Chapter 30 Life is a Qing Man and Death is a Qing Ghost
"Mr. Jing, the commander-in-chief of our family, is a great Confucian who is familiar with the saints and sages. He has countless knowledge in his mind. He should know that Huayi is very defensive. As the saying goes, people who are not of my race must have different minds! Today, the Manchu people have occupied our country of Han with a small number of people and enslaved them.
It has poisoned tens of millions of our Han people, causing them to live in dire straits and become homeless. 【】 uu Historically, people have not killed people with words, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty frequently killed people with words, guarding the people's mouths, and setting up digital prisons, intending to break the backbone of our Han people.
The court is actually a shameful person who is deeply servile, but only knows how to obey, and is a flatterer! How can such a court convince me, the Han people?"
"Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, many of our Han family's ambitious heroes have generously sacrificed their lives just to expel the Tartars and restore China to our country. There has been an endless stream of people who have gone before and after us. Now my commander raises his arms and rises with hundreds of troops from the White Mountains and Black Rivers.
I vow to lead my troops into the pass and restore our clear sky and bright moon! He is indeed a rare hero in the past ten years!"
"Sir, you are a Han Chinese. Are you willing to be a slave of the Manchus? My commander-in-chief respects you and knows him well. He knows that he has no choice but to live outside the customs. Therefore, I specially ask you to join our army and serve as military counselor. In the future,
Let’s shine in the annals of history together and let future generations remember it!”
"You don't need to say it. Although I, Chen Menglei, am weak and old, I also know the etiquette and integrity. If you ask me to be an unfaithful and unfilial person, I will not be able to obey!"
Liu De spent a lot of time in the hope of persuading Chen Menglei, but after he spoke, the other party was furious and unmoved at all. He looked like a loyal minister and righteous man with strong bones, which really annoyed him.
If the commander-in-chief hadn't wanted to recruit this person, Liu Decai wouldn't have bothered to talk to him. He suppressed his displeasure and still tried to persuade him. However, Chen Menglei never said a word. When Liu De saw this, he knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he had no choice but to persuade him.
Left in anger.
"Does Chen Menglei want to be Kangxi's loyal minister? Humph, he is so confused!"
After listening to Liu De's report, Zhao Qiang sneered and ordered him: "Go and ask Burcha and his gang of flag officers to persuade me. Even the Tatars surrendered to me under my command. Why wouldn't he, a Han, want to help me?"
Does he really want to repay his emperor with death?"
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, my subordinates will go and ask Burcha and others to persuade him!"
Liu De hurriedly asked the surrendered banner men Burcha, Ertu and others to persuade Chen Menglei to surrender. Unexpectedly, after Burcha and others saw Chen Menglei, before they could speak, Chen Menglei pointed at the braids on the back of their heads and sneered.
: "I wonder if I should call you Chinese or rebellious now? If you are Chinese, how can you become a thief and rebel against your ancestors? If you are not Chinese, why do you have the Chinese braid on the back of your head?"
"you!…"
Burca and the others blushed and had nothing to say. They could no longer utter all the words of persuasion they had planned to persuade them to surrender, so they had no choice but to leave in dismay.
"Is this old man filled with mud in his head?"
Hearing that Burcha and the others were ridiculed by Chen Menglei without saying a word, Zhao Qiang was furious, picked up a tea bowl and threw it outside the tent, shouting: "Let his son persuade him! Can't the love of flesh and blood be worth his money?"
Is it foolishness!"
When Liu De saw that the marshal was furious, he hurriedly brought up Chen Zhaolai, Chen Menglei's son, and asked him to immediately persuade his father to surrender to the marshal.
When Chen Zhao heard that his father was not dead, and that Commander Guan Ningjun wanted to reuse him, he nodded and agreed. Under the leadership of Liu De, he went to persuade his father not to be stubborn.
"Dad! Dad!" Seeing Chen Menglei from a distance, Chen Zhao couldn't help shouting excitedly.
"Zhao'er? Zhao'er!" Hearing his son's cry, Chen Menglei thought he was dreaming. When Chen Zhao rushed towards him, he couldn't help being overjoyed and rushed towards him. He hugged his son, crying and sobbing.
stand up.
When Chen Zhao saw Liu De winking at him, he quickly comforted his crying father and said, "Dad, I came here on the order of the commander..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Menglei got excited and let go of his son. His eyes were full of confusion: "The commander-in-chief's order?..."
Chen Zhao nodded.
"Have you surrendered these bandits?" Chen Menglei's hands began to shake, and his face was uncertain.
"Dad, you have to bow your head when you are under the eaves!" Seeing his father like this, Chen Zhao felt bitter in his heart. Who the hell is so full that he wants to go with the rebels? This person is being held here, don't you agree?
Is it possible?
Glancing sideways at Liu De not far away from the corner of his eye, Chen Zhao pretended to be casual and took two steps forward. He persuaded his father in a very low voice: "My son, this is also a last resort to save his life. Dad."
Isn't it often said that if you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood? Now that the bandit army is powerful, a good man will not suffer the immediate losses. My son is enduring the humiliation and living in vain. He can just find an opportunity to leave someday. Now the bandit army wants dad to help, dad.
It's better to pretend to agree and run away with your son in the future. Didn't my father do the same thing in Fujian back then?"
There was a "bah" sound, and Chen Zhao was slapped hard on the face.
Chen Menglei was so angry that he was shaking, pointed at Chen Zhao and cursed: "Get out of here, get out of here!"
"Dad, why are you doing this?" Chen Zhao covered half of his face, wondering what kind of nerves his father was having.
"You evil beast, get out of here!"
Chen Menglei's roaring voice could be heard far away, frightening the Han people around him into stunned silence.
"Don't you recognize your relatives, old man? Go and bring him over to me. I will ask him personally!"
Three groups of people who tried to persuade him were blocked, and Zhao Qiang had no choice but to take action himself. Liu De had already counted that there were hundreds of readers of the offending officials in Shangyang Fort, and these people were all needed by Guan Ning's army.
Yes, the territory he has established now urgently needs these people to manage it. If Chen Menglei insists on refusing to submit to him, it will definitely have a great impact on this group of people. So he must persuade Chen Menglei to submit to him no matter what, and it will also affect these Han officials.
Well, it is a matter of great significance to the Han people in Guan.
When Chen Menglei was brought over, he only bowed his hands to Zhao Qiang and then turned his head away from Zhao Qiang.
"Kneel down!"
Ge Feihu ordered Chen Menglei to kneel down. Chen Menglei struggled hard but refused to kneel. Finally, he simply sat on the ground and refused to kneel. His expression seemed to say: I just won’t kneel to you, you thief, what can you do to me!
Zhao Qiang admired Chen Menglei's backbone, but also felt sad for him, knowing that Chen Menglei would definitely refuse to submit to him. He sighed and signaled to the guards not to force Chen Menglei to kneel down anymore, and said: "Sir, you really don't want to help me.
Can we jointly restore our country as a Han people?"
"If we have different ways, we can't work together!" Chen Menglei coldly piled up seven words.
"Sir, I am a Han, and the Manchus are barbarians. Now that the barbarians have taken over my land and killed my people, I don't know why you said that we are different and are not conspiring against each other? Do you think that my commander-in-chief is wrong to rebel against the Qing Dynasty?"
"The world has been settled, the destiny of the country has been decided, and the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment. Today's sage and eternal Mingjun treat us Han people just like the Manchus, and there is no saying that they have come to massacre. The Manchu and Han people are one family, regardless of whether they are Chinese or Han. As long as they are
The world is at peace, free from the harm of swords, and free from the pain of exile. This is a day of contentment. Now that you have ignored the favor of the court and rebelled again, you are really an unkind and unjust thief. You must know that together with these swords and soldiers, except for
What can the people gain by poisoning living beings!"
"Sir, what you said is wrong. I would like to ask, sir, there are less than a million bannermen, but there are tens of millions of Han people. If you were the leader of the banner people, would you be safe and kind to the Han people?"
"It's worth noting to speculate on your own. Things in the world rise and fall, and countries are destroyed and slaughtered. This has happened throughout the ages. I am loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and I just want to die early! You don't need to say more to me, I will not submit to you. Yes, if you are truly a hero, let me die to save my name."
"Are you really not afraid of death?"
"In life I am a man of the Qing Dynasty, and in death I am a ghost of the Qing Dynasty! I died for the integrity of my whole heart. My death will be worthwhile and my death will be peaceful!"
"Okay." Zhao Qiang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Someone, pull Chen Menglei out and chop him!"
"You don't need to pull me, I will leave on my own!"
Chen Menglei stood up straight from the ground, dusted off his butt, glanced coldly at Zhao Qiang, then turned around resolutely and came out calmly.
Liu De was ordered to supervise the execution. When Chen Menglei was ready to execute the execution with the execution hand, he came over with some regret, leaned down, and said softly to Chen Menglei: "Do you have anything else to say? If you say it now, it's not too late. !”
Chen Menglei said with a look of fear on his face: "I will die, what else is there to say?" After a pause, he asked again: "Which side is the south?"
Liu De stretched out his hand and pointed towards the south, wondering why Chen Menglei was asking this.
"Thank you!"
Chen Menglei thanked Liu De for pointing his hand, straightened his body, faced south with a solemn expression, lowered his clothes, suddenly bent down and kowtowed to the south three times.
Seeing that Chen Menglei was so loyal to the Qing court that sent him to a foreign country, Liu De curled his lips, ordered the executioner to execute him, and then turned around and left, not wanting to see the tragic scene of Chen Menglei's head falling to the ground.
"Execution!"
With a loud shout, the sword was swung down.
"Poof!"
Blood splattered everywhere, heads fell to the ground, and Chen Zhao could only be heard crying and wailing, "Daddy, daddy, daddy."