Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 405 Yang Chao's Hair Shaving Order
At the beginning of the sun, outside the gate of Little Ande, a horse galloped to the outside of the city gate, shot an arrow towards the city wall, turned around and left.

The defenders in the city opened the letter in a daze and read it for a long time, but they didn't understand it, so they handed it over to the officer, but the officer couldn't understand it, so they handed it in until it was sent to Honglu Temple, and only then did someone understand it. It was a Manchu letter, and the person in the letter claimed to be a first-class general under Prince Ying's account, Mele Zhangjing Sarhuda, and was ordered to discuss with the Ming army about accepting the surrender.

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of Nanjing, who had already made preparations for dedicating the city, did not dare to be careless at this time, and immediately sent Gao Mengqi, the Minister of Honglu Temple, to the tent of Shaer Huda!
"Sharhuda" was currently stationed five li away from the gate of Xiao'an De, and the tents were heavily guarded. From a distance, the soldiers were all wearing armor, and they looked like elite troops. Gao Mengqi didn't dare to look any further, and followed closely A soldier guarding the gate went in and was led into a tent with his head down and his eyes fixed.

This is a pointed round tent of the Eight Banners, which is indeed the camp of the Eight Banners soldiers. Gao Mengqi has seen it before, so he doesn't find it strange at all. There is nothing strange about the Eight Banners soldiers living in the Eight Banners tents.

On the cloth wall at the end of the big tent, there is a piece of leather hanging on which is hung a sheep skull. Under the bone is a sheepskin chair on which a general sits.

However, the general was extremely lazy, and even lay on his side on the leather chair, covered by a pointed iron helmet. In addition, there were three rows of guards standing in front of the general, more than ten in each row. You can't see his face at all.

These guards were all wearing Eight Banners cotton armor, and the front row was unarmed, holding a helmet in their hands, revealing a bare head, and some had braids hanging from their shoulders in front.

The two rows in the back appear to be more robust, with swords straddling the waist, helmets and armor, and the whole body is wrapped in iron armor.

"When you see Master Zhang Jing, why don't you kneel!"

Suddenly one of the guards in the front row shouted loudly, speaking in Manchu.

Gao Mengqi saw the guard who was talking, he was quite tall, wearing an iron armor with eight banners, there were damages on the armor, and there were even bloodstains on it, he might have just experienced a fight, the only strange thing was that this guard seemed too thin , with sunken eye sockets, like refugees fleeing famine.

But Gao Mengqi didn't care too much, maybe the Manchus are like this, are they barbarians after all, there are tall barbarians, and there are also thin and thin people.

Most of the others are also like this. Except for being a little thin, they stand here without moving, like wood. Looking at their eyes, they are extremely hollow inside, as if they have no soul. Just looking at them makes people feel scalp numb. Because you will think that the other party is a dead person.

The aura of walking dead exuded by people like Yang Chao after they were completely desperate, actually frightened Gao Mengqi at this moment. At first, he was worried that it would arouse suspicion.

Gao Mengqi was originally the Shaoqing of Honghe Temple in Beijing. After the city of Beijing was broken, he fled to Nanjing and was promoted to be the minister of Honghe Temple.

He is in charge of the pilgrimage of foreign officials, and the tribute from the tribes, but who else will come to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty these days, so he is a position that cannot be idle. If there is no accident, he should die of old age. There will be no improvement.

But I didn't expect that it would be useful for him one day, but Gao Mengqi hoped that this day would not come.

I received a letter in the morning, but the gatekeepers didn’t recognize it, but guessed it was from the Qing army, so I didn’t dare to be careless, and reported all the way to Honglu Temple. Shaoqing of Lusi knew Manchu, and he also knew Mongolian.

So Gao Mengqi read the letter, and then reported it to Wang Duo. Wang Duo discussed with other senior officials and sent Gao Mengqi to the Qing army's camp for discussion.

Gao Mengqi didn't want to kneel. He wanted to say that he was the envoy of the Shang Kingdom, but suddenly he wanted to surrender. It's quite soft, even covered with sheepskin.

"The criminal minister of the lower kingdom, Gao Mengqi, the minister of the Honglu Temple, met with the Lord Meilezhangjing of the upper kingdom!"

Gao Mengqi kowtowed honestly.

Looking up, I caught a glimpse of Meile Zhangjing nodding from the gap between people. That Meile Zhangjing was wearing a very gorgeous red armor, with her head drooping, and there was a wine bottle next to her, as if she hadn't woken up from a hangover .

At this time, the general seemed to have said something to the guard, but the voice was too low for Gao Mengqi, who was two feet away, to hear him, but the guard quickly conveyed it loudly.

"Master Sarhuda has an order. Today at [-]:[-] noon, I ordered you and other ministers to open the south gate of Nanjing and kneel outside the gate to welcome our army. Lord Meilezhangjing wants to read to you the edict of His Majesty the Qing Emperor! "

"Your servant obeys!"

Gao Mengqi quickly said that he didn't feel sad about it at all, and even had some expectation. After all, what he was waiting for was to surrender. Now that the moment of surrender finally came, how could he not be excited.

In fact, Gao Mengqi still has a small thought. Originally, he didn't have much motivation for his official career. This time he was assigned this hard job. At first he felt unlucky, but after thinking about it, isn't this an opportunity for him to make meritorious service? With a mastery of a foreign language, isn't he a target that both the Ming army and the Qing army should value.

Of course, there were many people in the Qing army who could speak Chinese, but he was the only one who could speak Manchu among the ministers in the court.

Suddenly Gao Mengqi saw what the Eight Banners general said to the guard again, and the guard shouted again.

"Lord Sharhuda has an order. You, my ministers, have surrendered, so you should follow the order and shave your hair!"

Gao Mengqi was taken aback, want to shave his hair?Didn't the Qing court abolish the hair-shaving order? Didn't Dorgon allow the people to wear Han clothes? Why did they suddenly have to shave their hair again?

"Dare to ask Lord Shangguo, I heard that the hair-shaving order has been abolished, why do you still have to shave your hair?"

"Bold and wise, how dare you disrespect the holy order!"

At this time, the guard shouted loudly in Manchu.

Gao Mengqi lowered her head: "Don't dare."

"If you don't follow the rules, how can you see your intention of submitting? If you don't shave your hair, you have two hearts! My British prince's army will kill you immediately! On the day of Nanjing's fall, you will not stay behind!"

"The servants dare not, the servants are dedicated to submitting, and the subordinates are dedicated to submitting!"

Gao Mengqi kowtowed like pounding garlic.

The guard waved impatiently: "You go! Our army entered the city at noon today. If you don't follow the rules, you will see swordsmen!"

After Gao Mengqi was blasted away, the general on the seat stood up and stretched.

"This Eight Banners Iron Armor is really uncomfortable to wear."

The general spoke Chinese, because he was not Manchu at all, he was Yang Chao.

Soon-kun is seen coming in.

Yang Chao asked: "Then Gao Mengqi is not suspicious."

Song Kun said: "The civil servant is very timid, and his subordinates followed closely all the way. He didn't dare to look around casually, and he didn't notice that none of our soldiers have braids."

Yang Chao nodded: "Well, let's take these people back and see if there is any news from Zhang Damiao. It's time to send back the information after such a long delay."

Song Kun obeyed the order and left with the dozen or so walking corpses in the front row. These people were really obedient, and they did what they were asked to do, and they didn't dare to disobey at all. It seemed that obedient sons were the only ones left in this life.

This is the result of the training. Yang Chao's soldiers have been trained very hard, but compared with the treatment these people have received, it is like heaven. These people work in front of death every day. Beating and scolding, a little resistance, or beheading directly, they have long been numb.

"Zhao Guozuo, you did a good job. Your crimes will be forgiven. Now I am giving you a task. You go to Dashengguan! After this is done, I will pardon your crimes. Good job, The lord still has to entrust him with important tasks."

"Slave thank you for your appreciation."

Zhao Guozuo quickly thanked him without mentioning it.

Not long after, news came from Zhang Dawei that his fast boat had bypassed the Dasheng Pass and arrived at Taiping and Wuhu. He did find that the Qing army was everywhere, but the Qing army was resting. They sneaked ashore and grabbed two tongues to ask .

It turned out that Azig's army fought against Huang Degong. Although they defeated Huang Degong's troops, they scattered widely after chasing Huang Degong's soldiers and horses. They had just gathered back and were resting.

It seems that Azig is not in a hurry to enter Nanjing. Obviously, he has already contacted Nanjing civil officials, and he judges that the chances of Nanjing's resistance are small, so he plans to take a rest and enter the army.

But there is a very bad news, that is, Azig has a lot of warships, and there are no fewer than [-] large and small ships.

These boats were all owned by Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng went down the Han River and plundered all the boats on the Han River. In addition, he built tens of thousands of boats. Later, Azig attacked Li Zicheng's back camp and seized most of them. The warships and supplies were forced to go to Hunan by the rest of Li Zicheng's troops, but he came straight to the south of the Yangtze River.

At this time, the court hall was silent, after Gao Mengqi said the hair-shaving order, most of the civil servants fell silent.

Those who stayed in the court hall were all surrendered by the lord. Among them, the academician Wang Duo and the Minister of Rites Qian Qianyi were the heads of the civil servants, and the servants Zhu Zhichen, Liang Yungou, Li Chuo and others were the main ones; Headed by Xu Yunjue, Duke of Wei, Zhang Guobi, Duke of Bao, Zhang Gongri, Marquis of Longping, Li Zushu, Marquis of Linhuai, Sun Weicheng, Marquis of Huaining, Tang Guozuo, Marquis of Lingbi, Liu Zuochang, Marquis of Anyuan, Xu Hongjue, Marquis of Yongchang, Deng Wenyu, Marquis of Dingyuan, Xiangcheng Uncle Chang Yingjun, Uncle Daxing Zou Cunyi, Uncle Ningjin Liu Yunji, Uncle Nanhe Fang Yiyuan, Uncle Dongning Jiao Mengxiong, Uncle Ancheng Zhang Guocai, Uncle Luozhong Huang Jiuding, Uncle Cheng Anbo Guo Zuoyong, son-in-law Qi Zanyuan and others were in charge.

Not to mention the civil servants, these generations of princes, relatives and relatives of the emperor are all urging surrender, which is really embarrassing.

The three major power organizations in Nanjing are headed by the Minister of the Ministry of War, the second is the guarding minister, and the third is the guarding eunuch. Needless to say, the Minister of the Ministry of War is theoretically responsible for mobilizing the army, but the actual command of the Nanjing defenders is the guarding minister, and the guarding eunuch is With the power of supervision, that is to say, these three people are equivalent to mastering the military power of Nanjing.

However, after the arrival of the Qing army, among the three major power organizations, Ma Shiying fled, and the remaining civil servant leader became Wang Duo, and both the guarding minister Zhao Zhilong decided to surrender. Instead, only the eunuch Han Zanzhou chose to commit suicide and died for the country. Poems and books, the things that talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long, do you feel a little bit ashamed in your heart?

Although they decided to surrender, even enthusiastically surrendered, it was still difficult for them to shave their hair. Ancestral clothes, if you shave your hair and wear clothes easily, wouldn’t you become a beast? Surrendering to a beast is fine. unacceptable.

After being silent for a long time, Qian Qianyi suddenly touched his head: "This scalp is very itchy!"

After finishing speaking, he left the court step by step and walked out.

(End of this chapter)