Chapter 1528: Massacre
Lahore in Punjab is located in the impact plains of the upper reaches of the Indus River. Lahore is not only a thousand-year-old city, but also the capital of the Mughal Empire.
After defeating the Mughal Empire's army in Punjab, the main force of the Qing army took advantage of the situation and took down the city without much effort.
After the capture of Lahore, Kant directly changed Lahore to "Shengjing" and used it as the new capital of the Qing Dynasty.
The name Shengjing comes from Huang Taiji back then. While Huang Taiji changed the Later Jin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, he also changed the name of Chenyang to Shengjing, thus making Shengjing the political center that emerged in the East.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to join forces with Wu Sangui to defeat Li Zicheng, and then entered the pass and occupied Beijing, thus starting the Qing court's rule in the Central Plains.
After re-establishing the capital of Beijing, Shengjing was renamed Fengtian and became the accompanying capital of the Qing Dynasty.
Now, Kant has also changed Lahore to Shengjing, and his intention is naturally to follow Huang Taiji back then and use Shengjing as the capital to revive the Qing Dynasty.
With the successive victory of the Qing Dynasty in India's military, the Qing court, who had been dying under the attack of the Ming Dynasty, was once again reborn. Shortly after the capital was established, Kant, who was full of confidence, had already begun to plan to continue attacking south. In his opinion, the land of India was simply a fertile land given by heaven. After the Mughal Empire was destroyed, the Qing Dynasty was still a powerful country.
These days, the martial arts ceremony has been extremely comfortable. As the logistics work, he did a very good job in the Qing court's march to India, and thus made contributions.
Due to his merits, after establishing the capital of Shengjing, Kant rewarded the meritorious officials, Wuli was promoted from the General of Zhenguo to the Duke of Fengxiang. This time, the triple jump and the previous promotion, the salted fish of Wuli became a hot newcomer in just one year.
In addition to the title of Duke Feng En, Kant also appointed Wuli as the Zuoling of the Zhenghuang Banner, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners India Zhenghuang Banner. This position is not low, especially the former is of high status and power. Although the Zuoling's rank is not high, you should know that Zuoling is also called Niulu Zhangjing in Manchu language. Niulu Zhangjing is the backbone of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. He has the right to directly manage and appoint the Eight Banners Middle and Lower Poles, and his real power is very heavy.
As for the latter, the Eight Banners of India was the current means by the Qing court to control and win over the Indian localities. Kant gave the position of the Deputy Chief of the Eight Banners of India to the Wuli, which is enough to prove his importance and reward for the Wuli.
In addition to the positions and titles of the Eight Banners, Wuli also served as the Minister of Works. Although the Ministry of Works is not at a high level among the six ministries of the court, it is far inferior to the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of War. But you should know that the Ministry of Works is a very rich and efficient department. At present, Shengjing is newly established, and the current Shengjing city needs to be re-adjusted, and Kant's palace is also to be built. These are the work of the Ministry of Works. As the Minister of Works, Wuli is one of the important figures in charge of this matter.
Lahore, which is now Shengjing, is a famous historical city, but due to various religious reasons, the buildings in the city do not conform to the aesthetics of the Qing Dynasty, so re-changing Shengjing was the main task of the Ministry of Works.
In addition, after the Qing army took over Punjab, they burned, killed and looted India like their ancestors. India was originally an extremely rich country, and the people's enthusiasm for gold and jewelry is extremely rare in the world. Over the past thousands of years, both the official and the civilians have accumulated countless wealth. When the Qing army saw these yellow and white things, their eyes were straightened. How could they keep it?
In this way, all the Qing army made a fortune these days, and Wuli himself would not treat him badly. He took the opportunity to plunder a lot of money into his house. Every night, Wuli looked at the house full of the house, and the treasure shining with golden light almost couldn't close his mouth. Fortunately, he was in good health, otherwise wouldn't he have a heart attack when he was excited?
On that day, Wuli was sitting in the yamen, drinking the freshly brewed tea, when Ashur came over quickly.
"Dad, something happened! Something happened!" As soon as he entered the yamen, Ashur was sweating profusely and rushed straight to the martial arts ceremony.
"How frightened!" Wu Li glared at him, and still took a sip of tea first. After putting down the tea cup, he frowned and asked, "If you can't get off the bed this day, calm down and tell me, what happened?"
"There is an accident in the mosque in Qing...."
"Talk it out, what's the matter?"
Ashul gestured and talked for a long time before he made it clear. It turned out that something happened to the Badshaxi Mosque. Due to the establishment of Shengjing, the buildings inside Shengjing would need to be adjusted, so some of the original buildings would naturally be demolished and changed.
The Bad Shahi Mosque was built by the Mughal emperors before. It is the largest mosque in this area and is also known as the royal mosque.
After its completion, the Bad Shahi Mosque became one of the holy places in northern India, and its importance among believers is self-evident.
The Qing army took this place and adopted strong suppression measures on the local beliefs. For the Qing Dynasty, the Green Cult was not their belief at all. Moreover, in the Western Regions, the Qing Dynasty did not know how many Green Cultists were massacred and how many mosques were destroyed. Therefore, when Shengjing was about to rebuild it, it was inevitable to demolish the Bad Xiaxi Mosque.
After hearing Ashur's words, the martial arts rituals were not much surprised, but were very calm.
"Isn't it normal to make trouble? You kid always fuss. How can you shoulder heavy burdens for you after you are so unstable?"
"But Dad, this time it's a big fuss. Go and have a look. Thousands of people have gathered there, and my son is worried..."
"What are you worried about!" Wu Li said with a brow, "There is no king's law yet? Are the swords, guns and firearms in your hands vegetarian food? Take people over immediately and drive them away directly. If there are any disobedient people, they will be killed without mercy! Humph! These naughty men will be obedient after suffering a little. You are still very tender, so learn more in the future!"
"Dad...is this possible?" Ashur asked with wide eyes.
"You just remove the word "What" for me. Wouldn't you know if it's done?" Wu Li waved his hand and said, "Don't bother you with such trivial matters in the future."
Ashur thought about it and gritted his teeth and turned around and left. After a while, he arrived at the scene with hundreds of fully armed soldiers. At this time, the scene was crowded with people. Countless Indian green church members surrounded outside the Badshaxi Mosque with grief and anger, and kept shouting words in their mouths.
Ashuer asked several people from the Eight Banners of India to come forward to communicate, but before he could say a few words, he was smashed by the stone thrown out of the crowd over there and ran away with his head. Seeing this, Ashuer was so angry that he was furious on the spot. When he remembered his father's martial arts words, Ashuer ignored it at this time and directly led the people to wave the knife.
When the Qing army launched a massacre outside the Badshaxi Mosque without any scruples, the Indian "heroes" who were still very powerful the moment before turned into terrified cowards. They faced the Qing army's sharp swords and guns without any resistance. They screamed and cried, turned around and ran away.
But because there are too many people, they can't run away immediately. How could the Qing army care about so many? Without saying a word, they just went up and cut the guy on the back to the ground. This time, more Indians were even more panicked. They originally thought that conducting demonstrations would make the Qing court give in, and having too many people would also give courage, but who would have thought that they would not deal with what they thought, and they actually talked to them with a knife handle.
When the scene was completely in chaos, casualties began to rise sharply. After half an hour, except for some people running away, the rest of them either lie on the ground and wail or just blew and lost their lives.
This incident was called the Badshaxi Mosque incident, with more than 3,000 casualties. Among these 3,000 people, there were not many people who were actually killed or injured under the Qing army. Most of them were caused by chaotic trampling later.
After the incident at Badshaxi Mosque, Wuli struck while the iron was hot, and asked Ashur to cut off all the dead heads and pile them up on the streets into a landscape. Seeing this terrifying scene, no one in Shengjing dared to resist the orders of the Qing court. The demolition of each building was extremely smooth. In less than a month, Wuli took credit for Kant with his achievements, and received Kant's extremely satisfied praise.
Chapter completed!