Kangxi ten years, the eighth day of August.

The crackling sound of firecrackers finally rang out inside and outside the Wang family manor outside Haidian Town. Outside this freshly painted country house, there was a rush of people. Everyone crowded at the gate while watching the old Wang family marry a new daughter-in-law, while happily waiting to eat the flowing water banquet.

The old Wang family, who is going to marry a daughter-in-law today, is not an ordinary family, but the family of Wang Fuchen, the governor of Liangguang! The daughter-in-law was Wang Jizhen, the eldest son of Wang Fuchen. And the one who married the girl was not an ordinary family, but the Shaanxi Governor Jia Hanfu's family, and the one who married Jia Hanfu's daughter Jia Xiaowan, oh, also took a concubine who was enslaved by Wu Yingxiong and Princess Jianning who were enslaved by Xin Zheku (the internal management leader of the Internal Affairs Office).

Now Wu Yingxiong has gone to Wu Sangui's side to rebel together. This is going to be done, but in the future, it will be the emperor, and his daughter will not be Her Royal Highness the Princess?

There is really no one in this marriage, the governor's son marries the governor's daughter, and he also takes a princess-in-waiting as a concubine!

This level of happy events is generally held in Beijing, but the atmosphere in Beijing is not very suitable for happy events recently-what about you to get married, and you can bump into three or five mourners along the way, how bad is this?

Therefore, those newcomers who happen to bump into this unlucky day can only go to the country manor to have a happy event.

Haidian Wangjiazhuang is not really in the wilderness, but in a village.

In addition to this Wang family's mansion in this village, there are some village houses that don't look so decent. The people who lived in these village houses were tenants who rented the land of the banner planters.

Although they are "free bodies" and are not slaves of anyone's family, they are really at the bottom of the hierarchy at the feet of the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention that compared with the bannermen and the clothed people, even the Sula family slaves of the banner people and the domestic slaves in the clothed people's families, they are far inferior. Those who are in charge of the house slaves have arrived at the Zhuangzi on the Haidian side, and they are the existence of housekeepers and Zhuangtou. Even if it can't reach this level, it is still the master who eats and drinks enough, shouts five and drinks, and does not do farm work.

When ordinary tenants see them, they can only envy them. Although people put the word "slave" on their lips, they are actually superior "masters", and tenants who have no land in their own homes dare not compare with others.

Of course, in the system of the Qing Dynasty, these tenants who rented and cultivated flag fields were not the lowest. In fact, they can also be regarded as the periphery of the Eight Banners aristocratic system, at least they are not very easy to starve to death. The banner men have many ways to get money, and they are not so careful when collecting rent.

For example, the big landlord Wang Fuchen on the side of Wangjiazhuang has long forgotten that there is such a thing as rent collection.

In addition, these tenants have a lot more opportunities to climb up than tenants elsewhere. They are all "alternate house slaves", and if some banner landlords are promoted, they will naturally recruit more house slaves, and they will be able to make up for them.

This is a person who attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven!

Another one, they are still the alternate family members and long-term followers of those "official white labor".

The local bureaucratic system of the Qing Dynasty was very imperfect, and the number of local officials was very small, and most of them were incompetent. Therefore, after the officials borrowed Beijing debts to buy the shortage, they had to recruit a group of masters, family members, and long-term followers to take office together.

The so-called family members and long-term followers are actually alternate officials - most of the local officials are hereditary, but the officials who go to the post must also bring a group of people, otherwise they will be smeared after taking office, and they will not be able to make any money.

And most of the family members and long-term followers of the "official vain labor" who borrowed Beijing debts to buy the vacancy were appointed by the creditors. But where can those creditors recruit? Isn't it from their own slaves, the gangsters in the outer city of Beijing, and their own tenants to recruit some clever and reliable to keep an eye on those "officials and white workers"?

Recently, the flag-bearers in Beijing have not had a good time, and almost every family is mourning, and every household is mourning.

But for the tenants outside Beijing, it means that the way to rise is much wider, and the little Mazi Emperor is now short of slaves, so the slave door is wide open!

And although the masters of the old Wang family have a hard life and long legs, none of them died in battle, but the tenants of their family and the tenants of several families next door to their family have more opportunities to rise because of the Tengda of the old Wang family.

Therefore, there are a lot of people who come to eat the flowing water banquet at this time, and the young men among them also clean themselves up very energetically.

At this time, the master of the Wang family had not yet appeared, and the tenants who were waiting to be slaves to the old Wang family began to inquire about climbing up to each other.

"Have you heard? The big white man in the next village was taken by the mother-in-law of the Qiren landlord's family two days ago, and he was going to be recruited to be the son-in-law of the door, and he was about to change his surname to Guerjia. Why is this kid so lucky? ”

"Good parents. What's the big white man's name? Nicknamed fake Wang Shikai! The real Wang Shikai can't think of it, it's better to make a fake! How? Envious? ”

"I don't envy it, where are those banner widows that we people can eat? The fake Wang Shikai is estimated to be hanging, and the real Wang Shikai has to be on it. I'm satisfied to be able to follow the real Wang Shikai to Guangdong as a long-term follower! ”

"Yes, yes, this is more true, those widowed flag people's mothers-in-law want to remarry, most of them choose their own family slaves, and it is not our turn. Let's settle on the old Wang's family. O Governor of Liangguang! In the future, it may be the king of Pingnan, and then we will be the bannermen under the king of Pingnan! ”

"This dare is good, I don't know how many people the old Wang family is going to recruit this time?"

"You don't know that's too much, do you? Wang Dagongzi and Wang Ergongzi have already bought six alternate prefects and twelve alternate prefects in Guangdong and Guangxi, plus Wang Dagongzi's own alternate prefect in Shaanxi, and Wang Ergongzi's own Guangdong Customs Road, how many people do you have to bring to office! ”

"Is it true that there are six prefects and twelve prefects? Are there so many vacancies in Guangdong and Guangxi? ”

"Of course it's true, Lord Wang is the governor of Liangguang, and now Liangguang is the front line of the war with Wu Sangui, and it's not easy to vacate the empty spots? Isn't it enough to let the incumbent officials serve before the army? This army before. How dangerous! ”

"You're tall! Can you think of this idea? Master Wang doesn't invite you to be a master, and the loss is huge. ”

"Hey, hey, hey"

You are all brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society! When we get to Liangguang, my father and I will definitely let you fill the official vacancy, but I want to say ugly things in front, you are the officials of the Heaven and Earth Society, not the officials of the Manchu court, and not the officials of Wu Sangui! Keep in mind and keep the rules of the Heaven and Earth Society, these two will be our world in the future! ”

In the back garden of Wangjiazhuang in Haidian, Wang Zhongxiao is mobilizing several disciples of the Tiandihui who are about to go to Liangguang to become officials.

Most of these disciples are Wang Zhongxiao's henchmen, Master Yu, Wang Shiyuan, Wang Leiyong, Wang Quan, Wang Andu and others are among them!

When these people heard Wang Zhongxiao's words, their eyes were shining!

What they want is not the official of the Qing Dynasty, but the founding hero of the royal family!

In addition, Guo Jinbao, Zhang Xiaobao, Li Fuhan, and Zhou Chang also seized this opportunity and bought all of them in alternate counties. Even Zhang Xiaobao's father, Zhang Zhongqing, couldn't stand his son's hard pull, and also bought an alternate prefect and prepared to go to Guangdong to take office. Of course, these people still don't know the thoughts of Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao, and Wang Jizhen.

They belonged to those who were coerced to go to Guangdong

Of course, Wang Zhongxiao spent a lot of money this time, and for these dozen or so shortages, he spent almost half of the silver from Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong, and Wu Yingxiong - Emperor Kangxi's heart is black! The "official price" offered is not cheap.

An alternate county leader dares to ask for 1,500 taels!

One alternate magistrate has tripled, which is four thousand five hundred taels!

An alternate prefect asks for 13,000 taels!

And the salt transportation envoys in various provinces and the shortage of fertilizer in Tianjin Customs Road are all above 100,000 taels!

And among them, the Jinhai Customs Road was won by Yang Qilong at a sky-high price of 120,000 taels!

This Tianjin Customs Road sounds similar to Wang Zhongxiao's Guangdong Customs Road, but in fact it is far from the Guangdong Customs Road, which is mainly for the West and South Seas, if you can take it out and sell it, you will not lose a million taels!

The Tianjin Customs Road is mainly for Korea and Japan, both of which are closed to the rest of the country, and if they want to trade with them, they have to run their own fleets and go to sea to do business. Therefore, this Tianjin Customs Road is actually a "licensed trading company", which is completely different from the Guangdong Customs Road. That is, there is Yuwang Fuquan standing behind him, Chen Yonghua, the advisor of the Yanping Palace, and Yang Qilong, who has a group of "Cao Gang Brothers" at hand, can only eat.

So he is the only buyer of this Jinhaiguan Road, and the reason why he came out to 120,000 taels is completely to please Emperor Kangxi - this Yang Qilong is a woman and a silver, and now it is Jian Zai's heart!

And in addition to the sky-high price of salt transportation envoys and Tianjin Customs Road, the other shortages are not real shortages, but alternate shortages.

As for whether or not they can be filled, it depends on how those officials who have bought vacancies go through the door of local governors when they arrive at the local level -- because this time there is a big sale of officials, the number of officials who go to the local area to be candidates will definitely increase greatly, and it may be even more difficult to fill the vacancies.

In addition, these alternate counties, alternate magistrates, and alternate prefects who are sold are not good places, mainly in Shaanxi, Gansu, Huguang, and Liangguang, where there is no other, close to the front line, I don't know when the surname will be Wu!

At that time, it will not be able to sell, and now the officials of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan will not be able to sell it, what a pity!

But even so, the less than five hundred alternates that Emperor Xiao Mazi took out were still snatched up!

There's no way, there are too many people who want these officials, not only do local tyrants like Yang Qilong want an official, but even the four sons of Jia Hanfu's family have also got a Guangdong alternate county - if they don't have this alternate county, they would have to enter the camp as soldiers, ready to go to the battlefield to fight Wu Sangui's people!

For those who have money in their hands, have children who are not successful in their families and are afraid of death, it is really cost-effective to buy an alternate officer for their sons to keep them away from the battlefield and Sangui.

In addition, there are some masters who are in a similar situation to the old Wang family, and they also regard this imperial court sale of officials as an opportunity!

There are slaves in Dingnan Gege Mansion and Pingnan Wangfu who have bought official vacancies in Liangguang

At this moment, on the official road outside Wangjiazhuang, there are more than a dozen knights in suits, walking slowly along the official road. Among the three people headed, one is Li Rot, who is jealous of Wang Zhongxiao because of the competition for "Wu Shifan".

The other two, one of them is a white and chubby middle-aged man, forty or fifty years old, with a few long beards, and he looks very official.

There is another person who looks like a martial artist, forty years old, with a face full of meat, dark skin, fierce eyes, a beard that looks a little messy, a brain is shiny, and the color of metal is actually shining under the sun, looking like iron.

"Zhu Futai, this time the surname Wang can break the bank, and he bought more than a dozen alternate prefects and prefects in one go. He's N, is this going to turn Guangdong into the world of their old Wang's family? Why couldn't the emperor notice this little bit of the old Wang family's thoughts? ”

Looking at the lively Wangjiazhuang in the distance, it was the new Guangdong Governor Li Rotten who was gritting his teeth and saying bad things about the old Wang family!

"Humph! How can it not be perceived? If the emperor doesn't notice it, he won't let us go to Guangdong to be governors, admirals and commanders-in-chief. Zamber, you say yes? ”

The one who took over Li Rotten's words was the white and chubby middle-aged man, he was the famous Zhu Guozhi!

In history, he happened to be the governor of Yunnan when Wu Sangui rebelled, so he became a loyal martyr. But this time he was lucky, and before he could spend money to exercise to the governor of Yunnan, Wu Sangui had already reversed.

He had served as the governor of Jiangsu for a while, and he was nicknamed "Zhu Baidi." It would be an exaggeration to say that he had scraped Jiangsu into white ground, but it was certain that he was quite good at scraping the ground.

Because he was too good at scraping, he made two big cases in Jiangsu, and as a result, he offended too many people, and later was impeached for "being a filial son", and he was dismissed and went home to eat old rice - the rules of the Manchu Dynasty when a filial son is a rule, and the Han officials want to die Father, Mother, and Aunt (if the mother is a little wife), they have to worry for three years! However, the banner officer only has to keep filial piety for 27 days. And you can't leave the flood land to go home for funeral. But this Zhu Guozhi was too filial, and before the new governor who came to take over arrived, he ran away home first to be a filial son.

As a result, someone grabbed the handle and gave it to him!

But now Kangxi feels that his land is really scraped, so he got him back up again and asked him to go to Guangdong to scrape it well!

And the martial artist he called "Zanbo" is quite related to Wang Zhongxiao, because his name is Chen Shikai, and Zanbo is his word.

Wang Shikai and Chen Shikai are all Shikai!

However, "Shikai in the world" may not be one!

This Chen Shikai is the former subordinate of Li Guoying, the former governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, after Li Guoying died of illness, he became an official without a backstage, leading a deputy general to be a general in Kuizhou and Chongqing, and he was not promoted when he came and went.

But this time the shit came, and he was promoted by Kangxi to the chief soldier of Zhaoqing!

Zhaoqing is the residence of the governor of Liangguang!

When Chen Shikai heard Zhu Guozhi's words, he hurriedly smiled and said: "What Futai said is that the governor of Guangdong has 2,000 standards, the governor of Guangdong has 5,000 standards, and the lowly Zhaoqing general army has 2,000 town standards, a total of 9,000 elites. Although it can't compare to Wang Fuchen's 10,000 new troops and 5,000 governors, it is not without the strength of a battle! ”

Zhu Guozhi smiled: "The First World War is not enough. However, Guangdong is the foundation of Tiannan, and one family can't be divided equally, so why do you have to have a three-legged tripod? After we arrived in Guangdong, we were one foot, Pingnan Wangfu was one foot, and the Wang family was one foot. Holding each other back should not be bad. Lord Li, although you and Wang Shikai are a bit festive, compared to the overall situation, it is nothing! ”

"Humph!" Li Yan snorted, "Futai, you're not right. The governor of Liangguang is also in charge of Liangguang, you can't just count Guangdong, and leave Guangxi! ”

"Guangxi? Guangxi is a three-legged triumvirate of Dingnan Gege, Guangxi General, and Guangxi Admiral, right? Zhu Guozhi is obviously a "Three Kingdoms fan".

Li Yan shook his head: "Futai, you probably don't know that Dingnan Gege and Wang Fuchen have a leg. It is very likely that the father of Dingnan Gege's son Sun Jiqing is Wang Fuchen!

Therefore, the fifteen leaders under the Dingnan Gege Domain must be counted under the command of Wang Fuchen! In addition, there are one or two general soldiers and deputy generals in Guangxi who are the old troops of Dingnan Gege, and maybe they will also give Wang Fuchen a round.

Also, Liu Jinzhong, the chief soldier of Chaozhen in Guangdong, and Zu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Gao Lei, are Wu Sangui's cousins, and this water is deep! ”

"This. Who do you listen to? Zhu Guozhi was stunned.

He is familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but now he has met Wang Fuchen, who uses the art of war in "Golden Vase Plum".

"Fu Honglie!" Li Yan said, "He was born in Dingnan Palace, he was imprisoned for impeaching Wu Sangui before, and he was only recently released, and he was reused, and he is going to Guangxi to be the prefect!" ”

Zhu Guozhi nodded, and then pointed to Wangjiazhuang: "Let's go, let's go and ask for a cup of happy wine to drink!" ”

(End of chapter)