Zhou Shixiang held a banquet and entertained Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru as husband and wife. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

When women were not allowed to sit at the table, Liu Ru did not sit down, Zhou Shixiang insisted on please, Qian Qianyi smiled freely, and sat down with his wife's hand.

The banquet is carefully organized by Yan Shaoqing, the prefect of Suzhou, considering that Qian Qianyi is old, mainly vegetarian, and there is no big meat, but the Taoism is a famous dish with unique ingenuity.

After the banquet, the tea was served, and the two sides stepped into the main topic.

Zhou Shixiang first praised Qian Qianyi's insistence on opposing the Qing Dynasty in Jiangnan, and finally asked Qian Qianyi to serve in the Tang Dynasty. He made it clear that as long as he waited for the prison country to go to Nanjing, he would ask the old uncle of the prison committee to be the post of the third lonely master.

How to arrange Qian Qianyi, Zhou Shixiang was quite tricky before, because he wanted to use Qian's fame to stabilize Jiangnan, so it was necessary for high-ranking officials to serve him so that he could be used. However, he couldn't really entrust him to his actual job and lay hidden dangers for the future, so at the suggestion of Gui Yongzhi, he decided to appoint the third prince Taifu.

The three princes, that is, the collective name of the three positions of Taishi, Taifu and Taibao, are one product. In the early years of the establishment of the dynasty, the three dukes were responsible for assisting the emperor in handling important state affairs, and the position was very important. In the third year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu awarded Li Shanchang as Taishi, Xu Da as Taifu, and Chang Yuchun as Taibao. During the Jianwen period, the three public positions were removed. During the Yongli period, Emperor Chengzu restored the position of the three dukes, but there was no actual award. In the third year of Xuande, Emperor Xuanzong awarded the British Gong Zhang Fu as the Taishi, Mu Sheng as the Taifu, and Chen Mao as the Taibao. However, since the Xuande and Orthodox years, the three dukes have become fictitious titles, and they have been added and gifted to the ministers of civil and military affairs. The position is honored, but there is no real power.

After Wanli, only Zhang Juzheng was given the post of Taishi in the tenth year of Wanli, and no one else could get the three dukes. Now, Zhou Shixiang wants to ask the prison country for himself to be crowned a master, Qian Qianyi is no matter how high his cultivation is, he can't sit still, and even says that he has no merit, how dare he be awarded the master.

Zhou Shixiang insisted that it was necessary to ask for the post of Taifu for Qian Qianyi, and Jiang Guozhu also said on the side that Lao Zongbo was the head of the literary world, and he couldn't get the post of Taifu.

Qian Qianyi sighed, so he didn't shirk it, and instead recommended the two to Zhou Shixiang. One is Gu Yanwu and the other is Huang Zongxi.

The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband!

Hearing Gu Yanwu's name, Zhou Shixiang was moved.

Qian Qianyi said that Gu Yanwu had great materials, the Qing army went south during the Hongguang period, and the bloody rain in the south of the Yangtze River was bloody, Gu Yanwu and his best friends Guizhuang, Wu Qixin and others threw their pens from Rong and participated in a righteous army led by Wang Yongqi, the imperial history of the capital. However, the righteous army was a rabble, defeated by the elite of the Eight Banners, and attacked Suzhou and was ambushed and defeated. Gu Yanwu sneaked back to Kunshan, and defended the city with Yang Yongyan, Guizhuang and others to resist the enemy; Within a few days, Kunshan was lost, as many as 40,000 people died, Wu Qixin was killed in battle, Gu Yanwu's biological mother He's right arm was cut off by Qing soldiers, and his two younger brothers were killed.

A few days later, Gu Yanwu's mother, Wang, heard the change, went on a hunger strike and martyred the country, and instructed Yanwu on her deathbed, saying: "Although I am a woman, I have received the grace of the country, and I have died with the country, and I am righteous." If you are not a foreign courtier, you have not failed the grace of the world, and you have not forgotten the teachings of your ancestors, then you can look underground. ”

National hatred and family hatred!

Jiashen's 100,000 men are all relieved, not as good as an old woman in Jiangnan!

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Zhou Shixiang asked Gu Yanwu where he was now, and Qian Qianyi said that he was not in Jiangnan now, but went to the north to investigate the situation in the mountains and rivers of northern China, and at the same time to avoid trouble, because the Qing court was ordering him to be arrested.

Qian Qianyi recommended Gu Yanwu to Zhou Shixiang, Zhou Shixiang didn't know the inside story, but Jiang Guozhu on the side admired him very much. Why? Because Gu Yanwu made this old uncle very embarrassed back then.

In the twelfth year of Shunzhi, Gu Yanwu returned to his hometown Kunshan from other places. No, his family servant Lu En saw that the Gu family was declining day by day, and Gu Yanwu had not returned for a long time, so he betrayed his master and took refuge in Ye Fangheng, and the two tried to accuse Gu Yanwu of the crime of "Tonghai" and put him to death. Gu Yanwu secretly executed Lu En, but Ye Fangheng colluded with Lu En's son-in-law to kidnap Gu Yanwu and imprison him, and coerced Gu Yanwu to make him self-judged. Fortunately, Gu Yanwu's friend Lu Zebo and the Songjiang military envoy had an old relationship, and Gu Yanwu's case was transferred to Songjiang Prefecture for trial, and in the end, the case was closed on the charge of "killing a guilty slave".

At that time, when the matter was critical, Gu's friend returned to Zhuang and asked Qian Qianyi for help. Qian Qianyi was a leader in the literary world, and he was committed to secretly opposing the Qing Dynasty, so he couldn't bear Gu Yanwu being killed, so he told Guizhuang that if Gu Yanwu was his protégé, he could come out to speak for him.

Guizhuang didn't want to lose Qian Qianyi's powerful support, although he knew that Gu Yanwu would not agree, he still worshiped Qianyi as a teacher on behalf of Gu Yanwu. After Gu Yanwu found out, he hurriedly asked someone to ask for the protégé post of returning to Zhuang Daishu, but Qian Qianyi refused to give it. Gu Yanwu wrote a confession by himself, stating that he had never been listed on the wall of Qian Qianyi's gate, and asked someone to post it everywhere on Tongqu Avenue. made Qianyi very embarrassed, and ridiculed: "Ning Ren is anxious." ”

Jiang Guozhu, who knew that there was such an inside story, felt admiration for Qian Qianyi's recommendation of Gu Yanwu, and he couldn't do it in exchange for him.

Zhou Shixiang asked Huang Zongxi again. Qian Qianyi briefly informed that Huang Zongxi was a native of Yuyao, and he sold his property during the Hongguang national disaster to gather more than 600 young and middle-aged people in his hometown of Huangzhupu to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and was appointed by King Lu as the head of the Ministry of War. Due to the disparity in strength, after the Qing army occupied Shaoxing, the remnants of the yellow collar entered Siming Mountain, stationed in the Zhuxi Temple to hold the village, and then because of its subordinates disturbing the people when they went out, the village was destroyed by the mountain people and sneaked at home, and because of the Qing court, they avoided living in Anshan. After the king of Lu, he was promoted to the left deputy capital of the imperial history, and Ruan Mei and Feng Jingdi sent Japanese beggars to cross the sea to Nagasaki Island and Sasma Island, but they did not succeed. Then he returned home and lived in seclusion, and was wanted by the Qing court three times, but still sent a secret letter from King Lu to contact the righteous army in Jinhua and sent people into the sea to report to King Lu that the Qing army was going to attack Zhoushan. In recent years, Qian Qianyi has also been in contact with Huang Duo.

"Since it is the person raised by the old uncle, the minister should ask the prison to use it."

Zhou Shixiang happily stated that these two people will definitely use it in the future. Seeing this, Qian Qianyi was also relieved. During the conversation, Gui Yongzhi was instructed by Zhou Shixiang, suggesting that after the Tang King arrived in Nanjing, he would sacrifice the filial piety tomb and ascend the great treasure, but the Tang King was benevolent and righteous, and he was concerned about the Son of Heaven who was traveling south, and he was afraid that he would not want to bear the burden of the world.

"The big position, the meritorious society is sitting on it, at this time the southern capital is new, it is the time when the king of Tang needs to ascend the great treasure to set people's hearts and inspire people's hearts, how can the king of Tang resign?"

Qian Qianyi had no opinion on supporting Gui and Tang, he knew that the Jiangnan gentry had no opinion on which emperor to support, as long as the Ming Dynasty could be restored, so which descendant of the Zhu family would be the emperor was not an important matter for the Jiangnan gentry.

Qian Qianyi knew that Zhou Shixiang invited the Taifu for him, and he was willing to repay the favor, so he immediately expressed his willingness to invite the Tang King to ascend the throne on behalf of the Jiangnan gentry with his old body.

Seeing that Qian Qianyi agreed, Zhou Shixiang was overjoyed. Said that the weather is freezing now, the old Zongbo is old, he might as well stay in Suzhou for a few days, and he will go back to Nanjing to arrange various matters first, just wait for the Tang King to arrive, and it is not too late for the old Zongbo to go to the southern capital. Qian Qianyi insisted on going to Nanjing with Zhou Shixiang, but as a last resort, Zhou Shixiang had to order someone to install a stove in Qian Qianyi's carriage to protect the old man from the cold. Liu Ru's purpose is to take care of her husband, and she will not stay alone in Suzhou at this time.

Zhou Shixiang originally wanted to leave for Nanjing tomorrow, but the Military Intelligence Department sent a secret report, and Jiang He, who was guarding Jiangxi, heard that the prison was going to Nanjing through Jiangxi, and seemed to want to do something. This news made Zhou Shixiang anxious and angry, because he was worried that Jiang Bald would really do something rebellious, he could only leave for Nanjing immediately.

When the carriage and horses arrived at the city gate, they saw many women crying and crying, which attracted many people to watch.

Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru heard the movement in the carriage, lifted the curtain to see, and didn't know what happened. Liu Ru's heart sank, worried that the Taiping army was taking women captive in the city.

Zhou Shixiang was also strange and ordered someone to ask what happened. The report said that these women were all Suzhou women who were captured by the Qing army, and after the Taiping army released them, they were not allowed to be taken in by their families and expelled them from their homes, so they cried here at the city gate.

Zhou Shixiang frowned slightly, didn't he already order Qiu Guoliang to match the homeless woman with the army as his wife, how could he cry here, and it happened to be Qian Qianyi, didn't he want him to look good.

Zhou Shixiang ordered Qiu Guoliang to call, the other party knew that the handsome car had arrived, and when he saw those women again, he understood what was going on, and he was afraid that the handsome man would punish him, so he hurriedly told the reason.

It turned out that he sent those poor women home according to the instructions of the commander, and yesterday when his home was not in Suzhou, he sent someone to escort them back, and these women were brought back by their families because their homes were in the city of Suzhou, and there was nothing to do in the camp, so they were allowed to be brought back. Unexpectedly, after these women returned home, they did not stay overnight, and they were kicked out of the house by their husbands, and their mothers did not accept them. There is a Xiucai daughter who committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, Xiucai and humanity are loyal to her daughter, and she can't bear to defile the lintel, so she broke off the whole family style, but what the truth of the matter is, no one knows.

"Didn't I ask you to place homeless women in the camp, give them food, and promise to surrender to the army as wives?"

Zhou Shixiang was a little annoyed, and Qiu Guoliang was ineffective, which made him a little ugly in front of Qian Qianyi and his wife.

"The last general did as the commander ordered, but these women refused to marry those soldiers as wives, they would rather die than obey, the last general had no choice, and he couldn't use force on them, so..."

Qiu Guoliang looked embarrassed.

"What can they do without being married to a soldier? Starve to death or to be a prostitute? ”

Zhou Shixiang shook his head, the times have the characteristics of the times, and at this time, women are the appendages of men, and they have no autonomous personal rights like goods. Listen to your father at home and marry your husband, it is to marry a chicken and a dog. Once they are kicked out of their homes, their fate will be miserable, and they do not want to starve to death, so they can only become prostitutes. If you are lucky, you can get a good Samaritan or a nunnery to take you in, but how many people can you accommodate? Therefore, Jiang Guozhu proposed that these women be married to the soldiers, and Zhou Shixiang agreed without much thought, because this is really a good government. In troubled times, human life is like a mustard, to be alive, to have a bite to eat, is not good governance? Only by surviving can we talk about dignity and freedom.

"Go, bring the people back to the camp first, and don't cry here, what will become of you."

Zhou Shixiang was anxious to return to Nanjing, and did not want to delay in this trivial matter. Qiu Guoliang ordered him to lead his troops to pull those women. As a result, the women cried even harder. There was a woman who saw Zhou Shixiang riding on a tall horse from a distance, and there was a carriage again, surrounded by countless soldiers, knowing that the person on the horse was a senior official of the Taiping Army, she was busy crying and breaking free from the soldiers, and ran over.

Seeing this, the blind man Li was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether he should step forward to stop someone. At this moment's hesitation, the woman had already rushed over, kneeling on the cold snow, her clothes were very thin, and her lips were blue from the cold.

"General, the women of the people have been insulted by the beasts, how can you bear to allow me to be the wife of the beasts! ... If the humiliated person is the general's wife and daughter, should the general do the same? (To be continued.) )