Section 142 Sun Chun

Zhang Dai and others' trip to the Wanbi Bookstore made them reminisce for a long time, especially the books they bought. Sun Chun specially asked for the "Chronicles of the Four Continents", saying that he wanted to study it carefully.

Sun Chun's home is in Jiaxing, and he is a student of Jiaxing Fufuxue, but he lives in Wujiang all the year round, and sometimes lives in Meijuan in Nanxun Town, Wucheng County, Huzhou. Don't look at him as unstunning, dressed plainly, and only "a person who only collects essays on the Five Classics" in terms of knowledge, he has a low status in the minds of many scholars of the Restoration Society, and he actually has quite a lot of assets in his family, and he is a real core member of the community.

When it comes to fame, of course, he is on a par with Zhang Pu, Zhang Cai and others, far inferior to the "Four Sons" who were already famous at that time, and not as good as Huang Zongxi. But he is indeed the backbone of the society. As a political society in the name of academics, the Fushe Society has a certain organization, and it can even be said that it has roughly possessed some characteristics of modern political parties. If Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai are the "leaders" of the Restoration Society, then the "Organization Minister" of the Restoration Society is Sun Chun.

Scholars from all over the country, as long as their literary and political opinions were in line with the concept of the Restoration Society, Sun Chun would go to great lengths to persuade them to join the Society. It can be said that he single-handedly organized the entire organization of the Restoration Society. He is also directly responsible for the qualification review of those who apply for membership. In addition, a series of affairs, such as communication and assembly between the members of the Restoration Society, were almost all handled by him.

He did not have his own other business in Hangzhou, but stayed in Zhang Dai's other business. After dinner, a few friends looked through the newly purchased books together, and talked about the most haode Yunnan nv catechu to eat, and talked about it. Zhang Dai was originally interested in Australian things, and now that he was so embarrassed by Zhao Yin* in Wanbi Bookstore, he couldn't help but think of going to Guangzhou.

"Is Brother Zongzi really going to Guangli?" Wen Huai asked.

"My brother has had this wish - not for the Australians. I heard that the customs of Guangli are different from those of the Central Plains, and they are even more different from the south of the Yangtze River, and there are many strange people and strange goods overseas. My brother wanted to open his eyes, see the freshness, and then taste the local special products. Now that there are Australians again, of course, they want to see it more and more. Zhang Dai leaned on a couch, wearing loose Zen clothes, two special maids who were no more than fourteen or fifteen, one serving tea and the other peeling citrus with slender hands.

"It's a pity that last year's township test didn't get the test, and I had to close my studies. Otherwise, my brother also wants to go to Guangli with Ji to have a look. Wen Huai said with a smile. His gaze wandered a little over the two maids.

"Hehe," Zhang Dai laughed, "Brother Lushi, in last year's township test, I heard that there were a lot of people who walked joints, why don't you ask someone to talk about it?" It's a big deal, huā a few hundred taels of silver, why bother to read this chewed and chewed into slag? What kind of reputation can Baguwen get in the exam? ”

Wen Huai put away his smile: "Brother can't think of such a thing" He then smiled bitterly, "It's not that Brother is hypocritical, this Jiāo joint, the first must have the favor of the big man, and the second must have the silver of the white huāhuā." The younger brother is lacking both, even if he sells the land, there is no one in the middle, and he is helpless. ”

Sun Chun said with a smile: "Tianru has ordered the Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, and Zhou Ge Lao is highly recommended by our Fushe and Donglin, why should Brother Yanshi worry about not having a background in the future?" ”

After Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, was admitted to the second generation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the leaders of the Hanlin Academy, who were all high-level bureaucrats, and their official character was not high, but their political status was very high, and their future was immeasurable.

"I hope so." Wen Huai had a lonely expression on his face. Sun Chun knew that Wen Huai's mind as an official was very heavy, his family was just a middle-aged person, and he didn't have much property in the family, and he couldn't talk about how talented he was, if it weren't for the relationship with Zhang Dai's old acquaintances, I am afraid he would not be able to squeeze into this circle at all. After squeezing into this circle, all kinds of strong sense of disparity made him more and more eager to become an official to change his situation.

Sun Chun doesn't hate such a person, in his opinion, at least this person is self-motivated and willing to do things. If such a person can smoothly rise to the top and join the central and local bureaucracy, he will be able to continuously expand the influence of the Restoration Society, and then promote the political proposition of the Restoration Society in practice.

He silently considered whether to include him in the recommended list of the next Nanjing Township Examination? Of course, Sun Chun can't make the decision in this matter, but he has a lot of say.

Sun Chun returned to his room, asked the scholar to light a lamp, and immediately polished the ink and paper, and wrote a letter to Zhang Pu. The letter mentions the meeting in its original form. Includes some of his views on the books of Australians and their learning.

The Shilin in the south of the Yangtze River, in general, is still very shallow for Australians - those rare Australian goods from afar are certainly a sensation, but what Australians are like, what they do in the Qiongzhou area, etc., are still very vague concepts for many people. Although the news that the imperial army suffered a big defeat in Qiongzhou and that the Australians had entered the vicinity of Guangzhou had spread faintly, the result of Zuihou was all gone. I didn't hear of a large Australian army in action, and I didn't say that any state or county had fallen. Compared with the Luàn of Luàn, which is about to enter the end, it has less impact on Jiangnan Shilin. To some well-informed people, Australians seem to be the same kind of people as Zheng Zhilong or Red Máo.

Although the Fusha is a political group dominated by Jiangnan scholars, after all, it also includes scholars from all over the country. Through this nationwide network, Sun Chun actually acted as the intelligence head of the Restoration Society.

Nanxun is an important distribution center of raw silk in the south of Taihu Lake, and the commercial trade is very developed. Through the regular correspondence of merchants, he grasped the people's livelihood, officialdom, public opinion and banditry in many places. Therefore, it is also called "Sun Pusi" by the people in the society. He knows more about the situation in Guangdong than others.

Liu Shidou, who was originally raised in Nanhai County, Guangzhou, and who had just been admitted to the Jinshi this year, has always been friendly with the Fushe and has maintained close contact with Zhang Pu and others for a long time. The Australians' every move outside Guangzhou, including their actions in Qiongzhou, was transmitted to Sun Chun through Liu Shidou's letters.

Although the various deeds of the Australians are sometimes discussed in the core circle of the Restoration Society, in general, the Restoration Society does not have any specific attitude and stance towards the Australians -- after all, their current task is to "enter the gentleman and rebuke the villain", to clarify the government and establish a gentleman's dynasty. So whether it's the red máo, the Australians, the Jianyu, or the more and more fierce rogues, it's not the main thing they care about. In the eyes of many scholars, they are about to repel the villain, and they are in the court, which is to correct the fundamentals, and once the fundamentals are clear, it will not be difficult to cure these internal and external troubles.

But the current political situation in Donglin is not good. Although after Chongzhen ascended the throne, the eunuch party was expelled through a large-scale political liquidation, but the Yuan Chonghuan case in the second year of Chongzhen dealt a great blow to Donglin, and the eunuch party took the opportunity to fight back, as a result, Yuan Chonghuan was killed, Qian Longxi was exiled to Dinghai, Yuan Chonghuan's teacher Han Yi was forced to resign, and the Donglin faction lost two scholars. And then entered the cabinet Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren.

These two people, Zhou Yanru and the Donglin faction are friendly, but they have a deep relationship with the eunuch party, as for Wen Tiren, he once built the Wei Zhongxian Temple in Hangzhou and wrote poems praising Wei Zhongxian. It can be described as an authentic eunuch, but he is cautious and deep-witted, so he did not introduce eye-catching political activities during the Apocalypse, so he escaped the liquidation of the eunuch party in the early years of Chongzhen, and then used his relationship with Zhou Yanru to successfully enter the cabinet.

News of these activities came to Sun Chun in a steady stream through letters from officials of the Donglin faction in Beijing and scholars from the Fushe Society—some of which came faster than the news of the Imperial Court.

In terms of the resumption of the society, of course, he was not satisfied with Zhou Yanru's recruitment of Wen Tiren, a "eunuch", but Zhou Yanru was friendly to the Donglin faction after all, and when the Donglin faction lost its central power, it was very important to win Zhou Yanru's support.

At the moment, the main jīng strength of the Fusha is in this year's examination. After the Jinling Township Examination in the third year of Chongzhen, the Jinling Conference of the Restoration Society was held, which was the second meeting of the Restoration Society after the Yinshan Conference in the first year of Chongzhen.

In the Jinling Township Examination, Yang Tingshu, one of the central figures of the Restoration Society, learned about Yuan, and Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, also passed the examination. Although there was a stir among them, Xue Guoguan, who was of the Wen Tiren faction, was on the list of Wu Weiye, and instructed the imperial history to attack Zhou Yanru. But now it has largely subsided - and the restoration society has a big face: the emperor himself has seen Wu Weiye's palace examination papers, and his essay is extremely appreciative.

How to take advantage of this opportunity to expand the influence of the Fushe and Donglin in the imperial court, try to exclude Wen Tiren, the "remnants of the eunuch party", and ensure Zhou Yanru's "friendship" with the Fushe is the most concerned thing for the Fushe group at present. Sun Chun has also been busy around this matter recently. Originally, he didn't really care about this adventure in Wanbi Villa, but after he came back, he thought about it for a while, and felt that he should inform the main people in the society about this situation.

Australian books flowed into the Ming Dynasty. Sun Chun didn't care what kind of chūn palace books or anything like that—it was just a plaything. It's not a critical joint. However, he saw from the books "Chronicles of the Four Continents" and "The Beginning of the Theory of Light" that Yi Mén was on a par with the "Western Law" that the red máo priests and Confucian scholars boasted about, and even the more brilliant "Aoxue" was quietly knocking on the great mén of the Ming Dynasty.