In the Qing Dynasty, there was a wealthy man surnamed Fan in Changzhou, with a huge family fortune, and opened two pawnshops. There is a manor outside the city, and the parents live in the manor, and there are still 30 hectares of land, which are not rented out, and they are self-employed farmers and farmers.
The thieves attacked Nanjing, and the official army was defeated outside the city, and the commander was martyred. Changzhou was also under siege. Fan was in a hurry and did nothing, and his wife and concubine cried. The governor of the city will collect silver taels from the wealthy gentry to reward the soldiers who defend the city and buy supplies from the people. Fan donated 10,000 taels of silver.
Soon, the thieves attacked the city more and more urgently, and the governor wanted to break through the siege and escape alone, and walked through the streets on horseback with his own soldiers. The old man grabbed the reins of the horse and cried: "My lord, this city is closed!" The governor scolded, a soldier waved the back of the knife, and the old man was beaten to the point that his face was bleeding and he still did not let go. Another soldier struck him on the back with an iron rod, and the old man fainted, and the governor fled in spite of it. The city was broken.
Fan's housekeeper supervised spring plowing outside the city, so he was spared. He was not worried about his master, so he changed into the costume of a thief and mixed into the city, and the corpses piled up on the street, and the blood flowed and pestle. When they returned to their master's house, there was no sound inside, and the servants and maidservants had fled. Entering the lobby, the cups and plates were in disarray, and the three thieves were killed on the ground. Fan and his wife were lying in the inner room, their faces were blue, they had been dead for a long time, and the concubine hanged herself in the backyard.
The housekeeper speculated that the owner and his wife put poison in the wine and food when the city was broken, and after taking it, they went back to the bedroom and lay down. Three thieves entered the house, did not know that it was poisonous, and ate the rest of the wine and food. When the steward saw that his master was dead, he had to go away in tears. "Cave Proverbs".
During the Song Dynasty, the rebels captured Chengdu, and the imperial army gathered outside the city, and the arrows and stones rained down. There was an old woman living near the city wall, more than 70 years old, and her grandson was fifteen, and she was driven by thieves to defend the city. The old woman brings food to her grandson every day.
One day, the thief summoned the official to sing and dance in the temple, and the old woman sat under a tree**. A thief walked until he sat down in front of her, and also got up. The old woman was displeased that this pawn blocked her view, and walked away angrily. Suddenly, a cannon flew in, and the pawn's head was shattered, and he was killed instantly. If it weren't for this pawn, he would be in the middle of the old woman. (This is a Song Dynasty story, and the word "cannon" may refer to the stones thrown into the city by a stone thrower.) ）
The city was recovered by the Heavenly Army, and the old woman and grandson died in the rebellion, leaving her alone, cold and starving, barely surviving by weaving straw shoes. She often said to people, "How nice it would have been if I had been killed by a cannon stone that day!" ”
There was also a blind girl of seven or eight years old, whose parents, brothers and sisters-in-law had died in the chaos, and she sat on the ruins, and no one gave her anything to eat. Just crying, "Mom, where are you?" Why didn't you bring me food? Brother, where are you? ......
For seven days, the girl fainted and became awake, awake and fainted, and finally died, holding a little bit of silver in her hand and never letting go, as if it was left by her parents. "Maoting Hakka Words".
Various uprisings in ancient times dealt a heavy blow to the feudal dynasty, and at the same time brought profound disasters to the people of Limin. The peasant rebel army did not have a strict and thorough program and discipline, and it was inevitable that they would do something harmful to the people. In addition, ordinary people suddenly grasp the power of life and death, which is an absolute disaster for others.
In all wars, in addition to disasters, there will be some singing and weeping deeds. Recently, I watched "Jiangyin City Discipline", which is about the second year of Shunzhi, the people of Jiangyin spontaneously resisted the Qing Dynasty, defended the lonely city for 81 days, and killed and injured more than 70,000 Qing troops (I personally think that this data may be exaggerated). In the end, the city was broken and slaughtered, more than 100,000 people died, and only 53 people were left hiding on the pagoda in the entire Jiangyin City.
The article is very long, and I will excerpt the first part to read with you.
Dorgon commanded Duoduo to conquer Nanjing, and then sent a letter to the counties under his jurisdiction, urging him to surrender. The counties replied to the letter and sent the household registration books to express their obedience, and only Jiangyin County ordered Lin Zhiji to hang up the seal and leave. The generals, county officials, and scholars of history also scattered. The talents gathered at the official school to cry and jointly elected the remaining Mo master to be in charge.
Master Mo communicated a message with the house, and the Qing army sent a county commander named Fang Heng. Fang Heng is a Han Chinese, a Jinshi in the last years of Chongzhen, and his age is not very old. He took twenty family members and four Qing soldiers to Jiangyin County, and he was still wearing the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty.
Xiucai and the elders greeted him, Fang Heng collected all the books and prepared to send them to Nanjing, and proposed to confiscate civilian weapons. An old man asked, "We have already returned to obedience, and we will not worry about our lives, right?" Fang Heng said: "It's okay, it's just that you have to complete the shaving of your hair within three days, otherwise, you won't have your head left!" As he spoke, he took out a draft and asked the original scribe to copy the notice for shaving his hair.
When the scribe saw the sentence "keep your hair but not your head", he threw his pen to the ground angrily. Fang Heng was furious and wanted to beat the scribe. All the showmen shouted: "The head can be broken, but the hair must not be shaved!" Someone accused Fang Heng again: "You are a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, but you are a county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, and you are not ashamed!" ”
Seeing the turmoil in the crowd, Fang Heng eased down and said: "This is the iron law of the Qing Dynasty, and the four Qing soldiers sent are here to supervise the shaving of hair. Everyone didn't agree, and Fang Heng said that he would write a letter to the house to negotiate. The secret letter was intercepted by the people, but the content was to ask for troops to suppress it, and emphasized that more killings should be made to set an example.
The people were angry, killed four Qing soldiers, imprisoned Fang Heng and Mo Zhushu, and elected Yan Yingyuan (county warden), who had left office, as the leader, and swore to defend the city to the death.
The Qing army recruited and suppressed, which experienced a series of twists and turns such as surrender, fraudulent surrender, attack, ** to remove spies, and use stratagems, and the city was broken after 80 days. Yan Yingyuan led people to start a street fight, was hit by three arrows, threw himself into the water and did not die, and was captured and executed.
It is worth mentioning that the four Qing soldiers who came to supervise the shaving of their hair spoke Manchu in front of everyone, ate raw vegetables, sat on the ground in the courtyard, and urinated everywhere. After being caught, he found out that he was Han and began to speak Suzhou dialect and beg for mercy.
During the Han Dynasty, there was also an incident of swearing to defend the lonely city.
In the context of national unity, these stories are rarely mentioned, and even if they are posted on the platform, there is no traffic. I think it's okay if you don't have traffic, these stories are really worth reading.
Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty died, the imperial court had no time to take care of the Western Regions, and the countries of the Western Regions rebelled under the coercion of the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu conquered the capitals. Shi Geng Gong stuck to Jinpu City, and then retreated to Shule City with the remnants. There was no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and in the face of dozens of times the enemy, they held out for nine months, and even ate the leather strips on the horses' halters.
At that time, there was a disagreement between the imperial court and the question of whether to save or not, until a minister said: "If you don't save it, who will contribute to the imperial court in the future?" "Emperor Zhang of Han finally sent an army to the rescue.
The two armies met at Shule City, and Geng Gong's subordinates still had a total of twenty-six people. They and the rescue force retreated to the pass, the Xiongnu pursued all the way, and the rescue force also disappeared. When they arrived at Yumen Pass, including Geng Gong, there were only thirteen people left. They are known as the "Thirteen Soldiers Return to the Jade Gate".