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Chapter 567
Yuezhou.

Years ago, under the strict order of Huguang Governor Chen Huizu, Hunan Governor Bayan San had to bring more than [-] people from the green battalion of the province and new recruits to Yuezhou to defend against the Xinghan bandits who might come from Hubei.

After leaving the army, he kept dawdling, and when he heard that General Dingxi Feng Sheng'e had led the army to recover Jingzhou, Mr. Ba's spirit was suddenly high, and after a few urging orders, he arrived in Yuezhou in two days.

Yuezhou is an important town connecting Hunan and Hubei. During the San Francisco Rebellion, the Wu army held on to Yuezhou for five years, preventing the Qing army from taking a further step south. Later, the army was shaken by the death of Wu Sangui, and the guards abandoned the city. hundred miles.

It's just that after taking the waterway from Changsha to Yuezhou, Mr. Ba never went ashore, and he ate and lived on the boat of the Dongting Lake Navy all day long.

The euphemistic name is to sit on the front line and prevent bandits from entering Hunan and disturbing the elders of Sanxiang.

In fact, I listen to operas and play prostitutes on the boat every day, and ask Yuezhou to come to offer silver and gifts.

If there is a change, it is also convenient to escape by boat in time, so as not to be surrounded by bandits in the city and wait to die.

Lord Ba doesn't understand the art of war.

Flexible, but understandable.

This boat was affectionately called Ba Gongguan by the gentry in Yuezhou City, and the gentry even laughed at this Futai master who was born in Zhenghongqi, Manchuria, thinking that he was a coward and a coward.

In fact, the Yuezhou gentry was right.

Bayan San is an idiot.

This person got a pen-and-stick background by relying on his father and grandfather Yinyou, and then he got a job as Zhang Jing in the Military Aircraft Department through the family's operations.

It is the staff of the secretariat.

The problem is that the secretary, Bayan San, can't read all the words. He has no ability to deal with the various official documents of the Military Aircraft Department every day, so he often spends money to ask his colleagues for help, or he is passive and sabotage, which makes all the Manchu and Han colleagues look down on him.

As the core of the military and political affairs of the Qing Dynasty, the Military Aircraft Department had its own night shift personnel, and no one would be willing to do the night shift. As a result, Bayan San, who had no skills, was often placed at night.

Unexpectedly, the unlucky Night Shift Ba was hit by dog ​​shit.

One day when it was his turn to be on duty, it happened that Qianlong received the urgent report on the [-]-mile battle to pacify Junggar on the northwest front.

After reading the battle report, Qianlong asked who was on duty in the Military Aircraft Department.

Eroli, the little eunuch serving in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, looked through the list of guards at the Military Aircraft Department and said it was Bayan San. Qianlong asked Bayan San to be summoned into the palace, and dictated a few hundred words of military strategy, and asked Bayan San to return to the palace three times. The Military Aircraft Department drafted the imperial edict.

At that time, Bayan San just hummed and agreed, but after leaving the palace, he forgot all the emperor's instructions and couldn't remember a single word.

The emperor is still waiting for the draft of his imperial edict, but he can't remember a single word, what should he do?
Just when Bayan San was anxious to jump into the latrine, the goddess of luck patronized him again.

The little eunuch E Luoli next to Qianlong was born in Manchuria. I don't know if the family committed a crime or what happened. He became the first Manchu eunuch since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.

This person has been educated since childhood, is smart and has a memory, quite clever.

When he came to get the manuscript of the imperial edict, Bayan hesitated for a long time and couldn't come up with a single word. Eroli knew at the first sight that the secretary was not doing any work.

There was no other way, so I had to draw up the imperial edict for Bayan San by myself and take it back for business.

After Qianlong read the imperial edict, he felt that Bayan San wrote his meaning clearly and his writing style was good, so he couldn't help being very happy. Bayan San's name was considered to be in the emperor's heart.

A few days later, Qianlong asked Fu Heng, Minister of Military Aircraft, that you have a talent like Bayan San in your military aircraft department, why you didn't recommend him to the emperor earlier.

Talent?

Hearing what the emperor said, Fu Heng didn't dare to be negligent, and soon recommended Bayan San to him.

Soon, Bayan San was appointed as a Daoist of Tongshang Road. Within a few years, he was promoted to governor of Hunan Province and became one of the great officials of the Qing Dynasty.

That is to say, since that night, Bayan San has treated E Luoli, who is a few years younger than himself, as a benefactor. Even though he is now the governor of Hunan, he still does not forget his original intention and sends people to give gifts to Erori every three forks.

It's also kind and compassionate.

That is, being an official is too corrupt. After being promoted to the governor of Hunan, he didn't want to do business, but only thought about how to exploit people's wealth in various names.

For this reason, a tax on straw sandals was introduced.

Few of the poor could wear cloth shoes, and most of them wore straw sandals. As a result, Mr. Ba ordered that anyone who entered the city wearing straw sandals should pay a straw sandal tax.

The reason is that wearing straw sandals hinders the appearance of the city, and the tattered ones are an embarrassment to the government.

There are policies and measures to counter.

When they heard that they had to pay taxes to wear straw sandals to enter the city, the poor simply entered the city barefoot, but they thought they would save the two coppers?

dream!

Mr. Ba patched it in time.

The nature of bare feet is even worse. They are deliberately discrediting the court, so they have to be punished.

The straw sandals tax is two cash, and the barefoot penalty is four cash.

If it weren't for the masters' advice not to be too harsh on the people, I'm afraid Master Ba even gave you the sunbathing tax, the garbage tax, and the smoking tax.

After staying on Dongting Lake for seven or eight days, no bandits came over from Hubei. It stands to reason that Mr. Ba should be happy, but he would be unhappy if he didn't want to.

If the thief can't come, how can he get reimbursed?

So he just talked on paper, and reported to Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang who had taken refuge in Changsha, every two days, saying where the officers and soldiers had encountered the enemy recently, how many people had been killed and so on.

Now that it has been marked, there must be casualties, losses, and gains.

Mr. Ba has no casualties here, no gains, but losses.

Back and forth, I went to the Governor's Yamen to reimburse the expenses of 46 taels.

There is no need for the governor to reimburse him for the actual expenses, he has paid more than half of the expenses himself, and the rest will be returned to the provincial capital to make up for it.

It's not Chinese New Year, Mr. Ba was bored on the boat, he asked the accountant to withdraw [-] taels of silver after the entourage suffered a lot while wandering with him in the lake.

Ten thousand will be given to the accompanying civil and military personnel, boatmen, bearers, cooks, nannies, girls, etc., so that they will be grateful.

[-] were sent to the officers of the Hunan regiment Lian Xiangyong, and [-] were of varying sizes.

As for the brave practitioners below, it is already a kindness from Master Futai to have something to eat and winter clothes to wear, so there is no need to reward them again.

I didn't tell you to really fight the bandits.

On the side of the Dongting Lake navy, Mr. Ba is also interesting, let the navy find their own new year's goods.

How to seek for yourself?

Anyway, since the twelfth lunar month, the navy officers and soldiers began to collect fish tax from fishermen. They also sent special personnel to collect fish tax from traders who came to buy aquatic products, including ordinary citizens, in various fish wholesale markets and docks in Dongting Lake. .

Taxes must be paid for those who sell, and taxes must be paid for those who buy. Once you buy and sell, the New Year's goods for the navy officers and soldiers will naturally be settled.

After dealing with the logistics problem, Mr. Ba felt that it was because he came to Yuezhou to sit in the town that he ensured that the people of Yuezhou would not suffer from the ravages of the thieves, so did the people of Yuezhou want to express their feelings to him?
What do you mean?

Lord Ba didn't want money this time, but asked for the Wanmin Umbrella instead.

He ordered someone to come to the prefect Guo of Yuezhou, and first asked the master to tell the prefect Guo about the Wanmin umbrella.

The prefect of Guo is in a dilemma, because the gentry and people of Yuezhou have a very bad opinion of Mr. Futai, so it will be difficult for them to organize their own people to present the Wanmin umbrella.

The master told the embarrassment of the magistrate to the master of Dongjia Ba honestly.

Lord Ba was not happy: "I didn't ask them to post money, at worst I paid for it myself, I just asked them to organize some people to come to the pier to offer, even the gong and drum team was invited by me, what's the problem? "

Send the master to explain to Guo Zhifu clearly, whether you will give the provincial evaluation this year a high or low rating, you can decide for yourself.

Guo Zhifu had no choice but to go back to make preparations, and he dared not ask Futai to pay for it himself, so he had to allocate money from the government to purchase it.

I just got things done today, but before Guo Zhifu came forward to greet the respectable gentry in the city and ask them to cooperate with the gentry and civilians in the work of presenting the Wanmin Umbrella, there was an urgent military situation.

The fan thieves from Hubei suddenly sent troops to capture Linxiang two days ago, and now they are rushing towards Yuezhou.

The reporter said that there were tens of thousands of Fan thieves, and the flags were all over the place, and the blackness was overwhelming, stretching for dozens of miles.

This startled Guo Zhifu, he didn't care about the Wanmin Umbrella, so he hurriedly asked someone to prepare a sedan chair and rushed to the pier to report to the governor, but the governor's boat was going to visit Junshan. Guo Zhifu was so anxious that he wanted to throw himself into Dongting Lake.

It has been the unspoken rule of the two warring parties since ancient times not to send troops during the Chinese New Year.

The problem is that the Xinghan army did not reach any agreement with the Qing army this time.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Gu An, the nephew of Gu Zhengdao, the commander of the Xinghan Army, was also the commander of the First Division, the most elite main force of the Xinghan Army. An important town in Yuezhou.

Along with Gu Zhengdao's military orders, there was also a copy of the memorials sent to Gu An.

The content is the strategy of using troops after the Qing Dynasty Dingxi General Feng raised his quota to the court.

Even the opinions of the General Aircraft Department were copied in the transcript.

After carefully studying Feng Sheng's so-called strategic deployment of spreading the net on all sides, Gu An led the first division to Hunan without saying a word.

Uncle is right, if you want to break Fengsheng's four-sided net strategy, you must get ahead of it and cut off the so-called net. Cut off all the branches to make it a bare rod.

This net in Hunan is the most important of the four big nets. Not only the Hunan governor's yamen, but also the two big fishes, Governor Chen Huizu of Huguang and Governor Zheng Dajin of Hubei, who escaped there.

Gu Zhengdao asked the first division to capture Changsha as best as possible. If it cannot capture it, it must ensure that Yuezhou is under control, so as to cut off the Hunan side's flank threat to Wuchang.When necessary, they can even march from Yuezhou to Jiangxi, so as to disturb the enemy's rear and force the Jiangxi Qing army's net to be useless.

In addition, the reason why Gu Zhengdao asked his nephew to take Yuezhou City was because some members of the Yuezhou Tiandi Society secretly voted, saying that there were a large number of ordnance hidden in Yuezhou City.

It is said that when Wu Sangui's troops abandoned Yuezhou, they hid under the cannon bureau of the Central Plains Department of the city.

People from the Tiandihui said that there are at least hundreds of large and small cannons, and there are more than [-] general cannons weighing two to three thousand catties. bitter.

(End of this chapter)