"What did you say?"

Hong Chengchou's eyes were as big as bull's eyes, and his mouth was wide open, so that the little soldiers who came to pass through saw the throat letter at a glance.

But Hong Chengchou can't take care of his demeanor. He's full of commotion now, and people are stupid.

Oh, my God! Zheng Zhilong really wants to break the sky.

He made people blackmail the Kong family not to say (Guo Sheng), and also copied the old bottom of the Kong family (Jiang Zhe), and now he is even using a prisoner car to send Kong Yinzhi and others to Jinling, and he also inserts the sign of 'three surnames of domestic slaves' on the prisoner car.

Hong Chengchou couldn't imagine how Jiangnan would react after hearing such news.

For the first time, he felt that his brain was not enough.

Placing the relatively gentle Wang courtiers in Ziyang is in itself a bit of care for Qufu. Even if he received the letter from Wang Tingchen, Hong Chengchou didn't blame him in his heart.

After all, the Zheng family has a great favor for them. Zheng Zhilong just drove Guo Sheng to earn a sum of money from Qufu Kong's family, which was harmless.

This matter should be returned to Zheng Zhilong.

Later news also confirmed his speculation, Wang Tingchen got 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stone grain and rice for nothing, Wang Tingchen was quite convinced of Hong Chengchou, and did not hide the spoils. But because of his non-concealment, Hong Chengchou became furious in his heart after seeing the real number.

If Guo Sheng wants to say that it is Zheng Zhilong's white gloves, even if he wants to thank Wang Tingchen, he will not be so broken, there must be a reason for this.

Sure enough, he thought so in his heart, and found that he was uneasy, so he immediately sent someone to Ziyang City to visit, and the person left Xuzhou City on the front foot, and the third urgent report from the royal courtiers on the back foot was sent - Zheng Zhilong really had a back hand, Jiang Zhe not only destroyed Guo Sheng, but also directly copied Qufu City.

The Confucian family, the Zeng family, the Lu family, and the famous families of Qufu were all copied from the bottom up.

Wang Tingchen was dumbfounded when he received the news, and what else could Hong Chengchou do now? When he heard the news, he was also helpless. But I also think that this is the end of the matter.

Zheng Zhilong has gone too far, hasn't he?

As long as all aspects of communication are good, the impact may not be overwhelming. Does Quzhou also have a Kong clan, and it would be good for the southern sect to enter the north.

As a result, Wang Tingchen sent a fourth urgent report, which made Hong Chengchou completely confused.

Zheng Zhilong came with such a hand, so, who in the whole world would not know? It's too big an impact and too bad. There are too many places to play here. It's sure to cause an uproar.

That will not only involve Shilin, but even the world.

Hong Chengchou didn't think that Zheng Zhilong planned to find another way now, he just thought of the recent academic dispute in Shilin, and this was enough to stir up.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were all masters of science, and in the impression of later generations, science was the same as the Bagu article, covering the Ming and Qing dynasties (the late Qing Dynasty aside), which was completely firm and unshakable. It was Wang Yangming, a master of psychology, who promoted the development of psychology for a while, but it also failed to fundamentally touch the absolute hegemony of science.

But the fact is that the impact of Yangmingxue on science did not reach a peak until many years after Wang Yangming's death.

Whether it is the Seven Schools of Wang Xue, or the Wangmen School of Central Zhejiang, the Taizhou School, or even the heretic Li Zhen, in this period, he is very influential in the world.

Li Zhen's several books, what is the evaluation in Shilin? All are rebellious and perverse, non-holy and incapable, criticize Confucius and Mencius, and set up praise and disparagement, all the good and evil passed down through the ages, all reversed and transposed, especially those who are not punishable. His book can be destroyed, and his name is not enough to defile the Jane, especially to deceive the world, so far the countryside is ugly, shocking its false name, such as ignoring it for fear of harming people's hearts, so it is special to save its purpose, in order to deeply expose its crimes. ……

But he was forbidden several times and couldn't. Every few years, new engravings are sold.

And because of the decline of the country at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the war was defeated one after another, and the national strength declined greatly. When people are weak, they will reflect on how they have gone from strong to weak, which also provides a social foundation for the Shilin academic community to make waves.

The kind of simple style of study that opposes empty talk, emphasizes practice and practice, emphasizes application to the world, and emphasizes practicality, has been developing. There are even some who oppose autocracy, advocate limiting imperial power, and even put forward views such as "fatherless and kingless, not father-killer and king-killing", etc., are also in the pipeline.

When the world was in turmoil, the collision of various social contradictions, the minds of literati during this period were always very active.

Hong Chengchou has a very good understanding of this matter, and understands that after the imperial court moved south, the cries of emphasizing historiography over classics (it cannot be regarded as light, but only raising the status of historiography a little), the opposition to the empty talk of science, the theory of anti-Song Confucianism and Taoism, the promotion of the study of deeds, and the call for seeing things in action and applying them to the world are getting higher and higher.

This is the same reason that after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty in history, a figure like Chen Liang also appeared among the Song people. (Advocating the study of merit)

They are all about wanting to strengthen themselves and strengthen themselves after suffering enough in the face of bloody facts, which leads to a great reflection on the past.

The difference is that Chen Liang was 'few people and weak strength' at that time, but now there are a lot of people in Shilin who are shouting and shouting and killing against science.

Of course, just a verbal dispute between scholars, just like the distinction between Chen Liang and Zhu Xi, as long as it does not touch the essence of society, it will not have a substantial impact.

In history, the three-brained people in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, whether it was Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu, or Huang Zongxi, all advocated restricting imperial power and opposing absolute monarchy, but what is the use of a bird?

The Manchu Qing Dynasty, who was in charge of the world, continued to use science and eight-strand articles, and no matter how radical your ideas were, they lacked the opportunity to realize theories.

However, what Hong Chengchou can be sure of is that as long as the matter of Kong Yinzhi and others is spread to Jiangnan, it will definitely provide a large number of real guns and live ammunition for the Yangming School.

If it really makes waves at that time, not only Shilin will move, but the court will not sit idly by.

Otherwise, how could Li Zhen commit suicide in prison? He Xinyin even died under the chaotic stick of Wang Zhiyuan, the governor of Huguang. This may even affect the current Northern Expedition!

Hong Chengchou has suffered from gains and losses since he came to his senses, but he is counting on this Northern Expedition to 'make contributions' again. It cannot be destroyed by others.

But thinking of what Wang Tingchen said, Zheng Zhilong made hundreds of people closely supervise, day and night. In addition to being rude, I really can't think of any way to save Kong Yinzhi and them.

But if you really want to be 'rough', that is what even Emperor Chongzhen would never want to see.

Zheng Zhilong doesn't care about this.

He has now come to Changle, the Qing army has gathered in Yidu, and Zheng Zhibao has led his troops to the city. Hundreds of artillery pieces of all sizes bombarded day and night, and Zheng Zhibao did not have half a trick in this battle, but relied on hard power to eat.

Hauge has a lot of Tartar vests in his hands, and on the cavalry, the Tartars have an absolute advantage. This is also the biggest reason why Zheng Zhibao does not dare to make shortcuts.

However, how big is Qingzhou? The city wall is three zhang six feet high, one zhang eight feet thick, thirteen miles and 108 steps long, and there are 1,777 battlements in total.

In terms of the scale of China's cities, Qingzhou City is an absolute fortified city.

Haoge Jiancheng is in hand, not far from Linzi and Zukefa's 20,000 or 30,000 Qilu green battalions, in addition to the eight banners under Haoge's soldiers, there are also Liu Zeqing's 20,000 green battalion soldiers, and the army is not short of food.

The only thing he didn't expect was that Zheng Zhilong's army would throw so much artillery into Qingzhou.

However, the Hongyi cannon of the Qilu Qing army had already gone west with Duoduo.

After a brief exchange of artillery between the two armies at the beginning, the only few artillery pieces of the Qing army were destroyed, and they fell into a situation where they could only be beaten and did not fight back.

After many days of bombardment, when Zheng Zhilong arrived at the front line, the four walls of Qingzhou had been destroyed.

Especially in the east city wall, not only the tower of Haidaimen (East Gate) was destroyed early, but also the Kuixing Tower in the southeast corner of the city was also bombarded, leaving only a pile of ruins.

It is a scene in Qingzhou, and the so-called "night rain in the south building" is this building. Scholars worship Kuixing in the Kuixing Building every time before the imperial examination, praying to be on the list in the imperial examination. It is one of the landmark buildings in the ancient city of Qingzhou.

Although the shells have not yet collapsed and shattered the Qingzhou city wall, the battlements and women's walls on the wall have almost been swept away, leaving only a bare city, and the situation of the Qing army is quite bad.

None of the Green Banner soldiers that used to fill the city were gone.

Sent to death in vain, although Hauge didn't take the Green Flag soldiers seriously, he didn't squander it like that.

What's more, he also has to worry about the morale of the Green Flag soldiers, right? Liu Zeqing's subordinates didn't care if they could fight or not, it was all a banner for them to surrender and rebel in Qilu.

Zheng Jun can use muskets to form a direct suppression of the city. Zheng Zhilong rushed to Zheng Zhibao when the time came, and Zheng Zhibao was moving forward with the artillery front, and the front soldiers were directly forced to a place about fifty zhang below Qingzhou City.

A large number of soldiers and Ding Zhuang are hurrying to build the fortress. Although the ground was frozen and stiff, it was heated by fire, and the fortifications were still repaired!

The front-line fort (and the city wall) at a distance of fifty zhang, and then the front-line fortress - the original artillery position - about a mile away is the large camp set up by the Zheng army in Simen.

The very layered layout is completely bullying the Qing army in the city for not having artillery.

There are only two platoons of musketeers stationed in each fort, but with a few large and small cannons, this can be a tough nut to crack. There were several such forts outside each city gate, and it was really difficult for the Tartars in the city to break through, and the gates were sealed.

And the shells are also all hot shells. In the big pots where the charcoal was burning, there were four or five solid bullets that burned red. The mortar cannon was also exerting its strength, and under the cover of the shield car, it had directly forced to the city, sending one flowering bomb after another into Qingzhou at the fastest speed.

"Boom, boom—"

Successive cannon shots rang out continuously. For the Qing soldiers in the city, it was a reminder.