Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, governor of Fujian, garrisoned at the headquarters of the Eight Banners General Fuzhou, serving as the core of the military and political affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.
Three months ago, Sun Jingsui, the prefect of Taiwan, reported to the governor's office in a letter that some traitors from the Zhangzhou area had recently crossed the sea to Changhua to form a secret society, calling themselves brothers and sisters, called the Tiandihui. There was also a leader of the society, monk Wan, who went around Taiwan to swindle and win over believers.
To commit rebellion.
After receiving the report from the Taiwanese prefect, Yu Wenyi, the governor of Fujian, ordered the prefect of Taiwan, Sun Jingsui, to supervise the county magistrate Yu Jun and the deputy general He Sheng'e to conduct a guerrilla attack on Geng Shiwen to arrest the members of the Tiandihui. They must capture and kill the top ten thousand monks of the Tiandihui so that they cannot escape and live another life.
Disaster.
After receiving the reply from the governor's office, Sun Jingsui, the prefect of Taiwan, immediately deployed plans to completely ban the Tiandihui across Taiwan and ordered the green battalions stationed in Taiwan to go out to arrest Tiandihui members.
He Sheng'er, the deputy general of Taiwan's Green Camp, was born in the Zhenghuang Banner of Manchuria. He was greedy. In the name of arresting the Tiandihui, he ordered his subordinates to frame big businessmen and profit from them. He also let the Green Camp kill people and set fires everywhere. The Qing troops burned wherever they went.
The threat from the village prime minister has caused panic among people across Taiwan.
Only three months have passed, and Fuzhou has yet to receive a report from Taiwan regarding whether the leader of the Tiandihui, Monk Wan, has been captured.
Yu Wenyi, governor of Fujian, was born in the 26th year of Kangxi's reign. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Qianlong's reign. Today he is eighty-eight years old. He is the oldest serving official in the Qing Dynasty. Fujian officials and gentry respectfully call him "Old Man Yu".
Yu Futai had been serving in the Ministry of Criminal Justice in his early years, and later he was appointed as a doctor in the Autumn Trial Division and was sent to the prefecture of Funing. At the age of seventy, he came to Taiwan and served as an official in Taiwan for five years. He was quite familiar with Taiwan's customs and customs.
He knew very well that although Taiwan had been owned by the Qing Dynasty since the Ming and Zheng dynasties, and a government had been established to govern it, in the eyes of most court officials, Taiwan was still a foreign land and could be considered dispensable.
Therefore, the imperial government's governance of Taiwan over the years has not been very effective. In addition, the Han people along the coast of Fujian have a tradition of going to sea. They are known as thieves when they go out, and they are people when they enter. They are all cunning and fierce, and they are also dissatisfied with the Manchu rule of the Qing Dynasty.
Since the beginning of the Republic of China, there have been more than 40 anti-Qing uprisings in Fujian alone. Almost every two years, bold people will take risks and call on ignorant people to resist the Qing. There are many slogans used to deceive people, but most of them are useless.
Take "Restore Might" as the call.
Due to the garrison of the governors of Fujian and Zhejiang and the generals of Fuzhou, Fujian Province was able to suppress anti-Qing activities among the people in a timely manner. However, Taiwan was separated by a strait. It can be said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away. In addition, there were only more than 2,000 green battalion soldiers stationed in Taiwan.
There are millions of Han people in Taiwan, and there are even more traitors who have escaped.
Therefore, once traitors gather in Taiwan to cause trouble, and the green battalion is too few to suppress them in time, it will definitely lead to great changes. If Taiwan falls into the hands of traitors again, and the banner of restoring the Ming Dynasty is used, it will undoubtedly be another Ming Dynasty.
By then, I don’t know how much food the Qing Dynasty would have consumed, how many soldiers would have been there, and how many people would have suffered.
In view of this, Yu Futai went to the Governor's Yamen yesterday to discuss the matter of governing Taiwan with Governor Debao, and believed that Fuzhou garrison Chai Daji could lead a battalion of thousands of troops to reinforce Taiwan.
Debao had heard of Chai Daji, who was famous in his hometown for being "both civil and military" when he was young. In the 28th year of Qianlong's reign, he became a Jinshi in the martial arts. Since then, he has been working in Fujian Lvying. He has great rules for catching thieves and bandits. He is a Fujian scholar.
A rare member of the Green Camp.
The Governor also did not want anything to happen in Taiwan to involve him, so he agreed with Yu Futai's opinion and proposed to the court that Taiwan should be established as a town, with Chai Daji serving as the first commander-in-chief of Taiwan Town.
In addition, another naval battalion was built in Taiwan. This way, with land and water troops stationed there, trouble in Taiwan could be quickly quelled.
Immediately, he asked his staff to write a memorial in accordance with this agreement and ordered it to be delivered to Beijing as quickly as possible.
After Yu Futai returned to the Yamen, he sent a message to Chai Daji, asking him to come to the Yamen tomorrow.
The next day, Chai Daji came to the governor's yamen early, and was taken to Mr. Futai's study by the concierge not long after waiting.
Yu Futai got straight to the point and told Taiwan that traitors would cause trouble everywhere in the world. He was afraid that Taiwan's Green Battalion had few soldiers and would be hard to catch the thieves. Therefore, he had discussed with the Governor that Chai should be appointed as the commander-in-chief of Taiwan Town and allocate a thousand battalions to join the Green Battalion stationed in Taiwan to build the town.
"It will take some time for the imperial court to reply. You should make some preparations. In addition to your own soldiers, Fubiao will mobilize 200 more of you..."
Originally, Fujian Green Camp had one town, two battalions and three associations, and nearly 10,000 soldiers in Fubiao. However, two years ago, Fujian Green Camp transferred its main Changfu and Luo Yuan battalions to Sichuan to assist the army in wiping out the Jinchuan bandits.
Therefore, the strength of the Fujian Green Camp was greatly reduced. Now the available soldiers are only more than 6,000, and they are scattered all over the country. Therefore, Yu Futai can only give Chai Daji 1,000 soldiers, and it is impossible to spare any more.
"You are the town in Taiwan that I highly recommend to the Governor. Don't let me lose face after going to Taiwan..."
Yu Futai also told Chai Daji some things to pay attention to when arriving in Taiwan. First, he must work together with Sun Jingsui, the prefect of Taiwan, and there must be no civil and military discord.
The second is about the issue of Taiwan’s money, food, military pay, and supply of weapons and ammunition.
Taiwan and Xiamen are separated by a strait and travel is inconvenient, so the supply of weapons is very troublesome. Yu Futai planned to let Lvying Navy Haitan Town be responsible for the logistics supply of Taiwan Lvying.
Just as he was talking, the concierge came to report that there was an urgent call from Xiamen and that there was urgent military information from Taiwan.
As soon as Yu Futai heard this, he hurriedly came to the lobby with Chai Daji. Before he could get close, a Green Camp Qian general officer stumbled towards him. He knelt down with a thud and broke down in tears: "Master Futai, Taiwan's world
The meeting has rebelled, and Changhua, Zhuluo, Fengshan and other places have fallen into the hands of thieves. Please ask Mr. Futai to quickly mobilize troops to cross the sea and put an end to the chaos!"
"What?!"
Yu Futai was shocked, "When did it happen?"
Mr. Qian said: "That happened a month ago!"
What happened a month ago, why are you reporting it now?
Yu Futai felt dizzy.
Chai Daji said angrily: "It was a month after the incident, why didn't you report it earlier!"
Mr. Na Qian said that when he was crossing the sea and passing Penghu, he encountered a storm and the ship was damaged, which delayed him for ten days.
Master Futai calmed down and asked again: "Where is Sun Jingsui?"
Mr. Qian looked sad: "The prefect has been killed!"
"died?"
Yu Futai was shocked again. The eighty-year-old man could hardly stand, so Chai Daji hurriedly stepped forward to help him.
Why is he so rude? It's because Sun Jingsui is Lord Futai's nephew and grandson-in-law.
After a while, Mr. Futai asked Taiwan Green Camp Lieutenant General Hesheng where his forehead was.
The result was that Vice General He called the Tiandihui rebels to kill him with firecrackers. County magistrate Yu Jun, guerrilla Geng Shiwen and other officials were all killed by the enemy.
The entire Taiwan Green Battalion, together with the Taiwanese government-administered patrols and rural soldiers, lost more than 40 civilian and military lives, and more than half of the soldiers were casualties. The army was completely defeated.
"How many bandits are there?"
Chai Daji was horrified. More than 2,000 people from the Green Camp in Taiwan were wiped out along with the entire local army. The rebels of the Tiandihui would have to have many people to do this.
Mr. Qian didn't know how many traitors there were. He only knew that they were very capable of fighting. The generalissimo was a Tiandihui member named Lin Shuangwen.
After a pause, he gritted his teeth and said: "Among the thieves, there is an elite who flies a black flag when he comes in and out. He is equipped with a large number of firecrackers. He is called the Yang Family Army. He is very daring to fight. The leader of the Yang Family Army is very young. He will charge with an iron rod in every battle."
There is no one in our army who can serve as a cudgel..."
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"Zhu Di's Battle with Tumubao", if the great-grandson can't do it, the old man will come!