Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

The Battle of Jieyang seemed to frighten the Qing army in Guangdong. Although the commander of the Shang family over Mianhu village was replaced by Shang Zhixiao, this guy seemed to be more timid than Shang Zhixin, lying on Mianhu village without moving.

Yan Ziming, the admiral of Guangdong, lay flat in Puning, Liu Jinzhong, the general soldier of Chaozhou, returned to Haiyang, and the Xushun Gongfu Banner Army led by Deng Guangming and Zhang Mengji lay flat in the upper reaches of Beixi... a circle of flat soldiers, let Zhu San and his son are a little helpless, so they can only "plant the field" first, and make Datong.

But since Chen Shangchuan mentioned this issue, Zhu Heqi wanted to hear his opinion.

Zhu Heqi asked: "Chen Zongbing, in your opinion, how should we deal with the soldiers from Guangdong and Fujian provinces?"

Chen Shangchuan said: "My lord, I suggest that you first build a wooden fence around Jieyang Island, hoard food, grass and gunpowder as a long-term plan, and lure the enemy to encircle you. After Shang Kexi's army arrives, use the partial militia to rely on the camp and fight against the enemy. At the same time, thousands of elites were sent out to join forces with the ministers, and together they took the overseas Qiongzhou Dadao, thinking that it was the foundation of resisting the Qing Dynasty!"

Chapter 081 Do you want Hainan Island or the Pearl River Delta?

What?Taking Hainan Island as the basis for fighting the Qing Dynasty?

Will this work?

Zhu Hechi was very suspicious!Although he knew that there were network time travel novels in his previous life, he hadn't read them much, and of course he didn't know the legend of "Five Hundred Gentlemen in Lingao".So I have no interest in taking Hainan Island as the foundation... What is Hainan Island?International tourist island?

The anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty cannot rely on tourism, but on heavy chemical industries, such as the iron industry in Foshan, the gun factories in Macau, and Zhu Heqi's own sweet powder, black powder and fire salt.

So what Zhu Hechi is thinking about is still the Pearl River Delta!

But it is still gratifying that this big tiger is still squatting in the city of Guangzhou, and Zhu and Qi don't dare to fight Guangzhou... Although his army is very strong, it is still too much to beat Guangzhou with one fight.

But Shang Kexi wants to stay in Guangzhou forever, how will Zhu Hechi open the situation?You can't always hold half a county's territory here in Chaozhou to engage in Datongism, can you?

But Shang Kexi doesn't move, what can Zhu and Qi do?It's not easy to post a message to Shang Kexi, ask him to call Jieyang, right?

When Zhu Heqian was thinking about how to coax Shang Kexi out of Guangzhou, Chen Shangchuan said again: "My lord, in fact, this Qiongzhou mansion is not very bad, although in the early years everyone thought it was the end of the world and exiled criminals." However, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, immigrants from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian have landed on the island, so the population of Han people on the island has continued to grow. Today, the population of Qiongzhou Prefecture is no less than 40 million, probably not in Chaozhou and Huizhou Under it!"

"What?" Zhu Heqi was taken aback, "Why are there so many people in Qiongzhou Mansion?"

Chen Shangchuan smiled wryly when he heard the words: "Master, it's not that there are more people in Qiongzhou Prefecture, but that there are fewer people in other places... Because Qiongzhou is isolated overseas, it is still relatively peaceful in the troubled times when the Ming and Qing Dynasties intersected. It is notoriously a place of dysentery, and Manchurians are not willing to go there, so the people of Qiongzhou were able to escape.

In addition, the Manchurians moved to Hainan Island, but they only built trees around the island, and left a port in Haikou to connect to Leizhou.

Because there are no ports and ships in Qiongzhou Prefecture that can pass through Guangzhou, so as long as we seize the ferry from Haikou from the sea, then the entire island will be mine! "

It turns out that Qiongzhou's notoriety can also bring benefits to the local area... It's all over the world, so the Manchurian uncle is naturally not happy to go, and Shang Kexi is not willing to go there to cause trouble.In case things get worse, the imperial court sends him, King Pingnan, to guard Qiongzhou, will he cry to death?

Therefore, the No. [-] major tossing project of the Qing Dynasty, the coastal relocation of Hainan Island, did not relocate the coastal residents, but surrounded Hainan Island with standing trees for [-] miles.

Although doing so still brings great inconvenience to the lives of the people of Hainan, but after all, there is no need to leave the background of the hometown and leave the family and business.Therefore, the population loss of Hainan Island in recent years is not too big. It just starved to death some fishermen who couldn't go out to sea and were not good at farming... Well, compared with other places, it is really a great grace of the emperor!

Hearing what Chen Shangchuan said, Zhu Heqi became interested.Although Hainan Island is a poor place, the population of 40 to [-] Han Chinese is still very prosperous!

And... children only do multiple-choice questions, and Zhu Hechi is an adult, so he plans to win the Pearl River Delta and Hainan Island together.

There are two questions now, one is when Shang Kexi will come to Chaozhou to die?

The second is Dingwang Mansion, which has a small army and a small land, how can it swallow all the Pearl River Delta and Hainan Island!

Whether or not the Pearl River Delta and Hainan Island can be swallowed is related to how much role the third prince Zhu and his son can play in the future anti-Qing war?

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi turned his head and asked Chen Yonghua: "Mr. Chen, do you think Mr. Chen's strategy of capturing Qiongzhou Mansion is feasible?"

Of course Chen Yonghua supported Chen Shangchuan, after all, Chen Shangchuan was a subordinate of Yanping Palace.

Chen Yonghua turned his head to seek Liu Guoxuan's opinion. Liu Guoxuan is now the owner of Huilai County, but his Huilai County is also trapped in "no one".The situation in Huilai County is similar to that of Chaoyang County. Almost all the land in the county is out of bounds.Only Huilai County has some population, even if they are all owned by Liu Guoxuan, his magistrate is still a bit vain, not to mention that after the official opening of the Jieyang court of Third Prince Zhu, he will be appointed Governor of Guangdong!

So he is also very much in favor of attacking Qiongzhou Mansion!

"Military Master, I think it's okay!" Liu Guoxuan thought for a while, and then said, "Now Qiongzhou Prefecture only has Haikou in Haikou that can lead to the outside of the island... If our army can attack with the power of thunder, we will be able to control the island. The whole island of Qiongzhou is in contact with the outside world. It is gratifying that even if we sit in Guangzhou, it will be difficult to rescue Qiongzhou, and Qiongzhou has a prefecture for me!"

At the end Liu Guoxuan vaguely said "I have", but did not say whether this "I" is Dingwangfu or Yanpingwangfu?

The current Jieyang court is "co-governing by two kings", but the strength of the Yanping Palace is far greater than that of the Ding Palace.Both Qiu Hui and Chen Shangchuan were generals of the Yanping Palace, while the territory of the Ding Palace was only half of Jieyang County, and there were no more than two or three thousand soldiers under his command.

Moreover, although Dingqiong Prefecture is isolated overseas and only contacts the north, it has a large territory, with three states and ten counties under it!

Even if Prince Ding's Mansion goes out with all their strength, it may be difficult to take down Qiongzhou Mansion... and it is impossible for Ding Prince's Mansion to give up the fundamental land of Jieyang Island to attack Qiongzhou Mansion.

After Liu Guoxuan made his statement, it was naturally Qiu Hui's turn to speak. Although the boss Hui was Zhu Hechi's father-in-law, he did not dare to offend Yanping Palace, and he also felt that the third prince Zhu and his son could not reach Qiongzhou Mansion at all... Steady and steady First, swallowing the entire county of Jieyang is the correct route for the third prince Zhu and his son to realize the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty.

So Qiu Hui also smiled and said to Zhu Tianwang and Zhu Heqi: "My father-in-law and son-in-law, I think Qiongzhou Island is developing well! Qiongzhou is very close to Leizhou and has a large population. Gao, Lei, Lian and other prefectures, and even Zhaoqing and the coastal areas of Guangfu, are all under my command, and the fashion is gratifying, how can Mi Sihan care about Jieyang?"

Yeah?Zhu Hexi thought: "This is the opposite! Shang Kexi, even if Mi Sihan doesn't want Qiongzhou Mansion, he won't let the Jieyang court go!"

"Okay!" Zhu Tianwang didn't know whether he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid, so he smiled and said to his son, "Baby boy! Our most important things now are two things, one is your marriage... we have to get it done soon Fourth Miss Qiu got married.

The second is to consolidate the territory of Jieyang... We now say that we have taken Jieyang, but the actual control is only around Jieyang County!We should still fight steadily, expand the territory, and take down as many villages near Jieyang County as possible. "

"What the father said is very true!" Of course, Zhu Heqi also knew that he could not share with the Yanping Palace now... Yanping King Zheng Jing has not agreed to Zhu Heqi's "former Confucian University Scholars System" and "Under Heaven" How about the line of "for the public" and "the great harmony of the world"!

Moreover, Zhu Heqi did need a period of time to pacify and consolidate the Jieyang base area, and expand his military and economic strength.

So Zhu Heqi smiled and asked Qiu Hui, "My father-in-law, my marriage with Shuzhen..."

When this matter was mentioned, Qiu Hui's face became unhappy, and he didn't speak.Chen Yonghua on the side smiled and said: "Chief Qiu... the marriage between Ling Ai and the son of the world, why not set it up in the next year! Liu Guanzhen and I will definitely come back from Taiwan on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month at the latest. We will have a drink first." The wedding ceremony of the son and the concubine, and then the Grand Scholars meeting, to formally establish the new court!"

Now that Chen Yonghua had spoken, Qiu Hui of course went down the steps, and sighed hurriedly: "Then obey Chen Junshi!"

Chapter 082 This is a bourgeois revolution!

Chen Yonghua, Qiu Hui, Liu Guoxuan, and Qiu Rong, the "original Confucian tycoons" and "anti-Qing tycoons", finally left Jieyang County on the Qiu family's bird boat.

Although this meeting did not pass any formal resolutions, it still verbally agreed on a few major events that could change the direction of history!

The first major event was to identify the "plain and brave" "Original Confucianism" as the leader of the anti-Qing revolution, thus directly negating the "modern Confucianism" who shaved his hair and changed clothes and was a running dog for the Tartars.

At first glance, this matter does not seem to matter much. Does "original Confucianism" and "modern Confucianism" have anything to do with ordinary people?

Really!

What is "Confucianism" in Ming and Qing society?He is a scholar-bureaucrat, a village sage, and a leader of the grassroots society.

The grassroots in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were not in the hands of officials or officials, but in the hands of these "Confucian scholars and bureaucrats" who had the right to speak and a large amount of production materials.

In the ten years of Kangxi, most of the Confucian scholars and bureaucrats who mastered the grassroots were loyal dogs of the Qing Dynasty...there were fewer loyal dogs in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, but out of this area, loyal dogs were the absolute mainstream!

If they are not overthrown, it will be difficult for the regime of Zhu and Qi to control the grassroots and the right to speak.Even if he can win the support of a group of intellectuals who support the Ming Dynasty under the banner of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult to completely defeat and criticize "Confucianism today".

Instead of criticizing the current Confucians who shaved their heads and surrendered to captives, it would be difficult for Confucian scholars and bureaucrats who supported the third prince and grandson of Zhu to have a say, and it would be difficult to completely control the grassroots.

As for the complete abolition of Confucianism...it was almost impossible to replace it with another thought in Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty.Because the roots of Confucianism are rooted in the clan, and Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty had relatively fierce struggles between the government and the people because of the coastal relocation and the brutal government of the Qing Dynasty, so most of the people relied on the clan and huddled together for warmth.The patriarchal system and hierarchy that maintain the clan all come from Confucianism. If you want to abolish Confucianism, you have to disintegrate the clan.

Moreover, at this time, there were fewer and more people in Guangdong, so most of the clans were expansionary rather than introverted, and the clans were relatively harmonious and difficult to disintegrate.

Since it is impossible to completely abolish Confucianism, Zhu Heqi can only "reform the system with the help of the ancients", praise the "original Confucianism" and belittle the "modern Confucianism", thereby seizing the moral high ground and the right to speak of Confucianism - "modern Confucianism" puts Confucius Abandoning the clothes and manners of the barbarians, they all became the slaves of the barbarians, and they were bald and braided like the barbarians. Is this still a Confucian scholar? Have you read "The Analects"? What did Confucius say in "The Analects of Confucius Xianwen"?

The Master said: "Wei Guan Zhong, I have been sent to the left lapel!"

Therefore, it is politically incorrect for a modern Confucian who shaves his hair and wears clothes easily to face an old Confucian who wears a cloth and a horn scarf!

Besides, Yuanru still has a sword!And a grenade hammer!

They don't need to be reasonable when they meet Confucians who are shaved and easy to wear. They just draw out their swords and clean up the house for Confucius. No one dares to say that they are doing something wrong!

The second major event agreed at the Jieyang meeting is also extremely important, that is, the establishment of the former Confucian University Scholars Conference as the highest authority of the Jian Guofu.

On the surface, this incident seems to be the beginning of the third prince Zhu and his grandson giving up their supreme power and implementing the virtual monarchy.

But in fact, the supreme power of the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu did not exist in the first place!

The capital of Yanping Palace is much larger than that of Dingwang Palace. The reason why King Ding supervises the country is to use King Ding as a human shield to attract the firepower of the Qing court. How could it be possible to really let a King Ding who is not sure whether it is true or not be in power?

Therefore, it is almost the most ideal rule of the power game that the scholars of the eleventh university hold the power together. It can not only avoid the conflict between Dingwangfu and Yanpingwangfu for the highest power of "option".

Moreover, after the balance of strength between the two parties has changed, the transfer of the highest power can be completed by adjusting the number of grand masters each has, so as to avoid unnecessary mergers.

In addition, the number of bachelors is small, only 11, which also ensures the efficiency of this decision-making mechanism and will not turn into a wrangling meeting.

And the third event that can change history is the establishment of the three equals of "equal land, equal tax, and equal service", as well as the development route of promoting industry and commerce and the equality of the four peoples.

At first glance, this approach seems to be a "great average", which is a bit unrealistic and too idealistic.But in reality it was a bourgeois revolution!

Because the essence of "equal land, equal tax, and equal service" is to limit or deprive the feudal landlord class of land occupation, reduce the burden on self-cultivating farmers, and make them invest more financial resources in expanding reproduction—because there are few people in Chaozhou now. With a large amount of land, "rich peasants per capita" can be realized, and the land is generally owned by clan collectives. "Field equalization" does not actually deprive the rich peasants of their land, but just clarifies the property rights and guarantees the collective possession of the land by each clan.

Therefore, "equal land, equal tax, and equal labor" is to protect, not to attack rich peasants.

At the same time as "equal land, equal tax, and equal labor", it is to vigorously develop industry and commerce - if Chaozhou's rich peasant economy wants to do a good job, industry and commerce must be developed.Otherwise, the products of rich peasants cannot be realized, and the rich peasant economy cannot be developed no matter what.

And Zhu Heqi is the most experienced in how to develop Chaozhou's industry and commerce!

His solution is... to set up a factory and start a business.

And it's a big deal. There are five factories in one shot, namely East Factory, West Factory, Inner Factory, North Factory, and South Factory.

The people in charge of these five factories are not called factory directors, managers, or CEOs, but "factory bosses", "dugongs" or "factory ministers"!

It sounds very imposing!

In addition to momentum, these five factories also have very powerful fist products.

Among them, the East Factory is the first of the five factories, because it is a mint and a bank at the same time, a proper "big factory", and it is the director of the factory by Pang Gonggong, the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies.

The full name of Xichang is Xihuo Nitrate Factory, the factory official is Wenbai, and the product is Huo Nitrate.Originally, a batch of nitrate collection ponds were built in Gucheng Village near Haimen Fishing Port. After Zhu Heqi entered Jieyang County, he immediately followed him. A whole cesspit has been circled... All the human and animal waste in Jieyang County now belongs to Xichang Baichanggong!

The full name of the inner factory is the inner gunpowder factory, the factory official is the little father-in-law Pang Siming, and the product is granular black gunpowder!

In addition, he was also responsible for training the pharmacists who prepared the sugar medicine before the battle—the sugar medicine was too easy to be damp, so it could not be stored for a long time, so it could only be prepared before the battle.Moreover, preparing sugar medicine is a handicraft. If one accidentally blows himself up, it will be a lot of fun.So every pharmacist must receive strict training!

Nanchang is also known as South Weapon Factory, and the factory official is Zhuge Xiucai, the son of Zhuge's military adviser... "Xiucai" is his nickname, his original name is Zhuge Zhengyang, he is not very old, he is a little black fat man of seventeen or eighteen years old, Before, he had been going to school with his mother in Dahao, and after Zhu Heqi captured Jieyang, he came to do big things with his father, and now he is a "factory owner".Under the guidance of Zhu Heqi and Zhuge Sanhe, he took charge of the "grenade hammer" business that was spun off from Dongchang, and the production of Zhuge machine guns handed down by Zhuge Liang. In fact, it was some bronze casting and carpentry work.

The North Factory, also known as the North Wine Factory, was the last to open among the five factories, and it was also the smallest in scale. It was actually a workshop.The factory minister is Da Boling, who is actually under the direct control of Zhu Hechi.The current products are sugar cane wine and extra-grade white sugar... Sugar cane wine is a wine made from bagasse and waste sugar cakes produced during sugar production. It is similar to the rum that Europeans, especially sailors, love to drink. .The extra-grade white sugar has a more sophisticated decolorization process-not using yellow mud, but fumigation with lime and sulfur to decolorize the white sugar. There is no variegated color, crystal clear, and very beautiful.

Don't underestimate these two things, they are Zhu Heqi's fist products to integrate the townships and clans in Jieyang County!

Chapter 083 Rareness is the most precious thing for the people, and rareness is the foundation for people!

Time flies, and it is approaching the end of the 25th year of Yongli.During the period after the end of the "Jieyang Conference", Zhu Heqi, the eldest son of the Imperial Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, was too busy. Apart from being busy rectifying his Jinyi pro-army, he was worrying about the common people's affairs!

It's really frustrating!

It can be said that no one who came to his position since ancient times loved the people more than him.

Of course, the real reason why he loves the people is not to pretend to be a Confucian scholar these days.But... there are too few people!

Rare is precious!

Of course, rare is the most precious!

Now he really understands Mencius's principle of "the people are the most important and the emperor is the least". When Mencius said this, China was still a warring state!The whole of China only has a population of 2000 to [-] million, but there are many large and small countries.So there are not many people under a king, can it not be expensive?

If the people are gone, who will the king go to?

This is also the case with Zhu Heqi now, the cottage court has opened up.However, there are not many people under the rule of the Shanzhai court, so each one is as precious as the national treasure giant panda.

As soon as the people are precious, Zhu Heqi, the king, will naturally be taken lightly... These days, whenever he is free, he wanders around Jieyang County, and of course he takes Da Boling with him.So during the day, I went to the countryside to mobilize and pull people's heads, and at night, I had to hold hands with Da Boling and work hard to create people. I was so tired that I lost weight!

This is true that the people are the most precious and the king is the least!

Qiaolin, west of Jieyang County, is one of the key areas for Zhu Heqi's activities these days, for three reasons.

One is that this Qiaolin is a large township with a large population, and it also controls the Beixi water transportation, which is very important.

The second is that Qiao Lin is very close to Jieyang County, if they don't take it, it will be difficult when Shang Kexi and the others call.

The third is because Qiao Lin is located in the "vacuum zone" between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhu San did not occupy Qiao Lin, and the Qing army abandoned Qiao Lin and ran away... So for Zhu and Qi, from Qiao Lin Lin Du digs people, earns one for every one he digs!If the Qiao and Lin clans from Qiao Lindu could be dug up on Jieyang Island, the number of "noble people" under Zhu San would increase by more than 2000 at once!

However, Qiao Lin is the head of the two big families, Master Qiao and Lin Xiucai have both been seriously ill recently...Zhu and Qi went there twice with gifts, but they both "did not see each other due to illness".

Of course, they didn't let Zhu Heqi go back empty-handed. They gave them thousands of stones of bagasse—it wasn't what they wanted to give, but Zhu Heqi didn't ask for a generous gift prepared by the other party, and asked for the sugar leftover by name. under the bagasse.

In this era, Guangdong and Fujian were the main white sugar producing areas in the world - because Chinese sugar workers invented the yellow mud decolorization method at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to produce crystalline high-quality white sugar.And this technology has not spread out yet!

So white sugar is almost a specialty of China. Although Europeans and Indians can also produce white sugar through repeated purification methods, the cost is ridiculously high!

Because of the mastery of the unique technique of producing white sugar, and after the chaos in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the population of Guangdong and Fujian decreased sharply, and the conflict between man and land was greatly eased. Therefore, a large amount of land can be used to grow sugar cane, which is used to produce sugarcane with high economic value. White sugar——white sugar is much more expensive than beef these days, a proper luxury!

The bagasse left over from sugar production is useless and can only be thrown away. Zhu Heqi wanted it, but of course they gave it away for nothing...

But how many days can a few thousand stones of bagasse be able to send off the third grandson of Zhu?So before the end of the new year, on a certain day in mid-December, the third grandson of Zhu, dressed in "Confucius clothes", carrying a long sword, a grenade hammer, and a shotgun, led dozens of similarly dressed men to convince others with virtue. .

He first found the Lin family building by the Beixi River—this is Lin Xiucai's house, a newly built circular building surrounded by rammed earth and bricks, two stories high, with many small buildings on the second floor. The windows can be used as shooting holes, and there is a moat outside the enclosure that leads directly to the Beixi River.

Two or three hundred steps to the south of this newly built building, there is an old square rammed earth building. Although it is only one story high, it is also very solidly built. The outer wall is also covered with bricks and fired. hole.

Because this old building is located next to the Lin Family Wharf on the bank of the Beixi River, it was not demolished, but used as a warehouse and the outer stronghold of the Lin family's main building.

When visitors come to visit, they usually settle down in the old building of the Lin family first, and then they are welcomed to the new building of the Lin family.

Zhu Heqi, who visited for the second time, was no exception, and was also waiting for Lin Xiucai to show up outside the old Lin family building.