"Weaving is based on the Songjiang River, starching and dyeing is in Wuhu", Wuhu County, Taiping Prefecture, South Zhili Province, is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Qingyi River, with convenient transportation. After the Songjiang cloth is pulped and dyed in Wuhu, it is transported along the Yangtze River and then through Chu. Shu is scattered in Fujian, Guangdong, Qin, Jin, Yunnan and Guizhou. Therefore, business is extremely prosperous, not only the cloth market, but also the famous rice market.
In the dyeing workshop on the bank of the Yangtze River, Min Zungu watched the dyeing workers putting bundles of Songjiang cloth on rolling stones to grind them. High-quality grinding stones are hard to find! Produced in the north of the Yangtze River, they are cold in nature and fine in quality, and each piece is worth the price. More than ten taels of silver.
"Hey! No matter how chaotic the world is, we still have to wear clothes and eat!"
Min Zungu sighed heavily. Over the years, wars have continued, and all walks of life have been deeply affected. Fortunately, Min's pulp and dyeing workshop has excellent craftsmanship and can dye a kind of woolen green cloth with a faint red flame color, which is popular everywhere. Cherish. Therefore, the business can still be maintained.
"Brother Min, come with me quickly. Someone is coming from Xuancheng." His friend Sun Jiyu came to look for him. When he saw him, he pulled his sleeves and dragged him to Suomian Alley.
"Don't be anxious, dear brother, why are you in such a hurry?"
"Xuancheng Duke Tang is here. Duke Shen, Duke Qian, Brother Hong, and Brother Wang are all here. Follow me to the Xin'an Wen Guild Hall."
"Xin'an Wen Guild Hall" is very famous!
After Jin Sheng, Jiang Tianyi and other martyrs were killed, Min Zungu admired them very much and ventured to Nanjing to collect their bodies and bury them in coffins. After burying Jin Sheng and Jiang Tianyi, he returned to Wuhu and met with Sun Jiyu, Hong Yiwei, Wang Hongren and others. We raised funds to build this guild hall in Suomian Lane.
On the surface, this museum worships Wen Changxing and Zhu Xi (ancestral home of Wuyuan County, Huizhou). In fact, it also worships Jin Sheng and Jiang Tianyi. The museum collects Jin Sheng's works "Jin Taishi Collection" and Jiang Tianyi's works. Worked on "Jiang Zhi'an's Posthumous Collection". At first, few people knew about it. Gradually, Jiangnan righteous people heard that there were portraits and posthumous works of Jin Sheng and Jiang Tianyi here. They came here in admiration and donated money and materials constantly. Xin'an Wenhui Hall As a result, it became a spiritual holy place for anti-Qing righteous people in Wuhu.
The two walked to the door of the guild hall, where the four characters "Tiandu Wenxue" were engraved on the door. A sense of "Confucian strength", "Confucian flavor" and "Confucian justice" came to their faces.
Entering the wing of the museum, there were already five people waiting here. The one in the middle was Tang Sihu, the emissary sent by Shen Shouyue to Wuhu and Deng surrendered to prophesy and do good deeds. There were four people sitting on the left and right of Tang Sihu. One of them was dressed in the same way as other people. The man is obviously different. Under the threat of the Qing captives, this man actually did not shave his hair, and he was also wearing a Ming Dynasty dress. He is a relative of Shen Shouyue, one of the "two sinkers on the river", a famous scholar in Wuhu, Shen Shizhu.
Shen Shizhu, courtesy name Kuntong, had been fighting against the Qing Dynasty in Wuhu after the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty. Historically, he was arrested for rebelling against the Qing Dynasty. Li Jun, the magistrate of Wuhu, interrogated him: "The overall situation of this dynasty has been decided, why are you still wearing the ancient crown and uniform?" Answer He said: "I am a native of my motherland, and I should bear the ghosts of my motherland." Li Jun said: "The law of this dynasty is to keep your head or hair, or your hair or your hair." He replied: "I am a native of my motherland when I am born, and I am a son of my motherland when I die." Do you think you are guilty or ashamed of betraying the Ming Dynasty by eating the wealth of the Ming Dynasty?" This made Li Jun blush with shame and retreat.
Shen Shouyue sent Tang Sihu to Wuhu, and the first thing he did was contact Shen Shizhu. Shen Shizhu recommended his friends Qian Chengzhi, Min Zungu, Sun Jiyu, Hong Yiwei, and Wang Hongren to Tang Sihu, and made an appointment to meet at the Xin'an Wen Guild Hall.
When everyone met, they chatted for a while and then got down to business.
"Wang Tian, please tell me about the situation of the Puppet Qingwu General Soldier Divination Congshan," Tang Sihu said to a sergeant wearing a green battalion uniform.
Wang Tiannai is a good friend of the righteous Xu Dacheng and a personal soldier of Bu Congshan, the commander-in-chief of Qingwu Cai. Xu Dacheng has long been instigated to rebel.
"Mr. Tang, since the imperial army invaded Ningguo Mansion, Bu Congshan has been in panic, saying that Ming's army is powerful and his own troops cannot stop it. He can surrender but dare not surrender. He has suppressed it." The rebels of Qihuang Forty-eight Villages chased and killed His Highness King Shicheng. King Shicheng has been named King Ning by the prison country. He is afraid that after returning to the Ming Dynasty, His Highness King Ning will seek revenge on him.
When everyone heard this, they all laughed.
Tang Sihu smiled and said: "Bu Congshan is so cowardly that it is easy to persuade him to surrender. Tomorrow I will go to the military camp to persuade him to surrender. If I do not come back, you will immediately send a message to Enpinghou and ask him to send troops, cooperate with the inside and outside, and capture Wuhu."< /p>
"No," said a middle-aged man in monk's robes, who was Shen Shizhu's good friend Qian Chengzhi.
Qian Chengzhi, whose courtesy name was Yinguang, was from Nanxiang, Tongcheng. He was also an anti-Qing righteous man. In the first year of Hongguang, he lost his wife and daughter in the anti-Qing uprising, and he and his eldest son Qian Fazu were dependent on each other. Because he refused to shave his hair and change clothes, Dressed as a monk all year round.
"I went to the military camp to persuade him to surrender. If he failed, his life would be small, but the Tatars would be on guard. I thought that we should find someone who has a close relationship with Bu Congshan, invite him to the banquet, and hide the warriors in the banquet. If Bu Congshan is willing to surrender, If he doesn't surrender, he will be killed immediately. Wucai Green Camp has lost its leader, and when Enpinghou's army arrives, it will inevitably collapse without a fight."
Everyone is calling for a clever idea, who can be sent to invite Bu Congshan? Everyone's eyes are on Min Zungu. Among them, Min Zungu is engaged in cloth business, and Bu Congshan's family often buys cloth from Min's cloth store to make clothes. Some friendship.
Min Zungu sweated. Although he respected these martyrs and went to Nanjing to collect the coffins of Jin Sheng and Jiang Tianyi, respecting them is one thing, but rising with them is another. If he didn't do it well, The whole family will lose their heads!
Seeing that Min Zungu didn't speak for a long time, Tang Sihu sighed and said, "Brother Min is willing to collect and bury the body of Kim Jong-hee and Jiang Wen-shi, which is a high act of justice. This matter is too dangerous, and I have a wife and children by my side. It's better to let me go." Let’s take a tour of the military camp."
Min Zungu blushed, and blood burned in his belly, "I have a wife and children, don't you princes have wives and children? I am willing to do this. I just ask Mr. Shen to send someone to send the dog to Xuancheng."
"Brother Min, don't worry, I will send someone to see your son off immediately." Shen Shizhu agreed immediately.
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If I never shoot or hunt in my life, the elk will follow me around.
It’s not too deep into the mountains, and I don’t hear the sorrow of tigers and leopards.
Today I will give up poetry and books and buy a knife to tie with a horse's head.
Although the muscle strength is not strong, the back of the arm can be pumped.
Geese and pheasants live on high hills, and foxes and rabbits den in deep hills.
I will make Fei fly away and be frightened, and I will wash away all the shame.
Who said that scholars cannot hold swords and guns? Shen Shizhu, a famous scholar in Wuhu, raised his arms and summoned a group of scholars holding swords. There were calligraphers and painters Xiao Yuncong, his younger brother Xiao Yunqian, his son Xiao Yiyang, and his disciple Zhang Xiubi; there was the poet Shen Shizun (Shen Shizhu)
(brother), Zhu Xiyong, Peng Shugu, Chen Xiangshi; plus Tang Sihu, Shen Shizhu, Qian Chengzhi, Min Zungu, Sun Jiyu, Hong Yiwei, Wang Hongren and others.
These people, along with their trusted servants, actually gathered more than two hundred "rebels" at Min Zungu's house. Everything was ready, just waiting for the fat fish Bu Congshan, the commander-in-chief of Qingwu Cai, to come into the water.
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Bu Congshan was from Gushi, Henan. When Li Zicheng opened the seal, he was granted the title of general soldier for escorting the king of Zhou to escape. He was accustomed to seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and acted according to the wind. After the fall of Beijing, he immediately fled south to Suqian; the Qing army went south, and again
Clear immediately.
While he was thinking about it, Wang Tian, a soldier, held an invitation and reported: "Commander, Min Zungu, a gentleman from Wuhu, invites you to a banquet."
"Min Zungu?"
Bu Congshan had an impression that his wives and concubines often went to his cloth village Lingbu. He was a smart man. He would buy one for free and show filial piety from time to time. If it were a normal day, he would go there, but with the war approaching, he was not in the mood to drink.
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"Just say that I'm not feeling well and won't go."
"Commander," Wang Tian said with a flattering smile, "Min Zungu said, there is a beautiful woman to introduce." Wang Tian emphasized the word "beautiful woman".
Bu Congshan was the most lustful, and could not move his legs when he saw a beautiful woman. When he heard that Min Zungu wanted to introduce a "beautiful woman" to him, he immediately changed his tune.
"Tell Min Zungu that I will definitely be here."
As a well-known cloth merchant in Wuhu County, the Min family's mansion is quite large, with mountains, rocks, forests, and springs, and the layout is quite elegant.
The banquet was held in the living room. There were nine people sitting on a large round table with a simple shape. China has a saying that the sky is round and the earth is round since ancient times. The use of round tables has a long history. The food system was introduced in the Tang Dynasty and was popularized in the Song Dynasty. The circle represents
If it is auspicious, go to a restaurant to eat at a round table to gather both good fortune and wealth.
Bu Congshan was sitting on the throne, with celebrities Xiao Yuncong, Xiao Yunchian, Xiao Yiyang and Zhang Xiubi sitting on his left; and on his right sat Min Zungu, Sun Jiyu, Hong Yiwei, Wang Hongren and a group of businessmen.
Everyone surrounded Bu Congshan like a star holding the moon, and they enthusiastically encouraged him to drink, and praised him for a while.
After having enough wine and food, Bu Congshan felt that something was missing. Wasn't it said that there was a beautiful woman as a gift? Where is the beautiful woman?
With a shy face, he asked Min Zungu: "Didn't Brother Xian say that there is a beautiful woman that he wants to introduce to Brother Yu? Where is the beautiful woman?"
"Beauty?"
Min Zungu laughed: "Wait a moment, Commander, the beauty will be here soon."
Everyone suddenly stopped talking. After a moment, a middle-aged scribe with a crown and a handsome appearance entered the living room.
Is this the beauty? Bu Congshan was stunned, and then became furious, "Who are you? How bold! How dare you wear Qianming clothes!"
The visitor smiled and said, "I am Tang Sihu, the twelfth year of Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty. I am here under the orders of Enpinghou and Shen Gong of Xuancheng to persuade the general to return to the Ming Dynasty. Now, the imperial army has defeated Ningguo and Xuancheng, and is approaching Taiping Mansion. .People have a clear mind, who doesn’t have Han thoughts? I hope the commander-in-chief will return quickly and don’t be a mantis arm blocking the car, which will only increase the laughter!”
"Commander, please return to the Ming Dynasty and restore China to me." Everyone present stood up together and saluted Bu Congshan.
Bu Congshan was panicked, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, "What if I don't allow it?"
There was no ripple on Tang Sihu's face, "The commander-in-chief refused, so we have no choice but to take the commander-in-chief's head and come to meet the army of King Jing of the Supervisory State." He threw the wine glass, Shen Shizhu, Shen Shizun, and Qian Cheng led dozens of warriors , armed with swords, swarmed in.
"Wang Tian, call someone quickly," Bu Congshan called to his own soldiers urgently.
Unexpectedly, Wang Tian came in and smiled, "If the commander leads the villain to return to the Ming Dynasty, the villain will follow him to death; if he lets the villain become a traitor, the villain will be afraid that he will not be able to see his ancestors after death."
Bu Congshan was sweating profusely, "My hands are stained with the blood of righteous men. When the Ming Dynasty comes, will King Jing of the Supervisor of the Kingdom spare me?"
Tang Sihu smiled and said, "In terms of guilt, the commander-in-chief is just the commander-in-chief. How can he compare to Li Benzhen, the pseudo-admiral of Zuobiao? After Li Benzhen came to the Ming Dynasty, all the governors ignored the blame and allowed him to be the governor of Henan. What do you have to fear?" /p>
"What! Li Benzhen was named admiral of Henan?"
Bu Congshan's eyes lit up and he made up his mind, "I hope to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway!"
"Since the commander-in-chief is willing to do whatever it takes, why not help Marquis Fulu capture Qingyang County? If you perform this extraordinary feat, you will be rewarded heavily by the governor!"
"I am willing to listen to your instructions, sir!"