Due to the Qing court's attraction of the Confucian scholar class, there were also people in the government who were easy to do, and the local government quickly recognized Tao Qian's qualifications. However, the Qing court recognized the qualifications of the Ming court as early as the first year of Shunzhi, that is, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, they said that the Ming court before Jiashen was the former dynasty, and the Ming court after Jiashen was a puppet dynasty, so they did not agree with the imperial examination of the Longwu Dynasty, and Tao Qian's identity as a person could only be done here.

Fortunately, with the qualifications of students, the preferential exemption was quickly completed - 80 acres of preferential and exempt fields can also be exempted from forced labor, and the government will also give money and food to let them study with peace of mind. These, although they are far from the 1,200 acres of people, but at least there is no need to start over, with this identity, their own old land, plus the donation, this time back is directly the identity of the landlord class. (Note)

In the following days, according to the situation of a normal student, he watched with envy and jealousy the freshly baked Jinshi of this year, and at the same time studied harder and waited for the big comparison period after three years. The preferential policy also gives them certain conveniences, so that they can spend more time on studying and less on making a living.

However, Tao Qian is not an idle person. His teacher had closed down and ceased to teach apprentices, and there was no gentleman who taught Confucian classics in this large area near the left. In this way, Xiucai Gong became Mr. Tao.

In Ganzhou Prefecture, with the fall of the four battalions of the Yama General Headquarters, the anti-Qing movement inevitably entered a low ebb, and the rule of the Qing court was constantly consolidated. In terms of being far away, but it is only across the Jianchang Mansion, Guangxin Mansion seems to be only a beat later than the rhythm of Nanjiang.

After nearly half a year of the Qing army in Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces, the situation of the **** Western Ming Army is getting worse and worse, and the front is retreating step by step. A month after the Jiangxi scholars who went to Nanao Island set off, the Qing army finally broke through an important checkpoint, and then drove straight in, dividing the Jiangxi Ming army into two.

This time, they received an order to completely exterminate the Ming army in Jiangxi. After dividing the two Ming armies, the Qing army adopted the strategy of first small and then large, and first concentrated on encircling and suppressing the headquarters of Pingjiang Bo Zhang Zisheng. Soon, Zhang Zisheng's Ming army was wiped out in front of the superior strength of the Qing army, and Zhang Zisheng was killed by the Qing army in a fierce battle.

After solving the Ming army under Zhang Zisheng, Jiangxi Governor Liu Guangbi and Jinhua General Ma Jinbao concentrated their superior forces to storm the Ming army's defense system with the Jianghushan camp in Guixi County as the core, slowly advancing and gradually breaking through. Subsequently, when Ning Hongbo and Hong Guoyu came to help, they even realized the encirclement and reinforcement, and broke the Ming army of Hong Guoyu's department in one fell swoop, and Hong Guoyu was captured by the Qing army.

In the following days, the outlying strongholds of the Jianghushan battalion were uprooted by the Qing army one by one, and the Dingnan Hou Cao Dahao organized several counterattack operations before and after, but in the end they were all declared defeated because of the disparity in strength or the large gap in combat effectiveness. At this moment, the Qing army had already killed in front of the Jianghu Mountain camp.

The roar of artillery fire seemed to have no gaps. The roaring artillery bombarded the front of the battalion, which had only been hastily reinforced to a limited extent not long ago, and each hit brought more than just shaking and falling off. A moment later, the heavy camp gate was savagely blasted open, and the Qing army rushed in, and in an instant, the shouts of killing shook the sky.

Standing in front of the gate of the humble governor's yamen, as far as Jiezhongxi's eyes could see, he had already entered the rhythm of the Qing army's slaughter of the Ming army and the people.

Cao Dahao was already dead, and died in the counterattack after the Qing army broke through the walled gate. The corpse fell on the ground not far away, but the head was no longer there, and it was cut down by the Qing army to receive a reward. As for his deputy Fu Dingquan, he should have hung the one-foot white silk on the beam at this moment.

In the distance, a group of Qing troops also seemed to have noticed that there was a big man here, and they were swarming to kill him. There was only a scholar and an old man beside him, holding a wooden stick and a paper umbrella, trembling, teeth clattering and fighting, but still winged beside him.

From the first year of Hongguang, the Qing army entered Jiangxi, until today, after exhausting his efforts and fighting hard for seven years, he failed to recover an inch of land. They lack a strategic direction that is in line with the current situation, even if it is only phased, and what they hold is nothing more than that enthusiasm. Now, after all, a lot of blood is going to be sprinkled on the ground, and there is the sadness of not succeeding in his chest, and the calmness of dying well, but among them, there is also some hope for the future, even if he is unlikely to see it.

"Come on, dog tartar. Today you can kill the old man, and the next day there will be that Chen Kai to take your life! ”

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In August, the news that the Qing army exterminated the main force of the Ming army in Jiangxi quickly spread throughout the southeast under the deliberate guidance of the Qing court, and the governor of Jiangxi, Jiezhongxi, the marquis of Dingnan, Cao Dahao, and Pingjiang Bo Zhang Zisheng were killed, Ning Hongbo and Hong Guoyu were captured and killed by the Qing army, and Fu Dingquan, the soldier of the military department, hanged himself in despair.

The main force of the Ming army in Jiangxi, which had been held for more than a year in Guangxin Mansion north of the Wuyi Mountains and Tuntian in the northeast of Jianchang Prefecture, was officially destroyed, and the Qing court spent several years of work, and even made a big mess like Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren anyway, and finally completed the extermination work against the large-scale anti-Qing movement in the province, just like in Zhejiang last year.

The news was sent to the Fujian Governor's Yamen as soon as possible, which was undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Fujian Qing army. And as this matter spread in Fujian officialdom, Zheng Chenggong's side quickly got the news, and even Chen Kai, who was in Guangdong, received the bad news after Zheng Chenggong.

The annihilation of friendly forces in neighboring provinces means a further deterioration of one's own strategic situation. Regardless of the side, it is only said that the Jinhua general soldier Ma Jinbao was out of the limelight in the battle to exterminate the Ming army in Jiangxi, and the Qing court announced that it would soon send Ma Jinbao to aid Fujian when it announced the extermination of the four major Kou in Jiangxi.

In addition, after He Tengjiao, the death of the three civil officials of the Ming court, who had greater appeal and binding power on the military generals of the local feudal towns - Qu Shiyun left behind in Guilin, Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang, and Jie Chongxi, the governor of Jiangxi, also caused a further decline in the Ming court's ability to control the local area. Even, there are still many original Ming troops in Huguang and Jiangxi who are still waiting for opportunities everywhere, but in Jiangxi, along with the death of Jiezhongxi, the entire Ming army in Jiangxi was annihilated, and the Jiangxi Anti-Qing Movement has fallen into an unprecedented trough. Perhaps, it will be silent forever.

In South Australia, Chen Kai received the news and announced it to those Jiangxi scholars who were undergoing training as soon as possible. Such bad news immediately made the classroom silent for a while, and then broke out in disbelief. However, most of them were involved in practical work in that Ming army, and they knew more or less about the actual situation of the Ming army in Jiangxi.

“…… The Tartars slaughtered and plundered in Guangxin Mansion and other places, and many of the old people in Guangxin Mansion died at the hands of the captive master, and the crime added by the captive master to them was nothing more than fornicating with the king. Among them, there are many who provide information and supply grain and grass to the king, but there are also some people who do not ask about the world. But under the butcher's knife of the Tartars, there is no difference! ”

"From this point of view, Wang Shi is a serious disadvantage in Jiangxi, and he has been under the pressure of heavy troops for a long time. This year, there are even more Ma Jinbao's forces, and the strength of the captives has doubled, whether it is Dingnanhou or Pingjiangbo, their defense areas are being continuously compressed. It is not inconceivable that there will be today's results......"

A local scholar from Guangxin Mansion couldn't cry when he said this. The Qing army's suppression of the three provincial capitals, and even the previous encirclement and suppression, caused particularly great damage to the local people's livelihood. With this method, which was almost like killing a thousand by mistake rather than letting one go, the Qing army undermined the order at the grassroots level, and also made it impossible for the Ming army in Jiangxi to rely on the advantage of the people's will to obtain more resources, and finally fell to the state of destruction in the continuous encirclement and suppression.

At this moment, one person is crying, and even though it resonates with everyone. Weeping and tears are intertwined, and what they suffer is not only those familiar acquaintances who were slaughtered and uncertain about their life and death, but also the Jiangxi Anti-Qing Movement that is about to be destroyed.

"Do you remember why you are here?"

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the question on the podium could be described as deafening, and everyone present was restrained by this questioning The impulse and inertia to continue crying continued.

Seeing this, Chen Kai suddenly remembered what he had said to Tao Qian, then took a deep breath and repeated it to the students in front of him:

"Taishi has a cloud, people are inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hongmao. To die for the interests of the Han people and for the great cause of the rejuvenation of China is heavier than Mount Tai; To die for the tartars, for the beasts that cruel the people and oppress the people, is lighter than a feather. Governor Jie, as well as those gentry and soldiers who fought desperately and bloody with the Tartars, raised grain and grass for the king's division and collected intelligence, and were brutally killed, they all died in order to achieve the revival of China, and their deaths were undoubtedly heavier than Mount Tai! ”

Note: The content of the preferential exemption policy comes from the "New Rules of Preferential Exemption" revised in the 38th year of Wanli, and there were repeated reforms in the Qing Dynasty, but it was mainly concentrated in the period when Kang Yongqian's control was strong.