I received a detailed message from the west in the early morning of early May.

Shortly after the night of April 30, Li Pin talked about current affairs with several like-minded young Confucian scholars until late at night, and his mood was somewhat generous. After midnight, it was May, and when he was about to go to bed, the steward knocked on the bedroom door and handed the news of the battle of Hanzhong.

The night in Fuzhou is clear, and it is already summer, and the climate is pleasant. After reading the message, Li Pin sat under the banyan tree in the courtyard for a long time, knowing that this night, many people, including him, might not be able to sleep.

The situation is still tense, and despite the influx of people in Fuzhou, resettlement areas have been divided, and a curfew is still in place at night. At this time, he can get the information, there are some members of the Eldest Princess's Mansion and the Secret Investigation Division, and naturally, His Majesty in the palace will never miss such news.

He could somewhat imagine the mood of the young majesty towards the message in front of him.

In the past, the Wu Dynasty took a lot of wrong paths, if according to Mr. Ning, it owed a lot of debts and left countless messes, so that it once even came to a desperate situation of existential existence. Up to now, only the "orthodox" endgame of being in Fujian is left, and in many respects, it can even be called self-inflicted.

However, since succeeding to the throne in Jiangning last year, the new Majesty who founded the country with the name of "revitalization" has indeed given people a glimmer of hope in a desperate situation. After arriving in Fuzhou, many of the practices of this young majesty will make the old guards unaccustomed, but in the eyes of more people, the many measures of the new monarch show vigorous vigor and determined vitality.

Here, Li Pin may be the person who has followed all the way and can see the people most clearly.

From Jiangning's bravery in the decisive battle, to the guilt in the journey, after arriving in Fuzhou, a large number of things, Jun Wu personally did a lot of things, he would arrive at the scene of the refugees, inquire in detail about the resettlement procedures thereafter, and also take the initiative to ask the refugees who moved from other places about their hopes in the future, during this period, he was even assassinated by assassins several times.

In April, people erected a stone monument on the northwest square of Fuzhou to commemorate the dead people of Jiangnan in the Jurchen southward journey. These behaviors did not conform to the rules of the Ministry of Etiquette, but Junwu didn't care.

After the sacrifice, when an assassin attempted to assassinate, Junwu had the captured assassin brought to the stone tablet and told him face to face that he wanted to assassinate him, and then the assassin was killed.

These approachable or hands-on, or iron-blooded and upright actions can only be regarded as external appearances. If there is only this, people in high positions will not have too high a high opinion of him, but what makes him feel stable is the various details under this appearance.

After arriving in Fuzhou, the court led by Junwu first carried out the statistics of all the money, grain and materials below, and at the same time, ordered the original officials of Fuzhou to cooperate with the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry to hand over and review the list of all craftsmen in Fuzhou. Fuzhou was originally a good port, the shipbuilding industry of the Wu Dynasty was the most developed here, Jun Wu was the prince when he paid attention to craftsmen, things and other things, everyone did not think it was strange at first, but at the end of March and early April, the initial integration of the household officials began to carry out a new round of population statistics, household Qi people.

After Junwu arrived in Fuzhou, he carefully selected officials to enter the court, and on the other hand, he was more concerned about the integration of the official team.

Since the second half of last year, the Wu Dynasty has faced disintegration, and Junwu has broken through all the way from Jiangning, and he has many people with him. Although it is said that the lives of the people are not divided into three, six, nine, etc., but in the case of having to choose, Junwu still gives priority to ensuring the lives of those masters, shopkeepers, and craftsmen who can write and calculate and have a skill.

After arriving in Fuzhou in batches, the master shopkeepers who could write and calculate were mostly compiled into the household department, and the names of the craftsmen were included in the Ministry of Industry. It may seem cumbersome to compile households, but it has always been the surest way for the regime to strengthen its control at the bottom.

At the beginning of the year, Tie Sanwu controlled the Fuzhou regime, Zhou Pei, Cheng Zhouhai and others secretly operated, united with local forces to cut off Tie Sanwu's head, and easily took Fuzhou. In everyone's imagination, the Wu Dynasty has fallen to this point, and the new young king will inevitably be eager to counterattack, and in such an embattled situation, he will also actively encircle all parties and reward his supporters in order to achieve the effect of a thousand gold and bones.

But it was only when the statistics and compilations began again that it became clear that the seemingly radical new king had adopted the style of chewing up and digesting the land. In April, Fuzhou was plagued by many refugees from all over the country, and the work of counting and resettlement was very busy, and there were occasional chaos and assassinations, but the chaos caused was not too big, in the final analysis, it was the new king and his team who regarded these things as training, and they all made plans and reacted once they happened.

It is also for this reason that in the eyes of those who have a heart, Fuzhou is currently in a busy, complex but relatively orderly atmosphere. The new monarch's control over the city was expanding every day, and the sight of anyone who genuinely expected Ming Jun and was loyal to the Wu Dynasty would only be comforted.

And even if some people are unwilling, it doesn't mean much. Junwu carried out a strong reorganization after the breakthrough and transfer of Jiangning, and now more than 100,000 elite soldiers are controlled in the hands of generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong.

While integrating the military department, purging military discipline, training household officials, and beginning to organize households and people, the reform of the Ministry of Industry was also carried out in a big way. In the upper echelons of the Ministry of Industry, several craftsmen with active thinking were promoted to serve as chief officials, and for the craftsmen who followed the Jiangning Gewu Research Institute at the beginning, Junwu promoted them to those who made great contributions, and even gave knighthoods to two of them, and publicly promised that as long as they could make great achievements in the development of Gewu in the future, they would never be stingy with the title of knight.

In the past years, merchants used the power of money to slightly improve their status, but after all, they were not recognized by the regime. Jun Wu did not have such power when he was the crown prince, but at this time, he actually wanted to elevate and recognize the status of craftsmen in essence.

Some of the old Confucian scholars and old courtiers who followed Jun Wu to the south raised objections to a greater or lesser extent, and some only vaguely reminded Jun Wu to think twice and not to be so radical. But now the army is in the hands of Jun Wu, the officials below are available, the intelligence is assisted by the eldest princess and the secret investigation department, and Li Pin's newspaper is promoted. Although these great Confucians and old ministers were more or less able to contact the power of the gentry clan in various parts of the Wu Dynasty, when Jun Wu was determined to eat a piece of the country, the influence and constraints of these courtiers on him would unconsciously drop to the lowest.

Under the influence of these techniques, the conservative Confucian scholars may have complained somewhat about the rebellion and "instability" of the new emperor, but for a large number of young Confucian scholars, such a king was undoubtedly exciting. Over the past few days, a large number of Confucian scholars have come to Li Pin's side, and when they talk about Xinjun's strategy, they are all excited and full of praise.

That's right, as long as Fuzhou can be thoroughly digested and mastered, it can play a far greater role than hastily recovering the whole of Fujian or getting a Jiangnan that is not of the same mind. Once the new monarch's control of Fuzhou is meticulous and extended in the future, the whole world will be in order, and under such a premise, the situation of the gentry and wealthy families in various places who only care about themselves and are weak and weak may also be reformed.

Throughout history, which dynasty and generation can achieve this kind of control over the bottom, is not the image of Emperor Wu?

While praising Junwu's actions, people also began to reflect on many things in the past Confucianism, and in the past two months, the most discussed in Fuzhou's Confucian circles was the ranking of the original Shinong industry and commerce. In the past, it was believed that these four kinds of people were from front to back, and so on, but now it seems that such a concept must be changed, and the status of the industrial and commercial layers must be taken seriously.

Various theories were born. There are two most representative statements: the relatively conservative belief that scholars, as the managers and coordinators of this world, should be on the first floor, and then agriculture and industry have their own uses, and they should be treated equally and encouraged to develop; Of course, the reason why this statement is radical is because there is a problem about how farmers and scholars are treated equally, for example, people can give craftsmen and merchants knights to show their status, but how to recognize and encourage farmers? Because of this problem, most people think that this idea is good, but most of them cannot be implemented.

Li Pin often communicates with these people, on the one hand, guiding them to do some practical things, and on the other hand, he also vaguely feels that the emergence of Neo-Confucianism may really reach a possible key point.

Of course, for him, the perception and emotions of these things and changes in front of him are more complicated.

Young people who have not seen much of the world, or Confucian scholars who have seen many of the world, may be inspired by the changes that are taking place here before them - it is true that the turmoil experienced by the Wu Dynasty is so great that now that the country is shattered and the family is in tatters, and most people realize that without radical reform and change, it seems that it is impossible to save the Wu Dynasty.

It is also for this reason that even some old-fashioned bureaucrats who followed Jun Wu to the south, seeing Jun Wu carrying out drastic reforms, and even making such behaviors as cutting their palms and bowing down with blood during the sacrificial ceremony, they may have some whispers in their mouths, but in essence, they did not do much confrontation. Because even the old people know that the rules and regulations can only be conservative, and if they want to open up, they may really need Junwu's outrageous behavior.

From a historical point of view, an emperor like Jun Wu, who has blood in his chest, rules and regulations under his hands, and even has seen blood in the battle array, may be qualified as the master of Zhongxing in any dynasty and generation. At least in this beginning, with his feedback, and the assistance of people who are all over the world, and the people who know the world, it is already perfect, and if he were to put himself at any point in his past history, he would indeed be ecstatic to such an emperor.

But now, in the midst of those Confucian students' sincere expectations, praises, and praises, there is always an emotion that rises up in the depths of his heart, suppresses his joy, and questions him.

INTERVIEWER At the current historical moment, how do our efforts compare with those in the southwest?

- The strong and wise lord of Zhongxing, facing the one in the southwest, does he have a chance to win?

In the eyes of those young Confucians who came to him to discuss the Tao, and even many of them were capable and knowledgeable, the answer to this question was unquestionable. But only on Li Pin's side, deep down in his heart, he was not even willing to answer such a question, he understood that this had reflected the measurement and answer in his heart.

Therefore, when every Confucian student felt excited and encouraged, he was the only one who always smiled calmly, and could point out the other party's questions and guide the other party's thinking. This situation made his reputation in Fuzhou a little bigger.

In the early morning of the first day of the fifth month, shortly after he had finished talking with several Confucian scholars, the question in his heart was handed to him again through intelligence.

On April 24, when Ning Yi's reinforcements had not arrived, Qin Shaoqian led the 20,000 horses of the Chinese Seventh Army to defeat the attack of Zong Han and Xi Yin's 100,000 troops head-on, and even beheaded his son Wan Yan and his horse in front of Zong Han. Since then, the two most successful of Zong Han's heirs, the King of Zhenzhu and the King of Baoshan, both died at the hands of the Huaxia Army in the First Battle of the Southwest. Zong Han and Xi Yin led the remnants of the army to flee in panic......

In that year, the Jurchens went south for the second time to besiege Bianliang, causing the greatest humiliation of the Wu Dynasty Jingping's shame, Zong Han, Xi Yin, King Zhenzhu, and King Baoshan were among them...... This murderous Jurchen general, in the hearts of the conscientious Wu Dynasty, is a huge enemy who wants to kill all his life. This time, one by one, they were slaughtered in the southwest.

It was meant to be happy......

But more complex emotions rose up, haunting him and torturing him...... This kind of mood made Li Pin sit under the big banyan tree in the courtyard for a long time, and the night breeze came lightly, and the banyan tree swayed. I don't know when, a Confucian student who stayed overnight came out of the room, saw him, came over to salute and ask what happened, and Li Pin just waved his hand.

"Nothing."

When Confucianism went back to sleep, Li Pincai looked in the direction of Miyagi and sighed.

He then summoned his subordinates.

"Prepare the car and enter the palace."

This is news that the whole world will cheer about, and whether it can be released or not is a matter that needs to be discussed.

Soon after, he met Zhou Pei, Cheng Zhouhai, Wen Ren, Tie Tianying, and ...... in the palace

The only emperor who unscrupulously expressed his excitement......