Speaking of which, Liu Ximing really admires Zhang Pu and others, although the Fushe is from Donglin, it is more open-minded than the people in Donglin, and it is more focused on doing practical things.

This is also why after the end of the Hongguang Dynasty, most of the uprisings in Jiangnan were led by the Fushe Zhongren.

Of course, limited by the restrictions of the times, what Zhang Pu and others did was just a matter of seeking fish.

In particular, they actually expected to control the government by blackmailing Zhou Yanru, which in Liu Ximing's view was like a child playing at home, which shows the immaturity of the political thinking of the people in the Fushe Society.

However, at this time, the practices of Zhang Pu and others gave Liu Ximing a good excuse.

Compared with Liu Ximing's unclear intentions, Zhang Pu's plan is obviously worse, as the so-called tolerable or unbearable, Chen Zilong also groaned.

Liu Ximing didn't give them a chance to think more, but directly persuaded: "A gentleman does things out of his own heart, as long as I wait for the country and the people, even if something goes wrong, it will not be harmful to the world, as for the details, don't be too stubborn, I don't know if the brother thinks so?" ”

Chen Zilong bared his teeth and inhaled, and said again the concerns he had told Gu Yanwu before.

Who knew that Liu Ximing laughed again.

"Brother among people, how can there be an immutable reason in the world, if this is the case, why do you need Dong Zhongshu's theory of heaven and man to supplement Confucianism, Ercheng, Zhu Zi and others have greatly elaborated on Confucianism, isn't this all a rebellious move."

"Besides, it is not nonsense that my Datong Society is based on Gewu, the university has a saying, Gewu Zhizhi, sincerity and righteousness, if Gewu Zhizhi is also all about studying moral principles, then why bother to say the words sincerity and righteousness."

"It can be seen that the sages have already made it clear that as a gentleman, he must first study the principles of the operation of everything in the world, one is to understand the way of heaven, and the other is to promote social development, but only studying physics is easy to make people deviate, and it is necessary to be sincere and righteous in order to benefit the world......"

Liu Ximing is no longer Wuxia Ameng, with the help of Huang Zonghui and others, Datong Theory has perfectly realized the standard of Tuogu's words.

After saying this, not only Gu Yanwu, Huang Chunyao and others nodded again and again when they heard this, but Chen Zilong finally admitted that his concerns were indeed a little biased.

Seeing that it was not easy to attract Chen Zilong and others into the hub, Liu Ximing held back his excitement and sent out an invitation again:

"Brother Taichong and others have made it clear that they want to join the Datong Society, and the younger brother invites the middle brother and you to join the society as the president of the Datong Society, I don't know what everyone thinks?"

"I'm willing!"

Gu Yanwu's young face showed a hint of excitement, and when he shouted loudly, he drew a good-natured chuckle in the room.

The relationship that Liu Ximing had painstakingly managed for several years finally came to harvest, and with Chen Zilong's nod, it marked the beginning of the merger of most of the elite in the Fushe with the Datong Society.

However, Chen Zilong and others at this time were quite similar to the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and there were those who took care of both sides.

Since the Fushe is not a political party in the formal sense, Liu Ximing did not ask them to sever their ties with the Fushe.

During this period, the matter of epidemic prevention and salt administration was also progressing in an orderly manner.

The whole province of Henan did not expect that Liu Ximing, the governor of the Central Plains, would act so quickly, and it only took a month to not only set up a salt protection team of 3,000 people, but also a large number of salt sales began to appear in the Han Yuan merchants and other shops in the streets and alleys.

By May, the price of salt in Henan Province had dropped from one tael or two cents per stone to five cents of silver per stone, and for a time the people of Henan Province were full of praise for Liu Ximing.

Of course, not everyone is so happy.

Kaifeng Mansion Zhou Wangfu.

The current king of Zhou, Zhu Gongyu, was receiving a few guests with a heavy face.

Zhu Gongqi is 60 years old this year, but his privileged life makes the traces of his old age not obvious, except for the gray hair on his temples and the wrinkles on his brows, he is no different from a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties.

In the gorgeous flower hall of the Zhou Palace, Zhu Gongyu sat on the main seat in a big red prince's clothes, and on his left was Gao Feihan, the political envoy of Henan Zuobu, who was disguised by a black robe, and on the right were three middle-aged men who did not say a word as if they were outsiders.

The Ming Dynasty did not allow the magistrates to communicate with the vassal king, and if Gao Feihan's move was known to the imperial court, he was afraid that he would be arrested in Beizhen Fusi immediately.

However, at this time, Gao Feihan obviously didn't care about these anymore, and he said to Zhu Gongqiao, the king of Zhou, with an anxious face:

"Lord Wang, the matter is urgent, who would have thought that this new Amber is so capable, only a month of hard work, Guangdong salt will flood the whole province of Henan, if the prince does not make a move, the benefits of the salt industry in Henan will have nothing to do with us from now on."

He pointed to the three people on Zhu Gongyu's right side: "The Lin family, the Wang family, and the Li family are all ready, and they will be transferred to the salt envoy under the command of Xin Anbo in the near future, but the three of them are weak after all, and I am afraid that the prince still needs to come to preside." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, please also ask the prince to preside", King Lin and several others, who came with Gao Feihan, hurriedly echoed.

Zhou Wangfu has been in Henan since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is already the eleventh generation of Zhu Gongqiao, and the end is a tree with deep roots.

Although the first ancestor Zhou Dingwang Zhu Hu handed over the three guards in order to protect himself, but in the past few hundred years, the Zhou Wangfu is still secretly making a lot of things in order to make money.

Henan is adjacent to Hedong, and the salt trade is a big piece of fat, which of these vassal kings does not want to take a bite.

Seeing the behavior of Gao Feihan and the others, Zhu Gongyu was annoyed in his heart, this is the idea of hitting his head, what is the use of the fuck raising you.

I have long heard that this new Amber is quite a saint, and Zhu Gongqi doesn't want to have a conflict with this big celebrity, but who would have thought that Liu Ximing would take the fat of Yanzheng as soon as he came up, and Zhou Wangfu would have to do it if he didn't make a move.

is worthy of being one of the few princes in the old Zhu family who dares to pay money to defend the city, Zhu Gongyu made up his mind after a little thought.

He slapped his palms twice, and the person who looked like the leader of the guards standing outside the door of the flower hall pushed the door in.

"If there is anything to tell Zhang Duan, remember, if the matter is leaked, this king will not admit that it is the manpower of my Zhou Palace."

Zhu Gongqi said to Gao Feihan and the others and left, where would he be involved in this kind of thing, naturally it was all the people below to do it.

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Although Liu Ximing claimed to have formed a 3,000-strong salt protection team, in fact, he changed all the 20,000-strong 105th Division.

However, contrary to people's imagination, the salt guards did not go all over Henan to crack down on smuggled salt dealers, but instead stopped in various cities to protect Han Yuan merchants and other shops and key salt transportation channels.

The reason for this is that the salt transported by the Liu family from Luzon, Taiwan and other places is inexpensive, and the smugglers are powerless to resist the Liu family's dumping war, so the main purpose of the salt protection team is to prevent these dogs from jumping off the wall in a hurry.

On the seventh day of July, Luoyang.

In the east market at the east end of the city, the hustle and bustle of white gradually dissipated, and the people and small traders and vendors who were busy with their livelihoods quickly packed up their things, went home and closed the door.

As soon as the time for supper arrived, the whole East Market began to fall silent, and a warm breeze blew, bringing up pieces of shredded paper on the ground.

On Pinglan Street in Dongshi, the husband of the watchman disappeared into the street, and a string of figures kept flashing in the shadows at the end of the street.

Under the moonlight, the gang was all dressed in black, masked with cloth, and their whereabouts were quite mysterious.

There were as many as 100 people in this group, and they seemed to be very familiar with the terrain, and a group of people went straight to a few shops in the east city center with signs such as Hanyuan and Hengshun.

When they arrived in front of the store with an obvious decoration style, one of the leaders of the men in black waved his hand without hesitation, and a group of his subordinates immediately surrounded the firewood and other things they were holding.

Seeing that several shops were tightly surrounded by firewood, the leader let out a cruel laugh, and suddenly took out a fire fold from his arms and lit it and threw it on.

The firewood drenched in fire oil burst into a huge amount at once, instantly enveloping the entire shop in a tongue of fire.

Seeing that they had succeeded, the group of men in black did not stop for half a minute, and ran towards the street corner again.

In a small building opposite the Han Yuan firm, Wei Jingguo, who was sent to Luoyang to sit down, sneered and put down the telescope in his hand.

"Damn, I've finally waited for you turtle grandsons to come out."