Chapter 80: Lest the world be in chaos Shortly after leaving the Fujian Governor's Yamen and returning to the inn where he was staying, Zhang Pu quietly changed his clothes and walked around Fuzhou City a few times.
After confirming that no one was following him, he quietly left the street and sneaked into the alley.
Finally, he made his way into a secluded house. yznn As soon as he walked into the door of the house, a strong man with dark skin and strong build came up to him, "Mr.
Zhang, what's going on?"
"Hey, it really doesn't work.
That old man Zou Weilian is stubborn and cowardly.
He only cares about his own wealth and wealth.
He would rather live with it and tolerate adultery, but he completely forgets about the country's justice and the safety of the country.
It is really shameful for a decent gentleman like us to be associated with him."
Zhang Pu shook his head and replied, his face full of contempt and disdain, "If we want him to sacrifice his life for righteousness, punish the rebels at home, and fight against the thieves outside, it seems that it is impossible.
For the welfare of the people of the world, we can only suffer.
Make up your mind to take decisive measures regardless of the reputation behind you."
"Haha, it should have been like this a long time ago, Mr.
Zhang, I just said that I can't count on Zou Weilian."
The black-faced man replied with a sneer, and dozens of people gathered in the courtyard here also responded.
If you look carefully, you can see that there are people dressed in various costumes from all three religions, but most of them are fierce-looking fighting men, and there are even many Japanese samurai with short stature and strange buns.
Previously, when the Zheng family in southern Fujian was destroyed by the "Australians", although Zheng Zhilong was defeated and crowned the leader, and his family members and heirs died unexpectedly, there were still many remnants of the Zheng family running around, waiting for opportunities to retaliate.
Many Japanese ronin were recruited by the Zheng family.
Later, due to the vigorous suppression by the Funing Army and the naval blockade of the "Australians", these remnants of the Zheng family could no longer stand in southern Fujian, so they had to flee north and were successively taken in by the former Fujian governor Xiong Wencan, and later Zou Weilian, the new governor of Fujian, took over and organized these remnants of the Zheng family, who had a bloody feud with the Funing Army and the "Australians", into the two "Fu Biao" battalions, hoping to use them to deal with the Funing Army who might rebel at any time.
At first, the remnants of the Zheng family thought that with the governor's support, they would be able to take revenge, and they were extremely excited.
But it didn't take long for them to see that Zou Weilian only wanted to maintain the status quo and did not dare to become an enemy of the fledgling Funing Army.
He also had no intention of avenging the Zheng family, and they couldn't help but feel frustrated and angry.
Next, due to some coincidence, this group of former pirates who only thought about revenge and regaining their former wealth and glory, and did not care about anything else, later skipped Zou Weilian and directly connected with Fushe and Donglin bosses.
Next, he met Zhang Pu, a leader who had friendships with all religions and was extremely bold.
The two quickly hit it off, and soon they colluded and began to plot "big things."
In addition, another group of Japanese present here have even more bizarre backgrounds.
They are secret envoys sent to the Central Plains by the Tokugawa shogunate.
It turns out that after the disastrous expedition against Changzhou that year, the Tokugawa shogunate also gradually learned about Changzhou.
What happened to the "Ming foreign aid" of Zhou Fan?
He began to try to cut off the foreign aid of Changzhou Fan, so he sent people with a large sum of gold and silver and some good people to cross the sea to the Ming Dynasty to carry out activities.
Deal with the Funing Army internally.
But the problem is that these shogunate envoys have a black eye in the Ming Dynasty.
Even if they have gold and silver and want to pay bribes, they are not allowed to get in.
Instead, they are deceived several times in a row and are very disgraced.
Fortunately, these shogunate envoys finally With good luck, I managed to get in touch with Zhang Pu, the leader of Fushe, on the one hand, and on the other hand, I connected with the remnants of the Zheng family in Fuzhou through the relationship of several Japanese ronin under the Zheng family.
However, although the two groups of people are sitting together now, the conflicts are actually very serious.
The shogunate envoy maintains his noble status and looks down on the Zheng family's bereaved dog; and the rough guys of the Zheng family also look down on this group of Japanese people on the ground in Fujian.
Pointing fingers and making pretense.
Fortunately, there is a common enemy now.
While shouldering the heavy responsibility of the shogunate, they are red-eyed and want revenge and a comeback, so they can barely continue to cooperate.
Zhang Pu, a famous scholar in Fushe, seemed to regard himself as the leader of the alliance.
He raised his hand in a stylish way and gave them orders in a grand manner: "Everyone, since the governor is so unjust, don't blame me for being unkind.
We have already discussed what to do.
Let's start now.
In order to save the people of the world and protect the common people of the country, I ask you to work hard and serve God.
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Fight rebellion and drive out the thieves."
"Fengtian to fight against rebellion and drive out the bandits!"
Everyone waved their fists together and shouted in agreement.
Of course, given the Donglin Party's habit of preying on its own people, the first blow of this "rebellion" was naturally to hit their own people's heads.
Late at night on the first day of the sixth lunar month in the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, the shogun Zhang Pu and his close servants placed a copper urn inside the city gate of Fuzhou.
Firecrackers were burned inside the urn to simulate the sound of cannons, and dozens of people were sent to run through the streets with firecrackers.
Everyone made noises and shouted, "The Funing army has caused chaos and the thieves have entered the city!"
The city of Fuzhou was immediately frightened.
The common people and gentry fled outside the city at night, trampling on each other and killing countless people.
There were also Japanese pirates who robbed the market, killing people and stealing goods.
Local rogues took advantage of the chaos to rob, set fire to and kill people, and the chaos in the city became more and more serious.
Before he arrived, a fire broke out in the governor's office, and some "defeated soldiers" from the governor's military camp were wounded and fled.
Everyone along the way shouted, "The trouble has come, the thieves and the rebels have broken down the governor's office, and Governor Zou is going to die for his country with his whole family."
As a result, the whole city of Fuzhou was extremely frightened.
The prefects, magistrates, and other officials abandoned their posts and ran away one after another.
They were escorted by a group of people and government officials to escape from the city and traveled overnight to the surrounding counties.
After everyone took a breather, they reported "Kun thieves broke into the city" one after another, and countless urgent documents flew into the northern and southern capitals like snowflakes.
At the same time, the first battalion of the Fujian Governor's Chinese Army Model Soldiers raided Xiapu, the old camp of the Funing Army, set fire to the village market and killed local military households.
Because there had been no fighting in Xiapu for several years, and most of the soldiers left behind were old and weak, the enemy was allowed to penetrate deep into the territory.
He Dingyuan, the Funing military general who had just been transferred from Quanzhou to Xiapu, was furious when he heard the news.
He hurriedly ordered hundreds of soldiers and horses to attack the camp.
He immediately defeated the invading enemy and tortured the opponent's identity from the prisoners.
The next day, He Dingyuan sent two thousand troops, marching by land and water, to Fuzhou, the provincial capital, to prosecute and demonstrate.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at Fuzhou City, they found that the city gates were wide open, the ground was in a mess, and all the government offices were empty.
Only a few thieves who took advantage of the situation were caught.
The relatively simple-minded He Dingyuan was confused for a while, so he settled in Fuzhou and began to gather the citizens and restore order.
At the same time, he killed more than a hundred people in Xiaoxiao who were pretending to be thieves.
But it was too late at this moment.
The news that "Funing Army conquered Fuzhou, killed officials and rebelled, and Governor Zou Weilian committed suicide for his country" had already spread to the north and south of the country.
The Nanjing Ministry of War also issued a crusade order to the Funing Army as quickly as possible due to the activities of a group of Donglin Party members.
The flames of war on the battlefield in Fujian were ignited, adding a bit of apocalyptic atmosphere to the Ming Empire, which was already in flames.
What's even more terrible is that the flames of war ignited by the gentlemen of Donglin at the same time are not limited to this place.
In the summer of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Qian family's mansion was in Changshu County, Suzhou Prefecture, south of Zhili in the Ming Dynasty.
Qian Qianyi, the former right minister of the Ministry of Rites and bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, who was only fifty-two years old, was once a famous Donglin leader and literary figure.
Since he was tricked by Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren in the first year of Chongzhen, he was completely defeated.
It has been four years since I was forced to retire and return home.
In the past few years, apart from giving lectures in the academy, his main entertainment was writing poetry.
The writing style of these poems is very unique.
When you are in a good mood, you can become depressed.
When you are in a bad mood, you can commit suicide.
The main meanings of the poems are relatively similar: I regret it very much, I want to live in seclusion, my life has been in vain, I have no meaning, in any case, in one sentence, I have had bad luck in my life.
After all, after wasting so many years at home, it's normal to feel a little resentful.
In this gloomy country life that makes people want to commit suicide, the only bright color that makes him feel happy is the birth of his fourth son Qian Ruyi.
Qian Ruyi has just turned four this year.
After his first three sons died young one after another, Qian Qianyi now really regards this young son as the jewel in his palm and the love of his heart.
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In addition to lecturing and composing poems, he often personally teaches his young son how to walk, speak, and calligraphy, enjoying all the time.
Family happiness.
However, on this morning, after receiving the news from Fujian, Qian Qianyi was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and no longer even thought about playing with his young son: "Zhang Pu is so bold and reckless.
Not only does he contact foreign vassals, but he even Even the dignified governor dares to murder him."
Although it was Qian Qianyi himself who suggested taking action against the Funing Army and the Australian Bandits, he only collected some intelligence and put forward a preliminary idea.
When it came time to implement it, he had to step aside because of money.
After all, Qian Yi has been dismissed from office, and his power and influence are far less than before.
Moreover, as he gets older, he is not as energetic as those young people.
In addition, Zhang Pu, an activist who likes to seize power, came forward.
Therefore, he never expected that Zhang Pu could actually make things so brutal and sensational.
"Alas, when the whole family of Zou Weilian in Fujian was wiped out, was it Zhang Pu who was the killer who made his own decisions or was he really following the pre-arrangements of the princes in the court?
If the princes in Donglin really ordered it like this, then haha, It’s really a bit chilling.”
Speaking of which, the reason why Qian Qianyi proposed to provoke the siege of Huangshi was not only for the sake of his own career, but also in an attempt to concoct a great achievement in order to accumulate reputation as quickly as possible, gain favor with the emperor, and finally return to Beijing.
The purpose of the resumption is also to reverse the current political environment in which the Donglin Party is being suppressed in the imperial court, and to gain some time for the Donglin Party members to breathe and adjust, who are about to be killed by their old enemies.
In March of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Battle of Daling River, which lasted for more than half a year, ended.
Huang Taiji, the second generation leader of the Later Jin Kingdom, very cleverly adopted the strategy of siege and reinforcements.
He used Dalinghe City and Zu Dashou and other elite Guanning troops in the city as bait, and repeatedly defeated the Ming army coming from Jinzhou for reinforcements.
After many failed rescue operations, the Ming Dynasty's reinforcements were routed and annihilated, totaling as many as 150,000.
In the final decisive battle, Liaodong commander-in-chief Wu Xiang and Yongping troops were also prepared.
Dao Zhangchun, Changping deputy general Zuo Liangyu, Tongzhou deputy general Yang Yufan and other senior generals were captured.
The Guan Ning cavalry, which had been supported heavily by the Ming Dynasty, was almost completely wiped out.
Although the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Sun Chengzong, escaped from the battlefield by luck, he fled back to Shanhaiguan in a hurry, with only a few horses left among his own soldiers.
From then on, he had to sit back and watch Zu Dashou fend for himself in Dalinghe City.
The situation was simply unsightly.
As for Zu Dashou, who was trapped in Dalinghe City, after defending the city for more than half a year, he ran out of ammunition and food, and even ate human flesh as food.
Soon he could no longer hold on and was unable to break out.
Finally, he had to fight in March of the fifth year of Chongzhen.
Open the city gate and surrender to Huang Taiji.
At this point, the Jin army had won a complete victory, while the Ming army had suffered a terrible defeat.
While a series of wars were going on inside and outside Dalinghe City, in order to contain the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji also sent Abataibele to lead a number of Eight Banners and Mongolian soldiers and horses, as well as motley Han people who had been pieced together from here and there.
The army, totaling more than 10,000 people, once again detoured to Jizhen, broke through the border wall and invaded in early January, and then moved to fight in various prefectures and counties in northern Zhili, defeating all the imperial officials and soldiers.
The civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty were helpless.
It was not until April that Abatai was "escorted" by the Ming army and returned home with a full load.
When he left the Great Wall, his number had swelled to 40,000 due to plundering people along the way and recruiting surrendered troops.
Fortunately among the misfortunes, the Dengzhou Rebellion in this time and space did not happen as it happened in history.
For the first time, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, dispatched his close associates and troops recruited from Dongjiang Town by the Liaodong Army to suppress the indigenous people in the Shandong area taking the sea route.
When rescuing Dalinghe City, these Liao soldiers, who had already been killed by the Jurchens, originally planned to go out to sea for a while, but then came back to report that there was a storm on the sea and they could not sail, using this as an excuse to escape from the Jurchen soldiers.
Death by knife.
Unexpectedly, their fleet survived, and happened to run into the Far East Company's "Immigration Recruitment Fleet."
As a result, in front of the modern steel battleship, two thousand Liao soldiers and the commander Kong Youde were all made prisoners.
They have just left Vladivostok.
They are working hard as lumberjacks in the deep mountains and old forests in the epidemic prevention isolation camp.
It is impossible for them to run back to Shandong to carry out mutiny for the time being.
Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai who was staying in Dengzhou, really thought that they had all drowned in a storm because he had not received any news.
Later, under the strict orders of the Ministry of War, Sun Yuanhua gathered the remaining Liaodong Army, led by the rebellious Li Jiucheng, and went out of Shanhaiguan by land to rescue Liaoxi.
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Because the number of troops sent was small, military food and pay became relatively abundant, so this The Liaodong Army went further than in history, and only when it reached deep into Beizhili did a mutiny break out because of insufficient food and salary supplies.
It happened that Abatai led the Jurchen Eight Banners' partial division to break through the pass and go south, and had already arrived near the Dengzhou reinforcements.
Therefore, Li Jiu decided to defect to the Tartars, and followed the Eight Banners troops in North Zhili, pretending to be powerful, and ravaged many prefectures and counties.
When he finally left the border and went to Liaodong with the Hou Jin Army, Li Jiucheng also persuaded Abatai to send his troops far away.
By conquering Dengzhou, he could cooperate with the local Liao army inside and outside to defeat the city in one fell swoop.
However, Abatai believed that the distance to Dengzhou was too far, and if he went deep into the city alone, something unexpected might happen.
At the same time, he did not trust the new Li Jiucheng, so he rejected it.
This proposal was withdrawn in April, leaving only a ruins behind.
On the other hand, although Abatai had already retreated when the Battle of Daling River ended, and the war seemed to have come to an end, the Ming court in Beijing was still frightened.
At this time, all the elite troops in Liaozhen and Beizhili All have been destroyed, and the frontline troops are extremely empty.
The only ones who can fight are the thousands of Sichuan troops in Shanhaiguan.
The border soldiers and civilians in Jizhen and western Liaoning were in a state of turmoil.
Everyone was worried that the slave slaves would soon invade again in large numbers.
Even if only a few Mongolian herdsmen appeared by chance, the frightened border guards could be frightened and flee in hundreds.
And above the court, the situation was even more violent.
Because of the poor performance during this military disaster, as well as the heavy losses in the Daling River battlefield and the counties and counties in North Zhili, the Donglin Party cabinet and local Donglin Party important officials For a time, members of the imperial family fell into the spotlight, and courtiers from other factions took the opportunity to launch a movement to overthrow the cabinet.
The imperial censor of the capital had been in constant trouble since last autumn.
Jumping up and down, the piles of memorials impeaching Sun Chengzong, Zhou Yanru and other important Donglin officials were taller than people.
It couldn't be helped.
Ever since they became powerful in the first year of Chongzhen, the Donglin Party's appearance in the officialdom has become increasingly ugly, and it has played a role The effect is getting worse and worse.
It seems that this group is born to expand itself in the court and exclude others.
For a time, the Donglin Party dominated the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, making it almost impossible for scholars to get ahead unless they joined this illegal organization.
The Donglin Party had never been legally recognized.
As for the performance of this illegal organization in governing the country, well, it’s really embarrassing to talk about it.
Warfare, road construction, disaster relief, flood control, and water conservancy all seem to have been done badly, especially many of the things that should have been invested in, maintained and operated every year.
The water conservancy system is completely ruined under the management of all gentlemen, so that once a major natural disaster occurs, the consequences will be twice as serious as in the past.
As for the war, it was one disastrous defeat after another.
If a cabinet that has so much hatred for the world and so much harm to the country and the people can be as stable as Mount Tai, it will be damned.
As a result, the Donglin Party, which had been the dominant party in the court since the first year of Chongzhen, was finally no longer able to control the government.
Under the joint siege of officials from other factions and the anger and disgust of Emperor Chongzhen, the chief minister Zhou Yanru was forced to resign.
After returning home, the official positions of other important officials in Donglin were also in jeopardy.
Although such an end was obviously brought about by oneself, the Donglin Party members did not think so.
Instead, they felt aggrieved that the current "evils and evil spirits" in the DPRK dared to drive gentlemen like them out of the stage.
It was really intolerable.
Unable to tolerate the fact that the defeat in the political battle in the court has been decided, the Donglin Party members who refuse to admit defeat continue to mobilize their various connections and forces in an attempt to bring the situation back, at least they cannot lose anymore.
Specifically, it is to divert the attention of the government and the opposition by creating new wars, and temporarily relieve the Donglin Party members who are in a difficult situation in the DPRK.
When the war becomes very urgent, the battles between the court and the cabinet will be temporarily suppressed.
In this way, the "traitor party in the DPRK" and the "deceived Holy Lord" will be unable to further counterattack, thereby preventing the entire Donglin Party from being completely driven out of the court.
As a result, Huang Shi, who was far in the south, unfortunately became the first choice.
This was certainly not because he had colluded with the Australian bandits and repeatedly violated the court system, but because: First of all, I heard that Huang Shi, a vulgar warrior, learned from the Australian bandits.
He has learned many ways to make money and lived a very prosperous life, but he refused to dedicate his wealth to the Jiangnan gentry, and the money he earned did not go to all the upright and honest Donglin gentlemen; Secondly, in order to raise money and support the troops, the Funing Army ignored the imperial court's tradition of collecting less and no commercial taxes, and brazenly levied the "Jinghai Tax" on every merchant ship in the Taiwan Strait.
Merchant ships that refused to pay the tax usually included people and goods.
Missing together Funing Jun's annual income is as high as more than five million taels of silver It is tantamount to forcefully taking money from the pockets of the Donglin Party's behind-the-scenes financiers, which has long made the Jiangnan landlords, gentry and wealthy merchant groups gnash their teeth with hatred, just because not every gentry is engaged in maritime trade, and the power of the Funing Army He is not weak at all, so he has not made up his mind to deal with him for the time being.
Thirdly, it was Huang Shi who amassed land in southern Fujian, persecuted the gentry, and trampled the dignity and honor of scholars into the mud.
Although this somewhat made the Donglin Party feel a bit sad about the death of rabbits and the harm of others, the landlords in the world are never one family, unless It involves old relatives, otherwise the landlords and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River would not shed tears for the suffering of the landlords in the south of Fujian.
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What's more, they themselves have done similar things like seizing and annexing land.
In short, taking advantage of this opportunity, the Donglin Party plans to brand Huangshi and Funing troops as rebels.
While shifting the focus of discussion between the government and the opposition, they will seize all the financial resources originally controlled by those lowly warriors and provide them with These noble scribes enjoyed it.
As for how to clean up the Funing Army after the rebellion, and how to clean up the mess afterwards, it is all the responsibility of the imperial court.
No matter how much manpower and material resources are lost, it is also the imperial court's responsibility.
The Donglin Party only needs to rely on foresight to reap more benefits and die.
Go ahead and make a fortune.
Isn't this the rule that I have followed for so many years?
Therefore, after the initial shock and horror, Qian Qianyi gradually became relaxed again.
No matter how earth-shattering the process of provoking the incident was, how cruel and vicious Zhang Pu's methods were, and how aggrieved Governor Zou Weilian died as the instigator, he died anyway.
Friends are good but poor people are poor, maybe this is what the princes in the court mean.
But I think I have to be more careful in the future, and don’t accidentally get tricked by Zhang Pu, a mad dog.
But what the optimistic and lawless Donglin Party members in Jiangnan didn't know was that because the Donglin Party and other wealthy gentry families across the country did not communicate well with each other, there were also people doing almost the same thing in other parts of the Ming Empire at this time. activities Therefore, in the next few days, Qian Qianyi, who was living in seclusion in the countryside of Jiangnan, was stunned to receive one piece of shocking bad news after another.
Donglin Party, he is relatively well-informed.
Although at this moment, he would rather not be so well-informed: A mutiny broke out in Dengzhou, Shandong Province.
Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, disappeared during the rebellion.
Chen Xin, the former commander-in-chief of Dengzhou, led the rebels across the sea to attack Tianjin.
Fierce internal strife broke out between Datong and Xuanfu troops fighting for the silver mines, resulting in numerous casualties.
They are still accusing each other of being rebels.
More than 30 bandits in northern Shaanxi elected Gao Yingxiang as their leader, formed an alliance and crossed the river into Shanxi, captured Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and killed the Jin king and his family.
The Shandong Wenxiang Sect once again caused chaos in southern Shandong.
It has gathered hundreds of thousands of people and besieged Jining, cutting off the lifeline of the canal.
Finally, the "slave chief" Huang Taiji sent many Ming Dynasty generals who had surrendered in the Battle of Daling River to lobby the remnants of the Guanning Army in western Liaoning to persuade them to surrender.
Rumors abounded in Jiliao border towns and people were in confusion.
The civil servants and eunuchs in charge of the division have repeatedly reported secretly, saying that the morale of the army is unstable and there is fear of unforeseen disasters.
Although the geographical concept in his mind was very general, Qian Qianyi also vaguely judged that there might be fires outside Beijing at this time.
"Why, how come so many disasters from the sky collided together?
What on earth are you gentlemen above the court doing?"
Sitting in his small study room, he opened his mouth blankly and murmured in disbelief. oshow7: