The demands insisted on by Zhang Xiaoqi and others were not agreed to by Zhou Shixiang, and overturning the case for Shaowu was not only what his nominal son-in-law should do, but also involved his political status and calling influence in the Tang Dynasty, and it was also an important means to cut off the Tang Dynasty's regime and the Yongli court. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIf you can't cut off the Tang Dynasty regime and the Yongli court, there will be great trouble in the future. During Wencun's night talk, Zhou Shixiang agreed to several requests from Tang Wang, but this does not mean that he will implement it, or that he will choose to implement it, rather than accept it all. The reason why I agreed was for the overall situation; Breaking promises in the future is also for the sake of the big picture. Zhou Shixiang would never hand over the country he had worked so hard to the cowardly and incompetent Emperor Yongli who only knew how to escape to save his life, let alone to a "Third Prince Zhu" who did not know whether he was alive or dead.

Once upon a time, Zhou Shixiang thought that the newly established imperial court would advance with his own will after the Tang Dynasty supervised the country, and that all contradictions would be suppressed and covered up before the great enemy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and that those officials who were full of poetry and books and scriptures would focus on the overall situation, and would take the restoration of the country and the self-help of the nation as their own responsibility, however, all this now seems to be his wishful thinking.

After only a few victories, only a piece of territory in Liangguang, just a temporary crisis without soldiers approaching the city, the officials of the Ming Dynasty showed their true nature, began to fight for power and profit, and these have become high-sounding axioms and justice in their mouths! The soldiers of the Taiping Army who tied their heads to the waistband of their trousers and fought desperately against the Tartars were vulgar martial artists in their eyes, and even His Royal Highness the Prison State had become alienated scholars and doctors, and they had become bastards who violated the ancestral system.

Lian Chengbi, Zhang Xiaoqi and others were originally the officials of Yongli, they were afraid that the Tang King and Yongli would cut them, which would make them become second ministers, lose their reputation, and defile the avenue in their hearts, this, Zhou Shixiang could understand, so he didn't care about them. However, in addition to those officials who are loyal to Yongli who are involved in today's affairs, there are also many officials who he has single-handedly promoted, and many of them are even demoted, which makes Zhou Shixiang difficult to understand. It is said that those who know the times are Junjie, and when these people surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, are willing to be lackeys of foreign races, and act as tigers, they often use this to explain their actions of betraying their home and country and their ancestors, but in essence, they are afraid of death. In the face of death, the teachings of the saints, the family and the country are all illusory, and only life is the most realistic.

Now, the knife handle is in the hands of Zhou Shixiang, and tens of thousands of Taiping troops are the firm cornerstone of the Liangguang regime and the foundation for these officials to settle down, but they don't know that the current affairs are Junjie, and they do not unconditionally cooperate with Zhou Shixiang to help Zhou Shixiang stabilize the political situation, but instead fight with Zhou Shixiang, this contrast is incomprehensible.

Zhou Shixiang's confusion is the truest portrayal of this era, there are not no scholars and officials who rebel against foreign races, there are, and there are many, but more officials are Ming ministers, no matter how big they are, they first consider their own interests, and then they will think of this country; And when they were Qing ministers, they only considered the Qing Dynasty, but did not consider their own interests. They only knew that they were desperately defending the rule of the Qing Dynasty, desperately suppressing the Han resistance, staining their crowns red with blood, and nothing else. Even many officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty did not retreat when the Ming army came, and died in battle, hanged, and thrown into the river.... The tragic scenes staged by the loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty are all over the place.

In the Qing court, no one dared to form a party among the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and in the past, their favorite thing to do was to risk death and give direct advice, and they were proud of the court staff, and when they became the officials of the Qing Dynasty, their favorite thing to do was to shut up, that is, "the saint is wise!" ”

This is very realistic and absurd.

Zhou Shixiang couldn't think of any other reason, he could only blame one thing, that is, maybe the Manchurians were sharper.

The Qing Dynasty can shut up the flies, obediently be lackeys, and actively cooperate with the Manchurians to sit firmly in the country, Zhou Shixiang felt that he could do the same, although the consequences of this were not wise, and it was more likely to anger His Royal Highness the Tang Dynasty, but Zhou Shixiang really couldn't compromise anymore, because he didn't have time.

He was hesitating whether to directly suppress it by force and purge the court with blood or arrest the people first and hand them over to His Royal Highness the Tang King to dispose of.

Among the troublemakers, there were many old landlords and gentry, and these were the "victims" of Zhou Shixiang's campaign to "build villages and establish townships" and the imperial power to go to the countryside. For the sake of rapid local stability, except for a few counties in Xiangshan, the Taiping Army carried out a large-scale suppression of rebellion, and the measures adopted in the rest of the localities were relatively mild; after all, Guangdong has been plagued by military disasters for more than 10 years, and now the remaining population is less than 3 million, and only about 100,000 can be called Dingkou. If there were another harsh repression against these landlords, gentry and clan forces, the population would inevitably still decline.

No, the soft-heartedness at that time made these old landlords and gentry become a member of today's farce, and those who refused to enter the new school were also grieved and angry because of the Taiping Army's "slow treatment" of them. In these years, those who could study were from well-off families, and seven or eight out of ten of these families came from the families of landlords and gentry. If there are scholars, talents, lifters, and scholars, you can be called a gentry, otherwise you will be an old fortune in the countryside, and a small official in the yamen can bully you. Therefore, everyone wanted to become a member of the gentry, because in the Ming Dynasty, the power of the gentry was extremely great, and it was also the basis of the rule, and the officials in the court were the spokesmen of the gentry, and the gentry were the most staunch backing of the officials, and the two colluded with each other to oppose the imperial power.

The imperial power went to the countryside, and the new political structure in the counties and villages was undoubtedly to dig the ancestral graves of these gentry and officials, and to cut off their foundation, so the gentry and students who had no way to ask for help would not hesitate to respond to Zhang Xiaoqi and others' move to seek justice, because if this matter succeeded, it was likely to skid-off the new political structure implemented by the Taiping Army in Guangdong, as long as a brick fell off, it would not take long for this system to be completely overthrown, even if it was still nominally there, but the ruling power of the countryside was still in the hands of these old landlords and gentry, and the time cameEverything is as it used to be.

For the sake of righteousness and power, the gentry in order to regain the property that was stolen, in order to regain the rule of the countryside, in order to be officials, in order to glorify their ancestors, and in order to return to their hometowns to become gentry, they closely combined and staged a vigorous Tang King "Great Rites Discussion" incident.

The appearance of Zhou Shixiang did not make things static, but became more and more intense. The Guangzhou government arrested some people one after another, all of whom were idlers who took the opportunity to smash and rob.

The palace was quiet, and King Tang didn't seem to know what was happening outside, and there was no word to say.

Shoufu Guo Zhiqi closed his eyes at home, ignored all the affairs of the outside world, and did not bring a word to Zhou Shixiang. Perhaps, Lord Shoufu knew what Yue Guogong would do in the end, and he couldn't stop it at all.

Even the castle wall was huddled at home after the incident, but he was not idle, and the eyeliner arranged by the Military Intelligence Department in his house reported that the second assistant had sent his family to send a few small notes in front of the palace in the study.

Some of the officials who did not participate in the disturbance sat in the yamen and waited for the final outcome of the matter, while others gathered together and quietly discussed.

The third town outside the city was already in armor, waiting for the commander to give an order to enter the city and slaughter these disobedient turtle sons.

The families of the Taiping Army in the city also began to organize spontaneously, and confronted the troublemakers under the leadership of the former camp elders and camp managers.

The cadets of the Cadet Battalion and the Martial Arts Academy were ordered not to go out, and the Cadets and Cadets lay on the wall, confused by what was happening outside.

Wang Shirong spoke again, he said: "Don't be soft-hearted, it's hard to find a two-legged toad in this world, but a two-legged official is easy to find." After a pause, he said: "Now is a troubled time, and the troubled times should be reused." ”

Zhou Shixiang adopted Wang Shirong's suggestion, and he ordered the site to be cleared, and it was the Jinyi pro-army commanded by Zhou Baoguo who carried out the task. (To be continued.) )