Zhang Guowei is a member of the Donglin Party and just came to Nanjing this spring to serve as Minister of War.
The rise of Zhao Han in Jiangxi led to major changes in officials in various provinces. Moreover, Jiangnan became more short of food and the famine became more serious. The Minister of Household Affairs and the Censor of Food Supervision in Nanjing changed several times.
Those who have been replaced must either go back to their hometowns or go to jail to face charges.
At this moment, many cities in the south of the Yangtze River began to recruit troops to defend the city. Firstly, they were afraid that Zhang Xianzhong would attack the Yangtze River, and secondly, they were afraid that Zhao Han would suddenly send troops.
As for combat effectiveness, well...it's hard to say.
Let's tell a story first
In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing's reign, about seventy Japanese pirates landed on the coast of Zhejiang. Within eighty days, they fought in three provinces, killing and injuring thousands of people, and finally fled away.
During this period, two Japanese pirates were captured and more than ten people were killed.
It's a pity that this kind of achievement had nothing to do with the officers and soldiers. It was actually ordinary people in Wuhu who stood on the roof and threw lime cans, beating the Japanese pirates and fleeing.
The more than 50 surviving Japanese pirates went to attack Nanjing, which had a garrison of more than 100,000 troops.
Of course, not all of the more than 100,000 officers and soldiers are in the city of Nanjing. Some are guarding the imperial mausoleums, and some are working in the suburbs. Anyway, the number of troops on paper is more than 100,000.
Zhu Xiang and Jiang Sheng, two commanders of the Nanjing Guards, took the initiative to lead troops out of the city to conquer. Because the weather was too hot and the Japanese pirates did not come, the officers and soldiers took off their armor to enjoy the cool air. The officers also drank wine under the trees.
More than fifty Japanese pirates suddenly attacked, and the officers and soldiers were so frightened that they immediately ran away and fell into the ditch trap they had dug in advance.
In this battle, the Ming army suffered more than 300 casualties.
The two leading generals, Zhu Xiang, were killed and Jiang Sheng was seriously injured.
The whole city of Nanjing was under martial law and soldiers were recruited to resist the Japanese pirates. Until more than fifty Japanese pirates left for several days, Nanjing was still under martial law for fear of being killed by the enemy.
After the Jiajing Japanese Rebellion subsided, decades passed and Jiangnan became even more emptied of military equipment.
It is said that all prefectures and counties recruit troops to defend the city, but where do the local officials have the money?
Even if there is money to recruit soldiers, there is no food to support them.
All the money and grain from Jiangnan were shipped to Beijing!
For example, in the city of Nanjing, tens of thousands of new troops were temporarily organized and trained. Most of them were civilians who were forcibly recruited, and some were civilians in the city who took turns. Anyway, they could make up the number with a mouthful of food.
Several soldiers were standing there with swords on their backs, but the Minister of War in Nanjing did not dare to arrest them.
After arresting these people, what will the Zhao thieves do if they don't sell the grain?
The anger of the people in the whole city must be directed at Zhang Guowei.
Zhang Guowei thought about it and decided that since the Nanjing treasury had no money, he would ask the nobles and gentry to buy grain, and let the re-established scholars in the city bear witness.
As long as the nobles and gentry bought food, Zhang Guowei would not be afraid of being impeached as a traitor.
As long as the scholars of the restoration society bear witness, if these noble gentry who buy grain dare to hoard it and sell it at high prices, Zhang Guowei will not be afraid of provoking public resentment.
Moreover, you can also use public grievances to force the noble gentry to open warehouses and release grain!
Two days later, the nobles, gentry, and powerful people from around Nanjing came after hearing the news and bringing their money.
Nanjing Pier.
Liu Shunyi, the general of the rebel navy, stood at the dock and shouted: "There are fifteen ships of grain now. Rice is worth six cents of silver per stone, and corn is worth three cents of silver per stone."
so cheap?
A man in brocade suddenly asked his entourage to beat the gong, and then shouted: "Silence, silence, no robbing, my family will buy five large boats of rice first!"
Everyone dared not speak, they were afraid and angry.
The speaker is a servant of the Duke of Wei.
Liu Shunyi smiled and said: "Each family can buy at most one boat."
The slave of Wei Guogong immediately said: "For every stone of rice, I will give you one tael of silver!"
Liu Shunyi shook his head: "If you don't sell one tael, you only sell it for six yuan."
There was an uproar everywhere.
The slave smiled and said: "Hey, I've never seen anyone doing this kind of business. They don't sell for one tael of silver per stone, but they only sell it for six cents. Does it hurt your hands to have too much money?"
Liu Shunyi handed over to everyone: "Dear friends, there is not much food in Jiangxi. The more than ten ships of food now are all made up by the people of Jiangxi who live frugally. King Zhao Tian can't bear the people in Jiangnan to starve, so he specially asked me to transport them.
The grain is here. Rice only costs six coins per stone. The grain merchant buys it and beats it into white rice. You decide how much it should be sold for!"
"good!"
"King Zhao is righteous!"
Liu Shunyi turned around again and said to Wei Guogong's slave: "If you want to buy it, buy it. You can only buy one boat!"
The slave looked at the guns and cannons on the ship, looked at the heavily armed sailors, gritted his teeth and said, "One ship at a time, the biggest one!"
The city gates of Nanjing are closed, and the rebels are on the river.
However, there were many coolies at the wharf who were hired to carry food on the ship, and the commune scholars and the people outside the city watched the whole process of the nobles doing business with the rebels.
The scene was a bit strange and extremely outrageous.
The officers and soldiers of the navy also came over, as well as many cano ships and canal troops. Although they clearly had many ships and a large number of troops, they did not dare to attack the rebel navy, and even hid far away for fear of being beaten.
Liu Shunyi sneered with disdain. He would write down how much grain each family bought in a small notebook.
Whoever sells grain at ridiculous prices will definitely be liquidated in the future!
Huang Zongxi shook his head and sighed: "The world has collapsed and everything is upside down. It's really..."
"Well, I don't want food prices to fall, I just want food prices to stop rising." Gu Gao sighed.
Gu Gao is the son of Gu Xiancheng, the founder of the Donglin Party. Gu Xiancheng's family only has a few hundred acres of land. If each landlord can reserve 20 acres of land, the Gu family really is not afraid of being divided.
When the Donglin Party was founded, its purpose was very simple, which was to save the country. Most of its members were small and medium-sized landowners.
After the big commotion, all parties joined in, resulting in a mixed bag of good and bad, and it became a political tool for big landowners and businessmen.
Restoration is just the opposite.
At the beginning of the establishment of Fushe, most of them were big landowners and big businessmen. After the organization expanded, countless poor scholars joined, and the number of small landowners and small businessmen increased rapidly.
Wu Yingji suddenly said: "Before the summer harvest, the price will definitely rise to two taels of silver per stone!"
Chen Zhenhui said: "Indeed."
"I want to go to Jiangxi to surrender to the thieves. Can any of you go with me?" Wu Yingji asked.
Gu Gao said: "I also want to go to Jiangxi, not to become a thief, but to observe its governance."
Huang Zongxi said: "Then let's go together."
Wu Yingji had already made up his mind and advised Zhao Han to take over Southern Zhili and Zhejiang immediately.
This gentleman was born into a wealthy family. Not only did he get along well in society, but he also liked to make friends with wanderers.
Based on his long-term experience in the Jianghu, he wrote "Jiangnan's Discussion on Killing Bandits" to discuss and summarize how to eradicate bandits. He also wrote "Jiangnan's Discussion on Fair Prices" to discuss how to stabilize prices. Anyway, many of them are very practical articles.
Wu Yingji swaggered over and said to Liu Shunyi, "I want to be a thief."
Liu Shunyi corrected him: "He defected to the rebel army."
"It's all the same," Wu Yingji said with a smile, "I'm too lazy to find a boat, so I'll use a warship to take me a ride."
Liu Shunyi cupped his hands and said, "Sir, please come on board."
Seeing Wu Yingji boarding the boat, Gu Gao and Huang Zongxi also ran to follow him.
Zhang Guowei, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, was standing on the city tower at the moment, watching from a distance the three Fushe scholars boarding the pirate ship. His facial expressions were extremely wonderful.
The food, porcelain and other goods on the ship were transported for two days and sold to the gentry and merchants of Nanjing.
After the warship unloaded its cargo, it immediately dragged the giant wood to Shanghai, where Zheng Zhilong's ship helped transport it to Guangdong.
Zhang Guowei watched the anti-thief fleet leave and sat down weakly.
He often saw that the sky was covered with dark clouds, as if it was going to rain.
It would be great if it rains, which means the drought will not be serious this year.
Historically, Zhang Guowei was widely known as a martyr against the Qing Dynasty, but his true identity was a water conservancy expert. He mostly wanted to put an end to the war and build water conservancy projects in a down-to-earth manner, and he enjoyed it even though he worked hard.
Shanghai.
Watching the Jiangxi navy hand over the giant tree to the Zheng family ship, Wu Yingji said: "Zheng Zhilong has colluded with Jiangxi. I'm afraid the whole province of Fujian can be taken over in ten months."
"It's best to capture Jiangnan!" Huang Zongxi said angrily.
Although Huang Zongxi's resentment towards Chongzhen had not reached its peak, he had already secretly cursed him countless times.
Amidst this resentment, his thoughts gradually changed, but he had not yet systematically written an article. He felt that the evaluation of the world's chaos should not be based on the rise and fall of one clan, but on the joy and sorrow of all people.
As long as all the people can be happy, it doesn't matter if the dynasty changes!
Zhao Han's article "On the Family, State, and World" simply touched Huang Zongxi's heart. Moreover, Huang Zongxi did not expect many of the contents. After reading the article, he suddenly felt enlightened.
Returning to the cabin, Huang Zongxi read "Lun on the Family, State, and World" again, and suddenly began to write a manuscript.
"Yuanjun"!
"At the beginning of life, everyone is selfish and everyone has his own interests. There is a public interest in the world, but there is no way to promote it..."
Since the beginning of human society, people have been selfish.
No one starts things that are beneficial to the public; no one gets rid of things that are harmful to the public.
If there is such a person who does not seek personal gain, but only seeks the benefit of the world, does not seek to avoid harm to himself, but seeks to avoid harm to the world. Then he must work tens of millions of times and pay millions of times of hard work, but he does not enjoy the benefits himself. Ordinary people are
You don’t know how to do it... This has been the case throughout the ages, and even the saints of three generations are not immune to this.
The monarchs after three generations regarded themselves as the masters of the people, attributed the benefits of the world to themselves, and attributed the harms of the world to others. They also made the people of the world dare not be selfish and regarded their own private interests as the public interests of the world. Maybe they began to feel ashamed. Time
After a while, you will feel at ease.
Huang Zongxi's "Yuanjun" was influenced by Zhao Han's "Lun on the Family, State, and World" and wrote much more in-depth history than the original history.
He compared the country to a big business house. The emperor is the general manager of the business, the officials are the second shopkeeper, the third shopkeeper and the semicolon shopkeeper. All the people in the world are shareholders of the business.
A business name belongs to the shareholders, and the world belongs to the people of the world.
If the emperor and officials are incompetent, they should all be replaced. Just like shareholders replace many shopkeepers, this is the most reasonable. In today's world, the top shopkeepers and second shopkeepers are actually trying to seize the shareholders' property, and they also need to
Don't stop until all shareholders starve to death.
Only those ignorant little Confucians will cling to the righteousness of monarch and minister, thinking that the relationship between monarch and minister is innately unchanging.
A true Confucian should understand the truth: the people are more important than the country, and the country is more important than the king!
After writing "Yuanjun", Huang Zongxi gave it to Gu Gao and Wu Yingji.
When the two of them looked at it, they were inexplicably horrified.
Wu Yingji said: "This article must not appear in the world, otherwise which monarch can tolerate it?"
"Burn it quickly, or you may be killed!" Gu Gao advised.
Huang Zongxi smiled and said: "Many of the meanings of this article are derived from "Lun on Family, State and World", but I wrote it more unobtrusively. If Zhao Han of Jiangxi can be tolerated, then this person will be a wise master through the ages. If
He can't stand it. He is a person who deceives the world and steals his reputation. It would be better to kill me so that the world can see his true face."
(The temperature suddenly dropped, I caught a cold, my throat and nose felt uncomfortable, there are only two updates today.)