Ning Yu sat in the front hall of Cui's mansion, and it was the teacher Cui Wancai who was facing him.

Just like last time, there was still a faint sound of the piano in the room, which couldn't help but make Ning Yu think a lot.

According to Ning Yu's understanding, Cui Wancai's wife died at an early age, leaving behind a daughter to be married, and now it seems that there is no continuation. The person who wants to come to this house to play the piano is his daughter.

Thinking of this, Ning Yu felt a little strange in his heart, what did this teacher mean? Do you want to marry yourself? But after all, I am young, and now I am busy, will I refuse? Or do you say yes? It's really tangled, Ning Yu sighed in his heart.

"Tempted?" Just when Ning Yu was thinking about it, Cui Wancai suddenly burst out.

Ning Yu couldn't help but blush, and said with a weak heart: "Teacher, the student doesn't know what the teacher means. ”

Cui Wancai smiled and said, "As a teacher, I am at your age, but I am not as hypocritical as you." Okay, what is the so-called thing about coming to the house today? ”

Ning Yu told all about his recent situation, with three points of exhaustion and seven points of puzzlement on his face, and said: "Teacher, it is too difficult to do things in this world. ”

Cui Wancai said softly: "Why do you feel powerless to do things? On the surface, it seems to be a human problem, but in fact, it is still a problem of the general trend. ”

"In the peaceful years, even if there are people starving to death, they can still survive if they struggle. Since they can live, people will covet comfort and enjoyment, and it will be difficult for them to do whatever you want them to do. ”

These words were like seeing the sun through the clouds, and they opened the troubles in Ning Yu's heart.

Speaking of which, it is now a peaceful year, and it is by no means unusual to do anything in the peaceful years.

Cui Wancai smiled and said, "I don't know what you think of the former Ming Taizu?" Ning Yu's heart was beating when he said this, it was taboo to talk about the affairs of the previous dynasty in this dynasty, if someone with a heart listened to it, it would be a crime to kill his head if he didn't get it right.

As for leaving a few words? That's even more incredible, since Kangxi succeeded to the throne, there have been many big cases of writing, how many people's heads were cut off in the Nanshanji case eight years ago?

Ning Yu thought for a while and said: "Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty started at the end of Weimo, but he was able to fight a piece of the world in the late Yuan Dynasty, defeated Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng one after another, and even expelled the Northern Yuan into the desert, which can be called a masterpiece of a generation." ”

Cui Wancai nodded and said with a smile: "Emperor Taizu can afford it, it lies in one word - potential. Whether it is Da Yuan, or Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and other forces, they have no power. ”

"What is the momentum, is a kind of control and use of the general trend of the world, if you know how to take the momentum, you will not worry about the general trend, because you can take advantage of the situation, and in the end you yourself are the general trend!"

The words are beautiful, and the sound is ear-filling. Along with the sound of the piano in the house, I don't know when it stopped.

Cui Wancai took a sip of tea and smiled into the house: "Keep playing, don't stop." ”

Ning Yu slowly spoke: "Teacher, then according to what you see, where does the momentum of this dynasty come from?" ”

Cui Wancai didn't speak, just pointed at Ning Yu.

"Me?" Ning Yu couldn't believe it.

Cui Wancai still didn't speak, and pointed at himself with his finger again.

"Teacher, what do you mean by that?" Ning Yu was a little puzzled.

Cui Wancai sighed: "The momentum of the Qing Dynasty has come from Han people like you and me from the very beginning. ”

Ning Yu was a little silent and said, "Please also ask the teacher to teach me more." ”

Cui Wancai stood up, looked out of the house, and his voice was a little subtle: "Since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it has been fought by the power of the Han people. ”

Cui Wancai said in a deep voice: "For example, there are 600,000 registered soldiers in the Green Battalion today, and they are arranged to be stationed in various scattered Tangxun, with only three or five hundred soldiers in each place, and they are under each other's control, not subordinate to each other, and once something happens, they will be stationed and waiting for help." This great halal has really learned the lessons of the previous Ming in his bones. ”

Cui Wancai sighed and said: "It doesn't hurt if it's just the green camp, the rootless tree can't last for a long time, but this Qing Dynasty is obviously made up of masters, and there is a way to take advantage of the situation, and as soon as they enter the customs, they will be rewarded in a big way, and all the powerful factions in this place will be attached, which will make the big tree of the green camp grow higher and higher." ”

Ning Yu also knows this, just like the Huguang Green Battalion has a total of only 40,000 people, but these 40,000 people are divided into dozens of battalions, hundreds of which are stationed for flood control, controlling every key road and suppressing everything.

Ning Yu said tentatively: "Then this Qing lifeline is above the Green Camp?" If outsiders hear this, I'm afraid they will be scared to death.

Cui Wancai shook his head and said: "Idiot, this green camp is just an appearance, although this trend is successful, but after all, it is a salary to fight fires, and this Qing monarch is naturally worried, both use it and prevent it." ”

Cui Wancai then categorically asserted: "The Qing court never dared to completely trust the Green Battalion, just thirty years ago, the Governor of Huguang Cai Yurong was arrested and imprisoned, and then the Governor of Huguang was abolished 5,000 elites, and now the Holy Lord has ordered the abolition of the position of Governor of Huguang with the words 'this lack of governor is useless', which led to the rebellion of the Green Battalion soldiers." ”

"Although this rebellion is little known, but the influence is quite great, the leader of the rebellion at that time, Xia Fenglong, the new governor Ke Yongsheng to death, but also tens of thousands of people, one after another captured Wuchang, Xianning, Jiayu, Puqi, Hanyang and other surrounding counties, the momentum is so great, shaking the government and the opposition."

"Later, after this rebellion subsided, thousands of Eight Banners soldiers were stationed in Jingzhou, forming today's Jingzhou Manying Camp.

Ning Yu sighed silently: "My great-grandfather, grandfather, including my father, are all the generals of this green battalion, and they know it in their hearts. ”

Cui Wancai said with deep meaning: "Now the Qing Dynasty, most of the country is in the hands of these landlords and squires, if there is really any chaos, it doesn't matter if the 600,000 green battalion soldiers on the books are gone, as long as the landlords and squires all over the world are still standing on the side of the Manchu Dynasty, there will be hundreds of thousands or even millions of young people who can fight." ”

Ning Yu understood at once, and thoroughly understood, the Manchu Qing Dynasty could win the world and had nothing to do with what Eight Banners Cavalry and Shooting Wushuang had to do with it, even if these hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers were cast in iron and copper, how long would it take?

The key is still the potential, and taking advantage of the potential to become self-contained is the general trend.

And the momentum of this Qing Dynasty does not lie in the more than one million children of the Eight Banners, but in the hundreds of millions of Han people.

It seemed that a ray of sunlight had penetrated the thick black fog, and Ning Yu had discovered for the first time the possibility of destroying the high mountain in front of him, this was a real war.

This war is in the hearts of the people, in the general trend, and in the way of heaven.

Cui Wancai looked at the disciple in front of him with a relieved gaze, and everything went without saying.

The high king of the north, are you ready for this war?