"Master Lu," everyone sighed for a night, and suddenly a person had a flash of inspiration: "Although each of us is alone, if we all work together, it will be no problem to win three or four chairs." ”

"But who's going to sit on this chair?" Everyone was in good spirits at first, but immediately someone asked this crucial question.

"This ...... We can choose again. ”

Originally, as soon as this person spoke, everyone's eyes lit up, but after hearing this, everyone's eyes began to be gloomy again, and no one was willing to spend money to make wedding dresses for others.

"It doesn't matter who sits!" Lu Zhiqiang suddenly waved his big hand and said categorically: "I will pay for it, and I will call on my workers to support any brother, but I myself will not grab this chair." ”

Everyone looked at Lu Zhiqiang in surprise when they heard this.

Lu Zhiqiang touched the corners of his mouth that was still bleeding, and said resolutely: "Yes, we don't want to be elected by any of us, but if our forces are combined, that is, President Liu will also close us, I think so, no matter who sits on this chair, whether he supports or opposes a certain proposal, it must be agreed by all the gentlemen present, that is, no matter who makes this chair, it must speak for everyone." ”

"What does Boss Lu mean?" Someone said puzzledly: "Ten fingers are not ordinary, how can you speak for everyone." ”

"We might as well follow the example of Qi Gong, isn't the Provincial Secretary of State voting? We do the same, we vote in private, and the minority obeys the majority. ”

After everyone discussed it, they all felt that this was a suitable solution for their small businessmen, but some people were still worried: "Isn't this a party?" ”

"If you form a party, you will form a party!" Lu Zhiqiang said arrogantly: "Didn't Gong Qi say that he would not sin people with his words? What about forming a party? We are just finished, if you are afraid, I am not afraid, I will be the leader of this party, whether it is killing the head or not, I will bear it alone. ”

After deliberating for most of the night, the 20 or so temporary councilors finally made an alliance and agreed to advance and retreat together.

"Anyway, it's a party, so it's better to form a party," Lu Guangtou had a brave and heroic spirit: "I think we should just give our party a name." ”

"What's it called?"

"Let's think about it."

"Supporting the Qi Gong Party?"

"It's too meaty, and Qi Gong may not like it."

"Loyal to the Patriotic Party?"

"Misunderstand the princess, we are not royalists."

"Governing the party with the people?"

"Stealing the limelight from Qi Gong."

Everyone put forward a lot of opinions, and in the end, it was the party leader Lu Zhiqiang who made a decision: "If you want to support the Duke of Qi to defend the country, and you want to rule the world with all the people, then it will be called the Kuomintang!" ”

After the founding of the Kuomintang, the first party leader, Lu Zhiqiang, went to see Qi Guogong overnight to obtain an understanding of the party's alliance, and immediately after his return, he discussed with his comrades the party's future plans:

"Gong Qi said that he wanted the Provincial Secretary Yuan to guide the establishment of the Secretary of State of various prefectures and counties, but he has not done it in the past few days. The most urgent task of our party at the moment is to immediately launch a proposal in the Secretaries of Chambers and quickly set up the Secretaries of Houses of all provinces. ”

"Not bad." Although many people have little confidence in competing for the provincial secretary of state, if each province also has a secretary of state, they are still confident of winning a seat, and immediately some people are motivated to go back to mobilize, and several people have spoken one after another, intending to help each other and strive for everyone present to be elected at least to the post of secretary of the government.

"That's all you thought of? Shallow! After Huang Shi's hints and guidance, Leader Lu learned from the pain and felt that the defeat of this dispute was, in the final analysis, because the friendship between friends was unreliable in front of vital interests: "We don't have to be elected ourselves, the more than 20 of us, even if we are all elected, how many votes can we have, and everyone is scattered, isn't it bullied?" ”

"What's Boss Lu's plan?"

"We have to unite, think about it, why do people run to the doctor's mansion all day long, isn't it because we can talk in the palace? In the future, we will be a party, if we speak with one voice, we will have several votes at once with our nod, not to mention those who can't squeeze into the provincial secretary, even other doctors will also win us over, so it is very important to unite together. ”

"What does Boss Lu mean is that we want to concentrate in one mansion and take the majority of the secretary positions in a certain mansion in one go?" Those who have a flexible mind have kept up with the party leader's train of thought.

"Yes and no, we have to fight for the votes of each province, I have a plan to discuss with you, but you must not reveal it." Lu Zhiqiang's face showed a hint of mystery.

"Boss Lu, say it quickly."

"Now running for a doctor, that is the eight immortals across the sea to show their magical powers, everyone relies on their own financial resources and connections to fight, and most of the people in the house will be the same in the future, only the most powerful people in the house can enter, and the rest can only swallow and spit, let's not go to the guy who thinks he is nine out of ten. We need to do the opposite, and make alliances with those who cannot get in on their own. Wherever there are small fish and shrimp, there are many more small fish and shrimp than large predators, and they will also have common interests, and Lu Zhiqiang is keenly aware of this through today's defeat: "We must greatly expand the membership of our own party, unite in dozens or hundreds, even if it is a small factory owner with only a dozen workers, and only vote for the people of our own party, and every government must fight, so that although our own strength is small, no one can beat us!" ”

"The party leader is high." Everyone is a shrewd businessman, and although it is not very clear, he can already dimly see the bright future prospects.

"Don't look at the current scenery of the Miao thieves, and let them be prosperous for a while," another director added: "If our party can control the provincial government of the first government, then everyone will come to us, and at that time, our party will run for the provincial government again, and the seats of the first government will be ours, and even Chairman Liu will be better than us at that time." ”

"Not bad, not bad."

The group of people who had just lost the vote immediately began to discuss with great interest how to recruit party members and what common interests should be used to win over the allies.

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Boss Lu and his gang's motion to establish the Provincial Secretary of State as soon as possible did not meet with much resistance, and most people believed that they were admitting defeat and planning to withdraw from the Fujian Provincial Power Center. Those friends of Boss Lu, such as Zhu Jiu, were sorry for Lu Zhiqiang, although he also thought that the Provincial Secretary of State was only a big businessman to get involved, but thinking that Boss Lu had helped him extinguish the fire many times and often gave himself discounts, he also hoped that Lu Zhiqiang could have a place in the low-level council. Since the opponent has admitted and voluntarily withdrawn from the Provincial Academy, they are also willing to help yesterday's enemy find a way to retreat and step down, the first is that there is no need to kill the other party; Second, if the other side is really forced to have no way out, or if it stumbles on Fujian's mobilization, it will also damage its own interests.

The Shun army was stagnant in the mountainous areas on the border of Fujian, and the emergency mobilization of the provincial secretary provided hundreds of thousands of muskets for the local militias. The local tycoons, who had originally held the mentality of riding the wall, found that they had absolute control over the local power after detailing the election rules, and they did not want to return to the situation of sending officials from the central court to control the local administration and judicial power, and they also severed their ties with the Shun army. For a time, the slogan of "Fujian people governing Fujian" was shouted loudly, and the gentry who were willing to run for the county order went door to door to place the village chiefs of each village, calling on them to resist the barbarians from the north.

Guangdong was still far from the flames of war, and the merchants of the council and the local gentry with a career in the government were so enthusiastic that they jointly wrote to the Qi State Government in September, demanding that the imperial examination be suspended and that the secretary house and local elections be held.

After obtaining permission, the Guangdong Provincial Council was busy announcing the establishment of the Provincial Council of Canton, and although there was no parliamentary hall in Guangzhou, it could not affect the enthusiasm of the doctors to serve the country, and the chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Council donated his large mansion in Guangzhou to the Provisional Provincial Council as a hall, but he resolutely refused to take up the post of speaker.

After some hysterical mutual humble, it was the Fujian Provincial Secretary of State that helped them solve this problem, and Lu Zhiqiang, the doctor of the Fujian Provincial Secretary of the Yuan, resigned from his post as the secretary of the provincial government and voluntarily went to Guangzhou to serve as the chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Secretary of Yuan. After arriving in Guangzhou by boat, Lui Zhiqiang was greeted more warmly than the farewell party in Quanzhou.

The first topic on which Speaker Lu presided over was that Guangdong would send money, guns, and people to support Fujian.

"To defend Fujian is to defend Guangdong, to defend the Duke of Qi with arms, to defend the world with all the people, and to defend the Provincial Minister's Court, it is the responsibility of the husband!"

This issue made Speaker Lu famous, and when the Guangdong Provincial Secretary Yuan was in turmoil over power and profit, Speaker Lu quietly visited those weak parliamentarians and began to recruit Kuomintang members in Guangdong.

The changes in Fujian and Guangdong made the scholars of Zhejiang more unhesitating to defect to Dashun, and the scholars who passed the imperial examination in these two provinces also stayed outside the province and did not return.

Jiangxi is still in an ambiguous state, the army of Zhaoqing Town, which is loyal to the Duke of Qi, is still in the territory, and although the upper-level officials feel that Fujian and Guangdong are not talking, the Shun army of Huguang has never been able to enter Jiangxi. However, the local villages and counties that carried out the elections were unwilling to hand over power to the Shun army, and after receiving financial and military support from Fujian Province, the village chiefs encouraged the local elders to persist in resistance and defend the local electoral power with arms. At present, the Jiangxi Council does not dare to put forward the same resolution as Guangdong, but after seeing the great changes in Fujian and Guangdong, they also feel hopeful, and they have made efforts to assist the Zhaoqing army to hold on, and also create rumors that the Duke of Qi will use the ruling power to remove the governor of Jiangxi and the prefects of various prefectures, and convene the Jiangxi Provincial Governor's Court as soon as possible.

By the end of October, the military stalemate had become obvious, and the main force of the Zhejiang Shun army had begun to turn around and sweep the coastal areas of eastern Zhejiang, and the central government of Dashun had no hope of attacking Fujian and Jiangxi this year, and the focus of its work had shifted to internal affairs. A considerable part of the merchants in eastern Zhejiang burned down the factories and fled to Fujian, and they were accompanied by some gentry who pressed the treasure on the throne of Qi Guogong who was still able to turn the tables, and the provincial courts of Fujian Province and Guangdong Province both passed a proposal, saying that they would compensate the Zhejiang merchants who suffered from the war at an appropriate time. These Zhejiang merchants and gentry who refused to cooperate with Dashun and fled to the control of the Ming army with fine softness quickly established the Zhejiang Provincial Academy, and the main topic was how to compensate them for the family property they gave up and burned down to avoid the enemy after Wang Shi recovered Zhejiang.

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Since Li Zicheng named Li Dingguo as the king of Jin, Jiang Hao has not been happy, his existing territory belongs to Li Dingguo, and after the world is unified, he will have to hand over the territory to the new upstarts of Dashun.

After learning that Wu Sangui led the troops south, Jiang Hao's mood became more and more bad, as the commander of the border army who surrendered earlier, he did not get the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the new dynasty but still defended the border. The military salary allocated by Dashun has also decreased compared with the previous Ming Dynasty, but the supervision is much stricter, Jiang Hao not only could not continue to eat empty salary, but also had to lay off part of the army.

After learning that the war situation in the south was deadlocked, Jiang Hao gloated, and the protracted war meant that the king of Jin could not come to Shanxi to accept his territory. But now Dashun has eight out of ten in the world, and the things that Qi Guogong is doing in Fujian and Guangdong look like a dying struggle, and Jiang Jiu's future is still bleak.

Wang Qinian, who was stationed nearby, was Jiang Jiu's brother and brother, and after the rescue battalion surrendered to the Shun army, Niu Jinxing promised that Wang Qinian would expand the army to 20,000, but now only 10,000 people are paid to the military salary based on the prestige of the army under his command - when there is no unification in the world, the generals are treated like this, and it is even more conceivable that the sword will be put into the warehouse and the horse will be put in Nanshan in the future.

Today, Wang Qinian secretly left the camp and came to see him, and Jiang Jiu guessed that there was nothing good without asking.

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"Taishi said that the treasury is tight, and the south has been fighting for a long time, so next year's military pay will have to be reduced."

As soon as Wang Qinian opened his mouth, he got to the point, Dashun thought that the number of Shanxi border troops was still too rich, and even a reduction of some of them would be enough to defend the frontier, so he planned to reduce the military salary by 30%.

"I've never heard of not paying the emperor's grain, can this treasury not be tight?" Jiang Hao unabashedly complained that the three-year exemption policy had made Shanxi's livelihood situation improve rapidly, but it would not benefit the local warlords. Although Jiang Hao also admitted that even if he reduced the army by half, it would be enough to defend the border passes, but sooner or later this would be the territory of Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, no matter how well he defended it, what good would it do him to himself?

After complaining to each other, Wang Qinian said: "I came to see Brother Jiang today, in fact, there is one more thing, there is a person who wants to meet Brother Jiang. ”

"Oh?"

After the visitor was introduced by Wang Qinian, Jiang Hao looked at it fixedly, suddenly jumped up, and shouted: "Ghost! Ghost! Ghost! ”

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