Chapter 688: Letting the tiger return to the mountain brings disaster to southern Xinjiang
Although Hami was captured, the news that the Northern Navy sent troops to Tianshan also reached Yumen Pass.
Twenty days later, an urgent memorial of 600 miles sent by Le Bao, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu Province, arrived in the capital at night and was sent directly to the Qianlong case.
"My slave Le Bao knelt down to report the situation of the bandits on the East Road of Xinjiang, and urged the officers and soldiers to rush to suppress the bandits. The reason for the report was to report that a large group of pirates and cavalry from the North Sea traveled south from Khovd in mid-August and entered
After Xinjiang East Road, there are still bandits coming one after another, there should be more than ten thousand people. Now the ancient city, Zhenxifu, and Hami have all been captured. Turpan is in danger, and the post roads leading to Urumuqi have been cut off...
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In the East Nuan Pavilion of the Yangxin Hall, Qianlong was sitting cross-legged on the big Kang with his eyes slightly closed. Although he looked as if he was calm, in fact, he felt as if he had swallowed a mouthful of extremely bitter strong tea.
When Heshen finished reading all the contents of the memorial, it took a long time for Qianlong to say quietly: "From the Holy Ancestor, Shizong to me, we have made several conquests and more than seventy years of cultivation, turning the wilderness into a fence and building a barrier to the Western Regions.
, but now I am making a wedding dress for Zhao Xin. He has been preparing for it for two more years in Kob. I originally thought that I would have to wait until the spring of next year to start, but I didn’t expect that they chose late autumn!"
At this time, only He Shen accompanied the old Qianlong in the palace. Prince Yong Yan of Jia took 5,000 members of the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp and their families to Xi'an after the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. He was accompanied by Wang Jie, a scholar of Dongge University, and Dong, the Minister of Military Aircraft.
Gao, cabinet bachelor and minister of rites Ji Yun and other Manchu and Han ministers. And Heshen's honor and disgrace were all tied to Qianlong. As long as the man in front of him did not move away, he could only accompany him.
He Shen pursed his lips and comforted him: "Master, don't worry too much. I thought that if Zhao Ni took Tianshan this time, he might fall into a quagmire and be unable to escape for a while, so he could win more opportunities for the court."
More time."
"Oh? Tell me."
"Master Mingjian. Although this slave has no military knowledge, he also knows a little about the geographical situation and people's sentiments in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. The land is larger than Khalkha, and it is different from Khalkha. The Hui Han people live together, and the people's customs are mixed. In the past, there were white hats and black hats.
After the war, the Kokand Khanate invaded again. Although the North Sea Pirates occupied Hami and controlled the station and post roads leading to northern Xinjiang, as long as they entered southern Xinjiang, they were bound to fight one city after another. With Zhao
Going against his stubborn temper, he will definitely go to war with the Kokand Khanate. He can use the strategy of driving away tigers and devouring wolves, so that the court can force Fu Yaolin and He Lin to take southern Tibet and Burma for him; naturally, the court can also
On the contrary, let him fight the Kokand Khanate and even Aiwuhan to a bloody battle. In this way, the tens of thousands of troops of the Northern Navy will be firmly attracted to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, wasting money and food, while the northwest
But I don’t have to worry about it for now.”
The more Qianlong listened, the brighter his eyes became. He didn't expect that He Shen could actually come up with such a big game of chess with such a long time, so he nodded in approval and said: "To be able to think of this in a hurry, it seems that you put a lot of thought into it."
"This slave is willing to recommend someone, as long as the master gives him the opportunity in advance to sneak back to southern Xinjiang from Qinghai, then southern Xinjiang will be in chaos. If Zhao Ni wants to establish a foothold there, he may not be able to do so in three to five years. In this way, the imperial court
There’s more of a buffer.”
Qianlong thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Are you talking about Dorobel Hadir?"
"The master's holy light illuminates the candle, and the insight is thousands of miles away."
Hadir, the fourth son of Huojisi, the former king of Dorobelga County, was appointed the commander-in-chief of Mongolia with a red banner after he ascended the throne and stayed in Beijing.
Speaking of the Huojisi family, they have been a big family of the Baishan sect in the Aksu and Wush areas since the time of the Junggar Khanate, and their brothers, nephews, and nephews are all Burkes.
In the process of pacifying Junggar, the Huojisi family took advantage of the situation. Seeing that the situation was not good, they planned to capture Dawaqi alive, which provided great help for the Qing army's smooth invasion. Even the portrait of Ziguang Pavilion became "the key to pacifying Junggar".
One of the top fifty heroes.
But Huojisi also had his own little plan. In order to consolidate his sphere of influence in southern Xinjiang, he later secretly begged Amursana, which aroused Qianlong's vigilance. When the Xiaohezhuo rebellion came, the Huojisi family initially fought with Huojisi.
Ji Zhanhun, and then controlled the two major towns of Khotan and Yerkang, their power was almost the same as that of Daxiao and Zhuoxiang. Although they later sided with the Qing army, they became too powerful for the Qing court.
Hidden danger.
When He Zhuo and He Zhuo died in the Badak Mountains and the Qing government unified the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, in order to ensure the stability of southern Xinjiang, the first thing Qianlong had to consider was to allow the Huojisi family to stay in the capital. He was very cautious and secretly ordered General Dingbian to
Zhaohui sent it as a gift. So when Hojis and his five sons went to the capital to see the emperor together with other Burkes, a favor edict was issued, and they could never go back.
After that, except for the honest and dull third son Tuoketuo Sopi who was sent back to Aksu to be responsible for sweeping the family cemetery, the other four sons either ascended the throne or served as ministers or bodyguards; in short, they were high-ranking officials with generous salaries and good food and drink to support you.
It is absolutely impossible to go back to southern Xinjiang.
Qianlong could imagine that once the Hadier brothers returned to southern Xinjiang, they would definitely collude with the Kokand Khanate, and the South Tianshan Road would definitely fall into chaos again, and the internal fighting between Baishan and Blackshan would resume. He felt that even
When necessary, General Yili can also be asked to cooperate to completely mess up the situation in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.
Although doing so would make his many years of hard work go to waste, turn the top ten martial arts he was once proud of into a dream, and even cause countless people to be displaced, for Qianlong at this time, as long as he could slow down the pace of the Northern Navy's entry into the customs
, he doesn’t care about any three-way tactics.
Nowadays, as a large number of Manchus move westward, in order to raise enough food and funds to gain a foothold in Tibet and Gorkha, the Qing government has also made adjustments to taxes. The main means are to increase land taxes and salt and tea taxes.
Most of them came from Heshen's idea.
For example, in the land tax in Liangjiang and Huguang areas, on the basis of the original one tael of silver for each field, an additional subsidy of one tael was levied. In addition, because Qianlong deeply hated Wang Zhong and eight people who voted for Beihai Town, and the Cao family in Shexian County had a man whose origin was unclear.
The leader of the rebel bandits specially issued an order to impose additional "mu donations" on Huizhou, Yangzhou, Changzhou, and Taizhou; the donations ranged from 200 to 400 yuan per mu, causing local people to complain endlessly.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As for the salt tax, the price increases in salt farms in various places are particularly serious. For example, Huai salt is transported from Yizheng to Yichang Prefecture, and tax declarations are set up layer by layer, resulting in every quotation (2
One hundred catties), the wholesale price after tax is as high as twenty taels.
As for the tea tax, it goes without saying. Due to the loss of Khalkha, the situation of Shanxi merchants smuggling tea northward and selling it to Beihai Town could not be investigated. Therefore, according to Heshen's report, all tea except for three liang of the regular tax,
There is also an additional tax of one tael for each import at the place of sale; if you want to transport it from Zhangjiakou to Chahar, you must pay another one tael of silver.
In addition, Heshen also asked the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Revenue in Jinan to cooperate with Liu Yong and put a large amount of official and private money into Dengzhou Prefecture through private money tables and money shops. The amount of money earned is not the main thing, the focus is to destroy Beihai Town.
The economy under rule.
Aren’t you, Beihai Town, going to carry out land reform, allocate land owned by the Jin gentry to the poor, and prevent the Jin gentry from making usury loans? Then we will use private money to recover the losses. As long as private casting is popular, even if the farmers have a bumper harvest through high-yielding seeds or water conservancy improvements,
It's useless. Once the prices of commodities, including food prices, rise, the farmers at the bottom can also be plundered.
Qianlong thought about it for a long time, and finally made up his mind and said to the eunuch standing beside him: "I have sent an order to Dorobelehadir, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hudaibaldi, will deliver the sign to the audience tomorrow."
"嗻!"
The affairs in Xinjiang were almost finished. Qianlong thought of something again and asked: "Have you not received the list of scholars who will participate in the imperial examination in Beihai Town?"
He Shen quickly kowtowed to the ground and said: "This slave is not doing his job well, and I beg my master to punish me. Since the fall of Ula in Jilin, our contact with Fuldan City has been cut off."
"Where is Anping Port?"
"My servants went there twice but couldn't connect the head. I'm afraid it's more serious than bad."
Since five years ago, there have been three main channels for the Manchu and Qing Dynasties to spy on Beihai Town intelligence. One is based on Wula, Jilin, and radiates to Heilongjiang City, Ningguta, Fuldan City, Khabarovsk and other places; the other is based on Anping
The port is the core, and spies are placed among the merchants who are trading to collect information; the third is the Li Chao Huining Mansion across the river from Hunchun, which is closest to Beihai Town.
There is also Jiaodong, but a lot of the news about Beihai Town there are rumors and must be corroborated with the previous information.
However, with the loss of Ula in Jilin, the Northern Navy's troops reached the wicker border wall, and the Northern Navy's sudden crossing of the Tumen River in Hunchun before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two most important intelligence transmission channels of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were seriously damaged, making it difficult to obtain
The timeliness of information is lagging behind increasingly. Many of the situations currently reported by the Yu Reserve Branch only happened in the summer.
Qianlong sighed helplessly, knowing that this matter cannot be rushed. The "black-skinned security police" in Beihai Town is now famous, and his methods are so unpredictable that countless spies have fallen into the hands of the other party. He said bitterly: "Munei
My father, you are all secretive and gangsters, they are all restless bastards, and the nine tribes should be punished for their crimes!"
"Master, calm down and don't get angry."
"Ask Monk Yu from the Ministry of War to send more people, and we must get the list. No one on it will be spared!"
"Yes Yes Yes!"
Speaking of scholars, Qianlong remembered something again and asked: "How are the arrangements for the Kong family in Qufu? When do they plan to leave for Xi'an?"
He Shen was stunned. He had already mentioned the matter about the Kong family the day before yesterday, so why did he ask about it again today? He didn't have time to think about it and replied: "Master, Kong Yangyuan is too sick to get out of bed. The imperial doctor went to his house to see him the day before yesterday.
, I am indeed very ill, and I’m afraid I won’t make it through the end of the year.”
Kong Yangyuan was Kong Xianpei, the 71st generation of the Confucian Yanshenggong. This man had no queen and adopted his younger brother Kong Xianzang's son Kong Qingrong as his heir. But the problem is that the child is only six years old now, and if Kong Xianpei has something wrong with him
, Kong Qingrong must be carried back to Qufu for burial, and he will not be able to leave for a while.
Qianlong was a little dissatisfied after hearing this, but he had no good solution. He pondered for a moment and then asked: "How are things going in Quzhou?"
He Shen said: "Ji Qing is still thinking of a way. I have already told him that before the end of the year, we must ask Nanzong to hand over the Kaimu statue no matter what, and the Fubiao soldiers and horses will secretly send it to Xi'an."
Qianlong shook his head and said: "Although Ji Qing is a member of the clan, he is too loyal and pedantic, so he cannot handle this matter. This matter is of great importance, so we should let Wulana, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, handle it secretly. I will issue a secret order, please let Shang Yu take care of it."
The people also went over to cooperate.”
"嗻!"
What the two men were talking about was the regular wooden statue of Confucius and his wife enshrined in the Confucius Temple in Quzhou, which was an heirloom of the Confucius family. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, when the Jin soldiers invaded the south, Kong Duanyou, the then Duke of Yansheng, fled to Hangzhou with the regular wooden statue. Later,
Settled in Quzhou, Nan Confucius has since flourished. Although it passed through the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the regular wooden statue has remained in the Confucius Temple in Quzhou.
Even though they were just two wooden statues, they had great appeal to scholars all over the world. Qianlong felt that as long as he got the wooden statues and added Yan Shenggong, Beihai Town would not be able to convince the scholars all over the world. The orthodoxy of Confucianism was still in Manchuria.
Clear your hands.
"Master, I have one more thing to do. The Ministry of Rites has drafted A Zhongtang's posthumous title and I respectfully request the Holy Judge."
"The imperial court has lost another beam..." Qianlong got up and got off the Kang, strolling in the palace, looking at the ground quietly, then turning to look at the heavy snow outside the window, and after a long time he said: "What is the decision?"
"Wen Xiang."
Two years ago, Agui led his troops to Khalkha and fought against Fan Tong. After returning to Beijing, he was bedridden. After more than a year of treatment, Qianlong sent imperial doctors to the clinic many times for treatment, and he improved slightly.
, on the first day of this year, he entered the palace accompanied by his grandson to express his gratitude. Qianlong originally wanted to wait for him to recuperate for a few more days, and then sent him to Xi'an to assist Yong Yan.
Unexpectedly, when the news that Zhao Xin once again forced the court to take southern Tibet and Myanmar came out, Agui immediately spat out blood and fell ill. He had followed Fu Heng on the expedition to Myanmar, and he knew how dangerous it was; thinking about Tangtang
The Qing Dynasty was actually forced to go to the smog-stricken land to survive, and they were filled with hatred and anger.
Just over a month later, this important official of the Qianlong Dynasty who once mounted the army to govern the army and dismounted to govern the people, and had his portrait painted in Ziguang Pavilion four times, finally failed to survive and passed away two days ago at the age of seventy-six.
The posthumous title of "Wen Xiang" is no longer low. It is said that the land is virtuous and the armor is labor-intensive, so it is called "Xiang". In his life, Agui led the army to conquer the east and west many times, conquering Jinchuan and Jinchuan, pacifying Hezhuo and Burma, and supervising the divisions of Shaanxi and Gansu.
Back to chaos. Of course, I also played two games with Beihai Town, and ended up with a huge defeat, which became a stain that cannot be erased in my life.
Qianlong pondered for a moment and felt that it was still too light. He then said: "Let's give him the posthumous title Wenzhong. Agui's ability is not only martial arts, he cares about his country and his family, and he is honest and fair. He deserves it!"
As Qianlong spoke, he walked slowly to the case, dipped a pen in cinnabar and wrote on the paper, then handed it to He Shen.
He Shen took it with an expressionless face, feeling quite uncomfortable. You must know that since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, only two people have received the posthumous title of "Wenzhong". One is Sony, a veteran of the Shunzhi Dynasty, and the other is Fu Heng. Aguihe
How capable he was, in Qianlong's mind he was even comparable to Fu Heng.
But he soon felt relieved. The two of them had been fighting openly and secretly for more than ten years, and now that they were gone, there was no need to dwell on the posthumous title. The key was to quickly gather what Agui left behind.
"Kneel down in peace! Drop by to see Na Yancheng and tell him not to come over to thank you until the funeral is over."