Zhu Dashan returned to Baoning with the army and prisoners, Lin Kejia, who was injured in Jianmen Pass before, also returned to Baoning, and has been recuperating from his injuries, and now he greeted Zhu Dashan when he came back, and Zhou Dazhu, Hu Jijiang, Wu Yiding, Wu Hongrong, etc., who stayed in Baoning, all came out to greet Zhu Dashan. For a while, everyone was very lively, and Zhu Dashan took everyone to the governor's yamen.

Zhu Dashan saw that there were already many unknown people sitting in the lobby, and hurriedly looked at Zhou Dazhu. Without waiting for Zhou Dazhu's introduction, one person who walked out of it was Qihou Hezhen.

He Zhen saw Zhu Dashan and said: "Congratulations to Pingyuhou for his complete victory, defeating Li Guoying and recovering Shunqing, Tongchuan Erfu." Zhu Dashan hurriedly said: "Don't dare, it's just that Tongchuan has been taken back by Lu Guangzu now, and Shunqing Mansion is also in dilapidation now." ”

At this time, a man sitting at the end of the lobby said: "Look at what Ping Yuhou said, we are not here to ask for food, how can we cry poor when we meet." Zhu Dashan didn't know this person, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, and at this time, the first person sitting on the top looked like an old farmer, but this person himself had the temperament of a scholar, and he stood up slightly trembling and said: "Ta Tianbao, don't talk nonsense, Ping Yuhou is just talking about the military situation." ”

Ta Tianbao said: "When he says the military situation, he talks about the military situation, looking at the way he cries poor, we really think we are called Huazi." As soon as Zhu Dashan heard Ta Tianbao, he knew that these were the Ming troops of Kuidong, and he hurriedly said: "Ouch, I really don't know that the generals of Kuidong are here, forgive the little brother for being rude." The old farmer said: "Everyone is for the sake of Daming, and there is nothing polite to be polite, the old man Wen Anzhi." ”

Zhu Dashan was shocked again: "It turned out to be a Wen Inspector, rude and rude, so who are you?" Seeing that Zhu Dashan asked, Wen Anzhi introduced them in turn: "These people are Liu Tichun, the Duke of Anhui, Hao Yongzhong, the Marquis of Nan'an, and the Marquis of Xingping. Needless to say, this is Ta Tianbao. Zhu Dashan hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "I don't know if you are the princes, the Hou Ye is here, and Zhu Dashan is not well entertained." ”

Liu Tichun and the others all smiled: "It's much better here than Kuidong." Zhu Dashan said again: "I don't know why you came to Boryeong?" He Zhen said: "Now Kuidong and Boryeong are connected, so everyone comes out to take a look and discuss what we should do next." ”

Ta Tianbao said: "What else can we do, take people out, so that everyone has fields, so that we can block the attack of the Qing soldiers." Liu Tichun scolded: "Old Tower, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, listen to how Inspector Wen arranges." ”

Wen Anzhi looked at Zhu Dashan without speaking, and Zhu Dashan realized that Kuidong and these people really regarded themselves as fat, and now they are here to divide the territory. Then he said: "Let me think about this matter, how about I come to discuss with Inspector Wen and Wan Guogong in the evening?" Ta Tianbao immediately said: "What is there to consider, you can just allocate some places to us." Don't you? ”

Hao Yongzhong pulled down the tower Tianbao and said: "If you don't say a few words, you still can't believe Liu Feihu?" Ta Tianbao saw that Liu Tichun was also a little unhappy, so he didn't say any more. He Zhen was a little embarrassed and said to Zhu Dashan: "Don't worry too much, Ta Tianbao is this kind of character, everyone just wants to discuss with you, if it's really inconvenient, forget it, we have been here in Kuidong for so many years." ”

Wen Anzhi also said: "Yes, after guarding Kuidong for so many years, it is not the same, and there is no need to worry too much about Pingyuhou." Zhu Dashan said: "If there is any difficulty in Kuidong, I will definitely help, but I just returned to Baoning, and now I haven't figured out a line, so you still need to give me some time." Liu Tichun and Hao Yongzhong, the party shou Su said: "It should be"

After Wen Anzhi and the others went out, Zhou Dazhu, Cheng Deyi, and Cheng Dequn were all indignant and said: "Why do we want to give them the city we have beaten down, and we have the ability to fight it ourselves." Hu Jijiang, Wu Yiding and the others frowned sadly and said, "Master Hou, you must be cautious in handling this matter, otherwise there will be another civil strife." If one is not handled properly, the current good situation will collapse in an instant. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "I know this, you all go and do direct things first, I think about it, Zhou Dazhu, you go and screen those captives well, and place all the unsuitable ones and let them farm." He said to Hu Jijiang again: "Although they want to divide some places, the number of courtesies cannot be missing, you can explain it well." Lin Kejia, you bring me the soldiers and horses and the personnel stationed in our various places now, how can we make good use of the thousands of prisoners we have now. Then let the people go about their work.

Zhu Dashan came to the back office alone, sat in front of the bookcase, and fell into deep thought. He didn't even notice Wen Anzhi coming in. Wen Anzhi patted Zhu Dashan on the shoulder before he woke up, and hurriedly got up and helped Wen Anzhi to sit down. Wen Anzhi: "What, reluctantly? Zhu Dashan said: "No, it's just a place, isn't it just for the people of Daming to be stationed when they are defeated?" When I agreed to connect with Kuidong, I thought about taking Kuidong's family out. ”

Wen Anzhi was surprised when he heard this: "Oh, it's good that you have such a mind, so what are you hesitating about?" Zhu Dashan said: "I wonder why the generals of the Zhongjia family have not fought in Kuidong for so many years, and there is also the Wen Inspector, can you tell me that the Qing army is really so powerful?" Can we still beat them off? After fighting for so long, the more I fight, the more confused I become, and I don't even know what I'm fighting like this for? ”

Wen Anzhi didn't answer immediately, but pondered for a long time before saying: "I can't have all the answers to the questions you asked, there are some things you need to find answers to by yourself." But what I can tell you is that the Qing army was really powerful before entering the customs, how many ministers and generals in Liaodong spilled their blood in Liaodong back then, but since they entered the customs, they are not so powerful, the king of Jin was once two famous kings, and Jiangyin also broke the soul of hundreds of thousands of Qing troops. So we can still beat them off. ”

Speaking of this, Wen Anzhi couldn't help coughing a few times, and then said: "As for why the Qing army is fighting, to be honest, it is for the ancestors of the Han people, the Qing army's shaving hair and making it easy to obey, forcibly binding the feet of the Han people, all of which poison the Han people, and forcibly throw the Han people into slavery What is this?" This is to break the backbone of the Han people. So we have to fight the Qing soldiers to the end. ”

Zhu Dashan was shocked when he heard Wen Anzhi: "What, forcibly binding your feet, how did I hear that the Han people bound their feet themselves?" It is also said that it was in the Song Dynasty. Wen Anzhi was also surprised: "Where did you hear about it?" We Han people have to work in the fields, how can we work with our little feet tied? In the Song Dynasty, there were people who had good feet, but at that time the shape of the feet was only slightly corrected, and there were some rich people, and the literati had plastic feet. Later, the Manchurians themselves couldn't learn it at home, so they desperately wanted to wrap their feet into small feet, so that they strangled their feet. Moreover, the Manchurians had their men going out hunting, and the women were not going out to take care of the house, so even if their feet were broken, it didn't hurt that they had the current foot binding. It was the first time Zhu Dashan had heard of such a thing, and said: "No wonder I haven't seen any small feet here in Sichuan." ”

Wen'an Zhidao: "Of course, the Qing court has not completely occupied our Sichuan, and those who come there are in a hurry to implement this." Later, due to the enclosure of the Qing court, a large number of Han people rose up to resist, and the Qing court thought of a way to let all the women bind their feet, so that the women could not run, and the Han people would not dare to resist, and the women who could not run were hostages in their hands. Only then did Zhu Dashan understand that the Ming Dynasty never had any official information about women's foot binding, and occasionally there were only some gossips that there was foot binding, so how could it become a national foot binding in the Qing Dynasty all of a sudden. That's what happened.

Wen Anzhi continued: "Shaving your hair is easy to wear, at this time it destroys the tradition of my Han people, this is to destroy our Han people, and after a hundred years, you and I have the face to say to our ancestors that we are their descendants." We Han people have always been upright people, not slaves. This Manchurian Tartar knelt down when he saw it, and he had to call himself a slave. How can such an insult not be indignantly resisted? The Manchurians destroyed our temple, ruined my traditions, and ruined my mind, and of course our Han people did not share the sky with them, and the Tartars slaughtered countless cities along the way, and the Han people were displaced. Shouldn't we let the Tartars pay for their blood? The more Wen Anzhi talked, the more angry he became, and the more he talked, the more excited he became. The originally sickly face was flushed.

Zhu Dashan didn't dare to say any more, and hurriedly opened the topic and said: "Why can't the Kuidong families fight?" The number of troops of each family has reached 100,000. Wen'an's way: "There are many reasons here, Kuidong is very poor on the one hand, and the generals of Kuidong are born, their positions are different, and all parties are intertwined with grievances, so that they can't work together." In the end, the soldiers were uneven, and they couldn't even raise weapons, and they fought out there. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "In this way, now we can play like this in Baoning, because everyone can work together, can the Kuidong families work together with us after they come out?" Wen Anzhi: "Then what do you think?" ”

Zhu Dashan said: "This time I came back from the expedition to take a lot of prisoners, I just want to reorganize them, if the Kuidong families are willing to come to Baoning, they will be reorganized with our army, so that we can work together, otherwise everyone is worried about their own little army, how can they work together to resist the Qing?" Wen Anzhi said gloomily: "I'm afraid this is not easy to do, and I can't say that people who move so much." ”

Zhu Dashan said: "If that's the case, it's better not to come out, after I accept them, is it possible to leave a large army to defend them?" Wen Anzhi: "I'll try it." With that, Wen Anzhi got up and went out, and Zhu Dashan kept sending him out of the governor's yamen. Looking at Wen Anzhi's somewhat rickety body, Zhu Dashan felt sad for a while, this was when the court was stormy, he was alone to preside over Kuidong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and he wandered around the various forces alone to adjust and balance the contradictions of various departments. For more than ten years, this high-spirited literati has been tortured into an old farmer, like a candle in the wind that may be extinguished at any time.

Zhu Dashan couldn't help but respect Wen Anzhi's behavior, he didn't want to restore the Chinese clothes for the sake of glory and wealth, not for his own reputation, not to let the Han people be slaves, and to support the backbone of the Han people. This is the backbone of the Han people and the backbone of the literati. Zhu Dashan's original wavering determination to resist the Qing Dynasty was unusually firm at this moment, Zhu Dashan always felt that he was fighting against the Qing Dynasty in order to survive, even if he was under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, it was just to be justified, he never thought about the world, the nation. These are too far away from him, like a beggar who sits under the bridge every day and begs for a bite of food from passers-by, and you make him sacrifice himself for the nation, tell him that the country is facing destruction, and let him save the country.

But after listening to Wen Anzhi's words, Zhu Dashan knew that there were countless people fighting for this ideal. This disaster was brought about by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is not something that you can avoid by being a submissive citizen, even if you are alive now, how will you face it when you meet your ancestors underground after you die? Zhu Dashan thought about the slaughtered Nanchong, Wen'anzhi said Yangzhou, Jiaxing, Jiangyin, Guangzhou, Xi'an. For a while, the scenes of these massacres in the city flashed in front of Zhu Dashan's eyes like a movie. Thinking of Sichuan, which used to have the reputation of the land of abundance, and the desolation he saw this year, Zhu Dashan seemed to have a ball of anger burning in his chest, and Zhu Dashan couldn't wait to drive all the Qing soldiers away immediately, and settle the sins they committed with the Tartars.

But Zhu Dashan knew that this was impossible, and now he was still in a mess in front of him. What I have to do now is to completely reorganize the army.

At this time, Lin Kejia came to Zhu Dashan with information, and Zhu Dashan returned to the yamen with Lin Kejia, Lin Kejia said: "I see that Master Hou's face was a little wrong at the door just now, what's wrong?" Zhu Dashan said: "It's nothing, I just thought of something." By the way, you're healed. Lin Kejia said: "Okay, I've been resting for a month, but I can't go to the battlefield yet." ”

Zhu Dashan said: "Then take care of it, and the battle will be over." Lin Kejia also smiled: "That's right, I've sorted out some garrison data here, you can listen to it." Zhu Dashan found pen and ink and said: "You say, I remember here, let's sort out the army now." I didn't have time to worry about that before. ”

Lin Kejia looked at the information he had counted and said: "The generals we are now stationed at Jianmen Pass are Gou Xingwang, Zhang Yongquan and Ma Rong, and two thousand sergeants. Zhu Dashan said: "Wait, where is Lin Zhuang, where did he go?" ”