As the commander of Yu Shengjun, a political and military interest group, Lin Zhe is naturally very aware of the true face of this interest group under his control.

In these systems, most of its civil officials are the gentry class of Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, former Qing officials and commercial families, they represent the interests of the landlords and merchant class dominated by the middle and upper classes, such as Bi Yutong, who was appointed by Lin Zhe as the governor of Zhejiang, aside from his personal identity as Lin Zhe's wife's uncle, he is also the landlord of Shanyin County, Shaoxing, and the former Qing Xiucai, belonging to the standard gentry class.

For example, Xue Huan, who was appointed as Su Song Taidao, and Huang Peizhi, the prefect of Hangzhou, are all former Qing officials, and they can be regarded as middle-level ones.

On the contrary, most of Yu Shengjun's officers went out from the cold family, but even if they were from a poor family, most of them were scholars and scholars before, and they also belonged to the elite class in society, and several generals from the real bottom of the society, such as Wang Luyun and Xu Yanqing, most of them were also close to the Lin family, mainly the former Lin Mansion's nurses, house slaves, and employees of the Lin family's firm.

As a result, there are actually few people at the bottom of the society in Yu Shengjun's military and political official group today.

These people surround Lin Zhe, and their personal loyalty to Lin Zhe is one thing, but the most important thing is for their own interests.

And for them, how should their own interests be reflected?

Naturally, it is to be promoted and make a fortune!

And there is nothing more desirable for them than to be the founding hero and worship the prime minister.

Since last month, it can be seen that some people have continued to hint to Lin Zhe or directly make suggestions to let Lin Zhe ascend the throne and become emperor, and they want Lin Zhe to be the emperor, and they will also get the prince's honor!

In this regard, Lin Zhe has always taken a procrastination and bystander attitude.

This is not because Lin Zhe himself doesn't want to be called the king and emperor, but because the timing was not suitable before, he just raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, and even the internal integration has not been completed, and Zhejiang has not been able to completely take it.

If you call the king and the emperor, you must not be laughed at by the people of the world!

According to his idea, he wanted to wait until he had integrated the interior and completely controlled Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then sent troops to Zhenjiang and Jiangning, and after conquering Jiangning in one fell swoop, even if he took down the entire southern Jiangsu, then it would be logical to set the capital of Nanjing, and then call the king and emperor.

It's just that he still underestimated the urgency of these people under his hands for glory and wealth, and Zhejiang has not been able to completely win it, so he has successively persuaded himself to enter the table, and this time it is not a single person who has persuaded him, but dozens of people have jointly signed a letter.

For this situation, Lin Zhe had to be cautious.

After all, Yu Shengjun is a whole, although he Lin Zhe is the commander of Yu Shengjun's interest group, he can't ignore the interests and opinions of many subordinates, and forcibly promote everything according to his own wishes.

Now that most of Zhejiang has been taken, it will not take half a month for the Fourth Division to be able to take the entire territory of Zhejiang, and it will not be too shabby if the emperor is officially established at that time.

Lin Zhe has always been a resolute and resolute person, and since he has decided in his heart to accelerate the process of establishing the emperor, he will naturally do it immediately.

Of course, it is impossible for Lin Zhe himself to directly gather a large group of subordinates and shamelessly say that I am going to be the emperor, he needs to maintain the reserve of the lord, so the way he takes is quite simple, that is, to buckle the persuasion form, and then do not reply, do not comment or issue it.

Well, if Lin Zhe is already an emperor or something, this kind of behavior can be said: stay in the middle and don't send it!

And if you don't leave it in this kind of thing, then it is enough to give a very obvious signal to many ministers, that is, I have acquiesced to this matter, and you can make more efforts to persuade the table, and then I, Lin Zhe, will comply with the will of the people and the will of heaven and call the emperor the emperor.

Sure enough, Yu Shengjun's vote for the top military and political leaders are all elites, and when they saw that the persuasion form sent up two days ago was left behind, a large number of people below showed ecstasy on their faces, and after waiting for so long, the lord finally had this meaning, so what are we waiting for?

So, in the next few days, countless persuasion excerpts flew into Lin Zhe's Generalissimo Mansion like snowflakes!

In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Xu Yanqing listened to the words of his henchmen, and his face showed suspicion.

I only heard the henchman say: "As soon as the humble official learned the news, he immediately hurried to Hangzhou, general, we have to hurry back to Shanghai, otherwise we will be preempted by others!" ”

"It is rumored that General Lin from Lishui has hurried back, and it is expected that he will be able to arrive in Shanghai tomorrow and tomorrow, and General Shi of the Third Division has been staying in Shanghai during this time, and they are clearly going to make a contribution!" The other staff officer on the side said the same.

Xu Yanqing's expression had gradually calmed down at this time, and he didn't speak, but he snorted coldly in his heart, Shi Qingxuan and Lin Anfei were so unkind that they even put aside me Xu Yanqing to do this.

Hmph, if you want to monopolize the merits, you have to see if you have the ability!

Thinking of this, Xu Yanqing said to Lin Mao, the chief of staff beside him: "Send an urgent order to the Eighth Mixed Regiment and the Tenth Mixed Regiment, limiting them to take Jinhua and Wenzhou respectively within ten days, and I want to give the Generalissimo a gift for enthronement!" ”

Xu Yanqing did not rush back to Shanghai as soon as possible, but gave a strict order to the troops to take Wenzhou and Jinhua and other prefectures in a short time, as long as these two places were taken, it would mean that Yu Shengjun had completely controlled the entire territory of Zhejiang.

When the time comes, they will return to Shanghai with this credit, which will be much more useful than their verbal persuasion.

Of course, he couldn't wait so indifferently, he also personally wrote a letter of persuasion, and then sent his confidant family to Shanghai urgently to show Lin Zhe his intention to stand up.

In early January, the high-level leaders of the entire Yu Shengjun system gathered in Shanghai one after another, and they all knew that Lin Zhe's imperial establishment was inevitable, and no one would give up this kind of support in this case.

And among this group of people, Xu Yanqing was the latest to return to Shanghai!

It was not until the 24th that Xu Yanqing returned to Shanghai, but he brought a piece of news that everyone envied, that is, a few days ago, the headquarters of the Fourth Division had conquered Wenzhou and Jinhua and other places, and the whole province of Zhejiang had fallen under the control of Yu Shengjun.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Yanqing once again persuaded him to enter the fold, saying that my Greater China has recovered Zhejiang, and there are two places in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is enough to lay the foundation for hegemony, and he has an army of 100,000, and he will move his army west to exterminate the thief army and overthrow the Manchu Qing in the north.

In order to stabilize the civil and military dignitaries, the hearts of 100,000 soldiers, and to lay the foundation for the great cause of Great China, please Lin Zhe still canon, follow the ancient rites, and call the emperor the system.

As Xu Yanqing returned to Shanghai with the news of conquering the entire territory of Zhejiang, Lin Zhe knew that the time was ripe.

Lin Zhe is determined to become emperor in advance, this is not only his personal will, in fact, Lin Zhe himself is still not willing to be emperor too early, it is best to take most of China and then become emperor, so that the name is justified.

However, many things don't mean that you can do whatever you want, if Lin Zhe keeps using the nondescript title of generalissimo, it is estimated that many subordinates will not be able to figure it out and even have opinions, and it is not appropriate if he is just called the king.

The difference between being a king and being an emperor is that if you call the emperor, it will be clear that you will fight for hegemony in the world, and you will not give up until you take the whole of China. And if you are just the king, you are short of Hong Xiuquan and Emperor Xianfeng just in terms of name, one is the king of heaven and the other is the emperor, you Lin Zhe only has a king of Wu or the king of Chu and the like, isn't this just positioning yourself on the top of the vassal states, how can you make those founding heroes who take assisting the emperor and creating a thousand years of hegemony as their own responsibility? How can you make the gentry in the territory embarrassed, and do you want to come to you?

Therefore, although at this stage, if you are called the emperor, you will be ridiculed or even looked down upon by many people, on the other hand, it can also greatly calm people's hearts and attract more people to be loyal to Lin Zhe.

China in 1857 was still a China in a traditional feudal society, and in this era, those generals and officials needed an object of allegiance, and they studied hard for decades, just to sell to the emperor's family!

This is the psychological portrayal of the elite group in this era!

If Lin Zhe only called the king and not the emperor, then let alone attract people from other provinces to vote, it is estimated that the scholars of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will continue to go to the Qing court-controlled district to participate in the imperial examination.

Although Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun represents the interests of the new class, it is also necessary to win over the support of the scholar class.

In order to show the determination to stand against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in order to calm the hearts of the existing military and political officials of Yu Shengjun, and to attract more talents to take refuge.

Lin Zhe acquiesced in the persuasion of his subordinates!

On January 27, more than 100 civil and military officials, headed by Lin Anfei, Shi Qingxuan, Xu Yanqing, and others, gathered in front of the Generalissimo's Mansion, once again submitted a letter of persuasion, and knelt down.

Lin Zhe refused and reprimanded!

Two days later, everyone gathered again to persuade Shi Qingxuan, who had great performance talent, to persuade Lin Zhe to oppose the Qing Dynasty and set up another world, persuaded to the emotional place, tears and snot came out, which provoked several other high-level military and political leaders of Yu Shengjun who persuaded him to be disdainful.

They also want to learn like this, but this cheek is really not as thick as Shi Qingxuan, it's okay for them to squeeze out a few tears, and then they are going to cry like dead Lao Tzu, they really don't have that ability!

In the face of their second persuasion, Lin Zhe refused again!

But the ministers did not give up, and after two days, they gathered again in front of the Generalissimo's Mansion and knelt down to beg Lin Zhe to be the emperor.

In the face of the third persuasion of the subordinates, Lin Zhe refused again!

After being rejected, although those ministers cried and mourned one by one, they were happy in their hearts, because according to the custom, after this refusal three times, Lin Zhe would not refuse again next time! (To be continued.) )