The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Chang Yu got up early, Lianxin was waiting for him to wash up, Li Muxian hurriedly came from outside to inform him that more than a dozen nobles and Nanjing officials outside the gate of Changfu had been waiting for a long time, and they were all going to accompany him to the tomb today.

Ming Xiaoling is located at the southern foot of the Purple Mountain in the northeast of Nanjing, an excellent feng shui treasure, at least Li Muxian said so, and the anti-normal Yu did not understand this, accompanied by Shi Kefa and a group of noble officials, according to their instructions, it was already noon to return to the city to catch up with the meal.

Do you think Chang Yu will go to the banquet with those noble officials?

Of course not.

More than a dozen nobles in Nanjing City, Xu Hongji, Tang Guozuo, and Zhao Zhilong's leading elder brothers were all sent to the front line by Chang Yu, and he didn't pay attention to the rest at all.

There are no doors.

It's better to go back to Changfu to have a homely meal, of course, Big Brother Shi Kefa is going to take it.

"Look at those masters, they are polite on the surface, but they don't know how to scold you behind their backs" Gao Jie looked disdainful during the meal: "It's very hypocritical!" ”

Chang Yu chuckled: "When you are knighted one day, will you also scold our family behind your back?"

Gao Jie was stunned for a moment and then smiled: "What's the matter, are you going to get me a knighthood?" ”

Moreover, Chang Yu rolled his eyes: "You don't look like the kind of person who goes through the back door to get promoted and make a fortune, so even if you are knighted, it will also make people chew their tongues behind their backs."

Gao Jie pouted: "I'm embarrassed to open my mouth when I say this" and then said seriously: "Today, I will dare to call you a virtuous brother in front of Master Shi, if he fights Xi'an one day and I capture the thief, can you get a knighthood for your brother-in-law?" ”。

"That's natural, if the thief is caught, don't say it's your righteous brother, any of our families can make him knighted, this is what the court has long said again."

Gao Jie smiled: "Now the words of the court are not worth the promise of the virtuous brother."

"Hey, this is a nonsense thing to say outside, and it doesn't have a good impact...... A few people said while eating, "The pro-soldiers have come to report, the pro-guards and the three guards of the East Factory have arrived outside the city of Nanjing, the three guards of the East Factory and Hao Shaoqi, Ji Ji can wait to cross the river to chase Chunxiang, and the pro-guards are waiting for orders at the mouth of the Yangtze River of the Qinhuai River."

A few days ago, Chang Yu took the waterway back to Nanjing, which was slightly faster than Qinwei and Dongchang Sanwei, after all, the land was far away, not to mention that there were many big rivers blocking the way, and it would take a lot of time to cross the river, so that Chang Yu came back for a day before they caught up.

Later, Chang Yu sent an order to the Chen brothers to hire some big ships at the wharf to change the waterway, and he had heard of the prosperity of Yangzhou for a long time, and he could not miss it when he went south this time.

It turned out that Chang Yu was worried about Yangzhou City.

After lunch, Chang Yu said goodbye to the Changfu clansmen, and just went out of the gate to see more than ten nobles such as Anyuan Marquis, Yongchang Marquis, Dingyuan Marquis and so on to see him off for a long time, although they have their own dissatisfaction with the little eunuch, after all, they moved their cheese, but the kung fu on the scene still has to be done, after all, this little eunuch is in full swing at this time, and he can't afford to offend.

Chang Yu hated this kind of hypocritical politeness, but he always couldn't avoid it in officialdom, and repeatedly refused the requests of these nobles to send him out of the city to the riverside, bid farewell to them on the dock on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and sailed out of the city.

Rich and easy to do, not to mention a government project, Chen Suole hired a big ship at the Yangtze River wharf, which attracted many ships to scramble for the order, and finally the brothers hired more than 20 big ships in one go, and the war horses were caught up on the ship and purchased grain and grass nearby.

The big boat is stable and the space is wide, Chang Yu and Shi Kefa, Gao Jie, and Li Muxian sit at the bow of the boat to drink tea and enjoy the scenery, it is really comfortable, the river is like a boat, but who would have thought that the big eunuch of Dongchang who had just pacified the thieves and saved Nanjing City from war.

At sunset, the night of Xishan fell, and the boatman came to inform Yizhen County to ask if he wanted to go ashore for dinner, and the dock on the shore was lively.

Yizhen is now Yizheng, Song Zhenzong had issued an edict to cast the golden elephant of his four distant ancestors here, because the golden elephant cast is realistic, it will get the real state, the name of the place of Yizhen, to the Qing Yongzheng to avoid the emperor to change to Yizheng, but also the intersection of the Yangtze River and the ancient canal.

It's a long way back to Beijing, and there are still a lot of official business to deal with Chang Yu didn't want to delay too much on the way, so he shook his head and said no, let the boatman get some food on the boat, and then go ashore to have a good meal when he arrives in Yangzhou.

The boatman asked again whether to enter the canal from here and go northeast to Yangzhou, or to go east along the river and go east for dozens of miles to go to the Li River (Li Canal, commonly known as the Li River, Huaiyang Canal) and go north to Yangzhou?

Chang Yu asked about the same distance, but the water surface of the Yangtze River is wide and the water flow is rapid, and the canal is the opposite, Chang Yu thought about it and asked them to turn into the ancient canal to be calm.

There was nothing to say all night, and the fleet docked at dawn and arrived in Yangzhou.

Yangzhou, a once brilliant city, a sentence around the waist of 100,000 runs, riding a crane down Yangzhou, its past prosperity and status interpretation of the vivid, the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to the Republic of China when the ten-mile foreign field Shanghai, now Hong Kong and Macao, eating, drinking and having fun, from the word "Yangzhou thin horse" can understand its neon career is not inferior to the Jinling Qinhuai River of the Ming Dynasty.

However, there are famous cities in the Jiangshan Dynasty, each leading the way for hundreds of years, Yangzhou at this time has long ceased to be glorious thousands of years ago, but compared to the northwest, southwest and inland towns are still considered a paradise on earth, at this time in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regardless of people's livelihood and humanities are far better than elsewhere (it seems to be now, but the Tang and Song dynasties are still more prosperous in the Central Plains)

If it was just for the wind and snow, Yangzhou City naturally had no attraction to Chang Yu, and there was only one reason why he wanted to come: Yangzhou Ten Days!

That's right, in history, after Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide, the Manchu Qing army entered the customs and went south, Yangzhou did not surrender, and Duoduo slaughtered the city! Historical records record that in the ten days of the massacre, 800,000 Ming people died.

But!

First of all, the following text is not for the Manchu Tartar whitewashing, purely because the popularization of historical materials should be rigorous and fair, for example, it is certain that there was a massacre when the Qing army attacked Yangzhou, because the commander at that time was Duoduo, and the main general would be the notorious Li Chengdong, many historical materials have been recorded, such as "Cihai", "Nanshan Collection", etc., are more objective, and what shocked the Yangzhou massacre was because of a "Yangzhou Ten Diaries" detailed, tragic and exaggerated.

Ten days of massacre, more than 800,000 people killed?

Fifty more than the 300,000 Nanjing Massacre in later generations, and 800,000 killed in ten days in the Cold Weapon Era (in fact, only one day, there are five days of murder records) and there were so many people in Yangzhou City at that time?

There is a great deal of controversy in the academic community because there are many contradictions with other historical sources.

First of all, Wang Xiuchu, the author of "Yangzhou Ten Diaries", is a person who suddenly appeared, and the historical materials do not see him, and some people in later generations say that he is the survivor at that time, and some say that Shi Kefa's staff is still a special cronie, otherwise the record will not be so detailed, but Shi Kefa's nineteen staff members are all dead.

Secondly, Wang Xiuchu's book is also interesting when it was published, as it was discovered in Japan more than 200 years after the Yangzhou Massacre, before the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution.

Interesting, the Xinhai Revolution, the overthrow of the Manchu imperial system, Japan, the base camp of the anti-Qing Dynasty back then.

Because the author is suspicious and it is the only one, many scholars believe that it was deliberately concocted for the sake of the current situation at the time.

I've read this book before, and the contradictions in the content are quite ridiculous, similar to the self-media of later generations, although it is not groundless, but it is definitely mostly listening to the wind and rain.

Those who wrote books to record this matter could not have participated in it at that time, because all those who participated at that time were killed, and most of them were later hearsay, but who did they listen to after they were all killed, and it was so detailed? So it is reasonable to have a lot of water, just like the Jiangyin Defense Battle (Jiangyin Eighty-one Days), interested friends can also check it, saying that the Qing army killed three kings and eighteen generals in Jiangyin, not to mention who the eighteen generals are, the three princes are, the seven kings, the ten kings and the Xue king, then the question comes, it is obvious that the seven kings Jierharang and the ten kings Duoduo did not die in Jiangyin, and the Xue king did not find this person, where did the three kings appear?

At that time, the generals who attacked Jiangyin, Bolo and Nikan had not yet been crowned kings.

Later, some people said that it was Liu Liangzuo's subordinate generals, and they were born thieves and nicknamed this king, that king's, isn't this all.

Secondly, there is another record that is also interesting, saying that someone made a bomb and entered the Qing army camp at that time, killing two or three thousand people on the spot!

Damn, the atomic bomb!

With the power of gunpowder at that time, even if you tie up 2,000 people and suppress the bombs, you can't kill them all, and you can't kill so many people, you can't get tons of gunpowder, so the question is, how did he drag tons of gunpowder with one hand into the Qing army camp without being discovered.

There are many more like this.

Moreover, Jiangyin fought for 81 days, and it was extremely tragic, according to statistics, there were 780,000 people killed in the city, and 780,000 outside the city, totaling 1670,000.

Then the question arises, Jiangyin fought for eighty-one days, killing a total of 1670,000 every day, and Yangzhou fought for one day and killed 800,000?

Historical research is not a monopoly, and only by referencing and confirming each other can we restore the real history of that time to the greatest extent, and a lone book is not very credible.

But it is certain that the Tartars carried out a massacre in Yangzhou at that time, and the most recorded is to record the soldiers' rape of ** women, but it is by no means as exaggerated as recorded in Yangzhou's ten diaries, and it has become an out-and-out drama.

Chang Yu is not here to verify the authenticity of Yangzhou ten days, what has not happened now he researched a bird's egg, he has two purposes, one is to recruit talents, historical records record that there have been many admirable national heroes here, loyal to the monarch and defending the country to the death is by no means the commander of the city at that time, Shi Kefa. The second is to pull investment.

Most of the people in the Yangzhou defense war in history were unknown little people or low-level officials at this time, and Chang Yu wanted to reduce talents without sticking to one pattern.