Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 471 Criticism
Around the little emperor Zhu Cihuan, there was never a shortage of officials. He fled from Fujian to Guangdong, and then from Guangdong to Guangxi, always followed by a large number of civil officials.

After arriving in Guangxi, relying on the local military attache Chen Bangfu to stabilize himself, he made Chen Bangfu a Duke.

After the Qing army occupied Guangdong, it did not attack Guangxi immediately, but a conflict occurred between the two leaders.

In the Qing army, Jin Shenghuan occupied Fujian and Wang Tizhong occupied Guangdong. This was originally promised to them by Hong Chengchou.

Of course, Hong Chengchou also promised Zheng Zhilong the governance of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, but he put Zheng Zhilong under house arrest as soon as he arrived in Beijing.

But different from Zheng Zhilong, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Tizhong have soldiers in their hands. They each have more than 20 soldiers. They can occupy the territory by themselves. , The recruitment of refugees expanded to 20 troops, and Wang Tizhong also expanded to [-] in Guangdong.

But unlike Jin Shenghuan, Wang Tizhong was born in Li Zicheng's peasant army, and each of his generals had his own troops, especially one named Wang Deren. He and Wang Tizhong were both chief soldiers in official positions. This was appointed by Azige when he was there. Yes, because he captured the Ming Emperor Zhu Cihong.

The same official position, but it is impossible to have the same power, and with soldiers in hand, there will naturally be disagreements.

Wang Tizhong and Wang Deren have always been in harmony. After arriving in Guangdong, Wang Tizhong was the most powerful, occupying Guangzhou City, while Wang Deren occupied Zhaoqing.

Compared with Jin Shenghuan who was always nervous under Yang Chao's military power, after the two men occupied Guangdong, they felt much more secure. At the beginning, Jiangxi was in the hands of the Qing army, so they didn't have to worry about being attacked at all. Going to attack is very face-saving, how dare you attack them.

This kind of warlord group is fine when it encounters external pressure, and can still unite as one, but once there is no pressure, internal problems will occur instead.

Wang Tizhong has been urging Wang Deren to attack the impoverished Guangxi, while he wants to monopolize Guangdong, but Wang Deren also knows that Guangxi is incomparable with Guangdong. He recruited troops and bought horses in the Zhaoqing area to fight against Wang Tizhong.

Wang Tizhong also always wanted to kill Wang Deren and divide his tribe, but he didn't want to damage his own troops.

The stalemate was broken when Yang Chao sent troops to recover Jiangxi. Many men led troops to recover the territory of Jiangxi from Nanchang to Ganzhou, especially Ganzhou, which bordered Guangdong and opposite Shaoguan and Nanxiong in Guangdong.

Wang Tizhong immediately lost his sense of security, and sent Gao Jinku and other elite soldiers to Shaoguan and Nanxiong, and set up defenses on Meiling. , occupied the empty Guangzhou, and killed Wang Tizhong.

Then Wang Deren immediately raised the banner of anti-Qing and throwing Ming Dynasty, and suddenly became the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi appointed by the Ming Dynasty, and was named Guangchang Marquis.

After Wang Deren changed his mind, Jin Shenghuan immediately changed his mind, and the stronger Jin Shenghuan was named Chang Guogong.

The third prince Zhu also has some skills, but the key is that several civil servants in Guangdong under him are capable. All the planning and operation are operated by Cantonese literati such as Zhang Jiayu. The empty-handed white wolf won the two provinces, and the court was suddenly jubilant. , the gas is also hard.

Then they immediately moved their capital from Guangxi to Guangdong, but not Guangzhou, but Zhaoqing, which is connected to Guangxi by water. Obviously, they left a way out for themselves, not only asking to be controlled by the Guangxi warlord Chen Bangfu, but also preventing those who had already gone north to Guangzhou. Wang Deren's control is somewhat farsighted.

Anyway, the situation in Guangdong and Fujian is also a good thing for Yang Chao. Suddenly the rear is stable, and he can concentrate on fighting the Qing army for Hunan.

But the trouble is that the small imperial court suddenly controlled the land of the three provinces. Although it was only a nominal control, they suddenly became hardened.

A censor named Li Ruyue impeached Yang Chao for three major crimes. The first is to support the soldiers, the second is to search for soldiers and civilians, and the third is to bully the holy descendants.Needless to say the first one, Yang Chao recognized it.The second article is to search for scholars and people, but Yang Chao does not recognize it. How can it be called a search for the hidden land of the Qingzhang Hao family? Zhu Yuanzhang would do the same when he was alive.The third article refers to the same thing, but it refers specifically to Yang Chaoqing's property of the Confucius family in Shandong, making the Kong family pay taxes like ordinary landlords.

Li Ruyue's impeachment, Zhang Jiayu and other insightful people who have made great contributions and entered the cabinet suggested that the emperor make major incidents smaller. At this time, he is relying on Yang Chao's military law to support the court, so the little emperor who suffered at the beginning also wants to calm things down. So the memorial was left in the middle, and there was no Mingfatang newspaper.

But this Li Ruyue probably wanted to be famous and went crazy, so she printed hundreds of copies and posted them in the streets and alleys, and even sent her servants to Nanjing to call Yang Chao.

Seeing the impeachment, Yang Chao didn't mind impeaching him, and he even brought along the memorabilia that had been scolded by his ancestors for eight generations. No matter how good his temper is, there is a limit, so he immediately asked Li Ruyue's family to take back the persuasion table that the Kong family gave him. , let him see what virtue a saint is.

Who knew that Li Ruyue not only didn't think about it, but made another disturbance in the court, and used this as evidence to impeach Yang Chao for bullying the holy descendants. He firmly believed that it was Yang Chao's coercion of the Kong family to do it for him, and demanded that the court kill Yang Chao as justice. state law.

In doing so, Li Ruyue became famous, and many literati praised him for a while, such as Liu Zongzhou, a great scholar in Shaoxing.

This Liu Zongzhou is also a character, his fame surpasses the sky. When Emperor Chongzhen was here, he dared to scold the chief minister of the dynasty, Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru, and finally even the emperor. As a result, he was imprisoned. Not killed.

When he arrived at the small court in the south of the Yangtze River, he started to scold this and that again, scolding the four towns in Jiangbei, and even scolding Yang Chao.

At that time, when Azig fought near Nanjing and the little emperor fled the city, he returned to his hometown and felt that he should be loyal to the emperor, so he started a hunger strike. In the original history, he really starved himself to death, but in this era, Because of Yang Chao's sudden return to the army, Azig failed to reach Nanjing, so Liu Zongzhou went on a hunger strike for two days and stopped.

However, since Liu Zongzhou did not become an official, Fujian was captured by the Qing army, and after Zhu Cihuan fled south, he went on a hunger strike for two days. When he found that Ming was still alive, he stopped his hunger strike again, even though Yang Chao broke Nanjing twice. Pulling back from the edge, this Liu Zongzhou still didn't give up scolding Yang Chao, gave lectures in his hometown, and made a big noise to make Yang Chao ten times worse than Cao Cao.

"Go, let the editor of Jiangnan News ask Liu Zongzhou for some articles to comment on the general trend of the world."

The Jiangnan Newspaper run by Yang Chao has always been lukewarm and its sales are very limited. The first is that there are too few literate people. something that declares politics.

Yang Chao often asked editors to send people to various places to interview people's sentiments and various news publications, but the effect was still not very good, and it was far less popular than the tabloids of later generations.

"Don't literati like to read articles that scold me. I heard that Liu Zongzhou's articles are widely copied, why don't we let him scold me in the newspaper, and increase the sales of our newspaper."

Yang Chao felt that since he was going to be scolded, it was better to turn waste into treasure. There is no garbage in the world, only misplaced resources.

Even incompetent literati like Liu Zongzhou and Li Ruyue who only know how to gain fame are still valuable garbage, and they should be used when they should be used.

Huang Fengfu thinks that this move is very high, which proves that Yang Chao has a large number, which can accommodate the comments of the entourage.

Liu Zongzhou really boldly wrote an article to scold Yang Chao in the newspaper. As a result, the sales volume of the newspaper was greatly increased, second only to when Yang Chao won the battle.

Seeing that this method was feasible, Yang Chao asked people to interview various celebrities, such as Xia Yunyi and Chen Zilong, and let everyone express their opinions freely, and the newspapers were very lively all of a sudden.

Using newspapers as a stage for debate between the two sides, these people in the province discuss in private.

The momentum of the debate in the newspapers has also intensified. In the late Ming Dynasty, literati generally did not have much room to speak. Newspapers like Jiangnan Daily, which are directly published throughout the whole place, are indeed a good stage for them to speak freely. It expresses depression and is very popular among literati.

Then Yang Chao announced in the newspaper that contributions from literati are welcome, and those with good writing and reliable arguments will be published.

This aroused the enthusiasm of a group of unknown but talented literati, who contributed articles one after another, proud of being able to publish, but very angry if they could not be published, thinking that their talents were not appreciated. A position of Wan Wan, this was unexpected by Yang Chao.

However, I saw through the newspaper Yang Chao that there are still some people who expressed a positive attitude towards Yang Chao’s actions. For example, Xia Yunyi’s comments were more pertinent, thinking that Yang Chao had made great contributions to the country. Without Yang Chao, Jiangnan would fall However, at the same time, he implicitly stated that many of Yang Chao's actions were inappropriate, and advised Yang Chao to put the court first and not to be domineering.

There were also those who spoke in support of Yang Chao, attacking Liu Zongzhou for gaining fame, attacking Xia Yunyi for being ignorant of the general trend, and some even threw out the national weapon and regarded it as a virtuous person. The characters under Chao's subordinates are not necessarily written anonymously.But this kind of argument once again ignited the temper of Liu Zongzhou and others, and they cursed endlessly in the newspapers, and the excitement continued until the Chinese New Year.

At this time, Yang Chao didn't care whether the newspaper scolded him or not, he wandered anxiously outside the delivery room.

"My son is still very good at giving birth. Picking this time to come out, not to mention the excitement, will save his mother from the sins of confinement."

Aimee Zhu finally had her due date. After she felt pain in her abdomen, she immediately called for Mrs. Wen to watch over her day and night, waiting for the baby to be born.

With a loud cry, Yang Chao's child announced that he had come to this world, and Yang Chao couldn't wait to rush into the delivery room.

"Congratulations uncle, you are a young lady!"

Wen Po smiled, but there was a hint of fear in her eyes, for fear that Yang Chao would be unhappy because of her daughter.

Yang Chao didn't care, he laughed and said, "Reward!"

Then he carried his daughter and walked to his wife's bed, making the sweaty, pale wife look at her daughter.

(End of this chapter)