In the conference hall of the Chinese Revival Society, the flag embroidered with the overlapping pattern of bamboo slips and ancient swords hangs high on the wall facing the gate. Under the banner of the Pen, Fun and Pavilion www.biquge.info, a statue of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor carved by a well-known local craftsman stands upright, holding a bamboo slip in one hand and a sword hilt in the other.

Political belief in the modern sense is still an unattainable concept for the soldiers of Chen Wen's Zhejiang Ming Army Group, so a more physical idol is more conducive to acceptance.

Perhaps, the image of Confucius is more familiar and more acceptable to ordinary people. However, Chen Wen had no intention of associating faith with the Confucian scholar class in the late Ming Dynasty, especially with those selfish Confucian scholars who only knew empty talk and only knew how to maximize their own interests and did not hesitate to ruin state affairs, so Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor was the best choice.

With the order of "all stand up and salute the flag", only to hear the commotion, the members and reserve members seated in the venue stood up one after another, and saluted the wooden statue of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor together with Chen Wen, who was standing at the front.

The vast majority of people in the Ming Dynasty, especially the vast majority of the good family like Chen Wenjun, attached great importance to all things about their ancestors, which was not only manifested in ancestor worship, but also in the values of these people in judging whether their behavior was correct or not, there were also choices about whether they were worthy of their ancestors.

There may be overlap between the ancestors of a person, but the vast majority of people have their own ancestors, at least to the extent that there is a genealogy to check.

In contrast, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of the Chinese nation, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it has begun to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, it is more and more grand and dense, which shows that people's identification with this ancestor of humanity continues to deepen. In this case, the belief that extends from the ancestors to the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and then further to the nationalist ideology, is more beneficial to Chen Wen than the Confucianism represented by Confucius.

At the meeting, from Chen Wen onwards, there were more than a dozen civil officials, including scholars from the four first batch members, such as Sun Yu, Zhou Jingting, Gu Shouli, and Qi Xiufeng, and more than 30 members from military officers, who had developed full members after the establishment of the association on the fourth day of the seventh month and a special meeting during the siege of the city, as well as the number of reserve members, which was roughly the same number.

These participants stood on the floor and bowed to the statue of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor under the banner of the meeting, and it was not until a moment later that Chen Wen, as the president, took the lead in lowering his arms, pinched three incense sticks and lit them, and inserted them into the incense burner, and the salute was not over.

This was not the first meeting, and there was no need to read an opening statement. After paying homage to the statue of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, Chen Wen began the first topic of the day - the explanation of the club's constitution and purpose.

Nationalism is the main idea of the Chinese Renaissance Association, but it is not the extreme idea that "no non-Han has the right to live", because the core idea of "benevolence" of Confucianism has long been perfectly integrated into Chinese civilization. Only the barbarians will simply use burning, killing, prostitution and plundering to show their so-called strength, and the Chinese civilization has never fallen behind the word indoctrination while expanding by force, and the barbarians are convinced by the unparalleled charm of the Chinese civilization.

Of course, those who can be tolerated and given the opportunity to naturalize do not include those barbarians who brutalize the Chinese people!

According to Confucius's interpretation -- "Yi Di, birds and beasts" Those barbarians are just beasts in human skin, and the act of mutilating the Chinese people is enough to prove that they are hopeless beasts, and naturally they will not be tolerated by human beings, and they must be punished as they deserve.

According to the theory that "the princes will raze it if they use Yi Li, and if they enter China, they will be China", barbarians who are willing to fight for China and contribute strength and wisdom to China can be treated as naturalized; And if the Han people act for the tiger, then they are willing to degenerate into barbarians, and they will naturally be punished.

Such a theory is more conducive to strengthening the justice of the Ming army fighting against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and ideologically enhancing the army's sense of honor from the inside out.

However, today Chen Wen did not take the lead in preaching, nor did he let other members talk about his understanding, but invited a young man to talk about the content of his family study that focused on the defense of Yixia.

"This is the sixty-fifth grandson of the saint, the grandson of Zhenyun Gong, the former hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, and the next hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, Kong Junyanzhen."

Kong Yanzhen is only seventeen years old, and it is really difficult to say how deep his understanding of Confucianism is, at least when Chen Wen discussed with him for this special time, he always felt that he was not as good as Sun Yu and Zhou Jingting, who had no intention of taking the imperial examination, let alone compare with great Confucians like Qian Qianyi and Huang Zongxi.

However, the identity of a saint's grandson really bluffed the members and probationary members present. At least in their opinion, the doctrine of Confucianism is tossed out by the ancestors, and the understanding is naturally not very different from that of ordinary people, and there must always be some "family tradition" of the absolute learning.

In fact, Chen Wen didn't let Kong Yanzhen talk too much, but only published some understanding of Confucius's praise of Guan Zhong in the Confucian family history, "Micro pipes, I was sent to the left", and then he followed this topic to tell some stories about Guan Zhong's assistance to Qi Huan's prince Wang Zhengyi, such as the old horse knowing the way, and other allusions also attracted the attention of the officers.

There are many theories about the defense of Yixia in Confucianism, not only Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but also Confucianism in later generations due to the invasion of nomads. Chen Wen does not intend to be a fat man in one go, and the cramming education is not conducive to the understanding of the members, and each meeting explains some, and then they understand and discuss it on their own, so as to deepen the impression, which is also very beneficial to the consolidation of ideas and the construction of the club.

After explaining the theory and story, Chen Wen combined it with the significance of the Ming army's battle against the Manchus, thus strengthening the justice of his own actions. Immediately afterwards, with this righteousness, Chen Wen also combined it with the traditional idea that "good and evil will be rewarded in the end", and launched the next topic - commendation.

Rewards for military merits in the recent war have not yet been issued, but verbal commendations have already begun in the army. This time, it is the members and reserve members who have performed well in the Great War.

Aside from Chen Wen, Li Ruixin, Wu Dengke, and Chen Guobao, who commanded the army to break the enemy in the battle, were in charge of the defense of the northern front, and Yin Yue and Lin Zhongxiao, who were stationed there in the Eight Banners of Hangzhou, were still stationed in various places and could not return. In addition to them, there are also some officers who are still in the army and cannot return, so naturally they are doing as before.

The merits of the members were read aloud, and after each reading, there was a round of applause, even if the members who had been praised were not there. There are officers who broke the enemy in battle, military judges who upheld military law and military discipline, and of course, civilian members who quietly provided supplies and personnel to the front line in the occupied areas, and their merits also need to be remembered.

After the merits of the members were read out, because the scale of the Huaxia Revival Association was still very small, the Zhejiang Ming Army, which was also very small, also did their best for this war, and all the members present and not present participated in it. After a long time, all the members present and absent were praised, and then it was the turn of the probationary members.

Probationary members are more eager for this recognition than triumphant full members, because according to the rules, if probationary members receive special recognition during the review period, it is naturally more conducive to their promotion to full membership, which is very important to them.

Although the couplet outside the gate was not a lie, everyone present knew that this Huaxia Revival Association was the inner circle of the Ming Army in Zhejiang. Entering it, becoming a full member, can enter the fast track to promotion and wealth, at least in the eyes of civil officials and military officers who have not received the baptism and education of nationalist ideology.

Now that the recognition of full members has ended, the next step is naturally to be probationary members. Under the eyes of everyone, Chen Wen called out An Youfu's name and asked him to come to him.

There is a way to break the muscles and bones for a hundred days, and An Youfu, a preparatory member, slowly stood up, and then limped forward.

The leg injury was not yet healed, and there was still a slight pain when he walked, which made his lameness even more obvious. It's just that everyone present didn't have any thoughts of ridicule or contempt, because his injuries were caused by bloody battles on the battlefield, and for soldiers, the scars on his body are ironclad proof of heroic combat.

Watching An Youfu walk closer step by step, Chen Wen patted him on the shoulder, and then said to everyone present: "In the battle of Shentangyuan, the reserve member and Qian Zong An Youfu was ordered to command two infantry bureaus to reinforce the Yiwu battalion that was attacked by the Tartar Governor's Battalion. In the face of the superintendent battalion that was several times larger than himself and copied the establishment of our department, An Qian personally replenished the battle formation, and he was injured and did not retreat, so that the injured hamstring was completely broken. Strictly defended the battle formation, defeated the enemy's front, and made a major contribution to the defeat of the Tartars by our Zhejiang Wang Division. ”

"Today, in my capacity as the president of the Chinese Revival Association, I, Chen Wen, have been specially promoted to a probationary member, An Youfu, to become a full member of the Chinese Renaissance Association. I hope that the people will not forget the purpose of our society, fight bravely, and make new contributions to the great cause of expelling the Tartars, saving the people, recovering the old land of the Han family, and rebuilding the Chinese civilization! (To be continued.) )