The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 196 A Moment in History - Changsha People's Public Trial of Sai Shang'a and Others
With a creaky sound, the door of a separate prison cell in the Changsha government office was gently opened.

The cell was clean and covered with a thick layer of straw, which was quite warm. Three people were curled up on the straw. They were startled by the sound of the cell door opening. Two of them turned around and squinted at the door, wanting to see who came in. There was only a person wearing a tattered official robe with a crane patch, huddled in the straw without moving, not even looking out.

The three prisoners here are naturally Sai Shang'a, Xiang Rong and Liu Changqing. Most of the bannermen or high-ranking Han officials in the Qing army who were captured in the three battles of Hengshan, Xiangtan and Shanmen are now imprisoned in the Changsha government prison.

As for the captured low-ranking Han officers and soldiers, most of them were absorbed by the Taiping Army. Among them, Luo Yaoguo's upper army absorbed the most, because the upper army already had a set of lecturers who could do ideological work for these captured officers and soldiers and monitor them at the same time.

The current lecturer system is not just about "lecturing", but also about "protecting" the internal forces! If the officers and soldiers captured from the Qing demons dare not behave themselves, there are various protection measures waiting for them.

Of course, most of the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Qing army who were captured in the Xiangtan Campaign are still undergoing drug rehabilitation. Only a few who are not addicted to opium have become glorious Taiping Army soldiers and are under the friendly guidance of the lecturers.

As for the high-ranking officers of the Bannermen and Han people imprisoned in the Changsha government office, they were not afraid of death these days. After all, there was a precedent for redemption! Everyone had heard about the last time the emperor spent 300,000 taels to redeem 500 bannermen from Beijing.

The children of the “Jing Banner” can be redeemed, so there is no reason why the children of the “Jing Banner” cannot be redeemed!

Six hundred taels isn’t expensive!

Although the Han officers knew that the emperor was unwilling to pay, they had also heard about "self-redemption" and "redemption loan".

Xiang Rong and Liu Changqing even discussed the redemption issue in front of Sai Shang'a these days.

They were not the kind of poor people who borrowed money to get into office. They were all from the Green Camp for generations, and they were appreciated by Yang Yuchun, a famous general who suppressed the White Lotus Rebellion and Zhang Geer Rebellion, and they rose to high positions without spending much money. Then, while they were greedy for money, they "multiplied by ten" to make meritorious deeds, and they really saved a lot of money.

So the two of them calculated and thought that it would not be a big problem to spend a few thousand or tens of thousands of taels to redeem themselves. The problem now was what to do after redeeming themselves? Their battle was like this, and this official position would definitely be lost. Even if they wanted to become a rich man, it would probably be difficult. After all the money they had made over the years, after using it up and down, the most they could get was to just get themselves out of trouble.

The two Qing monsters sighed and calculated how much money they would have left after buying a house to enjoy their old age. Xiang Rong had a rich family fortune, so he could probably have 30,000 taels left. Liu Changqing didn't have that much wealth, so he thought 15,000 taels was good enough.

The two sighed and swore to return to their hometown in Gansu to enjoy their old age. Well, the hometown is good, the hometown is peaceful, no one worships God, at most there are some who worship Allah and they look quite friendly.

Sai Shang'a had no interest in the conversation between Xiang Rong and Liu Changqing. He just lay on the straw pile every day, looking bored. Xiang and Liu were too lazy to curry favor with him. When he took office as the imperial envoy, Hong Xiuquan was still wandering around the countryside of Guangxi! Now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is about to take over the whole of Hunan. Maybe in a few years, it will be able to take over half of Jiangnan.
If this guy is redeemed, he will end up in the market!
He might as well die on the battlefield in Shanmen City! If he dies in battle, the emperor will have to give him a grand funeral, right?

Now the dog doesn't care!
Today, when Xiang Rong and Liu Changqing were counting on their fingers how many days it would take to return to their hometown in Gansu, people from the Taiping Army really showed up.

They saw a short, dark, thin young man with a face full of bitterness and hatred, leading a few burly holy soldiers, two jailers from Changsha government office and a retained criminal lawyer, walking in quickly. The young man took a quick glance and saw Xiang Rong and Liu Changqing, who were still wearing their soldier uniforms, and Sai Shang'a, who was curled up in the haystack and motionless.

The young man spoke in Guangxi Mandarin, his voice gloomy and murderous, and shouted: "In compliance with the instructions of the Eastern King, bring in the prisoners Arut Saishang'a, Xiang Rong, and Liu Changqing!"

"Mention a prisoner? Sir, how did we become a prisoner?"

"Yeah, what crime have we committed?"

Xiang Rong and Liu Changqing were both a little surprised. Didn't they agree to redeem him? Just tell me how much it would cost, it's not like they don't have it! How come he has become a prisoner in a moment?
However, the young man ignored them and just took out the doggerel-style instruction issued in the name of Yang Xiuqing and handed it to the criminal lawyer.

Without saying anything, the master immediately asked a jailer to open the door of the wooden fence where the prisoners were held. Then the young man waved his hand, and six Taiping Army soldiers rushed in, picked up Sai Shang'a, Xiang Rong, and Liu Changqing, put shackles on them, and dragged them out.
Inside Chao Zongmen, on the white ground created by Zuo Zongtang’s fire, there was a sea of ​​people cheering!

"Long live the king, long live the king, long live the king."

The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan stood on the Chaozong Gate city gate, looking down with a crazy look on his face.

This feeling is so good!
Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Luo Yaoguo, Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai, Hong Xuanjiao, Qin Rigang, Hu Yihuang, Su Sanniang and others, all dressed in court caps and robes, stood on the left and right of the Heavenly King.

"Crack!"

With a slight sound, Luo Yaoguo, who was standing ten steps away to the right of Hong Xiuquan, had already captured this "historical moment" with the telescope in his hand, and added a text: In December 1852, the Changsha people publicly tried Sai Shang'a and others.

Yes, it is to let the suffering people of Changsha to "judge" instead of the high and mighty Hong Tianwang to "judge", and the main idea is to allow the people to fully participate.

Of course, Luo Yaoguo took the initiative to help Yang Xiuqing organize and plan this public trial full of progressive spirit.

In order to mobilize the people of Changsha to the "white land" in Chaozongmen to the greatest extent, Luo Yaoguo issued orders to Zhu Jiutao, the acting prefect of Changsha, and Wang Yan, the head of the Hunan-Jiangxi Border General Hall, asking Zhu Jiutao's disciples to find a group of victims who had suffered great hardships and deep hatred in Changsha City. He also asked Wang Yan to send lecturers to "train" those victims, and also arranged a group of backbones to mix in with the people to liven up the atmosphere.

Although the God Worshipping Society's lecturer system had organized countless similar activities in the past, none of them were as large-scale as this one. In addition, similar activities in the past were mostly used to mobilize poor farmers, while this time it was aimed at citizens with a much more complex composition.

For the God Worshipping Society lecturers, this is a rare opportunity to gain work experience!
Of course, the Heavenly King's Palace, the Eastern King's Palace, the Southern King's Palace, and the Western King's Palace also sent a lot of people to participate. Zhu Jiutao's disciples came even more, and this is called common progress.

After doing this, I should gain some experience, right?
"Bring Sai Yaotou, Xiang Yaotou, Liu Yaotou and others to me!"

Hong Xiuquan had had enough of his pleasure, and finally had Sai Shang'a, Xiang Rong, Liu Changqing and more than 20 other deputy generals, lieutenant generals, guerrillas, garrisons and 512 Eight Banners officers and soldiers of Jingzhou taken to the Chaozong Gate city gate.

A large open space was fenced off by chevaux de frise at the foot of the city gate, and a wooden platform was built in the middle of the open space. Due to the limited area on the platform, only Sai Shang'a, Xiang Rong, and Liu Changqing, the three main criminals, were escorted to the platform by six sturdy Taiping Army soldiers, and then forced to kneel down in front of the huge crowd below.

These three people already knew that something terrible was going to happen!

When they were taken out of the Changsha government jail, they knew they would most likely not make it through today.

Because both sides of the long street outside the Changsha government office leading to Chaozong Gate were filled with Changsha people who wanted to eat them alive!

If the Taiping soldiers had not stopped them, the three of them, as well as the other twenty or so Green Camp generals who were escorted out, and more than five hundred Eight Banners of Jingzhou, would have been bitten to death by those extremely angry people on the way, and would have never been able to reach the Chaozong Gate.

However, what was waiting for them on the white ground inside the Chao Sect was only more anger, more murderous intent, and the word that burst out from the chests of countless people: "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

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