Dominate the Country

Chapter 174: Living in Jiangnan

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In September, the temperature is getting colder day by day. People put on thick clothes, and the north is already waiting for the arrival of early winter soon. The coldness of Jiangnan also makes people completely forget the beauty and grace of summer here.

In the pubs and restaurants in the streets and alleys, or on the dining table at home, warming up a pot of rice wine, enjoying the mellow fragrance of rice wine in the cold weather, and warming up the body are the deep love of Jiangnan people.

If Chen Ming had not traveled through time three years ago, Jiangnan in the 32nd year of Qianlong would continue to be prosperous and prosperous as it was in the past. But in the long river of history of this time and space, there was an extraordinary trend-setter. After the fifteenth day of the eighth month of this year, a kind of speech that was considered treasonous by the Qing government quietly spread in the Jiangnan area.

Chen's Army, Fu Han General's Mansion, Ruzhou, Henan, western Henan, Chen Hui, Chen Ming...

Among all the rumors related to Chen's Army, the Grand Commander Chen Ming, who was only 18 years old and defeated tens of thousands of troops from four provinces, and killed or injured many court officials, admirals and generals, has been given a mythical aura by thousands of Jiangnan people.

In the mouths of the people, some people say that he is the second Emperor Taizong of Tang, and some people say that he is as good as Gongjin. Obviously, the title of Grand Commander Chen Ming reminds the people of Jiangnan of Zhou Yu, the Grand Commander of Sun Wu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

No matter which statement is it, it can be seen that the people of Jiangnan admire Chen Ming. Although no one dares to publicize it, in essence, thousands of Jiangnan people are all loyal and kind people of our Qing Dynasty, while Chen Ming is a rebel leader hated by the Qing court.

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There is a city in Jiangnan. After more than a hundred years of the Qing Dynasty entering the pass, the people of this city do not say that they will not participate in the imperial examination or serve as soldiers or officials. But it has the lowest proportion among all the counties in Jiangnan. This city is Jiangyin, which is the Jiangyin County that resisted the Qing Dynasty for 81 days.

After the fall of Jiangyin City, only 53 people, young and old, survived in Jiangyin County after being massacred by the Qing Dynasty. More than a hundred years have passed. Some villagers who fled Jiangyin City and outside Jiangyin City before the Jiangyin Defense War started, and some people who moved here from other places have multiplied and thrived. The Jiangyin County, which was like a ghost den, is now flourishing and has a population of more than 300,000. However, the pressure of Jiangyin County's "non-violent non-cooperation movement" on the Qing Dynasty has not disappeared, but has increased day by day.

Because Jiangyin County is located in an important area of ​​Jiangnan, as long as the people there maintain resistance to the Qing government, this influence can affect the entire Jiangnan, and make thousands of Jiangnan people remember the scenes of the Qing Dynasty entering the pass more than a hundred years ago.

Ten days in Yangzhou, three massacres in Jiading, how many Jiangnan people, how many Han people fell under the swords and guns of the Eight Banners Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty and their lackeys?

The non-violent non-cooperation in Jiangyin County had a very bad impact on the Qing Dynasty.

If history remains the same, ten years later, that is, 130 years after the Battle of Jiangyin, in order to appease the people of Jiangyin, Qianlong adopted a conciliatory policy to oppose the three Qing officials - Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun, and gave them the posthumous titles of "Zhonglie", "Liemin", and "Jiemin" respectively. Subsequently, the Loyalty Temple was established to commemorate the Jiangyin gentry and people in the late Ming Dynasty: Qi Xun, Xu Yong, Huang Yuqi, Wang Hua, Xia Weixin, Lu Jiushao, Pan Wenxian, Xu Qu, etc. In the sixth year of Daoguang, the Qing court enshrined the tablets of 138 people including Shao Kanggong in the Loyalty Temple. A few years before the First Opium War, in order to appease the people of Jiangyin, the Qing court issued an edict to build a temple for Yan Yingyuan in Jiangyin and his hometown Tongzhou, both named "Yan Gong Temple".

In the autumn of the 32nd year of Qianlong, the non-violent non-cooperation movement in Jiangyin County was still going on quietly. Jiangyin is the county seat of Jiangsu Provincial Educational Office. The locals should have been able to occupy a place in the culturally rich Jiangnan region with their convenience. However, it seems that the massacre 120 years ago dispersed the local literary atmosphere. During the Qing Dynasty, there seemed to be few people who passed the imperial examinations in Jiangyin.

The examination hall for the Jiangsu Academy Examination was located in the Jiangsu Provincial Educational Office, and the office was located in Jiangyin County. This is a convenience for candidates in Jiangyin, and it is also a very special exception. In the Shuntian Prefecture and 18 provinces of the Qing Dynasty, most of the provincial education offices were built in the provincial capital. There are only three in the country that are not built in the provincial capital: Shuntian Prefecture is in Tongzhou, Jiangsu Province is in Jiangyin County, and Shaanxi Province is in Sanyuan County.

The Jiangsu Provincial Educational Office is not located in Jiangning but in Jiangyin. The main reason is that Jiangyin is located on the Yangtze River, with convenient transportation and relatively developed economy and culture. In the 42nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan Provincial Educational Office was moved to Jiangyin. In the early Qing Dynasty, Jiangyin defended the city against the Qing Dynasty for 81 days. The fierceness of the battle, the duration, and the number of casualties on both sides were rare in the country. Emperor Shunzhi and Emperor Kangxi continued to station the academic official in Jiangyin in order to help govern the mind and observe the style. But the facts proved that their plan did not work out. In the original time and space, when it came to the Jiaqing period, Yao Wentian, the Minister of Rites, inscribed a plaque "The State of Loyalty and Righteousness" and hung it high on the gate of Jiangyin City, and also increased the number of Jiangyin exam admissions. Counting a series of tactics in the middle and late Qianlong period, these measures all tell that the calculations in the more than 100 years before the Qing Dynasty were not done well.

Time came to the 32nd year of Qianlong. In the 120 years of the Qing Dynasty, Jiangyin had only one Yang Mingshi, the highest-ranking and most famous official.

In the autumn of the 32nd year of Qianlong, Jiangyin County was in a state of uncertainty because of all kinds of rumors from that distant place. A kind of buried feeling began to burst out in the heart and accumulated little by little.

By the way, speaking of Jiangyin, there’s an old saying in Jiangnan that we can’t help but mention: Jiangyin robbers are like Wuxi thieves.

This does not mean that people in Jiangyin really have bandits. There is a reason for that. I won’t go into it here. Those who are interested can check it out for themselves. Anyway, this double entendre also points out the character of Jiangyin people from the side.

"Bandit" refers to a kind of psychological character and regional character. Just as there are many bookstores and boat girls in Yangzhou, there are many tough and strong men in Jiangyin. The folk customs here are strong, and even the dialect is very "violent". It is not as delicate and weak as the soft language of Wu Nong in the impression of Chinese people. How much of it is due to historical factors depends on the wise.

Under such circumstances, the people of Jiangyin talked about rumors that were unbelievable in the eyes of ordinary people, and they were even more wanton than other places in Jiangnan. Although these Jiangyin people who have not forgotten the scene a hundred and twenty years ago will not do anything that the Jiangyin government cannot tolerate because of these rumors, the Jiangyin County government has been talking about the streets and alleys inside and outside the county. I chose to turn a blind eye.

Jiangyin Lianfeng Tower.

He Huazhang washed his hands of Chen Jigong, who had just arrived in Jiangyin. The current He Huazhang is no longer the hated enemy of the Chen family and the Gao family. He is an important chess piece buried in the Chen family's secret camp in the south of the Yangtze River. He maintains single-line contact with Chen Liang, and any news is known to the secret camp. Font size confidential. It can be said that nature also plays tricks on people.

He Huazhang runs a bookstore in Jiangyin. Chen Jigong is now known as Tong Li. In the future, as a partner and cousin of the bookstore run by He Huazhang, he will settle down in Jiangyin, a place with convenient waterways, and gradually extend his hand to the local area of ​​Jiangyin. of boats and carriages.

"Of course the local government is not weak in strength, but in order to appease the people of Jiangyin, its control has been reduced a bit. It's just right for us to fish in troubled waters..."

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