Chapter 49: Atmosphere (Part 1)
Deng Ming, who was still in Xuezhou, received a proposal from the Council, which did not have any specific requirements. It only expressed the Council's attitude and required the imperial government and the army to make more efforts for the freedom of Han intellectuals to record history.
"We are in the middle of war," Deng Ming did not immediately call his subordinates to read the document, but looked at the proposal and said to himself: "If it weren't for this crazy era, even a middle school student should know the right and wrong, and would choose to stand on the side of the Han intellectuals without thinking, even if the middle school student's household registration book was written with Manchus. The war distorted people's view of right and wrong, making people feel that the property of these people seemed more important, and actually distorted me. If it were not for the time when I first came to this world, I would not be so ambiguous, hesitant on this issue, but would be clear-cut and use all my strength to fight against the enemy of Han civilization."
Deng Ming summoned officers around the state of Syria and announced to them the proposals of the Senate and the Imperial Parliament: "The House Order, we should do more than we are now."
"More than now?" Many people asked in confusion: "What does this mean? What do we need to do?"
"The Council of the Court is not sure of giving orders," Deng Ming felt that he was afraid to give orders to himself, so he gave such an almost unbinding proposal: "In my understanding, because we oppose the Qing court's crimes, the ongoing activities, such as providing arms and other military assistance to persecuted scholars, must be retained; and we also need to provide more help to complete the Council of the Council, such as assisting the persecuted scholars to escape from the Qing government's controlled areas, and after the war with the Qing court in the future, they will take the initiative to ask for compensation from the Qing court for them, etc.."
According to the order issued by Deng Ming before, the Ming army did not interfere with the judicial power of local officials of the Qing court. For example, after the attack on Jiujiang, Deng Ming did not release prisoners in prison. According to the general principle of fighting for dominance in the world, these prisoners would be incorporated into the Ming army's army. When passing by the Qing army controlled area, the Ming army would not prevent the Qing army's yamen runners from arresting and killing thieves. If the Shan Dawang had kidnaps and robbing relatives, the Ming army would not admit that they were friendly troops fighting side by side with them, but instead allowed the Qing army to encircle and suppress them.
This policy is the tacit understanding between Deng Ming and Huguang and the Governor of Liangjiang. It has been like this for many years because Deng Ming believes that the order that ensures the safety of local people's lives cannot be destroyed because of the dynasty's battle for hegemony. In Shandong and Zhejiang, the Qing Dynasty and the Jingnan Army still follow the traditional way of fighting for hegemony. Although there are a large number of gentry participating, they are much more tolerant of bandits and criminals than the Sichuan Army. Deng Ming even issued an order, if any bandits take advantage of the Ming army's crossing opportunity to try to attack Huguang and Liangjiang.
In towns, the Ming army should support the guardians of the towns. There have been many Turkish gangs who have seen the Ming army pass by many times before. When the Qing army retreated to the prefectures and county defense, they came out to kidnap and blackmail. At that time, Deng Ming would order the Ming army to arrest them and then hand them over to the prefectures and counties of the Qing court for interrogation. For example, Zhu Guozhi lost all the green camps around Anqing when he was under Deng's name. For a long time, the Ming army took the responsibility of maintaining local public order and arrested a large number of bandit leaders and handed over to officials sent by Jiang Guozhu.
In the past, Deng Ming only interfered in the Qing Dynasty's suppression of scholars who sympathized with the Ming army. For example, every time a scholar who came to Jiangnan to demand an uprising under Deng's name, Deng Ming clearly asked for a price for the Liangjiang Governor's Office to ensure their safety. If a person on the Ming army's protection list commits a murder case and is pursued, the Ming army will also ask the Liangjiang Governor's Office to provide conclusive evidence.
However, today Deng Ming revised this policy: "If the Qing court officials in Jiangnan or other provinces try to speak out for crimes, even if the criminal does not support us, we cannot sit idly by and help him and his family enter the area controlled by our army." Deng Ming thought about it: "But the Council did not clearly ask us to go to war with Jiang Guozhu for this, so we should not threaten by force. The great chaos in Jiangnan may not be beneficial to the empire, and we cannot control Jiangnan for the time being, so our army will not intervene."
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In mid-July, Nanjing and Liangjiang Governor’s Office.
The securities trading in Jiangnan opened in Yangzhou not long ago, and the city of Nanjing was the focus of attention. Jiang Guozhu did not open the stock exchange here but moved it to the entrance of the canal, which was not the location of Lin Qilong or Zhou Peigong's yamen.
The people in the north may still be kept in the dark, but the gentry and clerks in the southeast soon learned that the court had acquiesced to the canal reform, and banks in Sichuan also began to make efforts to promote the issuance of their canal bonds to share risks and raise funds. If the operation goes smoothly in the future, banks in Sichuan will also plan to sell more bonds and stocks in major exchanges in Wuchang, Jiujiang, Yangzhou and Hangzhou.
"The court has ordered to Zhejiang to close the Ming Shi case immediately." An aide reported to Jiang Guozhu that the court completely overturned the previous conclusion. The emperor and the empress dowager issued an imperial edict, an imperial edict, announcing the Qing Dynasty respecting China and Confucian traditions, and hated the previous dynasties for speaking out against sinners. The outbreak of the Ming Shi case was also the court was deceived by villains (such as Wu Zhirong), who mistakenly thought that this was a conspiracy.
Now that it is found out that this is just Zhuang Yuncheng writing history, rather than planning to rebel, the court naturally takes it back and forth. As for the controversial words and titles in the book, and the issue of the reign of the dynasty, the Empress Dowager said that she just laughed at it. The Qing court was so arrogant that he didn't take such a small matter to heart.
Although Zhuang Yuncheng and others were excessive when they encountered grievances and did not explain to the wise emperor and the court, but instead resisted by force, considering that the court was wrong, the Empress Dowager also said on behalf of the young emperor: "There is a crime in the world, and the crime is in my mind." Zhuang Yuncheng's crimes will be pardoned.
Although the court did not make it clear for the sake of face, Jiang Guozhu heard that there was another issue of recruitment - although Beijing pardoned Zhuang Yuncheng, the other party was willing to accept the pardon, and whether he would honestly hand over the prefectures and counties. With the mediation of Sichuan people, Zhao Guozuo agreed to suspend the imperial examinations of Huzhou and Jiaxing, so that Zhuang Yuncheng and his alliance would control the official positions of the two prefectures. When did Zhuang Yuncheng and others feel relieved and agreed to hand over the imperial examinations and were stolen by them.
Only when the imperial examinations in Huzhou and Jiaxing can the imperial examinations be replied, and the scholars of these two prefectures can go out to become officials; in addition, Zhuang Yuncheng and others must ensure that they pay the regular taxes to pay, cancel the title of Jingnan Army and reorganize it into the Green Camp, and Hangzhou will give the Jingnan Army ten battalions to the establishment of 4,000 soldiers and horses. Zhuang Yuncheng Group can intercept corresponding military pay from the taxes to be paid, and in the future, these troops can also be retained as officers and soldiers of the two prefectures after the imperial examinations are restored.
"This is the official letter from the Sichuan Consul." The aide took out another document, which was sent by the office sent by Sichuan to Nanjing. It was clearly stated that Sichuan would not participate in the literary inquisition planned by the Qing court, and would also try to help the framed people escape.
"Is it just escaping Jiangnan?" Jiang Guozhu asked, his face remained unchanged, and the literary inquisition went on several occasions. At first, Jiang Guozhu seemed very worried and had paused the progress. But now the governor of Liangjiang has become unlucky and has begun to fabricate charges again, and is obviously preparing to do a big fight.
"Yes."
"Well." Jiang Guozhu nodded, and did not even take a closer look at the Sichuan Consul's official Wenzai several times.
"The court's meaning is very obvious. The Ming Dynasty case was a crime because of a crime, but it is hard to say whether the others are the case. The Ming Dynasty case became a crime because of a crime because of a crime. Zhuang Yuncheng was in a difficult situation. Now the court must concentrate its efforts to deal with Deng Ming and be wary of the southeast. Although the court does not want to lose face, it will never invest huge amounts of manpower and material resources in the southeast." Jiang Guozhu was thinking about the current situation in his mind. Anyway, as long as Zhejiang can deliver the canal to Beijing, Beijing will temporarily continue to turn a blind eye to Zhejiang. With the canal transport, the situation will not continue to deteriorate. It takes money to deal with Deng Ming everywhere. Beijing will definitely save as much as possible. As long as Deng Ming is destroyed or peace talks are completed, it is not too late to concentrate on collecting Zhejiang's troubles (or just Zhuang Yuncheng, or adding Hangzhou) to restore the prestige of the court.
Beijing has not yet determined whether the crying temple case and the cancellation case in Jiangnan has caused a crime because of the crime. Jiang Guozhu has completely figured it out that as long as the person involved in these two cases is not capable of making trouble with Yu Qi and Zhuang Yuncheng is so big, then it is not because of the crime but because of the crime. Instead, it is impossible to make trouble with Zhuang Yuncheng. Yu Qi is so big. The obvious key to the problem is...
"It's not Deng Ming." Jiang Guozhu denied the speculation of the staff without thinking: "Zhao Guozuo made a mistake here. He thought that the most critical person was Admiral Deng, so it was enough to always want to buy Deng Ming; and the mistakes made by me at the beginning were exactly the same. Fortunately, Zhao Guozuo's previous lessons made me not make a mistake to the end."
"The real trouble is these gentry themselves. If they are willing to unite against their officials, Admiral Deng will sell them arms, and they can make money, restrain their officials, and weaken the prestige of the court. Why don't he do it? What's the use of giving him money? He sells cannons and rifles, but there is money for them." Jiang Guozhu glanced at his aides and told them what he thought about: "But if these gentry don't unite to resist, Admiral Deng will not send troops to stand up for them." Jiang Guozhu found that Chengdu and Beijing's attitudes were actually the same on this issue: if the gentry makes a big spy, they will recruit peace and support them; if the gentry surrenders, Beijing will have to convict Jiangnan, and some of the property they have been searched and handed over to the court, and Chengdu comes back to promote bonds.
"So the list of people who reported the case should be determined in a new way." Jiang Guozhu's previous principle of formulating the list was: being rich, disrespectful to the court, and having tax evasion (to the Ming Dynasty); and Jiang Guozhu's new principle was: not buying Deng Ming's gun, no desire to resist.
Chapter completed!