Yang Qilong was relatively familiar with Geng Jingzhong, and he also knew the prophecy about "the emperor's clone has a fire in his ears", so he smiled and shook his head and said: "Master...you don't have to worry about Geng Jingzhong, he must be What means did he use to get the position of General Manager of Fujian? The purpose is not necessarily to be my enemy, maybe he is also taking advantage of the chaos in the world to make a big move!"
Zhu Heji nodded, "Then can we contact him to fight against the Qing Dynasty together?"
"Master, this is not easy to handle..." It was Zhuge Sanhe who spoke. He was currently doing two things. While interjecting, he was reading an intelligence summary... There were a bunch of information on it. The miscellaneous news didn't seem to matter, so the two downlines under Yang Qilong's development wrote the news on a piece of paper and sent it out.
"What's not easy to handle?" Zhu Heji was still very confident in countering Geng Jingzhong.
"Fujian is the place that Prince Yanping is determined to win!" Zhuge Sanhe said slowly, "At the same time, it is the fundamental place of Geng Jingzhong... If we contact Geng Jingzhong, we will be put on the back foot between Prince Yanping and Geng Jingzhong. It’s hard to please both inside and outside. So let King Yanping and Military Advisor Chen contact Geng Jingzhong. As long as we can drag Wu Sangui into trouble, that will be enough."
"Wu Sangui?" Zhu Heji frowned, "Is he really willing?"
"It all depends on people..." Zhuge Sanhe handed the summary of information in his hand to Zhu Heji at this time, "Master, you'd better take a look at this first."
"Oh." Zhu Heji took the summary of information, and then looked in the direction of Zhuge Sanhe's finger, "I have decreed that all students in Guangdong, regardless of whether they are shaved or braided, can take the Jinke Provincial Examination. I will treat them equally. ..."
Zhu Heji's brows also tightened, "What does Kangxi mean? Can you take the exam without braids? Is he trying to..."
"We want to poach our corner!" Zhuge Sanhe took over Zhu Heji's topic and said, "Your Majesty... Tuhai's army will not reach Guangdong within three months! Before they arrive, Sun Yanling I won’t come to Guangzhou rashly. So the next thing the two sides have to fight for is the imperial examination!"
Zhu Heji has also been preparing to hold the imperial examination in Guangdong for a long time...to become an official in the examination! This is the favorite of scholars, and the imperial court of Zhu and Yi's family only had a grass-roots team. There were too many vacancies in various yamen and officials were urgently needed to fill them.
In addition, based on Zhu Heji's understanding of the three major ethnic groups in Guangdong, the people of Guangfu like to eat and drink, and they eat in Guangzhou!
Chaozhou people like to work hard to start a business... Only those who love to work hard will win!
As for the Hakka people, they have always preferred to study and become academic masters.
Therefore, in history, Hakka scholar-bureaucrats often fought with Cantonese and Chaozhou people over issues related to imperial examinations! Well, they are obsessed with this matter. In history, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was caused by the Hakka people, invaded Yong'an Prefecture, in addition to conferring the king and marrying the queen, they also held a self-entertaining imperial examination. Before The leaders of the Kingdom of Heaven who were unable to fulfill their dream of taking the imperial examinations all set their own questions to test themselves... They were completely addicted to academic excellence.
Now Zhu Heji has taken control of the stronghold of the Guangfu people, Da Laohui controls half of Chaozhou, and King Zhu Tian is still in Jieyang County of Chaozhou.
Judging from the current situation, most Cantonese and Chaozhou people will follow Zhu Heji, but it is hard to say what the attitude of the Hakka people will be.
In the history of the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong often experienced "vicious fights between locals and guests", and the Hakkas were often in serious opposition to the Cantonese and Chaozhou people. If one party wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty, the other party would support the Qing Dynasty.
If Zhu Heji also encountered such opposition from native guests, it would be very difficult for his Guangdong court to succeed.
As for what Zhu Heji could use to attract Hakkas now, except for some of the land along the coast of Guangdong, the only thing he could use was the imperial examination.
And we cannot give too much land, otherwise Chaozhou people and Guangfu people will be dissatisfied. After all, the land along the coast of Guangdong originally belonged to Chaozhou and Cantonese people.
Therefore, the upcoming imperial examination is very important. If it is done well, a large number of Hakka Jinshi will be selected, or even a large number of talented people from other provinces...then the next thing will be easy to handle!
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji's eyes suddenly lit up and he said with a smile: "Yes... we must successfully organize the Guangzhou Imperial Examination this time! Not only must we attract talents from all over Guangdong to take our imperial examination , but also try to attract talents from other provinces across the country to take the exam!
We must let everyone in the world know that I, the Ming Dynasty, have returned, and I have won the hearts of scholars all over the world. I am still the orthodoxy that the wise men in the world yearn for! "
When Zhu Heji said this, his face was full of pride, and he looked at Zhuge Sanhe and Yang Qilong with a smile, "Two military advisors, what do you think of the Gu family's plan? If Xuan Ye knew that the Han talents in the world were still If you don’t forget your homeland, you will definitely be frightened, right? Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and others might repent and return to our Ming camp, right?"
"Your Majesty," Zhuge Sanhe was a little dumbfounded after hearing Zhu Heji's words, "If all the wise men in the world are moving towards the Ming Dynasty, then why are you a proto-Confucian?"
Yang Qilong also sighed and said: "Yes, every time a person slaughters a dog for justice, most of the people who are unfaithful are scholars... Your Majesty, I have been wandering around the world for many years in order to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, but I have never seen many scholars. They still cherish our Ming Dynasty. There are many people who are keen on the Tatar imperial examination and want to be officials for the Tatars! Even if there are a few Ming Dynasty survivors, they are all old and embarrassed. "
"The two military advisors misunderstood," Zhu Heji smiled and waved his hands, "The Gu family does not mean to find many talents and wise men through this imperial examination. It means to let the people of the world, let Xuan Ye, Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong They all think that through this imperial examination, Ming Dynasty got many talented people and wise men...so we can fake it, no, we can imitate it and create a group of talented people!"
"High...imitation?"
"Your Majesty, how can you imitate this?"
One of Zhuge Sanhe and Yang Qilong is a "high imitator of Zhuge Liang", and the other has even imitated Prince Zhu Sanhe, so they can be regarded as experts in the field of high imitation.
But they couldn't figure out how Zhu Heji could imitate a group of talented people? This is not only a "fake", it also requires people to believe it!
Zhu Heji, however, already knew what he was doing. He certainly knew how to "imitate" a group of great talents to deceive Kangxi, Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and the like.
This is really three hundred and sixty lines, and he is the number one in every line!
Even in the high imitation industry, there is now a number one scholar like Zhu Heji! He has mastered the high imitation industry.
Not only can they imitate Dongchang perfume and Chaozhou rum, but they can also imitate the third prince and grandson of the Ming Dynasty. Now they have to go a step further and imitate a group of great talents who are well-read in poetry and books.
The population is small these days, so of course there are fewer scholar-bureaucrats who are well-educated in poetry and books. Among them, there are even fewer who can be called great talents.
The kind of scholar-bureaucrats whose literary talents are so high that they can be called great talents are not only rare, but nine out of ten are the children of wealthy families and local scholar leaders.
If Zhu Heji can imitate a group of literary and elegant scholar-bureaucrats, it will naturally give people the illusion that most of the capable scholar-officials in Guangdong and even the southeast have returned to the Ming Dynasty.
Then, everyone will think that the Ming Dynasty is still orthodox in the minds of most southeastern scholar-officials!
Under the influence of this illusion, even the Hakka scholar-bureaucrats in Guangdong who yearned for the Qing Dynasty had to think carefully when the army of the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu came over - if the clans around him were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, then In order to avoid being exterminated, he had to lead his clan to praise the Ming Dynasty. At least you have to maintain a position where the matter has nothing to do with you and you have to keep your head above water.
As long as the scholar-bureaucrats from all over Guangdong can remain neutral or side with the army of the third prince Zhu and his third grandson, then Zhu Heji's battle to wipe out Guangdong will be easy to fight... This is called following the crowd. Herd effect!
If we can go one step further and make Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and others have the same illusion, then the illusion will become true, and the Qing Dynasty may really fall into the abyss of collapse because of an imperial examination.
