Why did Tian Da Pao Zhan encourage the emperor's troops to besiege the Prime Minister's Yamen? In fact, even he himself could not figure it out. Later, a Western historian once interviewed him, but Tian Da Pao Zhan couldn't explain it after hemming and hawing for a long time.
In fact, the comrades who know this guy have made it very clear that this guy has a hot temper. He simply cannot stand it because he can't stand the Prime Minister's decree being tampered with and abolished. In his eyes, every word the Prime Minister said is... Imperial decree.
"The Capital Health Regulations enacted by the Prime Minister are not for your own good. The Longxugou renovation plan has given you both face and benefits. A smelly ditch has turned into a bustling commercial street. Isn't this good governance?"
"You are all making a lot of money. The prime minister also arranged for red sleeves to supervise the hygiene of the whole city. You can get a clean and tidy capital for less than a few hundred taels of silver a year. Isn't this a good deal?"
"Are they all a bunch of dirty pigs? They just have to be dirty every day. It's strange to say that since I became a new soldier, I have gradually developed a love for cleanliness. The prime minister forced me to brush my teeth and wash my face every morning and evening. I must wash it once every three days. Take a bath, now I feel completely different from when I was farming..."
"Isn't it okay for the Prime Minister to ask you to be clean now? I'm greedy for a few hundred taels of silver. I...well, I heard that women in Sijiu City don't like to take a bath. Sometimes they only take a bath once or twice a winter. Then How dirty..."
Tian Da Pao Zhan's thinking was very fast. Beside his horse was a long carriage with no end in sight. The emperor's three hundred troops took advantage of the night to leave Guangqumen and march towards Tanggu.
An eventful move by Tian Da's firecrackers and three hundred pro-troops unexpectedly planted a seed of instability within the Manchus. The Manchus were a group, and they were different from other imperial courts established by the Han people. In ancient times, The shadow of the tribal council system during the period has not completely dissipated. The so-called eight kings discussing politics and the iron hat kings participating in politics are all manifestations of this consciousness.
To put it simply, the Aixinjueluo family learned the Han people's idea of the king's power being given by heaven, and used it to consolidate the emperor's supreme authority. However, there was always a group of people within the Eight Banners who did not accept this idea.
When the White Mountains and Black Waters raised troops, everyone was barbecuing and drinking around the fire, discussing important military and state affairs. Why did your Aixinjueluo family stop talking about everyone's opinions when you entered the customs? There are still some people within the Eight Banners who are not convinced. human.
The emperor wanted to centralize power, and the Eight Banners had to decentralize power. With so many rights divided, who had more and who had less, that would be a contradiction. The emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong were too powerful, and all the objections within the Manchus had been suppressed.
But suppressing them for a while cannot suppress them for a lifetime. The Manchus are not like the Han people who have been brainwashed by the idea of emperor supremacy for thousands of years. The wild nature in them is still there two hundred years after they entered the customs. They are still hot-blooded and want to boil a little. .
After Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, although the Eight Banners disciples were still loyal to the emperor, they had more and more small plans of their own, and more and more self-interested behaviors were taken into account by focusing on the small family and forgetting everyone else. By the time of the Guangxu period in the later period, the entire Manchu class They all paid allegiance to the old woman Cixi and forgot who the emperor was.
There is a deeper consideration here. It is not difficult to see the genes of the White Mountains and Black Waters flowing in the blood of the Manchus. In the final analysis, the Manchus are just a collection of small tribes. The idea of centralization and unified power is learned from the Han people. It is in their bones. Li still likes the free and unrestrained tribal life.
Of course, it would be great if tribal life could still enjoy the civilized services provided by the Han people.
The unintentional instigation of Tian Da's firecrackers and the collective actions of the three hundred emperor's soldiers with resentment made the Manchu nobles smell a strong smell of danger.
They would never believe that this conflict was a hot-headed act of a group of children. In their eyes, Captain Tian's actions must have been ordered by either the emperor or the prime minister, and it was more likely the result of a discussion between the two of them.
"The little emperor's trick is to ask for directions. Xiao Letian took him out of the Forbidden City, and his heart naturally became wild. He found that the entire court could not stop his study tour, so his appetite became even greater..."
"Throwing stones to ask for directions, this is asking for directions by throwing stones. Maybe he wants to use this small method to find out where our bottom line is... Maybe he also wants to know who is truly loyal to him..."
"Brilliant, really brilliant. I finally figured it out now. Three hundred guards are three hundred families. Those who obey orders without compromise are naturally loyal ministers in the eyes of the emperor, while those families who cheat on others are very serious. It is obvious that they are only loyal to their own interests, not the emperor..."
"Damn it, the Manchu families in Sijiu City are either too many or too few. These three hundred families are the touchstone..."
Just when the two princes were worried, a deep voice suddenly came from the window, "The problem is not as simple as the princes thought." It was Weng Tonghe who walked in following the voice.
Weng Tonghe, who had gone through the turmoil of the emperor's study tour, spent more than a month recovering in health. Moreover, this turmoil brought him very close to the upper echelons of the Eight Banners, and the original estrangement turned into an alliance.
Judging from the fact that Weng Tonghe can enter the back hall of the Prime Minister's Yamen at will without reporting it, the relationship between the old man and the two princes is already very close.
"Two princes, Xiaguan is resting at home these days. He has not been idle. Instead, he has read "The Journey to the West" written by Xiao Letian over and over again several times. By the way, he also derived some Western knowledge from this book and explored it. I learned a little bit about it…”
"You don't know it by looking at it, but you are shocked when you see it. We all underestimated Xiao Letian before, so we suffered such a big loss. For these 300 families, Xiao Letian used the probability method commonly used in the West, which is mathematics. A category within..."
"I heard the housekeeper say that when there was a conflict outside Guangqumen, only one hundred of the three hundred guards strictly abided by the imperial edict. They gathered together and hid aside and did not participate in the conflict at all, while the remaining two hundred Everyone has been replaced by their families..."
"That is to say, only 33% of the Manchu families in the entire capital are truly loyal to the emperor, which is what we commonly call 33%... Haha, the rest are all fence-sitters, wallflowers, and selfish people. A profitable thing."
"The little emperor used an imperial edict to find out the inner depths of the Eight Banners. He now understands that only 30% of the power in the court is loyal to him... Such a clever way of asking for directions. I believe there will be more such temptations in the future."
Yi? He threw the bowl of tea on the table with a bang. "If the monarch and his ministers are so suspicious of each other, does he still look like a saint? It is difficult to achieve great results in manipulating government affairs with such small means."
But Yixuan shook his head, "Hey... I don't have so much scruples about talking nonsense behind closed doors. The emperor has seen through it. Even though everyone in the court is shouting long live and saying they are loyal to the emperor, who are they actually loyal to?" , it’s not even one-third of an acre of my own land.”
"Zai Chun is only eleven years old, it's not easy to understand such a profound truth."
Weng Tonghe sneered and said, "It wasn't Xiao Letian who instigated it. Otherwise, how could an eleven-year-old child come up with such a vicious plan? Imperial power must be dignified and dignified. It must rely on benevolence to influence ministers. This is what it means to convince people with virtue." …Now that His Majesty has filled Xiao Letian’s mind with a bunch of clever tricks, we ministers will be in bad luck in the future…”
"Hey..." The three of them sighed and finally cursed in unison, "Your bastard Xiao Letian deserves to be killed."
Xiao Letian of Ryukyu didn't even know that he had become the one who took the blame for the little emperor. Oh my conscience, Xiao Letian and Zai Chun didn't think so much about this conflict in the capital. The little emperor just wanted to practice a team of the emperor's own. Just the army.
The Tianda firecrackers and the wanton behavior of a group of children caused a serious sense of crisis within the Eight Banners. A group of guys with ulterior motives began to connect in series, and an alliance to resist the imperial power quietly took shape.
But Xiao Letian doesn't know this now. He has been tortured so much that he can't sleep by an ordinary corruption case in front of him. The case is very simple. Lin Yuanmiao, the Minister of Revenue of Ryukyu, was embezzled.
After Hu Xueyan accepted the emperor's mission and left the military camp, he met the long-famous Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea at the banquet hosted by the old shopkeeper Fan Jian.
Hu Xueyan was shocked when the young and handsome Xiao Letian appeared. He never expected that Xiao Letian was so young. He looked like he was not even over thirty years old. He would have such a big career at such an age. It would be great in the future.
Ordinarily, it is not easy for someone like Hu Xueyan to meet Xiao Letian. Xiao Letian is the prime minister of the East China Sea, the emperor's master, the distinguished guest of the European king, a scholar of Western learning, and a famous military strategist. Open your eyes.
Hu Xueyan and his shopkeepers quickly paid homage, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing. As a result, Xiao Letian pulled them up before their knees even touched the ground.
"It's embarrassing, it's embarrassing. You, Hu Xueyan, are the number one businessman in the south of the Yangtze River. You sell goods all over the world and do things that benefit the country and the people. Although you and I have never met, we have known each other for a long time... This is a family banquet. Don't be too polite. Sit down and have one more drink…”
Xiao Letian's harmonious attitude made Hu Xueyan marvel at how such a high-ranking man could be so respectful to a businessman like him.
"The Prime Minister fell in love by mistake, fell in love by mistake..." At this moment, Xiao Letian suddenly found a person kneeling on the ground. It was Zhang Xiaowen, the second shopkeeper in charge of Ryukyu business under Hu Xueyan.
"Why doesn't this shopkeeper get up? Come on, come on, please sit down without being polite..."
"The Prime Minister is here. I'm kowtowing to the Prime Minister. I have a grievance and I want to talk to the Prime Minister." Zhang Xiaowen's eyes were red.
"Lin Yuanmiao, the minister of household affairs in Ryukyu, ordered the housekeeper to ask for a bribe from Xiao. He actually asked for a bribe of 80,000 silver coins for the reconstruction contract of twenty shops on Liangmi Street... The silk, tea and porcelain trafficked from the south of the Yangtze River were also used. The steward demanded a bribe of more than 20,000 silver coins..."
"Prime Minister, one hundred thousand silver coins is not a small amount. I can no longer explain it to the general manager. However, Lin Yuanmiao is an important minister of Ryukyu. I dare not complain... I can see the Prime Minister today, and I will risk my life. Please Prime Minister Give me some justice, the big shopkeepers are here, and the small accounts are not correct... Wuwuwu."
Hu Xueyan's whole body was soaked with cold sweat. "Zhang Xiaowen... you are crazy, you are so rude. Mr. Lin is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. How could you be greedy for such a small amount of money and not let me go down..."
One hundred thousand silver coins is nothing to Hu Xueyan. If one hundred thousand silver coins can be exchanged for the friendship of a high-ranking official, then this deal is a great deal. Now he has prepared a big gift for Xiao Letian in his sleeve, worth two Jiangnan land deed for one hundred thousand taels of silver.
Zhang Xiaowen looked very shrewd in the past, but why did he lose his mind and go crazy today?
Note: Today's update is a little late. I drank too much yesterday, so I didn't write the code. I wrote this chapter right after I got up in the morning. I'm sorry to everyone.
Sigh... My body is getting worse day by day. I obviously didn't drink too much, but my body is also very uncomfortable. I have many dreams, fatigue, dizziness, and a little palpitation. It seems that my blood pressure has been a little high recently...
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