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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 696: Northern Expedition Prosecution

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    The next day, Bob asked Xi Wang to interview the young Captain Xiao, but this request was easily rejected. The explanation given by Xi Wang was that Captain Xiao was transferred to the artillery unit, and the artillery unit, as a confidential military unit, declined.  All interviews.  ¡·Although Bob's request was rejected, Bob still caught something from the expression of Xiwang Huduzi. Captain Xiao's background must not be simple, which strengthened Bob's belief in interviewing this figure.  Although the request was rejected, as a senior reporter, Bob, like an intelligence officer, had his own unique methods.

    The reason why Xiao Yungui refused Bob's interview request was actually very simple. It was to protect Xiao Youhe. Firstly, he was too young, and secondly, if the hostile forces knew that one of his sons was in the army, his safety would be very problematic.  At the same time, Xiao Yungui had no time to pay attention to the methods Bob would use later. His attention was focused on the ongoing war.

    Three days after the supply line was opened in the capital camp, Xiao Yungui issued the "Message to Unify the Nation to Resist the Northern Expedition" in the Nanyuan Camp on the outskirts of Beijing, calling on the people of the country to work together to complete the reunification of the country and realize the multi-national  A great era of comprehensive reunification of national republics and common prosperity.

    It is worth noting that this Northern Expedition was written by Hong Yun'er, and was polished by literati such as Zuo Zongtang and Xu Naizhao at the time. It changed the "Fengtian Cruel Husband" published by the Taiping Rebellion that year to expel the Tartars and restore China.  The formulation changed the theme to the great goal of unifying the country, eradicating rebellion, realizing the republic and common prosperity of all ethnic groups in the country, and launching the final Northern Expedition against the separatist forces entrenched in the north.

    The article no longer treats the Manchu Qing as a political power, but downgrades the Manchu Qing to a local separatist force. At the same time, the word "expulsion of the Tartars" that excludes the Manchus and excludes other ethnic groups does not appear again.  This was a major policy adjustment for the Taiping Rebellion in its later goal of unifying the country.

    With the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom forming a huge advantage on various battlefields across the country, it will next face the problem of reunifying Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and other places outside the customs.  And these places are precisely the places where various ethnic groups live together. If we use the word "expelling the Tartars" again.  It will definitely bring disadvantages to the reunification and the stable place after the reunification.

    The theory of "Five Nationalities Republic" put forward in the memorandum is described as follows: "The foundation of the country lies in the people. The Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan areas are combined into one country, that is, the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan areas are combined into one country.  All ethnic groups are one. This is called the unification of ethnic groups." It also explains the uprising that took place before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied more than ten provinces: "At the beginning of the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom, it was a separation from the Qing court and a union with the provinces.  , Tibet, the intention is the same, the action is one, and there is no divergent trend. The cardinal is in the center, and the longitude and latitude are all around. This is called the unification of the territory."

    At the same time, the statement emphasized: ¡°Now that the five ethnic groups are in a state of republic and common prosperity, all the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Hui areas are part of the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of China, and all ethnic groups in the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Hui areas are also citizens of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of China.  , there can no longer be a vassal name like in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. After that, Mongolia, Tibet, Huijiang and other places should make overall plans. In order to seek the unification of internal affairs and the great harmony of the Hebei nation. The government of the Kingdom of Heaven does not have a special department to manage vassals.  Originally, Mongolia, Tibet, and Huijiang were treated as equals with the inland provinces. In the future, all politics in these places will fall within the scope of internal affairs and administration. Now that a unified government has been established, its management of vassal affairs will be merged with the Kingdom of Heaven to take over"

    In this statement.  The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom particularly emphasized that the places where Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans and Hui people lived together were no longer vassal states of China, making it clear that these places were an integral part of the entire China.  at the same time.  Hong Yun'er deliberately added the word "China" before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which obviously reflects greater inclusiveness.  Since then, the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of China has appeared in front of everyone for the first time.  Although this country name is a bit lengthy, the four-character Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been used for many years and cannot be abandoned. Moreover, the King of the West has always inherited the mantle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and cannot be given up easily. The two characters "Zhonghua" represent the entire land and nation.  Legitimacy, so the title of the country appeared before the "Edict to Determine the Country" issued by King Xi after he ascended the throne.

    The statement also specifically proposed how to deal with warlords from various regions. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom welcomes warlords from all over the world to take the initiative to surrender. The statement also promised that once warlords from various places take the initiative to surrender, the Heavenly Kingdom will treat them as national soldiers.  But at the same time, it also called on the military and civilians across the country to resolutely eliminate the remaining Manchu and separatist warlord armies in various places who were stubbornly resisting.

    Xiu Wen gave up the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's traditional policy of excluding Manchus. This was not a sign of cowardice on the part of the Western Kings and other rulers. The Manchus had been in the Pass for more than two hundred years and had been deeply integrated into all ethnic groups in the Pass from all social levels.  , it is difficult to carry out forced evictions.  During the Great Southwest Roundabout Campaign conducted by Chen Yucheng's troops, the Manchus in many places were worried about being persecuted and were determined to fight to the death.  The Manchu banner households in Chengdu even distributed kerosene. Once the Taiping Army invaded the city, everyone planned to massacre and even burn the city with fire.  Many flag soldiers in Chengdu were afraid of the massacre by the civilian army and believed that "resistance is death, and failure to resist is death."?, rather than resist and die, it is better to resist and die, so fight to the death.  "

    Fortunately, Chen Yucheng did not lose his mind at that time, but adopted psychological tactics. He gathered nearby Manchu banner households to shout at the city, and at the same time actively sent envoys to negotiate with the Manchus in the city, saying that they would not kill innocent people indiscriminately.  The disaster was eliminated invisible.  Later, after the Taiping Army entered Chengdu, they did not persecute the Manchus anymore, and only punished the Manchus who had committed the most heinous crimes. This approach laid a good foundation for Chen Yucheng's troops to sweep into the northwest in the future.

    The Paiman approach has also led to another very serious problem, that is, behind the Paiman trend of thought lurks a huge crisis of national disintegration. The so-called "driving out the Tartars" does not mean to kill them all, nor does it mean common integration, but  It is necessary to drive the "foreigners" back to their original place of residence in order to achieve the purpose of restoring China and restoring the Han Dynasty.  In other words, the main ideas put forward in the slogans issued at the beginning of the Taiping Rebellion did not necessarily need to be directed at the vast areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, and the new China did not necessarily include the vast territories such as Northeast China, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet.  This is the meaning contained in the so-called founding thought of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China", and it is also a huge metaphor that symbolizes the restoration of the eighteen provinces of the Han nation.  Just imagine, if three-quarters of the country were excluded from China by the Taiping Rebellion, and the tide of separatism struck like a scourge, the country's division and national peril would be inevitable.

    With the success of the Taiping Rebellion imminent and the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, everyone in the Taiping Rebellion will become the builders of the new China.  The change of roles required the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to quickly abandon its original uprising route, and to resist more passively the destructive xenophobic trends and narrow national views.  What is intriguing is that in this change, the main leaders of the Taiping Rebellion had a high degree of unity in their national assertions.  Instead, the idea of ??"republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups" quickly gained ground within the Taiping Rebellion.  Thus, this proclamation was born, which marked that the military struggle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom changed from the initial resistance to the tyranny of the Qing Dynasty to the path of safeguarding national unity.

    However, this change is only a subjective change within the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Is it enough to ensure that all ethnic groups in the country put aside their past grievances, forget the national tragedy that has just occurred and even the grudges and estrangements that have lasted for thousands of years, and believe in the "republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups" promoted by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?  What about value promotion, closely uniting around the banners of the "Chinese nation" and the "Chinese Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", and consciously abandoning separatist tendencies?  Of course, this is impossible. Even if the new China has implemented the policy of ethnic unity for decades, the ethnic issue is still a "big issue" and affects the nerves of the people across the country. Within this time and space pattern, the five-ethnic republic  The arrival of the situation may not be easily achieved by a simple change of thinking among the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.  Therefore, the concept of "republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups" proposed by the top leaders of the Taiping Rebellion is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the true realization of the republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups, and is a key internal factor.  At the same time, the true realization of the common prosperity of the five ethnic groups requires the combination of powerful external factors.

    The most suitable place for this powerful external cause is foreign invasion. In the face of foreign invasion, the powerful force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can ensure that when Russia from northwest Russia penetrates into Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places, it can stand up to help these places.  The military and civilians of all ethnic groups protect the territorial integrity of the country.

    Before this, Russia had never given up its penetration into Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places. It usually exploited the people of Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places through border trade and unequal value exchange.  In the border markets between Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places that are open to Russia, a box of inferior matches made by the Russians can be exchanged for a cow or two sheep. This hugely profitable and very unfair trade is just a microcosm.  Once the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can penetrate into these places, a large number of cheap industrial and commercial products from Jiangsu and Zhejiang will definitely win the favor of the people in these places.  The rich mineral and agricultural and animal husbandry resources in Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places are also needed domestically.

    Once the Russians infiltrate these places, they will only regard them as cheap resource acquisition and product dumping places. The people in these places who are not willing to be enslaved by the Russians will definitely turn to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

    Therefore, no matter what, the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must first put forward the slogan of the republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups, occupy the moral high ground, first legally inherit and extend the Manchu sovereignty over the above-mentioned places, and then slowly heal the pain and  The maintenance of unity integrates various ethnic groups in the long river of time.  The significance of this proclamation extends beyond the Northern Expedition; it also extends to all aspects of the country¡¯s territorial sovereignty and national integration in the future.

    After the King of the West issued the proclamation, there was still a need for a continuation of the orthodoxy. The best situation would be for the Manchu Qing emperor to actively announce his abdication and give up the country. In this way, Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Tibet, places where the Manchus had previously ruled, would be able to rule in the future.  It would be even more logical to merge into the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

    But it is almost impossible for the Manchus to take the initiative to do these things.??, at this stage, a military strike was still needed, so on the third day after the announcement, the Taiping Army in the suburbs of Beijing received sufficient supplies and troops, and took the initiative to launch a military operation to wipe out the Qing army in the suburbs of Beijing (Unfinished  To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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