"Your Majesty, in the title book jointly signed by Geng Jingzhong, Fan Chengmo, Sebeli, Turshenbo and others, they all recommended a maritime merchant named Chen Fufu, saying that he was the one responsible for the battle of Ruian in western Zhejiang. First achievement. Your Majesty, I think this sea merchant is a talented person and can be used by the imperial court, which is really rare."
"Your Majesty, the title book says that this Fujian maritime merchant is dedicated to serving the imperial court. He first financed the recruitment of a group of maritime warriors, and then proposed a strategy of forming a camp and fighting a stupid battle. He used the method of setting up camp step by step and encircling fortresses. Step by step, they forced Aobai and Wu Sanwei around Ruian County, and finally built the forts and fortresses outside Ruian City, leaving Aobai and Wu Sanwei unable to move. They could only survive under the siege of 20,000 imperial soldiers. Run away from the sea."
Suo'etu and Mingzhu are now in their own party. Although they agree with Kangxi on major matters, they often conflict on small issues. It is rare for them to unanimously recommend a maritime merchant like now.
After all, the Qing Dynasty was engaged in coastal border relocation. In theory, there were no maritime merchants, only pirates, pirates, and pirates!
Two bachelors recommended a pirate merchant together. How much bribe did Chen Fufu give?
Kangxi frowned, a little unhappy: "Suo'etu, Mingzhu, you admire this Chen Fufu so much, do you know him?"
Suo'etu and Mingzhu actually nodded together.
"Your Majesty, this servant indeed knows him."
"Your Majesty, this servant also knows this Chen Fufu."
Kangxi was stunned for a moment and looked at the two people in front of him with some suspicion. Although the Qing Dynasty can now sell officials and titles, it is my business. And how much money did you two receive from the profiteer named Chen?
After Kangxi looked at him like this, Suo'etu and Mingzhu also knew that the young emperor had misunderstood. They didn't confiscate much money from Chen Fufu. Even a few paintings by Tang Bohu were all fakes and worthless.
Uncle Fu took most of it!
Mingzhu quickly explained: "Your Majesty, you have actually met this Chen Fufu before. He first came to Beijing as the steward of Zhou Quanbin, the uncle of Cheng En, and later became involved with brothers Geng Jingzhong and Geng Juzhong. Later, He made friends with King Yu again. When Dongtangzi Hutong opened in Niangan, he found an eighth-grade enshrinement, so he has long been an official of the imperial court. "
Suo'etu added: "Your Majesty, this Chen Fufu is indeed a long-sleeved businessman. Of course he is very good at maneuvering. He is not only friends with Prince Yu and Prince Jingnan, but also with Wang Zhongxiao, Yang Qilong, Yuan Linjing and others, as well as many others. I also have good relations with businessmen in the Young Master’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.”
There seemed to be such a person. Kangxi thought about it carefully and had some impression. It seems that once when I went to Bada Hutong next to Dashilar for a private visit, I met a Fujian scholar next to Fu Quan, named Chen Fufu.
Kangxi finally understood what was going on and said nothing more.
Next, he took the question book from Suo'etu and began to read it carefully.
After reading it, Kangxi's brows furrowed again: "Geng Jingzhong, Fan Chengmo, Sebeli, and Mr. Tour jointly recommended Chen Fufu to be the commander-in-chief of the naval aid town. They also said that as long as I appoint Chen Fufu, he can The merchants who came out to recruit pirates from the Southeast Sea and Taiyuan Island were not all together to steal the Zheng family's business. Is this to suppress bandits or to make a business?"
Mingzhu said: "I think that killing thieves and doing business can be combined into one."
"Really?" Kangxi didn't quite understand, "How do you say this?"
Mingzhu explained: "Your Majesty, think about it, the Zheng pirates have been able to occupy Taiyuan Island and run rampant in the open sea for so many years, not only by profiting from coastal smuggling, but also by gaining from trade with Japan and Southeast Asia. Profit? If all the Zheng family’s business was taken away by the imperial court’s aid to suppress the naval force, wouldn’t the Zheng pirates have no money? If they have no money, they will no longer be arrogant!”
Suo'etu added: "Your Majesty, in fact, the coastal border relocation that the imperial court is still implementing is also to cut off trade and make the Zheng pirates financially unsustainable. But this stupid method is a bit unsustainable now. Now the imperial edict to establish Tianjin Customs Road and Guangdong Customs Road has been issued. Some people in the DPRK and China have proposed to establish Zhejiang Customs Road in Ningbo Prefecture and Fujian Customs Road in Fuzhou. If all four major customs roads are opened, there will be four ports. Trade has begun. If there is no supporting navy town to compete with the Zheng pirates for business, then the Zheng pirates will use the four ports of the imperial court to do even greater business.
In addition, now Obai, Wu Sanwei and their men have escaped by sea, and they should have retreated to coastal islands. If the imperial court does not send out naval reinforcements to hunt them down, once they are allowed to recover, they will invade from the sea again. If the maritime merchants in the southeast sea cannot be used by the court, they may be used by Obai and Wu Sanwei, which will be a big trouble!
Oboi and Wu Sanwei are not Zheng pirates who only know how to fight at sea. In case they take a Southeast Marine merchant ship to go north to Tianmen."
Kangxi was finally frightened!
Now Wu Sangui is about to leave Qishan! If Ao Bai and Wu Sanwei landed at Weihaikou in Tianjin again, would the Qing court still be so resistant?
Thinking of this, Emperor Kangxi had no choice but to nod in agreement: "In that case, then I will agree to what Geng Jingzhong, Fan Chengmo, Sebeli, and Turshen Bo played!"
He thought for a while and then said: "However, this naval town to support the suppression cannot be completely handed over to Chen Fufu. It must be controlled by General Hangzhou. The general military office of the naval town must be located on Zhoushan Island off the coast of Zhejiang. I can now That's all that comes to mind, ask for the Etu and the Pearl, you guys will go back and discuss it with a few bachelors and draft a charter to aid the navy."
"嗻!"
In November of the 10th year of Kangxi's reign, in Lizhou, Hunan, the slender mountains on the south bank of the Lishui River were covered with white snow as in previous years. They looked like the mountains and rivers of the north in winter.
At this time every year, in the Foguang Pavilion on a peak near Jiashan Temple on the southern slope of Jiashan Mountain, there will be a tall, broad-shouldered, bulging cheekbones, full heaven, high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, white eyebrows, and a one-eyed old man. The monk looked at the north with his big, bright eyes, often for most of the sky.
Today, the old monk was still standing alone in Foguang Pavilion, looking at the mountains and rivers covered with snow. After looking at the mountains and rivers covered with white snow for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps stepping on the snow. He did not turn around, but asked in a low voice: "Laishun, is that you?"
"Yes, Grandpa Zu, Grandpa Yihu is here."
The old monk turned around and glanced at the person who was talking to him - this young man with a shaved head, a tall figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing a monk's robe.
"Walk!"
The old monk only said one word, and strode out of the pavilion. Then, stepping on the snow piled on the steps, he walked as fast as flying to the six-door building at the foot of the hillside, covering an area of about five acres, with tall walls and a mountain gate. We walked to Jiashan Temple, which is sturdy and has extraordinary grandeur.
Jiashan Temple has a very long history, which can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty and has been passed down to this day for almost seven or eight hundred years. However, the house in Jiashan Temple in front of you is not handed down from the Tang Dynasty. In the early years of Shunzhi, it was led by the great monk Fengtianyu, who was a one-eyed old monk with a strong body and an "elegant" face who walked swiftly on the snow. The perseverant disciple used profound Buddhist teachings to subdue a group of bandits who were entrenched in the old Jiashan Temple at that time, and then spent huge sums of money to rebuild it.
This merit is beyond words!
When the old monk came down from the Foguang Pavilion on the mountain and walked outside the tall city gate of Jiashan Temple, in the snow outside the mountain gate, there was a group of men wearing bamboo hats, raincoats and waist knives standing solemnly. The men are all a bit older and have unshaven beards. But when they saw the old monk walking quickly, the group of elderly men all knelt down on one knee and shouted in unison: "See you, Your Majesty!"
The old monk stopped and stood in front of the group of men who knelt down to him and called him "Your Majesty." With tears shining in his single eye, he said, "Okay! You are all heroes of Eda Shun Dynasty! Get up." , all get up”
The group of men all stood up, and the leader was a man with sideburns, who looked to be in his fifties, and a very tall man. He looked about the same as the Dharma Protector Vajra statue in the temple, and he took long strides. He walked up to the old monk and bowed: "Your Majesty, Liu Yihu, is here to see you!"
The old monk, known as the "Emperor", stretched out his hand to help the strong man named Liu Yihu, then looked at the strong man in front of him with one eye, and showed a pleased smile: "Okay, what a good tiger." , you are not old yet, and you can still do some earth-shattering things!"
"My lord, you are not old either!"
The old monk shook his head: "Yihu, he is already sixty-six years old, and the whole world knows that Li Zicheng is dead!"
This old monk Fengtianyu turned out to be Li Zicheng, the King of Chuang who broke into Beijing and made the emperor addicted!
It turns out that he did not really die in Jiugong Mountain, but faked his death as a golden cicada escaped from his shell. He hid in Jiashan with his close confidants, occupied Jiashan Temple and became a monk.
However, the fact that he became a monk does not mean that he has seen through the world. He just retreated to advance and created space for his subordinates to cooperate with the Nanming court. After all, the general trend of the world at that time was no longer "the rise and fall of the country" but "the rise and fall of the world"!
Unfortunately, even the backbone of Dashun and Daxi later joined Nanming, and Nanming, which was unable to hold up the wall, could not withstand the Qing's attack.
As for Li Zicheng's remnant party, in addition to the Yanping Palace on Dayu Island and Qiu Hui on the Chaozhou coast, Jiang Sheng on Xiamen Island, Chen Shangchuan on Longmen Island and other maritime merchant forces, they resisted the Qing Dynasty on Chinese soil until the end of the Ming Dynasty. armed
However, the defeat of the Ming Dynasty Duke Li Laiheng (Li Zicheng's grandnephew) who persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty in Maolu Mountain in eastern Kuizhou seven years ago did not mean that Li Zicheng's party members were completely destroyed. It's just that Li Zicheng's remnants are no longer able to hold high the banner of the Ming Dynasty and confront the Qing court. The surviving people gathered in the mountain stronghold where one of Liu Tichun's brothers, Liu Yihu, was stationed. Although they did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, they still put down the banner of the Ming Dynasty. All the men had their hair shaved and braided, and no longer openly resisted the Qing Dynasty.
But no longer openly confronting the Qing Dynasty does not mean that they have really given up. In the original history, Liu Yihu also raised the flag of righteousness during the San Francisco Uprising, launched an uprising on the Sichuan-Chu border, and mobilized thousands of people to attack the county seat. , ended up hitting the knife edge of Chen Shikai and Chen Tietou, who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty. Before they could become big, they failed miserably.
But now, Liu Yihu's "bad luck" seems to be coming!
Because Wu Sangui defeated tens of thousands of Qing troops commanded by Yue Le in Xuzhou Prefecture in southern Sichuan, the Qing forces in Sichuan suffered an avalanche. Chen Shikai, the Qing army originally stationed in Wushan County, ran away before Liu Yihu could raise his flag to rebel.
After Chen Shikai ran away, there was a power vacuum in Wushan County, so Liu Yihu led a group of men to occupy Wushan County without any effort. After taking Wushan County, Liu Yihu did not immediately raise the banner of the Ming Dynasty or seek refuge with Wu Sangui. Instead, he traveled day and night over the mountains and came to Jiashan in Shimen County, Lizhou. He found Li Zicheng, who lived in seclusion here, and wanted to invite him to come out again. Start the Dashun Dynasty!
"Yihu, this is not the place to talk. Come with me." Li Zicheng took Liu Yihu's right hand, and then waved to the group of men standing outside the mountain gate, "You guys can also come into the temple. When we arrive at Jiashan Temple in Er , just like home.”
While talking, Li Zicheng took Liu Yihu into the mountain gate of Jiashan Temple, and then asked his disciple and grandnephew Li Laishun to lead Liu Yihu's men to the Zen room to rest first, and then he led Liu Yihu to the Sutra Collection Pavilion in Jiashan Temple. .
Although it is said to be a Buddhist Scripture Pavilion, there are not many scriptures hidden in it. Only the lower floor of the two-story palace is used for Buddhist scriptures. The second floor is Li Zicheng's bedroom, study room, and a small hall.
Li Zicheng directly led Liu Yihu into his study. There were two thin books on the desk in the study. Liu Yihu glanced at it and then read out the titles in a low voice: "The World is Public", "The Land System of the Heavenly Dynasty" 》.”
Liu Yihu didn't dare to sit down, so he stood beside the desk and asked, "Your Majesty, what kind of book is this?"
"This is an anti-book!" Li Zicheng smiled and sat down. Seeing Liu Yihu still standing, he quickly greeted him, "Sit down, sit down."
"Your Majesty, I'd better stand." Liu Yihu shook his head.
Li Zicheng smiled and said: "Oh, Yihu, our Dashun Dynasty has long been gone, so what kind of emperor is there?"
"Your Majesty, now the opportunity has come again," Liu Yihu said, "We have already captured Wushan County. Your Majesty, please stop being a monk in Jiashan Temple and go to Wushan County with us to do great things!"
Li Zicheng smiled and waved his hand: "If you don't go, Wushan County is not a place where big things can happen. If you don't go, you shouldn't stay there for too long. Besides, it's outdated. You have to use the banner of "Er" to do anything except There is no benefit in making Wu Sangui and Kangxi a formidable enemy."
As he said that, Li Zicheng patted "The World is Public" and "The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom" which were placed on the desk, "Yihu, I got these two anti-book books a few days ago, and I have read them carefully. Good books. Ah! If I had studied more than 20 years earlier, I wouldn’t have affected so many brothers. Yihu, if you want to do a big career, study hard, that’s right.”
"Your Majesty," Liu Yihu looked at Li Zicheng, a little dumbfounded, "This scholar has rebelled, and it will take three years. How can any scholar rebel since ancient times?"
"Why not?" Li Zicheng said, "There are many scholars who have rebelled! Huang Chao, who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty in the early years, was a scholar. Later, Liu Futong and Du Zundao, who opposed the Yuan Dynasty, also read books. Among them, Du Zundao was also an Imperial College student in the Yuan Dynasty. Otherwise, how could they have done it? To write such a traitor as "Three thousand tigers, reaching the land of the secluded swallows; Dragons flying in ninety-five, reopening the sky of the Song Dynasty"? Well, the rebellion did not succeed in the past because there was not enough reading. Once it becomes big, you don't know What should I do? Just do it right there!
Yihu, you can read more counter-narratives and create a counter-attack against him! "
When it came to rebellion, Li Zicheng's spirit soared, and Liu Yihu became even more interested - he originally didn't like reading and studying, but rebellion was his hobby!
"Your Majesty, this book must be good to read, but you'd better tell me first, what should I do next?" Liu Yihu asked.
"Okay, let me tell you," Li Zicheng said, "First of all, don't be afraid of using Wu Sangui's banner, and don't be afraid that the ministers who call themselves Ming Dynasty will rebel this time!"
"What? Using a cover to rebel?" Liu Yihu asked, "What cover did you use to rebel?"
"Borrowing Wu Sangui's shell!" Li Zicheng laughed and said, "Yihu, you must remember that when Ming Taizu rebelled, he used the strategy of accumulating grain, building high walls, and slowly becoming king. He also Borrowing the shell of Han Song and hiding under Liu Futong and Xiao Mingwang to develop their own power. We must use this method now, using Wu Sangui as a shield and letting him stand in front, so that we can develop ourselves. If you play big Under the banner of Shun, can Wu Sangui treat you as one of his own?
In addition, if we want to develop, we cannot establish a base in a place like Wushan with few people and vast land. "
"Why?" Liu Yihu asked.
"Because there are fewer people and more land, there is no way to equalize the land!" Li Zicheng said, "Back then, we shouted the slogan of equalizing the land without grain. But we only did the grain exemption, but ignored the equalization of the land. So, You can pull the team together, but you can't build a solid foundation. You must learn your lesson!"
"Where should we raise our troops?" Liu Yihu asked again.
"Just around Lizhou and Changde!" Li Zicheng said, "Well, I know the situation here. There is a relatively large population here, and wealthy families occupy a lot of land. There are many poor people who have no land, so we can use land equalization to mobilize them.
In addition, Wu Sangui has now captured most of Guizhou, and will soon leave Huguang. You just took the opportunity to raise troops at Shimen to respond, so use Wu Sangui's banner. Wu Sangui has some old brothers under him. Find their way out and ask for a seal. There is nothing wrong with the two state capitals. When you have equalized the land in Lizhou and Changde, you will truly have a foundation and you can wait for the opportunity to expand! "
(End of chapter)
