No matter how frightened and scolded the ministers on the city wall of Nanjing, no matter how bitterly Li Sancai pleaded, Lu Yan never changed his plan to attack Nanjing.

He took his generals and guards to the foot of the Purple Mountain in later generations, where Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was buried.

Seeing this, both Li Sancai and Wei Guangwei felt their legs tremble.

Even if you plan to attack Nanjing City, do you still plan to attack the Imperial Tomb?

If Taizu's imperial tomb is knocked down, then the sky will fall.

So Li Sancai hurriedly asked, "King Qin, are you planning to attack the imperial tomb?" ”

Lu Yan shook his head, "Emperor Taizu is a true hero, he is the person I admire the most, how could I attack his mausoleum." ”

Li Sancai and Wei Guangwei were stunned for a moment, and then looked at Lu Yan with a strange expression, it was hard to imagine that such words came from the mouth of an anti-thief.

Lu Yan sighed, there has always been a saying in later generations, that is, since ancient times, no one can surpass Zhu Yuanzhang, that is because Zhu Yuanzhang rescued the Han people from the hands of foreign races.

Although after a large number of smears by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was scandalized in various ways.

But this absolutely can't cover up Zhu Yuanzhang's various exploits to the Han people.

If he could, he would like to go up the mountain to offer Zhu Yuanzhang incense, but I'm afraid that those guards on the mountain will not welcome him.

"Aren't you going back to Nanjing? I can let my soldiers let you in. ”

Lu Yan said to Li Sancai and Wei Guangwei with a slight evil smile.

Li Sancai and Wei Guangwei's faces turned red, and then they quickly shook their heads.

Lu Yan's army will soon launch an attack on Nanjing City, how can they be willing to return to Nanjing City.

If the city of Nanjing was defeated by him, maybe they would not die in the chaos.

So Li Sancai said: "No, we plan to stay here and persuade King Qin that you can negotiate peace with the imperial court." ”

At this time, Li Sancai didn't talk about appeasement, and it would be a joke to say that appeasement at this time.

Lu Yan didn't bother to take care of them. Let them follow him.

If they dared to be verbose, he would never mind driving them back to Nanjing.

During this period, Li Sancai also raised another matter.

That is, there are hundreds of Donglin Party teachers and students imprisoned in the Wuxi prison. Li Sancai hoped that he would be able to spare these teachers and students.

Lu Yan felt very embarrassed by this.

Since ancient times, especially people have been a very special group.

From the Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the literati were the ruling class of the whole of China and enjoyed supreme status.

Although it is said that the imperial family is the ruler of China, in fact, it has always been the literati group who rule China.

Although they have done some evil deeds, they have also created a brilliant transformation.

For example, Tang poetry, Song poetry, almost all achievements in terms of aspects were created by this group.

Even the scholars who improved some firearms in the late Ming Dynasty were involved, the most typical being Sun Yuanhua.

For chemicalization. Several countries around China are adored from the heart.

For example, the Kingdom of Wu admires the culture of the Tang Dynasty very much, and also likes the Three Kingdoms very much, and the Three Kingdoms game is made all over the world by them, and even the Chinese may not have the Japanese to understand the Three Kingdoms.

The dynasty also claimed to have inherited the culture of the Ming Dynasty, and for the Ming Dynasty, judging from the historical records of North Korea, they all worshiped from the heart, and the Ming Dynasty was often called the state of the parents, without the slightest falsification.

At the same time, they are full of contempt for the present, because they believe that China has destroyed its own culture with its own hands.

Because many people have not even read the Four Books and the Five Classics, they not only do not know about Hua. On the contrary, they will only follow the trend and blindly smear it, thinking that this is feudal dross.

Many of these people only know Zi Yue and some Tang and Song poems, and even only know some of the four famous works. I think that's what it's all about.

But I don't know that in the eyes of orthodox scholars, whether it is poetry or it, it is just a small way.

The poems are okay, they can be called a part of Hua, and some of them are very good, such as "Song of Righteousness", "Man Jianghong" and so on, which have very important educational significance.

But now Wen Tianxiang and Yue Fei have been expelled from the ranks of national heroes, so they can only make outsiders despised.

The four famous works that were praised as holy scriptures by later generations were in the eyes of those traditional scholars. It's simply something that can't even be put on the table, at most it can only be regarded as a pastime reading.

Some even count as readings. can only be regarded as an obscene song.

To treat these as Huahua is completely an insult to Hua.

The essence of the transformation should be the Four Books and Five Classics. Zhuzi Baijia, "Caigen Tan", Wang Yangming's psychology, these things that are enough to start a sect can really be regarded as excellent.

It's a pity that for various reasons, these things have been deliberately forgotten, and the four famous books have become symbols of transformation, which is really ridiculous, sad and lamentable.

As for why Hua is understood to be like this, of course, there is a very complex background behind the matter.

Moreover, because the literati were in charge of the history books, many of which were recorded by the literati, and some of their works would be used by later generations as historical materials to study the time, so the literati group was always taboo by the rulers.

Some rulers always like to flatter, do not tolerate a bad word, and often kill those literati who scold them, and even those who miss the old dynasty.

There are also rulers who have done some bad things and don't like these things, which are recorded in the history books.

As a result, the literati were smeared, suppressed, persecuted, and even killed, with all kinds of tricks on the surface, and dark tricks that could not be put on the table, almost one move after another.

If they could, they would hate to wipe out the group completely.

It can be said that the literati are definitely a group of calamities and hardships.

But Lu Yan knew that if he wanted to govern the country in this era, he had to rely on the group of literati.

Because this is an era of underdeveloped productive forces, it is impossible for everyone to be literate.

If you want to engage in the people's dictatorship here, and then find an illiterate peasant or worker to be the county magistrate, then what I want to say is that you are a bastard at all.

I can't even understand the situation, how do you decide the case, it's not at the mercy of those slippery officials.

Everything must be in line with the characteristics of the times at that time. You can't emancipate slaves in the Han Dynasty like Wang Mang, which can only make future generations laugh.

Therefore, Lu Yan did not intend to offend the literati group too much, on the contrary, he still continued to reuse literati like the Ming Dynasty.

But they kept discrediting his army when Lü Yan's army occupied Wuxi. This made Lu Yan feel intolerable.

In fact, Lu Yan thought that those armies were doing the right thing, and that stability was indeed overwhelming when they first occupied a city.

Anyone who dares to try to stir up trouble at this time should be wiped out by thunder.

Those Donglin Party thought they had a high prestige among the people. You can casually smear his army, which is absolutely unacceptable to Lu Yan.

But killing them was too severe, so Lu Yan simply decided to be out of sight and out of mind.

first sent all of them to Taiwan, and then to Nanyang, cutting off their career in this life, presumably able to make them regret it for the rest of their lives.

As long as they are not killed, the history books will not write much about him.

After learning of Lu Yan's decision, Li Sancai simply felt like five thunderbolts.

How could he do this to the scholars?

They are all loyal supporters of the Donglin Party. Those who will enter the court as officials in the future.

So he advised Lu Yan one after another, thinking that he should be lenient with scholars, and only in this way could he be a benevolent gentleman.

But where will Lu Yan from later generations be deceived by these little tricks.

There is a limit to leniency, and extraordinary things should be done in extraordinary times.

Now is the time to conquer the world, and this is not the time to pay attention to the law.

If you are lenient with those who have different intentions at this time, you will not be ridden on your head to and pee in the future.

Therefore, he categorically rejected Li Sancai and kicked him out.

Tell him that if you dare to annoy him again, don't be rude to him.

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The next day, Lü Yan's soldiers began to build the fort after they had finished their meals.

Lu Yan asked them to build the fort as high as possible, and first condescendingly kill the artillery at the head of Nanjing.

No way. Our bullying is that your cannon can't go far.

Thousands of people worked non-stop to frighten the Ming Dynasty ministers in the city, and seeing this, of course they knew what Lu Yan wanted to do.

But what can they do at this moment? Take the initiative with your troops? I'm afraid no one has the guts to do that.

So I could only watch the fort outside build higher and higher. Finally overtook the head of the city.

Then those Hongyi cannons kept firing, knocking out the cannons at the head of Nanjing one by one.

Even some Ming troops at the head of the city were hit by shells, and for a while, the Ming troops regarded the city wall as a daunting path.

At this time, those nobles and important ministers knew that it was a matter of life and death.

So they scattered a large sum of silver to reward those soldiers, hoping that they could fight bravely and defend the city of Nanjing.

After receiving a large sum of silver, the morale of those sergeants really increased.

But then Lü Yan began to build the fort again, this time closer to the city of Nanjing.

It is only 200 steps away from the city wall of Nanjing.

At such distances, the power of artillery was greatly enhanced.

In addition, these guns are the largest caliber heavy guns in the middle and lower classes of the ship. Each cannon can deal massive damage to the walls.

Moreover, in order to capture the city of Nanjing, Lu Yan transferred a very large number of artillery. There are as many as 400 gates.

Seeing the 400 artillery pieces outside Nanjing, those nobles and officials all felt their scalps tingle.

It's horrible.

And so the next heavy shelling began. The sound of 4oo guns firing at the same time is absolutely earth-shattering.

A large number of cannonballs kept smashing on the city wall of Nanjing, and the bricks and stones on the city wall kept falling.

Looking at this, those sergeants were extremely panicked, and the morale that had just been high fell again.

The nobles and high-ranking officials in Nanjing City were also extremely desperate, and they knew that if this continued, it would be a matter of time before the walls of Nanjing City were destroyed.

Therefore, they could only pray incessantly, hoping that the imperial court would send someone to rescue them as soon as possible. (To be continued)