The whole world respects the loyal and the righteous, but who will determine the loyal and righteous?

Wei Gonggong once talked to Huang Zunsu, the "big secretary" of the Donglin Party and the editor-in-chief of the "Huangming Daily", about loyal ministers and righteous people. The scholar made him a loyal servant, even if he was a traitor, he was also loyal. The scholar condemned him as a traitor, even if he was loyal and traitorous. ”

Huang Zunsu thinks that Wei Gonggong's words are biased, saying that loyal ministers and righteous people are determined by the people, but they cannot be defined by scholars.

The gist is that the eyes of the masses are bright, how can a scholar reverse right and wrong, and deceive the world for a hundred or a thousand years.

Gonggong Wei sneered: "The people are not the people, how can they be loyal and traitorous?" The deeds of the loyal and righteous men have always been only seen in the history books, what qualifications do the people have to talk about the Spring and Autumn Period? Readers are sure of everything! ”

After Huang Zunsu heard this, he pondered it carefully.

Didn't the people know the deeds of loyal ministers and righteous men recorded by the historians and the literati?

Who can say that these historians and writers will not reverse right and wrong for some special reasons, and say loyalty as treachery, and treachery as loyalty.

It is a literati with that conscience, but if there is no "right to speak" as Wei Gonggong said, what he recorded will become a wild history, and it is not enough to believe it.

Ma Shiying is such a loyal minister who has been turned upside down.

In the first year of Hongguang, the ministers of the southern capital surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and after the Qing army entered the city, Huang Boduan, the director of the Ministry of Rites, set up a big banner and wrote "Huang Boduan, the director of the Ritual Department of the Ming Dynasty, did not descend".

The Qing army took down Huang Boduan, and the puppet king Duoduo personally interrogated and asked Huang Dao: "What kind of character do you think Emperor Hongguang wants to die for him?" ”

Huang Boduan raised his voice and said: "My emperor Shengming! ”

Duoduo was a little startled and asked again: "What about you towards Ma Shiying?" ”

Huang Boduan laughed: "Cabinet minister Ma Shiying, loyal ministers also!" ”

Duoduo was angry and ridiculous, and asked again: "Ma Shiying is a traitor, how can he be loyal?" ”

Huang Bo said with a straight face: "Ma Shiying will not surrender, and he will send the Queen Mother into Zhejiang, of course he is a loyal minister!" ”

After speaking, he pointed to the noble Zhao Zhilong and the others, who had shaved their hair and changed their clothes: "These people are disloyal and unfilial people!" ”

What Huang Boduan said, the truth is clear.

Whoever surrenders, who is a traitor;

Whoever resists the Qing Dynasty is a loyal minister.

However, in his father-in-law's previous life, Ma Shiying, who was martyred against the Qing Dynasty, became a traitor, and often played the role of a villain in various literary works, why is this?

The answer is that the reader is loyal to the traitor.

Another example is Yang Sichang, the thirty-year-old head of the Fujian Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs in front of him, who is not only a loyal minister, but also a rare commander in the late Ming Dynasty, whose talent is far stronger than Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Hong Chengchou, but why did he end up with a traitorous minister's coffin evaluation.

Therefore, Father-in-law Wei said to Huang Zunsu: "To look at whether a person is loyal or traitorous, you must not only look at the words, but also look at the results." ”

If you look at people, you have to look at the results!

Ma Shiying's martyrdom is loyalty.

In the face of internal and external troubles, Yang Sichang deployed the strategy of "four positives and six corners, and ten sides of the net" to suppress the peasant army, and at the same time was able to clearly understand the two-front pressure of the Ming Dynasty, and advocated peace with the Qing Dynasty, in order to fight the outside must first settle the interior.

Whether it is the military command capability in the actual deployment or the peace with the Qing Dynasty that it advocates, it is to the point and effective, and it can truly solve the major problems of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

In the end, he died on the front line, this is a loyal minister, a clear and unmistakable loyal minister!

In the eyes of Gonggong Wei, loyal ministers are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the most inferior loyal ministers only know the king until he dies; The medium loyal servants know how to tinker when they are near; The best loyal are the ones who try to turn the tide.

Ma Shiying is a medium-class loyal minister, and Yang Sichang is a high-class loyal minister.

In terms of ability, Ma Shiying is also the talent of a high-ranking city official; Yang Sichang, to say that he is the chief of staff and the minister of defense is to belittle him, and it is appropriate for the prime minister to add the deputy commander of the army and the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces.

Mao Shilong was able to pull these two people to Xishan, to be honest, Gonggong Wei was really happy in his heart.

He knew that Mao Shilong had come into contact with Yang Sichang, but he didn't know that Ma Shiying would also "surface".

This Shoufu of the Hongguang Dynasty should have participated in the examination with Ruan Dacheng next year, thus forming a deep friendship, and finally both fell into the reputation of a traitorous minister.

But fortunately, Ma Shiying's willingness to come to Xishan shows that he recognizes the spirit of reform advocated by Father-in-law Wei, which saves Father-in-law from hinting at Ruan Dacheng to win him over next year.

"Wei Gong, there are still many unknowns about the cultivation of industry and the restoration of the country, and there are still many unknowns among the students, and I also feel that there are many inappropriateness, but I don't know if Wei Gong can relieve the confusion of the students?" Although Ma Shiying is only famous, he is obviously bolder.

"It's not called relieving confusion, it's called discussing together."

Wei Gonggong motioned for everyone to sit down, and with a smile, he and the big guys discussed the specific content and feasibility of breeding and industrial development.

The discussions were very intense, and some disputes even arose on some key issues, such as the strengthening of state-owned industries and mines and the issue of purging down the Ding.

At first, everyone was worried that their dispute would make Grandpa Wei unhappy, but found that Grandpa Wei was not dissatisfied, but also took out a small notebook from his bosom to record everyone's speeches one by one, and nodded his head of appreciation from time to time, encouraging everyone to put forward opinions and supplements on the feasibility of the industry based on what they saw and heard, which made the atmosphere in the room more open.

When Cheng Zhengji and Yang Sichang were discussing the issue of abolishing checkpoints in various places, Ruan Dacheng suddenly quietly handed the thick stack of paper manuscripts that he had been holding in his hand to Gonggong Wei.

Wei Gonggong took it and took a look, it turned out to be a stack of legendary manuscripts, the title of the book is "Pingwei Heroes List".

"The student wants to publish this book in the "Huangming Daily", but he is afraid that the description of the father-in-law in the student's book will not be in place, so he wants to ask the father-in-law to turn it through it in his spare time so that he can pass the review." Ruan Dacheng said in a low voice.

Father-in-law Wei let out an "oh", thinking that this Ruan Dacheng was not the most famous legend in the late Ming Dynasty.

After a pause, I was stunned: What is it? Approved?

This system...

Gonggong Wei pursed his lips, needless to say, it must have been done by Huang Zunsu. Well, well, it seems to be in his old man's interest.

My father-in-law values freedom of speech, but he will never allow people with ulterior motives to smear his old man.

“...... said a thousand ways and ten thousand, no matter how good Wei Gong's measures are, someone must implement them, but my generation is a micro official, and where can Wei Gong's great initiative be implemented, alas! ”

"Yes, if you want to do things, you must be an official, and if you want to do big things, you must be a big official, with the current situation of my generation, it is difficult to do small things, and it is difficult to do big things." Sun Bixian echoed.

"Not necessarily, our family has been talking about negative thoughts, we have to find a way to solve a problem, and sighing is not the solution to the problem."

After talking too much, Gonggong Wei touched his chin out of nothing, looked around at everyone, and said in a harmonious voice: "So, the purpose of our family calling you here is to buy you officials." ”