Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

And the reason why Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty was wiped out was because Emperor Yongli was not Zhu Cijiong!Chongzhen said to assist Zhu Cijiong, and Emperor Yongli proclaimed himself emperor when Zhu Cijiong was still in the world, he would be a traitor and traitor, and he should be destroyed... As long as Wu Sangui can help Zhu Cijiong, the third prince, in his lifetime, then he It is a generation of perfection that will go down in history.

If Wu Sangui doesn't want to be a perfect man in name only, he can also try to follow the route of Cao Mengde and Sima Zhongda. How to do it, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has been written, just copy it directly.

In short, after listening to Shang Zhixin's "Chongzhen Legacy" recited by everyone, they all had the idea of ​​bringing this I Dagong over for a meal.

This guy is not a thing!

You can send a secret envoy to Beijing to deliver this kind of disaster-provoking edict quietly, and it will be over.You are reciting it like this now, and you are still reciting it in front of so many people.What do you ask everyone to do?What do you ask Wu Sangui to do?

So many people have heard it, it is impossible to silence it.The leaders of the military and political circles in Guangdong Province, except for Deng Guangming and Liu Jinzhong, who could not come because of the encirclement and suppression of the third prince Zhu, almost all gathered together.

If this is all silenced, the third prince Zhu will not be able to directly enter the city of Guangzhou?

And even if the third prince Zhu didn't call, the big guy can't agree to be silenced!

Since you can't keep your mouth shut, there's no need to keep it secret.The people gathered in the hall today are talking fast, and it won't take long for the world to know about it.

At that time, Wu Sangui would not be able to prolong his life until he died. It would be reasonable for him to rebel, so how could he persist?That narrow-minded Renjun Emperor Kangxi couldn't allow Wu Sangui to die well!

So in the Nine Halls, everyone was too shocked to speak, except Shang Zhixin.

Shang Zhixin suddenly pointed to a 38-nine-year-old tall and burly man in the official uniform of the second-rank general army and asked: "Zongbing Zu, your family guards Liaodong, and your father is deeply trusted by Emperor Chongzhen. You must have seen many Chongzhen imperial pens. Come and see, is this decree true or false?"

This guy is General Gao Lei from Guangdong, named Zu Zeqing.He is Zu Dashou's son and Wu Sangui's cousin.At this moment, he was so frightened that he was sweating profusely. Unexpectedly, Shang Zhixin refused to let him go, and asked him to come and see Emperor Chongzhen's imperial brush.

What a fart he is, he is only 39 years old this year, and he was only eleven years old when he formally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with his father's ancestor Dashou. Where have you seen any Chongzhen imperial pen?

But Zu Zeqing doesn't dare to trust Monk Zhixin now... He is now in Guangzhou, not in the General Army Yamen in Gaozhou.Judging by today's situation, it is not certain whether to go back in a sedan chair or lie in a coffin!

So he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and went up to "hand eye".

"Yes! This is Chongzhen imperial pen!" Zu Zeqing pretended to pick up the so-called Chongzhen imperial edict and looked it over, and then asked coldly, "I Da Gong, what do you think about this matter? Are we going to join hands? See Ping Xiwang's book?"

Shang Zhixin also pretended to think for a while, and then said carefully: "There is no need to participate... The edict of Emperor Chongzhen obviously failed to be sent to King Pingxi, and King Pingxi didn't know about it at all! We can participate in him What?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the two imperial envoys again, and said with a smile, "What do you two think? Do we want to participate in the Pingxi Wang book?"

The two imperial envoys also had different expressions, and Mi Sihan, who advocated cutting the feudal clan, had a sneer on his lips——Wu Sangui couldn't wash himself off by jumping into the Yellow River this time!

And Xiong Cilu, who has not publicly stated his support or opposition to the reduction of the feudal clan, frowned into a ball—Wu Sangui really can't resist this time!Even if you don't rebel temporarily, you will be forced to rebel sooner or later by the emperor and the ministers in the court who advocate cutting the feudal domain.

And with this "Chongzhen Legacy", the ministers in the court who opposed the reduction of feudal clans may not dare to speak for Wu Sangui in the future.

Without these people transferring from Zhonghuan to Huanhuan, the conflict between the emperor and Wu Sangui would definitely intensify very quickly.

Under such circumstances, it is very important to win over Shang and Geng and isolate Wu Sangui.

In the end, since Shang Zhixin was able to find ironclad evidence such as the "Chongzhen Legacy" and the King Ding Yuzhu from the rebel lair in Dananshan, it means that the Third Prince Zhu of Chaozhou is the real thing!

Since he is real...

Xiong Cilu suddenly stood up from the chair, then carefully took out a long strip of bright yellow satin pocket from his arms, and then took out a scroll of imperial decree from the pocket.

I saw Xiong Cilu holding up the imperial edict with both hands, and said loudly: "Minister Mi Sihan accepts the edict!"

Mi Sihan seemed to have been prepared for a long time. When Xiong Cilu reached out to touch the imperial decree, he got up and left his seat and stood down. After Xiong Cilu asked him to accept the decree loudly, he threw up his sleeves and robe, and knelt down on the ground. Saying: "Slave Mi Sihan respectfully accepts the imperial decree. Long live the emperor, long live the emperor!"

Then, he knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times, took the imperial decree and opened it, pretending to read it.

In fact, he already knew the content of this imperial decree, because Emperor Kangxi had already shown him this imperial decree when he resigned his majesty to the south.The above content is to order him to serve as the imperial envoy to supervise the military affairs of Guangdong and Fujian, and to suppress the third prince Zhu!

At that time, Emperor Kangxi handed over the imperial decree to Xiong Cilu, and issued an oral order. Once it is confirmed that the third prince Zhu of Chaozhou is real, or that the third prince Zhu is extremely harmful, Xiong Cilu will be responsible for witnessing the evidence. Bring it back to Beijing, and at the same time stay in Misihan in Guangdong, and supervise the army to suppress it as an imperial envoy.

If it wasn't for Yang Qilong's secret layout, he would have also come up with the terrible "Chongzhen Legacy".If there is no "Uncle Shang" who watched Kangxi grow up to add to the chaos, the matter will become more and more troublesome.Kangxi took advantage of Chaozhou's quarrel with the third prince Zhu and placed Mi Sihan in Chaozhou's chess move, which can definitely be regarded as a fairy trick!

Not only can he hold down the Third Prince Zhu of Danan Mountain and Qiu Hui of Dahao, but he can also take the opportunity to control the Banner Army of Duke Xushun's Mansion, and he can also transfer thousands of Green Battalion soldiers loyal to the Qing Dynasty and hundreds of Eight Banner soldiers from other provinces. .

In this way, the Qing court can firmly hold Chaozhou Mansion, which is located between the two vassals of Fujian and Guangdong, in its hands!

But the problem is... a "Chongzhen Legacy" brought Prince Zhu and Wu Sangui together.

It's going to be a big deal!

No way, the Third Prince Zhu in Danan Mountain must be wiped out as soon as possible!

Thinking of this, Mi Sihan received the imperial decree, clasped his fists with both hands, respected the void, and then said to the people in the nine halls with a smile: "Thanks to the trust of the emperor, I have been entrusted with the imperial envoy to supervise the military affairs of Guangdong and Fujian. ...Ordered to suppress the puppet third prince of Zhu in Chaozhou!

I'm a newcomer here, and I'm not familiar with the situation in Guangdong, so I have to rely on you! "

As he said that, he bowed his hands to Shang Kexi again, "My lord, you are my Qing's Dinghai magic needle in Guangdong, and the imperial envoy to suppress thieves will have to rely on your old elite soldiers to wipe out the third prince Zhu as soon as possible." , so that Long Live Lord can feel at ease as soon as possible!"

Shang Kexi smiled and said: "Where are you talking about? You are an imperial envoy, and you are here to suppress bandits in Guangdong on behalf of the emperor. Although this old man is a vassal king, he still has to obey your orders... Even if you want this old man to lead his troops there Charge into the battle, the old man is obliged to!"

Mishan cupped his hands at Shang Kexi, and said with a smile: "With your words, I will feel relieved! Now that the military situation is urgent, I will not delay in Guangzhou City. I will leave for Chaozhou tomorrow. Try to get the job done as soon as possible. The extermination of the third prince Zhu will also make the emperor feel at ease sooner!"

Shang Kexi nodded again and again, "Yes, that's right, the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu should be wiped out early, so that everyone can have a peaceful life!"

He said this, but his heart was extremely heavy, because he knew that the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson Zhu would not be destroyed so easily!

As soon as they come, they can fight by themselves!Otherwise, Deng Guangming and Liu Jinzhong would have broken the capital of Guiyu long ago.

Secondly, in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, apart from him Shang Kexi and Deng Guangming who poked a hornet's nest, who doesn't have the intention of raising bandits?

If Mi Sihan wants to succeed in Chaozhou, he has to send some reliable heavenly soldiers from the north!

Thinking of this, Shang Kexi hurriedly handed Mi Sihan a step, only to see the old guy with a mournful old face, and said to Mi Sihan: "Imperial envoy, to tell the truth, the remnants of Cantonese are extremely ferocious. They colluded with pirates again. Qiu Hui, the big bandit occupying Chenghai and Chaoyang counties alone, has tens of thousands of people. The Third Prince Zhu, who has occupied Dananshan for many years, also has two or three thousand people fleeing... If the imperial envoy wants to quickly To win, it is best to ask the emperor for some northern troops that can fight. If the imperial envoy finds it inconvenient to speak, the old man can lead the performance."

Mi Sihan had already planned this, and after hearing this, he smiled and said, "It's so good, with the prince leading the performance, the emperor may send some Eight Banners soldiers to Guangdong, not too many... there can be two or three hundred people, It is enough to wipe out the bandits in Danan Mountain and capture the Third Prince Zhu alive!"

Chapter 041: Yang Qilong Comes

On the Qing side, the forces of San Francisco and the Manchu Qing court were playing games around the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson Zhu.

Zhu Hesheng, the third grandson of Zhu, is busy...starting a business!

That's right, he's starting a business again!

Although his father, Zhu Jushan, was still surrounded by the troops of Deng Guangming and Liu Jinzhong in the capital of Guiyu, Zhu Hesheng was not in a hurry to rescue him, but was busy building the real economy and doing business to save the country.

Compared with commanding a large army to fight against the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Hesheng still knows better about opening factories and doing business.

Even though he came to Chaozhou for ten years in Kangxi, he has already found a "blue ocean" to make a fortune. Of course, it is not the production of high imitation Martell and French perfumes - because there are no genuine Martell and French perfumes yet. Zhu Hesheng didn't have to imitate even if he wanted to. If he could make it, it would be original!

After that, Chaozhou Martell, Chaozhou Hennessy, Chaozhou Lafite, Chaozhou Saint Laurent, and Chaozhou Lancome have all become genuine products...

However, Zhu Hesheng's choice of entrepreneurial projects is not authentic Chaozhou wine and Chaozhou perfume, but a very high-end arms industry!Moreover, it directly cuts into the core, most critical, and most stifling industries of the arms industry in the seventeenth century - nitrate piles and nitrate production!

As we all know, the 80s and [-]s of the seventeenth century were already the era when gunpowder weapons dominated warfare!

Gunpowder weapons, whether they are guns or mines, consume a lot of gunpowder during use.

Take the turtledove foot musket, which is very common in Guangdong, as an example. This kind of heavy musket consumes about one tael (Ming tael) of black powder...and one catty (Ming catty) of black powder is only enough for one turtledove foot musket to fire sixteen times.

Without black powder, the powerful turtledove foot heavy musket is worse than a fire stick!

And fire nitrate is the most important ingredient of black gunpowder!

For the various forces in Guangdong and Fujian, fire nitrate is a treasure that is difficult to obtain. It will always be in short supply and will always be stuck. The Qing court is stuck on the road, and the British and Dutch East India companies are stuck at sea.

So in the north, Huo Nitre, which only sells for five or six renminbi a catty, has been fried for two or three taels of silver a catty in Dahao Commercial Port!

And even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it, and the big brother Hui has to nod to "evenly" a little fire nitrate or gunpowder to various buyers-Qiu Hui himself is not enough, and he also has to use fire nitrate and gunpowder cards Below the neck of this group of dependent forces.

The buyers from all walks of life are actually dependent on the influence of the big brother Hui, mainly the powerful clans among the hundreds of township capitals that are dependent on Qiu Hui's resistance to relocation.

The three that Qiu Hui "gifted" to Zhu Hesheng were all of these townships attached to him. Whether Zhu Hesheng can firmly control them depends on his ability.And this ability... Of course, it also includes the ability to get the fire and gunpowder stuck in the neck.

With fire nitrate or gunpowder, these Chaozhou clans could use the turtledove foot muskets passed down from the Ming Dynasty to guard their enclosures to resist the "forced relocation" by the Qing government!

Only by guarding the surrounding buildings can the surrounding land be kept, and only by having the land can you have children and pass on the family line... This fire and gunpowder are equivalent to the existence of real estate certificates and marriage certificates outside the boundary of Chaozhou in the tenth year of Kangxi!

That's just what you need!

So Zhu Hesheng, who returned to Gucheng Village from Dahao, sent the brave Su to lead hundreds of "armies" to "recover" Tianwangzhai in Danan Mountain (in fact, Tianwangzhai was not lost); A pigsty without pigs”—that is, a pile of nitrate ponds!

Zhu Hesheng's first nitrate pond built in Gucheng Village is now approaching the time of "harvest". On the surface of the nitrate pond, a large area of ​​light yellow nitrate soil visible to the naked eye has appeared.Zhu Hesheng took some nitrate and tested it on red-hot charcoal, and found that sparks could burst out, which shows that the purity of the nitrate is satisfactory.

According to his knowledge, a nitrification tank that can put two thousand catties of sand and plant ash, plus three hundred catties of smelly fish and rotten shrimps (feces and urine can also be used), if there is a suitable temperature, humidity, and good ventilation, it can also avoid the sun. Under the irradiation of light, after [-] days of fermentation, the nitrate produced can be purified to produce about [-] catties of high-purity fire nitrate.

If labor, depreciation of fixed assets, capital costs, the cost of obtaining sand and plant ash, and the cost of consumables required for refining fire nitrate are not taken into account, then ten catties of rotten fish and shrimp can produce one catty of fire nitrate.

Gucheng Village itself is a fishing village, and Haimen Port opposite is the largest fishing port in Chaozhou Prefecture. The price of rotten fish and rotten shrimp is very low, and it is absolutely no problem to buy a catty for a few copper coins.Ten catties of rotten fish and rotten shrimps are worth twenty to fifty copper coins... plus various other costs, the cost of producing fire nitrate in Gucheng Village by the heap nitrate method will not exceed one hundred One catty of copper coins.

And a catty of fire salt was sold directly to Qiu Hui and Chen Jinnan, no matter what, it would not be less than one tael of silver!

That's more than ten times the profit!

And there is no need to pay value-added tax, income tax, and various additional taxes, and you don’t have to worry about sales. Of course, there is no billing period, and you can even collect the payment in advance to occupy the next family’s funds... Manufacturing high-quality imitation wines and French perfumes did not do this. Money fast!

If Zhu Hesheng can go a step further and use the self-produced high-purity fire nitrate to produce granular gunpowder... then the profit will be even higher.

But Zhu Hesheng doesn't have the time to open a gunpowder workshop right now, and he doesn't have time to train gunpowder-making craftsmen.All his energies were devoted to the expansion of the nitrate pond.

The idle labor force in the entire Longjingdu was hired by Zhu Hesheng, and the "Da Nanshan Rebel Army" under him also temporarily became a labor force, together with the hired farmers in Longjingdu, under Zhu Hesheng's personal command Build a heap of nitrate ponds.

In order to facilitate future management, Zhu Hesheng also found two "managers" for himself, one is Mr. Yu's son-in-law, Si Wenbai, and the big capitalist Zhu wants to train him to be the manager of the nitrate pool——Si Wenbai will become a pigsty white .

One is the little father-in-law Pang Siming. Zhu Hesheng has accepted him as an apprentice, and plans to pass on the skill of making nitrate to him, and let him be the manager of the nitrate production in the future. The little father-in-law will become the father-in-law of nitrate. If he is gunpowder, then he is the owner of the gunpowder factory!

Early this morning, Zhu Hesheng led them to inspect the construction site of the pile of nitrate ponds outside the Pangjiawei building. It is planned to build 29 more, and now one can be completed every day.In addition to the "pigsty" before, when all these ponds are completed, Zhu Hesheng will have [-] piles of nitrate ponds.

If the production can be straightened out, a pool of nitrate soil can be harvested every day in the future, and another pool of nitrate soil can be "planted" at the same time.

Taking a pool of nitrate soil can extract 20 catties of high-quality fire nitrate—if all of them are sold, there will be at least 600 taels of silver in sales revenue.If we can produce and sell uninterruptedly for a month, it will be 200 taels of silver, and [-] taels a year. If the number of salt ponds can be increased by ten times...it will be like being a bandit, no, it will be faster than being a rebel. ah!

And "planting" a pond of nitrate soil requires putting in three hundred catties of rotten fish and rotten shrimps—this is nothing to Haimen Port and Gucheng Village, and there are ten times more!

So the military industry in Gucheng Village is really promising!

When Zhu Hesheng was looking forward to the happy life of earning 2000 taels of silver a day in the future, he suddenly heard a rush of horseshoes.Following the voice, Zhu Hesheng looked back and found that it was his good aunt Da Boling who was leading several young men from the Su family and a monk with a bald head on horseback.

My aunt finally couldn't bear to visit me!

Seeing Da Boling from a distance, Zhu Hesheng was pleasantly surprised. Ever since Zhu Hesheng and Qiu Shuzhen got engaged, this good aunt moved to live in the Su family's old house in Haimen Port, and then ignored Zhu Hesheng.

This misses Zhu Hesheng badly, but he is too busy to start a business, so he doesn't have time to "see out with his aunt"... Finally we meet again today, and the good aunt took the initiative!

It seems that there is a play!

Thinking of this, Zhu Hesheng strode towards Da Boling who was riding his horse, and waved at Da Boling with a smile: "Auntie, I haven't seen you for a long time, but I miss you so much!"

Da Boling seemed to be still angry with Zhu Hesheng, she drove up to him with a cold face, then pointed to the monk following behind, and said calmly to Zhu Hesheng: "Pao Zhu, this is Master Yang Qilong Yang from Beijing... He brought you a treasure, and he also brought the military information of the Qing captives!"

Chapter 042 Why is he a carpenter grandson?

Yang Qilong?

The name is so familiar!

By the way, there seems to be a false Third Prince Zhu who rebelled in Beijing during the Kangxi period, and his name was Yang Qilong!Could it be the one in front of me?

Zhu Hesheng looked in the direction of Daboling's finger, and at a glance he saw Yang Qilong, who was dignified, refined, and extraordinary, and said to himself: "You are more like the third prince who looks like Guan Gong! No wonder you are in Beijing. You can also fool people into following the rebellion. It’s just that you didn’t prepare for rebellion in Beijing, so what are you doing in Chaozhou?”

Yang Qilong was in a daze again, he never thought that the guy in front of him wandering around a row of stinky "pig pens" was actually the famous third grandson of Zhu... This guy has a fierce look, he looks like a murderer and arsonist How can the bandits and pirates look like the third grandson of Zhu?The descendants of the old Zhu's family are all like him, so why are Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebelling?Hurry up and call Big Brother!

And what is the third prince Zhu doing with so many pigpens?Shouldn't the rebels recruit troops?

It’s all right if you set up some stables, build so many pigpens... ride pigs to the battlefield?Can't beat the Manchurians like this?

Da Boling was also stunned, she originally thought that Zhu Hesheng and this Yang Qilong would meet each other later or something, why was it so cold?

Is it because this Monk Yang also found that Huo Pao Zhu is not normal?

This Cannon Zhu has been doing something wrong lately. He quit being a good bandit and learned to do business with others.What kind of nitrate should be piled up in a dozen or twenty pigpens... What kind of side business is this!

And after he learned how to do business, he was no longer fierce, he smiled all day long, and looked amiable and made money, which I didn't like a little-Da Boling just liked the fierceness of Cannon Zhu Yuan!The original Cannon Zhu was a fierce tiger on Danan Mountain!How come it's almost like a beckoning cat now?

What makes Da Boling even more puzzled is that this "lucky cat" still makes himself stinky all day long...

But after all, Da Boling's heart is towards the artillery Zhu. After she sighed, she began to bridge the gap between the two sides.

"Cannon Zhu, Master Yang was introduced by the old man of the factory. He brought a seal that can prove the identity of the king of heaven Zhu, and he came directly from Shang Zhixin's army, bringing the latest military situation of the Qing Dynasty. !

Master Yang, the third grandson is now inspecting the pile of nitrate ponds...that is, the ponds that produce nitrate soil!There are no saltpeter mines here in Guangdong, so we can only use nitrate to boil nitrate. However, the naturally cultivated nitrate produces very little, so we can only use this method to produce it. "

"Oh, so that's how it is... Poor monk Qilong, respectfully invite the third grandson Wanfu Jinan!" Yang Qilong also reacted, quickly got off his horse, walked up to Zhu Hesheng, lifted his monk's robe and was about to kneel.

Zhu Hesheng hastened to support Yang Qilong, not making him kneel down, "Master Yang's name, I have heard about it in Tiannan...Master, please come inside!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the gate of Pang's Wailou.Oh, now Pangjiaweilou has been renamed Zhujiaweilou, because the factory owner Pang eunuch doesn't want to be surrounded by "pig pens", and Zhu Hesheng is angry because of the "auspicious pot" being blown up, so it is also called Zhujiaweilou. Moved to Dongyin Money Factory in Haimen Port to live.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Zhu Hesheng took Yang Qilong's hand and walked together to the enclosure where they lived.

After entering, Yang Qilong discovered that this magnificent enclosure had been converted into a workshop inside.A huge shed has been set up in the courtyard in the middle of the enclosure. Several large iron pots and a copper pot have been set up under the shed. There are also twenty or thirty large wooden pots, twenty or thirty small wooden pots, and three or four Ten iron basins.