Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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"Okay, it's a deal... Farewell!"

"Farewell..."

Zhu Heqi and Wu Yingqi said goodbye, and led the newly acquired "Tu Girl" Wu Tu, and boarded the wooden boat to Dongzhengyang Town on the south bank of the Huaihe River. At the moment when I boarded the wooden boat going south, I couldn't bear it anymore, and burst into tears with a whimper, that was really like a pear blossom with rain.

Zhu Heqi didn't know how to comfort this girl with a special identity, just stood on the boat and looked at her, let her cry heartily!

When the wooden boat approached the East Zhengyang Wharf, Zhu Heqi saw a light and slender figure running towards him. Who else could it be if it wasn't Yang Ziyun?Yang Ziyun seemed to have seen Wu Tu who was sitting on the deck of the wooden boat sobbing. He was slightly taken aback, but he still gave Zhu Heqi a blessing in a decent manner: "Saint, is the talk going well? This girl is who?"

Seeing that Yang Ziyun is so submissive, and she doesn't mean to be jealous at all, Zhu Heqi is really moved... This "traveling welfare" is really very fragrant.

"She is Wu Tu, Wu Guogui's daughter, and Wu Yingqi's hostage here at Gujia." Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi pointed at Wu Tu and said, "Let her follow you!"

Yang Ziyun didn't go to talk to Wu Tu immediately, but leaned close to Zhu Hechi, and whispered, "Mr. Zuo is here..."

Zuo Chunqiu is here?Zhu Hechi was stunned for a moment, and asked quickly, "Where is it? When did you arrive?"

"I just arrived half an hour ago. I came here on horseback. I'm resting in the town now."

Zhu Hexi nodded, and said to Yang Ziyun: "Ziyun, I will leave Xiaotu to you, take good care of her, and she will be your sister from now on!"

"Okay, just leave it to the slave." Yang Ziyun glanced at Wu Tu again, she really is an outstanding beauty!If she enters the palace in the future, she will definitely be a favorite concubine... Why don't you make friends with her now, so that she can take care of her in the palace in the future.

Thinking of this, she showed a gentle smile and walked towards Wu Tu like a big sister.

After Zhu Heyi handed Wu Tu to Yang Ziyun, under the protection of several attendants, he walked quickly to a dilapidated mansion in the small town of Dongzhengyang - where Zhu Heyi's presence was located.

When Zhu Heqi entered the mansion, Zuo Chunqiu, who had rushed over from all over the world, had already wiped his face, changed into clean clothes, ate some snacks, cheered up and was about to go out, when he saw that Zhu Dasheng had returned up.

Immediately after Zuo Chunqiu saluted, he immediately moved to Zhu Heqi's side, and said in a low voice: "My lord, His Royal Highness Heavenly King sent an urgent message...in which there is Huang Zhisheng's secret performance!"

"This is not a place to talk, let's go into the room and talk." Zhu Heqi winked at the attendants on the left and right as he spoke, and these attendants immediately set up a cordon around the main room where they were walking.

Zhu Heqiu walked into the main room, and after taking a seat on a grand teacher's chair, Zuo Chunqiu immediately handed over Huang Zhisheng's memorial.

The reason why Zuo Chunqiu wanted to rush from Nanjing to Shouzhou this time was because Zhu Heqi was not only going out this time to meet Wu Yingqi, but also to conduct some investigations on the countryside in Jiangbei—if you don’t investigate, you will be blind It's not okay to advance Juntian!

The reason why the land equalization in Guangdong and Fujian was relatively smooth before was largely due to the fact that Zhu Heqi was from Chaozhou himself and knew the rural conditions in Guangdong.And Fujian's Juntian was set up by Zheng Jing and Chen Yonghua, two local snakes in Fujian.

Zhu Heqi took the memorial from Zuo Chunqiu, opened it and looked at it for a while, the expression on his face had become a little weird...and a little helpless.This Kang Mazi is really capable of tossing around!

Moreover, this guy also likes to mess around, and now he feels like going to the doctor in a hurry, and his execution ability is relatively strong... I guess he doesn't know what the result of the mess is, right?

Thinking of this, he put together a memorial and smiled wryly: "Confucianism is about to fight a civil war this time... Confucianism after the civil war is no longer the original Confucianism!"

Zuo Chunqiu didn't quite understand what Zhu Hechi meant, he just instinctively felt that the establishment of Confucianism in the north was a bit of a big deal!

Because since the Confucianism has become the only respected, it is rare to encounter a time when you need to copy someone to go into battle.Even if there is any internal dispute between new learning and old learning, or Neo-Confucianism and psychology, at most it will use some official means.

And this time, it was obvious that force was going to be used!

"Saint, what shall we do?" Zuo Chunqiu asked.

Zhu Heqian snorted: "What should I do? Prepare to fight... This Confucianism has been stable for too long, and it is impossible to be reborn from the ashes without some seriousness! If you don't fight, where will the fighting Confucianism come from?"

Chapter 495 Scientific Confucianism, Knows Struggle Best!

Outside the Imperial City of Nanjing, inside the enclosure of the University Academy on the Qianbuchang Street, a very important meeting is being held at the moment.

Not only did all eleven former Confucian scholars arrive, but even the 36 academicians from the Imperial Academy next door were invited to the conference hall inside the Academy—this was a meeting between the academicians and the academicians of the Imperial Academy. Joint meeting!

The Imperial Academy of the new Ming Dynasty was not a yamen for literary attendants, but an academy of sciences.Moreover, there are no academicians, lecturers, readers, and editors in the Imperial Academy, only academicians of the Imperial Academy.Their task was to provide suggestions on natural law and education policy to the Great Scholars Conference and the Ming court.

The total number of academicians of the Imperial Academy is 36, of which 55 are permanently stationed in Nanjing, and the rest are scattered in various places.At present, only 36 people have been collected, except for [-] people in Nanjing, the rest are in Guangzhou.

So who can be an academician?

Of course, he is an expert in arithmetic, natural jurisprudence, physics, medicine, engineering, etc.Well-written stereotyped essays were not recognized by the Imperial Academy of Zhu and Chi.

However, there is no way to reach the sky in one step in the matter of natural science. It must be developed step by step and slowly.

Therefore, among the academicians elected to the Hanlin Academy, except for Zhu Heqi and Leibniz who have real materials, the others are all fake... Most of these people are Jinling University, Army Military Academy, and Navy soldiers. School, Nanjing Public Medical School, Guangzhou Haizhu University School, Guangzhou Public Medical School professors, and chief engineers of those "black technology" factories run by Zhu Hechi.

Some of these professors and chief engineers are the professors of Haizhu University who were elected by the Guangzhou imperial examination. They took the textbooks given by Zhu Heqi and studied for three years under the leadership of Gu Yanwu and Zhu Shunshui. Now they are all academicians. .Those who didn't make much progress were sent to the middle school and elementary school below to be teachers.

Some of them are the youngsters brought out by Zhu Hexi himself... the young soldiers who followed him to Dananshan, the students from the Youth Hall of Tianwang Palace, and some who followed him to learn how to cook medicine, make gunpowder, and refine fire and nitrate. , The boy who made rockets.

Some of these people were smart and motivated. Zhu Hechi also sent them the textbooks on natural magic, physics, and arithmetic that he had compiled, and took the time to tutor them for a few days, and then let them study on their own.Those who have learned well are now either the chief engineer or the manager, and some of the most outstanding ones have become academicians of the Imperial Academy.

Although the knowledge of this group of academicians is mostly a little watery, their appearance also means that science, or natural law, has now become the prominent school of original Confucianism!

This is the general line of the original Confucian school after the restoration of China... Confucianism is a school in the final analysis, and it can't always take killing people as the general line. The school still has to do learning.

As for what to do, it has to be guided by the Grand Scholars Conference.

Therefore, the University Scholars Conference responsible for leading the entire former Confucianism school memorized the great prosperity of natural law, passed a formal resolution and the sage's decree, and declared that the study of natural law is to study things to gain knowledge, to seek the way of nature, and to seek the way of nature is to The Way of Yuan Confucianism!

Although things determined by resolutions and decrees can also be pushed by resolutions and decrees in the future.

But considering Zhu Heqi's current age, when he retires from the stage of history, the Confucians who are likely to be elected as university scholars must be the top students from Jinling University, Haizhu University, and Army and Navy University. It is impossible for them to go back Those who engage in stereotyped articles.

But right now, the original Confucianism school founded by Zhu Hechi seems to have encountered a real challenge!

Although the original Confucian school in Guangdong was not established for a long time, it did achieve a miraculous success in a short period of time with the vigorous development of the anti-Qing and Fuming movement and the emergence of sugar medicine weapons.

Of course, this success is actually related to the loss of traditional Confucian martial arts.Yuanru is a primitive Confucian scholar who holds a sword and a grenade hammer to spread the Tao. Of course, those rotten Confucians who can only talk can't resist it.

What's more, there are great Confucians like Zhu Shunshui, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Yan Yuan who have defected to the original Confucianism, and those rotten Confucians are dumb.

However, the "rotten Confucianism" side is not completely lacking in martial arts, because many of the second and third generations of the Banner of the Qing Dynasty also learned Confucianism.There are also people like Zhou Peigong and Fu Honglie who are both Confucian scholars and able to lead troops to fight.

So this group of people brought out the Confucian family in Qufu to rectify Confucianism, and copied the method of "beheading Confucianism" to fight against the original Confucian school, which is completely normal.

"Everyone, the lonely family just got the news that Kang Mazi from the north is going to take out that Yan Shenggong from Qufu, Shandong, as some kind of Confucian saint... He wants to pull a group of stick Confucianists to compete with our original Confucianism for the Confucian orthodoxy! What do you say? , what should we do?"

The one who was standing on the podium asking questions was of course Zhu Hechi!After he got the "Huang Zhisheng Report", he immediately flew back to Nanjing City without saying a word, and he didn't even take the two "little sisters" Yang Ziyun and Wu Tu with him...they are following the brigade right now. It's time for Nanjing to catch up.

After returning to Nanjing, Zhu Heqi immediately ordered the attendants to make a "summary of pseudo-Confucian scholars" and distributed it to the undergraduates and Hanlin scholars below. ) joint meeting to discuss the further reform of the original Confucianism.

"Fight them! Kill them!"

"The traitor and hypocrisy of Confucianism, death will not be punished..."

"Saint, please issue an edict to start war!"

The University Scholars and Academicians at the bottom didn't look like any kind of trouble, so they jumped up and shouted to kill them!

But it’s no wonder that this group of people has either experienced the “Fall of the Ming Dynasty” or participated in the “Anti-Qing and Restoration of the Ming Dynasty”, and they are not good Confucianists.

Zhu Heqi waved his hand, and the brothers below, no, the Confucians all quieted down and looked at him with their necks up.

Zhu Hechi nodded heavily, and said loudly: "It is definitely necessary to fight... But before we fight, we have one more thing to do, which is to strengthen our original Confucian group! This matter has been going on since the Jieyang Uprising. Do it, but the progress is still a bit slow. There is no way, our heavenly soldiers are too good at fighting, and they swept across the southeast in a blink of an eye, grabbing one-third of the world.

We have some talents, so why not focus on the urgent tasks of the government, heavenly soldiers, schools, and factories?Our former Confucian Society can only develop slowly.It's a pity that the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop...Since Kang Mazi wants to compete with us in Confucianism, then we should fight!

Now Gujia announces that the original Confucian school of this group will be renamed Confucian School!In the future, I will guard the gate of orthodoxy for Confucianism!

The composition of the Confucian sect will also change... In addition to the fact that the Grand Scholars Conference will still be the head of the Confucian sect, and the Hanlin Academy will still serve as the think tank of the Confucian sect, under the Grand Scholars Conference, there will also be an education department for teaching and educating people. The Department of Daoist Protection defends orthodoxy, the Department of Branches manages finances, the Department of Confucian Scholars attracts talents, the Department of Evangelism promotes Confucianism, and the Overseas Department responsible for spreading Confucianism overseas.

We will also create a newspaper to promote my Confucian principles and report major events in the world, called "Confucianism Xun Newspaper", with an edition every ten days.

In addition, under the Six Confucian School Divisions, Confucian School Societies in various provinces and prefectures will be successively established..."

Zhu Hechi is going to scale up his tricks again this time!

Although the Confucian sect he launched now bears the signboard of "Zongmen", it is actually a fairly modern political party, and it is also a party with a relatively strict organization and a relatively strong fighting spirit.

According to his plan, by the end of this year and the beginning of next year, when the scholars from all over the country gather in Nanjing, the consolidation of the Confucian School Sixth Division should have been completed, and a large number of newcomers will be able to be absorbed by then. If the door society is established in the government, and at the same time, the new science scholars are used to take over the county-level political power in the four provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, then in the next two years, the matter of equalizing the land will be properly handled. Stick it.

Chapter 496 Underworld Confucianism, the Confucius shop is about to end!

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace, South Study Room.

Emperor Kangxi, who had already returned to Beijing, was holding a rosewood stick about eight feet long, which was engraved with exquisite wood patterns on both ends, and was looking carefully at it.

This stick is the so-called Confucian Dharma Protector Dragon Head Stick!

After looking at it for a while, Kangxi turned his attention to the twelve black iron orders placed on the imperial case covered with yellow cloth.

The so-called black iron is actually meteorite, some of which were collected in Emperor Kangxi's House of Internal Affairs.When Burni came to Beijing to rob, he took all the gold and silver treasures and silks and satins from the House of Internal Affairs, but he didn't touch the black meteorites, nor did he touch the huanghuali stored in it.

So Emperor Kangxi asked Nalan Mingzhu to choose huanghuali and meteorite from the House of Internal Affairs to make the dragon head stick and Shenggong order.

After reading the Dragon Head Stick and the Shenggong Order, Kangxi started to look at the Nalan Pearl again... This guy did not wear court clothes today, but a black satin gown with a stand-up collar, and a thick black cotton belt tied around his waist , A large folding fan was inserted in the belt.

And Mingzhu's head is bald, except for a braid with a money mouse tail, nothing is there, and Dingdai Hualing doesn't know where he went?

Kang Mazi frowned, "Mingzhu, are you dressed like the five Confucian brothers?"

It turns out that Mingzhu is the chief of the five Confucian masters appointed by Kangxi!

During this period of time, under the supervision of Kang Mazi, the establishment of Confucianism was progressing very fast... The "uniform" of Confucianism has been designed!

Of course, Confucian uniforms can no longer be worn in the style of Confucius. How can we do that if we want to shave our hair and change clothes like that of the Qing Dynasty?Although Emperor Kangxi does not think that shaving hair and changing clothes can strengthen the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he knows that at this time, the Qing Dynasty cannot make concessions on such a major issue as shaving hair and changing clothes.

Because once concessions are made on this issue, the people and gentry under the Qing Dynasty will feel that the Qing Dynasty is weak and powerless, and they will fall to the opposite of the Qing Dynasty faster and more thoroughly.

Therefore, in this wave of Kangxi's New Deal, although there are two major policies to win over the rich and powerful, the "tax system" and "imperial power not going to the countryside".But Kangxi did not make the slightest concession on the two aspects of "shaving hair and making clothes easier" and "literary prison".

Moreover, Emperor Kangxi is still trying his best to maintain the privileges of the old and new Eight Banners!

Although he is no longer able to pay the Eight Banners disciples, the rations are still distributed, and each Eight Banners disciple will receive two pieces of land with an area of ​​at least [-] mu around Beijing and Shengjing.

These Eight Banners lands can be cultivated by themselves or rented out, and they are all tax-free.In addition, all Han people who are willing to go outside the customs to farm for the children of the Eight Banners can be exempted from paying small coins, and all previous debts will also be exempted, and no matter how much debt they owe inside the customs, the creditors will never go out of the customs to collect.

It can be said that Emperor Kangxi worked very hard in safeguarding the interests of the Eight Banners.It is precisely because of this effort that the disciples of the Eight Banners are still willing to support him, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty who has repeatedly fought in the north.

Hearing Emperor Kangxi's question, Mingzhu quickly knelt down and said, "If you go back to the emperor, you should wear a small black melon skin hat, which is the dress of a Confucian disciple.

In addition, the disciples of Confucianism will also be divided into two lines of civil and military, the literati are in charge of enlightenment, and the warriors are in charge of defending the way.The symbol of Wenru is a large folding fan, while the symbol of Wuru is a jujube stick. "

Kangxi nodded, and asked again: "How do we deal with the troubles in the south of the Yangtze River?"

"If you go back to the emperor, the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River is going to be divided into two parts... one is to stop the exams before the Nanjing Grand Competition next spring; the other is to mobilize the gentry in Tongcheng, Changzhou, and Shaoxing to resist the spring tax, and then provoke troubles .”

"Who is going to the south?" Kangxi asked again.

"Zhou Peigong and Li Guangdi would sneak into Nanjing to instigate a boycott of the exam, Zhang Ying went to Tongcheng to instigate a tax resistance and uprising, Gao Shiqi went to Shaoxing to launch an anti-tax and uprising, and Zhao Shenqiao went to Changzhou to launch an uprising."

Li Guangdi, Zhang Ying, Gao Shiqi, and Zhao Shenqiao were all young talents trusted by Emperor Kangxi.This time, he was tricked by Zhou Peigong!

Kangxi continued to ask: "What about the additional test books that were requested?"

In fact, this is the most important thing!

Emperor Kangxi is anxiously waiting for money now!

Stirring Confucian internal strife, using Kong Yuqi's influence to instigate the rebellion of the southern gentry and powerful, is nothing but trouble for Zhu Heqi.He was not so naive as to think that Zhu Heqi would be unable to deal with the rebellion of these rotten scholars... When it comes to rebellion, Zhu Heqi is number two, who else in the world dares to be number one?

That is the ancestor of the rebel world!

So what Kangxi was really counting on was to regroup his new army that was about to collapse.

By summarizing the experience and lessons of the previous stage of war, Kangxi felt that his new army must be equipped with a large number of flintlock guns, equipped with good enough gunpowder to explode mines, and equipped with fast-moving artillery. The sharpshooters who killed the grenadiers of the Ming army... Of course, powerful and flexible cavalry is still indispensable.

This series of military reforms are all paid for with money!

And the money had to be scraped from the Han people, and Kangxi didn't want to be expropriated, so he had to push the Confucian family in Qufu to offend the world.

"It's already been drawn up," Mingzhu said, "When Kong Yuqi comes to have an audience later, he will personally hand it to Lord Long Live."

"Okay!" Emperor Kangxi nodded repeatedly, "Then Xuan Kong Yuqi will come and see you!"

……

Kong Yuqi, who was the only one this year, was already waiting to be summoned outside the door of the South Study Room.

To be honest, he really wants to die now!

Because he knew that the Confucianism in Qufu, which had been passed down for more than 60 generations, would be destroyed in his hands.

He knew that the reason why the Confucian family in Qufu has been rich for so many generations is that apart from the golden signboard of Confucius, it is because they are useless, they are not a threat to anyone, and they kowtow to anyone who comes. .

It is no exaggeration to say that the greatest use of the Confucian family in Qufu is that they are useless!

But now Emperor Kangxi wants to use the Confucian family in Qufu, and he wants to use it a lot, and he wants to sing against the self-proclaimed Confucian sage in Nanjing.To use the prestige and wealth of the Confucian family to organize Confucianism, and make Confucianism almost like a mafia gang in the Jianghu...

This is to push the Confucian family in Qufu into the pit of fire, and force them to a dead end!

If things go on like this, the Confucian family in Qufu will not only offend Zhu Heqi to death, but will also become a banner of a gang of black Confucians, making them almost like the third prince Zhu... Where is there any way out?

But the problem is, this kind of nonsense is still the meaning of Emperor Kangxi!

What made Kong Yuqi even more depressed was that Emperor Kangxi even swiped his pen and assigned the 10,000+ mu of the Confucian family’s sacrificing land and school land to the name of Confucianism...Yanshenggong Mansion and Confucianism are not the same thing , how can this be?Does this mean that Qufu and Confucius will be managed by Confucianism in the future?