Author: Our team Zhang Lan
Speaking of "terrorist events" in history, compared with those "bloody", "supernatural" and "peculiar" histories, the following few allusions seen in the history of the canon, although it is not terrible to see, and even has the meaning of crying and laughing. But a careful taste is extremely frightening. The first allusion is that "Li Zicheng bought an official of the Ming Dynasty."
In March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng's peasant army approached the Ming capital beijing, and the city of Beijing was chaotic, but the Chongzhen Emperor on the last road was still very stable. In his opinion, the city of Beijing is strong, and there are many troops on the books, and the Wallachian army of that year and the Eight Banners Army not long ago have not been moved. Such a copper wall iron wall, you Li Zicheng must be sure to nibble down? In the words of Chongzhen's edict to the bingbu: "The capital is garrisoned for more than four episodes, so why is it difficult to eliminate the thieves in a timely period?" "Li Zicheng wants to fight Beijing? That looks like it's almost like sending you to death.
But in Li Zicheng's view, if you want to take Beijing, why do you need to fight? You can "buy" it. But the two sides are fighting red eyes, can they actually do business? That's right, there's a deal to be made: buy an official!
Thanks to some "bitter love Ming Dynasty dramas", Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty before the fall of the country, should be a miserable and miserable appearance: the Chongzhen Emperor wept and wiped away tears, and the officials were panicked, eager to pick up the official clothes and run away. But looking at the real historical record, it is not like this: the "Ming elite" "selling officials and buying official business", that is really hot. The more critical the national situation, the more popular the transaction of selling officials and lords in the capital, and the officials with a little power are "speculating" on official prices, and in the classics such as "Guo Yu", at that time, the official positions at the prefect level were "fried" to 3,000 taels.
Is it true that Daming really has so many loyal and courageous people, and he must bravely go to the country even if he does not hesitate to post money? This is really a misunderstanding, it is difficult to manage other countries and Thailand, in their view, as long as they have the power in their hands, the money for buying officials can be recovered with profits. Even in the martial arts novels, the fierce, various Jinyi guards with extraordinary skills, before the Ming Dynasty stopped cooking, ordinary people could spend twenty or thirty silver to "buy one", and then wear a flying fish suit to eat and take cards everywhere. It was also at this time that this hot business of buying officials finally ushered in a "gold card super customer": Li Zicheng.
Before attacking Beijing, Li Zicheng sent a large number of elaborate works to the city of Beijing early in the morning, and the gang changed the mysterious and mysterious style of the past, and when they entered Beijing, they threw money around, mainly to buy officials. As a result, not only were the three battalions stationed in Beijing mixed with many peasant armies, but even "all military attaches everywhere were bought with bribes." In other words, Li Zicheng has not yet attacked Beijing, and there are "people mixed in with Li Zicheng" everywhere in the city.
In this way, the seemingly impregnable city of Beijing is equivalent to being stinged with holes and sores, and all the cities and even the troops are all mixed with sand. Waiting for the peasant army to launch an attack, with the cooperation of all the "Li Zicheng's people", the city of Beijing was indeed in a hurry, and even the cannons at the head of the city were empty, and Beijing, which was known as "no one attacked", collapsed in three days, drawing a ridiculous end to the Ming Dynasty's nearly three centuries of national zuo.
This kind of operation has also made many Ming Dynasty history lovers sigh at the ming dynasty's demise. However, the problem is that at the critical juncture of the country's life and death, the business of selling officials is still so hot, and it has also "developed" the enemy into a big customer. How can such a rotten dynasty not die?
Having said that there was a "terrorist incident" in "ancient history," we can also look at a thunderous incident in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression -- "Dai Kasa was distressed by smugglers."
As the head of the secret service who often "brushed his face" in the "history of the Republic of China" and the "Drama of the Republic of China," Dai Kasa, the founder of military unification, has always been known for his iron heart and decisive determination to kill people, and he will not easily feel sorry for people, so how can he be distressed by smugglers? In June 1944, during the most difficult years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Dai Kasa, who inspected the defense of the southeast region, issued a sigh: "It is no longer easy for pure merchants to engage in business and smuggling."
Could it be that because of the turmoil of the war, even the smuggling business, which was originally 100% profitable, was not easy to do? On the contrary, it was precisely because the smuggling business "came quickly" that a large number of Kuomintang officials and even the army participated in it at that time, so that many deep-rooted smuggling gangs were eliminated by these "official masters".
And even when Dai Kasa sighed, the smuggling business in the Kuomintang's various "war zones" was also a race and a fire. In the case of the southeastern region that Dai Kasa inspected, the Kuomintang guerrillas in the coastal areas of south China "smuggled and evaded taxes, perverted the law by embezzlement, and lived a life of drunken dreams." In the southwest region, many Kuomintang troops confronting the Japanese army were even more "transporting cigarettes and gambling, and stealing and selling ordnance." On the Henan front in 1940, some Kuomintang troops actually secretly sold tung oil and other materials to the Japanese army, and even tungsten ore, which was used as an important strategic material, was sold to the occupied area by the Kuomintang army to transfuse blood to the japanese army in distress.
For these armies, the suffering of war and the future of the country and the nation are almost all floating clouds. On the contrary, the solid wealth of the country is the "right thing."
Under such operation, the smuggling gangs that had previously fought small and small troubles were almost eliminated, and the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army was also aggravated by corruption, and even staged "god assists" on the battlefield many times: In the Battle of Guangzhou, the Japanese army made a surprise attack from the smuggling channel in Guangzhou and easily entered the city of Guangzhou. In the Battle of Eastern Zhejiang, the Japanese army disguised as smugglers broke through the defense line of the Kuomintang army in one breath. In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, because many Kuomintang troops were busy smuggling, the door was opened, resulting in "the greatest humiliating defeat since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression."
And when Dai Kasa issued this sentiment, it was also when the "national army" was defeated on the battlefield of Yuxianggui. In the henan campaign stage of the Yuxianggui Campaign, of the more than 800 trucks of the Kuomintang army, 700 were used for smuggling, and the "national army" that was familiar with the road of "making a fortune for the country" was naturally collapsed at the touch of a japanese attack. In the following Battle of Changsha, because the relevant officers of the Kuomintang were busy with the "smuggling business", they were "not on duty" when the Japanese army attacked, and then there was no accident, and then they suffered a fiasco.
This scene made Dai Kasa, who was accustomed to cruel scenes, also had to sigh from the bottom of his heart. Behind the sigh is a "national government" that accelerated corruption in the era of the War of Resistance. Understanding the scene of "terror and corruption" behind this sigh of thunder, I believe that we can also understand why the "elite-gathered" national government will quickly end up being abandoned by the people after the victory of the War of Resistance.
References: "History of the Peasants' War at the End of the Ming Dynasty", "History of the Fall of Chongzhen", "History of the Ming Dynasty", "Smuggling Activities of the Kuomintang Army During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression"