Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 533

Fukang'an pondered for a while, and there was no good way for a while. He simply didn't want to, let An Lu go back first, and then asked the captain of the personal army to pass on the news to Sai Chong'a, the vice capital of Jilin, and Chunning Jin, the vice capital of Hulunbu Yuer. See.

As soon as the order was finished, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a person walking in from the flower hall. After entering the door, he beat himself up and said loudly: "Commander, we can't let Shaanxi soldiers enter the city anymore!"

Fukang'an twitched his brows when he heard the words, and said, "What's the matter?"

The person who came was Yimin, the director of the Jilin Office and a member of the Red Banner Manchuria.He used to be a doctor in the household department in Shengjing, and now he is in charge of negotiating life and robbery cases among all the bannermen inside and outside Jilin City, as well as criminal names, money, grain and miscellaneous taxes.

In the early Qing Dynasty, Northeast China was always under the control of military generals and civilians because of its vast land and sparse population, and it was a closed area.However, with the immigration of a large number of exiles and their families, both agriculture and commerce in the Northeast developed accordingly.

Against the background of the increasing number of people, there are more and more civil disputes between Banner Han.Faced with such a complicated situation, the garrison military officers who were born in the army were unable to cope, so starting from the fourth year of Yongzheng, civilian officials were regularly selected to handle business and civilian affairs in Jilin.In the 12th year of Qianlong's reign, Qianlong promoted Yongji Prefecture to Jilin Office, set up director Tongzhi, Zhengwupin, and assisted Jilin General in handling civil affairs.

However, because the Northeast is still a forbidden area, Han people are not allowed to come and go at will, so even the civil officials are all Manchurian and Han Banner officials, and ordinary Han officials don't even think about it.

Yi Min said with a serious face: "The commander-in-chief asked the emperor to transfer these 2 people from Lvying, Shaanxi, to let them defend against the North Sea pirates, not to let them go to Jilin City to enjoy the blessings. From the afternoon to dinner, I will be in plainclothes. Looking inside the city, you can see that Shaanxi soldiers are everywhere in Cuihua Hutong, North Street, West Street, and Henan Street. Many of these people are walking all the way, smoking cigarettes and pots, and sparks are flying around. In addition, there are teahouses to listen to Storytellers go to theaters, go to brothels to drink wine, and military officers and businessmen eat and drink in Fuchun Garden, this is too inappropriate!"

Jilin City in this era was not very big, and the city walls were only over 4000 meters long.The Cuihua Hutong mentioned by Yi Min is very narrow, less than one foot seven feet wide and less than one mile long, but it is crowded with businesses of all sizes.The main streets in the city are all made of logs or paved with planks, and the sides of the gutters on both sides are all inlaid with planks.Residential houses in urban areas also use wooden boards as walls, and the roofs are covered with bark or grass. A large amount of firewood is usually stored in the courtyard, which poses a high fire hazard.

From the seventh year of Qianlong to the present, there have been four major fires in Jilin City, and the smallest one burned more than a hundred rooms.Even now there are folk proverbs, the so-called "a dog bites Fengtian, the shipyard is burned, and the wind blows Pukui (Qiqihar)".

Fukang'an has always held a high position and authority over the years, and he has always grasped the big and let go of the small in government affairs. He never cared about ordinary civil disputes or even inner city affairs, nor did he take them to heart.Hearing Yi Min's words, his face suddenly became solemn.You must know that in Jilin City, among other things, there are tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder alone. If there is a fire, there is no need for the Beihai Navy to fight in, and everything will be over!
At this time, the two vice-deputies came in with the captain of the personal army, and were about to salute, Fu Kang'an waved his hands and said: "Excuse me, you two, sit down and wait for a while!"

He turned to Yi Min and said, "What do you think?"

"Starting tomorrow, all serving military personnel are not allowed to enter the city!"

Fukang'an took out his pocket watch and saw that it was past nine o'clock in the evening. This kind of thing cannot be delayed. Once something goes wrong, it will be a big trouble.He then said to Sai Chong'a and Chunning who were sitting next to him: "Let's talk about our affairs tomorrow, and you two have worked hard today!"

"Don't dare! Marshal, please give me an order!" Sai Chong'a, deputy governor of Jilin Province, has long disliked those Shaanxi soldiers. Not to mention the smog in the city, these green battalion soldiers even dared to fight against the Eight Banners stationed in the city. Fighting with hands is simply the opposite of the sky!
Fukang'an spoke as coldly as ice: "Sai Chong, you go back to the Yamen immediately, and the people who pick you up will be mobilized in the whole city immediately! Chunning, you go too, and bring my own soldiers! Mom! Just kidding, I only sleep for two hours a day, they are lucky, and they still have the mind to drink flower wine! Regardless of their rank, anyone who visits a brothel to play with whores, or goes to a theater to drink wine, all of them are taken and taken to the city Campus, listen to me!"

After everyone had left, Fukang'an sat back on the chair and pinched his forehead with his hands.After a while, feeling a little calmer, he opened the relevant secret reports about Beihai Town on the table and began to read again.He just flipped through the ten lines at a glance, and didn't take the contents of the secret report into his heart at all, and he was still thinking about Qianlong's secret decree.

Fukang'an understood Qianlong's concern because he was afraid that the Northern Navy would not attack Uliasutai after taking Kulun, and headed south all the way.However, based on his understanding of Beihai Town, Zhao Xin might not be able to do this.If you want to take the capital directly, you can land from Dagukou after the battle of Changxing Island the year before last, so there is no need to delay it until now.What's more, for Beihai Town, the coast of the Qing Dynasty is full of holes, which can be pierced one by one; if the Beihai Navy cuts off the water transportation, the world will immediately be in chaos
wait!Fukangan seemed to suddenly see a ray of light in the dark night where he couldn't see his fingers. He stood up suddenly, startling the captain of the guard standing beside him.

"Master, what is this?"

Fukang'an ignored the other party's concern, but sternly said: "Go to the table for signing the mortgage. Forget it, I will go by myself!"

A quarter of an hour later, when Fukang'an found several secret reports about Beihai Town in the signing room, and read the contents carefully from beginning to end, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"I'm so confused!" Fu Kang'an slapped his shiny forehead with a slap.

At this moment, he felt that he finally got a glimpse of Zhao Xin's train of thought.In his view, Zhao Xin was afraid that the Northern Navy would directly seize Jiangnan or the capital and cause chaos in the world, so he did the opposite.Whether it's with Russia or doing trouble in Annan, he always intends to establish the frontier first, frighten the barbarians, and then gradually devour the world from north to south.As long as Zhao Xin annexes Khalkha, then Beihai Town will have no worries, and will definitely send troops south, and the first to bear the brunt is Jilin Ula!

For a long time, Zhao Xin's random playing of cards was like four words to the Manchu monarchs and ministers, like falling into the clouds.In recent years, Zhao Xindong has been playing with a stick and a hammer, and he will do it somewhere, which makes Qianlong and his military ministers very confused, and they can't guess what he wants to do next.

It is clear that the soldiers are approaching the mouth of Dagu. As long as they send troops ashore, the monarchs and ministers in Beijing will have to pack their bags and run away.But he didn't, he had a serious talk with the imperial court, asked for hundreds of thousands of refugees, and then slapped his ass and left!
Leading troops to make troubles in Yangzhou City twice, it is clear that he can cut off the water transportation and take advantage of the situation to seize Jiangnan, but what did he do?
The first time he robbed a bunch of skinny horses, and then slaughtered a salt merchant to vent his anger on his father-in-law; the second time he went into the government office, and even fought with the fort at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and robbed two of them after a long time. Scholars and their families.

How can this be something normal people do?
If it weren't for the court soldiers and horses that Zhao Xin led several times to fight all over the ground, and even invaded Tsarist Russia for thousands of miles, Emperor Qianlong and his ministers would think that this troublemaker who disturbed him day and night and caused troubles in the Northeast is a big fool!
Who has conquered the world like this since ancient times? !Before Qianlong thought that Zhao Xin was imitating Emperor Taizong, but Fukang'an knew that Emperor Taizong entered the customs several times in the past, and that was also to seize the population of Ming Dynasty and plunder gold and silver to strengthen himself.What did Zhao Xin take from the pass?So far, in addition to the small population of Rongcheng and Wendeng and the 50 refugees given by the imperial court later, there is also a kidnapping of 15 taels of gold from the imperial court.

But when Fukang'an used the four words "throwing rats" to explain, everything made sense!The inside of the pass is not the outside of the pass, which is sparsely populated. If the world is in chaos, even if Zhao Xin wins the world, he will have to use ten times or twenty times as much effort to clean up the mess.

Thinking of this, Fukang'an immediately asked people to grind ink, preparing to write a memorial to Qianlong.He made a draft first, and after revising it a few times, he began to transcribe it in the notebook.

"The memorial is for the purpose of following the decree. I secretly wrote the request according to the reasons for the negotiating with the North Sea pirates in the imperial decree. I admired the Holy Grace and was promoted to the important task of General Dingbei for more than two years. However, I was so stupid and ignorant that I couldn't see through it. The traitor is attempting, please punish me. According to the secret report."

In this memorial, Fukang'an first explained his intentions to Zhao Xin in detail, and then he suggested that due to the vast area of ​​Khalkha, the imperial court could divide the people from all walks of life into several groups, just like the ten fingers of a hand. The opponent went around in circles in the mountains and deserts, dragged down the Northern Navy, and then looked for opportunities to encircle and annihilate them one by one.

Of course, fighting the court like this will definitely lose a lot of people.However, as long as we give up Kulun, preserve our vitality, wait for an opportunity to find a favorable position on the local battlefield, and take advantage of the narrow and complicated terrain of Hangai Mountain, we can offset the powerful firearms of the Northern Navy. Ling widow can win a big victory.

Fukang'an's thousands of words are just one sentence. He disagrees with the strategy of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" and launched a campaign across the board in Jilin to attract the attention of the Beihai Navy and force Zhao Xin to send troops back to aid.It's hard to say whether this will work. After all, it is thousands of miles from Qiaktu to Ninggu Tower; and once Jilin falls, Shengjing will be in danger.

Since the 50th year of Qianlong, Fukang'an has played against Zhao Xin repeatedly for so many years, and he feels that he knows this opponent well.If at the beginning there was only contempt and fear for Zhao Xin, now he admires him a little more.

This person dared to challenge the huge Russia with a small land and a population of less than one million, and he also successfully expanded the land for thousands of miles. Among the famous generals in ancient times, only people like Wei Zhongqing and Ban Dingyuan can stand shoulder to shoulder!It is a pity that such a character can only be an enemy and not a friend.

After Fukang'an finished writing the memorial, the captain of the personal army came to report, and Chunning came back.

Chun Ning, deputy governor of Hulunbuir, brought Fukang'an's personal guards to make a business trip. After entering the signing room, he slapped Qianer neatly, and said: "Marshal, those bastards are all in the school grounds, how many are there?" A high-ranking general and deputy general said they wanted to see you. Did you see it or not?"

"How many people did you take?"

"270 eight."

After Fukang'an listened, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he said with a gloomy face: "It doesn't matter whether the official position is high or low, each person has eighty military sticks! Those who live in prostitution, please ask the king's order to rectify the Fa directly, and those who drink and listen to theatre, go to the shackles on North Street." For three days, let them write and press their fingerprints! Anyone who dares to resist and refuse to write will be killed on the spot!"

Chunning sucked in a breath of air, and mumbled, "This..."

"how?"

"Biaxia thinks that the treatment is too heavy? Right now."

A gust of night wind blew over, and the window paper of the signing room was blown by the wind.Fukang'an said: "This is Jilin, not Guannei. I am in charge of the military and government! Now the battle is in full swing, and the big and small are dying. People are still free to go."

Seeing Chunning's bewildered expression, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, you don't understand this. That's it, you go do it!"

"Whoo!"

Chunning took the order and went with the captain of the army holding the king's order card.Only Fukang'an was left in the room at the moment. Although the soldiers at the door had been busy all night, they still stood upright.

I don't know how long it took before a gust of whistle rushed into the door, only to hear three thunderous cannon blasts from the direction of the school grounds, followed by silence.

Oolong, who lived in Bingyi, was woken up by the knocking on the door when it was still daylight. Ma Sixi asked Yi Ding to come over and call him, saying that he would leave for the city early, so that he would have time to wander around the city.

After washing up, he ate a few steamed buns and brought some dry food. Wulong, who was riding on a horse, and five escort soldiers escorted the ten "spies" on the road.

65 miles is not close, and it is not far. Rao set off early in the morning, but it was already afternoon when we arrived at the Great North Gate of Jilin City.When there was still a mile away from the city gate, Oolong saw many people outside the city gate.Take a closer look, good guy!Twenty or so wooden stakes were erected outside the Great North Gate, each with a human head hung on an iron ring.

Such a scene made Oolong's face suddenly become a little ugly, and his heart began to fluctuate.

No matter how bold and careful he is, he is only 15 years old after all.Although he had seen Bei Haijun shoot Luo Sha at the public trial meeting in Heilongjiang City before, but it was blocked by people far away, and he couldn't see it clearly at all, and it was the first time he had seen such a thing as beheading.

Although Wulong could understand the notice posted at the gate of the city, he didn't dare to push forward. Instead, he grabbed a man who looked like a bannerman and asked in Manchu, "What happened?"

The manchu of the banner man was not very good, but seeing the oolong, he knew that the other party was a "banner man", so he didn't want to be contemptuous, so he said in official language: "Marshal Fu killed the green battalion soldiers to gain power. This gang You bastard Shaanxi soldiers have created a miasma in the city, and now they are all honest! From now on, Shaanxi soldiers will not enter the city, regardless of their military rank, unless ordered by the Commander-in-Chief!" After that, he even added fuel to the matter by extorting the entire city last night. I said it again.

When Oolong heard it, his hanging heart finally fell to the ground.It seems that this matter is only aimed at the green camp, and has nothing to do with myself as a "banner man general".Meanwhile, the faces of Ma Sixi and the others turned pale at the moment, and their lips were trembling uncontrollably.My heart said that I was hanging on, if I came out one day earlier, I might have my own head on these wooden posts.

"Master!" Ma Sixi walked up to Oolong, slapped Qian'er with a mournful face, and said, "We are not allowed to enter the city. The villain will go there and hand over the criminals, and then return to his life. The villain wishes the master Prince Wandai, step by step to rise up!"

(End of this chapter)