The priest rushed through the white line, and when he was ordered, the officer with the hose in both hands aimed the nozzle at the soldiers who were swarming forward, while the two officials holding the handle pulled the handle up and down. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In an instant, the machinery of the raised part converted manpower into pressure, and the water in the water tank under the strange car was pressurized, and it sprayed directly out of the hose, and immediately hit the heads and bodies of the soldiers who rushed to the front like a raging storm.

Suzhou in Layue, compared to the dripping water in the north into ice, but only a few degrees Celsius of low temperature, for these born in Si, grew up in Si, pampered on weekdays, even if they can't be pampered is also ten fingers do not touch the spring water of the reader, such a cold well water through the strange car spewed out, immediately poured those scholars a cool heart, footsteps can not help but pause.

The official holding the handle lifted and pressed, and then pressed and lifted, and the cold water in the water tank splashed almost continuously on the bodies of these scholars through the hose.

The cold water hit the scholars' bodies, and the painful touch immediately appeared where the skin and flesh were leaking, and the scholars who were crying in the temple subconsciously retreated. The front row retreated, but the back row was still moving forward, and the team of the Wailing Temple was in chaos.

The team of the Wailing Temple was out of line, and as if there was such a chaotic army on the battlefield, it immediately became a better target. The cold accompanied by the southeast wind, and the soldiers' clothes were immediately wet, and the heat was quickly lost, and every inch of the wet clothes also changed from a tool to a tool to keep warm and cover the shame as quickly as possible to a cold that stuck to the body like maggots on the tarsal bones.

Suddenly, only a "pop" sound was heard, and in the crowd, the god card of Confucius held by Wang Luo took off his hand and fell heavily to the ground.

"What's that?!"

On a small building in the distance in the Dayjin Fang, Wang Shimin took the glasses tailored for him by Sun Yunqiu, a famous optical instrument manufacturing expert in the late Ming Dynasty, at a high price, and looked at the square in front of the Confucian Temple from afar, and his eyes were staring at the god card held by his son inch by inch.

At that moment just now, Wang Yu was at the front of the crowd, and when the scholars of the weeping temple were brave forward, they squeezed him into the second row, but then, the water splashed, the front row retreated, and the back row surged, and the god card was squeezed to the ground under the crowd.

"Xun, Xunweng, that thing seems to be, it seems to be the firefighting machine that the Nanjing firefighting team equipped a few days ago, what kind of barrel is it called."

The gentry who spoke did not see it with his own eyes, but when he visited a friend in Nanking a few months ago, he heard the same year that he worked in Yingtianfu, and it was said that it was a water sprinkler newly developed by the workshop of the Ministry of Military Industry to put out fires.

It is no longer known when the barrel was first invented. However, as early as the Kangxi period, the fire prevention class used by the Qing court to fight fires in the palace already had the common name of the barrel. In the Ming Dynasty, there were firefighters in big cities, but Chen Wen abolished the old guards, so he could only set up professional firefighting teams in major cities that were managed by the county government.

Nanjing is the residence of the king of Qi, and it is also the most influential city under Chen Wen's rule, and the barrel is also the first to be equipped. Jinhua, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Nanchang, Ganzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and other places, which are the second batch, have only recently begun to be equipped in batches.

It's just that the barrel in Suzhou has only been transported for a few days, and the firefighting team wearing the uniforms of the officials has just become proficient, but this first use is not used to fight fires, but to spray the weeping temple scholars like later generations used to break down the procession.

"Chen Wen, this guy dares to humiliate the scholars like this, and dares to ...... like this"

Seeing this scene happening, Wang Shimin was already trembling with anger, if it wasn't for the gentleman who stepped forward to help him, he was afraid that he would have fallen to the ground.

The small building of Dayjin Fang was dumbfounded, and in the square in the distance, the god card fell to the ground, and it was trampled into a pile of broken planks by the pair of big feet who didn't know where to go. Seeing that the amulet of the scholar was gone, the firefighters also worked harder to pull the handle.

The icy stream of water splashed on the bodies of each of the weeping temple scholars, who had never seen such a scene, and after the initial confusion, soon the first one ran around. With the first, soon, the second, the third, and even the entire Wailing Temple team began to shrink in these four flights.

The ranks of the scholars were getting smaller and smaller, and even those who did not flee were mostly trying their best to resist the jets of water with their hands, arms, and backs. Among them, only Jin Shengxian stood with his head held high, facing the impact of such a primitive "high-pressure water gun", and the arrogance of the scholars was fully displayed here. Just look closely, but that face is not a brave posture in the face of tyranny, it is completely stunned.

In ancient China, scholars marched and cried in temples, and the government did not dare to suppress them, at most they only persuaded them with warm words. The status of the scholars is transcendent, the influence of the people is not small, and the encouragement of the Han dynasty with the prosperity of the imperial examination like the Song and Ming dynasties for morale, the rulers not only do not suppress it, but want to praise one or two. But if it were ordinary people, what would be suppressed would never be as simple as a "high-pressure water gun", the light would be the stick of catching fast and the servants, and the heavy would be the army's green blade.

It was not for nothing that the scholars present were surprised by this situation, but there was no one like Jin Shengsi. It's just that no one knows that at this moment, Jin Shengsi's eyes are no longer the splashing water and the gentry who fled into the wilderness, but only the prophetic fragments he had seen in his dreams were finally strung together by these streams of water and turned into a complete image.

"On the fourth day of the second month of the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, Jiangnan was born as Wu Chong as the beginning of Weichu, bold, deceived the world and destroyed the ancestors, openly broke the rules of thousands of years, ignored the benevolent government of the Holy Dynasty, sneaked to Chang Ping, and teamed up with Cao Wu of the Ministry of Trips, stole rats and dogs, and stole public grain. The crime was outrageous, and the people's sentiment was boiling. Those who read should take the four dimensions and eight virtues as their rituals. Unexpectedly, he came out of the well-dressed beasts, such as Ren Weichu's generation, the students were ashamed, and the grandmaster was dishonored, so he went to the Temple of Literature to cry ......"

In front of the Suzhou Confucian Temple, which was overpowered by dark clouds, Jin Shengxian posted the written text of the Wailing Temple on the gate of the Confucian Temple, and together with more than 100 local scholars from Suzhou, he cried in unison, denouncing Ren Weichu, the new magistrate of Wu County appointed by the Qing court, for his evil deeds of urging the payment of taxes with severe punishment and killing one person with a cane, and on the other hand, stealing and selling official rice on a large scale, and enriching his own pockets.

However, the Wailing Temple did not get a compromise from the government, and Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangsu, known as Zhu Baidi, arrested five scholars including Ni Yongbin on the spot.

Next, Zhu Guozhi successively arrested more than a dozen Suzhou scholars who participated in the Wailing Temple, including Jin Shengsi. Later, 18 people, including Ni Yongbin, Shen Lang, Gu Weiye, Zhang Han, Shu Xianqi, Ding Guansheng, Zhu Shiruo, Zhu Zhangpei, Zhou Jiang, Xu Jue, Ye Qi, Xue Erzhang, Yao Gang, Ding Ziwei, Jin Shengsi, Wang Zhongru, Tang Yaozhi, and Feng Zhi, were sentenced to death.

"Cutting off the head is also painful; Drinking, fast too. Cut off your head and drink first, and be happy! ”

On the execution ground, Jin Sheng sighed calmly, asked the prison officer for wine and drink, and died generously while talking and laughing. The executioner's broadsword fell, and Jin Shengxian closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw a column of water sprayed from the barrel.

Jin Shengxian stood proudly, attracting the attention of the firefighters, and several machine barrels aimed at him and sprayed him directly, and actually sprayed him directly to the ground.

Standing up again, Jin Shengsian did not continue to stand there to show the arrogance of the scholars, but sighed with satisfaction, turned around, shook the water on his sleeves, and walked calmly into the distance. Seeing this, Ni Yongbin and others, who were familiar with each other on weekdays, also hurriedly chased after him - today's Jin Shengsian is completely different from usual, which really makes people worry about his mental condition.

"Holy sigh?"

Ni Yongbin asked tentatively, Jin Sheng sighed back, looked at him, and said with a smile: "I'm fine, don't worry." ”

"And what about today?"

"There's no need to mix it up anymore, they're willing to toss, so let them go by themselves. However, I have to say that coming here today is the most correct decision in my life; This departure is also the most correct choice in my life. Speaking of this, Jin Sheng sighed and smiled: "We have lived in a new era, if we miss it, I am afraid that there is no place to regret it." ”

After saying that, Jin Shengsian laughed, and then walked away. For Jin Shengsi, although Ni Yongbin and the others looked at each other, they didn't say anything more, so they had to watch Jin Shengsian go away. In addition to commenting on literary works, Jin Sheng sighed that he was more famous among the Jiangnan gentry or the Fu Ling Ling, not only the famous gentry such as Qian Qianyi praised it, but also the talented woman Ye Xiaoluan, but also a popular story among the Jiangnan scholars. Such people really cannot be judged by common sense.

Jin Shengxian disappeared into the crowd of onlookers, and Ni Yongbin looked back again, but the barrel had stopped spraying water. The governor of the four prefectures of Su Songchang Town strode forward and ordered the remaining ten or so gentry to leave on their own, otherwise, their fame would be removed.

In this regard, the few remaining gentry in the square did not let him blow in the cold wind for a while, and after hearing this, they looked at each other, and then they turned into birds and beasts, and all that remained was a water stain on the square, dozens of lost shoes, and the god card that had been trampled on.

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Historically, in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, after the Qing court eradicated the Yongli court and determined that Zheng Chenggong's Fujian Ming army could not carry out a large-scale counteroffensive against Jiangnan for the time being, it created a series of major cases, including the Tonghai case, the weeping temple case, the Jiangnan sales case, and the Zhuang's Ming history case, so as to crack down on the Jiangnan gentry and relieve the huge financial pressure.

In this series of major cases, the Qing court slaughtered the Jiangnan gentry and removed the reputation of a large number of Jiangnan gentry. Since then, with the most powerful Confucian gentry in the Jiangnan class lurking under the obscenity of the Qing court, supplemented by the widespread propaganda and brainwashing of the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers instead of the defense of Yixia, as well as the perfection of the idea of the eight strands of taking the scholars, especially with the notorious literary prison, the Confucian scholars have also completely become the slaves under the rule of foreign rulers in the Qing Dynasty.

"If a country's intellectual class becomes a slave of the ruler, then the country's creative capacity will be greatly reduced, and its potential will be greatly reduced. Such a country will not have a future at all. ”

A series of reports on the Suzhou market strike and the Wailing Temple arrived, and Chen Wen read the reports carefully and sighed like promise.

"Minions?"

Chen Wen's words were very sudden and a little inexplicable, and Zhou Yueying couldn't understand what they meant. Seeing this, Chen Wen sighed, and then said to Zhou Yueying: "If there is no me in this world, if the Ming Dynasty is completely destroyed by the Tartars, then the scholars will only have the only way to live as slaves to the Tartars, because the Tartars only want slaves, and they don't need people who have the ability to think independently." ”

Hearing this, Emei frowned slightly, and Zhou Yueying was immediately relieved, and then asked: "The new era that the husband wants is a slave that is not needed, is it?" ”

"Yes, what you sow, what you reap. What the Tartars need is a minion, as long as they weave big cases and speak with a butcher's knife to any opponents. However, China's new era does not need minions, because a country full of minions will not have any future. ”

China was ruled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, and the once industrious and kind Chinese people were contemptuously called the sick man of East Asia, and once faced the scourge of partition, but after the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, only a hundred years, relying on the blood and sweat of the fathers and ancestors, China once again stood among the nations of the world, and became an existence that no country dared to ignore.

Coming from that era, Chen Wen clearly remembers that in the memory of history, under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, especially from Chen Wen's current opponent Shunzhi, as well as Shunzhi's son Kangxi, grandson Yongzheng and great-grandson Qianlong, during the prosperous Kangqian era, the Qing court would set off a literary prison every one or two years on average, among which the Qianlong Dynasty was the worst, with more than twice a year, there were more than 130 recorded literary prisons alone.

During this period, if the Han people showed even the slightest dissatisfaction with the Qing court, their thoughts about the defense of Yixia, or even the words used in the poems involving words such as "Ming", "Qing", "Hua", and "Yi", they would immediately be accused of rebellion by the Qing court.

As a Juche nation, the Han people's ability to think independently was suppressed to the maximum, and as a result, until the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, there was not a single Chinese scientific celebrity in the history of the world, nor was there even a single scientific and technological invention belonging to China. However, whether it is before or after recovering some vitality, China is an indispensable presence in the world's scientific community.

Today, struggling in China for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Chen Wen and Song Yingxing talked and laughed, and there was a copy of Song Yingxing's autographed "Heavenly Creation" in the study. But historically, Song Yingxing's encyclopedic scientific masterpiece that influenced the history of science and technology in the world was actually a banned book under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and it was confiscated and banned in the name of repairing the "Siku Quanshu", and it was later recirculated from Japan at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

There are many similar examples, and it can even be said that "Tiangong Kaiwu" is still one of the lucky ones, at least this book has been re-circulated, and more ancient books have been destroyed in the cultural sabotage campaign called "Siku Quanshu", which is actually "Siku Destroying Books", and only one name remains, and some even have their names erased.

Chinese books have been banned, while foreign book translations have come to a standstill. For example, in the enlightening "Geometry Original" in the world mathematical circles, Xu Guangqi, a scholar of Wenyuange University, the second assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, had completed the translation of the first six volumes as early as 1606 AD, but the last nine volumes of this huge work were not continued until 1856 AD, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was bombarded by the strong ships of Europe and the scholars were forced to "open their eyes to the world" again. For this reason, a joke about the origin of the word "two hundred and five" was born, saying that the 250 years between the two is the greatest Kangqian era in human history in the braided play.

In recent years, Chen Wen has been committed to ending the Manchu Qing Dynasty by force, not only the modernization of the army, but also the prevalence of hydraulic workshops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Of course, this is far from enough, at least far from meeting Chen Wen's expectations.

Thinking of this, Chen Wen touched the "Science" magazine at hand, which was full of the crystallization of knowledge of Confucian scholars and ordinary craftsmen, and many of them already had practical directions, such as vernier calipers, such as the tracks of the Qin people, such as those scientific principles and technological inventions written in a series of scientific and technological books, including "Heavenly Creations", and most of these existing technologies have begun to be used in the great cause of benefiting the people.

In recent years, such as the Boy Scout School and the Nanjing University Hall, basic science has also been popularized, and there are also many children of the gentry, whose family history is an indispensable supplement. Perhaps one day in the future, one day in the next 250 years, China will be able to give birth to such scientific giants as Newton and Edison, so that in the next 200 years or so, the Chinese scientific community will not be able to influence the world's scientific process.

"The new era has begun, but before that, I have to remove the last stumbling blocks. Of course, in order to better welcome the arrival of the new era, it should naturally be moved away in the way of the new era. Otherwise, everything will be lost. ”