On May 20, 1908 (the 34th year of the Guangxu period), Chengdu.

"Comrade Chairman, a total of 17,757 bannermen in the city have been identified. According to the liquidation principle we have formulated, there are the following five categories. One is members of the Aisin Jueluo family; Two is those with the eight banners and subordinates and above; Three is those with titles from the Qing court; Four is those who commit all hostile acts against our army or our government; Five is those who are usually bad and do many evil deeds. All people belong to the above five categories are objects of liquidation."

"After we identified and reported by the public, a total of 1,012 people met the liquidation conditions. They and their immediate relatives over the age of 12 will be tried in public. Based on the severity of the crime and their daily performance, and the reputation of the people, they will be punished with different penalties from fixed-term imprisonment to death. No matter what kind of punishment, their family property will be confiscated..."

Comrade Xin Jie, the commander of the Second Front Army, is reporting to General Wen about the handling results of the Chengdu garrison bannermen.

During this uprising, the reactions of Chengdu Banners were different from those in other places. They hid in the city and closed the city to defend themselves. They basically did not participate in Chengdu's defense, but did not come out to surrender to the Revolutionary Army. After the Revolutionary Army entered Chengdu, they naturally would not leave the nail of the city alone. After the persuasion of surrender, they immediately dragged the cannon in and drove it out.

Two hours later, the city was conquered, but these bannermen did not play street fighting and resist to the end like other places. After the Revolutionary Army attacked Mancheng, Yukun, the general garrison in Chengdu, led the bannermen to surrender, so the bannermen in Chengdu had relatively few casualties, with only more than 60 people killed and more than 200 injured.

Wen Desi nodded and said, "Yes, you did a good job. The powerful people in the upper class of the Eight Banners must be completely liquidated! Their influence in China must be completely eliminated! For the lower class of bannermen, integration is the main focus. They are centralized to control them first, and labor skills and ideological education are provided for them. After they are qualified, they will be changed to the Han surname and dispersed to various places, so that they can be fully integrated into society."

Regarding the release of the Eight Banners, the ruling group, the Science and Technology Social Security Party formulated the principles and methods for post-care disposal at the meeting on May 15, with 12 key points: "Totally eliminate the upper class and completely integrate the lower class."

In fact, this view was passed by Wen Desi repeatedly insisted on it at the party meeting. You should know that among the top leaders of the Party of Science and Technology Society, there are many former members of the Restoration Association. The Restoration Association was originally a very radical revolutionary organization, requiring the thorough cleaning of the entire Eight Banners Group, and the opinions of no one to leave no one are considered a minority. This is not surprising. The national hatred and class hatred accumulated over hundreds of years are not so easy to resolve. Just look at the fate of the banner people in other revolutionary provinces. The revolution is not a treat to dinner.

Wen Desi certainly could not agree with this view. Although he was also an absolute nationalist, he was also a relatively mild one. What's more, he came from the 23rd century and his thinking angle was completely different from that of the natives in this time and space. So he opposed a one-size-fits-all approach, and of course he was also very disgusted with the disgusting performances of the old and young people in the original time and space for a period of time.

That's why he formulated the principle of "completely liquidate the upper class and completely integrate the lower class" and spent a lot of effort to convince the indigenous party members to accept it. As long as the upper class of the Eight Banners is completely liquidated, there will be no old and young people who will jump out and disgust people in the future.

However, in order to unify the party's thoughts and convince Xu Xilin and other indigenous party members, Wen Desi also spent a lot of talk and expressed some of his ambitions and true thoughts for the first time.

"Actually, I am not against massacre. Because of the behavior of massacre, since humans have written records, history has been endless. And it is even more common in prehistoric without written records. One million years ago, when our ancestors were Homo sapiens, there were no less than ten close relatives with the same family as Homo sapiens, but they all died later. Did they all commit suicide? Massacre is so common that it can be said to be a nature of human beings."

"What I object to is meaningless massacre! With the current pitiful power of the bannermen, it is easy for us to kill them. With the strength of our revolutionary army, it is impossible to kill them all. But if we do this, what benefits can we get except to avenge and exert anger?"

"Enemy must be eliminated, but the best way to eliminate the enemy is not to eliminate them physically, but to turn them into our own people. The former method can only reduce the enemy's strength, while the latter can not only reduce the enemy's strength, but also enhance our own strength."

"Yes, over the past few hundred years, the bannermen have caused countless harms to the Han people. I know very well. Therefore, I also understand your desire for revenge. If you go back for three hundred years, one hundred years, or even fifty years, I will definitely support you and support you in your actions. But now it is different. Now it is a 'change that has not been seen in three thousand years'. Comrades, who is our biggest enemy now? Are the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty? No, they do not have this qualification! Our biggest enemy now are foreign powers such as Europe, America and Japan! The Qing regime is just a small obstacle, and the European and American powers can be regarded as our true enemy of China!"

"In our previous party class, we have introduced the strength of foreign powers to the comrades. Each of them is ten times stronger than the Qing government and more than a hundred times stronger. Our country's current strength is not enough to fight against the great powers and regain the interests we have lost. Therefore, we must do everything we can to strengthen our own strength."

"Manpower is the most important resource for a country, especially human resources of the same culture, and an irreplaceable resource for a country. Among the bannermen, the Eight Banners of Han were originally Han people. Even the Eight Banners of Manzhou and the Eight Banners of Mongolia have been almost completely sinicized in the past few hundred years. Haha, the Manchus now almost can't even speak Manchu language. Among the various ethnic groups in China, the level of sinicization of Banners can be said to be the highest. If they don't say it themselves, can you tell them apart?"

"To deal with strong enemies from Europe and the United States, we must gather the power of the whole of China. Human resources of the same culture are irreplaceable parts. Therefore, it is the most appropriate way to cleanse the upper and integrate the lower levels of the Eight Banners. This principle is not only for the bannermen, but also for other national forces in the country. Some comrades just said that I have 400 million Han people and millions of banner people. It doesn't matter if there are more or less people. Well, I must admit that if our eyes are only on China, then this idea makes sense."

"But comrades, our Science and Technology Party is the most advanced organization in China. We should look around the world and not only see one acre of three-point land in China. Are there many 40 million Han people? No, not too many, from the perspective of the whole world, not much! It is even far from enough! Now the local population of foreign powers such as Europe, the United States and Japan is more than 600 million. If the population of their colonies is added, it will exceed 1.5 billion! This shows that they can mobilize much more manpower than outside. Manpower is not omnipotent, but if there is a shortage of people, it will never be possible. If China wants to revive and rise, it must master every bit of power. Therefore, every human resource is precious and must not be squandered in a meaningless place."

"The great powers now occupy most of the world, and this world is limited. If China wants to rise, it will inevitably have conflicts with the great powers. This kind of conflict is inevitable, because the great powers will never allow us to revive. For the great powers, once a big power like China is revived, it will be a powerful competitor. Therefore, they try their best to block, encircle and suppress us, and even war. It is not impossible for the eight-nation coalition to have another Eight-Nation coalition. And our Science and Technology Party must achieve our goal of reviving China, so we have irreconcilable contradictions with the great powers."

"The current world is a world dominated by Western powers. For China, this is a huge danger, but it is also a huge opportunity. Because there are many internal contradictions in the Western powers, based on the information we obtained, it can be predicted that in 5 to 6 years, the conflict between them will completely break out, and a world war will be involved in it! This is our opportunity! If we want to seize this rare opportunity, we must rectify the country and gather all the powers used in the country. This is called the 'unified front'."

"So, I ask comrades to step out of the Han-centered thoughts and evolve into a broader Han-centered thought. This 'big' is a large-scale and we must expand the concept of the Han nationality. Any ethnic group and individual who agree with our cultural concepts, follow our traditional habits, and use our language and characters can integrate them into the Han nationality. Because this is how our ancestors did it, the history of the development of our Han nationality is a history of ethnic integration. We have continuously integrated the surrounding ethnic groups and developed from a small part of Henan to the current level."

"Facts have proved the correctness of this approach, and it is this approach that has given us the traditional idea of ​​'great unification'. Although we have split many times in history, we can still be unified in the end. This is where our "cultural national view" is far more advanced than the "blooded national view" of white Westerners. It has been unified in European history, but once they split, they will never be unified again. As the most advanced political organization in China, our Science and Technology Social Party must inherit and carry forward the spirit of this "cultural national view". Only a nation with strong inclusiveness is a truly powerful and progressive nation!"

"Facts have also proved that the colonial practices commonly used by the Western powers are extremely inefficient. The most important thing is that they will never be able to assimilate the colonies into their homeland. Look at Britain, you will know that although they occupy a quarter of the earth, they cannot assimilate even the nearest Ireland, and it has led to the independence of the United States. Our party's program is to establish a new world dominated by China, and we also need more land, and we will inevitably expand. Since the Western colonialism practices are inefficient, we cannot do the new territory in the future like they do. To talk about the most effective method of ruling depends on our China. Our ancestors have left us the best method, that is, integration and assimilation."

"Integrate the people of the new territory into our Han compatriots, accept our culture and traditions, speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, and the most important idea of ​​"unification". Only by doing this land will it truly belong to us. Of course, there is another way to do this, which is to kill all the aboriginal peoples by the white Europeans against Indians and Australians! But as I said before, this is an extremely wasteful and extremely inefficient approach, and it is not worth adopting."

"A comrade asked, what should I do if I encounter someone who is unwilling to integrate? It's very simple. If they want to leave, send them away. For those who are neither cooperative nor want to leave, labor reform is the best way. There are too many places in China that need to build, and there will never be a lack of construction sites and mines to resettle them. Anyone who resists integration and is stubborn will continue to reform until they realize it. If ten years are not enough, twenty years are not enough, forty years are not enough, and one hundred years..."

"What we need to do now is to integrate all ethnic groups in the country, which is also an important part of the government's work in the future. First, starting with the ethnic groups with the highest degree of sinicization, the integration of bannermen is our pilot. Next, we are all close relatives who belong to the Yanhuang system and the Chinese-Tibetan language family, then the ethnic groups in the northwest, and finally our new territory..."

The above is an excerpt from Chairman Wen Desi's speech at the high-level meeting of the Party on May 15. The content of Mr. Wen's speech this time has basically become the guiding ideology of the future ethnic work of the Party and Government of Science and Technology.

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"How did Zhao Erfeng and the families of the officers and soldiers of the 18th Town arrange it?" Wen Desi asked. Lao Zhao's "Ping Zang Army" was a bit different from the original time and space. The formal organization of the Qing court was "Temporary Army of the 18th Town".

Xin Jie replied: "All have been properly placed. After we moved the bannermen out, we will now arrange them to live in the original city and manage them."

"Well, don't be harsh in terms of treatment. During the concentrated residence, please compare with the standards of the family members of our Xingke Group employees. In addition, they should be asked to write family letters to the frontline officers and soldiers to report their safety. Now the army is in deep, and the morale of the army cannot be chaotic..." Wen Desi thought for a while and said.

"So, do you want them to write a letter of surrender?" Xin Jie asked.

"No need, persuading surrender is our business. They only need to let the officers and soldiers of the 18th Town know that they are safe."

After Xin Jie left, Wen Desi saw a familiar name from the list of prisoners he handed over, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Hey, it's Guo Songling, I didn't expect that he was also in the Seventeen Town at this time..."

Judging from the list, Guo Songling is now the leader of the guards of the 17th Town (company commander of the guards). He came with the commander Zhu Qinglan this year. As a result, in the Battle of Wuguiqiao, the command of the 17th Town was gathered by the artillery of the Revolutionary Army. Zhu Qinglan was killed on the spot, and Xiao Guo was also unconscious and was captured by the Revolutionary Army.
Chapter completed!