History books often have such a sentence described, "The magnificent and vigorous peasant uprising was brutally strangled under the joint suppression of the feudal court and local powerful forces (Han landlord armed forces and foreign reactionary forces)." ”

The case of Shandong is the best comment. After obtaining the political and economic privileges of the Qing government's restoration and respect for the gentry class, especially after the Qing Dynasty gave them the opportunity to recruit volunteers, organize militia groups and other forms of local armed forces to participate in the process of suppressing and strangling the anti-Qing armed forces, and then reward them for meritorious deeds, from Shandong to the north of the Yellow River, from Gyeonggi to Shanxi, you can see militia groups under the banner of the Qing army everywhere, under the leadership of the gentry, launching attacks and harassments against various anti-Qing forces. If it is not good, it will also help lead the way, provide intelligence, and supply people, forage, vegetables and meat when the Qing army attacks.

This kind of behavior is completely like the entertainment venue industry practitioners tearing off the fig leaf of "we are selling our art but not selling ourselves", "I just came here, and I don't want to come out yet" after the guests moved out at the right price. Immediately took out all the unique stunts such as what ***** and the poisonous dragon piercing heart drill.

In this way, Xie Qian's life was immediately difficult.

The Qing army, the Liulin Regiment of the Zeng brothers, and all kinds of sect armies either pounced with a sea of people, or used cavalry and heavy armor artillery, or secretly fanned the wind and set ghost fires, creating rumors to shake the morale of the army and incite rebellion. Under the multiple blows, Xie Qian's original occupation of several prefectures and counties, twenty or thirty towns lost most of them in the blink of an eye.

In desperation, Xie Qian had to be like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong back then, giving up the tactics of sticking to one place and starting to "play in circles". Conquer the enemy by walking.

The Qing army troops that rushed into Zichuan were the first to be the Liulin regiment of the Zeng brothers. Zeng Chuanchun, the ninth brother of Zeng Chuansheng, led their brothers' most elite Jizi battalion in Zichuan, Boshan and other places for three days without sealing the knife, threatening that the thatch should be overburned, the stone should be cut three times, the man should lose eight inches, and the woman should try the depth.

There were more than 2,000 rebels in his army who had been captured and surrendered, and when others asked him what to do with these people, Zeng Chuanchun rolled his eyes, "Now that there are famines everywhere, and there are wars everywhere, where is there so much food to feed them?" ”

The subordinates immediately understood, and even announced to these more than 2,000 people that my family's nine handsome people were kind-hearted and benevolent, and they would pay them money to send them home. (This trick was also used in Nanjing!) At that moment, these captives marched into several large temples in Zichuan City in groups of ten, and collected their travel expenses. As a result, a team of ten people entered the temple gate, and it was not the copywriter who was holding the account book and copper coins that rushed up, but dozens of big men with steel knives and axes. It is completely the assembly line operation of modern industry, entering the temple gate, being immediately tied up, and escorted to the open space in the backyard of the main hall, with a wave of the ghost head knife, the dead body fell to the ground. The executioners took a breath and waited for the next ten to arrive.

Soon, Luxi, Luxinan, and Luzhong, with the full cooperation of the Qing army and the gentry, were gradually pacified. The northern section of the canal was opened, and Abatai proudly reported to his fourteenth brother of the regent: "The Dezhou section of the South Canal, the Linqing section of the Huitong River (Yuan Canal, the Small Canal), the Yanggu section of the Huitong River, and the Nanwang section of the Huitong River have all been opened, and the boats have been able to travel smoothly. But the capital is endless. ”

With the opening of the northeastern section of Canal Mountain, the Qing army began to move south along the canal, heading towards Tai'an, Jining, and Tengzhou. For a time, the flags on both sides of the canal were cloudy, and the swords and guns were like a sea.

The emergency military situation in the direction of Shandong was sent to Nanjing by Lu Mahong and Liao Dongzhi by speedboat with an expedited speed of 800 miles.

When the military report arrived in Nanjing, Li Shouhan was invited into the palace by Zhu Yousong, the Hongguang Emperor, and Ma Shiying, the first assistant university of the cabinet, to discuss the establishment of Hongguang Yiyou Enke.

Enke began in the Song Dynasty and was also used in the Ming Dynasty. During the celebration of the imperial court, a special examination is held, also known as "Enke". Now it is the time for the new emperor to ascend the throne, and the war north of the Huai River is still unending, which is the time to win the hearts of the people and boost the atmosphere. Therefore, the Cabinet of the First Auxiliary University Counselor led the public to prepare for the En Ke exam. When Liang Guogong was invited to enter the palace, he wanted to discuss how the scholars in the fallen land should take the exam, how to set the questions of the exam, and so on.

The Ming court needed an activity that could inspire the people, and it was too necessary to improve the morale of the army and the people, so north of the Huai River, when the three families of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the local armed forces were inextricably fighting, in Sichuan, Huguang and other places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi was violently beating the remnants of the Ming army and those Tukou and Tusi armed forces in Sichuan, and he couldn't wait to engage in this Yiyou Hongguang Enke. In order to declare to all the people in the world that the Ming Dynasty is still the right thing in the world, and Emperor Hongguang is the true son of heaven!

Under the guidance of the two great eunuchs with a smile on their faces, Li Shouhan walked into the bedroom of Zhu Yousong, the Hongguang Emperor, with his head held high. Today's deliberation was for Zhu Yousong to convene him and Ma Shiying to discuss on a small scale, so the deliberations were arranged in the warm pavilion of the dormitory.

said that it was a warm pavilion, but in order to be less depressed, Zhu Yousong ordered the eunuch to open a few glass windows on the window lattice, so that the cold air with a little humidity came in.

"My great general," although Zhu Yousong has left a lot of notoriety in history for greedy money, good goods, good wine, and greedy sex, he is not as unbearable and stupid as described by the gentlemen of Donglin. Let's ask, how could a fool or a person with insufficient political wisdom think of winning the support of the four towns in Jiangbei, and then leap from a down-and-out prince to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty? He greeted Li Shouhan with this not very formal, but very affectionate title: "These are a few Enke topics formulated by Mr. Shoufuma, Aiqing may wish to see if it is appropriate." ”

With Zhu Yousong's words, the little eunuch who was waiting next to him put a few pieces of letterhead on a vermilion lacquer plate, with a few neat lines of small letters on it, writing the title of Yiyou Enke.

His Majesty teased. The minister is a martial artist, and when it comes to training soldiers to fight, raising salaries and farming, there are still a few experiences. How do you know this through the art of making? When the time comes, you will speak absurdly, isn't it for Your Majesty and Mr. Ma to make fun of you? Li Shouhan said haha in his mouth, but he was not slow at all, took the pages, and began to read the words on them.

Naturally, these questions will not be high-math physics and chemistry, let alone should be exhausted. It is the two major parts of the scriptures and the policy. The first question of Jingyi: The way of the university is in Mingmingde, in being close to the people, and in stopping at the best righteousness. Sub-topic: Neutrality and not relying on strong justice. Three questions: To the people of the world, gather the world's own goods, trade and retreat, each has its own righteousness. The test is the attainment of the four books and the five classics, and the later policy theory is the so-called insight into the world's major events, which tests the ability level of the students.

The first question of the policy theory: the Zhou and Tang dynasties were heavy on the outside and light on the inside, and the Qin and Wei dynasties were light on the outside and heavy on the inside.

The second question, Zhuge Liang did not have the heart of Shen Shang and used his technique, and Wang Anshi used the truth of Shen Shang to hide his name.

The third question, the Northern Song Dynasty knotted Jin to draw Yan Zhao, and the Southern Song Dynasty assisted Yuan to attack Cai.

Although Li Shouhan is not very good at these three questions, he can feel from Ma Shiying's flickering eyes, Zhu Yousong's looking left and right, and the state of ordering the little eunuch to do this and that from time to time, he can feel that these three questions are definitely a little hidden in them. Sure enough, after careful taste, he even guessed what the problem was.

The first question, the Zhou and Tang dynasties were heavy on the outside and light on the inside, and the Qin and Wei dynasties were light on the outside and heavy on the inside. This topic is definitely a metaphor for the present from the past, and it is used to refer to the insinuation of the present. Who let the current army of the Ming Dynasty have the strength to fight, and the elite departments are either under the command of the four towns of Jiangbei, or under the banner of Zuo Liangyu's rabbit master, and then, it is his headquarters Nanyue Army?

However, the second and third questions are from a different angle.

The second question, Zhuge Liang did not have the heart of Shen Shang and used his technique, and Wang Anshi used the truth of Shen Shang to hide his name. This topic is clearly for the new policy that Li Shouhan is currently implementing, or in the name of restoring the old system of his ancestors. And the third question, the Northern Song Dynasty knotted Jin to Tu Yan Zhao, and the Southern Song Dynasty helped Yuan to attack Cai. even talked about the big slap, threw the bloody historical facts in front of those fools who advocated borrowing Pingkou, and then opened the bow left and right in the face of the subject. You advocate borrowing from Pingkou, okay! The Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty all took this road, but what was the result? Do you also want to take the emperor to Yashan to practice diving?

(Regarding the diving results of the gentlemen of Donglin, Li Shouhan didn't plan to consider it at all.) Will they dive? A sentence that the water is too cold will easily abandon the game. ）

From these questions, Li Shouhan can surmise that Ma Shiying's struggle with the cabinet ministers is also very fierce, and he came up with this topic after making a compromise and concession between them that he doesn't know how to difficult. So that all factions can reluctantly accept it, but in fact, it is still focused on him Li Shouhan.

For Ma Shiying's kindness, Li Shouhan reciprocated with a "I already know everything, thank you!" Ma Shiying reciprocated a "you know" look.

"Your Majesty, Ma Xiangye, a certain family is a rough person." Li Shouhan deliberately lowered his posture very low and made a vulgar and unliterate appearance, "However, a certain family thinks that these topics proposed by Ma Xiangye are very appropriate!" ”

Although in my heart, I am very dissatisfied with this kind of imperial examination only testing the eight-strand art article, but after hundreds of years of accumulation, everyone thinks that this is a matter of course.

If there are more than 50 kinds of subjects such as Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, Ming Law, Ming Zi, and Ming Arithmetic since the opening of the imperial examination in the early Tang Dynasty, then I am afraid that the entire Ming officialdom will be lively.

However, at present, in Nanzhong, Liangguang and other places, the selection and appointment of officials was also carried out by Li Peilin under the banner of restoring the old system, and the content of the village official training class was quietly included in the scope of the examination. You want to be an official, sorry, go and take these exams first. If you pass the exam, there is naturally an official position waiting for you. Although these people are not as handy as cadres who have undergone several years of systematic training, they are a hundred times stronger than those who only know how to find chapters and excerpts from the scriptures.

Therefore, Li Shouhan intends to expand this scope, from the Fujian and Guangdong regions to the entire Ming controlled area at present!

"Your Majesty, Master Ma. A certain family is a little foolish, and now I am about to prosper in the Ming Dynasty, which is the time for a large number of people. When it is not eclectic, it is the way to open up wide. Li Shouhan put forward his opinion.

"Please make it clear, General." Reciprocated by the peach, Ma Shiying saw that his imperial examination proposition was recognized by Li Shouhan, so he naturally had to cooperate with him, this is the way for the courtiers to get along!

"A certain family thinks that when the Ming will open Enke to recruit talents from all over the world, the will should be clear, not only to test the four books and five classics, and the eight articles, but also to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty, what Ming Law, Ming Calculation and other subjects should also be tested. Open a few more paths for the world's people. In this way, when our Ming army and horses regain the lost territory, there will be ready-made officials available. These people are well versed in government affairs, and it will not be long before the four seas will be leveled, and all the people should be happy. ”

In order to achieve this goal, Li Shouhan proposed to Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying that the examinations of subjects such as Ming Law and Ming Calculation could be postponed and placed at a later stage of the imperial examinations. Let those who have not been tested in the Four Books and Five Classics have one more opportunity to serve the imperial court.

As for the personnel, money and food needed to organize these two examinations, all of them were arranged by the General's Office. Even those who did not make the first to pay for their living expenses while waiting for the exams were given a discretionary allowance by the shogunate. You can't let the world's talents go hungry to take the exam.

However, he said it lightly, for Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, it was like a bolt from the blue. Since ancient times, scholars have been a channel for the poor or commoners to change their social status and economic status. There is a saying that "the dynasty is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is the Tianzi Hall". However, there is also the so-called "poor literature and rich martial arts", which means about two levels, people who study, the poorer their family background, the better, and such people can often devote themselves to learning. On the other hand, it also shows that many scholars are often from poor families, otherwise there would be no word for poverty. On the contrary, those who practice martial arts have high requirements for the economic conditions of their families. The richer the better. Because whether it is the requirements for diet and nutrition after a large amount of exercise, or the manufacture and purchase of various equipment and weapons, it is necessary to have a lot of silver as the foundation. (Therefore, the various schools in martial arts are not the so-called chivalrous and righteous way, and they are often at the level of big landlords and big bullies in the local area.) It can let the poor scholars who come to participate in the imperial examination have a worry-free examination process, and can let them have a way to go from birth, and in the future, historians will comment on it, and Emperor Hongguang and Shoufu Ma Shiying are also destined to leave a good name in history. Although they don't have to pay for this money, the fame will fall on them in the end.

So, both the monarch and the minister were concerned about this matter.

"General, this move is of course to open up another way out for the poor scholars in the world, so that they have the opportunity to contribute to the imperial court. But did the court have so many officials and envoys to place them? Ma Shiying tactfully put forward his opinion.

"Xiangye, you don't know anything. If we follow the practice of a certain family in Fujian, Guangdong, and Nanzhong, the village head of a village and the captain of the watch team are also appointed by the officials, and the advantage of this is that the government decree is smooth, and there will be no intermediate loss, discounting, and flexibility. ”

Ma Shiying was considering the problem within the existing imperial court system, and what he was worried about was that there would be a large number of redundant and redundant officials, which would make the imperial court's already not very generous finances even more stretched. and then affected the war in the north and delayed the Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty. Although Li Shouhan, the financial owner, was willing to provide a source of income, as a traditional literati and official, he was reluctant to let Li Shouhan expand his influence step by step through such means, and then become a powerful minister.

However, Li Shouhan did not think so. His approach is based on his experience. Officials don't say that they are assigned to the village level, even if they are assigned to the township, that is a huge number. Moreover, the officials sent by the imperial court to the township level will not only not put pressure on the finances, but will cause the increase in fiscal revenue. The reason is very simple, those squires who originally chartered and taxed and did not have to pay taxes on money and grain can no longer evade taxes by manipulating the township political situation!

What's more, in the future, a large part of these officials will be sent to serve in areas north of the Yellow River and in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. There, for the Hongguang Imperial Court, it belongs to the new area. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the forces of all parties in Shunxi competed with each other, would the loss and consumption of these officials be less?

However, such a black-bellied plan naturally can't be said to Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, and Li Shouhan can only make a haha and gently pick up the topic.

"Nowadays, new policies are being implemented in various places, and people are being hired everywhere, and a certain family has to receive countless documents every day to send officials, and there will only be fewer people, not more people!"

The news that the imperial court was going to open Yiyou Enke was published on the front page of various newspapers. In addition to the normal imperial examinations, two subjects of the imperial examinations, namely Ming Calculation and Ming Law, have been added. And it is a high-sounding declaration that it is a move to restore the Tang Dynasty and open up a new way for the world's readers. What's even more exciting is that the exams of these two subjects are exams outside of the Bagu article, although they are not regarded as the right way to the subject, but the conditions are also very favorable. For example, there are no restrictions on the origin of personnel. Whether you are a person who takes the Bagu exam and feels that you are not able to pass the exam, or you are from a variety of lowly statuses, such as servants, tenants, companions, drummers, advocates of excellence, etc., or people from the families of officials in various yamen, as long as you think that I have attainments in the two subjects of Ming Calculation and Ming Law, you can come to take the exam, serve the imperial court, and contribute your own strength to the Ming Dynasty!

In addition, during the examination period, those who take the examination of these two subjects can enjoy the food and clothing allowance of the imperial court. Once admitted, the lowest is the ninth rank official of the imperial court. Although they are all so-called customs officials, they are justifiable court officials.

This time, it suddenly made the hearts of the people in the jurisdiction of the Hongguang Imperial Court float! 5310