"Shikai, do you want to take the magistrates of Xiangshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Xin'an, Shunde, Dongguan, Haifeng, Guishan and other counties?"

"What? Uncle Ba Liu, is it difficult? ”

"Difficult! It's so hard! Shikai, you think about this matter simply. ”

"I can buy six alternate prefects, and the shortage of twelve alternate prefects is a big deal, I let six alternate prefects go to a lower level, acting prefects, this is always okay, right?"

"It's not that simple, it's not that simple."

The one who was shaking his head and talking to Wang Zhongxiao in the back garden of the Yamen of the Liangguang Governor in Zhaoqing Mansion was a "black-faced scholar" in his thirties, with a sideburns and beard, and a pair of eyes that were a little protruding, looking a bit like a judge on the stage.

This person's surname is Ba, his name is Gangshan, he is Wang Fuchen's sworn brother, and he was originally the governor of the barren land in Gansu. Later, Wang Fuchen was reused by Kangxi, and he was also trained in the new army and the governor of Liangguang, and he also followed the light and was recommended by Wang Fuchen to be the prefect of Zhaoqing.

"Shaodongjia, Ba Taishou (one of the honorific titles of the prefect of the Ming and Qing Dynasties) is right, Xiangshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Xin'an, Shunde, Dongguan six counties are all states and counties under the jurisdiction of Guangfu, according to the practice of Guangdong officialdom, the state and county officials under the jurisdiction of Guangfu have to worship the king of Pingnan first, if the king of Pingnan he is not seen. Then this official can't be done. In accordance with the usual practice, the two counties of Haifeng and Guishan are the questions of the governor of Guangdong. ”

Then Ba Gangshan's words went down to talk about Yao Qisheng, the master of the governor's yamen, the day before yesterday at Kong Sizhen's place, he did not rub the matter of appointing the county magistrate to grab the land thoroughly-he knew that Wang Fuchen was not very interested in this kind of thing, and Wang Zhongxiao had a bad stomach, and most of them had already had a corresponding strategy.

Zhou Chang, who arrived in Zhaoqing with Wang Jizhen and them yesterday afternoon, took over the topic and said: "Second son, I also heard of this rule when I was in the cabinet in the late life, and here in Guangdong, the Zhengyin officials of the eleven counties and one prefecture in Zhaoqing can only take office with the nod of the army. Before taking office, the official seal of the fourteen counties of Guangfu should first worship the king of Pingnan. And if the official seal of the nine counties and one state of Huizhou Prefecture wants to take office, they all have to nod from the governor of Guangdong. ”

Yu Deshui, who had already bought an alternate prefect, said with a smile: "Second son, otherwise, let's take the eleven counties and one state of Zhaoqing Mansion first, and the humble post has already been checked, and now the prefects of Gaoyao, Yangjiang, and Fengchuan counties are all vacant, and Deqing Zhizhou is also vacant, and Ling Zun can completely call the shots." Or do you want to act as an agent of Deqing Prefecture? ”

Listening to Master Yu's words, Wang Zhongxiao laughed: "Old Yu, you have already set your sights on this Deqing Prefecture, right?" ”

Yu Deshui smiled: "I told you back. Most of the prefects in Guangdong are absent, and it is not easy for me, the alternate prefect, to make up for it, so let's just go low. ”

Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile: "If you want to be low, you have to be in Qingzhou!" Isn't acting Xiangshan County fragrant? Although Deqing Prefecture is a state, it can't compare to Xiangshan County! ”

This Deqing was a county in later generations, and Xiangshan was two prefecture-level cities and a special administrative region!

"I can't take it," Ba Gangshan shook his head, "The current Xiangshan Governor Pan Hong is the person who is the breadwinner of the Pingnan Palace, and Xiangshan County is in vain, he was recommended by the King of Pingnan, and he took office after the emperor's decree." ”

"So what?" Wang Zhongxiao smiled, "Just drive it away!" ”

"Hurry, drive away?" Ba Gangshan was stunned, "How to rush?" Didn't Shikai say that we wouldn't fight back for the time being? ”

Wang Zhongxiao smiled: "We don't need to come forward to catch up." ”

"Then who will come forward to be this wicked man?"

Wang Zhongxiao didn't answer, but just smiled and said, "The wicked will come soon!" ”

He then changed the topic and asked, "Uncle Ba Liu, how are our Restoration Academy and Jingwutang doing?" Can you go and see it today? ”

Ba Gangshan said: "The Restoration Academy is very prosperous, and the academy is in the city, in the former site of the Xingyan Academy created by Bao Longtu. Because there are Confucian scholars from Zhejiang who teach, which are still run by the Governor's Yamen, and Master Yao brings the masters of the six departments in the Governor's Yamen to teach the study of the scriptures and the world, so many scholars from Guangfu and Zhaoqing come here, and now they have accepted hundreds of students. ”

In the Qing Dynasty, because of the Daxing Literary Prison and "it is too difficult to take the public examination to become an official", all parts of the country were devastated, and the enthusiasm of the private sector for running schools was also very low. The lower private schools are better, and the higher ones are all the hardest hit areas of the Prison of Letters, except for those with official backgrounds!

And there will always be a text prison check! Even if there is no fierce material such as "The World is Public" and "Tianchao Tianmu System", if you come to "Qingfeng is illiterate, why do you flip through the books", or if you don't avoid Kang Mazi, Mazi Dad, Mazi Ye, and Mazi Taiye, you can still be sentenced to a literary prison.

Therefore, high-level academies in various places have closed their doors, and it is too difficult for scholars to improve their academic horizons.

However, the newly opened Restoration Academy in Zhaoqing Mansion is endorsed by the Governor of Liangguang!

Who dares to investigate, then you have to ask the 16,000 green battalion soldiers under the command of the king's army if they agree?

"As for the Jingwutang," Ba Gangshan said, "the students of the first phase have already taken up their posts in the team, and the students of the second phase have just recruited a total of three hundred and sixty people, and they are currently training with the team. ”

"Who are you recruiting?"

Ba Gangshan said: "Half of them are the sons and nephews of the military attaches in the army, some are on our team, some are on the Dingnan Gege team, and the other half are local strong young men in Guangdong, all of whom are the children of the big clans in Zhaoqing, Luoding, and Guangfu. ”

Yao Qisheng next to him was still afraid that Wang Zhongxiao would not understand, so he added: "Second son, the clan here in Guangdong is powerful, and the Tuke clan often fights with each other, so many children of the big clan practice martial arts and are more interested in fighting and killing. Therefore, there are also many martial arts halls in Zhaoqing, Guangfu and other places. Since the opening of our Jingwu Academy, it has been kicked seven or eight times! ”

"Haha, the military academy is still being kicked out?" Wang Zhongxiao was amused by this, and this was the first time he had heard of it.

He was not angry, but smiled and asked, "Are we winning or losing?" ”

"Of course it won! Our people have real kung fu, not the martial artists here in Guangdong who play fists and embroidery legs. Ba Gangshan said with a smile, "So our Jingwu Academy has already set up a name in Guangdong, and there are more and more apprentices who come here, and we can't recruit them. Ling Zun had no choice but to open the outer door, and accepted hundreds of apprentices to teach guns, sticks, knives and cards. ”

In fact, it's not how hard the kung fu of the "masters" in Jingwutang is, but that Jingwutang plays "weapons", and the "martial arts courses" include spears, knives, crossbows, bird guns, and red-clothed cannons, no matter how hard the martial artists in Guangdong Province are, they can't win!

And those Guangdong martial artists who came to kick the hall can't forcibly compare with the samurai who play with big guns, right? The other party plays with equipment, and they have to play with equipment! But where can a man who plays with equipment compare to a professional war?

So the size of this Jingwu Academy will soon rise!

"That's a beautiful job!" Wang Zhongxiao suddenly became interested, stood up and said to the people in front of him, "Let's go, let's go and have a look. Go to Jingwu Academy first, and then go to Restoration Academy. ”

The current Guangzhou Fucheng is also the same as Fuzhou City and Beijing City, which are isolated from the "Banner" Han City, but the "Flag City" in Guangzhou is not inhabited by the children of the Eight Banners, but by the "Children of Shang Qi", that is, the children of the fifteen leaders under Shang Kexi and their family slaves.

Of course, there are a lot of people, almost 200,000, tens of thousands more than the people in Gengwangzhuang, Fuzhou!

This is also a matter of course, because Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi is a stallion, in these years in Guangdong, in addition to doing bad things, that is, the cloth planted sons and daughters I don't know how much, and now there are more than a hundred still alive, as for the grandchildren, it has already passed a thousand!

How can he lead by example and work tirelessly, can those under him not work hard?

And how big is the oil and water in Guangdong! I can afford to raise a little more people.

Just one Guangfu can be as good as one or even two poor provinces in the north!

In addition, Shang Kexi has done absolutely bad things in Guangdong over the years, first slaughtering Guangzhou, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and slaughtering the capital city of Guangzhou! Later, he was ordered by Ao Bai to carry out a major coastal relocation. Move 20 miles elsewhere, and when you get to him, it's 50 miles or even 100 miles, and the means of moving the border are extremely violent, so he directly sends troops down and moves away within three days, and he doesn't ask where he moves, and he doesn't care if he will starve to death after moving?

Anyway, if you don't leave when the time comes, the soldiers of the Shang family will cut people!

In such a way, the originally densely populated coastal areas of Guangdong have been turned into the descendants of the sparsely populated Baidi Lao Shang family by Shang Kexi, and they are not afraid that there will be no place to settle them!

However, Shang Kexi's perverse behavior did not affect the income of Pingnan Wangfu, and even this income is growing year by year, and the growth is good!

This is because the coast of Guangdong was slaughtered and relocated. This foreign trade is very difficult to do.

Originally, there were thousands of ships of Han Chinese maritime merchants, scurrying around the coastal ports, and it was difficult for Shang Kexi to collect taxes. And he is not qualified to collect this tax as soon as he is leveled.

But now that there is no one along the coast of Guangdong, whether it is a Han maritime merchant or a Western maritime merchant, there is naturally no way to run around. And when Shang Kexi was moving along the coast, he still left a mouth, that is, the Macao Portuguese in Xiangshan, Guangdong, did not move.

In this way, Guangdong's foreign trade was concentrated in Hao Ao (later there was a small opening on the Da Hao side, but it was much worse than Hao Ao), which was easy to control.

Shang Kexi used the coastal relocation to scare the Portuguese people of Macao when the future of the foreign servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; On the one hand, he privately opened the Xiangshan Mutual Market to engage in legal smuggling. It's almost a big deal.

Relying on the silver obtained by legal smuggling, the inner city of Guangzhou, which was slaughtered clean by Shang Kexi in the past, is now developing more and more prosperously, with new big houses everywhere, and the servants and family members of the Ping clan who come and go on the street are also raised for white and fat, and silk and satin are also worn casually. and the dilapidated and rotten Huazi everywhere, like the slum-like outer city of Guangzhou, is really in stark contrast!

As for the two palaces in the outer city of Guangzhou, they are even more beautifully repaired, as if they are heavenly palaces - one of these two palaces is the Pingnan Palace, which is still gratifying, and the other is the Jingnan Palace, which was originally Geng Jimao's Jingnan Palace, and now it belongs to Shang Zhixin, who has just come to Guangdong to take power.

Although the palace is luxurious, but Shang Kexi does not live in the palace now, but lives in a big Buddha temple not far from the palace, he has killed so many people, bad things are done, and when he is old, he is a little weak-hearted, worried that he will go to the eighteenth layer of hell, plus he has cataracts, his eyesight is getting worse and worse, so he feels that he has suffered retribution, so under the advice of the strategist Jin Cheng, he has scavenged a lot of people's fat and people's ointment, and built a big Buddha temple in the center of the inner city of Guangzhou.

After playing with his concubines every night, he would also take a sedan chair to the Great Buddha Temple to become a monk and practice, of course, temporary and braided.

Ming'er finished his practice early in the morning, he had a big monk in the temple to guard him, not afraid of the little ghosts entangled, and after sleeping soundly, he could go to be the king of Pingnan and continue to plague the people!

As for the braid as a slave, don't dare to cut it casually!

However, even if he goes to the Big Buddha Temple to practice every night, Shang Kexi still inevitably suffers from insomnia, often can't sleep all night, and his appetite is not as good as before, and he has lost weight and may weigh less than 200 pounds!

This is all about the country and the people!

At first, I was worried that the little emperor would misunderstand his relationship with Aobai. The relationship between him and Ao Bai is actually not very familiar, but it is much better than the relationship between Wu Sangui and Ao Bai!

Later, the wind of cutting the feudal domain rose again!

The little emperor also sent his son I to reply to the letter of the prince to Guangzhou to take charge of the affairs of the feudal domain, and to engage in "preparing to cut the feudal domain".

Although the master wants to cut the domain, he, who is a slave, should be obedient and cooperate with the reduction, but there are many people under his domain who don't have the consciousness to cut the domain? Did you cut the feudal domain and go to Liaodong to drink the "northeast wind"?

Besides, their 200,000 people are not at ease in the little emperor of Guangdong, why should the little emperor in Liaodong be relieved?

Just because the Northeast is relatively close to Beijing?

Just because no one has ever raised troops from Guangdong to win the world in history, but there are Liao, Jin, and Qing Dynasty from the Northeast?

Therefore, as soon as this "preparation for the reduction of the feudal domain" began, the people under Shang Kexi's command were divided, and some advocated obedience to the imperial court and took the initiative to cut the feudal domain in order to win the preferential treatment of the imperial court and let them go to Beijing as slaves.

Of course, Beijing City can't accommodate 200,000 Shang clan minions, so taking the initiative to cut the feudal clan will inevitably abandon some of their comrades, as for what will happen to those who are abandoned, it's hard to say.

And most of the people of Shang Fan, because they had a premonition that their "slave luck was about to end", they all advocated fighting with the imperial court, and they had to let the court know the backbone of Shang Fan - not to be a slave, rather than die!

And these two groups of people gathered around Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao, the two "great filial sons". Among them, Shang Zhixiao, who has been serving by Shang Kexi's side and is quite favored by Shang Kexi, advocates "striving for preferential treatment". And Shang Zhixin, who came from Beijing to cooperate with the imperial court, didn't know what was going on, and actually advocated "don't be a slave, don't rather die"!

And by the end of Kangxi's decade, there was one more thing that made Shang Kexi worried. Wu Sangui is reversed! Moreover, the "anti-trend is good", they all hacked Yue Le's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to death tens of thousands, and Beijing is "full of white"!

Look at this posture, the one surnamed Wu is going to be the emperor?

Now the fight between the minions of the Shang clan in Guangzhou City is even more fierce. Because the imperial court will not cut the feudal domain for the time being, they are divided into two factions: "Zhongqing" and "self-preservation".

Among them, Shang Zhixiao was the leader of the faction, advocating loyalty to the imperial court, and Wang Fuchen sent troops to attack Sun Yanling to fight Wu Sangui, but only dared to fight Sun Yanling.

The faction headed by Shang Zhixin advocated mutual protection in the southwest, and should work with Sun Yanling, Geng Jingzhong, and Wang Fuchen to jointly protect themselves.

Anyway, these two groups of people can't talk together, they argue in front of Shang Kexi every day during this time, and Shang Kexi's eyesight is getting worse and worse, and even the figure of the beautiful woman can't be seen clearly, so he has to touch it with his hands, of course, this mood is getting more and more depressed, and he doesn't even bother to go home, so he simply lives in the Big Buddha Temple and hides quietly.

But he wants to avoid trouble, but trouble will come to the door by itself!

On this day, Shang Kexi, accompanied by two "nuns with hair", was chanting "Nan Wu Amitabha" and "I don't go to hell who will go to hell" in a secluded meditation room in the Big Buddha Temple, when the voice of Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao suddenly came to his ears.

"Amma, it's not good!"

This is me Dagong yelling that he Ama was fine, but now it's getting worse and worse! Shang Kexi didn't want to pay attention to this unlucky child at all, so he continued to recite his scriptures.

"Amma. Ao Bai is coming! ”

This is the angry voice of Shang Zhixiao, the "great filial son".

"Aobai. The donor is coming? As soon as Shang Kexi said to himself, he jumped up, and immediately blinked his two eyes that were about to go blind and shouted, "Aobai? Where is Aobai? Come on, hurry up, Ao Bai is coming to kill this king! ”

However, no one came to escort him, but a very powerful hand grabbed Shang Kexi's left arm, and then Shang Zhixin's voice said: "Ama, don't be afraid, Ao Bai hasn't entered the Big Buddha Temple yet!" ”

(End of chapter)