate is similar to that of the city gate, both are made of solid wood, although it is indeed very heavy. It can indeed play an important role in the cold weapon era, but in this era, unless it is an iron gate, such protection is useless.

In this way, Wuchang opened its arms to the Fuhan Army.

At that time, Chen Yongsheng only had four battalions in his hands, not counting artillery. There are at least 12,000 to 3,000 people in Wuchang City. Chen Yongsheng's choice was not to firmly control Wu Shengmen and wait for the follow-up of the troops crossing the river. Instead, they directly launched a fierce attack on Wuchang City. The Qing soldiers, who had an absolute advantage in strength, were simply defeated. Their morale is low and their troops have no fighting spirit. No matter how many such armies there are, they are useless.

None of Fan Shishou, Zhu Gui and Arya Jiang died in Wuchang City. They fled without even having time to burn the vassal treasury. A small million taels of silver, a large amount of grain and grass supplies, gunpowder, and even some shotguns, swords, and guns became the spoils of war for the Fuhan army.

Chen Yongsheng's performance satisfied Chen Ming so much that he was the first to enter Wuchang City and took over the two-room concubine left by Fan Shishou, so Chen Ming didn't say anything. As long as Chen Yongsheng doesn't do something that he can't tolerate, like playing for a few days and then rewarding his subordinates, Chen Ming can completely satisfy his romantic desires. For example, Chen Ming changed hands and gave the daughter of the prefect of Wuchang to Chen Yongsheng. Of course, the Wuchang prefect himself had committed suicide. He was really dead, not a fake. He drowned in the pool in the backyard of the prefect's Yamen.

The army captured three towns in Wuhan and successively raided Hankou, Hanyang and Wuchang. Watching Zheng Hongyu and Wei Xiuzhi leading the logistics manpower and working hard for five days before preliminary counting of the harvest list, Chen Ming suddenly had an idea. If you don’t come to Shenzhen, you won’t know how it feels to have so little money. This is exactly how you would feel if you don’t capture the three towns of Wuhan and don’t know how rich China is.

During the entire Wuhan strategy, more than 5 million taels of silver, more than 100,000 taels of gold, and a large amount of jewelry, calligraphy and paintings were collected and confiscated and confiscated. The estimated value was over 2 million taels of silver. The three towns of Wuhan destroyed all the gains made by the Han army since they left Nanyang.

This is the result of a large number of officials, gentry and wealthy merchants having already transferred a large amount of gold and silver, otherwise the harvest would have been doubled. The money stored in the vassal treasury in Hubei is nothing, and the money confiscated by officials and gentry families is the main source. This was still a controlled confiscation by the Fuhan Army. Some well-known gentry and wealthy families would pass by in front of their doors, otherwise...

Anyway, Chen Ming was uncontrollably excited. He has really seen the ‘golden mountains and silver seas’. More than one hundred thousand taels of gold and five million taels of silver, this is an incredible treasure.

Coupled with the food, cloth, cotton, medicinal materials, gunpowder, swords and guns, etc., it is no wonder that it took five days for the logistics to complete the preliminary inventory. And from the listed details, Chen Ming saw two words that made him feel very dazzling: pornographic films.

In this era, there are already pornographic films in the three towns of Wuhan.

Chen Ming asked someone to conduct a detailed investigation and found that pornographic films had been circulating in three towns in Wuhan for more than ten or twenty years. It came from Guangzhou in a hurry. The Manchu and Qing court ordered a ban on smoking many times. However, the local government and pornographic film merchants colluded with each other, so this thing could not be banned at all.

Chen Ming has a certain understanding of the pornographic film trade of this era. To be precise, it can't be called the pornographic film trade now. The criminal craziness didn't officially begin until the late Qianlong period. But for the Anglo-Saxons of this era, and for their East India Company, ya movies were a rare weapon to widen the Sino-British trade deficit, because ya movies had at least five times the net profit.

500% interest, which will make capital completely crazy. The British opened the way with silver dollars. Of course, the Manchu officials of this era would turn a blind eye and then close their eyes. Yam spread from the southeastern coast to the inland. The three towns of Wuchang are the thoroughfares of nine provinces. From the initial medicinal materials, opium dens gradually emerged. The seized porn films came from four places. One was the confiscated property of a large gentry family, which contained two of the only opium dens in Wuchang. The other was the Hanyang Navy Camp. Wuhan’s trade relied on waterways, and the Hanyang Waterway It is understandable that the division camp has ya films; the third is the county treasury of Wuchang County; and the last is the customs treasury of the three towns of Wuhan.

This "customs" can be understood as tariffs. They are my Qing Dynasty’s ‘merchants’!

As for why there are pornographic films in the pass, Chen Ming no longer wants to know.

A large part of the five million taels of silver newly added to the hands of the Fuhan Army was confiscated from the homes of petty officials in the three towns of Wuhan, the heart of Hubei Province. As a thoroughfare for nine provinces and a place of prosperous commerce, the property of the petty officials here is not ordinary. Moreover, many people have such a bad reputation that it would not be a pity to kill them!

…

Forbidden City in Beijing.

The people gathered in the Yangxin Hall were no longer six military ministers, but the entire six ministers and ministers of Beijing. It could be said that except for some people from the army and princes and nobles, almost all the officials of the third rank and above were gathered.

They must come to a conclusion on the issue that made countless bannermen grimaced. Because Wuchang City was lost. Because of those captured bannermen, Fan Shishou and Alyajiang did not dare to give orders easily, so that Chen Ni easily filled the trenches outside the city, captured Fenghuang Mountain, which was crucial to Wuchang City, without bloodshed, and calmly set up artillery to bombard the city.

Now Fan Shishou, Alyajiang and others jointly wrote a letter begging for death.

Qianlong's pity for the Jingzhou bannermen in his heart has reached the bottom with the fall of Wuchang City.

In the heart of this emperor, those captured bannermen are no longer pitiful people who deserve pity, but shameless betrayers.

Their survival is to tarnish the dignity and dignity of the bannermen. As long as they live in this world for one minute, it is the greatest insult to the Eight Banners. They should die. All of them!

In the 20th year of Qianlong's reign, when the Qing Dynasty was dealing with the aftermath of the pacification of the Dzungars, Emperor Qianlong once instructed: When we used troops in the past and Tong Huerhanoer and other places, our officers and soldiers had not returned from the battle, or some were still in the Dzungars. They were captured on the battlefield and lived in the bandit land. They were not found until the army was pacified. They should be clearly punished.

Some of Qianlong's attitudes were very obvious and clear when dealing with the aftermath of the pacification of the Dzungars. He showed an extremely harsh attitude towards those who "failed to die for their loyalty".

Now these Jingzhou bannermen, first because of them, the Aeryajiang army was defeated, and then because of them, the provincial capital of Wuchang fell. Qianlong hated them to death. In Qianlong's eyes, these people were "forgetful people" who "failed to die for their loyalty", and they should all die. They should be full of righteousness to end their lives, so that they can be truly good slaves.

"Your Majesty, the people of Jingzhou are hereditary servants of the Manchus. They were captured by the bandits, and they endured the shame and lived in hiding, and were forced to retreat to the provincial capital. Their crimes are abominable."

"When the bandits entered the city, the loyal and good people of Jingzhou bravely attacked, and they all fought to the death without retreating. These ministers, officials, and soldiers who died in battle sacrificed their lives for the country, which is very pitiful. ...

The rest of us are greedy for life and afraid of death, and we are not our countrymen."

This court meeting was just a show, and the real decision had been made before this meeting. Because, it is impossible not to be ruthless...