Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 145 Wang Shiheng, Guangzhou seizes power
In the city of Guangzhou, Wang Yan wore a phoenix-winged helmet with white feathers on his head, a mountain armor, a red robe, a cloud python war skirt, leather boots, and a white horse on his crotch. Behind him were five hundred men wearing iron helmets and purple flowered cloth. Armor, with swords hanging from their waists, and elite guards with birds on their backs, their armor is bright and murderous.

At this time, Wang Yan and Su Guansheng rode horses side by side, and the army followed, walked through the streets in the city, and finally stopped in front of the governor's office. Wang Yan waved his hand, and a hundred households behind him led two Xiaoqi's head of the banner rushed directly to the yamen.

"Guangdong Provincial Civil Affairs, Yan entrusts to Lao Ge." Wang Yan immediately bowed his hand to Su Guansheng, his face full of awe.

Su Guansheng heard the words, returned the salute slightly, but didn't speak, so he rode forward, followed the soldiers, and went to the governor's office.

Wang Yan looked at his back, thinking about the past few days.

Since Wang Yan entered Guangzhou, he did not know the situation of officials in Guangdong Province, but since Ding Kuichu, the governor, did not like him, he could guess a thing or two about the attitude of officials in Guangdong Province towards him.

In order to distinguish which officials are from the Governor's Mansion, after Wang Yan entered Guangdong, he had no contact with officials from Guangdong Province. Instead, he ordered Qian Yifeng and Zhou Zhiwei to bring the people to Qiongzhou for resettlement, so that he had no worries.

When Wang Yan captured Quanzhou, more than a dozen experienced shipbuilders who were kidnapped from the Zheng family were also sent to Qiongzhou Island.

During the period of resettling the common people, Wang Yan let his subordinates secretly learn about the official information in Guangdong, and then sent people to various yamen to receive it, but the result was as expected. Except for the cooperation of a very few officials, most Most of them did not take his orders seriously. Not only were the reported accounts full of loopholes, but the supplies requested by the army were also made difficult by various excuses, either delayed or not distributed at all.

After a few days, Wang Yan had a good understanding of the situation, and when he was about to wait for a while before taking action, Emperor Longwu ordered him to quickly extinguish King Jingjiang's rebellion, and then passed on the secret decree to march into Huguang.

Wang Yan followed Su Guansheng's decision to mobilize ahead of schedule to seize power in Guangdong Province.

Compared with Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, Ding Kuichu's power is unintentionally much weaker, and both the navy and land divisions are far behind.

This is not because Guangdong is not as good as Fujian, but because Ding Kuichu does not have the desire to separate himself from Zheng Zhilong, and he does not manage Guangdong as his own private property. He just wants to collect more money before being transferred to another place.

If the Ming Dynasty was still in peace and prosperity, Ding Kuichu might not have had other thoughts, but now that the world is in chaos, he has other thoughts.

Since the Chongzhen Dynasty, there have been signs of military generals supporting their own self-respect, but the court's orders were basically unimpeded. In Hongguang, although the military generals were domineering, the ministers of the frontiers still did not dare to violate the imperial court's will. Now that the Longwu Dynasty was established, the governors and ministers began Following the example of military generals, blindly occupying places and fighting for power and profit, the imperial court's orders are not enough, and it is almost impossible to talk about unified deployment and unified command.

Longwu wanted to recover, but with the collapse of the central government, the authority of the central government was also reduced again and again, which made the power of the local governors rise, and began to ignore the central government, and made their own small calculations.

Ding Kuichu originally only wanted to make money, but now he wanted more, so he abused Wang Yan in every possible way, trying to push Wang Yan out of Guangzhou.

It's just that after seeing the Fujian Zheng family, how could Wang Yan pay attention to his temporary role.

"Where should I go, do you all know?" Waiting for Su Guansheng to break into the chief envoy's office, Wang Yansui pulled the reins and turned the horse around, facing the remaining [-] elite soldiers, said in a solemn voice.

When the remaining four hundred households heard the words, they immediately clasped their fists and agreed, "Don't worry, Lord Hou, I'll find out later."

"Let's go!" Wang Yan nodded, then waved his hand and said: "Those who dare to obstruct, lock them up on the spot, yes!"

When all the troops heard the words, they followed their respective general flags and rushed to various places in the city.

In the city of Guangzhou, Ding Kuichu is having a banquet with Chen Bangfu, Zhao Qiansi, Yan Zungao and Ma Jixiang at the governor's mansion.

Ding Kuichu used to focus on making money and didn't cultivate many forces that obeyed his orders, so as the governor, but in Guangxi, Qu Shixu almost had the final say. Now that Wang Yan came to Guangdong again, he became anxious.

These few people are the targets of Ding Kuichu's wooing, and they have a lot of soldiers and horses in their hands. If they can get their support, Ding Kuichu can have some capital.

In fact, these people were not loyal to Ding Kuichu, the four of them together only had [-] soldiers and horses, but Wang Yan's [-] troops with neat armor and banners outside the city of Guangzhou that day were given to them. deep impression.

Youdao is a layman watching the excitement, and an insider watching the way. The four of them are veterans of the army. Naturally, they know that Wang Yan's soldiers and horses are by no means ostentatious, but real elites in all battles. They are not comparable to the gang of mobs under them .

On the first day Wang Yan entered the city, the four of them went to ask for a meeting, hoping to establish a good relationship with Wang Yan so as to keep the soldiers and horses in their hands, but Wang Yan refused to see them.

After being rejected several times in a row, the four of them were panicked, and they could only move closer to Ding Kuichu to ensure that their interests would not be violated.

Wang Yan naturally knew about this matter, and in fact he did it on purpose.

The emperor asked him to quell the rebellion of King Jingjiang, and then went north to Huguang to fight against the Qing army. He didn't have much time to manage Guangdong. Another accident happened in the rear, wouldn't it make him too regretful, so Wang Yan couldn't bear it at all, there were soldiers and horses in Guangdong who were not under his control.

Wang Yan did this on purpose, bringing the four of them close to Ding Kuichu, in order to embolden those half-hearted officials, and give them the illusion that Ding Kuichu can stabilize him, so that all hidden dangers will be revealed, and he can solve them once and for all. potential threats to Guangdong.

In the past few days, Wang Yan ignored Ding Kuichu's difficulties, making them think that they had the upper hand, and discussed with the mansion, and continued to control all the yamen in Guangzhou City, dispatching officials who took refuge in them, and seized the power. Evacuate Wang Yan, the governor general town.

At this time Ding Kuichu held up his wine glass, full of ambition, and said to the four of them: "After all, Wang Shiheng is young and has no way of officialdom. The emperor sent him to Guangdong, but he was mistaken."

"What the governor said is true!" Chen Bangfu picked up his wine glass and echoed, "The emperor just made the governor a great scholar, and then let Wang Shiheng enter Guangdong, and the general town of Guangdong is really crossing the river and tearing down the bridge.

"That's right!" Zhao Qiansi also echoed, "The subordinates are also grievances for the governor. Since the emperor has been unfair, it is not impossible for the governor to follow Zheng Zhilong's example of self-respect!"

Ding Kuichu listened to the four people's words with a smile, and felt quite complacent. He happily drank the wine in the glass, and was about to pretend to be modest, when a middle-aged man in official robes barged in .

"Your Excellency, Wang Shiheng sent troops to occupy the chief envoy, the inspector, the command envoy, the Guangzhou government office, the Guangzhou government treasury, and the grain depot."

"What?" Ding Kuichu was so startled that the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground, and the faces of the four people on the table also changed drastically, and they instinctively wanted to escape from the city.

(The chapter that is owed, let’s make it up on May [-]st, I’m too busy recently. Thank you for the monthly pass of True Love, thank you for the rewards of Generation Xiongxiong, Danshui Ranger, shyion, and Shushanqin.)
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