Chapter 38: Strength Rises from the Earth (8)
"This, this, where did this come from?"
Abusing the law of the captive court, at present, the Ming and the Manchu Qing are incompatible mortal enemies, and such a crime can be described as extremely serious. As soon as Zhang Xiaoqi met, he showed an attitude of fighting to the death, and those who heard it inevitably questioned his reason. However, as soon as these words were spoken, eyebrows vaguely formed in my mind. In the final analysis, this is on the ground in Guangdong after all, and Tong Yangjia has not died for a few years.
Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong invaded Guangdong from Fujian that year, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty appointed him as the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong for the purpose of suppressing the Han generals. This move naturally caused Li Chengdong's dissatisfaction, and also became the main reason for Li Chengdong's determination to do it anyway. As Tong Yangjia, who was unable to prevent trouble in advance, even if he was forced to follow Li Chengdong anyway, he still inevitably was executed by the Ming Court, and seemed to be suspected of incompetence in the eyes of others. However, the truth is not so simple.
Tong Yangjia was in office for a year and a half, and during this time, he supported Li Chengdong to take over Guangdong Province, and then burned the war into Guangxi, and the half of Guangxi that the Manchu Qing Qing had acquired before Li Chengdong was anyway was achieved through his efforts.
After capturing half of Guangxi, the Qing army continued to pursue the Yongli court westward. At that time, Yunnan had fallen under the control of the Great Western Army, but it was just an embarrassed army that had been flowing from Sichuan, and it was not the same as the tiger and wolf army that came out of Yunnan to resist the Qing Dynasty after a few years of recuperation. If it weren't for the leadership of Zhang Jiayu, Chen Zizhuang, and Chen Bangyan, the vigorous anti-Qing uprising broke out in the heartland of Guangdong and quickly swept away, the Yongli Imperial Court was afraid that it would have fallen long ago, and even the Great Western Army was at risk of withdrawing from the historical stage ahead of schedule.
Lingnan Sanzhong's fight forced Li Chengdong to restrain the soldiers and hurriedly return to help. And at the beginning, it was this Tong Yangjia who resisted the great momentum of overthrowing the Qing court's rule in Guangzhou.
Many Guangdong scholars and doctors remember that it was Tong Yangjia who beheaded more than 20 members of Emperor Shaowu's family at the bottom of the double gate in Guangzhou City, and it was Tong Yangjia who sawed Chen Zizhuang to death at the waist of the fourth archway and chopped Chen Bangyan alive, and even the head of Zhang Jiayu, who died in the bloody battle in Dongguan, was hurriedly sent to Tong Yangjia by the Qing army, just because Tong Yangjia wanted to inspect it himself.
This person is the butcher who suppressed the anti-Qing movement in Guangdong, and he is notorious. However, in the year and a half that Tong Yangjia governed Liangguang, he also did some other things. For example, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Guangzhou has fallen into disrepair, and it is he who presided over the construction of new city walls on the east and west wings under extremely difficult financial circumstances; For example, in 1640, the Ming court began to prohibit the Portuguese from Macao from trading in Guangzhou, and it was he who appealed to the Qing court and suggested that the old practice of Portuguese trade in Guangzhou be restored in order to ease the financial constraints. For another example, the government of all dynasties would force the Tan people to go to the sea to collect Hepu pearls, and it was he who played to the Qing court, and the Qing court issued an edict to stop pearl diving!
"Since Chen Fujun patrolled Guangdong, he repaired the city wall of Guangzhou at the beginning of the breakdown......
It is said that when Chen Fujun rescued Guangzhou, he rented a number of large ships from Macao. Now in Guangzhou, the Francois from Macau is not a novelty. I didn't explicitly ask the court for an edict, but the ban was no longer abolished......
"There is also Hepuzhu, although Chen Fujun did not say that mining should be banned, but if the people are released ashore, the tribute of Hepuzhu is equivalent to the abolition of ......"
The repair of the city wall is for the sake of safety, even if the city wall is damaged in peacetime, it must be repaired, let alone in the current troubled times; Ignoring the ban and allowing the Portuguese to trade in Canton was intended to increase fiscal revenue and stimulate Canton's economic recovery. The lifting of the ban on the Tan people from going ashore to earn a living was intended to increase the population on the shore and provide more human resources for farming, handicrafts, and the army.
These are all good deeds that benefit the present. But now, even building the city wall has become a crime, and this makes people go to reason!
However, none of the scholars present could laugh. They know very well that this is a political struggle, there is no right or wrong, and there is only one word of interest. And every charge Zhang Xiaoqi made was precisely done by Chen Kai, which cannot be called tailor-made, but it is also rooted in Chen Kai's body, and it is troublesome to refute it or not.
"It's hard to convict these crimes."
"What are you convicted of, as long as the princes of the court and the central government hold these so-called charges in their hands, they will have all kinds of means to play with Chen Fujun and His Royal Highness the King of Min. In the final analysis, the imperial court may not be happy to watch Chen Fujun squeeze them out of southwest Guangdong, which is precisely a good excuse. ”
They are all relatively well-known scholars and doctors in Gaozhou Prefecture, and once the Advisory Bureau is established, the probability of being on the list is still relatively high. Therefore, they are even more happy to see Chen Kai squeeze Zhang Xiaoqi away, so that they have a new upward channel.
But the problem is that the interference of the imperial court is one thing, and Zhang Xiaoqi's impeachment charge also happened to hit the G spot of the people's hearts - the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a barbarian, shaving their hair and making it easy to obey, slaughtering the people, and there were many people who hated it to the bone. Since the Manchu Qing is evil, everything in the Manchu Qing must naturally be evil, and Chen Kai abuses the law of the court, so Chen Kai is not a good thing!
This kind of habitual thinking seems to have some logical incomprehensibility. However, even in the era when education was popularized in later generations, the literacy rate was so high that it was unimaginable to the earthlings in the 17th century, and there were also Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming and others who became traitors, so Mao Wenlong was a traitor reserve, and Yuan Chonghuan should be killed; There is also Mao Wenlong's three-thousand-mile expedition to Liaodong, single-handedly founded Dongjiang Town, and recovered a large amount of lost land, so Yuan Chonghuan, who deducted military salaries and even killed his people without permission, must be a traitor......
In the senses of the vast majority of people, there is nothing more than black and white in the world, but they clearly ignore all the colors. Even, not to talk about the colorful, just say that between black and white, there should always be a gray word, that is, the gray word, which can also be divided into thousands of levels, how can there be a black and white truth?
It is this kind of sensory cognition, cognition determines the buttocks, and the buttocks determine the brain, complementing each other, but the opposite becomes unimportant. In this way, the flawed rhetoric of "anti-intrigues" can become most people's perception of Yuan Chonghuan's death. The cunning of the slave chief Hongli is really worthy of being the perfect heir of Xuan Ye and Yinzhen.
In southwest Guangdong, there are indeed a lot of people who are looking forward to Chen Kai becoming the master, but there are also a lot of officials and generals who are very jealous of Chen Kai. If there is no such thing, even those feudal towns with military power, even if they have great jealousy of Chen Kai, they are also helpless. However, Zhang Xiaoqi impeached him, but as long as he can stir up the slightest ripple in this pool of stagnant water, those guys who have a heart for the interests of the whole family will definitely add fuel to the fire. As a result, the people in southwest Guangdong are turned against each other, and I am afraid that they will not be what they are today.
"After all, Zhang Fujun has worked hard in the officialdom, and he still has some means."
sighed again and again, speaking of which, Zhang Xiaoqi was just a Lianzhou Mansion official before Jiashen, and he was only in the officialdom after thirteen years of Chongzhen. However, after Jiashen, with the sharp shrinkage of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the talents quickly withered, and he quickly emerged, as early as a few years ago, he had already sat on the official position of governor and the imperial history of the capital, which was very much in line with the current situation of many officials.
As a person who can have a place in the Advisory Council, there is no shortage of discerning people. Zhang Xiaoqi's move may not be able to cause much damage to Chen Kai, in the final analysis, the difference in strength between the two sides is too large. However, as long as there is an excuse, the court has room to turn around, and the greater the room for turnaround, the more beneficial it will be to the court, but there can be nothing wrong with this.
Whether it is the imperial court or Zhang Xiaoqi, they will not let Chen Kai get these state capitals in southwest Guangdong so easily. The gentry, businessmen, and powerful people here naturally also need to reconsider the issue of their own positioning - if they can join the advisory bureau, it seems that the future development should be the best for now, but if Chen Kai can't control these areas, the advisory bureau can't be established, and they must also find a second best thing to protect their family's reputation.
Once such a mind relapses, the two ends of the first mouse will be the most inevitable. This is exactly what Zhang Xiaoqi wanted to see, so when he sent someone to send an impeachment note, and at the same time he lost his temper in the governor's yamen.
However, things in the world have always had advantages and disadvantages, and the news quickly spread in these state capitals in southwest Guangdong, but Chen Kai, who was far away in Guangzhou, would inevitably get the news faster, which was also inevitable.
It's just that at this point, Zhang Xiaoqi no longer cares whether Chen Kai will get the news in time. He has already moved, if Chen Kai doesn't want to tell the truth, he can only accept it, this is a normal political struggle; If he directly raises troops to attack, and he doesn't even want the least face, he is also self-aware, and it is a big deal to follow his old friend Lianchengbi, which is also his life's wish.
"If that's the case, probably the only regret is that I can't watch Daming Zhongxing with my own eyes and watch the Tartars being wiped out."
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoqi couldn't help but think of Lu Fangweng's hand-me-down poem, maybe that was the greatest comfort he could give himself for regret.