Jinling City was lively in a short period of time.

The ancient capital had been shrouded in a certain haze of unease for years, and it was not until five days ago, when Yu Guozhen led the Huaxia army into it, that this haze dissipated - there were no legendary street fights, and no one even committed suicide for the Ming Dynasty. After the unification plan was promulgated five years ago, everyone was prepared for this moment, so when the day came, what should have been done had already been done.

Huang Zongxi walked down the long street angrily, and in order to show his disgust with Yu Guozhen, he didn't even take the tricycle that could have greatly saved his leg strength. It seems that this choice can be like the two Yin Shang sons who starved to death without eating Zhou Su, so that their integrity can be passed down through the ages.

But he knew that if he didn't do anything, his integrity would simply not be able to be passed down through the ages.

In the crowd behind him, there was no doubt that there were spies sent by Yu Guozhen, and Huang Zongxi knew that Yu Guozhen had such an organization in his hands, just like Daming had factory guards. It's just that Yu Guozhen's spies only have the power to reconnoitre, but they don't have the power to arrest people—only the Arrest Office has this power.

"Yu Guozhen is really smart, compared with the one-man man and thief in ancient times, he is more treacherous, and he even knows how to decentralize power...... But to restrain the imperial power, of course, should be the power of the scholars, to be virtuous and virtuous, to serve the Son of Heaven with direct ministers, this is the principle of balance, a good emperor, don't care about anything, as long as you stay in your own harem and be responsible for giving birth to children, it will become, and the major affairs of the country will be handed over to the scholars......"

Others think that the contradiction between Huang Zongxi and Yu Guozhen is that Yu Guozhen despises Donglin, and Huang Zongxian's father is one of the six gentlemen of Donglin. Only Huang Zongxi himself knows. The fundamental reason for his hostility to Yu Guozhen lies in the difference in the governance concepts of the two.

Yu Guozhen was reluctant to hand over power to Shilin, represented by Donglin, and Huang Zongxi already had the idea of "non-monarch" at this time: he believed that the emperor was the root of all evil in the world, and it was really worthless to use the wealth of men and women in the world for his own pleasure.

"Something has to be done, but before that, we have to flick the tail behind us." Huang Zongxi thought.

He walked down the street. Seeing that the streets on both sides of the market began to be lit up, my heart became more and more unhappy. These were prepared for Yu Guozhen's enthronement ceremony five days later, and it is said that it will be very lively. In the past two days, people and materials have been brought from Shanghai one after another. The world has not yet been decided, and the wind of extravagance has risen, and Yu Guozhen is certainly eloquent. But after all, he couldn't jump out of the circle of the emperor.

Before coming to a store selling ready-to-wear clothes, Huang Zongxi pretended to be checking the clothes, and observed the "tail" behind him with the help of the dressing mirror in the store, and found that several suspicious characters passed by directly and did not stop.

"It's cunning, Yu Guozhen is called a fish essence, yes, it's the shrimp soldiers and crab generals at the bottom, and it's like this one by one!"

Huang Zongxi did not take it lightly because he had not seen the follower, and he asked the shopkeeper. only called the abdomen anxious, begging for a thatched house. The shopkeeper was kind, and not only led him through the back door, but also led him to the hut, which was extraordinary. It is a flushing pit built in the style of Xinxiang.

"Hey, even this side has been built into a flushing squatting pit?" This was beyond Huang Zongxi's expectations, and he couldn't help but ask.

"That's natural, everyone said, Commander Yu sits in the world, and our Jinling is still the best place. If you get a stinking smell, I'm afraid that the new court will not like it. The shopkeeper laughed: "Anyway, it is better to change it late, so as not to change it when you get it, and the price of labor will rise." This style of thatched hut is not something that a small mason can make......"

He babbled about a thatched house, but Huang Zongxi was almost constipated when he heard it, because he came to take the opportunity to slip away, but not to admire the thatched house, but the boss was guarding the door of the thatched house, how could he get out?

"I heard that Xinxiang uses tap water, and uses galvanized iron pipes to send water, presumably Commander Yu has sat down steadily, and we Jinling will also change this kind of tap water, tsk, I don't know how the water came from, unlike now I have to put a bucket and a scoop in the thatched house......"

"This, boss, aren't you going to the front to watch the business?" Huang Zongxi said with a bitter face.

"No need, there will be no business today, everyone is busy preparing for the enthronement ceremony in five days, it is said that all countries come to the court, and even any Bo Ni country on the other side of the South China Sea has a special envoy to come."

This boss was too talkative, Huang Zongxi had to say: "Boss, but you are in front of here, I think it's weird, it's really ...... It's really convenient. ”

"Oh, I forgot about this, sir, you look like a Sven who reads, and the people who read eat and drink Lazar are different from us rough people, hahahaha......"

Hearing the boss's kind ridicule, Huang Zongxi felt a little unhappy in his heart, and couldn't help but stab: "You just said about Yu Guozhen, aren't you afraid that someone will report to the official and say that you are good at talking about the country?" ”

"Now it's not the Ming Dynasty that doesn't talk about the country, it's now Huaxia, Huaxia!"

The issue of the new country name has caused a lot of controversy in various places, which is also one of the issues that Huang Zongxi is dissatisfied with Yu Guozhen. Yu Guozhen vetoed all the country names that were quoted from Confucianism, what "Great Chu", what "Great Tang", Chu as the national name is because the revitalization of Yu Guo started in the south, and Tang as the national name is because Ming is the fire virtue and replacing fire with water should be Tang Yao's surname. He named the country "Huaxia", and at the beginning, everyone was still a little uncomfortable with the name of the two words, but now, even the people who have just been included in the land under the rule of Huaxia can also say this name very smoothly.

"What about Huaxia, since ancient times, emperors have changed soup but not medicine."

"Naturally, it's different, but I've been to Shanghai, and the people there are not very taboo when they talk about national affairs, and the government never cares."

It must be admitted that under Yu Guozhen's rule, considerable freedom of speech was granted. Ordinary people are not only not forbidden to talk about state affairs in private, but sometimes they are deliberately guided in the newspapers. From this point of view, Yu Guozhen's "Huaxia" is much more enlightened than the Ming Dynasty, but Huang Zongxi is still dissatisfied: it should be Confucianism and Shilin who are allowed to discuss the country. It should be these Qingliu who were originally united on the weekend side of the southern capital, as for the small shop owners, it is already a great grace to let their children go to school, and they still want to talk about the country?

But he couldn't tell the shopkeeper to his face.

"In Shanghai, I heard an interesting saying, that is, some people in the Confucian forest said that only the wise can discuss state affairs. The world's major events are not enough for mediocrity to talk about, and they claim to uphold a public spirit. Therefore, it is also known as 'public wisdom'. However, some people say that they have held the authority of the court all these years, and colluded with the top and bottom to bully the king and harm the people, which is not public wisdom at all. It's a public hemorrhoid—the hemorrhoids of the father-in-law are also ......"

"Shut up!"

"Ah, haha, it's me who lost my words, haha......" When the shopkeeper heard Huang Zongxi angry in the thatched house, he suddenly understood in his heart that this gentleman was only afraid that he was also a member of the public wisdom, and he couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, he was just the owner of a small shop, and he couldn't compete with others for such a thing, so he just watched coldly. So he confessed his guilt and finally ran to the store.

Huang Zongxi squatted on the squatting pit, closed his eyes and exhaled painfully—after squatting for a long time, his hemorrhoids were really a little guilty.

He had heard this ridicule, and the person who brought it was none other than him. It was Xia Yunyi. Xia Yunyi heard it from Yan Yingyuan's mouth again, and Yan Yingyuan said that the first person to evaluate these Qingliu as "public hemorrhoids" was not someone else, it was Chongzhen.

Chongzhen now puts all the hatred of losing the country on Rulin, for Yu Guozhen. He could see it: Yu Guozhen didn't have the slightest place to deal with him, on the contrary, he was suspicious of Yu Guozhen step by step. Now that he thinks about it, the reason why he was suspicious of Yu Guozhen at the beginning seems to have a lot to do with Confucianism in the DPRK.

"The hearts of the people, the hearts of the people, Yu Guozhen will bewitch the people, these fools don't know the benefits of a single husband and a thief for a while, and they want to exchange two hundred years as slaves and maids...... So far, only by using more drastic means can we arouse the hearts of the people and let the people see through the true face of Yu Guozhen's fake benevolent and honest husband! ”

Huang Zongxi thought so in his heart.

He went out of the back door of the hut, and thought that the tails that followed him had been thrown off, so he hurried through the streets and alleys, and after three more times, he came to the river, and then he summoned a small boat to carry him to the old courtyard.

The old courtyard was more lively than in the past, because of Yu Guozhen's enthronement ceremony, many people came from all over the world to watch the ceremony and congratulate them, and the most of them were members of Yu Guozhen's Huaxia Military Strategy Committee. Huang Zongxi wore a leather hat and half-covered his face, and when he saw those radiant members of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee, he felt a wave of disgust in his heart.

The power of the world is in the hands of these people, in the hands of these people who can't recite poetry and lyrics and don't learn the Confucian classics!

Huang Zongxi can still tolerate this, and the most unbearable thing is that in this feast of dividing power, Donglin, whom he respects the most, is just a spectator!

He naturally has his own sources and knows how Yu Guozhen will arrange the original small court of Jinling after he ascends the throne. Like Qian Qianyi, Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying, etc., will be honored, that is, given a good name, but without any real power, provide corresponding salaries every year, it is said that this honorable institution is called the "Ming History Compilation Institute", and the rest of the officials, big and small, will receive a salary equivalent to the past three years, and then send back to their hometowns.

Based on Huang Zongxi's understanding of Yu Guozhen, it is not easy to receive the salary in the past three years, and if the audit team sent by Yu Guozhen finds that he has committed corruption, he is afraid that he will have to recover the stolen goods. As a result, many officials are now desperately selling antique jewelry, hoping to fill the deficit before the audit team moves in.

In this way, Yu Guozhen's three-year salary to send officials back to their hometowns not only does not lose money, but I am afraid that he can make a small profit.

Of course, if there are those who are interested in continuing to serve as officials, Yu Guozhen will not refuse them all, and those who are younger and willing to learn new things, Yu Guozhen will arrange them into the so-called "reserve official training class" for training and then take up the post.

Huang Zongxi can see at a glance that Yu Guozhen is dividing and disintegrating and delaying time, this refresher class claims to be able to study for free for three years, and after three years, they will be appointed according to their grades, but with Huang Zongxi's understanding of Yu Guozhen, I am afraid that the final appointment is only some less important deputy positions, and even get the local chronicles compilation department to compile local chronicles!

All in all, Yu Guozhen is too cunning, and it is imperative to use some drastic means to wake up the world's scholars!

Thinking of this, Huang Zongxi's determination was finally made. (To be continued)