Chapter 373: A Ring Ruler, A Warning

Chen Ming is in Hangzhou. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The troops of the Fu Han army to the south have completely captured Jinhua, Taizhou, and Quzhou, and Wu Xiongguang's regimental training was almost scattered in Jinhua, but Wu Xiongguang still did not surrender, and the prefect of Jinhua, Zheng Ting, together with Tongzhidu, obediently surrendered. The latter had a poor official reputation and was dismissed from his official position, while the former was still released by Chen Ming as the prefect of Jinhua. This person's official reputation is not bad, and of course it is not the 'Blue Sky Lord' like Peng Zhongrui and Wu Changjun, whose bones are rotten.

The 16th Brigade of the 4th Division and the entire 1st Garrison Division were marching towards Chuzhou and Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang. The troops of the 2nd Garrison Division were assembled in Nanjing, while the 1st Division and the Guards Brigade were slowly assembled in Hangzhou. There are also the surrendered Qing army water divisions, which were completely dispersed and mixed into the water divisions of the Fu Han army, and those who were unwilling to continue to serve as soldiers were given silver money to be sent back to their hometowns. But this number is quite small, and the reason for being a soldier is to get a salary, and the treatment of the Fu Han army is much better than that of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. I happened to get in, so I didn't want to go back to my hometown. Among them, part of the main force of the naval division was arranged in Zhoushan, and the other part was held at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the last twenty or thirty warships were headed by Chen Dai and Shi Xinxiong, plus the marine battalion went north to Shandong, and has not yet returned.

The number of recruits in the new barracks set up in Yangzhou and Jiangnan is also constantly 'adding to the import', including the number of recruits in southern Anhui, Jiujiang and Anqing, and the number of recruits in places such as southern Anhui, Jiujiang and Anqing is doubling, and Chen Ming is already transferring officers at all levels to prepare for the formation of garrisons in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Therefore, this soldier will fight. If you don't fight, it will be difficult to climb one level; As soon as there is a war, the excellent position can jump up like a rocket.

When the southbound troops have drawn southern Zhejiang, the 16th Brigade and the 1st Garrison Division should also have a good rest, the 1st Division and the Guards Brigade will immediately go south to attack Fujian, and Chen Ming, the team of the 2nd Garrison Division, will be placed in Nanjing for a while. Since Fengsheng's forehead was besieged in Changzhou, the city of Beijing has turned a blind and deaf eye to this, seeing that it is June, and he has not seen Qianlong wantonly transfer troops into northern Jiangsu.

The news from the dark camp was that the Qing army in the north had indeed made no moves, but Chen Ming was not at ease in his heart. The stay of this brigade in Nanjing is a hind move!

After Chen Ming won the battle of Wusongkou, he went down to Hangzhou directly.

In just half a month, the Hangzhou market has returned to calm, although many of the shops on the street are closed and sealed, but the people's expressions are stable.

The first thing Chen Ming did when he entered Hangzhou was to sacrifice the Yuewang Temple on a huge scale, and now the Lu Gong Temple in Yixing and the Yan Gong Temple in Jiangyin are in full swing, and there are still a few people in the entire Jiangnan who don't know the 'political wind direction' of the Fu Han Army? Before, Qin Dacheng was reluctant to join the Han Army in every possible way, and his wife even put on a 'rather than give in' look, isn't she also walking beside Chen Ming now? Chen Ming paid tribute to Yue Fei, and a sacrificial text was made for him to do.

This Qin Dacheng and Yue Wang Temple are very fateful.

It is said that after Qin Dacheng won the championship in high school, he abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown not long after, and made an appointment with his poet friends to visit Hangzhou, and saw the iron-cast kneeling statue of Qin Hui and his wife in front of the tomb of King Yue, and his whole body was full of filth. The poet joked that his surname was Qin, and he was a descendant of Qin Hui, so that he could write the right title to remember this trip. Qin Dashi waved his pen immediately, and the couplet was: "People have been ashamed of their names since the Song Dynasty, and I am ashamed of my surname Qin when I go to the grave." "It adds a good story to the West Lake of Hangzhou.

Kang Mazi once overhauled the Yuewang Temple in his later years, so far it has only been 50 years, and during the Yongzheng period, Li Wei also deliberately cast four traitorous statues when he was in Zhejiang. The last time Chen Ming won Hangzhou, he melted the four traitor statues and recast them. After the Fu Han army retreated to Hangzhou, Yin Jishan of course ordered the statues of the four traitors to be moved away from the Yuewang Temple, and for various reasons, they were not recast. The statues of the four traitors were also used by the Qing army to cast into cannonballs.

Chen Ming returned to Hangzhou this time, and he was no longer ready to leave. Knowing that the statues of the four traitors in front of the Yuewang Temple were empty, he set up a stove by the West Lake, and in front of the people of Hangzhou, he melted the knives, guns and artillery seized from Hangzhou and recast the statues of the four traitors.

"Qingshan is fortunate to bury the bones of loyalty, and the white iron innocently casts the minister." Although this couplet by Songjiang Xu's daughter has not been out for too long, it has already spread all over the world.

"With the iron of the Tartar soldiers, cast the kneeling statue of the treacherous and evil!" What a match. Chen Ming felt his heart surging when he thought about it. In addition, the kneeling statues of Zha Jizuo and Wu Zhirong, the two informants of the "Ming History Case", the latter two were then sent to Nanxun by beating gongs and drums all the way by water!

A shrine has been erected in the town of the latter, which is dedicated to Zhuang Tingyue, Li Linghui, Mao Yuanming, Jiang Linzheng, Zhang Ning, Wei Yuanjie, Pan Tazhang, Wu Yan, Wu Zhirong, Wu Zhiming and other people who were killed that year. This shrine was built by the wealthy local families in Nanxun, and some people donated the good materials they found to make coffins. Compared to the first time when they heard the wind and fled south, it is really a heaven and an underground!

When Chen Ming made a great sacrifice to Yuewang Temple, the four traitorous statues reappeared in their original positions after leaving Yuewang Temple for a year.

And that Yuan Mei.

Qianlong resigned in the fourteenth year, and then he purchased the Sui Abandoned Garden in Nanjing, renamed it "Suiyuan", built a room and settled, and was known as Mr. Suiyuan. Xiaocang stayed in the mountains for twenty years, but when the Fu Han army first hit Jiangnan, Yuan Mei patted his ass and ran back to his hometown in Qiantang, and then hid in Ningbo.

This time, didn't Yuan Mei, who is fifty or four years old, also obediently wait for Chen Ming in Qiantang?

Yuan Mei's fame in later generations is very great, but Yuan Mei's fame is all in literature, only with political talent, Chen Ming of the three major families in Jiangyou values Zhao Yi more, the Zhao Yi who wrote 'talented people from all generations of the country, each leading the way for hundreds of years'. It's just that the current Zhao Dawen is still staying in Guangxi and honestly working for the Manchu Dynasty.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty did a lot of pickled things. Strive to preach and expose! Chen Ming said to Shen Guozhen. Jiangnan is a place where humanities gather, and the oppression of the literary prison is extremely serious, and those large and small literary prisons are the best entry point. It can well drive the hearts of 'common hatred and hatred' on both sides. Yuan Mei, the prefect of Hangzhou, listened obediently on the side. After all, he is a 'celebrity' in the world, Yuan Mei has already been smooth, and Chen Ming naturally exalts him - the prefect of Hangzhou.

Shen Guozhen's reputation is not comparable to Yuan Mei, but he surrendered to the Han army early, but he has Lu Liuliang's tablet on his head, and now the position of Jiangnan supervising the imperial history is also stable. The supervision of the imperial history itself has the responsibility of guiding public opinion, and Jiangnan is a place where humanities gather, and it is now time to prepare provincial newspapers and government newspapers, which is particularly important.

Shen Guozhen has just returned from Jinhua, Zhu Dadian's shrine has started, and when the construction is completed, Chen Ming must pay a huge tribute even if he can't come in person.

"Jiangnan is the world's money warehouse, and this turmoil has not touched the livelihood of the local people, and it can't move the bones here." Therefore, Jiangnan has to look more closely. "Silk, cloth, raw silk, tea, porcelain, these are all necessary things in the West. When Ningbo and Shanghai open their ports and the ships arrive, the people will naturally move. ”

"Yes, whether it is the local government or the customs, we must prepare as soon as possible." Just after talking to Shen Guozhen and Yuan Mei about the public opinion orientation of the newspaper, Chen Mingyou turned his head and talked to Chen Min, who rushed to Hangzhou, about the customs.

A lot of local things are grasped. There is also this war, there are always deserters and people who have been plagued, no matter how they are sent back to their hometowns, they must be appeased, given money and food, and the proceeds captured by the Han army are not much, but the matter is trouble.

Besides, if the local land is re-registered, it will be necessary to measure the acres of land, and the major event of household registration and population statistics will be postponed.

It is also the general trend of this trip to the Han Army, and the local old officials have seen the direction of the wind, and they have thrown themselves to Chen Han's side with a smile.

They are familiar with the inside story, they also know local affairs, and they have a head again - the officers and officials of the Fu Han Dynasty are not separated, and no matter how good the low-level officials are, they can rise step by step, which gives these old officials greater enthusiasm. This time Jiangnan changed the dynasty, and the position of the number one leader in many states and counties was taken by the warden and master. This is the example of Chi Guoguo!

They all did practical things with their hearts, which made the new magistrate a lot easier.

Shen Guozhen's yamen supervising the imperial history was set in Suzhou, his hometown was in Chongde, that is, Jiaxing Mansion, after entering the south of the Yangtze River this time, he only had time to give the Shen ancestors a three-pillar fragrance, cry bitterly, and then recruit talents non-stop.

Lu Liuliang's family was wiped out at the beginning, and the descendants were wiped out, but there are still a lot of remaining veins. Shen Guozhen took advantage of the momentum of the Han Dynasty army to recruit as many as 100 people for Chen Ming. Most of these people have gone out now.

It can be said that as long as Shen Guozhen does not take the wrong path in the future, the Shen family will stand up again in the land south of the Yangtze River, and it will be many times more glorious than at the beginning. Coming out of the former Hangzhou General's Mansion where Chen Ming settled, Shen Guozhen was holding a long flat brocade box, which was a very ordinary bamboo ring ruler.

But the bamboo used in this ring ruler was cut down by Chen Ming himself, and the six words written on the front were also written by Chen Ming himself: Lian Shengwei, Gongshengming; There are also sixteen small characters on the back: Erfeng Erlu, people's fat and people's ointment; The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive.

The words can only be said to be written squarely, but can the things given by Chen Ming only look at the words?

Shen Guozhen walked out of the door, returned to the residence where he settled as fast as he could, touched the sweat on his head, and pulled the secretary next to him to give urgent orders, but asked the secretary to contact the people he 'recommended' to see if there was already someone who had committed corruption.

This ring ruler is like an invisible sledgehammer, which slammed into Shen Guozhen's heart. made Shen Guozhen's heart flutter in recent days because of the praise and flattery of countless people around her, and her mind sank heavily, and her mind was extremely sober.

"Your Highness still loves me, otherwise I just watched quietly from the side, and I wouldn't fly to the sky for a year and a half."

Waiting for Shen Guozhen's secretary to report that Shen Guozhen had just recommended the big and small officials, and four people had already been taken down in less than a month, all of whom were embezzlement, soliciting and accepting bribes.

In front of Shen Guozhen was a big ice basin, and it still couldn't stop him from giving birth to a bright sweat.

The secretary hurriedly handed a towel to Shen Guozhen, just like a certain dynasty in the 21st century, the future of the secretaries under the Chen Han political system was also closely tied to their boss. Shen Guozhen, the secretary, is also 'killing the enemy', how many people have to stand by Shen Guozhen's side, Shen Guozhen can't fall.

"Of course, Your Highness has adults in his heart. To put it mildly, when will the adult be a big man? That's the love of sharing adversity. King Han and His Royal Highness are notoriously nostalgic. "Otherwise, Zhang Chi's background can also sit in the military department? Joke.

"Eat a trench, grow a wisdom. This is a lesson that I will keep in mind. Go back and find a pedestal, and this ruler will be placed in my study. ”

Shen Guozhen was drenched in sweat in the city of Hangzhou, and this matter soon spread throughout Jiangnan, and the lively Jiangnan officialdom was suddenly quiet. And Chen Min had already left Yangzhou in a hurry, went straight to Zhenjiang, and rushed to Yangzhou.

Most of the salt-producing land in Lianghuai had fallen under the control of the Fu Han army, and the salt company was established in time. But how to buy salt, that's another story. Chen Han now does not have the ability to fully control the distribution of goods on the territory, and the local salt merchants must take advantage of it.

Now salt merchants from Huguang, southwest Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places have rushed to Yangzhou. What awaits Chen Min is not just a foreigner in Shanghai. (To be continued.) )