These days, Li Peiting's front door can be described as full of traffic, and there are constant visitors.

However, the people who came did not do anything, nor gave gifts, they were all greetings and politeness, and he was concerned about the good weather today hahaha and so on, and the color and shape of a cloud could be talked about with relish for a long time.

And Li Peiting is also greeting to greeting, polite to polite. However, he knew very well in his heart that the meaning of these people who came was nothing more than to let Li Peiting take the lead and persuade him. Li Peiting couldn't help sneering in his heart, this kind of thankless villain's lucky skills, why don't you let me come?

In this way, under Li Peiting's deliberate pretending to be deaf and dumb, those visitors who had ghosts in their hearts were not allowed to enter the door, and they had to return in a huff. Finally, since yesterday, the carriages and horses have gradually become sparse. However, at noon, Zheng Zhilong and Jiang Yihong jointly issued an invitation to Li Peilin, saying that it was to give Li Huamei's child a "washing three", and specially set up a banquet in Zheng Zhilong's mansion that night, and all relatives and friends would have a few drinks in Zheng's mansion.

Seeing this invitation, Li Peiting almost laughed out loud, Li Huamei gave birth to a child a few days ago, six pounds and eight taels, and the mother and son are safe. However, if there is any celebration, it must be done by Shi Lang's family, even if Shi Lang goes to sea at this time, but his father Shi Daxuan is still at home! How to get Zheng Zhilong to do it? O these people! Finding a reason to probe the wind is already a rush to the doctor, who doesn't know that I, Li Peiting, is not good at this? Li Peiting, who was born as a son-in-law, is most bored with these social activities on weekdays. Therefore, the officials and generals at all levels in the Nanyue Army, if there is any wedding or funeral at home, he will definitely prepare a gift, and it is the kind of person who is worth a lot of money to send it, but he himself rarely appears on such occasions.

However, Li Peiting did not refuse. Because there are some things that I have to discuss with them. But what he was very curious about was why Zheng Zhilong couldn't help jumping out?

As soon as the sun was in the west, he ordered people to prepare carriages and horses, and Li Peiting came to Zheng Zhilong's house.

The red light hangs high in front of the Zheng Mansion, and the flower plaque is tied up with colored silk and various seasonal flowers. The atmosphere is very warm and festive. The one who greeted Li Peiting at the door was actually Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhibao. This face Li Peiting must give! Zheng Zhibao served as an errand for the General Bureau of Reclamation, and his jurisdiction could be said to cover the entire Nanyue Military District, and the tea trees and paulownia trees he planted on the barren beaches in various places alone could feed the soldiers and horses of several towns every year! Of course, there is also the credit of Li Peiting, the two of them worked closely together to sort out the coarse tea leaves that could not enter the mouth of the scholars into tea bricks and sell them to ethnic minorities everywhere. In exchange for furs, raw gold, ginseng, horses, horns, coral, and more. Extract excess profits from it.

After a few polite words with Zheng Zhibao, Li Peiting was invited into the living room, only to see that all the partitions and windows in the living room were opened and opened into an open hall, with more than a dozen tables in the hall, which was crowded with people, and he glanced at it hastily. But it is a collection of crowns, and one of them carries tea and water. The officials who ran errands and pushed pai gow on the table to take towels and hand snacks were all the same knowledge.

This pomp, I'm afraid that Emperor Chongzhen in Beijing at this time didn't dare to think about it, these people usually have their own responsibilities and jurisdictions, relying on the cheap silver issued by the Liang State Mansion without corruption and bribery, they can live quite comfortably, although they can't say that they can't eat and drink, but they are not much worse than Zhu Youzhen. And many people usually go out of the public house to enter the private house. Now crowded here to push pai gow to play mahjong? I don't think you're playing mahjong, it's who should be the dealer of this Ming dynasty!

Li Peiting didn't say anything, but at the invitation of Zheng Zhibao, he sat at a table with Zheng Zhilong and Jiang Yihong, and then studied Document 144 seriously. It's weird to say. Since entering this flower hall, Li Peiting's luck is too strong to say, although playing mahjong can't be said to be a Tianhu, but what kind of Hu, ******, Big Four Happiness, and the flowers on the bar are all ordinary. The same is true for Pai Gow, although the worst hand is a deflated ten, right? But the opponent is also deflated, but Li Peiting is the banker, the banker eats the player, and he still wins.

Although Li Peiting doesn't like gambling money very much, but the heart of the total win is still very comfortable, standing in front of the stall table dedicated to playing dice, looking at the four corners with ivory embedded out of the boundary, each side with ivory embedded out of the teacup size dots, the dealer a little, the door three points, the right is two, the left is four, marking the left green dragon, the right white tiger of the stall table, Li Peiting said casually: "I didn't expect that I, a person who has never been able to talk about luck, is so good luck today, could it be that the eldest lady and Shi Da led this baby son is blessed, Can I follow the transfer? ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as his voice fell, someone at the table next to him answered: "That's for sure, Lord Li, don't you know, the position you stand in is due south, today I got up early and watched the sky at night, and saw that the green dragon is out of the south, the dragon is in the south, and the fortune is also in the south, of course Lord Li is invincible!" ”

Li Peiting felt a good response when he heard it, he really had a shameless villain at any time! He was also quite familiar with the person who spoke, and it seemed that he was still the deputy envoy of Guangdong. Every day, the flower boat on the Pearl River lingers, and he won't get up until three poles in the morning! Are you still watching the sky at night? Are you listening to singing and watching the heavens in the Pearl River? If you make up nonsense, you have to use your brain to make it up, okay? Don't have any deaths and 70-year-old veterans of the Anti-Japanese War who have no money to see a doctor and are destitute, or take the 39-year graduation certificate of the Nanjing Central Military Academy to accuse the government of not caring about the veterans of the Anti-Japanese War and failing to implement their treatment, etc.

Just when Li Peiting racked his brains and pondered how to be polite so that he could take over this topic, Zheng Zhilong, who was standing beside him with a handful of chips in his hand and followed him to bet on this lantern, said with a smile: "Yes, it has been auspicious recently. Although the old man has never seen any green dragons, a few days ago, his family sent a letter from his hometown, saying that he checked the growth of crops in the field and found that there were nine ears of rice that were blooming and spouting ears. I think I can send it to Guangzhou in a few days to watch this Golden Harvest with you. And my family's rice field is also due south, presumably Qinglong must be passing by, benefiting the seedlings. ”

When Li Peiting heard this, he almost squirted out a mouthful of hot tea in his mouth, and almost spilled a handful of chips in his hand, and said in his heart, Mr. Zheng, are you also confused? At such an age, they still tell me fairy tales. Are you having a lower IQ yourself or are you taking me for a fool? However, it seems that this situation is just right for ZHUANGBI, OK, so happy to decide.

Thinking of this, Li Peiting put down the chips in his hand, turned his head to look at Zheng Zhilong with a serious face, and said, "Admiral Zheng." What is your official job? What is the official title of the lord? Facing Li Peiting's righteous and strict official words, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but be stunned, so he didn't know what to do for a while.

And Li Peiting is unforgiving, he said sharply: "The lord is Liang Guogong of the Ming Dynasty, and you are the senior member of the party in charge of the naval division in my Nanyue army, now the world is turbulent, the southeast is unstable, you are the lord's subordinate." I don't think about how to shepherd the southeast for the lord, retain a vitality for the court in the southeast, keep this half of the country, and go to eliminate filth in the future, but I really can't agree with this, and I'm ashamed to be with you! ”

threw these words to Zheng Zhilong, and then spilled a handful of chips he had won everywhere. Turn around and brush your sleeves away.

Li Peiting's departure made the originally lively hall look like a tomb for a while, and Zheng Zhilong was also choked by Li Peiting's words with a gun and a stick, and he was speechless for a long time and trembled. If it were according to his temper in previous years. I'm afraid that I would have pulled out my sword and cut Li Peiting a long time ago. However, he was really angry enough by Li Peiting. If it weren't for Zheng Zhibao on the side who always gently grabbed the sleeve of his robe by his side and signaled to him, Zheng Zhilong would have been really angry by Li Peiting.

"Brother, don't be angry, Mr. Li Er definitely didn't mean to target my brother."

"Lord Admiral, the students also feel that Mr. Li Er's words seem to have other intentions!"

Arrived in a secluded place. Zheng Zhibao and Jiang Yihong ordered someone to bring hot tea to calm Zheng Zhilong's anger, and then explained their thoughts to Zheng Zhilong.

"What does Li Er mean? Mr. Jiang, a certain family is a rough person, this kind of guessing is boring, but it is not the director of a certain family! ”

"Zheng Gong." Jiang Yihong changed his name to a public and private title, "Look, our move today is just to ask Mr. Li Er to come forward and persuade the lord to advance." That's why I made this move."

And although Mr. Li Er is very good, he is also a wonderful person. Think carefully about his rebuke. Jiang Yihong's face was full of smug expressions of unique secrets.

"What did Li Er say just now?" Zheng Zhilong looked at his younger brother and Jiang Yihong, each with a strange look in their hearts, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

When he recalled what he had just said, he seemed to have some understanding. So he stood up, "**** Li Er, this guy!" Well thought! This move allows the lord to get benefits, and he doesn't have to bear any infamy, he can attack and retreat! Sure enough, it's a good means! ”

At that moment, the three of them politely sent away the guests, and then gathered in Zheng Zhilong's study, taking advantage of the wine, written by Jiang Yihong, and the two Zheng brothers added on the side, and found the map to point out and draw on the map from time to time.

The three of them either wrote well, or they were open-minded, and they didn't sleep all night, and they worked hard to write. When a touch of fish belly white appeared in the east, he finally finished writing this text, Zheng Zhilong solemnly hugged his fist in the direction of Li Peiting's mansion and said, "Thank you." ”

The next day, a petition led by Zheng Zhilong and Jiang Yihong, signed by hundreds of officials from the land and water armies and the two Guangzhous and Fujian, entitled Acting as the Pastor of the Southeast, was sent to Li Shouhan's office.

In this recital, Zheng Zhilong took these hundreds of officials and generals to bluntly say to Li Shouhan that now the world is in turmoil, and the Ming Dynasty is in danger of being destroyed, but there is still a trace of vitality in the southeast, which can be a place of prosperity. However, there was a thief Zhang Xianzhong in front of him, and then there was a fierce general Zuo Liangyu who refused to obey the control, and the court was in danger of overturning in the end. At this critical time, the Guogong should use thunderous means to herd the southeastern provinces on behalf of the Son of Heaven, build a new army, clear the ink officials, promote the new policy, collect money and grain, and defend the southeast half of the country for the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty can turn the crisis into safety.

Southeast Mutual Insurance came out more than 250 years in advance!

The noisy persuasion scene of tens of thousands of people on the street, Li Shouhan can pretend to be deaf and dumb and pretend not to know through a palace wall, as if it had never happened. However, this post, which was jointly sent to his desk by hundreds of people, made him have to read it seriously.

At a glance, Li Shouhan couldn't help but have such a thought popping up in his mind!

What is Southeastern Mutual Insurance? That is one of the most notorious things in Li Shouhan's history books!

The Qing army and the Boxers in Beijing were in Dongjiaomin Lane, and Nie Shicheng in Tianjin was also the stronghold of the Western invaders who besieged Zizhulin and Laolongtou Railway Station together with the Boxers. Faithfully executed the imperial court's war orders against Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, Russia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and other eleven countries.

However, when this holy decree came out of Gyeonggi and Zhili, it was regarded as "chaotic life" and "overbearing". Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and others cooperated with the foreign powers, and Sheng Xuanhuai, a big comprador who controlled the telegraph office, coordinated the plots. Yu Lianyuan, the consul of Shanghai Daoyu, came forward to negotiate with the consuls of various countries in Shanghai on the "Southeast Protection Treaty" and the "Regulations for the Protection of the Inside and Outside of Shanghai", stipulating that the Shanghai concession was under the joint protection of all countries, and the Yangtze River and the interior of Suzhou and Hangzhou were under the protection of the governors of all provinces. This coincides with the British and American imperialists, who feared that their interests in the Yangtze River basin would be affected, and even if they strongly supported them.

After the Qing dynasty declared war on the Eleven Kingdoms, Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, Li Hongzhang, the governor of Liangguang, Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Kuijun, the governor of Sichuan, Sheng Xuanhuai, the minister of railways, and Yuan Shikai, the governor of Shandong, joined one after another. Agreements were reached with the participating countries, which was known as the "Southeast Mutual Protection" in history.

Li Hongzhang, who served as the governor of Liangguang, even sent a telegram directly to the Qing court, claiming that the edict declaring war on all countries "will not be edicted in this chaos." The word "chaotic life" is a political term carefully chosen by Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang knows very well that "if you don't measure your strength and try lightly, I am afraid that the state of cultural relics for thousands of years will be gone", so he said, "This chaotic life is also, Guangdong does not obey the edict." ”

There are so many local governors involved in this matter, and the officials are so bold. The scope of the area involved and the severity of the consequences are beyond anyone's imagination. Not to mention anything else, when the edict of declaration of war was sent down to various places, Sheng Xuanhuai, the minister of post, ordered the telecommunications bureaus of all localities to seize the edict of the Qing court's summoning of the Boxers and the declaration of war, and only showed it to the governors of various places, and telegraphed to the governors of all places not to obey this order. Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, then put forward the plan of "President Li Hongzhang": once Beijing is not guaranteed. They jointly elected Li Hongzhang as China's "president" to preside over the overall situation. If there is a normal country, the central government has declared war on the enemy. However, the local government signed a peace treaty with the enemy country, stipulating non-aggression, what is this not a traitorous act? However, this kind of traitorous behavior can still be admired by countless historians, believing that it protects the vitality of the country and puts an end to the aggression of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Why don't you say that Wadsey and the others don't have to go into battle themselves at all. Naturally, there is a superintendent who has sent what he wants?!

Xu Fancheng recorded in the sixteenth article of "Pengwu Poetry": "There are clouds: 'The ministers serve the southeast and dare not obey the edict. Nanpi (Zhang Zhidong) threw a cigarette gun and said, "This old widow (referring to the Empress Dowager Cixi) wants to hack her!" Change: The minister sits in the southeast, and he will not obey the edict! ——At that time, the minister privately called Cixi this name. ”

According to Zhao Wenjun's article "Mr. Gu Hongming's Past Stories Told to Me", Gu Hongming proposed a Jiangnan independence plan to Zhang Zhidong in 1900. Gu Hongming said: I put forward a plan for Jiangnan independence, which will be used as a buffer for the time being. …… We should take the opportunity to rearm our forces for war as soon as possible, and arouse the people of the whole country to fight a long battle against the enemy, defend our homeland and defend the country, go north to Qinwang, and strive for the final victory.

Gu Hongming is a literati, and it is unknown whether he is bragging. But there is circumstantial evidence and some evidence in the matter of Zhang Zhidong. As the governor of Huguang in the imperial court, you don't care about ruining the court's money on weekdays, but you still call the queen mother "old widow"? And threatened to scare her? Can it be more daring than this?

As for the wide range of people involved, this matter involves two characters who hammered nails into the coffin of the Qing Dynasty eleven years later. In addition to Yuan Shikai, who was the governor of Shandong at the time, Liu Xuexun, a staff member of Li Hongzhang, wrote to a person: "Fu Xiang wants to take the independence of Guangdong Province because of the chaos in the north, and he wants to help him with his feet, so please come to Guangdong as soon as possible to cooperate." ”

This person's name is Sun Wen. (Huh?) How did Mr. Sun, who was the forerunner of overthrowing the Manchu rule and a conscientious young history teacher who was a famous historical inventor, get involved with a group of Manchu bureaucrats? This is not scientific! ）

Such blatant disobedience by the local government to the orders of the central government shows the weakness and emptiness of the Qing court. Since then, his prestige has been discredited. After Gengzi, although it is said that the Qing court increased the intensity of the formation and training of the new army, it was bent on the so-called rich country and strong army. However, through the Southeast Mutual Insurance Incident, it was revealed that the well-intentioned people and powerful figures of the Qing court began to become warlords (typical examples are the Beiyang warlord departments of Yuan Shikai developed from the Huai Army and the Lu Rongting Department of the old Gui system developed from the original Manchu Guangxi Green Battalion and Patrol Battalion). They have effectively freed themselves from the control of the central Qing court, and although they are still loyal to the court on the surface, and still shouting long live, they have seen the court as a puppet and ornament in their hearts. For the central policies that are in line with the interests of their group, they will double down on the implementation of them; As for the central policies that harm the interests of their group, they can be resisted with carelessness.

In the first year of Xuantong, Zaifeng, who was the regent and the biological father of Emperor Xuantong, wanted to kill Yuan Shikai to avenge his brother Emperor Guangxu but could not do it, which was also one of the consequences of this incident. The Xianghuai Army, which was formed and strengthened in the pacification of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had the strength to confront the central government after only 30 years of power, which was the result of the overflow of official power in the 30 years of the Westernization Movement, and the power in the hands of the local government was too great and too much.

In fact, behind the complicated appearance, is the change of the economic base, the famous words of the old man Ma are the absolute truth, the economic base determines the superstructure. No matter how hard the Qing government wants to try, as long as it cannot change the foundation of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial, no matter how foreign affairs of the new army are, it will be a flash in the pan. The compradors enjoyed the enormous benefits of Sino-foreign collusion, controlled local tax revenues and the army, and the Qing government was almost completely destroyed. The only land that can be relied on is the Zongsha Party and the land of a few provinces, and these lands have also suffered a serious threat from imperialism, especially Gengzi Nian, which has suffered a fatal blow.

In fact, the world today has not changed much, we count the war-torn countries over the years, Ukraine, the oligarchs have private armies, Syria, the civilian population is full of private armies. Bypassing the nouns of cooking poisonous dishes, we can see that Ukraine is one of the Eastern European countries that are most open to Western capital in Europe, and Syria was also engaged in deindustrialization before the war. In these countries, the only resources that the government can control are a few state-owned enterprises and tax revenues that are difficult to collect, so how can the country be strong and powerful? It is a pity that in the face of the lessons of history and the bloodshed of Ukraine and Syria, there are still people who always hope that the country will take more responsibilities for their own interests, and they do not pay a penny, and they still shout that this is the trend of the times. They completely ignore that the power of the state comes from the support of the people, and they take away the support and let the state defend everyone with a strong arm, including them. Therefore, for the sake of everyone, including themselves, the unscrupulous author strongly recommends that they travel to these two countries to see what terrible consequences they claim. And after seeing this, can we still keep an eye on state-owned enterprises, can we still evade taxes as always, and can we still shout that the government is responsible? When it is profitable, it desperately shouts that it is necessary to make profits and respect the market, but when it is unprofitable or it is necessary to fulfill obligations, it is repeatedly emphasized that this is the duty of the state. I've seen shameless, I've never seen such shameless!

Therefore, the comprador is the elite among the traitors. Compared with the traditional images of those who wear hats and cigarettes crookedly, and straddle the box cannon diagonally, they are much more polite and personable. However, the harm to the country is even greater. The traditional cultural Donglin and the comprador at the level of modern economic significance can be described as a hundred years of poison and endless harm.

This document was placed in front of him, and the signatures of hundreds of officials and generals were vividly visible. Among them are not only the Ming court officials of the former Liangguang Governorship System headed by Jiang Yihong, but also the Fujian maritime group represented by Zheng Zhilong, which is also mixed with many generals of the Southern Guangdong Army.

This made Li Shouhan scratch his head very much.

"Are you trying to make me Yuan Shikai?" With a wry smile on his face, he weighed the document in his hand. (To be continued.) )

PS: Happy May Day, everyone!