Chen Qing refers to Song Xianggong, the governor of Guangdong, Yuan Kuoyu, the governor of Biyuan, Guo Tianxu, the official of ceremonies, Ding Zhixiang, the criminal officer, Wang Zhangjun, the prefect of Guangzhou, and others. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After Yuanzhou decided to support the Tang Dynasty and supervise the country, Yuan Kuoyu invited himself to Guangdong to persuade the Tang King to go out of the mountain, he was a close confidant of Hong Chengchou, and he was born in Chongzhen's six-year Jinshi, and was the highest Qing Dynasty civil official who surrendered to the Taiping Army so far, so Zhou Shixiang readily agreed to Yuan Kuoyu's "Mao Sui self-recommendation", and asked him to go to Guangdong and Song Xianggong to invite the Tang King out of the mountain.

Yuan Kuoyu's move is only the word "speculation" in the eyes of some demoted officials, but Yuan Kuoyu disagrees with this, in his opinion, since it has been clear, then he should try his best to work, how to speculate. And he understands very well, no matter how willing the Tang King is, the process of "three persuasions" is indispensable. The officials who came forward in the process of the three persuasions are bigger than the first and have a high status, so it is difficult for him to mix with the second and third persuasions with his qualifications, and it is a great blessing to have the opportunity to get the first persuasion.

Speaking of which, when the Qing army entered the southwest last year, Yuan Kuoyu gave the Qing court a seal, and originally he wanted to say that he wanted to search for the former Ming clan in various places, and then send people to escort them to Beijing to support them separately, so as not to make waves in various places. Later, after listening to the words of his teacher Hong Chengchou, he directly suggested that the Qing court get rid of these Ming Dynasty clans, princes, county kings, and Zhenguo generals, so that it would be a hundred, so that the banner of restoring the Ming Dynasty could not be beaten, and his mind could not be described as vicious, but this would turn him into a minister of Guiming, and actively persuade the Tang Dynasty to supervise the country, which is really a wonder in the world. This person, once he loses his skin, he can't do anything brazen.

Song Xianggong doesn't need to say much here, he has always known that Zhou Shixiang intends to support the Tang Dynasty and the country, and now he has finally waited for the news of Yongli's abandonment of the country, and it is naturally a matter of course to support the Tang Dynasty. Zhou Shixiang asked him to take the name of the minister, and he had nothing to say, so he set off from Guangzhou to Wencun on the same day.

When Guo Kuoyu arrived in Guangzhou, he brought with him the order of Song Xianggong to be promoted to governor of Guangdong, of course, this order was issued from the military marshal's office, and like Shao Jiugong's governor of Guangxi, it did not possess the orthodox legal rationality of the Ming Dynasty. But there were more than 100,000 Taiping troops there, and no one dared to question the reasonableness of Zhou Shixiang's appointment of governors, but they all clapped their hands and applauded, which should have been the case a long time ago.

The ceremonial officials who persuaded the Tang Dynasty to supervise the country must come forward, so Guo Tianxu, who was the head of the Chongzhen Dynasty Rite Department, naturally wanted to come together, and he would also have to help organize the corresponding ceremonies of the Tang Dynasty in the future, which could be regarded as a specialization in the art industry. On the way, Song Xianggong saw that he was too old, and he was afraid that he would not be able to stand the bumps, so he specially asked someone to prepare a carriage for him, but he thought that the carriage was slow, so he had to ride a horse, and now he could only sit on the dismount stone in front of the "palace", and he couldn't stand. However, the leg hurt and the leg hurt, but the old ceremonial officer's face was not the slightest pain, but full of expectation.

The criminal officer Ding Zhixiang was not qualified to come, but he was the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Provincial Envoy Department appointed by the Shaowu regime, and he had a lot to do with the Tang Dynasty, so Song Xianggong asked him to come with him. Moreover, there are a lot of old Shaowu troops in Guangdong, and there are also many in the Taiping Army, so the matter of Tang Wang's supervision of the country needs an official of the Shaowu regime to come forward, and those warriors who don't know a big character and don't know what etiquette are definitely not suitable, and this heavy responsibility falls on the head of Ding Zhixiang, a civil official.

Ding Zhixiang is in his forties and can ride horses, so he is not as unbearable as Guo Tianxu, standing behind Song Xianggong decently, listening to the movements in the "palace". Wang Zhangjun, the prefect of Guangzhou, was originally a Manchu governor of Guangdong, and like Guo Kuoyu, the governor of Biyuan, he also invited Song Xianggong to come to Wencun, but the reason was that like Guo Kuoyu, he wanted to take the lead in persuasion. Song Xianggongnian has done a good job in Wang Zhangjun's prefect in the past two years, so he gave Shunshui a favor and asked him to come with him. Regardless of whether the matter is successful or not, Wang Zhangjun will definitely not be able to run away from the "first persuasion".

There were also many officials from Guangzhou and Zhaoqing and those who heard the rumors along the way, most of them were civil officials, and basically they were demoted. They all have a common characteristic, that is, they have all descended to the Qing Dynasty. Some of these people are thinking about "speculation", and some are just coming to see the fun, how many of these people can personally experience the birth of a new monarch in their lives?

At present, although it is said that he is here to persuade the Tang King to supervise the country, whether the Tang King wants to ascend the throne and become the emperor after the supervision of the country, these people are all bright-hearted, and they all have a number. Longwu, the example of Yongli is there, no one will simply think that King Tang is just a prisoner of the country, and he will serve Yongli as the main in the future.

Hong Shiming, the son of Hong Chengchou, the son of the five provinces of the Qing Dynasty, was also in the crowd. The Taiping Army held a small-scale township test in Guangdong last year, when Zhou Shixiang originally wanted to personally preside over the township test to obtain soldiers, but due to the outbreak of war, he had to lead the army to march, so the township test was changed to Song Xianggong. In that township examination, 156 scholars with talents and merits took the exam, and 155 were selected, but only one person was not taken because he was sick in the examination room and handed in a blank paper.

This township test, greatly eased the contradiction between the Taiping army and the Guangdong gentry, afterwards as Zhou Shixiang thought, with the imperial examination promotion channel, the resistance of Guangdong scholars to the Taiping army is no longer as strong as at the beginning, and after the capture of Guangzhou, the Taiping army began to consider the interests of the gentry and landlords when they implemented the establishment of villages and townships in various places, and no longer arbitrarily and forcibly deprived the land, let alone suppress the landlords, but through various means to induce the landlords to cooperate with the yamen, and some landlords were also compensated. This further allowed the Taiping army to gain the support of the Guangdong gentry, and made the Taiping army's rule in Guangdong more and more solid.

Hong Shiming was originally sent by the Qing court to Guangdong to assist in the Guangdong Township Examination, and he was very talented in this regard, so Song Xianggong asked him to do this as a deputy. Afterwards, on the reward of meritorious deeds, Song Xiang Gongbao invited Zhou Shixiang to entrust Hong Shiming with the post of magistrate of Nanhai County. As before, every other month, Hong Shiming would send a letter to his father to report his safety. After the Taiping Army cut off the Hunan and Guizhou borders, the Hong family in Changsha thought that these letters could no longer be delivered to the masters in Yunnan, and they didn't want the Taiping Army to come and tell them that they could still send letters from the Hunan and Guizhou borders. Hong Chengchou, as usual, received his son's letters on time, but he never replied, and he didn't ask how these letters were sent from Hunan to Yunnan.

On the way, Hong Shiming was very embarrassed to see his father's protégé Yuan Kuoyu, but Yuan Kuoyu was not embarrassed at all, pulling Hong Shiming to ask for warmth, not mentioning that he was trapped in Guangdong, nor mentioning his father Hong Chengchou, only talking about some homely things, the scenery along the way, so that Hong Shiming gradually relaxed, and he was no longer like when he first met, he couldn't stand, and he couldn't sit still.

A large group of people appeared in Wen Village, and it immediately alarmed everyone in Wen Village. The soldiers and the people all came to see the excitement, and when they heard that they had come to invite His Royal Highness the Tang King to supervise the country, Wencun suddenly became a sensation. Both the military and the people are virtuous and virtuous, and today the son has abandoned the country and should be in charge of the country. Some people also took out the clothes they only wore during the New Year from the box, dressed them freshly and rushed to the "palace" to ask His Royal Highness the Tang King to supervise the country. This move made all the officials who came sigh that the hearts of the people are in Tang, and the hearts of the people are in Tang.

The guard general Chen Qing entered the mansion to communicate with His Royal Highness the King of Tang, and Song Xiang announced that everyone would wait for a while, and wait patiently for His Royal Highness the King of Tang to summon him. After a while, Chen Qing came out and said that King Tang invited everyone in.

The palace is really poor, there are only six or seven thatched huts, and the place is too small, and the officials outside and the people are afraid of no less than a thousand. The place is so big, and there is no place for people to even stand, so Song Xianggong took a roll call and selected more important officials to go in with him, and the rest of the people were waiting outside. The officials who were named were naturally overjoyed, and those who were not named were depressed, only to feel that they were so unlucky.

Yuan Kuoyu, Guo Tianxu, Ding Zhixiang, and Wang Zhangjun were all named in, and Hong Shiming was also fortunate to be called by Song Xianggong.

The palace is very clean, there are no eunuchs available here in Tang Wang, and for so many years, Wang Xing has been looking for two couples from the village to clean up the residence for Tang Wang. Originally, Wang Xing wanted to arrange palace officials for the Tang King, but the Tang King said that as soon as he was in trouble, he had a tile to cover the roof, a quilt to cover the body, and three meals to eat, so why did he need any pomp. If it weren't for the fact that he really needed someone to clean up the residence, Tang Wang didn't even want those two couples.

When Song Xianggong and the others came in, the front yard had been cleaned up by one of the couple, and when they saw so many officials coming in, the couple was very frightened, standing in the corner and looking at it with an uneasy face.

Tang Wang and his wife had already come over from the backyard, still wearing the same clothes just now, and they didn't deliberately change into new clothes. What kind of hospitality can the palace built up by the thatched house have, and the king of Tang is not a good person, and he knows his identity, so as long as people lift the square table in the house, pick up some stools and come out for Song Xianggong to sit on.

Although Song Xianggong and Yuan Kuoyu were mentally prepared, they were still deeply shocked when they saw Tang Wang so simple.

After everyone saluted Tang Wang, Tang Wang smiled slightly and motioned to his wife and the couple to pour tea for the officials. It's not a good tea, and it looks a little moldy. The couple was upset, but Mrs. Tang Wang also came to make tea, which of the officials dared to accept it. You must know that once the Tang King is in charge of the country, this lady will be the queen of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and let the future queen pour tea and water, no one will dare to do this.

Song Xianggong hurriedly got up and stopped Mrs. Tang Wang, Mrs. Tang Wang didn't know what to do, Tang Wang smiled and waved her hand to put it down. Song Xianggong was just about to say that he would ask the king of Tang to supervise state affairs, but the king of Tang said: "I don't know why you came to see this king?" ”

The officials were stunned when they heard this, didn't Chen Qing already know their intentions before, why, he didn't tell His Highness?

Song Xiang said fairly: "Please Your Highness have seen this watch." After speaking, he stepped forward and handed the seal of the persuasion of Tang Wang to supervise the country to Tang Wang.

Tang Wang didn't say anything, only took the watch seal and looked at it.

“..... Yun and Gui fell, and the Son of Heaven hunted south. Jane and Xiang's two temples are back in the house, and the humiliation has been extreme. Our sinful ministers deserve to be dead. However, Fujian and Yuegui still exist, how can they abandon the Gaohuang Society in a small way?! Now the sea is a hypocrisy, and the subjects of the world are not afraid. Wang Shangshao's younger brother, he should be the sect and the subjects, supervise the country Tiannan, and take the heart of Anhai to avenge the holy enemy! ”

After reading it, Tang Wang's brows were already furrowed, and then looking at the signature, Zhou Shixiang ranked first, followed by a long list of names, he almost didn't know any of them.

Mrs. Tang Wang is literate, she has always stood next to Tang Wang, and she can see clearly what is written on the seal. Tang Wang frowned, but she suddenly became nervous, and her face did not have the joy of her husband being supported by the ministers, but fear. Because she thought of the eldest uncle and the second uncle, and thought of their fate.

"The ministers respectfully ask His Highness to supervise the country Tiannan and appease the hearts of the subjects of the world!"

Song Xianggong took the lead and bowed, and the officials knelt on the ground. According to the rules, King Tang has the intention to call the prison country, and he will not agree to come down at the first persuasion, so everyone is relaxed when they come, and most of them come with the intention of "doing merit", and none of them are really nervous. But for some reason, when it really happened, everyone couldn't help but get nervous.

Song Xianggong was also a little apprehensive, he couldn't tell the reason, and he didn't know why he was like this.

Tang Wang couldn't see any movement on his face, first opened his mouth to let the officials get up, and then said calmly: "The Son of Heaven is just temporarily avoiding Burma, not abandoning the country, he will return to China when the situation is a little better, so he can't do it alone." ”

"Your Highness!"

Song Xiang openly wanted to persuade him, but Tang Wang said: "Even if the Son of Heaven does not return to China, he is lone and sparse, and he is not worthy of the heavy responsibility of the world..... There are a few cold rooms here, and I can't greet you, so I won't leave you, you go back, and you don't have to come again! ”

After Tang Wang finished speaking, he got up and went to the house. The lady also followed when she saw that she was busy, but the husband and wife didn't even look back.

In the courtyard, only Song Xianggong and Yuan Kuoyu were left with a stunned face, and they could see that King Tang's behavior was definitely not against his will, let alone hypocritical, but really determined to do so.

(To be continued.) )