Chapter 70: The Tartars Are Coming (Ask for Collection)
Does the appeal of the four major families of "Confucius, Mencius, and Zengyan" exist?
That has to be there.
But is the appeal of "Confucius and Mencius Zengyan" strong? It's an unsolved mystery.
Standing on the commanding heights of benevolence, righteousness and morality, picking up the thorns of the Qing Tartars is really like eating fish, and there are so many thorns that you can't finish picking. In addition, Huayi is a big nuisance, and the text also mentions the Mengyuan era, and mentions the shame of Jingkang in the Zhao and Song dynasties, and it is effortless to turn the Manchu black into a full black.
How could such a piece of writing not have the slightest influence?
The Kong family, the Meng family, the Zeng family, the Yan family, and even the three families have been silent for a long time, and even the scholars and scholars have to forget them, but now that the four families have jointly issued a message, the feeling of the moment is back.
People like Turg can feel the pressure, but how can the officials and gentlemen in the Qilu Central Plains not feel it?
People have already given specific operational processes, do you want to train the township soldiers? At the end of the Ming Dynasty, wasn't there no regimental training of township soldiers? It's just not famous.
When Liu Chao, the general soldier who came to aid Bian, rebelled against the Ming Dynasty in Yongcheng, he killed not only the family of Wei Jingqi, the imperial historian who returned to his hometown, but also killed the chief trainee Wang Qizhen. If there is no group practice, how can Wang Qizhen's "total practice" be said? Even if the Ming court only encouraged the gentry to organize regimental training for self-protection, it absolutely did not encourage the gentry to organize and regularize their armament.
Therefore, it is impossible for Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang to appear at the end of the Ming Dynasty. If there is such a person, he has long been forced to rebel by the Ming Dynasty. Jiangnan's Xu Du is a good example. He is an orthodox Jiangnan scholar, and he has a lot of contacts with the backbone of the Restoration Society, but the end is just as embarrassing.
But just like the words in the text, all localities only hold group exercises to protect the township, and not protect the world for the Ming Dynasty like Zeng Guofan, which is definitely a big blow to the Manchu Dynasty. As long as someone does that.
Therefore, the troubles of the Confucian family, the Meng family, the Zeng family, and the Yan family came. Don't care about the scene after the fermentation of the text, just look at the moment, Meng Wenyu just wants to scold her mother.
The Qing army has already killed Yanzhou, and one step to the south is Zou County, if it really kills and runs, how should his Meng family deal with himself?
The last time Dolgon led the army into the fortress, Zou County was guarded by the Ming army, and the Qing army did not want to see too many casualties under the battle, so they retreated on their own. But now? Not only will the Qing army not let go of the Meng family, but they will not show mercy to Zou County.
After experiencing the trauma of the White Lotus Rebellion in the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), the Meng family really couldn't afford to be killed.
Kong Mengyan had four families, Kong and Yan were in Qufu, and the two gates were not more than a mile away, the Meng family was in Zou County, and the Zeng family was in Jiaxiang, one was in the south of Ziyang, the capital city of Yanzhou, and the other was in the west of the city of Jining Prefecture (Jining was in the west of Ziyang, the capital city of Yanzhou).
The Qing army can now take a step south to kill Zou County.
However, although the Meng family can't withstand the killing, it's impossible for the Meng family to surrender. Do you want the reputation of your ancestors?
In the future, the Tartars patted their butts and returned to the gates, what face did their Meng family face the world?
"Uncle, I really didn't sign it. This is someone who wants to harm my Meng family, no, someone is also harming my famous religion. "Kong Meng, Zeng Yan, and the four families were swept away by a sudden out-of-the-box article.
The Four Saints and Miao descendants were framed, isn't that someone trying to harm the Famous Sect? Meng Wenyu's face turned red.
Meng Hongyu continued to keep a calm face, and did not react to Meng Wenyu's cry.
Without Meng Wenyu to speak, he knew that someone was secretly framing the four of them, because Meng Wenyu, a nephew, he knew, and he didn't have that much courage. The Tartars are so fierce, everyone has already arrived in Ziyang, Meng Wenyu is too late to be a turtle, how dare he provoke those wild people?
Kong Yinzhi is the same.
The four families have been descending for thousands of years, and they have seen too many dynastic changes, and they have long put shame in their pockets. In the eyes of all families and elders, the actual interests come first.
“…… Maybe someone is harming the Kong family, our Meng family, as well as the Yan family and the Zeng family, are just pond fish affected by the fire at the city gate. ”
Meng Hongyu is the second son of the previous generation of Meng's lineage, just because his brother died early - Xu Hongru uprising, Meng Hongyu his father Meng Chengguang and eldest brother Meng Hong shed a little blood for the Ming Dynasty, when Meng Wenyu was only seven years old, obviously unable to run the family. If so, he first became a doctor of the Pentateuch. But when Meng Wenyu became an adult, that is, when he was fifteen years old in the second year of Chongzhen, Meng Hongyu went to the Ming court and gave the doctor of the Five Classics to Meng Wenyu.
Because he didn't make up the bullshit of his nephew's early death, in order to reward Meng Hongyu, the Ming court gave him the fictitious title of a thousand households in a brocade cloth.
Therefore, the Meng family in Zou County, don't look at the head of the family is Meng Wenyu, but he is like a son seeing Lao Tzu in front of Meng Hongyu's uncle.
Meng Wenyu's face turned red, he was not stupid, how could Meng Hongyu not think of him? In the past few days, he has exchanged letters frequently with Qufu and Jiaxiang, but he has not been able to find out that something is wrong. It's not okay to make him hate!
"The little nephew has exchanged letters with Qufu and Jiaxiang in the past few days, and there is really no trace of it. And the Tartars have already come to Fucheng (Fucheng), which is close to my Zou County, and the top priority now is how to deal with the current crisis......"
Meng Wenyu really didn't have a good way.
There was a lot of pressure on his shoulders. Although the article was just posted, it must have been circulated, and this piece of Daxiang has already fallen into their crotch regardless of whether they pulled it down or not. Meng Wenyu has the reputation of his ancestors, and he can't deny it, so he can only bear it. But the problem is that he can't afford it, if he is not careful, the Meng family will be extinct.
The Manchu Tatars were very powerful, but they did not enter the Central Plains, which was the biggest shortcoming of the Tatars. If Manchu Qinghal swept the entire northern land like the Jin soldiers back then, then he would also vote happily.
But in the current era, the Manchu Tartars have no signs of entering the Central Plains at all. Half of the Liaoxi Corridor is still firmly in the palm of the Guanning Army, since the Tartars cannot enter the Central Plains, no matter how prosperous the soldiers are now, sooner or later they will have to withdraw from the Central Plains. Just like the previous several stoppers. If the Meng family kneels now, wouldn't it be bad if they were liquidated by the Ming Dynasty in the future? even lost all the brilliance of the ancestors.
Not only the Meng family, but also the Jiaxiang Zeng family and the Qufu Kong Yan family are also in the same situation and are facing the same 'difficult situation'. It's good that the Qing army doesn't kill them, but if they do, they won't dare to kneel, and they won't dare to resist, and the pain is extreme.
"Jiannu is here, Jiannu is here......" Meng Wenxi's voice suddenly sounded outside the study, and then there was a sound of footsteps, and Meng Wenxi, the son of Meng Hongyu, pushed the door and rushed in. Father, brother, and the Tartars divided their forces to the south. The soldiers have already crossed the White Horse River, and I am afraid that they will be able to kill them in the afternoon. ”
Meng Wenxi still didn't say a word, that is, the whole of Zou County is in chaos now, and several elders of the Meng family are about to explode. There are also gentry and virtuous people in the county, and now more and more people are gathering in the lobby, and they all have to ask Meng Wenyu for an explanation.
Yes, ask for an explanation!
Many people are angry that Meng Wenyu is asking for trouble for himself to provoke the Manchu Tartars who are stained with blood? Don't you know that the knives of these slimy-haired blood-drinking savage Tartars can kill?
If you want to be stabbed for no reason, in the eyes of the Meng family, it is all Meng Wenyu's fault.
As for the kindness they had eaten from the old Zhu family's rice for two or three hundred years, it was not a matter at all in the eyes of these Meng family elders. Since the beginning of the Five Hu Chaos in the Central Plains, how many times has the Meng family been instigated?
At the beginning of Xu Hongru's rebellion, Zou County was broken by the rebel army, and the Meng family stayed obediently in the mansion, and there was nothing to do. Even if the Confucian Temple in the county has been destroyed by the rebels, after all, it is believed in the White Lotus Sect. But in a place like Meng Miao, Xu Hongru is still merciful. Meng Chengguang wanted to seek credit when the official army counterattacked Zou County, and led Ding Zhuang to be the internal response of the official army, but the Ming army was repelled by the rebel army, and then the Meng family was also killed.
But the Meng family was subjected to seedlings, but the Meng Temple is still well preserved.
Since the Northern Song Dynasty began to build the Meng Temple, the latter has been hundreds of years, and has been repeatedly warned, but it is well protected. This ability is comparable to the old Kong family.
And looking at Zeng Temple from Meng Temple, the Zeng family just can't do it. In the Ming Dynasty alone, Zeng Temple was destroyed twice in the fire of the peasant rebel army during the Jiajing Longqing period. It's one thing for this "practice" to not be able to get home, but it's another thing for the Zeng family to be famous.
Just like the reason why Turge chose the Meng family as a chicken to kill, the reason is that the Zeng family is too down. Too weak a chicken to be a chicken! Even Zeng Hongyi was not allowed to slip away before the Qing army reached Jiaxiang County. The Hengzhu Temple was destroyed in the war, and it was not once or twice. And the ancestors of the Meng family are still Confucian sages, and they are the second people who are recognized by everyone.
"Father, brother, what should I do now?" Meng Wenxi was anxious.
But what about Meng Wenyu? He was also helpless.
"Where is Xiao Yuanying now?" Meng Hongyu asked suddenly.
Meng Wenyu looked stunned, and then felt a pain in his heart, yes, Xiao Yuanying is the closest to Zou County. If the Zheng family asked King Lu for food and salary from the Kong family, he could add a hand, would Xiao Yuanying be able to go north a day in advance?
"Xiao Yuanying ......, Xiao Yuanying has probably arrived in Teng County, right?" Teng County and Zou County are separated by fifty or sixty miles.
"Then you should quickly go out of the city, go to Fujiwara in person, and ask for Yuan Shizhong. Let him quickly bring in troops and horses to help. If Xiao Yuanying can't be reached, don't come back. ”
The Qing army has already come to Zou County, and that must be considered by force. At the same time, Meng Wenyu, a parent, must also live.