In the carriage, Luo Hengsen picked up the file delivered by the security guard and looked at the information on it carefully.
"Hey, the banner people who are still living in the city now have two brushes!" Luo Hengsen opened the file and saw Tumen Fulu's name in it at a glance, followed by his photo. and family and relationship documents.
"That's true. When the dynasty was changed, he was still a bannerman who knew current affairs and was the governor of Yueyang. The New Deal Council also used him and preserved him. As for the other bannermen, it was miserable." What this security soldier said was the most famous incident in Yueyang when local dynasties changed, and the city was filled with civil unrest.
Things must start from the last years of the previous dynasty. Shortly after the death of the old Empress Dowager Cixi, Emperor Xu was also poisoned to death in Yingtai. The following year, Empress Dowager Longyu took the support of the young emperor to ascend the throne, changed the Xuantong of the Yuan Dynasty, and started to govern behind the curtain.
At that time, there were only four years left before the founding of the Republic of China. From the previous dynasty to the royal family and down to the government, everyone felt the turmoil of the end of the world. It was not that they had not thought about saving themselves, reforming Westernization, setting up factories, restoring the world, and preparing for the establishment of a constitution. However, The previous dynasty of Guozuo had reached its end, and no matter how hard it tried to maintain it, it was of no avail.
In the end, the step of changing dynasties was reached. Four years later, Empress Dowager Longyu accepted the peace talks between the North and the South on behalf of the royal family. In the same year, in the name of the Empress Dowager Regent, she issued the "Abdication Edict", abolishing the Xuantong reign name, and the previous dynasty was completely swept into the past.
However, changing a dynasty is not just as simple as issuing an edict to abdicate. These meat-eaters issued an edict lightly to the people. For the common people, it was tantamount to a wake-up call, and even directly destroyed the peaceful life of the people. The previous dynasty was originally a foreign nation. In the end, The first thing they fear is the unity of the Han people, and the second thing is that they will be assimilated. In order to maintain their rule, they have implemented a policy of ethnic segregation for three hundred years. Banner people and Han people have not intermarried. At the same time, they have stationed troops in major towns within the country and relocated people.
The place where the bannermen and Eight Banners garrison troops lived was called Mancheng or Manying. The original intention of the previous royal family was to allow the banner people to live in Mancheng and receive preferential treatment. These measures could indeed achieve their goals in peacetime. When the dynasty changed, Mancheng became a target for destruction and became a target for the Han people to expel the Tatars. A living target.
At that time, the news of the emperor's abdication spread to the people, and the whole country was shocked. Banner people all over the city jumped into the pond to die for their country. Even some ordinary Han people who had pigtails in their hearts could not bear the blow and committed suicide for their country.
The dilemma faced by the banner people in Mancheng is particularly serious. They not only have to face the destruction of their country, but also face the hostility of the outside world that is eyeing Mancheng.
In the past, the government of the previous dynasty was suppressing them, so these common people allowed the Eight Banners people to climb on top of them and dominate them, shitting and peeing. Now, the government of the previous dynasty is gone, and the common people have been holding back their anger for three hundred years. They broke out in the whole city.
Some poor people who had settled down knew that the banner people in Mancheng were wealthy, so they deliberately went to Mancheng to burn, kill and do miscellaneous work, causing trouble.
These banner people have been raised by the hard-core crops of the previous dynasty for three hundred years. They have long been reared to the point where they are indifferent to grains. They only eat, drink and play, carry cages and walk birds every day. In addition, they like to take Fushou ointment, which makes them sallow and thin, and their hands and feet are weak. , unable to resist these external harassments, forcing banner residents all over the city to either move or pay.
However, cities all over the country are in the same situation. Where can they move to? Since they are desperate, the only way left is to seek death. Some bannermen who have not yet eliminated their bloodshed know how to pick up a gun. Most of the bannermen were either expelled or disappeared inexplicably.
Tumen Fulu, as the governor of Yueyang, was not immune to the disaster. Even if he had many servants, he could not resist the gangs of thieves. At that time, the Yueyang Political Yuan knew that Fulu was a squire all over the city. In order to stabilize the country as soon as possible, The bureau and the Hue banner people tried to ease the conflict and had no choice but to save him and sent new troops to patrol day and night. This prevented Tumen Mansion from causing a disaster.
After this incident, ten houses in the city were empty, and about half of the banner people were affected. Until a few years later, the city did not recover its population. Today, there are not many banner people in the city, most of them were moved in. People from outer cities.
While they were talking, the car rumbled to a stop in front of a tall mansion with strict blue brick and stone walls and solemn gray eaves.
On this occasion, elegiac couplets on a blue background have been replaced in front of the door, white lanterns are piled on both sides, and there are people crying and crying inside, which is very lively.
As soon as they entered the hall, Fulu's body had been put down and placed in the middle of the hall. There were several banner women wearing plain cheongsam, kneeling on the ground and crying almost to death.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Armah, you died so miserably." Luo Hengsen pushed aside the people surrounding him and came to Fulu. This man was wearing a robe, mandarin jacket, and a melon hat. His death was really miserable. There was a dagger stuck in the heart, and the neck was strangled until it was covered with black and purple bruises. The mouth was bulging, probably because the tongue was stiff and it was difficult to stuff it in again.
"Approximately, when did you find out that he was dead?" Luo Hengsen looked at the maid who found the body. She seemed to have not recovered from the shock, and said hesitantly: "The sky is probably still green this morning, sir. We all got up at this time, and we carried the spittoon and bucket and walked outside the door. We thought that the master would get up later and light the lamp. Unexpectedly, it was still dark in the study. I called a few times and saw no answer from him, so I opened the door. Go in first."
"As a result, as soon as I opened the door, I saw that the master was hung on the beam of the entrance, and his tongue was strangled with a piece of white silk. The blood at his feet had dried." Luo Hengsen listened carefully to her description and looked again. After taking a few glances at the dagger and the wound, I walked to the study and saw that the blood was still there.
The security guard on the side said: "The time of death of the corpse was probably between twelve o'clock and one o'clock last night. The wound on the heart was not deep, not fatal. Judging from the black lips, there may be signs of poisoning. I guess it was He was bleeding and poisoned and was quickly hung from the beam until he couldn't breathe and died."
"Probably, maybe, guess, it's your first day at the Public Security Department, right? You dare to report it to me without an autopsy." Luo Hengsen looked extremely dissatisfied.
The police officer said with a sneer: "Detective, this Fu Lu is a country squire and a former governor. His family did not allow his body to be touched. I only found out about this while they were changing his clothes."
"Based on this judgment, the murderer seems to have a grudge against Welfare, otherwise he wouldn't have been so uncomfortable. He was poisoned, hanged, and stabbed with a dagger. There must be some deep grudge, right?" Luo Hengsen carefully considered the current situation and found out from it. A family member who had not yet lost his mind from crying pulled him over and said, "Did he offend someone new during his lifetime? Or does your family have some old grudges with others?"
