In particular, Panyu trusts Zhou Shijun, the magistrate, and just took office last year, but his official reputation is still quite good. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This person is Xianfeng three years (1853) Gansu Jinshi, after the Jinshi was transferred to Changle County, Guangdong Province to do the county order, Changle County belongs to Jiaying Prefecture, that is, Meizhou in later generations, is a place where Hakka people gather, Changle County belongs to the mountainous area, but produces tea, and the locals and merchants often fight because of interests.

After Zhou Shijun took office, he took resolute measures to arrest and bring to justice all those who took the lead in making trouble, punished the culprits in accordance with the law, and calmed down the situation. It should be said that Jiaying Prefecture is also a high-incidence area of armed fighting, which can stop armed fighting, no matter what his ability is, this Zhou Shijun is at least a dare to do things, which is much stronger than the county orders in Heshan and other places.

After the withdrawal of the Anglo-French troops, Li Futai, the commander of Panyu County, was soon promoted to Guangxi for meritorious service, and Zhou Shijun took over as the commander of Panyu County.

An official like Zhou Shijun, who was born in the inland region of the northwest, often has a kind of heaviness in the loess of the northwest, but at the same time has the conservatism of the people in the inland area.

When the teacher saw Zhou Shijun, he wanted to kneel, Zhou Shijun held him up, helped the teacher to sit on the chair, and he still stood with his hands down like a student, and begged the teacher for guidance.

The teacher said: "You are now a big official, but you must keep in mind two sentences, which are 'a gentleman loves money and takes it in a proper way', and 'water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn a boat'." Zhou Shijun nodded respectfully.

This kind of official is really abiding by the way of Confucius and Mencius, and may also collect money and collect some silver, but there is a kind of conservative integrity in the root.

This kind of integrity has won Zhou Shijun a reputation in Panyu, the most important thing is because he dares to fight with foreigners.

After the Beijing treaty was renewed, the foreigners came to Guangzhou again, and the Chinese civil officials had a weak mentality in their bones, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and the foreigners showed their strength, and the officials did not dare to provoke them, so the foreigners who came to Guangzhou again had a very detached status, and there was nothing to find the government.

Foreigners themselves don't find their own value, but there are always some treacherous people who can find out that after finding a foreigner to talk to a good person, when they encounter a lawsuit, they will find a foreigner to help them put pressure on the government, and they can win the lawsuit every time. As long as the aggrieved side gives gifts to the "foreign officials" and asks them to go through the "back door" of the Chinese officials, the lawsuit can be turned into a victory. On the one hand, it is sad for China's legal system, and on the other hand, there is a continuous backlog of public grievances.

After Zhou Shijun arrived as the commander of Panyu County, he soon encountered this kind of thing, and he hated it deeply and was determined to rectify it. When he encountered a lawsuit for land, Zhou Shijun sent someone to find out the truth, and immediately arrested the aggrieved party. But Haoqiang, who robbed other people's land, bought off the foreigners and went to deliver a message to the then governor Baigui.

Bai Gui sent someone to deliver a message to Zhou Shijun, hoping that he could release him.

Zhou Shijun replied resolutely: "This person has violated the law, the evidence is conclusive, and he has not been tried yet, how can he be released?"

Bai Gui explained that this person had joined the foreign religion and had foreigners intercede.

Zhou Shijun was dissatisfied: "The county order is not a foreign official, and the Qing Dynasty is not a foreign country, in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, I am holding the Qing Dynasty's Yulu, how can I listen to the command of foreigners?" ”

In the end, Bai Gui also had no choice but to take Zhou Shijun, but let Zhou Shijun become famous in Guangzhou, and the people said that he was not afraid of foreigners, which was a strong order. In a conservative and closed society, nationalist sentiment is serious, and Zhou Shijun has a broad group leader base against foreigners, so if it is not a last resort, Manager Zhu really doesn't want to clean him up.

But this kind of conservative bureaucracy is often willing to be loyal servants of the old regime.

When Zhu Jinglun was making trouble, because he was worried that there would be an incident in which Hua Tingjie and Li Futai went out of the city to organize the township to besiege Guangzhou, he withheld the two county orders of Panyu and Nanhai, and when he controlled the situation, he invited the two county orders out, hoping that they would continue to be officials and stabilize the locality.

They are willing to be officials, but they have been against Zhu Jinglun since then, especially Zhou Shijun, when Zhu Jinglun issued a request for the province, state and county to deport the official silver into the official treasury of Guangzhou Prefecture, he directly said that Zhu Jinglun had robbed the money, and he had no money.

Fang Shan suggested that Zhou Shijun be severely punished and set an example for others.

Zhu Jinglun thought about it for a while, this kind of popular county order, if he kills him, he will not have a good reputation, but let this kind of person become a god, and the people will recite it from generation to generation.

"Let him go, if necessary, we need enemies too!"

Zhu Jinglun explained that this kind of inflexible official, just like Nie Erkang, is sometimes useful, and now Nie Erkang's blood has shocked most states and counties, and he can't kill a civilian official.

"Panyu County is in the city of Guangzhou, he can't turn over the big waves, as long as he doesn't try to encourage the villagers, don't move him."

Guangzhou City has now replaced Xin'an County as Zhu Jinglun's new base camp, stationed with Zhu Jinglun's heavy troops, he is not afraid of these officials' small disobedience, what he really has to worry about is the state and county that are far away from Guangzhou, but have important significance.

Huichao Jiadao Daotai Sun Fengxiang is very acquainted, there are generals' writings, the emperor's edict, he is very smart like Mukdenne, judging what happened in Guangzhou as a dispute between the court, not only honestly handed over the taxes in Huizhou, Chaozhou and Jiaying Prefecture, but also did not prevent Zhu Jinglun from sending troops.

In addition, Zhu Jinglun also had a legitimate reason for sending troops, he went under the banner of guarding against Sino-foreign conflicts, after the Beijing treaty was renewed, Chaozhou became a new treaty port, at first the Americans wanted to enter the city, the local government was afraid of accidents, the port was zoned to Shantou, the Americans could not enter the city, did not insist, but the British did not do it, they changed the treaty later than the Americans, or after a battle to complete the exchange of treaty, but later they had to come first, must insist on going to Chaozhou to set up a consulate.

Chaozhou is the capital of the mountainous state, but there is a river flowing to the sea, it is a place with mountains and seas, the people are relatively closed, and it is an important force in the coastal areas of China to break into the sea, so the people are quite brave, and the people of Chaozhou oppose the British consul to enter the city of Chaozhou. The British consul entered the city under the official protection of the Qing government, and as a result, the Chaozhou crowd gathered thousands and hundreds of people, threw rubble at the British, and swarmed against the British entering the city.

On the grounds of this matter, General Guangzhou issued a military order to transfer troops, and Sun Fengxiang had no reason to refuse, and there was no reason to refuse, because he did not have to take responsibility, and in the end, no matter which faction won the battle, there was no excuse to trouble him, so why should he make trouble for himself.

In the end, the 1,000 people sent by Zhu Jinglun entered the Chaozhou Mansion safely, as an area with many mountains and little land, barren land, and strong people, Zhu Jinglun did not have much need to send a large army to station, and like other places such as Gaoleiyang Road, Qiongya Road, Lianqin Road, etc., Zhu Jinglun only sent 500 soldiers to a Tao, and even Qiongya Road did not send troops to go, at this time Hainan Island had no strategic significance, that is, there was no money, and it was remote.

However, the Guangzhou government must be strictly controlled by itself, and every county must send troops.

Shunde County, Dongguan County, Conghua County, Longmen County, Xinning County, Zengcheng County, Xiangshan County, Xinhui County, Sanshui County, Qingyuan County, Xin'an County, and Hua County all have to send troops, Xinhui has already sent more than 100 people, Xin'an County has always been Zhu Jinglun's base camp, and the remaining 10 counties, each county sent 100 troops, following the new regulations, let the officers recruit 1,000 people to assist themselves, stabilize the place, and firmly control the Pearl River Delta region, the richest region in Guangdong.

It took a month for these things to be completed, and the control of Guangdong was basically completed.

However, Guangdong is far from being stable, let alone absolutely controlled by Zhu Jinglun.

At the end of October, suddenly Heshan sent a warning signal again, and the Tuan Yong attacked the Hakka people again, and the Hakka leader Zhang Baoming ran to Zhu Jinglun to cry for the first time.

Zhu Jinglun can't ignore his crying, now half of the main force of his army comes from the Hakka, and the promise of letting the Hakka people work for him is to help them regain the land and protect them.

But to send troops, the pressure is really not small.

Zhu Jinglun had previously sent 1,000 troops to Huichao Jiadao, 500 to Gaoleiyang Dao and Lianqin Dao, and 1,000 soldiers were also stationed in Zhaoqing, a strategic place, and 100 soldiers from each county in Guangzhou, with a total of more than 4,000 troops.

The newly recruited Eight Banners Army is not only unreliable, but a hidden danger, and it has to be guarded against, so the troops at hand are somewhat stretched. If any of the two armies of the Wukeng Army and the Xin'an Army, which are really capable of fighting, are sent out, there will be less than 10,000 troops left in Guangzhou City that can fight, and the troops in Guangzhou will be empty.

But weighing the pros and cons in his hands, Zhu Jinglun still decided to send troops, and he wanted to send large soldiers.

Send 10,000 people at a time, send Hou Jin and Fang Shan, two important members of one article and one martial arts, to use the momentum of thunder to completely solve the armed fighting in Heshan, otherwise the entanglement will lead to large-scale armed fighting in Xinning and other places, and it will be even more difficult to clean up.

Zhu Jinglun had heard many times that there had been small-scale armed fighting in these counties, and without the deterrence of the army, once there was a power vacuum, it would be difficult for the Tuan Yong, who had already occupied an absolute advantage, to curb the desire to encroach on the Hakka land.

Zhu Jinglun sat in Guangzhou and seized the time to train his troops.

He must seize the turbulent technology of the Beijing Imperial Court and before he starts to attack the Guangdong region, and he must have enough troops to defend himself, so he does not hesitate to disturb the situation in Guangdong all the time, so that the Cantonese people do not know what is happening, and Beijing must be even more unclear about the situation. (To be continued.) )