As the Taiping army gradually took control of the cities along the Xiangshui River, the basic order was established. Among the people who came to join the army and make a living, there were also some poor soldiers; And Chen Yanzhang, who is from Yichun, near Yuanzhou, is such a poor scholar who once had no way out and flourished everywhere.

Although his ancestors also had a little relationship with Chen Xilie, the prime minister of Tianbao, so his parents' generation could still pass on more than a dozen acres of thin fields and the company of the old slaves of the family to support him, a child who specializes in studying.

However, as the most common tradition of cultivating and reading heirlooms in the past dynasties, in addition to exhausting his net worth of barely sufficient food and clothing, he only got the result of repeated defeats in the state election after the township test.

Then, after his parents were impatient with the hardships of life and died of illness one after another, and changed the last bit of his belongings; He could only accept what was left of his uncle's family and go to a private school to make a living.

But in this world, there are many people, and how many people are meditating on reading; Then, as the master's family fled to other places to avoid trouble, he also had to return to his hometown to pick up the art of farm work again; But God didn't fulfill people's wishes, and even the village of his hometown was gone.

It is said that a passing officer army did it easily. Then he stood on a white ground and looked around blankly, and he could only temporarily join the begging refugees who were drifting with the tide.

Then he was recruited into the labor camp organized by the grass thieves, and then he was selected because he could read words, and did some copying and recording in the labor camp, which was regarded as a full meal. The only discomfort was that the beard and hair had to be shaved clean, and after going down to the river to wash it, they would stay in the camp for at least a month before they could come out.

This is undoubtedly a kind of rebellion for the teaching he received since he was a child that "the body and body shall not be lightly destroyed by the parents"; But after seeing with his own eyes the hairs and torn clothes that had been thrown into the fire and burned them, and the various fleas and lice crawling out one after another, most of them were completely speechless and dissenting.

Then he gradually noticed the unusual things about the grass thief who recruited and contained him. For example, they are simply a little desireless;

It is not like the local arbitrary officials who are accustomed to encroaching on and harassing people's homes, or like the passing officials and soldiers who burn and kill excessively, nor like those rich and powerful families in the fish and meat villages, who will forcibly seize whatever they like, but would rather buy and sell copper coins or objects in exchange.

So he couldn't help but move his mind, wanting to go further in his current position; However, his attempts were met with a definite response. He was called directly to an impromptu meeting called an interview, and asked some questions about the "thoughts of the rebels" and "what are your plans for the future".

"You'll have to read at least one of these books."

The other party threw him a stack of pamphlets and said in a meaningful tone.

"In order to accept our rainy school, and finally truly obtain the qualification to do things for the rebels."

These booklets were bound on shoddy paper with a lot of rough skin bumps, but they were engraved with a lot of text in small letters. Among them, there are "Economic Theory", "Book of Persuasion of Agriculture", "Theory of Contradiction", "Holy Treasury System", "Outline of Taiping Tianmu", "Mo Shuo", "Enlightenment of Counting Chapters", "Public Losing Style" and so on.

And a few days later, just as he was using his spare time to study the heresies of these grass thieves, he wanted to find a suitable path for his own career; But he was called again. But it was to call them to watch a white play, a story called "Red and Black",

This story, which is sung and told on a simple stage, tells the story of a young man from a poor family with the surname Minglian, who was bent on closing the lintel from the top of the house, so he was determined to make a difference since he was a child. Therefore, the way of the world is to either become a virtuous monk wearing a red robe, or joining the army to become a general wearing a black robe.

When he was a child, he frantically admired the famous generals of ancient times, and longed to wear a long sword like the rangers of the Han Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty. think that the sages of Lingyan Pavilion such as Cheng Zhijie and Qin Shubao; It is said that "from a humble and poor squatter and a disciple who cut the path, only relying on his martial arts and the ability to fight, he became a family of heroes who retired with the country."

But then his hopes repeatedly hit a wall in reality. Although he successfully voted for the military examination and successfully voted for the door of the imperial lieutenant, but without enough family background and family background, he had no ambition and worked hard again and again, and he could only be invisibly suppressed and excluded again and again, and he was always sunk among the military officials and repeatedly failed to get ahead. was even involved in the dispute in the back house and was framed for having an affair with his family, and had to abscond and run away with hatred on charge.

So, he learned from the pain and wanted to escape the world as a great monk, not only to seek peace of mind and silence, but also to save the world. So, he changed his name and worshiped under the disciple of the tantric master Fahai and studied Buddhism. With an astonishingly good memory, he memorized all the "Forty-two Chapters" of a Bayeux book, which caused a sensation in the whole city and became famous.

Then he was recommended to the Holy Church Temple to place orders and practice. However, the Buddhism is also full of invasions and intrigue calculations, and he also climbs up for the sake of the monk class and unscrupulous means to violate the precepts, which also makes him very disappointed.

Because, as he put it, "Now we see the ubiquitous place of filth in the monastery." Although what he said was to escape from the world and do nothing, he was doing things that were greedy and excessive, gathering the anointing blood of the believers into beautiful temples and ritual instruments in the name of worshipping the Dharma, but it was of no benefit to the suffering and hardships of the people's livelihood. ”

And as a person of great virtue, he can only do nothing about himself, but let those men who are full of fat brains steal female prostitutes. So, too, he began to degenerate into self-abandonment; He was proud of entering and exiting the wealthy families and gained a great reputation, and even couldn't resist the temptation to start having affairs with the ladies of several princes' families.

But this made him famous and popular, and under the admiration of these princes' family members, he was even recommended to wear a purple robe above the prayer ceremony for the Son of Heaven. Just when his reputation was becoming more and more grand, he was recognized by the old acquaintance in the belly of the original captain; And a woman who had an affair with him was even more pregnant.

Then there was the old acquaintance in the angry woman's father and brother and the Taiwei's mansion, and he could no longer hide the end of being ruined and beheaded; It's just that when he was leaving, he shouted out with great understanding: "This is the world where tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves cannot survive without doing evil, and everything the court sees is a moth with deep sins and enjoying wealth. ”

Then, in the midst of an empathetic and deeply infected sobbing and throbbing atmosphere, Chen Yanzhang saw a somewhat familiar person in the crowd. It was Hong Mao, the son of the Hong clan of Tanzhou that he had met once during the state election; It's just that he also looks like he is unbearable and yellow-skinned, and he doesn't know what happened to him.

In the following days, he saw many familiar faces again, some of them were Zheng Qi, Yuan Hao, Huang Po, Wu Tangqi, etc., who had several encounters in the state election in the early years, and the unsuccessful people who had drunk together in a warm way; Some are his fellow villagers or Lu Zhao, Wang Hub, Peng Yan, Xi Jia, Zhan Ben and others in the same year;

Unexpectedly, they all defected to the grass thieves and were able to gather here, so Chen Yanzhang couldn't help but have a little sense of crisis and urgency when he had mixed feelings; Although he thinks that his article knowledge is quite passable, these fellow villagers or peers with different family backgrounds are not so easy to get along with.

Among them, there are even children of the local wang clans, and it is obvious that they have hidden their identities and come here. Combined with the content of their private discussions, Chen Yanzhang couldn't help but feel in his heart, but he didn't know how many of them, like himself, had heard of the popular "Orange Island Inscription", which was arranged by the family to test the style.

After all, compared with the declining Li Tang court and officials at all levels, there are still some ordinary people who still have a deep-rooted awe; As a family that has grown up over the years in these places, it is more important to consider once the imperial court is no longer mandated; How to survive in this chaotic world, all kinds of assets and ways out.

Although they didn't care about letting their family's resources and children come directly or join a newly rising local power; However, they also pay special attention to the pattern and the development of the other party's forces, and most of them have a certain attitude of choosing one rather than a deficiency.

is afraid of making the wrong bet and being tied to a short-sighted, or reckless, or no long-term thinking and planning, and can only go with the tide in the troubled times and spin up and disappear, a flash in the pan, or simply for the king to drive and pave the way for the power to go up.

Of course; When the same hand-me-down sentence is sung by an unknown white body, it will only be regarded as a product of madness, madness, or self-indulgence, or even plagiarized and plagiarized works, and will be arrested by the official for appreciation;

However, if it is placed in a place where there are dozens of states in Lingnan and Annam, and the leader of the party (separatism) who is easily defeated by tens of thousands of troops, it is a grand ambition that makes the world unable to look directly and makes many low-level people with no ambitions excited.

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Although most of the rebels may not understand the stalk and intention due to the limitations of their origins; However, in the city of Tanzhou, which is a place where the humanities of Chu land have gathered since ancient times, there is no shortage of people who know the goods and sang in the following time, and in the process of gradually spreading the Daoling table to the south, it caused a lot of continuous sensation.

"The eagle strikes the sky, the fish soars to the shallow bottom, and all kinds of frost compete freely. Confused, ask the vast earth, who is the master of ups and downs? ”

"Just a young student, in his prime; The scholar was angry and scolded Fang Xuan. Pointing to the country, inspiring words, the dung was ten thousand households. ”

"Where is this ordinary anti-poetry, this is simply the words of the sworn oath to win the world."

"Since even the marquis of Wanhu is regarded as dung, he can be like it in his eyes. I'm afraid it's the one who is called the honorable position of the lonely and widowed on the people. ”

"It's worthy of the Lord who is impressed by my generation and does not hesitate to follow."

Including the subordinates Qiu Eun and Fan Xuan, who were born in the traditional scholars of Guangzhou, they are also amazing or proud of the case; They also proudly publicized themselves in the circle of scribes to which they belonged. Many people were even more shocked when they heard each other's voices, and they were unable to speak for a long time.

Because some people have commented in private, which has gone beyond the ordinary rebellious poems that have been descended through the ages, or are resentful, or agitated by the world, or ridiculed the way of the Tao; Between the words and chapters that are nostalgic for some reason, it is faintly to lead to the respect of the world and the will of the lord of the world.

And in the large library of the workshop,

"There are talented people from generation to generation, and they have led the way for hundreds of years."

"He's unabashedly ambitious. But it seems that we are a little twilight, and we are ashamed of each other."

Pi Rixiu, who was writing, also looked at his old friend with a wry smile, and his face was full of shock and disbelief. At this moment, the two of them, who were once famous all over the world and called each other for a while, sighed at each other, but it seemed that they had the illusion that they and others had become the tears of the times.

"This is the pattern and strength of the lord worthy of serving in my heart."

And Liu Xun, who was in Yazhou, recited and sighed loudly after hearing the news, and then led a group of subordinates to salute respectfully to the north, saying in unison, "We have to wait for a clear master," and then, regardless of the old age, burst out with a lot of enthusiasm and enthusiasm for work, just to show and achieve something in the future.

And in the back house of the left-behind mansion,

"I can't wait to be by Lang Jun's side at this moment and encourage him."

The maid Qingluo was already confused and her face was flushed, holding a piece of paper that was said to be the original manuscript, and suddenly she was flying into the sky and said:

"The slave likes it so much, I like it so much."

"This bad thing has just come out of the battle, and he really can't hide his ambition and thoughts."

Calamus, who was also holding a small pendant of Xue Tao's note, pouted disdainfully at the skull spirit that was snuggling.

"It's a big breath to worry about the world's worries first. . . You said it was not a sister. ”

"Discussing things in this way, at least from the first-class vision and position of the Zaichen."

Then this time, the skeleton spirit looked uncertain and hesitated:

"It's a pity that such talents and ambitions can not be used by the imperial court... But I don't know what kind of people's origins will teach this kind of mind and pattern of characters. ”

"Sister, I'm going to be angry."

Calamus pouted her cute little mouth a little angrily.

"This guy always likes to talk nonsense and sensational things to tease people, how can there be any trust."

Of course, although she said this, she couldn't help but carefully hide the manuscript in her arms, and the bear-shaped hugger named "Maji" that she liked the most and had to leave for a moment could not leave the pocket.

"Sister, you said that he told the characters and stories about the Holy Land and the Demon Gate that disturbed the world in the last years of the previous dynasty. But it's a bit true or false. ”

Then she whispered again to the silent skeleton.

"Wan'er。。。。。 I... I don't know how many other commissions are real. ”

This time, the skeleton spirit smiled bitterly.

"But at least the so-called Flower Sect has really been handed down in this dynasty."

"In the past, there were Wen Bacha and Wen Bachelor, who were famous for their grievances and hatred, and there were Yuxi (Li Shangyin) and Wei Zuosi (Wei Yingwu) who were known to the world.

"In today's world, there are also Wei Zuosi's grandsons, and Wei Duanji (Wei Zhuang) who got his mantle."

"It's the Jingzhao Webster ?。。 who once went to your mansion to roll up."

Calamus was a little surprised.

"The old gentleman who wrote "Sidi Township"?。。。。 But there seems to be some kind of interest in the words of the wicked man."

Then, she involuntarily chanted softly:

"On a spring tour, apricot blossoms blow all over the head.

Mo is young and romantic.

The concubine intends to marry and rest for the rest of her life.

Even if you are ruthlessly abandoned, you can't be ashamed. ”

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"Winter travel, like water clouds and snow falling all over the head.

Mo is a young man who doesn't know how to worry.

Indulge in no heart, fall into the clouds,

Look at each other and laugh endlessly! ”

"Sister, why are you crying,"

Then Calamus saw it, and the skeleton spirit seemed to have a deep feeling, and she couldn't help but panic and pleaded.

"It's all my fault, have you been reminded of your past sadness?"

"It's me who can't stand you."

The skeleton spirit habitually stopped her, and tried to hold back her tears.

"It's only so bad that you and I have fallen into this situation."

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