The day after Zhou Shixiang returned to Nanjing, he received news from the Military Intelligence Department, which came from the Henan transit station, saying that the Qing court sent the minister of the interior to steal the imperial merchants in Shanxi, raising countless prisons, and killing people's heads.
It is said that the amount of gold and silver confiscated by the imperial merchants in Shanxi was not less than 10 million taels.
Zhou Shixiang was a little confused by this news, and he didn't understand why Fu Lin was doing a good job to copy the Shanxi businessman who served him, he did this, who would dare to work for him Aixinjue Luo's family in the future, he was not afraid that this move would make the Han people in the north cold, the gentry and businessmen, and look forward to the Ming Wangshi Zhou Shixiang's staff Gui Yongzhi was the master of Li Shutai, the former governor of Guangdong in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Dong Changqing was an ordinary student in Huizhou, Guangdong.
Xu Yingyuan and Guo Shao, who were strategists earlier, will not be around, that is, before the two of them defected, one was a county magistrate, and the other was a salt patrol envoy, and their knowledge was worse than Gui Yongzhi, and it was difficult for him to provide an accurate analysis of this information.
Li Zhicui, the former superintendent of Jiangxi Toucheng, has a better understanding of the situation in the north, but it is a pity that he is now serving as a political envoy in Nanchang and is responsible for stabilizing the situation in Jiangxi.
Jiang Guozhu was in Suzhou again, and Lang Tingzuo and Zhu Guozhi, the two Manchu diehards, had been tortured by Zhou Shixiang before, and they gritted their teeth and didn't say a word, so they also expected them to solve their doubts and doubts for the "thief Xiucai".
Qian Qianyi was still suffering from the wind and cold on the road here, so after arriving in Nanjing, Zhou Shixiang deliberately vacated the former Qian Mansion and let this old uncle recuperate for a few days, which would be difficult to inquire.
Besides, Qian Qianyi may not be much better than Gui Yongzhi and them, after all, this old man is only a leader in the literary world, not an important minister like Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanme, and Hong Chengchou who can decisively win the world.
There are some things that I am afraid his opinion is worse than that of a child.
In the end, Zhou Shixiang thought of one person, that is, Zhang Changgeng, the former governor of Huguang in Qing, who came to Nanjing with the vanguard of the Huguang Aid and Suppression Army when he was in Suzhou.
The first to arrive in Nanjing was the second town of one of the old four towns of the Taiping Army, and the town general Tie Yi also served as the deputy commander of the Huguang Army.
In addition to bringing Zhang Changgeng, Tie Yi also brought one person, but Sun Kewang, who was captured in Changsha.
Zhou Shixiang didn't have time to meet the prince of the Great Western Army, the King of Qin of the Ming Dynasty, and His Royal Highness the Righteous King of the Qing Dynasty, so he only let him be locked up with Yue Le, Lang Tingzuo, Liang Huafeng, Zhu Guozhi, and Esehei first, and then go to see Sun Kewang after he was busy with a few important matters at hand.
As for whether to kill or close, Zhou Shixiang has not yet made up his mind.
Zhang Changgeng was not taken to Nanjing as a prisoner like Sun Kewang, but came to Nanjing as a demoted official.
Theoretically, as long as Zhang Changgeng does not run, the Taiping Army must be polite to him.
When Zhou Shixiang received the report that Wuchang had been decided, the instructions given to Yu Shizhong were also to treat Zhang Changgeng well.
Thousands of dollars buy horse bones, it is rare for a Manchu Qing official at the level of a governor to surrender voluntarily, if Zhou Shixiang does not make good use of it, it is inevitable that he will not be able to bear this horse bone.
It wasn't until Zhang Changgeng entered Nanjing that Fang really breathed a sigh of relief and knew that his life was saved after all.
He was not afraid that the "thief Xiucai" would kill him, but that the thieves in Kuidong would kill him.
After he surrendered in front of Dong Xueli, the governor of Huguang, he did not dare to stay in Wuchang at all, but begged Yu Shizhong, the Huguang army of the Taiping army, to send him to Nanjing, because he was afraid that Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi would liquidate the sins he committed against Kuidong during his tenure as governor of Hubei.
Zhang Changgeng's guess was right, although Yu Shizhong had dissuaded him, but after the Ming army took control of Wuchang City, Hao Shaoqi and He Zhen, the generals of the loyal battalion, slaughtered Dong Xueli and the green battalion soldiers who surrendered.
It is conceivable that if Zhang Changgeng hadn't fled into the Taiping army's barracks in advance, he might have been killed by the loyal battalion who were eager for revenge.
After Zhang Changgeng was brought to Zhou Shixiang, like those who had been demoted before, he was surprised by the youth of this "thief showman".
But thinking that Zheng Sen of Jinxia led the army in his twenties, Li Dingguo in the southwest was also in charge of an army at about the same age, and the Manchu Qing side was also led by young clans all these years, so I was relieved.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Changgeng knelt on the ground and saluted Zhou Shixiang, I don't know if it was habit or nervousness, he used Manchu etiquette.
Zhou Shixiang helped him up with a smile, and did not care about Zhang Changgeng's mistakes in etiquette, but praised him first.
It is nothing more than because of Zhang Changgeng's understanding of the times, the people in Wuchang City were able to avoid the war, and the Ming army also reduced casualties and so on.
Zhang Changgeng was ashamed in every way, and couldn't help saying that I was guilty in the past.
Zhou Shixiang laughed, and said to him that since he had abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, then don't talk about what he did in the past, and he still has something to borrow in the future.
Hearing this, Zhang Changgeng felt like he had taken a reassuring pill, and at the moment, he had nothing to worry about except for worrying about his family in Beijing.
Zhou Shixiang replied that he had something unclear about, and he didn't know if Zhang Changgeng could solve his doubts.
Zhang Changgeng immediately seemed to be favored, and hurriedly said that he was willing to share his worries for the public of Guangdong.
Zhou Shixiang briefly told Zhang Changgeng what happened in Shanxi, Zhang Changgeng thought for a moment after hearing this, and said to Zhou Shixiang that the Qing court's attack on Shanxi merchants was nothing more than because the treasury had no money.
"In the past, the Tartars had no money, so they relied on looting, but now there is a national prince, the Tartars have no way to rob, and the Jiangnan wealth is heavy and lost, but the Tartars have to maintain their court and army, naturally only to the rich people under the rule of the eight imperial merchants have fornicated with the Tartars since the Apocalypse, thirty years down, the family property is considerable, copy them, the Qing court must be in a moment, but there is no need to worry about the lack of money."
As soon as Zhang Changgeng said this, Zhou Shixiang understood it, but he felt incredible, and asked Zhang Changgeng if the Qing court was not afraid of chilling people's hearts by doing this thing of killing chickens and taking eggs.
Zhang Changgeng said with a smile, the Qing court is like the Chongzhen Dynasty at this moment, and the savings since entering the customs have been consumed in the southern war, and now this war is still continuing, like a bottomless pit, a lot of money, manpower and material resources need to be filled, and the north has long been dilapidated, and there are several essences in the world only in Jiangnan and Huguang, but now they are all occupied by Zhou Shixiang, they will not be ruthless, but they are afraid that the north will not be able to keep it, and the Qing Dynasty will not be able to keep it.
At this juncture, how could the Qing court take care of so much.
As for the so-called human heart, there is no need to worry about it at all, these days, there are many dogs.
As long as the Qing court does not fall, there are many dogs vying to grab the bones thrown by the Qing court.
There are eight imperial merchants today, and there may not be thirteen super-rich tomorrow, of course, their final outcome will also not escape being copied and killed by the Qing court.
Because copying and killing rich Han people was a national policy implemented by the Qing court as early as outside the Guan.
"When the Tartars were in Liaodong, there was a saying about killing pigs.
This killing of pigs is not really killing pigs, but killing Han people.
When the old slave was there, he liked to check the grain of the Han people, and those who had no grain and no hardware bucket for each person were designated as Han people without grain.
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The old slave said that the Han people without grain did not plough the fields, had no grain, and did not settle at home, and wanted to flee to the Ming Kingdom from here, and ordered the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners to regard the people without grain as enemies, and hunt and kill them when they found them; Later, he issued an edict, accusing the Han people of Yougu of harboring spies, accepting Zafu, and ordering all the Han people of Yougu to be killed in various places.
In this way, there are no more Han people in Liaodong, and there are also those who work hard for slaves, also known as Baoyi slaves or Aha. ” "The Tartars really regard me Han people as pigs and dogs, hum, but I don't know, who is the pig to be slaughtered" Zhou Shixiang was annoyed when he heard this, and he hated Manchu even more.
"But according to that, Fulin has this ruthlessness, and he is very decisive, knowing what he needs most now, what he needs the most."
Zhou Shixiang was a little emotional, and he also admired Fulin's ruthlessness.
At the same time, he thought of the document on the Lang Tingzuo Mansion that Jiang Guozhu had "sold" the big case, if it weren't for his own appearance, I am afraid that it was not the imperial merchants in Shanxi who were being confiscated now, but the gentry in Jiangnan.
When he was sighing, Dong Changqing brought two newspapers, both of which came from Wuchang.
Two things, one is that Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang in Jianchang, has sent an envoy to serve the king of Tang as Zhengshuo; Another incident was also reported by Feng Shuangli, saying that the Manchu and Mongolian Qing troops in the southwest, under the leadership of Doni and Ping Keduo, had fled from Guiyang to Chongqing and were fleeing to Chengdu.
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