Dominate the Country

[Thanks to ‘Cong Long’ ‘Three Thousand Reincarnations of Hair Like Snow’ 588 for the reward, there will be another chapter after eight o’clock]

Everyone hates a betrayer. Qianlong was very harsh on traitors, and his meaning was very clear - the people captured in Jingzhou who were under the banner were not nationals. That is to say, we no longer recognize these "people who have forgotten their roots and failed to die" as banner people.

But whether the Eight Banners of Jingzhou were bannermen and whether they were real betrayers, the views of Qianlong alone, or Qianlong and a few of the Eight Banners princes and ministers, cannot represent all the bannermen. In the eyes of the millions of Eight Banners disciples in Beijing, if the Jingzhou Bannermen were captured, they were still Bannermen. Because they all know very well that if such a disaster befalls them, they will not be able to take it upon themselves to end it.

The decree coming from the Forbidden City caused the whole of Beijing to become turbulent and uneasy.

No matter how Qianlong tried to whitewash it, everyone in the world, whether they were bannermen or Han people, could clearly understand after seeing this decree that Qianlong completely abandoned the Jingzhou bannermen for the sake of his country.

This was an extremely heavy blow to the majesty and dignity of the entire Qing court. Many people, many Han people, suddenly discovered that the 'noble' bannermen were just like this. This had a great impact on the people all over the world, and it had an especially great impact on the millions of Han people under the imperial city. Even the dandies from the Eight Banners, who carry bird cages all day instead of doing serious business, have lost their voices these past two days.

However, the names of Chen Ming and Fuhan General Mansion were completely spread throughout the world. It is also deeply engraved in the hearts of people all over the world.

The Manchus hated it deeply, but the people had various opinions. Some Taoist scholars who knelt down and licked the Qing Dynasty denounced Chen Ming as a maniac with an animal face and an animal heart. It has really affected the views of some people, because the literacy rate in this era is so poor, there are too many people who cannot read a single Chinese character and just follow what everyone else says. Especially those who listen to scholars and people, and listen to landlords and clans. And these vested interests under the notice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty naturally rejected the Chen family, a group that subverted the current order. But there are always some ‘alternative’ people, right?

Gao Jingcheng owns a teahouse in Chaoyangmen, Beijing. You can tell by his last name that he is from the Gao family. At this time, when I ran to Beijing Pancha House, I was naturally a member of the secret camp. The previous owner of the tea house was from Anhui. He lost his capital by doing business with others, so he sold the tea house.

You know, Chaoyangmen is the east gate of Beijing. In Beijing, apart from the "first three gates", the Chaoyang Gate is the most lively. The liveliness of Chaoyangmen Gate is mainly due to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. This Grand Canal, which had been opened as early as the Sui Dynasty, had already played a huge role in the Yuan Dynasty ruled by the Mongols, becoming an important transportation lifeline connecting Beijing with the southern provinces. Chaoyang Gate is the closest gate to Tongzhou Wharf, an important dock at the northern end of the Grand Canal.

Officials and merchants leaving Beijing to the south, or officials and merchants coming from the south to Beijing for pilgrimage or business, must stop at Chaoyang Gate. Therefore, there was a constant flow of merchants and merchants coming and going under Chaoyang Gate. Businessmen from all walks of life saw this huge business opportunity and rushed to open shops in the gate of Chaoyang Gate. More importantly, this is the only gate for grain transportation. Southern grain and rice transported to Beijing via the Grand Canal are loaded at Dongbianmen or Tongzhou, enter the city through Chaoyang Gate, and are stored in major granaries in the East City. Running a teahouse in this place is not a big business but it is valuable.

There are nine city gates in the inner city of Beijing. According to the orientation, there are four urban areas in the east, west, north and south, commonly known as the "Four-Nine Cities". During the Qing Dynasty, there was a slang saying in Beijing that "the east is rich and the west is noble, the south is poor and the north is poor".

Most of the noble people live in the west city, and the warehouses are all in the east city. Moreover, there are many wealthy businessmen and wealthy families living in the East City.

Xicheng District is where the nobles live. There are many royal palaces inside and outside Xuanwu Gate and Xisi in Xicheng. Most of them are the dignitaries of the Qing Dynasty, so they are called "Xigui". Nancheng is mostly populated by working people and folk artists. At that time, these people were regarded as despicable people, so there was the saying of "Southern despicable people". As for Beicheng, due to insufficient transportation, which affects the prosperity of business, it is the poorest here.

There may be spies in the secret camp in the south of the city, north of the city, and west of the city, but that is none of Gao Jingcheng's business. All he needs to do is to use the teahouse to collect information, and also to screen the attitude of the banner people in Beijing.

In order to settle down in Chaoyangmen, Gao Jingcheng changed his name. He was no longer from Lushan. What he took was a Luoyang ID card. Of course, the Qing Dynasty did not call this thing an ID card. It was called Luyin. Gao Jingcheng He is a native of Fucheng, Henan. Chen Ming also gave him a new name - Yu Zecheng. No one knows the meaning of this name. In Gao Jingcheng's eyes, it is a very ordinary name. Chen Ming is completely enjoying himself, that is, enjoying himself. Gao Jingcheng still has three thousand taels of silver for the first year.

In the days to come, Yu Zecheng will not only become a successful teahouse owner, but also move into the restaurant and catering industry, the brothel women's branch and the theater. As a spy with a similar position to He Huazhang, the General's Office will set a trap on him. Vigorous.

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The teahouse in Chaoyangmen is called Sihaishengping. People come and go inside, and people of all colors and religions gather together. A big teahouse is like a small society. There is a lot of news gathered here every day, especially those Eight Banners men who carry cages and play with grasshoppers and crickets. They are generally very capable and dare to speak.

Gao Jingcheng gathered dozens of pieces of news every day, but the news that he reported to the secret camp through a secret line and then returned to the hands of Lu Shan and Chen Ming attracted the attention of Chen Hui and Chen Ming the most. It was the dissatisfaction that grew among the people of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

Yes, the Eight Banners generally could not accept the decision of Emperor Qianlong. Although they occasionally complained, when they were put together, they were eye-catching. Moreover, when the Eight Banners in Beijing talked about the Chen family and the General's Mansion, they went from being disdainful at the beginning to being afraid now.

Although this fear was not the fear that the General's Mansion would overthrow the Qing Dynasty, but the fear that Chen Ming would bring disaster to the Bannermen, they were really a little scared. And in their words, they also upgraded the Fu Han Army from a petty thief at the beginning to a traitorous bandit who was a disaster to one side.

The Eight Banners uncles in Beijing have generally put the Fu Han Army together with the Lobsang Danjin and the Big and Small Khoja Rebellion and commented on them. In their evaluation, the damage caused by the Fu Han Army to the Qing court was second only to the Three Feudatories and the Junggar. Moreover, the General's Mansion built its own system and created three sets of military, political and legal teams, especially in the field of government affairs, called the cabinet, which is really high-class. Cabinet, that was a word from the pre-Ming Dynasty. Although the Manchus and the literati of the north and south have denounced and criticized the new system created by the General's Mansion, this cannot cover up one fact:

The General's Mansion has become more prestigious!

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In the General's Mansion in Lushan, brothers Chen Hui and Chen Cong sat together, discussing the summary of the report sent back by Gao Jingcheng.

Chen Cong is now the deputy driver of the General's Mansion, one of the three carriages of the General's Mansion Cabinet, which is another official title in the Han Dynasty. The other two carriages are Changshi and Zhizhong, that is, the three giants of the cabinet, one chief and two vice-chiefs, and then supervise the Minister of Finance, which can be said to be in a high position and have great power. Brothers fight tigers together. Chen Hui is much more confident in Chen Cong, the second brother who is responsible for his duties, than Chen Ming is in his cheap elder brother. Although Chen Ming is also very confident in Chen Gang now. He took action against him before because he was wearing a scholar's hat on his head.

Even if a half-brother with meritorious service is adopted out, it is too threatening to the young legitimate son in a small family like the Chen family. Especially in terms of family discourse power.

Chen Cong was not the most powerful person under the general, but as Chen Hui's second brother, Chen Hui was more willing to tell Chen Cong some things.

Chen Hui was secretly proud of being regarded as a "disaster" like Lobsang Danjin and the rebellion of the big and small Khojas by the Eight Banners in Beijing. What he and Chen Cong regretted most now was why they did not take the opportunity to capture Xiangyang when Shi Liang sent troops to Jingzhou. If Xiangyang fell into the hands of the Fu Han Army at this time, wouldn't the General's Mansion take over the 20,000 or 30,000 captured bannermen from Chen Ming?

Chen Ming could continue to go into battle lightly and continue to lead troops along the Yangtze River to the east. The General's Mansion could also make the most of these 20,000 people. Even if the Qing court really deregistered these 20,000 or 30,000 bannermen, it would be a great benefit to just use these people as coolies.

"What a pity, it's really a pity. If I had these bannermen, I would pull them to Linru..." Chen Cong sighed. The General's Mansion is now under attack from the north and east, and the pressure is not small. However, Chen Ming, this good nephew, can think of using these "noble" bannermen as shields, which is quite vicious...

If it were an ordinary person, even if he hated the bannermen, he would at most kill them all and not ravage them. Chen Ming's behavior is really a "disaster".