In the Forbidden City in Beijing, in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Liu Ziguang was sitting on Kangxi's throne, swinging his legs on the top of the Dragon Bookcase, and looking around with a list of Han officials compiled by the Ministry of Officials in his hand.
After the Manchus entered the customs, they used Han demotions on a large scale. Because the Manchus were only good at fighting and knew nothing about culture, education, economy and other fields, they inherited many Han officials, imitated the Han system, and opened imperial examinations. For a period of time in the Southern Ming Dynasty,
In terms of political affairs, some southern scholars who were disappointed with the Ming Dynasty came to Beijing to take the exam. In the past few years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had held four spring elections and produced hundreds of Jinshi. There were many people with real talents and learning among these people.
At present, Liu Ziguang is in the same situation as the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He is seriously short of civil servants. His red shirt army is full of men who are good at recruiting and conquering cities. They cannot be counted on to govern the country. The academy is still under construction.
In the Qing Dynasty, we could not provide civil servants for the time being, so we had to choose from the demoted officials of the Qing Dynasty.
This file recorded the names and resumes of all the Han officials in Beijing. Liu Ziguang read through the ten lines at a glance, selected some names, marked them with a pencil, and then said to the guard: "Go and give me the people whose names are underlined."
Find it."
As soon as the guards left, the little eunuch who specially served Liu Ziguang came in. He lay down at a distance and said: "Generalissimo, the emperor has come to pay you respects."
Today's co-prosperous emperor comes to pay his respects to Liu Ziguang every morning and evening. The tradition of the Qing Dynasty is to govern the world with filial piety. As the emperor who was supported by Liu Ziguang, Fu Shou naturally has to fulfill his filial piety.
Liu Ziguang said: "Pass." Fu Shou came in respectfully. It was not when he was going to court. The emperor was wearing casual clothes, a bright yellow tuanlong mandarin jacket and a melon skin hat. There was a big beautiful jade in the middle.
Liu Ziguang was much shabby underneath, wearing a half-worn battle robe, rubber-soled canvas combat boots, and not even a hat on his head, but he still showed his magnanimity and sat down with a golden sword.
Don’t be angry and be proud.
Fu Shou kowtowed as soon as he entered the door and muttered: "Brother, please give me my regards. Is your body and bones in good condition?" Liu Ziguang said carelessly: "Very well, Your Majesty should also take care of your dragon body."
With these two sentences, the greeting process was over, and then Fu Shou returned to his Qianqing Palace and squatted under the escort of eight yellow-jacketed guards assigned to him by Liu Ziguang. Without Liu Ziguang's consent, he did not even have the freedom to leave the palace, let alone
Not to mention meeting anyone privately, this kind of life is worse than being the Prince of Taiping back then. Fu Shou regrets this, but now it is irreversible. He can only walk all the way to the dark side. Fortunately, he can wear the dragon robe and claim the title.
The lonely Taoist man showed his authority in front of the eunuchs and maids, and he became the emperor anyway. Even a son-emperor was still an emperor.
Not long after, the Han officials selected by Liu Ziguang came to the outside of Yangxin Hall. They were a large group of old and young. Some were wearing custom-made Ming Dynasty round-neck official uniforms, and some were wearing Qing Dynasty-style double-breasted official uniforms, but all of them had been cut off.
To be honest, no one in this group of people has both ability and political integrity, because when the Han regime still exists, surrendering to the enemy and taking the initiative to join the enemy are despised behaviors, but Liu Ziguang does not intend to pursue these
As for people's moral deficiencies, they only want people who are talented and capable of running the country.
Liu Ziguang has been in the officialdom for a while. He can tell whether a person is talented by just looking at him and asking a few questions. He interviews them one by one and calls them in for questioning in turn.
, Poor these officials claim to be rich in knowledge, proficient in calligraphy, painting, poetry, but they can't show it at all in front of this "overlord". They only ask a few simple questions: Why do you want to be a Manchu official? What do you think about your future?
What do you think? What do you think of the future of this country? Although they are three extremely simple questions, they contain a lot of content.
Regarding the first question, most people burst into tears, regretting that they had accepted the thief as their father and the tiger's villain. Some even said that they had no choice but to do it themselves. Regarding the second question, officials all expressed their willingness to continue to use their talents in their current positions. Some people
They also asked Liu Ziguang to give them a heavier burden; for the third question, the answers were very diverse, but generally they said that the world would be unified and the Ming Dynasty would restore its former glory.
After some selection, Liu Ziguang eliminated some people and selected some more. Among the selected people, the three most outstanding ones were Xiong Cilu, Li Guangdi and Gao Shiqi. Among the three, Xiong Cilu was the oldest and Shunzhi
A Jinshi for fifteen years, I am thirty years old this year
, and Li Guangdi and Gao Shiqi were both Jinshi of Enke in the first year of Kangxi, and they were both in their early twenties. All three of them were from the south, Xiong Cilu was from Xiaogan, Huguang, Li Guangdi was from Quanzhou, Fujian, and Gao Shiqi was from Zhejiang.
A man from Qiantang traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to take the imperial examination to become an official, and he actually passed the exam, which shows that he really has some real ability.
The three of them were not outstanding among the Han officials, and their official positions were also very humble. They were just lecturers in the Hanlin Academy and low-level civil servants such as common people. However, when they answered Liu Ziguang's questions, they were surprisingly unified. They all said that they were just for officialdom.
Those who just came to Beijing to take the exam expressed their willingness to be loyal to the commander-in-chief from now on. Please note that they are loyal to the commander-in-chief and not to the Ming Dynasty. This point is easy to overlook, but it is very important. For the future of the country, all three of them are loyal.
Talking eloquently and showing off his talents, Xiong Cilu started from the general trend of the world, analyzed the various reasons for the failure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and his views on the future. His suggestion was to reduce taxes and allow free land trading for Daxing trade. Li Guangdi started from the perspective of science and technology.
Speaking from another aspect, it is said that the Manchus did not pay attention to science and technology and remained complacent, which led to the loss of military advantages. Future wars will inevitably eliminate the once glorious tactics of cavalry and archery, and will replace them with large-scale firearms troops while maintaining firearms troops.
It is necessary to develop the economy, make continuous progress, and maintain technological advantages at all times. Gao Shiqi said that in order to prosper the country, it is necessary to pay attention to education. Talent is the foundation of everything. Today's imperial examination system has fallen behind and must be reformed.
The views of these three people are relatively advanced and are very similar to Liu Ziguang's ideas. Moreover, they are all straightforward people. Liu Ziguang would rather use a real villain than a hypocrite. Scholars and martial artists are the same. After learning a skill, they will naturally want to change their status.
Tsumu Yinzi, they didn’t shy away from saying that they just wanted to be officials, which made Liu Ziguang feel that they were right, these three people could be used!
So Xiong Cilu was named the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu, Li Guangdi was named the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Gao Shiqi was named the Minister of the Ministry of Rites. The head of the six departments, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, still had to be left to his own people, and the Ministry of War and Punishment could not be controlled by outsiders.
Liu Ziguang selected several thousand-household-level officers from the red shirt army to hold these official positions. Unfortunately, these officers had to become ministers as soon as they took off their red shirts. How could they become civil servants? Fortunately, this small court with common prosperity has
The scope of jurisdiction is only the Zhili area, and Tianjin Anpingshan Customs is under the military control of the Ming army. The orders of the so-called six ministries cannot even leave the capital, so it is not too difficult for them.
Li Guangdi recommended two people to Liu Ziguang, Nan Huairen, a foreign member of the Qintian Prison, and Dai Zi, a minister of the Hanlin Academy. Nan Huairen helped Kangxi cast cannons, while Dai Zi loved machinery and weapons since childhood.
Quite researched.
Liu Ziguang was very happy and took the two of them into his account as red-shirted soldiers and took them back with him when he returned to Nanjing. Nan Huairen was originally afraid that Liu Ziguang would hate him for helping the Qing Dynasty to forge weapons and be convicted, but he didn't know that not only would he not be able to
He was naturally happy to be able to go to Nanjing to preach, and Dai Zi was even more happy to be able to study at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Nanjing, which he still dreamed of.
When the dust settled in the city of Beijing, the status of the Manchus plummeted. There was no place for Manchus in the imperial court. The only few official positions above fourth rank were deputy positions. They were deliberately maintained in order to ensure that there were a few Manchus to decorate the hall of Taihe.
The soldiers of the Eight Banners had no weapons or horses, and they only had to fight every day.
They can squat in the barracks, eat and wait to die, but there are rumors that the imperial court is about to send them out to fight. Liu Ziguang will not let these unstable factors go, and will only wait for the right time to disrupt their organization, and
The Han army in the Green Camp was mixed and sent to Shanxi to steal the Xixia people's retreat.
As Liu Ziguang expected, the crisis in Nanjing was quickly resolved. The gunboats of the Shanghai Navy sailed upstream and blocked Hong Chengchou's retreat. The soldiers and horses of King Qin from Zhenjiang, Wuhu, Hefei, and Jiangnan counties also moved towards Nanjing.
, although they are not elite soldiers, they can put pressure on the Qing army by advancing through multiple routes.
The water network in the south was dense and it was difficult for the cavalry to take advantage of it. Shungrile's troops attempted to siege the city several times but failed. They tried to snipe people but were led into the swamp and suffered heavy losses.
Hong Chengchou tried to attack the city, only to realize that Nanjing's reputation as a tiger and a dragon was not unfounded. The defense force was even more fierce than Qingdao. Zhu Youxiao sent all the forces that the capital could mobilize to attack. Those in the arsenal who were ready to attack
All the advanced weapons heading north were sent to the Qing army
Above, the shells were like rain. Hong Chengchou's attack on Nanjing was about speed. Since he missed a hit, he had to evacuate quickly, otherwise he would be in danger of being dumped. Fortunately, he used a few warships to attract the Ming gunboats.
Attention, he withdrew his army to the north bank overnight and returned north in a hurry.
Although the danger in the capital was over, Zhu Youxiao still felt bad. He sent 13 emergency telegrams asking Liu Ziguang to come back to rescue him. He was unmoved and only said that he would send Li Yan back to rescue him. As soon as he heard that the danger was over, he was unmoved.
, and forcefully transferred Li Yan's troops back halfway. This clearly showed that he did not take the emperor seriously.
Liu Ziguang didn't know Zhu Youxiao's dissatisfaction. He just relied on his own judgment and believed that Hong Chengchou would not pose a great threat to Nanjing. If it involved the war situation in Beijing, he would be dragged away by the enemy. Facts have proved that he was right.
If the whole army rushed to Nanjing at that time, the war would have been delayed for at least several months.
The Aixinjueluo family's imperial mansion, summer garden, palace, hunting grounds, and state-owned coal mines and factories have all become spoils of war. In the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the price of Beipiao has quadrupled again, and it is still priceless but not marketable.
Even the newly issued shares
All the tickets were sold out at high prices. Peng Jinrong and Hu Yimin, who had already purchased a large amount of war stocks at the issue price with the help of their internal connections, made a huge deal. If the stocks in their hands were liquidated, they would probably lose tens of millions of taels.
huge.
Liu Ziguang is like the CEO of a large company who forcibly acquired Daqing, a company with a very low price-to-earnings ratio, causing the parent company's stock to skyrocket and making a huge profit. Moreover, this CEO does not intend to wipe out and leave.
He also wants to continue operating the Daqing company and create more benefits.