There is no complete justice to speak of in any war in which dynasties change in history, and for those who start wars, they all kill people under the sign of "eliminating harm for the people", and history is the plaything of the victors, and once the power controls the fate of the entire country, it can naturally cover up the ugly facts.
When the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, there was also a dusty history, which was gradually displayed in front of the public until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and this history is the precious historical heritage handed down by those few who survived in history.
"Yangzhou Ten Days, Jiading Three Massacres" is a criminal massacre of civilians carried out by the Qing Dynasty army after entering Yangzhou and Jiading, especially in Yangzhou, the number of people slaughtered reached 800,000, it can be said that this massacre is simply comparable to modern warfare.
Looking at China in 1645, the Emperor Taiji has long been called emperor, and the Ming Dynasty has long ceased to be the complete appearance of that year, and several Southern Ming regimes are still surviving. In fact, the fall of the dynasty is far more than just because of the invasion of foreign enemies, but more because of internal corruption and disintegration.
The Nanming government is also the same disunity, the original party struggle problem at the end of the period is still not resolved, it is the moment of the survival of the country, several corrupt forces within the Southern Ming are still fighting for each other. Looking at the Side of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon had already taken Li Zicheng, and the Qing Dynasty army was preparing to break through Jiangnan.
After the destruction of Xuzhou, the Qing army came to Yangzhou, and the people of Yangzhou, under the leadership of Shi Kefa, the overseer and scholar of Dongge University, resisted tenaciously, and Shi Kefa's determination was already determined, and he vowed to coexist and die with Yangzhou, which made the Qing army come up with various ways to force Shi Kefa to surrender on the spot.
This is not enough, Huaiyang is already such a crisis, the whole country should unite as one to the outside world, but Zuo Liangyu actually sent troops to fight Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng at this time, and Nanjing was temporarily threatened by Zuo Liangyu's 100,000 troops. In order to save his own life, Ma Shiying remembered Shi Kefa at the front.
Ma Shiying asked Shi Kefa to transfer his troops to Nanjing City to save the car, this is really a move of suicide, saving Nanjing is to give up Yangzhou, ah, does Ma Shiying not understand the reason for the death of cold lips and teeth? However, as far as Shi Kefa, a loyal soldier, was concerned, Nanjing also had to be saved.
The troops of Yangzhou were thus transferred, and Of course Dorgon knew it, so the Qing dynasty army became more rampant, dorgon and Shi Kefa corresponded, Dorgon wanted Shi Kefa to surrender, and Shi Kefa replied that he would not surrender, although he knew that he was doomed to failure, And Shi Kefa chose to fight to the end.
Even if they are enemies, loyal men will always be admired, and Dodo has a great respect for this "Mr. Shi Kefa". It seems that Wen Tianxiang's poem once again came to people's minds, "Whoever lives since ancient times has not died, leave Dan in his heart." Shi Kefa was generous and righteous.
However, what Shi Kefa no longer knows is that after his death, the Qing army began a tragic slaughter of the city on the grounds that Yangzhou did not surrender, whether old, weak, sick or disabled, it was all shooting and killing, just like the Mongols slaughtered the city all the way, but in Yangzhou alone, the Qing army killed 800,000 people, which was still counted by the monks who cleaned up the corpses.
After the tragedy, people will always find an outlet to blame, which is also the common sentiment of people, but there is a very harsh view of the comments on the Ten Days of Yangzhou, and some people believe that the people of Yangzhou have been the target of massacres by the Qing army, and Shi Kefa has his responsibility.
They believe that it is precisely because of Shi Kefa's resolute non-surrender that the people of Yangzhou have been destroyed, and this statement completely disregards the objectivity of history and directly stands on the moral high ground, and the Qing army slaughtered the city not only in Yangzhou, and it is impossible for every city to be slaughtered because of Shi Kefa.
The Qing Dynasty's slaughter of the city was really to shock the Southern Ming, which did not submit to the Qing Dynasty's rule. Shi Kefa was not the murderer who took up the knife to kill the people of Yangzhou, it was the Qing soldiers who raised the knife. Shi Kefa's love can be seen from the annual tributes of the people of Yangzhou to him.
As a loyal servant, Shi Kefa did not even find the body in the end, and people made a crown tomb for him so that future generations could commemorate his loyalty. Although the Qing Dynasty tried its best to cover up this history, it could not escape the judgment of history in the end, and those who did not distinguish between right and wrong could not refute the true national integrity after all.
[Reference: History of Southern Xinjiang]