Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 202 If you have something to say, don't shoot! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

Guangzhou, Guangdong.Kangxi 12th March [-]th.

With the sound of the thirteen gongs of "Boom, Boom, Boom" again, the shouts of officials came up again: "Respect things and trust, save money and love people, and make people happy"

Knocking gongs and shouting are part of the ceremonial guards of officials in the Qing Dynasty. According to the size of the official position, the sound of gongs can be increased from seven to thirteen.And the words shouted are not "quiet", "avoidance", "get out", "blind your dog's eyes" or something, but an excerpt from "The Analects of Confucius", so that the accompanying officials and soldiers can memorize it, loudly shout out.This seems to be an official who is educated and knows "The Analects of Confucius".

Today, he came to the outside of Guangzhou in a big sedan chair with a large number of entourages, officials, soldiers, aunts and maids. He is a very educated person who can recite "The Analects of Confucius" upside down. The official named Nalan Mingzhu.

He was sent by Kangxi to mediate the dispute between Wang and Shang in Guangdong—the purpose of this errand really left him speechless.

Shang Kexi, the vassal king guarding Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, and Wang Fuchen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, actually started a civil war when the country was in crisis!
The Qing Dynasty is now being attacked by two rebels, Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng, and Huguang is almost lost. Wang Fuchen and Shang Kexi, these two loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, have no intention of sending troops to serve the king. A civil war broke out in Guangdong. If there were more loyal ministers like this, the Qing Dynasty would have killed Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng, and would have been mad at this loyal minister.

Probably because she was too angry, Nalan Mingzhu put on airs when she went south this time. When she arrived at Gan County, the first county of Ganzhou Prefecture, she stopped there and didn't want to leave. She wanted to wait for Wang Fuchen and Shang Kexi to send someone to welcome her with gifts. .

He is a bachelor at his senior level, Wang Zhongxiao's teacher, and Shang Zhixin's old friend, so he came all the way to Guangdong to negotiate peace between the two of them, wouldn't it be too much to accept a little gift?
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, no one came to give gifts. Not only did no one come to give gifts, there was not even a letter.There is only news that the Wang family and the Shang family continue to fight in Guangzhou.First, Wang Zhongxiao claimed to have beaten "Shen Oboi" and Xin'an Wu Sanwei away, and recovered Xin'an County. Of course, he took it back into his pocket and would not return it to Lao Shang's family.

Then Wang Zhongxiao used the excuse that Oboi might have hid in Dongguan again, sent [-] soldiers from the village to surround the city of Dongguan, and demanded to search the city.After searching, Oboi was not caught, but the treasure land of Dongguan was named Wang.

After Wang Zhongxiao took Dongguan, the Guangdong Township Army controlled by the Wang family began to sweep the outskirts of Guangzhou Fucheng under the pretext of killing Shang Kexi and angering the people. First they took Sanshui County, and then Huangpu, Haizhu, and Lubu. The [-] or [-] township capitals of Guangzhou City, Jiaotang, Xinzao, etc. have almost taken over the townships and towns on the east, south, and west sides of Guangzhou City, leaving only the north side of Guangzhou City remaining untouched.

Of course, Shang Zhixin, the head of the Pingnan Palace, was not reconciled to his territory being eaten away piece by piece by Wang Zhongxiao.As a result, he bumped into a bastion that the Guangdong soldiers had piled carelessly with sandbags and logs, and suffered heavy casualties from other people's flintlock guns!

And after Wang Zhongxiao completed the deployment of the towns and cities near Guangzhou Fucheng, he mercilessly began to equalize the land and set up the forces of the township soldiers, which became bigger and bigger!
In mid-February, seeing that the Shang family's Guangzhou city was about to be captured by Wang Zhongxiao, reinforcements finally came from the Shang family!

The reinforcements were not sent by the imperial court, but Shang Shuying, the wife of Duke Xushun's mansion, finally said (reading to sleep) that he had subdued Liu Jinzhong, the commander-in-chief of Chaozhen. Come to Guangzhou government for armed mediation.

At the same time, Wang Shirong, the mediation ambassador sent by Wu Sangui, also arrived in Guangzhou and received a high-level reception from Shang Zhixin!
In addition, he entered Guangzhou through Wang Fuchen's territory!
Now Mingzhu didn't dare to put on airs anymore, and quickly asked the Nangan General Soldier to send troops to escort him into Guangdong to mediate the "Wang Shang Controversy" on behalf of Emperor Kangxi, but before he arrived in Guangzhou, the bad news on the Huguang battlefield was like a snowflake floated towards him.

Hearing the news of thunder explosions in the Huguang war zone of the Qing Dynasty, Mingzhu was really a little anxious. If he didn't hurry up, he might not be able to mediate the "war between Wang and Shang". That Li Zicheng went down the Yangtze River and hit Nanjing in one breath. !At that time, if he wants to go back to Beijing, he will have nowhere to go.
So Mingzhu urged his men to rush all the way, and finally arrived outside Guangzhou before the bad news of Li Zicheng's entry into Jiangxi came.

When he arrived outside the city of Guangzhou, he, the imperial envoy, still had to make a statement. No matter how urgent he was, he didn't care about the little time!At most, catch up when you go back.

So Mingzhu asked his subordinates to put on the guard of honor of the imperial envoy, while beating and beating, while reciting the Analects of Confucius, while marching into the city!
But now I don't know what's wrong, I only drank half of the "drinking way", why did I get stuck?Forgot the words?
Nalan Mingzhu, who was sitting in the sweltering eight-carrier sedan, was feeling strange because of the sudden stop of the "dawdao", when he found that the eight-carrier sedan he was riding in also fell to the ground.

This is where it is?

Mingzhu hurriedly opened the curtain of the sedan chair, poked her head out, and the scorching sunshine of Guangdong fell down, blinding her eyes!He quickly squinted his eyes and asked, "Are you at the Great North Gate of Guangzhou?"

"Not yet."

One of Mingzhu's servants stammered back.

"Have people from Pingnan Palace and Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi come to greet you?" Mingzhu asked again.

He has been a "Shangguan" for so many years, when he went to Beijing to run a business, the local government didn't confess him as a Bodhisattva?This time, Shang Zhixin and Wang Fuchen's people are about to enter Guangzhou. It's time to welcome them.

"It doesn't seem like they are."

"Who is that?" Mingzhu was still rubbing her eyes!

"It seems to be a group of Ming Dynasty people!"

"What? People from the Ming Dynasty." When Mingzhu heard this, a chill ran down her spine!

People from the Ming Dynasty came to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
Thinking of this, he couldn't understand the glare of the sun, so he quickly squinted his eyes and looked forward, and saw a lot of people standing in front of and on both sides of the official road, looking at their hairstyles and clothes. picture!

Among them, standing in front of the official road is a group of men with buns on their heads, cloth clothes with right lapel collars, and long swords on their belts. They don't look like rebels. Very gentle.The two leaders are both in their 40s, and they both look elegant.One of them was a thin man with high cheekbones and a long goatee.The other was a fat man with a round face and sideburns.

"You... where did you come from? Why don't you shave your head!"

At this time, one of Mingzhu's attendants saw that the visitor was not very vicious, so he dared to question him.

"This is Guangdong Panyu Qu Dajun, a member of the Guangdong Reform Society," the skinny man brushed his beard and announced his family name, "Please come out and meet Mingzhu Mingshi."

The fat man with a round face said with a smile: "This is Chen Gongyin, Luofu Commoner, also a member of the Restoration Society, and he is here to see the Bachelor of Ming."

"Then why don't you shave your heads?" The attendant didn't realize it at all. He didn't go to invite Mingzhu, but asked about other people's hairstyles. "Do you know the rules of the Qing Dynasty? Keep your hair but not your head! Aren't you afraid of death?"

"I know, I know," the thin man named Qu Dajun nodded with a smile, and pointed a flintlock pistol at the attendant with a kind face, "but we have guns!"

"You, you... How dare you point a gun at the imperial court official? Do you dare to rebel?" The attendant was quite fierce, and he was not afraid of the small pistol at all.

The middle-aged scholar named Chen Gongyin also took out his gun at this time, and said with an easy-going face: "Why don't you, the life officer, know what Qu Jiezi means by 'we have guns'? We... all here Everyone has guns! Quickly, quickly, take out your guns and point them at the court officials who want to kill us!"

Then there was a burst of "cracking" sound of the trigger being opened!
It turned out that the people in Han costumes watching the excitement on both sides of the road were soldiers from the Guangdong Township Army. Today they were led by officers to reason with the imperial envoys of the Qing Dynasty.

Hundreds of thousands of flintlock guns were immediately pointed at the entourage of the imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty and the imperial envoy himself!
Pointing a small pistol is not afraid, but pointing a thousand flintlocks is not afraid!

"If you have something to say, don't shoot. Don't shoot!"

Before that Mingzhu's entourage knelt down for Chen Gongyin and Qu Dajun, Mingzhu had already roared. While roaring, she lifted her robe and rushed to the front of the line, and quickly clasped her fists at the two Guangdong Confucian scholars, "I am Mingzhu, both of you!" Mr.'s name, I have heard of it when I was in the capital!

Mr. Banfeng (Chen Gongyin)'s official script is the first in Guangdong!

I have also read Mr. Caipu's "Records of Chengren in the Four Dynasties of the Imperial Ming Dynasty."

It turned out that Nalan Mingzhu also knew Chen Gongyin and Qu Dajun—he knew there was someone like Chen Gongyin because Chen Gongyin had good calligraphy and was well-known among Guangdong scholars.And he knew that Qu Dajun got a hand-copied copy of "The Record of Chengren in the Four Dynasties of the Imperial Ming Dynasty" from somewhere in Dongtangzi Hutong where the stick was stuck, and the signature on it was Qu Dajun.So Mingzhu suggested that Kangxi ordered the stick to try to catch him, but he never caught him.

Now it seems that it is normal not to be caught.Nalan Mingzhu originally thought that Qu Dajun was a writer of anti-books, but he didn't expect him to play with flintlock guns!
"If you have something to say? Then what do you say about keeping your hair instead of your hair?" Qu Dajun now has a gun in his hand, and he has a reason in his mouth. The gun cannot be put down, but the reason can still be explained, "This must be changed! We also need the head and the hair to be a bachelor, is there any reason for you to say that?"

"Yes, yes, it makes sense." Mingzhu looked at Qu Dajun's gun, how could he dare to say that the other party was unreasonable, "I will immediately report to the emperor when I go back, and ask the emperor to allow the people of Guangdong to grow their hair and keep their heads."

"I don't need Kangxi's consent for this," Qu Dajun said, "But I am waiting for the scholars and villagers in Guangdong to stop the official sedan chair of the Ming scholar today, and I do have something to discuss with you."

"It can be discussed. But can you put the gun down first, in case it goes off."

Mingzhu felt terrified when she saw those hundreds of flintlock guns!If there was a fire, would he still have holes all over his body?
"There are reasons to be told, but the gun must never be put down!" Qu Dajun said, "This is the reasoning of our Guangdong Restoration Society!"

Chen Gongyin nodded: "Scholar Ming, you Eight Banners disciples are all soldiers. If we scholars put down our guns, we will be scholars and soldiers when we meet you. There is no reason for that. So we must hold the guns firmly in our hands!"

"Then, what reason are you going to talk about?" Mingzhu was also speechless, but there was nothing she could do, the gun was in someone else's hand!

"We want to kill Shang Kexi!" Qu Dajun shouted, "Shang Kexi first massacred Guangzhou, killing hundreds of thousands of people! Then he forcibly moved to the forbidden sea, forcing more than a million people to die! If this person is not killed, the people will not be angry! So We just want to ask the court to hand over Shang Kexi to us Cantonese!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Guangdong soldiers with guns around him started to clamor.

"Yes! We Cantonese are the most ruthless!"

"Listen up, imperial envoy, tell Kangxi to hand over Shang Kexi to us!"

"We want to kill Shang Kexi! If Kangxi disagrees, we will rebel!"

"Yes, whoever helps us kill Shang Kexi will be the Lord of Guangdong!"

"Mr. Banfeng, Mr. Caipu, is it good that Wu Sangui's people agree to your killing?" Nalan Mingzhu saw the enraged crowd around him, so he asked Chen Gongyin and Qu Dajun about Wu Sangui's price.

"Not yet." Qu Dajun said, "Scholar Ming, if Wu Sangui's people agree, can we still let you go to Guangzhou City? Once you enter the city, you will have a good relationship with Guangdong Governor Zhu Guozhi and Prince Shang Zhixin. Mrs. Shang Shuying of Shungong Mansion and the others talk about it. Now the people in the whole province of Guangdong are going to kill Shang Kexi, they will not be able to keep that old thief!"

Ok!

Mingzhu breathed a sigh of relief and can still enter Guangzhou City!
But having said that, even though Shang Kexi is going to be killed in Guangdong now, it seems that Shang Kexi hasn't died until now, right?

Nalan Mingzhu was not shot in the end. In fact, most of those flintlock guns had no bullets in them, and only a few flintlock guns held by officers of the Guangdong Township Army who were in charge of controlling the situation had bullets in them.

The reason for this is, of course, that Wang Zhongxiao, who was hiding behind the scenes, never wanted to kill Mingzhu, he didn't even have to kill Shang Kexi.

Wang Zhongxiao is not from Cantonese, so there is no hatred for Monk Kexi.And if Shang Kexi died, who would he use to draw hatred?
So, it is best for Shang Kexi to escape from Guangfu and go to Shaozhou.

In this way, Wang Zhongxiao can integrate Guangfu, and then he can continue to march into Shaozhou, and then Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu!
But this is just Wang Zhongxiao's good idea, but the actual situation is that Shang Kexi, this old stubborn just refuses to run away, and is still staying in Pingnan Palace to die.

It is still gratifying that the deadly carrying is beneficial to Wang Zhongxiao's scrambling for land around Guangzhou City, equalizing the fields, and pulling Zhuang Ding (Jianxiang Army). After recruiting a lot of strong men around the city of Guangzhou, the number of his Guangdong Township Army has exceeded [-]!
Although Wang Zhongxiao didn't have so many officers and non-commissioned officers to support so many troops, and didn't have so many flintlock guns and artillery to equip them for a while, but the number was still quite large!
If you add the troops of Wang Fuchen, Wang Jizhen, and Sun Jiqing, the entire Guangdong Wang Group's army is less than [-], and [-] is definitely close.

On Shang Zhixin's side, no matter how mobilized his vassal army and green battalion soldiers, he would only raise [-] so-so. Zhu Guozhi and Li Lan who had returned, plus the army of Chen Shikai, Liu Jinzhong, Shang Shuying and others, When Mingzhu entered Guangzhou, the total number of troops on the Shang family's side was only [-], which was less than half of Wang's army.And those who can be concentrated in Guangzhou are just over half of the total, that is, tens of thousands, and certainly less than [-].

Relying on this little force to defend Guangzhou is tantamount to a dream. However, Wang Shirong, the envoy sent by Wu Sangui, is quite confident. And if Mingzhu is bound to Wu Guogui's army in Hunan, His Royal Highness, President Xi Wang of Ming Dynasty, will send Wu Guogui to Guangdong to carry out "armed mediation", and Shang Kexi's family will definitely be saved by then.
Of course, Wu Sangui would not kill Mingzhu either.Wang Shirong made it clear to Monk Zhixin that Wu Guogui wanted the pearl in order to help Wu Shifan get back his wife and children, which is a great achievement!

As for the kidnapping of the imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty to mediate the minister Mingzhu, Shang Kexi would definitely not agree, but Shang Zhixin and his brothers were still very tempted.

Anyway, it doesn't seem too difficult to catch a pearl. This pearl was sent to the door by myself, so if you don't catch it, you won't catch it!

(End of this chapter)