Heavy rain is coming to Guangzhou again! Thunder and lightning rolled in the dark clouds, and heavy rain poured down from the sky, turning the entire Guangzhou into a "water city".
People running for their lives rolled in the muddy road. Supporting the old and the young, most of the people were running in a hurry, not to mention their raincoats, and they didn't even hold an umbrella. The cold rain poured on their heads like this... Not far after leaving Guangzhou, there were already many well-off men and women who couldn't bear it anymore and began to abandon them and leave Guangzhou. The luggage and belongings were brought out of the city.
On both sides of the road, all things were discarded, including boxes, baggage, baskets, swords and guns, armor, clothes... There were also some old bannermen or slaves on the road who were too old and weak to walk. They were crying in the muddy water beside them, and some animals that had exhausted their strength or were injured and sick and unable to walk were also abandoned, lying down in the cold muddy water, letting out long or short whines.
But the most heartbreaking thing to hear was the cries of people.
"Retribution! It's really retribution! When I entered Guangzhou and killed countless people, today it's my turn to kill someone with a sword. It's time!"
"Whoever is kind enough to take my son with me will thank you even if he dies!"
"I have worked for the Shang family for twenty years...how did I end up like this!"
"The Qing Dynasty is going to end! The Qing Dynasty is going to end!"
Xue Zhang, Jin Guang, and several senior civil servants sent to Guangdong by the imperial court were also fleeing in the rain at this time, but their conditions were much better than those of the old and weak who escaped from Guangzhou. Among the group, Jin Guang is the older one, and the others are still strong and strong. Moreover, each of them has a horse to ride, and they are also protected by staff, soldiers, and strong servants brought from their hometown.
In addition, this group of officials did not escape with a lot of property... It's not that they are not greedy, but they already knew the situation in Guangdong, so they naturally sent their family members to protect the money and leave in advance.
All they had on hand were some odds and ends they used on daily basis, not much weight, so now they could easily escape in a light vehicle. But they can't escape quickly now. Because the official road leading north to a wooden bridge on the Liuxi River was blocked by the old and weak women and children of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion who dragged their families away, making it impossible to walk fast! Moreover, several of their civil servants did not dare to use their whips to drive away those blocking the road... Among these old and weak women and children, there were many murderous old traitors!
Now they are traitors in their twilight years, but their murderous intentions are still there!
They couldn't kill the heavenly soldiers who killed the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu. It was not difficult to kill a few dog officials.
"Rumble..."
Another bolt of lightning flashed across, and the rain seemed to be getting heavier. Xue Zhang was riding on the horse. Although he was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat on his head, his official uniform was still a little wet and stuck to his body, which was very uncomfortable. Now he didn't dare to show off his official pretensions as admiral of academic affairs, so he just walked slowly among the crowd. Looking at the miserable situation in front of him, Xue Zhang sighed and whispered: "In prosperity, the people suffer; in death, the people suffer..."
Before he finished reading his words, shouts of murder in Cantonese suddenly came from the rain curtain on both sides of the official road.
"Attack Guangzhou, destroy the Shang family, kill everyone named Shang..."
"When Prince Zhu comes, all the happy people will die!"
"Throw your mother away...kill her!"
Hearing the cry of killing, the old and weak people who were walking slowly suddenly became energetic. They gritted their teeth and quickened their pace, trotting all the way to the north. Of course, there are also some people who just can't run anymore. They grit their teeth and rush out a few steps, then fall to the ground and never get up again.
Xue Zhang was also panicked. He turned around and asked in a trembling voice: "What, what should I do? The fake grandson Zhu San is chasing me..."
Jin Guang was calm and composed, and said with a sneer: "Not the fake grandson of Zhu San, but just some unruly people who were expelled from Guangzhou City!"
"Unruly people?" Xue Zhang was stunned for a moment before he remembered that Shang Zhixin had ordered all ordinary people in the city to be expelled in order to prevent the residents of the outer city of Guangzhou from rebelling.
However, there was chaos outside the city of Guangzhou, and these unruly people had no place to go, so they had to build two shanties in the south and north of Guangzhou to live temporarily... These people originally had families, businesses, and businesses in Guangzhou. , he was kicked out suddenly and was not given time to pack his belongings. Shang Zhixin gave the order and the soldiers came to drive them away.
One can only imagine how much these people hate the Shang family and the Qing Dynasty!
Now that the Shang family is defeated and on the run, they still have no revenge?
Xue Zhang squinted his eyes and looked left and right, and sure enough, at the end of his sight, he saw a group of low shanties... These shanties were shrouded in rain and fog, and some were still standing in the mud, looking like they were about to be destroyed. The look of being submerged.
How much the people living there must hate the Shang family!
Xue Zhang sighed: "The Shang family is loyal to the court, but they are too mean to the people of Guangdong..."
He himself has been an official in Guangdong for many years, so of course he knows how cruel the Shang family is to the people... Not to mention murder and massacre, many people have done it! But Shang Kexi has gone too far on the issue of coastal border relocation!
Ao Bai only said that he would move twenty miles away. The local officials below had good consciences and would give him a discount and move him fifteen miles away. For those who are more ruthless, just add five li and move to 25 li.
It's great to see that we have added a full thirty miles... and moved fifty miles!
Xue Zhang was a county magistrate in Huizhou at that time, and he still remembers the situation at that time. After the gratifying edict came down, the magistrates in the coastal counties of Huizhou and Chaozhou were frightened. I can't believe such an edict...I really don't know what this King Pingnan wants? If you move fifteen miles away, no one will say anything!
Because Shang Kexi's boundary relocation order was too harsh, many rebellions broke out in various places along the coast of Guangdong. Huizhou rebelled against Dadusu, Chaozhou broke out with Da Laohui, Lianzhou produced Chen Shangchuan, and Guangfu, Zhaoqing, and Leizhou , Gaozhou coast, various brands of rebels are also emerging in endlessly.
The misfortune that the Shang family suffered today has its causes and consequences. To put it bluntly, it is retribution...
"ah!"
"Killing!"
"Rebel thief..."
"Kill the clear dog!"
Just when Xue Zhang was thinking about the evil things Shang Kexi had done, the sound of murder came again!
Those who were killed were the strongest among the unruly people who had been expelled from the city of Guangzhou, and those who were killed were the old and weak who could not walk and were squeezed out of officialdom.
At first, those unruly people were just shouting around the official road. When they saw the banner slaves running away on the official road, they did not dare to come to expel them. They became bolder and began to sneak up under the cover of the rain curtain to kill and rob.
Xue Zhang followed the screams and saw a few shirtless muscular men using a few waist knives they didn't know where to get to chop an elderly flag soldier holding a baggage... .But other people in the official circles just pretended not to see this scene!
Xue Zhang just sighed and thought: "The unscrupulous people in Guangdong have never seen the real Manchuria, and they probably can't tell the difference between the Eight Banners' real Manchuria and the Shang family's fake Manchuria... They only think that they killed it by hand. The Manchurian Heavenly Soldiers will no longer be afraid of the Manchurians from now on!
Speaking of which, this is a happy sin! This old thief’s crime is really serious! "
.......
While the Ding banner slaves of the Shang family in the north of Guangzhou were marching hard under the pursuit of the unruly people in Guangzhou, on the banks of the Pearl River in the south of Guangzhou, countless people in ragged clothes, thin bodies, and disheveled faces were braving the heavy rain. , kneeling together on the shore of the long Pearl River Pier.
Behind them, there is a large shanty town that makes people sad to see, all of which are low stilt houses that are swaying in the strong wind.
The object that these people knelt down to was a large sand ship flying the flag of the sun and the moon and the flag of the world. Surrounded by more than two hundred other large ships and small boats, this ship was slowly sailing towards the Pearl River Pier.
I don’t know who took the lead, but the people who were kneeling suddenly shouted loudly: "I would like to invite Zhu Shengren, the third grandson of the Ming Dynasty, to take over Guangzhou City... Guangzhou people, welcome Zhu Shengren!"
