Chapter 94: Qingzhou Rebellion (7)
After receiving the orders from the Executive Yuan and the Military Commission, Luo Yue immediately ordered the captive Eight Banners garrisons to be identified. In fact, there is no time to interrogate in detail those people who are the leaders and command the rebellion, and they can only be calculated according to their official positions. According to the Qing court, the highest officials of the Eight Banners garrisons in Qingzhou were the deputy commander, with four assistant leaders under each assistant leader, and each assistant leader had four assistant leaders under the defense, cavalry school, pen style, etc., with a total of 48 officials. In addition, the soldiers were divided into leaders, vanguards, vests, archers, gunners, etc.
Of course, the eight banners in Qingzhou are not fully equipped, and there is only one assistant leader, and there are only 32 actual officials, of which 27 have participated in this battle, and 9 people were killed in the battle. The remaining 18 people were designated as the leaders of the rebellion. Of course, Wenrui and Wu Leqi were the first to bear the brunt. Wu Yannian, the assistant leader, escaped this disaster because he took the initiative to surrender the city.
In addition, the Eight Banners soldiers captured in this battle, and the total number of them was captured in Qiangouzhuang, totaling 2,818, plus their families had more than 12,000. However, the Dongying Farm in the old Kongli was extremely large and eventually developed into the Yellow River Delta production base of the Jinan Military Region, with a total area of 790 square kilometers, forming a diversified industrial structure mainly based on planting, breeding, food processing, etc. Although construction has just begun, the goal is the same, so more than 10,000 people can still digest it.
In addition, in this battle, there were about 2,100 soldiers of the Eight Banners who died. Their families could not stay in the local area. They would all move to Jinan for further arrangements. In this way, the total number of people to be moved was more than 20,000, accounting for more than 20% of the total population of the northern city. This is not considered their Baoyi slaves. Although most of the soldiers are ordinary families, there are also many families with good living conditions, with more than 6,000 slaves in Baoyi. However, this almost all the rich families among the city's bannermen. Although most of the rich families will not join the army to join the war, they will send their children, even Baoyi will participate in the war, so it is naturally a joint responsibility. In this way, it is equivalent to completely dispersing the bannermen in Qingzhou.
Of course, all the property of the soldiers robbed by the Eight Banners Army in Qingzhou City and the captured Eight Banners garrison generals were filled with public property, and the silver obtained alone was as much as 600,000 taels, and there were also a large amount of food, livestock, etc., which could be said to have gained huge gains.
After Luo Yue defeated the Eight Banners garrison and captured the Beicheng and Qingzhou Main City, the work of the Qingzhou Land Reform Commission immediately returned to normal. Moreover, when he learned that the Beicheng had been broken by the People's Army, the hope of some landlords and gentry revoked was completely shattered, and he became honest again. In addition, after the vigorous publicity of the Land Reform Commission, the people regained their confidence in time travelers, and the land reform work finally got back on track.
In addition, the Executive Yuan decided to establish the Qingzhou local government, which also made Liu Chengping very happy, because he was naturally the supreme leader of the Qingzhou area. He was promoted from the village chief to the mayor, so Liu Chengping was naturally happy.
A few days later, the personnel dispatched by the Executive Yuan arrived in Qiangou Village. So Liu Chengping and others came to Qingzhou City under the protection of the People's Army, officially announced the establishment of the Qingzhou Municipal Local Government, with Liu Chengping as the mayor, and then quickly took over the administrative affairs of Qingzhou City and assigned work according to the established government departments.
All this was done under the nose of the Qingzhou prefect Feng Ruyi, but Feng Ruyi could only stare at him, but there was no way out. Because after the People's Army entered Qingzhou, it quickly completely controlled the situation in Qingzhou. All the officials and gangs in the city were as cold as cicadas, and no one said anything. Therefore, Feng Ruyi's order could not even be released from the prefect's office.
Feng Ruyi's mood was quite complicated, because after the People's Army entered Qingzhou City, it used severe measures to arrest nearly 100 gangsters who took advantage of the chaos and robbed the country. The members of the gang quickly restored the daily order in Qingzhou City. Moreover, the People's Army's military discipline was strict. After entering Qingzhou City, it did not disturb the residents. The behavior of looting the residents was completely different from the Eight Banners garrison, which also made the residents of Qingzhou City relieved and had some good feelings for the People's Army.
But Feng Ruqian felt quite uncomfortable. When the Eight Banners garrison plundered and robbed Qingzhou City, he was helpless. Even when the Eight Banners garrison left the city, the chaos in Qingzhou City remained the same. However, less than an hour after the People's Army entered the city, it stabilized the situation in Qingzhou City. Although Feng Ruqian was not confused about overseas Chinese, he had to admit that overseas Chinese did have some tricks, but it was a pity that they could not really serve the court.
At this moment, Qingting's transfer order was finally sent to Qingzhou, and Feng Ruyi was transferred to serve as the prefect of Daming Prefecture. Feng Ruyi also breathed a long sigh and could finally leave this place of trouble. So he immediately ordered his family to pack up the gold, silver, fine, soft luggage, and other items, and set off today. The traveler did not make things difficult for Feng Ruyi, and let him leave Qingzhou, and then immediately occupied the Qingzhou Prefecture Office as the office and residence of the Qingzhou Municipal Local Government.
Just when the East China government changed its plan and established the Qingzhou Municipal Local Government, another battle between the time travelers and the Qing court was also taking place in Beijing, thousands of miles away.
First, the travelers formally submitted a memorial to the Qing court in the name of the governor of Shandong, claiming that Wen Rui, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners of Qingzhou, Wuleqi, and others incited the flag army to rebel, captured Qingzhou City, burned, killed more than 1,000 residents of Qingzhou, robbed more than 5,000 shops and households, and robbed countless property. The crime was extremely serious. The Shandong Governor's Office sent troops to quell the rebellion, defeated the rebels, and captured more than 30 rebel leaders including Wen Rui, Wuleqi, and more than 30 others. Everyone confessed to their crimes. In order to restore the situation as soon as possible, the Shandong Governor's Office carried him on the spot to rectify the law, and used respect to You, and signed and attached the documents confessed by Wen Rui, Wuleqi and others with the memorials, as well as the confessions of some victims, etc., to Beijing.
After the memorial was delivered to Beijing, it caused a sudden uproar. It turned out that the Qing court knew about the confiscation of land in Shandong, land reforms, and the establishment of a private official system. But it was just a matter of turning a blind eye to it and pretending not to know. The Military Affairs Office had basically reached a tacit understanding, that is, all official documents sent by Shandong and the demolition memorials involving Shandong, all adhered to the six principles of "not publicizing, not handling, not reporting, not replying, not giving up, not saying anything", because everyone knows that if these matters are not disclosed, then the relationship between the court and Shandong is still a subordinate relationship on the surface, and can still be maintained. Once these matters are made public, it is impossible for the Qing court or overseas Chinese to maintain it, and they can only break openly. But what are the benefits of this? Is it difficult to start a full war with overseas Chinese immediately?
The most important thing to be an official is to understand when you should understand. When you should be confused, you can't make mistakes. Therefore, although there were a few overseas Chinese who had few minds in their heads, they were all suppressed by the Military Affairs Office. Of course, everyone knows that it is impossible to be confused for a long time if you are confused like this. There will always be a day when you can't be confused, but you can still be able to make a fortune every day, and you will talk about it when you can't make a fortune.
But no one expected that overseas Chinese would take the initiative to raise trouble, and this stone immediately caused a lot of trouble. Because this time it was related to the bannermen, and although everyone's Eight Banners had long been unable to bear the military service, no one dared to touch the Eight Banners garrisons from all over the country. They knew that the relationship was so important. However, overseas Chinese actually challenged this taboo, and even destroyed a garrison flag army at once and even pleaded them with a charge of treason. Although there were documents for confession sent with the memorial, everyone knew what was going on. Even people were killed. Isn't it easy to make a few confessions?
Moreover, although Wen Rui's official position is not high, he has the title of hereditary baron. There are only so many bannermen, relatives are connected and related. Niuhulu is a major family among the bannermen. How could he have no relatives and friends? More importantly, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Han people rose, and the bannermen gradually became weak. Whether in the capital or in the local area, the proportion of bannermen officials was greatly reduced. This has caused dissatisfaction among many bannermen. If this continues, is the Qing Dynasty a bannermen or the Qing Dynasty a Han? Now someone openly attacks the garrisoned flag troops and kills the heroes of the bannermen. This is something that has never happened in more than 250 years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. If you don't care, will the Han people still be against the sky if you continue like this?
So this suddenly aroused the anger of the banner people in Beijing. The powerful and royal families directly filed a lawsuit against the court, demanding that the court punish overseas Chinese immediately. Some people ran into the palace to cry to the empress dowager. Some even asked the court to confiscate the first offenders of overseas Chinese and destroy the family, kill the nine clans, and expel all other overseas Chinese from China. Of course, there were some people who carried private goods and asked the court to restore the old system. Not only were the officials at all levels Manchu and Han, but the Manchus were the main ones and the Han people were the auxiliary, so that the Qing Dynasty could be guaranteed to be long-term and stable.
As a result, the banner people were in a state of anger, and all kinds of memorials flew to the military office like snowflakes. A considerable part of the responsibility was to send them directly to the palace, which was also one of the privileges of the banner people.
However, at this time, several ministers from the Military Affairs Office were able to keep a clear mind and knew that the handling of this matter was not at all careless. Since overseas Chinese dared to do this, it means that they were not afraid of turning against the court. But now the court dared to turn against the overseas Chinese? Therefore, if you are not careful, it will easily lead to the second Gengzi State Change, and now the court cannot withstand such torture.
Chapter completed!