Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 178 Wang Datou is indeed rebellious, but we don't have to admit that he is rebellious! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Ping Huan, Gong Xuan, what do you guys think, boss, second child, and third child? Huo Lu Bu and Xiao Huo Lu Bu are acting like this, is it considered a rebellion?"

Shang Kexi has a pair of cataract blind eyes, his fat body is leaning on a soft couch, a bowl of sour plum soup with ice scum is placed on a small table next to him, and there is a handsome man The little nun knelt on the edge of the small table, and was feeding "Shang Blind Man" with iced sour plum juice with a small spoon.

There was silence in the room, and it was Shang Kexi's military advisor Jin Guang Jin Gongxuan who broke the silence after a long while: "My lord, it depends on when this matter was put on hold. If it was put on hold a few months ago, of course it would be considered a rebellion!"

"A few months ago," Zhu Guozhi (styled Pinghuan) interjected, "Isn't it a rebellion now?"

"Futai, don't worry," Shang Kexi's great military adviser, Jin Guang, is a "middle-aged man" in his 50s and [-]s. He is a bit thin and has a goatee. He is a "Master of Yiwu". Shaking and smiling, he said, "Listen to me!

First of all, Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning are all coastal counties, and the sea ban is implemented.Boundary walls and wooden fences have been erected from fifty to one hundred miles from the coast, and all the land outside the boundary must be abandoned, and the people are not allowed to live and cultivate it.Although the regulations on the sea ban have been relaxed, there is no decree to cancel it after all. How dare Wang Shikai, a mere fourth-rank Daotai, flatten the boundary walls of the three counties without authorization, and even order people to measure the land outside the boundary, and privately distribute it to the poor inside the boundary? , to win people's hearts, how is this not a rebellion? "

Shang Kexi stroked his beard and nodded, and frowned.

Seeing his expression, Shang Zhixiao, who knew the old man's loyalty to the Qing Dynasty best, snorted immediately, and said in a buzzing voice: "This is rebellion!"

Shang Zhidian, the eldest son of Shang Kexi's family, also echoed, "Yes, this is rebellion!"

And Shang Zhixin just let out a cold snort, noncommittal.

The Jinguangjin military division took into account the reactions of the three members of the Shang family, and then continued to analyze: "Secondly, the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning all practice the Qingtian system, and the land is privately owned. The principle of allocating the fields of rich households to subsidize poor peasants. However, Wang Shikai, relying on the power of the army, implemented the "Tianchao Farm System" without authorization, and dictated the land in the three counties. They exchanged the lands of the rich households in the three counties. They also copied the house of the Huang family in Xinhui without authorization. The Huang family is an official household! How is it not a rebellion to act like this?

Furthermore, the tax systems of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning counties were also established by the Qing court.How much should be collected by the self-owned system? Counties can add some fire consumption, but they can't completely change the tax system!Now Wang Shikai implements a "five buckets of rice package tax" in the three counties. There is no fire consumption, no labor, and no small tax.

Moreover, he also privately set up tax customs in the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning to collect taxes.It is said that they are planning to set up a private salt field on Sanzao Island outside Modaomen to produce private salt for sale!

In addition, he has issued an edict to the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning that all the land taxes and overtaxes collected by the three counties will be transferred to the Guangdong Customs Road Bank in Hao-Mao, and none of the money will be sent to the Fantai of Guangdong. library send!If this is not rebellion, what is it? "

Zhu Guozhi gritted his teeth and said, "If everyone is to be like their father and son, the Guangdong treasury must not be empty? How can we pay the money and food to the court?"

Now the four members of the Shang family are silent.
Jin Guang smiled, and said again: "Fourth, the imperial court is also very strict with the establishment of regiments, training and village soldiers at the local level. However, Wang Shikai implemented the so-called "Xintian System" in the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning. Township Military Law, all farmers with more than [-] mu of farmland are included in the township military registration!

All rural military households listed in the military register must go out to participate in training during the slack season, and they must take turns to perform rural military service in the county or the Guangdong Customs Road. Among the three counties, there are no less than [-] rural households registered in the township military. Counting one person per household, that's [-] township soldiers!Is it not a rebellion to set up [-] township soldiers privately?

Fifth, the imperial court has customized the local official system, official administration and the military system of the green battalion, as well as the equipment that can be used.However, the official system and officials implemented in the eleven counties of one prefecture and the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning in Zhaoqing Prefecture are quite different from the custom made by the imperial court!

Now Zhaoqing Mansion and the [-] counties under its jurisdiction are all appointed by the corresponding departments of the governor's yamen.The salaries of these masters and team leaders are all paid by the six departments of the governor's yamen.The masters and team leaders in the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning under Guangfu were all appointed, dismissed and paid by the Guangdong Customs Road.

And the military system of Wang Zhijun's new army of the Sanxie in the next town, and Wang Shikai's three-county township army is completely different from other green camps!In addition, Wang Shikai also cast a large number of cannons at the Haoao Artillery Factory, ordered a large number of shotguns from Foshan, and even gave a large number of orders for shotguns and other weapons to induce Foshan blacksmiths to set up workshops in Haoao. If all these orders are in place, Wang Jiaxin’s army He Xiangbing probably has more firearms than the same number of Eight Banners New Army?

Isn't this a rebellion? "

"Huo Lu Bu already has [-] soldiers, and Kong Sizhen has a few thousand more. Now the little Huo Lu Bu has recruited [-] rural soldiers. This is indeed a rebellion!"

In Shang Zhixin's opinion, such things as private sea ban, land distribution, private reform of the tax system, tax withholding, and even private reform of the official system are nothing to Shang Zhixin-he wants to do it himself!
However, Wang Zhongxiao pulled out [-] township troops in the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinning, and Xinhui, which made Shang Zhixin feel in danger!
The army controlled by Wang Fuchen, Kong Sizhen, and Wang Zhongxiao will soon reach [-]!

Although half of them are rural soldiers, it is an army of [-] after all!

How many soldiers does the Shang family have?Fifteen assistant leaders, three thousand on the book, and six to seven thousand at most when counting Ding Yu.Coupled with several Luying Towns and Associations that have been under the control of the Pingnan Palace for a long time, the total force will be more than [-].Quite a few of them were restrained by "Shenzhen Obai" and "Xin'an Wu Sanwei"
"Gongxuan," Shang Kexi was not in a hurry to "qualify" Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao, "You just said that what they did was considered a rebellion a few months ago, but is it considered a rebellion if it is considered a rebellion today?"

"Let's put it in the present?" Jin Guang smiled bitterly, "It's indeed the opposite! But we don't have to admit it!"

"Don't admit it?" Shang Kexi was taken aback, "Don't admit what?"

"Don't admit that they have done these rebellious things!" Jin Guang smiled, "My lord, Zhu Futai, we don't need to admit that they have rebelled. If we don't admit it, then they are not considered rebellious?"

"What? Can this be done?" Zhu Guozhi couldn't believe his ears, "Jin Gongxuan, aren't you deceiving yourself?"

"How is this self-deception?" Jin Guang said, waving his fan, "Zhu Futai, if we admit that the Wang family and his son have turned against each other, then Guangdong will have nothing to do with us!"

"How come? We also have a lot of soldiers!"

Jin Guang shook his head and counted with his fingers: "How can there be a lot? The Wang family plus Kong Sizhen has 1, Wu Sanwei and Oboi have [-], and Zu Zeqing, Ma Xiong, and Guo Yi together should have more than [-]." Already! Sun Yanling's men will easily be recruited by Kong Sizhen. More than [-]!"

Hearing his calculations, Zhu Guozhi's face turned a little pale, "This, this is too much, right? What should I do?"

"That's why we can't admit that Lu Bu and his son rebelled!"

Shang Kexi interjected: "If we don't admit it, they won't make progress? Military division, do you have any tricks to deal with them?"

"Two tricks," Jin Guang said, "one is that the two tigers compete for food; the other is that the mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows behind!"

"Two tigers competing for food?" Shang Ke smiled happily, "Who is that food? Kong Sizhen?"

"My lord is wise!" Jin Guang laughed, "The emperor's imperial decree to confer Sun Jiqing as Dingnan King has already arrived in Guangdong, right? I have seen that Sun Jiqing before, this son looks exactly like that Huo Lu Bu, and he is probably Huo Lu Bu's seed! He should be Ding Nan!" The king of the south is equivalent to living Lu Bu as the king of the south! Should we help add fire? As long as the army of the living Lu Bu marches west, we can give him a praying mantis to catch cicadas, and the oriole will come later!"

"Gongxuan, do you want me to send troops to attack Zhaoqing?" Shang Kexi frowned, "Isn't it easy to fight Zhaoqing?"

Shang Zhixiao also said: "Father is right. The terrain of Zhaoqing is dangerous. There is Lingyang Gorge in the east. It is dangerous to guard the water and land passages. After Lu Bu arrived in Zhaoqing, he took over the fort of Lingyang Gorge. Cannons go!"

Zhaoqing is a terrain surrounded by mountains and water. The north of the city is Jiangjun Mountain and Beiling Mountain—this is a large area of ​​mountains. The west of the city, the south of the city and the southeast of the city are the Xijiang River, and the waterways of the Xijiang River in the east and west of the city also pass through the mountains. Pass.Among them, the Xijiang waterway in the east of the city passes through the middle of the mountains of Antelope Ridge. As long as forts are set up on the mountains, the enemies coming along the Xijiang River from the east will be blocked.

As for the gap in the northeast corner of Zhaoqing, it is between Lingyang Ridge and Beiling Mountain. The narrowest part is less than two miles away, so it is very easy to block.

Jin Guang nodded and said: "Second Master is right! It is precisely because of the natural dangers that Zhaoqing Prefecture can rely on, Huo Lu Bu will boldly lead the army westward. However, what we want to take is not Zhaoqing Prefecture, but the Haoao merchants. city!"

"Take Haoao?" Shang Zhixin frowned, "Haoao is a commercial market under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Customs Road. If we take Haoao, is it considered a rebellion?"

"It doesn't count, of course it doesn't count!" Jin Guang laughed, "The lord didn't proclaim himself emperor, and he didn't fall to Wu Sangui or the third prince Zhu. He just won a territory that was originally under the jurisdiction of the Pingnan Palace. How can it be called a rebellion?"

Zhu Guozhi also nodded: "Yes! My lord, do it! Our loyalty to the Qing Dynasty is known to the emperor and the empress dowager! If we don't do it, Lu Bu and his son will flatten Gao, Lei, and Lian's government Sun Yanling, I'm afraid he will turn around and plan for Guangzhou, right? Guangzhou is the number one province in Tiannan!"

Jin Guang saw that Shang Kexi was frowning and seemed to be "fighting" in his heart, so he said to him in a calm voice: "My lord, you and Lu Bu and his son are not the same as they were a few months ago. The role of the vassals! The fire between the towns, the court is sometimes beyond the reach of the whip!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhu Guozhi nodded again and again, "Strike first to strengthen the prince, the people of Guangdong are not in your house! If Huo Lu Bu's family grows bigger, it will be easy to take Guangzhou! When the time comes, I Zhu Guozhi Maybe you can escape unscathed, and you"

Hearing Zhu Guozhi's words, Shang Kexi shivered.

The biggest advantage of Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao and his son over Guangzhou is not that they have a large army, but that they are not surnamed Shang!
Shang Kexi suffered too much murder in Guangdong. But at the same time, he didn't really scare Guangdong!So there are too many people in Guangdong who hate the Shang family. To put it conservatively, at least half of the people in Guangdong regard the Shang family as enemies!

If Wang Fuchen and his son want to raise troops to attack the Shang family, it will be joy for everyone in Guangdong!
Shang Kexi sighed deeply: "Instead of falling into the hands of the Wang family, this Guangdong should fall into the hands of my Shang family. Zhu Futai, boss, the two of you will go to Zhaoqing, bring a generous gift, and then replace the old man's." Beloved daughter Wanmi and Sun Jiqing are great matchmakers!"

"Principal, this is the flintlock you want. The students have led the craftsmen from Foshan to build it together."

Inside Hao'ao Castle, in a large room with the sign of "Principal's Office Room", Dai Zi, who was just appointed by Wang Zhongxiao as the head of the ordnance department, put a newly imitated flintlock musket in President Wang's room. on the desk.

The flintlock has actually appeared in China long ago, but because of its relatively high cost and low reliability, it was not very popular with the pikemen and Emperor Kang Mazi, who valued the accuracy of shooting and ignored the density of firepower, so it did not become the mainstream.

However, Wang Zhongxiao still attaches great importance to this kind of easy training, and through intensive shooting in teams, rural soldiers with low training levels can also obtain new weapons with strong combat effectiveness.

Therefore, immediately after capturing Haoao, orders were placed for the Dutch East India Company, the English East India Company, and the Spanish and Philippine Governor's Palace.A while ago, the Netherlands had shipped [-] flintlock guns from Batavia, and Wang Zhongxiao used them to equip the "Student Battalion" of the Jingwu Academy, and at the same time asked Dai Zi to take the lead in organizing a group of Foshan blacksmiths to trial-produce flintlock guns.

"It looks good!" Wang Zhongxiao stroked the black gun barrel. It's a bit rough, and it's full of hammer marks, which is incomparable to the industrial products of later generations.But what he cares about is not this, but the specially polished muzzle, which is very smooth and round.

"Principal, this is the bayonet bayonet you want!" Dai Zi knew what Wang Zhongxiao was looking for, and quickly handed over a long spear bayonet with an acute triangle. good!

Then he picked up the gun and weighed it again. It was quite heavy!

Finally, Principal Wang opened the trigger with a small piece of flint installed, and then pulled the trigger. With a bang, the flint hit the steel, shooting out several sparks.

"Not bad!" Wang Zhongxiao asked, "Can it be mass-produced? How many can you make every month?"

Dai Zi replied: "Principal, the production difficulty of this kind of flintlock gun is similar to that of a shotgun, but don't expect too much output. A master craftsman brings a few young apprentices to make a few guns a month. Now from Foshan There are only 180 or [-] masters who come here, plus the Portuguese masters. The monthly production is [-] to [-]."

Now is not the age of industrialization, but the age of manufactures!

With a monthly output of [-] flintlock guns, an annual output of [-] pieces is actually not too small.If you want more production, I'm afraid you have to win Foshan Town!
Because today's Foshan has the most blacksmiths in China!

However, Foshan Town is next to Guangzhou and is under the jurisdiction of Nanhai County. Wang Zhongxiao has no way to get the magistrate of Nanhai County through peaceful means.
He was thinking about how to take Guangzhou, when Wang Jizhen's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Second brother, are you there?"

"Brother, come in!"

Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly put down the flintlock gun in his hand, and greeted his thick-skinned elder brother with a big smile on his face—he was supposed to go to Shaanxi to be the magistrate, but he didn't go, so he stayed in Guangdong to "grow old", Before Kangxi asked him to send the beautiful women from the West captured in Haoao to Beijing, but he refused to go. Wang Fuchen had no choice but to let Zhang Xiaobao go instead.

"Second Master Dai, you're here too!" Wang Jizhen hurried in and almost bumped into Dai Zi.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Wang Zhongxiao looked at his brother's appearance, a little strange.

"Second brother, something serious happened!" Wang Jizhen stomped her feet, "The emperor just sent Xiao Guizi to Zhaoqing!"

"Little Guizi?" Wang Zhongxiao frowned, "Why is he here?"

"He came to crown that kid Sun Jiqing as king!"

"Sun Jiqing was crowned king?" Wang Zhongxiao was taken aback, "Conferred the title of King Dingnan?"

"Yes!" Wang Jizhen nodded.

"Is this a good thing?" Wang Zhongxiao asked, "Isn't he our...our brother?"

Wang Zhongxiao now knows that Sun Jiqing looks very much like him!When he met Sun Jiqing for the first time, he didn't notice this because he didn't look in the mirror very much (there are not many good mirrors these days), but after he married Wu Xiaotu and Yang Xiaohuan, there was a mirror in the house, so he I became more familiar with my appearance, and found that I was very similar to Kong Sizhen's son, and considering the relationship between Wang Fuchen and Kong Sizhen, of course I could guess something.

"Then you are not in a hurry?" Wang Jizhen said, "Aren't you afraid that the kid will recognize his ancestors and steal our seats?"

(End of this chapter)