Section 150 The Settlement of Heshen
What Changlin will do, in fact, there is no choice.
Or, just figured it out, really go to Beijing to take the family to Guangdong, and then surrender to Zhou Lang, but this option is basically not feasible, Changlin's surname is Jueluo, he is a red belt, he is a clan, he is a powerful among the powerful, and it is also a matter of his relatives if he doesn't talk about the emperor, that is, among the closest relatives, there must be a group of people in high positions, it is impossible to rebel against Changlin, go to pick them up, maybe they will denounce Changlin.
Either that, or make up your mind to fight Zhou Lang. What will he do at this time, he can only do what Zhou Lang wants him to do.
Sure enough, Changlin acted quickly, he began to mobilize troops from other places, and the green battalion soldiers from all over the country could be transferred to Guangzhou, and if they could be transferred to Guangzhou, as for local defense, it didn't matter for the time being, to put it bluntly, the enemy would definitely attack Guangzhou directly, even if he attacked other places, as long as Guangzhou was not lost, those places could also be abandoned.
The local armies have been transferred to the provincial capitals, what should be done about local security, the Manchu Qing army has basically degenerated into a public security army, and its field combat capability has declined sharply, at most it can maintain local law and order. Changlin asked the local government to hold group exercises.
This kind of thing is done by the local government in troubled times, and it is spontaneous among the people, and it is not controlled by the government. The government is often very resistant to such behavior, and it is strictly forbidden when the government has the ability to control it. Unless approved by the government, the landlords and wealthy families will either be secret or rebel. The previous group practice in the Chaoshan area, which Zhu Jue agreed. And he played the imperial court, Zhu Jue himself had no right to do this, and the name proposed by Zhu Jue at that time was anti-theft. Pirates along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang have occurred many times, Fujian and Zhejiang blame the Guangdong arsonists, Zhu Jue took advantage of the situation to put forward the policy of protecting the armor, the imperial court agreed, and opened an opening, Zhu Jue fully implemented the group training system in Chaoshan, but the real purpose was to block Zhou Lang.
Now Changlin wants everyone to hold a group practice, of course, they also want to play the Ming court, but the time is too late, and while the music is being folded, the order is also sent. Let the county order supervise, and the squires from all over the country will handle it.
This resulted in the concentration of the Cantonese army in the provincial capital, and the local order was in charge of regimental training.
This is exactly what Zhou Lang wants to see, he has learned from the experience of the Chaoshan area, and feels that in maintaining local stability, regimental training can play a role even greater than that of the green battalion soldiers. Why is the effect of running a group training better for maintaining law and order than that of the green camp guard, Zhou Lang guessed that it may be that the group training has absorbed a large number of idle young people. Although most of the landlords chose to arm their own long-term workers, the young and strong people in the armed clans of the big families did not give money, only food, or only a little money. After all, the number of long-term workers is small, so it is necessary to recruit a group of short-term workers, short-term workers are temporary workers, it is the surplus labor force in this society, who lives a life of work and food, and no work to starve, and is also the main force of bandits and rebels. Attracting these people to join the regimental training is equivalent to indirectly cutting off the bandits' soldiers.
In this way, first of all, all localities have the strength to defend themselves, and it is difficult for bandits to take advantage of them, and secondly, it is difficult for bandits to expand, and in the case of being attacked, the stock of bandits can only become smaller and smaller, unless the bandit armed forces have the ability to challenge the entire rural social system, and bandits and rebels are often precisely because of some marginal people who cannot obtain survival resources in the rural system, and the overall strength of these people is obviously unable to contend with the landlords.
Therefore, in the late Qing Dynasty, when the government forces were unable to suppress the uprising, they all strangled the uprising by mobilizing the landlords' armed forces, once the White Lotus Sect and the other the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Even in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, regimental training and armed forces had replaced the regular army and played a major role.
Of course, rest assured and boldly let Changlin to mobilize the landlords, it is also easy to move the times, if it was when Zhu Qi was at the beginning, Zhou Lang would not dare to do this, not afraid of Zhu Qi, but the situation, Zhou Lang was not even stable in Fujian at that time, and now Zhou Lang has attacked Beijing, and hit the prestige of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at least in the southeast corner, he can keep pace with the Manchu Qing in terms of power, the so-called Manchu Qing is an official, Zhou Lang is also an official, he has the same official appeal as the Manchu Qing.
So as long as the Qing army is eliminated, Zhou Lang will become the most appealing force in Guangdong, and even Zhao Wen, a Hakka group training, can stabilize Chaoshan, and it makes no sense that those landlords will rise up and frantically resist Zhou Lang.
Therefore, Changlin mobilized the Qing army into Guangzhou and launched the landlord's regimental training at the same time, which Zhou Lang was happy to see, and Changlin had to do it, so Zhou Lang was relieved and bold to take the lead in revealing the news to him, so that he had time to do these things.
The matter in Guangdong had to be resolved in three months, when it was already late autumn, in fact, it was the best weather in Guangdong, neither hot nor cold, and it was not raining.
At present, Zhou Lang's work is to prepare for this, money, food, weapons and ammunition must be prepared, soldiers must rest, and some systems must be created.
These are routine work, the work that Zhou Lang has been doing in the past few years, although it is tedious, but smooth, after several years of turmoil, Zhou Lang's forces have finally moved towards a stable state.
According to the law of commerce, this is the harvest period, now even the China (East India) company has begun to enter a profitable state, every year tea, cotton trade, can obtain stable returns, the trade volume is steadily expanding, with the increase in the number of merchant ships, many British East India Company is unwilling to operate small profit projects, China East India Company is also willing to take over, after all, the distance between China and India, than the distance between Britain and India, the cost is much lower, such as the British import grain from India is not profitable, And if the merchant ships going to India do not have enough supplies, they can also get a small profit by pulling a shipload of grain back.
However, the trade between the two countries is still mainly based on cash crops, such as Chinese tea, Indian cotton, and other commodities have substitutes on both sides, and it is difficult to become the main business.
In addition, with the adult's money, Zhou Lang plans to collect it.
He Shen sent Liu Quan to Fuzhou, this was as a hostage, and after Wei Lianli accepted this condition, Zhou Lang did not blame him, because Zhou Lang also felt that it was too difficult for him to let He Shen pull out 40 million taels of silver from Beijing City. Zhou Lang is a generous person, especially when facing partners, the frost in his heart is generally left to his opponents.
Heshen's solution is to replace Beijing's silver with the silver of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Anhui, these three provinces have not suffered large-scale war for the time being, especially Guangdong and Anhui, in addition to the local officials' incorruptible silver donations, the main force is the merchant's retribution, the merchants of Guangdong, the salt merchants of Anhui, are rich and rival the existence of the country, although the return again and again, so that the thirteen merchants almost bankrupt, except for the Pan family, all of them are in debt, but the official's butcher's knife is on the neck, and they have to make money for selling their sons and daughters. So the Guangdong merchants served 10 million taels, and the Anhui merchants served 18 million taels, and it seems that before Tao Shu carried out the reform of the salt ticket law, the salt merchants of Lianghuai were still the best business groups.
Jiangxi is now rampant with bandits, and commerce is affected, but the governor of Jiangxi still squeezed out six million taels of silver, and it can only be said that Chen Huai, the governor of Jiangxi, is really concerned about this kind of thing.
Chen Huai is a rather bold corrupt official, and he likes to engage in colleagues to fry each other, and when he was a political envoy in Hubei, he liked to catch his subordinates corrupt and bend the law as a coercion, forcing his subordinates to spend huge sums of money to bribe others to get through. The people of the time said: "Chen is like a rat beetle, drilling holes and corrosion, and people don't know it." ”
His methods are the same as those of He Shen, they are all greedy officials' money, of course, they are by no means robbing the rich and helping the poor, they will provide protection and act as a protective umbrella when they receive money from corrupt officials.
After serving as the governor of Jiangxi, Chen Huai was even more bold and engaged in the wholesale trading of official hats, and Xu Wu, the governor of Nanchang, the capital, was his "broker". The people of Jiangxi, who suffered a lot, made up a smooth song: "Jiangxi is bitter, meet Chen Laohu; There is a shortage of 8,000 and a large shortage of 15,000; Who is the overpayment, the name of the first county is Xu Wu. ”
This Chen Huai is so greedy, how did he become an official, the answer is to buy it, he is a donor official, and he is selected to donate to the prefect. It is basically impossible for this kind of person who spends money to buy officials not to be greedy.
Such a corrupt official, if there is no protective umbrella, will not be able to do it for long, so Chen Huai knows how to repay very well, and the object of his service is, of course, He Shen, who is admired by everyone in the world, so politically, he and He Shen are the same party.
Peng Ling impeached Chen Huai at the beginning of last year, and Chen Huai in history was brought down by Chu Peng Ling, because he was too blatant and almost did not hide it. But he was protected by He Shen, the reason is very simple, Hubei in the west of Jiangxi is in the White Lotus Sect, and Zhejiang in the east of Jiangxi is Zhou Lang Haikou, both sides are eroded, although Jiangxi is seriously troubled, but there is no chaos, He Shen told the emperor, this shows that Chen Huai has a good way to defend the land, if he changes someone, he may not be able to stop the wolf-like rebels. Although Chen Huai may have been corrupt, the overall situation is important, and he should be allowed to make meritorious contributions and defend the land and the people.
Jiaqing and Qianlong both accepted the idea of fit, and the result was that because Zhou Lang was too strong, Chen Huai was able to keep his position, and of course he missed He Shen more, and a filial piety was indispensable.
And this time he is responsible for helping He Shen transfer money.
He Shen dispatched the world's money and grain, concentrated the money and grain in Guangdong, Anhui and Jiangxi to Jiujiang, which was controlled by Chen Huai, and then sent by Jiangxi official ships to the front line in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as military rations.
How much this money is, no one knows. Anyway, in the end, the accounts of the household department and the internal affairs office must be flat.
It's just that He Shen was originally able to make a benefit from the world's fundraising, but now he has to give Zhou Lang and his men an additional 5,000 taels, and He Shen himself has to post money, so he hates it very much.
Chen Huai sent the money, and Zhou Lang's job was to receive it.
The Jiangxi Cao boat hired by Chen Huai will send the silver down the river to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then he will not dare to go further, the government sailor and Chen Zhouquan's pirates are entangled in this area, which is very unsafe, and Zhou Lang needs to send a ship into the mouth of the Yangtze River to receive it.
This is not a problem, whether it is the pirates recruited by Chen Zhouquan or the sailors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they are not the opponents of Zhou Lang's fleet.