Chapter 23: One hundred thousand people went to justice together to save the Ming Dynasty
[In 1644, the order to shave the hair was issued, and everyone in and outside the capital had to shave their hair within ten days.]

[The Qing government put forward the slogan of "keep your head but not your hair, keep your hair but not your head", and anyone who refused would be killed without mercy.]

【Your skin and hair is from your parents.】

[Once the hair-shaving order was issued, it was strongly resisted by the Han people, with the most intense resistance in the Jiangnan area.]

[The 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Jiangyin would rather die than surrender, and vowed to defend the city to the death. ]

[The Qing court was furious, and an army of 240,000 soldiers and more than 200 cannons attacked Jiangyin.]

[This battle was extremely brutal, with three Qing princes and eighteen generals killed, with a total loss of more than 75,000 people.]

[The people of Jiangyin defended the city for 81 days. More than 97,000 people died inside the city, more than 75,000 people died outside the city, and only 53 people in the city survived! ]

[General Yan Yingyuan sacrificed his life for his country and left a couplet in the ancestral hall:]

【80 days of keeping hair to show loyalty, representing the sixteen dynasties of Taizu;】

[One hundred thousand people went to the cause together to save the Ming Dynasty's 300-li territory. ]

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[In addition, the Qing army also massacred Han people in many places. ]

[The Ten Days in Yangzhou, the Ten Days of Not Putting Down the Knife, the Three Massacres in Jiading, the Eighty-One Days in Jiangyin, the Massacre in Datong, and the Massacre in Guangzhou all record the cruelty.]

[The casualties among the people were innumerable, and the bodies of the dead filled the city. The cries of grief continued day and night.]

【The massacre was so tragic that humanity was annihilated.】

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"One hundred thousand people fought together to save the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Youjian recited the couplet and cried heart-wrenchingly.

I feel like every word is of great weight.

"Damn Li Zicheng!"

"Damn Manchus!"

Zhu Youjian kept crying and crying.

I cry for the hundreds of thousands of heroic souls, I cry for the people of the world, and I cry for my own incompetence.

"The Manchus entered the country, and our ancestors' country was covered in dust..."

"I……"

"I have truly become a sinner that will never fade away..."

I don’t know how long he cried, but Zhu Youjian looked at the Forbidden City in flames and gave a sad smile.

If the Ming Dynasty fell into the hands of the Han people, he would accept it.

But if the Manchus took over the world, he didn't know how he would explain to his ancestors and the world when he died.

"Long live the Lord..."

Wang Chengen didn't know what to say at this time, he just kept crying with Chongzhen.

However, as he cried, Chongzhen no longer wanted to die.

"No, I can't die!"

"I will never allow the country to fall into the hands of barbarians. I cannot watch the Manchus slaughter the people of the Ming Dynasty!"

"For the sake of the country and the people, I cannot die here!"

Zhu Youjian grabbed Wang Chengen's shoulders and said, "My dear companion, I remember there is a secret passage in the palace that can lead us out of the capital. Let's leave the capital now and try to get to Nanjing."

Upon learning of the Manchus' brutality, 100,000 soldiers and civilians vowed to fight to the death rather than surrender. Zhu Youxiao, who had originally intended to die, seemed to have found a reason to live.

Just like that, in the firelight, two figures quietly descended from the coal mountain and disappeared into an unknown secret passage.

No one knows where they will go.

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Yongle period.

Zhu Di's eyes turned cold.

"I established a garrison, made friends with the Jianzhou Jurchens, pacified the Jurchen tribes, and opened up trade, but I never thought that I would raise an ungrateful person."

Zhu Di never expected that it would be the Jurchens who would seize the Ming Dynasty in the future.

"I am guilty of raising a tiger to cause trouble."

"Third brother, release all your minions and find out the situation of the various Jurchen tribes. Soon I will lead the army to attack the various Jurchen tribes and eradicate this scourge."

Feeling the murderous intent from Zhu Di, the people around him only felt their temperature drop a little. Obviously, the brutal slaughter of Han people by the Jurchens in the future completely angered Zhu Di.

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Qing Dynasty.

Qianlong became angry and humiliated.

"You bastard Tianmu, you are slandering our great country!"

Qianlong suddenly stood up from the dragon throne.

"Pass on my decree. The public is prohibited from viewing the sky curtain! No private discussion is allowed!"

"If you disobey, you will be treated as a traitor and your entire clan will be exiled!"

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[In 1662, Kangxi ascended the throne. He reigned for 61 years, the longest reigning emperor in Chinese history.]

【During his reign, he quelled civil unrest, consolidated his rule, strengthened centralization, and promoted cultural and economic development. 】

clear.

When Kangxi learned that he had been in power for 61 years, he was overjoyed.

All the ministers congratulated him.

[In 1722 AD, Kangxi died and Yongzheng succeeded to the throne.]

[In 1735 AD, Yongzheng died and Qianlong succeeded to the throne.]

【The Qing Dynasty reached its peak of national power after the rule of three emperors: Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong.】

[At this time, the population of the Qing Dynasty increased by over 100 million, the treasury was enriched, the economy developed rapidly, and the national strength was unprecedentedly strong. It was hailed as the last "golden age" of China. ]

【After that, the Qing Dynasty was politically corrupt, corruption was rampant, and the fiscal deficit began to turn from prosperity to decline.】

[In 1839, Lin Zexu's Humen gunpowder.]

[In 1840 AD, the First Opium War broke out. ]

[During this Opium War, the British fleet destroyed all the Qing army's defenses in just 9 minutes. The Qing army had no power to fight back. After the war, the two countries signed the humiliating Treaty of Nanjing, which set a precedent for the Qing Dynasty to cede territory.]

[After that, the Qing Dynasty continued to sign new treaties, and gradually lost its territory and national sovereignty. ]

[In 1850, Hong Xiuquan and others established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, and successively captured some cities in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangsu, and occupied the Yangtze River Basin. ]

[In 1856, Eastern King Yang Xiuqing and Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan fought for the throne, which is known as the Tianjin Incident.]

[In 1864, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, and the Qing army invaded Nanjing and massacred all the residents in the city. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was basically destroyed.]

[In 1894, the Sino-Japanese War broke out.]

[Japan won the Battle of the Yellow Sea and gained control of the Yellow Sea. Japan then occupied Dalian and Lushun and committed the brutal Lushun Massacre. After the war, Japan signed the humiliating Treaty of Shimonoseki.]

[In 1900, Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on 11 countries.]

[In August of the same year, the Eight-Nation Alliance of Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Australia marched from Tianjin to Beijing, which is known in history as the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China.]

[After the war, the Qing government signed the Boxer Protocol with the foreign powers, which stipulated the payment of compensation, the demarcation of the embassy area, and the removal of artillery forts. This treaty was the most unequal treaty in China's modern history, with the largest amount of compensation and the most serious loss of sovereignty.]

[The Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911]

[On February 1912, 2, Puyi abdicated and became the last emperor in Chinese history.]

【The success of the Xinhai Revolution marked the end of the imperial system that had existed in China for more than 2,000 years, and China entered a new historical period.】

【The video ends here. 】

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Yongle.

Looking at the humiliating treaties on the sky.

Zhu Di was so angry that he was shaking all over.

"Think of the Ming Dynasty, our national power is so great that it surpasses all the ancient times."

"They controlled the northern barbarians and the western tribes, without the marriage alliance of the Han, the alliance of the Tang, the annual tribute of the Song, or the etiquette of brothers and enemies. When they came to pay tribute, they were treated with kindness and courtesy."

"Korea, Annan, Ryukyu, Japan, Champa, Siam, Malacca and other countries all obeyed the imperial decrees with great respect. The imperial court also treated them with special grace and etiquette. They were like brothers and one family. What a grand occasion!"

"Let's look at the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in the future."

"How weak and incompetent the emperor is!"

"Japan is just a tiny country, but they forced it to cede territory and pay compensation. This is a disgrace to our ancestors!"

(End of this chapter)