"General Geng, although you are the uncle of the prince of Jingnan, this matter can only be discussed between this domain and your prince, you better go down first!" Wang Xinyu looked at Geng Zhongge, and the expression on his face did not allow him to question it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"No!" Geng Zhongge retreated.

There were only two people left in the bedroom, Wang Xinyu and Geng Jimao, Wang Xinyu said at this time: "Lord Geng, if you are willing to surrender to Ming, your father is not to blame for the sins he did in the past, and this domain will play to the court, and you will still be your prince." ”

Geng Jimao touched his beard: "The conditions sound good, but this king is afraid that the prince will be harmed by the court." ”

"What the prince said, this domain can be understood, so this matter needs to be cautious! Otherwise, it will hurt the family of the prince! However, this clan already has an idea, as long as the prince cooperates. Wang Xinyu smiled knowingly and looked at Geng Jimao.

"What is General Wang's good plan?" Geng Jimao couldn't wait to ask.

Wang Xinyu said: "We will falsely claim to the Tartar court that the prince is dead!" In this way, the Tartar court will reuse the prince. I also asked the prince to write a letter to the prince in secret, telling him the truth, and we have our own channels to send the letter to the prince. And we falsely claim that the prince is dead in the Tartar court, and the prince wants to use this as an excuse to take revenge, then it is just to get rid of the Tartar court. ”

"How should this letter be written?" Geng Jimao asked.

"In the letter, you told the prince that the prince had abandoned the darkness and surrendered to my Ming dynasty, and in order to protect the prince from being implicated, he cheated to death to deceive the Tartar court. Lord Wang, you let the prince send troops from the capital, under the pretext of avenging the prince, as long as he leads the troops to the area of Nanjing, things will be easy to do in the future! Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

"Are you trying to deceive Jiangning City?" Geng Jimao guessed a few points.

"The prince is really smart!" Wang Xinyu gave a thumbs up, "Jiangning City is strong, there are many city gates, and there are many defenders, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is attacked, our army will inevitably suffer heavy losses." If there is a prince who should open the city gate, our army can easily take Jiangning with only one partial division! ”

"As long as I can save my son's life, everything will be according to the general's words!" Geng Jimao sighed.

"In that case, the clan will make people make a rumor that the prince has committed suicide. This is naturally fake, this domain will send the prince to Dongfan, and when Nanjing is recovered, let the prince come back. Wang Xinyu said.

Geng Jimao suddenly remembered what happened just now, so he asked suspiciously: "Geng Zhongge is the uncle of the little Wang family, why didn't he let him know about it?" ”

Wang Xinyu secretly said in his heart: You surrender and can still be the prince of the Ming Dynasty, so Geng Zhongge doesn't wish you and your son were dead? In this way, the prince is him! However, Wang Xinyu didn't break this matter: "Lord Wang, this matter is very important, and the fewer people who know, the better." ”

Geng Jimao said helplessly: "Okay, shouldn't Xiao Wang write a letter to the prince?" ”

"Write it! We promise to deliver the letter! Wang Xinyu nodded.

Geng Jimao sat up with his sick body and walked to the desk. At this time, Wang Yuyou asked people to put pen and ink, Geng Jimao picked up the pen, and wrote a letter to the prince Geng Jingzhong.

The content of the letter is to the effect that now that the Ming Dynasty has a strong army, it is a matter of time before the entire south is recovered, so it is for the father to abandon the darkness and surrender to the Ming. For the safety of the child, Daming announced to the public that he committed suicide for his father. I also hope that the child can leave Beijing as soon as possible and come to Jiangning to wait, so that the child can meet his father.

Geng Jimao finished writing the letter, and Wang Xinyu asked him to help him go back to rest.

"Lord Geng, wait for this clan to make arrangements, and the prince will be able to cheat to death! This domain announced to the public that the prince had committed suicide, and then sent the prince out with a special coffin. When he got on the boat, the prince was safe. When you arrive in Toban, your family can be reunited. Wang Xinyu said.

Then Wang Xinyu arranged for Geng Jimao's family and prepared to arrange for them to get on the boat.

In the city of Zhangzhou, the Ming army began to restore the mantle of the Han family to the people in the city. The clothes are relatively simple, except for some dignitaries, most of the small people wore the original Ming Dynasty style short clothes, as for the women, not only the women in the families of the small people, the women in the families of dignitaries and big businessmen, there are few people who wear full clothes, and most of the women are still Hanfu. So it's not a hassle to restore the clothes.

What is more troublesome is the hair, Wang Xinyu did not take the method of forcibly cutting the braids, but took a voluntary approach, if he wanted to cut off the braids, cut them with a knife, and if he didn't want to cut the braids, break the braids and tie them into a bun on the top of the head.

Then the gentry in the city were cleaned up, and those gentry who took the initiative to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and helped the Manchu government to fight for the tiger were punished, their family property was confiscated, and all the fields were confiscated. And those gentry who did not take the initiative to defect to the Manchu Qing were given preferential treatment by the Qiongzhou army.

In the end, what the Qiongzhou Army had to change was the feudal system, and what it wanted to develop was commerce and industry. The backward agrarian system limited the development of productive forces, so land reform was necessary.

Those gentry who did not take the initiative to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and some gentry who secretly supported the Ming army, Wang Xinyu needed their support, and naturally it was impossible to confiscate their property. Therefore, the Qiongzhou army adopted a moderate approach: recruit a large number of peasants to work in Shanghai and other places, and the wage income from working is much higher than the income from farming; As for those who are unwilling to work, they are persuaded to go to various places in Nanyang to farm, because the farmland in Nanyang belongs to them and they do not need to pay land tax.

Although the commercial tax included in the sale of grain and other non-staple foods, as well as the purchase of daily necessities and farm tools, far exceeded the land tax, the simple people did not understand this, and when they heard that farming in Nanyang could be tax-free, many people enthusiastically signed up to participate.

By all means, there were not many peasants willing to stay on their original land, the price of land would naturally fall, and it would be difficult for landlords to find tenants to farm for themselves.

In this case, Nanyang Company was able to buy land at a relatively cheap price, and after the original landlord got the silver, he used the silver to become a minority shareholder of Nanyang Company, or to start his own business, or to become a shareholder and a businessman.

As for some landlords with relatively strong ability, who have the ability to set up their own industries and develop them very well, then they have completed the transformation from landlords to capitalists.

Five days later.

In a small courtyard of the palace, Geng Jimao's wife, concubines and children, as well as the high-class maids in the palace, are imprisoned.

The "bang" door opened, and several officers appeared in the doorway.

There was a cry in the small courtyard, and the women, children and maids hugged their heads and cried. A few days ago, I heard that the direct female dependents of the Governor's Mansion were dragged to the Teaching Workshop Division, this Teaching Workshop Division is not the Teaching Workshop Division during the peaceful and prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty, and the women who were sent in were not sitting quietly waiting for guests, but were sent to each military camp for "transfer camps", and they had to serve the vulgar men every day, and if they gave birth to children, they would also have to do things in the Teaching Workshop Division for a lifetime! I heard that the fate of the maids in the Governor's Mansion was better, and they were not sent to the Teaching Division, but were picked up by men to become wives.

I only heard the officer standing at the door roaring: "The puppet King of Jingnan doesn't know what to do!" Our commander was kind enough to surrender, but instead of surrendering, he committed suicide! He's done to kill himself, but you can't be here! ”

When Da Fu Jin heard the news, he screamed miserably, shook twice and fell.

"Master! Master! Several little maids stepped forward to hug Da Fu Jin.

Someone pinched Da Fu Jin's people, and after a while, Da Fu Jin slowly woke up.

The Ming army officer standing at the door said: "My name is Li Rui, I came to tell you one thing, King Jingnan left his last words, we will not embarrass you, let's go with us honestly!" ”

"Why did the prince commit suicide?" Da Fu Jin asked angrily.

Li Rui replied: "It's not for your son? The prince is still in the hands of the Tartars! The prince didn't want the prince to be killed by the Tartar court, so he committed suicide! ”

At this time, the Ming army had already published Geng Jimao's "suicide note", on this fake suicide note, Geng Jimao wrote, saying that he was a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty and must not surrender to the rebellious pirates, so he refused the surrender of the Ming army and chose to commit suicide. As for the generals under their command, everyone has their own ambitions, they chose to surrender in order for their family to survive, and they don't blame them, they just want to leave with peace of mind, hoping that the Ming army will not embarrass their families.

After this fake suicide note was made public, Wang Xinyu believed that the Qing court would soon know the contents of the suicide note, and naturally he would not embarrass Geng Jingzhong's family in the capital.

"Let's go! Get you out of here! "The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were quite polite to the daughters of Geng Jimao's family.

Walking out of Zhangzhou City, Geng Jimao's family got on a small boat moored on the Jiulong River, sailed down the river by boat, sailed all the way to Yuegang at the mouth of the river, and then changed to a big boat.

"E-niang, where are we going?" The youngest son, Geng Juzhong, asked.

Mrs. Geng replied: "E-Niang doesn't know, but E-Niang doesn't see that they are bad people, and she won't embarrass us." ”

Geng Juzhong asked with tears in his eyes: "They are not bad people, why did my father commit suicide?" ”

"Father is for the eldest brother, and your eldest brother is still in the hands of the imperial court." Mrs. Geng explained to her son.

After Geng Jimao's family arrived at Yuegang, they changed to an 800-ton Spanish galleon and went to Dongfan.

At the same time, in Geng Jimao's Jingnan Palace, there was a special coffin, and Geng Jimao, who had cheated to death, was lying quietly in the coffin, this coffin had a good ventilation port, and he would not be suffocated inside.

This matter was concealed from Geng Jimao's old department, and even Geng Jimao's uncle Geng Zhongge didn't know that Geng Jimao was cheated to death.

"Lord! Virtuous nephew! Why can't you think about it? Geng Zhongge cried, but he was secretly proud in his heart: Geng Jimao is dead, he is stubborn and committed suicide, although he can save Geng Jingzhong's life, but Geng Jingzhong will not be able to surrender! And Geng Jimao's other sons can no longer be reused by the Ming army! In this way, the possibility of becoming the prince is too great! Even if the court doesn't approve the prince, it always has to be given to approve a county king, right?

Zeng Yang and Geng Jimao's group of subordinates stood in front of the spirit, and they were full of emotion in their hearts. Although Zeng Yangxing felt uncomfortable, it was Geng Jimao who died, and Geng Jimao's death had nothing to do with him, and he surrendered with the consent of the prince, so it can't be regarded as a betrayal. (To be continued.) )