The news came from the city of Fuzhou, Wei Lianli refused to stay in Fuzhou, and after being forced by Zhou Lang, he was just lurking in the suburbs of Fuzhou, but he kept in touch with the city and collected all kinds of information, so when the news of Kui Lun's suicide came, he sent the news to the ship as soon as possible.

"What's the situation in the city right now?"

Zhou Lang was not lightly shocked by this news, this is an unexpected variable, whether it is a businessman or a commander, he actually doesn't like this kind of uncertainty.

Wei Lianli was overjoyed: "The people in the city are panicking, and the handsome man takes Fuzhou like a bag!" ”

Who said that they were going to take Fuzhou.

The words were all on his lips, but Zhou Lang swallowed them back.

Because of the extreme variable of the death of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, all his plans changed.

Zhou Lang is a complex person, as a businessman, he instinctively hates this kind of uncertainty, who doesn't want to do business that opens the ledger and the costs and benefits are clear at a glance. But this kind of business at a glance is often very thin in profits, unless it is a monopoly business, otherwise it is deep in the fierce market red sea struggling to survive.

So rationally, Zhou Lang is able to accept those uncertainties, uncertainty means that there is no maturity, no rules, full of space, but also full of opportunities, which is also a field developed by venture capitalists.

In the past, when he was doing business, Zhou Lang was also keen to open up in various uncertain industries, he was extremely bold, and even sometimes seemed aggressive, but in fact, to paraphrase a scientist's oral language, he often made bold assumptions, and then planned extremely carefully, and implemented the plan in strict accordance with the meticulous plan, the purpose is to reduce the risks brought by those uncertainties as much as possible in the huge uncertainty industry.

Therefore, even if he easily took Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, Zhou Lang still planned to exchange these two cities for Kuilun according to the previous plan, in exchange for the goal of his plan, that is, to continue to trade.

But Kuilun died, and the uncertainty was too great for Zhou Lang's meticulous plans to deal with it, that is, his plans to force the Fujian and Zhejiang authorities to acquiesce to his trade through military threats had become de facto bankrupt.

Then playing Fuzhou has become a viable option.

The biggest reason why there was no plan to fight Fuzhou before, and even planned to exchange Zhangquan Erzhou, is that he is not ready for a decisive battle with the Manchu Dynasty, if he forcibly occupies Zhangquan Erzhou, he will inevitably not be able to reconcile with the local government, the reason for attacking Fuzhou is the same, and it is more serious, because of the attack on Zhangquan Erzhou, as long as a governor like Kuilun or Changlin comes forward, Zhou Lang retreats, in fact, it can still cover up the past, they wrote that Haikou attacked, and then the recovery of the lost territory was over, maybe it could be regarded as a success.

But after the capture of Fuzhou, everything could not be covered. Fuzhou is not only the provincial capital of Fujian, the garrison of the Eight Banners, but also the residence of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the power center of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. Zhou Lang will also immediately become a thorn in the side of the Manchu court, and I am afraid that he will replace Chen Zhouquan and become a big problem for the Manchu Dynasty at once.

At that time, Zhou Lang will replace Chen Zhouquan to become the first target of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is a state he has always tried to avoid, but now, Zhou Lang couldn't help but smile bitterly, forcing a governor to death, whether he fights Fuzhou or not, he will shake the Manchu court, and he will become a big problem for the Manchu Dynasty.

Zhou Lang has no doubt that it won't be long before his name will be placed on Qianlong's desk, and it will be in the front row.

Qianlong that Zhou Lang thought of was actually very busy at this time, and he didn't know the situation in Fujian, but at the moment, whether it was Qianlong or the ministers and magnates of the central government, they were all attracted by one thing, which was far more important to them than the bandits in Fujian.

On the third day of the ninth month of the 60th year of Qianlong (October 15, 1795), in the Qinzheng Hall of the Old Summer Palace, Emperor Qianlong opened the sealed box for 22 years in public (the secret edict behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque), took out the edict of Huang Huang, announced that the fifteenth prince Yongyan was the crown prince, changed his name to Yiyan, and ordered him to move to Yuqing Palace in the Forbidden City on the same day. Yan Yan kowtowed and thanked him, saying that he would obey the holy decree and cultivate his self-cultivation experience, in order to live up to the trust.

After the emperor announced the news, no one was surprised by the ministers or magnates present, because on the second day of the first lunar month of this year, Qianlong had already publicly stated that it was useless to give money to Yanyan, that is, he made it clear that he would give the country to Yanyan.

At this time, the dusty secret edict was just to make this matter public, and whether it was public or not was a result, so although everyone was in a complicated mood, there were not many surprises.

Qianlong didn't seem to be very satisfied with the reaction of the ministers, so he then threw out a shocking decision:

Next year is the first year of Jiaqing, and the succession ceremony will be held on the first day of the first lunar month.

This news is really shocking, because it is one thing to publicly announce that Yan Yan is the crown prince, and it is another thing to announce the abdication, Qianlong actually directly said that he will abdicate next year, and he will be enthroned by Yan Yan, and the year name is given, called Jiaqing.

Qianlong has been in power for 60 years, these 60 years, older than most people in the Manchu Dynasty, such a long time, enough to make people's hearts have a certain habit, these from birth is the Qianlong period, to the temples are gray, still the ministers of the Qianlong period, after hearing this clear news, it is indeed very uncomfortable, and even feels unreal, is it really going to change the dynasty?

Compared with the shock and confusion of the ministers and magnates, Yan Yan was sincerely afraid at this time, he seemed to have been sincerely afraid, and now that he was clearly allowed to succeed next year, he was still sincerely afraid.

Yan Yan had to be honestly afraid, because he was facing an emperor who had been in power for 60 years, and 60 years of stable governance was enough for a monarch with an average level of intelligence to be able to build an iron bucket in the court.

Therefore, Yan Yan kowtowed desperately and refused desperately, saying that he could accept the position of the crown prince and was willing to continue to stay with Qianlong to study as the prince, he said that he was still young and still needed to be experienced. Qianlong insisted on abdicating, while Yan Yan insisted on resigning, and finally said that he would at least have to wait for the emperor's "longevity", that is, when he lived to be 100 years old, before he could take over.

Yan Yan resigned, and the other ministers also reacted and immediately persuaded him. Then it developed into a letter to the officials from all over the country to express their attitude, and the Mongolian princes and Manchurian princes also pleaded, and the momentum was huge for a while.

Seeing that the governors of the world and the princes of Manmeng were keeping themselves, Qianlong took the opportunity to comfort everyone, saying that he was not indifferent after his abdication, and after his abdication, he called himself Emperor Taishang, and still called himself "I", and the edict of the Emperor Taishang was called "Imperial Decree". As for the division of labor between the emperor and the emperor, the emperor dealt with "ordinary events", if there were important military affairs and the appointment and dismissal of officials, the emperor would personally guide and deal with them, and the newly appointed officials above the provincial level should go to the emperor to thank him. The Emperor Taishang also had to give "admonitions" to the emperor every day.

Qianlong's abdication caused a lot of uproar, and for a time even the fall of the provincial capital in Fujian was covered up.