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1692 The flames soar to the sky outside the customs

After April, the mountains and rivers of the Qing Dynasty completely entered the warm embrace. The last trace of ice and snow in the three provinces outside the pass and Northern Mongolia were completely melted, and all the mountains, rivers and seas seemed to have come alive overnight.

The Heilongjiang River was completely opened, and countless tributaries gathered the snow water in the dense forests and rolled in. The entire river went east like a giant dragon roaring.

According to the custom, the ferry on Heilongjiang is busy at this time of year. The boat workers will start working after a winter of spare time. Doing business with Tsarist Russian merchants is inseparable from these ferries delivering people and goods across the river.

But everything has changed this year. Heilongjiang to the mouth of the Amur River, all the ferry entrances were filled with heavy troops. The Qing army blocked all customs ports in Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces, and the Far East was full of volunteers.

Two of the three provinces outside the pass were completely out of control. The army began to move defense without any order from the Ministry of War. Hunchun began to clean up internally like all warlords.

All the generals examined one by one, and all officials who were close to the Queen Mother and the prince were cleaned up, while the poor officers who used to be cold-bearing were valued for being loyal to the emperor.

The prisons are filled with deadly hard-working elements and corrupt officials. The garrison camps in various places cry and howl every night, and the screams of urgent interrogation.

In troubled times, heavy sanctions must be used. This is the principle of the Han church. Hunchun deeply agrees with it. He is now going to guard these two provinces for at least four years.

During this period, he not only had to solve the problem of food and salary of the army, but also had to save some military expenses for His Majesty and provide an elite unit of more than 100,000 people. This is not a simple task, and he must act from now on.

Of course, the fastest way is to confiscate the property. Those who can make up their minds to launch a mutiny are naturally not good men and women. After Hunchun made up his mind, he was also a ruthless person.

First instance, second attack, third threat... The entire Jilin Heilongjiang with Emperor Tongzhi's Shangfang Sword was a bloody storm. Countless powerful and arrogant officials were pulled down. Not only were their property on the surface, but even the gold and silver hidden in the private house were circulated.

For a moment, the officialdoms of the two provinces were shocked and cried and scolded. Fortunately, Hunchun was not a bloodthirsty person. After these officials from the hostile faction were confiscated, they all left their lives.

The civil and military officials who escaped can no longer stay here. For a moment, a large number of officials fleeing south began to appear on the main post road leading to Jilin and Heilongjiang in Liaoning Province.

Huaide, Yitong, Hailong, Tonghua... The cities at the junction of these two provinces immediately caused a sensation. The officials who were mourning and approving led their families to flee south in thin carriages, cursing and crying, spreading the name of brutality of Hunchun throughout the pass.

Liaoning is the place where Aisin Gioro's family made its fortune. It is the center of politics, economy and culture outside the pass, and it is also the location of Shengjing. It is impossible for them to know about the news of the Hunchun mutiny in Heilongjiang. In fact, Shengjing had already received this shocking news on the fourth day after Deputy General Lin captured Qiqihar.

Not only that, the main post roads from Liaoning to Heilongjiang, and Jilin provinces also spontaneously set up clamps. The local garrisons were waiting for fear that Hunchun would lead the army to rush out from some mountain corner.

"The country has been in the dynasty for more than 200 years. I have heard of the rebellion of the Manchu generals? I still rebelled in the land of Longxing. How did this luck become like this... Why didn't God open his eyes!"

Countless veterans were trembling and praying that Hunchun would not attack them madly, and that their army should not be sent to the north by the generals to suppress the rebellion.

The veteran was really thinking too much. He saw too much administrative efficiency of the Qing Dynasty and underestimated the Qing Dynasty's control over the army. After the news of the Hunchun mutiny was transmitted to Shengjing, in addition to the local garrisons taking spontaneous action to increase the barriers, the rest was that officials from all over the province began to act and allocate materials.

The Qing Dynasty started out as a military group. They naturally had a desire to control the army. The Manchus were also very willing to learn the history of the Han people and the rise and fall of the Central Plains dynasty.

Of course, Manchus knew how terrible it would be if the army was controlled by private people. It was not only necessary to control the Han people to seize military power, but also a taboo for Manchus to seize military power by themselves.

The Eight Banners were originally a military alliance, and Aisin Gioro was just one of the most powerful ones, but in fact they did not have any mythical halo of destiny.

The pattern of the Eight Kings' political discussions in the early Qing Dynasty lasted for a long time. In the end, it was the descendants of Nurhaci, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong who violated the ancestral system and created centralization like the Han people, which led to the political structure of the Qing Empire in the later period.

Throughout the entire history of the Qing Dynasty, there have been people within the Eight Banners who want to restore the ancestral system and break the dictatorship of a family. This has almost become a ghost in the Qing court. As long as the imperial power is weak, this ghost will jump out to make trouble.

The result is that the more ghostly and charming the hearts it is, the stricter the court will control the army. Local military and political officials will not be able to voluntarily without the court's orders, which will be a death sentence of great rebellion.

The group of hot pot ants in Shengjing City had no right to move the army across the province to quickly move north to quell the rebellion. Not only did they have no right, they also had the courage. If they were to take credit for them, they would naturally be enthusiastic, but they would all shrink their necks when they took responsibility.

"Anyway, Shengjing and Beijing have also sent telegrams. Thanks to Master Qing San, I am very capable. Now I understand that telegrams are a good thing. When encountering such a thing, I will just push them to Sijiu City. Let them sit on wax..."

This is the voice of all the officials in Shengjing. Doing more mistakes more is the life creed they believe in. It is a fool who is a taboo thing to lead troops to war.

However, all the arsenals, granaries, horse feed farms, stations, etc. in Liaoning were all busy.

Take inventory, transfer accounts, smooth out the deficit, falsely report losses... Then transport the grain and grass from the east to the west, and then transport the wood from the west to the north. Regardless of whether it is a meaningful work or not, at least you have the busyness.

As long as you get busy, these people can get benefits from it. The deficit of corruption for many years can finally be settled while the accounts are in chaos. Some granaries even caught fire for no reason, and hundreds of thousands of loads of food and grass were all turned into ashes with the account book.

The frightened official directly slammed the shit basin on Hunchun, "It's Hunchun's Rangers! Hunchun sent elite troops to kill them. A small group of troops rushed in without any precautions to prevent fire. This is to start a war with the state!"

His mouth was on him, and he could say whatever he wanted. In fact, the old army in the warehouse had already understood everything. The fired granary was actually empty, and the food had been secretly sold by those officials.

They also lit this fire by themselves, and it was just straw!
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