Hong Chengchou didn't know that Ye Chuchun had already framed him in front of Ye Chengmin for secretly communicating with the court.
He is now actively thinking about how to make the exiled gentry himself more powerful against the imperial court.
Ever since Yang Sichang forcibly abducted him and was dragged into the boat of reactionary gentry, Hong Chengchou was destined to be unable to realize his ambition of honoring his ancestors and becoming famous all over the world through political achievements and achievements like other civil servants who were still in the court.
So, he had to use a more difficult way to achieve this goal.
There are two harder ways.
One is to commit suicide or die on a hunger strike to demonstrate one's moral integrity.
One is to imitate Song Jiang after being forced to go to Liangshan to first increase his own capital and then accept recruitment, which is equivalent to the later generations who first become stronger and then prepare to be acquired by a large company.
Naturally, Hong Chengchou did not choose the former.
For a truly loyal man like Lu Xiangsheng, even if he has an ambition that can no longer be realized, when he is in a desperate situation, he would rather waste his life's hard work and die to realize his ambition, rather than use his talents to cause greater damage to society. .
But Hong Chengchou is a person who would rather cause greater damage to society than realize his own ambitions.
Therefore, Hong Chengchou chose the latter and did not choose to commit suicide or die on a hunger strike from the beginning after being kidnapped by Yang Sichang, Tu Guobao and others at sea.
Hong Chengchou naturally knew that it would be difficult for reactionary gentry like himself to overthrow the imperial court, but he believed that he could make the reactionary gentry stronger, so strong that it would be difficult for the imperial court to deal with people like him, and he could continue to cause trouble to the imperial court.
In this way, Hong Chengchou could force the court to recruit them, and he could become a court official again.
Therefore, Hong Chengchou is now very active in making suggestions for the reactionary gentry.
"Kill all these people who take the initiative to seek refuge! In case there are spies sneaking in, since we want to succeed, we must be strict in everything we do! In the future, we will only accept recruitment from our own initiative, and the recruitment will not be fixed at any time, so that the court can It’s not easy to put people in our ranks!”
For this reason, Hong Chengchou directly asked the reactionary gentry to kill some sea refugees who took refuge because they committed crimes in the mainland or were too poor.
"Okay! Then kill them all!"
Tu Guobao, who was relatively close to Hong Chengchou, waved his hand.
The people from Fujian and Zhejiang who came to seek refuge were quite horrified when they saw the soldiers of the Kuomintang Association bravely drawing their swords and walking towards them.
"Spare your life! Sir! We are here to take refuge sincerely!"
"Yes! We all had to come here to seek refuge after we committed crimes in our hometown and were not tolerated by the government. Now that the government wants to exile us to Nagasaki, we don't want to go that far to come to seek refuge with you. Didn't you say Do you want to give me a tael of Yueyin? Why are you still killing us?"
"If it doesn't work, please let us go back! Woohoo!"
These sea people began to plead hard.
Hong Chengchou, who only begged for mercy from powerful rulers, naturally had no sympathy for these common people.
Therefore, Hong Chengchou only continued to shout coldly: "Let you untouchables go back? What a wonderful idea! What if any of you tell the government our whereabouts! Kill them all!"
As soon as Hong Chengchou finished speaking, a series of clicking sounds came.
All these sea dwellers were killed and their corpses were exposed in the wilderness, all in one piece.
Ye Chuchun, who was standing aside, was quite shocked. He couldn't help but glance at Hong Chengchou, who was still calm and calm, and clenched his fists unconsciously.
Only Hong Chengchou and others had calm faces.
"That's right, we must have seats and ranks within us, and there must be orders and prohibitions, because the three armies cannot be without commanders! There must be a place where orders can be given. In Hong's opinion, a Juyi Hall should be set up to recommend Sanwu A capable person should be the general leader, and the banner of 'doing justice for heaven' is no longer 'serving heaven and peace'! Because we can't let the princes in the court really think that we want to cleanse them, and we just want justice. ! Regarding the Juyi Hall, Hong recommended himself as the commander-in-chief of the Juyi Hall, and recommended Mr. Ye Chuchun and General Tu as the commander-in-chief. From now on, everyone should obey the orders of the Juyi Hall."
Hong Chengchou then told Ye Chengmin, Ding Qirui, Ye Chuchun and other reactionary gentry about the establishment of a supreme command organization. He also recommended himself and recommended Ye Chuchun and Tu Guobao as general commanders.
The reason why Hong Chengchou recommended Ye Chuchun was because after testing Ye Chuchun and Ding Qirui that day, he found that Ye Chuchun was the least suspicious of Dongchang's eyes and ears. He was calm and calm, and he was a relatively late member of the reactionary gentry, so he had great prestige. It was not high, which would help him control and monopolize power. Tu Guobao was an old acquaintance of his, and he controlled the military and had always listened to him, so he recommended these two people.
Ye Chuchun was quite surprised by this.
Ding Qirui and Ye Chengmin were naturally dissatisfied.
"There is no problem in setting up a Juyi Hall and changing the slogan, but the position of the general leader needs to be discussed again. No matter what, all colleagues must be present to discuss the recommendation. How can it be decided by just one or two people? If so, I'm afraid It’s hard to convince the public!”
Therefore, Ding Qirui first expressed his objection.
Ye Chengmin also echoed: "That's right! The general leader must summon the gentry from all the islands to gather together and make recommendations. How can he be arbitrary?"
Internal struggle for power and profit has always been the specialty of civil servants.
At this time, these reactionary gentry quarreled with each other because of Hong Chengchou's proposal for the position of commander-in-chief.
Hong Chengchou was very anxious when he saw this: "Everyone, now is not the time to scheming others. Time waits for no one. No one knows when the imperial court will know our hiding place and send a large army to suppress it. We must hurry up before the imperial court Before the meeting and suppression, quickly identify the people with the power to make decisions! If conditions permit, Hong would not mind calling everyone to come and discuss the matter, but now everyone is floating on isolated islands, and it is necessary to gather everyone, no matter how hard it is, If we say half a year, it will take February or March! What’s more, what if the imperial court takes this opportunity to catch us all in one go? Do we still want to implement Yang Gong’s strategy, counterattack the mainland, and attack from all sides?! It’s better to take advantage of the opportunity now among the princes. Several powerful people are in one place, so let’s settle this matter as soon as possible. If they don’t comply then, we can attack them!”
"No! How is this different from that tyrant? We, the gentry, went to sea to train soldiers because we were dissatisfied with the tyranny of the imperial court. How can we turn against each other because the other party did not obey our orders?"
Ding Qirui continued to express his opposition. It was not that he was really unwilling to turn against the reactionary gentry living on other islands, but that he was not among the generals recommended by Hong Chengchou.
Ye Chengmin also expressed opposition, for the same reason as Ding Qirui.
Hong Chengchou had no choice but to continue to argue.
For a time, these opposing gentry started to quarrel over internal power struggles before they started to accomplish anything.
After a while, Ye Chuchun said: "How about this. Duke Ding and brother Ziqin (Ye Chengmin) will be the general commanders. In addition, General Tu will be the general commanders. Hong Gong and I will not be the general commanders of the Juyi Hall."
"this!"
Ding Qirui didn't expect Ye Chuchun to give up on his own initiative, but he was quite shocked.
Hong Chengchou also didn't expect that even if he wanted to establish a core power circle, these gentry seemed to only want to control others, not others.
Seeing Ye Chuchun's proposal, he could only follow the overall situation and agreed, saying: "That's okay!"
"Thanks to your respect, Ding will be appointed as the commander-in-chief."
Ding Qirui obviously had a strong desire for power, so he raised his hand first.
Ye Chengmin also smiled because of this.
And Tu Guobao also said: "Okay, from now on everyone will listen to the orders of the three of us, and please Hong Gong to make more decisions when the time comes."
Hong Chengchou smiled awkwardly.
At this point, the Juyi Hall trio, the leading body that ordered these reactionary gentry, began to be established.
Ding Qirui, Ye Chengmin, and Tu Guobao became the leaders.
Hong Chengchou's original intention has been achieved, although he himself did not become the leader.
However, this incident also gave Ye Chuchun an opportunity to deal with Hong Chengchou.
"You mean to say that Hong Chengchou is probably the eyes and ears of the imperial court?"
Ding Qirui asked Ye Chuchun and Ye Chengmin.
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