In May of the first year of Taichu, two Qi armies inside and outside the pass joined forces to pursue the remnants of the Qing and Dynasty soldiers and the Cossack cavalry.
On the fifth day of May, the Qi army captured Hetuala, captured more than 10,000 Jianzhou Jurchens, and robbed 20,000 people. Among them, 5,000 young and strong people were sent to Liaonan for mining, and the rest were executed.
On May 12, the army besieged Kuandian, cutting off the retreat route of the Korean soldiers back home. Li Shunyi and the last 8,000 Korean soldiers had no way to go, so they were forced by Pugang to throw themselves into the river. Most of the Korean soldiers drowned, and the remaining 2,000 soldiers were killed. After being captured, he became a miner.
On May 30th, all of Liaodong was recovered.
Since then, eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning have returned to the rule of Da Qi, and the year-long Liaoshen Campaign finally ended.
In June, Liaodong and Liaoxi copied the Shandong model and carried out a thorough purge campaign against wealthy households, gentry, and everyone who had funded the Manchu Qing Dynasty. A total of 120,000 people were massacred, deported and exiled.
In early July, military operations in all directions were temporarily suspended, and Emperor Wuding recuperated his forces and prepared for an expedition to Sakhalin and North Korea in the fall.
By July of the first year of Taichu, the empire's territory included Shandong, Liaodong, western Liaoning, and eastern Henan.
Compared with a year ago, Daqi's territory seems to have shrunk a lot, but due to the recently implemented brutal massacres and purges, the ruled area is more solid than before.
Relying on the four pillars of the army, chambers of commerce, peasant associations, and spies, Emperor Wuding established for the first time in this land a totalitarian rule system that penetrated into counties, villages, and even every subject's family. Everyone was under control. Kidnapped in this chariot, everyone is closely monitored and everyone loses their freedom.
Like the Soviets in later generations, this was the price of empire.
At that time, the little freedom that the people of Daqi lost was nothing at all. For those enemies defeated by Liu Zhaosun, the empire was a real hell for them.
A total of more than 40,000 captives were sent to various mines to begin their journey of redemption, mainly including the surviving Eight Banners of Jianzhou, the Korean Army, 520 East India Company sailors, and a thousand-man Cossack mercenary force. military.
Since southern Liaoning was occupied by the Qi army, more than 500 East India Company employees who entered Liaodong had no way to escape. Many of them retreated to Ninggu Tower with the Qing army, and were eventually captured by the Qi army.
Emperor Wu Ding was very merciful in dealing with these people and only sent them to serve in mines in various places.
Only Colen, the leader of the East India Company, was treated harmlessly, that is, executed late.
In addition, the emperor was particularly gracious and let two Dutch sailors go. Zhang Mazi told them to return to Jakarta as soon as possible and ask for a huge ransom from the East India Company. Otherwise, the employees of the East India Company may face the tragic fate of digging holes for life. .
The emperor's method of dealing with Lee Sun-yi, the ruler of Korea, was to shoot him with gunfire, which was similar to the method of a certain family in later generations.
North Korean soldiers were assigned to the most dangerous Kaiyuan coal mine and spent the rest of their lives digging coal.
Considering that accidents such as gas explosions, flooding, and landslides often occur in those coal mines, most of them will die.
The primitive accumulation of capital was bloody and cruel. Emperor Wu Ding's handling of the prisoners was clean and neat, without any sloppiness, and won unanimous praise from all parties.
The handling of the Cossack-riding colonists is quite creative.
More than 300 Cossacks who had eaten Kaiyuan on Sakhalin Island all had their left legs chopped off. After being simply bandaged, they were driven to the wilderness to survive among jackals, tigers and leopards. The remaining 700 or so people all entered coal mine.
According to the description of the high priest who later visited the work of the captive miners, the prisoners working in the mines were like being in hell:
The prisoners used the long bamboo tubes mentioned by Song Yingxing in "Tiangong Kaiwu" to insert into the coal seam to drain the gas. Because the effect was not good, gas explosions often occurred.
The Zhenfu soldiers conducted Gongdelin (the collective name for Qi's concentration camps)-style management of the prisoners.
Miners work seven or eight hours a day, and the only food available is bean cakes, carrots, grass seeds, buckwheat, sweet potatoes and the like. Some people die every day from exhaustion, hunger or malnutrition.
Above the mine, white poplars pierce the sky, weeping willows block out the sun, pines are lush and green all year round, peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, and white sophora flowers bloom, the air is filled with fragrant fragrance, bees and butterflies dance, and birds sing. The scenery is pleasant.
However, under the mine, the tunnel is extremely narrow, like hell.
There is only room for one person to crawl in many places, and the shearers can barely stand up straight. There is no ventilation equipment, and all depends on natural ventilation. The tunnel is stuffy and hot, and the coal dust is flying like a big steamer.
The prisoners worked naked, because as long as they wielded the pickaxe, they would be sweating profusely, their bodies would be sore, and they would have difficulty breathing.
Of course, no one dares to faint casually, because after passing out, they will be treated as dead and thrown into a "mass grave". There will be one or two "mass graves" next to mining factories in various places in Liaodong. At the beginning, after the miners died, the Daqi civil affairs officials gave them a thin coffin, and then two people had one, and then they just threw it away, and even threw in the captives who were seriously ill and could not work but were still alive... ···
The mine stipulates that in order to prevent gas explosions, workers must light their lamps only when going up and down the mine, and they must work in the dark when mining coal.
Each working surface only has a shovel head, a sack, a pickaxe, a "toad" hammer, a drill, a basket head, etc.
In addition, because the alleyway is flooded all year round, there is no and impossible to prepare drainage machinery for them, so the prisoners can only stand in the water to work! Usually three days after entering the mine, the skin below the calf will rot and break...
Francisco heard that miners must separate their toes with straw before lying down every night, otherwise they will stick together the next day...
On June 28, the first year of Taichu,
After careful consideration, Liu Zhaosun decided to abdicate the throne to Prince Liu Kan, the famous Emperor Wu of Qi in history.
Liu's decision to recruit Sun was a wise one. After all, Liu Kan had proclaimed himself emperor last year. It would be child's play if he abolished it because of his love of power.
Emperor Wu Ding first issued an imperial edict to his ministers, which roughly stated that in order to distinguish himself from the Zen emperors of the Tang and Song dynasties (Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty), the ministers must discuss the etiquette procedures in detail and must not "do nothing with etiquette". Pick".
This Zen ceremony also became an extravagant political farewell ceremony held by the militaristic Liu Zhaosun for himself.
Of course, Emperor Wu Ding did not delegate power because of this, but was just manipulating the situation behind the scenes.
After the edict on the Zen throne was issued, the imperial court decided to reserve the throne, and this year was regarded as the first year of Taichu.
The etiquette of the Zen ceremony was agreed upon by the etiquette ministers and the procedures were drawn up in detail.
First of all, before the Zen ceremony, officials are dispatched to offer sacrifices to the Heaven and Earth Ancestral Temple, and on the day of the ceremony, various ministries, etiquette regulations, and ceremonial guards are established, as follows:
In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there is a throne for the Supreme Emperor, and a treasure case in the middle. There are long and large cases on the left and right of the main hall. They are placed slightly south of the treasure case, on the east and west sides. There is an imperial edict case on the east couplet of the main hall, and a table case on the west couplet, which are placed in the north and south. As soon as you enter the main hall, there is a place for worshiping the successor emperor Liu Kan, and a worship mat is laid out.
Outside the hall, there is a yellow table in the Danbi Hall of Taihe Hall, a guard of honor book is displayed in front of the hall, and a walking chariot is set up outside the Taihe Gate. Outside the Meridian Gate, there are five chariots, elephants, horses, yellow lids, cloud plates and other large chariots in sequence. Under the eaves of Taihe Hall are Zhonghe Shao Le and Danbi Da Le outside the gate.
Before the ceremony began, the cabinet bachelor Qian Qianyi presented the imperial edict and displayed it on the east table in the hall. The officials of the Ministry of Rites displayed the congratulatory table on the west table. The bachelors and other bachelors went to the Qianqing Gate to ask the emperor's royal treasures to be placed on the left table in the hall. .
After the announcement is completed, return the imperial edict to the original case and withdraw.
The saluting officer praised "Xing" (getting up), and the successor emperor Liu Kan (because he was young, was replaced by Prime Minister Kang Yingqian) retired and stood on the left side (west side of the hall) again.
Academicians Qian Qianyi and Hou Xun knelt down in front of the imperial steps of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The academician on the left asked the emperor for his imperial treasure and knelt to worship the Supreme Emperor.
The Supreme Emperor Liu Zhaosun personally awarded the imperial treasure to the new emperor, and the emperor knelt down to receive the imperial treasure. Then he handed the royal treasure to the great scholar on the right, who knelt down to receive the royal treasure and placed it on the tables on the right side of the hall.
The new emperor went to pay homage to his throne, composed music, and praised the officials in singing: "Kneel down, kowtow, and rise." Kang Yingqian led his ministers to perform nine kowtows to the Supreme Emperor on behalf of Liu Kan.
The praising officer praised "retire", the music stopped, and the Zen ceremony was completed.
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