"My dear, are there any memorials from the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi recently?" Qianlong sat on the main seat and took a sip of tea, then put down the teacup in his hand and asked slowly.
"Reporting to your Majesty, I haven't seen you yet." Laibao didn't say much and just answered cautiously.
Qianlong, who heard this, couldn't help but frowned and thought in his heart:
"Do Yang Yingju and Gualjia Sitku really not take my words to heart, or do they not take Zhang Ruifang into their eyes? Whether they will be wiped out or not will not be discussed. It seems that they still have to give him a beating, otherwise This slave has forgotten who he is."
Therefore, Qianlong said to Lai Bao: "Come Bao! Draw up a decree for me to Yang Yingju, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Ask him if he wants to forget me as the emperor? Let him kill that Zhang Rui. Why is there no one now? News? If he really dares to forget what I said, I don’t mind letting him come down and wake up!”
When Lai Bao heard what Qianlong said, he couldn't help but feel strange and thought:
"Who is this Zhang Rui? How can he make the emperor care about him so much? And how can he let the emperor say that he should step down a governor of Guangdong and Guangxi?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. I obey the order. Then I will go down and draw up the order." Laibao said cautiously.
"Well... go ahead!" Qianlong replied, then picked up the memorial next to him and read it.
Laibao slowly took three steps back, then turned around and walked out slowly.
After burning a stick of incense, Laibao brought the prepared imperial edict and showed it to Qianlong.
Qianlong took a quick look and basically wrote what he wanted. He also agreed with this imperial edict.
So, after letting Laibao use the big seal, he sent it out.
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"Brother Six, our population in Zhilian Mountain has exceeded 50,000. Such a large population is indeed rare." Liu Muxiu couldn't hold back his pride and said to Zhang Rui, who was looking down the mountain.
"Yes, that's why our burden is heavier. Have you sent someone to tell the visitors that I have been regarded as a 'rebel' by the Tatar court?" Zhang Rui turned around and looked at Liu Musiu and said
"Why didn't you say that? If you hadn't said that, it is estimated that the current population is more than 80,000. Most of them are poor people who really can't survive and they stayed. Moreover, many people are rented from our fields. Those who are attracted will stay." Liu Muxiu replied with emotion.
All this was beyond Liu Musiu's imagination. This small amount of farmland rent can make so many people not afraid of death.
In fact, how could Liu Muxiu have imagined that the reason why they chose to stay? The more important thing was the current atmosphere in Zhilian Mountain.
Although it is only a few dozen miles away from the outside world, everything here is like arriving in another world.
Everything is so fresh.
it's here. People have to walk on the right, and the houses are numbered.
The streets are constantly patrolled by security forces around the clock, which provides peace of mind. All transactions are fair, no one can force you to buy or sell if you want.
If you have any disputes, you can go to the nearby Yamen to resolve them. The yamen here no longer need to be the same as before. They need to bribe the master to take care of everything. If you have anything to say, just say it. There are some officials who can read and write and make decisions for the people. (Similar to the existence of a judge and a jury. Thanks to the arrival of Wang Kaiyuan and others, some anti-Qing scholars were also attracted.)
Here, all children between the ages of three and fourteen can attend school for free, including little girls, so the tuition fees are paid by Brother Six. Moreover, children here can have two meals in the school.
This condition makes many families with children send their children to school without hesitation. After all, children have big appetites.
There are many fresh changes. However, what makes those scholars willing to stay is the "dream" Zhang Rui mentioned.
Especially when they see the stone that says "Justice, Equality, Liberty." Whenever the arriving scholars know the meaning behind it, they can't contain their excitement and choose to stay without hesitation.
Although these scholars who choose to stay are prepared to endure hardships. However, everything doesn't seem to be that bad.
For example, there will be a commercial street here where you can buy almost all the daily necessities you want to buy.
What they didn't expect was that there would be night market life here at night. There are free dramas to watch and free storytellers to listen to.
The actors and actresses all told stories about the son-in-law of the Han family, which was very exciting to listen to. Such as Huo Qubing fighting the Huns, Di Qing fighting the barbarians, Yue Fei killing the Jurchens, etc...
When they paid closer attention, they found that their lives had not gotten worse, but had slowly gotten better.
Zhang Rui treated these scholars with courtesy. They were all moved by leaving the best brick and tile houses for them to live in, and at the same time arranging people to take care of their lives.
Nowadays, most people have followed Zhang Rui and others and cut off their braids.
After all, they are all rebels, and there is no such thing as "leaving the head without leaving the hair, leaving the hair without leaving the head."
Is it so difficult that if you keep wearing braids, you won't be beheaded?
In this case, it is better to imitate Sixth Brother.
Leave your hair alone and be a real Han family man.
Would other officials from Guangdong and Guangxi not know about the commotion Zhang Rui made in Zhilian Mountain?
Obviously not.
Especially when Geng Shangzhi took nearly ten thousand taels of silver to redeem people, things couldn't be dealt with.
But why haven't other officials from Guangdong and Guangxi reported to the court yet? The main thing is that Yang Yingju is suppressing here.
After all, they all received the news that Yang Yingju was planning to deal with Zhang Rui. If Yang Yingju had dealt with Zhang Rui after they reported it to the court.
How to calculate this? File a superior-level complaint to slander a superior?
Qianlong was a person who was very particular about systems. In Qianlong's eyes, this matter was extremely harmful.
You must know that the official hierarchy during the Qianlong period was the most serious. A superior official could take a subordinate official and strip him naked in public and spank him just because he was unhappy. And the subordinate official who received the punishment cannot have any complaints, otherwise it will be even more tragic. 1
Therefore, even if they knew it, they just kept it in their hearts. No one wants to do a thankless job and offend a minister of border affairs or the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Moreover, Yang Yingju did not say that he would not fight Zhang Rui. After all, they had killed a lot of wealthy businessmen in Guangzhou before, and the reason they gave was to surround and suppress Zhang Rui on behalf of the emperor.
With such news, who would question Yang Yingju not going to fight Zhang Rui?
From their point of view, the reason why Yang Yingju hadn't beaten Zhang Rui yet was because he was still thinking about getting more money.
Under such circumstances, Zhang Rui took advantage of the loophole.
Therefore, the governors, admirals, etc. of Guangdong and Guangxi were watching Yang Yingju's actions, while Yang Yingju and Sitku were ready to leave the burden to Li Shiyao.
Only then did Qianlong know nothing about it!
Note 1: It can be found in the records of the British mission!
