Chapter 208: The General's Mansion!
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Anyone hates the betrayer. Qianlong's methods for betrayers were very harsh, and his meaning was also very clear - Jingzhou was captured, and the banner people were not national. That is, it is no longer recognized that these 'forgetful people who have not died' are banner people.
But whether the Eight Banners of Jingzhou are banner people, whether they are real traitors, Qianlong alone, or the views of Qianlong and a few princes and ministers of the Eight Banners do not represent all the banner people. In the eyes of the millions of Eight Banners in Beijing City, the Jingzhou Banner Man was captured, and it was also the Banner Man. Because they all know that if such a calamity falls on their heads, they will not be willing to cut themselves off.
The message of the Forbidden City has caused the whole of Beijing to become agitated and uneasy.
No matter how Qianlong tried to whitewash it, people all over the world, whether it was the banner people or the Han people, after seeing this will, they could clearly understand that Qianlong completely abandoned the Jingzhou banner people for the sake of his country.
This was a heavy blow to the majesty and prestige of the entire Qing court. Many people, many Han people, suddenly found that the original 'noble' banner people were like this. This has a great impact on the people all over the world, especially on the millions of Han people under the roots of the imperial city. Even some of the gentlemen of the Eight Banners, who carry the birdcage all day long and don't do their business, have lowered their voices in the past two days.
The names of Chen Ming and the Fu Han General's Mansion have completely spread all over the world. It is also deeply engraved in the hearts of people all over the world.
The Manchus hated it to the core, but the people had various opinions. Some Taoist gentlemen who knelt and licked the Manchu Qing Dynasty rebuked Chen Ming for being mad and beast-faced. It has really affected the views of some people, because the literacy rate in this era is too poor, and too many people can't read a single big word, and everyone is the same. Especially listen to the show and the landlord clan. And these vested interests under the notice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty naturally rejected the Chen family, a group that subverted the current order. But there are always some 'alternative' people, aren't they?
Gao Jingcheng set up a teahouse in Chaoyangmen, Beijing, and knew that he was a member of the Gao family by looking at his surname. At this time, when I ran to Beijing Pan Tea House, it was naturally a person in the dark camp. The former owner of the teahouse was from Anhui, and he partnered with others to do business and discounted the capital, so he sold the teahouse.
You must know that Chaoyang Gate is the east gate of Beijing. In the city of Beijing, in addition to the "first three gates", the Chaoyang Gate is the most lively. The liveliness of Chaoyangmen is mainly due to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The Grand Canal, which was opened as early as the Sui Dynasty, played a huge role in the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty and became an important transportation lifeline connecting Beijing with the southern provinces. Chaoyang Gate is the closest city gate to Tongzhou Wharf, an important wharf at the northern end of the Grand Canal.
Officials and merchants who left the south of Beijing, or officials and merchants who made pilgrimages and did business in Beijing, had to stop at Chaoyangmen. Therefore, the merchants under Chaoyangmen are flowing endlessly, a scene of busy traffic, businessmen from all walks of life see this huge business opportunity, and they are vying to open shops in Chaoyangmen. More importantly, this is the only way to transport grain, through the Grand Canal to the south of Beijing grain and rice, in the East Gate or Tongzhou loading, through the Chaoyang Gate into the city, stored in the East City of the major granaries. Running a teahouse in this place is not a big business, but it is also very valuable.
There are nine gates in the inner city of Beijing. According to the direction, there are four urban districts in the east, west, north and south, commonly known as "four nine cities". In the Qing Dynasty, there was a slang saying in Beijing that "the east is rich and the west is expensive, the south is cheap and the north is poor".
Most of the nobles lived in the west city, and the warehouses were all in the east city. Moreover, there are many wealthy merchants and wealthy families living in Dongcheng.
And Xicheng District is the place where the nobles live, inside and outside the Xuanwu Gate in Xicheng and in the West Fourth, there are many palaces, and most of the dignitaries who live in the Qing Dynasty are called "Xigui". Nancheng is mostly for working people and folk artists. At that time, these people were regarded as lowly people, so there was a saying of 'southern cheapness'. The northern city, due to the lack of transportation development, affected the prosperity of commerce, and it is the poorest.
There may also be secret agents in the south of the city, the north of the city, and the west of the city, but that is not about Gao Chengcheng. What he needs to do is to use the teahouse to collect information, plus screen the attitude of the people in Beijing.
In order to settle down in Chaoyangmen, Gao Jingcheng changed his name and surname, no longer a native of Lushan, he took Luoyang's ID card, of course, the Qing Dynasty did not call this thing an ID card, it was called Lu Yin, Gao Jingcheng was a native of Fucheng, Henan. Chen Ming also gave him a new name - Yu Zecheng. No one knows the meaning of this name, in Gao Jingcheng's eyes, this is a very ordinary name, Chen Ming is completely self-satisfied, that is, self-congratulatory. Gao Jingcheng also had three thousand taels of silver for the first year.
In the days to come, Yu Zecheng will not only have to become a successful teahouse owner, but also move towards the restaurant and catering industry, the Qinglou women's branch and the opera garden.
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This teahouse in Chaoyangmen is called Sihai Shengping, where people come and go, bringing together all kinds of characters, three religions and nine streams, a big teahouse is a small society. There is a lot of news gathered here every day, especially those Eight Banners who carry cage birds and play with gnats and crickets, and they are generally very capable and dare to speak.
Gao Jingcheng can gather dozens of various pieces of news every day, but the news that he reported to the secret camp through the secret line and then transferred back to Lu Shan and Chen Ming was the most fancy of Chen Hui and Chen Ming's father and son was the dissatisfaction of the children of the Manchu Eight Banners.
Yes, for Emperor Qianlong's decision-making, the children of the Eight Banners generally could not accept it. Although they occasionally complain, when they are summed together, they are eye-catching. Moreover, the children of the Eight Banners in Beijing talked about the Chen family and the General's Mansion, from the disdain at the beginning, to the current fear.
Although this fear was not the fear of the general's government overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty, but the fear of Chen Ming's calamity banner people, they were really a little afraid. And in his words, he also upgraded the Fu Han Army from a fly-headed thief at the beginning to a traitor and a giant thief who harmed the party.
The Eight Banners in Beijing have generally commented on the Fu Han Army and Luo Bu Zang Danjin and the Great and Small and Zhuo Rebellion, and in their evaluation, the damage of the Fu Han Army to the Manchu Qing court is second only to the Three Feudatories and Dzungaria. Moreover, the General's Office has built its own system and created three sets of military, political and legal teams, especially in the area of government affairs, called the cabinet, which is really high-level. Cabinet, that's the word of the pre-Ming era. Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the northern and southern Shilin giants condemned and criticized the new system developed by the Fu Han General's Mansion, this could not hide the fact:
The general's mansion has risen!
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In General Lushan's mansion, Chen Hui and Chen Cong sat together, and the topic they talked about was the summary of the report sent back by Gao Jingcheng.
Chen Cong is now the other driver of the General's Mansion, one of the troika of the General's Cabinet, which is the official name of the Han Dynasty again. The other two carriages are Changshi and Zhizhong, that is, the cabinet is one and two deputy triumvirate, and then supervises the Ministry of Finance, which can be called a high power. Fighting the tiger's brother, Chen Hui is far more at ease with Chen Cong's second brother than Chen Ming is at ease with his cheap big brother. Although Chen Gang is now, Chen Ming is also very relieved. I used to him, and it was because he was wearing a showman's hat on his head.
A well-known cousin, even if he is passed out, in a small family like the Chen family, it is too much of a threat to the young son-in-law. This is especially true in the family.
Chen Cong is not the person with the most official power under the general, but as Chen Hui's second brother who is very relieved, Chen Hui is more willing to say some things to Chen Cong.
was actually regarded by the Eight Banners masters in Beijing as a 'disaster' such as Luo Buzang Danjin and the Great and Small and Zhuo Rebellion, and Chen Hui was secretly proud. What he and Chen Cong regret most now is why they didn't take the opportunity to capture Xiangyang when Shi Liang sent troops to Jingzhou. If Xiangyang fell into the hands of the Fu Han army at this time, wouldn't the general's mansion be able to take over the twenty or thirty thousand captured bannermen from Chen Ming.
Chen Ming can continue to travel lightly and continue to lead his troops down the east of the river. The General's Mansion can also make maximum use of more than 20,000 people, even if the Manchu court really expels these 20,000 or 30,000 banner people, it is not a small benefit to only use these people as coolies.
"It's a pity, it's a pity. If you have these flag men in hand, pull them to Linru......" Chen Cong sighed. The General's Mansion is now under enemy fire in the north and east, and the pressure is not small. However, Chen Ming, a good nephew, can think of using these 'noble' bannermen as shields, which is poisonous enough......
If you are an ordinary person, even if you hate the flag people very much, you will kill them at most, and you will no longer be ravaged by river crabs. Such an approach as Chen Ming is really a 'disaster'. (To be continued.) )