After confirming that Yang Qing did not want the whole of Guangxi, the village sages of the Guangxi Consultative Bureau did not hesitate to stuff King Jingjiang into a carriage and present it to Yang Qing......

Anyway, there is his son!

Yang Qingai plays with him casually, even if he dies, it doesn't matter, he has his son in reserve, in the final analysis, King Jingjiang is just a legal basis for Guangxi to maintain secession, but it doesn't matter who is King Jingjiang. Zhu Hengjia's son can, Zhu Hengjia's brother can, and even every clan male in Jingjiang Domain can, and it's not impossible to give King Jingjiang's son to Yang Qing if needed.

Anyway, there are more than 2,000 spare ones in the back!

Such trifle is not worth mentioning at all.

What else can poor Zhu Hengjia do? After the villagers of the Consultative Bureau returned, they immediately went to the palace to force him, and he wanted to struggle for a while, but the guards guarding his palace knelt down in front of his door and asked him to focus on the overall situation, and these bastards knelt with muskets in their hands. In the end, he had to accept this result with tears in his eyes, in the end, he had no real power like King Gui, Guangxi's finances were completely controlled in the hands of the Xiangxian of the Consultative Bureau, at the beginning when those officials from other provinces were there, King Jingjiang could still speak effectively, but after the latter was almost squeezed out by local officials, he also completely became a puppet.

As for those mercenaries, it goes without saying, of course, whoever pays them will listen to whomever they pay.

And these village sages are mainly around Guilin.

Originally, the core of Guangxi is this piece, Guilin, Liuzhou, Pingle, and even Nanning are relatively remote, so they also don't care much about abandoning Xunwu Erzhou.

The latter is unlucky, so be unlucky!

This kind of thing as long as it's not their own bad luck.

Townsmen!

Do you really expect them to be united?

As long as they are not unlucky and need to dedicate the King of Jingjiang to Yang Qing, they will not hesitate to pack the king, and they need to sacrifice some of the interests of the townspeople, then they will not hesitate.

Even if they knew that Yang Qing was cutting meat with a blunt knife.

But......

As long as you haven't cut yourself yet.

And throwing Xunzhou to Yang Qing means throwing the mud pit of Datengxia to him, if the Ming army can be trapped in this lofty mountain, then it can also buy more time for the gentry in Guangxi, even if it is just to survive. The Ming Dynasty's Dateng Gorge does not just refer to Dateng Gorge, in fact, the entire area of mountains and mountains north of Guiping is collectively referred to as Datengxia, all the way to the south of Lipu, this Yao people's settlement area has been tossed in the Ming Dynasty for almost three hundred years, even Wang Shouren has not solved it, and the Guangxi gentry are happy to see the Ming army fall into this green quagmire. In the past, it was suppressed by wolf defense Yao, and after the Ming army took over, those wolf soldiers must have withdrawn, they were originally provided to the imperial court by Guixi Tusi in the form of foreign assignments, and Guixi Tusi and the gentry had formed an alliance, and they supported the latter to control Guiliu and other places.

And then act as a barrier for them.

After all, the Tusi are also full of vigilance against Yang Qing, this powerful minister has begun to reform the land in Yungui and return to the stream, although the speed is slow but has not stopped, relying on those militia-based old guard soldiers, while waving the flesh and bones of the knight and moving to the plain, while aiming at the gun, he has indeed successfully solved one Tusi after another. In this way, he will have to attack Guangxi sooner or later, which is very clear to these toasts, including the Cen family, but they also know that toast must be ranked behind the gentry, and it will not be toast's turn if the gentry does not fall.

Both sides are cold lips and teeth.

In this way, the situation in Guangxi quickly stabilized, and just when the wolf soldiers withdrew from Xunwu Erzhou, and then the Ming army followed closely to receive them, the king of Jingjiang also began his journey to Zhongdu by boat.

His eldest son stayed in Guilin as a son.

His eldest son was much more famous than he was.

The prince of Jingjiang is Zhu Ruoji, that is, Shi Tao, who was as famous as the Bada Shanren in the early Qing Dynasty, and a painting is worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in modern times.

"There are quite a few people in the clan who are good at calligraphy and painting!"

Yang Qing looked at the name with interest.

"After all, with the previous system, they had nothing else to do.

Speaking of which, this clan is indeed dissatisfied with the Duke of Chu, but the vast majority of people who really want to hate you may not be, the imperial court used to treat the clan as a thief. Even the prevention of thieves is not as strict as the prevention of the clan, saying that it is the prince of the feudal county Tianhuang noble, but in fact he is just a prisoner with the city as a prison. It is said that the wealth of the country is terrifying, but the Duke of Chu can ask King Fu how much income he can give him a year for his millions of acres of fertile land? He was a fief, and it was not really owned by him, but the right to tax this land was assigned to him, and he only had the right to collect taxes.

But don't forget, the tax is collected by the imperial court!

It was the court that collected it for him, and then took it and handed it over to him!

He has no right to collect it himself.

The imperial court itself doesn't know how many of its own taxes have disappeared in the past tax system, not to mention that they are collected by these vassal kings, and King Fu's two million mu of fiefdom is theoretically only given him more than 40,000 taels a year, but in fact it has not been given enough. ”

Li Yutian said with a smile.

"Don't they still have a fortune?"

Yang Qing said.

"It's true that they all have a salary, but the imperial court can't even pay the salaries of the front-line soldiers, do you think they will be paid in full? King Fu and King Shu are indeed rich, but do you think they have multiplied for thousands of people, are those Fengguo lieutenants really rich? Their money was all discounted, and when they still used treasure money, only 20% of it was silver, and 80% of it was treasure money, and it is needless to say what the treasure money looked like later. So except for those vassal kings and county kings, those lowest-level clans may not be grateful to you, you didn't let them lose anything, many of them were even worse in the past, and you untied the shackles on their bodies.

You say they were raised as pigs.

But even if they can have no worries about food and clothing, they may not like the days when they are shackled. ”

Li Yutian said.

"Then why did the clan become the target of public criticism, and the officials and the people all accused it of dragging down the country?"

Yang Qing asked.

"As you said, some things always need some people to take the blame, and there must be an explanation for the erosion before the Ming Dynasty, saying that because the gentry did not pay taxes? Who dared to say in the past? Whoever said it was all self-defeating! The entire officialdom, all the gentry, all rely on this to maintain a good life, dare to say that this is the enemy of the world! Say land annexation? Hai Rui, who fought against land annexation, was bombed down as soon as he became the governor, and this was still the preferential treatment given to him by Emperor Shenzong, otherwise he would have been put in prison a long time ago. Zhang Juzheng managed it a little with an iron fist, just slightly, and he was almost wiped out just after he died! Say that business taxes are too little? Yangzhou salt merchants make tens of millions of profits a year and pay hundreds of thousands of taxes, which is less, but isn't there a bunch of real power officials behind that salt merchant? Zhang Juzheng's successor, Zhang Siwei's younger brother Zhang Sijiao, was a Yangzhou salt merchant.

What is the result of Wei Zhongxian, who dared to collect business taxes?

The real reason can't be said and no one dares to say, it just so happens that the clan is the most weak, and it is indeed responsible, it has become the best scapegoat, saying that they can make a happy explanation for the country's erosion by eating the country, as for whether the root cause is really the clan, who cares about this? ”

Li Yutian said.

"As soon as you say this, when I look at Xiaoling again, I feel that Taizu is much kinder in the spirit of heaven!"

Yang Qing said.

Then both laughed at the same time.

"Then after the king of Jingjiang comes, he will find a house in the southern capital, and then let him live in peace, and Guangxi will continue to let his son stay behind, when the layout is completed, let him go to the book and move the feudal domain by himself."

Yang Qing then said.

The fate of King Jingjiang was thus determined.

First came to Nanjing as a duke, and when he was almost done, he asked him to ask for the transfer of the domain, and his son did not agree to be disloyal and unfilial, or rebellion, and then the army of the imperial court could go straight to Guilin. Anyway, as long as the land reform in Xunwu and Wuzhou is completed, especially if the Yao people in Datengxia are solved, there are four prefectures based on the militia, and the three prefectures of Guilin, Liuzhou, and Pingle will be able to explore the bag. Take these three provinces and then continue to carry out land reform, these three provinces land reform is completed, at least hundreds of thousands of militia can be used, those toasts are also in the bag, in the end, they can play that card in their hands.

"Then it's up to King Gui now!"

Yang Qing looked at the map and said.

Guangzhou.

"The king, in the opinion of the old man, you might as well go to this southern capital, since the king of Jingjiang has already gone, it is not appropriate for the king not to go!"

He Wuyu, a scholar from Chongzhen Dynasty in Xiangshan, stroked his beard and said with a smile.

Several village sages beside him nodded their heads.

Their discipline will definitely not be higher than those township sages in Guangxi, since the township sages in Guangxi will pack King Jingjiang and send it to Yang Qing, of course they can also pack and send King Gui out. Anyway, King Gui also has a son, and there is no need to provoke Yang Qing to make everyone unhappy in the end, in case the Ming army blocks Humen again, then all the silver lost every day is for nothing!

"Xianggang Gong, what if Yang Qing detains the king?"

Chen Bangyan said.

"If the king goes, the righteousness will be in me, and if he doesn't go, the righteousness will be in him!"

He Wuyu said.

King Gui looked at him speechlessly.

That righteousness has a fart use, you gave me to Yang Qing in exchange for a temporary Gou An, but I am going to be encircled in a small courtyard. At that time, you were just as happy, and I had to be a de facto prisoner there every day.

This has to be Yang Qing's good mood.

If he is in a bad mood, pour me a cup of poisoned wine one day, and I don't think you will avenge me.

"Xianggang Gong, I think you and you will not fail to understand Yang Qing's intentions, he is just unable to annex Liangguang in one fell swoop, so he retreats and adopts a strategy of encroachment. He threatened once, but not much of what he asked for was within the scope of our acceptance, and if we didn't want to go to war, we had to accept it, and after a while he forced it again, and we accepted it again, so that step by step he weakened our strength. Look at what he did in Guangxi, the first time he only took Nanning and Lianzhou, and used the fear of King Jingjiang to force him to accept, and now it has only been more than a year and he has already played the second time.

In this way, King Jingjiang lost one-third of his fiefdom piece by piece.

So what about next time?

Does Yang Qing want Liuzhou or Pingle?

We can't let it encroach on the land piece by piece, he has forced us to hand over the sailors last time, and handed over Hong Kong Island, and as a result, the Nanyang sailors are blocked at the doorstep. This time he asked for Leizhou again, he had already obtained Xunzhou from the King of Jingjiang, which clearly wanted to expand to our Gui Domain and engage in his own way, instead of retreating like this, it was better to be tough on him once, in order to support Your Majesty.

Yang Qing won't really hit us.

He is just scaring us, his purpose is still encroachment, if he really wants to fight with us, whether it is Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, or even Dolgon, it is possible to take advantage of the situation, especially at this time when he is in a stalemate with His Majesty. ”

Chen Zizhuang, another former minister from Guangdong, said.

He, Chen Bangyan, and Zhang Jiayu together were originally known as the Lingnan Three Loyalties in history, especially after his defeat against the Qing Dynasty, he died the most tragically.

He was sawn to death.

"What if he does do it?"

He Wuyu swept away the pretense just now, and asked with a sneer.

"If he really does it, even if we do our part for Your Majesty, won't the 50,000 elites of Guangdong's two guards have the strength to fight? Even if we can't go north and south to serve Your Majesty, we can also let Yang Qing know that there are loyal and righteous people in the world, and we are all former ministers of the first emperor, how can we sit back and watch the first emperor's country fall into the hands of traitorous ministers! ”

Chen Zizhuang said.

"The power of the First Battle? What was the result of the battle of Xin'an? The Nanyang Naval Division is in Humen, and the Hong Kong Marine Corps can land in Xin'an at any time, not to mention that now the 18th Army has occupied Xunzhou, and can go down the Xijiang River to attack Zhaoqing at any time. I'm afraid that the last one will end up with Jin Shenghuan, even if Yang Qing has a bad heart, but at this time he is still a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he summons the righteousness of the vassal king in the name of the Son of Heaven, and if he refuses, he will not be a minister, and he doesn't want to die in the name of a traitor! ”

He Wuyu said.

"If we sit back and watch Yang Qing plot rebellion, then how can we face the first emperor?"

Chen Bangyan said.

"Then Yang Qing can rebel?"

He Wuyu said.

"If he has rebelled, what will he sacrifice?"

Chen Zizhuang said angrily.

"Then everything is your speculation, could it be that you Chen Qiutao said that he would rebel against him?"

He Wuyu said.

"King, Humen sent a person claiming to be sent by the Three Princes of Guang to ask to see the king!"

A guard suddenly came in and said.

The group immediately stopped arguing, Ding Kuichu was the representative of the Gui clan to the emperor, and there must be something important for him to send someone to come suddenly.

"Bring him in!"

King Gui said.

Immediately afterwards, a young man in his twenties was brought in.

"Zhejiang student Yao Qisheng has seen the king!"

He saluted King Gui and said.

"No courtesy, Yao Mao has only come from afar to work hard, what's the matter with the third prince of Guang?"

King Gui said.

"The holy decree has arrived, please accept the decree of King Gui!"

Yao Qisheng suddenly changed his face and said with a serious face.

The group of people in the hall were all stunned, including King Gui, everyone watched in amazement as he tore open his belt, then took out an oilcloth bag from the mezzanine, and then solemnly opened it, and took out a brocade yellow silk that was indeed the customary use of the Holy Decree......

"King Gui, please take the secret order!"

Yao Qisheng said.