Chapter 155 New enemy, new Shikai (please subscribe, please vote)

Author: Da Luoluo

Chapter 155 New enemy, new Shikai (please subscribe, please vote)

It was the eighth day of August in the tenth year of Kangxi.

The crackling sound of firecrackers finally rang out inside and outside the Wang Manor outside Haidian Town. Outside this country mansion that had just been repainted, there was a rush of people. Everyone crowded at the gate and watched the old Wang family marry their new wife, while enjoying themselves

Hehehe, waiting to eat the flowing water table.

The old Wang family who is marrying a daughter-in-law today is not an ordinary family, but the family of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Wang Fuchen! The bride-to-be is Wang Fuchen’s eldest son, Wang Jizhen. And the girl is marrying not an ordinary family, but the family of Jia Hanfu, the governor of Shaanxi Province.

The one she married was Jia Xiaowan, Jia Hanfu's daughter. Well, she also took as a concubine the daughter of Wu Yingxiong and Princess Jianning who had been enslaved in Xinzheku (the internal affairs department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs).

Now Wu Yingxiong has gone to Wu Sangui to rebel together. Once the rebellion is over, he will be the emperor in the future, and won't his daughter be the princess?

This marriage is really rare. The governor's son marries the governor's daughter, and even takes an alternate princess as a concubine!

Wedding events of this level are usually held in Beijing, but the atmosphere in Beijing recently is not suitable for holding weddings - you are just getting married, and you will bump into three or five mourners along the way.

unlucky?

Therefore, those newlyweds who happened to encounter this unlucky day had no choice but to go to the country manor to hold the wedding ceremony.

Wangjiazhuang in Haidian does not really stand in the wilderness, but is built in a countryside.

In this village, apart from the Wang family's mansion, there are only some village houses that don't look that respectable. The people living in these village houses are tenants who rent the land from the bannermen.

Although they were "free persons" and not slaves of anyone, they were at the bottom of the hierarchy under the strict hierarchy of the Qing Emperor.

Not to mention compared with the organized bannermen and coatmen, even the Sula slaves of the bannermen and the domestic slaves of the coatmen were far inferior. Those who were the slaves arrived in Haidian.

In the village here, there is a kind of existence such as a steward and the head of the village. Even if it is not to this level, he is still a master who has enough to eat and drink, shouts and drinks, and does not do farm work.

When ordinary tenants see them, they can only envy them. Although they talk about the word "slaves", they are actually superior "masters", and tenants who have no room in their homes dare not

Richer than others.

Of course, in the system of the Qing Dynasty, these tenants who rented banner fields were not the lowest. In fact, they could also be regarded as peripheral to the Eight Banners noble system. At least they were not likely to starve to death. There were many ways for the bannermen to get money.

, I am not so careful when collecting rent.

For example, Wang Fuchen, the big landowner in Wangjiazhuang, has long forgotten that there is such a thing as rent collection.

In addition, these tenants have much more opportunities to climb up the ladder than tenants elsewhere. They are all "candidate domestic slaves". If some banner landowners are promoted, they will naturally recruit more domestic slaves.

They can make up for it.

This is how one person attains enlightenment, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven!

Furthermore, they are the waiting family members and long-term followers of those "officers working in vain".

The local bureaucracy system of the Qing Dynasty was very imperfect. There were very few local officials, and most of them had little ability to do things. Therefore, after the officials borrowed Beijing bonds to buy vacancies, they had to recruit a group of masters and family members.

He took office together with his elder brother.

The so-called family members and long-term followers are actually candidates for officials - most of the local officials are hereditary local officials, but officials who take office must also bring a group of people with them, otherwise they will have a black eye after taking office, and they will lose all their money.

Can't catch it.

Most of the family members and entourage of the "officials who took office in vain" who borrowed Beijing bonds to buy the job were appointed by the creditors. But where can those creditors recruit people? Not from their own servants, but from outside Beijing.

The gangsters in the city, and also recruit some smart and reliable people from among the tenants to keep an eye on those "official laborers"?

The bannermen masters in Beijing have been having a hard time recently, with almost every family mourning and every household offering condolences.

But for the tenants outside Beijing, it means that the path to advancement has become wider. Emperor Xiao Mazi is now short of slaves, so the slave door is wide open!

Although the masters of Lao Wang's family were very lucky and none of them died in battle, their tenants and the tenants of several houses next door had more opportunities for advancement because of the growth of Lao Wang's family.

So right now, there are a lot of people coming to eat at the flowing water table, and the young men among them are very energetic.

At this moment, the master of the Wang family has not yet appeared, and the tenants who are waiting to become slaves of the old Wang family have begun to ask each other about climbing up the ladder.

"Have you heard? The big white man from the next village was spotted by the bannerman's landowner's wife two days ago. He wants to recruit him as his son-in-law. He is also planning to change his surname to Guarjia. How can this guy be so lucky?

Woolen cloth?"

"You have a good family. What is the name of the big white guy? His nickname is fake Wang Shikai! I can't think of the real Wang Shikai, so I might as well get a fake one! What? Are you envious?"

"I'm not envious. How can we, the people like us, afford food and shelter for those widows of the bannermen? The fake Wang Shikai is probably in trouble. The real Wang Shikai will do it. I can follow the real Wang Shikai to Guangdong and be a long-term follower."

Satisfied!"

"Yes, yes, this is more realistic. Most of the widowed banner women want to remarry slaves born in their own families, and it is not our turn. We will settle with the old Wang family. Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi! In the future, he may be King Pingnan.

When the time comes, we will defeat the bannermen of the Southern King!"

"That's great. I wonder how many people Lao Wang's family is planning to recruit this time?"

"You don't know how many there are, right? Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang and Mr. Wang have bought six alternate prefects and twelve alternate counties in Guangdong and Guangxi, plus Mr. Wang's own alternate prefect of Shaanxi, Wang

Second Young Master’s own Guangdong Customs Administration, how many people will he have to bring to take office?”

"Is it true that there are six magistrates and twelve county magistrates? Are there so many vacancies in Guangdong and Guangxi?"

"Of course it's true, Mr. Wang is the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Now Guangxi and Guangxi are on the front line of the war with Wu Sangui. It's not easy to find vacancies. Can't we just let the officials in office serve in the army? How dangerous is the army?

ah!"

"You, Mr. Gao, have you come up with this idea? If Mr. Wang doesn't ask you to be a master, it will be a huge loss."

"Hey hey hey"

"You are all brothers of the Tiandihui! When we get to Guangdong and Guangxi, my father and I will definitely ask you to fill the official vacancies. I will say something ugly up front. You are officials of the Tiandihui, not the officials of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

Not even Wu Sangui’s official! Keep this in mind and abide by the rules of the Tiandihui. The two Guangdong and Guangdong will be our world from now on!"

In the back garden of Wangjiazhuang, Haidian, Wang Zhongxiao was mobilizing several Tiandihui disciples who were about to serve as officials in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Most of these disciples are Wang Zhongxiao's confidants, including Master Yu, Wang Shiyuan, Wang Leiyong, Wang Quan, Wang Andu and others!

When these people heard Wang Zhongxiao's words, their eyes were all shining!

What they want is not to be an official in the Qing Dynasty, but to be the founding hero of the Wang family!

In addition, Guo Jinbao, Zhang Xiaobao, Li Fuhan, and Zhou Chang also seized this opportunity and all bought alternate counties. Even Zhang Xiaobao's father, Zhang Zhongqing, couldn't resist his son's force, so he also bought an alternate prefecture, preparing to

He went to Guangdong to take office. Of course, these people still don’t know what Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao, and Wang Jizhen are thinking.

They were kidnapped to Guangdong.

Of course, Wang Zhongxiao spent a lot of money this time. For these dozen vacancies, he spent almost half of the money he got from Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong, and Wu Yingxiong - Emperor Kangxi had a dark heart! The "official price" he offered

"It's not cheap.

An alternate county magistrate dares to ask for one thousand five hundred taels!

A candidate magistrate triples that to 4,500 taels!

An alternate prefect charges thirteen thousand taels!

The asking prices for such lucrative positions as salt transport envoys from various provinces and Tianjin Customs Road are over 100,000 taels!

Among them, the Tianjin Customs Road was acquired by Yang Qilong at a sky-high price of 120,000 taels!

This Tianjin Customs Road sounds similar to Wang Zhongxiao's Guangdong Customs Road, but in fact it is far different. The Guangdong Customs Road mainly deals with the West and Southeast Asia. If it can be sold, it will not lose one million taels!

The Tianjin Customs Road is mainly for North Korea and Japan. Both countries are closed to the outside world. To trade with them, you have to build your own fleet and go to sea to do business. Therefore, the Tianjin Customs Road is actually a "franchised trading company"

, is completely different from the Guangdong Customs Road. That is, only Yang Qilong, who had King Yu Fuquan standing behind him, Chen Yonghua from the Yanping Palace who was proposing to join the army, and a group of "Caobang brothers" on hand, could eat it.

So he was the only buyer of the Tianjin Customs Road. The reason why he paid 120,000 taels was entirely to please Emperor Kangxi - Yang Qilong was a gifter of women and money, and now he was Emperor Jian's wife.

Heartbroken!

Moreover, except for the salt transport envoys and Tianjin Customs Road, which were sold at sky-high prices, the other shortages were not actual shortages, but substitute shortages.

As for whether they can make up for it, it depends on how those officials who bought the vacancies can find their way to the local governor when they get to the local area - because of this big sale of officials, the number of officials who go to the local areas to wait for them will definitely increase greatly.

It may be even more difficult to fill the gap.

In addition, these candidate county magistrates, candidate magistrates, and candidate magistrates who are sold are not in good places. They are mainly in Shaanxi-Gansu, Huguang, and Guangxi. The candidates are close to the front line. I don’t know when the surname was Wu!

It will be impossible to sell it then. Now the officials in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan cannot sell it. What a pity!

But even so, the less than 500 candidates Emperor Xiao Mazi brought out were still snatched away!

There is no way, there are too many people who want these officials. Not only the rich people like Yang Qilong want to be officials, but also the four sons of Jia Hanfu's family each got a candidate county in Guangdong - without this candidate county, they would have to enter

The battalion is a soldier, ready to go to the battlefield to fight Wu Sangui's people!

For those bannermen nobles and big bosses who have money in their hands and have children who are useless and afraid of death, buying their sons a candidate officer can justifiably keep them away from the battlefield and away from Sangui. It is really

It's such a good deal.

In addition, there are some masters who are in a similar situation to the old Wang family, and they also regard this imperial court sale as an opportunity!

There are minions in Dingnangege Mansion and Pingnan Prince Mansion who bought official vacancies in Guangdong and Guangxi.

At this moment, on the official road outside Wangjiazhuang, there were about a dozen knights in robes, walking slowly along the official road. Among the three leaders, one of them was fighting for "Wu Shifan" with Wang Zhongxiao.

Li Lan is jealous and quarrelsome.
To be continued...