Chapter 10 All Talents (1)

The higher the level of recruitment, the fewer questions tend to be.

There is only one question in Zhu Pingjin's recruitment exam, and it depends on how the candidate responds.

The four of them thought in silence for a moment, only to see Shu Guoping, who was on the far left, take a step forward and take the lead in answering: "The prince has a question, and the student doesn't dare not answer!" ”

Shu Guoping said: "The rebellion in the world began at the end of Wanli. First, there were the three major expeditions of Wanli, and then there was the rebellion of Liaodong by the Apocalypse. In the early years of this dynasty, the thieves were scorching, wandering uncertainly, and the city was full of disasters. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the thieves entered Sichuan, poisoned the north and east of Sichuan, and the Kuizhou Mansion was lost; In the ten years of Chongzhen, thieves entered Sichuan, and dozens of big cities changed hands in a blink of an eye; This is the third time in recent years that the thief has entered Sichuan! ”

Shu Guoping said in a hurry, replenished his breath and continued: "

Inspector Yang Wenweak (Yang Sichang's character is weak) does not know soldiers! It is self-righteous and lays down the so-called 'four images and six corners' policy. The thief Agate Mountain (more than ten kilometers northeast of Wanyuan City) was defeated, and Yang Wenqiao was complacent and played again and again...... As everyone knows, the thieves in the world have been in chaos for a long time, how can they be able to achieve all the success overnight! The resurgence of the sacrifice thief, the Yang thief drove the thief into Sichuan in a hurry, and even poisoned the people of Sichuan, causing a big mistake!

Governor Shao Jiechun doesn't know the soldiers! He ordered thousands of weak soldiers to guard the 32 passes of Kuizhou. Art of War: Soldiers are weak! He also placed Qin Liangyu far away in Chongqing, a few days away from Zhang Ling. The thieves gathered the strength of the whole army to attack Zhang Ling, Qin Liangyu Dao was far from being able to save him, Zhang Ling died and Liangyu was undefeated? As a result, Kuizhou was lost, the door of Sichuan was opened, and the thieves drove straight in!

The prison army is ten thousand yuan, and Ji Ji does not know the soldiers! The thief attacked Luzhou, and he concluded that the thief must go down the river and go out of Sichuan through Kuimen. Luzhou Jiancheng, surrounded by water on three sides. It intended to use Luzhou as a bait to lure the thieves, so the main force of the official army was arranged to set up an ambush at Lishi Station. The result? Luzhou soldiers are thin, and the city falls in an instant! The thieves slaughtered the city, turned around and marched westward against the current, leaving the soldiers in ambush at Standing Stone Station far behind, so that Chengdu was attacked!

There are also Qin generals Li Guoqi and He Renlong, who are arrogant and difficult to control, Chu general Zuo Liangyu raises thieves and self-respect, and Sichuan general Fang Guoan is extremely incompetent, losing his troops and losing his generals, only collecting the remnants of the army and protecting himself! Son of Heaven ......"

It seems that the blood feud in the door cannot be erased in a few days. Scolding the superintendent, scolding the governor, scolding the supervising army, scolding the general soldiers, when Shu Guoping finally mentioned the Son of Heaven, Zhu Pingjin had already brought the teacup.

"The Son of Heaven is the king of promise! The saint worked hard and worked all night, but unfortunately these civil ministers and military generals in the court were all ministers who misled the country! The students thought that in order to defeat the enemy, they must choose a favorable place, wait for Lao Bu to surround him, and wait for the fierce pursuit behind him to throw himself into the net. After cleaning up the fierce tiger, you can easily break through the siege of Yang thieves and return to Chudi. Looking at Chudi, except for Zuo Liangyu, there are no generals. Offering thieves back to Chu, just like a fish returning to the sea, there will be no one to control it! ”

Grieve! Zhu Pingjin gasped, talent. Zhu Pingjin knows the future, and this Shu Guoping's speculation is surprisingly consistent with the development of history! It seems that Shu Guoping's head is very sober and he is not overwhelmed by hatred. Based on Shu Guoping's above speculation, he will also be of great use. But Zhu Pingjin still wants to try him again. It's easy to see the problem, but it's also important to be able to solve it.

"As Mr. Shu said, what can I do about it?"

Shu Guoping was not stumped by Zhu Pingjian. He asked himself and answered, and immediately gave a clear answer: "Who is the one who sacrifices thieves into Sichuan?" Feudal official? Definitely; The people, too. Anti-thief, the gentry are also! ”

"The gentry, or the officials, or the unnobles, or the talents, or the merchants, are all people who have a family, land, wealth, and power. When the thief comes, the people can run, but they can't run. Run away, lose all your money and money! Shu Guoping didn't notice that the face of the person next to him became paler, so he continued to say according to his own train of thought:

"The gentry either dwelt in the city or in the countryside, and were confined to the officials of the prefecture and county, and to the ignorant people. The thieves entered Shu this time, and the court was defenseless, and the county and countryside knew nothing. Therefore, wherever the thieves and soldiers go, they are all invincible. As long as the imperial court encouraged the villagers to practice their arms, the students thought that in order to protect the township and protect their families, the squires of Shu would gather villages and forts and fight to the death. Ten thieves were killed in one fort, and 100,000 thieves were killed in ten thousand forts. Even if such a thief drives straight in, there is not enough food and grass, the bigger and weaker it is, how far can it go? ”

Shu Guoping is indeed a talent, and Zhu Pingjin made a decision.

The establishment and reliance of the landlords' armed forces to exterminate peasant armies have been done in this way by all dynasties. For example, Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang relied on the landlord regiment to train their arms and suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Most importantly, Shu Guoping made clear the idea of relying on the landlord class to suppress the peasant army. Before wearing it, Taizu famously said: Who is our friend and who is our enemy, this is the primary question of the revolution. For the sake of the interests of their own class, the landlord class was born the enemy of the peasant army and was Zhu Pingjian's most reliable ally.

Oh, and the term "allies" isn't accurate. Zhu Pingjin thought that the contemptible family was the largest landlord in Sichuan, so Lao Tzu was the general representative of the interests of the Sichuan landlord class. Thus, the class position will eventually drive the contemptible people to suppress the peasant uprising, stained with the blood of the people, and stain their own ...... with the blood of the people.

Oh, no! A few days ago, he stood on the side of the people and became a revolutionary party, representing the fundamental interests of the people and representing ...... Representative...... Are the contemptible people standing in opposition to the people today? This turn is too big and too fast, and it is no different from being a traitor...... Is it true that the class in which a person is born has a decisive influence on his underlying patterns of behavior?

This nephew of Uncle Shu is a talent! And how about the other students he teaches?

After Shu Guoping retreated, Zhu Pingjin stared at Li Chongwen and listened to what he could say.

I saw that Li Chongwen bowed his head and didn't say a word. Suddenly, he raised his head, his eyes were red, tears were rolling in his eyes, his shoulders twitched, he threw himself forward, fell to his knees, kowtowed, and began to cry:

"The student was disloyal and unfilial, greedy for life and afraid of death, and lost his father. The student really deserves to be peeled and cramped, thundered and slashed on the knife mountain and under the oil pot......"

Seeing that the prince was shocked and inexplicable, Cao Sanbao hurriedly attached it and reported to his master about Li Chongwen's miserable life.

People say that happiness is the same, but there are thousands of misfortunes. This Li Chongwen went from happiness to unhappiness in just a thought.

Li Chongwen is a native of Zitong County, and he was originally a well-off family. Both parents have only children. The teenager took the middle test, and the spring breeze was proud. In October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng broke through the Qipan Pass and Chaotian Pass from Ningqiang Prefecture (now Ningqiang County, Hanzhong) and occupied Guangyuan County, Sichuan. After entering Sichuan, all the way south, as if entering no man's land, the forward approached Zitong County.

On that day, Li Chongwen was riding on a high-headed horse, wearing red and hanging colors, blowing a trumpet, carrying a sedan chair as a dowry, and went to pick up his daughter-in-law more than ten miles away from the city. At noon, Li Chongwen took his new daughter-in-law back to the city, and just walked out of Wuli Road, when suddenly there was chaos ahead, and countless people ran past both sides of the welcoming procession. There were also people in the crowd who ran and shouted, "The thieves are coming!" ”

People came like a mountain, and the team to greet the relatives was suddenly chaotic, threw the sedan chair dowry on the road, and ran separately. The swarming rioters robbed the dowry, and even Li Chongwen himself was ripped off his mount and robbed of his horse. He is a weak scholar with bare hands, where can he stop him? He wanted to go back to the city to pick up his father and mother and run again, but he couldn't run anymore after taking a few steps forward. In front of him was a crowd of frightened looks, fear and luck crushed Li Chongwen, so Li Chongwen made a mistake that could no longer be made up - he turned around and lifted the sedan curtain to pull the bride out, took the bride and turned around and fled back to her mother's house, and later ran to Chengdu. After that, Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, died in Zitong Baiqing Dam, Zitong City was broken, and Li Chongwen never saw his father and mother again. In fact, when Li Chongwen escaped, there were only a few thieves in Zitong County, and the people in the county could still go out of the city freely, and if Li Chongwen decisively entered the city, he could also rescue his father and mother.

Oh, it turns out that another one married a daughter-in-law and forgot his mother! Zhu Pingjin had no choice but to gently persuade Li Chongwen with a few words.

Li Chongwen cried: "The student has undergone a great change, and in an instant, his father and mother are separated by yin and yang. The family wealth was exhausted, and he had to go to Chengdu Mansion to vote for a teacher. Relying on the help of teachers and classmates, I have survived so far. In recent years, the students were shy in their pockets, and they still had their wives and families to support in the house, so the students had to set up several private schools outside the West Gate to teach a few rural children to make a living. ”

Li Chongwen wiped his tears with his sleeve and said: "The son of the right talent has asked, and the students think that the son says, 'self-denial and revenge are benevolent', and the benevolent are invincible and ......."

Li Chongwen's sour made Zhu Pingjin's heart fire when he heard it. Zhu Pingjin picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip and put it down. He was determined to let Li Chongwen finish his fart, and then send it away gently, lest others accuse him of neglecting the scribes.

Li Chongwen's pantothenic continued: "...... The people of Shu have been in poverty for a long time. The state and county yamen officials Xu Kuai soap, Shu people called it Ya beetle (DU); The folk heroes are called the Hao beetles by the Shu people; The righteous man of the Jin gentleman's family (godson), the Shu people called the eunuch beetle; The students are happy about life, and the Shu people call them beetles. There is also a beetle, which the students dare not say. ”

Zhu Pingjin felt that there was some meaning when he heard these words, so he said, "Sir, it's okay to say it." ”

"There is also a beetle, which is the minions of the palace, which the Shu people call the beetle. With these five beetles, are the people of Shu bitter? The bandits in northern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan are known as local tyrants, known as the Thirteen Families of Shaking Huang, and the Ba people are suffering ......"

"Bold!" Cao Sanbao, who couldn't bear it, jumped out.

Li Chongwen knelt down again. Zhu Pingjin reprimanded Cao Sanbao, and said to Li Chongwen in a kind manner: "Although the son of this world is young, he has not lost his morality and has no voice of advice. Mr. Li has something to say, even if it is true! ”

Li Chongwen only said: "The words of the students are true!" Students are also taught in several villages in the west of the city, and it is difficult for the Chinese family to make up enough for two buckets of rice a year! Shudi's original number is Tianfu, there is no scorching heat in summer, no frost and snow in winter, water and drought do not invade, thousands of vertical and horizontal, two crops a year. Hundreds of miles of fertile fields, as flat as a few seats. Pi and Guan counties are located in irrigation areas, which should be rich and comfortable, but the villagers are so poor, why not? Nine out of ten of the fields have entered the official fields of Wangzhuang, and the private fields are still less than one or two! Wangzhuang's official fields have the right to be exempt from taxes, so ten percent of the taxes of the imperial court are inherited by one or two people's fields, and the people are not bitter?

Wang Zhuang's official land rent is heavy, and students try to plan for the world! One ding cultivates five acres, which is already the ultimate work. There are two seasons per mu in the morning and evening, the early rice is about 1 stone 5, the late rice is about 2 stone 5, and the total harvest is 4 stone (Note 1). However, if the land rent is less, six or seven percent, two stone four to two stone eight will be collected, and only one stone two to one stone six will be left per mu; The land rent is eighty percent, and there are only eight buckets left per mu. Even so, it is necessary to leave a bucket of seed grain per acre! One ding cultivates five acres of land, and the labor is one year old, and the rest of the ration is only three or five stones!

There are also countless harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people are also deeply suffering! In addition to the regular tax, the government also levies additional salaries, training salaries, and expulsion salaries (Note 3). Miscellaneous miscellaneous items, clan rice, one mu is apportioned to a few. The list goes on and on for the temporary tribes of the government and the government. Since the law of the imperial court in Wanli year, the small people had to exchange grain for silver, and they had already suffered the loss of profiteers...... With Pi and irrigated land, the harvest of one ding and five acres is not enough for food, clothing, and clothing. The students saw all these things with their own eyes. If the prince doesn't believe it, the students here have the number of grain collected in several villages in the land of Pi and irrigation in the past three years! ”

As he spoke, Li Chongwen took out a few crumpled pieces of paper from his arms.

Li Chongwen's voice was not loud, but in Zhu Pingjian's ears, every sentence was like thunder. Zhu Pingjin was silent, and his eyes wandered away. Li Chongwen's words reminded him of the old watch in Jiangxi and the old farmers in northern Shaanxi: the beacon smoke in Jinggang Mountain and the candle flame in Yangjialing......

Li Chongwen's voice continued: "That's why the students think that the only way for the prince to protect himself is to govern benevolently and win the hearts of all the people in Bashu." ”

Cao Sanbao went down the stairs to take the article in Li Chongwen's hand, put it on Zhu Pingjian's table, and silently turned back behind Zhu Pingjian.

Zhu Pingjin didn't look at it right away. He already knew the general contents, and wasn't this a Sichuan version of the "Investigation Report on the Hunan Peasant Movement" in the late Ming Dynasty?

"Self-denial and benevolence! The gentleman's words made this son Mao Sai suddenly. Mr. Li is really talented, the court can't use it, it's really a pearl of Taoism! Zhu Pingjin praised loudly.

Note 1: The annual yield of one mu and one season is taken from this article. But in fact, there is a difference between the north and the south, and the soil is different from the fertile. The less is not counted, and the more are such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liangguang, and the history contains acres to six stones. The Dujiangyan irrigation area is mostly two seasons, and the yield can reach four stones.

Note 2: At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the tax was so high that the officials forced the people to rebel, and one of the slogans of the uprising was "no food"! Book friends who think that the taxes at the end of the Ming Dynasty are too low and the people live in paradise, please find the information by yourself and make up for it.

Note 3: Liaoyu, levied in the 46th year of Wanli, after many additional levies, an additional 1 cent and 2 cents per mu; Salary, the levy was levied in Chongzhen for ten years, and the withdrawal was in Chongzhen for twelve years, and the grain was added to the mu in six he, and each stone was converted into eight dollars of silver; Practice, the expedition began in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, 7.3 million taels a year. A total of 16.7 million taels of salary has been raised, more than double the normal annual income.