Peach Blossom Palace.

A very nice name, on Peach Blossom Island, is the courtyard of Chen Huaiqing, the king of Daming Fu, which was originally an official office of the Song Dynasty's coastal control division. After Chen Dexing occupied Peach Blossom Island, it was allocated to the Nanyang Fleet, and at the beginning it was built on Taohua Mountain as a base for the officers and men of the Nanyang Fleet to rest and vacation. Later, the home port of the South Sea Fleet was moved to Temasek Island, and it was handed over to the Military Affairs Department, but the expansion work continued, and the Military Affairs Department wanted to use it as a temporary residence for the families of the senior officers of the Jiangnan Raiders. And now, it was bought by Chen Dexing (the Ming Dynasty pays attention to the distinction between public and private, and the emperor cannot occupy the property of the military department for free) and gave it to Chen Huaiqing, the king of Fu, as one of his mansions.

Although the name of Peach Blossom Island is good, it is famous all over the world because of Jin Yong's novels in later generations. But there is actually no good scenery on the island, it is a desert island, and the traffic is not very convenient, and it is easy for sea boats to enter and leave the harbor only at high tide.

As a result, the island eventually turned out to be a natural prison for the Yimen clansmen who had been captured from all over the south of the Yangtze River. By the end of the first month of the first year of the Great Tomorrow Dao, the number of "prisoners" had exceeded 30,000. Not only did it fill the island's original camp, but it also made up a number of huts and tents, all of which were filled with people desperate for the future.

At this time, Chen Huaiqing, the king of Daming Fu, took his few subordinate officials (the tradition of the Song Dynasty, high-ranking officials can raise guests, but the number is not very large), lived in the Peach Blossom Palace, and also hung the name of the two Zhejiang Xuanfu envoys.

In the official system of the Ming Dynasty, the Xuanfu envoy was a temporary appointment. The task is to appease and win over the local tyrants and gentry and all kinds of powerful people in the occupied areas. Now Chen Huaiqing has become Xuanfu and lives in the Peach Blossom Palace. In the eyes of the righteous men with a keen sense of politics, this is obviously a turning point!

His Royal Highness the Blessed King. Maybe it's just to appease these righteous people......

Really. Within a few days, news came out in the Peach Blossom Palace: His Royal Highness King Fu wants to recruit Hakka retainers!

Door Hakka retainers...... In the Southern Song Dynasty, this was also a way out for scholars and doctors. Jia Nidao's henchman Liao Yingzhong is Jia Nidao's disciple. Where the official position is higher. The officials of the Song State who had more real power generally had a few disciples to help them. And the warlords of the North at this time. There are many doormen, all of whom regard themselves as the reincarnation of Meng Weijun.

In the newly established Ming Dynasty, it is also not a taboo to raise some Hakka retainers. Chen Dexing's brothers, almost all of them are now raising customers. Prime Minister Huang Zhishen and Zhoushan Xingyuan Military Division Ren Yijiang also raised guests. Even Chen Dexing's housekeeper Po Zhong Yi Bo Yang Po Er (although she was born in Hongchen. But the credit is really not small, the earl's title is not obtained by holding hands with Chen Dexing) and the chief Tiandao envoy of the Heavenly Daoist Sect, the loyal Hou Mo Yingniang, are also Hakka retainers.

It's just that the number of guests in the mansion of high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty is not large. Usually just a few. The more is twenty or thirty. Of course, the salaries of the Hakka retainers had to be paid by the people who hired them. And the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty are at most tens of thousands of acres of granges, and they are all Zhuangzi in the north. If you run it well, you can have a lot of income in a year. How many customers can you hire? Those high-ranking officials and lords themselves have to spend money to enjoy it.

Besides. Raising dozens of doormen is a trivial matter, but raising hundreds of thousands of doormen seems to be an army! If it's a warlord who supports the army, it's just that, what can those courtiers of the Ming dynasty do, and they must not be targeted by the secret agent bureau?

Moreover, most of the doormen in the Northland are not scholars. but a man who does things for the Lord's house. or manage the grange, or take care of the business, or act as a bodyguard. Only a handful of Northland scholars would become staff members - becoming a staff member of a high-ranking figure was a shortcut to official positions.

Many magistrates in the north were recommended by their staff to get officials, of course, whether they could sit firmly in this office. But it depends on how they balance between the local council and the higher yamen. The aristocratic democracy of the Ming Dynasty and the prefects, prefectures, counties, and cities under local autonomy were not easy to serve. For the lower councils can be impeached, and the higher courts can likewise remove them from office—of course. Both impeachment and dismissal must be carried out on the basis of the "Chen Li", and appropriate reasons need to be presented.

And now, Chen Huaiqing seems to want to break the unspoken rule of the limited number of Hakka retainers, and plans to recruit thousands of guests at one time! And all of them are recruiters!

This is really stirring up a thousand waves on Peach Blossom Island.

Blessed King Doorman! After all, you can eat and live in a good house for yourself and your family, right?

It's really pitiful to say, two or three months of hard life. These righteous disciples have lost their former righteousness and backbone.

The premise of not bending the waist for five buckets of rice. It's that the family has a few hundred acres of fertile land that can collect rent! Now, eating is a problem. Who cares if Chen Huaiqing is a king or a thief?

So when most of the righteous men heard the news, they were all eager to try. But when they saw the conditions to become doormen, most of them were a little depressed.

This Chen Huaiqing's doorman turned out to be not easy to be!

"What? When the doorman also needs to be able to fencing, shoot, and shoot an eight-bucket bow? Is this a doorman or a soldier? ”

"It's okay to plan and make accounts, so you don't need martial arts...... This is Mr. Billhouse, right? ”

"This is the chicken and the dog thief are all useful, right? This is learning from Meng Weijun, right? ”

"But what about the readers? Confucius and Mencius Avenue, articles, music, poetry and songs, how can you not ask? ”

"What do you ask? If you don't know the avenue, don't know the article, and can't write poetry, how can you get on this Peach Blossom Island? ”

"That's right, we people are useless scholars, if all of us can fencing, can draw a hard bow, and can go into battle, why did we end up like this?"

It's true, the righteous men on Peach Blossom Island are all scholars, who doesn't understand Confucius and Mencius, who can't make a fuss, and who can't chant a few lines of poetry? But the light will go to Tianzhu, he is useless! Oh, it's not completely useless, you can use the way of Confucius and Mencius to educate the Indian Ahsan. But the problem is that education or something, you have to start on the basis of gaining a firm foothold and managing the territory well. And the premise of gaining a firm foothold is to have a strong enough force. First subdue the people, and then you can educate.

The six arts taught by the Western Zhou Dynasty official school, which was regarded as a model of the ideal society by later generations of Confucianism, are: etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, among which the archery and imperial two arts are related to the military. Archery is archery, and royal is driving a military chariot. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, chariot warfare was popular, and archery was the main method of warfare. The education of the Western Zhou Dynasty was actually based on shooting and royalty!

Moreover, the etiquette of the Western Zhou Dynasty is not a simple etiquette, but a comprehensive discipline including society, law, military, and moral norms, which is quite practical. And the number of the six arts, of course, is mathematics, which belongs to the natural sciences, and it is also very practical.

It was only later that the Six Arts became six Confucian classics, including Yi, Shu, Poetry, Li, Music, and Spring and Autumn. Later, it evolved into the Four Books and Five Classics, and in the Song Dynasty, it was simply "others have bows and horses, and I have a pen like a knife". As a result, the pen was like a knife and could not educate the Mongols, and he became a fourth-class southern ......

Of course, the Song Dynasty finally had such a thing as Wu Jinshi. Although the future of the Wujinshi is generally not very good, and it usually stops at Zhizhou, and the cost of training the Wujinshi is higher than that of the Wenjinshi, the Wujinshi is also a Jinshi. Therefore, the righteous families will still select some children with developed limbs from the clan to practice martial arts.

Sometimes, some righteous disciples who have no hope of literary deeds will also switch to martial arts. However, the literary style of the Song Dynasty was at its peak, and it had reached the point of absurdity, and even the Wu Jinshi focused on articles, but the basis for writing articles changed from the Four Books and Five Classics to a military book, and it was not a practical military book, but a military dialectic such as military dialectics after removing the specific and practical content of arranging troops and training soldiers. Reading those military books can only be used to write articles or serve as commanders, and cannot lead troops in battle. This is also an important reason why almost no Wujin warriors in the Song Dynasty joined the army. However, anyone who is preparing to take the martial arts examination still has the ability to fencing and archery.

Du Yu, the fifteenth talent of Taizhou Yimen Du, is the unlucky guy who took 17,800 regiments to train soldiers to fight against 2,200 steel armor soldiers. In that farce-like field battle, he escaped into Duqiao Town.

But the result was no different, the steel-armored soldiers of the Ming army almost chased his ass and rushed into Du Qiao. Then there was a street battle without suspense, and Du Yu was knocked out and caught by several "iron men" in the street battle - because he was not a Tartar, his head was not worth anything, so he had to save his life. was captured and put into the prisoner camp, first worked as a coolie for a while, and then was found to be the fifteenth Xiucai of the Du family, and was sent to Peach Blossom Island.

However, he was not given any additional punishment, and he was also imprisoned pending exile.

On Peach Blossom Island, he also met his elderly mother and younger siblings (who were not born to the same mother as Du Shifu) - Du Shixiu is only 28 years old this year, unmarried, and a leftover man. But the burden of paying homage to my mother and taking care of my younger siblings is still heavy.

So he didn't care about any loyal ministers, and when he heard that King Daming Fu was recruiting guests, he could have five yuan a month, so he hurried over. Seeing the conditions offered by King Fu's Mansion, Du Shixiu was relieved. Although he can't fight, he has practiced swordsmanship, and although it is useless on the battlefield, he also has the strength to draw a bow.

And he will also plan to make accounts - his father is the patriarch of the Du family in Duqiao (now he has gone to Lin'an), and he has seen too many children of the clan destroy their bodies in the imperial examination, and he does not want his son to follow in their footsteps. Therefore, in addition to practicing martial arts, he learned the skills of planning and accounting with the elders in charge of management in the clan. I didn't expect that now I can mix up with these skills. (To be continued) (To be continued......)