7-84 Epiphany

After an hour of surgery, the projectiles on Kangxi's face were finally cleared, and twenty-three leads, large and small, were solemnly collected by Da Yu'er, and sooner or later, these bullets had to be returned to Liu Ziguang intact, and they were to be packed in a firearm, and the gunpowder was filled with gunpowder and hit his hateful face.

Kangxi's handsome face is completely ruined, his face is wrapped like a mummy, only two eyes are exposed, the climate is hot in summer, the wound is easy to suppurate, and the infection will even be life-threatening, in order to prevent this kind of thing, ice cubes were transported from the capital to cool down the room where Kangxi lived, and the people who entered and exited were strictly restricted from entering and exiting, and the room and courtyard were smoked with vinegar until the emperor's injuries and emotions stabilized before he was transferred to the capital.

After returning to the capital, Da Yu'er did not massacre the Han people, but only punished some rebellious soldiers, because she knew that killing could not solve the problem, only to increase hatred, she adopted the advice of the university Shi Nalan Mingzhu, and implemented a strict household registration system in the capital, every household is registered, and foreign people who need to enter and leave the capital often must apply for temporary residence permits. Soldiers and businessmen, so the implementation of this system is not too cumbersome, people who need to go to Shuntianfu to provide their names, places of origin, occupation, and then find a shop to pay dozens of Shunzhi Tongbao can get a temporary residence permit stamped with the seal of Shuntianfu, this almost brain-dead policy can not only restrict the flow of people in Beijing's economic exhibition, but it has almost no effect on preventing those pervasive Nanchang spies, but Shuntianfu has a little fortune because of this, and those who have not applied for a temporary residence permit have no effect.

Once they are all pulled to Changping to sift the sand. In view of the fact that there was too much trouble in the previous period, Nanchang's operation in Beijing once again entered a dormant period, and Wang Tianshun, the commander of the infantry army who provided information to Nanchang in the Caishikou operation, sent his kidnapped child back safe and sound, and attached a letter to express his gratitude to Wang Tianshun and his expectation for the next cooperation.

Wang Tianshun hurriedly tore the letter to shreds, and threw it into the brazier, burned to ashes, if the military aircraft department knew about it, it would not be able to copy the whole door, but then again, even the emperor in the south factory can be captured, not to mention that he is a small commander, in the cracks, it is difficult to see the wind, and the rudder, if the north and south will start a war in the future, when the south is about to enter Beijing, it will not be too late to fight back, and the Han officials with the same idea are countless in the Beijing area, this time Liu Ziguang is too big, and the strength shown is amazing, they are afraid that they will be taken off their heads in the middle of the night, so they have to accept the coercion of the south factory, and secretly provide the south with Manchu political, military, and economic information。

Just when the temporary residence permit system was implemented in the capital, the bad impact caused by the explosion of another incident was even greater than the incident of Liu Ziguang, that is, the epiphany that swept the Qing Dynasty changed from a high golden branch and jade leaf to a worthless rotten grass leaf overnight, before that, even the most common varieties of epiphyllum can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver, and rare varieties can be sold for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels a pot, first the rich businessmen and wealthy families play this, and then the princes and ministers, The princess of Belle Beizi is all those who have a little face, they have to ask someone to get a few pots of epiphany, put them at home to fill the façade, even the queen mother's bedroom and the emperor's heart palace have raised several pots, this flower is not produced locally, all the sources of goods are from Taiwan, after thousands of miles of sea cost, the cost is very high, this flower is more expensive, so it has been very tight, often in a state of price and no market.

The supply can not keep up with the need, which directly leads to the price of rising, yesterday's ten taels of silver bought, today can rise to twenty taels, you don't want to be too expensive, tomorrow he can jump to thirty taels, who if there is a dozen pots saved in advance, it can be reached, which also derived a group of brokers who specialize in buying and selling epiphany, and experts who study epiphyllum breeding and provide various market consultations, and finally show to even the old man who sells bean juice in the capital knows that fried epiphany can make money, at this time the price of epiphany has reached an astonishing astronomical figure.

It's just that overnight, suddenly no one took over, the bubble of epiphany finally burst, those who spent a lot of money to buy epiphany, and wanted to make a big profit, now this thing is ten pennies a pot, no one wants it, the previous hype brokers are gone, those experts who advocate epiphany can prolong life are no longer noisy, everything is natural, but the silver in the purse is really less, no one can remember who was the first to start frying this thing, they only know that this time people are ruthless.

Not only were they shabu, the entire Qing Dynasty was shabu, I don't know how much silver flowed into the purse of the initiator, just the Eight Banners magnates used to invest in it there are more than three million taels of silver, not including the professional fried flower group from Shanxi, this batch of old Xi'er is also quite miserable, with a large bag of silver to run to the capital, as a result, took the last stick, got hundreds of pots of improper eating and drinking, and in his hands, he simply hanged his heart.

At the same time, Hu Yimin, the treasurer of Rishengchang, who was far away in Hefei, looked at the numbers on the account book and smiled with satisfaction, and instructed his subordinates: "The money of the flower farmers in Taiwan can be paid, and a total of 3,000 pots of epiphany have been ordered, but in fact, only 1,352 pots have arrived, and according to the contract, 13 taels and 5 yuan should be paid. After speaking, he laughed self-deprecatingly: It's funny that such a small business is also personally involved.

This farce of sky-high prices is directed by Hu Yimin, from production, transportation to hype, one-stop service, with a few pennies a pot of ordinary flowers all over the place in Taiwan, deceived millions of silver, this can also be regarded as a kind of revenge for the Manchu Dynasty forged Rishengchang silver tickets, Miss Hu is not good at fighting, and she is more powerful than Liu Ziguang, in fact, the cost of this operation is not low, aside from the transportation costs, there are all kinds of communication costs, the cost of buying those experts, of course, all the calculations, still make a lot of money.

The Beiyang Naval Division triumphantly marched on the long trestle bridge in Qingdao Port, and among the crowds standing at the front, there was actually Li Yan, the commander of the Terracotta Division of the Five Cities of Nanjing, and Liu Ziguang was suddenly greatly puzzled。

A group of people from the Tiandihui had their own officers to arrange food and lodging, Liu Ziguang originally wanted to let the Dai family live in his house in Qingdao, but they always shirked, perhaps because they didn't want to let other Tiandihui heroes laugh at it, Liu Ziguang was not reluctant, and went back to the house to take a shower and eat, so he invited Li Yan to the house and asked him to talk about the recent changes in the capital.

Sure enough, as Liu Ziguang expected, while he went to Shandong to build the Beiyang Naval Division, the bigwigs in the court began a round of personnel transfers, and the commanders of the five cities responsible for the security of the capital have always been the coveted target of the Donglin Party, they first put forward a plan, suggesting that the emperor should promote Li Yan and send him to Shandong to be the commander of the navy, saying that in this way, he could better use Li Yan's expertise, as for the security of the capital, the matter will be handed over to the Donglin Party to be responsible, and the security of the capital has nothing to do with his expertise, so Li Yan has no merits since he took office, Zhu Youxiao thought about it, it makes sense, rather than wasting a general's talent in vain, it is better to let him go to the front line in Shandong to play a role, the Beiyang Naval Division is the main force of the Northern Expedition, let Li YanheThe reunion of Liu Ziguang and his old partners is more conducive to work.

Therefore, as soon as the decree came down, Li Yan was assigned to Qingdao, and there were hundreds of soldiers from the former five cities of Shandong, who came with him, not that Li Yan was afraid that they would be bullied by the officials who took over, but that the Donglin Party, which was directly ordered by the Ministry of War, finally took this position, and naturally would not let these Liu Ziguang's descendants continue to stay here, so they were simply assigned to Qingdao, a wild place.

Liu Ziguang listened to Li Yan's narration, and was very unhappy, and was very unhappy in his heart, although the Five Cities Terracotta Division is equivalent to the armed police corps in the capital, although it is a lightly armed force, but after all, it is stationed in the capital, and the role at the critical moment is quite huge, and this position is the product of the distribution of everyone's interests after the coup d'état last year, which belongs to mutual recognition, how can it be said that the replacement is the replacement of the person, and it should be my own person Liu Ziguang replaced.

"Your Excellency is still angry." Li Yan's wisdom is mostly reflected in the fact that he did not grasp a set of things in the court when he received the enemy in battle, and the two armies faced each other, and he was not happy this time, which caused Liu Ziguang to lose face

"You also know that the provincial governors of the imperial court have divided the imperial decree, and there are many violations of the emperor's orders, and the Donglin party has decided to implement a large-scale reduction of power, and the military power of the whole country is concentrated in the five armies, and the governor's office prohibits the generals from having private soldiers, they dare not take those warlords, saying that they must start from the capital first, and there are private soldiers in the capital, except for the marshal, how can there be anyone else, they want more of your power." Liu Ziguang had several armed groups under his command, the Wucheng Terracotta Division, the Inner Guard, the Nanchang and the Red Shirt Regiment, the first three of which were all official institutions of the Ministry of Household Finance, and only the Red Shirt Regiment was his personal guard.

Military expenses, their own silver payment, the Red Shirt Regiment is equivalent to the nature of the teaching team, every quarter to levy suitable young people to enlist, after training to supplement to Liu Ziguang's other teams, although the number of Red Shirt Regiment is not much, but the combat effectiveness and equipment are first-class, the Donglin Party is most afraid of this army, so try every means to cut off Liu Ziguang's wings.

"It's nonsense!" Liu Ziguang slammed his fist on the table and said hatefully: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Yes," Li Yan continued

"The imperial court also wants to send you a prison army, a eunuch."