The fourteen counties of Guangfu are now Zhu Jinglun's core territory, he not only appointed fourteen county orders privately, but even the county officials of each county are all in control, you must know that there is a set of rules between ordinary officials and small officials, and there is a clear distinction between them, no one interferes with whose power, don't underestimate the small officials, as strong as Zeng Guofan, when he went to the capital to lead the army salary, the small officials still dared to ask him for kickbacks. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because the relationship between the small officials is complicated, not only with the local officials, but also between the upper and lower levels, and even the core of the Jianghu forces in the society, for example, the general officials worship Guan Gong, not only worship the same god as the local gangs, but because the other identity of many officials is the gang members, Huang Jinrong's father was the leader of the Green Gang, and he was also the leader of the Green Gang. This is the main reason why the relationship between the officials and the gangs is intertwined.

For various reasons, no one in the general government wants to provoke this kind of group that is both official and has the flavor of rivers and lakes.

Zhu Jinglun because of the problem of tax exemption, last time led to a backlash from the county officials of Guangzhou, as a result, he immediately used thunderous means to suppress them, and then asked the tax department to merge the entire tax collectors of Guangzhou Prefecture into it, but for a while they can gather their people, they will definitely not be able to gather their hearts, the formation of a tradition and habits, it takes time to cultivate, and after a few years, they find that they do not need to extort, can live a more decent life, the culture of honesty can be formed.

Therefore, in the timely response to the repression, Zhu Jinglun's control over the Guangzhou government was strengthened.

Another area with relatively strong control is the Wuyi region, which basically belongs to Zhaoqing Prefecture, which has jurisdiction over Gaoyao County, Sihui County, Xinxing County, Gaoming County, Guangning County, Kaiping County, Heshan County, Fengchuan County, Kaijian County, and Deqing Prefecture. Among them, Zhu Jinglun garrisoned 1,000 troops in Zhaoqing Fucheng, and although there were not many troops stationed in Heshan County, he recruited tens of thousands of troops regardless of the local guests, and let Fang Shan personally sit here, and the deterrent effect on the Wuyi area was still very strong, so the control over the Wuyi area where the Turks and guests lived together in Heshan was relatively firm.

can control Guangzhou and Zhaoqing, Zhu Jinglun, the Guangzhao Luo Daoist, is well deserved, and this is his iron-clad territory.

Nanshao Liandao is a firm anti-Zhu base, Shi Pu, Hua Tingjie in the early days, and later Zhou Shijun and other fourteen county orders, so that there is no possibility of Zhu Jinglun's infiltration at all, Bai Gui is not fully cooperative, Zhu Jinglun said to act in other areas, he will not obstruct, as soon as it comes to Nanshao Liandao, he will use all kinds of excuses, obviously Bai Gui is also very clear, where is the only stable place he can control.

In the impoverished western Guangdong region, Zhu Jinglun and Bai Gui did not attach much importance to it, and the officialdom basically did not move, and under the condition that each side had a basic plate, the competition for the Huichaojia area, whose economic level was second only to Guangzhao Luodao and whose geographical location was relatively important, has become the focus of open and secret struggle between the two sides.

Bai Gui has an advantage, that is, he is the governor of Liangguang, plus he is a civil official, and he also represents the Manchu court, so in the hearts of orthodox civil officials, he is on Bai Gui's side.

Zhu Jinglun's advantage is that he has a strong army in his hands, and he has stationed a thousand people in Chaozhou, and let the Hakka talent Zhang Baoming be active for a year and contact a large number of Hakka clans, it can be said that Baigui has influence on the upper echelons, and Zhu Jinglun has attracted the support of the lower forces.

In general, Bai Gui has an advantage, he has given up competing with Bai Gui for the support of local officials, and Zhu Jinglun extinguished this attempt in a dead end, that is, the Manchu Qing court's system of being an official in a different place, whether it is a civil official in the imperial examination, or a roll pipe, they are not locals, and the system of being an official in a different place is also being used after New China, because he is easy to use, for the centralized government, it is simply a killer move, being an official in a foreign place, and his family is in his hometown, as long as their hometown is not under Zhu Jinglun's control, There is little chance that they will rebel.

Zhu Jinglun went further, and he could only start in other aspects, and he was eyeing Chaozhou Customs.

When the Americans came, the Qing government set up the port in Shantou, 80 miles away, and the Americans tried to enter Chaozhou once and refused, and the British were not so easy to fool, they insisted on entering the city and set up a consulate in Chaozhou.

As a result, a Chaozhou anti-invasion of the city, that was last year, Zhu Jinglun used this as an excuse to send a thousand troops to Chaozhou, but the British did not give up, and the British in this era in the understanding of the Chinese, as if the more they were not allowed to do something, they had to do something, so they felt that they were particularly unreasonable.

The British first found Zhu Jinglun, and Zhu Jinglun asked them to go to Bai Gui, who discussed with Zhu Jinglun, and Zhu Jinglun proposed to let Hurd supervise Chaozhou Customs.

If it had been before, Bai Gui would have thrown it to Zhu Jinglun when he encountered something about dealing with foreigners, but this time he didn't, he thought it was not appropriate for Hurd to supervise Chaozhou. On this issue, the two discussed back and forth for a long time.

Originally, there was no need to be so troublesome, Zhu Jinglun could have sent someone directly, anyway, where his army was sitting, if Bai Gui dared to instigate the local green camp to make trouble, it would be a big deal.

But who said that there have been a lot of things recently, Zhu Jinglun has suppressed more and more bandits, and the bandits in Guangzhou Prefecture have just been cleared up, but the bandits in Huaiji County, which is at the junction with Guangdong, have come out, taking advantage of the emptiness of Zhaoqing Mansion's troops, and captured Xinyi County in one fell swoop.

The leader of this group of bandits is called Chen Jinyu, is a native of Sanshui, Guangzhou, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, as early as the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), began to rebel, has been in the border area of Guangdong and Guizhou in the Yunkai mountains, last year, suddenly occupied Huaiji County under the jurisdiction of Wuzhou Prefecture, immediately announced the founding of the country, named Dahongguo, self-proclaimed King of Xingnan, and named his general Zheng Shaozhong as the generalissimo. After that, he captured Xinyi County, and then announced Xinyi as the Beijing teacher, so he built a palace, selected palace beauties, and opened a branch to take scholars, and really regarded himself as the emperor.

This kind of thing, at first glance, is like Hong Xiuquan all the way, and the courage is worse than Hong Xiuquan, Hong Xiuquan also knew that he occupied Nanjing before deciding to build the capital, he occupied a county seat, and he couldn't wait to establish the capital.

But this era is like this, the contradictions accumulated by the people have reached the limit of explosion, and a spark can be ignited immediately, so as long as they have a foothold, they can immediately be a spark that can ignite the prairie and sweep a large area.

Chen Jinyu set up liaison stations in Xinyi's Zhuyuan, Yunkai, Rongyuan, Baishi, Fanfu and other places, and immediately gathered 10,000 horses. Then he divided his troops to the south, captured Maoming, Huazhou, Dianbai, and Yangchun in one fell swoop, and defeated the local Qing army, which was overwhelming.

Xinyi County is under the jurisdiction of Gaozhou Mansion and is not within Zhu Jinglun's jurisdiction, but at this time, where does he dare to sit idly by, Gaozhou Mansion is in the south of Zhaoqing Mansion, once these guys are allowed to gain a firm foothold and become poisonous, it will be endless, Zhu Jinglun is not afraid of them, but the people can't stand it, a war has passed, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and injured, it is really a tragedy.

So he politely said to Bai Gui, Zhu Jinglun immediately sent 20,000 troops, the whole army of the Wukeng Army to attack, and at the same time brought the Eight Banners Army that had been trained to fight, and transferred these Eight Banners to fight, and they stayed in Guangzhou City to be restless.

Zhu Jinglun's order to the black dog can be slower, but he can't let go of a Tiandihui remnant party, Chen Jinyu is a guy who has no other skills, and the incitement is great, because he knows what the poor want, and he knows that he will immediately repair the palace and pick a girl when he gets down a county, and any poor person probably likes such a thing, so he can't help his incitement, once he escapes, it is equivalent to letting go of the boss of the pyramid scheme, and it won't be long before it will resurge.

Zhu Jinglun would rather be slower, and also want the black dog to tie his pockets tightly and firmly, especially Chen Jinyu, who must not be let go.

After three months of siege, the other side tried to break through four times, but they were blocked back by black dogs digging long trenches, and then they fought among themselves, and the "Generalissimo" Zheng Shaozhong killed Chen Jinyu and surrendered with more than 3,000 people.

Being tossed by this group of Tiandihui, or the peasant army in the name of Tiandihui, the entire Gaozhou Mansion can be said to have suffered a lot of vitality, especially their capital Xinyi County, they are not playing Hong Xiuquan's set, but Li Zicheng's set, leviing heavy rents on landlords and wealthy households, "issuing orders to limit the day to extort rich households with big silver", and finally led to "more than 1,000 people in Xinyi gentry who died".

After Zhu Jinglun recovered Xinyi County, he held a meeting with the local gentry and ordered them to reduce their rent by 50% this year, and the government exempted them from all taxes for one year, so as to ease the survival pressure of the local poor peasants. The squires of Xinyi County were forced to strangle thousands of people by Chen Jinyu, and at this time there was a big official who could protect them, and they couldn't ask for it, so they agreed.

It took a year for the bandits to dig out the bandits out of the mountains one by one, and they also completely controlled Maoming, Huazhou, Dianbai, Yangchun and other counties, because of the bandits, these counties were captured, and the county officials either ran away or died.

Through this large-scale crackdown on bandits, not only did they recruit tens of thousands of peasant troops, but they also controlled the local regiments, holding Mukdenne's troop transfer orders in one hand, and showing powerful muskets, cannons, and well-trained military strength in the other.

As for the local green battalion soldiers, they scattered as birds and beasts as early as when the peasant army came, and Zhu Jinglun didn't bother to look for them back.

It was because of the peasant uprising in Gao Leiyang Dao that Zhu Jinglun never took a tough attitude towards Bai Gui, and always adopted the Huairou method in the process of fighting for Huichao Jiadao.

Now that he has pacified the bandits, there is no need to be polite to Bai Gui.

didn't know Bai Gui at all, and directly asked Hurd to go to Chaozhou Mansion to open a customs, and at the same time take over Shantou Customs, in order to prevent the people of Chaozhou from entering the city from irrational confrontation, Zhu Jinglun sent an additional 3,000 troops to where.

Bai Gui took a tacit attitude towards this, as if it didn't happen, but he took a step back, Zhu Jinglun instead wanted to take a step forward, Huichao Jiadao's current Taoist Anhui native Zhao Yi's mother died of illness this year, Zhao Yi wanted to go home Ding worry, Zhu Jinglun suggested to Bai Gui that Guangzhou Governor Chen Zhiting has been conscientious and well-governed since he took office, and recommended Chen Zhiting to temporarily act Huichao Jiadao.

However, Bai Gui said that Chen Zhiting was a literati, and Huichao Jiadao was a fierce person, and he had to be a person with a strong personality to be competent.

Bai Gui's excuse is very convincing, because there have been a lot of things in Huichao Jiadao in recent years. There was not only the anti-entry movement in Chaozhou, but also the Taiping army from time to time.

Two years ago, Shi Dakai fled from Fujian to Jiangxi, and his subordinate Shi Zhenji went south from Fujian to Guangdong, captured Dapu County, and killed Dapu Confucian scholars Yang Ruwei, Yang Yudian, Yang Danfeng and others.

After marching into Jiaying Prefecture, a notice was posted before the siege, threatening Jiaying Prefecture to surrender, otherwise the jade would be burned after the city was broken.

Behind the high walls of Jiaying Prefecture, there were about 500 troops stationed all year round, but when he saw the Taiping army coming, Jiaying military attache Pan Fayuan fled before the siege and took hundreds of soldiers with him.

However, at this time, Wen Sheng, who was the prefect of Huizhou and had the right to know the affairs of Jiaying Prefecture, refused to surrender when he first arrived, the city was in danger, foreign aid was blocked, and the military attache escaped from the battle. Organize the remaining officers and soldiers, recruit nearby regimental exercises, and mobilize the masses and even women to participate in the war.

The Taiping army fought hard for 12 days, and they had already killed red eyes, and after the city was broken, a massacre was carried out. Zhizhou Wensheng wore official uniforms and generously went to the disaster, and all officials such as Zheng Jingrong, Zhou Tong Chen Bingqian, Liu Yintang of Pingzhi County, Qianzhen Pingzhi County, Dai Take, Wensheng Shogunyou, and Li Huang of Zhixian County were all killed when the city was broken; Wen Sheng's family members Fu, He, Hou, the maid okra, Zhou Shun, and the cook of the state government were all killed.

The city of Jiaying Prefecture has a population of 1,814 households, 15,754 people, and only 10,000 adults.

Bai Gui told Zhu Jinglun about these things, and suggested that an official who could be civil and martial should be sent to go, and he recommended Shi Pu of Nanshao Liandao Daotai, Shi Pu has experience in suppressing bandits in Wuzhou, and should be able to be promoted to this position.

Zhu Jinglun talked with Bai Gui for a long time, played a letter, and asked Bai Gui to help him present it to the court, which was to recommend Chen Zhiting's recital, and said some good things about Chen Zhiting, no matter what the result was, he had already ordered someone to protect Chen Zhiting to take office.

Chaozhou's customs, Huichao Jiadao's platform, and a total of 4,000 soldiers guarded, Huichao Jiadao should also be controlled in their hands, and now there is only one Nanshao Liandao left, in addition to Lianqin Road, a remote place close to Guangxi, and Qiongya Road, an isolated island on the sea. (To be continued.) )