Chapter 487: War of the Five Kings

From the very beginning, Confucianism has appeared as anti-progress and anti-people, and Confucianism has always been extremely disgusted and disgusted by the concepts of procedural justice, governing the country according to law, and intolerable law.

In their view, they have always advocated leniency and reduction of punishment and law, and no litigation and no justice, so it has become that the imperial court that formulates cumbersome laws and regulations is a cruel people, the officials who use laws and regulations to govern the localities are vulgar officials, the people who are good at conducting legal proceedings are treacherous and traitorous people, and it is against the norm to give punishments that do not pay attention to human feelings for the sake of procedural justice.

An official who can ignore the constraints of the law and not stick to the letter of the law, but take etiquette as the basis and filial piety ethics as the criterion to carry out the spring and autumn prison sentence is a qualified Confucian.

When it comes to governing the country, no matter how much you do, if you don't meet the interests of the so-called Confucian scholars, you will be ridiculed and attacked in the end, and Zhang Juzheng and Jia Nidao are examples of them.

Confucian tradition, Confucianism attaches very, very high importance to the literal prison! It was the vanguard of the persecution of intellectuals.

Persecution of other intellectuals.

Confucius's killing of Shao Zhengmao is the punishment of a wise gentleman, and there is no forgiveness for those who speak of evil and disorder, and there is no forgiveness for killing, which is controversial, but Confucianism is recorded as a glorious deed.

Xunzi said that intellectuals are all cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and only those who engage in Confucianism are the most useful, beneficial to reason, and those who are not beneficial to reason, give up their ...... All kinds of remarks have attacked all kinds of learning other than Confucianism, and they are eager to brainwash the whole world into slaves of Confucianism.

In order to magnify Confucianism, Dong Zhongshu has achieved the extreme: those who are not in the science of the six arts and the art of Confucius are all out of the way, and do not make progress. The heretical doctrine is extinguished, and then the discipline can be unified and the law can be understood. In other words, except for Confucius's Six Arts, all of them were slaughtered and killed, which was more ruthless than Qin Shi Huang.

Wang Mingyang, who has been touted by countless people, also believes that the anti-scripture and rebellious theory, taking everything and burning it, is also secretly in line with the intention of deleting the description, burning evil books, and deleting historical materials is a major event for Confucius Sheng's righteousness.

In the world, only Confucianism is afraid of other doctrines.

The Presbyterian Church introduced bacteriology, pathology, and openly disseminated hygiene knowledge, as well as some Western medicine, and those enthusiastic old doctors, not only did not resent this, but were happy to see it, and were willing to send their children to the medical school run by the Presbyterian Church, of course, there was no more dispute between Chinese medicine and Western medicine.

How many old Chinese medicine doctors in the Ming Dynasty began to hang a stethoscope around their necks and carry a thermometer with them to see patients.

The presbyterians calibrated weights and measures, preached all kinds of mechanical and chemical knowledge, and the craftsmen were happy to learn and were not unconvinced.

Merchants may have muttered at first about the new bills and accounting methods they were asked to use, but when many discovered the subtleties, the reforms were always the most positive, albeit troublesome.

No matter all walks of life, they are extremely sensitive to what is advanced, after all, it is a good thing that can improve the efficiency of the industry, as long as it is not a layman, it can be easily seen.

But only this Confucianism, in the face of the collapse of the country and the collapse of the family, the shaking of mountains and rivers, is still selling the country for glory, only for their own glory and wealth, and in later generations, the era of scientific progress, they are unashamed to blame the credit of China's progress in Confucianism, which has long been kicked out of the national sequence, and preach everywhere the abolition of mathematics, physics and chemistry. A social atmosphere in which the children of the poor are only worthy of working.

This is the natural contradiction between the elders and the Confucian scholars, between life and death, the endless contradictions, the elders who pursue the ideas of progress, human rights, and equality, well, at least compared to this world, are advanced, and as one of the decadent classes in the world, the Confucian scholars naturally dislike progress, and advocate that even if it is another thousand years, they will also recite the tatters that their ancestors talked about thousands of years ago, even if those things have long been interpreted and do not contain any useful thoughts.

If it can be done with just money, then the elders can really spend some dog food and buy a few dogs to cheer for themselves.

Therefore, even if the imperial capital recruited the so-called civil service examination, anyone found that it was gradually going in the direction of the presbyterian church running its own school, and many well-known scribes, the persuasion table, the strategy of extinguishing the Ming Dynasty, and how to enter Jiangnan were all used to make toilet paper, or no one took it at all, and how many talented Confucians could only itch and spend all the money in their hands, and after they could no longer extort money from the merchants of the guild hall, they cursed and returned to Jiangnan.

Historically, it was these literati who took refuge in our Qing Dynasty who were most enthusiastic about setting off massacres in the south of the Yangtze River.

Finally looking forward to the Ming Lord, although he is a little poorer, his identity is a little illegal, after all, at this time, the prince is managing the imperial capital archives and sweeping the tomb of Emperor Chongzhen every month, but Corporal Lixian's heart is still very full.

Even in the 20th century, stupid warlords continued to manipulate and give benefits to these incompetent and greedy guys.

I am afraid of being greedy for merit and making progress, and now, several kings who have raised the slogan of self-proclaimed emperor or prison are all surrounded by this kind of hungry and separate Confucian students, and these Confucian students may still be in contact with each other internally, so the situation in Jiangnan will become more and more crazy and tyrannical.

Gou Dahu, who lost his troops and lost his generals, had to lead the remaining more than 10,000 people of the same surname township party (all surnamed Gou) to be trapped in Changzhou Mansion, and hurriedly sent people to ask King Lu for help.

Although Nanming is no longer a regime at all at this time, your local officials pretend to pay taxes, and I Nanjing City pretends to collect taxes, and when the taxes are in hand, they begin to divide the spoils by two-to-one and five, and even the amount of their division is accurate, and the distribution is harmonious, which is a miracle.

However, such a big thing as Li Dingguo's assassination also aroused everyone's vigilance, just as at the most fierce moment of the Anti-Japanese War, the chairman of the committee would not forget to suppress the "bandits" and massacre the people, but when he learned that Li Dingguo basically gained a firm foothold in Jiangyin, King Lu and King Tang still showed his admirable side, that is, they began to contact each other regardless of their previous suspicions, and planned to deal with these rebellious peasant armies first.

At this time, even the ignorant Ru Lu Wang and others had already learned that most of the army of the Presbyterian Council had begun to go to Nanyang by sea, and they knew very well in their hearts that once these armies completed the battle in Nanyang and returned to Middle Earth, as long as any general turned the destination to Jiangnan, the Ming Dynasty was likely to be directly destroyed, and there was no power to resist.

At present, in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, there is a nail, Jiangnan is Li Dingguo, Jiangbei is Mrs. Xing, and after defeating Gou Dahu, he learned that Li Dingguo went all the way, and ran directly to Changzhou Mansion, "defeated" Gou Dahu, who erected a banner to support King Fu of Lu, drove it back to his hometown, occupied the entire territory of Changzhou Mansion, and at the same time "forced" the large and small landlords in the surrounding state capitals to take the initiative to send the arrears of the imperial grain and national taxes.

He didn't know that the same letter was also given to the little Fu Wang, as a very disciplined careerist, Gou Dahu actually only gave the Fu Wang and Lu Wang two lost sincerity, it is simply an honest gentleman, at present, Jiangnan, who is not a multi-party bet, the most powerful family, actually has children to the five princes, and more than a dozen rebel leaders to do things, comparable to the Three Kingdoms, the Xun family's god operated.

Although they keep urging these guys to take refuge in Li Dingguo first, they don't know that the reason why they are supported by everyone is because people need your legitimacy to bully men and women. At this time, Gou Dahu's example is in front of him, and at this time, Nanming can really lead the troops and command more than 1,000 people to fight a real war, instead of playing the village chief war and engaging in writing weapon fights, either they are taken down by the Elders, or they have already taken refuge in the elders.

Bad money drives out good money, the consequence of using literati is bound to be the weakness of the generals, so after a group of literati touted each other to the extreme, several princes issued letters of appointment respectively, for a time the five officials do not want money to send out, the fourth official can get a little bit of fame, the third official is slightly less, but unfortunately for a time can not make up the official uniform and due reward, naturally it is nondescript, many people are crowned with monkeys, naturally the first time in the local area, first married a few times, marrying a dozen concubines is serious.

During this time, Chongzhen also carefully reviewed his mistakes in the past few years, he naturally hated Xiao Tianjian, but his hatred for Jiannu was even ten times greater than his hatred for Xiao Tianjian.

Of course, it's not that no one carefully recalls the reason why the Ming Dynasty has come to the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted, what is the reason, the Confucian scholars will also carry forward the spirit of the three provinces every day, and finally think that the most fundamental reason is still in others, the generals and soldiers are unwilling to use their lives, why can't they not take a penny, do not bring a weapon, and fight directly with the enemy, as for the mistakes of the craftsmen, the mistakes of the peasants, they put the wild boar Pinurhachi in Liaodong after the rebellion, the Ming Dynasty's military has continued to fail, Finances began to fall into difficulties, politics fell into infighting, so that the domestic famine was repeated, but there was no relief, and forced by the situation in the north, constantly raising salaries and taxes, and finally causing the world to be in turmoil, and the people everywhere to blame, these responsibilities are all blamed on others.

So at present, although the fall of the Ming Dynasty is imminent, the Nanming side that thinks it has the true meaning has already collapsed, or the Nanming has long since collapsed, and has been replaced by more than 20 warlords with dogs and teeth, their banners are varied, and the enemies of the bad guys may not be good people, and the reason why there is no big war is just that they are afraid that after they do it first, the nest will be attacked.

At this moment, the salesmen of North Industries suddenly sent another letter, claiming that due to the dispatch of the imperial capital army to sweep away the massacre of the Han people by the red-haired people in the south, they would arm hundreds of thousands of troops, and the weapons needed would be massive, and in the next quarter, the arms sales of North Industries would be reduced, and the price would be increased, which would not be high, that is, doubled.

Several kings were very moved, one by one patted their chests and promised that they were willing to underwrite all the arms, as long as they were willing to dedicate their weapons to themselves, then what the position of the marquis was not hesitated to, in their opinion, a group of craftsmen who were inferior to animals, in the eyes of Confucianism, could actually be a marquis, simply.

Naturally, North Industry will not deal with this kind of fool, in a certain office, countless men and women are frantically checking the intelligence from the south, summarizing the basic military strength of each force, the people's hearts, the relationship between each other, and how much extra wealth there is, and only after summing up it, do they start to plan to trade arms with various forces in the Southern Ming.

This is a university question, in fact, the elders can only explore a little bit by themselves, but fortunately, there are many experiments, and there is still time.

Therefore, although the quality of the Nanming army is almost the worst in the south in the past dynasties, after all, every time there is a civil war in history, the displaced people in the north can always form a rather terrible army to sweep thousands of troops, supporting the face of the rich but poor fighting in the south, but in the time and space where the presbytery is located, the northern refugees have a better place to go, so the conscription of the Nanming is mainly based on local landless peasants.

Of course, this is nothing, with the land policy of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the indulgence of the gentry, the more and more bankrupt peasants, their sophistication, with the help of the northern industry that gradually released the production capacity, but it is the hall of the southern army of the past dynasties, even if it is Qi Jiguang's army, it can't do all-steel weapons.

The outbreak of war was actually quite unexpected.

In the eyes of the five hidden princes, the map they can see, the strength of their own side, is naturally a lot, the reason is naturally that there are many people in each family, and maybe there are people from a certain county, who belong to his own people in the atlas of the five princes.

It's like a dense fish scale map, in this case, it is very normal to cause miscalculation, with Li Dingguo's Zhu Yu in front, everyone found that the best commodities in Jiangnan at present are these sophisticated northern weapons, and robbing other people's weapons can not only weaken others, but also strengthen themselves, is everyone will choose so.

More than a dozen forces in southern China launched an inexplicable chaotic war in the sixth year of the republic.

The two protagonists who really caused the big brawl were really small people, and now as long as they were landlords with a little bit of wealth, they began to call on the tenants of the family, and find ways to build weapons and form a village to protect themselves, that is, the legendary group training, according to the trend of history, they should have laid down their arms on me first, and then were killed one by one in the next few decades.

These people don't need much combat power, just like some crushes have been attacking China with insufficient military strength and can't defeat aliens, people only need to have the strength to destroy you.

These armies, from the very beginning, were not intended to be against the Presbyterians, but against tenants who might rebel, or large neighbors.

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