Cathay Pacific is insatiable, and its corruption case is one of several major cases in the Qianlong Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info But by this time, Cathay had not yet been reported, and the imperial court had collapsed, so Cathay was now more moisturized. The capital fell into the hands of the enemy, and the royal family collapsed, which gave Cathay Pacific a good excuse to accumulate wealth.

After the political envoy Yu Yijian talked with him, Cathay Pacific issued a notice in the provincial magazine, saying that at the time of the life and death of the Qing Dynasty, the people should have the courage to do things and destroy their families. The specific measures are: Shandong has few soldiers, and the thieves are strong, and now recruit the civilian regiment to train as the army of King Qin, which is under the jurisdiction of the governor's yamen; In order to raise the salary of the king soldiers, Shandong Province increased taxes and levies; In order to recruit private talents, we have opened up a channel for donating officials, and for every amount of money donated, you can get a background. Cathay promised that if King Qin succeeded, the officials in King Qin's army, whether they were donated before or later, would be great heroes, and they would definitely be crowned with wives and sons, and would be praised by the emperor.

Cathay Pacific is a typical kind of ambitious and talented, mean-spirited, often abusive to colleagues and subordinates, and even fists and feet. He didn't know what the people's suffering was, so he had this opportunity to appoint and dismiss cool officials and began to loot money in the province in an attempt to enrich himself. Of course, Cathay also knows that the most important thing in troubled times is military power, and he can meddle in the military of several military towns in Shandong, but those general soldiers are not particularly birdy to him. Therefore, Cathay Pacific plans to recruit regimental training to strengthen its own troops.

Guotai shouted that King Qin's voice was not small, but there was no obvious action, he strengthened the defense of Lubei, so as not to break through the Tang army, and at the same time, he also used the Tang Yi gunboat as a reason to restrain the Dengzhou naval division not to be dispatched, and the wall was clear.

A feudal official like Cathay is really not a few. It had been more than a month since the Tang army had broken through the city of Beijing on 12 May, and even some provinces in the south had already received information that the capital had been broken and that the emperor did not know whether he was alive or dead. Of course, a considerable number of feudal officials took this as a joke. Due to the breach of the capital, the Tang army surrounded the capital that day, and no one could escape. The various institutions of the imperial court were abolished, including the important post station system.

The post station system of the Qing Dynasty was the most developed in the feudal dynasty, divided into three systems, the post station was the transportation organization for the government to receive guests and arrange official materials; The station is an organization that transmits important documents and military intelligence. Exclusive to military systems; The shop is led by the local department, state and county government, and is responsible for the delivery of official documents and letters.

As an official organization, all those who need to transport official documents and goods to the post station for cars, horses, and men must look at the "postal symbol", and there are two kinds of postal symbols, namely the survey and the fire card: the government uses the survey and the military department uses the fire card. There are very strict rules for the use of "postage symbols". If there is a specific task for transit, troops shall be sent to protect it. Horses handed official documents, and the fire tickets of the military department were added, so that if the delivery of each post station along the way had to reach the capital from outside or pass it to each other. You have to fill out the serial list.

The military department in the capital let the Tang army take a pot, and naturally no one gave the postmen to add fire tickets, so that the news that has been spread around these days is rarely spread through the official post station system, and some are also the local governors who have received the news from the refugees and spread it to the outside world. However, in this way, the credibility is relatively low, so there are still many people who do not believe that such a big thing has happened in the north.

But slowly some people reacted, if this was really a prank. Then for a period of time, there must be other news from Beijing. The Qing Dynasty was vast. In order for the imperial court to rule over the four directions, it is necessary to constantly issue decrees from the outside world, and this situation should be very frequent. It is common for a feudal official to receive four or five orders from the capital in a month, and even if it is not so frequent, there is at least one edict in a month. Especially those with important business. Moreover, some people are negligent and wait for the emperor's ruling, but they can't wait for anything, which will inevitably arouse the suspicion of some people.

So. The news that the capital has been broken, which has been going viral, may be true.

Local officials with a little brains will definitely block information strictly, and although Zhili is in chaos, it has nothing to do with the place they are in charge of. If the emperor's life and death are unknown, and the news of the seizure of the capital division spreads, there will inevitably be a large group of geniuses who are "princes and princes will have a kind of Xiangning", everyone will think, the emperor is gone, let's rise up, I am afraid that not only the north will be in chaos, but all kinds of careerists and rebels will emerge everywhere.

Shanxi Governor Ba Yansan, like many Manchu officials, is an incompetent person who has no ability and is promoted by his identity. Later generations also have some anecdotes about him. For example, originally Bayansan was walking in the military plane, and he had no talent, but he was conscientious, and when he was on duty one night, he was called by Qianlong to draft the decree, who knew that Bayansan was too nervous and didn't write down a word, but fortunately, a little eunuch next to him was very smart, and helped Bayansan express Qianlong's meaning, and polished it with good literary style. Bayansan presented the edict to Qianlong, and Qianlong was overjoyed, thinking that Bayansan was very talented, so he had a prosperous future after him.

This Bayansan is obviously the master who is missing a string in his head, and after the news of the capture of the capital reached Taiyuan Mansion, Bayansan was extremely shocked. Adhering to a loyal master, Bayansan immediately began to dispatch troops and generals throughout Shanxi, preparing to return to the capital and rescue the emperor. However, he did not have the slightest control over public opinion, which caused all kinds of news to spread throughout Shanxi.

It is rumored that the Tang people came from the sea, but they got the consent of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and the heavy rain rained for three days, flooding the Qing army with the Seventh Army.

Some people say that the Tang people came by flying dragon, and rushed directly into the palace to eat Qianlong in one bite. ”

There are also rumors that the Tang Army raised millions of troops, and in order to repay the hatred of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for slaughtering the Han people, they cut off the heads of 100,000 Manchus and built a huge Beijing Temple.

It is more humane, it is not the Tang people who break through the capital at all, but the heavenly soldiers and generals who believe in the vacuum hometown, the lifeless mother, the lifeless mother wants to transform the earthly children in the world, create the white lotus pure land, and the sisters and brothers burn incense to the mother......

Well, by the way, something strange has gotten in.

Bayansan transferred the troops of the whole of Shanxi, and colluded with other nearby Qing troops to prepare to enter the king of Jingqin, but as soon as his troops were mobilized, there was a situation of defensive emptiness in southern Jinnan, and then Liu Zhixie, the leader of the righteous army who shouted "Mixed Yuan opens the sky, Maitreya descends to the world", pulled up a counter-flag in Jinnan, led thousands of volunteer troops, killed officials and rebelled.

Because Bayan San had just transferred away the defenders, the righteous army was like a bamboo, and it captured several county towns in a row, and the speed of development did not need to be full of the Tang army at all.

The leader of this rebel army, Liu Zhixie, was originally a disciple of Liu Song, the leader of the Mixed Yuan Sect, a branch of the White Lotus Sect. After Liu Song's failure in 1775, he was confiscated in Gansu, and his disciples such as Liu Zhixie and Song Zhiqing escaped and continued to preach and develop their strength. Liu Zhixie and others wandered into Shanxi, and just developed a little brow, but they didn't expect that at this time, the news that Qianlong was killed and the capital was broken began to spread. Later, Bayansan, who was not calm, began to transfer troops from the whole province, causing a local defense to be empty. Liu Zhixie and Song Zhiqing judged that the time was ripe, so they pulled up their followers and raised the banner to rebel.

Not to mention that they really chose a good time, the Mixed Yuan Sect rebelled, and put Bayansan in a dilemma, if he sent troops to the Zhili, then the back road might be cut off by the rebel army of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and if the Mixed Yuan Sect continued to develop, it could cause unimaginable damage. But if you don't enter the Zhili, then the foundation of the Manchurians may be completely destroyed by the Tang Army, which is a real dilemma.

This fashion was not in the last years of Qianlong and the early years of Jiaqing, when the White Lotus Sect and the Sichuan and Chu Sects shocked the imperial court. The White Lotus Sect has been passed down from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and it is already a existence that cannot be underestimated. However, at this time, the main base of the White Lotus Sect was still in Shandong and Zhili. Due to the high concentration of land, displaced people from all over the world gathered in Sichuan and Chu, and the number of people reached millions. It was Liu Zhixie and other leaders of the White Lotus Sect who preached here for more than ten years, which made the local displaced people widely believe in the White Lotus Sect, and set off the Sichuan-Chu Rebellion in the last years of Qianlong and the early years of Jiaqing, with millions of rebel troops.

However, the Sichuan-Chu rebellion was also fought by the rebels of the White Lotus Sect and did not form a unified organization, and was finally extinguished by the Qing court. However, this war corrupted 16 provinces, cost the Qing court 600 million taels of silver, killed hundreds of thousands of troops, and killed more than 400 middle and high-ranking military attaches below the commander. The Sichuan-Chu rebellion greatly damaged the vitality of the Qing court, and it was one step closer to the abyss of destruction.

It is only 1779 at this time, and the White Lotus Sect is not small, but now it is still unable to mobilize the millions of displaced people in the Sichuan and Chu regions who are just begging for a bite to eat, and its main force is still concentrated in the northern region. In 1774, Wang Lun Qingshui rebelled, which was a branch of the White Lotus uprising. Including the subsequent failure of the Mixed Yuan Sect, it was also an attempt by the White Lotus Sect.

Liu Zhixie was a missionary in Shanxi, and fortunately encountered the Tang army breaking through the capital and the world was in turmoil, and he happened to take advantage of this opportunity to start an incident. Liu Zhixie is also quite brainy, after occupying several counties in southern Jin, he began to send people to contact the branches of the White Lotus Sect in Henan, Shandong, and Zhili.

That is, under the unintentional promotion of the Tang Army, a White Lotus Sect uprising that was not as large as the Sichuan-Chu Sect Rebellion and broke out earlier, had slowly taken shape. This uprising obviously did not have a particularly obvious impact on the Tang army, but for those local Qing officials who planned to go north to Jingshi Qinwang, it was tantamount to a bolt from the blue.

At least the Tang people haven't said whose head they cut off yet, but several county officials in southern Jinnan have let the people of the Mixed Yuan Sect pick up the skin and light the sky lanterns, and this kind of fear is not something that ordinary people can enjoy. (To be continued.) )