Chapter 24: Zhou Lianggong (continued)

The Manchus were about to dominate the world, and the competition in the traitor industry was very fierce. Huang Shu himself is a traitor, but he is full of envy and jealousy towards Zhou Lianggong, and when he mentions him, he is righteous and awe-inspiring, and extremely disdainful.

Zhou Lianggong is Chongzhen's thirteenth year of Jinshi, served as the imperial history in the Hongguang Dynasty, and when Shunzhi went south for more than two years, he took the initiative to welcome the surrender (please note that Zhou Lianggong took the initiative to welcome the surrender, so he was included in the "Biography of the Second Minister" by Qianlong), and was appointed as the two Huai salt transport envoys, Shunzhi was promoted to Huaiyang Coastal Defense Soldier Beidao to participate in politics in three years, and Shunzhi was promoted to Fujian according to the inspection envoy in four years, and he was promoted to a level in almost a year, and he did a very good job in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and his traitor career was smooth sailing.

Zhou Lianggong is indeed very talented, not only able to govern the locality, but also can lead the troops to fight, and the poems and articles are well written, later generations commented on his literary achievements, saying that although his poems have not reached the level of "Zhuo Ran everyone", but he is already a "famous master for a while", and the articles on history are second only to Qian Qianyi and Wu Weiye of Jiang Zuosan's family.

In contrast, Huang Shu was not promoted for several years after surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, and seeing Zhou Lianggong, who was full of halos, climbed on his head step by step, of course, he hated it so much, and gave Zhou Lianggong eye medicine in front of Tan Tai.

Tan Tai's focus was different from him, and after listening to his introduction, he had a good impression of Zhou Lianggong.

"Hahaha, those Han scholars chirp crookedly the most annoying, they should all be arrested and killed, Zhou Lianggong did a good job! Hurry up and write a letter to him for General Ben, as long as you can keep the Xianxia Ancient Road, General Ben will promote him as the political envoy of Fujian......"

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The northern part of Fujian is mostly mountainous, and the famous Wuyi Mountain is in this area.

Because it is blocked by heavy dà mountains. Before the Xianxia Ancient Road, ancient Fujian has always been on the edge of Chinese civilization, and it is basically an independent world. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Minyue Kingdom. The main force took the sea route, during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Ce annexed Fujian, and also took the sea route, all of which took a lot of effort, until the end of the Tang Dynasty Huangchao opened the Xianxia Ancient Road, Fujian and the mainland became an organic whole.

The so-called Xianxia Ancient Road is a mountain road that is more than 240 miles long. Starting from Jiangshan County in Zhejiang Province and ending in Pucheng County in Fujian, the Qiantang River and the Feiyun River are connected. Both military significance and economic status are very important. After the Tang Dynasty, the Han nation tended to be weak from generation to generation, the Tubo and other foreign races rose one after another, the land Silk Road in the Hexi Corridor declined rapidly, and the maritime Silk Road along the southeast coast came into being. Fill somebody's shoes. Fuzhou and Quanzhou gradually became famous ports in the world, and the Xianxia Ancient Road also became a very prosperous official road and commercial road, along the road there are tens of thousands of porters and porters to transport goods for a living, and the silk, porcelain and tea produced in the south of the Yangtze River are continuously sent to Fujian to the sea.

The Xianxia Ancient Road is so long, and the heavy Dà Mountains are all natural hazards that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and after the Jianglang Mountain of Jiangshan County, there are six big mountains such as Yaoling, Xianxialing and Fengling, except for Xianxia Pass. There are also Fengling Pass, Anmin Pass, Erdu Pass and other eight Xiongguan. Among them, Xianxia Pass includes five passes, respectively called one pass, two passes until the fifth pass (Xianxia group pass now only has the ruins of four passes, the first pass and the second pass are relatively intact, the third pass and the fourth pass only have one stone gate hole left, and the five passes can not be found at all. )

Zhou Lianggong had just won a battle in Shaowu Mansion, when he received an order from Tong Yangjia, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to immediately rush to support Xianxia Pass, and also put together 5,000 reinforcements for him, as well as several green battalion generals such as deputy general Ma Degong.

The 5,000 green battalion soldiers were drawn from various state capitals, and it took three or four days just to assemble them together, although Zhou Lianggong was in a hurry, he could only wait, and it was easy to get the troops together, and it took two days to take a boat to Pucheng County, and immediately asked the local garrison office if there was any warning and military information on the front line.

The news from the front line is very chaotic, some of them are contradictory, and the Pucheng Garrison Office can't say clearly, only knowing that the beacon tower in front of it was lit once a few days ago, and the Ming army should have launched an attack on the Xianxia Ancient Road.

"It's not a big problem, the beacon tower has only been lit once, and the southern thieves are estimated to be still attacking Jianglang Mountain, and they haven't arrived at Yaoling yet, let's hurry up and hurry, we must arrive at Xianxia Pass earlier than them." After Huang Degong's death, he and Tian Xiong together dedicated Emperor Hongguang to Duoduo to surrender, and later followed Tong Yangjia into Fujian, and has been fighting with Zheng Chenggong for the past two years.

"Well, hurry up and march into the army, and you will know the exact military situation when you get to the Yamen of the Twenty-Eight Capitals."

Zhou Lianggong raised his head and looked at Fengling Pass halfway up the mountain. This is the oldest pass on the Xianxia Ancient Road, as early as the Tang Dynasty, there are four big characters engraved on the south door hole - the key of the whole Fujian.

"The key to Fujian is ......, as long as Fengling Pass is not lost, Fujian will sit back and relax." Zhou Lianggong's heart felt a little relaxed, since he had already rushed to Fengling Pass, it was equivalent to locking the south gate of the Xianxia Ancient Road.

Fengling Pass was too important, and Zhou Lianggong left 500 soldiers and horses to strengthen the defense here, and marched north with other troops. All the way over the mountains and mountains, gradually higher and higher, the road from time to time can meet the post shop and the beacon tower, to the time of Panting Pass, in the local inspection department to play a sharp rest.

"How many soldiers and horses are stationed in the Twenty-Eight Capital?" He asked about the local Qing military academy.

"Back to the master, there are more than 2,000 armored soldiers in the Fengling battalion of Zhejiang, Fujian and Fujian in the twenty-eight capitals, but most of them are guarding the passes everywhere, and there are only three or five hundred people in the towns and yamen of the twenty-eight capitals."

"How can this be?" Zhou Lianggong's brows immediately furrowed, and he sent all the troops out to guard the various passes, but he did not leave a sufficient reserve, once he was attacked by the enemy, he could only watch and could not send support.

"Lord Zhentai doesn't know, Xianxia Ancient Road is a straight road, since the southern thief is from the north, of course he must send all the soldiers and horses to the north, and he can't stay in the twenty-eight capitals......"

Ma Degong was just halfway through his speech when he saw a thick black smoke rising from the mountains in the distance, soaring into the sky. Everyone was stunned, and the Qing army of the Panting Pass Inspection Division immediately became in chaos, and also ran to light the beacon tower, Zhou Lianggong and others also followed to the high place of the beacon tower, and looked at the mountain road under the mountain for a long time, but the mountain road was empty, and there was no figure.

"Bastard! How did the Zhejiang-Fujian Fengling Camp in the twenty-eight capitals work? The beacon was lit but no one was sent to report the military situation! Ma Degong couldn't stand it anymore, and the beacon could only warn the police. If you can't transmit specific military information, you should send a fast horse to call the police at the same time, so that the beacon can be lit. It's simply disturbing the morale of the military.

"There must have been an accident, send an order to the whole army, run to the twenty-eight capital!" Zhou Lianggong gave a loud order and left Panting Pass with his troops. While hurrying away, he secretly pondered in his heart, since this was the second beacon warning, it meant that Yaoling had also been attacked. The Ming army came so fast!

"Someone, send a fast horse scout to Xianxia Pass, and pass on my general order ......"

After some arrangement. Zhou Lianggong led the troops to hurry up, crossed the bridge, and finally arrived at the ancient town of Twenty Eight Cities. This town is the halfway hub of the Xianxia Ancient Road, and it is also an important place for the garrison of the defenders. It is located in a deep valley in the mountains. Further north in front is the Xianxia Pass.

"Lord Zhentai don't worry, we have already arrived in the twenty-eighth capital, there are several passes along the way, even if the southern thieves capture Xianxia Pass, they will not be able to attack Fujian. It is better to rest in the twenty-eight capital first, raise enough strength and then climb the Xianxia Ridge, in case of encountering enemies, the sons and daughters will also have the strength to fight. "Although Ma Degong rode a horse, he was tired enough to run down the way. The soldiers behind him were even more out of breath, their helmets crooked.

"No way! If the southern thief occupies Xianxia Ridge. What is the best way to defend and not attack? I can't wait not only to guard the gate of Fujian, but also to open up the entire Xianxia Ancient Road! Pass my general order, the whole army hurriedly marched to Xianxia Pass, if you can attack Jiangshan County in one go, three days later, the knife will be sealed, this division will never break its word! Zhou Lianggong also ran untidy, but he only saw arrogance, not wolves.

Ma Degong's eyes lit up, and he didn't seal the knife for three days after conquering Jiangshan County, this is to let the soldiers slaughter the city and loot, and give everyone benefits! He hurriedly urged the mount and conveyed Zhou Lianggong's order loudly to the green battalion soldiers, and when he heard that the opportunity to make a fortune and play with women came, the green battalion soldiers were greatly boosted, and they climbed up the Xianxia Ridge with huhulala.

Xianxia Ridge is the highest terrain in this area, the terrain is the most precipitous mountain, the mountain road is twenty miles long, the back of the mountain is the fifth pass, the halfway up the mountain is the fourth pass, the top of the mountain is the second pass and the third pass, and the front of the mountain is the first pass. There is only a granite paved stone step road between the passes, and the mountains are full of trees and bamboo forests on both sides.

After ascending the fifth level, Zhou Lianggong looked at the surrounding scenery, suddenly surged with poetry, and chanted in a shallow voice: "Ten thousand horses enter the pass and are sad and nine, and a trace of crossing the mountain is heavy and heavy ......."

He had just started the sentence, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he did not continue to read the next sentence. Although Ma Degong was a big boss, he openly lamented in front of him that the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and the Qing army attacked Zhejiang and Fujian, which was always not very safe.

"Why be so sour? Ten years of hard study, in order to learn and excel, the husband to help the world as their own responsibility, when this Yi Dynasty soared, I was forced to enter the Manchu Qing Dynasty......"

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Introduce Zhou Lianggong.

Zhou Lianggong is a character in Qianlong's "Biography of Erchen", a very standard traitor, but this person is very talented, and the experience after defecting to the Manchu Qing Dynasty is very bumpy, so there are many sympathizers in later generations.

His life's career was up and down, just surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty when he mixed very well, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty Han people were the first to serve as a political envoy, but when the official was young, everything was easy to say, after the official was big, there was a standing problem, Shunzhi six years after he was promoted to the Fujian political envoy, has been very appreciative of his Fujian Governor Zhang Cunren transferred away, in exchange for Tong Yanghe as the governor of Fujian, because of different political views, Zhou Lianggong and him had contradictions, since then more and more mixed back.

Tong Yanghe mainly appeased Zheng Chenggong, but Zhou Lianggong was a very resolute main battle faction, and the two of them fought, and Zhou Lianggong, a subordinate minister, was certainly not the opponent of Tong Yanghe, a relative of the emperor.

In the eleventh year of Shunzhi, Zhou Lianggong was promoted for the last time, transferred back to Beijing as a servant of the ministry, and built a report to the Manchu court to stop appeasing Zheng Chenggong, kill Zheng Zhilong, and send troops to attack Taiwan, offending Tong Yanghe and Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong, who was under house arrest in Beijing, had nothing else but no shortage of silver, and joined forces with Tong Yanghe and the silver bullet offensive to quickly bring down Zhou Lianggong.

This case was very big, it lasted six years, implicated more than 1,000 people, and killed more than a dozen people alive in the public court alone. Zhou Lianggong was almost beheaded, and later the sentence was changed to exile in Ningguta, and before he left Beijing, Shunzhi suddenly hung up, the little emperor Kangxi ascended the throne, amnesty to the world, and Zhou Lianggong escaped.

After Zhou Lianggong escaped, he was soon activated by the Qing court again, and in the eighth year of Kangxi, he was arrested and sentenced to hanging.

The most glorious period of Zhou Lianggong's life was in Fujian, he and Zheng Chenggong had fought many times, Shunzhi nine years in Zhangzhou to fight a solid battle, plus innocent people, it is said that more than 700,000 dead and wounded, and finally Zheng Chenggong was defeated. (The mathematics of the ancient literati was taught by physical education teachers, and there were probably not so many people in Zhangzhou at that time, and 70,000 was about the same.) (To be continued......)