What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, it can be said that there were internal and external troubles, and the Western powers were looking at the tiger outside the country, and rebel armies were constantly emerging inside. The Qing Dynasty is at a critical moment in the autumn of its survival, and since the chaos of ancient times, there have been many heroes, and in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there have also been many well-known heroes, such as Zuo Zongtang, Hu Linyi, and the monk Greenqin, the first fierce general of the Qing Dynasty, who is going to talk about today.
According to the Mongolian Lineage, the monk Greenqin was the twenty-sixth generation grandson of Genghis Khan's second brother Habtu Hassal, but in his generation he could only rely on his wife for a living.
It was not until he was 14 years old that he was happy to descend from heaven and was selected as the heir of the king of Sotnam Dob Jai County, inheriting the title of king of Zasak County, the left wing of Horqin, and began to embark on the road of meritorious service.
The Draft History of the Qing Dynasty records: "The monk Greenqin was loyal and courageous and simple, out of nature, and his name was Zhen Huanyu, and the imperial court relied on the Great Wall." Governing the army is honest and selfless, the department is sincere, and there is no complaint about hard work. ”
After entering the army, the monk Greenqin was very brave and fierce, and in the first month of 1855, he defeated the Northern Expedition column of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and also captured the commander Lin Fengxiang, who was praised by the Xianfeng Emperor.
In June of the same year, the monk Greenqin defeated Li Kaifang, a famous general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and since then he has the prestige of "Monk King".
However, in April of the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), Zhang Zongyu, the commander of another civilian rebel army, forced the monk Greenqin into an ambush by means of luring the enemy, and the monk Greenqin's team was surrounded and annihilated, and although the brave monk Greenqin broke through the siege, he was already seriously injured, and he hid in the wheat field, waiting for the right time to escape.
At this time, another male protagonist of the story appeared, his name was Zhang Pixiu, who was left by the Twist Army to search for the remnants of the enemy, this year Zhang Pixiu was only 16 years old, and after entering the wheat field, he found the monk Greenqin. But he did not know the true identity of the monk Greenqin, and the monk Greenqin did not find Zhang Pixiu.
If you change a person who knows the monk Greenqin, you really don't dare to kill the monk Greenqin, for example, the prestige of the monk Greenqin has long been far away among the rebel armies all over the country, but Zhang Piqi knew as soon as he heard the name that it was a wild child from the mountains. After seeing the monk Greenqin, he quietly approached and then dropped the knife in his hand, and killed the monk Greenqin effortlessly.
After killing the monk Greenqin, Zhang Pixiu still wore the yellow coat of the monk Greenqin and wore the flower plume of the monk Greenqin back to the barracks, and the senior officer of the Twist Army looked at it and determined that it was something on the body of the monk Greenqin. Soon the news of the monk Gelinqin's murder returned to the capital, shaking the imperial court.
In the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873 AD), The Inspector of Shandong Ding Baozhen sent 3 spies to find the murderer of the monk Greenqin, at this time Zhang Pixiu had returned from the army to his hometown of Woyang Xinxingji and opened a small shop selling rice.
Originally, the secret agent also did not know Zhang Pixiu, who knew that this boy liked to drink, and when he was drunk, he liked to brag, saying that he had killed a court official, how to cow, the result reached the ear of the secret agent, and from Zhang Pixiu's home, he found the monk Greenqin's Chaozhu, and the secret agent immediately arrested Zhang Pixiu and escorted him back to Beijing.
Zhang Pixiu's final outcome can be described as quite tragic, he was sentenced to Ling Chi and cut thousands of knives before he was killed. Before the execution, Zhang Pixiu was still telling the people watching the execution about his killing of the monk Greenqin, and he was not afraid of the butcher's knife of the Qing court, but he could also be called a good man.