Dominate the Country

[Thanks to 'The flower is gone but the man has not returned'1888 for the reward, thank you],

[Still a big chapter of 4500+]

Some things, the more the government wants to forget it, the more the government wants to suppress it completely, the more it will get the opposite result. Because the Chinese people are naturally resistant to the government. The great tian dynasty in later generations was like this. The people did not believe in the country and took the reports and speeches of foreign media as the truth. The current Qing Dynasty is also like this.

The braid cutting case broke out in Yingzhou Prefecture. For a time, it spread to eastern Henan and northern Anhui, causing great panic to the people and the government. So what kind of place is Yingzhou Prefecture? It is adjacent to Henan, and only separated from the battlefield on the eastern front by Chenzhou Prefecture. The bad influence that broke out here quickly spread to half of Henan and half of Anhui. For the Qing government army that was "fighting" on the battlefield in Henan, could it not be affected at all?

That is absolutely impossible.

Therefore, Aligun, who was in charge of Zhengzhou, severely reprimanded the Henan Governor's Office, and then directly issued a document to reprimand the Yingzhou prefect.

Officials in Chenzhou Prefecture, Yingzhou Prefecture, Fengyang Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture, etc., all tried their best to suppress the spread of this disturbance among the people. The people did quickly return to calm, but under this calm appearance, there was an endless turmoil. Because the local government in Henan and Anhui did not clearly see the shadow of Hunyuan Sect.

Hunyuan Sect did a very good job in this matter. When the news reached Jiangning, which had been renamed Nanjing, Chen Ming couldn't help but applaud.

Liu Song and his Hunyuan Sect have the ability to be great directors and famous actors, and this play is brilliant.

"If Gao Jin and Rong Bao also have this ability and play the play brilliantly, I will sit in Minghuang City and enjoy the scenery now." Shaking his head, Chen Ming was quite dissatisfied with the progress of the evacuation of the bannermen in Nanjing. Gao Jin and Rong Bao, two useless people, couldn't persuade the bannermen under them.

After breaking through the outer city walls of Nanjing, the Fu Han Army still failed to control the entire city of Nanjing. Because the huge city of Nanjing is really too big, the city wall is 180 miles long. Just imagine how big the area of ​​the city is. With the manpower in Chen Ming's hands, he had to confiscate the homes of officials, gentry and merchants while guarding the whole city. He simply couldn't gather enough people to guard all the city gates.

In the few days after the fall of Nanjing, groups of people poured out of the city every day and every moment. Chen Ming opened an opening in the south and west of Nanjing. He thought that the bannermen in the city would also escape from the city through this opening, but who knew that they didn't move at all. Obviously, they thought this was a trap.

Chen Ming wanted to say to them: You think too much. He asked the captured officials of Nanjing to send letters to Manchuria, under the pretext of surrendering Manchuria, but in fact he was negotiating business with Gao Jin and Rong Bao, who kept everything in Manchuria, including food, money, buildings, gunpowder, etc., and left Nanjing obediently, whether to the south or the west. The Fu Han Army only wanted this Nanjing city, which was full of dragons and tigers.

As a result, the status of Gao Jin and Rong Bao in the hearts of the Manchus was seriously inconsistent with their own official positions. Until now, half of the people in Nanjing have escaped, and the large army in Manchuria is still there. Chen Ming could only drag the cannons from outside the city to the city. The bombardment of Manchuria has never stopped in the past few days, just to force them.

How many people are there in Nanjing? This is a large city with a population of one million. Moreover, the Fu Han Army went southward, forcing a large number of fleeing gentry and wealthy people and countless times more ordinary people into this huge city. Now they set out from Nanjing again and embarked on a new road of escape, and at least half of the people in Nanjing also fled. Many alleys and streets in the city have become no-man's land.

Chen Ming did not stop these people from fleeing. Because the most direct consequence of this move is that millions of refugees rushed into southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang like a flood. They were hiding from the Fu Han Army, but their own actions were simply the vanguard of the Fu Han Army. Millions of refugees will have an immeasurable impact on the economy, public security, food and the most unpredictable hearts of people in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

If the land reinforcements from Zhejiang and Fujian were supposed to launch a counterattack on Nanjing in ten days, then now that these refugees have rushed in, this time will be extended to half a month, twenty days, or even longer.

The Fu Han Army killed all the way from Wuchang to Nanjing, but how much direct damage could it cause to the economy of Jiangnan? More indirect.

Millions of people became refugees to escape the war. As a government and a court, could the Qing court ignore it?

This is like the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. If it is just a subprime mortgage crisis, how much economic volume can it involve? But how much did the overall economic crisis in the United States cause them to lose? The global economic crisis caused by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has caused how many billions of dollars to go down the drain?

The same is true of Chen Ming's actions.

He conquered Nanjing and swept through Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui along the way. Millions of refugees will pour into Jiangnan in the next few months to a year. The Fu Han Army also cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, cutting off the grain that the Qing court relied on for survival. This is a direct kick on the lifeblood of the Qing Dynasty.

According to the news from the dark camp, the banner soldiers in Beijing are already being reorganized, and it is believed that the Beijing banners will soon move south in large numbers. In addition, the cavalry and infantry in Guandong are also being mobilized one after another, and the troops in Shandong are no longer going to Henan, but to Jiangnan.

Sichuan's large army is also being mobilized, and soon the second batch of Sichuan troops will enter Hubei along the Yangtze River.

To this day, Chen Ming has achieved the most direct purpose of planning this scene, sharing the pressure of the general's mansion and reducing the pressure of the old nest. Now the pressure of the general's mansion in southwest Henan is much less than expected.

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The fifth day of April was originally the day when the Hunyuan Sect decided to start an uprising, but on this day, the border between Henan and Anhui was peaceful. The Hunyuan Sect postponed the uprising because the Fu Han Army wanted them to strike while the iron was hot and make another sensational braid-cutting case. This time, the Fu Han Army offered 10,000 taels of silver, 300 sets of iron armor, 2,000 swords and guns, and five small cannons.

As long as the Hunyuan Sect is obedient, the Fu Han Army will be 100% concerned about the Hunyuan Sect's uprising. The biggest purpose of the weapons and money they stored outside is not to cause trouble for the Qing soldiers. These iron armors, swords, guns, and even cannons have no value in themselves. Only when they are taken by the rebels can they play a greater value.

Just like Chen Liang who rushed to Fujian, his goal was originally in Taiwan, because Taiwan produces sulfur, and also to contact foreign bandits on the southeastern sea. Japan is now also closed to the outside world, only trading with the Netherlands and China, and limiting the number of ships traveling to and from China. Besides, many of these trades are controlled by the Thirteen Hongs in Guangzhou and the traditional maritime merchant families in Fujian. These people are deeply connected with the Qing government, and it is difficult for the Fu Han Army to get enough sulfur from them.

Chen Ming did not believe in the conduct of the Thirteen Hongs and the southeastern maritime merchants, but it would take a certain amount of time to incubate even the most corrupt targets. The Fu Han Army's urgent need for sulfur is omnipresent. In this way, Taiwan became the target of the secret camp. Everyone knows that Taiwan is a weak point in the rule of the Qing Dynasty. There is a small rebellion every three years and a big rebellion every ten years. Zheng Ming is dead, but the Tiandihui is deeply rooted here.

The Fu Han Army and the Tiandihui have common goals. The former has money, and the latter has connections. If they can cooperate, they will complement each other.

When Chen Liang was looking for the Tiandihui in Taiwan, he first met the local Tiandihui leaders Lu Mao, He Zhe, and Lin Xian in Zhangpu. The latter had drunk incense ash wine together last year and vowed to be of the same mind to decide to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After the two sides got together, it was really a case of a lonely man and a resentful woman, and a raging fire. The dark camp fully intervened in the uprising of the Tiandihui in Zhangpu. Chen Liang used 5,000 taels of silver to express his wealth and the importance of the Fu Han Army to them. The simple and rough plans of Lu Mao and others were all overturned. In the process of brewing the Tiandihui uprising in Zhangpu, Chen Liang also met Yan Yan, the leader of the Tiandihui in Taiwan, through Lu Mao's introduction. So far, the Fu Han Army Dark Camp has taken deep roots and established a firm foothold in the southeast coast.

In the following days, batches of sulfur, more or less in quantity, but there must be one trip every ten days, continuously entering the Yangtze River from Fujian by sea and entering the warehouses of various secret contact locations of the dark camp in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It has made an absolute contribution to the gunpowder reserves of the Fu Han Army, which are now calculated in units of 10,000 barrels.

The Fu Han Army also used a large amount of silver to make the local Tiandihui in Fujian [the scope is no longer limited to Zhangpu] and the Tiandihui in Taiwan across the strait soar in soft and hard power. The leaders of the Tiandihui in many places are planning uprisings. They don’t care at all that their family has been holding up the signboard of "anti-Qing and restoration of Ming" for a hundred years, while the Fu Han Army is talking about "anti-Qing and restoration of Han". The Chinese, who are very good at adapting, have shown an absolutely strong ability to reconcile in this regard.

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April 6th. Kaifeng Prefecture, the provincial capital of Henan Province, Daxiangguo Temple.

Zhu Sanshui got up early in the morning with a serious expression. Because he had a mission, his body and mind were under great pressure. After all, he was a man who was just 20 years old and lived in Daxiangguo Temple all year round. He didn’t experience much.

Zhu Sanshui was from Kaifeng Prefecture. Because he was sick in his childhood, he was sent to Daxiangguo Temple by his mother to receive tonsure at the age of nine. Later, he found out that his parents, his grandparents, and his ancestors were all White Lotus followers. Zhu Sanshui was not a White Lotus follower, and he did not really believe in "The Mother of No Birth, the Homeland of the Vacuum". Compared with the White Lotus, he believed in Maitreya Buddha more.

During the Qing Dynasty, the situation of monks was much better than that of Taoists, but the certificate of ordination had to be issued by the government. Compared with previous dynasties, religious forces were gradually fading in terms of influence among the people.

Zhu Sanshui was already 20 years old, but he did not have a certificate of ordination, so he was not a real monk. Today he was going to Lanyang with his senior brother. His senior brother was not a genuine monk, and he did not have a certificate of ordination. He was 37 years old this year, his surname was Li, and he came to the temple three years ago. Because of his age, and Zhu Sanshui himself was not a genuine monk, he called Monk Li Senior Brother

Monk Li is from Lanyang. Lanyang in the Qing Dynasty is Lankao in later generations. It was not a national commercial grain production base county and a national high-quality cotton base county after the good secretary Jiao Yulu. Now Lanyang is a difficult county. The Yellow River floods threaten the local security every year. Three years ago, Henan did not suffer from disasters, but Monk Li lost his parents, wife and children that year. He was disheartened and came to Daxiangguo Temple to become a monk.

Tomorrow is the third anniversary of Monk Li's father. Monk Li must go back to Lankao, and Zhu Sanshui will go with him. Because Monk Li wants to tidy up his father's grave this time, and he also bought a lot of paper money and folded yellow paper, as well as gold and silver ingots folded by himself, which is inconvenient for him to carry alone.

Zhu Sanshui, with deep apologies to Li Heshang in his heart, followed Li Heshang out of Kaifeng City. The two did not take a boat. One of them carried a large package, and Li Heshang personally carried a bag filled with paper ingots.

Zhu Sanshui walked from morning to noon without saying a word, neither tired nor complaining. Li Heshang was very grateful to Zhu Sanshui, because among all the people he knew, only Zhu Sanshui was willing to help him.

At noon, the two walked through a small town. At the entrance of the town, Zhu Sanshui and Li Heshang met two boys. Both children were in their early teens and were playing in front of a yard with an open door, which should be their own door. One of the boys saw the name engraved on the alms bowl that Zhu Sanshui carried, and read it out loud. Zhu Sanshui pretended to be surprised and said to the child with a smile: "Little official, you can read! If you study for a few more years, you will definitely be able to get a job." He then asked: "What is your name? When you become an official, don't forget the monk." Monk Li stood aside and smiled. He thought that Zhu Sanshui's words that he had memorized long ago were specially used by Zhu Sanshui to coax children, and thought that Zhu Sanshui wanted to please the children so that their parents would come out of the yard to give them some alms. However, the two boys ran back to the yard as if they were frightened. The two monks had to go on their way.

They walked on the road for a while, and an angry couple caught up from behind. "You monks, why are you asking about my children's names?" They asked Zhu Sanshui and Monk Li, "You must be here to cut the braids!" The couple was also a believer arranged by Hunyuan Sect.

The braid-cutting case in Jieshou affected the entire eastern Henan. The two monks who committed the crime, Yuantong and Baohe, were monks. Now Zhu Sanshui and Monk Li are also monks. It directly stimulated the people in the surrounding towns who gathered around.

After the Jieshou incident, there were legends in eastern Henan and northern Anhui that as long as the evil monk knew your name and called you gently, the person would be bewitched and would be completely unaware of the braid being cut off.

Monk Li was sweating. He didn't want to be involved in this braid-cutting case at all. It stuck to him and he couldn't get rid of it even if he slapped it. Monk Li tried his best to explain that they were just here to beg for alms: "Because your son can read, he said a few words, how can it be called soul?"

But the people in the town didn't believe it. Long before this day, the fully prepared Hunyuan Sect spread the word nearby, saying that a group of evil monks and demons who called souls came here these days and wandered around, wanting to cast spells on the children, making them sick or dead, in order to threaten the children's parents. "These two monks are definitely not good people!" There were also Hunyuan believers in the crowd who were cheering and cheering, which soon aroused people's anger. The surrounding people became furious, tied up the two men, and searched them up and down.

As a result, the yellow paper that Li Heshang brought home to show his filial piety to his father turned into talisman paper, and the paper money and paper ingots also became the wealth that the evil monk wanted to seduce. People began to beat them, and the rioting crowd gathered larger and larger. Some people shouted "Burn them to death!", and others shouted "Tie them up and throw them into the river to drown them!"

When the Kaifeng prefectural government received the news and sent people to take Zhu Sanshui and Li Heshang away, the two were already half dead.

The yamen runners of the Kaifeng prefectural government carried the two monks past Tubaigang, and then there was no more. When Kaifeng Prefecture sent people to find the two yamen runners and four white runners at dawn, the pigtails on the heads of the six people were gone. Zhu Sanshui and Li Heshang were also missing. The next scene was the same as the Jieshou incident. The people in the town lost their braids one after another, and all five of them fell seriously ill. Three of the six yamen runners and white runners died of illness.

The news was reported to the governor's office, and it was said that the governor (He Yan) also went to the Confucian Temple.