Qin means the emperor, the delegation, the delegation means the emperor's dispatch, and the imperial envoy means the emperor's dispatch. Therefore, the imperial envoy is the emperor who specially dispatches officials to handle something. There are two key points in this explanation. The emperor personally dispatches and handles major events. These two key points determine that the imperial envoy will inevitably conflict with local officials when he arrives in the local area. It is very simple. The imperial envoy is an outsider who comes to infringe on local interests and will naturally be boycotted by all local officials.

In ancient China, the whole country belonged to the emperor himself, and those officials were just workers who worked for the emperor. The emperor was afraid that he would be deceived by the workers, so he had to send his confidants to the place to find out the specific situation of the place. Therefore, the basic functions of the ancient imperial envoys and the inspection teams, inspection teams, etc. in later generations were similar.

In the second half of the eleventh year of Shenwu, many big things happened in the Ming Dynasty, one was the Henan corruption case. Emperor Zhu Hongsan sent his son to serve as the imperial envoy. However, because Zhu Yuan's ability was not good and the troubles of local officials in Henan made the Henan affairs completely stagnant.

Another imperial envoy, Yao Qisheng, who was sent to Fujian in order to resolve the matter of Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan, also encountered resistance from local officials, and the peace talks with Zheng Chenggong were completely stranded.

Zhu Hongsan always likes to make empiricist mistakes when traveling through this era, believing that celebrities who have left a good reputation in history must be capable ministers and officials, so they have the desire to collect celebrities. However, this empiricism still played some role in the early stage, such as Chen Zizhuang, Zhang Jiayu, Qu Shisi, Lu Daqi, Qian Qianyi and other celebrities. These people did give him a variety of help in the early stage development of Zhu Hongsan Middle School.

However, Zhu Hongsan forgot that these people were officials in the Ming Dynasty. During the Chongzhen period, Chen Zizhuang served as the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor's degree, and a serious provincial and ministerial-level senior official. Although Zhang Jiayu was young, he also worked as an editor of the Hanlin Academy in Beijing. As for Qu Shisi, Lu Daqi, Qian Qianyi and others, they were all worked in the local central government. Such an administrative bureaucrat with administrative capabilities could quickly play a role after joining Zhu Hongsan's team.

However, Yu Chenglong and Yao Qisheng were different. Yu Chenglong and Yao Qisheng became famous during the Kangxi period. In history, they were trained by grassroots officialdom before they could grow into officials. But now they are different. Yu Chenglong is just a juren who failed the exam for many years. Without being tempered by our Ming Dynasty officialdom, they naturally cannot effectively assist Zhu Yuan.

The same is true for Yao Qisheng. In history, Yao Qisheng was very ups and downs before middle age. He went to the mountains and villages, went to prison and carried guns, served as local officials, served as governors, and served as governors. After this training, Yao Qisheng naturally could see through all the things in the officialdom and control everything in his own hands. But now, Yao Qisheng is only 38 years old this year, and his official position was only a senior secretary by the emperor. Such new officials went to Fujian to fight against the old official gangsters, and that was their opponent.

When Yao Qisheng first arrived in Fuzhou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Yuan Pengnian and the governor of Fujian Tong Dafang supported his work. Yao Qisheng also met with Zheng Chenggong's representative Chen Yonghua several times. Although no substantial agreement was reached, they all left a good impression on the other party.

But after half a month, for some reason, Yuan Pengnian and Tong Dafang started to be dissatisfied.

Cooperating with Yao Qisheng's work. At the beginning, he only pushed for the three obstacles and prevented Yao Qisheng and Chen Yonghua from meeting. In the end, even Yuan Tong and the others did not see Yao Qisheng.

Yao Qisheng was similar to Zhu Yuan at the beginning, and he showed his imperial envoy's excellence to negotiate with Yuan Pengnian, hoping to continue negotiations with Zheng Chenggong. However, Yuan Pengnian was also an old man in the officialdom, and he criticized Yao Qisheng in one sentence. It was very simple. Yao Qisheng's imperial edict only stated that Yao Qisheng was ordered to inspect Fujian's coastal defense matters, and did not essentially state that he was sent to deal with the peace talks with Zheng Chenggong.

It was Zhu Hongsan's helplessness to write the imperial edict like this. Now the entire Ming Dynasty has completed its unification in form. Because Zhu Youlang, the last separatist force, was dead, so Taiwan was an inseparable part of the Ming Dynasty in the official document. But this problem arises. Taiwan is part of China, so Zhu Hongsan, as the central government, cannot negotiate equally with the local governments, so it cannot be written in the imperial edict that Yao Qisheng's main purpose is to negotiate with Zheng Chenggong. He can only write that Yao Qisheng can order the Emperor to inspect Fujian's coastal defense on behalf of the emperor.

Of course, there is no problem with writing this way. There are many unspoken rules in the Chinese officialdom, and there are also many officials who have a blank title to do other things. So as long as local officials cooperate, there is no big problem with Yao Qisheng's trip to Fujian.

But the problem lies with the local officials. Half a month after Yao Qisheng arrived in Fujian, Yuan Pengnian and Tong Dafang received a letter from Tong Ge Lao in Beijing, asking them to find opportunities to disrupt the peace talks, and it would be better to fight Zheng Chenggong.

Tong Yangjia is the backstage boss of Yuan and Tong, so they naturally have to listen to Tong Yangjia. Anyway, the emperor's imperial edict did not state what Yao Qisheng did specifically, and how to interpret the imperial edict depends on the officials' on-the-spot performance.

Yuan and Tong immediately took a cold handling of the peace talks. It was difficult to do something in China, but it was very easy not to do anything. Yuan Pengnian used his identity as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang to order Yao Qisheng to inspect the coastal defense according to the imperial edict. At the same time, Tong Dafang began to use his rights to set up obstacles for the peace talks.

Of course, Tong Dafang did not use any fierce means, and that would have fallen into ruin. Tong Dafang put the people sent by Zheng Chenggong under house arrest in the name of protecting Chen Yonghua, and at the same time cut off water and supplies at the inn. He only gave food and drinking water to maintain basic life every day, and also called protecting Chen Yonghua's safety, because Tong Dafang received a secret report from the Jinyiwei that someone in the Zheng family wanted to assassinate Chen Yonghua.

Under the obstruction of local officials, Chen Yonghua also felt that there was no chance of peace talks, so after staying in Fuzhou for more than a month, he said goodbye and returned to Taiwan.

Yao Qisheng was so angry that he was about to die of a rank after learning that Chen Yonghua had left. He was about to reach a peace talk. Now it was all disturbed by Yuan Pengnian and Tong Dafang, but Yao Qisheng had no choice but to deal with these two people. The emperor gave him only officials below the fourth rank have the right to make decisions before the opportunity, which does not include the fourth rank official. Yuan Pengnian was the first rank of the governor, and Tong Dafang was the second rank of the governor. These two people were not something that Yao Qisheng could deal with. What's more, Tong Yangjia was standing behind the two people. Yao Qisheng had no choice but to scold the two people on the secret letter.

However, after hearing that Chen Yonghua returned to Taiwan, Yao Qisheng felt that this was also an opportunity. The emperor gave him the imperial edict to inspect the coastal defense. In order to deal with Zheng Chenggong, 80% of the navy in Fujian Province were concentrated in the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou Prefectures. Anyway, they had to inspect the coastal defense.

If you go to Zhangquan to inspect coastal defense, you can see if you can contact the Zheng family on Xiamen and Kinmen Island.

Yao Qisheng has been trapped by Yuan Pengnian and Tong Dafang so far. Yao Qisheng has not known that although Jin Xia is under the management of the Zheng family, the defending generals on Jin Xia are not in the same mind as Zheng Chenggong. Now the defending generals on Xiamen are Zheng Chenggong's cousin Zheng Lian and Jinmen are Zheng Cai. It is a coincidence that Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai are one of the generals who oppose Zheng Chenggong's peace talks.

After Governor Yuan Pengnian learned that Yao Qisheng was going to Quanzhou, he readily agreed and sent a thousand people to escort Yao Qisheng south.

Yao Qisheng had a good idea. When he arrived in Quanzhou, he contacted the Zheng family generals in Kinmen and Xiamen, and then bypassed the Fujian local officials and directly negotiated with Zheng Chenggong. However, he did not expect that Yao Qisheng had just arrived in Quanzhou and had contact with the Zheng family before he had contact with the Zheng family.

The patrol battalions in Fujian Province are different from other provinces. In order to save financial resources, other provinces handed over the task of protecting the country and clearing out bandits to local garrisons. Although the system of garrisons in the late Ming Dynasty collapsed, these garrisons were still official troops after all, and after some basic training, they were still competent for such tasks. This was also a trick that Zhu Hongsan thought of for waste utilization.

However, the situation in the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang is different from that in inland provinces, because there is an overseas force like Zheng Chenggong.

It is okay for those guards to bully the bandits and the common people, but they are not good at using the well-equipped and well-trained Zheng family army. Therefore, in order to stabilize his rear before the Northern Expedition, Zhu Hongsan transferred a large number of Han army flags, Green Camp and other Manchu Qing troops captured in the Nanjing Battle and the Nanchang Battle to Fujian and the coast of Zhejiang, and formed a total of eight town patrol battalions along the coastline to prevent Zheng Chenggong.

These Han military flags may not be as combat-effective as Zhu Hongsan's new army, but they can still face the Zheng family army, so they will win and lose each other in the early conflict with Zheng Chenggong.

Because these patrol battalions were Han military flags, Zhu Hongsan sent all the Han military flag generals captured in previous battles to Fujian, such as Jin Li, who was captured in the Hangzhou Battle, Luo Chengyao who was captured in the Nanjing Battle, Ma Degong, Meng Qiaofang, Li Guohan, who was captured in the Zhangde Battle, and Tong Guonai, a relative of Tong Yangjia, who was now the generals of the eight towns of the Fujian patrol battalion.

Of course, these people are completely second-rate generals in Zhu Hongsan's group due to their identity, and they are all born to Xiao Niang. So, based on the principle of holding a group to keep warm, these guys quickly joined Tong Yangjia, who is also from Liaodong.

After receiving the order from Tong Yangjia, these guys immediately organized a 500-man suicide squad, put on the uniforms of Zheng's army on the other side, and ambushed outside Quanzhou City to wait for Yao Qisheng.

The attack occurred twenty miles from Yao Qisheng to Quanzhou City, and these five hundred people began to attack the imperial envoy team. Fortunately, Tong Yangjia wanted to keep Yao Qisheng's life and take the blame. In addition, the imperial envoy's 200 guards were indeed powerful, and after half a day of hard battle, they repelled these guys.

The imperial envoy represents the emperor. Now the imperial envoy is attacked is a major incident. Tong Dafang, as a local official in Zhejiang, rushed to the scene as soon as possible and gave cordial condolences to the undead Yao Qisheng. At the same time, Tong Dafang checked the bodies of the dead attacker and came to the final conclusion that these guys are from the Zheng family on the other side. (https:)
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