Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

After Lin Guoan became seriously ill, these people were led by Kong Youde's son-in-law Sun Yanling.

The other half are the Northwest soldiers of Ma Jiaolin, the training leader of the Northwest Guyuan Regiment who defected to the Qing Dynasty during the Shunzhi period. Most of them are followers of Tianfang, or fellow villagers in the Northwest...the cohesion is very strong!

After Ma Jiaolin's death, they followed Ma Jiaolin's adopted son Ma Xiong.And after Ma Xiong got the post of admiral in Guangxi after the death of Lin Guoan, he became the second in command of the Qing army in Guangxi.

Kong Sizhen burns incense and worships Buddha, and she is a woman, so of course there is a gap between her and Ma Xiong's subordinates.Therefore, her fifteen assistant leaders still had to be recruited from the army under the command of Guangxi general Sun Yanling and Ding Yu... This was tantamount to gouging out Sun Yanling's flesh and building a team for Kong Sizhen!

Moreover, these fifteen assistant leaders are still the Banner Army, so it is not only about recruiting people, but also occupying land for them in the outer circle of Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi, building a fan village, and recruiting some people to be Banner slaves.

It was really costly and laborious, and it made the surroundings of Guilin very noisy. It didn't take until late June to pull up the fifteen flag troops led by the assistants, and to replenish the flag with the green battalion soldiers under him.

The news of Sun Yanling's capture of slaves in the Guilin enclosure also spread to Beijing during this process, and a censor named Ma Dashi even impeached Sun Yanling because of this. This task is really thankless!

And the most embarrassing thing for Sun Yanling is that his princess wife is very hard to serve!

This Kong Sizhen is more than ten times harder to serve than Princess Jianning of Wu Yingxiong's family... Princess Jianning lost her parents when she was young, and married Wu Yingxiong who was in his early twenties at the age of twelve or thirteen. Yes, and I don't have much in mind, so I let Wu Yingxiong manipulate me.But this Kong Sizhen grew up with Kong Youde's army. He is familiar with riding and shooting, is proficient in military affairs, and has a strong personality. He is a tigress!

Moreover, she was sent by the Empress Dowager Bumbutai to be a first-class bodyguard for a period of time, responsible for "defending" Emperor Shunzhi, and almost became Emperor Shunzhi's concubine.

After marrying Sun Yanling, Kong Sizhen didn't know how to restrain herself, and took her husband as a subordinate to command.But Sun Yanling still didn't dare to provoke this tigress who only had a backstage, so he had to suffer for several years.It was not until the fourth year of Kangxi that the tigress was coaxed well, and he walked the path of the empress dowager for him, made him a general of Guangxi, and finally ate a mouthful of delicious soft rice.

After becoming a Guangxi general, Sun Yanling began to turn himself in and "bully" the tigress Kong Sizhen... When he was "bullying" happily, that Emperor Kangxi didn't know what to think, but he was being bullied, and he was still suffering. The indescribable Kong Sizhen "sent" three thousand bannermen plus the title of Princess Heshuo Dingnan, as if he regarded her as the "Female Dingnan King".

Perhaps Emperor Kangxi didn't know that there was such a species as tigress in the world, even a real tigress would have to become a kitten in the harem of Emperor Kangxi who was a tiger hunter!

In Kangxi's view, as long as he promotes Kong Sizhen, he can greatly encourage "soft rice lover" Sun Yanling, and let him see that there is a further hope of becoming Dingnan King...

And even if Sun Yanling had 1 unwillingness in his heart, he could only follow the imperial decree of Emperor Kangxi.This is "the soft rice bestowed by the emperor", no matter how unpalatable it is, you have to eat it, and you have to shout "really delicious" while eating.

So after more than two months of hard work, Sun Yanling finally helped the tigress Three Thousand Banners to stand in a daze.On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, he led the [-] troops of himself and Kong Sizhen, plus the [-] troops of Ma Xiong, the admiral of Guangxi, for a total of [-] troops, and took the Xijiang waterway to Gaoyao City, the first county in Zhaoqing Prefecture!

At this time, Gaoyao County, which is surrounded by the Xijiang River on three sides, has a difficult terrain and has become the most important stronghold of the Qing Dynasty in the west of Guangzhou City.

This was originally the residence of Jin Guangzu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. When Shang Kexi and Liu Bingquan left Guangzhou for the Eastern Expedition, Jin Guangzu did not leave with him, but stayed in Gaoyao, the capital of Zhaoqing Prefecture.

Most of Jin Guangzu's supervisors also stayed in Gaoyao City. Later, Shang Zhixin sent Shang Keai to lead a cavalry to Gaoyao, which further strengthened the strength of Gaoyao City.

After that, Jin Guangzu took advantage of the fall of Guangzhou to take in some of the Banner Army and Green Battalion soldiers who escaped from Guangzhou.

Later, Jin Guangzu also used the governor's token to transfer the chief soldier Zu Zeqing and his [-] Green Battalion soldiers from Gaozhou Prefecture.

Now Sun Yanling, Kong Sizhen, and Ma Xiong have brought another [-] troops, bringing the total number of Qing troops gathered in Gaoyao County to nearly [-]!

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"...Counting these, there are at least 5000 Qing troops on the side of Zhaoqing Mansion! On the other side of Shaozhou Mansion, there are several hundred banner troops from Duke Xushun's Mansion, more than a thousand regiments withdrawn from Chaozhou, and some from Guangzhou. There are more than [-] people, and the three or four thousand green battalion soldiers from Hunan, totaling five or six thousand. In Huizhou Prefecture, there are more than ten thousand troops with an admiral and two general soldiers. Just these alone, I am afraid that there are more than [-] people!"

Standing on the city wall of Gaoyao County, watching the mighty fleet of ships approaching on the water of the Xijiang River, and counting the number of Qing troops around Guangzhou with his fingers, this is none other than Liu Xuanchu, Wu Sangui's military advisor.

And the one who listened to his counting was Yang Qilong, Zhu Heqi's right deputy military adviser!

These two military advisers are now on Emperor Kangxi's blacklist, and Jin Guangzu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, has also received Kangxi's court post to arrest them secretly.

However, these two were brave enough, they just put on the mandarin coats of the green battalion military officers, and followed Zu Zeqing into Gaoyao City grandiosely.

Still standing on the city wall, watching Sun Yanling and Kong Sizhen's army arrive!

"Did Sun Yanling and Kong Sizhen bring all the soldiers from Guangxi?" Yang Qilong said, "These soldiers were originally used to constrain King Pingxi... Now that they have all come to Guangdong, can King Pingxi follow the order to raise troops to serve the king?"

"Of course!" Liu Xuanchu laughed, "Zu Lianggeng brought the prince's secret letter...the prince has already decided to raise troops."

In fact, he only spoke half of what he said, and Wu Sangui has made up his mind...but it's hard to say how much, maybe only a little bit.

"Really?" Yang Qilong was overjoyed when he heard the words, "When will you raise your troops?"

"It wasn't mentioned in the letter," Liu Xuanchu said, "but the prince asked me to go to Guangzhou to pay a visit to His Royal Highness Prince Ding on his behalf."

"Okay!" Yang Qilong said with a smile, "I happen to be planning to go back to Guangzhou too, Mr. Liu might as well take this trip with me."

"Okay!" Liu Xuanchu said with a smile, "I can't wait to ask for it!"

Chapter 186 The Guangzhou Base

When Liu Xuanchu and Yang Qilong were about to leave for Guangzhou, Zhu Heqi was looking at a map in the East Study Room of Xingshizi Mansion in Guangzhou City.

The so-called Xingshizi Mansion is actually the subcolon of Jieyang Shizi Mansion.It is also the power center of the "Guangzhou Base".

Now the third prince Zhu is still "happy" in Jieyang, so Zhu Heqi, the sage son, has the final say on Guangzhou.And to manage the bases of the eleven counties, of course a larger yamen is needed, and this yamen is the Xingshizi Mansion!

Zhu Heqi's Xingshizi Mansion was located in the original Shang Zhixin's Shizi Mansion, which was the Jingnan Prince's Mansion earlier, and it was a quite luxurious mansion.The area is large and there are enough houses.

Zhu Da Shizi's Xingfu didn't need so many houses, so he put his own army town, Jinyi's army camp school, and Zhuge's military division's military division's mansion in this Xingshizi's mansion.

In addition, Zhu Heqi Zhu Dashengren also opened a hospital and a small pharmaceutical factory to produce allicin by distillation in Xingshizi Mansion.Hand it over to Daboling and Aoi Saiwu, so that he can continue to be his great sage who cures diseases and saves lives while taking care of the affairs of Xingshizifu.

Now Zhu Heqi is not only Prince Ding's son, Zhongshu Ling, Jin Yiwei Commander, and former Confucian scholar, he is also a Confucian Zhu sage!

This is the existence that can add a "zi" after the last name!

And when a sage governs a country, of course he must convince people with virtue.Therefore, after capturing the capital city of Guangzhou, Zhu Heqi did not wantonly expand to the surrounding areas, but first implemented a virtuous government.

Of course, it also occupied some territory, occupying Conghua County and Zengcheng County to the north, Dongguan County and Xinning County to the east, Sanshui County to the west, and Xinning and Heshan Counties to the south.In addition to the four counties of Shunde, Xiangshan, Panyu, and Nanhai that were occupied on the way to Guangzhou, they controlled a total of eleven counties.

These are the eleven counties in the Pearl River Delta!

Although Shang Kexi has been messing around for more than 20 years, the total population of these eleven counties still exceeds 120 million!

On average, each county has a population of more than 20—Yanping County Wang Zhengjing has a Han population of only [-] in Taiwan, which is only equivalent to two counties in the Pearl River Delta.

Da Laohui only has a population of 10,000+ in Chaozhou, which is only equivalent to a county in the Pearl River Delta.

Just by counting the population, one can imagine how big Zhu Heqi's victory in Guangzhou Mansion is!

However, with a population of over one million, the difficulty of management and control has increased many times.

Originally, Zhu Heqi managed tens of thousands of people and dozens of township capitals on Jieyang Island.But now we have to manage more than 100 million people... That's dozens of villages and thousands of townships!

Not to mention extending the tentacles of the regime to every township below, organizing these more than 100 million people and twisting them into a single rope.Just to find out how many townships there are?What is the population of each township?How much land?and their approximate locations.It is quite a huge project!

Fortunately, Zhu Heqi is now a sage... one hand can penetrate the wall, the other hand is garlic, and there are six major interests such as the collection of nitrate ponds, sugar cane wine, special white sugar, the land of the Pingnan Palace, the land outside the coastal border, and the commercial port of Macau. distribute.They also wiped out Shang Kexi's family, which had the most enemies in Guangdong.Moreover, in the process of capturing Macau and taking control of Guangzhou, 10,000+ strong men and the people of Guangzhou City were brought under the banner, so that they were under the direct management of Xingshizifu.

Otherwise, he really couldn't figure out all these big problems in less than two months.

And now, on the map of Guangfu and Zhaoqing eleven counties placed in front of Zhu Heqi, Zhuge Sanhe, Guo Youde, and Daboling, the names of each township, each city, village and town are clearly marked. , The approximate location of the wharf, the arable land and population of each township.

Such a picture, let alone the Qing Dynasty, even Shang Kexi, who has been in Guangfu for more than [-] years, has never seen it.

"My lord, only Xinhui, Qingyuan, and Longmen counties in the entire Guangzhou prefecture have not yet been recovered, and the remaining ten counties, plus Heshan County in Zhaoqing prefecture, are already under the control of Xing Shizi's prefecture.

According to the results of the inventory, in these eleven counties, there are a total of 38 villages, 180 vassal villages, 58 townships, more than 300 surnames, and three pieces of wasteland outside the border...a total of 110 Dingnan More than [-] people, with a population of more than [-] million, more than [-] million mu of cultivated land, and more than [-] million mu of wasteland that can be easily reclaimed. "

The one who is reporting the situation of the eleven counties to Zhu Heqi is the master Guo who is always "neglected".During this march into Guangfu, he and Da Boling were in charge of the logistics of the three armed forces.Da Boling was in charge of accounts and money, while he was in charge of running errands.The large-scale inspection project in the eleven counties belongs to "miscellaneous work", so Mr. Guo is in charge of it.

"Have you checked everything out?" Zhu Heqi asked again, frowning, as he looked at the piles of ledgers piled up next to the map platform.

"Master, don't worry if you're a nun, I've already asked people to check it carefully, and there won't be too much difference." Guo Youde said quite proudly, "This time, the nun used a combination of self-inspection and mutual inspection by counties. The method is not to let the officials from Chaozhou come forward, but to let the people of Cantonese check it themselves.

The minister asked each county to conduct a self-inspection first, and then randomly selected people from other counties to review.Moreover, the temporary county magistrates and mission officials in each county were all drawn from the neighboring counties of Guangfu and Zhaoqing, as well as the people with military registration in Guangfu.He is familiar with the local situation and has not had too many entanglements with the local area, so he is more effective in handling affairs. "

Guo Shiye said that "people with military registration in Guangfu" refer to the strong men in Guanzhaqianchang and Guangzhou refugees who were enrolled in Zhu Heqi's military registration during the process of Zhu Heqi's entry into the Guangfu—that is, those who were expelled from Guangzhou by Shang Zhixin. proletarians".

These people are now settled in the city of Guangzhou, and they have been incorporated into the military status of the Xingshizifu, and the Xingshizifu is in charge of their food, clothing, housing and transportation. Naturally, they have become Zhu Heqi's best friends.

"It's done well! It's not easy to finish such a difficult task in just over a month!" Zhu Heqi seemed very satisfied, and nodded with a smile, "Guangzhou, Chaozhou, and Hakka have always had Contradictory, if we want to take good care of the fundamentals of Canton Prefecture, we must be able to make peace...and be able to govern Canton Prefecture with people from Canton Prefecture."

In fact, there were not many civilian officials who came from Chaozhou with Zhu and Qi, and they could not take over the eleven counties in the Guangzhou base.

Zhu Heqi was born and raised in Guangdong in his current life, the "Second Generation of Guangzhou Piao", and in his previous life he was a Chaozhou native from generation to generation.So he is very familiar with the grievances and grievances among the three major ethnic groups in Guangdong, the Cantonese, the Hakkas, and the Chaozhou people. Of course, he also knows about the powerful clans under these three major ethnic groups.

He knew that in order to govern Guangdong well, he had to adjust the interests of the three major ethnic groups and the powerful clans below.A bowl of water must be balanced, and not too biased towards Chaozhou people... and Chaozhou people are too good at grouping together. If many Chaozhou people are used to rule Canton from the beginning, then the official circles in Guangfu will be full of Chaozhou people.

That's why he let Mr. Guo, a Tianjin native, be the head of the civil affairs of the Cantonese government, and he also asked him to use a large number of Cantonese natives to manage the affairs of the counties in the Cantonese government.

In addition, if Zhu Heyi and his Xingshizifu want to reconcile the muddy relationship between Guangfu, Chaozhou, and Hakka, they still have to solve two major problems.

One is the land issue.

The second is the issue of academic status.

In history, the struggle among the three major ethnic groups of Cantonese, Chaoshan and Hakka basically revolved around land and student status.

This land issue is an issue of the right to subsistence in an agricultural society!

And student status... that is, the household registration issue related to the imperial examination, of course it is the right to development!

Moreover, Guangdong was still a clan society in the early Qing Dynasty... The clan now is not a festival to worship the ancestors, but a real unit for survival and development.The land in Guangdong is basically collectively owned by the clan, and each clan will set aside a part of the land as a school field for the children of the clan to study and take the imperial examination.

And the children of the clan who have been admitted to fame, of course, have to fight for the interests of the clan and clan.

Therefore, if Zhu and Qi wanted to make a good handle on the more than 300 surnames in Guangfu, they could only start with "land" and "student status".

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi smiled and said to Zhuge Sanhe, Guo Youde, and Daboling: "Since we have already controlled the eleven counties of Guangfu, we can start to manage them now...as long as we can control the ten counties of Guangfu. A county has been governed into a world of great harmony where the world is one, and it is no problem to fight against the Qing Dynasty and revive the Ming Dynasty!"

Military Master Zhuge frowned when he heard this, "My lord, there are so many things to do in governing the country, where should I start?"

"Of course it is education!" Zhu Hechi said, "Education must be done first, and then talents can be found. Once we have talents, we can implement our ideas, and we can get twice the result with half the effort."

Chapter 187

Yongli 26 years, the eighth day of August.

The Nanguan Tianzi Wharf area outside Guangzhou City became a secluded and desolate place after the Qing Dynasty began to implement the sea ban. It was only after the people in Guangzhou City were driven out of the city by Shang Zhixin that it became a little popular.But three months after Zhu Hechi took over Guangzhou, it has become a bustling and dusty place.

There are many mast sails on the wharf and the adjacent Pearl River, including Chinese-style Cantonese boats, Fuchuan, and sand boats, as well as Western-style soft-sailed large ships.

Although the flames of war between the Ming and Qing dynasties raged once again, and the incident of Zhu Heqi hijacking a merchant ship of the British East India Company and attacking Macau almost ignited the flames of war between Ming and Britain and Portugal...but business still needs to be done!

After Zhu Heqi took control of Guangfu, he immediately lifted the sea ban and announced the opening of Guangzhou as a treaty port.In June and July, a group of Portuguese from Macao moved to Guangzhou to live and do business.

In the process of establishing the rule of the eleven counties of Guangfu, Zhu Heqi also spread the technologies of "collecting nitrate", "sugar cane wine", and "special white sugar".Since July, high-grade white sugar and sugarcane wine of various flavors produced in Guangfu have begun to appear in the market in Nanguan, Guangzhou.

This is a huge business opportunity!

Not to mention whether Daming, England, and Portugal will really fight. Even if there is a war, the business will not be done?The English and Portuguese really want to stop doing business, and merchants from other countries will come to do business!

At the same time, Zhu Heqi also used the strong men in the "Xingshizi's Mansion" who were taken in by him, as well as the silver seized when he conquered Macau and Guangzhou, to carry out infrastructure construction inside and outside Guangzhou.

The main projects include expanding the wharf, repairing roads, constructing the Nanguan Commercial Market, Huangpu Commercial Market, Guangzhou Outer City Shopping Mall, opening the Guangzhou Huangpu Island Day Camp and Military Academy, Tiannan Road Law School, and the expansion project of the Sifang Fortress of Yuexiu Mountain, etc. wait.

At the same time, in order to cope with the possible siege of Guangzhou, Zhu Heqi's Xingshizifu also began to hoard grain and grass in Guangzhou.And the iron merchants in Foshan Town controlled by Zhu Heqi also stepped up their reserves of ore and charcoal to prevent the Qing Dynasty from blocking Guangfu.

This is collecting grain at a high price, purchasing wood and stone, and stockpiling iron ore and charcoal. These are all good deals!Can the local businessmen in Guangdong and Guangxi seize the time to make a lot of money?

As for the high-ranking officials in charge of Guangdong's military and political affairs, they seem to have collectively forgotten about the economic blockade. Anyway, the Qing court was a little busy during this period, and it seems that they have forgotten this.And the officials of the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong suffered heavy losses because of the sudden fall of Guangzhou... All the corrupt officials for many years were in vain!

Now, taking advantage of the opportunity that Emperor Kangxi didn't think about launching a blockade, it's a little bit of money!

Therefore, during this period of time, there were actually more merchant ships traveling between the Xijiang, Dongjiang, and Beijiang rivers in Guangdong than when Shang Kexi ruled Guangzhou!

And what businessmen from all over Guangdong and Guangxi saw in Guangzhou, the "first city in the south of the sky" that had just become the land of the revival of the Ming Dynasty, was a world of Datong where the world is one public!

Well, there are placards hanging everywhere, such as "All the world is one society", "Great harmony in the world", "Divide the land, equalize the rich and the poor", "Everyone has food to eat, everyone has books to read, everyone has land to cultivate" ...It looks very public at first glance, very similar!

These placards are also of various kinds, some are wooden signs, some are tattooed on white cloth, and some are written in large characters on the outside of the walls of the houses.

On the side of the new tax card on the wharf, there are still several "Original Confucianists" wearing "Confucius clothes", long swords and grenade hammers hanging from their belts, and bearded.

I saw them carrying copper gongs in their hands, and when they saw someone pass the customs, no matter who it was, they would hit the gong with a "boom" first, and then began to talk about the principles and the policies of the Jieyang court.

"Folks, the sage and the son of the world said that in the future, we want the world to be public, we want great harmony in the world, and we want the original Confucianism to go back..."

"Folks, the sage son said that the newly opened court is a court where all the world is public, and eleven former Confucian scholars share the power!"

"Folks, the sage and son said that after the autumn harvest this year, Guangfu will start to equalize the land. For all the people in Guangfu, males can share [-] acres of land, women and boys can reduce it by half, and girls can reduce it by half. Junzhitian can be held by individuals or clans..."

"Folks, the sage son said that all boys in Guangfu, who are eight years old, must go to school starting next year. The tuition fees will be borne by the school land allocated by the clan, and the imperial court will give the school land tax exemption... "

"Folks, the sage, the son of the world, said that the world is a public, and the great harmony in the world must be preserved by the people of the world. Therefore, all the men in the Juntian households of Guangfu must be soldiers of the whole people!"

"Folks, the sage son said that this winter, the Guangzhou government will hold a big exam, and all scholars can participate..."

Slogans were shouted loudly, and slogans were hung everywhere, but most of the merchants who came and went to and from Guangzhou Tianzi Wharf frowned and looked sad.

Why haven't these profiteers who traveled all over the world seen it?The coasts of Guangdong and Fujian have been chaotic since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and until now the rest of the world is almost at peace, and the coasts of Guangdong and Fujian are still stuck in the chaos of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Which of the profiteers who can work hard in this extended version of the chaotic world is not more ruthless than a wolf and smarter than a monkey?

They can believe that "the world is for the public, and the world is one of great harmony", that's the hell!

As for the restoration of the original Confucianism... Hehe, I don't quite understand it, and I don't even understand it.

Are those bearded men in linen robes, horn scarves, and long swords the original Confucians?People who look like liars and lunatics, can they really succeed if they can fight the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?

If the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu in Guangzhou and Chaozhou messed up again, and the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty came to kill them, Guangzhou and Chaozhou would be slaughtered so that no dogs or chickens would be left behind, right?