Just as the drama in Yulin City was about to start, the mooncakes and rewards they had taken were flocking to the people of the four counties, and He Xiwen's troops were also secretly ready to go out on the night of August 14th. When they were surprised by Teng County, Zhu Gui, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, suddenly led a 5,000 army to Wuzhou City.

Just after the morning of August 14th, Wuzhou Prefect Hu Youren led his subordinates to the magistrate, Tongzong, Xuezheng, and Cangwu County Magistrate and other officials, and brought a complete set of ceremonial books to the dock outside Nanxun Gate. With him, there were Xu Guocai, deputy general of Wuzhou Association.

"Sir! The general's official ship has passed Longzhou Tang, and there will be two more incense sticks."

Upon hearing the report, Hu Youren and a group of bureaucrats got up and came out of the reception hall and came to the shore to wait. The climate in Guangxi in August was hot and the hot weather seemed to be able to make people rot. Although officials with status were fans constantly playing with fans and wearing parasols on their heads, beads of sweat as big as beans still drifted down their cheeks.

Just when everyone was sweating, they saw a gorgeous black-building ship slowly coming from the east. On both sides and behind the boat were troop transport ships that were as unsightly as long snakes, including rice boats, slurry boats, fast horses, fast crab boats, fishing boats, etc. The decks of each ship were filled with various flags, which were amazing. This scene made the two sides of the Xunjiang River full of onlookers.

Although Wuzhou has received a order for a long time, the scene in front of him still excited the officials, including Hu Youren, which is too powerful!

"Master, the general leads the army to come, and our Wuzhou Prefecture will be safe and sound."

"With the general in Wuzhou, I will be in charge. No matter how fierce Zhao Ni is, I will definitely let him return in vain!"

Hearing the cheerful discussions of the people behind him, Hu Youren couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and thought that with this army, at least Wuzhou City should be at peace. I hope He Xiwen's men will retreat in the face of difficulties.

Since the Northern Navy occupied Bobai and quickly captured Yulin Mansion, Wuzhou Prefect Hu Youren has never slept well for a day. Although he has never faced the Northern Navy, who is not afraid of the Qing officials in the world?

Although Wuzhou is located in Guangxi, it is located at the intersection of the Xunjiang and Guijiang water systems, with developed shipping and quaternary business travelers and well-informed. You can know the news from Guangzhou within a month.

When talking about the prosperity of Wuzhou's business in the Qing Dynasty, it can be explained with just one example.

The Qing court divided the ranks of the prefectures in the world by "deficiency". That is, based on the "continuity, complexity, fatigue, and difficulty", the most important defects, the most important defects, the middle defects, and the simple defects. Among the 183 prefectures in the pass, there are five most important defects - super fat defects, which makes countless fourth-rank officials yearn for them. If they can serve as officials, the deficits that were lost in the past can be filled, and their own lives can be rich, so that their families no longer have to worry about money.

The five most important things are Kuizhou, Sichuan, Guangzhou and Chaozhou in Guangdong, and Xunzhou and Wuzhou in Guangxi. Among them, the annual salary of the prefect of Kuizhou in Sichuan is as high as 200,000 taels of silver, and the four prefectures of Guang, Chao, Xun and Wu are more than 100,000 taels per year.

Yes, you read that right, there is not a single Jiangnan, which is known as a fertile land. The reason for this situation is that all the above five prefectures guard the water routes and throats. Whether it is eastern Sichuan or Guangdong and Guangxi, the land transportation is too poor, and business travel can only take water routes. Jiangnan cannot do it, the rivers are as crisscrossing as a net, and no mansion can control all water systems.

Because there are high returns that other prefectures and counties cannot reach, these five fat prefectures have always been appointed once every two years. They will be replaced by a certain number and will never give them a chance to be re-election. Anyone who dares to break the rules and seek re-election will be punished together.

Hu Youren was so heartbroken that in order to get this position two years ago, he gave Heshen 100,000 taels alone. Almost half of this was borrowed from the people who lend money to the capital. As the saying goes, the Qing magistrate and 100,000 silver silver for three years, he could earn this amount by staying in Wuzhou for a year.

In order to make enough money while in office and firmly control taxes, he took more than 200 slaves alone when he took office, and it was a lot of money for people to eat horses every day. After a busy year, he finally paid back his previous loan. Seeing that the money behind him would be his own, the North Navy came.

Although the main battlefields of the Northern Navy and the Qing Dynasty have been outside the pass over the years, don’t forget that there is still a corner in Jiaodong. Therefore, some of the governance methods and policies of Beihai Town have gradually become known to officials from all over the Qing Dynasty.

For example, the abolition of slaves and lowering of commercial taxes, the prefectures and county officials had no other income except for the official salary, and the townships organized peasant associations, land reform, etc., all of them were unacceptable to the bureaucratic group of the Qing Dynasty. The so-called taking money was like killing parents, and Hu Youren was determined to defend Wuzhou for the sake of money.

Well... I can't beat it, but I can't beat it.

As the ship of the black building became closer, a bright yellow flag on the ship became more and more conspicuous. Under the bright sun, the words on it could be seen clearly: Qinming Cabinet Bachelor, Prince Taibao, Minister of War, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Governor of Guangdong Zhu.

Hu Youren hurriedly ordered the cannon to play music. In an instant, three "bangbang" sounded, and white smoke rose, followed by a masterpiece of drums and music.

When the official ship approached, a general on the deck had already lifted the curtain, and a gray-bearded official walked out of the cabin slowly. The man was not tall, with a very blessed round face, a foot-long beard under his jaw, wearing a stone-green official uniform with a crane patch, a yellow jacket on his outside, and a peacock feather with eyes dragged under the ruby ​​top.

He is Zhu Gui and Zhu Shijun, who is known as the "imperial teacher" and is currently the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Well, let us welcome the youngest super academic master who passed the Jinshi since the Qing Dynasty to appear, Gujiugujiu!

It is said that Zhu Gui is a super academic master because he was admitted to the scholar when he was young. He passed the imperial examination at the age of 17 and passed the Jinshi at the age of 18, which attracted the attention of the scholars of the world. In another time and space, if it were not for the Daoguang Dynasty's more awesome academic master of the Lin family, who passed the scholar at the age of 9 and passed the Jinshi at the age of 15, Zhu Gui would definitely be firmly in the top spot.

What are you thinking about? It’s not Lin Zexu. That person is named Lin Tingxi, and he is a fellow villager with Lin Zexu.

In the 45th year of Qianlong's reign, 49-year-old Zhu Gui left Beijing to serve as the Fujian Academy of Education and kept wandering around the south. For more than ten years, he and Yongyan kept communicating with letters. Although they were thousands of miles apart, their friendship remained undiminished. Among Xie Yong, Fengkuan, Zhu Gui, Wang Jie, Liu Yong and other scholars in the study room, Yongyan and Zhu Gui had the best relationship.

Why did Heshen in history prevent Zhu Gui from entering the capital after Jiaqing ascended the throne? He was not afraid of Wang Jie or Dong Gao. The most worried thing was that Zhu Gui returned to the capital. The latter went from the center to the local government, from studying government, inspector, governor, governor, and even governor, and had a rich experience in political struggles! At that time, he would join forces with Jiaqing, and he would be out of luck if he wanted to be the "second emperor".

As for Wang Erlie, who is well-known to many people, his relationship is average and not as good as the "Legend of Wood Fish and Stone". Otherwise, Jiaqing would not have been able to check his luggage when Wang Erlie retired.

You should know that the second fatty among the governors in the world is Guangdong and Guangxi. The amount of money I get is 300,000 taels of silver every year, and Zhu Gui was just the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Taking this kind of money has nothing to do with integrity or not. If you sit in this position, you will have so many investments. Whoever dares to refuse is just breaking the rules.

As the imperial savant of Jiaqing, Zhu Gui should have gone to the capital, promoted to Grand Secretary, and entered the Military Affairs Office. As soon as Jiaqing passed the mourning period, he issued an order to summon Zhu Gui to the capital. However, by chance, before the imperial decree arrived in Guangzhou, He Xiwen landed in Lianzhou with his troops.

In recent years, there has been no good candidate for the position of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi since Li Shijie's death. In the past few years, the governor of Guangdong Guo Shixun served as the governor of Guangdong. Last year, Guo Shixun was terminally ill and saw that he was unable to do so. After receiving the memorial, Qianlong thought about it and asked Zhu Gui, who was the governor of Anhui, to go to Guangdong, to serve as the governor, and to serve as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Although Zhu Gui had never led his troops to fight, what Qianlong wanted was his reputation of being honest and honest for the people, and through the training of the Communist Party of China to stabilize the situation in Guangdong and Guangxi. In recent years, the Qing court suffered consecutive losses in the north, and the Tiandihui members and White Lotus Sects who were dormant among the people were also ready to move.

Zhu Gui knew very well that if he went to Beijing without hesitation, the regiment training in various places would be in chaos, and Guangdong and Guangxi would be in chaos, and the emperor's pocket of Guangdong Customs might be difficult to protect. Guangzhou General Fuchang was a coward, and the Eight Banners soldiers and the Green Camp had no chance. If you want to resist the offensive of the Northern Navy, you can only rely on regiment training in addition to supervising the bid and upgrading the bid.

So he immediately submitted a memorial of 600 miles to Jiaqing, explaining the emergency situation in Guangdong and Guangxi, and requesting to stay for the time being. He had been waiting for the reunion and army in eastern Guangdong to meet.

It is said that since Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng drove the Thunder God to repel the Qing army's attack and shelled the Xiangshan Association, Sun Shiyi, then the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, submitted a memorial to Qianlong, requesting to recruit young and strong people from all counties in the Pearl River Delta to form a village warrior to resist the attack from Beihai Town from the sea. At first, Qianlong did not agree, fearing that the hole would be difficult to control as soon as it was opened, but after Zhao Xin and more than a dozen people turned half of Guangzhou City upside down, a large-scale formation of a group was trained to be on the string.

There is no way, the Eight Banners and Green Camp in Guangzhou are really unreliable, while the group training in Guangdong has a foundation, so it is relatively easy to operate than in other regions.

Since the early years of Yongzheng, with the economic development of the Pearl River Delta counties, the problem of insufficient land has become increasingly serious. The local gentry and people have no choice but to compete with the water to build land, surrounding sand and building fields, which has led to a sharp increase in the area of ​​Shatin. In the process of reclamation of Shatin, politics, economy and force are indispensable, otherwise they will be seized in minutes. When Shatin is reclaimed, the force of self-defense must be retained, otherwise the harvest will not be preserved.

Although the Northern Navy looked down on these Shatians and harvests, they would not rob them at all, but the people didn't know. Under the strong propaganda of the Qing government, the Northern Navy was more vicious than pirates, and Zhao Xin's name could even make the children stop crying.

After Li Shijie took office, he worked hard to accomplish the most important thing, establishing the "Team Training Convention" in Xiangshan, Shunde, Xinhui, Dongguan, Panyu and Nanhai. During his tenure, Guo Shixun expanded it to Zhaoqing Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture and Chaozhou Prefecture.

Simply put, the content of the "Team Training Convention" is that each township draws funds based on the land, each acre of land is 80 cents a year, and the main and tenants are paid half of each year, and they are paid in two times a year to recruit and train brave men; set up water fences, cannons and bunkers at their own water and land passes, build muskets and cannons and other equipment, and hire civilian ships; the "professional" of each township is those who are well-behaved and convinced.

After the establishment of the regiment training in each township, the Guangdong Governor's Office will send a special person to work with the troops to prepare the road, and the local prefectures and counties will review and review. After confirming that the regiment training will be issued, and the "Stamper of the Bandits and Preserve the Liang" will be issued to allow the regiment training to be established. If the Northern Navy attacks a large amount or there is a local bandit in the local area, the decree will be ordered to implement a solid wall and clear the fields, and at the same time gather the group to fight. The Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Guangdong Governor's Office will issue food and grass and rewards during the regiment training and dispatching troops and fighting, and rewards will be given to the sixth-rank gentry to the meritorious gentry.

In the past few years after the establishment of the regiment training, although the Northern Navy did not come, there were still some small groups of South China pirates invading the inland. Since Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang led their troops to eliminate Mo Guanfu and Chen Tianbao, and occupied Hoi'an and Ganlingao, the small groups of pirates on the South China Sea were scared out of fear. Even if their heads were squeezed by the door, they would not dare to provoke them. Compared with the two, some people felt that it was safer to plunder coastal ships and villages.

However, what unexpectedly made these pirates crazy was that as soon as they entered the inland, the group trained in various places and rang the gongs and bells to call the police. Then the group trained in various townships and trained in each other and fought bravely under the stimulation of the government's bonus. The pirates could not even get off the boat, let alone go ashore to replenish supplies. After a few years, the bandits on the coast and inland rivers in Guangdong disappeared and were completely wiped out.

When Zhu Gui walked down the springboard, Hu Youren immediately "slapped" the sleeves of the horse's hooves, and took everyone present to perform the court ceremony of the subordinates and superiors. His tone was respectful and excited: "Hu Youren, the civil and military officials in Wuzhou, will pay homage to the commander!"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Brother Hu, please get up! Please get up!" Zhu Gui smiled and raised his hand to support him. Then he clasped his fists at the greeting officials and gentry and said: "In addition to the governor's headquarters, there are also 4,000 regiments from Zhaoqing Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture. If you have any trouble, please don't be surprised by your official's face."

"I dare not! The coach said this too exaggeratedly."

"The general led a large army to save the 40,000 people in Wuzhou from the fire and fire. How could he say that he was disturbing?"

"That is, Guangdong, Guangxi, is full of energy and branches, and they are all one family. As the saying goes, a family does not speak two families."

"Mr. Shi Jun is famous. Today, I will see the style and my lifelong wish is enough!"

The officials and gentry present had long heard of Zhu Gui's reputation. When they saw that he spoke sincerely and had no arrogant expression, they were all admired. There was no way. The governor was too famous. He was three points short of his time and unconsciously placed the other party in a high position.

Zhu Gui smiled and remained calm, and then introduced several civil and military officials who came to Wuzhou with him to introduce to everyone present. Among them were the general of Zuoyi Town who was in charge of the regiment training affairs, the Guangzhaoluo branch patrol who was responsible for supervision and food and money affairs, the deputy general of the Central Army of the Central Camp, the deputy general of the Zhaoqing Association, and the general of the Zhaoqing Navy Battalion.

After the reception, Zhu Gui refused the reception banquet at the reception hall and directly sat in the eight-carrying sedan chair to Wuzhou Prefecture. After washing and changing clothes, he came to the signing room to talk to Hu Youren. He did not talk nonsense and directly asked about the donation of the gentry in Wuzhou.

Now the Qing Dynasty's treasury is empty, and the money in the Guangdong vassal treasury is far from enough. Before the troops move, food and grass will come first. Without silver to reward you, who will work hard for you?

There is no shortage of grain in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the autumn harvest has just passed, and the grain stored in warehouses in various places is enough to spend, but the shortage of silver has made Zhu Gui very immense. Guangdong Customs has silver, and the merchants from Shisanhang and Guangzhou City have also donated hundreds of thousands of taels, but that is for Guangdong, and it is unreasonable to use it in Guangxi.

Hu Youren wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with shame: "Report to the general, Bei Zhi sent a letter of donation to several large merchants and gentry in the city five days ago, and now he has received a total of 30,000 taels..."

"Only 30,000?" Zhu Gui's face darkened before Hu Youren finished speaking, and interrupted: "It's too far. This time, this station brought 5,000 soldiers and 300 warships. How much is this little silver? I heard that the richest man in Wuzhou is called Huang Genyun, and he is called Huang Baiwan. How much did he donate?"

"Eight thousand taels."

"It's ridiculous. If the North Sea pirates break through Wuzhou, will he have to take millions of wealth to honor Zhao Ni?" Zhu Gui thought that he had to take down Huang Baiwan. As long as this person took the lead, it would not be difficult to get more than 100,000 taels of silver.

As soon as these heart-killing words came out, Hu Youren hurriedly explained: "Master, Huang Genyun said that he could donate more silver, but there was a small request, but he really didn't dare to agree."

"What do he have to ask?" Zhu Gui's eyes became more sharp, making Hu Youren feel like a thorn in his back.

"Huang Genyun, he wanted to ask the platform to write a congratulation to his father's hometown temple. He is willing to donate 50,000 taels for this."

Cunning! Zhu Gui cursed in his heart. He had heard of the Huang family in Wuzhou. The business went from Nanning to Guangzhou in the west, and there were several pawnshops at home. It was too stingy to donate 50,000 at least 300,000 or 500,000 yuan.

Hu Youren saw Zhu Gui's unhappiness, so he said, "Huang Genyun donated 50,000 yuan a little less, but as long as he takes the lead, other gentry and merchants will donate some more. It should not be less than 100,000 yuan. But they all hope that the court can give them a reward."

"That's natural. I will report to the emperor later and invite them to reward him."

Zhu Gui nodded and said. An article can earn 100,000 silver. Although it has to take some risks, there is no other way at the moment. Then he asked Hu Youren about the situation of the Huangjiaxiang Temple.

Why did the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi come to Wuzhou? Coincidentally, he was like He Xiwen thinking, and he also planned to play with the yin. However, He Xiwen was bluffing and attacking thousands of miles in the Mid-Autumn Festival, while Zhu Gui had other plans.

In fact, since he learned that the Northern Navy was landing in Lianzhou and then attacking Yulinzhou, Zhu Gui guessed that He Xiwen must not be here to attack Guangdong, but to attack Nanning.

Why? Because Zhu Gui was very clear about Heshen’s defection, Jiaqing said it clearly in the secret letter calling him back to Beijing. As a political opponent for many years, Zhu Gui knew Heshen’s character very well, and he knew that the other party would never give up Helin. Now there are hidden spies on land and water routes from the north to the south, and they are all looking for Heshen’s traces. If the latter wants to go to Yunnan to meet his younger brother, the nearest path is to Guangxi.

So when the Northern Navy landed from Lianzhou, Qinzhou, which was close to the left, and Leizhou, which was on the right, went straight to Yulinzhou, Zhu Gui immediately understood what was going on, so he dared to leave Zhaoqing with the army from the eastern Guangdong regiment, preparing to come for He Xiwen and buy time for Fukang'an in Sichuan.

However, Zhu Gui certainly did not dare to fight the Northern Navy when facing Gong in front of him. His plan was to take advantage of the unique climate of Xunjiang, specifically fog.

It is said that Guangxi's terrain is in the west, with high terrain in the north, low in the middle, east and south, similar to a basin with gaps on both sides of the southeast. After entering the warm and humid Guizhong Basin, the cold air blowing from the South China Sea will quickly condense into water vapor, either raining or foggy.

Of course, the Qing people in the 18th century certainly did not understand these, but the old sailors who sailed on the Xunjiang and Pearl Rivers had experience and could tell by asking someone.
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