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The past few days have definitely been the busiest in the life of the officials at the Nanjing Ministry of War responsible for verifying heads.
At the request of Lu Zhenfei, the Minister of War, almost all relevant officials were dispatched to verify the heads of Donglu.
In the great victory of Shandong, Qin Gongming, the commander-in-chief of Dezhou, killed 673 Donglu Manchu soldiers with Zhenglan banner and 831 Han soldiers with red flag, for a total of 1,504 people.
According to the victory report of the General Qin Army, these flag soldiers were all killed during the siege, and the Ming army did not leave the city to pursue them.
Even so, this was the Ming Dynasty's biggest victory over the Donglu in the past ten years.
Including the Holy Emperor, everyone in the government and the public was rejoicing.
General Qin sent people to load all the lime-treated heads and transport them to Nanjing.
Although the Holy Emperor had great trust in General Qin, he still ordered these heads to be submitted to the Ministry of War for verification.
This move had no other purpose, just to declare to the people of the world that this was a real victory, not a fabrication made up by a pen.
Just like the Battle of Chexixia Gorge back then, although the court repeatedly publicized how powerful the army was in the victory at Chexixixia Gorge, the people did not buy it.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are many doubts.
Chen Qiyu has clearly surrounded Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and more than a dozen rebels, so why should he accept their surrender and finally let the tiger return?
If this is true, it only shows that Chen Qiyu is an extremely stupid idiot.
But Chen Qiyu is obviously not an idiot.
At that time, Chen Qiyu was a feudal official who was the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan.
How many people can sit in this position are idiots?
The only explanation is that the Battle of Carriage Gorge was fake and did not exist at all.
Chen Qiyu may have really fought against Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits, but he must have been defeated, allowing the bandits to escape successfully.
But Chen Qiyu could not write this in his memorial to the emperor, so it became particularly necessary to concoct a great victory in the Carriage Gorge.
The brave officers and soldiers first severely defeated the bandits, and the cunning bandit leader expressed his intention to surrender and accept the imperial court's recruitment.
The kind-hearted Governor had good intentions and accepted the surrender of the bandits.
Unexpectedly, the bandits immediately regretted their actions after leaving the Chariot Gorge and raised their flag of rebellion again.
In this way, Chen Qiyu's face is saved, the officer's and army's face is saved, the court's face is saved, and the emperor's face is saved, wouldn't everyone be happy?
The only problem is that people in the world don’t believe it If the victory at Chexixia Gorge is true, why is it so unclear in the Ministry of War newspaper and in Chen Qiyu’s memorial to Chongzhen?
Even the specific location cannot be described clearly.
This kind of so-called good news not only fails to inspire people, but will also cause the court's prestige to decline again and again.
Zhu Cixiang certainly didn't want the same thing to happen again.
During the "Great Victory at Chariot Gorge", the court's prestige was still very high and it could withstand such squandering.
But now that the country is in dire straits, and if he is not careful, he will face the danger of national subjugation and annihilation.
Zhu Cixiang will never allow any rumors to shake people's hearts and damage the prestige of the court.
If you want the people to believe the great victory propagated by the court, you must clearly show the facts in front of them.
The more you cover it up, the more people will be suspicious.
If you open it up and expose everything to the sun, there won't be so many people.
Conspiracy theory.
Zhu Cihong certainly trusted Qin Gongming, but he must not handle this matter hastily.
He must make good use of every bit to win the support of the people and public opinion for the court.
It will never be possible to complete the verification of more than 1,500 heads in a short time.
Even though the officials of the Ministry of War had been verifying it day and night, it took three full days to complete this task.
The reputation of the Ming Dynasty's official army has never been very good, and incidents of killing good people and taking credit for their merits often happened.
Some generals and deputy generals did not dare to lead their troops to fight when they looted the people at the entrance of Donglu.
They waited for Donglu to pat their butts and leave, then slaughtered the surviving people, chopped off their heads, shaved their hair, and braided them.
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This kind of clumsy fraud is usually seen through, but sometimes the general who reported the fault will bribe the officials responsible for verification at the Ministry of War to let them turn a blind eye.
And for those generals who did not take any advantage, even if the heads sent were real, they would sometimes be framed as killing good people and taking credit for their crimes.
In this process, right and wrong have long been turned upside down.
But this time the Holy Emperor issued a strict order, and the soldiers were personally supervising, so the officials of the Ministry of War naturally did not dare to turn the tables on right and wrong.
Even though General Qin did not pay them a penny, they did not dare to interfere with it and frame good people.
The first thing the Ministry of War officials have to verify is the gender identity of the person to be executed, because those who kill good people and pretend to be guilty often kill some women and children who have no strength to make up for their numbers.
Logically speaking, it would be very difficult to tell the gender based on the head alone, but the officials at the Ministry of War had their own method.
Bodies floating in the water, men and women lying on their backs, will still return to their original state even if they are capsized by humans.
In the same way, if the head is thrown into the water tank, the one who looks up will be a woman, and the one who looks down will be a man.
So the officials of the Nanjing Ministry of War put the more than 1,500 heads into the water tank one by one.
Without exception, all the heads were facing down, proving that all those who were beheaded were men.
After three days of inspection, the Ministry of War finally concluded that the teeth and cheekbones of more than 600 heads were completely consistent with those of Donglu, and the braids had been braided for decades.
Although the remaining 800 heads had never been The teeth and cheekbones look no different from those of Han people, but their braids have been braided for more than ten years.
Such a comparison can exactly correspond to the figures of the Ming army killing 673 Manchurian Zhenglan Banner armored soldiers and the Han army killing 831 Red Banner armored soldiers.
These heads all belong to Tatars and two Tatars.
There is no possibility of killing good people and taking credit for their merits.
Great victory, this is a real great victory Even those officials in the Ministry of War who were waiting to die felt sincerely relieved at this moment.
It turned out that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could win the war, and it turned out that the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners of the Eastern Banners could also be broken.
It turns out there is still hope for Ming Dynasty While Zhu Cixiang issued an order to reward the soldiers who contributed to the victory in Dezhou, he also ordered the soldiers of the Shence Army to assist the officials of the Ministry of War in hanging the more than 1,500 heads on the walls of Nanjing for public display.
In this way, people entering and leaving Nanjing can see the heads of the Tatars and two Tatars killed by the Ming army, and they will have no doubt about the authenticity of the Dezhou victory.
As for the heads of the rebellious nobles and civil servants that were originally hung on the top of the city for public display, they had long since rotted away, leaving only their skulls.
Zhu Cixi ordered people to remove it, crush the bones and raise ashes to warn the world.
In troubled times, Zhu Cihong will never have the slightest sympathy for these vested interests who pick up their bowls to eat meat and put down their chopsticks to scold their mothers.
Through this round of intimidation, the remaining people with evil intentions in Nanjing City will be frightened to death and will no longer dare to do such treasonous things.
For Zhu Cixiang, as long as he has military power in his hands, he does not have to worry about some rebellious ministers committing rebellion.
If someone really wants to die, Zhu Cixiang won't mind raising the steel knife again and killing him with his head rolling
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