In September, the Huguang and Jiangxi public meetings were held in Wuchang, and the government and the people had not met once in hundreds of years to discuss the country, and the leading figures of the various state capitals were present one after another, and even the Liberal Party, the Civic Party, and the People First Party, which were still very weak, also sent representatives, with more than 300 people, and the Huguang ruling government, that is, the original governor's office, was not large enough, so the meeting had to be held in a theater instead.

Prime Minister Zhou Yi first read out the decree of the Presidential Palace: the original Huguang government was specially changed to the Wuchang Governor's Office, the former Huguang government Song Yihe, Zanhua government He Fengsheng stayed in Datong with another appointment, the assistant government affairs of the presidential office Li Huai presided over the Wuchang Governor's Office, the governor Huguang military affairs and government affairs, and other provinces along the Yangtze River military affairs can be done cheaply, Zhou Su was appointed as the prime minister of the Wuchang Governor's Office, Du Wenhuan was appointed as the military affairs of the Wuchang Governor's Office, and Ma Guangyuan was appointed as the assistant military affairs of the Wuchang Governor's Office - everyone heard a burst of exclamations, This decree handed over the military and political power of Huguang to Li Huai, and the scope of power was even extended to the provinces along the Yangtze River.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Constitutional Law of the Federal Republic of Datong, which has just been passed, and the Senate intends to set up a Department of Internal Affairs in the Prime Minister's Office to communicate between the central and local authorities, and to authorize the Federal Law Department to hear disputes concerning the Constitution, which shall be followed by all provinces and localities of our Federation from now on." Zhou was stunned and then waved his hand to order the scribe to hand out a copy of the "Datong Constitutional Law" to each attendee, and the delegates whispered while reading, and soon some people became troubled.

"How can this be reasonable, you used to claim to respect the Ming Emperor, but now you set your own country name and year name, which is rebellious! The old man asked you, was His Royal Highness King Ding killed in Datong? Did the Wuchang Governor's Office act cheaply in the provinces along the Yangtze River with the intention of attacking Nanjing? Yuan Jixian of Jiujiang asked for help from Nanjing to nothing, and ran to Wuchang to ask for an explanation with the idea of sacrificing his life for righteousness.

"Unheard of, this is also called the law, it is clearly the law of the magistrate, the government has lost its prestige, the people will not do whatever they want, the official is ordered to patrol the party, shepherd the people, and never allow you to make trouble." He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, also shouted that after he arrived in Wuchang, he was regarded as a great enemy by Song Yihe, not only could not enter the governor's mansion, but was also secretly monitored, and was so frightened that he hid in Changsha Mansion.

The two governors spoke, and immediately a group of Hunan representatives cheered:

"There are no Hunan people among the people who go to Datong to establish the constitution, this is a chaotic government, and Hubei people don't want to betray Huguang."

"Shameless! If you don't know how to be an official and don't let others be good officials, what is the benefit of being an official and not having a good life? ”

"What kind of citizen, it's just a chaotic people, one body to pay food and one errand, where is the preferential treatment of the gentry, and you still don't let others live?"

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Some people oppose it, some people are in favor, the provinces north of Dongting Lake are prosperous in industry and commerce, and almost every gentry is doing some business, and they have benefited the most from the new policy, and they wish that the imperial court would never come back, and the "Datong Constitutional Law" is a talisman, and of course it is not allowed to be slandered.

"Huguang relies on the support of the provinces along the river, and of course we Hubei people should go to formulate a constitutional law, and your Hunan provinces will only farm without knowledge, and it is useless to go."

"You are shameless, officials from all over Hunan are not allowed to do business without bribes, and they also set up cards to collect money excessively, which is worse than the robbers who block the road and rob them."

"I still want to be exempted, you can't even keep your home when the thieves come, the clans in the provinces along the river have it, we don't want to raise them in vain, how about sending them to Hunan for support?"

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Hubei and Hunan quarreled together, but the attitude of the Jiangxi people was very unified, the imperial court's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were too heavy, and the business was not easy to do now, they could not survive, as long as the Datong Federation provided armed protection, Jiangxi people agreed with the "Datong Constitutional Law" and voluntarily joined the Federation.

I am afraid that Hunan will not be able to keep it, and it must make a decision as soon as possible -- Li Huai has been listening silently, and from time to time he has made a few notes on paper, and the public assembly has been arguing for three days in a row, and the representatives of all parties seem to have said everything that should be said, and they began to talk nonsense, and he finally opened his mouth to speak.

"Gentlemen, there is definite news from Nanjing, the imperial court has issued an order to appoint Zuo Maodi, Chen Hongfan, and Ma Shaoyu as envoys to Beijing for peace talks, and bring more than 100,000 gold silk to thank Donglu for the grace of driving Kou, the mission has set off in July," Li Huai glanced at everyone with a cold face, raised his fist and said loudly: "The fall of Beizhili and the abandonment of Shandong, the next step should be Henan and Nanzhili, with a large country of hundreds of millions of people bending to the knees of a small clan, this is to seek self-destruction with the tiger, how can the imperial court be at its own convenience, but the Datong Federation will never make peace, We have the confidence to fight until the mountains and rivers are restored and Liaodong is liberated. ”

Everyone turned pale and fell into silence, and after a while, Yang Tinglin first raised his arms and shouted, "Jiangxi people will never submit to foreign invaders, fight down, restore rivers and mountains, and liberate Liaodong", and then Lai Siwei, a person from Chengtianfu, also got up and shouted, "Soldiers can be killed, but they cannot be humiliated, and the Hubei people swear to fight with Dongyu to the end" - the venue suddenly boiled, and the shouting and killing sounded, and several Hunan gentry also wanted to express their position, but they were glared at by He Tengjiao, and they were so frightened that they quickly closed their mouths and sat down.

Li Huai waved his hand to signal quiet, walked up to Yuan Jixian and said sincerely: "Lord Yuan, you said that we don't respect the emperor, this is false!" The Datong Federation has written in June to express its respect for the emperor, but what did Nanjing do, would rather abandon the great rivers and mountains and foreign enemies 'Lianyu Pingkou' than trust us, you suspect that His Royal Highness Dingwang was killed, I clearly tell you, His Royal Highness Dingwang is all right, but a teenager can not afford such a crisis, he still has to grow up, Datong is no one to rebel, but the world for the public, the selection of talent and ability, if His Royal Highness Dingwang has something to do in the future, wouldn't it be better to rule the world by public opinion! ”

"Teacher, His Royal Highness King Ding is very good, many people have seen him, you should go back to see it after you have been away from Shanxi for many years." Fu Shan, who was behind Li Huai, interjected, Yuan Jixian vigorously supported Taiyuan Sanli Academy in Shanxi and taught in person, at that time Fu Shan, Xue Zongzhou, Wang Rujin and others were studying in the academy, and Yuan Jixian had a teacher-student relationship.

Yuan Jixian glanced at Fu Shan and didn't answer, but He Tengjiao jumped out and shouted: "The strategy of war and peace is the plan of the imperial court, and it will be planned for the people of the world. ”

"Since you came to Huguang, in addition to urging money and food for the imperial court, He has done a serious thing, according to what you can see, today's catastrophe is caused by the imperial court and your faint officials." Zhou Yi said coldly and sarcastically, this He Tengjiao is too hateful, he colludes with various governments in Hunan in private, not only does not pay a penny of taxes to the ruling government, but also often looks for trouble, which is really unbearable.

"Ordered by the Son of Heaven, he should be loyal to the court, and if you are plotting against him, the official will never be disobedient." He Tengjiao replied angrily.

"Lord He wants to rebel against us and don't accept it, you better go, so as not to hurt and anger in the future," Li Huai has long heard of He Tengjiao, this person is from a good background, he has been a soldier in the north of Xuanfukou, and he has been guarding the border town for several years without accomplishing anything, and the governor Huguang only dares to make small moves in the Hunan provinces, and Li Huai feels that it is best to drive away this kind of person who is not enough to succeed and more than to lose, and then turned his head to the representatives of the Hunan provinces and said: "The "Datong Constitutional Law" must be strictly observed, and no state government must be allowed to violate it, and the Hunan provinces may not be able to accept it for a while, it doesn't matter, You can break away from Huguang and apply to join the federation when you figure it out. ”

He Tengjiao snorted, waved to the officials he brought, turned around and walked out, the gentry representatives of the various provinces in Hunan were a little dazed, but the officials were all gone, and they had to follow behind their butts.

"Get out, if you don't pay a penny of tax, it's better for you to live in Hubei."

"The councils of the Hunan provinces are the lackeys of the government, wait and see, the imperial court will not give them good fruits to eat."

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After two days of heated discussions, the deputies made a resolution to formally establish Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, and the two provinces joined the Datong Federation together and accepted the orders of the Wuchang Governor's Office.

As soon as the affairs of government affairs came to an end, Li Huai immediately convened important officials of the Governor's Office to discuss military affairs, and Du Wenhuan and Ma Guangyuan were not idle these days and came up with a complete set of war strategies.

"Before the full-scale war with the Qing army, it is imperative to eliminate the hidden dangers of the thieves, Li Zicheng's dying thief is not enough to worry about, it can be suppressed, divided and then purged, the first thing to solve is Sichuan Sun Kewang, the president plans to start after the autumn, considering the requisition of reserves and food and ordnance, the time to send troops should be in late October, Wuchang should also cooperate at the same time, the old marshal and I plan to form the first town of the Chu army based on the Hu Dawei Department, and transfer to the east of the Hanshui to hold the Shun army of Jingxiang hostage, and the Ma Ke Department is reorganized into the second town of the Chu army, and enter Sichuan to attack Kuizhou and Chongqing, The main force of the Datong Army with us is flanking Sun Kewang from the north and south," Ma Guangyuan pointed to the map to explain the battle strategy, and finally looked at Zhou Yu and said, "However, the Ma Ke Department is short of food and salary, and it is unable to go on an expedition to Sichuan, so Lord Zhou will provide them with at least two months' food and ordnance." ”

"It's not much, but there is Bai Wang in the middle, how to send it over?" Zhou asked in amazement.

"We teamed up with Ma Ke to destroy Bai Wang, so we said hello and swaggered over, and Bai Wang didn't dare to stop it." Du Wenhuan waved his hand and said.

Zhou was stunned and smiled, the Shun army was precarious, and the people were panicked, so it was really not enough to worry, but there was one more thing that must be reminded: "Hu Dawei was transferred to Hanshui, and only Cao Bianjiao was left in Jiangxi, what if the Ming army invaded west?" ”

"Before the peace agreement between the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial court would never dare to turn against us, the key is how those four guys in Shandong will make a move." Li Huai replied contemplatively.

Shandong, after years of drought and epidemic, Shandong is actually in a state of local erosion and disintegration, and whoever will clean up the mess has a headache, according to Li Fugui's words, such a crisis is rare for hundreds of years, and only extraordinary people can be used when it is extraordinary, so Datong appointed four of the most unreliable guys to take charge of the power of Shandong - Wang Fang, the commander of Shandong Province, started the White Lotus cult, and is good at demagoguery, but he knows little about government affairs; Sun Fuhu, the governor of Shandong, was born in Xiangma, and he didn't recognize anything except the word righteousness, and the whole was a lawless goods; Shen Shoulian, the governor of the Maritime Affairs Department, is good at calculation and strategy, but he is still a pirate in his bones; Xu Hengchen, the political envoy of Shandong, was born in smuggling, was bold and black-skinned, and there was no difference between government affairs and business.

These four guys walked to the front desk in a daze, and found that the situation was not good and they couldn't avoid it, so they had to rack their brains to think of bad ideas - it is obviously not possible to do it in the local tuntian, and the old base areas of Qingzhou and Yizhou have many mountains and little land, and it is a good place to save their lives, but they can't grow much food, and it is difficult to feed the existing 400,000 people, let alone develop and grow. Farming this road does not work, it is like doing business in Fengzhou, boiling salt, smelting iron of course to do, the most money is to do sea trade, to be precise is sea smuggling and robbery, it doesn't matter if there is no talent, call Li Taro to go back to his hometown to pull people's heads, the Japanese brothers who have done pirate work can come to 18,000, friends from the Netherlands and England are also here, Shandong welcomes you, missionary, factory, business and business, do it well, and give an official, it's interesting enough! Qingzhou and Yizhou were tossed, large and small transactions bloomed everywhere, especially Rizhao, Chinese and foreign merchants flocked to the city, the port ships came and went, and the shops on the street hugged each other.

The four guys are not honest when they have money, and they have extended their black hands into Laizhou and Dengzhou, but the more land they grab, the more people they feed, and when they react, the population has increased by more than 300,000 under their rule, and there has been a sharp rise in grain prices. The Dutch East India Company's commissioner in Rizhao, Neuhoff, reminded Wang Fang that now that money does not necessarily buy grain, colonization, only to colonize overseas, grab the place where grain can be grown, one can reduce the pressure on the population, and the other can also increase the food source - Newkhoff actively participated in the Dutch revolution in the Netherlands, and also fought the Spaniards as a soldier, Wang Fang valued this revolutionary comrade very much, and immediately adopted his opinion.

So the four guys even coaxed and deceived the common people to be sent to the ship, and the colonies, as long as there are few people who can farm, they will rob Taiwan, Ryukyu, and Zhoushan, the islands that can feed people. Fortunately, they started early, after the Jiashen Change, the Shun army and the Qing army entered Shandong one after another, the king's flag in various prefectures and counties changed, the day was precarious, and the people ran to the place where they could survive if they could not survive in their hometowns, and there was no war in Qing and Yi Prefectures, and there was still food to eat, which naturally attracted a large number of displaced people, and the commander's government could not afford to support so many people, so he simply organized people to train and distribute weapons, and then let the veterans take a boatload to overseas colonization - lack of virtue, this group of organized armed immigrants not only settled down and reclaimed land everywhere they went, Moreover, the construction of forts and the erection of cannons, the occupation of magpies' nests to drive the natives from their homes, and the brutal killing of those who dared to resist, were so atrocities that the four masterminds were reviled for centuries by the benevolent citizens of the Commonwealth.

Wang Fang still can't think about the stench for 10,000 years, but is anxious about the things in front of him - the Shun army into Shandong does not hurt the overall situation, this group of rabble grabbed the territory and can not stand, now there are only some residues left and can not set off the wind and waves, but the Qing army is menacing, in June sent Wang Yongao to appease Shandong and Henan, followed by Banaha and Shi Tingzhu sent troops to Shandong, one hand is soft and the other is hard, the local officials and gentry of the Ming Kingdom have surrendered, and most of Shandong fell into the hands of the enemy in an instant, and the Shandong Commander's Office is also eager to strengthen its strength in order to protect itself. In order to seize the territory of Dengzhou, he fought a battle with the Qing army, but he returned in vain.

Wang Fang has long coveted Dengzhou, but the Ming army is embarrassed to rob it, after the fall of the Beijing Division, Denglai Governor Zeng Hualong left, and the sailor and the elite were taken to Nanjing by the general soldier Huang Fei, Dengzhou only left the old and weak soldiers, and soon surrendered to the Qing army. After the main force of the Qing army was transferred to Juyong Pass, Sun Fuhu took the opportunity to lead Du Hongguo and Liu Tichun to attack Dengzhou from the sea, but Chen Jinting, the governor of Denglai sent by the Qing court, was able to fight, and after a few rounds of competition, the Qing army that went to sea was all sunk, and the Datong army went ashore to attack the city and returned defeated, and Sun Fuhu had to withdraw his troops after a long battle.

Bad news followed, and the Qing court appointed Wang Yongao, who had appeased Shandong and Henan, to the capital of Qingzhou, saying that the local officials and gentry of the Ming State had been subjugated - the forces of the rivals had infiltrated their territory, and Wang Fang had to take the black hand.

"I'm looking for a bunch of thieves, let's have a 'Qingzhou Change' to kill Wang Yongao, a traitor." Xu Hengchen had already planned to pat his chest immediately.

"Kill Wang Yongao, immediately send troops to Qingzhou, kill those thieves, and now you can't completely turn your face with the Qing State," Wang Fang nodded, and asked Bayanha again, "How did you talk to Duolong?" ”

"Doron was so poor that he promised that as long as he didn't betray Manchuria, he could help us do things." Abatai's minion and the treasurer of the underground money bank, Bayanha, is now the head of the Shandong Titang Institute, and the director is particularly energetic, and recently set his eyes on the second-class Lazhang Jingduolong stationed in Dengzhou, that guy has been a prisoner of Fengzhou twice, and he was easily hooked.

"Give him a chance to make a fortune, the big man in Nanjing has sent a letter, the envoy of the Ming Kingdom has set off, the route and itinerary are very clear, I want to slip from under Lao Tzu's nose to Beijing to negotiate peace, it's not so cheap!" Wang Fang waved a letter and said.

"Sun Erkui also went with you, the dog official brought a lot of gold and silver property this time, and he robbed me of it, and I didn't leave a single child." Sun Fuhu added viciously.

Wang Fang's eyes looked at Newhoff again, and he took out an official document and said: "What's going on, our people are kind enough to come to Taiwan to help you farm the land, but you have to collect more than 30% of the tax, do you want me to raise taxes for the Dutch in Shandong?" ”

"That's a regulation for the indigenous people and immigrants from the Ming Kingdom, you are amazing, relying on the strength of the crowd, there are guns and cannons, forget it, don't worry about you, the new agreement I signed in Datong has solved this matter." Newkhov was a little angry, those immigrants formed their own parliament to make decrees, and Tian Fu also supported himself, almost bullying the Formosa authorities against the guest, and Wang Fang played tricks and used strong words.

Wang Fang continued to threaten: "You tell Batavia that everyone is out to revolutionize, and no one is afraid of anyone, forcing people to be anxious and beware of the Taiwan revolution." ”

"If you carry out the revolution in Taiwan, I will carry out the revolution in Shandong." Newkhoff was so angry that he stood up and roared.

Everyone burst into laughter, there are only three or four hundred Dutchmen in the whole of Shandong, and they are making a fart revolution.