Chapter 38: Power from the Ground (8)
"This, this, where did this come from?"
Abusing the imperial court's method, at present, the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty are incompatible enemies. Such a crime can be said to be extremely serious. Zhang Xiaoqi showed his desperate attitude as soon as they met, and those who heard it were bound to question it.
What is the reason? However, as soon as these words were spoken, a look was vaguely formed in his mind. After all, this is the land of Guangdong after all, and Tong Yangjia has not been dead for a few years.
Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong invaded Guangdong from Fujian. The Manchu Qing Dynasty appointed him as the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong and the governor of Guangdong in order to suppress the Han generals. This move naturally aroused Li Chengdong's dissatisfaction and became the main reason for Li Chengdong's determination to fight against the enemy.
The reason. Tong Yangjia, who failed to take precautions beforehand and was inevitably executed by the Ming court even if he had to follow Li Chengdong anyway, seemed to be suspected of incompetence in the eyes of others. However, the fact is not that simple.
Tong Yangjia was in office for a year and a half. During this period, he supported Li Chengdong to take over Guangdong Province, and then burned the war into Guangxi. The half of Guangxi that the Qing Dynasty gained before Li Chengdong came back was all due to his efforts.
achieved.
After capturing half of Guangxi, the Qing army continued to pursue the Yongli imperial court westward. At that time, Yunnan had already fallen under the control of the Great Western Army, but it was just a confused army that had been flowing from Sichuan.
It is in no way the same as the Tiger and Wolf troops who came out of Yunnan to fight against the Qing Dynasty after recuperating for several years. If it were not for the leadership of Zhang Jiayu, Chen Zizhuang, and Chen Bangyan, the vigorous anti-Qing uprising broke out in the heart of Guangdong and quickly swept across
Come, the Yongli Imperial Court may have collapsed long ago, and even the Great Western Army is in danger of withdrawing from the stage of history early.
The three Lingnan loyalists fought hard, forcing Li Chengdong to hold back his troops and quickly return for reinforcements. In the beginning, it was Tong Yangjia who resisted the huge momentum of overthrowing the Qing government's rule in Guangzhou.
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Many scholar-bureaucrats in Guangdong remember that it was Tong Yangjia who beheaded more than 20 members of Emperor Shaowu's family at the double gate of Guangzhou City. It was Tong Yangjia who sawed Chen Zizhuang to death at the waist of the Sipiao Building and chopped up Chen Bangyan alive. He even fought in Dongguan in a bloody battle.
The head of Zhang Jiayu who died in the battle was also hurriedly sent to Tong Yangjia by the Qing army, just because Tong Yangjia wanted to see it in person.
This man was the butcher who suppressed the anti-Qing movement in Guangdong and was notorious. However, during the year and a half that Tong Yangjia was in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi, he also did some other things. For example, since the late Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Guangzhou has been in disrepair.
, it was he who presided over the construction of new city walls on the east and west wings under extremely difficult financial conditions; for example, in 1640, the Ming court began to prohibit the Portuguese from Macau from trading in Guangzhou, and it was he who reported to the Qing court, suggesting that the Portuguese should be restored to Guangzhou
Guangzhou's old trade practices were used to alleviate financial tensions; for another example, officials in all dynasties would force Dan people to go to the sea to collect Hepu pearls. It was he who reported this to the Qing court, and the Qing court issued an edict to stop pearl fishing!
"Since Chen Fujun visited Guangdong, he has repaired the city walls of Guangzhou after they were damaged..."
"It is said that when Chen Fujun rescued Guangzhou, he rented a number of large ships from Macau. Now in Guangzhou, the Francois from Macau are nothing new. Although they did not explicitly request an order from the imperial court
Well, but that ban has been abolished..."
"There is also Hepu Pearl. Although Chen Fujun did not say that mining would be banned, if the Dan people were allowed to go ashore, the tribute of Hepu Pearl would be abolished..."
The purpose of repairing the city wall is for safety reasons. Even if the city wall is damaged in peacetime, it must be repaired, let alone in such troubled times; ignoring the ban and allowing the Portuguese to trade in Guangzhou is to increase fiscal revenue and stimulate Guangzhou.
The purpose of lifting the ban on people not being allowed to go ashore to make a living is to increase the population on the shore and provide more human resources for farming, handicrafts and the army.
These are all good deeds that benefit the present. But now, even building the city wall has become a crime. Where can people reason with this!
However, none of the scholar-bureaucrats present could laugh. They knew very well that this was a political struggle. There was no right or wrong, only interests. And every crime that Zhang Xiao was accused of was just Chen.
What Kai did was not tailor-made, but it stuck to Chen Kai every time, and it was troublesome whether he argued or not.
"These crimes are difficult to convict."
"What's the purpose of convicting people? As long as the princes in the court have these so-called crimes in their hands, they will have all kinds of means to use them to compete with Chen Fujun and His Highness the King of Fujian. In the final analysis, the court may not be happy to watch Chen Fujun take them from prison.
Southwestern Guangdong is squeezed out, which is exactly the best excuse."
They are all relatively well-known scholar-bureaucrats in Gaozhou Prefecture. Once the advisory bureau is established, the probability of being listed on it is relatively high. Therefore, they are even more happy to see Chen Kai squeeze Zhang Xiaoqi away, so that they have a new one.
Ascending channel.
But the problem is that the interference of the imperial court is on one side, and the accusation of impeachment against Zhang Xiao also hits the g point of people's hearts - the Manchus are barbarians, they shave their heads to change their clothes, slaughter the people, and there are many people who hate them to the bone. Since the Manchus
The Qing Dynasty is evil, and everything in the Manchu Qing Dynasty must also be evil. If Chen Kai abuses the methods of the imperial court, then Chen Kai is not a good person!
This kind of inertial thinking seems to have some logical inaccuracies. However, even in the era when education was popularized in later generations, and the literacy rate was so high that the people on earth in the 17th century could not imagine it, it was also gratifying that Confucius and Virtue were still there.
, Geng Zhongming and his like became traitors, so Mao Wenlong was a traitor reserve team, and Yuan Chonghuan deserved to kill him; similarly, Mao Wenlong traveled three thousand miles across the sea to expedition to Liaodong, founded Dongjiang Town, and regained a large area of lost land, so he deducted military pay and was even good at it.
The person who killed Yuan Chonghuan must be a traitor. After five years of Ping Liao and the Ping Dynasty finally arrived at the gate of Beijing, he must have colluded with Huang Taiji to deceive Huang Taiji into leaving Beijing...
In the senses of most people, there are only two colors in the world: black and white, but they clearly ignore the colorful ones. Even, let alone the colorful colors, there should always be a gray word between black and white, that is
The gray characters can also be divided into thousands of levels. How can it be black and white?
It is this kind of sensory cognition, cognition determines the butt, and the butt determines the brain. They complement each other, and the truth becomes unimportant. In this way, the flawed rhetoric of "counterintuitive tactics" can become what most people think of Yuan Chonghuan.
The knowledge of death. The cunning of the slave chief Hongli makes him worthy of being the perfect successor of Xuanye and Yinzhen.
In southwestern Guangdong, there are indeed a lot of people looking forward to Chen Kai taking over, but there are also a lot of officials. The generals are very afraid of Chen Kai. If there is no such thing, even those vassal towns that hold military power
, no matter how much they are afraid of Chen Kai, there is still nothing they can do. But Zhang Xiao’s impeachment, as long as it can stir up the slightest ripples in this stagnant water, those guys who are willing to fight for their own interests
They will definitely add fuel to the flames. In this way, people in southwestern Guangdong will be dissatisfied, and I am afraid it will not be like it is today.
"After all, Zhang Fujun has worked hard in the officialdom, and he still has some tricks."
Sighing again and again, speaking of it, Zhang Xiaoqi was just a promoted official in Lianzhou Prefecture before Jiashen, and he only hung out in the officialdom, which was only thirteen years after Chongzhen. After Jiashen, as the Ming Dynasty's territory shrank sharply,
Talents were withering rapidly, and he quickly emerged. He had already taken the official positions of governor and censor of Qiandu a few years ago, and he echoed the situation of many officials today.
As most people who can have a place in the advisory board, there is no shortage of discerning people. Zhang Xiao's move may not cause much damage to Chen Kai. In the final analysis, the strength gap between the two sides is too large. However, as long as there is an excuse, the court will
There is room for change, and the greater the room for change, the more beneficial it will be to the court, but there is nothing wrong with this.
Whether it is the imperial court or Zhang Xiaoqi, they will not let Chen Kai obtain these state capitals in southwestern Guangdong so easily. The gentry, merchants and powerful people here naturally need to reconsider the issue of their own positioning - can they enter
With the Advisory Bureau, it seems now that future development is the best, but if Chen Kai cannot control these areas and the Advisory Bureau cannot be established, they must find a second best to protect the family.
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Once this kind of thinking returns to its old state, it is inevitable to have both sides. This is exactly what Zhang Xiaoqi wants to see, so when he sent someone to deliver the impeachment memorial, he lost his temper in the governor's Yamen.
, as someone who has worked as a promotion official, he knows best that the Yamen has always been a leaky place, and the shelf life of news is so short that it is not as good as tofu.
However, things in the world always have pros and cons. The news quickly spread in the states in southwestern Guangdong. It was inevitable that Chen Kai, who was far away in Guangzhou, would get the news faster.
However, at this point, Zhang Xiaoqi no longer cares whether Chen Kai will get the news in time. He has already made a move. If Chen Kai does not want to live up to his words, he can only accept the move. This is a normal political struggle; if he directly raises troops
If he doesn't even give up his dignity, he is self-aware. At worst, it is his lifelong wish to imitate his old friend Liancheng Bi.
"If this is the case, probably the only thing worth regretting is that I couldn't watch the Ming Dynasty resurgence with my own eyes and watch the Tatars be driven out and exterminated."
Chapter completed!