After Zhang Huangyan entered the city, he found an inn to live in, asked Xiao Er for some food, and was still reminiscing about the begging article.

He is just thirty years old this year, Chongzhen fifteen years of the examination in the lifter, although it is a literary ju, but for "generosity and knowledge of military affairs" famous, can be regarded as a Confucian general with both civil and military skills, after Bolo led the army south, he has long led the anti-Qing righteous division in the Siming Mountain area in eastern Zhejiang, and has seen a lot of various texts, and he has written two articles by hand, and has a very keen sense of smell for the advantages and disadvantages of them, as well as the implied political subtext.

In addition to the most important gentry, landlords and scholars, there was clear policy guidance for the common people and the peasants, industrialists, and soldiers in the enemy-occupied areas, and the efforts to win the hearts and minds of the people were much greater...... The most important role of the essay is to win the hearts of the people and the military, and this essay refines all strata of society, and considers their interests in the shoes of them, which is more powerful than an empty appeal.

During the stormy Chongzhen years, the Jiangnan region was like a stable haven, there was no big war and disaster, regardless of the Shinong, industrial and commercial soldiers, everyone's life was still passable, after the Qing army went south, most people were unwilling to fight for their lives to resist, and surrendered to the Manchus together...... At that time, resisting the Qing Dynasty was a matter of a small number of people, the main strata of the Shinong, industrial and commercial soldiers all chose to surrender, the gentry and landlords were represented by Qian Qianyi and others, the army was represented by the four towns of Jiangnan and the rest of Zuo Liangyu, the merchant class was represented by the maritime merchant group of Hui Shang, Huai Shang and Zheng Zhilong, ordinary farmers and urban handicraftsmen were even more scattered, and only a few diehard members of the Ming Dynasty were still insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty, so they lost Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi step by step. From Emperor Hongguang to King Lu Zhu Changshu, from Emperor Longwu of Fujian to King Zhu Yihai of Lu in eastern Zhejiang, etc. These regimes established by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty were successively eliminated or defeated by the Qing army.

After the surrender of the Jiangnan region, it was exchanged for various tyrannies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among all strata of society. The gentry landlords in Jiangnan were accustomed to taking advantage of them in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, they had to bear heavy taxes, and hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers were willing to be the lackeys of the Manchu Dynasty. But there were only a few bones, and the green camp generals who were reused like Tian Xiong were only an isolated phenomenon, and in the merchant group, except for the Hui merchants, who grabbed the fat of Yanzheng, most of the merchants were severely affected, and the situation of the peasants and handicraftsmen at the bottom of the society was even more miserable, and no one cared about their lives or deaths.

Dolgon pursued various tyranny in the Jiangnan region, although there were reasons for misjudgment. But it is also to be subordinated to the strategic needs of the whole. At that time, the Qing army had just entered the customs, the northern provinces were all smashed, and it would take several years to resume production, although the territory occupied by the Qing court was very large, but it did not reap much benefit, in order to further occupy the whole of China, in order to support the huge military expenditure, the Qing court tore off the mask of hypocrisy and carried out crazy plundering and economic exploitation of the Jiangnan region...... During the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan region had the largest number of civil officials. A huge interest group was formed from top to bottom, and under their desperate maintenance, although the Ming Dynasty perished. Jiangnan is still singing and dancing, and he is so rich that he is like a pig that is too fat to even hum and hum, just sent to Dolgon's knife. After slaughtering this big fat pig, the Qing court was able to launch wave after wave of attacks on the southern provinces, so that more than 100,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners received hardcore crops, restored social order in Gyeonggi, Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places, and gained a firm foothold in Guannai.

In the final analysis, the Qing court's strategy was actually to feed the war with war. China is so big, they can't swallow it in one gulp. Every time you cut a piece, you have to chew up the bones before you can stop. The gentry, landlords, and warlords in the Jiangnan region initially had illusions about the Manchus, believing that surrender would preserve their wealth and comfort. It's like a robber broke into the house, hurriedly served with wine and meat, thinking that he could escape a catastrophe, but how could Dolgon let their little calculations succeed, if you don't rebel, I forced you to rebel, a shaving order, the Qing court slaughtered tens of millions of Han people in the Jiangnan region, robbed countless wealth, and then began to be far higher than the cruel exploitation during the Ming Dynasty (in the early Shunzhi period, the Qing court has been leviing heavy taxes on Jiangnan, which is supported by historical data, and will not be quoted much).

The gentry and landlords began to resist, for example, Qian Qianyi has been secretly contacting the Qing Dynasty after his resignation; Warlords began to resist, such as Jin Shenghuan, such as Li Chengdong in history, and the rest of the Zheng family after Zheng Zhilong surrendered, directly raising the banner to fight against the Qing army; Ordinary people began to resist, such as the anti-Qing righteous divisions in various places, although they were repeatedly exterminated by the Qing army, but they were repeatedly exposed, Zheng Chenggong and the Lu Wang regime was precisely because of the support of all levels of society, in order to persist in resisting the Qing in the southeast until the Kangxi period.

In history, the anti-Qing struggle in the Jiangnan region ultimately failed, but in this time and space, the Chu army was born out of thin air, and finally contributed to the glorious victory of the Battle of Ningzhen. In addition to the Chu army's bravery and good fighting, the support of the people of the provinces south of the Yangtze River is also an important reason why the Chu army can win.

"If there is a gentleman who embraces the Tao, the rampant Tartar captives in the south of the Yangtze River, and the one who is angry to defend China, the shogunate of the country's official courtesy, will be treated as a guest teacher. If there are righteous and benevolent people, those who donate silver and salary, within a thousand gold, will be given a paid-in department license, and if they are more than a thousand gold, they will be specially folded and asked for preferential treatment. If there is a person who has been trapped in the Qing army for a long time and surrenders to the city, he will be under the account of the public collection of his own country, and he will be honored. If anyone is threatened for years, abandons his weapons in battle, and returns to sincerity with his bare hands, he will be spared death and will be repatriated...... If the people who are under duress are willing to obey and resist the punishment of heaven, as soon as the soldiers arrive, the jade will be burned, and they will not be able to distinguish ......."

Awesome! Let the scholars defend the famous religion (the famous religion is the feudal etiquette of the three outlines and five constants), seize the commanding heights of the righteousness, and put forward the slogan of "the husband is responsible" to the ordinary people, and at the same time claim to "send troops to the north to chase the Qing captives, save the people from the miserable, and restore the prestige of China", which contains a huge appeal, after seeing this article, all parts of the south of the Yangtze River will surely rise up in response, and talents from all sides have joined the Chu army camp, but the green battalion soldiers will lose their fighting spirit and surrender to the Chu army in an organized manner, in addition to the state capital heavily guarded by the Qing army, Most other places will spread the word down, and Wang Kefan will be able to occupy most of the southern part of the Yangtze River without bloodshed.

It's just that the article is done well, the key is to grasp the time well, all parts of the south of the Yangtze River have suffered from the tyranny of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in recent years, and the will to resist the Qing Dynasty is very strong, and the Chu army won the battle of Ningzhen again, and the waist pole is the hardest time, and the people of course respond to it...... If you only talk about the ability to make articles, King Lu can find a few pens in the court, but he can't write such a powerful essay, the reason is very simple, the strength of King Lu's regime is not enough, and he has not yet gotten rid of the danger of extinction.

In the last paragraph of the article, he looks forward to the prospects of the struggle against the Qing Dynasty, and in addition to the inspiring empty words that "Hu Lu has no luck for a hundred years", he also makes a detailed analysis of the national and military strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty...... Compared with the Meng Yuan, which went through a hundred battles three hundred years ago and grew up completely by natural elimination, the Qing army's army structure and size, soldiers, generals' abilities, weapons and equipment, actual combat effectiveness, etc., are a big difference......

This article is very long, nearly 1,000 words, if you don't make an in-depth interpretation, only make a simple inference, the living space of King Lu's regime will be squeezed strictly, but Zhang Huangyan repeatedly recalled, and felt that there was another mystery in it.

This article was issued by Wang Kefan in the name of Liang Guogong of the Longwu Dynasty and the Admiral of the Eastern Expedition, mentioning the wars in Zhejiang and Fujian, and also explaining the specific military and political measures. Zhang Huangyan faintly felt that after Wang Kefan won the Battle of Ningzhen, he had set his sights on the entire Jiangnan and integrated the military and political affairs of Zhejiang and Fujian...... Throughout the text, there has been no clear mention of the Lu Dynasty's regime, and only the Manchu Qing Dynasty is regarded as the enemy of life and death, which is not like an unintentional negligence, but more like a deliberate avoidance.

Of course, avoidance does not mean kindness.

But at the very least, he had no hostility, or no obvious hostility.

The influence of King Lu's regime in the southeast region is still not small, in addition to the army directly under his control, there are many anti-Qing righteous divisions also under the banner of King Lu, distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian...... It is very simple to change the banner, as long as Wang Kefan mentions it in the text, these anti-Qing righteous teachers may change the court, but he chose to avoid it.

Surviving in the cracks is the most difficult, Zhang Huangyan does not dare to have too many illusions, and must consider the worst possibility.

As long as it is a person who competes for the world, he will not be merciful when he should start, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, who also unified the south before launching a large-scale northern expedition, according to the general judgment, after the Longwu court recovered the south of the Yangtze River, the first thing to solve was the Lu Wang regime, Zhang Mingzhen and others were eager to let Lu Wang Zhu Yihai be the emperor, but also to deal with this crisis, but in the specific method and Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan political disagreement, or they were under huge pressure to mess up, out of a faint move.

"Could it be that Wang Kefan still has some conspiracy? Or...... Does he have a disobedience to Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian? Zhang Huangyan thought about all the possibilities, but it was still difficult to sort out the complex relationship between the various forces in the south of the Yangtze River, and the only thing that could be determined was that if Wang Kefan was loyal to the Longwu court, the Lu Wang regime would be dead. (To be continued)