The cool breeze above dissipated some of Qin Mingtao's irritability, relieved the troops from fighting, and led Zhao De and others around the city.
The city is a desolate scene after a disaster. The ground is full of garbage thrown by the Tatars. It is in tatters and there is no time to clean it up. From time to time, you can see the charred remains of houses on both sides of the road. Probably the original owner tried to resist the banditry of the Tatars, and his house was burned down in public.
People have regained their freedom, and some city dwellers have returned to their homes. When I saw the mess there, I saw that all the tables, chairs, doors and windows of my house were smashed into pieces, none of the bottles and cans were intact, all the valuables were gone, and everyone was sitting at the door of the yard crying.
Outside a decent house, Qin Mingtao saw a young woman with some makeup spread out on the bluestone floor of the main room, sobbing non-stop. The woman was quite pretty. She was holding a box in one hand and holding on to the trousers of a man in shabby clothes with the other.
"I beg you! For the sake of my husband and wife's kindness over the past seven years, my husband, please spare my family Then what can I do when the Tatars come? How can I be stronger than them At the beginning I said I was going to Dagu to avoid trouble. You said you weren¡¯t afraid again.¡±
The woman begged for mercy while looking nervously at the door, looking at the stranger who was watching in fear. The man was a little soft-hearted at first, but when he saw someone outside the house saw this scene, his expression suddenly changed, and he decisively threw a piece of white silk beside the woman and shouted strangely,
"The love between husband and wife? You! Ha! Ha! I don't know you, but my Lin family has been scholarly for generations. How can this family's reputation be ruined by you? Divorce your wife or hang yourself. You choose one for yourself."
When the woman heard this, she was struck by lightning, her seductive eyes lost their sparkle, and she collapsed limply and fainted. The man paused for a moment and moved the woman's arm with his toes. There was no movement, and he froze there unable to move forward or retreat.
Qin Mingtao's eyes were still filled with death, and he rode forward in silence, gradually reaching the west of the city. This morning, the auxiliary soldiers of the Gaishui Battalion found the granary in the county government office. The grain stored in it was probably enough to feed the people in the city for more than half a month. Qin Mingtao asked the auxiliary soldiers to organize some people to make fires and water to cook food.
At this time, several large pots have been set up in the west of the city, and the tempting aroma of rice is floating everywhere.
The wheat was destroyed, the food and property were all robbed. Homes in the countryside were destroyed. Sixty to seventy thousand homeless rural tenants crowded into a corner in the west of the city. There were hundreds of long lines to receive meals. With a blank look on his face, he waited for his share of food to fill his stomach.
The Tatars were defeated by the Nanhai people. Then escape from the fear of death. These tenants were unhappy but sad and began to worry about their future livelihood. Last year the grain stored in the land was robbed. This year the wheat was destroyed. How have you spent the past two years? The fragrant millet rice failed to revive the despairing eyes, and from time to time, faint cries could be heard from the line receiving the food.
The auxiliary soldiers in the water camp are all simple men from the Nanhai Kingdom. See the desolate scene of the people here. I also felt pitiful in my heart. An auxiliary squad leader scooped a spoonful of rice onto those old wooden bowls or wood chips. Just recite "Bodhisattva bless you" and pray for the victims in front of you to survive these two years.
What else can we expect these days? We can only count on Bodhisattvas. One sentence made those people with dull eyes feel warm in their hearts. Everyone nodded with tears in their eyes.
A naked little girl ran past Qin Mingtao with her eyes wide open. There was a bulging sensation in the mouth. Holding a rice ball in his hand.
But her mother quickly caught up from behind. He grabbed the girl's hair and hit her hard.
"I'll beat you to death! I'll make you greedy! I don't know if Ming Ming has eaten yet. Eat, eat, eat, I'll eat you to death! Wrap the half-eaten food in your clothes and save it." The girl who was beaten He cried even though he was beaten. He let his mother snatch the rice ball from his hand and lowered his head to endure the pain, quickly swallowing the rice in his mouth.
The woman babbled a few more words and hid the rice ball in a bag like a treasure. There was still some thin bran from the past few days in the bag. It was sticky and black, making people want to vomit just looking at it.
Qin Mingtao couldn't stand it anymore. As if to comfort himself, he lowered his head and looked around. A piece of wood was found under a collapsed house. After thinking for a while, Qin Mingtao went to the well to wash the wood chips, scooped a large handful of rice from the big rice bucket, and put the rice into the meal of a young man at the front of the team.
The boy who was served rice looked at Qin Mingtao in surprise, then turned to look at the water camp auxiliary soldiers in front of him who were sharing the rice. He finally understood, nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and bowed his head.
"Thank you, General! Thank you very much, General! Thank you very much, General!"
Hearing the young man's thanks, Qin Mingtao, who was turning around, was stunned. But he didn't answer this sentence, and went to dig another spoonful of rice in the bucket to serve it Once the Ming Dynasty falls, no fool will continue to be driven by these scum.
By then, no Han in the world will be able to organize an army strong enough to resist foreign enemies. In history, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were besieged and suppressed by the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years. Although the Ming Dynasty exhausted its energy and blood, they were also beaten black and blue by the Ming Dynasty. In the end, they could not stop the Tatar army at all.
Qin Mingtao felt that it was not Chen Yuanyuan who changed history, but Li Zicheng was unable to organize this huge nation. How to organize it? Although Chongzhen died in 1644, the highly respected literati and the generals who held heavy troops did not die. They were still very powerful. These people are the real masters of the Ming Dynasty, these people are the masters of Chongzhen, and these people are the masters of the world.
¡°These people are still eager to establish the most decadent regime and safeguard their own interests of cannibalism. They continued to create a Nanming, and even came up with the idea of ??uniting with the Manchus to surround Li Zicheng. They continued to strangle the fate of this nation at the end, and finally threw their troops and wealth into the arms of the Manchus in droves.
The Ming Dynasty court controlled by these people was not afraid of foreign enemies. The power of foreign thieves was so small that they always needed Han people to help them rule the world. The Tatars could take refuge at any time after entering the country. These people are more afraid of family thieves. Once the Han people have a new emperor, they will take away all their interests.
The Ming Dynasty collapsed not because of how powerful Li Zicheng's peasant army was, but because of these people. The Ming Dynasty composed of these people was rotten to the core, because this regime was really at the end of its life. It was he himself who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty controlled by these blood-sucking insects was unwilling to perish.
They surrendered, they shaved their heads and became upright officials. They pulled the luck of the Han people down into the abyss for the sake of their own colorful world. So there was a piece of stone that was vulnerable to attack, and then there were four towns in Jiangbei that collapsed thousands of miles away.
In Qin Mingtao's view, it is really ridiculous for a nation with over 100 million people to be afraid of the Northeastern border residents with a population of less than 1 million. It is even more ridiculous for a nation to shirk the responsibility for being backward and beaten on a minority group with a population of less than one million.
In Qin Mingtao¡¯s eyes, what is hateful is not the Tatars who keep fighting for survival and development. What Qin Mingtao hated, Qin Mingtao felt that what caused the humiliation of modern China for hundreds of years was the late Ming Dynasty that completely wiped out the vitality of the Han people. They are countless moths cultivated in the last few decades of the Ming Empire. These moths desperately suck out the flesh and blood of the Han people, and then give the Han people's great land to the foreign races.
Qin Mingtao has no choice but to make sacrifices in the process of strengthening himself. Without destruction, there is no establishment. Phoenix Nirvana also requires a narrow escape from death. How can there be rebirth without sacrifice? Now that Qin Mingtao has come to this era, no matter what price he has to pay, he will not let the wrong history go wrong again.
Qin Mingtao never lies. "If you are clear, you will convince the public, and if you are wise, you can build a country." The Qin family members who had high expectations gave him this name. Qin Mingtao never betrayed his name, and he never deceived anyone with lies.
"But this is not a future with a prosperous legal system. This is not a new China where the people are the masters of the country. This is the five years of Chongzhen in which it was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers.
In order to reverse the fate of the Han people in this apocalyptic world, Qin Mingtao must lie.
Kneeling in front of the street are the humble Mingren, the most pitiful people of this era. They would rather be hungry than have their heads shaved and become slaves. Although they are poor and ignorant, weak and ignorant, they are the most stubborn and bloody Han people. They are the fire of this nation, and for them, Qin Mingtao must lie.
Only by lying can Qin Mingtao gather the power to turn things around.
Qin Mingtao's eyes suddenly flashed with a terrifying energy, and he nodded towards Zhao De. The adopted son who had followed him for many years immediately understood. He took a step forward and announced to the people at the highest volume,
"It's a joke. From the Daling River to this point, our country in Nanhai has been fighting in the north and south. How many times have we not fought to the death with the Tatars?"
"The artillery of the Tatars! It is definitely not sold by our country in the South China Sea!"