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Chapter 509 The Sin of the Xishan regime

"Hey, if you have something to say, get up, get up quickly!" Hong Tao asked the guard to help Ye Chengxiang up and sit down, and then said, "Tell me, what's going on?"

However, just after Ye Chengxiang spoke for a few minutes, Hong Tao's face became a little ugly. He asked Ye Chengxiang to stop first, and then said to a guard behind him: "You go and invite General Deng and General Wang to come, and it is very important."

The guard was about to leave, but Hong Tao called him again and said, "Come Jiang Fan and Zhong Huai, let them listen."

More than ten minutes later, Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang and other four people came. After Hong Tao briefly introduced it, he said to Ye Chengxiang: "You talk about it all over again."

"Yes! Eight years ago..."

As Ye Chengxiang told the story, a tragedy that was even worse than the "Red Creek Massacre" created by the Dutch in Batavia was presented to the three.

It is said that during the Xishan Uprising, not only the local people in Annan were involved in war, but even the Chinese businessmen who settled or lived in Vietnam could not stay out of the matter, but were deeply involved in this whirlpool. They chose the new Ruan and the old Ruan respectively because of their different cognition and circumstances, or because of their personal interests.

In 1773, a Fujian Chinese businessman named Li Cai in Guangnan organized a group of people named "Heyi Army" to join the Xishan Army. This team was mainly composed of Guangdong people. Because of the blood of the clan, the combat effectiveness was very strong. The joining of the Chinese army made the Xishan camp look like a tiger, and the new Ruan power quickly moved north from Guiren to expand to the ruling center of the old Ruan. In this process, the "Heyi Army" and another Chinese armed "Loyal and Rebel Army" played a decisive role in the victory of the Xishan Army in a critical battle.

However, with more military achievements, the conflict between Li Cai and Ruan Wenyue, the first emperor of the Xishan Dynasty, became irreconcilable. Two years later, the two sides finally broke out and Li Cai took the "He Yi Army" to the old Ruan camp and transformed into an important figure in the old Ruan camp.

Unexpectedly, only one year later, Li Cai was killed because he was involved in the palace power struggle of the old Ruan. The remaining part of the "He Yi Army" was led by Chinese Chen Feng and Chen Gongzhang, and continued to stay in the old Ruan camp.

In 1782, Chen Gongzhang led the "Heyi Army" to fight with the Xishan Army at the Shenliang Bridge near Jiading, killing Fan Yan, the general of Ruan Wenyue's escort. Ruan Wenyue lost his right and left. Because the "Heyi Army" were all Tang people, and the Chinese merchants in Jiading supported the old Ruan, he ordered his subordinates to kill them regardless of whether those people supported the Xishan Army, regardless of whether they were soldiers or merchants.

This massacre is known as the "Sai Kung Massacre" in another time and space. The death toll of Chinese people reached tens of thousands. From Jiading to Chaiban, under the butcher's knife, corpses were everywhere. Countless corpses were thrown into the river by the Xishan army, causing the river to be blocked and cut off. Even a few months later, no one dared to eat the fish and shrimps in the river.

At that time, all the goods from Chinese merchants were collected and thrown on the road, but no one dared to pick up these blood-stained things. In the second year, because the Jiading Hua merchants died, no one trafficked goods, and the crude tea rose to eight jin of pounds and one hundred yuan per needle.

"The villain's eldest brother, a family of four, was killed by the Xishan soldiers and threw them into the river. Because all the Chinese merchants in the city died, the villain and his father did not know until a few months later. Although many searches were made, the eldest brother's family's bones had already sunk into the river and were eaten by fish and shrimps, and it was difficult to restrain them. For eight years, my father couldn't sleep and eat, and he always thought about it, beat his chest and stamped his feet, and could not sleep at night..."

Ye Chengxiang was crying loudly at the end of the conversation.

Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang and Hong Tao all turned extremely ugly after listening to Ye Chengxiang's story. The three of them have been here for six years. If they heard these things in the early years, they would have been sympathetic, but they always felt a sense of alienation. But as their integration with this era became deeper, the alienation began to become vague. What they experienced the deepest feeling among all the time travelers was actually Chen Qingsong and Hong Tao.

Needless to say, Chen Qingsong has to deal with refugees every day with his men; while Hong Tao and his wife have been deeply involved in the refugees for many years, curing countless people, and witnessing the sufferings of those people, from the initial observing mentality to the later empathy.

At this time, he took off his glasses and wiped his eyes, lowered his head and was silent for a while, and murmured: "I don't understand the fuck, why can a cat or a dog kill Chinese people these days? What's this called?"

Although everyone here has heard of the massacre of Chinese in Luzon during the Wanli period and the Dutch massacre in Batavia in the sixth year of Qianlong, because it was too long, even if it was angry, it was just the kind of indignation to see the past.

As a witness to the "Jiading Massacre", Ye Chengxiang's narrative makes people feel as if he is in the scene. Eight years are not far away, not to mention that the evil Xishan regime is right in front of everyone.

Zhong Huai, who had been sighing before, burst into tears and said, "In the sixth year of Qianlong, it was Java, and in the forty-seventh year of Annan, the court was just watching their people being slaughtered?! Why did the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Governor of Guangxi ignore it?!"

Jiang Fan sneered with a sarcastic look on his face: "Baoqi, don't you understand? In their eyes, those who go to the country and leave their hometowns are not humans! Besides, they are still Han people. I don't believe it. If ten thousand people die, do you think the Tartar Emperor is anxious!"

If the two of them were a little reluctant to use advanced weapons to beat the Xishan Army to the North Sea Army, then now they are gone, and there are very few regrets to kill.

In fact, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, the feudal dynasties insisted on the idea of ​​being self-righteous and respectful, and often used "benevolence and righteousness to support the country", and regarded the overseas expatriates who made a living overseas as "the people of the Celestial Empire", with an arrogant and ignorant style.

After the Spanish massacre of Chinese in Luzon during the Wanli period, Xu Xueju, who was then the governor of Fujian, only sent the Spanish an official article "Retrieve the Memorial of the Prison of the Song Dynasty". Although the content in it rebuked the Spanish for "The barbarians have no actions and are so righteous, so they can be punished by heaven", it also mentioned that "the four Chinese people are the cheapest, so how can they launch military revolutions with untouchables."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! Seeing that the "powerful" Ming Empire had such an attitude, the Spaniards naturally regarded Chinese people as pigs and dogs. Later, in the first year of Kangxi, a large-scale massacre of Chinese merchants, and more than 50,000 died before and after the two massacres.

After the "Hongxi Massacre" in the sixth year of Qianlong, it was not until July of the following year that the Fujian Navy admiral interrogated the merchant ships returning from Java. However, both officials and opponents who proposed to ban South China Sea trade were hated against overseas expatriates, and no one considered the interests of more than 10,000 Chinese who died.

Two years after the incident, after repeated discussions between the Prince and the Minister of Political Affairs and the governors of various places, the Qing court finally adopted the opinions of Qingfu, the then Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Depei, the Governor of Liangjiang, and believed that the Chinese who were killed in the "Hongxi Massacre" were all self-deprecating and abandoning, and the Dutch had "repentance" and allowed them to trade as usual, and the Emperor Guangxi was full of virtue and education, which was full of the most profound intentions of the world.

As for the "Jiading Massacre", there is no record in all the historical materials of the Qing Dynasty in another time and space, and there is no word. Due to the nature of the Qing Dynasty, it is not to be handled separately. If the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi or the Governor of Guangxi heard about such a thing, he would definitely report the memorial.

It can be said with certainty that after the massacre, the Xishan Dynasty tried its best to conceal it, so it did not enter the ears of the Qing monarchs and ministers.

In another time and space history, the "Jiading Massacre" was not revealed in the historical materials officially compiled by Annan more than 40 years later. In the "Guo Chao Zheng Editor" compiled by the National History Museum of the Ruan Dynasty, 92 words were used to summarize it briefly; while in the "Jiading Tongzhi", 150 words were used, which is the most comprehensive description.

The air in the conference room became more and more dull. Except for Ye Chengxiang sobbing, everyone else was silent, with a gloomy face dripping with water.

Whether it was Deng Fei and the other three, or Jiang Fan and Zhong Huai, everyone understood that the North Navy must discuss and repay this justice for Annan's China, and must not give up the Xishan Dynasty easily.

"Mr. Ye, we have to discuss this matter. We will give you a reply later. Maybe you will need to cooperate at that time."

Ye Chengxiang sorted out his sleeves, bowed to the ground again, and said, "Before leaving, my father said that as long as he could avenge my elder brother's family, the Ye family was willing to pay money and grain to help, and he was heartbroken."

Deng Fei nodded and asked the guards to arrange a cabin for Ye Chengxiang and his two subordinates, and then took them out for dinner and rest.

After Ye Chengxiang left, Hong Tao first said, "Tell me, what will we do next?"

"The Marine Corps and Special Forces Battalion are ready to land at any time." Wang Yuanfang wished to send troops to land immediately and sweep Hue bloodily.

Jiang Fan stood up and said, "Jiang is not talented, please let me write the proclamation for rebellion." This man who had only entered the Northern Navy for a few months, still did not change the tone of the scholar.

Deng Fei said in a deep voice: "Don't be anxious. There are two choices in this matter. One is to simply retaliate, and then we go south to Java to settle accounts with the Dutch. The other is to completely eliminate the Ruan Guangping regime and give an explanation to the Chinese who died. The former is relatively easy, while the latter is much more complicated. We must consider it clearly and then contact Zhao Xin."

Hong Tao asked, "What do you say?"

Deng Fei said: "It is not easy for us to go south, we don't have many troops, so we can't carry out long-term large-scale combat..."

Hong Tao robbed Bai and said: "You can let Zhao Xin..."

Deng Fei raised his hand to interrupt him, and said to Jiang Fan and Zhong Huai in an orderly tone: "Sorry, let's go and do it first."

Although Jiang Fan and Zhong Huai were unwilling to do so, they had now joined the Northern Navy and had to obey the orders, so they had to salute and leave.

After Deng Fei and the two left, they closed the door and sat down and said, "Doctor Hong, of course I know, but what I just said was only one of them. It is easy to send troops south to the Jinglei and other ships to dispatch troops, but it will inevitably evolve into a protracted war. Don't forget that this is a battle to destroy the country!"

Hong Tao did not understand military affairs. He only saw that the Northern Navy had been invincible for many years, so he stubbornly said, "So what? In front of our weapons, the Xishan Army is nothing. I will kill him in minutes!"

After listening to Deng Fei's explanation, Wang Yuanfang calmed down from his previous anger. He slowly shook his head and said, "Xiao Hong, you don't know that our current front line is too long, thousands of kilometers away from north to south, and it can be said that it is thousands of miles away."

He then explained one by one by one with his fingers. Only then did Hong Tao understand how big the North Hai Army's stall is now.

The Northern Navy's troops were organized in the following generations and adopted the three-three system. A regiment consisted of three battalions, including logistics and communication personnel, a total of 2,700 people. Currently, there are a total of fifteen regiments in the Northern Navy, plus the newly trained recruits, training headquarters, prisoner-of-war management battalions, logistics equipment, staff and the navy's land battle battalion, the total force has reached more than 55,000.

First is Siberia. At present, Zhao Xin led three regiments and one battalion to guard the Yenisei River defense line. Liu Sheng and Fan Tong had only two regiments and one battalion to deal with Outer Mongolia in the south; another battalion was guarding Yakutsk to control the roads to Okhotsk and Kamchatka; there were two battalions stationed in Nibchu to Ulan-Ude and other places respectively.

The second is the outer northeast. Jaquessa is currently a regiment, responsible for warding prisoners of war; Heilongjiang City currently has two battalions, responsible for watching the Qing army in the direction of Melgen and Qiqihar; Ninggutahe, Dasaiwula and Hunchun have released a total of six regiments, and they have to stare at the tens of thousands of Qing troops in Jilin and Li Dynasty; in addition, the three surnames, Boli, and even the fishing villages in Vladivostok are stationed.

In addition, a garrison regiment was released in Mian Kyushu, whose main task was to guard the Rikiyaki gold mine, and in addition, it was to guard the surrounding vassals, and even the Sendai vassals had to be released. There were not many troops on Jeju Island, only one company; and once the Shimazu family was solved in Ryukyu, at least one regiment had to be released after getting the Shimazu Island islands.

Wang Yuanfang finally said: "I am in charge of the training of recruits. The 10,000 recruits recruits recruited in the summer have just completed basic training and are all preparing for the next year to go south to Outer Mongolia. Our soldiers are all training for the cold climate environment in the north and have never had experience in combating the southern mountainous areas. Even the special operations battalion is brought here this time, and they are still exploring and experimenting. Based on my experience, once so many northerners suddenly come to the south, not to mention how they fight, it is easy to suffer from large-scale non-combat reductions."

Deng Fei agreed: "It is easy to fight Hue City, but if the Xishan Army hides in the mountains in the north and fights guerrilla warfare with us, it will be troublesome if the logistics company cannot keep up."

After hearing this, Hong Tao nodded helplessly. Indeed, the first problem that so many northerners faced so many problems that were encountered was the disease caused by unaccustomed diet.

"What are your opinions?"

Deng Fei said: "Didn't Ye Chengxiang say that he is willing to pay for money and food. These are not a problem for us. Why don't you ask him to help recruit local Chinese organizations to arm the army."

Wang Yuanfang said: "You can draw a coaching team to go south and let these people practice while fighting."

Hong Tao said: "Does there still have to be a piece of land?"

Deng Fei smiled and said, "What do you think of Huian City? Chinese Base Camp."

After a fierce discussion, the three of them asked Jiang Fan and Zhong Huai to help draft the written plan that night, and contacted Zhao Xin early the next morning. Because there were too many texts, Deng Fei simply read it word by word.

Zhao Xin, who was far away in Yenisesk, listened and recorded while listening. It took more than an hour to finish everything. He did not reply immediately, but asked Deng Fei to wait for the news.

In fact, Zhao Xin was also surprised. He did not know many historical details of Annan. He originally wanted to deal with the pirates in Xishan and teach Xishan a lesson, and then go to Batavia to seek justice for the Chinese people in the "Hongxi Massacre". Unexpectedly, there was a "Jiading Massacre" here in Annan!

This is no longer as simple as teaching Ruan Guangping a lesson. It is necessary to completely defeat Xishanchao and hold the massacre accountable to intimidate South Asian countries and colonial forces.

In order to make himself less impulsive, Zhao Xin ran outside the house, stood in the snow and thought about it, thinking again and again. Finally, he felt that it was difficult to explain clearly in the telegram. Moreover, since Deng Fei and the others wanted to recruit Chinese soldiers in Hoi'an, weapons, ammunition and military uniforms must be prepared. So at noon, he contacted Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang again.

"Give you three days, can you draw Hue?"

Wang Yuanfang on the other end pondered for a moment and said, "No big problem."
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