After a while, Burney had followed Zhang Yong, the "paralyzed general" who was sitting in a sedan chair, and Zhao Liangdong, the "slave training minister" who was not doing his job properly, to the outside of the Wengcheng in Andingmen.
Outside the tall and majestic castle, Burni saw strange things again.
What he saw this time was a group of about 200 people, neatly lined up. They were shotgun soldiers and pikemen of the Qing army who were a little bit "sexy".
Well, these shotgun soldiers and pike soldiers should be Eight Banners soldiers, right? They were all wearing blue linen coats, and the formation was quite neat. It's just that her complexion is a bit ugly, half of her face is white, and the other half is black!
And when we lined up, there was a white face standing next to a black face! It’s really interesting to line up in black and white.
The white face is normal, but the black faces seem a bit too dark, like black coal!
"Here, what kind of soldier is this? Which flag is it? Why is his face so dark? Did he apply ink?" Burney couldn't help it when he saw these "black-faced and white-faced Eight Banners soldiers", so he followed Zhao Liangdong and Zhao Liangdong beside him. Zhang Yong inquired about military secrets.
"Those are the Shangsanqi-clad foreign slaves under the Ministry of Internal Affairs!" Zhang Yong said with a smile, "Those black faces are not smeared with ink. They are born so dark that they can't whiten their faces even if they are washed ten times a day."
"Yes, yes, they can't be washed clean." Zhao Liangdong added on the side, "When these black foreign slaves were just sent from Guangdong and Macau, King Yu thought they could be washed clean, and he even sent an order to wash them properly. , but it’s useless!”
"Guangdong and Macau?" Burney was stunned again. "Aren't they servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? How come they are from Guangdong and Macau?"
Zhang Yong smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you don't know something. The reason why these foreign coats of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are called foreign coats is because they are not Chinese people, but pirates and profiteers from Western Portugal. The ancestors of this group of people During the Ming Dynasty, they occupied a place called Haao on the coast of Xiangshan, Guangdong, and used it as a trading and smuggling stronghold.
Later, when the dynasty moved the borders and banned the sea, the emperor thought that they were foreign barbarians who came from tens of thousands of miles away from the west, so he rewarded them with the status of foreign guards in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, these people did not know what was wrong and guarded the Macau Castle to resist the heavenly troops. As a result, Wang Zhijun and his son broke into the castle with sky cannons. They were all detained and worked as foreign slaves in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Most of them were placed as errands under the jurisdiction of the Tianjin Customs Road under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "
"Tens of thousands of miles to the west. Ah, they are people with colored eyes!" Burni finally understood. "I didn't expect that there are black people among these people with colored eyes."
"Hehe, the world is so big and full of wonders!" Zhao Liangdong said with a smile, "Xiaoguan heard that there are not only black-eyed people, but also red, blue, and green-eyed people!"
"So many colors!" Burni was so surprised and thought: When I become the Great Khan of Mongolia in the future, I will definitely lead my troops in the Western Expedition, and then I will also capture some colorful people!
"By the way, why did they become soldiers?" Burni was quite curious, and soon started to inquire again, "Aren't they from Tianjin Customs?"
"There is no one left!" Zhang Yong said with a bitter smile. "Now, as long as the serious Eight Banners disciples in Beijing can still go to the battlefield, they are sent everywhere to resist Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng. Even the coated minions of each banner Qingzhi's brother (Zhao Liangdong), the military training minister, now has no coated slaves to train, so he has to make do with training Sula's slaves.
After all, these foreign slaves were still in uniform, and they were all serving as guards in the Tianjin Customs Guard Camp, so King Yu asked Yang Daotai to bring them to Beijing as guards. "
It turns out that the "black and white" Eight Banners soldiers that Burney saw were all Portuguese foreign clothes that Wang Zhongxiao captured for Kangxi in Macau.
Among these foreign merchants, most of them were able to build ships, blacksmiths, and translate books, and most of them were left by Wang Zhongxiao in Macau to serve the Guangdong Customs Road.
Merchants engaged in maritime trade or officials of the Portuguese authorities in Macau were divided into two parts. One part was kept in Macao and the other was sent to the north. They all worked as errands at the Tianjin Customs Road under the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In addition, there were some Portuguese lords who were mercenaries. Wang Zhongxiao didn't like them at all, so he sent them to Fuquan and Yang Qilong - Western military science these days is indeed leading after the baptism of the Thirty Years' War. . But it was not Portugal, let alone the Portuguese colonists in Macau, who took the lead.
The tactics of these Portuguese colonists are still at the level of the Spanish Grand Formation, and Portugal is originally a feudal society. How advanced can the colonists from there be? If you have the opportunity to be a feudal lord, can you not do it?
Therefore, the Portuguese colonial soldiers in Macau were all old soldiers, and each of them had a bunch of slaves. When going into battle, it was often a white-skinned master leading a few mixed-race white-skinned soldiers, and then escorting a few black-skinned slave soldiers. Of course Wang Zhongxiao looked down upon such an army, so he gave them all to Yang Qilong.
And Yang Qilong is not used to the Portuguese white-skinned master. White, black, and flowery ones are all the same in his eyes, and they are all equal slaves! No one can discriminate against anyone. In order to show that they are treated equally, Yang Qilong also gave them a flower formation, one white (mixed) and one black, and made a black and white foreign gun team (foreign slave gun team), which served as the guards of the Tianjin Customs Road.
After Fuquan heard about it, he thought this black and white foreign gun team was quite interesting, so he asked Yang Qilong to take them to Beijing to show off.
Who knows that in Burni's view, this is proof that Beijing's military strength is empty!
Look, what troops are left in Beijing now? With their black and white eyes, the paralyzed man who had to be carried in battle, and the Sula family slave soldiers who couldn't fight even if they heard it, the Qing Dynasty's strength must have been exhausted!
And when Burni and Fuquan entered Beijing through Andingmen, he became even more convinced that the Qing Dynasty was about to end and the Yuan Dynasty was coming!
Because the popularity in the inner city of Beijing was far lower than when he came to see his father last year!
The streets were empty, with few pedestrians. The few people we saw occasionally were old and weak, let alone strong, and we couldn't even see women or children.
There is no doubt that the Qing Dynasty is almost at the end of its rope!
When Burni was thinking about how to re-establish the Yuan Dynasty when the Qing Dynasty was about to end, King Yu Fuquan, who was riding beside him, suddenly tightened the reins and spoke with a smile: "King Chahar, you The prince's palace has arrived. I will send you here today. Your old Wang has a bad temper, so I won't go in with you. Please give him more advice. Remember to take your old Wang to the palace tomorrow. See the Queen Mother inside."
King Chaha looked up and saw that he had arrived at his own palace, which was deserted. He hurriedly gave Fuquan a fist and said, "Okay, King Yu, I understand. I will definitely talk to him well."
"Okay, see you later!"
"See you later!"
Fuquan and Burni exchanged pleasantries and parted ways in front of the Chahar Palace - Burni's Ama Abu Nai had a bad temper and had been imprisoned for so many years. He was a master who could quarrel with anyone he met. That is to say, seeing Bumbutai still saves some face, so Fuquan is not willing to meet him.
And Fuquan is still busy!
Yang Qilong built a mansion in Pipiao Hutong and set up a "foreign language cram school" there. He selected several fair-skinned or mixed-race beauties who were born as foreign slaves to teach Fuquan foreign languages.
Fuquan is such a studious prince, he must study
And Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong are no longer willing to meet Mr. Chahar. Mr. Wang is also a king, so they have to kowtow to the old man. How boring?
If you have this skill, let’s go practice some more soldiers!
These are troubled times. The Fifth Patrol Battalion and the "New Domestic Slave Army" in Beijing don't know when they will go to the battlefield. If they are not trained well, they will be in big trouble.
On the other side, Burni had no time to socialize with Fu Quan, Zhang Yong, and Zhao Liangdong. He was still anxious to discuss the important matter of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Qing Dynasty with his old ama Abu Nai!
The Golden Family has been waiting for this day for too long. Now Kangxi and Wu Sangui are fighting to the death in the Guanlong area, and they cannot be at odds with each other. The disciples of the Eight Banners suffered heavy losses. Even those who were still alive were sent to various front lines, and some went to work as a retreat outside the customs.
The city of Beijing cannot be said to be empty. There are not many serious defenders left, and there is no way they can stop Chahar's Mongolian warriors.
"Father, I have already inquired with Zhang Laizi and Zhao Liangdong. The troops in Beijing are very empty now. There are only 3,000 soldiers from the green camp patrolling the fifth battalion, and 10,000 Sula slave soldiers from the Fengtai camp. About There are also some strange black and white foreign slave soldiers and a small number of imperial city guards. The total number of troops will not exceed 15,000. And Kangxi Xiaohunjun has granted the boy the power to command the Chahar Eight Banners soldiers. In addition, the boy is directly under the The Chahar warriors of the foreign vassal. We can gather up to 30,000 Mongolian cavalry at most! Thirty thousand cavalry can fight against a miscellaneous army of 15,000. It is impossible to lose!"
“Do the nobles and herdsmen on the grass remember Dayuan?”
"Remember, how could I not remember that the Mongolians on the grasslands have suffered so much from being bullied by the Manchus all these years! Those Manchus regarded the Han lands within the Great Wall as their own farmland, and did not allow us Mongolians to rob them. The farm was regarded as Manchuria's retreat, and we Mongolians were not allowed to touch it. In the past, the Mongols could rob the Han people of food and property during times of famine, but now they can only starve to death.
What’s even more detestable is that the Manchus also divided the tribes in Monan into fixed grazing land. We Mongolians are not allowed to move for water and grass, and the tribes are not allowed to annex each other. All the good Mongolian men on the grasslands hate the Manchus!
Everyone hopes that a hero like Genghis Khan can come to the grassland again and lead the Mongols to live the good days like before! "
In the Chahar Palace, I was discussing with the old prince Abu Nai the important matter of raiding Beijing and revolting against the Qing Dynasty!
In today's world, the Qing Dynasty is really in turmoil! The Han people want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, but the Mongols are also filled with hatred. Nine times out of ten they are thinking about rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Yuan Dynasty!
Although the Emperor of Manchuria is now the Great Khan of Mongolia and talks to the Mongolians all day long about "Manchuria and Mongolia being one family", in fact there are only Eight Banners Mongolians, that is, Mongolians who have joined the Eight Banners establishment, as well as a small number of Horqin Mongolian princes and Manchurians. Man is one.
But for most Mongolians on the grasslands, it is now dark!
Before the Qing Dynasty, the unorganized Mongolians on the grassland would rush into the Great Wall to plunder from time to time, but the Ming Dynasty never completely defeated the Mongols like the Qing Dynasty did - of course, this people encountered in the early Ming Dynasty The Mongols are not the same thing as the Mongols encountered in the early Qing Dynasty. The former are still energetic and extremely ferocious Mongols. The Mongols the latter encountered were no longer very good at it, at least the Mongols in Monan and Mobei were not very good at it. The Mongols in the Mongolia were still very good at killing people. However, those Mongolians in Monan and Mobei who were not good at killing people were repaired and controlled by the Qing Dynasty.
Firstly, they cannot rob, secondly, they cannot run away, and thirdly, they cannot annex each other. This Mongolia has been controlled by the Manchus and is no longer very Mongolian!
However, Abu Nai, who had been imprisoned by the Manchus for several years, like his son Burni, still believed that the Mongols in Chahar were still as ferocious and warlike as before.
"Okay!" Abu Nai nodded, "Thirty thousand versus fifteen thousand is a sure win! But son, you still can't take it lightly. You must try your best to paralyze Fuquan and Bumubutai until the last moment!"
Burney also smiled and nodded: "My child understands! My child will definitely pretend to be a loyal minister again!"
Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Fucheng.
Now the administrative center of Guangzhou Prefecture is still in Foshan, but the vitality of Guangzhou City is gradually beginning to recover.
Guangzhou Mansion, which suffered heavy losses in the previous war to eliminate Prince Pingnan's Mansion, has finally been cleaned up. The so-called cleanup is not just as simple as cleaning the battlefield, collecting corpses, and cleaning up burned buildings. Instead, it includes the liquidation and arrangement of various movable and immovable properties of Pingnan Yifan!
Pingnan Prince's Palace has been in Guangdong for more than 20 years, and the population of the vassal has increased to hundreds of thousands. The accumulated wealth is of course an astronomical figure. It was impossible for all of this property to be renamed Wang, but Wang Zhongxiao couldn't let it go away, why would he have to take more than 50% of it?
In addition, Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Jizhen, and Kong Jiqing, their father and son, had to work together to establish a political power that could rule Guangdong and Guangxi. Although Wang Fuchen and his son asked Kangxi and Wu Sangui to appoint four military envoys, they were all for the superiors to see. Wang Fuchen's father and son are not stupid. What they actually want to establish is a local separatist regime between Guangdong and Guangxi that can be managed uniformly while decentralizing power between father, son and brothers.
It's just that the territory of Guangdong and Guangxi is large and fat, which is a bit eye-catching, so we must keep a low profile. Therefore, Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao deliberately highlighted "decentralization" and concealed "unification."
In order to keep an eye on this big thing personally, Wang Zhongxiao even temporarily put aside the big project of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and only let Chen Yonghua, He Tianran, Yu Haitao, Wang Leiyong, Wang An, Wang Quan and others Accompanied by Zhu's third prince, Wang Shiyuan, and Chao Haijun Jiedushi Liu Jinzhong, they went east to Fujian.
Of course, Wang Zhongxiao would eventually have to keep an eye on this big project to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. If he didn't keep an eye on this project personally, his confidants would not be able to withstand the efforts of Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing. Black hands.
However, Wang Zhongxiao's roots are still in Guangdong, especially Guangzhou Prefecture.
Therefore, after helping Prince Zhu San to the stage, he still had to return to Guangdong, and then asked his agent to stay in Nanjing to watch the proceedings.
"Dad, look at this. This is the "Guangdong Governance Regulations", "New Army and Township Army Regulations" and "Weigongtang Regulations" drafted by my son, eldest brother, Master Yu, Zhongyi, Zhongxian and Zhongren together. They are all based on It was drawn up according to the method we discussed a while ago. Please take a look."
In a four-cornered building in Foshan, a meeting attended by the core members of the Wang Family Tiandihui regime in Guangdong and Guangxi is in progress.
Wang Fuchen took the three drafts handed over by his son and began to read page by page.
The first thing he read was the "Guangdong Governance Charter" - Wang Zhongxiao didn't do things rashly, and he paid attention to one step at a time, so it would be good to not be busy with Guangxi's affairs and sort out Guangdong's side.
Even Guangdong still lacks two prefectures!
Chaozhou Prefecture is still the territory of Liu Jinzhong and Qiu Hui!
Lianzhou Prefecture was under the control of Wu Sanwei.
The remaining state capitals in Guangdong were divided into three parts, managed by three "Jiedu Si" respectively. Among them, the territory of the Guangdong Navy Jiesi, where Wang Zhongxiao personally served as the Jiedushi, was adjusted into Guangzhou Prefecture, Shaozhou Prefecture and In Nanxiong Prefecture, Jinghai Festival Division, with Wang Jizhen as the Jiedushi Envoy, governs Zhaoqing Prefecture, Gaozhou Prefecture, Leizhou Prefecture, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and Luoding Prefecture, while Huihai Festival Division, with Wang Jiyong as the nominal Jiedushi Envoy, governs Huizhou.
These three Jiedushi are actually three relatively powerful local governments. They have certain financial, judicial, and civil power, and they also have jurisdiction over the local rural army.
On top of these three festival divisions, there is also the Guangdong and Guangxi Governor's Office in Zhaoqing - this is actually the "central government" of the Guangdong and Guangxi separatist regime. A considerable part of the money and food received by the three festival divisions must be confiscated to the The Governor's Yamen, and the New Army, the military pillar of the Guangdong and Guangxi separatist regimes (composed of professional new officers and soldiers and rural soldiers who serve in turns), will also be under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Yamen of Guangdong and Guangxi after expansion.
Of course, Wang Zhongxiao and Wang Jizhen both have to serve as the commander-in-chief of the new army in the town!
In addition, Wang Zhongyi, Wang Zhongren, Cai Yuan, Shao Lingzhi, Bai Guangyong and others also became the general soldiers of the town!
In other words, after the expansion is completed, the Guangdong New Army (excluding the Guangxi Army) will have as many as seven towns, and the number will reach 70,000 when full!
If we add the Wang family army in Guangxi, we can pull out an army of 89,000.
In addition to establishing the separatist regime and the army, the third focus is to establish a consultative body called "Weigongtang", which will be served by representatives of gentry, businessmen and celebrities from the three departments and prefectures (states), and is mainly responsible for reporting to the government. The Wang family and his son made suggestions.
Of course, these "Articles of Association" had been discussed with Wang Fuchen a long time ago. Now Wang Fuchen was pretending to look at them. After reading them, he did not discuss the articles of association with Wang Zhongxiao, but asked about more important things: "Old Second, an envoy from Li Fengtian came recently. He is Huang Zhisheng from the Huang family, a wealthy family in Xinhui County. Do we want to meet one?"
(End of chapter)
