On the surface, Wang Zhongxiao's kind reminder seemed to be for Kang Mazi, but in fact it was trying to persuade Kangxi.
As soon as he raised this question, not only the two princes, Fuquan and Chang Ning, looked at Mazidi for answers, but Fei Yanggu and Tong Guowei also looked up at Kangxi, as if waiting for the Qing Dynasty's "Mama Emperor" Genius solution.
If he can't come up with a solution now, his prestige will be greatly reduced!
On the contrary, if Kangxi came up with a solution immediately, then Wang Zhongxiao would have figured out the real trump card of the Qing Dynasty.
Kangxi frowned and remained silent, as if he had encountered a problem.
He had been prepared with both hands. If "Standing the Bear Dou Qi" failed to win quickly this time, he would change his strategy to make it last longer. First try to block the Wu family in the three poor provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and then use all the financial, material, and human resources in the world to slowly consume the Wu family. It will consume him for ten or eight years, and he is not afraid that he will not win.
But he didn't expect that Wu Sangui had become so bad now. He actually used a trick of "faking death to lure the enemy" to trick the Eight Banners soldiers into talking about him, and also instigated almost all the senior officials of the Qing Dynasty in Sichuan to rebel.
The result was that the powerful Eight Banners and the invincible shadows of the Heavenly Soldiers were all wiped out in one fell swoop!
But if anyone thinks that Emperor Kang Mazi is out of options, then it is easy to think.
"Wang Datou," Kangxi had already regained his composure at this time and looked at Wang Zhongxiao with a half-smile, "Do you think that the number of our Eight Banners disciples in the Qing Dynasty is too small and cannot withstand the consumption of the war?"
Wang Zhongxiao said respectfully: "I don't dare. I just witnessed the ferociousness of Wu Ni's army, and everyone was stunned."
Kangxi snorted coldly and interrupted: "Mo Zheng? That's because Wu Sangui is really willing to give benefits! He really gave it this time and directly used the big trick of equalizing the land. But if you think that he is the only one who can really give it , if I don’t really want to give it to you, that would be a big mistake!”
Wang Zhongxiao was stunned: "Does the emperor also want to equalize the land?"
"What kind of land do I have?" Kangxi said with a smile, "I have more tangible benefits than equal land that I can give to you. Even equal land has to be cultivated or rented out by yourself. How troublesome? And the fertile fields of Sichuan are about to be destroyed with a thousand miles of sight. It belongs to Wu Sangui. If I want to imitate him in equalizing land, I will have to offend all the gentry in the world to death! I am a benevolent king and cannot bear to do this."
In fact, Kangxi also had a lot of wasteland in his hands that could be equalized, but most of these wastelands were lands outside the Pass - this was the private land of the Manchu people, and it could not be easily equalized unless it was absolutely necessary. Otherwise, the entire Eight Banners noble group will feel that it has no way out.
The small part of these wastelands was the land abandoned by the coastal provinces due to the relocation of borders and the ban on sea. If Kangxi wanted to touch this part of the land, the Eight Banners nobles would not have any objections.
But these lands are very fragmented, and there are some in the coastal provinces. The officials below are probably staring at such a large piece of profit like wolves!
Moreover, the original ownership of these lands was very complicated. If they were to be "equalized", would the original landowners and the local gentry get involved? But if the fields are not evened out, more rebels will be provoked!
Kangxi, who understood the "difficulty of equalizing land", naturally no longer mentioned the topic of "equalizing land", but changed the topic and said: "I will not imitate Wu Sangui and Tiandi to equalize land, and neither will I in the Qing Dynasty." What's the matter of equalizing land, because the foundation of our Qing Dynasty is the Eight Banners. And my method is to quickly become the Eight Banners' disciples!"
"Become a disciple of the Eight Banners quickly?" Wang Zhongxiao was stunned, "How can this disciple of the Eight Banners become a disciple of the Eight Banners quickly?"
Fuquan didn't understand either, "That's right. It takes ten months to conceive and you can become one. Whether you are a son of the Eight Banners or a sister of the Eight Banners depends on God's will."
Chang Ning just got married recently and already knows a little about having children. He added on the side: "There are also shorter periods. I heard that the newly born little brother in the Xianwang family was only seven months pregnant."
"Ahem," Kangxi coughed, and quickly interrupted his little brother who was talking nonsense, and then said to Wang Zhongxiao, "Big Tou, aren't you and Dad You the disciples of the Eight Banners?"
Wang Zhongxiao understood a little bit, "Does the emperor mean to expand the Eight Banners Han Army?"
Kangxi shook his head. He said calmly: "Isn't Ma Siwen a member of the Han army? Didn't he still vote for Wu Sangui?"
After hearing this, Wang Zhongxiao quickly grabbed his neck and said, "Ma Siwen deserves death!"
Kangxi snorted: "There will be a time when he dies!"
Emperor Xiao Mazi paused, and then said: "But I will not put all the Eight Banners and Han troops into another book just because of Ma Siwen's fault."
"Your Majesty!" Wang Zhongxiao quickly flattered him.
"Brother Imperial," Xiao Changning interrupted at this time and asked, "You haven't said yet how to quickly become a disciple of the Eight Banners?"
Kangxi smiled and said, "See what's so hard about you rushing to become the Eight Banners? Lao Wu, do you think we Eight Banners disciples are really short of people?"
"Isn't there a shortage of people?" Xiao Changning asked, "I heard that there are only more than 50,000 people in Manchuria's Zhenghu banner. Now that thousands of people have disappeared, I am afraid there are only more than 40,000."
"What about the other household?" Kangxi asked, "There are also accounts to open, clothes to wear, and domestic slaves. There are slaves and slaves, slaves and slaves, it's endless!
Fuquan, isn't the Nala family you newly adopted the same family as the Nala family in Xianglan Banner? "
Fuquan nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, her surname is Nala, with the nickname Lan'er."
Kangxi glanced at this handsome brother and said, "Isn't this a quick disciple of the Eight Banners? Oh, are they sisters of the Eight Banners? How can one of his subordinates not have this kind of account opening and new accounts?"
That's true! Wang Zhong said with a filial heart: Yao Qisheng, the Shaoxing master, was a member of the Eight Banners.
Kangxi snorted and said: "In this account, there are slaves of the Eight Banners under the other account, slaves of the slaves under the slaves, and tenants. Adding all these things together, these hundreds of thousands are The population that Qi Zhengding and Bao Yiren can draw out is two to three million!"
Kangxi turned his attention to Wang Zhongxiao again and said calmly: "The reason why the Eight Banners disciples are so sparse is not that there are really no people but that there are not so many errands and there is not so much food and salary to distribute hard-core crops. Now the Eight Banners Disciple Head The number of official hats put together is already much more than the official hats that the Han people in the world can allocate! Even if all the official hats are given to the bannermen, it will not be much more.
Moreover, the little food and salary that the imperial court receives every year is also spent on the Eight Banners disciples. Instead of giving them salaries, military pay, and hard-core crops, even if my Ministry of Internal Affairs spends so much money and food every year, most of them are pretended by the Eight Banners disciples. Into the pocket. If I don't control the quota of the Eight Banners disciples, I will really end up with hundreds of thousands or millions of bannermen. Will the imperial court have so many errands to give them? Can you afford food and salary?
If there are not enough errands and enough food and wages, wouldn't this Eight Banners disciple be the same as the guard soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? If I recruit hundreds of thousands or millions of soldiers, can I defeat Wu Sangui's 100,000 rebels?
Therefore, I cannot expand the number of hundreds of thousands or millions of Eight Banners disciples, but it will be easy for me to make up for the losses I suffered this time in southern Sichuan. When Yue Le and Leer Jin send us the list of the losses of the Eight Banners' new army, I will ask the governor's office of each banner to find a way to select strong men from other households, household members, and domestic slaves to replenish the ranks. . A regular job worth hundreds of thousands can still be maintained! "
Kangxi indeed had a solution!
"Your Majesty!"
Now Fuquan, Chang Ning, Fei Yanggu, and Tong Guowei were relieved, and they all called "Shengming" together.
Although Wang Zhongxiao who raised this question felt a little disappointed, he shouted "Sage" louder than anyone else.
Kangxi glanced at Wang Zhongxiao and said with a smile: "Of course, it is not enough to kill the traitor Wu Sangui with these gentlemen, so I still have to rely on Luying and the Ding, Ping and Jing vassals, including of course Your Ama Wang Fuchen and his new army of green camp."
"I thank the Emperor for my father's great kindness!" Wang Zhongxiao thanked Kangxi while thinking in his mind how to escape to Guangdong?
This Kang Mazi is so wise. If he had stayed in Beijing, he might have figured out that being with a king is like being with a tiger!
At this time, Kangxi sighed again: "But I don't expect a quick victory now. The main reason why I was defeated in the Battle of Southern Sichuan was that I had the idea of a quick victory and wanted to complete my victory in one battle. That's why I fell into Wu Sangui's deception." If I still blindly seek a quick victory by luring the enemy with death, I will be the same as Emperor Chongzhen and Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty."
Hearing Emperor Kangxi mention Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhongxiao had an idea and thought of a "fairy prime minister" named Li Mi, so he quickly said to Kangxi: "Your Majesty, I just thought of a plan to defeat the thief!"
Kangxi smiled and asked, "What's the plan? Let's talk about it."
Wang Zhongxiao said: "The emperor just mentioned Tang Suzong, and the slaves thought of Li Mi's 'counterinsurgency strategy'. At that time, the Anshi rebels occupied Fan Yang in the north and arrived in Chang'an in the west. They were quite powerful, but their strength was quite empty. They gathered in We can still fight together, but if we use them dispersedly and defend the city everywhere, we will be exhausted. How is this situation similar to Wu Sangui's current situation?
The imperial court controlled the central area in the north, Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, and the water town of Huguang in the middle area. How similar was it to the Tang Dynasty court back then?
I remember that Li Mi proposed a method in which the three armies of Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and Suzong would leave Jingxing, enter Hedong and garrison Fufeng respectively, and the three armies would attack alternately and cooperate with each other.
When An Shi rescued the leader, the Tang army attacked the tail; when An Shi rescued the tail, the Tang army attacked the head. This made An Shi's thieves travel thousands of miles and exhausted their lives. However, the Tang army always waited for work. When An Shi's army arrived, they avoided its front and took advantage of its disadvantages. They did not attack the city and did not stop the road. In less than two years, An Shi's thieves would be exhausted. If the Tang army attacked again, they would definitely win a complete victory. , so that the Tang Dynasty can be revived and the disasters of feudal towns can be eliminated.
Your Majesty, I suggest that the imperial court should use the same method to deal with Wu Sangui now. Let the armies of Gansu, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Guangxi adopt the method of defending when thieves advance, advancing when thieves retreat, and harassing thieves when stationed, so that the main force of thieves can be Running back and forth between Hanzhong in northern Sichuan and Yunnan and Guizhou, he fell into exhaustion and was finally dragged to death by the imperial court! "
Kangxi nodded: "Okay! I think so too. But now Wu Sangui is in the limelight and is about to send troops to attack Shaanxi. The Sichuan-Shaanxi army has just experienced a disastrous defeat and may not be able to hold on. In case of Shaanxi-Gansu If there are any mistakes, then Wu Shuke will really become big."
Wang Zhongxiao was waiting for this sentence from Kang Mazi! He immediately said to Kang Mazi: "Your Majesty, as long as I send troops from Guangdong and Guangxi, Wu Sangui will not dare to attack Shaanxi with all his strength. In this way, Prince An and the others can defend the Qinling Mountains and Qishan Mountain."
"Your Ama" Kangxi frowned, "Your Ama just reported a few days ago that all the generals in Guangxi, including Sun Yanling, were colluding with Wu Sangui. There is also an ancestor Zeqing in western Guangdong who is Wu Sangui's cousin! Prince Pingnan's Mansion There is also fierce internal fighting, Shang Kexi is old and comatose, and the vassal affairs were originally handed over to the second son Shang Zhixiao, but now there is a confrontation between Zhixiao and Zhixin in the vassal, and I am afraid it will be difficult to give you much help, Ama."
"Your Majesty," Wang Zhongxiao said, "If your Majesty can trust me, I can go to Guangdong to help my Ama!"
"Do you want to be a general soldier in Guangdong?" Kangxi immediately became wary.
Wang Fuchen has now taken over the errands of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and has also taken on the role of the Governor's pacesetters. Together with the new army he brought to Guangdong, there are already 15,000 troops with military power, which can almost lead to peace and peace. Compared with the feudal lord.
If Wang Zhongxiao goes to Guangdong to serve as the commander-in-chief, then the military strength of Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao and his son will exceed 20,000!
"Your Majesty, I have the audacity to ask for a job in the Shipping Department." Of course Wang Zhongxiao would not be stupid enough to ask Kangxi for military power.
"Business Department?" Kangxi frowned, "You want to open sea trade in Guangdong?"
"Your Majesty!" Wang Zhongxiao said, "The situation in Guangdong and Guangxi must be jointly controlled by my father, Dingnan Gege, and Pingnan Prince, in order to pose a threat to the Yunnan-Guizhou backyard controlled by Wu Shu. But now Dingnan Gege and Pingnan Prince The prince cannot control the situation. To help them control Ding and pacify the two vassals, it seems that they cannot rely on my father's 10,000 new troops to try their best. Otherwise, the Guangdong and Guangxi will start fighting among themselves, and they still deal with Wu Sangui like this? Since we can't use force, Then we can only use silver. And this silver can only come from the market."
"This." Emperor Kangxi frowned, "Let me think about this matter carefully. I am tired, except for Fei Yanggu and Tong Guowei, everyone else should kneel down."
Wang Zhongxiao, Fuquan and Chang Ning knelt down and resigned together. Fei Yanggu and Tong Guowei were the only two people left in Nanxun Pavilion.
Kangxi asked: "There is nothing suspicious about Wang Zhongxiao, right?"
Fei Yanggu knew that this question was asked to him - he was one of the eyes and ears sent by Kangxi to the Shaanxi-Gansu army!
"Your Majesty, this servant has not noticed anything unusual about Wang Zhongxiao."
"What about Lu Yifeng?" Kangxi asked again.
Fei Yanggu said: "Your Majesty, I dare to vouch for Lu Yifeng. This person is definitely not Wu Sangui's creation."
"How can I see it?"
Fei Yanggu said: "If he hadn't been sent by Leerjin to find a boat on the Tuojiang River to build a pontoon bridge, he happened to meet Wang Zhongxiao, King An, and the slaves. King An might have been captured alive by Wu Sangui. The slaves and Wang Zhongxiao might have been detained." In southern Sichuan! If he is from Wu Sangui, there is no reason to help us cross the Tuojiang River."
Kangxi nodded and asked, "Can Shaanxi and Gansu be defended?"
Fei Yanggu said: "Your Majesty, I suggest setting up defenses in Henan and Shanxi!"
Kangxi pondered for a moment and then said to Tong Guowei: "Go and announce that some bachelors and Hanlin bachelors will come to the South Study Room to discuss matters. I want to listen to their opinions."
"Hey!" Tong Guowei responded, got up and left, looking for someone to come to the meeting.
Kangxi watched Tong Guowei leave, and then said to Fei Yanggu: "Fei Yanggu, follow me to Cining Palace and tell the Empress Dowager about Sichuan affairs!"
"嗻!"
When Wang Zhongxiao left the palace and returned to his house in Dafu Lane, Wang Jizhen and Yang Qilong were already waiting for him there.
Wang Jizhen always wanted to be released, but Kangxi kept holding him captive. He was Wang Fuchen's legitimate son and the first choice to be a hostage!
Although Wang Fuchen is now only a feudal lord and not a vassal, it is normal for Kangxi to hand over so many troops to Wang Fuchen and take a hostage.
As for Yang Qilong, now that he has achieved great success, he is already a merchant servant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he is on the same level as the eight famous imperial merchants! Moreover, the eight great imperial merchants were no longer so popular during the Kangxi Dynasty, but Yang Qilong, thanks to his good girl, is really popular now!
Both of them already knew about Wu Sangui's victory, but he didn't look very excited, and his face was a little uncertain.
Seeing Wang Zhongxiao enter the house, Wang Jizhen hurriedly said to his brother: "Second brother! You said that after knowing that Wu Sangui won like that, our unreliable father wouldn't rebel in Guangdong in a hot head?" ?”
This is really hard to say!
Wang Zhongxiao frowned and said: "Brother, don't worry. When I saw the emperor today, I had already hired an errand from the Guangdong Shipping Department. The emperor should be able to get it right. With this errand, I can go to Guangdong to look at things. We are your father. But you can’t rely on me! You have to think of something yourself.”
"Me?" Wang Jizhen asked anxiously, "What can I do? I am now the head of the Ministry of War who cannot control anything."
Of course, his head of the Ministry of War was in name only, but Kangxi's actions could be regarded as giving Wang Fuchen face.
"What about your marriage to that little girl from the Jia family?" Wang Zhongxiao asked, "When will you get married? Can you give me an excuse to go south to Guangdong? The hostage sent by the lord's family can also take his wife back after the wedding."
"This matter is already being handled, and there will be results soon," Yang Qilong said, "Xiao Mi will also help with the pillow breeze. But..."
"But what?" Wang Zhongxiao asked.
Yang Qilong frowned and said, "But if your father and you really rebel in Guangdong, Xiaomi and I are afraid that we will also be implicated."
What? Are you afraid of being implicated? Wang Zhongxiao thought to himself: Are you not planning to make a revolution in Zhili?
Thinking of this, Wang Zhongxiao thought about it and said: "Third brother, this matter is actually easy to handle. When my Guangdong Shipping Company comes down, you can also find a way to set up a Tianjin Shipping Company. Don't stay in Beijing. Once there is Run away from the sea at the slightest sign of trouble!
As for Xiaomi, after all, she is another member of the Nala family, and maybe she will become the official member soon. "
(End of chapter)
