Chapter 17: First Meeting

Huang Zongxi, the word Taichong, the name Nanlei, alias the old man of Lizhou, the mountain man of Lizhou, the fisherman of the blue water, the master of Yucheng Cave, the dean of the double waterfalls, the historian of the ancient Tibetan room, etc., later generations generally called him Mr. Lizhou. Huang Zongxi's father is one of the "Seven Gentlemen of Donglin" Huang Zunsu, Huang Zunsu impeached Wei Zhongxian during the Apocalypse, was tortured to death in prison, and the Chongzhen Dynasty overturned the case, only a teenager Huang Zongxi testified in court when Xu Xianchun, beat Cui Yingyuan, and even pulled out his beard to sacrifice his father's spirit, known as "Yaojiang Huang Xiaozi".

During the Hongguang Dynasty, Huang Zongxi, who had become an important figure in the Restoration Society, was arrested and imprisoned for signing the "Public Disclosure of Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos". In the same year, the attack on Zhapu failed, and the master of Fengjiang broke into the Xizhu Temple of Siming Mountain. The rear subordinates disturbed all the villagers who disturbed the people, and after the cottage was destroyed, they hid in their homes.

In the fourth year of Yongli, Huang Zongxi went to Zhoushan to meet Lu Jianguo, promoted to the left deputy capital envoy, and was ordered to go to Japan with Feng Jingdi to borrow troops, and returned home before the borrowing of troops was completed, and then began to engage in "underground work" with Qian Qianyi until Qian Qianyi's death.

In Chen Wen's previous experience, he had a long time with Wang Yi and Wang Jiang, and even had a relationship with Feng Jingdi, who were quite famous in the history of Zhejiang's resistance to the Qing Dynasty. But if it is compared with Huang Zongxi, it is a world of difference.

In addition to the famous "Huang Zongxi's Law" in later generations, the generals of Dalan Mountain, Siming Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, as well as other anti-Qing forces in eastern Zhejiang, who had intersected with Chen Wen, relied on the accounts of the "Eastern Zhejiang Historical School" founded by Huang Zongxi, so that their deeds of bravely resisting foreign aggression and national oppression were not forgotten by later generations, and even Chen Wen also benefited from this for a time.

After learning that Huang Zongxi had arrived at the mansion, Chen Wen rushed from the camp to see Huang Zongxi with excitement, but after chatting for less than an hour, Huang Zongxi said goodbye and left.

After Huang Zongxi saw Chen Wen, his attitude was faintly cold. As if there was some preconception. In addition to one of the biggest purposes of his visit, to inform Chen Wen of the recent military situation of the Qing army in the Ningshao area, it was only when Sun Yu mentioned that Wang Yi's daughter was still alive and was now in Jinhua Mansion City.

tearfully recalled his friendship with Wang Yi, and after Wang Yi was captured, he also inquired about the whereabouts of Wang Yi's family. Huang Zongxi praised Chen Wen's feat of being able to protect the orphans of loyal ministers, and even said that he would record the details of Chen Wen's battle against the Qing army in the south of Siming Mountain for the people. So that more people know about it. However, when Chen Wen asked when the marriage contract would be executed, Huang Zongxi suddenly hesitated.

Chen Wen couldn't quite understand Huang Zongxi's contrast with Wang Yi's daughter, thinking that he might not be very optimistic that he would be able to defeat the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison, recover Ningshao and defend there, but he didn't want Wang Yi's daughter to be unable to pass through the door in a beautiful way, so that he had no face to face Wang Yi, so that.

As a result, Chen Wen proposed to discuss the matter after recovering Ning Shao. When he noticed that Huang Zongxi's depression had eased, he was relieved. At least if this marriage can be promoted, it can be regarded as repaying Wang Yi's kindness. Anyway, Wang Yi's daughter is now less than fifteen, so if she doesn't get married early, she will have two lives in one corpse, which is not good.

It's just that he didn't know that Huang Zongxi's son Huang Baijia was born in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and now he is only less than nine years old......

However. The friendly atmosphere between the two sides did not last long, when Chen Wen mentioned that the news of Wang Yi's death reached Tiantai Mountain in order to comfort him. Wang Jiang beheaded Li Rong, the deputy general of the Zuo Battalion who had been captured earlier, to comfort Wang Yi in the spirit of the sky, but he still listened to the "great Confucian" scolding Wang Jiang in amazement with Sun Yu.

Wang Jiang was captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which is indeed very inferior to Wang Yi, but the main problem of Huang Zongxi's criticism is that Wang Jiang did not go to the rescue of Zhoushan during his time as the governor of Zhejiang. Instead, he ordered his generals to go west to Jinhua. Even in his words, this is not something that a loyal minister should do, so Wang Jiang should be aware of it.

But the problem is that the entire military operation to Jinhua in the west was planned by Chen Wen, and Wang Jiang is obviously carrying the black pot for him at the moment!

Through history. and the relationship between Wang Jiang during this period, Chen Wen knew very well that this was definitely not what Wang Jiang wanted, but with his character, it was impossible to be like Wang Yi, so he could only endure it for the time being and wait for the future. It was only now that Chen Wen understood how much responsibility Wang Jiang had borne for his plan, and he couldn't bear Wang Jiang to continue to accept it on his behalf, so Chen Wen bluntly mentioned that this military operation was planned by him, and Wang Jiang was just persuaded by him.

However, when Huang Zongxi heard this, his face was full of anger, and he walked away directly, not giving him a chance to explain at all. Even when Chen Wen stepped forward and stretched out his hand to stop him, he found that Huang Zongxi's reaction and strength were not like ordinary Confucian scholars, and he had the posture of a practicing family.

Recalling that Huang Baijia seemed to be a master of the inner family boxing in the early Qing Dynasty, willing to invite a famous teacher to learn martial arts for his son, and even wrote an epitaph after his master's death, Huang Zongxi seems to have no prejudice against martial arts, and it seems that he will also learn some. It is no wonder that Hui Ting beat Xu Xianchun and Cui Yingyuan in the past, and now he is alone in Jinhua, running around the south of the Yangtze River to secretly oppose the Qing Dynasty, and he actually has something to rely on.

Out of the gate of the mansion, Chen Wen turned over and got on the horse, but what happened just now was still in his mind.

I don't know why, he always feels that there seems to be a wall between him and Huang Zongxi, and this wall is obviously standing in Huang Zongxi's heart. It stands to reason that he was Wang Yi's subordinate general when he was alive, and Wang Yi and Huang Zongxi were friends and in-laws, there was no reason for him to be like this, but the feeling he gave him was like this, which made him very puzzled.

And when Huang Zongxi talked with him, he did not like other Confucian scholars, he had to point out the country at every turn, and he did not mention the new health system of Jinhua Mansion that had just begun and Sun Yu's government affairs of copying the Dalanshan version of the fire and returning to the public.

However, when I thought of Huang Zongxi's idea of getting up and leaving, Chen Wen proposed a gift to strengthen his appearance, "If you have silver, you should not exploit some gentry and the common people", and after saying goodbye, Sun Yu mentioned that Huang Zongxi had told him that Chen Wen's new health system would inevitably lead to an increase in the tax and conscription pressure of the households, and that the Dalanshan version of the fire consumption would probably be a piece of waste paper in the end. Chen Wencai completely understood that co-author Huang Zongxi disdained to discuss government affairs with military generals, or that he believed that military generals were not qualified to meddle in government affairs.

From the civil and military affairs, to the use of literature to control the military, and then to the Chongzhen Dynasty, the military generals gradually overrode the civilian officials, becoming one warlord after another. The vigilance of the emperor and civil officials against the military generals has always existed, after all, Yin Jian of the chaos of the Han and Tang dynasties is vivid, and it is no wonder that this is the case.

It's just that for Chen Wen, he has ideas and understandings that are ahead of the times in his mind, and after a little flexibility, it should also be beneficial to state affairs, isn't borrowing an example? At least in the case of the inability of the civilian officials, what he tossed out allowed this Ming army to continue to support and obtain the capital that exploded quickly in a short period of time without destroying the people's livelihood.

Therefore, there is no reason to continue to ignore Huang Zongxi's opinion, as long as you can roll the snowball, otherwise the three hundred years of ******** will only be bloody and dark!

However, Huang Zongxi's prophecy really alerted Chen Wen and Sun Yu, after all, relying on a government in Jinhua to fight against the Qing army in the entire Zhejiang, Chen Wen's set of borrowing methods is just an emergency, in the final analysis, we still have to try to recover more lost territory and roll the snowball, otherwise sooner or later it will be a betrayal of relatives. The Dalanshan version of the fire consumption is returned to the public, and the effect of the implementation in the Dalanshan period is not very good, so it is to increase the intensity of supervision, and if necessary, it is natural to kill a hundred and use some thunderous means to show the heart of the Bodhisattva.

The war horse slowly advanced with the rhythm of his master's thinking, and it was not until he left the city gate that Chen Wen was reminded by a personal soldier and found that someone was calling him on the side of the road.

Looking closely, it was Zhou Jingting, a student of Jinhua Mansion who was appointed as a confidential clerk not long ago, some time ago involved the establishment of the Xinwei Institute and the loan matters, Zhou Jingting was almost busy with Chen Wen for several days, and the rest time including eating and sleeping every day did not add up to three hours, and the work efficiency still needs to be improved, but the attitude is already rare. It wasn't until there were fewer things in the past two days that I asked for leave to take my family back to Fucheng, and the carriages beside Zhou Jingting in front of me were.

Seeing Zhou Jingting's uncle, father and father-in-law who were about to salute, Chen Wen hurriedly stepped forward to stand up to them, and said vigorously that Zhou Jingting was talented and able to endure hardships, even if he had not been in office for a long time, he had never let him worry about official duties, and he was a rare operator. and expressed his appreciation for the Zhou family's ability to raise such a child, and Zhou Jingting's father-in-law expressed his admiration for his ability to discern pearls.

As a leader, it is normal to praise his ability in front of his subordinates, both ancient and modern, both at home and abroad, and today is no exception.

For Chen Wen's praise, the elders of the Zhou family were naturally very happy, after all, this Ming army marshal had been spread in the community to be really evil, some good and some bad. But in the final analysis, the saying of a new famous general of a national dynasty is recognized, and even the in-laws feel that there is light on their faces when they can be praised in this way. After all, a family like them that has been tied to Chen Wen, even if this Ming army commander is replaced by other Ming troops, they can't afford it, and it is naturally a good thing that Zhou Jingting can be used under Chen Wen's curtain.

After chatting for a while, Chen Wen declined the Zhou family's invitation to visit his home. The old house of the Zhou family had been destroyed by fire before, and the house they were about to move into was asked by Ma Jinbao two years ago to be given to Qin Shizhen, the former governor of Zhejiang.

Watching the Zhou family and his entourage enter the city, Chen Wencai noticed that there was a pair of eyes in one of the women's carriages that seemed to have been observing him through the gauzy curtains for a long time, but in the coldness, he always felt a familiar feeling inside.

Huang Zongxi was in front of him for a while, and those eyes were in a trance, and Chen Wen returned to the camp in a trance. But what he didn't expect was that the front foot sent Huang Zongxi away, but the back foot ushered in the envoy of Chen Jin, the governor of Manchu Zhejiang, Fujian and Fujian. (To be continued.) )