If you want to carry out construction and reform, you can't do it without resources. Without these land, personnel, and money, Chen Wen's plan would be completely impossible to carry out, and this army would inevitably collapse on its own, and there would be no need for the Qing army to throw a single shot or arrow.

Although it can be said that Chen Wen is poor and white at the moment, with the official position and name of the imperial court, as well as the army in his hands, as long as he is willing to do many things, there will always be a way.

On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Wen rushed to the mansion to discuss this matter with Sun Yu, but even if he had been prepared, Sun Yu couldn't help frowning after seeing all of Chen Wen's plans. He knew very well that this plan was bound to offend many people, including many local gentry who had given support to the Ming army before, but if he didn't, he had no other way for the time being, which made him quite in a dilemma.

The two discussed for a long time, and finally reached a plan with a slight compromise, but even so, resentment and resentment were bound to arise, only slightly smaller than the previous plan.

"As long as they can hold on to this land, and then fight to recover more lost land, these people may not dare to do anything. But if we can't win the battle, then even if we try to curry favor with them in every possible way, these people will not support us. As long as Wang Shi is strong enough, these people will definitely follow behind and try to get a piece of the pie, and we are not without supporters, as long as we can persevere, there will be more and more people tied to Wang Shi. ”

Putting aside these worries for the time being, the two discussed some other things, and it was not until after lunch that Sun Yu remembered that there was someone to introduce to Chen Wen, and it was said that one of his famous classmates wanted to join the military to paint military affairs for Chen Wenzan.

In the past few days, there have always been people from both local and foreign places who have come to join the army, but there are very few people who have read books. And there is no one who has a reputation like Sun Yu's classmate. In fact, it is not that there are meritorious people who are unwilling to serve the Ming army, but in addition to the small number of them, these few are also self-recommended as civilian officials, at most they are just officials, and they do not want to be with "vulgar warriors".

After waiting for a while, the man was led by the little official to the second hall of the palace. The person who came was called Zhou Jingting. He is the son of a large local family in Jinhua, and his ancestors moved from Shaoxing Mansion for nearly a hundred years, and in Chen Wen's opinion, he is already a complete Jinhua local.

In the future, I have time to speculate whether this person has anything to do with the world-famous "Shaoxing Zhou" in later generations, but at first glance when he heard this name, the first thing Chen Wen thought of was Liu Mazi, who had been a staff member for Zuo Liangyu, but as soon as he thought of this, he immediately denied this idea. Because this person's face not only does not have pockmarks, but also can be called a talent. Although he is slightly inferior to Sun Yu, in Chen Wen's opinion, he is also a handsome guy with the aesthetic standards of the Ming Dynasty.

After the two sides met the ceremony, Chen Wen couldn't help but start slandering, probably Sun Yu and this teacher Zhou Jingting when they were in school The standard for accepting disciples should be appearance, not something like intelligence and talent. After just a few conversations, his people are full of chapters, and the quotations are as cliché as some literati he has seen before, and it seems that his talent is not too bad. I just don't know if there is the kind of "real talent and real learning" he needs.

Although it was an interview, it was personally introduced by Sun Yu. Then there's no need to be too formal. The three of them sat in the second hall and naturally chatted about some views on poetry, the current situation, what they saw and heard, and the practice, in terms of poetry, Jing Ting came up with two new seven-word quatrains praising the Ming army's reconquest of the lost territory, which sounded pretty good, but Chen Wen didn't plan to waste too much time on this, and soon moved on to other aspects.

That Zhou Jingting knew that Chen Wen was considering his talents, so he was naturally energetic. The opinions that have been in his chest for a long time and the knowledge accumulated over the years of reading are all brought out together to obtain Chen Wen's affirmation.

It wasn't until more than an hour later that Zhou Jingting seemed to be squeezed out of the way that there was nothing left, and Chen Wen finally put his mind at ease and directly asked this person to serve as the confidential clerk by Chen Wen's side. Take over the class of the ceremonial ceremony.

Looking at Zhou Jingting, who was quite happy between his eyebrows, Chen Wen sighed secretly in his heart. The reason why he was appointed as a confidential clerk was actually mostly based on Sun Yu's face. Although this person is not completely unfamiliar with practice, he is not much different from those who "ignore things outside the window and only read the books of sages and sages" he has seen.

Chen Wen's need for military affairs, geography, climate, industry, agriculture, water conservancy, mathematics, and even the more practical knowledge in Western studies was cleverly avoided by this person's knowledge from an almost perfect angle, not to mention compared with Sun Yu, even compared with those long-term practical officials in the old camp of Dalanshan.

However, there are only misplaced people in this world, but there are no useless people. Zhou Jingting's knowledge does not meet Chen Wen's requirements, but the level of writing and ink is just as Sun Yu mentioned when he introduced him before, and it is not inferior to the former, compared to Chen Wen's previous confidential document Gu Shouli, and using him to deal with copywriting can be regarded as a kind of attraction to local scholars.

After chatting for a while, Chen Wen suddenly had a question, since he served in the military under Wang Yi last year, he has repeatedly broken through the green camp of the Qing Army in Zhejiang, and he can be regarded as famous on the ground in Zhejiang, coupled with the background of the Ming Army of Dalanshan, he can also win the favor of local readers on his feet, and it stands to reason that there should be some celebrities who come to defect, but until now, there has not been even a single celebrity to defect, and even Shen Tiaolun, a colleague who once revived Dalanshan in history, has not returned to the team. Is it because he, a time-traveler, is so insulated from the celebrities of this era?

After thinking about it, he felt that he still had to take the initiative if he wanted talents to defect, so Chen Wen asked Sun Yu and the newly promoted confidential clerk Zhou Jingting.

"Ben Shuai and Sun Zhifu have been friends for many years, and I admire Sun Zhifu's talent and learning, and I can see Mr. Zhou today, and it is indeed as Sun Zhifu said. It's just that I don't know, what other talented people in this Jinhua Mansion are left behind? ”

Hearing this, Zhou Jingting seemed to think about it, so he set his eyes on Sun Yu's body, and Sun Yu at this moment also happened to recall, and also looked at Zhou Jingting.

They looked at each other for a moment. I saw Zhou Jingting laughing, and then said to Sun Yu: "Brother Sun, why don't you and I put the name book that comes to mind on the paper, and then present it to Chen Dashuai, and see if you and I have thought of one place." ”

"That's very good."

Under Chen Wen's puzzled gaze, the two of them respectively picked up a pen and wrote on the paper. It was immediately handed over to Chen Wen.

The words of these two people are hard work at first glance, Sun Yu practiced Chen Wen on the wooden board with his own eyes, and Zhou Jingting is not as rigid as Sun Yu in the font, but there is also a lot of discipline between the pen and the belt, and the effort is obviously not a few. It's just that Sun Yu's one is written "Xia Li Li Xianlu, Yiting Zhu Zhixi", while Zhou Jingting wrote "Lanxi Li Qifan" and "Yiwu Wu Shujian".

After reading these two pieces of paper, Chen Wendeng was blindsided, and he had never heard of any of these four names. Only Li Zhifan's name is a bit like Li Bai's "Immortal Man", and Zhu Zhixi's name is not much different from the great Confucian Zhu Zhiyu who has been exiled in Japan, so he is somewhat familiar. The other two were completely unimpressed.

Seeing that Chen Wen didn't know much, Zhou Jingting opened his mouth and introduced to Chen Wen: "Li Xianlu, the name is fan, a person from Xia Li Village, Lanxi County, is one of the best talents in Jinhua, if Brother Sun does not give up the imperial examination, he may still have a corner, and the students are only shallow in learning, and they really can't be compared with it." ”

Zhou Jingting's voice fell. Sun Yu shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou is too famous, and he is too humble. There's just one thing that's not wrong. This Li Immortal is indeed only eight buckets tall, and my generation is beyond the reach of the dust. ”

Chen Wen knew that Zhou Jingting's so-called talent and shallow learning were just humble words, but he knew Sun Yu better, and he was used to seeking truth from facts, so there were very few exaggerations in his words. As the last time I said that the warehouse was empty, the rats began to move, and they were still with Chen Wenxue when they were on Tiantai Mountain. Since these two people have great respect for this Li Immortal couple, then this person should be not much different if he wants to come and learn, no matter if he does not meet Chen Wen's standards, if he can recruit him, even if he raises it, he can also play a banner role.

After asking Sun Yu and Zhou Jingting in detail, Chen Wen asked Zhou Jingting to write a letter. Send someone to Lanxi to invite this Li Caizi to come to Fucheng to meet.

After the matter was settled, Chen Wen asked Sun Yu and Zhou Jingting about the other two. It's just that when he heard Chen Wen's question, Sun Yu and Zhou Jingting actually showed embarrassed looks, which made him a little puzzled.

Now that Zhou Jingting has been appointed by Chen Wen as a confidential document, Chen Wen is puzzled, so naturally he will answer first.

Originally, the student also planned to write the name of this Zhu Zhixi, but this person had already taken the imperial examination of Tartar a few years ago, and he was also a Shujishi. Not long ago, although Ding returned home because of the death of his father, Wang Shi recovered Yiwu and fled to Fucheng and joined Li Zhifang, the governor of Jinhua Mansion. And when Wang Shi defeated the main force of the Tartars again, and the troops pointed directly at the capital city, this person fled to Quzhou, and before leaving, he persuaded the students to go with him, and he would not serve Wang Shi. ”

Zhou Jingting was reluctant to leave his homeland and was almost burned to death by the Qing army, Chen Wen had heard Sun Yu mention it before, but he didn't expect that there was this story in it. Thinking about the fact that Zhu Zhixi was a man of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the fact that he fled all the way, his attitude must be as Zhou Jingting said that he would not serve the Ming army, since this is the case, it is okay not to mention it.

"Then that Yiwu Uncle Wu won't also be admitted to the Tartar's fame, right?"

Seeing Chen Wen's question, Sun Yu couldn't help but sigh, shook his head and replied: "Wu Shujian, whose name is Wen, is the great-grandson of Wu Baipeng, the secretary of the Criminal Department of the Wanli Dynasty, and served as the county governor of Xinchang in the Chongzhen Dynasty. When you were inspecting the counties, I sent someone to invite you, but this person had no intention of pursuing a career and politely refused. ”

Wu Baipeng joined the Jiajing Dynasty, participated in the anti-Japanese war, and made many military exploits, and was a rare civilian official who had the ability to lead the troops at that time. And Wu Zhiwen's four brothers, the eldest brother Wu Zhiqi, the second brother Wu Zhizhi, the third brother Wu Zhiwen, and the fourth brother Wu Zhiyi are all talented, but they have been hidden at home since the Qing army entered the customs, so their reputation is not obvious. However, Wu Zhiwen's widowed fourth brother and daughter-in-law were quite famous in later generations, and her name was Ni Renji, who was a very famous talented woman in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

It's just that as soon as Sun Yu said this, not only Chen Wen, but even Zhou Jingting was stunned when he mentioned Zhu Zhixi like this.

Zhou Jingting's thoughts Chen Wen is not very clear, at least in his opinion, as a Han Chinese, if his family is in the occupied area, it may be forgivable if he is unwilling to go out of the mountain. But now that Jinhua Mansion has been recovered by the Ming army, and the Ming army has also shown the strength to have the opportunity to defend the territory without losing, then it is not better to go out of the mountain for the Ming Dynasty or fight for the Han family to fight for a chance not to die in the Tartars?

But after thinking about it, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, there were indeed many people who were willing to throw their heads and spill their blood in order to expel the Tartars and keep the clothes of the Han family, even if they didn't dare to face the Manchu Qing Dynasty openly, such as Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Lu Liuliang, and even Qian Qianyi, who were behind the scenes to deliver news to the Ming army, wouldn't they be willing to do it?

But it's a pity that the Ming Dynasty raised scholars for more than 200 years, and finally raised the scholar class into flowers in the greenhouse. Not to mention pragmatic affairs, at present, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has made it clear that they want to destroy the Han family's clothing and civilization, but there are still shameless scum like Li Zhifang and Zhu Zhixi who choose to sell themselves for glory, and there are countless people like Wu Zhiwen who live in seclusion at home or in the mountains and forests.

Judging from the perspective of later generations, at least before Li Dingguo became a famous king twice, especially the prince Nikan who beheaded Jingjin and broke the myth of the invincibility of the Manchu Eight Banners, those scholars who were afraid of the myth of the invincibility of the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not jump out to serve the Ming army. And after that day, there is not much time left for China.

The idea of recruiting talents was completely diluted by the scholars who threw themselves into the arms of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the remnants who were obsessed with seclusion, so that Sun Yu and Zhou Jingting mentioned some other talented people in Jinhua Mansion, and Chen Wen just listened to it like an errand, and then left and returned to the camp.

At this moment, it is almost evening, and there are many pedestrians on the road who hurry home, walking on the road of Fucheng, every time you see it is wearing a Confucian robe, or a Ming Dynasty Hanfu with a short beat, but there will be a man wearing a square scarf and a net scarf. Chen Wen knew that after the recovery of Jinhua, neither he nor Sun Yu forced the people to cut off the whips, but most of these people cut off the whips on their heads, and they did not want to expose their short hair, so they went out with turbans.

Just riding on a horse, what came to Chen Wen's mind was the history of next year. In the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo was the king twice, as if it was already November when he killed Nikan, and Zheng Chenggong's army besieging Zhangzhou would also be defeated by the Hangzhou Garrison Eight Banners in September, but now there has been a lot of change in history, and it is still unknown whether Hangzhou garrisoned the Eight Banners to aid Fujian.

Thinking about the possible ways of dealing with the Qing army in his mind, so that people kept saluting Chen Wen along the way, and he only reflexively bowed his hand. Until he reached the gate of the city, an old man who was queuing up to leave the city suddenly bowed down to him when he saw Chen Wen on a horse, and shouted "Chen Dashuai Gonghou Wandai".

This worship really surprised Chen Wen, and when he saw this, he immediately turned over and dismounted, trying to help the old man with white hair up.

But the old man refused to get up, and he didn't get up until he finished the salute. And the sentence in his mouth, "If it weren't for Chen Dashuai's return to his hometown, my generation would not be able to look down on people with the clothes of the Han family, and face the ancestors and ancestors without shame" still spread among the people who were waiting to leave the city, making more people postpone their move out of the city, but bowed down to Chen Wen and told them their gratitude.

At this time, almost all the peasants who were still waiting to leave the city were farmers who lived in villages not far from Fucheng and rushed into the city to sell some agricultural and sideline products during the Chinese New Year.

"**************, negative heart has always been a reader." Cao Xuejiao, the secretary of the Longwu Dynasty Rite Department, who wrote this couplet, had hanged himself after Emperor Longwu was captured, but the men of the Han family who were willing to fight to the end of their lives for the Han family's clothing and civilization were still there.

Even before Li Dingguo became a famous king, or after Li Dingguo's death, there were countless Han family sons and daughters who shed their blood for the sake of clothing and civilization, whether it was the Southern Ming Dynasty, or the more than two hundred years of Manchu rule, not only the scholars and revolutionaries who circulated in the history books were qualified to represent the Han family children, those ordinary people were the main force to resist the Qing Dynasty, without them there would be no day to drive out the Tartars and restore China!

"In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. Tomorrow is the sixth year of Yongli, and it is also the most important year in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and next year will also be a new beginning! (To be continued.) )