Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 191 It's finally not a rebellion, but a real revolution! (seeking subscription and monthly ticket)
"My lord! The Nanhai County Prime Minister we sent to Foshan has just escaped, and the Wang family's troops have already entered Foshan Town. It is said that the unruly people in Foshan Town have offered guns and cannons to welcome Wang Jun!"

"These Cantonese are bullying too much, my son, let's run away!"

"How? Where are you going? Shaozhou? Our family business is in Guangzhou, and there is nothing in Shaozhou. If we go there, food and clothing for 10,000+ people will be a problem!"

"If you can't run, then you can only fight to the death. At least you have to pull out a stance to fight to the death first. Let's scare Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao first!"

"Where are the soldiers? Where did the soldiers come from? The second master brought out two thousand flag soldiers from the feudal clan, three thousand coat-coated slaves, four thousand green battalion soldiers from the general soldiers on the two wings, one thousand standard soldiers from the governor of Guangdong, and three thousand promotion soldiers from the admiral of Guangdong." .A total of [-], how much is returned now?"

"My son, the remnants of the governor and admiral of Guangdong have all fled to Huizhou. Only the second master fled back with less than [-] remnants and suffered heavy losses!"

In the nine halls of the Pingnan Palace, the vassals below the Pingnan Palace were in a state of chaos.Since taking over the power of the Pingnan Palace the day before yesterday, all kinds of bad news have flooded towards Shang Zhixin, the filial son of the Shang family, loyal officials of the Qing Dynasty, the persuaders of Sangui, and the deadly enemy of the Wang family and his son.

When Shang Zhixin didn't take over the power, everything was easy to talk about, but once he got the power, he realized that what he tried his best to snatch from that unfilial father was a mess full of holes.

His good brother Shang Zhixiao lost the battle too thoroughly and sent away at least [-] elites from the Pingnan Palace, including more than [-] strong men belonging to the Pingnan Palace's vassals!

The total population of the Pingnan Prince’s soldiers and the subordinates is more than 1. If you work hard to mobilize, you can pull out more than [-] strong men. Now you have lost [-]% of the small ones in one battle. The inner city of Guangzhou is also the same as the previous Sichuan. Like the inner city of Beijing after the great defeat, every family mourned, and every household mourned.

But the Qing Dynasty had a solid foundation and many slaves.As long as the slave door is wide open, people can always be filled.But Pingnan Palace is full of enemies in Guangdong!Moreover, at the moment when the Qing Dynasty is in danger and the world is about to be chaotic, who in Guangdong is willing to be a servant of the Shang family?

Moreover, Guangdong has long been "Guangzhou's dominance". Compared with Guangzhou, other state capitals are not enough.Therefore, those people under Shang Kexi's domain are all "Guangzhou people" of Yishui. Their industries and family members are all in Guangzhou, and they are also concentrated in Guangzhou City and the surrounding areas of Guangzhou City. They are not even prepared for three nests.

Now it seems that the soldiers are coming to the city. If this Guangzhou is over, then the Pingnan Wangfu and the feudal vassals will be eradicated.

Shang Zhixin wanted to manage Shaozhou as a retreat.But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and Shang Zhixiao suffered a disastrous defeat, which put Guangzhou Fucheng in jeopardy!
Even if Shang Zhixin can bring all the people under him there, how will he arrange it after he goes there?Not to mention defending Shaozhou, 10,000+ people will have problems eating and drinking in Shaozhou.

And if Shang Zhixin can run to Shaozhou, can't Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao catch up to Shaozhou?

When the time comes, Shang Zhixin will still have to run. And where can he run?

If he had known that this stall was so bad, he shouldn't have returned to Guangdong. How about lying down in Beijing honestly?

The sound below was still chaotic, and it was getting louder and louder.Shang Zhixin hadn't closed his eyes for almost two days, and was so upset that he finally yelled unbearably: "Enough!"

His voice was already very loud, and it sounded very fierce. It startled everyone in the room, and everyone fell silent immediately.

Shang Zhixin pressed his forehead in extreme fatigue, and was about to drive everyone out. When he had a good rest, he heard a loud voice at the entrance of the main hall: "My son, the good news is that Marquis Xin'an and General Ao have agreed to retreat. As long as we can Give 100 million taels of silver for military expenses and 20 shibai rice, and they will leave immediately!"

Everyone turned their eyes and saw Jin Guang and Shang Zhijie standing at the door with tired faces.Jin Guang still held a roll of paper in his hand—this was the "Wu Shang Treaty" that he and the monk Zhijie had discussed with Wu Sanwei and He Tianran on Haizhu Island for a long time.

Shang Zhixin stood up abruptly, walked forward quickly, snatched the covenant from the hands of the Jin Guangjin military division, and read every word after unfolding it.The content of the treaty is not complicated, just the cession of land, compensation, surrender, and payment of tribute. Well, it is very unequal!

But it was what Shang Zhixin dreamed of!
Because of this "treaty", he, Shang Zhixin, has joined the Xiwang camp unofficially (Wu Sangui has not yet approved it)!
From now on, he is Wu Sangui's dog!
Beating a dog depends on the owner!
Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao will hesitate for a while, right?

As long as they hesitate for a while, Shang Zhixin will have time to reorganize the army and organize the defense of Guangzhou!
Thinking of this, Shang Zhixin suddenly turned his head and shouted: "Prefect Fu!"

"The subordinate is here."

Fu Honglie, the prefect of Guangzhou, quickly picked up his robe and stepped forward, bowing his body and obeying orders.

Of course he is loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but at this time he must also hide his true position, and then play it by ear, come to Shang (Wu, Wang) camp and his heart is clear.

Shang Zhixin handed the "Unequal Treaty" in his hand to Fu Honglie, "Prefect Fu, quickly copy a copy, and then take it to see Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao. You tell them that I am already a man of Long Live the King of the West! In addition, You tell them again, I have sent Li Junmen Xingye to Xi'an, please ask the emperor to mediate."

"Master of the World" Fu Honglie was stunned, "Where are you from?"

"It doesn't matter which side it is," Shang Zhixin snorted, "The only thing that matters is Guangzhou! As long as they don't come to attack Guangzhou, then everything is negotiable!"

He paused, and then added: "Prefect Fu, I know that you are Kong Sizhen's coat. Wang Fuchen can still listen to your words. You can persuade him well. I can take refuge in King Xi. I am not harmed." Xiwang’s grandson, but he can’t. Unless he doesn’t want two sons! So don’t rush to take Guangzhou, take Guangxi, and help Kangxi contain Xiwang is the most important thing!”

"Xiaguan understands, Xiaguan immediately go to Foshan to meet Wang Zhijun!"

Seeing Fu Honglie copying a copy of the "Contract" and leaving in a hurry, Shang Zhixin sat down on his throne again, glanced around the hall, and said, "Go back and count the number of people. Look at the leaders and How many people are left in each battalion? How many people can be added? We have to fill up as soon as possible and prepare to defend Guangzhou!"

"Whoo!"

"Go!"

Hearing Shang Zhixin's order, most of the people left, only Shang Zhijie, Shang Zhijie, Shang Zhiying, Shang Zhihuang and Li Tianzhi, Shang Zhixin's true confidantes, remained.

Shang Zhixin glanced at them, and said in an inaudible voice: "Tianzhi, you will take over the military affairs and government affairs of Shaozhou when you go to Shaozhou! The fourth, the twelfth, and the fourteenth, let you take care of them." Everyone get ready!"

Shang Zhijie probably understood what his brother meant, but he was still a little reluctant to part with Guangzhou, so he asked, "Brother, do we really want to abandon Guangzhou and retreat to Shaozhou?"

"Retreat to Shaozhou?" Shang Zhixin shook his head lightly, and asked back: "Can Shaozhou be defended?"

Just when great changes took place in the city of Guangzhou, Shang Zhixin replaced Shang Kexi as the lord of Pingfan, and began to step on two boats, preparing to guard Guangzhou openly and sneaking away secretly.On the other side of this copyright game in Guangdong, Wang Zhongxiao has already entered Foshan Town, the number one town in the world loyal to him!

Foshan is the site that Wang Zhongxiao must take, and its importance is almost equal to that of Guangzhou!

Foshan Town occupies a large area. It is said to be a town, but it is actually larger than any other prefectures. As early as the Ming Dynasty, it was known as one of the "Four Gatherings in the World".In the Qing Dynasty, it became the "largest village in the world" in the mouth of foreign missionaries!
The reason why it is called "the largest village in the world" is because Dafoshan Town is 34 miles away, and the population is extremely large, even surpassing the city of Guangzhou, which was slaughtered by Shang Kexi and has not recovered its vitality.

The second reason is that there is no city wall in Foshan. Foshan Town is surrounded by water on all sides and is located on a large sandbar. It is surrounded by the Xijiang River, Pearl River, Shiziyang and other waterways.These waterways are very wide and form natural obstacles, so there is no need for city walls to protect them.

In addition, Foshan Town is the most important military base and heavy handicraft industry center in China and even the entire East Asia in this era, so the specialty guns, everyone has guns, and the rich have guns!
For such a town that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and full of guns and guns, it is gratifying back then, and did not dare to rush into the massacre, and did not even set up a county government in Foshan Town, but continued to regard Foshan as a town under Nanhai County , sent a county magistrate to take care of things.

In fact, the gentry in Foshan were given autonomy!

But Shang Kexi does not slaughter Foshan, it does not mean Foshan people do not hate Shang Kexi!
Because most of the 40 to [-] people gathered in Foshan are reduced to "proletarian" handicraftsmen because they lost their land due to coastal relocation!

Moreover, Foshan is very close to the prefectural city of Guangzhou. There is no separation between Guangfo and Foshan. Many Foshan people have relatives in Guangzhou. Those relatives in Guangzhou were killed by Shang Kexi, and they were taken over by Shang Kexi!
In the end, Shang Kexi has always been a faithful enforcer of sea bans and legal smuggling!The sea ban and legal smuggling have monopolized the downstream of Foshan handicraftsmen - not only monopolizing foreign trade, but even monopolizing the route of domestic trade!

Because the domestic trade made in Foshan has to go by sea to sell easily. Once the Qing Dynasty banned the sea and moved along the coast, it would be inconvenient for Foshan to sell it by sea to Jiangnan, and then sell it to all parts of the country through the Yangtze River and canals.

So in Foshan Town, there is no one who doesn't hate Shang Kexi now!

The hatred of Foshan people towards Shang Kexi is not only the hatred of blood relatives, but also the hatred of class J, which is the hatred of the emerging industrial capitalists towards Shang Kexi, a feudal lord
From this point of view, when the handicraft capitalists in Foshan beat gongs and drums and presented guns and cannons to welcome the Guangdong rural army led by Wang Zhongxiao into Foshan Town, a bourgeois revolution had already begun!

A bourgeois revolution always needs a lot of bourgeoisie, right?

Before Wang Zhongxiao’s team, there were not many people who could be associated with the bourgeoisie. Yang Qilong might be one, Chen Yonghua might be one, and Wang Zhongxiao himself might be one too—he also set up a customs road bank, which is regarded as financial capital!
But a total of three bourgeoisie also revolutionized the Qing feudal dynasty, is the power too small?
But now, I have finally entered Foshan, sitting in the majestic Nanhai County Government Office in Foshan Town, looking at the owners of the Foshan blacksmith workshop who are sitting in the lobby, looking at the muskets, Artillery and ammunition, Wang Zhongxiao finally felt a little bit of a bourgeois revolution.

"Wang Daotai," a fat chairman of the Foshan Chamber of Commerce surnamed Qu, stroked his beard, and asked Wang Zhongxiao with a smile, "Are you and your father the courtiers of the Qing Dynasty or the Western King?"

"Yeah, where are you from?" Another president of the Foshan Chamber of Commerce, surnamed Sun, also asked, "Are you going to rebel, or continue to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty?"

As soon as the two of them raised this issue, other big capitalists in Foshan immediately echoed it.

"Wang Daotai, tell us the truth, who are we supporting?"

"Yes, yes, who is more likely to win now? You can't support it!"

"Wang Daotai, guns are needed in wars. We in Foshan specialize in making guns and cannons. Whoever we support will have a much greater chance of winning. However, we still have to be careful!"

"That's right, if you're really an idiot who can't help you, no matter how many guns you give him, it's useless."

"Wang Daotai, who do you think is more like Adou?"

The bourgeoisie in Foshan really can't compare with the bourgeoisie in England. It seems that they have never thought about doing it themselves, breaking into Beijing, beheading Kang Mazi, and establishing a bourgeois republic or something.

But Wang Zhongxiao is planning to be "Wang Lunwell"!

Thinking of this, he smiled and coughed, and the county government office suddenly became quiet, and he said with a smile: "Everyone, I'm going to talk to you guys today. It's also a matter of asking for the opinions of the Foshan Chamber of Commerce. !"

Although the businessmen in Foshan have no great ambitions, they have cannons, real cannons!
So Wang Zhongxiao could only coax and deceive them to reason with them.

"First," Wang Zhongxiao said, "Zhongqing and Zhongwu are not important. They are fighting for the world in the north, and we will join in when they understand it! Don't worry, I have ways on both sides, and I won't trap you of.

The important thing is that we are all against Shang Kexi! "

"We also oppose Shang Kexi!"

"That's right, Shang Kexi is too bad, even if he is caught by a thousand swords, he won't let go of his hatred!"

"That's right, my father-in-law's whole family was killed by his men, and my wife was the only one left. As a result, my father-in-law's pier was taken over by someone surnamed Shang!"

It's really hateful!
Speaking of Shang Kexi's bad deeds, all the capitalists in Foshan have become bitter and bitter!

"Second," Wang Zhongxiao said again, "if we want to have a good future, we must control Guangdong and Guangxi. This is also good for you! The firewood and iron ore you need to make iron either come from Shaozhou or come from along the coast. I heard people say that Qiongzhou Island also has very good iron mines! If we can’t control Guangdong and Guangxi, you will have nowhere to come to raw materials!
But to control Guangdong and Guangxi, it is necessary to expand the Guangdong township soldiers!And to expand the Guangdong rural soldiers, it is necessary to equalize the land. And the equalization of the land will inevitably hurt everyone's interests.However, I also know the priorities, so I would like to agree with you on the conditions. One is that the sandbar where Foshan is located is uneven; The properties in the area around the Tianzi Ferry Pier outside the city can be converted into land prices.You are all in business, so you should know that the price of this field cannot rise too much, after all, you cannot collect too much rent for an acre of land.However, the property prices in Guangzhou and the value of the docks may not be worth anything now, but once the business in Guangzhou is prosperous, it will be amazing! "

The land still needs to be divided. However, with the expansion of Wang Zhongxiao's territory, it is impossible for him to adopt high-pressure and stable control like when he first governed the three counties.He doesn't have that much energy, and he doesn't have that many reliable men.

Moreover, Shunde and Foshan are both inland, and there is no big cake of coastal relocation to cultivate the grassroots, so it is a last resort to compromise with the industrial and commercial landlords in these areas.

"Third," Wang Zhongxiao didn't wait for these Foshan businessmen to figure it out, and he went on to say, "In the future, Guangdong's domestic and foreign trade will be liberalized. Guangzhou, Macau, Xiangdao, and Foshan can all become Foshan is also a treaty port! The key is whether you are willing or not? If you are willing, the goods from Foshan can go directly to the sea in the future, and the Guangdong Customs Road can be set up in Foshan. The method of taxation is negotiable. The price can also be covered by the Chamber of Commerce! What do you think? This is a big deal!"

(End of this chapter)