"Confucius is nine feet long and six inches, and everyone is different from each other, that is to say, with the measurement method of the Spring and Autumn Period, he is probably a little taller than me, and Confucius's strength, the gate of the country, more than sixty years old, can still drive wildly, it can be said that he is not a weak scholar, but a correcting warrior, but why after so many years, the disciples and grandchildren have become the virtue in front of them."

"My ......"

"Today I am speaking, all of you are Confucian scholars who spit lotus flowers, and they also know that the oracle bone research of the imperial capital is undergoing the engineering research of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, which is a big project that lasts for decades, I believe that when the time comes, many classics can be excavated, at least, the book of Shangshu should be a fake book, there is no doubt about it."

That's right, according to the information of later generations, the so-called Shangshu in the Four Books and Five Classics is a forgery of the descendants of Confucius, which has been perfectly verified in the Tsinghua Jian Interpretation Project.

This is a huge poison point, those neo-Confucians, who preach every day that Chinese must abolish mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and that they can obtain the so-called salvation of the soul by kneeling down to Confucius every day, are naturally slandered in every way, but in the face of science, they are weak.

Li Xiangqian took out a lot of things and showed them to these people, and after eating a meal, he only talked about learning, and talked about how if Confucius arrived today, he was afraid that he would wield a sword, and he didn't know who he would kill.

Beginning with the bombing of the "peacemakers" outside Nanjing, the people in the south of the Yangtze River who officially lost their sincerity reached their peak, and the princes from all walks of life soon discovered that their own families had completely become the commanders of the light poles.

It's trifled, of course.

In this era, how to jump, how to conspire, can not be seen, in the distance a terrible beast is slowly approaching, the name of this beast is called, industrialization.

Xia Yunyi finally arrived at the imperial capital when the Elders' Association was making great strides to exert its influence in Jiangnan.

In the past few years, it is considered a year of more major events in Xia Yunyi, because Nanming has never encountered a military attack from the north, but those officials who are becoming more and more excessive are becoming more and more unscrupulous, so he has devoted more energy to living his life, and all kinds of new things in the imperial capital have entered his sight without difficulty, from the initial hesitation, surprise and fear, to later slowly began to understand the logical calculation.

During this period, his son Xia Wanchun officially got married, after he got his wish, this year, as a famous man of Song Jiang, the whole Shanghai can no longer get rid of the terrible influence of the imperial capital due to the direct shipping action of the imperial capital, whether it is begging to leave the Xia family, more and more people go to the dock to beg for a living, and the standard of living is also rumored to be more and more evil, as a manual laborer, to ensure an egg diet every day, even if he himself basically can't do it. I didn't expect that when the south of the Yangtze River was in chaos, the people in the north actually didn't send troops, and the rumors that the literati in the countryside had at the beginning and that the imperial capital would attack from the sea, with the new goods that every household obtained, there was gradually no market, and the philistines were the first evaluation of Xia Yunyi's elders in the imperial capital.

At that time, when the rumors were at their worst, he collected a group of township party members and prepared to go to Nanjing City to meet the thieves in the north, and saw how powerful those rogues were, and actually defeated the entire imperial capital, even the thieves Li Zicheng and the Eight Banners who were hated by countless gentry were defeated in their hands, and the entire north basically fell into their hands.

Originally, with Xia Yunyi's idea, a group of strange people with strange powers and various strange legends used methods similar to the White Lotus Sect to occupy the imperial capital, and then quickly went against the grain, attacked and killed themselves, which of course would bring Nanming a chance, in his opinion, with the imperial court upright, the prince would live in the imperial capital openly, and fight directly, isn't that, when the time comes......

But Xia Yunyi he is just a person, after his Chen Tiao was sent into the city of Nanjing, he sank into the sea, although several adults will say all kinds of extravagant words and other things every day, but that is to fool the emperor, really to himself, that is to ignore these little people, at that time the military power of the imperial capital can be said to be a peak, inexplicably eliminated Li Zicheng of the imperial capital, as well as the Eight Banners who conspired to enter the customs, it can be said that the battle has reached the highest peak, and to the Northern Expedition, at least tens of thousands of troops must be prepared, countless money and food, The question is, who will lead the troops.

Whoever leads the troops, in the face of the powerful military peaks in the north, will mutter, and then look behind him, and find that the city of Nanjing, which gave him a salary before, is such a weak chicken, why not just swing the knife and kill it back and be the emperor himself.

After the Northern Expedition could not be done, Xia Yunyi discussed with many people, and they all thought that if it went on like this, it would be to sit back and wait, and that it would not be possible to go on the Northern Expedition, at least strive for a confrontation between the north and the south, and divide the river to rule, but that meant that it was necessary to attack the Jianghuai, and the so-called defense of the river must defend the Huai, and that was the case.

Just as for Jiangnan, once a large army is sent to the Northern Expedition, then the leader of this army, in the face of the strong enemy of the Northern Expedition and the weak chickens in the rear, makes the wisest choice is basically to fight back directly, isn't it good to be the emperor himself.

However, those ministers, although they also understand these truths, but this proposal costs too much money, and it is simply thrown directly into the paper basket, and his proposal is not successful, why not take advantage of the absence of the imperial court to directly start corruption and corruption, as for the accumulation of grass and grain to build an army, it is simply nonsense.

However, in the past few years, Xia Yunyi still gave great attention to the imperial capital forces in the north, and in the summer of last year, he even took a special trip for more than 20 days, personally took a few domestic slaves, disguised himself as a trader, and took a great "risk" to sneak into the Shanghai port area for a short circle.

And this trip, the elders' meeting caused him a great shock, so that Xia Yunyi can not calm down for a long time, because he saw the scene in Xia Yunyi's jurisdiction, it can be said that there is a difference between heaven and earth with the scene of the Ming Dynasty's control area, as a native of Songjiang Mansion, and many scholars are friends, he has seen and heard a lot, and more to the world as his own responsibility, in the past few years he has traveled all over the north and south of the Yangtze River, it can be said that he is quite familiar with the situation in the Ming Dynasty, of course, he knows what kind of life the people live.

In the Chongzhen era, because the imperial court had to cope with the growing military salary expenditure year after year, and constantly increased the salary, it naturally pressed the money on the people at the bottom, forcing the people to make ends meet, and had to abandon the land and flee, and then catch up with the natural disasters in recent years, and the imperial court and government were also unable to help, and even turned a blind eye, so the world was in chaos, and the displaced people rebelled one after another, at least in the north, and the small-scale rebellion in the south has hardly stopped. There is hardly any scene where ordinary people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are homeless people everywhere and bandits everywhere.

But what surprised Xia Yunyi was not the machines and big ships in the port, but once again saw the scene of the long-lost people living and working in peace and contentment, everyone had a job to do, and the food they ate was also a very fine ration, which made him have to make up his mind that he must go to the north this year to see.

After arriving in Tianjin by boat, the modern decoration and layout surprised him, in order to avoid being deceived, only allowed him to see the best scenery, he stayed in Tianjin for many days, and the nearby states and counties also went to see, the farmland on both sides of the road is constantly appearing, full of various crops, due to the village plan, the village is much less, and the labor force that is attracted away also makes the population pressure in the countryside reduced, and more inclined to plant various cash crops, Xia Yunyi even saw more than a dozen acres of land being used to plant flowers, and asked the old farmer, actually said that someone ordered it in the imperial capital, and the price was quite a lot.

Although he secretly scolded the elders of the imperial capital for being arrogant and lascivious, but looking at the peaceful and happy people everywhere, or chatting and laughing, although they were still wearing tattered clothes (Xia Yunyi regarded the T-shirt as some kind of raged clothes), but the Ming Dynasty was also like this, he saw a lot of poor people without clothes, but his face was ruddy, and he was very healthy, and in the afternoon, a team of children running fast, although noisy, showed that their life here can basically be fed and clothed, and there is still enough energy to feed the scholars, I am more satisfied with the current life, which is a rare sight to see in other places.

And what surprised Xia Yunyi even more was that since he entered the area controlled by the imperial capital, he no longer saw any homeless beggars begging along the road with their families and mouths, and he remembered that according to the legend, the emperor was not allowed to beg, and the beggars were sent to some overseas places, and in some places in Tianjin and the imperial capital, special areas were opened up to accommodate the displaced people for the displaced people who poured into the areas controlled by them for temporary resettlement, and then special personnel would give them porridge to ensure that they would no longer starve to death, and then send them to a certain place for diversion and evacuation as appropriate.

You can't see the scene of dead bodies starving everywhere on the side of the road in other places, and even if there are homeless people who die of disease, there are special people who are responsible for collecting their bodies, or burying them deeply, or burning them.

With Xia Yunyi's deepening, he also found that the relationship between the public security and the military and the people here was incredible, he got up early and walked in one place, sighed at the scenery of the north, and ran to meet a group of young men in military uniforms and short hair, bluffing his legs trembling, hoping that they would only rob their own money and not harm their lives, but the group of young men did not pay attention to him at all, but ran directly over, according to an old farmer, those young men have to run a long way every morning, at first it looks scary, and then no one is afraid.

And there are no robbers here at all, all kinds of traders can walk freely in the north, there is no need to be like other places, if you want to trade, you must form a gang or hire a strong man to escort, here to do business small merchants and hawkers, one or two people dare to walk at night, this situation also shows that the public security situation in the imperial capital is good, basically eliminated the bandits in its territory, this is already a good luck.

Xia Yunyi prepared in advance and asked for the seal of a Songjiang firm, but no one cared about him, he stayed in Tianjin for many days, and after some observation, he had to praise it and continue to go north with his son.

It is precisely because the Xingtian Army has achieved effective management in the area under its jurisdiction, so that the people here have land and food, so it has attracted a large number of displaced people from other places to pour into the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, so the population density in the area controlled by the Xingtian Army is large, don't look at the mountainous land here, there is very little flat land, a rough calculation, can almost top the population of several counties in other places, how much food does this have to produce, in order to feed so many people! On the other hand, it more fully shows that the Xingtian Army has its own set of effective management methods for the areas under its control.

As Xia Yunyi went deeper and deeper into the territory of the Presbyterian Church, the more things he understood, the strategy of the Presbyterian Council was simply too simple, for areas that could not be controlled, the use of money offensive, the construction of railways and roads, the expansion of the level of communication, and the increase of human resource costs, made the recruitment of tenants to farm land become more than worth the loss, and many landlords could only bite the bullet and find their own way to farm, or simply sell land to survive. Hebei's agriculture has also begun to move towards a situation where cash crops are dominant, which makes it even more impossible for tenants to farm. Except for those who don't eat the old, small farms are the best way out.

After communicating with the people here, Xia Yunyi learned that the Council of Elders really does not collect agricultural taxes, which brought him a shock that can be imagined, although as a lifter, no one collects his taxes, but this itself is a bad government, in the face of Emperor Chongzhen, the Confucian scholars also asked for money, but always lamented the difficulties of the people's livelihood, but they refused to raise taxes on their own people.

All kinds of projects have been done, there are many job opportunities, and you can go overseas to get the land, but the people don't have to worry about making ends meet, and the harvested grain is full of granaries, and some old grain is even three or four years ago.

When he saw this, Xia Yunyi was really completely shocked, there is no great Confucian government on the imperial capital so far, everyone knows that those great Confucians who are thieves in the imperial capital are just idle foils, and the elder army, as a rebel, can take care of the territory they control like this, even if it is the life of ordinary people, it is comparable to the rich households in Jiangnan, this comparison, people have to be ashamed At the same time, they want to go and see the imperial capital.

Jiangnan scholars came to the imperial capital, naturally to worship the tomb of Chongzhen first, with the bulldozer and excavator of the presbyterian church to build an imperial mausoleum itself is not difficult, considering the tourism resources of the Ming Tombs, it still took a lot of thought.

Xia Yunyi could even hear the dialects of many places, and they all sat in the car with a reverent face.