Xi'an is approaching the New Year, and both bannermen and Han people are buying new year's goods.
If you have money, buy more. If you don’t have money, buy less. Fish and meat should always be cut off. After all, even if adults don’t eat, children will eat.
At the end of the year, we celebrate the New Year only once. No matter how difficult life is, there must always be some meat on the New Year's Eve table, otherwise this year will be too miserable.
It can be said that the entire city of Xi'an is full of Chinese New Year atmosphere. The streets and alleys are full of pedestrians with smiling faces, and the traffic is very lively.
But inside the Shaanxi-Gansu Governor's Office located in Mancheng, there is no atmosphere that the Chinese New Year is about to take place. Instead, there is a chill from the inside out.
In the Governor's extravagantly luxurious office, I could hear the Governor scolding me from a distance.
The kind that jumps around and yells.
"Mother Xipi, the Japanese have gone too far to bully others. They transferred me to Sichuan to be the governor. What the hell do they want? Don't you want to transfer me from Xi'an so that they can send someone to kill me?
Damn it, I don’t think this guy has any faith at all. He showed up to me before the ink on the treaty was even dry. He’s such a villain and a solitary man!”
No wonder Lao Le was annoyed. Article 3 of the treaty signed by Guiziliu himself with the three provinces stated that the reform government was not allowed to transfer personnel in the three provinces without going beyond the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.
Well now, the Japanese who became the emperor turned against each other and actually asked the governor of Shanxi, E Bao, to be the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and asked him to go to Sichuan to be the governor of Sichuan. Isn't this obviously trying to cause trouble!
How did Yongzheng deal with Nian Gengyao?
It's like retreating!
However, the order calling Lerjin to resign as governor of Shaanxi and Gansu did not reach Xi'an. The bodyguard who conveyed the order was detained by Shanxi Chief Envoy Surde, who was in charge of the postal channel affairs in Shanxi. He took advantage of his position and sent someone to rush there.
Xi'an notified Leerjin of the news in advance, in order to ask "Leerjin to make quick measures."
Why did Surder secretly detain the imperial guards of the capital behind the back of Shanxi Governor E Bao? Isn't it because he and Lerjin both grew up in Hutongs?
At the beginning, Surder also persuaded the governor of Shanxi, E Bao, to form an alliance with Shaanxi and Gansu, intending to take advantage of Qianlong's loss of power and the Japanese's Six Desires to seize the greatest benefits for the three provinces.
It was also Surder who went to Xiangyang to attend the meeting of hundreds of officials and clans on behalf of Shanxi.
In fact, taking advantage of the lack of prestige of the central government and the internal strife in the court, it is right for local governments to unite to keep warm.
The problem is that the three provinces chose the wrong opponent at the wrong time.
It is that they completely underestimated the power of the Imperial Destruction Dragon produced in Shanxi.
The original plan was to turn Guiziliu into Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, but he didn't expect this kid to go directly to Chongzhen.
At the provincial military conference held at Wusheng Pass, only three provinces, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Shanxi, received the designation of two armies. This made Lerjin very angry.
After a moment's thought, I realized that Guiziliu had no good intentions. In order not to damage the internal unity of the three provinces, he graciously gave up the designation of an army to Shanxi. Shaanxi and Gansu only nominally occupied one army.
In private, Lao Le quickly began to expand his army.
There is no way, who let the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion, the most elite unit in the northwest, be taken away by the Japanese Sixth Army?
It's not like Lao Le didn't send people to do ideological work for Baoning, the admiral of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion, and the generals below, hoping that they could bring the team back.
He even threatened that if the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp did not come back, the family records of the officers and soldiers staying in Shaanxi-Gansu would be in danger.
What do you think Baoning said?
Baoning said: "Go back and tell the Governor, our Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion has fought against the Ming army, the bandits, Wu Sangui's rebels, and the Eight Banners soldiers since the founding of the People's Republic of China. As for the Governor, we also killed one."
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They fought against the Eight Banners, and defeated the Eight Banners very badly.
When Wang Fuchen met with Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp, he killed Moruo, the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi.
This is equivalent to telling Le Erjin that you can touch our family members, but we can also touch you.
After hearing Baoning's reply, Le'er was so angry that he really didn't dare to touch the Green Camp family scrolls. There were still many Green Camp soldiers in Shaanxi and Gansu. If these soldiers knew that the Governor had ordered the massacre of the Green Camp family scrolls, it would be difficult to protect them.
It won't be the opposite.
Secondly, if the Lvying Family Scroll was really touched, the tens of thousands of elite soldiers would not risk their lives with him.
Thirdly, he had no reason to take action, after all, he had nominally surrendered to the Sixth Reformation Japs.
Fourthly, there are no soldiers in hand and lack of confidence.
In order to increase his confidence and strengthen his own strength, Le Erjin used an army number given by Guiziliu to vigorously organize the army and created the Ninth Army with more than 20,000 troops.
At the same time, the 1,500 Eight Banners soldiers originally stationed in Mancheng, Ningxia, the 1,300 Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Mancheng, Liangzhou, the 900 Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Mancheng, Tongguan, and the 1,400 Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Mancheng, Zhuanglang were merged with the Manbing soldiers in Xi'an to form a pure
The Northwest Eight Banners garrison composed of bannermen.
In addition, a large number of new soldiers were recruited from the private sector to form the Shaanxi-Gansu Self-Defense Force.
It is also a military establishment.
The two newly formed armies were "private armies", and Leerjin was responsible for all the money and food expenses. Therefore, Leerjin was under great financial pressure. In the second half of the year, he borrowed more than six million taels from the private sector at high interest rates.
In order to gain greater support, Lao Le sent people to work with General Yinli Sonomu Celing, General Ulia Sutai Chenggun Zhabu, Khovd Counselor Zala Feng'a, and Kulun Affairs Minister Lebao to Xining.
Contact Minister Hui Ling.
These five are all of authentic old Manchu origin, and their troops are all considerable. If they can all unite around Leerjin to form the Northwest Group, the Northwest Army that Leerjin has high hopes for will be as high as seven to eight armies, with a total strength of
Nearly two hundred thousand.
This strength can definitely challenge the Central Army of Guiziliu.
However, the plan to expand the army and the five ministers' secret contacts to jointly build the northwest self-defense circle was still in progress, and Guiziliu started to plot against Lao Le.
If the governor of Shanxi, E Bao, cannot withstand the temptation of the high position of governor of Shaanxi and Gansu and insists on becoming the governor, then Shanxi will obviously break away from the Northwest Army.
Shaanxi Governor Bi Yuan, as a staunch supporter of Lao Le, certainly did not want Lao Le to fall, so he asked: "What are we going to do about Taiwan?"
"what to do?"
Lao Le snorted and gave a clear answer: "Shaanxi and Gansu will never obey this order!"
"Guiziliu led his main force out of Shanhaiguan to march eastward. How could he dare to fight on two fronts because he had too much time to take care of himself? He really wasn't afraid that our army would kill him when we left Tongguan!"
The speaker was a close confidant of Lao Le. Ge Biao, who led the troops to capture Xi'an General Fu Liang that day, had been promoted by Lao Le to the rank of admiral of the new Shaanxi-Gansu Self-Defense Army.
The former deputy commander of the Eight Banners garrison in Tongguan and now the admiral of the Eight Banners garrison in the northwest said: "Sir, if the Japanese army is defeated outside the pass, are we going to make that Hongsheng the emperor?"
"What qualifications does Hongsheng have to be the emperor?"
Bi Yuan believed that even if Hongsheng defeated Guiziliu outside the pass, he would not be qualified to ascend the Dabao, and he would not be able to get his turn no matter what.
Shaanxi Chief Minister Yang Mingyang hurriedly asked Futai: "Who should be appointed as emperor?"
Bi Futai really didn't have any idea about who should be appointed as emperor. The main reason was that the Japanese army had not been defeated for six years. It seemed a bit early to think about this.
Other officials are very interested in this. Some say they can make Yongzheng's heir, and some say they can make Kangxi's heir. You and I tell each other who is qualified.
Noisy.
"If you ask me, if Guiziliu is really defeated, we won't support Hong Sheng. We might as well make Duke Yansheng of Qufu emperor."
The person who said this was Shaanxi Academician Xia Mingqiu.
This statement immediately caused everyone to burst into laughter, making Xia Xuezheng a little embarrassed, and simply said: "If Yan Shenggong doesn't work, let's find a descendant of Zhu Ming to make him emperor."
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After a brief silence, the office burst into laughter even louder than before.
Le Erjin also laughed at Xia Xuezheng's suggestion, shook his head slightly, and had no intention of saying anything to this sour guy.
At this time, another confidant of Le Erjin, the Ninth Army Admiral Le Bao, who was born in Manchuria Zhenghongqi, suddenly looked at the Governor and said firmly: "Our officers and soldiers will only obey the Governor!"
Um?
Everyone was moved, even the number one scholar, Bi Futai, was frightened.
Ge Biao, who was belatedly aware of this, seemed to understand something. He stood up and clasped his fists towards the Governor: "No one in this life can rule the world, but the Governor!"
"Ah, yes, yes, yes! The governor-general has made great contributions to the northwest and benefited the country. At a time when the court is in turmoil, I hope that the governor-general will clear up the false edicts, rebuild the government, cultivate talents and benefit the people, and benefit the country and the country!"
The chief envoy of Shaanxi, Yang Mingyang, actually knelt down to the governor as he spoke, apparently trying to persuade him to come in.
This really shocked Bi Futai, but at this moment he saw the governor laughing, and while stopping Yang Fantai who was about to kneel down, he stroked his beard and said: "Don't harm me, the emperor.
Er Jin doesn’t dare to be a president, but what do you think of my governor becoming the president?”