Hong Chengchou put down the book in his hand. He sat up straight, looked directly at Yang Jiachen in front of him and said, "Let me ask you, why do you think there are rumors everywhere in the city that we sent people to assassinate the Qing envoys?"
"Of course he was framed." Yang Jiachen replied without thinking. Upon hearing this, Hong Chengchou shook his head slightly and said, "You are only right on the surface, but this is not the most fundamental reason why we assassinated the Qing envoy."
"Then what do you think is going on?" Yang Jiachen asked. Hong Chengchou raised his finger and pointed at the teapot on the table. Seeing this, Yang Jiachen walked over with a teapot and filled the cup in Hong Chengchou's hand with water.
Hong Chengchou picked it up and put it to his mouth, blew it, took another sip, and then said: "The most fundamental reason is that most of the people in Nanjing and the people behind them don't like our tiger flag."
"There are so many people who don't like our tiger-character flag. I'm afraid no one in Ming Dynasty likes our tiger-character flag, but what does this have to do with putting a shit basin on our heads! Could it be that they like that piece of shit named Fan!" Yang Jiachen said cursingly.
Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "You are right, they prefer the one named Fan, or they prefer the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong." Yang Jiachen looked confused when he heard this.
He said: "You have confused me with your words. A good man does not do anything, but he wants to be a slave to slaves and thieves. How can there be such a mean person in the world?"
"Let me ask you." Hong Chengchou said,
"We have set up farmers' associations everywhere in Huzi Banner to allocate farmland and exempt tenants from unreasonable debts. Which type of people will have the greatest impact?"
"Of course they are the squire and landlords who have money and land and like to bully the people." Yang Jiachen said. He worked as a county magistrate in Shanxi and later as a county magistrate. He saw too many squire and landlord bullies who wanted to knock the people's bones and suck their marrow out.
Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "The most indispensable thing in the country is people like you, especially those who are scholars. There are almost all such people behind them. Otherwise, why do you think those scholars have spare money to study and read and gain fame." Yang Jiachen Not stupid.
Hong Chengchou made it so clear that he could naturally think of the driving force behind some things. As for the people at the bottom who don't know the truth, they are the easiest to be deceived.
Although their Tiger Character Banner has always been among the people at the bottom, allocating land for the people, so that the people can avoid the oppression of the gentry and landlords and no longer suffer, this situation is only limited to the rule of the Tiger Character Banner.
Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, people looked down upon the tiger-character flag and treated it like a murderous bandit bully.
No matter how well the Tiger Character Flag is promoted, people will not believe it until they see the benefits. For those lower-class people who only go to nearby towns at most on weekdays, they are more willing to believe the words of the squires and scholars.
After all, their ancestors have believed this for generations, and as long as the people can't see and experience the nonsense that Tiger Character Banner says with their own eyes, they won't believe it. They will only believe the words of those familiar people who have the right to speak.
"Do you understand this time?" Hong Chengchou asked. Snapped! Yang Jiachen slapped his hand on the table and cursed angrily: "These people deserve to die. They actually confuse the people and deceive us to smear us. If this were in the county under my rule, I would definitely arrest all the culprits behind it." Put them in jail and punish them one by one."
"This is Nanjing City, a place under the Ming Dynasty. You and I have no right to arrest people." Hong Chengchou smiled and shook his head.
He was not angry about this kind of frame-up, but no matter how angry he was, he couldn't solve it, because behind it was no longer simply the matter of the Qing envoys, but more of the scholars, gentry and landlords who hated the tiger-character flag.
Yang Jiachen couldn't help but said to Hong Chengchou: "Hong Futai, you were also an official in the Ming Dynasty, and you were once one of them scholars. Do you have any way to solve the predicament at hand? If he is framed like this, what if it leads to It would be bad if the peace talks failed.”
"There is no way, unless the Tiger Character Banner is willing to change their strategy and win over these gentry and landlords, maybe if they change like this, the scholars from the Ming Dynasty will take the initiative to invest and win the world in advance." Hong Chengchou said.
After hearing this, Yang Jiachen shook his head and said: "It's impossible. If we really change it like this, what's the difference between the Tiger Character Flag and another Ming Dynasty? I'm afraid that before we can unify the world, we will be dragged down by these gentry and landlords." , and finally benefited the slave thieves of Liaodong."
"Then there's nothing we can do." Hong Chengchou shook his head and said immediately,
"As long as these scholars do not change their hostile attitude towards the Tiger Flag, then as long as they have the opportunity, these people will definitely try their best to smear us. So if you want to wash away the reputation of the people of Nanjing towards the Tiger Flag, then don't even think about it. Unless the Tiger-Charactered Banner army takes over Nanjing City, let the people here experience for themselves the difference between being under the Tiger-Charactered Banner and under the Ming Dynasty." Snap!
Yang Jiachen slapped the table again angrily.
"Don't worry. Although this kind of false accusation among the people has an impact on the peace talks, it is not a big problem. After all, the people who are really in power in the Ming Dynasty know what is going on. It's just that the civil servants in the DPRK don't really want to negotiate with us." Yang Jiachen Said: "So many people are opposed to it, which is also a troublesome thing."
"You and I should be glad that the people in power in the Ming Dynasty today are not all scholars, otherwise this peace talk will definitely fail." Hong Chengchou said.
The nobles and eunuchs took control of the government, which in his opinion was indeed very beneficial to the Tiger Character Banner. The nobles of the Ming Dynasty have been suppressed by the civil servants for so many years. There are few pillars of the country anymore. They are almost all a group of people who only care about their own interests and ignore national affairs.
As for the eunuchs, let alone them. Because they are physically disabled and care more about money and power, especially eunuchs who are in power, it is difficult for them to urinate in the same pot as the civil servants of the court.
Yang Jiachen looked up at Hong Chengchou and asked, "Are we just going to wait like this?"
"Keep waiting, for us at this time, it is better to be still than to move." Hong Chengchou said,
"Others dare not say it, but the nobles in Nanjing will definitely support peace talks with us." Hong Chengchou said confidently.
Yang Jiachen said: "Are you so sure?"
"It's not that I'm sure, it's our Tiger Flag that is sure." Hong Chengchou said with certainty.
Yang Jiachen asked hesitantly: "Could it be that they have something that fell into our hands?"
"Absolutely!" Hong Chengchou said,
"It's not wrong to say it's a handle, but to be precise, the wealth of these nobles in Nanjing City is held by our Tiger Flag." Yang Jiachen asked with a surprised look on his face: "There is such a thing, Why don't I know anything about it? Could it be that before I went to the Ming Dynasty, I only informed you, Hong Futai, about this matter?" For a while, he couldn't think of any shortcomings of the lords in Nanjing that fell into the hands of Tiger Flag.
