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"Well, why is there no way out?"
"Death is certain..."
Just when a group of ancestors were lamenting the injustice of fate, they heard Geshha who was guarding the door shouting: "Hong Futai is here!"
The room suddenly became quiet, and then I saw Hong Shiming coming in.Hong Shiming has been in a depression for most of his life, and now he is finally in the position of governor of Jiangnan. Of course, he must hurry up to do things for the court and make money for himself... Let him know about the "996" in later generations, and he must be called a slob by him.Now he wished he could be the governor for eighteen hours a day!
So after working hard during this period, the whole person is a bit dry, but the spirit is very good.
Seeing Hong Shiming coming in, Zu Zepu hurriedly lowered his head to drink tea, and several ancestors also shrank there, sitting on chairs and pretending to be invisible.
Hong Shiming glanced at him, and cupped his hands towards Zu Zepu: "The ancestral army, the emperor ordered me to ask when you plan to rebel?"
Zu Zepu raised his head and spread his hands together: "It can't be done... Wu Sangui just ignores me!"
Hong Shiming stomped his feet: "He ignores you, you won't turn against yourself?"
"Against yourself?" Zu Zepu asked, "I also want to be the president?"
"What kind of president are you? You don't want to call yourself the governor of Jiangnan of the Great Zhou Kingdom? Suzhou, Songjiang, Taicang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and other places are still waiting for the letter from us!"
Zu Zepu was taken aback for a moment, "Examination note? What instruction note?"
Hong Shiming said: "Of course the two of us led Suzhou, Songjiang, Taicang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Jiangningfu, Taiping, Ningguo, Chizhou, Guangde and other nine prefectures and one prefecture to rebel, and recited the imperial edict of Qing Dynasty... Let the subordinates quickly change the banner and official uniform of the Qing Dynasty to the banner and official uniform of the Great Zhou. The braids can’t be kept anymore, and we have to start growing our hair again.”
"This is impossible!" Zu Zepu shook his head again and again, "My ancestor received the favor of the emperor in this life, how could he do such a thing of treason and defection to the enemy?"
Hong Shiming knew early on that Zu Zepu would push back three obstacles and refuse to rebel... The favor of the emperor in the world is all an excuse, and fear of death is the truth!
If this kind of thing is to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty must put a knife on his neck!
Thinking of this, he straightened his face and shouted: "Please!"
Then I saw Emperor Kangxi's confidant, Eunuch Xiao Guizi, coming in holding a yellow box in both hands. Eunuch Xiao Guizi said with a cold face, "This is an edict written by the emperor himself today...you must obey it immediately! The emperor is here Look at Zijin Mountain, if you haven't done it by night, then you have to be punished for not obeying the decree!"
The few sitting people were startled. They didn't know that Emperor Kangxi had come to Jiangning Mansion, and they didn't expect that Kangxi would not talk about "emperor's virtue" so much that he would personally come to supervise the rebellion of his officials.
Zu Zepu had no choice but to stand up and salute, then took the box respectfully, opened it and took out the secret folder inside to look at it.
He knew the content of the secret book without reading it, that is, he was asked to imitate Feng Ting, who dedicated himself to the party, to immediately unfurl the banner of the Great Zhou in Jiangnan, and call himself the Governor of Jiangnan of the Great Zhou.
Zu Zepu let out a long sigh, and said to Xiao Guizi: "Gui Gong... The emperor said to give up the flag of the Great Zhou, but where can I find the flag of the Great Zhou?"
"You don't need to look for it," Eunuch Gui said with a smile, "Jiangning Weaving Yamen has been prepared for you... Banners, official uniforms, and seals have all been prepared for you. You just need to make a ready-made one!"
Zu Zepu said in his heart: "The co-authored emperor is my accomplice in the rebellion!"
"But..." Zu Zepu still shook his head, "But lower officials won't rebel!" He looked at Hong Shiming, "Hong Futai, you are very knowledgeable, you must have learned how to rebel, right?"
Hong Shiming smiled and said: "Ancestor Zhijun, don't push it away, you can't push it away! The emperor doesn't care if you know it or not! If you haven't turned back when it gets dark, the emperor will let Sun Sike lead troops to quell the chaos ...Kill the whole family!"
Is there any reason for this?
Obviously not rebelling, Kangxi will send troops to quell the chaos and kill the whole family.If it was reversed, Kangxi would leave contentedly...
"Well, that has to be reversed!" Zu Zepu stomped his feet, "Hong Futai, don't hide from this matter, how to reverse it, you tell me!"
"Okay!" Hong Shiming is also a responsible person, nodded and said, "First of all, of course, we must report to the emperor and tell the emperor that we have turned against each other!"
"But this notebook... how to write it?"
Zu Zepu estimated that his master would not be able to write this kind of excerpt.
"I'll write it!" Hong Shiming patted his chest.
Then he continued: "Then it was Wu Sangui who submitted the paper and told him that we had already captured the nine prefectures and one prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River for him. Tell him to send troops to take over immediately!
Next, we will issue an edict to the nine prefectures and one prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River, telling the officials of the nine prefectures and one prefecture that we have accepted Wu Sangui's appointment as the governor, governor, and admiral of the Jiangnan of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and require the following prefectures and counties to follow !
Finally, I would like to invite all of you here to change into the official uniforms of the Great Zhou Dynasty together with me, bring the officers and soldiers who also changed into the costumes of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and go to the streets to patrol the city together... We must let the people in Jiangning Prefecture know that we have turned back up! "
Zu Zepu wept, and finally asked again: "Hong Futai, do you think we are now a real rebellion or a fake rebellion?"
Hong Shiming smiled: "Of course it's the opposite! Didn't Feng Ting really join Zhao Guo?"
Chapter 407 Wrong song, it's not Welcome to Ming Dynasty, it's Welcome to Dazhou!
"Boom, boom, rebellion! The people of Jiangning have heard this. The governor of Jiangnan, Mr. Zu, the governor of Jiangnan, Mr. Hong, and the governor of Jiangnan, Mr. Zu, are all rebelling!"
In the afternoon of the eighth day of August in the 13th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the people in Chengnei, Jiangning were busy preparing dinner. By the way, they worshiped in front of the ancestral tablet and reported to the ancestors that although Master Wang is coming soon, he has not yet come today. , They suddenly heard someone outside beating gongs and drums, announcing great news!
Zu Zepu, the governor of Jiangnan, Hong Shiming, the governor of Jiangnan, Zu Yonglie, the governor of Jiangnan...Finally, the anti-Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty have been restored!
Of course it is against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, or else against what?Take refuge in Wu Sangui?Impossible, Wu Sangui is still far away, and he can't reach him now if he wants to seek refuge!
However, the army of the third grandson of Zhu has arrived at the door of Jiangnan Province, and may have already entered the door.So now is the right time to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. If you rebel here, as soon as the army of the third grandson of Zhu comes in, he will take over Jiangnan in peace.No matter how many bad things Zu Zepu, Hong Shiming, and Zu Yonglie have done in the past, once this great contribution of "dedication to the south of the Yangtze River" is delivered, a hero of the restoration of the country will not escape.
After all, the south of the Yangtze River is too rich, and the taxes of Jiangning, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Taicang, and Songjiang alone account for more than two cities in the country!Moreover, the total population of these six prefectures must be more than 600 million, and Guangdong Province may not have such a number...Nowadays, people are rare. If the Ming and Qing families fought in Jiangnan for a year or so, there would be a killing What a pity for those who kill people in the city and kill Yingye?
If the new Daming could swallow the six prefectures in southern Jiangsu, the population and wealth at hand should already exceed half of the world, right?
There are people with money, heavenly soldiers and spells. Even if the new Ming Dynasty cannot rule the world, the people in the south of the Yangtze River should be able to live a comfortable and stable life from now on.
Before the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry and common people in Jiangnan often scolded this Daming who had collected "heavy taxes" in Jiangnan for more than 200 years, and sent some eunuchs from time to time to torment the people in Jiangnan.
But after the Ming Dynasty changed to the Qing Dynasty, the gentry and common people in the south of the Yangtze River knew how powerful it was!
It turns out that Daming's "heavy tax" is not called heavy tax at all, and those dead eunuchs in Daming were not cruel at all - they were beaten for collecting some mining tax, and the beater turned into a "righteous man" and lived happily in the prison It was released in a few years.Try changing the coated servant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to fight one?
Even if the people in the south of the Yangtze River didn't provoke the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty made a deadly coastal relocation.There is a time limit of three days to get out, if you don't move away, you will be hacked to death, and you don't care about the placement if you move away, it doesn't matter where you go to starve to death!If you have the guts to rebel, the Eight Banners and Green Battalion will kill or bury you!
Encountering this kind of "human master", the gentry and common people in the south of the Yangtze River really regretted it. When they were regretting, there was a "regret medicine" in the world, and the Ming Dynasty was resurrected with blood.
Moreover, the revived Ming Dynasty has become a brand new new dynasty. According to the news from Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the current Ming Dynasty soldiers are really disciplined and innocent.
According to the news from Guangdong and Fujian, the current Ming Dynasty is engaged in the equalization of land, tax, and labor, and also established trade, encouraged industry and commerce, and established education... The life of ordinary people is getting more and more hopeful!
Of course, these news are very likely to be fake news, Xin Daming should not be so good.But there are two things for sure... One is that there is a contrast between the Qing Dynasty and the new Ming Dynasty can do whatever they want.
Second, the army of the new Ming Dynasty must be very capable of fighting!Otherwise, they would not have swept through the four provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang so quickly.
Since their rule is definitely better than that of the Qing Dynasty - it cannot be worse!And the fighting power is also very strong, which can protect the people in the south of the Yangtze River from the massacre of the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.So what reason do the people and gentry in Jiangnan not welcome the new Ming Dynasty?
After all, it is still the 13th year of Kangxi, not the era after the Qing Dynasty ruled the world for 200 years.
Now most of the gentry and common people in the south of the Yangtze River still don't agree with the braid on the back of their heads!
So when the news of Zu Zepu, Hong Shiming, and Zu Yonglie's "anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty" spread in Jiangning City, the people in Jiangning City immediately became excited.At least tens of thousands of people immediately put down their work and rushed to the street to "welcome Daming". All!
When they saw a large group of officials and soldiers dressed as if they were officials of the Ming Dynasty on the street where the governor's office was located outside Jiangning Qicheng, either riding horses or walking, and "calling against" while beating gongs and drums, they thought The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have already arrived—otherwise, how could there be so many people wearing the official and military uniforms of the "Ming Dynasty" swaggering outside the governor's office of the Qing Dynasty?
So everyone started singing "Welcome to the Ming Dynasty" spontaneously.
"Looking forward to Daming, welcoming Daming, opening the city gates to vote for Daming, when Daming comes, he will not be a slave..."
At this time, Zu Zepu and Hong Shiming were not in the parade. They had already left the inner city to see Emperor Kangxi off and report the progress of the rebellion.Only the "three generations of ancestors" Zu Yonglie and Zu Chenglie led some family members and officials from the Governor's Mansion and the Admiral's Mansion to beat gongs and drums.As soon as the two heard people on the street singing "Welcome to the Ming Dynasty", they immediately became anxious.
"Wrong song, it's not welcoming Daming, it's welcoming Dazhou!"
"Welcome the Great Week, not welcome the Great Ming!"
These two "three generations of ancestors" still want to correct the mistakes of the masses, but where do the masses listen to them?They were all shouting loudly there!
"Welcome Daming! Welcome Daming! Welcome Daming..."
Anyway, everyone agreed that it was "Welcome Daming"!
Jiangnan Admiral Zu Yonglie still didn't give up, and said to the soldiers on the left and right: "You all shout 'Welcome to the Great Week' with me!"
"Whoo!"
A man with a beard and hair already grey, greeted the old family member who had celebrated Zu Da's birthday back then, and then opened his voice and said to the group of small family members behind him: "Little bastards, all shout with my Zu Da!
Hope for Daming, welcome Daming, open the gates of the city and vote for Daming, when Daming comes, he will not be a slave..."
The people below couldn't figure out the situation, so when they heard the old man shout, they naturally followed suit: "Looking forward to Daming, welcoming Daming..."
"Zu Da, you called it wrong!" Zu Yonglie became even more anxious, "It's the Great Week!"
This Zuda is the servant who celebrated Zuda's birthday. He was not called Zuda originally, but the older one died, so everyone called him Zuda. In the circle of servants and servants of the Zu family, he was very famous Prestige figure.
"Admiral, Zuda is right!" Old man Zu stared and roared, "If the admiral wants to save his life, he should follow everyone to welcome Daming, and then send people to close the gates of the inner city, and don't let Zijin The flag army on the mountain enters the city! As long as you stay here for a few days, when the soldiers arrive tomorrow, are you afraid that you will not have a share of wealth?"
Immediately, other servants joined Zuda.
"Yes! Zuda is right!"
"Junmen, President Wu is still far away, and Sun Sike's banner army is on the Zijin Mountain...we can only vote for Daming!"
"Yes, you can only vote for Daming!"
The servants and slaves of these ancestral families were not brainless people. Although they didn't know what "rebellion by order" was, or what "Feng Ting offered to the party", they knew that their lives could not be given away indiscriminately.
But Zu Yonglie still shook his head and said: "But the green battalion soldiers guarding the thirteen gates of the inner city are controlled by Sun Sike, they don't listen to me!"
Zu Da chuckled: "Those gatekeepers don't recognize Sun Sike. They are all southern soldiers who live for nothing. They only know that the sky is about to change, and tomorrow's soldiers are coming soon! You want to If they are not allowed to welcome Ming Dynasty, they might mutiny... Even if they don’t mutiny, they will open the city gate to welcome the Ming army as soon as the soldiers of Third Grandson Zhu arrive, and then we will die!”
While talking, the old man didn't wait for Zu Yonglie to speak, he loudly said to a group of ancestors: "The admiral has an order to close Chaoyang Gate, Taiping Gate, Shence Gate, Jinchuan Gate, Zhongbu Gate... Hurry up! Order!"
"Whoo!"
The surrounding ancestral family members all responded to "嗻", and then under the arrangement of Zu Da, they were divided into five teams and went to seal the five city gates on the northeast sides of Jiangning Inner City.
But these family members are not all Zu Yonglie and Zu Chenglie's people, some are Zu Zepu's confidantes.Taking advantage of the chaos, they also went to Chaoyang Gate, Taiping Gate, Shence Gate, Jinchuan Gate, and Zhongbu Gate together, and slipped out of the city gate to report to Zu Zepu, Hong Shiming, and Sun Sike on Wumadu Wharf... …
Chapter 408 Wrong?It doesn't matter, Wu Sangui doesn't know!
Outside Jiangning City, Wumadu.
Sun Sike, Zu Zepu, and Hong Shiming had just bid farewell to Emperor Kangxi, and when they were about to bid farewell to each other, several servants from the ancestral family had already rushed over on exhausted and out of breath horses. .
"Master, it's a bad thing, it's a mistake!"
A servant knelt in front of Zu Zepu and yelled loudly.
"Wrong?" Zu Zepu really couldn't understand, "What's wrong?"
"Rebellion! Rebellion is wrong!"
Zu Zepu was stunned again and again, what does it mean that the rebellion was wrong?
"What's wrong?" Hong Shiming didn't understand either, but this time the "rebellion" in Jiangning City was organized by him. If something went wrong, it would be his fault, so he hurriedly asked.
"Hong Futai," said the servant, "didn't you say you wanted to oppose the Qing dynasty?"
"That's right!" Hong Shiming said.
"It turned out to be a mistake, instead of Tou Zhou, it became Tou Ming!"
Hong Shiming became anxious immediately, "How can this be wrong? How can this be wrong?"
"The little one doesn't know!" said the servant, "Zu Junmen and Zu Taishou (Jiangning prefect) followed your order and led people to beat gongs and drums in Jiangning City to protest...For some reason, the entire Jiangning City The common people are all excited, they all gathered on the long street outside the governor's office, these common people may have misunderstood, and sang "Welcome to the Ming Dynasty" together!"
Hong Shiming gritted his teeth and said, "A spy! It must be a spy sent by the third grandson of Zhu!"
Zu Zepu snorted: "Those are just ignorant people, what's the matter?"
The ancestral family Ding shook his head and said: "Master, for some reason, our people all sang "Welcome to the Ming Dynasty" together!"
"What?" Zu Zepu was shocked, "Zu Yonglie, Zu Chenglie and the others don't care?"
"I can't control it!" The family member of the ancestral family arrived, "The great grandfather took the lead in making a fuss and coerced the admiral and the prefect!"
"Grandpa Zu?" Zu Zepu said bitterly, "The old guy's son was killed by the Eight Banners soldiers, and I hate it in my heart! But why do other people..." He stomped his feet, "Come here, lead the horse, Lao Tzu Go back to the city!"
Although Zu Dashou took refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and his performance in Liaodong against the Qing Dynasty was not very good.But the "Qing Qing elements" in the ancestor's army still exist.
After all, after fighting for so many years, so many people died!
Sun Sike also said with a livid face: "Ancestor Zhijun, I will go with you... The green battalion soldiers stationed at the [-]th Gate of Jiangning are under my control, and I will ask them to help you quell the chaos!"
Hong Shiming also said: "I will go too!"
"Okay!" Zu Zepu nodded, "Let's go together!"
Contrary to the expectations of Zu Zepu, Sun Sike, and Hong Shiming, not only are they unable to correct this "wrong" mistake, even the three of them cannot even enter Jiangning City!
The five city gates on the north and east gates of Jiangnei City have been closed, and the Green Battalion guarding the city have followed suit, not only preventing Zu Zepu, Sun Sike, and Hong Shiming from entering the city, but also firing guns and arrows on the city wall .
Fortunately, seeing that something was wrong, the three of them turned their horses and ran away, so they were not beaten to death.
And the rest of the city gates in Jiangning Inner City were also closed before dark that day!
In this way, the inner city of Jiangning was completely controlled by a group of chaotic troops and people.And the green battalion guarding the thirteen gates of Jiangning's inner city completely forgot that they were under the control of Sun Sike, and all fell to the side of Daming who had just entered the territory of Suzhou Mansion.