Tan Xinchuan saw Zhu Youdong say this, and immediately knew that he was just going too far, and he would not let himself govern it in the later stage, so he immediately said: "Okay, the last general will ensure that these gentry in Chengdu Mansion obediently pay enough taxes, money and grain." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Okay, not only do you want them to hand over taxes this time, but also one point, that is, to re-measure the land in Chengdu Prefecture, we don't have an accurate number of land in Chengdu Mansion at all." After the completion of the inventory of Chengdu Prefecture, the entire land of Sichuan must be inventoried, and now there are more and more disabled soldiers, and their lives cannot be solved by the government. If it is all supported by the government's finances, the government will not be able to stand it. We have to find a job for them. ”

Yuan Kuoyu said: "Hou Ye wants to use Emperor Taizu's Tuntian method? Let these soldiers go to Tuntian? Zhu Youdong said: "That won't work, or it won't be long before the soldiers' fields will be stripped away by officials at all levels." But no matter what you do, you have to measure these fields first. ”

At this time, Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi also came in, and Zhang Huangyan said: "The Marquis of Pingyu has made great achievements in this expedition. Zhu Youdong said: "There, it's just a soldier's life." Zhang Huang said: "Hou Ye is too modest, hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were annihilated in the southwest, this is great news against the great cause of the Qing Dynasty." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Lord Zhang came over, it won't be to say these flattering words." Zhang Huang said: "Of course, I heard that Hou Ye asked Tan Xinchuan to go to Chengdu?" Do you want the gentry of Chengdu to pay all the taxes? ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Lord Zhang thinks it's inappropriate? Wang Xi, who followed Zhang Huangyan, said: "Of course this is not appropriate, ninety percent of the gentry in the world are scholars, if they are forced to pay taxes." This is simply pushing the world's scholars to the side of the Qing court. ”

Zhu Youdong looked at Wang Xi and said, "Yo, Lord Wang also went to braid, and it seems that he is also ready to contribute to my Daming." Wang Xi smiled and said: "Master Hou won't let me go, I've been in Kuidong for a long time, and the bones in my body have slowed down." In addition, there is no shaver in Kuidong, and no one cares about the hair, it has already grown, so you can't shave it again. ”

Zhu Youdong also smiled: "Listening to Lord Wang's meaning, I don't have the determination to be loyal to the Qing court or the Ming Dynasty at all, but because no one pays attention to it in Kuidong, and now Kuidong is the place where I restore the Ming Army, so I chose to help me do things for the Ming Dynasty." ”

Wang Xi heard Zhu Youdong talk about loyalty, but these scholars talk about loyalty and filial piety every day. Wang Xi said: "Of course it's not what Hou Ye said, during the Chongzhen period, the people were displaced, and there were thieves all over the world. It was the Qing Dynasty at that time that pacified the world, and as a scholar, he went out of the imperial court, stabilized the place, and sought the well-being of the people. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Is this what those scholars in the world are?" Isn't Confucianism the most particular about Huayi's defense? Why didn't you care about it at all when you were in the Manchu Dynasty? said that it is for the well-being of the people, but I think you are just reluctant to hold the official position on your body. ”

Although Zhang Huangyan did not agree with Wang Xi's statement, Zhu Youdong killed all the scholars in the world at once. Suddenly, he said: "Master Hou, even if there are some people who are in the Qing court for official positions, we can't kill all the scholars in the world." ”

Wang Xi also said: "Scholars seek to be for the people of the world, and after the Manchurians entered the Central Plains, they wrote Chinese characters and spoke Chinese. I read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and I respected the way of Confucius and Mencius. This is where the Qing court conquered China, and this is obviously my assimilation of the Manchurians in China. ”

Zhu Youdong is most annoyed by these people, full of Confucius and Mencius, and then deceiving himself by saying who he has assimilated. Zhu Youdong said: "Sure enough, it's different, people who have read books are really powerful compared to us." I don't know Lord Wang, dare to say this in front of Shunzhi? ”

Wang Xi was suddenly choked and speechless, and everyone saw that Wang Xi would never dare to speak. Zhang Huang said: "Lord Hou is a little excessive, if we accept these gentlemen, we can recover the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, and the people of the world will suffer less." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "I am certainly willing to let the people of the world live a peaceful life as soon as possible." But let these people get into the court of the Ming Dynasty, will the people of the world be peaceful? I remember that at that time, in order to punish corrupt officials, Taizu set a policy of 60 taels of embezzlement to peel the skin and fill the grass. But are the people of the world afraid? ”

Zhu Youdong can't answer this, can he say that Emperor Taizu's salary is too low? Zhu Youdong continued: "Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, generations of literati have said that they should not compete with the people for profit, but should let the people benefit. But what happened in the end? Daming was poor to death, who stood up to save Daming? ”

Zhang Huang said: "The shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty are not formed in a day or two. Among them, there are many drawbacks, the people are rich and the country is poor, this is one aspect. But there are too many feudal domains in the world, and the treasury is also unbearable. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "I know, they all say that my Ming vassal king occupies the imperial court tax, but since the Wanli Dynasty, the vassal king no longer collects taxes locally, but is allocated by the imperial court. Lord Zhang, you are a member of the imperial court, tell me about the beginning of the Wanli Dynasty, when has the imperial court fully allocated the vassal king's Yulu? After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, how could the taxes of the Manchu court suddenly exceed 20 million? And I only have a mere four million taxes? As far as I know, now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is also increasing the three salaries of the Ming Dynasty, why haven't I seen these scholars come out to oppose it? ”

Zhang Huangyan wanted to object, but Zhu Youdong continued to ask: "After these twenty years of war, how many people are there in the entire Ming Dynasty?" Why don't you see people say that the people are not living well now? Why is it that there are no officials who are fighting hard in the court and have to admonish and ask for the people's lives? ”

Zhang Huangyan has raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty over the years and has paid a lot. I can't go back to my home, I am wandering everywhere, and I am adrift for half my life. It is impossible to say that there is no hatred in my heart. So although I disagree with Zhu Youdong's accusations, I am not opposed. After seeing Zhu Youdong stop, he said, "Then what is the Hou Ye going to do?" Do you really want to push all the readers in the world away? If all these people are forced to the side of the Qing court, we may have many more casualties in our resistance to the Qing Dynasty. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "If they are willing to surrender to the Manchus, let them go." I still say the same thing, we are welcome to serve the Ming Dynasty, if you want to follow the Manchu road to the black, our army will stubbornly resist when it arrives, register their hometown, and wait for us to hit his hometown, and slaughter his entire clan. ”

Wang Xi was suddenly shocked, his family was still in the capital. Immediately said: "Pingyu Hou, what is the difference between you and barbarians when you kill like this?" It does not pay attention to etiquette and education, but focuses on slaughter and robbery. Zhu Youdong sneered: "Lord Wang thinks I'm killing hard? I'm going to be a barbarian? Why can't you see how many civilians the Manchus slaughtered in the Central Plains? Sichuan, known as the land of abundance, if you look at how many people there are now, why don't you say that the Manchus were barbarians, but that they are Confucius and Mencius who respect Confucianism and Taoism? ”

Wang Xi said: "How can this be the same? When the Manchus did not enter the customs, they were barbarians, but now they have not slaughtered the people, and they have changed their previous practices, so why can't they be orthodox? Now that Hou Ye not only does not respect Confucius and Mencius, but also does something to slaughter the people, how will he write Hou Ye in the future? ”

Zhu Youdong laughed and said, "There was no massacre in the Manchu Qing Dynasty? I don't know where Lord Wang heard about it? Why don't I see with these eyes? Then Zhu Youdong turned to the guards around him and asked, "Have you seen the Qing army slaughtering the people?" Is the Qing army already a benevolent and righteous army? ”

When the surrounding guards heard Wang Xi's remarks, they were already indignant in their hearts, and immediately said loudly: "Master Hou, what we see is that everywhere the Manchu Qing Dynasty passed, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, defiling women, killing women and children, and killing people and children. ”

A guard outside the door, who was originally a Miao man from Yungui, heard Zhu Youdong's question, and immediately cried: "The Qing soldiers are beasts, and wherever they go, they are like locusts crossing the border, and chickens and dogs are not left." In order to loot money, people are hung alive and roasted. Those who have no money in the house are roasted alive. Ten members of my family were killed by the Qing army, who made a rumor that the Qing army was a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. ”

The more the soldier spoke, the more sad he became, and he pointed at Wang Xi and said, "You black-hearted dog officer, you actually say that the Qing army is a good person." You go to Yungui to see, is there a living person in the Qing army? There was not even a single corpse, and the Qing army slaughtered the people and ate human flesh. Is your conscience all fed to the dogs? How can your father and mother give birth to a wolf-hearted evil like you? "If it weren't for Zhu Youdong's presence, it is estimated that this guard would have killed Wang Xi on the spot.

Wang Xi looked at the guards with grief and anger on his face, and was immediately scolded and retreated. Wang Xi explained: "Since ancient times, it is inevitable that the army will disturb the people, which is not surprising. Zhu Youdong pointed at Wang Xi and said: "If it weren't for Lord Zhang's face, you would have been cut by a thousand knives now." How the Qing army killed the people, you can find reasons to refute and excuse them. On the contrary, if the Han people are a little harsh, you exaggerate and condemn them. Do you know what this is? You're a traitor. ”

Wang Xi is now lacking in confidence, and said: "At least they are changing, but Hou Ye, you have become brutal and unkind again, isn't this Hou Ye, you should change?" Zhu Youdong said: "To be honest, before you came in, I thought that you could govern the Ming Dynasty, but now it seems that my original decision was ridiculous." I have decided that no matter how good your knowledge is, I will not let you participate in the governance of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Youdong saw that Wang Xi was about to speak, and immediately interrupted: "You don't have to tell me any big truth. I remember that there is such a saying, called repaying grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue? I think this makes it very clear that we don't have any righteousness to say to those who want to enslave us. ”

Wang Xi said: "I'm all for the Hou Ye, and for the great cause of the Hou Ye to restore the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Youdong shook his head and said, "No, you are doing this for yourself and your family who are still in Beijing." To exonerate those who surrendered to the Manchus and were determined to serve the Manchus and in turn mutilate their compatriots. ”

Wang Xi said: "But in this way, Hou Ye has really forced all the scholars in the world to the Qing court." Zhu Youdong saw that Wang Xi was still constant, and threatened himself with the world's scholars. Suddenly said angrily: "What if it is forced to the Qing court?" Without these scholars, I myself taught those who were willing to contribute to the Han people, and I trained those who were willing to sacrifice for the Han people. Without national righteousness, without shameless people who are the ancestors of the family and country, what is the use? ”

Zhang Huangyan listened to Zhu Youdong's words, and suddenly felt a shock in his heart, Zhu Youdong is going to be the enemy of thousands of scholars in the world. Zhang Huang said: "Master Hou, this is a bit extreme, if you don't compromise, everyone will give way first, and wait for the world to be peaceful to change this situation." ”

Zhu Youdong waved his hand and said, "Don't wait, our current soldiers who have sacrificed their lives, all those who have descendants, should be enrolled." I welcome literati who are willing to work for the Ming Dynasty. If you don't want to serve, as long as you are an ordinary person, I won't pursue it. But those who were bent on working for the Manchus were determined to fight. ”

Zhu Youdong pointed at Wang Xi again and said: "You Wang Xi was an official in the Manchu Qing Dynasty before, I can not pursue it." Now you can also do things, but not in the case of government affairs. You can use your knowledge to teach, and you can do these things, but if you dare to get involved in government affairs, I will never spare you. ”

In the face of Zhu Youdong's aggressiveness, Wang Xi also had a little temper, and said: "So disrespectful to scholars, disrespectful to Confucius and Mencius, Wang doesn't want to be an official in the same dynasty as you." Zhu Youdong said: "Okay, in that case, I hope you will be an ordinary person who does your duty." ”

Zhu Youdong said to Yuan Kuoyu again: "You go and issue a notice, gather literati, and form an official academy in the Ming Dynasty." Every state capital and county must have it, and all the children of soldiers, ordinary people, and children who have reached the age of six must be sent to study in the study hall. Of course, the first important thing is to talk about the defense of Huayi, loyalty and patriotism. The second is to teach practical knowledge, such as the method of calculation and the essentials of governance. The third is to teach the art of fighting and the ability to fight. As for the way of Confucius and Mencius, those who are empty pick some monarchs and ministers, etiquette, and filial piety to explain. ”

Wang Xi heard that Zhu Youdong actually put the study of Confucius and Mencius at the end, as a trivial teaching, and immediately clenched his hands angrily, and his eyes glared at Zhu Youdong.