In Qingpu, Guangzhou, a strange-looking big ship docked, saying that this boat monster is that it looks like a boat boat, and there is a layer of cabins on the deck, but there are high masts at the end and at the end.

The dock cableman didn't care about the strange ship, so he bolted the cable. Looking at the Sanshui ripple sign on the bow of the boat, you will know that it is the horse boat of the Sanjiang Boat Company. The reason why it is called "horse boat" is not that it is used to carry horses, but that this boat not only carries people and goods, but also runs fast, and all shipping companies in Guangdong use this kind of boat to run long-distance river roads.

In today's Guangdong, the frequent traffic of passengers and goods has been prosperous in the past, and the shipping line has changed from the previous main cargo to the simultaneous carrying of people and goods, and even separated from the express delivery industry to carry people and passengers. Although the cost is high, you can take a fast boat to go back and forth, travel five or six hundred miles a day, it is the first choice of many businessmen who pay attention to efficiency, and the average person chooses this kind of slightly more comfortable, cheap boat fare.

"Beware of climbing high and falling hard, our gang, in the words of the past, is called Xingjin, but you have to wake up at any time......"

"It's still a trivial matter to ruin your own future, involve your colleagues, and even cause trouble to the Heavenly King, then you will be uneasy."

"Han Caishen, everyone in our Huangpu Zero period is qualified to say this, but you don't. Your Lao Tzu is the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and your younger brother has been promoted to the professor of Guozijian, but your Han family is standing on three legs, and it can't be more stable. ”

A group of people stepped on the pedals and got off the boat, chatting as they walked. These people are dressed in knee-length shirts, dark blue narrow pants, all straight and unpleated, with black shiny short boots on their feet, and the short brim of the octagonal hat is pressed low, which is very heroic and neat. A round of golden moire embroidered on the hat ring reveals their identities, this is a group of heroes and Chinese generals. The various patterns embroidered on the shoulders and arms of the uniforms are colorful, including the tiger descending from the mountain, the crossed double sword protected by flying wings, and the eagle, which are actually from the British and Chinese armies.

These soldiers lined up two black belts with symmetrical vertical sews on their shoulders, or three or four silver stars, so that the crowd on the pier was preoccupied with awe, admiration, envy, and other emotions. There are also several people who even have a gold star embroidered on their shoulders, which is the focus of attention. The cablemen and miscellaneous servants on the dock all nodded carelessly and saluted the "generals".

The Anglo-Chinese military generals are already well-known, the bronze star is the sergeant, the silver star is the lieutenant and the lieutenant, and the gold star is the lieutenant and the lieutenant general. The ranks of these generals are all above the rank of captain, and the one with a gold star is the right captain, with a prominent status.

It is rumored that there is a dragon pattern on Venus, which is the symbol of the general, but now there are only three generals in the Anglo-Chinese army, and they are all sealed after the Changsha War. In the minds of those cable workers and miscellaneous servants, that is, the big men above the Admiral's Gate, how could they never get off such ordinary boats. General Duliao, Jia Hao, the commander of the Yulin Army, is in Hunan, General An Yuan, Wu Ya, the commander of the Yingyang Army is in Nanyang, and General Henghai, and Xiao Sheng, the commander-in-chief of the navy, is in Fujian. They want to go back to Guangzhou, and it's all big news.

At present, although these generals can't be compared with the generals and admirals, they are also at the level of deputy generals of the general army, more than a dozen people appear like ordinary pedestrians, and there is not even a servant guard behind them, and many people are very surprised.

Whether it is awe, admiration, envy or surprise, Han Zaixing, He Mengfeng and others are used to it. Although Yinghua attaches great importance to martial arts, the warriors are very different from the people of the previous dynasty, and they are first in this authority. They had resigned from their positions in the army and were going back to the Huangpu Martial Arts Academy for retraining. In peacetime, the military service, from cooks to attendant adjutants, miscellaneous servants, each position is customized, and it is not allowed to bring their own guards, and the people around the officers are all deployed in the army, and there is no retinue after resigning. Only at the rank of general or above can there be a fixed attendant escort, and they will not be replaced with the change of military rank.

"Big young master!"

"Sir!"

"Third Young Master!"

But they also had their own business, and the servants of each household had been waiting at the dock early in the morning, and they had come up one after another. The Han family is even more wealthy, dozens of people poured up, some led the carriage, some got on the boat to get the luggage, not only He Mengfeng, but other colleagues also relied on the mountains to help with chores.

"I said Han Caishen, aren't you afraid that the black-clothed guard will beat your little report, saying that you are winning people's hearts and plotting against you?"

Seeing that Han Zaixing happily ordered the servants to help his colleagues do things, He Mengfeng joked casually.

"What's wrong? No matter how high our Yinghua military officers are, no matter how heavy their positions are, they are still in charge of things. If you really want to say anything wrong, I think my second brother's literati is more qualified......"

Han Zaixing also replied with a smile, up to the Two Song Songs, down to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In short, it is taboo to guard against the power of the generals, what size is controlled, and what is the separation of the generals. Although Han Zaixing and He Mengfeng are battalion commanders, they can only take care of the regular training of the garrison on weekdays and the command in wartime, and there is another set of systems for other logistics supplies and military order scheduling, and the commander of a battalion cannot directly intervene, and his subordinates only take the chief officer as their boss within the scope of the order, so there is a saying that "managing things and not caring about people". , but because of this, the Yinghua warriors are more open-minded, and they are more unscrupulous in their words and actions, to put it bluntly, not only can they only manage things, but there are also the Holy Martial Arts Society and the Heavenly Punishment Society in the army to occupy the hearts of the army, so that they can also lead the troops to rebel, that is simply a demon descending to earth.

But when Han Zaixing talked about his second brother who was a professor in Guozijian, his face sank.

He Mengfeng sighed: "What do you say about those literati in their heads? The king of heaven broke the sunny sky for them, but they always had to sing against the king? I wanted to control the country's politics before, and it was dusty. The king of heaven didn't give them a heavy hand, and now he is clamoring to engage in the Ming Emperor's Zen position, let's Yinghua, do you need to hang up the rotten signboard of the former Ming? ”

After the face of the saint in the north, the talented man Kong Shangren went south, and expressed his position one after another, setting off a wave of enthusiastic public opinion in Yinghua, all shouting to find the former Ming clan and re-establish the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this Ming Emperor was just erected for Li Xian's Zen position, and few people dared to directly shout that this Yinghua would be changed to the Ming Dynasty. A tabloid called "The Right Way" shouted stupidly to make Yinghua become a Ming dynasty, but the newspaper was smashed by angry people. The people all said that our Yinghua is a country that Li Tianwang led everyone to fight step by step, and it is everyone's country, why did it change hands to the descendants of the Zhu family who have been dead for decades?

Therefore, even "Righteousness", which has always been on the wrong path with the government, is saying that Emperor Liming is just a foreshadowing of the Zen position, so that our Yinghua country will take over the former Ming Dao, not to give up this country to the Zhu family.

In terms of industry and commerce, and even the "Yuexiu Times" are opposed to this matter, they all believe that Yinghua has nothing to do with the former Ming Dynasty, and it was directly taken down in the hands of the Tartars, and no matter how righteous the Taoism is, there is no need to erect the rotten flag of the former Ming. The Zen throne was a conspiracy of Confucian scholars to regain state power.

This dispute also fell into the eyes of the British and Chinese generals, and their perceptions were very complicated. On the one hand, he was also a little resistant to the Zen position, and felt that his blood and sweat were to be dyed by a layer of corruption. On the other hand, Li Tianwang's attitude towards this matter is still ambiguous, and the grapevine says that the king of heaven also intends to do the work of Zen in order to win the hearts of the people in the world, which is a good thing, which means that the day when the king of heaven will be called emperor is approaching, and the country of Yinghua will also change from a country of grass creation to a righteous British dynasty. Their status as warriors will also go to a higher level.

But in the whole thing, the big and small actions of the literati made the martial artists extremely unhappy, and even angry.

Hearing Han He and the others talk about literati, another elegant lieutenant sneered: "What do you think!?" Hold the world hostage to order the princes!? Although the signboard was just hanging, in that time, they literati could stuff a lot of things into the national politics along with the signboard! This must be done by the Shangshu Hall Rite Branch. Before that, the Like Department had always been the Qingshui Yamen, and it was in charge of the ritual system, and the imperial examination would be taken over by the Department of Culture and Education in the future. As soon as this came out, Reco got up. There are rules for the Zen position, and there are even more rules for the emperor, and other literati follow behind Like, so that the traditional and such rules are thrown out one by one, and they are all things that the literati gain and control, and then the king of heaven will accept it or not? After taking it, he became the monarch's father, and they Kong Ru climbed on the monarch's neck. If you don't accept it, you are not a monarch, and the Dao system you get is crippled. In the future, as long as the Heavenly King is dissatisfied with what the Confucian followers do, the Heavenly King will become a hypocrite who has won the country unjustly......"

These words were said thoroughly, and a group of generals were all angry, and they all snorted coldly.

Another black-faced lieutenant shook his head nonchalantly: "Master Xu, are you still against the matter of the Zen position?" You, and you, really look up to those rotten Confucians, and the King of Heaven sees them in the slightest bit of what they want. The King of Heaven has long said that in order to prevent Kong Ru from stealing the country, he should not be the king's father. So what kind of article is this Zen position, you just have to wait and see. ”

It was called the three silver stars on Xu Shidao's shoulder, and he was a right lieutenant, he shook his head and said: "Zhuang cares, don't treat all literati as rotten Confucians, we are all Manchu people, and we are also literati!" You didn't see it clearly, then the former Ming Daotong was a game! Who is the hardest working advocate for Kong Shang? "Shilin"! Who is after "Shilin"? Sanxian Academy! What are the three sages? King Huang Gu! What are they advocating!? Hypocrite! ”

The two former lifters had a good heart, Xu Shidao only said this, Zhuang took a cool breath when he cared: "If the king of heaven takes over the former Ming Dao system, and does not want the monarch's father, they will jump out and shout the void monarch directly!" Just clamoring for literati to share the power of the world! Let the king of heaven become a mud fetus bodhisattva after being called the emperor, so calculating! ”

Xu Shidao nodded: "The people in the Three Sages Academy are not Confucian Confucian, but Neo-Confucian, and they are talking about the king being a great evil to the world. And the group of people who want to restore Confucianism through Zen are old Confucians, and they are talking about the monarch's father. These two factions are standing in front and back, eyeing each other, and they all want to take advantage of this matter. That's why I'm worried, and I'm against the Zen position. Zhuang thought about it but shook his head: "No, if the Heavenly King does not accept the former Ming Dao system and becomes a faction of his own, then the people of the Three Sages Academy will not still shout the Hypocrisy, and will they shout even more fiercely?" So ......"

Zhuang caress and his eyes lit up: "The king of heaven will take it, this is a situation of power between the left and right, I believe that the king of heaven has his own balance to solve the strategy." ”

After listening to the analysis of the two "literati", the others suddenly had big heads and said in their hearts, it is really the literati who have such a deep heart......

Han Zaixing sneered: "Literati, literati...... Whether it is an old Confucianism or a new Confucian, they all want to control the world with one hand, and by reading the sage books for many years, they have to manage how the country is governed, how the war is fought, how the common people live, and how businessmen make money. The king just doesn't want this kind of bullshit to continue, so he doesn't want the monarch! Whether the Qianming banner is used or not, how to use it, how can the king of heaven not let this thing smell of bullshit! ”

Xu Zhuang and the two of them rolled their eyes secretly at Han Zaixing, and said in their hearts that they were really businessmen and were extremely rude, but then again......

Xu Shidao realized: "The Heavenly King has recently been busy with the new system of imperial examinations, which is said to be a new textbook for Mengxue, county school, and government school. This is the foundation of the literati. The literati of the future will be different from the literati who only read the books of the sages in the past. The king of heaven thinks deeply, and the matter of establishing a Zen position should naturally have a plan. ”

Zhuang Zai smiled, patted Xu Shi and said: "The second phase of the Huangpu Martial Arts Academy, most of them are former children, as you said, the two of us are also literati, the bullshit that Han Caishen said, the king of heaven has long waved a fan to light incense, and the taste is different from before." Those new Confucianism and old Confucianism are just rootless gatherings, and they can't last long. ”

At this time, Han Zaixing's servants had already driven a series of carriages over, He Mengfeng was thick-skinned, and he beckoned everyone: "Let's go, get in the car!" Let Han Caishen invite us to a meal of four seas incense! In the days to come, it will be difficult to have such a free time. ”