The people in Guangzhou did not know that the current power of the Liangguang Wang family, that is, the center of the regime of Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Jizhen, and Sun Jiqing, had long since ceased to be in Zhaoqing, but had moved to Foshan, the first town in the world outside the city of Guangzhou.

It's right next door to the city of Guangzhou!

The proposal to move the headquarters of the central part of the Wang regime, namely the Liangguang Governor's Yamen, the Jingwu School, the Restoration School, the Restoration Society, the Tiandihui, the Guangdong Customs Road Yamen, the Guangdong Customs Bank, and the Macao Artillery Factory, to Foshan was all put forward by Wang Zhongxiao.

And the reason why he wants to make Foshan the center of Wang's regime is only one reason, and that is efficiency!

Wang Zhongxiao, who has long adapted to the slow pace of agricultural society, found a high efficiency in Foshan, a city with hundreds of thousands of handicraft people, which is different from other places, which is a kind of high efficiency that exists in a factory handicraft society!

Although this high efficiency is completely incomparable with the high efficiency of the industrialized and information-based society of later generations. But compared to the slow pace of the traditional agrarian society, it is simply too strong.

Agricultural production is busy and idle, and most of the year is quite idle. And the workshop handicraft industry is not idle, only busy. How busy the flintlock pistol is!

Hand rubbing! It's all manual work, and the barrel is hammered out with a red-hot iron plate, and it has to be bored with a manual boring machine when it is almost knocked, and it takes half a month to create a barrel!

Of course, casting cannons is more laborious than rubbing flintlock pistols, and just one casting involves many processes. After casting, the bronze cannon also has to be bored with a large manual boring machine, and it is best to polish the inner chamber by hand, and it must be processed to be slippery enough to be of the highest quality.

To complete the work of a large number of hand-rubbed flintlock pistols and hand-rubbed bronze cannons, it is simply impossible to do without a large team. Moreover, the industrial chain of the metallurgical industry is also relatively long, including mining, fuel harvesting (firewood, coal, and even local coking), blast furnace construction, equipment manufacturing, and of course, transportation, downstream sales network throughout East Asia, and many supporting and synergistic industries around.

So many industries can be well integrated, which is so inefficient.

Moreover, Foshan is not only a big industry of metallurgy, most of the handicraft products in Guangzhou, Fujian and Southeast Asia come from Foshan, Zhangzhou, Chaozhou and other places, among which Foshan is the largest production scale.

In today's Qing Dynasty, in addition to Foshan, there is probably only Suzhou with such an efficient city.

However, Suzhou's "industrialized atmosphere" is still much worse than Foshan's. Suzhou is the center of the textile industry, and now there is no steam engine, and it is impossible to open a large textile factory. Therefore, the textile industry in Suzhou is still organized and produced by family workshops - machine households.

In contrast, the organization of Foshan iron industry is much higher, most of the iron workshops have dozens of masters and apprentices, and there are hundreds of people, who are busy every day. Are they all sturdy men who are particularly likable in troubled times, or sturdy men who can rub cannons and flintlock pistols in their hands, can they not please the great warlord Principal Wang?

In addition, the textile industry without a steam engine would not need to build a large number of chimneys to emit billowing smoke into the sky!

And Foshan is the center of the metallurgical industry! There are at least hundreds of chimneys in the city that emit smoke and dust into the air day and night, and on days when the air pressure is relatively low, the whole city is foggy and has a little industrial atmosphere!

Although industrialization has not yet come, the atmosphere is already there, and the efficiency is also there. Even if it can't compare with the industrialization and informatization of later generations, if the old Wang family's Liangguang regime can keep up with and make good use of Foshan's efficiency, it will already be not on the same level as Kang Mazi and Wu Sangui!

Therefore, Wang Zhongxiao must put the center of political power in Foshan!

Standing on the tower of a tall square enclosure on the outskirts of Foshan Town, looking at the smoky and busy city not far away, it is as if you have returned to more than 300 years later!

After looking at the scenery for a while, he suddenly raised a brand-new flintlock pistol in his hand, aimed at an unknown bird flying in the air, and then decisively pulled the trigger, only to hear a "bang", the bird a hundred paces away suddenly fell to the ground.

"Good!"

Immediately, a loud voice shouted hello in response to the situation, Wang Zhongxiao looked back and found that it was his father Wang Fuchen who applauded, and he was followed by Kong Sizhen.

Kong Sizhen also looked like she was smiling from ear to ear: "Shikai, you are good at marksmanship. A bird so far away can be shot down, if this goes to the battlefield, then it is not a hundred steps away to take the general's life? ”

"Aunt Kong has won the award," Wang Zhongxiao smiled, and handed the flintlock pistol in his hand to Dai Zi on the side, "It's not that I am good at marksmanship, but this flintlock pistol is an artifact This gun is called a rifled flintlock pistol, and the rifling is straight grooved in the chamber, and a specially made wooden cone buckshot is used, the accuracy of shooting is greatly improved, and it is not difficult to kill the enemy in 100 steps." ”

Wang Fuchen looked surprised: "There is such an artifact?" Second, how many such rifled flintlock pistols are there now? ”

Wang Zhongxiao said: "There are not a few yet." He suddenly thought of something, "Dad, is there an eyebrow over there in Guangzhou?" ”

Kong Sizhen nodded and said with a smile: "There is. Fu Honglie has just arrived and brought the news of Guangzhou Yizhi! Shang Zhixin reversed again, this time against the Qing Dynasty, voted for Wu Sangui, and captured your mentor Mingzhu. Now Wang Shirong is already the only minister in Guangdong who can mediate the conflict between our monk family! Fu Honglie brought his handwritten letter this time, according to the meaning of the letter, Guangzhou Mansion will be ours in the future, and the Shang family only needs Shaozhou, Huizhou, Nanxiong Prefecture and Lianzhou, and Liu Jinzhong and Shang Shuying are in charge of Chaozhou. Shikai, are you still satisfied with this plan? ”

Wang Zhongxiao smiled: "Satisfied! Satisfied for now. When Guangfu digests it, it's too late to be dissatisfied. ”

"Since you are satisfied," Kong Sizhen said with a smile, "then your father will have to go to Dongguan in Guangzhou!" Sekai, how many of those rifled flintlock pistols do you have right now to use? ”

Wang Zhongxiao glanced back at Dai Zi, and Dai Zi replied: "Twenty-five have been made now, and another twenty-five can be completed by the end of the month, which is enough to equip a platoon." ”

"Where's the flintlock pistol?" Wang Zhongxiao asked again.

"That's a lot," said Dai Zi, "and there are more than 2,000 in the storehouse!" Although most of them are old guns purchased from the private sector in Foshan, they can all be used. ”

Wang Fuchen nodded: "Twenty-five rifled guns and all the pistols will be sent to my cavalry battalion!" ”

Wang Zhongxiao nodded.

"Yes." Dai Zi replied immediately.

Wang Fuchen said to Wang Zhongxiao again: "Second brother, your township soldiers will immediately go out to build a fortress in the north of Guangzhou City to block the way for the Shang family to flee north!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Zhongxiao patted his chest, "Dad, don't worry, none of the surnamed Shang can run." ”

Wang Fuchen nodded with a smile, and said to Kong Sizhen again: "Sister Zhen, you first take your own soldiers and follow Fu Honglie into the city. Bring five hundred flintlock pistols. ”

"Good!" Kong Sizhen nodded slightly.

Wang Fuchen smiled and said, "Haole, Hongmen Banquet. It must taste good! ”

Outside Dongguan in Guangzhou, Shang Zhixin's tall figure rode on a horse, just letting the long side pockets of his red hood be hunted by the strong wind blowing on the Pearl River.

The elites of hundreds of Pingnan Wangfu clans were dressed in blue cloth armor and wrapped in red scarves, just waiting quietly.

This scene is similar to the one when Mingzhu, the minister of the Great Qing Dynasty, came to Guangzhou a few days ago, but the clothes of the big guys are a little different, and the expressions on everyone's faces are no longer as relaxed as that day, with a little expectation, but from the letter of Shang, everyone is nervous.

The generals of the Pingnan Palace, as well as the generals of the Guangdong Governor and the Guangdong Governor and the Guangdong Governor who had just been incorporated by Shang Zhixin, were also in blue robes and red hats, but they were riding horses and standing behind Shang Zhixin, and everyone frowned and worried.

Today, the person they followed Shang Zhixin to greet was Wang Fuchen, the governor of Liangguang in the Qing Dynasty, and they were the courtiers of Wu Sangui, the king of the Ming Dynasty!

It's really speechless!

Most of them are still inclined to the Qing Dynasty. Originally, they thought that Wang Fuchen was a traitor, but they didn't expect that now Wang Fuchen was still the governor of Liangguang in the Qing Dynasty, but they had already rebelled against Wu first.

It's really. The traitor turned out to be myself!

And what makes these people even more uncomfortable is that even if they become traitors, they still can't get the support of the people of Guangdong!

Just after the change of banners in Guangzhou, the road that was still left in the north of Guangzhou was also blocked by the Guangdong township soldiers and the people.

That's tens of thousands of villagers and villagers digging trenches and building forts together!

There is no need to be supervised by officials, everyone is full of energy, and they don't stop working at night, and they are all finished in two days and two nights.

This is really inefficient.

Now these people in Guangzhou City understand. Cantonese people, now they don't care if the emperor's surname is Zhu, Wu, or "Kang", they want Shang Kexi to die or the Shang family regime to perish.

Before Shang Jiazhong was in the Qing Dynasty, then they would oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Shang family has voted for Wu Sangui, then they will temporarily help clear the thieves. In short, there is no way to live!

At the same time as the Guangdong Township Army besieged the city, Kong Sizhen took more than 100 personal soldiers and followed Fu Honglie into the city of Guangzhou, and she came as Wang Fuchen's negotiator.

It seems that Wang Fuchen is still very careful, and it is not easy to murder!

After Kong Sizhen arrived in the capital of Guangzhou, he put forward several conditions for peace talks on behalf of Wang Fuchen.

First of all, of course, it's a division of territory.

Wang Fuchen not only wants Guangzhou Mansion, but also Huizhou Mansion!

According to Kong Sizhen, Wang Fuchen wanted to leave Huizhou to his little sister-in-law, Wang Jiyong.

In the future, the main territory of the two Guangxi provinces will be inherited by Wang Fuchen's four sons-in-law, and the eldest son-in-law Wang Jizhen will inherit Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Leizhou, Qiongzhou, Luoding Prefecture and Wuzhou in Guangxi; the second son-in-law, Wang Zhongxiao, inherited the Guangzhou Mansion; The third son-in-law, Kong Jiqing (Sun Jiqing, Wang Jiqing), inherited Guilin, Pingle, Liuzhou, Xunzhou, and Yulin Prefecture; The fourth son-in-law, Wang Jiyong, inherited Huizhou.

Secondly, three of the four concubines must be crowned kings, and Wang Fuchen must also be crowned kings! Among them, Wang Fuchen wanted to be crowned a king of the south, Wang Jizhen was crowned the prince of the south, Wang Zhongxiao was crowned the king of the South Sea, Kong Jiqing was crowned the king of Guilin, and Wang Jiyong was crowned the king of Huizhou.

Third, the Liangguang Wang's regime is currently not voting for Wu Sangui Wang Fuchen's mind is to protect the people of Guangdong and do not want to participate in the struggle for the world. Therefore, for the time being, he will not vote for Wu or rebel against the Qing Dynasty, but only negotiate peace.

Fourth, hand over the pearl. The relationship between Wang Fuchen and Mingzhu's wife is very good, and it is not okay to let the family be widowed!

These four conditions are really a bit high.

Especially the third article, what is it called if it is not clear, not betrayal, and disloyal? Even if Shang Zhixin can agree, Wang Shirong can't agree!

It is easy to say that you want to seal several kings, and it is easy to say how to seal the territory of Liangguang, even if you hand over the pearl.

But the Wang family should at least be a vassal to Wu Sangui!

How else would this be done? is not a minister, how can Wu Sangui give them the title of king? Could it be that Wang Fuchen wants Kangxi to wholesale four princes to his family?

However, Wang Shirong did not refuse, but invited Wang Fuchen to come for an interview.

But Wang Fuchen didn't dare to enter the city, for fear that Shang Zhixin, an unfilial son, would plot. Wang Shirong was willing to go out of the city to talk to Wang Fuchen, but Shang Zhixin did not agree, for fear that Wang Shirong would be kidnapped by Wang Fuchen.

So Kong Sizhen and Liu Jinzhong acted as intermediaries together, and their personal soldiers set up a negotiation venue in Dongguan Wengcheng, Guangzhou. Among them, Kong Sizhen has 150 people, and Liu Jinzhong has also sent 150 people. Neither side was allowed to bring long weapons and bows and arrows, but could only bring short soldiers into the venue. Moreover, the inner gate of the urn city was to be closed, and the place that was connected to the rest of the city wall was to be sealed with a fence and a horse blockade.

For such conditions, Shang Zhixin of course agreed to everything.

After all, Guangzhou Fucheng is his territory, and he has more than 10,000 armed forces, even if he hands over Dongguan Wengcheng to Wang Fuchen, he has a way to get it back quickly.

Moreover, as long as Wang Fuchen enters the urn city, he will not be able to escape nine times out of ten.

Because of the sheep and horse walls and the wall of the gate outside the current Dongguan Urn City in Guangzhou, Wang Fuchen had no way to rush out from the main gate of the Urn City, so he could only go out through two side doors. And the side gate is easily blocked by the soldiers deployed in the sheep and horse wall - there is a secret passage between the sheep and horse wall and the city! People don't have to go through the city gates at all.

All in all, in Shang Zhixin's opinion, as long as Wang Fuchen came, then he didn't run away.

And once Wang Fuchen and Kong Sizhen are gone, the Wang family's regime will inevitably fall apart!

Because the Wang family regime was originally a joint regime between father, son, brother and junior, the three brothers Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Jizhen, and Kong Jiqing (Sun Jiqing) all had their own groups, and it was completely up to Wang Fuchen and Kong Sizhen to screw these three groups together.

Once Wang Fuchen and Kong Sizhen are gone, these three groups will definitely disperse.

When the time comes, the Shang family will be able to defeat each of them!

Thinking of this, Shang Zhixin felt a little relieved. And at this moment, Li Chenggong (Liu Jinzhong's general), who was sent out to greet him, rushed back with more than a dozen fast horses, and shouted towards Shang Zhixin from a distance: "The royal army has arrived, the royal army has arrived!" ”

The generals on the side of the Shang family, who were a little anxious, buzzed for a while, and began to tidy up their robes, but this whole time, they all felt that they were not suitable for the good Qing Dynasty slaves, and this was gone! Some of them are still flag men!

At this time, there were more sounds of horses' hooves in the distance, and by the end they had become one, and the sound of horses' hooves was so amazing that the earth trembled a little.

Shang Zhixin, who was waiting there solemnly, suddenly changed his face, and a trace of ominousness floated in his heart. Wang Fuchen is the living Lu Bu of the three armies! He looked back at the waiting queue, and found that the faces of those under him also had a worried look on their faces, some of them had already held down the sabers at their waists, and Shang Zhixin almost wanted to retreat into the city to hold on. But I still held back

Wang Shirong next to him was confident, and said with a smile: "Don't panic, the prince of the world, you are now a courtier of the King of the West, why won't he be the king of the West and the ministers, right?" There's no need for that. The king of the west treats his Wang family well, and his two granddaughters are filial piety to Wang Zhongxiao! Although Wang Zhongxiao participated in the death of the concubine of the West Wang, he took a great risk to save the second son of the West Wang, who was extremely grateful to Wang Zhongxiao, and was also the brother of Wang Zhongxiao's concubine Xiao Gang County Lord, and he is now a good saint grandson of the West King. ”

Shang Zhixin had already heard Wang Shirong say this, and now that he heard it again, he finally put down his snack and said with a smile: "I know, I know that I know, so I want to make peace with the Wang family!" ”

Wang Shirong nodded: "That's right. Let's restore the world of the Han family together, and let's talk about other things later! ”

Shang Zhixin also nodded: "Okay, just listen to Qincha!" ”

(End of chapter)