What shocked Zhao Qiang was the immeasurable length of the "Green Great Wall" made of several wicker sticks. It was about three or four meters high. It seemed to be stretching from Shanhaiguan to the northwest.【】
Looking around, the mountains and plains on the side of the pass are all divided into two parts by this willow edge. The nearest willow edge is only more than a mile away from the official road where he is, but there is a tree on both sides of the willow edge.
Therefore, there is no obstruction in the field of vision, and everyone can see clearly. Those who look carefully can even see some broken clothes tied up on some willow edges, and in some areas, there are cages containing some scary things that may not be human heads or something else.
, it was so dark that it had been blown dry by the wind, and it looked scary.
Suddenly seeing such a Great Wall-like willow edge, Zhao Qiang was a little surprised, but soon he knew what he was coming to. He knew that this was the "Willow Edge" built by the Manchu and Qing government to prevent Han people inside the Pass from going outside the Pass.
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Gao Shiqi saw Zhao Qiang staring at that section of willow edge and said with some pride: "What the proprietor came to is the willow edge that is now sacredly known as the Green Great Wall. I once heard someone say that the total length of this willow edge is two thousand six hundred and sixty-six meters long."
For a hundred miles, there are twenty side gates, more than one hundred and sixty side platforms, and hundreds of water mouths. It crosses six provinces. It can be called a miracle of our dynasty! That is to say, when the Holy Mingjun is alive today, the world is peaceful and the people live in peace.
The national treasury is sufficient, so that this green Great Wall can be built in just ten years! If it were replaced by the previous dynasty, I am afraid it would have died early." After that, he pointed to the willow edge looming over the mountains and said: "Please, proprietor, this is
Isn't it like a giant dragon entrenched beside the willow, which makes people feel very spectacular?"
"Spectacular, very spectacular!" Zhao Qiang nodded on his horse, but pretended to be confused and asked Gao Shiqi: "But I don't understand why the imperial court uses this willow edge to separate the inside and outside of the pass."
"Outside the Pass is the land of Longxing in our Qing Dynasty. In order to prevent the evil Han people inside the Pass from entering the Pass and committing illegal acts, the court built this Liubian." The person who answered was not Gao Shiqi, but Eunuch Chen, who said this
When he spoke, he looked proud of the Qing Dynasty, but little did he know that he was just a castrated Han slave.
After hearing Eunuch Chen's words, Zhao Qiang turned his head and gave him a puzzled look: "Since there are various passes in the Great Wall, why does the imperial court need to go to the trouble of building this willow edge? Just now, shopkeeper Gao said that this willow edge is 2,600 miles long.
There are several side platforms and side platforms. If you compare them in detail, I am afraid it will cost a lot. If it is just to prevent evil Han people from sneaking into the outside world, the willow edge is too flashy."
"Well..." Eunuch Chen has only heard of Liubian, but he doesn't know how much money it spent to build the Liubian court and how many soldiers and horses were stationed there. However, considering that it was built so long, I'm afraid it was indeed a waste of money.
A lot of silver. The wicker sticks are not valuable, but they don't grow in one place and can be used easily. They must be transferred from other places, and then they have to hire people to pierce them and send troops to guard each pass. If you really think about it, it's just
The defenders of more than 200 side platforms consume a considerable amount of money every year.
When Liubian was built, Gao Shiqi had just arrived in the capital. He was not as involved in court secrets as he is now, so he didn’t know much about Liubian. Although he was aware of the pros and cons of Liubian.
He knew something, but he couldn't say it clearly. He just smiled and didn't answer Zhao Qiang's words.
Seeing that Gao and Chen didn't answer his words, Zhao Qiang snorted coldly. These two were both Han people, and their status was not low. How could they really not know the purpose of Liubian's building? He wanted to make them angry, so he just said it casually.
He said: "I am afraid that the imperial court built this Liubian to be afraid of the separation between the inside and outside of the pass, and deliberately guarded against the Han people in the pass, treating them as thieves, and deliberately preventing them from having the opportunity to come to the outside of our pass."
After hearing this, Eunuch Chen didn't react much, but Gao Shiqi was a little embarrassed. Huang Xiu's real purpose of Liu Bian was exactly what Mi Qing said, but he couldn't agree with it, and there was nothing he could do about it.
Go and refute him, because he is a Han Chinese, and he can't explain the matter even if we get entangled with him, so he simply won't keep talking about it.
"Who knows about the affairs of the imperial court? Since this willow edge has been repaired, the imperial court must have its own plans. We, the common people, don't care what they do." Gao Shiqi drove his horse to the side and let a carriage full of medicinal materials pass by.
Then he said to Zhao Qiang: "By the way, what good things did the proprietor bring on this trip to Kyoto? You might as well tell me, Mr. Gao in Kyoto also knows many experts, maybe they can be of some help."
"So good!"
Seeing that Gao didn't want to talk about Liubian, Zhao Qiang stopped the topic. He followed Gao Shiqi's words and talked about the goods he brought, asking him to contact him after he came to Beijing to see if he could find some wealthy people.
Chuo's big patron. The two of them were chatting and laughing, and they were getting closer and closer to Shanhaiguan. They were also getting closer to the area where Liubian was located. Even when they arrived at Shanhaiguan,
You can also see some Han children playing on the willow edge on the left side of the pass, but they dare not get close to the willow edge. Occasionally when they get close, their parents will yell and scold them and call them back.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Qiang was both sad and angry. He was so sad that the lands inside and outside the Pass belonged to the same country, especially Liaodong, which had been included in the territory of China since the Yan State in the Warring States Period. Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, millions of people still lived in Liaodong.
However, later the Han people in Liaodong were either massacred by the Hou Jin army, or were forcibly incorporated into the Han army banner, or were brutally moved out of the pass. To this day, the Han people outside the pass only have the few slaves of the Han army banner and those prisoners sent from within the pass.
It is really sad that another Han can live in the vast land outside the customs. Not only that, the Han people and their own land are artificially segregated. What is infuriating is that the barbaric policy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty made the Han population in the Northeast extremely sparse, so that later
Russia easily colonized the northern part of Northeast China and cut off a vast territory of 1.4 million square kilometers. Therefore, whether now or in the future, the wicker border built by Kangxi was an extremely reactionary measure. It was not until the Republic of China that Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang used trains to transport large quantities of
By pulling Chinese people into the Northeast, we avoided the fate of the Northeast being divided up again by imperialist countries.
The emergence of this abnormal thing like the wicker edge is the ironclad evidence of the Manchus' defense against the Han and the best embodiment of their despicable mentality. Nurhaci raised troops to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, attacked cities and territories everywhere, killed and looted, so the vested interests of the Manchus were to use the horrific weapons to destroy the Ming Dynasty.
The massacres were looted from the hands of the Han people, so if they want to preserve the vested interests of the Manchus, they must be a hundred times vigilant and guard against the resistance of the people they slaughtered at all times. Therefore, the fundamental policy of preventing the Han people from controlling the Han people
It became the most basic and primary national policy of the Manchu and Qing dynasties from its beginning to its demise. Before the Manchus entered the customs, more than 3 million Han people in the entire Liaodong region were almost killed by Nurhachi, and only this regime survived.
Although the Han people who were the objects of rule and enslavement had been "shaving their hair and changing clothes" and implementing "manufacturing village" control, the Manchu rulers were still worried and restless. So Huang Taiji came up with an extremely damaging plan.
They dug trenches, built embankments, and drew walls to form prisons to isolate people on the spot, making it difficult for them to communicate with each other and collaborate.
What he did was to open a door at regular intervals along the entire wicker edge, called a side door, for entry and exit from the wicker edge. This was the predecessor of the wicker edge where Zhao Qiang went now. Now it is the turn of Emperor Kangxi, the grandson of Huang Taiji.
When he was the emperor, Kangxi was more talented than his grandfather. He not only used his grandfather's anti-Han methods to the extreme, but also used a large number of royal officials to whitewash his reputation.
This sinister intention, why the song "Green Great Wall" is bullshit, it is really ridiculous!
There are many human heads hanging on the willow branches at the Shanhaiguan border to remind the Han people inside the pass not to think about going outside the pass again, because Shanhaiguan is an important traffic thoroughfare inside and outside the pass, with many caravans, pedestrians and officials traveling from south to north.
, so the heads hanging by the willows are very "fresh". Some of the dried heads in cages will be regularly replaced with freshly chopped heads, making them more terrifying and making Zhao Qiang more angry than the nest, which has some effect on this.
I have no interest in Shanhaiguan Pass, the "No. 1 Pass in the World". I just feel that it is just a Great Wall Pass near the sea. It is much inferior to Jiayu Pass in Gansu. I think there are more people who have the reputation of "The No. 1 Pass in the World".
It comes from its geographical location.
After checking the route, the guards at the checkpoint let Zhao Qiang and the others into the pass. As soon as they entered the pass, they saw an extremely lively scene, but there was a market right next to the pass. The caravans who had just entered the pass had just entered the pass.
When he exited the customs, he was surrounded by many people working in Beijing movies. This scene made Zhao Qiang feel like he was coming out of the train station back in the future. However, at that time, he was being dragged by scalpers to buy tickets, but this time he was being dragged away by scalpers.
People stopped me and asked if I had any goods to sell.