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Kong Zhaoci, a native of Qufu, Shandong, is the seventy-first generation descendant of Confucius.

In fact, looking at the descendants of the Confucian family, in the Qing Dynasty, there were very few people who could really be prominent. The reason is very simple, in order to rule the territory of China, which is not much larger than the number of its own people, the Manchu government must hold high the banner of Confucius, and it must be raised, but the Manchu government will not completely listen to the holy words of this clay statue, and his descendants must also shave their hair and change their clothes, not to mention the descendants of Confucius, if Confucius is reincarnated, he will have to drag this braid behind him.

Confucius has changed, he is the Confucius shaped by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If it is not my race, its heart will be different, this is what Confucius said in the past, and now he still dares to say it? Don't dare. He has to say that the whole world is not the king's land, who is the "king"? Naturally, it's the one sitting on the Dragon Court now. In order to avoid inconsistencies, perhaps he will also sing the beautiful tune of national harmony and national family. Even when he saw the article by Li Xiucheng and the editorial of the "Red Star Daily", he would definitely say that it was all a fallacy, the Manchus were brothers, and their own people, since they were brothers, it was not the same who became the king.

This is just speculation, but judging from the fact that the Manchu Dynasty sealed Confucius and treated his descendants like he gave preferential treatment to his own Eight Banners, it is very likely that this will happen. Alas, the Han people are so pitiful! Very good at going with the flow. Therefore, almost similar to the Manchu Eight Banners, the Kong family naturally guards under the tablet of their ancestors, enjoys a qiē, and does not want to forge ahead, naturally, there will not be a few people who are promising.

Kong Zhaoci was born as a jinshi, and he has always been a small magistrate in Guangdong and Fujian, and when the great uprising led by Lin Wanqing broke out, he did not stand idly by, just like being dug up the ancestral grave, and personally led the township to help the war. Lin Wanqing's troops retreated to develop the base areas in western Fujian in accordance with the unified arrangement of the Celestial Empire, and Fujian officials trumpeted his achievements and asked the imperial court for merit and rewards, and he naturally did not lag behind. As a result, there was a lack of a Taiwanese prefect.

Taiwan is poor, although this prefect is not as good as the mainland, what makes Kong Zhaoci happy is that when the army of the Celestial Empire swept through the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong, he escaped a catastrophe.

As the war progressed, Kong Zhaoci, who was complacent at first, or who still had extremely powerful illusions about his Qing Dynasty, felt a crisis. He found that although the Taiping army did not attack Taiwan on a large scale, nor did it impose a maritime ban as his master had done at the beginning, Taiwan, a small island hanging in the air, was still completely isolated and isolated. They did not receive any help from the interior, the Qing Dynasty could not control them, and the people in the interior, even foreign merchants, refused to have any trade with them.

Just when he was almost in despair, the British and Americans came to the island. For this, he was really excited for a while. This can't be said that he likes foreigners and doesn't want the integrity of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, he is like a lonely man who has been trapped on a barren mountain and has not seen outsiders for a long time, and accidentally sees living people of his kind (of course, these same kind look different from him), how can he not be excited?

What's more, he also got the holy decree of the Qing Dynasty in his hands. To say that this holy decree is also rare, it was actually sent in by a British merchant ship. Maybe no one in the DPRK and China is willing to come to Taiwan to endure this hardship, or maybe the court wants to strengthen his loyalty. This time, the Queen Mother was extraordinarily gracious, and gave him three titles at once, the governor of Fujian and the prefect of Taiwan, and the military preparation of Taiwan. The Empress Dowager also spoke highly of his heavy contributions to Taiwan over the past year or so, and hoped that he would fulfill his duties and make his greatest contribution to the future counterattack on the mainland.

Kong Zhaoci was happy for a few days. First, the Confucian family counted his fingers, and the highest position in the Qing Dynasty was the head of the military department, and later he was beheaded by the Taiping Army in Guizhou.

Second, knowing that the imperial court allowed Britain and the United States to be stationed in Taiwan, this could at least solve some of his immediate needs. He was originally worried that he would be scolded by future generations after getting close to the foreigners, but now he can let go of his hands and do it, as long as it is beneficial to the Qing Dynasty's counterattack on the mainland. As for what happens in the future, no matter what happens to lose power and humiliate the country, as long as I push it to the emperor and the queen mother, it is the emperor and the queen mother who asked me to do it, and what does it have to do with me.

He did think of a lot of clever tricks, such as buying foreign guns and cannons, and purchasing some much-needed food from British and American merchants to relieve his urgent needs and stabilize the increasingly unstable situation on the island. It's a pity that the daughter-in-law is difficult to cook without rice, and the Luo pot is tight (money) before going up the mountain, and the holy decree is coming, and a piece of paper is coming, but what is exchanged is the rare little savings in the Taiwan treasury. No money, no money, foreigners, they don't do anything with you.

It's better to say that it is not to do it, but the bad thing is that the British seem to be unwilling to lose intimacy with opium wherever they go, and with the arrival of the British, opium quickly ravaged Taiwan. He can't manage it, and he doesn't dare to manage it at all. This is a hornet's nest, it can really be said that the wolf smoke is everywhere, and groups of mountain people began to make trouble, especially his hard work, and Lian Yong, who was armed with the thought of a saint, also defected. He didn't understand it at first, but when the mob raised the banner of anti-British, he suddenly realized. The Taiping army never intended to quietly tell him to live a good life for a few days, and there were already spies on the island that they had infiltrated one after another, and it was they who provoked the riots.

"Expelle the Yingyi and refuse opium, otherwise go to war with the government!" It seems that the conditions are quite good, at least he has not directly shouted to destroy him. However, this condition is too difficult to achieve, who are the British? The British are amazing, they don't listen to the saints, they only recognize money.

Looking outside, Kong Zhaoci has no place to be tough. What Penghu Islands, what Kinmen, the Taiping Army didn't fight at all. But this year, a few shells sent by the other side of the strait scared people away from Kinmen Island. It's strange if you don't run, no one wants to live with them. He understood that the Taiping Army didn't want to make a lot of effort, but it still wanted to take Taiwan.

For a year in a row, he never got a word from his Qing Dynasty. A friend of the American Legation told him that the sea was now under the control of the Red Navy of the Tianjing government, and that the Russians had been repeatedly defeated and had long been blockaded. None of the civilian ships that came and went wanted to trouble him, so that he forgot about his government for a while.

At this time, he remembered the historical facts he knew, after the Qing Dynasty pacified Taiwan, the imperial court shouted that Taiwan was "isolated overseas and irrelevant", or that "overseas pills are not enough for China to expand; **Tattoos, insufficient and co-keeping; It is useless to spend money on the day, and it is better to migrate people and empty their land", and even worse, they even threw out strange theories that are not as good as "abandoning their land and red hair", "letting the people live there, and paying tribute, even if the Netherlands has and listens to it". Even Kangxi, who was praised to the sky and couldn't get down, once thought that "Taiwan is an overseas place and has nothing to do with it", "nothing to gain, nothing to lose".

Phew! Thinking of this, Kong Zhaoci secretly smacked on the ground in annoyance. What the Great, what the Great Kangxi? If it weren't for the Zheng family guarding Taiwan, would you have been able to recover it? The territory of the country is large even if it is an inch, a centimeter. I think someone wrote the two words behind you wrongly, the front one lost a little, and the back one was just a taste, it should be called "Kangxi is too low", and those who wrote history were either deaf or blind.

What a counterattack on the mainland, a counterattack on a bird. A bunch of people have never seen the miscellaneous pieces of the world, and you don't really plan to go to Taiwan, Lao Tzu turned out to be dead, fainted, and came to such a ghost place.

Internal and external troubles forced him to find another way. From this time on, he also began to read the propaganda of the Tianjing government, and after reading it, he couldn't help but wonder a little, why did these propaganda materials flow to his hands so quickly?

He is actually very stubborn, but perhaps because he still has a bit of real Confucian inheritance in his blood, Li Xiucheng's article and the editorial of "Red Star Daily" really shocked him. "If it is not of my race, its heart will be different", he seemed to suddenly remember, these words were said by his ancestors. Of course, what prompted him to think so much was the brilliant achievements of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire. The Red Army of the Celestial Empire killed the demons, beheaded the foreigners, and swept away, what is this idea in his hand, not enough to eat.

When he was desperate, Kong Zhaoci understood the possible consequences of being a traitor. God, don't be like Zeng Guofan's younger brothers, if they are cast into iron kneeling statues and placed in front of the ancestral hall of Qufu's hometown, it will be a loss for adults!

So, he told the left-behind staff of the U.S. Legation who were evacuating Taiwan and waved an olive branch to the government of the Celestial Empire in Fujian. He was particularly relieved that day, although he did not know whether the Celestial Empire government would accept his belated submission, but at that time, he heard the American official praise him, "Your Excellency the Governor is very political, and your Qing government will not be in existence for too long." "Hehe, foreigners praise themselves for their insight, can Kong Zhaoci be dissatisfied?

Now, he is worried about one, worried about whether the government of the Celestial Empire is really "patriotic and revolutionary in no particular order", and if it was his Qing Dynasty, it would definitely not do that.

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