Loyal and filial piety, recruit the general, and succeed in the surname of the guilty minister!

Last year, in the second year of Longwu, Zheng Zhilong, who was relied on by the Longwu court as Mount Tai, descended to the Qing Dynasty, and Emperor Longwu was martyred in Tingzhou, Fujian, and the Qing army swept the land of Fujian and Guangdong.

After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army treacherously plundered it north, and at the same time captured Anping Town, the old nest of the Zheng family, and Zheng Chenggong's mother died in this battle. Zheng Chenggong then arrived, collected the corpse of his mother, burned Confucian scarves and shirts in front of the Confucius Confucian Temple, and vowed to fight to the death with the Qing army. Next, Zheng Chenggong took more than 90 loyal subordinates to the south by boat, took over the troops of the South Australia Association from Zheng Zhilong's old department Chen Bao, and announced the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in front of the Nanao General Town Mansion, which was such a banner full of guilt.

And the twenty-three-year-old young man sitting at the top is the national hero who fought against the Manchu national oppression on the southeast coast for more than ten years and recovered Taiwan from the Dutch colonists, the national surname is Zheng Chenggong!

Theoretically, Zheng Chenggong is not surnamed Zheng now, and Emperor Longwu gave him the surname of the country, and the government and the opposition are called the surname of the country or the surname of the country. Chen Kai has seen some articles and videos explaining ancient etiquette on the Internet, and he is like a ritual, but he can't find any mistakes or omissions. What's more, Zheng Chenggong didn't plan to pick anything, and when he saw that Chen Kai finished saluting, he said "no courtesy" and asked Chen Kai to stand up and reply.

"Dare to ask when Mr. will pass the house test?"

"The student has never taken the government exam."

"Dare to ask when Mr. passed the county exam?"

"The students have never taken the county exam."

In the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties, if you want to get the identity of Xiucai, you must first pass the county examination, then pass the government examination, and finally pass the hospital examination to achieve it. Those who have not passed the hospital examination are not talented, they are all children. As Chen Kai replied, they have never even participated in the imperial examination, and some people will not even identify with the identity of children.

Zheng Chenggong asked, Chen Kai's answer did not change, and he didn't care about his "semi-literate" status, which really made Zheng Chenggong frown, as if there was still a little disappointment mixed in between.

Chen Kai can see all this clearly, but what he knows even more clearly is that the Zheng family in Shijing, Nan'an, has been dealing with the sea for generations, and Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, is a sea merchant and pirate who monopolizes the coastal trade of Fujian and Guangdong. However, with such a family background, Zheng Chenggong has passed the imperial examination, passed the Xiucai, entered the Nanjing Guozijian, and is still a disciple of Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Southeast Wenzong.

In other words, if you haven't read the book of sages or not, whether you can write eight strands, Zheng Chenggong doesn't need to find any staff to test at all, he is a scholar himself, and he can understand Chen Kai's details in just a few words. Since lying on this doesn't even have the slightest chance of passing, it's better to be honest, even if it will disappoint them, it's better than being treated as a small work.

The disappointment was fleeting, and after the seniority among the scholars, Zheng Chenggong asked: "Since Mr. is from Shanxi, dare to ask how he came to this place at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong?" ”

Zheng Chenggong's question seems simple, but in fact it is the most important part of the temptation - in ancient times, there were no railways, no highways, and no airplanes, and most of the lives of ordinary people were within a hundred miles of their hometowns. Whether it is really from such a far away place in Shanxi, as long as you casually ask what you have seen and heard along the way, you can easily distinguish it.

"If you return to the country with the surname of the master, the student heard that the first emperor was on the throne in his hometown last year, and in the early years, I heard my father mention that the first emperor had raised troops to serve the king when he was in the domain, and he also fought with the rogue, so he decided to go south to serve."

The first emperor Chen Kai refers to is none other than Emperor Longwu, who gave Zheng Chenggong his surname. During the Chongzhen period, the Qing army broke the gap, Longwu had raised troops to Qin Wang, did not meet the Qing army, and when he returned to the fiefdom, he fought several battles with the peasant army, and won and lost each other. Because this matter also violated Chongzhen's taboo, was demoted to a commoner, and was confined in Fengyang, it is impossible for Zheng Chenggong not to know. The fief of the Tang Dynasty was in Henan, not too far from Shanxi, and he had a good impression of Longwu, and he heard that Longwu was the emperor and came to serve, so he had a reasonable motive.

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong couldn't help but nodded. Seeing this, Chen Kai made persistent efforts and said: "The student's family is a businessman from Taiyuan Mansion, out of Datong Mansion, the student went all the way south, and then took a boat into the canal to the south, arrived in Hangzhou, inquired about the route and then turned to Zhejiang. It wasn't until he arrived in Quzhou that he heard the news that the first emperor had been martyred. However, the sage said: In the city of ten rooms, there will be faithfulness. With this in mind, the students decided to continue their journey south. When the students arrived in Quanzhou, they heard that the first emperor treated the country with the courtesy of a horse, and the country surname returned his loyalty, so he decided to come to serve in front of the army. ”

If you are a businessman, you will have a better chance of understanding the road than ordinary people; All the way by boat, what you see and hear along the way can be vague.

When he made up his mind, Chen Kai had already calculated these things clearly, and on the way here, he carefully and repeatedly calculated clearly, and with the help of Emperor Longwu's influence on Zheng Chenggong to establish a psychological connection, the persuasiveness would be greatly increased.

Chen Kai said a word, and stood there quietly, waiting for Zheng Chenggong's response. Compared with Chen Kai's composure, Zheng Chenggong's expression was a little complicated, but he didn't show it too much, but after a little glance at the two middle-aged generals, he showed his concern about what Chen Kai had seen and heard along the way.

"The students came in a hurry, and all they saw was a peek at the leopard, and they didn't get the full picture. Since the surname of the country is interested in listening to it, the students should know everything and say everything. ”

Chen Kai's attitude was very good, and Zheng Chenggong also responded with encouragement. But at this moment, Zheng Chenggong's body inevitably leaned forward.

"In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the thieves crossed the border, waited for the captive division to enter the customs, the thieves withdrew to Shaanxi, Jiang Pin, Tang Tong, Chen Yongfu and other people who surrendered to the captive division, and the captive court sent people to surrender to all parts of Shanxi, and Shanxi Province changed the king's flag at the head of the city that year. In the past few years, the officials of the captive court have been rampant in Shanxi, and the captives have looted too much, which can be called an all-evil one. ”

Chen Kai didn't know much about the situation in Shanxi, so he didn't say much at all. But in the textbooks and some of the articles he read at the beginning, there are clear records of content that can attract the attention of Zheng Chenggong and others.

The students headed east, taking advantage of the canal and heading south. However, the land of Kifu was devastated and devastated. The local and surrounding people were even detained in the banner village by the law of surrender, degraded to flag slaves, clothed, and wantonly killed and abused. The people were humiliated and fled in large numbers, and the captives set up a law to flee, and they were arrested and implicated......"

Enclosing land, surrendering, and fleeing, coupled with shaving hair, changing clothes, and the relocation and forbidden sea that have not yet been enforced, all kinds of evil laws in the early Qing Dynasty can be said to be written with the blood of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even millions of people at every turn. Compared with the one-size-fits-all damage of the slaughter of the city, the continuous killing of Chinese civilization caused by these evil methods is not so conspicuous, but it is not inferior to the former at all.

In Fujian, which is located in the southeast, Zheng Chenggong has heard of these things, but he is limited to the level of communication in this era, and he knows very little about the details, and it is even difficult to say that these concepts are connected to form a visual understanding of the Manchu colonial rule. At this point, through history, Chen Kai can see more clearly, and in Zheng Chenggong's eyes, it is naturally understood that he was really in the middle of it.

"When the students passed through Cangzhou, they also saw that some fugitives were arrested, and even those who harbored them were to be executed, and their wives' property was confiscated." Speaking of this, Chen Kai paused for a moment, and then said: "This way, there are ruins and broken walls everywhere, which can be described as full of devastation. Especially in Yangzhou, I once remembered that there were poems in the predecessors: wrapped around the waist for 100,000 yuan, riding a crane down to Yangzhou, but unfortunately the blossoming flowers may not be able to recover for decades. ”

"Hey."

He sighed, then shook his head with a wry smile. Chen Kai is like this, and Zheng Chenggong also thought of the blood and fire in Anping Town a few months ago, and let out a heartfelt sigh.

"Since Mr. Chen is a scholar, how can he dress like this?"

Dress up?

Chen Kai looked down at the clothes on his body, not only was it one size smaller, but it was also a short fight worn by ordinary people, not the scholar's shirt or Taoist robe that Confucian scholars were accustomed to wearing in the late Ming Dynasty, which was indeed a little weird.

Seeing this, Chen Kai couldn't help but smile bitterly: "If you return to China and have the surname of the master, the student encountered robbers on the road a few days ago, perhaps for the sake of the student being a scholar, he did not take the student's life." But the clothes and belongings on his body were swept away, and even this set of clothes was from the hands of the two righteous men who sent the students here. ”

The collapse of the Ming army and the sweep of the Qing army swept the land of Fujian and Guangdong, and the main prefectures and counties were naturally in the hands of the Qing army, while the countryside was more of the people who formed villages to protect themselves and the bandits who killed people and goods. What Chen Kai said is not impossible, coupled with his previous answers, Zheng Chenggong did not continue to dwell too much on similar issues.

"Zheng San, prepare two sets of shirts for Mr. Chen."

Zheng Chenggong gave an order, and a housekeeper-like figure outside the gate hurriedly walked in, looked Chen Kai's height and body up and down, and then took the order to leave.

"Xie Guo's surname is Ye."

With this order, Chen Kai couldn't help but feel relieved in his heart. However, this time it was also fleeting, and then he bowed his hand, and then said to Zheng Chenggong: "The student is presumptuous, dare to ask the surname of the country if he can borrow ten taels of silver from the student?" ”