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Guangzhou under the rule of Shang Kexi before and Guangzhou under the rule of today's Wang Zhu and Huo Pao Zhu are really two worlds.
Guangzhou under Shang Kexi's rule, although it is also the largest city in Tiannan, but there is a sluggish and bleak atmosphere everywhere... It is a kind of dead air!Really lifeless!
At that time, Guangzhou was a city that had died but hadn’t cooled off yet—as a maritime trade center for more than 1000 years and a gateway city for China’s foreign exchanges since ancient times, once it encountered a sea ban of the level of coastal relocation , isn't it just a dead city?
In the impression of Fengming Mountain, the Tianzi Ferry Pier was deserted at that time, only a few warships, official ships, and inland sandships running along the Dongjiang, Xijiang, and Beijiang routes were moored there feebly.The strong workers who loaded and unloaded the goods looked as if they hadn’t had enough to eat, and there were not many hawkers wandering on the wharf. The streets outside the wharf were full of dilapidated, lifeless houses... Although the people living inside Some people who fled from the coastal areas of Guangdong because of the coastal relocation, but because there is no way to make money, they can only suffer for a long time in despair.
Oh, it's not that there are no connections at all, there are three major livelihoods: male robbers, female prostitutes, and beggars!
However, Fengmingshan was an official and lord back then, and the "male robbers" and beggars in Guangzhou would not dare to approach him, but would only be entangled by a group of vulgar fans.
Thinking of the vulgar fans in Guangzhou City, Fengmingshan, who has "knowing the taste of meat" for more than half a month, is full of anticipation—he didn't bring a concubine with him this time, only a master, a man from the same clan as him. The old housekeeper and the two former squad leaders in the yamen.
When he left Ganzhou Mansion and entered Chaozhou Mansion, he still wanted to go to Jieyang and Puning's Fireworks and Willow Lane to find some old friends.But I didn't expect that when I entered Chaozhou, I found that not only the weather had changed, but also the social atmosphere.
Anyway, there are no public brothels and gambling halls in the counties of Chaozhou Prefecture, and there seem to be no bandits or water thieves outside the city.I don't know where those "unemployed" fireworks girls and robbers went to make a living?
But this atmosphere is really a bit of a new look!It's just that the atmosphere of the new dynasty is a little boring.
From the perspective of Fengmingshan, the parents of the former Daqing people, there is still a little bit of appropriate bad habits...
Thinking of the bad habits in Guangzhou, Fengmingshan couldn't help but stop, turned around and looked at the Guangzhou Port, which was both familiar and unfamiliar to him.
The wide water surface of the Pearl River, the long embankments and piers, the dotted islands on the water surface of the Pearl River, and the hazy morning mist on the other side of the Pearl River are all familiar.
However, there are many newly built cargo warehouses on the port wharf, and there are also many strange-looking equipment (human cranes) that seem to be used for loading and unloading cargo.Dock workers with buns on their heads and short jackets were shuttling back and forth, carrying all kinds of large and small objects.
Fengmingshan knew that the same busy scene still existed at Huangpu Village Wharf and Huangpu Island, which were a little farther away—the passenger boat that Fengmingshan was on also stopped there, but his destination was Guangzhou City. So I didn't get off the boat to take a closer look.
But looking at Huangpu Village and Huangpu Island from the boat, you can still feel the busyness there.
There are more barbarian boats and barbarians in Huangpu Village than there are in Guangzhou Tianzi Ferry Pier!
On the shore of Huangpu Island, at some point, more than a dozen shipbuilding berths and shipyards were built, and a factory of unknown origin was built, with black smoke filling the tall chimneys.There is a lot of work on the berth, and you can hear the sound of jingling from a distance, as well as labor chants with a Cantonese accent. It seems that the construction of ships is being stepped up.
The whole of Guangzhou is showing an exciting vitality!
If Guangzhou under the rule of Shang Kexi is a dead city, then Guangzhou under the rule of the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson of Zhu is a revived big city.
But where does this vigorous vitality that permeates everywhere come from?
Is this what Guangzhou was like before it was captured by Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao?
When Fengming Mountain was curious, he suddenly saw three officials in black cross-collared clothes, red kerchiefs on their heads, and long swords and grenade hammers on their belts, walking towards them with a smile.The leader of them asked as he walked: "Where are you from? Cantonese, Chaozhou, Hakka? Are you here to participate in the Ten Thousand Races Convention?"
Many of the people who got off the passenger boat with Fengmingshan and the others were Confucian scholars in "Confucius clothes" with three-foot swords hanging from their waists.
In fact, Feng Mingshan himself is also dressed like this now, his braids have been cut off, and a piece of black cloth has been used to wrap his head that hasn't grown much hair yet.
In addition, he also got a long sword and hung it on his waist, which looked a bit like "slaying people and Confucianism".
Feng Mingshan has been an official in Chaozhou for several years and can speak a little Chaozhou dialect, but now he doesn't need to speak, someone will answer the three officials' questions.
"We are Hakka people from Longchuan County, Huizhou..."
"The student is a Hakka from Cheng Township, Chaozhou, and was recommended by the tribe to attend the Ten Thousand Races Conference. This is a letter issued by the Luo Taishou of Chaozhou Prefecture."
"The students are Hakka people from Dapu County, Chaozhou..."
Almost all the people who came on the same boat as Fengming Mountain were Hakkas who came to Guangzhou to participate in the Ten Thousand Races Conference——Fengming Mountain is a boat from the Hakka community in the northeast of Huizhou Prefecture, via Xunwu River and Longjiang (Dongjiang) all the way Float to Guangzhou.
Of course, all the people who boarded the boat with him were Hakka people.
One of the team leaders following Fengmingshan was also a Hakka, and he showed a fake letter ticket from Chaozhou Prefecture on the spot—the Guangzhou court had just opened, and many systems were not complete, so standard documents like letter tickets were left by the Qing Dynasty The stock is used first.That is, the official seal was replaced by a seal with no Manchu script but only Chinese characters, and the fonts were the same as before.Fengmingshan can engrave it himself, so he engraved a Chinese one.
Moreover, he was familiar with the Hakka surnames in the Chaozhou area, so he made one of his squad leaders the Dapu Wu family, which was the identity of Wu Liuqi and his family.He was asked to fool the officials of the Ming Dynasty who were investigating, but the three officials were not careful, and they did not find out anything wrong.So I let them go, and gave them a "post ticket" to go to the post station in Guangzhou, and said that they would include food and lodging-it seems that the recent skyrocketing price of "special white sugar" has made the Guangzhou court a lot of money. Less!
Fengmingshan and his group left the passenger boat wharf of Tianzi Ferry wharf with post tickets, and found that the streets outside the wharf had changed a lot!
The original shantytowns and thatched houses disappeared, and turned into a contiguous construction site, full of scenes of construction in full swing.Some of these buildings are almost completed, and you can see from their appearance that most of these buildings are used to open inns, shops, and restaurants, some are Chinese-style buildings, and some are Western-style buildings, which should be foreign businessmen. museum.
The street leading from the bank of the Pearl River to Wuxianmen has also been widened and rebuilt. The street is straight and open, and the ground is paved with bluestone slabs.
Fengmingshan's group walked along the street paved with bluestone slabs.When they approached the Five Immortals Gate, they also found that a large-scale academy was being built on the west side of the street.
The reason why they knew it was an academy was because the gatehouse of the academy had been repaired, and there were three plaques hanging on the gatehouse—the one on the left was engraved with the word "Sacred Heart" and the one on the right was engraved with "Mingde" Two words.On the plaque in the middle are the words "The Third Academy of Guangzhou Mansion".
And on the side of the street outside the gate of the Guangzhou Mansion Third Academy, a wooden road sign was erected.Fengming Mountain went up to take a look, and there were three large characters in the letter - Jiefang Street!
"Liberation..." Feng Mingshan said in a low voice, "Come and sing "Qingjiang Yin" in your spare time, to liberate worry and boredom...it is indeed liberation, use it well!"
Chapter 259 This is a revolution, not a rebellion!
When Fengmingshan was humming "Qingjiang Yin·Qiwei Minglai" by Yuan Dynasty Sanqu master Guan Yunshi, a large group of Chaozhou clan representatives dressed similarly to him had gathered around him.Of course these people didn't come to listen to Fengming Mountain singing, but came for something else.Because everyone is from Chaozhou, some of them still know each other, so they chatted with each other after a while.
"Look, this is one of the three best original Confucian academies in Guangdong!"
"Really? Where are the other two?"
"One is in Yuexiu Mountain, which is called the Second Academy of Guangzhou Mansion, and the other one is located near Lizhi Bay in the west of Guangzhou, which is called the First Academy of Guangzhou Mansion. These three academies, together with our Chaoyang Academy and Rongjiang Academy in Chaozhou, It is now the best five academies in the world!"
"What? Guangfu No. [-], [-], [-] Academy, Chaoyang Academy, Rongjiang Academy...why haven't you heard of it?"
"Haven't you heard? Old man, where are you from? The accent is not from Guangdong, is it?"
"The old man is from Kunshan County, Suzhou Prefecture, and he came to Guangdong to do business."
"That's right... old sir, in fact, these five academies are all newly opened, and their predecessors were the Tianwang Palace of the official school of the Jieyang court. After the Jieyang court moved to Guangzhou, the Tianwang Palace was divided into seven. In addition to these five academies, there are also the Daming University of Military Law on Huangpu Island and the Daming University of Natural Law on Haizhu Island."
"This, this natural law school? It doesn't sound like Confucianism!"
"The old man does not know that Guangfu No. [-] Academy, Chaoyang Academy, Rongjiang Academy, Military Law Academy, and Natural Law Academy are all original Confucian schools, and what they teach is the original Confucianism, the way of nature, and the way of magic. and the way of using troops."
"Spell? This..."
"It's true! Old man, there are magic spells!"
"Ah, um... um, what are you guys doing here today?"
"Oh, today is the official opening day of Guangfu No. [-] Academy...Although there are only [-] students enrolled in two classes, it is still a big day! Moreover, our Chaozhou number one scholar, Dao Scarong, will come here to deliver a high-level speech. On the other hand, he is the registered dean of Guangfu Third Academy!"
The old gentleman who came from Kunshan really couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the nickname of the No.Sounds like a robber.
Of course, Feng Mingshan knew that Dao Scarong had really been a robber... oh, he can't be considered a robber, it should be forcibly blocked at sea to collect fees!
But a Guangzhou academy opened, why did a group of elders from the Chaozhou clan come to watch the fun so happily?Is it just for the sake of holding up the scar?
As soon as I thought of this, I heard that several Chaozhou parents had already talked about this matter.
"Thirty percent of the youngsters admitted to the three major academies in Guangfu this time are from Chaozhou, right?"
"It's almost the same, and the remaining [-]% are from Guangfu... After all, the clan studies and private schools in Chaofu and Guangfu have the longest time to get the textbooks of the original Confucianism and new mathematics!"
"It's a pity, those young boys in my family didn't pass the exam..."
"It's so easy to take the exam there. The five academies together only accept 300 students... Those who can get in are Wenqu stars! If you can get admitted to the Natural Law School after three years in the academies, then you will be a genius. After another three or four years of study, I will definitely be a high-ranking official after I come out!"
"It's just that the exam is more difficult now. Everything is difficult at the beginning! Now there is no teacher to teach, and it is all up to the youngsters to learn by themselves with textbooks. In the future, with a teacher, it will be easier to learn."
"It's easy to learn, but not easy to take the test! If it's easy to learn and easy to take the test, it will be difficult for the official career after passing the test! Moreover, there are age restrictions in colleges and universities, and you can't go on endlessly. If you exceed it, you can't take the college and university exams." The Military Law Academy..."
It turns out that Huo Pao Zhu has set up the ethnology, county school, academies, and the uppermost university hall to form an ascending channel that can be upgraded layer by layer... This method is brilliant!
Fengmingshan, who was born in the imperial examination and helped Xue Zhang in the Guangdong provincial examination, already understood a little bit what Zhu Heqi was doing.
With this ascending channel, the clan forces below can be easily controlled.Because whether these clans can prosper or not depends first on the land; second on being able to fight; third on doing business;
If a clan only has money and land, but has never been able to produce scholars, candidates, or Jinshi, no sons of the clan can enter the officialdom.
Then it will be very difficult for this clan to maintain its development momentum, and it may even become the target of extortion and suppression by other clans with official backgrounds.
However, Zhu Heqi first tinkered with the "new knowledge" of the original Confucianism, new mathematics, natural jurisprudence, etc., and then distributed the corresponding textbooks to let the following ethnology and private schools find ways to teach themselves or let students learn by themselves. At the same time, academies and university halls were established for the promotion of the best Confucian scholars in the countryside.
In this way, this system of reading—examination—enrollment—students who are excellent will lead to official positions has been firmly controlled by Zhu Heqi from the threshold of "examination—admission"!
Although this method looks similar to the traditional way of obtaining a scholar, there is no age limit for starting a course, and the imperial court basically only cares about examinations and does not ask about teaching...so the imperial court is not enough to grasp the scholars.
According to Zhu Heqi's method, even if he entered the Academy, he entered the University of Natural Law at the age of 21, and became an official at the age of 25.It was under the management of the original Confucian Academy and the University Hall for seven years!
In addition, there is no age limit in the imperial examinations, and it is easy to get old scholar, old Juren, old Jinshi... It is easy to get a teacher after studying for a few more years!
And scholars have to study full-time year after year, which is not something ordinary families can afford.Therefore, this imperial examination system is more conducive to the rich and powerful, but it is also not conducive to popularizing education.
After all, limited educational resources have been repeatedly used by a few people.
And Zhu Heqi's doing this will prompt the clans below to do a lot of clan studies... With the age limit for admission, you have to work hard and work hard!Whether the child is smart or stupid in reading, it is really impossible to tell before reading.
Some of those who look stupid are the young masters!Some of them look like clever ghosts, but there are quite a few who can't read the book...
While Fengmingshan was repeatedly analyzing Zhu Heqi's purpose for establishing academies and university halls, a burst of orderly and loud youthful singing suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
"...Jia Shen's difficulty is still unfinished. When will the saint's hatred be wiped out? Drive a long chariot and step through the gaps in Helan Mountain. Aim to eat the meat of the Hulu while laughing and drinking the blood of the Xiongnu. Waiting to start all over again, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and regain your clothes."
Fengming Mountain quickly turned his head to follow the singing, and saw dozens of young Confucian scholars, lined up in two neat columns, walking out of the Five Immortals Gate in unison.These teenagers are all dressed in black, with red scarves on their heads, long swords and copper hammers, singing and singing.
Regardless of the knowledge of these young people, just talking about this aura, it is really quite powerful!
Behind these sixty youths, there are more than ten knights, the leader is a "Yellow Turban Confucian", with a frightening scar on his face and a beard, he is the "No. [-] Scholar with Scars" Qiu Rong.
Qiu Rong saw a lot of "Confucian scholars" gathered outside the gate of Guangfu Third Academy on Jiefang Street, so he reined in his horse and shouted: "Stop!"
As soon as he yelled "stop", the sixty teenagers walking in front of him stopped with a snap.
This tidy energy, I'm afraid they can catch up with the students of the Whampoa Military Law University.
Seeing that the students had stopped, the "Scarred Champion" rode forward again, passed between the two rows of students, and then immediately began to give a speech in front of the crowd.
"Everyone, what I, Dao Barong, came here to tell you today is what we, the Yuanru under the leadership of the sage Shi Ziye, are doing and will do.
You must think that what we are doing now is a rebellion, a rebellion against the Tartars, and we want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
But it's not, what we're doing is a revolution..."
Chapter 260 Revolution is Change of Heaven!
"...The so-called rebellion means committing crimes against the superiors, or spying on the artifacts and positions of power, wanting to be addicted to the emperor or an official, and want to taste the sweetness of power. It may also be that you are so hungry that you just want to have a full meal. eat.
But no matter what kind of rebellion it is, destruction is more important than construction, and looting is more important than production. Some rebels only know destruction and looting, without construction, and regardless of production.So this kind of rebellion will often exhaust the vitality of the world, and it will go back and forth, leaving only a withered remnant of mountains and rivers for the victors to clean up slowly.Sometimes it will be cheap to spy on the prosperous Hulu barbarians in my middle-earth.
The rebellion in Tianqi and Chongzhen years was like this. They went back and forth, and the two thieves, Chuang and Xian, couldn't learn to build, and they didn't know how to lead everyone to produce.As a result, the foundation could not be established, and the country could not be stabilized. It was all cheap for the Hulu, and even my Chinese clothes were gone.
What the Jianzhou Hulu did was actually a rebellion, but they were more capable of destroying, looting, and killing than the two thieves.Destroy everything that can be destroyed, loot everything that can be looted, and kill everything that can be killed, and the world will naturally be a little more stable.
But our sage third grandson, our third prince, and our original Confucianists are not going to cause this kind of rebellion now.It's revolution...the so-called revolution means change, and destiny is destiny.Revolution becomes destiny!And what is destiny?Who is the emperor?no!Whoever is the emperor means that the family has the destiny, or more precisely, it means that the family is taking care of the destiny.
And changing the destiny is not changing the family to take care of the destiny.But to change this destiny! "
Dao Scarrong spoke eloquently and clearly.Of course, what he was talking about was not the reason he came up with himself, but the reason Zhu Heqi gave him.
But he can memorize so many truths, and he can say them in his own language, which is quite clear. It can be seen that Dao Scarrong also has the qualifications to be a top student - no one has stipulated that a top student cannot have strong limbs and be good at cutting people hunk?
Dao Scarru continued to reason with everyone, he suddenly raised his voice and asked loudly: "Do you think this fate can be changed?"
"Yes!" Dao Scarrong roared, and gave the answer himself. He paused, and then continued: "Because this fate has changed once! Zi once said: Yin people respect gods, lead the people to serve gods , Ghosts first and then rituals, punishments first and then rewards, respect but not relatives. Zi also said: Zhou people respect rituals and give gifts, treat ghosts and respect gods and keep them at a distance, be close to people and be loyal, rewards and punishments are ranked by honor, relatives are not respected.
From the Yin people obeying the gods, to the Zhou people obeying the rituals... It is a change of destiny!Because God is the sky of Yin people, and Li is the sky of Zhou people.When the sky changes, the destiny will naturally change!And what caused this change of destiny was the King Wu's Revolution! "
Among the crowd, someone suddenly asked loudly: "Duke Zhuangyuan, is the life we want to change now is 'ritual'?"
Feng Mingshan discovered that the questioner was the "businessman" who claimed to be from Kunshan County, Suzhou Prefecture.
This "businessman" is about sixty years old, wearing a blue cloth gown, and a gray hood to cover his braids. He looks solemn and has piercing eyes... He doesn't look like a well-behaved businessman. !
Qiu Rong also glared at the person who asked the question with burning eyes, and then said word by word: "The life we want to revolution is stolen by hypocrisy, and then castrated and twisted continuously, so that it completely loses its essence." present!
We just want to get rid of this 'false gift' and get back our 'true gift'! "
As he spoke, he untied the sword from his belt and held it up high: "It is impossible for a Confucian with 'true etiquette' to lose to the Hulu barbarians, so that both of them perish in the world, and even lose the clothes of China... ...Facing the image of the sage, do you dare to say that you are a true Confucian?"
This is to draw a sword to discuss the Tao, beheading people to "speak the etiquette"!
And the "gift of beheading people" is indeed a ritual!
"Zhou Li" itself includes the "rituals" of using soldiers to fight wars, and the "Six Arts of Gentlemen" also includes the two "arts of beheading" "shooting" and "imperial".
Of course, both "ritual" and "art" must keep pace with the times while retaining the essence, and they cannot remain unchanged for 2000 years.
For example, the "rituals" of using soldiers in the Zhou Dynasty cannot be copied to the present, but it is necessary for a gentleman to learn military strategy and be prepared to fight for the country.
The "imperial" and "shooting" of the "Six Arts" are also constantly improving.The "royalty" in the Six Arts is to drive a horse-drawn chariot, because at that time military chariots were used for war.Now it can be changed to horse riding or other military skills, such as queue training.
And "shooting" can be archery, or shooting and throwing grenades.
Of course, it is also possible to grind your mouth and make stereotyped articles if you can defeat the enemy and protect the country.However, the effect does not seem to be ideal!