Once a son of heaven and a courtier. The current governor of Liangguang, Wang Zunde, was previously the governor of Guangxi, because he presided over a strong anti-bandit operation in office, plus a clean reputation, so Chongzhen promoted him to the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong.

From that long list of titles, it can be seen that this monarch has great power. However, there is a word called equality of power and responsibility: since Wang Zunde is in charge of the military and government of Guangzhou, he will now be responsible for solving the disaster of Liu Xiang.

This is a long story: in fact, Lao Wang originally had no intention of fighting.

Wang Zunde was originally transferred from the governor of Guangxi, and when it comes to his political achievements, it cannot be counted as being an honest official, mainly because of the strong suppression of bandits. In other words, in dealing with bandits, Wang Zunde's governance philosophy is inclined to be a tougher "suppression" rather than a weaker "appeasement."

However, Lao Wang's concept encountered challenges after he came to Guangdong: he thought that Guangdong and Fujian were both bandits, everyone had their own headaches, and the eldest brother did not talk about the second brother.

One day, things suddenly changed: Xiong Wencan came to the north, and when he spoke, he appeased a group of "maritime merchants" on Yizhou Island, and then overnight the coastal areas of Fujian became "Haiqing Heyan", "the road is not forgotten", and someone helped the old lady cross the road every day.

This extremely strong contrast made Guangdong officialdom a little uncomfortable at first.

Although it is said that Xiong Wencan's remarks about "raising tigers for trouble" and "causing a group of pirates to sit big" have always been endless, no matter how he complains, the coastal areas of Fujian are stable and stable, and Xiong Wencan even paid enough taxes and silver to the imperial court on time in the disaster year, which is a fact - he can get a "love qing" in Chongzhen, which Xiong Wencan bought with practical silver.

Cantonese officials quickly gathered the correct information from official documents, old letters from Fujian in the same year, and businessmen who had invested in their own shares: the life of the Fu Lao was indeed getting better and better. Now the next door has not only eliminated the bandits, but also started a big business, and the good things that have been popular in Guangzhou City recently turned out to be all made by those people in Yizhou!

So the first wave of "micro-words" attacking Wang Zunde's hard-line anti-bandit policy was born: It seems that the appeasement policy is also very good? Why don't we try it too?

Wang Zunde felt the pressure at that time.

However, changing course is not so easy. Lao Wang has always pursued an uncompromising hardline policy, and now he says that he will change it, doesn't that mean that Lao Wang was a fool before?

So a lot of things are just that. Even in the future, some wrong things will have to wait until a new person, a new leader, a new president, and so on come to power.

Wang Zunde actually responded at the time by convening high-level military attachés in Guangdong to discuss the suppression of bandits, and was ready to push forward his own policy ideas.

However, he soon discovered that Guangdong was not Guangxi: the cost of suppressing pirates was much higher than that of suppressing mountain bandits, not to mention, building a fleet of ships, buying enough cannons, these upfront expenses could cost him the life of his old king, as for the endless pirates after having a ship, could they be handled by officers and soldiers...... Only the devil knows.

So the matter dragged on so awkwardly.

However, the world is impermanent, and soon, Lao Wang can't even drag it out, because Liu Xiang is here.

Everything has a degree, and if it exceeds the upper limit, there will definitely be a qualitative change. In history, it took Liu Xiang several years to use various means, including looting, killing, and kidnapping officials by fake recruits, to completely provoke the officialdom of Fujian and Guangdong and attract special attacks.

Now, due to the secret troubles of a certain bad water force, the degree of damage suffered by Guangdong officialdom in just a few months has exceeded the threshold - cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents, which is the first big hatred in ancient times.

As a result, the official documents and articles sent to the governor's yamen not only became more and more intense, but also followed by "scolding stickers".

It's not just the posting on the forums of later generations. In ancient times, it was daily for opposition officials and gentry to post posts and write books criticizing the princes of the dynasty. The so-called court struggle and party struggle are carried out through one post after another, folds, and presentations. Those opposition bigwigs of the Donglin Party will feel uncomfortable if they don't post a few posts and scold their political opponents one day.

This time, Wang Zunde was not only scolded by some retired officials in Guangzhou in writing a note to Chen's face, but he also got the exact news: these people have begun to fold bullets to impeach themselves for the crime of "sitting on the corpse and eating a vegetarian meal and watching the remnants of the giant canal".

was scolded by a group of veteran cadres, and then encountered a joint letter to the central government by veteran cadres, what should the leaders do? The leader is also very helpless...... In fact, Wang Zunde could do nothing but appease.

It was now the seventeenth century, the proportion of literati was very small, and the rights of the scholars in the field were much greater than those of the retired cadres in later generations. These people can pass the protégé, in-laws, the same party, and the same year in minutes...... and so on, handing the excerpt of the impeachment of Wang Zunde to Chongzhen's desk, and by the way, creating a wave of public opinion, making Wang Zunde's reputation stink, and leaving a handle for his political enemies in the court.

Wang Zunde knew that it would be impossible not to respond. If you look at the official documents that are becoming more and more intensely worded, you will lose the support of lower-level officials first—the decree will soon not be able to leave the governor's palace.

The second is the emperor's holy family.

Before this, it was a battle of will between his own family and Xiong Wencan, but things have developed to the current bad scene, if he is stubborn, Chongzhen's good sense of himself will soon be changed by impeachment - after all, the good situation in Fujian is there, and Chongzhen is not blind.

Therefore, Comrade Wang Zunde had to be under the strong impact of public opinion created by the gentry of Guangdong, and at the end of June 1629, in the Zhaoqing Governor's Palace, where the Governor of Liangguang was stationed, held a "Special Military Conference on Cracking Down on Liu Xiang's Gang".

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The level of this meeting is relatively high.

In addition to Wang Zunde, the governor and governor of Liangguang, the participants also included Lu Wenli, the political envoy of the left cloth of Guangdong, Wang Daoyuan, the political envoy of the right cloth, and Zhang Bingwen, the envoy of the inspection department; There is also a senior general below He Rubin, the general soldier...... The civil and military tycoons of Guangdong officialdom were wiped out.

Sitting in the lobby of the governor's yamen, He Rubin, the chief military officer with a clear face and elegant appearance, with three locks of black beard, was sitting on the official hat chair without squinting at the moment, listening attentively to the answers between the civil officials in the hall.

He Rubin, who has written military works such as "Records of Soldiers" in history, is undoubtedly a Confucian general. And the Confucian generals are naturally smart: General He, who is well versed in the rules of officialdom, is at the same moment, like the military attaches sitting under him, silent and playing the role of a good listener with his heart.

In fact, if he really wanted to talk about any military affairs, Wang Zunde would never have summoned so many senior officials at one time. Talking privately with the staff first, and then discussing with the relevant people one by one, this is the formal procedure for discussing major matters.

The conveners of this so-called "enlarged military and political conference" usually have only two purposes: one is to divide responsibilities, such as raising taxes in the whole province; The second is to throw the blame, such as a sudden change in policy.

Therefore, today's so-called meeting, in front of officials of He Rubin's level, has long been no secret - to put it bluntly, this is a "face-maintaining meeting". Under heavy pressure, the old comrade Wang Zunde had to give in and be forced to admit that the old bear next door had won the final victory, so his old man was in a bad mood and wanted to call everyone to pave the steps for his old man.

What a martial artist can understand, how many literati can still understand? These few people have also been troubled by Liu Xiang recently, and now they are relieved to see that Lao Wang finally plans to change his ways. As for helping Lao Wang pave the steps...... This is too simple, literati, who doesn't want to save face? Long live understanding.

So in the lobby of the Governor's Palace, several civil officials began to sing as soon as they came up:

"Now that Liu Xiang is powerful, the land of a province is actually difficult to control. According to this official's opinion, it is better to write about Fujian and Zhejiang, and invite the two Fu troops to discuss this matter. ”

"Now the treasury of the domain is empty, and if the army wants to raise troops to suppress the bandits, I am afraid that the clan division will not be able to catch it."

"That Liu Xiang was actually driven over by the Xiong Fujun from Fujian. According to this official, he Xiong Fujun can't get out of it, and he can't send some soldiers and horses over, and it is only right to pay the bandits together. ”

...... A few civil officials, you say a word, and before you know it, all the steps have been paved, and the responsibility is also thrown to Xiong Wencan, who has not been cleaned up.

However, the royal army still has to struggle for a while. After listening to all the opinions, I saw him glaring at him, staring at the Confucian general He someone: "Mr. He, that Liu Xiang, as the chief soldier, do you have a strategy to suppress thieves now?" ”

He Rubin didn't expect that there would be a drama, but fortunately, he was also experienced in a hundred battles, so after being clever, he immediately replied: "Marshal, it's not because our army is incompetent, but because that Liu Xiang is too cunning and never faces the official army head-on...... If only the Xiong Fu army in Fujian could send some clippers to help suppress it...... Approximately...... It's also good. ”

"Let's go! Cease! When Governor Wang heard this, he shook his sleeves deeply, got up and left: "Since you all speak in unison, the old man is up to you." ”

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The dispute between Fujian and Guangdong, which lasted for many years, finally came to an end with Wang Zunde's sigh and opened a new chapter.

Shortly after this meeting, an official letter issued in the name of He Rubin, the chief military officer guarding Guangdong, requesting a joint crackdown on bandits, quietly arrived at the yamen of the Fujian General Army.

However, the new Fujian general soldier recently is a fierce man. This person's name is Xie Hongyi, and he is the martial champion in the Wanli period. Xie Hongyi once served as the commander-in-chief of Fujian during the Apocalypse, and participated in the Penghu battle of the Ming State to drive out the Dutch with the governor Nan Juyi - Yu Zhigao, who led the troops to attack Penghu at that time, was only the deputy commander-in-chief of the South Road, and it was actually Xie Hongyi who sat in the rear.

After that, Xie Hongyi once went home for a period of time because of party disputes, and at this time another attribute of his attacked: Xie Hongyi was not only a martial champion, a general soldier, but also a famous opera artist in the late Ming Dynasty, and the author of the Kunqu Opera script "Butterfly Dream...... It is really capable of writing and martial arts.

When Writer Xie saw the official letter sent by Guangdong, he was still a little confused when he first took office, so he honestly transferred the official document to the governor's yamen.

Then when Lao Xiong saw this official document, he couldn't help laughing. He saw through the tricks of Guangdong officialdom at a glance: Wang Zunde, this old thing, is soft! Well, come on, quickly invite General Cao to come to the mansion to discuss matters.

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