If you encounter a pirate in the sea, it is a dead end, even if the pirate is kind, does not take the initiative to execute, and puts people on a desert island, sooner or later it will be a death.

Tian Chang has been enjoying happiness for more than ten years, even if he travels back and forth, there are always people sent by the local government to escort him, so he has never experienced this kind of thing. As soon as he saw the warship, his soul flew out of the sky. Zhang Pu went through some things, but he was not in a hurry, but pulled a sailor who passed by: "Are those ships hostile?" ”

"How can there be hostility, it's our own ship!" The sailor smiled and said, "If it is a pirate, the alarm bell will ring on the ship, and there will be sailors to guide you to take refuge, so you can rest assured." ”

"Own ship? When did Daming have such a warship......" Tian Chang muttered, his eyes a little strange.

Originally, the Penglai made him feel that he had to re-examine the mission of his trip, and the three battleships made him even more uneasy.

The three warships quickly approached the Penglai, and then sandwiched the Penglai in the middle in the shape of a "pin". Behind it, there were four large ships with fewer guns, which looked somewhat similar to the "Pillow Xia". Zhang Pu was relieved and could specifically appreciate this rare battleship escort situation. After looking at it for a while, he put a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose so that he could see more clearly.

"Haha, Tianru's glasses are pretty good." Tian Chang looked at him and said with a smile.

This kind of steel wire amber glasses can be sold for fifty taels of silver on the market, and they are still grabbed! Scholars, especially those who are well-known, will immediately be applied, and fifty taels of silver will only have a slight toothache for them, and it may even be just the money that will be spent to ask a few famous people to play tea circles. And with the glasses, their originally dim eyes became bright again.

Zhang Pu smiled slightly: "This is specially made by Hoi An glasses and given by my friend Wan Shihua." ”

"Wan Shihua who hates the article? But I haven't heard of him for some time, isn't he in Jiangxi? ”

Tian Chang is no stranger to Wan Shihua's name, Tian Fu has a wide range of travel, and many scholars have taken refuge under him. Zhang Pu smiled and shook his head: "It's long gone, when Chongzhen was nine years old, he was recommended by Fang Mizhi and went to Nanhai Bo." ”

"Oh......" Tian Chang's eyes flickered: "Tianru is familiar with Nanhaibo?" ”

"It's familiar...... Hey? ”

Before Zhang Pu finished answering, he was shocked. Because he saw a figure from a distance, it was more familiar, and it seemed to be Yu Guozhen!

In Zhang Pu's mind, since Yu Guozhen was made an earl, he should not leave his fiefdom Hoi An, and at most he could only go to Qin'zhou. Only in this way can he conform to the imperial court's etiquette, but now that Yu Guozhen has appeared in the vast sea, where is he going to make trouble?

Over there, Yu Guozhen put down the binoculars and was also a little surprised: "How could Zhang Tianru be on the Penglai?" ”

Following Yu Guozhen was Mao Yuanyi, and Yu Dahai was also there, neither of them was familiar with Zhang Pu, especially Yu Dahai, who had no impression of this person at all, but Mao Yuanyi asked: "That Zhang Tianru of the Restoration Society?" ”

"It's him."

"I want to go to Qin' Prefecture to see the excitement, and this year, there are many people who go to Qin' Prefecture to see it." Mao Yuanyi said with a smile: "Nanhaibo himself may not think so, but in the eyes of others, we are ...... Xinxiang."

is different from when he first joined Xinxiang more than half a year ago, and now Mao Yuanyi has been polished, and he no longer wants to ascend to the sky in one step and lead military affairs in Xinxiang, but honestly provides staff for Yu Guozhen. After he straightened his mind, his acceptance of Xinxiang accelerated at an unprecedented speed, and now, it has only been ten months, and he can already be used to calling "our Xinxiang".

Yu Guozhen smiled dumbly, and then said slowly: "Mr. An Min doesn't know this Mr. Zhang Tianru...... Does Mr. An Min remember my article "From Ass to Head" in Xinxiang Academic? ”

At the mention of this article, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help laughing: "Uncle's article, to be honest, my subordinates feel that it is too mean and not the way to be lenient. ”

"It's not mean enough to be moving...... In a way, I'm also grandstanding. ”

Xinxiang Academic is a magazine published only in Xinxiang, Hoi An, Yicheng and Xinhang, and it is oriented to the growing number of literati-intellectuals in Xinxiang. There are two main sources of these people, one is that Xinxiang cultivated them himself, for example, Jiang Youzhong was completely taught by Yu Guozhen; The second is the old literati who invested in the Xinxiang system, such as Song Yingxing, Mao Yuanyi, Zhang Chi, etc. Among them, there are more old literati and fewer new literati, so how to transform the old literati has become a big problem.

Yu Guozhen hoped to recruit some enlightened old literati to participate in the construction of Xinxiang, which would save a lot of time, but at the same time, he also maintained a great vigilance against these old literati, he wanted to reform the old literati, not let his students be reformed by the old literati.

Therefore, there was a call for "Xinxiang Academic" and literati to go to the front line of production and combat.

In January of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the inaugural issue of "Xinxiang Academic" was issued, which was completely written in the vernacular, the first article was "What is the Duty of the Literati", in this article, Yu Guozhen started from the pre-Qin period, pointed out the significance of the Chinese literati to the Chinese civilization, which inevitably praised Confucius's educational concept of "education without class" and the teaching practice of private learning, liberating culture from the patents of the aristocratic descendants, so that ordinary people can also learn culture. However, Yu Guozhen immediately believed that Confucius's emancipation of culture was not thorough enough, and later literati did not dare to go further on his foundation, which made later generations of literati trapped in his circle and unable to have a fundamental understanding of the literati's vocation.

The person closest to a breakthrough is Zhang Zai, who said that the duty of the literati is to "establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations", but his understanding is still somewhat deviated, and he still reads the literati out of the "living people" and even overrides the living people.

Yu Guozhen clearly specified in this article: literati are from the people, they are a member of the people, and what the literati do is heaven and earth, for the people, for the past life, and for peace.

The duty of the literati is to serve the people and to serve the people, and if they do not, they will deviate from the right path, and they will turn culture into a memorable woman for a few people.

As soon as this article came out, it immediately set off an uproar among the old and new literati, for a long time, "everything is inferior, only reading is high", but in Yu Guozhen's article, the reader is a public servant who wants to serve all kinds of inferiority, isn't this an inversion?

A big controversy began in Xinxiang, but Jiang Youzhong and the new literati did not participate, but the old literati split first. Some scholars who felt humiliated even publicly refuted Yu Guozhen, and those who supported Yu Guozhen were not far behind, among them, Zhang Chi, Mao Yuanyi, Song Yingxing, etc. took the initiative to respond to the battle, and they all understood that it was time to make their position clear to Yu Guozhen, and what Yu Guozhen said was in line with the idea of "the people are precious" since Mencius. The two sides quoted scriptures, from Yu Guozhen's words to Confucianism and Taoism, and at this moment, Xu Hongzu Xu Xiake, who came back from the investigation, said a word that made everyone realize a consensus.

"Heaven listens to its own people, and heaven sees itself and the people see it." The original words from the "Book of Shang" are like a mountain, smashing the views of those who think that those who read should be nobler than other people.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Guozhen released the second bomb: "From Ass to Head".

In this article, Yu Guozhen proposed that when looking at characters, whether they are historical figures or real figures, we must use the essence analysis method, that is, what a person does is inseparable from its essence, that is, which side his ass sits on will determine what kind of thoughts he has.

At this time, Xinxiang medicine is Dachang, and the medical view that the heart is the source of blood and the brain is the source of wisdom has been popularized, so everyone understands Yu Guozhen's meaning, that is, the relationship between position and thought.

Yu Guozhen said sharply that the old literati were buttocks to decide their heads, and he even publicly denounced the so-called clear stream in history, most of which were those who sacrificed the interests of others to protect their own interests, among which today's Donglin is the most prosperous. For example, the biggest crisis in the current imperial court is not the rogues and prisoners, but the financial crisis. At present, the only way to solve the financial crisis is to collect business taxes, but Donglin is vigorously opposed to this, for no other reason, the core class of Donglin represents the interests of the merchants and gentry on the southeast coast. Therefore, even though they knew that if they did not solve the financial crisis, the imperial court would go out of control, but they still did so.

Therefore, in order to protect their own selfish interests, they can support warlords like Liu Zeqing and Zuo Liangyu today, and they can support barbarians like Jianyu today.

The more these people care about the world's affairs, the more messy the world's affairs become. If necessary, they could even say that the imperial court did not need to ensure sufficient arable land, that there was no need for toilets in the houses of ordinary people, and that it was necessary to rule Jianyu for three hundred years to solve the crisis in China.

Therefore, Yu Guozhen proposed that under the rule of Xinxiang, it is necessary to educate new literati, reject old literati, cultivate new Chinese studies, and transform old Confucianism. And to do this, especially if the old literati want to become the new literati, they must put themselves in the middle of the people, really go to the grassroots frontline, and see the most ordinary craftsmen, farmers, soldiers, what they are thinking, what they are doing, what they need, what they dislike.

Only in this way can you let your head decide the ass.

On the contrary, Wan Shihua was the first to propose that he should go to Xinhang to teach the farmers who had cultivated on the front line to read and write, and immediately afterwards, all the old scholars in Xinxiang applied one after another to enter the front line of the grassroots -- many of them did not really want to respond to Yu Guozhen's call, but wanted to find a basis to refute Yu Guozhen at the grassroots level.

To a certain extent, through these two articles, Yu Guozhen unified the thinking of various places under Xinxiang's rule as never before.

"Nanhai Bo is planning far, at this time Zhang Pu comes, will it ...... What's wrong? Mao Yuanyi asked again.

Yu Guozhen's two articles unifying Xinxiang's thoughts were obviously to start an ideological rush with Donglin and other old Confucianists, and Mao Yuanyi even judged that Yu Guozhen's two articles were published in "Xinxiang Academic" just to test their voices on "Storm Collection". He could even imagine what kind of impact Yu Guozhen would have on the old Confucianism represented by Donglin if he published these two articles in the "Storm Collection".

This is a struggle over Taoism, and it is even stronger than the dispute over social and social systems -- because this is to dig up the roots of Donglin and other old Confucianism.

This worries him, and now is not the time for a full-scale declaration of war.

"Zhang Tianru is actually very interesting...... Hey, what kind of ship is that? Yu Guozhen frowned suddenly, because just to the south, a row of at least six warships appeared on the sea!

"Gu San Mazi's remnants?" Mao Yuanyi asked.

"It shouldn't be, even if Gu San Mazi still has a remnant party, he won't dare to come out at this time." Yu Guozhen said lightly.

Gu San Mazi was originally a big pirate when he was rampant in the Zhoushan Islands, and he tried to rob Xinxiang's sea ships several times, but the new and new sea ships of Xinxiang were fast, and they couldn't catch up, and the old Fu ships were always escorted by gunboats, so they never succeeded, but for Xinxiang who needed to stabilize the route, he was still a big threat, so Yu Guozhen went to his lair this time to "visit" once.

"Then there is only one possibility, the Zheng family." Mao Yuanyi said calmly.

The Zheng family had a very good relationship with Yu Guozhen for two years, and Yu Guozhen spent a lot of silver to entrust them with helping to transport the population. But with the development of Xinxiang's own shipbuilding industry, now Xinxiang no longer looks down on the Zheng family's ships, especially Xinxiang's warships are launched one by one, which makes the Zheng family begin to realize that their dominance in the East China Sea is threatened. From December of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Xinxiang directly intervened in the Shimabara Rebellion of the Wa Kingdom in order to play the naval army, and helped Amakusa Shiro Tokisada defeat the local lords, causing the Wakoku Kyushu Island to fall into chaos, and the port of Hirado (Nagasaki) fell into the hands of Amakusa Shiro Shizhen, and directly traded with the Yi Port, which bypassed the restriction that Shinxiang was not allowed to trade directly with the Wa State. All kinds of changes made the Zheng family change their attitude towards Xinxiang.

It's just that there is still a temporary peace.

And the ship that appeared in front of them at this time was indeed the Zheng family's new war construction. After feeling the threat of Xinxiang, Zheng Zhilong hired Western shipwrights to start building warships, but compared with the productivity stimulated by Xinxiang's organizational model, the shipbuilding speed of the old-fashioned shipyard was really incomparable.

One of the largest warships, which also imitates the appearance of Western-style warships, is the new warship of the Zhengjia Shipyard.

Shi Fu was on this ship, looking at the three warships guarding the Penglai, and his face became extremely ugly: "Didn't you say...... Penglai is not escorted by a ship, could it be that the news has leaked? ”

"Who knows......" Zheng Cai also said indignantly.

Both of them were well-versed in water warfare and knew what it meant to be on a warship at sea. The big ship they were on was one size smaller than the smallest of the three escort ships, and the largest ship on the other side, with twenty-four guns on one side, was by no means something they could match with firepower.

"The big ship...... Do you see it, it's the Admiral Huaqing. Shi Fu said again: "Tut, it's really a good ship, I don't know how Yu Guozhen got it." ”

"The silver is smashed out, and such a ship will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

Saying this, the two smiled bitterly again, they originally wanted to make a vote and strike at Xinxiang, but the other party had a battleship to escort it, and this purpose could not be achieved.

Not only can it not be reached, but it is ...... At this time, I have already taken a photo, and if I turn around and leave, I am afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of the other party.

(To be continued)