Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 161 King Pingnan, Obai has arrived! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Shikai, do you want to win 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 too difficult! Shikai, you think this matter is simple."

"I have bought six alternate magistrates. The lack of twelve alternate magistrates is a big deal. I will let six alternate magistrates go to the lower office and act as the magistrate. Is this the head office?"

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

Shaking his head and talking to Wang Zhongxiao in the back garden of the Yamen of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in Zhaoqing Prefecture, was a "black-faced scholar" in his 30s, with sideburns and slightly protruding eyes. It looks a bit like a judge on a stage.

This person's surname is Ba, and his name is Gangshan. He is Wang Fuchen's sworn brother. He was originally a magistrate in the barren land of Gansu.Later, Wang Fuchen was reused by Kangxi, trained the new army and served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He followed suit and was recommended by Wang Fuchen as the prefect of Zhaoqing.

"Shaodong's family, Ba Taishou (one of the honorific titles of prefects in Ming and Qing Dynasties) is right. Xiangshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Xin'an, Shunde, and Dongguan are all prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Guangfu. In order to take office, Zhengyin officials of prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Guangfu must first pay homage to King Pingnan. If King Pingnan does not see him, then this official will not be able to become an official. Haifeng and Guishan counties follow the usual practice. The governor of Guangdong fills in the vacancy."

Following Ba Gangshan's words, it was Yao Qisheng, the master of the governor's yamen, who was at Kong Sizhen's place the day before yesterday, and he didn't explain the matter of appointing the county magistrate to grab the land - he knew that Wang Fuchen was not very interested in such things , and Wang Zhongxiao has a stomach full of bad water, and most likely he has already had a countermeasure.

Zhou Chang, who arrived in Zhaoqing with Wang Jizhen and the others yesterday afternoon, took up the topic and said: "Second son, I also heard about this rule when I was an enshrined in the cabinet. In Guangdong, there are eleven counties and one prefecture in Zhaoqing. Officials need the nod of the army to take office. Zhengyin officials in the [-] counties of Guangfu have to worship King Pingnan before taking office. And the Zhengyin officials of nine counties and one prefecture in Huizhou prefecture have to be nominated by the governor of Guangdong."

Yu Deshui, who had already bought an alternate magistrate, said with a smile: "Second son, why don't we first take down the eleven counties and one prefecture of Zhaoqing Prefecture? There are vacancies in all the counties, and the magistrate of Deqing Prefecture is also vacant, and the father can make the decision. How about a humble post to act as an agent for Deqing Prefecture?"

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

Yu Deshui smiled and said: "I'm still talking to you. Most of the prefects in Guangdong are short of requests. It's not easy for me, an alternate prefect, to make up for it. Let's just be low."

Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said: "If you want to be low, don't Deqing Prefecture! Isn't Xiangshan County a good agent? Although Deqing Prefecture is a state, it can't compare to Xiangshan County!"

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

"I can't take it," Ba Gangshan shook his head, "Pan Hong, the magistrate of Xiangshan County, is the coater of Pingnan Prince's Mansion, and Xiangshan County is short of decree, he was recommended by Pingnan King, and he took office after the emperor issued a decree. "

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

"Hurry up, drive away?" Ba Gangshan was taken aback, "How to hurry up? Didn't Shikai say that we will not rebel for the time being?"

Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile: "We don't need to go out and catch up."

"Then who will come forward to be this villain?"

Wang Zhongxiao didn't answer, just said with a smile: "The wicked will come soon!"

He then changed the subject and asked, "Uncle Ba Liu, how are our Restoration Academy and Jingwu Hall doing? Can you go and see them today?"

Ba Gangshan said: "The Restoration Academy is very prosperous. The academy is located in the city, in the former site of the Xingyan Academy created by Bao Longtu. Because there are great Confucianists from Zhejiang teaching, it is still run by the governor's yamen, and Master Yao is leading the school. The masters of the six departments in the governor’s yamen teach worldly and practical knowledge, so many scholars from Guangfu and Zhaoqing came here admiringly, and now they have accepted hundreds of students.”

In the Qing Dynasty, due to the large-scale literary prison and "too difficult to become an official", all places were devastated, and the enthusiasm for running private schools was also very low. The relatively low-level private schools are better, and the higher-level academies, except for the official background, otherwise They are all the hardest-hit areas of Chaweng Prison!
And there will always be some text prisons to check!Even if there is no such violent material as "The Theory of the World is Public" and "The System of Land and Mu in the Heavenly Dynasty", if there is a "Qingfeng is illiterate, why turn the pages randomly", or if you don't avoid the taboos of Kang Mazi, Mazi's father, Mazi's father, and Mazi's grandpa, You can still set up a literal prison.

Therefore, high-level non-governmental academies in various places have closed their doors one after another, and it is too difficult for scholars to improve their knowledge horizons.

However, the newly opened Reform Academy in Zhaoqing Prefecture was endorsed by the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi!
Whoever dares to investigate must ask Wang Zhijun's [-] Green Battalion soldiers if they agree?

"As for Jingwu Hall," Ba Gangshan said again, "all the students in the first phase have already taken up positions in the team and joined the army. The students in the second phase have just recruited a total of 360 people, and they are currently joining the team. train."

"Who are they recruiting?"

Ba Gangshan said: "Half of them are the sons and nephews of military officers in the army, some are from our team, some are from Dingnan Gege's team, and the other half are strong and strong young people from Guangdong, all of them are from Zhaoqing, Luoding, and Guangfu. son."

Yao Qisheng next to him was still afraid that Wang Zhongxiao would not understand, and added: "Second son, the clans in Guangdong are powerful, and there are frequent fights between the native and guest clans, so many of the clan's children practice martial arts, fighting and killing each other. I am more interested. So there are many martial arts gyms in Zhaoqing, Guangfu and other places. Since our Jingwu Academy opened, we have been kicked seven or eight times!"

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

He was not angry, but asked with a smile, "Are we losing or winning?"

"Of course we won! Our people all have real kung fu, it's not the martial arts people here in Guangdong who are playing tricks." Ba Gangshan laughed, "So our Jingwu Academy has established a name in Guangdong, and it's famous. There are more and more apprentices coming, and we can't recruit any more. Your father had no choice but to open the outer door, and recruited hundreds of apprentices to teach guns, sticks, knives and cards."

In fact, it's not how hard the "masters" in Jingwutang are, but that Jingwutang plays "army weapons". The "martial arts courses" include spears, knives, bows, shotguns, and red cannons. No matter how hard the fists of today's martial artists are, you can't win!
And those Guangdong martial arts masters who come to kick the gym can't force themselves to compare themselves with the warriors with big guns, right?If the opponent is playing tricks, they have to play tricks too!But how can someone who plays with instruments compare to a professional fighter?
Therefore, the name of this Fist of Martial Arts Academy will soon rise!

"This is done beautifully!" Wang Zhongxiao suddenly became interested, and stood up and said to the people in front of him, "Come on, let's go and have a look together. First go to the Jingwu Academy, and then to the Restoration Academy."

The current Guangzhou Fucheng is also the same as Fuzhou City and Beijing City. Those fifteen Zuoling's children and their families and slaves.

Of course, the number of people is also quite large, almost 20, which is 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 himself. During these years in Guangdong, apart from doing bad things, he planted cloth and gave birth to sons and daughters. I don’t know how many sons and daughters are born. Above, as for the grandchildren, it has already passed a thousand!
How can he lead by example and work tirelessly, can those people under him not work hard?
And how much oil and water there is in Guangdong!Even if there are more people, we can afford it.

Just one Guangfu can rival one or even two poor provinces in the north!

In addition, Shang Kexi has done absolutely bad things in Guangdong these years. First, he slaughtered Guangzhou, killing tens of 10 people, and completely emptied the city of Guangzhou!Later, under the order of Oboi, he carried out a large-scale coastal relocation.If you move twenty miles away, you will be fifty or even a hundred miles away from him, and the method of moving the border is extremely violent. You can send troops down there and move out within a three-day deadline. You don’t ask where you’re going, and you don’t care if you’ll be hungry after you move out. die?

Anyway, if you don't leave at that time, the soldiers of the Shang family will kill people!
With such a method, Shang Kexi turned the densely populated coastal areas of Guangdong into a sparsely populated Baidi old Shang family's descendants, so there might be no place to settle them down!
But Shang Kexi's perverse actions did not affect the income of the Pingnan Palace, and even the income has been increasing year by year, and the growth is good!
This is because Guangdong coastal massacres and relocations. This foreign trade is very difficult to do.

Originally, there were tens of thousands of ships of the Han merchants, and they were running around at various ports along the coast. It was very difficult for Shang Kexi to collect taxes. Moreover, he was not qualified to collect such taxes even after Ping Nanwang.

But now there are no people along the coast of Guangdong, whether it is Han Chinese maritime merchants or Western maritime merchants, naturally there is no way to run around.But when Shang Kexi was carrying out the coastal relocation, he still left a point that the Portuguese in Xiangshan, Guangdong, did not relocate.

In this way, Guangdong's foreign trade was concentrated in Haoao (later there was a small opening in Dahao, but it was much worse than Haoao), which was easy to control.

Shang Kexi used the prospect of relocating to borders along the coast and being a foreign servant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to frighten the Portuguese people in Hao, Macau, and privately opened the Xiangshan Mutual Market to engage in legal smuggling. This business is almost exhausted.

Relying on the money obtained by legal smuggling, the inner city of Guangzhou, which was slaughtered by Shang Kexi in the past, is now developing more and more prosperously. There are new big houses everywhere, and the servants and family members of the Pingfan who come and go on the street are also well-supported. White and fat, silk and satin are also casually worn on the body. It is really in sharp contrast with the outer city of Guangzhou, which is full of broken and rotten beggars, like a slum!

As for the two palaces in the outer city of Guangzhou, they are even more beautifully built, as if they are palaces in the sky-one of these two palaces is the gratifying Pingnan Palace, and the other is Geng Jimao's Jingnan Palace. It belongs to Shang Zhixin who just came to Guangdong to take power.

No, although the palace is extravagant, it is still gratifying that he does not live in the palace now, but lives in a big Buddhist temple not far from the palace. He killed so many people and committed all kinds of bad things. The Eight Hells, plus he had cataracts, and his vision was getting worse and worse, so he felt that he had suffered retribution, so under the advice of the counselor Jin Cheng, he searched for a lot of people's fat and anointment, and repaired it in the center of Guangzhou's inner city. A big Buddhist temple.

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

Tomorrow morning, his practice will end, and he will be guarded by a big monk in the temple, not afraid of being entangled by little ghosts. After he sleeps soundly, he will be able to become King Pingnan and continue to harm the common people!

As for those who are slaves, they dare not cut off their braids casually!

But even if he goes to practice in the Great Buddha Temple every night, Shang Kexi still suffers from insomnia, and often cannot sleep all night, and his appetite is not as good as before, and he has lost weight to less than [-] catties!
This is all about worrying about the country and the people!

At the beginning, I was worried that the little emperor would misunderstand his relationship with Oboi. In fact, his relationship with Oboi was not very familiar, but it was much better than the relationship between Wu Sangui and Oboi!

Later, the trend of cutting the feudal clan rose again!
The little emperor sent his son I Da Gongshang Zhixin to Guangzhou to take charge of the feudal affairs and "prepared to cut down the feudal clan". This really worried him!

Although the master wants to cut down the clan, as a slave, he should be obedient and cooperate with it, but many people under his clan don't have the consciousness to cut down the clan?Did you cut off the feudal clan and go to Liaodong to drink the "northeast wind"?

Besides, the 20 of them are worried about the little emperor in Guangdong, why should the little emperor feel relieved when they arrive in Liaodong?
Just because the Northeast is closer to Beijing?

Just because in history, no one has ever conquered the world from Guangdong, but Liao, Jin, and Qing have started from the Northeast?
So as soon as the "preparation to cut the feudal clan" started, Shang Kexi's subordinates split up. Some advocated obedience to the imperial court and offered to cut the feudal clan in order to win preferential treatment from the imperial court and let them go to Beijing as slaves.

Of course, the city of Beijing can't accommodate 20 Shangfan slaves, so taking the initiative to cut down the feudal clan must abandon some of the same robes. As for the fate of the abandoned people, it's hard to say.

However, most of the people in Shangfan, because they had a premonition that their "slavery will be exhausted", they all advocated fighting with the imperial court to let the imperial court know Shangfan's integrity-if you are not a slave, you would rather die!

And these two groups gathered around Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao, two "big dutiful sons". Among them, Shang Zhixiao, who has been serving Shang Kexi and is quite favored by Shang Kexi, advocated "fighting for preferential treatment".And Shang Zhixin, who came from Beijing to cooperate with the court, somehow advocated "not to be a slave, or rather die"!
And at the end of the tenth year of Kangxi, there was one more thing that worried Shang Kexi. Wu Sangui rebelled!Moreover, the "opportunity is good", and tens of thousands of Yue Le's Eight Banners Celestial Soldiers were hacked to death, and Beijing was "full of whites"!

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

Now the fight between the slaves of the feudal clan in Guangzhou became more fierce. Because the imperial court will not cut down the feudal clan for the time being, they are divided into two factions of "loyalty" and "self-protection".

Among them, the faction led by Shang Zhixiao advocated loyalty to the imperial court, and sent troops together with Wang Fuchen to attack Sun Yanling and Wu Sangui. They dared not attack Sun Yanling.

The faction headed by Shang Zhixin advocates the mutual protection of the Southwest, and must jointly protect itself with Sun Yanling, Geng Jingzhong, and Wang Fuchen.
Anyway, these two groups couldn't talk about each other. During this time, they argued in front of Shang Kexi every day, and Shang Kexi's eyesight became worse and worse. He couldn't even see the beauty's figure clearly, so he had to touch it with his hands. Of course, I became more and more depressed, and I didn't even bother to go home, so I simply lived in the Great Buddha Temple and hid quietly.

But he wanted to avoid trouble, but trouble would come to him by himself!

On this day, Shang Kexi was in the company of two "hair nuns" in a secluded Zen room in the Great Buddha Temple, when he was chanting "Namo Amitabha Buddha" and "If I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell" suddenly heard a voice in my ear. The voices of Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao came.

"Ama, it's bad!"

This is my Dagong yelling that his Ama was fine at first, but now it is getting worse and worse!Shang Kexi didn't want to talk to this unlucky boy at all, so he continued to read his scriptures.

"Ama Obai is here!"

This is the voice of Shang Zhixiao, the "big filial son", who is in a panic.

"Aoboi. Aoboi's benefactor is here?" Shang Kexi just talked to himself, jumped up, and immediately yelled, "Oboi? Where is Aoboi?" Come on, hurry up and escort, Oboi is coming to kill this king!"

But no one came to escort him, but a very strong hand grabbed Shang Kexi's left arm, and then Shang Zhixin's voice said, "Ama, don't be afraid, Oboi hasn't entered the Great Buddha Temple yet!"

(End of this chapter)