Dominate the Country

In Wuxi County Government Office, Chen Ziting looked at his good friend who had returned, "So, your Qin family is not leaving?"

It was unexpected, but reasonable. Chen Ziting raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

"The old man said that the Qin family did not leave when the Qing Dynasty conquered Jiangnan more than a hundred years ago, and there is no reason to leave now. Wuxi is the root of the Qin family. If they leave Wuxi, the Qin family will no longer be the Qin family..." Qin Youzi still felt unacceptable for this result. Of course, not all members of the Qin family will not leave. Those who have officials outside will still leave, and they will be escorted by the Wuxi soldiers under Qin Youzi.

Wen Gonggong [Qin Huitian] just died of illness five years ago, but the entire Qin family has twenty-four branches, and only a part of them returned home to mourn. By the time they could remove the mourning clothes, the Fu Han Army had risen, so no one could be reinstated smoothly. Qin Huitian is only one of the 24 branches of the Qin family. No matter how high his status is, the death of one person cannot make all the Qin family officials return home. Dingyou is only the closest bloodline.

Chen Ziying blinked his eyes. The Qin family suddenly did this, and the price they paid was not small. This is equivalent to splitting the family, a split without splitting!

For Qin Youzi, who has not yet let go, this decision of the main branch of the Qin family is like a thunderbolt from the blue sky? Even for the whole Wuxi, the whole Suzhou, and the whole Jiangnan, this is a thunderbolt from the blue sky in people's hearts.

The Wuxi Qin family in Xiaolou Lane is not going to leave, and wants to be a submissive citizen of the Fu Han Army. It is really ironic! Qin Huitian just died of illness five years ago, and was given the posthumous title of Wengong by Emperor Qianlong! But it is a very good posthumous title.

The last time Wuxi was broken by the Fu Han Army, the Qin family fled to Suzhou early, then went to Hangzhou, and finally moved to Ningbo. Only a few family members such as Qin Youzi were left to guard the old house in Wuxi.

This time, most of the families in the 24 rooms of the Qin family were not prepared to leave Wuxi, a city that was about to be occupied by the Fu Han Army, especially when Qin Youzi, a member of the Qin family, had hundreds of soldiers under his command.

The Qin family was going to be obedient to the Fu Han Army!

"Did Mr. Dong make up his mind?"

Qin Youzi was in a state of confusion, but he had to arrange trustworthy people to escort the Qin family out of Wuxi. Only Chen Ziting was left in the county government, and Chen Ziting's master Qian Gu appeared beside him and said.

"Why haven't you made up your mind yet? The Qin family dared to get involved and gamble, so why shouldn't I, a small official like Chen, dare?"

"Haha, a county magistrate is a seventh-rank official in the Qing Dynasty, but a fifth-rank Bailihou in Chen Han. What's more, Mr. Dong brought a city to Chen Han, and Duke Lu will definitely reward him generously." Just look at Chen Ming's straightforwardness in assigning officials in Hunan. It is impossible for Chen Ziting not to be promoted to prefect after his surrender. Even he, the legal advisor of Wuxi County Government, might have a seat in the Ming Hall. Perhaps in the future, scholars from the south of the Yangtze River who defected to the Fu Han Army would flock to them, but now Wuxi was close to the water and had the advantage of being the first to get the moon. They were the closest to Changzhou.

Changzhou was surrounded by 70,000 to 80,000 Qing troops overnight, and I really don’t know how many people’s hearts were frightened. Chen Ziting’s five legal advisors were stunned like their Dong Weng after hearing the news. It was too scary! But at the same time, the Qing army’s ‘defeat’ also made many people soberly aware of who the owner of this land would be!

As Chen Ziting said, the wealthy Qin family dared to take a gamble, so what was there for him not to dare to do?

And for these legal advisors who could not hold an official position in the Qing Dynasty, the Fu Han Army was now in full swing, the main force of the Qing army was surrounded in Changzhou, and the entire Jiangnan was ‘no man’s land’, so they dared and were willing to come in and take a gamble.

On the afternoon of the second day after the Fu Han Army surrounded the Qing army in Changzhou, Chen Ziting's letter of surrender was delivered to Chen Ming. After waiting for another day, the Fu Han Army had already set up a copper wall and iron wall outside Changzhou City. Chen Ming was ready to release the cavalry regiment in his hand, and the news of Yixing [Jingxi-one city and two counties]'s rebellion was also delivered to Changzhou.

It was the Lu family in Zhangzhu Town [Yixing] who, after the news of the Qing army being surrounded in Changzhou reached Yixing, gathered hundreds of young and strong people in the family and raised the flag against the Qing under the leadership of Lu Guoping, scaring away the county magistrates of Yixing and Jingxi counties. They occupied the county towns of Yixing and Jingxi!

"Isn't this Lu family in Zhangzhu Town the descendant of Lu Xiangsheng?"

Chen Ming's eyes flashed. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there were many traitors and thieves, and heroes emerged in endlessly. Take Lu Xiangsheng as an example, Chen Ming absolutely admired him. What is even more rare is that it was not just Lu Xiangsheng who had the courage in the Lu family, but many people. When the Qing army marched south, the Lu family resisted fiercely. Lu Xiangsheng's three uncles, Lu Guoyun, Lu Guohuan, and Lu Guohong, died on the same day in the battle of Xinqiao.

The third brother Lu Xiangguan also jumped into the water after the defeat in Xinqiao, and was rescued by his generals and then jumped into the water again and died. The two cousins ​​Lu Xiangtong and Lu Xiangkun died together in the battle of Xinqiao.

Except for Lu Xiangsheng's second brother Lu Xiangjin who became a monk, there were more than a hundred people in the Lu family who died in the fight against the Qing.

After the Fu Han army occupied Yixing, Chen Ming wanted to offer sacrifices to Lu Xiangsheng, but he held back in the end. Otherwise, when the Fu Han army went west, the entire Lu clan would be treated harshly by the Qing Dynasty unless they moved to Hubei with them.

"Aren't Lu Fuming and Lu Jianze from the Lu family? Go check where they are now and send them to Yixing to rebuild and expand the Lu Gong Temple." The Lu Gong Temple was full of offerings before, but it was too small.

"Tell the Lu clan to select a person of virtue and high reputation to serve as a worship official in the public temple, and he is a fifth-rank official."

"Send Lu Guoping to bring talented people from his ancestors and neighbors to Changzhou."

Chen Ming wants to elevate Lu Xiangsheng and use him as a political bellwether for Chen and Han. Yan Yingyuan of Jiangyin, and Zhu Dadian of Jinhua. Regardless of what kind of corruption Zhu Dadian had done before, just because he caused the death in eastern Zhejiang, even those who were not as good as Dadian could become a banner. Perhaps for many Manchu officials, they would prefer the ‘idol’ Zhu Dadian!

There were several major literary inquisitions, and the ones that occurred in Jiangnan also had a memorial hall - and those whistleblowers, such as Zha Jizuo and Wu Zhirong, were cast into kneeling iron statues and nailed to the pillar of shame forever.

Anyway, use all means to wipe out the influence of those moths!

Although this cannot be accomplished overnight, Chen Ming feels that as long as it is implemented step by step, it can always arouse the "national justice" of some people. Just like in the Fuhan Army, those heroes who died in the late Ming Dynasty, such as Lu Xiangsheng, Qin Liangyu, Li Dingguo, Zhang Huangyan, Lingnan Sanzhong, etc., were all very prestigious in the army.

Especially for people like Lu Xiangsheng, not only did he die himself, but his family members and brothers also resolutely resisted the Qing army's blood-stained battlefield. There were so many casualties, which was equivalent to adding layers of buffs, and his popularity was comparable to that of Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong.

"Your Highness, Your Highness..." Good news came one after another, and bad news also came. "The navy came to report that the Jiangyin Qing army has withdrawn eastward." Although this news is not that bad. But it also quickly knocked Chen Ming out of his sentimental mood.

"Didn't Yang Shijin notice it at all?" Chen Ming frowned. He has already mobilized a team and is preparing to attack Jiangyin. At that time, the navy will attack from the river again, which will be a victory in every battle.

"What Huang Zhenggang did was very secretive." The man who came to report lowered his head, and the scouts didn't notice at all. Even yesterday, Huang Zhenggang led his navy upstream from Jiangyin for twenty miles before returning.

"Where are the Qing army's land forces? There are thousands of land troops inside and outside Jiangyin, all of them boarding ships and evacuating together?" Chen Ming stood up and walked to the map hanging in the tent. He pointed his finger at Jiangyin City and stared at Jiangyin with a frown. Edom area.

"It seems that only part of it has been left. The water village outside Jiangyin City has been completely emptied."

"Where are the two forts along the river? Where are the cannons above?"

The wealth of the Qing army was far from comparable to that of the Fuhan army. The two forts they set up along the Jiangyin coast have dozens of cannons, so why not use them all?

"The cannon is still in the fort, and there are still soldiers guarding it."

"When Commander Yang heard the news, he immediately led the navy to rush eastward to pursue." But it was already too late.

"The cavalry regiment was ordered to be divided into two groups, one going to Jiangyin and the other to Suzhou." Chen Ming originally planned to have the cavalry go to Suzhou all the way and sweep Taicang the other way. Now it is urgent to rush to Jiangyin.

After punching Jiang Yin hatefully, Chen Ming was a little annoyed and actually allowed Huang Zhenggang to cut off his tail and escape.

"Tell Yang Shijin that the pressure must be tighter and Huang Zhenggang cannot escape from Chongming and Wusong again." Huang Zhenggang escaped once and could escape a second time. If this Qing fleet escaped from the Yangtze River to Zhoushan waters, Chen Didn’t the gathered navy turn into a joke?

The navy at the mouth of the Yangtze River is the largest force that the Qing Dynasty can mobilize at this stage. It must be solved and solved. The continuous bombardment outside the city did not relieve Chen Ming's angry depression.

…

Suzhou. This important town, which once again became the military and political center of Jiangnan after the "Liberation", was filled with panic.

Changzhou's army was surrounded. I heard that in just one night, all the defensive positions on all sides were destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were wiped out by the Fuhan army, as well as a large number of cavalry. And Wuxi has changed its banner!

For Wu Xiongguang, disaster is approaching again. This time Suzhou didn't even have a chance to resist. There are only more than 2,000 civilian soldiers under Wu Xiongguang left in the huge Suzhou City. Of course, they are enough to maintain order, but it is a big joke to resist the attack of the elite Fuhan Army.

"Huaijiang..." Wu Xiongguang, who was in his twenties, could still maintain his composure, but his father was so panicked that his face turned green.

Yin Jishan escorted a batch of money and grain to Changzhou a few days ago, but was surrounded. Although there are still big bosses in Suzhou city, such as the new Jiangsu governor Fulehun, Fulehun does not have the authority of Yin Jishan at all. General Jiangning Rong Bao is in northern Jiangsu again. The most important thing is that Fu Biao under Fulhun is only an empty frame. All the soldiers have been transferred to Changzhou. Now the only soldiers Suzhou can rely on are Wu Xiongguang.

"Dad, Suzhou can never be defended." Wu Xiongguang's face was also a little pale, but the matter was right in front of him, and it was very simple to make the most basic judgment.

Wu Xiongguang's two thousand men couldn't hold Suzhou at all. Even before the Fuhan army arrived, it was hard to say whether this army could maintain stability. After all, no one wants to be in a fatal situation, right?

The news that the main force of the Jiangnan Qing Army in Changzhou was besieged has been spread by the Fuhan Army's secret camp in Suzhou. We couldn't hide the news, not to mention the fast-moving people from Wuxi who had fled into Suzhou.

"Evacuate. We must evacuate to Hangzhou."