Although he was very dissatisfied with the civil officials who were mainly the gentry in Jiangnan, Zhou Shixiang did not deduct their treatment. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Huang Zongxi was the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and according to the rules, he could get a house in Nandu, but he did not live in the house allocated by the imperial court, but always lived in the house that his protégé Wan Sitong bought in Nanjing in his early years. It is located in Chengxian Street, not far from Guozijian and only more than four miles away from Miyagi.

Right now, the houses in Nandu are the cheapest since the Ming Dynasty. After the Taiping army entered the southern capital, the city was bloodied for three days, resulting in the good houses that were originally occupied by the Manchus becoming ownerless houses overnight. Immediately afterwards, the Jinyi pro-army carried out a large-scale case of capture and arrested many nobles who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, resulting in no one caring about the real estate in Sanshan Street, a place where every inch of land was valuable. Therefore, Huang Zongxi just didn't want a residence allocated by the imperial court, and it was not difficult to buy one in the city by himself. At the beginning, the Taifu Qian Qianyi also persuaded him to settle down in Nandu, but Huang Zongxi did not agree and still lived in Wan Sitong's house.

Because of the recent troubles, Huang Zongxi slept very unsteadily and slept late these days. Last night, I didn't sleep all night and wrote an article overnight.

After dawn in the east, Vance came in a hurry, and saw that the teacher had not slept all night, and his eyes were a little dark, and he couldn't help but feel distressed. After he entered the house, he opened the window, and a burst of coolness suddenly lifted Huang Zongxi's spirits.

"Teacher, I just got the news that Yushu's father, Zhang Jiuzheng, has also been arrested and put in prison."

Vance was very worried, the jade book he was talking about was the young imperial historian Zhang Yushu who was arrested by the pro-army on the charge of "captivity" in the Metropolitan Procuratorate a few days ago.

"Zhang Jiuzheng?"

Huang Zongxi was a little surprised when he heard this, because he knew that this Zhang Jiuzheng, this person was a great talent in Zhenjiang in the second year of Shunzhi and a jinshi in the fourth year, but after he was admitted to the jinshi, he had been serving in the officials of the Qing court, and he had not returned to his hometown for more than ten years, and even his son Zhang Yushu had never met him a few times.

"When did he come back, why haven't you heard about it from Yushu?" Huang Zongxi frowned slightly.

"I just got the news, too."

Wan Sitong didn't dare to think deeply, because if Zhang Yushu had known that his father had come back but did not tell him and his teacher, then the charge of "captivity" would be true. After all, Zhang Jiuzheng has served in the Qing court for more than ten years, and when he suddenly comes back, who knows if he really abandoned the Qing Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty, or if he had other plans. If there had been a prior greeting, it would have been a different matter.

At this time, Jiangnan Town was in full swing, digging out a lot of gentry officials who had collusion with the Qing army, and many news that was not known to the people before was transmitted to Nandu, so that now many officials in Nandu are sitting still. Some of them did not collude with the Manchus, but they were afraid that their relatives and friends would be blinded by lard and fornicate with the Tartars. The revolt has expanded, and God knows if it will be connected to itself.

I heard that Wang Shirong, who presided over the Jiangnan Rebellion, had already released cruel words, saying that he would rather kill a thousand wrongs than let go of one. Now not only Jiangnan, but also Nandu is shrouded in terror.

"Is it just the Zhang family? Who else is implicated in this matter? Do you have a number in your heart, if not, it is best to check it in the courtyard first, lest we ourselves be kept in the drum. As the saying goes, the teacher is famous, and the body is not afraid of the shadow, but if our shadow is not right, how can the teacher be famous. ”

Huang Zongxi is most concerned about who else in the Metropolitan Procuratorate may be involved in the "captivity", if he can't even figure out his own situation, it would be really happy and generous. He didn't want to be driven by Gu Yanwu, who was driven to Niushou Mountain outside the city, in front of him arrogantly, scolding him that the Metropolitan Procuratorate was a traitor villain.

"Zeng Guolin and Woodjie, I'm afraid there are also problems." Vance Tong sighed, "But I heard that they were righteous enough, and Fanzi tortured them, but they insisted on not confessing, so Fanzi painted a portrait and sent it to Xu Dading to see, and Xu Dading said that he had indeed seen them." ”

"Fanzi" is the name of the Dongchang eagle dog by the former officials, but now it has become the synonym of those brocade guards in Nanzhen. In the eyes of officials, what the internal guards of Nanzhen did was no different from that of Dongchang back then, and even surpassed it.

Zeng Guolin and Wu Dejie were taken away by the pro-army three days ago, the former was brought by Huang Zongxi from Zhejiang, and the latter was a young and promising person who participated in Enke last year and ranked second. That Xu Dading was in charge of the military department, and he was arrested by the pro-army as early as a month ago.

I heard that Xu Dading was bribed by Nalan Mingzhu, a first-class guard of the Qing court, with a lot of money, and used his identity in the military department to secretly pass on military information to Mingzhu, and secretly recruited many officials who complained about the Taiping Army in Nanjing. This matter has been confirmed by Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Huang Zongxi does not believe in others, and always trusts Zhang Cangshui.

"This Xu Dading is really damaging to the yin, why should he harm others if he doesn't save himself." Huang Zongxi took a sip of tea and said: "Zeng Dinglao's son finally got a lifter, and when the Tartar army arrived in Fujian, he provided a lot of news. Now that his son has been arrested for being involved in the captivity, I really don't know how to explain to Zeng Dinglao. ”

Zeng Dinglao is a famous man in Zhejiang, Huang Zongxi received a lot of funding from him in his early years, when he was invited by Qian Qianyi to come to Nanjing, Huang Zongxi deliberately took Zeng Dinglao's son Zeng Guolin with him, originally wanted to bring the son of the deceased, but did not want this Zeng Guolin to get together with Xu Dading, it was really harmful to others and himself.

Vance hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Can you still live?" ”

"Difficult!" Huang Zongxi shook his head, "King Qi's side is ruthless in investigating the captives, if Zeng Guolin is really a captive, it would be good to be exiled to Annan." ”

What is the difference between exile and execution?

Vance was very sad and regretful, and hesitated: "Do I go to Nanzhen in person?" If you can dredge it, dredge it and strive for a lighter treatment?"

"What's the use of you going?" Huang Zongxi said indignantly: "Those fans, even Your Majesty doesn't care about them, will they still care about you and me?" Besides, can this kind of thing be dredged? Don't dredge up, but put yourself in it. ”

Vance was silent after hearing this, knowing that what the teacher said was good, if he impulsively went to Nanzhen to dredge, he was afraid that not only could not save people, but would also put himself, and even the teacher, into it. After all, now the Zhou Party is staring at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, wishing that the teacher would have some trick to be caught by them.

Moments later, Vance handed a letter to the teacher.

"Whose faith?" Huang Zongxi took the letter, opened it, and said in a lost voice: "Huang Wu?!" ”

Vance nodded and said in a low voice, "Huang Wu wants to ask the teacher to set up a line for him." ”

"What's the matter, his Haicheng Gong of the Great Qing Dynasty thinks that the ship of the Great Qing Dynasty is about to sink?" Huang Zongxi smiled coldly: "Back then, he jumped on the ship of the Qing Dynasty by himself, and now the boat is about to sink, does he think he can jump out and seek peace?" ”

Vance smiled bitterly, if it weren't for Huang Wu who saved his life when he was an errand boy in Pinghe County, he would not have agreed to transfer the letter to the teacher on his behalf, and asked the teacher to come forward to guarantee the court on his behalf.

"How could this man want to write to me and beg me to come forward?"

Huang Zongxi was a little puzzled, as far as he knew, Huang Wu betrayed Zheng Sen and surrendered to the Qing court, which led to Zheng Sen investing countless manpower and material resources to build the Haicheng Heavy Fort in the hands of the Qing court, and caused the Zheng army to lose millions of ordnance and food, and even Jinxia lost the most important gateway stronghold on the periphery.

Because of this merit, the Qing court named Huang Wu as "Haicheng Gong", gave him an edict, and opened Zhangzhou. In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court posthumously crowned Huang Wuzu and gave gold to build an ancestral hall in his hometown Xiaoling. For the "honor" given by the Qing court, Huang Wu also felt the grace of the new master, and devoted himself to serving the Qing court and made many military exploits.

Now, this Huang Wu suddenly handed a letter to himself saying that he wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty, which could not help but surprise Huang Zongxi. Because according to common sense, Huang Wu should directly submit the surrender table to Zhou Shixiang, the king of Qi, and lead the crowd to surrender, instead of looking for him, the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate with no name and power.

"Teacher, don't forget about the Zheng family, I'm afraid they don't want to see Huang Wu come over anyway."

After being reminded by Wan Sitong, Huang Zongxi finally understood that Huang Wu had caused the Zheng family to suffer such a big loss, and now the Zheng family's army has been absorbed by the King of Qi, Zheng Sen's younger brother Zheng Zhi inherited the title of Prince of Min, and eighty percent of the Taiping Army's sailor strength was adapted from the Zheng family's sailor. The uncle and nephew of Zheng Mingjun, the Duke of Dinghai, led the sailors to the north, and it was really difficult for Huang Wu to surrender. If it was because of the Zheng family that the King of Qi did not accept Huang Wu's surrender, then this person could only sink with the Manchu ship. But if the Nandu side is ordered by the emperor to directly accept his surrender, then even if the Zheng family is dissatisfied, they can't go against the emperor's will.

"I will explain this matter for him and His Majesty."

Huang Zongxi thought about it, although he was very ashamed of Huang Wu's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but he thought that this person was now the governor of Shandong in the Qing court after all, and one side supervised and appeased the important ministers, if he Huang Zongxi could come forward to recruit him, it would be of great benefit to both public and private.

Thinking of this, Huang Zongxi asked Vance to write a reply letter to Huang Wu to express his attitude. Vance was polishing ink in the teacher's room, and when he was about to write, he saw an article on his desk whose ink had not yet completely dried.

""Yuan Jun"?"

Vance was curious and looked carefully, but the opening words of this "Yuan Jun" made him stunned.

"The ancients took the world as the mainstay, the king as the guest, and the ruler of the world as the operator, for the world."

Vance looked at the teacher with a puzzled expression: "Teacher, this Yuanjun?" ”

"I wrote it last night." Huang Zongxi walked to the table, picked up "Yuan Jun", blew it gently, and then said: "I've been thinking about what the ancients set up monarchs for. Thinking about it, the ancient monarch was established in order to make the world benefit from it and relieve the world from its harm, not to set up a monarch for the sake of setting up a monarch. This is the monarch, and in the eyes of the teacher, he must bear the responsibility of suppressing private interests and promoting public interests. Therefore, I intend that the monarch is a public servant of the world. ”