Chapter 52 Captain, do you want to be an official?
Jia Liu was confused.
The historical education he received in his previous life told him that in addition to suppressing Lin Shuangwen's uprising in Taiwan, the "Ten Complete Martial Arts" of the Qianlong Dynasty also included the two pacifications of Junggar, the pacification of the small and large Hezhuo rebellions, the Qing-Burma War, the Battle of Annan, the two pacifications of Gorkha, and the ongoing
The Pingxiao and Jinchuan wars were all powerful measures taken by the Manchu and Qing dynasties to maintain national unity and territorial integrity.
Therefore, even though he was dissatisfied with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Jia Liu would not fall into the misunderstanding of black and white thinking and would not recognize the positive role played by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in maintaining China's territorial integrity.
Therefore, even if he was forced to come to Jinchuan, he knew that it was extremely dangerous, and Jia Liu never had any thoughts of "surrendering to the enemy".
This is a matter of right and wrong, a matter of principle.
In addition to hiding behind to save his life, he also hoped that the Qing army could end the Jinchuan War as soon as possible.
However, it was precisely because of his previous knowledge that Jia Liu always thought that the rebels in Jinchuan were plateau soldiers, and their leader was also a chieftain from Gaoxue.
Suddenly, the enemies he originally thought turned into the Han people who fought against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, and became the survivors of the Ming Dynasty that had been destroyed for more than a hundred years. Of course, Jia Liu found it incredible.
It feels as if the worldview established since childhood suddenly collapsed.
He must find out the truth about the Jinchuan rebellion.
Why is this truth so different from the official propaganda?
Who are those "thieves" who claim to be the people of the Ming Dynasty!
Who could he ask?
I "picked up" this little Chunzi at the city gate, who followed the caravan all over Sichuan and even the southwest.
"Master Jia, isn't he from the army? How come he doesn't know the situation there?"
Yang Yuchun was also very curious. Logically speaking, Master Jun must know more than low-level people like them.
Jia Liu couldn't help but say that he was tricked into coming to Jinchuan by that bullshit "Third Examination Grade A", so he deviated from it by saying that he had been in the capital before and this was his first time coming to Jinchuan.
"Tell me everything you know. Don't hide anything."
"this..."
Yang Yuchun actually went to Jinchuan with his caravan, but he went quietly because if the government knew about it, he would be beheaded.
Jia Liu knew what the little guy was hesitating about. It was simply that the caravan's private trip to Jinchuan was tantamount to "collaborating with the enemy", so the little guy was afraid that telling him, the Eight Banners Army Master, would harm the caravan's gang.
"I just want to know the specific situation of Jinchuan. I don't care about other things."
Jia Liu points out.
After Yang Yuchun hesitated, he finally whispered: "Master Jia, the rebels in Jinchuan are very fierce. There are Miao people, Yao people, and plateau people... Well, there are also some fake Han people who claim to be Han people, just now
The group of people who were beheaded."
"What do you mean by fake Han people?"
Jia Liu was curious about this statement.
"Because although these people say they are Han Chinese, they are completely different from us. You see,"
Yang Yuchun pulled off his braids and said, "We have braids, but they don't have braids, and their clothes are different from us. They don't look like us Han people at all, so we call them fake Han people."
Yang Zhi interrupted and asked: "Is it similar to what the singers wear on the stage?"
Yang Yuchun said "hmm" and nodded.
Are they really survivors of the Ming Dynasty?
Jia Liu remembered the memoirs of a marshal he had read in his previous life, saying that when the Eighth Route Army opened up the Taihang Mountains base during the Anti-Japanese War, they discovered a group of people dressed in ancient costumes in the mountains. Asked again, these people were unwilling to accept the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
Descendants of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians have lived in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains for more than three hundred years.
Taihang Mountain is located under the nose of the Qing court in North China, and there are still Ming Dynasty survivors living there who swear not to follow the Qing Dynasty. It is not impossible that Ming Dynasty survivors appear in the mountains and ridges in the southwest.
Thinking of this, Jia Liuyue had a good idea and asked: "Yuchun, do you know how those fake Han people got involved with the rebels?"
"I heard from people in the caravan that those fake Han people have been living in Miao Cave in Yao Mountain where no one can find them. Over time, they have become a group of people with the Yao people and Miao people in the mountains. They not only teach the Yao people, but also the Miao people to farm.
Weave cloth, teach them to speak our Han language, read our Han books, write our Han characters, and also teach them to make weapons."
Speaking of this, Yang Yuchun remembered something, "By the way, the firearms used by the bandits in Jinchuan were made by these fake Han people, and the stone bunkers built everywhere on the mountains were also made by these fake Han people for the bandits.
For this reason, many officers and soldiers of our Qing Dynasty died."
After hearing this, Yang Zhi couldn't help but said angrily: "These traitors will not die well!"
Jia Liu was a little stunned. What did this traitor mean?
In the eyes of ordinary Han people, his old Jia family should be regarded as traitors, and even Qianlong, the Manchu emperor, viewed them this way.
Are those Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians who were committed to fighting against the Qing Dynasty also traitors?
What kind of statement is this?
However, this argument is tenable.
Because those Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians were really traitors in the eyes of the Han people who had accepted the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
"Fake Han" is probably the most appropriate view of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians among the local Han people in Sichuan.
So, who are the Han people?
Jia Liu's chest suddenly felt a little heavy.
This issue is indeed quite serious.
"Um?"
Yang Yuchun seemed to be thinking of something again, but he didn't know if he could say it.
"In front of me from now on, just say whatever comes to your mind. Otherwise, how can I trust you? If there is no trust between us, why would we get together?"
Jia Liu smiled and glanced at the Mengmeng children at the next table. Those people were toasting Foluntai and didn't pay attention to this side.
"Yeah, I got it."
Yang Yuchun told an old story that he heard his grandfather mention.
The incident happened twenty-five years ago. At that time, the imperial court was also deploying troops to attack Jinchuan. The person in charge of commanding the army was Zhang Guangsi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi.
"I heard from my grandpa that many fake Han people from Jinchuan have infiltrated into the ranks of the army. Their leader also gained the trust of the governor. He seems to be named Wang... yes, Wang Qiu..."
Yang Yuchun said that Wang Qiu was trusted by Zhang Guangsi, so he secretly told Jinchuan all the information about the offensive deployment of the officers and soldiers. As a result, the officers and soldiers not only failed to succeed in their attack on Jinchuan, but were also defeated by Jinchuan's Fan army and suffered heavy losses.
"Later, the man surnamed Wang was betrayed by people from the plateau in Jinchuan. Only then did the court know that the governor had such a big spy hidden beside him... My grandfather said that the man surnamed Wang seemed to have been detained, and the man surnamed Zhang was
The governor-general was also killed in the end."
It was definitely impossible for Yang Yuchun to know the specific situation, but through these "fragments" mentioned by the little guy, Jia Liu roughly pieced together a "plot picture".
After the Qing Dynasty entered the country, many Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians in Sichuan and Guizhou who did not want to be enslaved by foreigners hid in the mountains. They gradually penetrated into the Jinchuan area through intermarriage with the Miao and Yao people in the mountains, or through enlightenment.
Toast power.
After that, these descendants of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians continued to plan anti-Qing uprisings through their influence on the chieftains, generation after generation, eventually leading to the protracted "Battle of Pingchuan" in the Qianlong Dynasty.
However, because the descendants of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians were never able to form numerical dominance in the Jinchuan area, and the scale of the war lasted for too long, the Miao and Yao people who were originally close to them suffered too much, so the surrounding plateau forces took advantage of the opportunity.
Enter Jinchuan.
Although the military and civilians of the Ming Dynasty also cooperated with these plateau people because of the common enemy, it was obvious that this cooperation was far less than the previous cooperation with the Miao and Yao people. Therefore, incidents of plateau people rebelling and surrendering to the Qing court frequently occurred, which led to the Ming Dynasty
The military and civilian leader, the counselor Wang Qiu who went undercover to the governor's side, was killed.
Initially, Jia Liu could only piece it together like this.
The current composition and power affiliation of the Jinchuan Fan Army, what is the relationship between them, what is the proportion of soldiers and civilians in the Ming Dynasty, and what role did the plateau people play? Due to the lack of first-hand information, he was unable to make any judgments.
Generally speaking, the situation in Jinchuan is a bit like the several wars the Qing army fought with Burma.
Because there are a large number of descendants of the Ming army who fled in the late Ming Dynasty in the Burmese army, and most of them are descendants of the national hero Li Dingguo.
Even after a hundred years, the clothes have not changed, and the ambition to resist the Qing Dynasty and regain the Central Plains has always been passed down from generation to generation.
Looking at this war from the perspective of the descendants of the Ming army who fought to the death against the foreigners, it was definitely just for them to help the Burmese army fight against the Qing army.
Looking at this war from the perspective of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had effectively occupied China, the descendants of the Ming army who were bent on expelling the Tartars and restoring China seemed to have become national sinners again.
Very contradictory.
But it actually exists.
History is not just a few strokes in the annals, but mixed with too many joys and sorrows, too many righteousnesses of family and country, and too many tragedies of the times.
It’s never black and white!
Jia Liu would not comment on his compatriots who could not return to their hometown, but he finally understood why Qianlong did not hesitate to use all his national power, sacrifice countless soldiers, kill so many military governors, and even refused to negotiate with the Jinchuan Plateau forces.
We must also level Jinchuan, because there is a terrible flame here - the flame of the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty!
A single spark can ignite the original fire.
Qianlong probably understood this truth.
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After finishing the meal, Jia Liu asked Yang Zhi to pay the bill, and then took Yang Yuchun downstairs and left without saying a word to the Manchu and Mongolian disciples.
After Yang Zhi paid the bill, he asked the waiter for a bamboo box and poured the unfinished food into it.
Jia Liu couldn't help but be happy when he saw it. Shuan Zhu finally knew how to be thrifty and pack.
Unexpectedly, Yang Zhi said that these were brought back for Goudan to eat.
Jia Liu glanced into the bamboo weaving and saw that there were fish, meat, and two or three uneaten rabbit heads.
Pandas seem to eat meat.
Because there were descendants of Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians in Jinchuan, Jia Liu had no intention of continuing to visit Chongzhou City and returned to the military camp outside the city early.
He is the foreman of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army and the number one Butha of the Eight Banners of the Han Army. It is definitely no problem to recruit a groom for himself, because he can be regarded as his own domestic slave.
Over there, Yang Zhi took Yang Yuchun to see his flower bear. Chang Bingzhong, Wang Fu and the others didn't come back. Jia Liu had nothing to do and went to feed his white horse.
As the sun was about to set, the Eight Banners disciples and Su La people who had entered the city returned to camp one after another.
The quiet military camp suddenly became bustling with people, and people gathered everywhere to play money.
Chang Bingzhong and others also gathered a group of people to gamble in the house, but Jia Liu didn't care, because it was rest time and the four team leaders had gone to have fun themselves, so why did he need to be the bad guy.
He didn't like gambling either, so he wanted to tease the national treasure. As soon as he left the house, he was pulled to the wall by Liu Heyi, who had just returned.
"Captain, do you want a woman?"
Jia Liu, who didn't expect this to happen, was startled for a moment, then firmly shook his head: "No!"
After saying that, he lifted his feet and left.
Who are these people? I look so feminine?
Jia Liu looked unhappy.
But Liu Heyi smiled mischievously and stepped forward to grab him again: "Captain, don't leave in a hurry. If you don't want the woman, do you want the officer?"