(4th Update)

Xu Laohu, Xu Baoshan, and Li Jingcheng, the leader of the Danyang patrol battalion, are relatives of the corner, specifically Li Jingcheng's brother-in-law Wang Youcheng and Xu Baoshan are sons and daughters, so Zhenjiang officialdom is a family. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, this Li Jingcheng actually has another identity, that is, six years ago, he had joined the League, and his series of developments in the army all came from Chen Qimei's secret funding. Because Li Jingcheng has a special identity and has developed rapidly in the army, Chen Qimei did not tell anyone his identity, not even Sun Yat-sen, because Chen Qimei also knew that Sun Yat-sen's character had an element of impatience, and if Li Jingcheng launched an uprising, if it was unsuccessful, all Chen Qimei's efforts in Jiangnan would be reduced to ashes.

Therefore, Wang Yongan did not know Li Jingcheng's true identity, and Xu Baoshan naturally did not know his identity, but Li Jingcheng knew that Wang Yongan was a person who wandered between the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the revolutionary party, and he did not leave a hand. Li Jingcheng heard Chen Qimei say that Wang Yongan opposed the Qing government in his heart, but he did not support the League and belonged to the object that the revolutionary party could win over, so he also tried his best to curry favor with Wang Yongan, which made Wang Yongan inexplicable, and said in his heart that our brothers don't seem to have such a deep friendship.

This group of people with their own ghosts finally took a mail boat to Nanjing City, where the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion is located.

Although it has been forty-five years since the Taiping Rebellion, the Hunan army and the Taiping army attacked each other in the city of Nanjing, causing the people in Nanjing to be almost left behind. Those who took refuge in the Qing court were killed by the Taiping army, and those who took refuge in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were killed by the Hunan army. The Hunan army besieged Nanjing City for several years, and more than 400,000 people were killed and injured in Nanjing, and after breaking through Nanjing, the Hunan army set fire to and looted for three days and three nights, and even killed corpses all over the field.

In the following years, people moved into the city one after another, but the city never recovered the population and prosperity of the Qing Dynasty at the height of the Qianlong period. Forty-five years have passed, and some traces of the original burning can still be seen in the city of Nanjing, which shows how much damage the war brought to the people and how deep the losses to the country were.

Wang Yongan rode on a horse and saw the people in Nanjing, and even felt that they were not as happy as the people of Yangzhou, as if there was no hope for life. Suddenly, a few foreigners rode through the city on horseback, and even needed to take a sedan chair to get out of the way for the rich and noble.

From afar, I saw the most famous Jiming Temple in Nanjing, a few monks in front of the door were sweeping the ground and giving alms of gruel, and some begging people knelt on the ground and said that this Amitabha Buddha was grateful.

"Everyone, you go to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion first, and I'll go to the temple to ask for a peace charm." Wang Yongan reined in the horse and said.

Li Jingcheng and Xu Baoshan looked at each other, and said at the same time: "Don't delay the hour." ”

Wang Yongan said: "Never. After dismounting, he took Zhang Tie and Li Yao to the door of the temple and informed the welcoming monk, the monk knew that it was the fourth prince of Yangzhou who arrived, and hurriedly guided the group into it.

Legend has it that Jiming Temple can be traced back to the Western Jin Dynasty at the earliest, there are monks in Jiming Mountain to build a room on the mountain, build five Buddhist temples, but the scale is not large. In the following hundreds of years, the Central Plains was turbulent, but the south of the Yangtze River was calm, and the Buddhist temples gradually expanded. During the Southern Dynasties, Liu Song Emperor Liu Hong named it Qiyuan Temple, and during the Liang Dynasty, the Xiao royal family still Buddha, expanded the temple and rebuilt the location, and renamed it Tongtai Temple. Later, it was successively renamed Jingju Temple, Yuanshan Temple, Taicheng Temple, Fabao Temple, etc., to the eighteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, rebuilt the temple and named Jiming Temple. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Jiming Temple was destroyed in the war, and when Kangxi toured the south, the Jiming Temple was re-established, and Cao Yin (the grandfather of Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of Red Mansions") built the Jiming Temple in order to pat the horses.

During the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Jiming Temple was destroyed in the war again, and in the 29th year of Guangxu, Huang Jianguan, the political envoy of Jiangning, was ordered by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangjiang, to build the Huomeng Building in the Jiming Temple, and donated funds for two years to build, Zhang Zhidong personally wrote the plaque. The building originally had a portrait of Zhang Zhidong, and hung Liang Qichao's book "The rivers and mountains repeatedly compete for the eyes, and the wind and rain enter the building". Later, there was a couplet written by Huang Jianguan: "Far away to Qingliang Mountain, close to the Arctic Pavilion, more Kantai City Ruins, Tower Shadow Hengjiang, before the wonderful scenery enters the bottle, a picture is passed on to the traces; In the past, the title was based on the villa, today the Huomeng Building, but the famous lake of Xuanwu, the lotus is full of swamps, and the wind comes to the seat, and several bells and chimes answer the lotus song. ”

Wang Yongan took a tour of Jiming Temple, feeling the vicissitudes of history of this ancient building, it is the epitome of Chinese history, constantly being destroyed and rebuilt, and each reconstruction seems to bring something new, but discarding many of the original good things.

After the three of them visited the Jiming Temple, Wang Yongan donated 500 taels, and was so happy that he thanked him again and again, saying that with this silver, he could save many victims.

Wang Yongan then asked about the situation of the victims, and the host said that these victims are displaced people who have lost their land, and now the land annexation is serious, and seeing more and more people pouring into Nanjing City, it is estimated that there will be more by next year, and Jiming Temple will no longer be able to give gruel. After that, the host sighed again and again, and now in this year, the temple can still be maintained, but it cannot help all living beings, and even the monks are secretly ashamed.

Looking at the hungry victims, all of them were yellow and thin, short in stature, ragged in rags, with stinking braids wrapped around their heads, and their faces were full of confusion, as if they had no hope for their own life and everything, and only one of them could give him a bowl of porridge, and he could do anything.

In them, Wang Yongan only saw one word: numbness!

This is a kind of desperate numbness, this is a kind of numbness that makes Wang Yongan feel extremely uncomfortable, and it is also the numbness that many Chinese intellectuals are heartbroken. His friend Zhou Zhangshou saw the numbness of the Chinese people, so he gave up medicine and changed his name to Lu Xun, hoping to wake up the Chinese people with the article. It's a pity that those who can read and understand his articles don't need to wake up, and those who need to wake up can't read and write, Zhou Zhangshou can only end up like many other literati, empty and self-pitying, self-pity, and some literary and artistic young men and women are sought after, but he can't do anything to make a substantial contribution to the nation, and it is even less practical than the Qing court's opening of new-style primary schools in the country to the people.

Because of the visit to Jiming Temple, Wang Yongan and his entourage arrived at the accommodation inn when it was already afternoon, Wang Yongan and Li Yao and others bought some things on the street and brought them to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion to visit Zhang Renjun Zhang. Wang Yongan married Yuan Shikai's fifth daughter Yuan Nianzhen, and Zhang Renjun's fifth son Zhang Yunliang married Yuan Shikai's daughter Yuan Bozhen, so Wang Yongan and Zhang Yunliang are brothers-in-law, and Wang Yongan is a junior to see Zhang Renjun. In the past few days, because of the anti-bandit meeting, everything is busy, Zhang Renjun really can't spare time, and Wang Yongan came the latest, so Zhang Renjun asked his fifth son Zhang Yunliang to receive him.