Chapter 63: The tail is too big to fall
The person Su Fuyang wanted to see was Xu Huisheng, who was sent by Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, to thoroughly investigate Su Yuanchun's case.
Before Xu Huisheng came to Guangxi, Cen Chunxuan confessed to him that when he went to Longzhou City this time, he must collect evidence, even if it is perjury, Su Yuanchun must be beheaded.
Because, this is also the meaning of the imperial court. The imperial court was worried that Su Yuanchun had been on the border in the southwest for a long time, his fame was too great, and his achievements were too high, and he was afraid that he would have a strong army and a big tail, so with the help of Wang Zhichun and others, he ordered Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, to conduct a thorough investigation of Su Yuanchun.
Cen Chunxuan has served in the Military Aircraft Department for several years and is well versed in officialdom. He understands the thoughts of the king and his superiors very thoroughly.
He deeply understands the meaning of "accompanying the king as accompanying the tiger". Because, in the world of imperial power, the world is the emperor's, and all the ministers, whether you are a product or a non-product, are his domestic slaves in the eyes of the emperor.
It's just that you are of great use to him, you can read his mind and understand his words, you are a product.
Those who are useful to him, can help him consolidate the country, and are more obedient, are the second grade.
The third-rank official is the person who is useful to him, helps him handle affairs, and can be controlled by his first-grade official...... And so on, the intricate veins of the official career are formed.
Therefore, Cen Chunxuan really figured out that being an official must not do things as a master, but as a slave, so that you can be safe and secure for a long time.
If you have made great contributions to the emperor, if your talent is enough to become an idol-level figure, if foreign enemies are afraid of you, and even the enemy is full of respect for you at the beginning, then your official career has basically come to an end, and it is not far from death.
Although Su Yuanchun is a hero, he is also a household name in the border areas of Guangxi, and his political achievements and glory are all in one. In Guangxi for more than ten years, the foundation is already quite deep.
However, after years of marching and fighting, Su Yuanchun doesn't understand the rules of the game in officialdom, so to speak, even if he knows, he doesn't bother to do that.
As early as the autumn of 1885, Su Yuanchun moved the yamen of the Guangxi Governor's Office from Liuzhou to Longzhou.
Longzhou Xiaolian City was originally a small base city, which was connected by five mountain peaks to form a city wall, so it was called Xiaolian City.
In the 12th year of Guangxu, that is, in 1886, Su Yuanchun, the governor of Guangxi and the governor of frontier defense, built fortifications and forts on the Sino-Vietnamese border in order to resist the invasion of the French army, and chose Xiaoliancheng as the military command center.
In that year, Su Yuanchun defeated the French army with Feng Zicai at Zhennanguan, supervised the border defense, and defended southern Xinjiang. He took the dangerous fortress of Liancheng, stationed troops to accumulate grain, built a bank platform, built 130 forts, and built a border fortress.
Due to the huge project and insufficient fees, he took the lead in donating money, and it took the cold and summer of Sanyi to build Longzhou Liancheng.
In that year, Su Yuanchun built three forts on the left, middle and right on the top of Jiangshan, and built military houses and roads, the left can block the Zhennan Pass Hole, the right can control the Shuikou Pass, and the Xiafeng and Shuikou Forts are connected as a whole, and the momentum is so majestic and magnificent.
There is Baoyuan Palace built in the cave temple Zaolongyun Cave on the mountainside, which is the military headquarters of Su Yuanchun, and the scenery is set up according to the cave in the cave, and there is no other world.
At the southern foot of the mountain, there are Guanglu Temple and Jieun Pavilion.
The small fortress at the western foot is built with limestone stone and has a long wall, which is connected with the fort on the top of the mountain, and the momentum is magnificent.
Surrounded by peaks at the eastern foothills, it resembles a "mountain belly" and is the camp of the Qing army.
The peaks on the top of the mountain, the stone-built fort castle, stand proudly, and the trenches between the cliffs wind between the mountain beams, and the castle is closely connected. This group of forts, which stretches for more than 30 miles, is like a "Great Wall" cast on the southwest border.
In order to strengthen the defense, Su Yuanchun imported 130 of the most advanced cannons at present -- the 120-millimeter caliber large-flowering cannon made by Krupp in Germany. This cannon can bombard the enemy from all directions.
He supervised the border in Guangxi for 19 years, and the defense project of building the border defense was solid, so that although the invaders of the French Empire were eyeing Guangxi, they never dared to take a step beyond the thunder pool, so Su Yuanchun was here, and there was no war on the border.
The Kruber cannons he installed on the front line of the border, imported from Germany, also fired a single shell because there was no war.
The cost of such a huge project is huge, and the cost of manpower, financial resources, and material resources is huge. Su Yuanchun asked the Qing government to allocate funds, but the unbearable Qing Dynasty was indifferent to the fortifications on this side.
Later, Su Yuanchun repeatedly stated his interests, and the Qing court finally allocated him a negligible sum of money.
However, Su Yuanchun did not deter from this difficulty, but worried about the operation, spared no effort, and adopted the methods of the border defenders to build the project by themselves, using local materials, donating money to save expenditure, and using savings and salaries to build the project.
In order to make the soldiers who have been guarding the border for a long time have a comfortable environment and guard the border with peace of mind, Su Yuanchun also decorated the general headquarters of Baoyuan Palace like Penglai Wonderland.
The entire defense project took 15 years to complete and cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
Su Yuanchun devoted all his energy to the construction of border defense, and the invaders outside the country were both afraid and respectful of him.
The common people revered him as the protector of the southwest. The soldiers respected him, and because of his tireless work and fearless hardships in building border defenses, he avoided many wars!
Obviously, Su Yuanchun, with his sufficient ability and courage, won the love of the soldiers and the people, and even won the respect of his opponents.
However, behind the glory often lies great crises and disasters. The nineteenth year of Su Yuanchun's political career in the border was also ended because of his efforts and dedication to border defense.
This time, Xu Huisheng came to Longzhou City in the name of inspection, but he was actually ordered to investigate Su Yuanchun.
However, what Xu Huisheng didn't expect was that he had been investigating in Longzhou City for nearly five months, but there was no progress at all.
The people in the Longzhou area are proud of the fact that there is a Su Yuanchun here. The soldiers of the army also said that they were good because they loved their soldiers like sons.
Therefore, from them, Xu Huisheng did not get anything of value.
Cen Chunxuan was very dissatisfied with Xu Huisheng's work, and was furious and ordered him to find out the results quickly.
In the end, Xu Huisheng really had no choice. I accidentally learned that Su Yuanchun had an adopted son named Su Fuyang. This person is idle and likes to be beautiful.
So, Xu Huisheng used a beautiful trick to subdue Su Fuyang simply, and promised that after eliminating Su Yuanchun, he would guarantee Cen Chunxuan that he would be promoted to the governor of Guangxi.
This Su Fuyang, who is unlearned and unskilled, whimsically thinks that he is a commander, and whoever wants to do it can sit.
He didn't know that an official like Su Yuanchun could not be appointed by a governor.
So, Su Fuyang made a false proof for Xu Huisheng on the issue of Su Yuanchun's anti-poem.
The so-called anti-poem was originally composed by Su Yuanchun when he was transferred from Hunan to Zhennanguan to resist the French.
The whole poem is "The iron horse is proud to walk all over Yingzhou, and the blue blood splashed the emperor's capital back then." There are empty buildings and ships across the sea, trying to catch long whales. Majestically looked at the French chieftain and ordered to be a strict willow battalion. A piece of Dan's heart is worthy of the country, and loyalty is often accompanied by bullfighting. ”
However, Xu Huisheng intercepted one of them, "The iron horse was arrogant all over Yingzhou, and the blue blood was splashed in the emperor's capital back then" to accuse him of rebellion, and asked Su Fuyang and others to give false testimony for Su Yuanchun's anti-poem at that time, and sign it.