Chapter Ninety-Seven: Three Rare Talents
Three talents, the first two are Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi, and the third is Wang Fuchen.
According to the original plan, Wang Kefan would not stay in Ji'an for too long, and after a brief inspection, he would transfer to Jinggangshan to inspect the repair shop there, and then enter Hunan.
But when he heard that Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi were coming, he deliberately stayed for an extra day to meet these two famous Confucians.
If a nation wants to stand tall in the long river of history, it must not only have an open mind, but also respect its own cultural heritage, so that it can be eclectic and not lose itself...... Confucian culture is the representative of China's thousands of years of cultural heritage.
Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Wang Fuzhi and others are the leaders of the Confucian children of this era, Wang Kefan has always maintained due respect for them, even if Wang Fuzhi's personal character is defective, he did not suppress him, but transferred him to Yuelu Academy and served as a noble "professor" (the professor of the Ming Dynasty was a seven-rank official, roughly equivalent to the vice president of the university).
Wang Fuzhi's character is poor, and it is clear when he flips through the history books of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
He belonged to the "Chu Party" in the Yongli regime, and although the official was not big, he was in collusion with the "Five Tigers" such as Yuan Pengnian and Meng Zhengfa, and actively participated in the party struggle, fighting with Guan Yinxi, He Wuyu, Ma Jixiang, Chen Bangfu, Zhang Jiayu, and Zhu Tianlin...... I was busy fighting every day, and I didn't do anything serious.
The so-called Chu Party is actually a copy of the late Donglin Party, but it is united with the warlord Li Chengdong, and their only goal is to fight for power and control the government. For example, Plug Yinxi served as the first assistant of the cabinet at that time. fought bloodily on the front line in Huguang, but Wang Fuzhi and others splashed dirty water in the rear and pulled their hind legs. It is similar to the role played by Qin juniper in the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the fourth year of Yongli, Kong Youde captured Guilin, and Emperor Yongli fled to Nanning, Wang Fuzhi saw that the situation was irreparable, so he threw down the fleeing emperor and ran back to his hometown in Huguang, and shaved his head as a "remnant", but he desperately attacked the "Wu Party". But he is still fighting bravely.
The Yongli regime later lasted for another 12 years, and it was not until the 16th year of Yongli that it was declared extinct, and Wang Fuzhi was an official of the imperial court. has been hiding in Huguang's hometown as a shrinking turtle, and his character is by no means as noble as he advertises.
In addition, Wang Fuzhi desperately touted He Tengjiao, Zhai Shiyun and others in various articles. Attack Gu Yinxi, Zhu Tianlin and other so-called "Wu Party" members. The Donglin Party and the Chu Party were whitewashed in every way, and the Wu Party and the peasant army were vigorously slandered, and there are many places in the "Yongli Record" written by him that are no longer Spring and Autumn brushwork, but completely reverse black and white.
But no matter how he slandered, the facts were there, and Emperor Yongli and the Great Western Army joined forces to continue to resist the Qing Dynasty for twelve years. Tens of thousands of soldiers of the peasant army, including Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, and Hao Shaoqi, all sacrificed their lives for the struggle against the Qing Dynasty.
Maybe in Wang Fuzhi's view. These "thieves" deserve to die......
Compared with Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi is stronger, but his ass is too crooked.
Huang Zongxi's father Huang Zunsu is one of the Seven Gentlemen of Donglin, and his teacher is Liu Zongzhou, a giant of the Donglin Party (the same Liu Zongzhou who died of hunger strike for fame), so Huang Zongxi's ass has been sitting on the side of the Donglin Party.
During the Hongguang Dynasty, Huang Zongxi actively participated in the so-called "Nandu Three Cases" - the Great Compassion Monk Case, the Tong Concubine Case, and the Prince Case, and was bent on overthrowing Emperor Hongguang and replacing King Lu, who was supported by the Donglin Party, to power.
(Fuwang Zhu Youxiang's grandmother, is Emperor Wanli's favored Zheng Guifei, in order to establish the crown prince, Fuwang and the Donglin Party formed a mortal enemy, so the Donglin Party made the "Nandu Three Cases", and wanted to pull Emperor Hongguang off the horse, limited to the number of words, the specific content of the three cases will not be introduced.) )
In the case of Concubine Tong, Huang Zongxi made a big public opinion, stared at him and said nonsense, wanted to deny Emperor Hongguang's identity as the blessed king, and branded him as an impostor who stole the emperor's throne.
It can't be fake, it can't be fake, Emperor Hongguang is the blessed king Zhu Youxiang, the three cases of Nandu still did not bring down Emperor Hongguang, Huang Zongxi began to spread rumors again, and aimed the spearhead of the attack at the Empress Dowager Hongguang, the Donglin Party made waves like this, and they were inescapable of the rapid demise of the Hongguang Dynasty.
In the second year of Longwu, the Hongguang Dynasty had fallen, Huang Zongxi defected to Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, as the head of the military department, Bo Luo led the Qing army south, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu retreated to Zhoushan in defeat, Huang Zongxi and Wang Fuzhi's choice was the same, seeing that the king of Lu was in a difficult situation, and the Qing army was difficult to resist, he returned to his hometown in Zhejiang under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, and shaved his head as a remnant, and hid at home to write articles, and righteously reprimanded Ma Shiying and others for taking power and misleading the country, leading to the destruction of the Hongguang court.
But when Huang Zongxi shaved his head, Ma Shiying was still insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty, and was later defeated by the Qing army and captured for righteousness.
However, one thing must also be pointed out that when Huang Zongxi was under King Lu, he fought with the Qing army, and after he ran back to his hometown in Zhejiang as a remnant, he also secretly had contact with King Lu's regime, and also helped the local anti-Qing righteous division, unlike Wang Fuzhi who was a complete turtle with a shrunken head.
If there is a well-intentioned speculation, Huang Zongxi shaved his head as a remnant, maybe it was to endure humiliation, the unreliable things he did were more out of the prejudice of the Donglin Party, and his personal character should be stronger than Wang Fuzhi.
Among the three major Confucians in the late Ming Dynasty, Gu Yanwu had the best character.
Gu Yanwu, a native of Kunshan, Suzhou, whose real name was Gu Jiang, changed his name to Gu Yanwu after the fall of Nanjing, in order to express his desire to emulate Wang Yanwu, a disciple of Wen Tianxiang.
Gu Yanwu was a famous university scholar in later generations, but when he was a teenager, he repeatedly failed to rank in the field, and after winning the show, he never failed to pass the exam, and finally had to donate a Guozi prison supervisor to serve as the secretary of the military department in the Hongguang Imperial Court (secretary, from the petty official of the nine products, similar to a clerk).
After the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, Gu Yanwu was appointed by Emperor Longwu as the staff of the Ministry of War, and was ordered to "contact Huai Xu Haojie", and fought against the Qing army together with the anti-Qing volunteers, and was seriously injured on the battlefield. The combat effectiveness of the volunteers was too poor, Gu Yanwu was defeated again and again, and several volunteers were defeated by the Qing army, and in the fourth year of Longwu, he was forced to leave the Jiangnan region and go north to Shaanxi and Shanxi.
"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband!"
Gu Yanwu's sentence is very famous, and it is not difficult to see from it that he has no prejudice against the peasant army, as long as he is willing to resist the Qing Dynasty, he is a comrade. In addition, Gu Yanwu also has a characteristic, he likes to engage in the war of resistance behind enemy lines, always operates in the areas occupied by the Qing army, contacts the anti-Qing volunteers everywhere, and goes to Shaanxi and Shanxi for this purpose.
At the beginning of the year, He Zhen raised the banner in Hanzhong to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and volunteers from all walks of life in Shaanxi responded one after another, besieging Xi'an, with great momentum. When Gu Yanwu heard about it, he immediately ran over, but the road was far away, and when he arrived in Shaanxi, the Shaanxi volunteers had been defeated, and He Zhen retreated to northern Sichuan.
Hard work pays off, at the end of the year, Datong Jiang Hao erected an anti-flag again, and soon spread to the whole province, Gu Yanwu immediately crossed the Yellow River and ran to Shanxi to help.
After Jiang Huang was in a hurry to get in touch with the Longwu Imperial Court, he was overjoyed to see Gu Yanwu, and immediately wrote a recital and handed it to him, asking him to return to Guilin and hand it over to Emperor Longwu.
From Shanxi to Guangxi, separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, in order to ensure Gu Yanwu's safety, Jiang Hao sent Wang Fuchen as his escort, all the way through the occupied area of the Qing army, and came to Jiangxi.
After entering Jiangxi, Gu Yanwu happened to meet Huang Zongxi, both of whom were leaders in Shilin and had been famous for a long time, so they traveled together and came to Ji'an Mansion together.
Wang Kefan is waiting for them here.
Although Huang Zongxi's ass is crooked to the side of the Donglin Party, he is indeed a great figure, since he sent it to the door, Wang Kefan has the intention of soliciting, even if he is sent to the academy to teach like Wang Fuzhi, it is much better than being a Shunmin of the Manchu Dynasty.
Not to mention Gu Yanwu, his political concept is more pragmatic, and he also understands military affairs, he has personally been on the battlefield, and he has written military books by his own hands, if possible, Wang Kefan hopes to keep him by his side and be a senior staff member.
Being able to meet Wang Fuchen was an unexpected surprise.
Wang Fuchen, a native of Datong, Shanxi, was born in the peasant rebel army, nicknamed "West Road Horse Harrier", and returned to Jiang Hao before and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and became a member of his generals.
Because of his young age, Wang Fuchen is not too famous now, and among the many generals under Jiang Hao, he is just a relatively outstanding young talent. But like an awl hidden in a cloth bag, Wang Fuchen would soon rise to prominence in the Battle of Datong, and became famous for his battle against Azig, and won the favor of the Manchu rulers, who not only did not kill him after conquering Datong, but surrendered him.
Wang Fuchen has been working for the Qing army since then, fighting in the south and the north, and has been promoted to the governor of Shaanxi, when the rebellion of the three feudatories of the Kangxi Dynasty, he raised troops in Shaanxi to respond to Wu Sangui, and was later defeated by Tuhai and Zhou Peigong, and was forced to commit suicide after surrendering.
Wang Fuchen's participation in the San Francisco Rebellion had a great deal to do with the factional contradictions within the Qing army; he and Daniel Zhang, Zhao Liangdong and other "four generals of Hexi" were all regarded as Hong Chengqian's sisters-in-law, but they had deep contradictions with each other, and if it came to the ability to fight, Wang Fuchen was in no way inferior to Daniel Zhang, the so-called famous general of the Qing Dynasty.
For Wang Kefan, if such a general can be used by me, of course, it is the best result, if he is unwilling to join the Chu army, he cannot be allowed to return to Shanxi and become a capable lackey of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Since he planned to recruit these talents, Wang Kefan was very enthusiastic about Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi and Wang Fuchen, served wine and hospitality, had a long talk, and invited them to go to Guilin together.
Huang Zongxi agreed very happily, but Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuchen were a little hesitant. The Qing army was launching an attack on Shanxi, and they were entrusted by Jiang Jiu to liaise with the Longwu Imperial Court, of course, they had to hurry up and did not want to delay on the road. (To be continued......)