Haidian Town, Wangjiazhuang.
"Wang Zhongxiao, the official of the profession, meets Zhu Futai!"
Wang Zhongxiao heard the news that Zhu Guozhi, Li Lan and Chen Shikai had come to have a wedding banquet. He quickly stopped the secret meeting and then took Master Yu, Wang An and Wang Quan to greet them outside the gate.
This Zhu Guozhi is very famous!
Wang Zhongxiao never expected that this "loyalty of the Qing Dynasty" never went to Yunnan to die, but came to Guangdong to die!
But now is not the time to take his life, so the proper etiquette must still be performed!
Zhu Guozhi smiled and stepped forward to help Wang Zhongxiao, who was bowing to him, and said with a smile: "Shikai, why are you being polite to me? Your customs channel is a problem of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not Guangdong. I can't I can’t control you, and besides, Amama is also the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and is my immediate boss!”
"Futai, you are really out of touch when you say this," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "My Guangdong Customs is not allowed to open on the territory of Xiangshan County? Xiangshan County is not the territory of Guangdong Province? If you don't nod Futai, you are a humble government official. There’s no place to open!”
"Look what you said," Zhu Guozhi said with a smile, "How can I stop you from opening a government office?"
Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said: "What I want from my humble position is not just a place to open an office!"
"What do you want?" Zhu Guozhi asked with interest.
"This is not the place to talk," Wang Zhongxiao said, and he cupped his hands towards Li Lan and Chen Shikai, "Li Junmen and Mr. Chen, let's talk inside!"
The Admiral is from the first rank, and the General Soldier is from the second rank. They are both bigger than the fourth rank Customs Officer. However, the Customs Officer is a civil servant in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the civil servants are higher than the military attachés, so Wang Zhongxiao just pays homage to them.
After Wang Zhongxiao, Li Lan and Chen Shikai bowed to each other, they invited the three visitors into their living room - the area of Haidian Zhuangzi was larger than that of the house in Dafu Lane, and Wang Zhongxiao had his own yard here. . At this moment, happy events were being celebrated elsewhere in Zhuangzi, but it was relatively quiet here.
After everyone sat down separately, Wang An and Wang Quan ordered their servants to serve tea, and then went to help entertain the guests.
Wang Zhongxiao picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, then considered it for a moment, then pointed at Master Yu and said: "Futai, this Master from Zhongdao has already had an official status, and this time he donated an alternate prefect. I think Zhongxiao I wonder if it would be convenient for him to temporarily act as magistrate of Xiangshan County?"
Xiangshan County is a county under Guangzhou Prefecture. It didn't have much business originally. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, a group of Portuguese barbarians came and built a Haao Concession on the seaside of Xiangshan with half rent and half occupation, which became Macau in the future.
Thanks to the Qing Dynasty's coastal border relocation, Haikou elsewhere was almost dead. Because of the Portuguese foreign devils, Hao'ao became the most important foreign trade port of the Qing Dynasty.
With the arrival of Hao'ao, Xiangshan has naturally developed. However, the oil and water of Xiangshan trade has always been pocketed by the Prince of Pingnan. If the magistrate of Xiangshan wants to get involved, most likely he will be like Yao Qisheng and be deceived by Shang Kexi. Use your strength to get off the stage.
Zhu Guozhi gently turned the tea bowl in his hand, thought for a moment, and said: "Shikai, you have to capture Xiangshan in your hands. Of course I can do this conveniently, but King Pingnan is not easy to deal with!"
Of course, Zhu Guozhi would not stand up for the Pingnan Palace. Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao and his son would fight so hard with the Pingnan Palace!
Wang Zhongxiao smiled: "At Pingnan Prince's Mansion, professionalism has its own way. The worst thing is to take more of the foreign barbarians' heads!"
Zhu Guozhi looked at the hot-blooded Wang Zhongxiao and reminded him kindly: "I'm afraid those foreigners are not that easy to talk to, right? And they are in the same group as Nan Huairen from Qintian Prison!"
"Futai, in fact, Nan Huairen was sent by the church in Hao'ao!" Wang Zhongxiao said, "Nan Huairen is a member of the Christian Hao'ao diocese. And the Hao'ao diocese was ordered by the King of Western Portugal and the Roman Christian Church to preside over our The educational affairs of the Qing Dynasty! Shouldn’t this matter be made clearer? Within the four seas, it is not the king’s land, and on the shore of the land, it is the king’s minister! Is Haaoao the king’s land? Is Nan Huairen the king’s minister? "
What are you doing?
Zhu Guozhi was also a little confused by Wang Zhongxiao, so he gave Li Lan a look. Li Lan immediately understood and said: "Brother Shikai, the top priority for Guangdong and Guangxi now should be to invade Yunnan and Guizhou, right?"
Wang Zhongxiao nodded and said with a smile: "Of course! Li Junmen, my father has been working hard on this matter. But now he has encountered a lot of trouble and wants to use money to clear the way, so he asked me to report to the emperor. Please ask for this customs guide."
"Trouble? What trouble?" Li Lan asked.
"Sun Yanling!" Wang Zhongxiao said, "Sun Yanling secretly communicated with Wu Sangui and separated half of Guangxi. He refused to hand over military power and refused to obey the command of the governor of Guangxi and Guangxi! Futai, Junmen, what do you think about this?"
It is splendid, with red walls and heavy doors, and is solemn.
Fu Honglie, the candidate governor of Guangxi, who is almost fifty years old this year, is walking in the majestic Forbidden City with an introduced first-class guard. His mood at this time is really hard to describe!
At his age, of course he had been a member of the Ming Dynasty. He was originally a scholar in Jiangxi, but his reading skills were average. He was not even a scholar until he was in his twenties. If it hadn't been for the great turmoil at the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he would probably have been a down-and-out scholar in his life.
Fortunately, he was not good at reading, but he was very decisive when he turned to the Tatars and became traitors. When the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty just entered Jiangnan, they decisively joined the Qing Dynasty as the leading party. Moreover, he also joined the sect of a Qing Dynasty prince and voluntarily became his servant!
He had heard from others that if he wanted to become one of his own in the Qing Dynasty, he had to raise the flag! But it is difficult for ordinary people to raise the flag in one step. They must first become a slave and then raise the flag. Big figures like Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng first became slaves and then raised their banners.
Therefore, Fu Honglie also wanted to follow in the footsteps of Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng, and decided to start from the coated slaves in a down-to-earth manner. Moreover, Fu Honglie inquired carefully and found out that the servants of the Qing Dynasty's servants were divided into those of the emperor's family and those of the Prince and Baylor families. To become a servant of the emperor's family, one had to go to Beijing. Fu Honglie was short of money at the time and could not raise travel expenses, so he became the slave of King Dingnan through the introduction of a bannerman friend named Wang Guoguang (later the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi) whom he had just met for a few days.
But after he became a slave, he realized that he had made a mistake!
This King Dingnan is not a serious Manchu prince, nor one of the banner lords, but a vassal king! Although the formation of the direct lineage of King Dingnan is the same as that of the banner soldiers, and there are also leaders, assistant leaders, etc. The soldiers are also called banner soldiers, and their treatment is the same as that of the Eight Banners soldiers. However, the fifteen subordinates under King Dingnan's vassal were independent and isolated from the Eight Banners system.
In other words, it is almost impossible for Fu Honglie to be promoted step by step from the Dingnan Palace to the disciple of the Eight Banners. He has become a "banner man" and the establishment is also in the Dingnan Palace. It is impossible to enter the Eight Banners.
This is really a traitor to the Tartars and he surrendered to the wrong place. Fortunately, he did his homework before surrendering to the Tartars, so he surrendered well prepared.
Although Fu Honglie "invested in the wrong Tatar", it is impossible for him to quit and re-invest. If he wants to quit, he will be "escape"! Whether he can escape is another matter, but it is definitely impossible to enter the Qing system again in this life.
However, Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, did a good job in Fu Honglie's "scholar-covering" (he did not have the title of scholar, but Kong Youde still regarded him as a scholar). He did not let him fill trenches or do menial work, but let him do rough work. It seems good for him to be the teacher of his own children!
If nothing unexpected happens, Fu Honglie will become an important minister of Dingfan after Kong Youde's son Kong Tingxun succeeds to the throne, and may even become a court official under Kong Tingxun's recommendation.
But the surprise came soon!
Fu Honglie stayed with Kong Youde in Guilin, Guangxi for only two years, when Li Dingguo came and attacked Guilin in one fell swoop, killing both Kong Youde.
But Fu Honglie is also a good runner. When Guilin was defeated, he ran away with Kong Youde's two children. Later, he ran away from Kong Tingxun, so he had to protect Kong Sizhen with a wet nurse from the Dingnan Palace. A family of three ran away.
Because Fu Honglie was from Jiangxi, and Kong Youde's subordinates were all from the Northeast, so his Jiangxi Mandarin easily deceived Li Dingguo's Shaanxi people, and he hid outside Guilin for a while. After that, he got along with the little girl Kong Sizhen day and night. After a while, he followed him to Beijing and became the butler of the Dingnan Palace in Beijing.
It can be said that he grew up with Kong Sizhen, and watched her grow from a good girl like a white lotus, to being seduced and led astray by Wang Fuchen, a living Lu Bu, and turned into a wanton disgrace. While having a heated fight with the playboy Wang Fuchen, he kept flirting with Emperor Shunzhi, and at the same time flirted with the handsome boy Sun Yanling. But he didn't look at Fu Honglie seriously.
When he thought of the mistress he had seen growing up, Fu Honglie couldn't help but sigh!
"Prefect Fu, don't sigh." The guard introduced at this time had already stood firm outside the Qianqing Gate. He turned around and said to Fu Honglie, "You are here to bid farewell to His Majesty, so you can't look sad!"
Only then did Fu Honglie realize that he had arrived outside the Qianqing Gate, and he would soon see the Emperor Kangxi, the young Mingjun of the Qing Dynasty who had driven away Obai and forced Sangui to rebel.
"I, Fu Honglie, the alternate magistrate of Guangxi, bow to the emperor. Long live the emperor. Long live the emperor."
Fu Honglie was finally introduced into the south study room of Qianqing Palace, and he bowed three times and kowtowed to the man sitting behind the throne.
Kangxi gently touched a jade Ruyi on the desk. This Ruyi was a treasure offered by Yang Qilong of Tianjin Customs Road who had just spent 120,000 taels of silver when he came to the palace to thank him. It was carved from precious white jade. The color is white and green, carved into the shape of porous fungi.
Kangxi liked this jade Ruyi very much and had a much better impression of Yang Qilong, so he agreed on the spot to issue an imperial edict to North Korea, allowing them to open Haizhou Port to trade with the Qing Dynasty, and also set aside a piece of Haizhou Bay suitable for construction The land at the port was given to the Tianjin Customs Road of the Qing Dynasty to build commercial buildings - this was not a humble request, but an imperial edict of the Qing Emperor!
If North Korea dares not to comply, it can use this soft persimmon to establish its authority!
Thinking of this, Kangxi retracted his mind and said in a voice that could not detect joy or anger: "Raise your head!"
Fu Honglie straightened up immediately, his legs still bent, and knelt on a futon.
Kangxi glanced at him: "Well, Fu Honglie, you have been wronged these years. Although I had known for a long time that Wu Sangui was going to rebel, but unfortunately the government was controlled by Ao Bai at that time, and Ao Bai kept raising tigers and causing trouble. That's why today's Southwest Incident happened. , and it also caused you to suffer a lot."
"I don't have to suffer. If I can expose the traitors to the court, I won't hesitate to be broken into pieces!"
Fu Honglie's words sounded nice, but in fact that was not the case at all. The reason why he took part in Wu Sangui's conspiracy was because Obai had already begun to persecute Wu Sangui at that time. He felt that his opportunity to strive for fame had come!
The reason why he wanted to make such a big bet was because he made a mistake when he "voted for Tartar". As the leader of Dingfan, if he didn't sharpen his head and dig in, the prefect would probably be dead.
And when he was the prefect of Qingyang, he had already lost a lot in order to gain a good official reputation.
"Okay!" Kangxi nodded heavily and said with a smile, "I want an official like you. Now I am sending you to the prefect of Guangzhou. Do you dare to accept this assignment?"
Fu Honglie was stunned, Guangzhou Magistrate! How big is this oil and water? If you want to sell it, you will keep the two hundred thousand taels of silver and rush to get it. Why is it your turn?
Thinking of this, Fu Honglie asked uncertainly: "Your Majesty, I am the candidate governor of Guangxi, can I be the governor of Guangzhou?"
Kangxi smiled and said: "You are the alternate prefect of the Qing Dynasty, and I am the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. I asked you to be the prefect of Guangxi before, and you are the alternate prefect of Guangxi.
But I have changed my mind now. I feel that the current prefect of Guangzhou is not very effective and needs to be replaced. I also thought that Guangzhou is the largest city in the south of the world and needs an official who is reliable and capable to manage it. You are quite suitable. You have done a good job when you were in Qingyang. You have managed such a poor place in an orderly manner. It is very good!
Moreover, you are the first official in the DPRK to impeach Wu Sangui. You are so loyal and loyal that you even risk your life. It is really commendable! Therefore, I will give you the job of Guangzhou Magistrate. "
After hearing Kangxi's words, Fu Honglie was ecstatic. This little emperor really wanted to make great use of him!
He quickly kowtowed to Kangxi again and said loudly: "I thank the Lord for your kindness!"
Kangxi smiled and said: "Fu Honglie, don't be too busy thanking me. I'm asking you, do you know how difficult it is to be the prefect of Guangzhou? How are you going to be the prefect of Guangzhou?"
"Your Majesty, of course I know that it is not easy to be the prefect of Guangzhou today!" Fu Honglie replied, "I also know that there are no good prefects in Guangdong and Guangzhou today!"
"Oh, what should I say?" Kangxi asked.
"Your Majesty, the two countries now have a three-legged situation," Fu Honglie said. "Guangxi General Sun Yanling and Guangxi Admiral Ma Xiong are colluding with each other to support their own strength. They are one leg. Dingnan Gege and the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Wang Fuchen have always had good relations. Well, now they have the same spirit and are connected with each other, and they are also one foot; Pingnan Palace has always been prestigious in Guangdong, with a large military and powerful power, and by marrying the princess of Xushun Palace, it also controls the authority of Xushun Palace. This is another One foot is enough.
There are fights and peace among these three legs, and there is me among you, and you among me. The situation is extremely complicated! The prefectures and counties in Guangdong and Guangxi were caught between them, and they were exhausted and at a loss. "
Kangxi nodded, thoughtfully: "But I feel that these three pillars are not enough, and I want to add another one. So I have appointed Zhu Guozhi to patrol Guangdong and Guangxi, Admiral Li Lan to oversee Guangdong, and Chen Shikai to guard Zhaoqing. What do you think?"
Fu Honglie frowned: "The emperor's arrangements are naturally wise. It's just that the ministers are dull and do not quite understand the emperor's intentions."
Kangxi said: "It's not that I can't trust the faith of Monk Wang Fuchen, but I want a foolproof one. At least Guangdong, no, Guangzhou must not make any mistakes! As long as Guangzhou is in hand, the heavens of Guangdong and Guangxi cannot be overturned!"
I know your loyalty, and I also know the loyalty of Dingnan Princess, so I want to hand over Guangzhou to you! After you arrive in Guangzhou, you must keep an eye on Guangzhou together with Zhu Guozhi and Li Lan! did you know? "
"I will definitely live up to the divine grace!" Fu Honglie kowtowed to Kangxi again.
Kangxi nodded with satisfaction and asked again: "Fu Honglie, let me ask you again. If, I mean if, if Dingnangege is controlled by Wang Fuchen, who do you listen to?"
"Listen to the emperor!" Fu Honglie said categorically, "I am a slave of the Qing Dynasty in life, and a ghost of the Qing Dynasty in death!"
"Okay!" Kangxi slapped the table, "What I want is your words. From now on, you will be my slave!"
"Your Majesty." Fu Honglie was so excited that his eyes were filled with tears. Becoming the Emperor's slave!
Doesn’t that mean it’s going to be promoted to Shangsanqi?
Kangxi looked at Fu Honglie, who was about to cry, and said with a smile: "But I can't carry you to the Three Banners for the time being, because I still want you to accept the errand of the Guangzhou Prefecture as the wrapper of Dingnangege Prefecture! If Wang Fuchen If you really try hard to defeat Wu Sangui for me, then you can help him raise more money in Guangzhou, do you understand what I mean?"
Fu Honglie still doesn't understand? Kangxi wanted him to be his eyes and ears to monitor Wang Fuchen!
In addition, the relationship between Kong Sizhen and Wang Fuchen is now very good. If he becomes the prefect of Guangzhou as a subordinate of Kong Sizhen, there will undoubtedly be a feud between Pingfan and Dingfan, and Wang Fuchen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
And Wang Fuchen would naturally regard Guangzhou as a territory that he could get involved in, and would regard Fu Honglie's appointment as the governor of Guangzhou as Kangxi's trust in him!
In this way, Wang Fuchen's aversion to Zhu Guozhi, Li Lan, and Chen Shikai entering Guangdong to grab territory will be greatly reduced.
After all, a Guangzhou Prefecture is “half of Guangdong and Guangxi”!
Moreover, this Guangzhou Prefecture was still a "vacancy upon request", that is to say, it was appointed by Emperor Kangxi, and neither the Governor of Guangdong or Guangdong nor the Governor of Guangdong could intervene.
Therefore, Kangxi gave this vacancy to Fu Honglie, which showed his trust in Wang Fuchen.
(End of chapter)
