Section 295 Control of finances
Zhu Jinglun kindly helped Mu Kedenne up, and said with a humble face: "The general is polite, it should be the adult who is in charge." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Mukedenne smiled embarrassedly, the reason why he expressed his position like this was because he thought that Zhu Jinglun was the representative of Yixin's faction of political forces in Guangdong, and he was expressing his position to Yixin's faction, and he was very conflicted in his heart, he thought that Yixin was planning to usurp the throne, but he was protecting the country of the banner people, Su Shun and others were the princes of the Zhengzheng, but they were destroying the livelihood of the banner people, and in his heart Mukedene recognized Yixin.
The key is not to express his position, he feels that he is afraid that he will be eliminated as a dissident, and it is very appropriate to install the identity of the elderly Yu Dang, where does he dare not express his position, plus he is indeed in favor of Yixin in his heart, anyway, isn't this also the bloodline of Daoguang Ye's relatives, the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, and he and his nephew's affairs have nothing to do with him as a mere Eight Banner General Eight Poles.
"In the next martial arts, if you don't understand these major events in the DPRK and China, it's better for Lord Zhu to call the shots."
Mukdenne continued.
He doesn't call the shots and has the advantage of not being the mastermind, so he is not the mastermind, in the future, if Yi Xin fails, his sin will be lighter, Su Shun is not easy to mess with, Su Shun is the younger brother of Prince Zheng, and he is also a powerful faction, and he is a good Han Chen, Su Shun said a lot, the Han people are powerful, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang which one is the fuel-efficient lamp, in case Su Shun successfully mobilizes these Han armed forces into Beijing, and defeats Yi Xin and others, when the time comes, it will definitely liquidate the remnants of Yi Xin, he Mukdene does not start, If you want to liquidate, you have to lean back, maybe because the law does not blame the public, blind followers like him will be punished lightly.
Therefore, in order to save his life, and secondly, in order to get rid of his crimes, he insisted on letting Zhu Jinglun call the shots, anyway, he is the representative of Yixin, and it is not a shame to let him, a general of the Eight Banners, bow to his ears.
Zhu Jinglun did not shirk this time: "That's good, the elderly have been removed, but the rest of the party is still there." We must act before their henchmen mobilize. ”
Mukdena said: "What Lord Zhu said is extremely true. ”
Zhu Jinglun said again: "The top priority at the moment is to immediately transfer troops to guard all parts of the country, and the power to transfer troops lies with the general in Guangzhou. ”
After Zhu Jinglun finished speaking, he looked at Mukdenne.
Mukdenne immediately understood: "Someone, please bring out the seal of this general." ”
With both hands, he handed over his seal box to Zhu Jinglun: "It's all up to Lord Zhu to call." ”
Zhu Jinglun hypocritically prevaricated: "I'm afraid this is inappropriate." ”
Mukdenne said firmly: "It's all for the court, and what Lord Zhu means is what General Ben means." ”
Only then did Zhu Jinglun receive Mukdenne's general seal.
Mukdenne asked again, "I wonder what happened to the elderly?" ”
Hearing that the elder was arrested, Mukdenne was still a little concerned, after all, a colleague is a fight, anyway, it is an upper-level infighting, maybe in the end, no matter who is the new king, he can be lenient.
Zhu Jinglun sighed: "That old man has already committed suicide by swallowing cigarettes and fearing sin." ”
The elderly must die, Zhu Jinglun has no intention of letting the elderly return to Guangzhou City alive, and let the elderly live to meet Mukdenne and the Eight Banners forces in Guangzhou City again.
Mukdenne couldn't help but be frightened in his heart, his heart was so ruthless, it seemed that Yixin's plan to usurp power was very firm, this was a thunderous method. Fortunately, I understood the general trend and did not rise up to oppose it, otherwise I am afraid that I would have swallowed the smoke at this time.
Respectfully sent Zhu Jinglun away, and soon someone told him that the banner camp was full of notices from the Eight Banner Generals, clearly telling the banner people that the elderly had rebelled and had committed suicide in fear of crime, so that everyone could rest assured.
Soon some Eight Banner officers approached Mukedenne, and they wanted to know if the notice issued by the Eight Banners General's Mansion was true, and Mukedenne admitted it, saying that it was the old man who had rebelled, and the meaning of the notice was his meaning, which was the meaning of the imperial court.
Mukdenne's statement immediately caused a chain reaction among the banner people.
Before, the banner people thought that Zhu Jinglun had rebelled, but they didn't have the courage to confront Zhu Jinglun's foreign gun team, so they could only close the door and defend themselves, but life was too difficult, and now even the Eight Banners general said that it was a rebellion by the elderly, so there was still a fake, anyway, even if there was a fake, it was also the general's business, and it had nothing to do with them, poor bannermen, after the officers determined the attitude of the notice from Mukdenne, there were immediately many bannermen who couldn't live a few days asked to join Zhu Jinglun's hometown.
In the end, this tide of joining the army reached its peak after the return of the Eight Banners who fought in Zhaoqing.
Every day, people come to ask them if the elderly have really rebelled against Yunyun.
The Eight Banner soldiers who came back from Zhaoqing, part of them were recruited by Zhu Jinglun to fight, and some of them were surrendered soldiers from Zhaoqing, these two parts of the banner people all insisted on the rebellion of the elderly, and for the sake of military pay to Zhu Jinglun as a soldier, of course they didn't want to be a thief, and those who surrendered didn't want to surrender to the thief, so they all firmly stated that the elderly were the anti-thief, so the identity of one was a loyal minister who understood the matter early to crusade against the elderly, and the other faction was a loyal minister who was deceived by the elderly and later understood that he reined in the precipice. Both parties need to justify their actions, so of course they will insist that the elderly are anti-thieves.
Especially those Zhaoqing Eight Banner soldiers who went to catch the elderly with their own hands, they used all kinds of clues that happened in Zhaoqing City as evidence of the elderly's crimes after their own processing, for example, some people said that they had seen the elderly meet with a mysterious person and conspired, and they had seen the elderly meet foreigners privately, and they must have plotted to rebel against Yunyun.
In short, these people themselves have found evidence of guilt for the elderly, and at the same time look for a sense of justice for their actions, which is an instinct, people need to find a righteous reason for their actions, and no one can do bad things and feel at ease.
Soon the ironclad evidence of the rebellion of the elderly really appeared, the edict of Emperor Xianfeng, the edict that was led by the elderly.
This edict was an obituary sent by the imperial court to the governors of various places, telling everyone that the emperor had died, and that the city of Guangzhou had been controlled by Zhu Jinglun at that time, and that the elderly had fled to Zhaoqing, and immediately sent Jun orders to various prefectures and counties, telling them where he was the governor, and sending official documents to Zhaoqing.
When the elders did not plan to suppress Zhu Jinglun in Guangzhou, but only sent the Eight Banners to Guangzhou, this edict was secretly sent from Shaoguan to Zhaoqing, and later the Eight Banners sent to Guangzhou went back to tell the elders that Xin'an County, which was in trouble in Guangzhou, had rebelled, and that the elders planned to send troops to suppress it, but kept the edict secret.
Qi Ling is dead, and his motive Zhu Jinglun can't guess it, maybe he doesn't want this edict to suddenly let the whole Guangdong know about it, causing turmoil in the whole Guangdong, so that many people with ulterior motives have undue thoughts, he planned to suppress Zhu Jinglun first, control the situation, and then forward the obituary to various prefectures and counties, but who would have thought that he was suppressed by Zhu Jinglun.
It is not unreasonable for the elderly to worry that the obituary will cause confusion and then be used by Zhu Jinglun, but he kept it secret, but it was still used by Zhu Jinglun as a major evidence of the rebellion of the elderly.
The announcement immediately sent shockwaves through Guangzhou.
The reaction of all the Eight Banners officers who have been in Guangzhou is the same as Mukdenne's first reaction after hearing the news, that is, the feeling that the sky has fallen, everyone knows that Emperor Xianfeng is in his prime, how he died suddenly, many people suspect the cause of the emperor's death at the first time, and more are to find Mukdenne again and hope that Mukdenne will confirm the news, but they see that Mukdenne has already put mourning clothes on the ship and put the emperor's tablet at home.
The banner people in Guangzhou are like mourning and examination approvals, every family wears filial piety, and some people cry as if their father and mother are dead, but for a time they suppressed the trend of serving as soldiers and eating food.
But at this time, everyone decided that the old man must have the intention of rebellion, but not everyone can think of the situation in Beijing and the high-level power struggle like Mukdenne, but the relationship between the flag people is complicated, and there is no secret at all, and some officers either thought of it themselves, or heard the news from Mukdene, and immediately knew that the old man was involved in the struggle between Yixin and Su Shun, and some people knew it, and the entire Eight Banners also knew. They knew very well which side they should be on, no one wanted to let Su Shun come to power, and then abolish the privileges of the banner people, so after the great sadness of the banner people for the emperor's death, more people joined the army, at this time they were not only for a bite to eat, they also felt that they were also a soldier to contribute to the future of the banner people.
At this time, Zhu Jinglun had already used various methods to spread Xianfeng's edict throughout Guangdong Province, of course, mainly by the orders of the Eight Banners General.
As the identity of the Eight Banners General Mukdenne, he told the prefectures and counties that it was the elderly who rebelled before, and the elderly took advantage of the emperor's death with bad intentions, and as a result, the Eight Banners generals commanded Ruoding, mobilized the Xin'an County Yong, Guangzhou Eight Banners and other armies to quickly quell the rebellion, and now the elderly have been ambushed, and asked the states and counties to temporarily respect the orders of the Guangzhou general.
After issuing this order, Zhu Jinglun, in the name of the Eight Banners General, soon asked the prefectures and counties to delegate the tax and silver in the official treasury to Guangzhou.
Although Guangdong's financial revenue is not as good as that of the Jiangnan region, before the Anglo-French coalition army, there was a surplus every year, and the total income that Guangdong could receive every year was as high as more than 3 million taels of silver, salt tax, and tariffs, and the expenditure was more than 1 million taels.
After the Taiping Army uprising, when Ye Mingchen was in power, he was able to suppress the Hongbing uprisings in various parts of Guangdong, and at the same time give millions of taels of compensation to various places, and from 1850 to July 1853 alone, Guangdong sent more than 4.232 million taels of assistance to Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces.
It should be said that after 80 years of accumulation of foreign trade, the Guangdong region has become one of the richest regions in China, and it is important to know that this financial ability is still on the basis of almost completely bearing the reparations of the first war of the Crows.
Zhu Jinglun now wants to control Guangdong, the first thing is to control Guangdong's finances, so as soon as possible, let all the prefectures and counties hand over all this year's tax money to Guangzhou, as for those prefectures and counties that refuse to cooperate, of course, it is the elderly remnant party, Zhu Jinglun just took the opportunity to eliminate dissidents! (To be continued.) )