After Dolgon's assistant Fu Lin ascended the throne, he succeeded in becoming regent in return, but a considerable number of the Eight Banners of Manchuria still formed an offensive and defensive alliance against him. In order to cope with these people's overt and covert challenges, Dolgon took a different path and carried out large-scale reforms in Liaodong and other populous places, starting with detribalization and direct dispatch of officials from the central court to govern the localities.

In this way, the influence of the Manchu Eight Banners aristocracy on the local area could be diluted, and there would be no direct conflict with them. This trick made the opponents of Dolgon feel like they had swallowed a rag, unable to swallow or spit out, and not blatantly right.

The area from Changdian Fort to Xin'an Fort was assigned to Xin'an Province, and Fan Shijie was appointed to become the first prefect of Xin'an Province. Recently, the Korean state on the other side of the Yalu River has become a mess, and many officials and priests of the Pyongan Province have crossed the river boundary and fled to his rule.

Through the narration of these fleeing gentry, Fan Shijie learned that a coup d'état had taken place in Korea, a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and the king Li was killed by the ministers, and the Min family took the opportunity to kill all the rebellious ministers and thieves in one fell swoop and usurped the throne.

But for such a major event, Fan Shijie has never heard of an envoy submitting a credential to Shengjing to confirm the affiliation.

So, on the one hand, Fan Shijie sent someone to report this important discovery to the regent, and on the other hand, he strictly questioned the gentry who had fled from Korea. It was during this time that he smelled a glimmer of opportunity to exploit.

Originally, the Korean state was deep into the sea and had convenient maritime trade, and the Qing Dynasty had many caravans to travel between the two places in order to obtain supplies.

Recently, there was a large-scale rebellion in Pyongan Province, near the Yalu River, and after the local officials in Pyongan Province severely suppressed it, many merchants and goods in the Qing Dynasty and Korea lost a lot of money.

In Pingsuri, the local officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who were close to Korea often blackmailed the Korean magistrates under various pretexts, and usually in this case, the Korean magistrates lost their officials in order not to make a big deal of the matter, and most of them chose to settle the matter.

Fan Shijie had already done this kind of thing many times when he first became the prefect, and now that a great opportunity is sent to the door, how can he let it go easily?

Therefore, he immediately wrote a letter with righteous words, reprimanding the local officials of Ping'an Province for detaining the merchants of the Qing Dynasty for no reason, and demanding that they immediately release the merchants and return the goods, otherwise the iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty would not hesitate to meet each other. The new envoy of Ping'an Dao really chose to swallow his anger and wrote to ask for the specific list and the list of goods.

Fan Shijie didn't care about the list issue, and handed it over to the Korean gentry who fled to ponder, he only cared about the list of goods, so he either doubled it or made something out of nothing, and knocked it hard.

As a result, the new deposed envoy of Ping'an Dao seemed to be very serious and responsible, and even wrote back to ask for the specific amount. Indeed, the previous list was indeed done in a sloppy manner, so he immediately recruited the subordinate officials who were best at counting money and grain in the yamen, and compiled a list of the lion's big mouth in detail.

As long as the officials of Ping An Dao obediently comply, the tax gap in the next three years will be filled, and this is not counted, everyone involved will get a large amount of money.

However, after the letter was sent, it was lost. There was no reply for seven or eight days. This made Fan Shijie a little restless, and at the same time a little annoyed. The magistrates of the Korean State have always bowed down to the officials of the Qing Dynasty, what is wrong today?

After waiting for another two days, there was really no news, Fan Shijie finally couldn't sit still, and sent his subordinate officials to the Korean National Peace Road to reprimand him for his ineffective work. As a result, the subordinate officials who were sent out were like hot buns beating dogs, and they never returned.

Fan Shijie, who was the prefect of Xin'an, couldn't hold it on his old face, so he sent someone again, and this time what he said in his letter was murderous, and he directly let it go, and doubled the wealth on that list as a punishment for the Korean country. And the deadline is three days, otherwise the Great Qin Iron Cavalry will immediately cross the Yalu River and take it by himself.

The fierceness of the words of this letter is equivalent to a declaration of war, but Fan Shijie has confidence, he is not afraid of the magistrates of the Korean state, and he does not believe that they have the courage to disobey the suzerain.

After sending away the letter, Fan Shijie waited complacently for the North Korean officials to plead guiltily, but after waiting for seven or eight days, what he was waiting for was a reply letter of only a few dozen words.

The tone of this letter was like a different person, and the intimidation of Fan Shijie not only showed no signs of resignation, but directly said, if you want money, you want a life, since you want to raise troops to rob it, it just saves them from loading cars and ships and going to Liaodong to transport.

Fan Shijie was so angry at that time, but he was helpless, what he said in his heart was nothing more than political blackmail to raise troops to step on the road of peace and take it from himself. Now that the other party has played a scoundrel, he is really helpless.

What can he do, the power of the Qing Dynasty's soldiers and horses is in the hands of the powerful, and if he is a Manchurian, he will naturally have some private soldiers in his hands. Although these people could not fight any war, if they secretly crossed the Yalu River into the Korean country's Pyongan Road and attacked a small deposed envoy, even if he was arrested, the Korean state would certainly not dare to openly ask for the guilt, but could only make compromises.

This has happened many times before. But the problem now is that Fan Shijie is just a Han man who has been promoted, and all he relies on is the authority and strength of the regent. He himself has no troops and horses to deploy, so how easy is it to teach the North Korean officials of Ping'an Dao?

But if there is no movement quietly, how can you have the face to be an official in the future? If it spreads out in the future, won't he become the laughing stock of the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty? What's more, there are still subordinate officials of the government who are being detained by the Korean National Peace Road, and he can't quietly stop it no matter what.

Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the fire to take advantage of the robbery, but now it is good, it has become a difficult situation to ride a tiger, and I was roasted on the fire, which is not a human feeling. After just one night's work, Fan Shijie, the prefect of Xin'an Prefecture, was so worried that his hair was much whiter, and his mouth was full of bubbles.

In the end, one of his staff members came up with an idea.

"Why should the proprietor be worried, since Gao Linu said that he wants to raise troops to meet each other, let's raise troops to meet each other!"

Fan Shijie stomped his feet anxiously, and said hatefully: "It's easy to say, there are no soldiers under our Xin'an Mansion who can be adjusted!" ”

The staff laughed and said: "Who said that there are no soldiers to adjust, there are countless soap subordinates in the yamen of various states and counties, including our prefect yamen, and this is not counting the house slaves, and the scale of the organization is not less than a thousand." ”

This is indeed a way, Fan Shijie was moved by what he said, and he was a little hesitant.

"The house slave soap has not been trained, and he has never seen a battle formation, once he really fights, he may not have an absolute chance of winning!"

"The proprietor is too worried, the Korean country has long been frightened by the iron cavalry of my Qing Dynasty, as long as the army of 1,000 people drives to the ground of Ping'an Road, the villain dares to assert that the local officials of Ping'an Road will definitely be guilty."

At the instigation of his staff, Fan Shijie had no choice but to do what he said, and ordered all his subordinates to organize themselves and go to Ping'an Dao to ask for money, and let them go, everyone in the participants had a share. Now Fan Shijie is also out of the way, even if he can't earn a penny, he has to earn back this face.

Finally, more than 800 people were gathered, and each of them was issued with spears and broadswords, and they crossed the Yalu River with great dignity and went straight to Ping'an Road to collect debts. But after crossing the border, I found that things were far from being as simple as I imagined, the army's eyes were black, and the guide they were looking for was unreliable, and finally what made Fan Shijie cry and laugh and be angry was that they were actually lost.

That's right, it's lost!

After wandering around the country roads of Pyongan Province for several days, more than 800 people could not find the capital of Pyongan Province. When the people of Ping'an Dao first found out that the Qing army had entered the country, they thought of the invasion of the Qing army more than ten years ago, burning, killing and looting, and everyone left their hometowns and hid.

However, as time went on, the North Korean people found that the gang seemed to be lost, and some unruly people came up with the idea of teaching these Qing soldiers a lesson.

They first fired cold arrows during the march of the Qing army, or simply launched a surprise attack while they were resting at night. In short, after several contacts, Fan Shijie was exhausted and emaciated by the sneak attacks of the North Korean people all the time.

Not only did the purpose of intimidation not be achieved, but it made some rural people disgraced, if this matter spread, it would not be a question of whether he could gain a foothold in the officialdom of the Great Qing Kingdom, and if he lost the face of the Great Qing Kingdom, he was afraid that the regent would not spare him.

Fan Shijie overthrew all the military discipline that he had committed without committing any crime with Minqiu, and decided to loot a village first to solve the imminent food problem, because they didn't bring much food when they came, and if they couldn't find the capital of Ping'an Road and go around in circles on these country roads, their food would be exhausted immediately.

It just so happens that there is a village with a scale of several hundred people near Fan Shijie's department, and it is estimated that their Ding Zhuang is at most more than 100 people, thinking that they have 800 people, it should be more than enough to fight a village with only a few hundred people.

Fan Shijie gave an order, and the fake Qing army launched an attack on the village.

Ding Zhuang in the village fought back collectively and resisted to the death with Fan Shijie's men, and soon more than 800 people were killed or wounded. Fan Shijie jumped to his feet in a hurry without a single death, and he needed to pay back these lost lives.

Ten or eight deaths are enough for him to drink a pot, but looking at the posture in front of him, ten or eight seems to be far from enough.