Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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Anyway, when the news reached Quanzhou, Kangxi was no longer beheaded in Jiangxi, but in Jiangning!

In addition, Wu Sangui's Jianyang Water Victory was also rumored to have flooded the Seventh Army, which shocked China, and the soldiers had already arrived in Henan, and the former army had crossed the Yellow River and approached Beijing...

In short, the Qing Dynasty is either gone or will soon be gone.

From now on, it will be a peaceful and prosperous age for the Han people!

The Jinjiang and Luoyang rivers outside the city of Quanzhou are full of Chinese and Western-style sailing boats, which also seem to indicate that a prosperous age is coming.

Some of these Chinese and Western-style sailboats came from the West or New Spain for thousands of miles, and some belonged to the people from southern Fujian, Chaozhou, and Cantonese who went to Nanyang a few years ago—in fact, people from various countries in the Nanyang and Dongyang regions China's trade has been controlled by Chinese businessmen from Guangdong and Fujian since the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The above three groups actually like "monopoly free trade" very much, but they are not as good at fighting as Westerners, so they can only engage in monopoly through hard work and teamwork with clans and folks.They will work tirelessly to take root in Southeast Asian countries, start operations from small businesses, and gradually establish "hometown monopoly" in each industry.

And behind these "hometown monopoly" industries are often industrial chains including finance, production, and shipping.One end of these industrial chains is in Nanyang, and the other end is in the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong!

It is almost impossible for outsiders, especially businessmen outside the three circles of Minnan, Guangfu, and Chaozhou, to squeeze into the industrial chains that are completely monopolized by them.

Because you can fight, you are not as good as he can endure hardship!

For example, Western adventurers are ruthless people, but they can't bear the hardships, and they don't like small businesses... they all buy for zero yuan!

And those who can endure hardships like them usually can't beat them!Not to mention the faction of this group of people, there are also big pirates from the same country behind them, and there are a lot of them.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were as many as [-] Chinese-style sailboats active in the southern coasts of China, the coasts of Japan, and Southeast Asian countries!

The Dutch East India Company only had more than 100 ships!

If it wasn't for the butcher's knife of the Qing Dynasty and the coastal relocation, it interrupted the connection between Chaozhou, Fujian, and Guangfu and Nanyang, and wiped out millions of people who might have gone to Nanyang.

The Chinese in Nanyang will almost certainly become a majority ethnic group in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Today, although the populations of Chaozhou, Minnan, and Cantonese cannot recover for a while, the connections between these three places and Southeast Asian countries are being restored.

Many merchant ships that survived the troubled times gradually formed an extremely large maritime trade and colonial network through the Zheng family, Qiu family, and Chen family (Chen Shangchuan), the three big pirate families.

And this network now has strong support from the Guangzhou court!

Although the strong rise of the Guangzhou court has aroused the great vigilance of the Dutch East India Company, the British East India Company, the Philippine Governor's Palace in New Spain, and the Catholic forces who moved to Manila.

There are also rumors that they are going to put aside their previous grievances and adopt a unified position in the East to maintain the existing order of the Eastern world.

But business still has to be done, even if there is no freedom to buy at zero yuan...

Therefore, from the second half of the second year of Dingwang Jianguo, the number of Chinese and foreign merchant ships coming to Quanzhou for trade suddenly increased.

On the bustling streets, you can see groups of foreigners of various colors from time to time.Most of them are the first time to set foot in this big city of the eastern country!

As the vassal king of Quanzhou, Zheng Jing, who is working hard to become the richest man in the world, is also very busy during this period. He has to manage his own Quan, Zhang, Xing, Xiamen, and Taiwan, while taking care of the whole province of Fujian. Can work hard to rebuild the Zheng family's sea power - if you want to be the richest man in the world, you have to enter the vast "blue ocean market" of "overseas zero-dollar purchases"!

And now he has the core competitiveness that his western counterparts don't have - all kinds of sugar medicine weapons!

So time doesn't wait for me, Zheng Jing is going all out to develop his naval power these days.

The military port wharf at the mouth of the Luoyang River was already full of purchased or self-built warships. The officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy went to sea for training every now and then, and Zheng Jing himself cheered up and went to the sea whenever he was free. Luoyang Jiangjun Port took a trip.

But on this day, "Zheng Sandai" yawned and returned to his palace after a busy day at the mouth of the Luoyang River. He was about to greet his mother, Mrs. Dong Tai, who had just returned from Guangzhou, but happened to run into someone waiting in the lobby of the palace. Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan.

These two people did not come empty-handed, they brought a bright red invitation card to Zheng Jing.

"Ouch, whose post is this? Do you want to follow me?"

"It's a post from the third grandson." Feng Xifan replied.

"Did Bo Ling give birth to a son?" Zheng Jingdao, "Be more casual... Is 1 taels of silver enough?"

"My lord, it's not that Dabo Ling was born." Chen Yonghua said, "This is a hero post, which invites our Fujian heroes to attend the Jiugong Mountain Conference."

"Oh, a hero from Fujian?" Zheng Jing thought for a while, shook his head and said, "But I'm busy! Two days ago, someone came from Manila, saying that there was a big Western mission coming to Quanzhou, and I had to meet him. them.

In addition, my uncle wrote a letter from Japan, asking the imperial court to appoint him as a Japanese envoy and send him to Edo to meet the Japanese general...Fufu, Xifan, I think you two are quite heroes, how about You represent me to take a trip to Jiugong Mountain? "

"The minister obeys the order."

"The minister leads the order."

In fact, Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan didn't intend to invite Zheng Jing to play the horse - the third prince is going to hold a hero meeting, why are you joining in the fun as soon as you prepare the richest man?Moreover, Zheng Jing's current status should be far away from the word "hero".How can I make it up by myself?

What if Zhu Heqian saw Zheng Jing's later sentence "On the world's heroes, only the richest man is the richest man", how scary would it be?

"By the way," Zheng Jing remembered to ask at this moment, "Why did this hero club start?"

Chen Yonghua said: "It is for Zhu and Wu's alliance to defeat the Qing as a witness. By the way, let's talk about the general trend of the world and the matter of jointly destroying the Qing."

Feng Xifan added: "A lot of the same posts have been sent out. It is said that Master Zhitong of Putian Shaolin Temple and several famous Confucian scholars who lived in seclusion also received hero posts. In addition, the third grandson also sent out many anonymous hero posts... as long as Anyone who considers himself a hero and does not think the distance is too far can go to Jiugong Mountain."

Zheng Jing nodded and said: "Understood... This time, the third grandson will use the stage of Jiugong Mountain to sing his own play and promote his original Confucianism."

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "It's still the prince who sees clearly, the third grandson should think so."

Zheng Jing said indifferently: "If there are anonymous posts, it will be lively...there are a lot of monsters and monsters in the world!"

Chapter 331 Beheading and Immortal Hero!

On December 12, the [-]th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, a group of well-dressed figures gathered on the Longjiangkou Wharf outside Yifeng Gate in Jiangning City.Temporary painted archways have been installed with the highest specifications.The road from Longjiangkou Wharf to Yifengmen has also been covered with loess, and all the shops on the roadside are closed.On the bustling streets in the past, now there are only heavily armed Eight Banners soldiers and ordinary people kneeling on the ground chatting.

Of course, the ordinary people who dare to kneel and chat beside the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners are not real ordinary people, but General Xuanwei Yue Le, Jiangning General Echu, Liangjiang Governor Malji, Jiangning weaving doctor Cao Xi, these important ministers of the Qing Dynasty stationed in Jiangning The high imitation ordinary people mobilized by them are not the family members of the Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers stationed in the garrison, or the petty officials who eat yamen food, and of course their family members.

And the reason why these high officials in Jiangning City mobilized so many high imitation ordinary people to kneel outside the Yifeng Gate, of course, was to welcome the Emperor Kangxi, the little holy lord of the Qing Dynasty who "beheaded and survived".

Kangxi is here!

With tens of thousands of "fine" (very elite) soldiers, riding two or three hundred warships of the Yangtze River Navy, they have already reached the surface of the Yangtze River outside Jiangning City, and are about to enter the Longjiang Estuary of the Qinhuai River.

In order to go to the south of the Yangtze River this time, Kangxi really put his mind to it.He not only ordered Tuhai, Shi Lang, Zhuobutai and others to withdraw suddenly from Wuchang and Hanyang before the unequal treaty was delivered to Wu Sangui.They were also strictly ordered not to evacuate directly to Jiangning, but to stop the fleet on the river outside the city of Anqing, waiting for Kangxi who evacuated by land to arrive.

Kangxi himself, under the protection of Wang Fuchen and others, also rushed to Anqing day and night, only one day later than Tuhai, Shi Lang, Zhuobutai and others.

After arriving in Anqing, Emperor Kangxi immediately inspected the three armies on the city wall of Anqing regardless of the exhaustion of the journey, and announced that all the slaves who followed him to Jiangning and the slaves in the green camp would be "upgraded to one level"-the green camp was promoted to be coated, and the package Yisheng Han army.

In addition, the original Han army was carried into the Eight Banners Manchuria as Manchurians, and the original Manchurians, below the third-class marquis, were rewarded half of the future.

As for those generals who directly led troops, everyone got an extra reward.

This is really "the defeat of the three armies, everyone has a reward, and the emperor's grace is mighty"!

At the same time as the reward, Kangxi also let his confidant Mi Sihan serve as the governor and admiral of Anhui, and also decreed that the Anhui Chief Envoy was moved from Jiangning Mansion to Anqing Mansion, and placed under Mi Sihan's direct control.

At the same time, Emperor Kangxi also decreed to confiscate all the white sugar, fire nitrate, gunpowder, and copper and iron chamber pots in Anqing Prefecture... After making thousands of "Tianlei pots" with these things, Emperor Kangxi was confident and bold. Continue to move eastward, and arrived on the surface of the Yangtze River outside Jiangning Prefecture on December 12, the [-]th year of Kangxi.

And just as the fleet led by Emperor Kangxi sailed slowly into the mouth of the Longjiang River, the high imitation ordinary people and the real Eight Banners soldiers kneeling on both sides of the road between the Longjiangkou Wharf and the Yifeng Gate were a little bored and started whispering to each other. , to talk about state affairs.

"Hey, who is the emperor here today? Is it the original King Yu or King Gong?"

"It's King Yu. This time, King Yu and the first emperor went out together. The first emperor asked Zhu Ni to behead him. Only King Yu can take the throne before the army."

"Will Prince Gong agree? The city of Beijing is in his hands!"

"Yes, the late Emperor seems to have a son..."

"That's right, that's why King Yu came to Jiangning! This Jiangning city was Yingtianfu in Nanjing when it was in the Ming Dynasty, and it can compete with Shuntianfu in Beijing!"

"Oh, isn't that the Northern and Southern Second Qing Dynasty? This is not acceptable! There are Wu Sangui and Zhu Ni in the west! Our Qing Dynasty cannot be divided..."

"Don't talk nonsense, how can there be such a thing as the Qing Dynasty in the North and the South?" A Jiangning garrison leader of the Eight Banners really couldn't listen to it anymore-this is imitating ordinary people. If they are real ordinary people, they can be arrested and killed. If they happen to be scholars , can engage in a literal prison.

A commoner with a white beard was not afraid of this leader, and even leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Then who is the emperor we are kneeling to meet today?"

"Who else? Has someone said to change the emperor?" Nazuo Ling said, "The one who is here today is my current Holy Lord Kangxi!"

"Nonsense! How could it be Lord Kangxi? Lord Kangxi was beheaded... A while ago, Prince An even gave us sackcloth and white cloth to wear mourning for the late emperor!"

"Maybe it came from lying in a coffin?" Another high imitation commoner beside him interjected.

"That's right... No, I didn't wear sackcloth and mourning!"

"Me neither!"

"Go back and get it..."

Na Zuoling saw that a group of high imitation ordinary people were going back to put on sackcloth and filial piety, so he hurriedly stopped him and said, "What kind of sackcloth are you wearing? What kind of filial piety are you wearing? The emperor is not dead...the emperor is not dead by beheading his head!"

"What? Beheaded and not dead?"

"how is this possible?"

"The emperor must be able to spell!" The questioning white-haired "fake commoner" widened his eyes and raised his two thumbs high, "Sure enough, he is the real man! You have to take a good look at it later! "

……

Firecrackers blared, drums and music blared, and the imperial boat on which the "beheaded and not dead" Kangxi Kang Mazi finally arrived at the Longjiangkou Wharf.

Yue Le, Er Chu, Ma Leji, and Cao Xi looked at each other, they were all confused!

A few of them also believed the news from Jiangxi before, thinking that Kangxi really let Zhu Heqi kill him.The four of them cried for a while with each other in their arms, and they discussed that they would take Xiao to the expedition to avenge Kangxi.The four of them also divided the work, Yue Le and Er Chu were in charge of military training, and Malji and Cao Xi were in charge of logistics.In addition, the husband of Emperor Kangxi's nanny, Cao Xi, a weaving doctor in Jiangning, was also in charge of preparing sackcloth and white cloth...

In the end, the sackcloth and white cloth were distributed, and the court post written by Emperor Kangxi was endlessly sent to Jiangning.

The handwriting of these Tingzhi looks like it was written by Kangxi... But the tone of it seems wrong, it is too soft, and there are too many words, it is not the style of Emperor Kangxi at all!

Therefore, Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, and Cao Xi all felt that something was wrong. After repeated discussions in private, they all felt that the news of Kangxi's death in battle was true.And Xiangyang Xingzai is likely to be under the control of Prince Yu Fuquan now!

For some purpose, Fuquan concealed the news of Emperor Kangxi's death, and even had someone pretend to write his handwriting to the local government.

Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, and Cao Xi are all loyal servants, of course they are loyal to Kangxi and Qing Dynasty.So the four of them agreed that as long as the late emperor's son survived, they had to support him as emperor.The two brothers Fuquan and Changning can be regents together, and they can also let the empress dowager or the empress dowagers of the two palaces (the empress of Kangxi and the Empress Dowager Nala) listen to the government behind the curtain...

Just as the four of them made up their minds to be loyal to Emperor Kangxi, the late Emperor had already stooped and stepped out of the cabin.

Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, and Cao Xi were all taken aback when they saw the late emperor standing on the deck of the imperial boat!

It looks like it!

Is it the real emperor or a substitute?

The four of them did not kowtow to the late emperor, but took out their glasses in a hurry—they were all old and inevitably a little presbyopic. In order to see clearly, they spent a lot of money in the past two days to ask a craftsman to polish their crystal glasses.

Putting on the glasses and looking carefully for a while, Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, and Cao Xi finally knew how powerful Kangxi was—the beheading didn't kill him, so you're ruthless!

Since you are powerful, then quickly kneel down and kowtow and call him a slave.

"Slave Yue Le, I respectfully welcome the emperor's peace!"

"Slave Echu, I respectfully invite the emperor to give me peace!"

"Slave Malji, respectfully welcome the emperor's peace."

"Slave Cao Xi, respectfully invite the emperor to be safe..."

As soon as the four of them took the lead, a group of civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty who were in Jiangning all kowtowed to pay their respects.

When Kangxi saw that everyone knelt down for him, he was relieved in his heart.

Although he is ready to merge, the Qing Dynasty is now in a precarious state, and it is still necessary to maintain internal unity.

Chapter 332

"Zhen Gong'an... Order Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, Cao Xi and others to board the boat and speak!"

Kangxi did not disembark immediately, but let Yue Le, Echu, and Malji, the three most powerful figures in Jiangning City, and Cao Xi, Kangxi's eyes and ears in Jiangning, board the boat to talk.

After finishing the order, he turned around and went back to the cabin.

Yue Le, Er Chu, Ma Leji, and Cao Xi dared not disobey the order now, they all walked across the gangway one by one, boarded Kangxi's imperial boat, and then got into the cabin again.

There was not much space in the cabin, but Emperor Kangxi still put on a lot of ostentation. His confidant eunuch Xiao Guizi led eight eunuchs and four court ladies to guard around the throne.Two precious fans and a long gauze screen surround the back.Mingzhu, Zhuobutai, Xiong Cilu, Wang Fuchen and others stood up and knelt beside him, making the image of Emperor Kangxi extraordinarily tall.

Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, and Cao Xi kowtowed to Emperor Kangxi again.Seeing the four servants kowtow like insects, Emperor Kangxi sighed, and said to Yue Le with tears, "Uncle Emperor, Fuquan was killed by that traitor Zhu Heqi! I was defeated in Jianyangshui again. Wu Sangui... It's all my fault!

I originally thought that coming to the front line in person would boost morale and make the armed forces fight hard.Unexpectedly, I am not good at using soldiers, and I am not Wu Sangui's opponent.And Fuquan couldn't defeat Zhu Heqi, who was as brave as Xiang Ji, and was actually beheaded by his array...

I am sorry for Fuquan, and I am sorry for so many soldiers who died for the Qing Dynasty! "

After speaking, Kangxi burst into tears.

It was only then that Yue Le and the others were finally convinced that the person in front of them was indeed the real Kangxi who "decapitated and never died".

Because this trick of taking the wrong to the upper body and exonerating the subordinates is not something that ordinary emperors can play - if the two armies are at a stalemate now, no one can do anything to the other.Then Kangxi should impose military laws on the generals who are not effective in fighting.But now the army is defeated, people are panicked, and rumors are everywhere.If Kangxi was too strict, and the upper and lower levels might disintegrate and fall apart, then the Qing Dynasty would really be over.

"Your majesty, you have to take care..." Yue Le hurriedly persuaded with tears in his eyes, "Although the current situation is critical, it is not beyond control. After all, the three provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang are still firmly under the court's control. Under control! As long as we have the population, taxation, grain and sugar of these three provinces, we can fight, and the advantage is still on the court's side!"

Now the whole of China has a population of about 6000 to [-] million, so population is an extremely precious resource, and the population of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang accounts for at least a quarter of it.

With the population of these three provinces, plus the population of the northern region, the population in the hands of the Qing Dynasty still accounts for at least six tenths of the country's population.

Once these three provinces are lost, most of China's population will be under the rule of Zhu and Wu.

The taxes provided by these three provinces accounted for more than one-third of the annual revenue of the Qing Dynasty before the war.