On the New Year of the twenty-first year of the Holy Dao, next to Yangzhou Huaiyin College, in the newly established "North and South Affairs Department" hall, Chen Wance looked around at the people in the blue and red official robes in the hall, and his heart was stirred. k update

"On the Central Plains Day in the north, when I won the prime minister, I Chen Wance wanted to leave a name in history, so I fought here."

Of course, Chen Wance wanted to be the prime minister, but he was suffering from his background and had no chance, but now he has the responsibility of recovering his homeland in the Central Plains.

Therefore, he has put a lot of effort into the North-South Affairs Department in his charge, sparing no effort to poach people from the Hanlin Academy, the Privy Council, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Military Intelligence Department, and even the talents of the Tiandihui Jianghu are not spared.

"The Manchu demon woman's argument has been sent to you, and this is the national policy that the north will carry out in the future. Our office was busy with odd and bits before, and it was too late to talk about business, but today you can speak freely and set your plans for the future! ”

Chen Wance said this, and everyone in the hall was high-spirited and excited.

What does the North-South Affairs Department do? On the surface, it is to regulate disputes between the North and the South, promote "friendship" between the North and the South, and manage all contacts except commercial and trade affairs. However, this department, like the "Cypriot Defense Division" of the Privy Council in the past, shouldered the important task of winning over the hearts of the northerners and laying the foundation for the future Northern Expedition. To put it bluntly, what Chen Wance's gang did was to "peacefully evolve" the Manchu regime and try to reduce the resistance and damage of the Northern Expedition in the future.

"My subordinates believe that the fundamental purpose of seeking to recover the Central Plains lies in clarifying friends and enemies, and only by clarifying this layer can we prescribe the right medicine."

The department is really full of talents, and the tone is set in one sentence.

However, this issue has caused great controversy, and the root cause lies in the different understandings of the situation between the North and the South.

"The only enemy is Manchurian! All the Han people are available power, and we can act in order to cut the connection between the Manchu people and the northerners! Pull the Han people to the side of my Yinghua. ”

Those who came from the Military Intelligence Department had a very clear definition of the goal, and positioned the restoration of the Central Plains as a national dispute. All Han Chinese were objects to be fought for, with the ultimate goal of eliminating Manchu rule.

"False! There are not only Manchurians, but also corrupt Confucians and bureaucrats, who are the root cause of the scourge of China. My Yinghua righteousness lies in the three heavens and men. Those who are enemies of this righteousness are mortal enemies! The people who can be used by my Yinghua, the people who are in the people, and the people who are seeking change. ”

Born in the Hanlin Academy, he had the deepest grasp of the general righteousness, breaking through the differences between the north and the south at a glance, expanding the boundaries of the enemy, and at the same time reducing the number of allies that could be won over.

"It's more than that. I Yinghua restored my homeland, but I just drove away the Manchurians, dispersed the rotten Confucianism, and set up the Heavenly Dao and the Three Lun of Heaven and Man, is that enough? If the northern industry and commerce are still there, those people are rooted in the imperial government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past, and after they are integrated into our Yinghua, I don't know how much harm there is. Let alone. Most of these people are from Jin merchants, they are alive and kicking, and they are still rentier. Can the hearts of the people in the country be peaceful? In my opinion, the northern industry and commerce are also the enemies of our Yinghua, and even more so than the northern bureaucrats. We should completely eradicate it as we did when we dealt with Jiangnan Industry and Commerce! ”

People from the Ministry of Commerce can not only see the demands of Yinghua Industry and Commerce, but also the demands of local people. The British and Chinese industry and commerce were reluctant to go on the Northern Expedition, and it was best to colonize through the northern industry and commerce. If you really want to promote the Northern Expedition, then you have to sweep away the northern industry and commerce, and prevent it from becoming a competitor of the British and Chinese industry and commerce.

But his argument has greatly broadened the enemy's face. The friends that can be borrowed are greatly reduced, and they also need to be cultivated with great effort by Yinghua huā. Therefore, many people objected, believing that things had the right to change, and that the northern industry and commerce were originally borrowable from the Anglo-Chinese restoration, and it would be too unwise to push it to the enemy's side. ..., Chen Wance said: "We are not reasonable. It's about results. What are the results we want? It is to let the north return to China and become one with my Yinghua. Even if it is difficult to do it for a while, it is necessary to lay a good foundation, just like Jiangnan. We have worked hard in Jiangnan for many years to let Jiangnan enter the country and support Yinghua together with Lingnan. Therefore, if you want to get the Central Plains, you must have a clean Central Plains, and any legacy must be eliminated as much as possible. ”

He said earnestly: "If it was just to drive away the Manchurians, His Majesty would have been able to do it ten years ago by waving his army from Tang to Beijing, in fact, ......"

This made many people's eyes widen, rumors or rumors!?

When the emperor waved his army into Beijing and supported Qianlong, he did not leave clear evidence in the official archives, after all, this matter is not easy for ordinary people to understand, and even most officials only regard it as a rumor, but Chen Wance verified it personally.

Of course, this is no longer the past, the eyes of the Chinese people have been opened, and what the emperor does is also beneficial to the people, so this secret is not deliberately strictly guarded, and Chen Wance's department wants to do a top-secret thing, and it is also conducive to uniting people's hearts by saying some things.

Chen Wance said again: "If we just disperse the corrupt Confucianism and the Manchu bureaucracy, as long as the army is swung in, it will not be difficult to manage the government with the military, so where is the merit of waiting!?" ”

This question made clear Chen Wance's position: sweeping away the interests of the northern part of the country is not something that can be done by using the army alone, and the emperor is afraid that the emperor will have such intentions when he sets up this department alone. Whether it is the Manchurians, the corrupt bureaucrats, or the northern industry and commerce, they are all enemies! In short, the existing pattern of interests in the north must be swept away, except for the Manchu and Han bureaucrats and Confucianism, the industry and commerce that hold the thighs of the former and suck the flesh and blood of the northerners, especially the Jin merchant group, are the key targets to be cleaned up.

When the goal is determined, we have to talk about the means, but this goal makes it difficult for everyone. At present, Yinghua Industry and Commerce is profiting from the Central Plains through the Northern Industry and Commerce, which is also a necessary step to promote Yinghua to pass the monetary reform and improve the national system. How can this process last for five or even ten years, and under this premise, how to clean up the northern industry and commerce?

The official from the Military Intelligence Department who was the first to speak raised his eyebrows and said: "Wouldn't it be easy to hold high the banner of national righteousness and brand the Manchus, bureaucratic corrupt Confucians, and industry and commerce as Manchus?" The three are one party, and we are not deliberately demagogued. ”

The direction of this argument is very sharp, and in the name of national righteousness, it is actually sweeping away the pattern of interests in the north.

The officials of the Hanlin Academy frowned and said: "Raising the banner of national righteousness, the movement is very big, it is quite difficult to clean up, and maybe it will arouse the people's desire to pursue the past, and there will be too much harm." ”

This is also true, before the resumption of Jiaozhi by Yinghua was to raise the banner of national righteousness, emphasizing that Jiaozhi is the homeland of China, and the turmoil caused by Jiaozhi has not subsided until now.

An official from the Ministry of Commerce said: "The lesser of two evils." Compared with the harm, the advantages of the banner of national righteousness are the best, and if there is anything that can arouse the northerners to draw a clear line with the Manchus, it is only national righteousness. ”

Someone muttered: "The national righteousness is used for power." Isn't that appropriate? ”

The official from the Privy Council said loudly: "How is this a power trick!? A Han person, he can not recognize the way of heaven, he can not recognize the three men of heaven and man, but he can't not recognize the ancestors! I can't deny him as a Han Chinese! The Manchu Dynasty Yan Guo Gong Nian Qianyao gathered millions of people in Ningguta, faintly becoming a country of its own, and many rotten Confucians went to him, rather suffering from the cold wind and frozen soil. I don't want to stay under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, isn't it because I still have national righteousness in my heart!? We divide friends and foes with this righteousness, this is not a power trick, this is righteousness! ”

He added: "Therefore, in addition to the Manchurians, bureaucratic corrupt people, and industry and commerce, the people of the north and the scholars who have opened their eyes are all potential helpers for us. What we want to do is to arouse their national righteousness and inspire them to follow the way of heaven to seek wealth and nobility. Looking at the strategy of the Manchu Qing demon woman, it is to raise the lion of big silver money. Eat people together with the tiger of the government. In the future, under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was true that the rich would get richer and the poor would get poorer. Unlike my Yinghua, there are court affairs and public opinion to speak out for the poor to seek profit, and the poor are my friends of Yinghua, and we can spread the righteousness of the nation through them! The official of the Military Intelligence Department also said excitedly: "We must not only look at the poor, but also look at more unjust people." In this move, the Manchus, bureaucrats, and the industry and commerce dependent on them monopolized the great profits, blocking the way for others to rely on their talents to seek wealth and wealth, and they were also the help of our Yinghua. What we need to do is to advertise the injustices of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the world, so that all those who are suffering can understand it. Where does their suffering come from? ”

An official from the Ministry of Commerce quipped: "That's right, that's right, in this way, it can also reduce the resentment of the northerners against my Yinghua industry and commerce." Presumably, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will also advocate that the unevenness in the country comes from the squeezing of our Yinghua, which is also-for-tat, to see whose words can win the hearts of the people. ”

Chen Wance and the crowd applauded, so the distinction between friend and foe and the name of righteousness were determined. The next thing left to discuss is what measures to take.

"I Yinghua want to raise troops for the Northern Expedition, we have to wait until the Western Regions are successful, the frontier is stable, how can it be five years later, for this we have to make a ten-year plan, but also step by step, at the beginning can not be too visible, secretly act also have to be measured, so the northern industry and commerce have to slow down first, after all, the only way we can communicate with the north is still industry and commerce."

Chen Wance's stage theory was unanimously agreed, and on this day, the North-South Affairs Department worked together to draw up a three-stage theory.

The first stage is to cultivate elite talents who agree with the doctrine of heaven and the harmony between heaven and man, so that they will have the ability to support grassroots governance and business exchanges in ten years' time. This is a covert hand, and the measures on the surface have to be-for-tat with the Manchu Qing Dynasty's measures to suppress public opinion and close people's hearts. It is necessary to disseminate a large number of readings on the study of the Heavenly Dao, to support the study of current affairs under the rule of the Manchus, and even to protect the intellectuals who were harmed by the Manchus and turn them into their own use.

In the second stage, the Manchus would definitely enter the stage of high-pressure rule, and the exchanges with the Yinghua would be severely restricted, and there would certainly be frequent disasters under the Manchu rule at this time. Yinghua had to find dissidents who could support them and push them to raise the banner of national righteousness, so that on the one hand, they would be used by Yinghua, and on the other hand, they would not be allowed to fall into the cult line, which would cause too much harm to northern society.

The third stage is the final stage, which begins to point the spearhead at the northern industry and commerce, gathers the nationalism of the country, and the thirst of the domestic industrial and commercial class for the interests of the north, pulls down the northern industry and commerce, and strikes at the Manchus and bureaucratic corruption together. And this had to push the emperor and the two courts to adopt appropriate legal means and act according to the law, so as not to implicate the country's industry and commerce, so that the industrial and commercial class felt that they might also be victims of the national movement.

Chen Wance was originally a great expert in completing the grassroots reform of Yinghua with the help of industry and commerce, and he had a comprehensive consideration of the overall situation of eliminating the industry and commerce in the north, and this should be the key reason why the emperor appointed him to take charge of this matter.

In addition to the three-stage theory, the North-South Affairs Department also summed up the seven-weapon theory, the content of which is top secret, and the people do not know the details, but a few years later, many people look back on history and have their own conclusions.

The first weapon is the study of the Heavenly Dao, including physics, chemistry, arithmetic, and so on. The North-South Affairs Department promotes "cultural exchanges" between the two countries and allows people to have more exposure to these doctrines. This knowledge can not only satisfy the curiosity of the people, but also the heart of wealth, through the spread of a number of basic technologies, so that the people gradually disconnect from the Taoism of the monarch and the minister, and turn to believe in the infinite way of heaven, the truth of things, the number of the world, and so on.

The second weapon is the style of the world, and in the eyes of the Manchus, the Anglo-Chinese things that are full of obscenity are the sharp things that break the Manchu Gang's normal Taoism. Novels, picture albums, songs and dances, and even clothes and costumes, folk use, and etiquette for mutual entertainment, Yinghua has been brewing a lot of confusion. Let the Manchu people be more accustomed to the Anglo-Chinese customs, not only to cultivate the relevant market, but also to make the people more and more disgusted with the Taoism and etiquette of the Manchu government, and then gradually doubt the righteousness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and even deny it. ..., the third weapon is the current situation, which is also in line with the first two weapons, so that the people under the Manchu rule can open their eyes through various ways, tell them the general trend, and tell them the trend of the Anglo-Chinese struggle for global hegemony, and then promote the Han people to feel a sense of kinship, and then be disappointed in the Manchu government that rules them. This weapon was passed on to each other through newspapers and all kinds of reading materials, and even if the Manchus tried to control it, they could not stop this general trend unless they blocked industrial and commercial exchanges.

The fourth is to infiltrate the Manchus with the Temple of Heaven, charity and medicine, of course, the Manchus will vigorously ban the Temple of Heaven, even if there is a north-south contract, dare not openly boycott, but it is inevitable to privately promote the Qingliu corrupt Confucianism. But since it's a private action, everyone can play it. The Temple of Heaven and philanthropy were independent of politics, and Chen Wance also demanded that the North-South Affairs Department could not do subversive things through these places, but these causes could exist alone under the Manchu Dynasty, and they were enough to call on the people to return to the righteousness of China and recognize the three virtues of heaven and man.

Fifth, of course, there are secret spies that are densely spread in industry and commerce and the Manchu government, both sent by Yinghua and bought by Yinghua, and through secret spies to grasp and even influence the operation of the Manchu government and industry and commerce, they can also have a basis until the day of liquidation, and it is even more advantageous to use secret spies to do other things.

The seventh was the infiltration of the Manchu army, which influenced the army with various secret parties. At present, the army is no longer what it used to be, and soldiers, especially officers, must also be literate and literate, otherwise it will be difficult to form an army. The army in the world of guns and artillery cannot tolerate people who are illiterate and do not distinguish between left and right. And once you know how to read and reason, you will inevitably have thinking, and the way of heaven that requires a certain amount of brains to comprehend may not attract this kind of person, but the distinction between the nation and the national righteousness are enough to shake the inherent righteousness in the hearts of these "semi-intellectuals" under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The sixth is even more secretive, which is to turn all kinds of dissidents under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty into the use of Yinghua.

Twenty-one years after entering the Holy Dao, Yinghua set off gunpowder smoke in the desert of the Western Regions and the sea of the Western Ocean, and on the other hand, it also began to stir up the smoke of gunpowder in the northern Central Plains.

In a remote village in Henan, in an ordinary house, in a solemn and solemn mourning hall with black and white silk and huā circles, a pretty person dressed in filial piety clothes bowed down, and the tears on his face were not dry, which made people feel pity.

"Daddy, it's time for you to meet with your mother. If that is the kingdom of heaven in your mind, you should make amends to your mother, and your mother should forgive you, just like I forgave my mother, and at the same time I want to be forgiven by my mother...... In this world, there should be no suffering, and everyone should not harm each other......"

The girl bowed again, and the spiritual seat in the hall was written: "Father Xu San's position".

After worshipping the spiritual seat, the girl came out of the mourning hall, and a person stepped forward and whispered: "Holy aunt, someone is coming from the south." ”

The girl's face was overjoyed, and she ordered: "Good hospitality, don't let the government notice, we smell the fragrance and teach the White Lotus Sect to return to the right path, and it will fall on Daying." ”

The subordinates left respectfully, the girl turned to look south, her eyes were confused, and she whispered to herself: "When I take everyone back to the south, I must find the uncle, I don't know if you remember my fifth sister Xu ......"

As she spoke, she gently twisted something in her arms in her hand, and looked at the exchange of her fingertips, which looked like a small wooden stick.

[End of this volume] (To be continued)