Chapter 202: Public Trial of Bai Gui
On the second day of the first month of 1853, at noon. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At the Donghu Wharf in the southeast suburbs of Guangzhou, tens of thousands of soldiers wearing red scarves on their heads and holding weapons boarded nearly 1,000 sailing ships of all sizes in a continuum, and under the guidance of the five warships, they followed hundreds of warships that opened the way and drove towards the mouth of the Pearl River.
For a time, there were thousands of ships on the surface of the entire Pearl River, and the sails were like clouds, covering the river and going down, a scene of Wei Hong.
Luo Xuan led the 5th Division, and transported the 1st Division led by Lin Fengxiang and the 2nd Division of the 8th Division, led by Chen Tianshi, to the west by boat to capture the land of Gaozhou, Leizhou and Qiongzhou.
And the General Staff, Lu Shunde and more than a dozen people also followed, to inspect the difference between the actual combat and the plan.
Sending out the soldiers, Feng Yunshan remembered that the captured bannermen had been imprisoned, and they had to waste food every day, so it was time to dispose of it.
Therefore, he summoned Bai Huihuai and ordered him to prepare dozens of prisoner cars, and put Bai Gui and the high-ranking people of the Manchu Qing Banner and the Mongol Banner people in a group of prisoners into the prisoner car, and paraded around the streets of Guangzhou City to show the public.
The rest of the bannermen are waiting to be escorted to the schoolyard in the east of the city early tomorrow morning, waiting for the execution of the prisoners in the street.
Soon, the city of Guangzhou was full of people. In particular, the streets and alleys through which Bai Gui passed were so blocked that it was impossible to advance at all, and finally he had to send out a large number of captives to drive the people to both sides of the street and open a passage so that he could continue the march. It was still that afternoon, without notice. In the evening of the same day, Bai Huihuai, who was in charge of escorting Bai Gui and other banner prisoners, announced that he would continue the parade of prisoners early tomorrow morning and hold a public trial at noon at the Chengdong campus.
For a while, this exciting news spread everywhere.
"Uncle Li, have you heard? That big official, the one named Bai Gui, is going to be beheaded! ”
"What? Such a big official will also be beheaded? ”
"Yes! I just saw that Bai Gui being locked up in a prison car, and he happened to parade to Tianping Street! Unexpectedly, Bai Gui, who was very majestic a while ago, was about to be beheaded. ”
"Do you know such a big official? It's so majestic, like you've seen him! ”
"Of course I did. Two months ago, when Bai Gui was still the chief political envoy, once my brother and I carried lychees through the yamen of the political secretary, and happened to meet him on patrol, my brother accidentally bumped into his entourage, was beaten severely, and is still lying on the bed to recuperate. At that time, I saw him in a sedan chair and remembered his appearance. The one who was locked up in the prison car today, although his appearance was very different, I still recognized him, the dog named Baigui! ”
"Really, then I'll go see a show tomorrow!"
"The sky has eyes! Tomorrow is to take a good look at what happened to that dog thing! I must go back and tell my brother so that he can be happy! ”
And among the original Chen Kaiyi army brought back by Lu Shunde, it exploded. Many of them, grateful for Chen Kai's kindness, although they followed Lu Shunde to join the Holy Army, they still remembered Chen Kai's last wish, grabbed Bai Gui and beheaded him, and avenged his brothers on the Xijiang River.
"Brother Chen, you can look at it! The revenge of the brothers can be avenged! ”
"Yes, Great Chief, the Holy King has avenged you!"
"Bai Gui, this thief, has been caught and paraded in the streets! Li Mazi, Ma Lao Liu, you can rest assured, tomorrow, this bad thing will be done by the thief. ”
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Early the next morning, as soon as Bai Huihuai escorted Bai Gui and other hundreds of banner prisoners onto the street, he was immediately surrounded by tens of thousands of people to watch, pointing and pointing at the water.
Bai Huihuai was helpless, and sent hundreds of captives to push away one end, and thousands of people surrounded the other end. The old man has now become a prisoner in a wooden cage, which is indeed very attractive.
Moreover, it was not only the siege, I don't know who it was, and took the lead in throwing a rotten vegetable root on the prisoner car, and then, the onlookers threw the dirty things in their hands on the heads of Bai Gui and other Manchu Qing banner people.
Bai Gui was already tied with his hands, unable to move, and was smashed in the face by rotten vegetable leaves, splashed with stinky sewage, and shivered with cold in the first month. The stinky garbage on the face can't be cleaned up, and at this time, even if you want to hit your head to death, you can't do it.
Seeing that the prisoner car was unable to move an inch, Bai Hui had no choice but to bring more than ten large gongs, and shouted while beating: "Let go, full of flags and tartars in the streets, don't block the road." ”
Reluctantly let the prisoner car go two streets, it was almost noon, Bai Huihuai hurriedly escorted Bai Gui and others to the East School Field, as for the thousands of Manchu Qing flag soldiers captured during the capture of Guangzhou, they had already been raised from the prison in advance, and all of them were escorted to the East School Field.
When the onlookers were already crowded with people on the third floor and the outer five floors, hundreds of begging soldiers rang the gong at the same time and shouted in unison: "The public trial of Bai Gui and other Manchu banner people will start now!" ”
Bai Hui stepped forward and first complained bitterly about the crimes of suppressing and killing Han people and massacring the people of Guangdong since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.
He asked a literate reader with a loud throat to read out an excerpt from the "Fengtian Asking Hu Xubu Quartet" written by the Holy King, and asked more than 100 captives to memorize it in advance, and followed the reader to read it out loud, and a huge voice sounded over the school grounds:
This king is the former holy king Feng Yunshan, as the marshal of the Chinese Capture Army and the president of the China Revival Association, he announced several major crimes in the 200 years of Manchu Tatar rule in Guangzhou!
1. The rule of the Manchu banner people was for the private establishment of their banner people, and the common people, especially the Han people, were never considered. "The world is the world of China, and the world is not the world of Hulu; The food and clothing of those who are Chinese are not the food and clothing of Hulu". The Manchu Qing Dynasty was ruled by a foreign race, poisoning and oppressing China for hundreds of years, awakening the national consciousness of the Han people, rising up to fight and regain their own country.
Second, the Manchu banner people have never prevented the Han people from becoming strong, even if they are green battalion Han soldiers, they do not trust and take strict precautions.
3. The Manchu banner people treated us Han people as slaves and never regarded them as equal people.
"The Tartar is in charge of ten families alone, and he insults the women of China, because he wants all the people of China to be Hu Seed. China has a Chinese spouse, and now the Manchurian demons have accepted China's beautiful concubines, slaves and concubines, three thousand fandelies, all of which are tainted by Hu Gou, millions of red faces, and even sleep with the fox, and the words are sad, and the tongue is dirty, which is the defilement of the Chinese woman."
Fourth, the Han people were heavily taxed and bannermen were raised.
5. Forcing Han people to shave their heads and keep braids.
"China has the image of China, and now Manchuria has ordered to cut his hair and drag a long tail behind, which is to make Chinese people become beasts."
"A careful investigation of the ancestor of the Manchu Qing Tartar is a white fox and a red dog mixed into essence, and then gave birth to demons."
The sins of the Manchu Tartars are too many to mention!
Finally, this king calls on everyone to take action, join the Chinese crusading army, crusade against the Tatars, overthrow the rule of the Manchu Tatars, and build a powerful Han country together! In this ideal country, the politics are clear, everyone has a field to cultivate, everyone has a book to read, there is meat to eat every day, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the country is rich and the people are strong, so that people all over the world yearn for it. Great China is about to be revived!
Then, the three foreigners spoke aloud about the scene of the Guangzhou Massacre that occurred during the Shunzhi period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. One of the foreigners also took out an oil painting, which showed a breached city, a group of officers and soldiers were slaughtering the people, a cruel scene, saying that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty first entered Guangdong, a Western missionary recorded the oil painting based on what he saw with his own eyes. It's just that the oil painting seems to have not dried yet, fortunately the people don't care so much, but they are shocked and then scolded the Manchu Tartars, and they feel that their ancestors were killed by the Tartars.
At this time, the crowd was talking about who's grandfather's grandfather's uncle was indeed killed by the Qing soldiers, and whose relatives of the last six generations were captured by the Qing soldiers, which was vividly said.
Then, several sixty or seventy-year-old ladies stood up again and said in unison that 200 years ago, since the Tartars entered the city of Guangzhou, the whole city was suddenly a miserable scene, the Tartar soldiers began to destroy, snatching everything that could be obtained, and the cries of women, children and the elderly shook the sky; For 20 days, all that could be heard in the streets was the sound of torture and killing of the rebels. The whole city was full of wailing, massacre, looting, and finally, the entire city of Guangzhou was killed by Manchu soldiers more than 100,000 people. The Manchu massacre incident also occurred in Xiangshan, Chaozhou, Nanxiong and other places, and the crimes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are too numerous to mention.
What the old ladies said, the people believed it very much. Why? In this era, the prestige of the old people is high, and their old age gives the people the illusion that they experienced it as if they had experienced it as a child, plus these massacres were real things.
As several people in tattered clothes stepped forward to cry about how Bai Gui and others bullied them and how they ruined their families, the atmosphere of the scene reached its peak!
For a time, all the people around the school were completely shocked. The angry crowd spontaneously roared loudly, sporadic at first, but later, under the guidance of dozens of meticulous workers arranged by Fan Ruzeng, the roaring saint began to tidy up: "Kill these Manchu dog thieves and avenge the dead ancestors!" ”
"Join the Raiders and destroy the Tartars!"
"Kill Baigui! Kill Bai Gui! ”
Seeing that the anger of the crowd was almost uncontrollable, Bai Huihuai hurriedly ordered that all the flagmen such as Bai Gui be beheaded, and their heads were hung on the flagpole of the school for three days.
Dozens of gongs were heard at the same time, and the roaring people suddenly slowly quieted down, and hundreds of masked beggar soldiers armed with broadswords only showed their eyes, and in the rapid sound of gongs, they dragged out the bannermen and prisoners in the prisoner cart and tied them to the prepared wooden stakes one by one.
Realizing that they were about to be executed, the bannermen began to wail, crying and begging for mercy, and the fierce cursing was mixed together, and the desperate bannermen hysterically squandered their last strength.
Bai Gui was tied to the largest wooden stake in the middle, and he was already paralyzed, with feces and urine flowing all over his body. He was soaking wet, frozen to the point where he had no strength to beg for mercy or curse, his lips were purple, and he was dying.
Bai Gui never thought that he would fall into such a field because he was a dignified Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner person, a descendant of Tianjiao. However, he was tied to the stake, his mind was already confused, and in the haze, he saw a masked man with a big knife coming over, he suddenly opened his eyes, and tore a hoarse voice in his throat indistinctly: "I am finished, and the Great Qing Kingdom will also be finished......"
In the shouting, the sword light fell, and hundreds of heads rolled down on the yellow mud ground of the school grounds. In three batches, all the prisoners of the banner man were beheaded.
At this time, earth-shattering cheers rang out over the school field:
"The Tartars are doomed!"
"The Manchus are going to perish!"
"Long live the captive army! Long live the Holy King! ”
"Long Live the Holy King......" (To be continued.) )