"Shikai, do you want to win the magistrates of Xiangshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Xin'an, Shunde, Dongguan, Haifeng, Guishan and other counties?"
"What? Uncle Ba Liu, is it difficult?"
"It's difficult! It's too difficult! Shikai, you are making this easy."
"I have bought six candidate magistrates. If there is a shortage of twelve candidate magistrates, I will let six candidate magistrates work as acting magistrates. Is that okay?"
"It's not that simple. It's really not that simple."
The person who was shaking his head and talking to Wang Zhongxiao in the back garden of the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi in Zhaoqing Prefecture was a "black-faced scholar" in his thirties, with sideburns and a pair of bulging eyes. , looking a bit like a judge on the stage.
This man's surname was Ba and his name was Gangshan. He was Wang Fuchen's sworn brother. He was originally the magistrate of the barren land of Gansu. Later, Wang Fuchen was given a high position by Kangxi, who trained the new army and served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He also benefited from the honor and was recommended by Wang Fuchen to be the prefect of Zhaoqing.
"Shaodongjia, Taishou Ba (one of the honorific titles of the prefects in the Ming and Qing Dynasties) is right. Xiangshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Xin'an, Shunde and Dongguan counties are all prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Guangfu. According to the practice in Guangdong official circles In order to take office, the chief seal officials of the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Guangfu must first pay homage to King Pingnan. If King Pingnan is missing, then the official position will not be accepted. According to the usual practice, Haifeng and Guishan counties are The governor of Guangdong’s question fills the gap.”
What Bagang Shan said next was Yao Qisheng, the master of the Governor's Yamen. The day before yesterday, at Kong Sizhen's place, he did not elaborate on the matter of appointing the magistrate to grab the land - he knew that Wang Fuchen was not very interested in such things. , and Wang Zhongxiao was full of bad ideas, so he probably had a countermeasure already.
Zhou Chang, who arrived in Zhaoqing with Wang Jizhen and others yesterday afternoon, took over the topic and said: "Second Young Master, I also heard about this rule when I was serving as a minister in the cabinet. In Guangdong, the official seal of eleven counties and one state in Zhaoqing is Officials must be given the nod from Zhijun before they can take office. The chief seal officers of the fourteen counties of Guangfu must first pay homage to King Pingnan before taking office. And the chief seal officers of nine counties and one state of Huizhou Prefecture must give the nod of the governor of Guangdong before taking office."
Yu Deshui, who had already bought an alternate prefect, smiled and said: "Second Young Master, why don't we take over the eleven counties and one prefecture of Zhaoqing Prefecture first? The post has been checked, and now there are three counties: Gaoyao, Yangjiang, and Fengchuan." All the county magistrates are vacant, and the magistrate of Deqing Prefecture is also vacant. Your Majesty can completely make the decision. How about acting as an agent for Deqing Prefecture in a humble position?"
After hearing Master Yu's words, Wang Zhongxiao laughed: "Old Yu, you have already set your sights on Deqing Prefecture, right?"
Yu Deshui smiled and said, "I've told you. Most of the prefects in Guangdong have vacancies due to requests for orders. It's not easy for me, the alternate prefect, to fill the gap. I'd better keep it low."
Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said: "If you want to be inferior, don't forget Deqingzhou! Isn't it nice to be the agent of Xiangshan County? Although Deqingzhou is a state, it can't compare with Xiangshan County!"
Deqing was a county in later generations, while Xiangshan was two prefecture-level cities plus a special administrative region!
"I can't take it," Bagangshan shook his head, "The current magistrate of Xiangshan County, Pan Hong, is the official of Pingnan Palace and Xiangshan County is vacant. He was recommended by King Pingnan and took office only after the emperor issued an order. "
"So what?" Wang Zhongxiao smiled, "Just drive him away!"
"Drive, drive away?" Bagangshan was stunned, "How to drive away? Didn't Shikai say we won't fight back for the time being?"
Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said, "We don't need to rush out to catch him."
"Then who comes forward to be this evil person?"
Wang Zhongxiao didn't answer, just smiled and said: "The bad guys will come soon!"
He then changed the subject and asked: "Uncle Ba Liu, how are our Reform Academy and Jingwu Hall doing? Can you go and take a look today?"
Bagangshan said: "The Reform Academy is very prosperous. The academy is located in the city, at the former site of Xingyan Academy founded by Bao Longtu. Because there are great scholars from Zhejiang teaching, it is run by the Governor's Yamen, and Master Yao leads The masters of the Sixth Section of the Governor's Yamen lecture on the art of managing the world and applying it, so many scholars from Guangfu and Zhaoqing come here because of their reputation, and now they have admitted hundreds of students."
In the Qing Dynasty, due to the great literary inquisition and "it was too difficult to become an official", all places were devastated, and the enthusiasm for private schools was also very low. The lower-level private schools were better, and the higher-level academies, except for the official background, were They are all the hardest hit areas of word search jails!
And there will always be something there if you check it in the text prison! Even if there is no powerful information such as "The Theory of the World is Public" and "The Land System of the Heavenly Dynasty", "Qingfeng is illiterate, why is he flipping through the book randomly", or has he not avoided the taboos of Kang Mazi, Mazi's dad, Mazi's master, and Mazi's Taiye, You can still set up a literary prison.
Therefore, high-level private academies in various places have closed down. It is too difficult for scholars to improve their intellectual horizons.
However, the newly opened Reform Academy in Zhaoqing Prefecture is endorsed by the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi!
Who dares to check, then they have to ask if the 16,000 Green Camp soldiers under Wang Zhijun will agree?
"As for the Jingwu Hall," Bagangshan added, "all the students in the first phase have already taken up their posts in the team, and the total number of students in the second phase has just been recruited. A total of 360 people have been recruited. At present, Training with the team."
"Who are they recruiting?"
Bagangshan said: "Half of them are the nephews of the military attachés. Some are in our team, some are in the Dingnangege team, and the other half are strong young men from Guangdong. They are all from wealthy families in Zhaoqing, Luoding, and Guangfu." Children."
Yao Qisheng, who was next to him, was still afraid that Wang Zhongxiao would not understand, so he added: "Second Young Master, the clans in Guangdong are very powerful, and the local and foreign clans often fight with each other, so many of the rich clansmen practice martial arts and fight and kill each other. I am quite interested. Therefore, there are many martial arts schools in Zhaoqing, Guangfu and other places. Since our Jingwu School opened, it has been kicked out seven or eight times!"
"Haha, someone kicked him out of the military academy?" Wang Zhongxiao was amused by this. This was the first time he heard about it.
He was not angry, but asked with a smile: "Are we losing or winning?"
"Of course we won! Our people all have real skills, it's not like the martial arts people here in Guangdong are just showing off their tricks." Bagangshan said with a smile, "So our Jingwu School has already established its name in Guangdong. It's famous. More and more apprentices are coming, and we can’t even recruit them. My father had no choice but to open the outer door, and accepted hundreds of apprentices, specializing in teaching guns, sticks, and swords."
In fact, it’s not that the “masters” of Jingwu Hall are good at Kung Fu, but that Jingwu Hall is about “weapons”. The “martial arts courses” include spears, swords, crossbows, shotguns, and red cannons. Guangdong Province No matter how hard the martial artists fight, you can't win!
And those Guangdong martial arts masters who come to kick the gym can't forcefully compete with the samurai who use big guns to compete with Foshan Wuying Kung, right? If the other party uses equipment, they must also use equipment! But how can those who play with tools compare to those who fight professionally?
So the brand name of Jingwu Academy quickly grew!
"This is a beautiful thing!" Wang Zhongxiao suddenly became interested, stood up and said to the people in front of him, "Let's go and have a look together. First go to the Jingwu Academy, and then to the Reform Academy."
The current capital of Guangzhou, like Fuzhou City and Beijing City, is separated into "banner" and "banner" cities. However, the "banner city" in Guangzhou is not populated by children of the Eight Banners, but "children of Shangqi", who are under the command of Shang Kexi. The fifteen disciples of Zuoling and their family members and slaves.
Of course there are a lot of people, almost 200,000, tens of thousands more than the people in Geng Wangzhuang, Fuzhou!
This is natural, because Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi is a stallion himself. In these years in Guangdong, apart from doing bad things, he has given birth to countless sons and daughters, and there are more than a hundred who are still alive. Above, as for the grandchildren, they have already passed a thousand!
How can he lead by example and work tirelessly? How can those under him not work hard?
And there is so much oil and water in Guangdong! We can afford to support more people.
Guangfu alone can rival one or even two poor provinces in the north!
In addition, Shang Kexi has done many bad things in Guangdong in recent years. First, he massacred Guangzhou, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and completely emptied the capital of Guangzhou! Later, under the orders of Obai, a large-scale coastal border relocation was carried out. It would take twenty miles to move somewhere else, but it would be fifty or even a hundred miles to him, and the means of moving the border were extremely violent. They would directly send troops there and give them a three-day deadline to move, without asking where they would move to or whether they would be hungry after moving. die?
Anyway, if you don’t leave by then, the Shang family’s soldiers will kill people!
With this approach, the originally densely populated coastal areas of Guangdong have been transformed by Shang Kexi into sparsely populated Baidi. The descendants of the old Shang family are not afraid that they will have no place to settle!
However, Shang Kexi's rebellious behavior has not affected the income of Prince Pingnan's palace. In fact, this income has been increasing year by year and is growing well!
This is because with the massacre and relocation along the coast of Guangdong, it will be difficult to carry out foreign trade.
Originally, there were tens of thousands of Han maritime merchant ships swarming around the coastal ports. It was difficult for Shang Kexi to collect taxes. Moreover, he was not qualified to collect this tax even after Ping Nan Wang.
But now that there are no people along the coast of Guangdong, neither Han merchants nor Western merchants can move around. And when Shang Kexi was carrying out a large-scale coastal relocation, there was still a gap left, that is, the Haoao Portuguese people in Xiangshan, Guangdong did not move.
In this way, Guangdong's foreign trade was concentrated in Hao'ao (later there was a small opening in Dahao, but it was much worse than Hao'ao), which was easy to control.
Shang Kexi used the prospect of relocating along the coast to become foreign slaves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to scare the Portuguese in Hao'ao; at the same time, he privately opened the Xiangshan Mutual Market to engage in legal smuggling. This business was almost exhausted.
Relying on the money brought in by legal smuggling, the inner city of Guangzhou, which was once completely slaughtered by Shang Kexi, is now developing more and more prosperously. There are new big houses everywhere, and the Pingfan slaves and family members who come and go on the streets can also support themselves. She is white and fat, and wears silk and satin casually on her body. It is really in sharp contrast to the outer city of Guangzhou, which is full of shabby beggars and looks like a slum!
As for the two palaces in the outer city of Guangzhou, they are even more beautifully built, as if they are palaces in the sky - one of the two palaces is the delightful Pingnan Palace, and the other was originally Geng Jimao's Jingnan Palace, which is now It belongs to Shang Zhixin, who just came to Guangdong to take power.
Although the palace is luxurious, Shang Kexi does not live in the palace now, but in a large Buddhist temple not far from the palace. He has killed so many people and has done many bad things. When he gets older, he will feel guilty and is worried that he will be under ten The eight levels of hell, coupled with the fact that he had cataracts and his eyesight was getting worse and worse, he felt that he had suffered retribution, so on the advice of counselor Jin Cheng, he looted a lot of people's fat and people's anointing, and built it in the center of the inner city of Guangzhou. A large Buddhist temple.
After playing with his concubines every night, he would sit in a sedan chair and go to the Great Buddhist Temple to become a monk and practice Buddhism, which was of course temporary and with braids.
The practice will end early tomorrow morning. He will be guarded by the monk in the temple so that he is not afraid of the little devils. After he sleeps well, he can go to be King Pingnan and continue to harm the people!
As for the slaves who have braids, they don’t dare to cut them off casually!
However, even though he went to the Buddhist temple to practice every night, Shang Kexi still inevitably suffered from insomnia. He often couldn't sleep all night long, and his appetite was not as good as before. He also lost weight and may have weighed less than 200 kilograms!
This is all due to concern for the country and the people!
At first, he was worried that the little emperor would misunderstand his relationship with Obai. In fact, his relationship with Obai was not very close, but it was much better than the relationship between Wu Sangui and Obai!
Later, the trend of cutting down the feudal vassals started again!
The little emperor sent his son An to Guangzhou to take charge of the vassal affairs in response to Gong Shang's letter, and to "prepare to reduce the vassal state". This made him very worried!
Although the master wants to cut down the vassal, he, as a slave, should be obedient and cooperate, but there are many people under his vassal who don't have the consciousness to cut down the vassal? Cut off the feudal vassal and go to Liaodong to drink the "Northeast Wind"?
Besides, if the little emperor of 200,000 of them was worried in Guangdong, why should the little emperor be relieved in Liaodong?
Just because Northeast China is relatively close to Beijing?
Just because no one in history has ever conquered the world from Guangdong, but there are Liao, Jin, and Qing dynasties from Northeast China?
Therefore, as soon as this "preparation to reduce the vassal state" began, the people under Shang Kexi were divided. Some people advocated obeying the court and took the initiative to reduce the vassal state in order to obtain preferential treatment from the court and let them go to Beijing as slaves.
Of course, the city of Beijing cannot accommodate 200,000 vassal slaves, so taking the initiative to reduce the vassal will inevitably abandon some of the comrades. As for what will happen to the abandoned people, it is hard to say.
Most people in Shang Fan, because they had a premonition that their "slavery fate was about to end", advocated a fight with the court to let the court know Shang Fan's integrity - if you are not a slave, you would rather die!
And these two groups gathered around the two "great filial sons", Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao. Among them, Shang Zhixiao, who had been serving Shang Kexi and was quite favored by Shang Kexi, advocated "fighting for preferential treatment." And for some reason, Shang Zhixin, who came from Beijing to cooperate with the court, actually advocated "If you don't want to be a slave, you'd rather die"!
By the end of the tenth year of Kangxi's reign, there was one more thing that worried Shang Kexi. Wu Sangui rebelled! Moreover, the "counterattack was good" and they killed tens of thousands of Yue Le's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers. The whole city in Beijing was "white"!
Look at this posture, is the man named Wu going to be the emperor?
Now the fight among the slaves of the feudal lord in Guangzhou became more fierce. Because the imperial court would not reduce the feudal lord for the time being, they were divided into two factions: "Loyal to the Qing" and "Self-protection".
Among them, the faction headed by Shang Zhixiao advocated being loyal to the imperial court. Together with Wang Fuchen, they did not dare to send troops to attack Sun Yanling or Wu Sangui. They only dared to attack Sun Yanling.
The faction headed by Shang Zhixin advocated mutual protection in the southwest and wanted to unite with Sun Yanling, Geng Jingzhong, and Wang Fuchen to protect themselves.
Anyway, the two groups couldn't talk to each other. During this time, they were arguing in front of Shang Kexi every day, and Shang Kexi's eyesight was getting worse and worse. He couldn't even see the beauty's figure clearly, so he had to touch it with his hands. This mood Of course, I became more and more depressed, and I didn’t even bother to go home. I simply stayed in the Big Buddha Temple to hide and be quiet.
But he wants to avoid trouble, but trouble will come to him!
On this day, Shang Kexi, accompanied by two "haired nuns", was reciting "Namo Amitabha" and "Who will go to hell if I don't go to hell" in a secluded meditation room in the Great Buddha Temple, when suddenly there was a message in his ears The voices of Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao came.
"Ama, it's not good!"
This is my father-in-law saying that his mother was fine before, but now she is getting worse! Shang Kexi didn't want to pay attention to this unfortunate child at all, so he continued to recite his sutra.
"Ama Obai is here!"
This was the angry voice of Shang Zhixiao, the "big filial son".
"Obai. Donor Ao is here?" As soon as Shang Kexi muttered to himself, he jumped up and immediately blinked his eyes that were about to go blind and shouted, "Obai? Where is Obai? ?Come here, protect me quickly, Obai is coming to kill me!"
However, no one came to protect him, but a very strong hand pinched Shang Kexi's left arm, and then Shang Zhixin's voice said: "Amma, don't be afraid, Obai hasn't entered the Great Buddha Temple yet!"
(End of chapter)
