Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 59: Open Surgery

“Recently, customs have been badly bad, and heresies have sprung up. There are Bailian, Dacheng, Hunyuan, Wuwei, Luojiao, etc., all kinds of names and colors. Burning incense to worship and incite people’s hearts, so they have different plans, or they can be thieves, and this is a direct traitor to the people. This is especially true. . . . In case of encounters with various sects, they will be severely arrested and punished with serious crimes. They think that Du Jian is a plan to prevent minors.” – In the third year of Shunzhi in the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of Officials sent a letter to Lin Qilong in the matter.

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In a dim cell in Deqing Prison, a young man covered in blood struggled to sit up from a pile of weeds on the ground, slowly moved his body to the corner of the wall, and then leaned against the wall motionless.

There were also three prisoners in the cell, a white-haired old man over 60, a strong man in his 40s, and a black boy. Judging from his appearance, he was probably only fifteen or sixteen years old.

The three of them turned a blind eye to the young man’s actions, no one stepped forward to help him, and no one said a word to him, they just lay on the ground like a zombie, their faces were all dead without exception. , It seems that there is no one else in this cell except himself.

The cell was so quiet that it was suffocating. Occasionally, a cough or two could be heard in the distance. Other than that, there was no sound at all. The air was full of musty odors, and I could smell a rancid smell intermittently, but it was unknown which of the prisoners’ wounds had festered again.

After leaning against the wall for half a stick of incense, the young man finally let out a long sigh, looking at the guards who walked by outside the fence from time to time, with an indescribable resentment in his eyes.

A young man named Tie Yi, a miner of the Laofeng Village Copper Mine in Deqing, was arrested and imprisoned a month ago for murdering his teacher because he couldn’t bear the oversight of his supervisor. Then asked to cut. What the county government did not know was that in addition to the identity of a miner, Tie Yi had another identity, and that was Luo Jiao.

The so-called Luojiao, also known as incense believers, also known as demon sects, they “eat vegetables and serve the devil”, gather crowds to burn incense, repeatedly fight against the government, and rebel at every turn. The incense believers were all arrested and beheaded regardless of their circumstances, but under this heavy pressure, the incense religion was still active among the people, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a peasant uprising with the incense believers at the core broke out, thus ruining the Mongolian and Yuan rule in one fell swoop.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he implemented a policy of suppressing the incense believers. The once prosperous incense religion has since turned into a secret state among the people, and the religious names have also developed from Mingjiao and Bailian to Luojiao, Hunyuan, Dacheng and other names. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for the Tang Saier uprising in the Yongle period and the Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings in the Zhengde period, the incense religion did not have any major resistance to the government during the rest of the time, and its influence among the people was gradually diminishing. There is almost nothing else.

The racial discrimination and slaughter policy adopted by the Manchus against the Han people at the entrance of the Qing Dynasty made the incense religion active again among the people. The incense believers in various places were unwilling to be persecuted by the Manchu Qing and organized many rebel armies to oppose the Qing. When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong twice, several incense teachers responded. .

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Tie Yi lost his father when he was young, and his mother was unwilling to be poor and married away. At a young age, he grew up by eating food from hundreds of families. At the age of 15, he was taught by Zheng Laoquan, the incense master of Deqingluo and the artillery master of Laofeng Mine. , not only learned the skill of blasting holes, but also very loyal and chivalrous, so he has a high reputation among Zhaoqing Luo believers, and his master Zheng Laoquan won the support of the miners of Laofengzhuang Copper Mine.

Two months ago, the Governor-General of Guangdong, the Yamen, went to Zhaoqing Mansion to double the production of the Laofengzhuang copper mine managed by the mansion, thinking that the two princes of Jingnan and Pingnan would be ready to open their own vassals. After receiving the order from Guangdong, Zhaoqing Prefecture immediately issued Wen Deqing, disregarding the life and death of the miners to forcibly increase the output, and dozens of people died of exhaustion.

In the beginning, Zheng Laoquan, Tie Yi and other miners did not have the will to fight. The Qing army was strong and the Luojiao sect was weak. The previous church members cooperated with Li Dingguo’s army several times to attack Guangzhou to no avail. Now Li Dingguo’s army has returned to Guangxi, and they have no support. , can only oppose the Qing court secretly, and dare not raise the flag against the Qing rashly.

However, Guangzhou actually thought that the speed of copper production from the mine was slow, and sent an overseer to the Laofengzhuang Mine. I heard that he was born in the Han army flag and was used in the palace of Pingnan. After this person took office, he intensified his efforts. Not only did he drive the miners to go to the mine day and night, but he also deducted the miners’ meals. The original two meals a day became one meal a day.

The miners had to go to the mine day and night without a full stomach. In addition, in order to please the new master, the overseers were whipping continuously every day, so that the miners complained.

One day, when Zheng Laoquan couldn’t bear to argue with the overseer of the Han army flag and was beaten to death, Tie Yi couldn’t help it, and smashed him to death with a stone in anger. After the beating, he was handed over to the Deqing government and reported to the Ministry of Punishment for execution.

What Tie Yi killed was the overseer of the Han army flag. This Han army flag was the godson of the Qing court, a second-class person in the Qing Dynasty. He had always acted as a thug for the Manchu people to oppress the Han people. The Han people may have to ask the right or wrong of killing the Han government. The seriousness will be dealt with as appropriate, but if the Han people kill the bannermen, they don’t need to ask questions, they will all be punished severely, and those who don’t have to be beheaded will also be beheaded!

Tie Yi, who knew that he was going to die, didn’t blame anyone, but was saddened by his master, wondering if anyone in the teaching staff would come forward to handle it.

After leaning against the wall for a while, a prisoner brought meals, a bucket of blackened and sour food, and a bucket of rotten vegetable leaf soup without oil and water.

Tie Yi moved to the fence in small steps, and put some soup in a broken bowl, but when he put his mouth down, it was surprisingly light, not even a bit of salt. After frowning slightly, he silently sat back with the bowl in his hands. Reaching the base of the wall, out of the corner of his eyes, he stared at the other three.

The old man’s name was Liao Ruixiang. I heard that he used to be a Shaoxing master and was put in jail for writing some anti-poem. After he got out of the cell, he shouted grievances there every day.

The strong man was called Chen Mo, but he was an authentic bandit. The kidnapping failed to tear up the meat ticket, and the victim’s family spent a lot of money to hire an official to capture him.

The fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy was Pan Mengzi, a native of Deqing. He was sent to prison because he accidentally injured his host’s son. I heard that the host’s family handed money to the county and wanted the boy to die.

Seeing that the three of them were sitting there with food, Tie Yi stopped looking at them, bowed his head and roared, he could eat this meal in a day, and he didn’t eat it for nothing.

The four of them were gobbling their food, when they heard someone shouting from outside: “Get up!”

Hearing the words, the four put down the broken bowl and looked up at the gate, but it was the head of the prison with a few Green Battalion soldiers standing outside.

“What are you doing?” Chen Mo shouted, and continued to eat without caring, not paying any attention to the soldiers outside.

Master Liao and Pan Mengzi stood up hesitantly, and the former looked at the prison head expectantly.

Tie Yi just put the bowl down, but did not get up immediately.

“What are you doing?” The prison head coldly glanced at Chen Mo with a beard, “Your case has been checked by the Punishment Department, now pull it out for an operation!”

“What? Open the knife!”

When Master Liao heard this, he fell to the ground as soon as his eyes darkened. Pan Mengzi was also frightened, standing there trembling.

It’s finally here, motherfucker, early death and early rebirth, eighteen years later, he is a hero again!

Tie Yi was not afraid, but heaved a sigh of relief, as if a heavy stone on his chest finally fell.

“I’ve got to make Lao Tzu full and go on the road, and the dead head meal, bring it here!”

The strong man Chen Mo glanced at Master Liao, who was scared to death, then took a sip at the prison head, slammed the broken bowl in his hand against the wall, and scolded: “If you want to open Lao Tzu’s knife, give it to Lao Tzu. Eat this? Are there any rules? Mother, why don’t you go and cook a whole chicken for Lao Tzu and bring a jar of wine!”

“Damn, do you want to eat chicken and drink when you’re about to die?” The prison head twitched the corner of his mouth and signaled his subordinates to open the lock, then pushed the door and went in. According to Chen Mo, he punched and scolded, “Do you eat your fist?”

“Dog Day…”

Chen Mo had iron ropes on his hands and couldn’t resist. He took the punch from the prison head abruptly, and when he didn’t want to be outdone, he opened his mouth to scold.

“Woooo…”

Tie Yi, Master Liao, and Pan Mengzi were also gagged by the Green Battalion soldiers.

After gagging the prisoner’s mouth, the green battalion soldiers put black cloth on the heads of the four, and they couldn’t see anything. While being dragged out, Tie Yi faintly heard someone counting.

“Ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three…”