Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 108 When Donglin Party Adds Li Zicheng? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

Anbu Garden, Wanjuan Tower.

At this time, Wu Sangui, King of Pingxi in the Great Qing Dynasty, was with his four major military advisers—Fang Guangchen, Guo Zhuangtu, Liu Xuanchu, and Wang Shirong, as well as his two sons Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui, and his grandson Wu Shicong. Read behind closed doors.Read "The World Is One" written by the Third Prince Zhu!
This book was brought back from Beijing by Wu Shijue. There was originally only one copy, but when Wu Shijue was resting on the "Yanzhuang" in Fushun County, Xuzhou Prefecture, Sichuan, he asked the steward and accountant of the Yanzhuang to help copy seven copies. eight books.So now Wu Sangui and others can have a copy and learn the doctrine of the third prince Zhu.

The room was quiet, only the sound of flipping papers was heard, and Wu Sangui put down the book, took off his presbyopic glasses, and asked Wu Shijue, "Shijue, where did you get this book?"

"Grandpa, Wang Shikai gave me this book." Wu Shijue replied.

"Wang Shikai?" Wu Sangui thought for a while and asked, "Then Wang Shikai and Xiaotu's marriage is settled?"

"That's right," Wu Shijue said, "I borrowed the name of a good friend of the Shizi's, a gangster named Yang Qilong from the outer city of Beijing. For the time being, he can be regarded as Yang Xiaotu, and married Wang Shikai with Yang Qilong's sister. Two maids and one husband , of course, Xiaotu is the eldest wife."

"Big gangster?" Wu Sangui frowned, "Isn't he just a gangster?"

"No, no, no," Wu Shijue shook his head, "Grandpa, you don't know that the situation around Beijing is not good. There are people everywhere who have lost their homes and land due to the overcrowding of land, and a considerable number of them live on both sides of the canal, which is extremely miserable. .”

Wu Sangui sighed, and said in a low voice: "The dead people are suffering, and the prosperous people are suffering!"

Wu Shijue said: "Grandpa, you are right. Now that the people are in power, the world is suffering, and even the emperor's feet are full of poverty. There are many survivors who were unwilling to be reconciled to the previous dynasty. Xu saw some opportunities and turned into gangsters. They Or set up a Luojiao Zhaitang, or set up a gang association, while controlling the business of water transportation, and at the same time bullying the market in the outer city of Beijing. Of course, they also do some more serious business, such as opening brothels, lending usury and so on. Good ones can be both black and white.

This Yang Qilong is the best among them, not only has a close relationship with our eldest son, but also has a good relationship with the eldest son of Heping and Jing Erfan. Wang Shang', also worked part-time in the value house of Dongtangzi.

The business of the family is not small. In addition to lending money to collect debts, they also set up a hall in Pimpying Alley, opened a gambling hall, and took the dark shares of many brothels in Bada Alley, and poured all kinds of antique calligraphy and paintings from the south. His western stuff, designed to earn money from the Eight Banners. "

"There is such a thing!" Wu Sangui frowned, "Why are those Eight Banners so hard to learn?"

Wu Shijue snorted and said, "Children of the Eight Banners are also human beings. After being rich, they will also be greedy for food, play, study, and martial arts. How hard is it? There is no such thing as eating, drinking, and having fun."

Wu Sangui still didn't believe it, so he hummed and said, "That's you, can the Eight Banners disciples learn as well as you do?"

"Grandpa," Wu Shijue refused, "How can those Eight Banners boys compare with me? If you want to compete with real kung fu, I can beat half of Beijing at least!"

"Okay, Shijue, stop bragging!" Wu Shizheng interjected, "Since Wang Shikai has married Miss Xiaotu, shouldn't he be courting us?"

"Of course!" Wu Shijue lowered his voice and said, "Wang Shikai said that he and his father are now lurking in the Qing camp just waiting for an opportunity to fight back. Now they have gained the trust of the little emperor and have been entrusted with the important task of training soldiers. Going out of town in Guangdong and Guangxi, as long as grandpa can raise troops in the southwest, he and his father will definitely raise troops to respond."

"This is great!" Wu Yingqi said excitedly, "Father, there are already many admirals, generals, and lieutenants in Guangdong and Guangxi. If Wang Fuchen and Wang Shikai join us in the rebellion, then we may You can decide half of the south of the Yangtze River with one drum!"

Wu Shijue continued: "Besides, that Yang Qilong also told his grandson that if grandpa can raise the flag of uprising in Yunnan and Guizhou, he would like to lead the disciples of the Tiandihui in Zhili to kill the captives!"

"Tiandihui?" Wu Sangui asked, "What is it for?"

"A rebel!" Wu Shijue said. "It is said that it was established by the third prince Zhu who wrote this "Theory of the World as a Public", with the slogan of 'The world is the master and the guest, and the Qing Dynasty restores the Ming and the land'." The world of sons, and then establish a peaceful and prosperous world where the ruler and the people share the world, where the tiller has his land, and everyone has food!"

"This third prince Zhu is not simple!" Wu Sangui muttered, and then turned to look at his four military advisers. At this time, Fang Guangchen had roughly finished reading "The World Is All Right", frowning and thinking about something.

Seeing Wu Sangui's eyes, he pondered and said, "My lord, don't you think this book "The World Is Public" looks familiar to you?"

"It looks familiar." Wu Sangui nodded, "The idea of ​​equalizing land and dividing land looks a bit like copying it from Li Chuang."

"My lord is wise, it is indeed Li Chuang's stuff," Fang Guangchen said, "And those of Yuanjun, Yuanchen, and Yuanfa look a bit like Donglin Party."

Fang Guangchen is a native of Shexian County. He also traveled to the southern capital in his early years, and he became brothers with a group of Donglin successors. He and Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and others are old acquaintances. To put it bluntly, the idea of ​​the Donglin Party is that the emperor should take care of things less, and the world should be controlled by them.

It's a pity that this group of people are very talkative and can't kill people, unlike their European counterparts who are hard-spoken and fast!
"How do the principles of the Donglin Party and Li Zicheng's approach come together?" Wu Sangui's son-in-law, Guo Zhuangtu, the most powerful of the four military advisers, frowned, "My lord, will there be Li Zicheng's shares in this world? I have heard people say that the one who died in Jiugong Mountain was not the real Li Chuang, but a substitute. And Li Chuang's remnant party has always been haunting the junction of Huguang and Sichuan."

This brain hole is still big enough!
Wu Sangui thought for a while, and actually felt that it was possible, so he nodded, and turned his gaze to Liu Xuanchu, another think tank of his own.

Liu Xuanchu had also finished reading "The World Is Public". Seeing the look in Wu Sangui's eyes, he immediately said, "Now that things have come to an end, you have to make up your mind!"

"What's your idea?" Wu Sangui frowned, asking knowingly.

"Of course it's the idea of ​​raising troops to revolt!" Liu Xuanchu said, "The prince and the court have already misunderstood deeply, and the rift is hard to resolve. It's already a matter of wanting to be a rich man. It's hard to tell what happened to Oboi before. Now there are more The Third Prince Zhu who wrote "The World is Public" and organized some Tiandihui will be your son-in-law."

Wu Sangui interrupted: "Xuanchu, do you think that Wang Yongkang is really the third prince Zhu?"

Liu Xuanchu shook his head, twitched his goatee, and thought about it: "Then Wang Yongkang is probably not the third prince Zhu, but can you make it clear, my lord? Although Wang Yongkang is not the third prince, what you gave him is not a real girl. You can check it out. If someone says that the prince really married his daughter to the third prince Zhu and hid them. And the so-called daughter and son-in-law sent to Suzhou are all fakes, will the little emperor believe it? ?
In addition, the subordinates suspected that Prince Kang and Wang Shikai, who were sent to arrest Wang Yongkang and his wife, would also find several copies of "The World Is Public" and some tokens of the third prince Zhu from Wang Yongkang! "

"What?" Wu Sangui was startled, "Xuanchu, you mean that Wang Fuchen and his son have problems?"

Liu Xuanchu nodded: "Don't you think they are setting up a trap for you?"

Of course Wu Sangui has already noticed that something is wrong - he has many eyes and ears in Beijing, and he has found out that Wang Jizhen exposed the matter of Oboi's entry into Yunnan!

This is clearly framed!
"But why did they do this?" Wu Sangui's face was gloomy, as if a little annoyed, "This king treats them well!"

"Grandpa," Wu Shizheng interjected at this time, "their thoughts are the same as those who came to greet you in the Yin'an Hall today! They don't want to mess with the Qing Dynasty anymore. After all, the Qing Dynasty is the world of the Eight Banners. No matter how well we Han people do, we are nothing more than slaves and pawns. It’s okay when we need it, but if we don’t need it, we will kill the donkey! But now, the mill has been pulled, and the donkey will be killed soon! "

"Brother Shicong is right," Wu Shijue also nodded heavily, "Grandpa, it's the other way around. We can't do it anymore as a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty! Apart from anything else, you can't hand over just this Oboi! You hand over Without Oboi, even if he handed himself over, this rich man would not be safe, let alone the Third Prince Zhu?"

"What a Wang Shikai!" Wu Sangui snorted, "Are you trying to force this old man to a dead end?"

"Grandpa," Wu Shijue shook his head with excitement, "that's not a dead end, but a road to heaven. My grandson has been in Beijing for several months and has witnessed all the decadence of the bannermen's children. They are long gone. The bravery of the past is gone. Moreover, all the senior generals and officials of the Bannermen have withered away, leaving only Oboi and Yue Le. And Oboi is still under your command, Grandpa!"

"Where does the old man have Oboi?"

"Grandpa, you have!" Wu Shijue said, "Wang Shikai also asked me to tell you: If the emperor thinks that Oboi must be in Yunnan under the rule of King Pingxi, then there must be an Oboi in the Pingxi Palace!"

Wu Sangui was taken aback for another moment, and Liu Xuanchu, the think tank next to him, suddenly said loudly: "My lord, then Wang Shikai is right, you should claim Aobai!"

"Recognize Oboi? How do you recognize it?" Wu Sangui also knew that having Oboi is more beneficial than not having Oboi now, but he didn't know how to recognize him. "You can't make a memorial to the court saying that Oboi is in the Pingxi Palace, right?"

"That's not necessary." Liu Xuanchu said with a smile, "The lord only needs to find someone who looks like Oboi to haunt Pingxi Palace and the camp in the north of the city, so that people can see him. Now there is obviously no fake Oboi, and rumors have already spread There is a lot of uproar, if there is a fake one, can't it be passed on as the real one?
With the status of the third prince Zhu, the prestige of Oboi, the response of Wang's father and son, the leaders of the Tiandihui and the Han generals from all over the place, plus the principle of "The World is Public", is the prince still afraid that this rebellion will not succeed? "

"But only a few of us have read "The World Is Public", and others don't know about it," Wu Sangui continued to ask his brains for advice. Listening to his words, it seemed that he had already made up his mind to rebel!
"This matter is easy to handle." Liu Xuanchu said happily, "Your Highness will ask you to print more copies and distribute them quietly in the market. Afterwards, your Highness will issue a decree to post notices in all government offices announcing the ban on the book "The World Is Public". In order to let everyone know what is wrong with this book, you can also point out in the notice that "the world is the master and the guest" is rebellion, and "equalizing the land and dividing the land" is stealing money.

In addition, the prince can also send this booklet to the yamen and schools below, so that the people below can recognize it first, so that it will be convenient to ban it! "

Not to mention, Liu Xuanchu, a military strategist, has a good brain!
Wu Sangui sighed, "Xuan Chu, your idea is very good. But there is still a problem! My son Ying Xiong is still in Beijing as a hostage, so what can I do?"

Hearing this, Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Wu Shicong, and Wu Shijue all frowned a little. Isn't it just a son, if it's gone, it's gone, what's the matter?
"My lord, I have an idea!" Wu Sangui's "Fourth Army Adviser" Wang Shirong stepped forward at this time.

"Oh, what tricks does Shirong have up his sleeve?" Wu Sangui hurriedly asked.

"My lord, it's better to use the strategy of the plan, and trick the son and the Eight Banners soldiers and the Green Battalion soldiers of the brigade to Sichuan or Guizhou, and then have a roll!"

Wu Sangui twirled his beard, thought for a while, and said: "The plan is the plan? The old man understands, the old man will pretend to be critically ill before they can train the soldiers well, and let Ying Xiong and the princess come to Yunnan to preside over the feudal affairs. When the time comes, the little emperor will surely Send a large army to suppress the border in the name of escort. Then the old man will come alone."

While speaking, Wu Sangui made a murderous gesture.

"My lord is wise!" Wang Shirong provoked Thumbs up, "As long as the little emperor dares to send Eight Banners soldiers, whether it is entering Sichuan or Guizhou, you are sure to win, lord."

Wu Sangui frowned again, "But the little emperor is very clever, will he fall for it?"

Is Kangxi smart?Wang Shirong thought to himself: It looks very impulsive!

"My lord, there is a plan for a lowly position." Liu Xuanchu already had a clever plan at this time.

"Xuanchu, what's your plan?"

"Does your lord still remember Lu Yifeng?" Liu Xuanchu said.

"Is that the prefect of Qujing?" Wu Sangui frowned, "Didn't he get sick and die a while ago?"

"My lord, he is not really sick, but pretending to be sick!" Liu Xuanchu said with a smile.

"Fake illness?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, "Why?"

"Did your lord forget?" Liu Xuanchu said, "A while ago there was news from Beijing that Lu Yifeng had disclosed the news of Oboi's entry into Yunnan to Wang Jizhen, causing Wang Jizhen to escape to the capital and let the emperor know about Oboi's whereabouts in Yunnan." thing."

"He was wronged." Wu Sangui frowned and said, "Wang Jizhen has already gone to Beijing."

"But he doesn't know, so he's scared!" Liu Xuanchu said, "He was afraid that the prince would punish him, so he hid back to his hometown in Dali and pretended to be sick. We happened to arrange a fake death abscond for him. He reported to Kangxi the news that the prince fell ill due to fear, grief and anger, and was seriously ill."

"Worry, grief and anger?" Wu Sangui asked, "Why is this king worried and afraid? And why is there grief and anger?"

"My lord, your daughter and son-in-law were murdered, can you not be sad and angry?" Liu Xuanchu smiled, "Geng Jimao and Shang Kexi have lost power one after another, can your lord not be worried? If your lord can't get sick, and there are people in the vassal who think about it."

While talking, Liu Xuanchu glanced at Wu Yingqi, and didn't go any further.However, Wu Sangui has already fully understood that if he could not afford to be ill, and the generals of the Pingxi Fan supported Wu Yingqi under the leadership of Oboi, and kept the intention of rebelling against the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu, Emperor Kangxi would still be able to survive. Can you sit still?

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui burst out laughing, "Junshi Liu, you are really my king's Liu Bowen! Please go to Dali and invite Lu Yifeng to come to Wuhua Mountain for a gathering!"

When Wu Sangui finally made up his mind to fight against the Qing Dynasty, Wang Zhongxiao, who made him the protector of Oboi and the father-in-law of the third prince Zhu, was shopping outside Zhengyangmen with his nobleman Fuquan.

Both of them were dressed in casual clothes, one after the other squeezed back and forth in the crowded crowd.Feel the rich taste of the old Beijing city in the early years of Kangxi.Now is the busiest time of the year in Beijing, temple fairs have already started everywhere, and it won't be over until the Lantern Festival is lit.

Although Emperor Kangxi asked him to leave as soon as possible, the understanding of "as soon as possible" in the Qing Dynasty was different from that of later generations. Kangxi told him "as soon as possible" in October of the eighth year of Kangxi. Departing later, it is considered "very early".

It's impossible to leave as soon as you get the order, and it's not a six-hundred-mile rush. That's an imperial envoy going to Beijing to handle errands, and the official dispatch is Prince Kang Jieshu!Don't prepare well, and then celebrate the New Year. It would be nice to be able to leave after eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

If you really want to leave in a hurry, the place doesn't have time to prepare for the reception, if you neglect the prince, you will have to walk around without food.

For Wang Zhongxiao, it is also necessary to stay in Beijing for two more months.Because he has too many things to do in the south this time, for the sake of the country, the people and the well-being, there are a lot of things to do, and many things have to be done at both ends, with Beijing doing a little bit, and then going to Liangjiang to do it.For example, helping Ruixintang to carry out the "official election loan" business.

What is an official election loan?
This official election loan is a usury loan provided for the officials of the Qing Dynasty who were elected in Beijing or alternated in the local area!
Previously, Wang Zhongxiao's good brother Wang Jizhen recommended that Wang Zhongxiao borrow this official selection loan to buy a bodyguard, but Wang Zhongxiao was lucky, and met Fuquan, a noble man as soon as he arrived in Beijing, so there was no need to borrow usury.Otherwise, if he wanted to become a bodyguard, he would have to pay at least a few thousand taels of debt to Hades!
Of course, for Wang Zhongxiao, who was born in the Han army in the Zhengbai Banner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a few thousand taels of official election loan was not a problem at all.Besides, it's usury, Yang Qilong and Yuan Linjing who lend Hades' debts will also give him preferential interest rates, and this group of people are all negotiating interest rates based on others.

The real targets of their exploitation are not the bannermen, but the Han members selected in Jingquan, because they are the real "slave officials" of the Qing court, and they are slaves of the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty
(End of this chapter)