In the roaring cannon, Peng Ziqin, a talented son of An Lu, and Peng Dajuren, like everyone else, threw aside the ambition of "Northern Expedition to Xianghan and recovered Xianling", and fled with their heads in their hands. His hat was gone, his two kitchen knives were missing, and even the shoes he was wearing were missing, but he didn't realize it.

Because the cannon mounted on Turtle Mountain was aimed at the Hanyang Gate Tower, it caused the rubble to fly under the Hanyang Gate. Therefore, a group of scholars who were "determined to go to the Northern Expedition" did not dare to enter the city through the Hanyang Gate, so they had to run along the embankment of the Yangtze River, wanting to enter the city from the Wusheng Gate in the north of Wuchang City.

But when they ran outside the Wusheng Gate, they found that martial law was already under martial law at the city gate! The brigade has set up sentry posts at the open city gates, and has also blocked the city gates with horse repellents.

Wushengmen is located in the north of Wuchang City, not too far from Guishan, although it has not been bombarded, but no one knows when it will be bombarded by Liukou!

So everybody wants to get into town faster!

However, the new officers and soldiers who blocked the gate of the city did not let them in, on the grounds that they would prevent the city from being mixed up!

Now that the Liukou are bombarding the city, strictly speaking, the offensive and defensive battle of Wuchang City has begun. At this time, it is natural to strictly control access and access......

Peng Ziqin was quite strong in a group of talents, so he ran very fast, and the first batch arrived outside the Wusheng Gate, and when he saw that he was facing a great enemy, he went up and said.

"I'm Peng Ziqin, an Anlu Juren, and my family is in Wuchang City, so you can get out of the way......"

The new officers and soldiers guarding the city gate were willing to listen to him, leveled the bird with the bayonet in their hands, and said viciously: "Stop! See the white lines under your feet? Take a step forward and you'll be stabbed to death in no time! ”

Stabbed to death?

Peng Ziqin was angry: "I'm a lifter!" ”

The person on the other side was also not angry: "How can you prove that it is a lifter?" And you're armed with a murder weapon! If you look at it, you are not a good person, you must be a spy! ”

Lethal weapon? Peng Ziqin was stunned for a moment, only to find that he was still holding a rusty kitchen knife in his right hand!

He hurriedly threw away the kitchen knife and explained, "Don't get me wrong, I'm holding the kitchen knife to fight the rogue...... I'm such a lifter! ”

Hahaha......

The new troops on the opposite side all laughed.

One of the petty officers with a Tianjin accent said, "Well, lift people! Just this brain, still raise people? ”

That's right! I want to kill Li Zicheng with a kitchen knife, can I still do this brain? This must be a spy!

Peng Ziqin was anxious, stomped his feet and said, "I'm really a lifter...... I'm Peng Ziqin, a native of Anluju! ”

The new army on the other side asked again: "How can you prove it?" ”

How to prove it? There seems to be no way to prove it!

Peng Ziqin cried! He didn't go out of town with his luggage, he couldn't prove himself at all, and he was penniless...... If you can't enter the city, then you don't need Li Zicheng's rogues to kill you, and you will starve to death.

His crying seemed to be contagious, and soon outside Wusheng's door, he was already crying, whether it was a person or a talent, he seemed to understand a truth at this moment.

In this age of sword dominance, those of them who read the books of the sages are nothing!

The Qing Dynasty wants to fall Confucius's fight!

Li himself wants to read the people's fields!

And Da Ming's side was a little polite, but he didn't take them too seriously...... The last Enko is proof of this! Now the prince's new army has blocked them out of the city and not allowed them to enter, which is also proof!

......

"His Royal Highness the Prince, these are all Huguang's reading seeds!"

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you really don't give them a little way to live?"

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, the old minister begs you to let them into the city, right?"

At this moment, Zhu Cihong had already climbed the Wuchang city wall near Wusheng Gate. Like Li Zicheng, he didn't raise the banner, but just brought a hundred and ten guards, as well as Yuan Jixian, Qiu Yu, and Fang Gongyue.

Of course, the three old men felt sorry for these scholars who had lost their family business, and pleaded with Zhu Cihong.

Under the city wall, outside the Wusheng Gate, hundreds of undignified people were hugging and crying. And Zhu Cihong just quietly watched their performance...... I don't know how long it took before he turned his head to look at the three sweaty old men who were in a hurry, and smiled: "Don't worry, the palace will let them enter the city, but they have to go by themselves!" ”

Yuan Jixian didn't quite understand Zhu Cihong's words, and asked, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, what do you ......mean?"

Zhu Cihong looked at the sky, sighed and said, "The sky has changed!" The world has changed! They have to change too...... If you are poor, you will think about change, change will be successful, and you will reach it! I hope that this lesson can make them really understand this sentence. I understand, if I change, maybe I will be able to live, and some of them will be able to soar! ”

The passage "If you are poor, you will think about change" comes from "Yi", and of course you know it when you read it to the level of Xiucai.

But that's easier said than done!

And even if you know it, you have chosen to change, and you can successfully transform, adapt to the new era, and soar, after all, there are still a few people...... And the new era is not easy for everyone!

Who would have thought that the Age of Discovery and the initial stage of capitalism were easy? If life is easy, who will sail and who will engage in capitalism?

Zhu Cihong already knew that he had brought China into the Age of Discovery and the initial stage of capitalism – because entering the Age of Discovery and embracing capitalism was the only way forward for Chinese civilization to get rid of its periodic collapse.

How else could it be?

There is no doubt that the current Da Ming can survive in the southeast half of the wall, and neither Dolgon nor Li Zicheng has the ability to destroy the Da Ming.

But for the 100 million Chinese crammed into the southeast half, life in the future is unlikely to be easy and comfortable. Because Zhu Cihong stopped the total collapse of the Ming Empire, but also gave more than 100 million Han people a chance to survive.

This means that the acute contradiction between man and land has not been alleviated, and with the consolidation of Zhu Cihong's "Southern Ming regime", the contradiction between man and land in the southeast will become more acute - because China, which is still an agrarian society, will continue to grow in population once stability is restored.

A population of 200 million or even 300 million will inevitably appear in Zhu Cihong's lifetime.

At the same time, the era of the Xiaoice River is not over! And the war with the Qing Dynasty in the north is likely to last for many years.

Therefore, what Zhu Cihong can bring to more than 100 million people of the Ming Dynasty is just an opportunity to move forward hard. Alive, and moving forward, but most likely even more bitter than those who lived in the early years of the Qing Dynasty.

Because in the early years of the Qing Dynasty in history, there was not so much population!

Of course, there is also power in numbers! Once you break into the wild world of the Age of Discovery, you are an unstoppable behemoth.

The barbaric undeveloped world must have a share of tens of millions of bitter Chinese of 200 million or 300 million! And it's a big portion!

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince," Yuan Jixian certainly didn't understand how much suffering Zhu Cihong would bring to the Ming Dynasty, "what do you want to do?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "This palace just wants everyone to have a way to live...... After all, it's better to die than to live! ”

"This ......" Yuan Jixian was a little speechless.

But what Qiu Yu and Fang Gongyue thought of was how those scholars outside the city could survive?

Zhu Cihong paused, and then spoke: "Let them stay outside the city for one night...... The main palace will send someone to register their name, place of origin, fame and family property. If the check is correct, you can enter the city and reunite with your family.

In addition, from the day after tomorrow, Xingyuan will resettle and provide relief to Jiangbei scholars who are in exile in Wuchang...... Give them a way to live! However, the palace only gives them a way to live, and what they can live in the future depends on their own creation. ”

After listening to Zhu Cihong's words, Qiu Yu and Fang Gongyue already understood. The eldest prince of Zhu is going to take the scholar doctor for surgery - the little benefit that the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty gave to the scholar doctor is afraid that it will be taken back by the eldest prince Zhu.