Chapter 41: Two Birds with One Stone
Due to the short preparation time, the first issue of "Zhejiang Di Bao" was not published at the unified time of the six prefectures, and Jinhua Fucheng was definitely the fastest, and it was disseminated to other prefectures and counties at the same time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 However, judging from the feedback on sales, the first issue of the first issue was sold out almost instantaneously in various places, so that it was not necessary to continue to print it to meet the demand in various places.
There are even rumors that there are already some private bookstores on the market that are pirated and sold, and the content is incomplete and full of errors and omissions, but it meets the needs of some people who can't buy genuine Di Bao. However, the pirated printing of the newspaper is not the same as the pirated printing of ordinary books, this kind of publication has the function of conveying and explaining government decrees, mistakes and omissions will cause ambiguity, and the people who will be wrong will suffer because of this, so Zhou Jingting has already greeted the Yamen of the Criminal Division, and they will start to crack down on these illegal booksellers.
In addition, Zhou Jingting, as the director of the Department of Missionary Affairs, has already handed over all the powers to the editor-in-chief Lu Liuliang, and there are two veteran staff members of the Marquis of Anyuan Mansion as deputy editors-in-chief to assist, so there will be no problems.
The mission of the Department of Missions and Education is first and foremost propaganda, and as the mouthpiece of the Marquis of Anyuan's mansion, the "Zhejiang Di Bao" is only the first step, targeting those who are literate and civilians with a literate foundation. If you want others to understand it yourself, it is far better to directly express the information and consciousness you want to convey through the story and receive it through feelings, so the art troupe came into being.
"Qi Fan, the head of this art troupe enjoys the level and treatment of the same knowledge. Hou Ye also said that if he is a military general, it is inconvenient to appoint civil officials, so they will do the work of the governor with the official position of the prefect. Last time the great victory, the envoy sent by the Hou Ye to Guizhou to report the victory also brought a request to improve the rank of civil officials, today is the same knowledge, there will always be a political envoy to the rank of senator, isn't it easier than you go to Pujiang County to slowly boil from a magistrate to the county. ”
Speaking of this, Zhou Jingting also felt that this kind of purely profit-based rhetoric was a bit too utilitarian, so he changed his words. "If it were someone else, I wouldn't have tried so hard to persuade you, your Li Qifan's talent is well known in our Jinhua and even in Zhejiang. The earlier the promotion and the earlier the well-being of more people, wouldn't it be more important than being in Pujiang County? ”
However, Zhou Jingting said that his saliva was dry, but Li Yu was not moved at all, but pushed back Zhou Jingting's kindness by saying that he had already told Chen Wen that he did not want to be a person of writing and was willing to do something practical for the people in the local area.
The two were acquainted, Zhou Jingting had a certain understanding of Li Yu's talents, and also knew that he had once sold his gifts for a living when he was in Hangzhou. But who knows, this Li Yu actually wants to do things in the local area. For a while, he couldn't figure out whether this Li Yu really liked to be a pro-people official, or whether he was disgusted with the position of "pear orchard manager".
In fact, it's not just Zhou Jingting, even Chen Wen will be puzzled when he hears about it. It's just that if you think about it carefully, in history, Li Yu only began to sell his endowment for a living after the "Jinhua Massacre", and before that, he devoted himself to the imperial examination. So much so that after the last township test in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he soon faced the background of the country's ruin and the collapse of the family, and Li Yu cried bitterly when he visited his mother's cemetery at a time: "What a shame is it to have a godfather in the three moves, and there is no glory and no talent in one life." People's tears and peach blossoms are blood, and paper money and hearts are turned into ashes. ”
It can be seen that in fact, in Li Yu's heart, the imperial examination is the most important, but in the face of Yixia's defense, he is unwilling to go out of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he simply uses it as a career and talks about parasitic life. Now that he has been conquered by Chen Wen and is serving in the government of Zhejiang, he naturally feels guilty for selling gifts for a living and living up to his mother's upbringing.
Li Yu was advised by Chen Wen to Zhou Jingting before, but at that time, he remembered Li Yu's original words before entering the civil official training class, and he also told Zhou Jingting not to be reluctant and to follow his personal wishes. In fact, he had already expected the current situation, and even had second-hand preparations, such as the "Southern Hong and Northern Kong" in the early Qing Dynasty, who were also excellent playwrights, and if it didn't work, he would send someone to find it. It's a pity that Chen Wen didn't know that Hong Sheng and Kong Shangren were only eight years old now, and the other was even younger, only five years old.
After sending Li Yu away, Zhou Jingting didn't care that the tea in the cup was already cold, and poured it in one go. This old friend who doesn't eat oil and salt really gives him a headache, but the head of this art troupe, with his cognition, has to find a talented person to be competent. Even in his opinion, he is not afraid that this head of the troupe will have nothing to do with the female troupe members to have some unclear scandals, talented and beautiful, this is the current normal phenomenon, but I am afraid that this head of the troupe does not understand anything about drama creation, and finally spoils Chen Wen's affairs.
Sitting on the chair and pondering for a long time, at this moment he really felt that as the head of the first department, he was not as easy as when he was a staff member for Chen Wen, at least at that time, there were things that Chen Wen ordered to do, and he didn't need to pay too much attention to himself, and worry too much about personnel and other aspects.
After a long time, looking at the "Zhejiang Di Daily" on the table, Zhou Jingting suddenly remembered a person, maybe that person can do it.
"Go and check, where is Mr. Chen, who came to Jinhua with Editor-in-Chief Lu, now?"
Hearing this, Zhou Jingting's staff did not go out, but replied to him: "When I went to handle the final transfer procedures for Director Lu yesterday, I specially read the records of Li Zhixian and that Mr. Chen. That Mr. Chen, who was previously a county lieutenant in Longyou County, recently waited for a promotion order at the post house. I heard that he may be transferred to a county in Prefecture or Wenzhou to be promoted to the magistrate, and the prefect of Sun has not yet been decided. ”
"You've got a heart, you're doing well." Without waiting for the staff to thank him, Zhou Jingting hurriedly asked, "How is the official voice?" ”
"I heard that it's good, and it was also very effective in organizing the people in Tangxi during the Tartar encirclement and suppression, but the temper was not very good."
"Oh, go and send someone to get him."
"Let's do it."
The staff went out of the office, and Zhou Jingting continued to deal with the official affairs of the department, and the newly built department had to start from scratch. "Zhejiang Di Daily" is easier, and the foundation has been laid, so let them handle the rest by themselves. However, although the task of the art troupe is not too tight, his brother-in-law also asked to start working before the lunar month, but now he has not even selected the head of the troupe, and he has to participate in many things.
"Do you want to draw some people from the sect department, but it's just a question of how to control the female relatives who didn't come at that time."
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After Zhang Yida was executed, the military judges and prison officers of his battalion hurried back to Yushan County. Moreover, Zhang Yida's case can be said to be revenge from the perspective of individual soldiers, but from the perspective of the entire group, it is a serious violation of military law, and the adverse impact caused by it must be eliminated as soon as possible. On the civilian side, Chen Wen has already begun to solve the problem, and the army will rely on them, the prison officers and military judges.
"In the old-style battalion of the Emperor Ming, the soldiers were subject to military law, and the family members and pro-soldiers were governed by family law. Military law is practiced in the body of a soldier, not in the family, in the soldiers, nor in the officer, let alone the general. Military law cannot be treated equally, and it is unfair that all favors and rewards should be given to the generals. Therefore, on the battle array, the brave advance alone, and the cowardly retreat alone, although ten thousand people are invincible to thousands or hundreds of captives, how can it be said that there is no reason? ”
"The new army of my Zhejiang Wang Division, which started in Dalan, trained the troops with Qi Shuai's method, and took it as his responsibility to reproduce Qi Shuai's army. Military law is strict, military orders are consistent, and rewards are fair and unmistakable. Therefore, the drums of war are beating, and the artillery fire is advancing in advance; The sound of gold sounded, although the treasures of gold did not stop. ”
The temporary garrison of Yushan County is the Shentang Battalion, and the name of this battalion is derived from the Battle of Shentangyuan, which is a very clear thing to every officer and non-commissioned officer who enters the camp. Even if they didn't know it when they first arrived, there were officers in the army who told them about the performance of this battalion in every battle, and there were those officers and non-commissioned officers who had made great contributions, and even the veterans of their team could make a lot of military achievements, so that they could form a sense of honor as soon as possible.
In the first battle of the Shentang battalion, the two bureaus that supplemented the right flank cooperated with the half of the Dongyang battalion to break the enemy's army, while the other two bureaus worked with a small number of troops in the Yiwu battalion to resist the army of the standard battalion that had reformed and trained the mandarin duck formation.
The attack and defense in the field battle, coupled with the rapid assault with the other two battalions in the first battle of Jinhua, this battalion head that was originally only a field supplementary unit jumped to become the ace battalion head in the Zhejiang Ming Army.
"The captain of the firearms team of the 6th Infantry Team of the 1st Bureau of the 1st Bureau of the battalion, accompanied Captain Zhang Yida, during the period when he was an archer of the Dongyang County garrison in the sixth year of Yongli, he declared a personal vendetta and was sentenced to death in accordance with military law. Today, I will inform the whole army so that you will know that military law is strict and cannot be violated in the slightest. ”
Different from the affairs of other battalions, Zhang Yida is a veteran and junior officer who has served in the battalion since before he got the number, and many soldiers in the battalion more or less know the existence of such a person, especially Zhang Yida's robes with the same post and team are very familiar, and some of them even participated in the wedding after the Chinese New Year.
Zhang Yida's death in military law has long been spread in the army, and by this official announcement, the original whispers have begun to turn into low-voiced discussions. It's just that the prestige of the military judges and the pacification soldiers in the army has long been formed, and the officers and non-commissioned officers in the discussion hurriedly shut their mouths when they heard the scolding, and no one wanted to be arrested by the military judge at this time and be smoked in public as a typical twenty whips.
At the end of the briefing, the whole battalion was disbanded, the battalion officer An Youfu returned to the big tent to sit in the camp, the staff officer continued to supervise the other staff officers to make the sand table in Yushan County, the military judge led the team to patrol the camp, and the supervising officer drank a sip of water and began to assist the officers in answering the report one by one.
"Compare your heart to your heart, if Wang Shi shielded Zhang Yida, then other soldiers who have such experiences will inevitably wait for an opportunity to seek revenge, and those who are killed will also vent their hatred. At that time, the garrison and battalion soldiers will be killed together with those unscrupulous gentry. If the battalion and garrison can't defeat them, then the military families, martyrs' families, and the disabled Pao Ze will inevitably become the target of revenge. Moreover, the Jinquyan province occupied by our army now is located in the six prefectures of Taiwen and Taiwen, and there are Tartars on the south, north and west, so as long as the Hongwei army invades, will we meet the foreign enemy or clear the internal troubles? ”
"Huang Jianjun, those Tartars can't beat us!"
"yes, we're not afraid of Tartars."
“……”
Naive!
Shaking his head, the prison officer couldn't help but laugh secretly, these soldiers thought about the battle formation too simply. "Hehe, can't you beat it? Under normal circumstances, our army is indeed much better than the green battalion, but if the internal troubles are still there, I only ask you, when the time comes, can you still kill the Tartars without distraction? ”
"This ......"
"Concerned with the safety of their parents, mothers-in-law, and children, and wondering whether they had been slaughtered by those enemies and gentry in their hometowns, they hurried back to seek revenge on their enemies, lest they escape or be killed by someone else. There are only those private matters left in my heart, and I can't go hand in hand with my comrades. Whether it is a mandarin duck array, or a spear array, no matter how good the array is, without that force between the robes, the order and prohibition of the whole army like one person are just appearances and ornaments! ”
As soon as he said that, everyone fell into deep thought. Discipline in the military has always been repeated, and military laws and regulations are basically used to affirm discipline, even during training, those who are cowering or not stopping at money are often punished heavily. As the circular said, strict military discipline is the foundation of the invincibility of this Zhejiang Ming army in the battlefield, and this result is based on clear rewards and punishments.
"But Team Leader Zhang is a good person, Huang Jianjun, he saved my life on the battlefield."
"Yes, Team Leader Zhang also saved my life."
"And me."
The other prison officers didn't notice it, but the man in front of him, he had seen it in the wounded room, it was Zhang Yida who carried him off the battlefield at that time, it is said that this man was also injured at that time, Zhang Yida rushed up and forced back the Qing army in front of him, and replaced him in the back. If there is one who can't accept this matter the most, except that he doesn't think about it as a second person.
"No one said that Team Leader Zhang is not a good person, but he violated military law and harmed the interests of our Zhejiang Wang Division, so he must be punished accordingly."
"But, but, can't this extrajustice be tolerated?"
"No, military law is military law."
"That military law is too cruel."
Saying this, the captain next to him hurriedly pulled him, and the soldier immediately realized his mistake. The military law was formulated by Chen Wen, but Chen Wen was cruel, but almost no one in the army felt so, because compared with those marshals of the same era, Chen Wen had never abused the soldiers, and the military merits also allowed them to live a good life, even if they were injured during the war, they would personally patrol the camp to visit, and the word cruelty had nothing to do with their commander at all, at least in their opinion.
"I am humble and lose my words, and I also ask Huang Jianjun to forgive his sins."
"It's okay, I'm a prison officer, you can tell me what you think." smiled slightly, relieved the apprehension of everyone present, and saw that the Huang Jian Jun changed his words. "It is said that military law is cruel, but in fact it is not, military law is the most humane."
"Huh?" None of the officers and non-commissioned officers present had not received military sticks and whips, and their fear of military laws and regulations was also deep-rooted.
"In the prison, I also told Team Zhang about it. Now in this world, there are many people who are bullied by the gentry before joining the army, and they will not tell you any reason if they want to bully you, even if you are reasonable, it is useless, they can collude with officials at the top, and they can raise cunning at the bottom, and you are just one person, only to be bullied. ”
This is a fact, and almost all the soldiers present showed a look of pain, apparently recalling the past. Soldiers were untouchables in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and military households were even more so, no more than some staff officers, supervisors and military judges, such as those who took the expulsion of the Tartars as their own responsibility and put pen to paper and joined the army, they were able to join the army, and none of them were not promoted to fight small people, and it was normal for them to be bullied.
"But think about it, in the army, as long as you obey military law and regulations, who will still bully you, who can still bully you, and who will dare to bully you. Any officer who dares to oppress the soldiers will definitely be punished, and your battalion officers, military judges, or I can do justice for you, and even the Hou Ye will never let these guys go. Therefore, military law is equal, she seems to be cruel to everyone, but she is extremely humane to our collective. ”
In this way, the more true words are somewhat strong, but the fairness of rewards and punishments within the Zhejiang Ming Army is true, so that most of the officers and non-commissioned officers present can still accept this set of rhetoric, who let them be in such an environment on weekdays.
"If you still remember the benefits of Team Zhang, take the time to take care of his wife and widow, and don't let their orphans and widows be bullied."
Leaving the team where Zhang Yida was before his death, the prison officer walked back, his tongue was dry when he said this, and if he didn't go back to drink some water, it was estimated that he would have a dumb voice tomorrow if he continued like this.
Regarding Zhang Yida's murder case, in fact, in his opinion, Zhang Yida could have taken revenge without having to die. At that time, Zhang Yida killed the enemy, as long as he drew a line on his arm or somewhere on his body, and saw blood, a stubborn resistance was enough to push all the suspicions clean, who let Cao Conglong's rebellion just be suppressed at that time, and the entire yamen and garrison of Jinhua Mansion were in chaos, who had the time to waste time for a mortal rebellion.
Thinking of this, the prison officer was stunned for a moment, and then said "bah, bah" twice. I warned myself in my heart that when I got to another team for a while, I didn't tell the truth.
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The impact of Zhang Yida's case is very bad, especially when it is exposed by those who have a heart at this moment, and the pressure on Chen Wen is even more amazing.
The need to maintain military law and the morale of the military seems to be an inevitable and opposing issue, but in Chen Wen's view, it is not impossible to take into account. To maintain military law, Zhang Yida must die, and to maintain the morale of the army, on the one hand, he has a supervising officer, on the other hand, his own prestige is enough, of course, the most important thing is that he can also use those gentry who participated in the Manchu imperial examination to suppress the entire gentry class, and at the same time alleviate the contradiction between military law and military spirit, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
In fact, for those gentry, Chen Wen did not have the idea of uprooting this class. Even if they can't, they can kill a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood to force them to obey.
It's a tempting idea, but when you think about it, it's impossible!
Historically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty used the three major cases of the early Qing Dynasty and the literary prison to vigorously attack the gentry in Jiangnan, but if you carefully recall the time when those cases occurred, everything is clear.
The "Tonghai Case" occurred in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, the "Crying Temple Case" and the "Jiangnan Selling Case" were also in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, and the "Zhuang's Ming History Case", which was well-known to the world because of a martial arts novel in later generations, also occurred in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi to the second year of Kangxi.
At that time, the general background was that Zheng Chenggong was defeated in the Battle of Nanjing in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, and although he soon achieved a great victory in Xiamen, he was no longer able to go on another northern expedition, so he had to turn to the east to conquer Taiwan, intending to collect all the tolls in the Taiwan Strait with the help of the Kinmen, Xiamen-Penghu-Taiwan line controlled by him, and at the same time carry out tuntian in Taiwan to speed up the recovery of strength. On the side of the Ming Army in the southwest, Emperor Yongli hunted the Burmese vassal state in the south, and Li Dingguo was squeezed out of place by Wu Sangui, and the Great Western Army, which once had hundreds of thousands of troops, has been wiped out.
In other words, the anti-Qing movement at that time had been basically suppressed, especially two years after there was no military threat in Jiangnan, and the Manchus dared to be ruthless against the southeastern gentry. Before that, didn't they want to do this, no, they really wanted to do too much of the things that the southeastern gentry had done to kick their noses in the face, and just tax evasion and tax resistance had already made the Manchus unbearable. However, even the Manchus knew that they could not be too forced when the military threat was still there, otherwise they might not even have a chance to return to their hometown.
Nowadays, Chen Wen occupies the six prefectures of Jinqu, Yanchu, Taiwen in Zhejiang, plus Xiangshan County in Ningbo Prefecture and Yushan County in Guangxin Prefecture in Jiangxi.
Jiangxi has Hong Chengqing, Daniel Zhang, Li Benshen, Hu Maozhen, Fujian has the Geng family of Jingnan Clan and a large number of Fujian green battalions, Hangzhou is the iron brother of the first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhang Jiadasu, the only general of the Eight Banners Army who has remained undefeated in the southwest battlefield, and there is also a Liang Huafeng in Suzhou who brought Zheng Chenggong back to the pre-liberation period overnight, and the troops in any direction are not less than him.
In such a situation, if internal and external troubles erupt at the same time, it is difficult to say whether they will survive or not. Even if he can survive, the accumulation of these years is over. It is far less secure than boiling frogs in warm water and disintegrating the southeast gentry little by little like peeling an onion, as Zhou Yueying suggested before.
In today's era of walking on thin ice, it is natural to be cautious and cautious in dealing with such vested interest groups, and to think everything through before proceeding carefully. Especially for the vested interest groups such as the gentry in the southeast, which are not very united under normal circumstances, the safest way is to fight one faction and pull another faction, and use the forces of the gentry who have been attacked to feed the military aristocratic group that is still in the embryonic state.
"Zhejiang Di Bao" has begun to be published, grasp the commanding heights of public opinion, and then attack those first batch of unlucky eggs, and even in the army, Chen Wen began to consciously use this to distinguish the old battalion soldiers of the Emperor Ming from the new army of the current Zhejiang Ming Army. It's a pity that Chen Wen hasn't had time to see the specific results, and the conditioned reflex of recovering Taiwan and Wen came first. (To be continued.) )