From Fengshan County to Fujian Province, the landlord reading class did not agree with Zhou Lang, it has always made Zhou Lang very depressed, to establish a country, everyone has no knowledge that must not work, and China's intellectual elite, often belong to the class of rural landlords, businessmen even look down on themselves, earn money to buy land quickly, their own family into landlords, the thirteen general merchants Pan Zhencheng after his death in the genealogy, do not record his business affairs, and the children of the family will be a big book whenever they are admitted to a show, will be a big book.

The merchant class has no sense of ownership at all, and has no sense of competing with the landlord class who monopolize culture and power for the right to speak and power, and is more like transforming their own identity into that class.

Therefore, it is completely unrealistic in China to rely on the establishment of a group of businessmen.

Without the participation of the intellectual class, Zhou Lang's army education level was extremely low, but Zhou Lang tried to introduce modern management methods into the army and the regime, resulting in Zhou Lang himself having to deal with those boring official documents for a long time.

It wasn't until the Heaven and Earth Society's purge of the landlord class in central and northern Taiwan that a large number of scholars became refugees and had to join Zhou Lang's command, but this was more passive, rather than accepting Zhou Lang from the heart.

Unexpectedly, a White Lotus Sect uprising would accelerate the recognition of Zhou Lang by the intellectual class, because the momentum of the White Lotus Sect's uprising was too violent.

In fact, the development of the White Lotus Sect has been very extensive in recent years, especially in Chu, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, and the rapid development of the lower social strata in Chu, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, and the large number of religious people, which has long attracted the attention of the government, and has cracked down on them, and ordered the White Lotus Sect to be "captured by the whole sect, so that no one will slip through the net", and in October of the 59th year of Qianlong (1794), the Qing Dynasty carried out an arrest operation against the White Lotus Sect, and most of the leaders of the sects in various places were arrested except for a few people such as Liu Zhixie who escaped. These fleeing sect leaders launched an uprising two years later. It was also agreed in advance that several provinces would revolt at the same time.

This kind of momentum and organization is rare in the uprisings of all dynasties. Only such religious groups have the ability to organize across provinces.

Several provinces revolted at the same time, and the momentum was unparalleled for a while, and the whole world knew it.

At this time, the Fujian reading class saw that there were Chen Zhouquan and Zhou Lang's Tiandihui in the southeast, crisscrossing Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, with the White Lotus Sect armed forces in the middle, and riots in Sichuan, Chu and Henan provinces, especially those official eunuchs, who had extensive connections, and were not like small and medium-sized landlords who could only hearsay, they were really capable of confirming the truth through various channels, and they found that several provinces in the world were indeed in chaos.

This level of chaos, there are few in history that can be calmed down and unharmed, this is not a small fight by Song Jiangxiao to gather Liangshanbo, this is a catastrophe to subvert the world, even if the Manchu Qing suppressed the chaos, it is estimated that he will die. At that time, it seems that there may be a chaos in which the world's heroes are divided, and there may also be heroes who come out to dominate the country.

Although Chen Zhouquan was the first to start the incident, the majority of the landlord class was not optimistic about Chen Zhouquan, mainly because Chen Zhouquan had attacked the landlords, and they believed that this was a habit of rogue and could not achieve great things. Moreover, those who took the lead in the ancient times did not end well. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang took the lead in revolting against Qin, and Xiang Yu and Liu Bang successively seized the world; Huang Chao led his troops to attack Chang'an City, but it was just cheap for Li Ke to use those heroes; Han Shantong, the king of the Ming Dynasty, first raised troops against the Yuan, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang made the world; Li Zicheng rebelled for decades, and finally entered the city of Beijing, and turned his head to the Central Plains with the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

So they feel that Chen Zhouquan may be the same as Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Huang Chao, Han Shantong and others, but he is just making wedding dresses for others.

On the contrary, it is nominally Zhou Lang under Chen Zhouquan, regardless of his rebellious identity, what he has done, can be recognized by the landlords, whether it is tax reduction or exemption, or more lenient to the landlords, it is completely different from Chen Zhouquan, if you have to choose one between these two, there is no doubt about choosing Zhou Lang.

As for whether Zhou Lang can go to the end, it depends on the results of the White Lotus uprising, it is the White Lotus Sect again, Han Shantong, who rose up against the Yuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, also organized an uprising with the White Lotus Sect.

All kinds of signs made everyone feel that the road of the Manchu Qing was coming to an end, and everyone felt that it was time to give themselves some way out.

So among them, those who were the most firm in their judgment and full of ambition for making contributions to their careers came out in the first batch and began to surrender to Zhou Lang.

So Wang Fuqian found that the local powerful landlords became polite to him, and many people sent people to give him gifts, hoping to find an official and a half-position for their sons and nephews in the government.

Now the situation has suddenly changed, which makes Wang Fuqian a little uncomfortable.

But he would not miss this opportunity, and immediately began to accept a large number of landlords' children into the government.

At the same time, a large number of former officials who had worked in the government in the past also began to take refuge in the government, and Wang Fuqian arranged for them to enter the government again, and this time they were no longer officials, but officials.

This is not only because Zhou Lang looks down on the old system, but thinks that although the status of the officials is low and the reputation is stinky, they are specific to do things, and they have real talent and learning, and those who can only read are officials, and if they don't get it, they will be played by these people, so Zhou Lang has always hoped to directly let those old officials who have been years old come out directly to be officials.

As a serious scholar, although Wang Fuqian did not be able to take the imperial examination to become an official, he, like all scholars, was more contemptuous of Xu officials, but he couldn't stand Zhou Lang's attitude, and between the children of local landlords and treacherous old officials, Zhou Lang insisted on choosing Xu officials.

Wang Fuqian felt that probably Zhou Lang's identity as a member of the Heaven and Earth Society and a Haikou made him feel at ease as a scholar, so he was more willing to use those treacherous old officials. However, the appointment of these veteran officials has indeed strengthened the government's control over various places in an extreme period of time.

But the officials can only do things in the yamen, Wang Fuqian sent a large number of scholars into the army, hoping to give them an official and a half position, which is also what the landlords want, change the world, there are soldiers is the king, at this time with a Ming master, but it is to change the fate of the family, although there is an element of gambling luck, but in Fujian, at least Zhou Lang has the largest winning side, betting on Zhou Lang, more reliable than betting on others.

However, Zhou Lang still did not agree to directly give these children of landlords without any experience to official positions, he demanded that these people must first complete half a year of training, and then they would be appointed as grassroots officers, as for whether they can stand out, it depends on their personal ability.

This made it difficult for Wang Fuqian to explain to the landlords who took refuge in him, and after thinking about it, he felt that only by opening the imperial examination could he change the current situation. If the imperial examination is opened, it will be more like an official government, and if the imperial examination is opened, the officials can only be scholars.

Wang Fuqian felt that this method was very good, but he was hit by Zhou Lang again, Zhou Lang agreed very much with the imperial examination, but did not agree with the direct appointment of the scholars of the imperial examination as officials, saying that he could only give the scholars who passed the imperial examination the most basic level of the scribe position, and then slowly inspect the promotion.

It is impossible for Zhou Lang to accept the general way of employing people like "Chaowei Tian Shelang and Dusk Tianzitang", which is like a boss recruiting an employee from among college graduates and immediately appointing him as vice president and department manager, just because these students have good academic performance, which is as ridiculous.

Therefore, let the scholars start from the grassroots level and slowly accumulate experience in governance, so that when they climb to high positions, they will not lack experience and make all kinds of childish mistakes.

Zhou Lang's methods once made Wang Fuqian doubt that Zhou Lang had the sincerity to recruit talents, and felt that Zhou Lang didn't value scholars at all, but Zhou Lang has always resolutely supported his idea of recruiting the reading class, which made him a little confused, as for Zhou Lang's explanation, he said that he hoped that officials could be able to understand government affairs, but Wang Fuqian felt that for thousands of years, the imperial examinations had not all come over like this, and I hadn't heard that the jinshi still had to do the things of the sword and pen officials, and those things could not be done by the officials.

The surprise of the concept made the difference between Zhou Lang and Wang Fuqian bigger and bigger.

In the end, Wang Fuqian was unable to take advantage of the excellent opportunity to win the support of the most powerful famous families in Fujian, and only some small and medium-sized landlord families chose to join Zhou Lang's command.

Wang Fuqian felt that Zhou Lang had made a fatal mistake and missed the opportunity to take advantage of the good situation in front of him and rapidly expand his power.

If Zhou Lang can win over those big surnames at this time, not only do he not have to worry about these heroes running regiments in the countryside to protect themselves, but he can also directly obtain the regimental training arms of these landlords, and then not only do not have to worry about the Qing army attacking Fujian, but can directly send troops to Jiangxi and Guangdong.

How did he know that Zhou Lang was not interested in blindly expanding the territory, but paid more attention to enhancing the ability to gather materials, and would temporarily give up the former because of the latter.

finally made a big event that made Wang Fuqian resign directly.

Zhou Lang let the fleet evacuate the city of Guangzhou!

It came to pass that there was a change in the position of governor of the Manchu and Canton provinces. Changlin once again acted as the governor of Liangguang, although he was only acting as a criminal, but as long as he made achievements, everyone knew that the word acting could be removed at any time. Zhu Jue was transferred out of Liangguang and demoted to governor of Anhui.

This kind of personnel change made Wang Fuqian feel that it was a godsend, and at this time he seized Guangzhou, and then swept the whole of Guangdong, and the two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong could be in the bag. With Fujian in hand, Zhou Lang is already the strongest rebel force in the world, and if he takes over Guangdong, he really opens up the situation.

But Zhou Lang did not attack Guangzhou, but withdrew the fleet from Guangzhou, and only kept a few batteries, which made Wang Fuqian fall ill directly, and he couldn't figure it out for a while and handed in his resignation.

Zhou Lang was also very annoyed, obviously he had already told him very clearly, but Wang Fuqian just didn't understand what happened in Guangzhou.