It is impossible to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, at least Peng Ziqin, a man from Anlu County, De'an Prefecture, will never commit suicide by throwing himself into the river in his life. He is less than thirty this year, and it is when he is in high spirits, and he still wants to be a high school jinshi, and then go to be a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, the Great Shun Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty - it doesn't matter who he is an official, and it is nothing to have three ministers and four ministers, the key is to have an official position, have money, and can glorify the ancestors!

But what he never expected was that the three families of Daming, Dashun, and Daqing were all going bad!

He went to the Ming Dynasty when he was in Nanjing, and he was full of knowledge, and he had a special study of the "Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn" in the Five Classics - Ming Dynasty scholars would often choose one of the "Five Classics" to study and study hard, as their own "scripture", in order to cope with the imperial examination. Among them, there are also some more talented scholars who will study both classics. Peng Ziqin is this kind of great talent who cultivates both classics.

But he never thought that this time Enke would not take the Four Books and Five Classics, not compare with the Eight Articles, but a policy and thesis!

Of course, he will write about it! He is also familiar with history books and classics, and the great principles of the ancients come as soon as he opens his mouth.

But the subject of Enkoze's argument is actually the collection of commercial taxes! This is a rampant expropriation! Peng Ziqin can lend his identity as a person to three Anlu merchants to use, how can he tolerate the traitorous ministers of the imperial court? At that time, there was a group of people with a strong sense of justice.

As a result, he was beaten violently by a group of "lost Confucians" who operated with northern accents...... What a sweep!

Fortunately, he was only beaten, and his fame is still there, and Huguang is not the territory directly led by the "black-hearted prince" for the time being, so his good life lasted for a while.

After hitting a wall in Nanjing, Peng Ziqin did not give up his ideal of becoming an official in the examination. Instead, he aimed at Li Zicheng in Xiangyang Mansion next door - Daming has a "black-hearted prince", which seems to be not long.

And the Tartar side doesn't know what medicine to take wrong, and he wants to pour Confucius's bucket, which is obviously not a good place for scholars to be officials, so I am afraid that the surname Li will be in this world after all!

But once again, his good wishes were in vain...... The Great Shun Dynasty actually started to plan Juntian! They no longer have to do it on the territory of their existing five prefectures, but they want to do it in Peng Ziqin's hometown, and they want to do it all in Peng Ziqin's family's land.

It's deadly! He didn't care about being an official, so he quickly took the floating wealth of his family to Hankou. Before he could catch his breath, the Dashun Heavenly Soldiers followed......

So Peng Daju and his family went to Wuchang Mansion empty-handed, and because they had no money to eat, they followed to make trouble. If he is willing to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, the problem will be solved, what is the fuss?

Now Peng Ziqin and hundreds or thousands of people from Hubei have gathered on the edge of the Yangtze River. They also carried many flags made of tattered fabrics of various colors, and there were words on them, not embroidered, but written in large characters with a brush. What "hanging the people and cutting down the crime", "Beiding the Central Plains", "expelling the Liukou", "recovering the Xianling", "vowing to kill Li Zicheng" and so on.

It turned out that they didn't want to throw themselves into the Yangtze River, but to cross the Yangtze River north to kill Li Zicheng! So they not only carried banners, but also carried murder weapons - there were wooden sticks more than two feet long, a ring ruler to beat children's palms, kitchen knives to cut meat, and bricks to smash people's heads! Long guys and short knives are readily available, which is enough to fight in a group fight on the streets of Wuchang.

But if you want to beat Li Zicheng's Dashun Heavenly Soldiers, no matter how you look at it, it means a bit to die!

Guarding the banks of the Yangtze River are the soldiers under Liu Kongzhao, they are not the new army, but the rest of the Nanjing army, all of whom are southerners, and they also look down on the scholars. Of course, you can't watch thousands of scholars go to Hanyang to die! So I stopped them from going - in fact, I couldn't go without stopping them. Now that there are no ships on the Hanyangmun pier, how can they cross the river? Swim over?

As soon as Liu Kongzhao's Jiang Dubing stopped them, Peng Ziqin and them had the opportunity to perform, and they were all indignant and impassioned.

"I'm waiting for Huguang scholars, born as a hero, and dead as a ghost! How can you ignore the Jiangbei fathers and elders and dedicate the emperor's mausoleum? ”

"I'm going north to beg for thieves, and you're also a Ming soldier, so if you don't go north with me and report to the country, why do you want to stop it?"

Peng Daju also lost no time in stepping forward, he looked good, tall and burly, with a Chinese face, handsome facial features, and three strands of hair under the chin, which were left to his chest. It looks like a generation of famous ministers are loyal and good!

Peng Dazhongliang was dressed in a Confucian robe (not a Taoist robe worn by a Taoist priest, but a Confucian robe), and carried a kitchen knife in each hand - I don't know where it came from? He's a lifter, can he still call stealing two kitchen knives without telling him?

"You and other soldiers are all on the food and salary of the imperial court, and now that you are in Hanyang Mansion, you not only stand up to kill the thief, but also prevent us from going north to report to the country, what is your intention?"

Peng Dazhongliang held a kitchen knife, pointed to a flag captain of the Wuchang soldiers with a helmet and armor, and asked sharply.

The flag captain looked at the rusty kitchen knife, and then at Peng Ziqin, who looked like a loyal minister and a good general, he really couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't let people beat him, so he had to persuade him with good words: "This filial piety and honesty (another name for lifting people) don't make trouble, two kitchen knives want to kill Li Zicheng?" Then Li Zicheng is fierce, he doesn't blink when he kills, and he doesn't spit out bones when he eats people! If you really want to serve the country, you should take the Jinshi exam, then transfer to a martial arts, and go to Nanjing to lecture on martial arts, and then become an officer of the new army, and you can lead the army to kill thieves. ”

Nanjing Lecture Martial Arts Hall is Nanjing Martial Arts Hall, which was renamed not long ago. Zhu Cihong also issued a special edict to praise the martial arts hall, and also mentioned the advanced deeds of Yan Yingyuan, Xu Ermo, and Qi Yuanbi, the three "Confucians", who exchanged literature for martial arts and put pen to paper.

This flag captain who was born as a river sailor has read a book, and he saw this matter on the notice sent above, so he took it for granted.

Peng Ziqin thought to himself: I want to have a jinshi and make a fart, and I would have been a corrupt official a long time ago...... Now everyone is making a fuss together, isn't it because there is no family business and no errands, and there is no livelihood?

They didn't want to kill Li Zicheng, but to eat...... Prince Zhu, who wants to live in the palace of the king of Chu, will reward everyone with a good meal!

......

"His Royal Highness the Prince, you can't let those scholars make any more trouble......

"His Royal Highness the Prince, let's let the old minister come forward to appease!"

"His Royal Highness the Prince, Mrs. Shida's heart still needs to be cleaned up......"

In the main hall of the Chu Palace, Yuan Jixian, Qiu Yu, and Fang Gongyue were persuading Zhu Cihong to try to appease people's hearts. There is also a new Jiangdu left-behind Liu Kongzhao next to him without saying a word, just a sad face - Prince Zhu is a little moody, don't wait a while to order the left-behind division to send troops to suppress it!

"They are just going on a northern expedition, why should this palace be appeased? Want to clean up? Of course Zhu Cihong understood what those people were thinking? However, he still pretended to be confused - he didn't want to force all the landlords and old rich profiteers who came to Wuchang City to death, although they were not good people, but they were also a relatively smart and capable group of people here in Huguang.

Smart people, still useful! But Zhu Cihong didn't have so many errands to reward them, and he wouldn't go to recover Huguang's lost territory for them, but to force them to the market...... Those who have the ability have to force it!

"Sansuke!" Zhu Cihong smiled, "What about Wu Sanfu?" Go get him! ”

Wu Sanfu is busy arming! Zhu Cihong, a great military strategist, commanded him, how busy he was! And it's all in vain, and the credit is all in Zhu Cihong's name.

The officers and soldiers of the guard battalion guarding outside the main hall also had the errand of heralding orders, and soon someone went to find Wu Sanfu from Phoenix Mountain.

Wu Sanfu went to Phoenix Mountain to inspect the artillery position, and as soon as he was done, he was called back to the Chu Palace. As soon as he entered the main hall, before he had time to salute, Zhu Cihong asked: "Sanfu, is the cannon ready?" ”

"It's set!" Wu Sanfu replied.

"Can you fire now?"

"Yes!"

Zhu Cihong nodded, "That's good!" Now there is a disturbance at the Hanyangmen Wharf, and the giant cannon on Phoenix Mountain needs to be used! ”