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In the middle of the night, Han Zaixing, who was drunk to only three points of wisdom, was helped back to the Han Mansion by the servants, and staggered to his father Han Yujie to ask for guilt.

Han Yujie said indifferently: "You are a martial artist, don't learn to be a literati, just let my father see you safe." ”

Speaking of his younger brother Han Zaisheng, coupled with his father's sullen tone, Han Zaixing woke up most of the time, and after washing, he asked his father what happened.

Han Yujie attaches great importance to his eldest son, and most of his status today comes from the courage of his eldest son to gather troops in Guangzhou City. After the Changsha War, Han Zaixing resigned from his military position and returned to the Whampoa Academy to rebuild, and heard Fan Jin, the governor of the Military Command Department, who had been turned into a civilian official, reveal that after the reconstruction, he would be promoted and reused. Han Zaixing is already the commander of the right lieutenant battalion, and if he is promoted, how can he be promoted to the position of the left lieutenant and deputy commander.

So he didn't hide much, and told his thoughts carefully.

The more Han Zaixing listened, the colder it became, and finally the wine had completely subsided.

Han Yujie first talked about his second son, Han Zaisheng, who was a professor in Guozijian. Soon after the establishment of Guozijian, he recruited talents, Han Zaisheng was originally a Manchu Xiucai, and Yinghua Imperial Examination was a Jinshi in the middle of the imperial examination, and he was appointed as a professor of Liupin in Guozijian. Since he was a child, he has been instilled by Han Yujie with the idea that everything is inferior, and he is only interested in the ideas of high reading, and he is especially interested in what Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi do.

Recently, Han Yujie asked about the affairs of Guozijian, and Han Zaisheng said that they were contacting their colleagues to promote the matter of establishing the Zen throne and persuade Li Tianwang to advance. Han Yujie was sensitive to this matter, and asked tentatively, what are the plans for the Heavenly King to be proclaimed emperor, Han Zaisheng directly said that he would discuss the politics of Huang Zongxi's school and persuade the Heavenly King to delegate power to the school.

"I just asked one more question, what kind of politics is the school going to discuss? If it is the industrial and commercial tax rules, it is also up to the school to decide? The kid said with a full face, "It should be like this", and I was so angry that I scolded on the spot. Wait for the yellow-haired child, who has never even touched firewood, rice, oil and salt, and still want to take care of a state affair? Your father is in charge of this Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and there are thousands of ways inside, and all the people who do things are top people from business, and it is difficult to carry it down! Not to mention the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, it's just a township owner who is thin and doesn't understand the world, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive for three days, I'm ......"

Han Yujie complained bitterly, without a trace of shame about the mistakes of his tutor.

The younger brother is a "Three Sages Party", Han Zaixing has long known that this is just an old thing, but now that he thinks about it, Han Zaixing also took a breath, he understood his father's worries, will Li Tianwang suspect that the Han family is also on the side of the "Three Sages Party", thinking about cutting the king's power?

"If it's just a matter of prosperity, there have been some unusual movements in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently."

Han Yujie went on to talk about another thing, Hunan Yungui was added under his rule, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry also expanded. Not only was the right to speak diluted, but the rules of the general meeting were also changed, which made the old members very dissatisfied. Public opinion is arguing for the establishment of the Ming Zen position, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry was originally opposed as one, but now some people are thinking about it and want to make a fuss about it.

"I'm afraid it's not a fuss, but the general virtue of those literati, I want to use the hypocrisy, collude with the literati, follow the old things of the Donglin Party in the Ming Dynasty, seek a lot of convenience, pay less or even no tax."

Han Zaixing usually speaks and acts rudely, but whether it is in the Whampoa Martial Arts School or in the Anglo-Chinese Army, his study has not been interrupted, and history is a compulsory subject for officers, and he can see through the root cause of this movement at a glance.

Han Yujie nodded, Yinghua advocated industry and commerce, giving businessmen unprecedented convenience, but because of the rules in the open, it also gave businessmen unprecedented constraints. If you want to do a big business, the previous way of clinging to the powerful is gradually useless, so you have to dig out your mind and ponder the business itself, and many wealthy businessmen feel struggling. Some people forge ahead, whether they change jobs or work hard in Nanyang Company, but they sharpen their heads and move forward anyway. Some people retreated, taking the silver as the capital, throwing it to the Yinghua Bank and even Sanjiang Investment, and waiting for rentier. Some people are still unwilling, and always put their minds on scheming, wanting to break free and even break the situation condensed by Li Tianwang.

Worries also surfaced in Han Zaixing's heart, and the situation his father faced was indeed very dangerous. The son is a member of the Three Sages Party, and there are people in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry who are engaged in such a scheme, and any person in power will wonder if his father is behind the scenes?

Now when Yinghua is still grass-created, there is nothing inside the Tianwang Mansion, and Li Tianwang is also ruthless externally and benevolent internally. But this matter undermines the authority of the Heavenly King, and with the wisdom of the Heavenly King who can rise in the prosperous era of Kangxi, he will never be soft in dealing with this matter. , the more I thought about it, the more scared I became, Han Zaixing not only woke up, but also sweated on his forehead. "Father had better resign from the meeting, and when I have the opportunity to meet the King of Heaven later, I will also try to say a few words to the King."

Han Zaixing's suggestion was for the safety of the family, Han Yujie nodded, he was not a person who didn't know how to advance and retreat. Li Shi's assassination in Qingyuan was related to him, and he still reused him later, and Han Yujie was already terrified. There is a limit to the trust of those in power, and he has already reached the top.

On 10 September, Li Xi summoned Han Zaixing, a group of officers who wanted to return to the Huangpu Martial Arts School to continue their studies, in the side hall of the Puren Palace.

"I heard that you claim to be the zero phase of Whampoa, and you have this heart, which is very good. Not only you, but also the students of the previous short course have to re-study, for what, do you know? ”

Li Xi asked in a harmonious voice, and everyone looked at each other, Han Zaixing was originally their opinion leader, but because he had something in his heart, he didn't grab this face, so they all hesitated.

He Mengfeng stood up, "Heavenly King, although we have undergone short training, the time is short, and what we have learned is not systematic. In wartime, the control of subordinates was still insufficient. In the first battle of Changsha, compared with the disciples of the Heavenly King, the casualties of the subordinate units were very heavy, so they need to learn and advance again! ”

Li Xian nodded with satisfaction, although this He Mengfeng was born in the green camp, he had great potential, and he was an outstanding new figure in addition to his lineage, along with Han Zaixing and others.

What He Mengfeng said was an important summary of Li Shi's performance in the Changsha War. Although he defeated Kangxi's 200,000 army, he killed nearly 2,000 people and wounded nearly 10,000 people, which initially made Li Xi very dissatisfied. He felt that the Anglo-Chinese army had strong firepower, was well-equipped, well-trained, and had a high military spirit. How can it be compared with the British army in the First Opium War more than a hundred years later, why did the Qing army still have to pay such a high price when it was semi-firearmed?

There are many objective factors, hand-to-hand combat on a rainy day is a case, the Qing army has Kangxi personally supervised the battle, and it is also a matter of courage and not retreating, but compared with the record of killing 110,000 prisoners, Li Xi always feels that the British and Chinese army is still difficult to call a complete modern army, so where are the subjective factors?

After the Battle of Changsha, the army made a summary as always, and looking at the casualty figures of various departments, Li Xi saw some clues. The casualties of the troops led by the commanders of the old guards are generally smaller than those led by other people. The reason is that the people who were born in the old Siwei have always attached importance to the overall advance and retreat, are good at observing the battlefield, and have a strong grasp of the troops. After all, the combat canons of the British and Chinese armies were condensed by them one by one.

Commanders who were transferred in the later period, especially above the wing commander, were very lacking in this regard. To give a simple example, when the north of Changsha braved the rain to attack the defense line of the Liuyang River and the Laodao River, the arrangement of the assault waves, the allocation and scheduling of the troops of each wave, many details were not well mastered, and the target setting of each wave of attack was not practical enough. Commanders who effectively control their forces are able to carefully manage each wave of attacks to give full effect, but they are replaced by new waves of troops in time before they pay too much cost, thus effectively reducing casualties and achieving operational objectives at the same time. Thoughts stopped

To put it simply, the commander's ability was insufficient, and he had not fully adapted to the characteristics of the firearms combat system, so that the British and Chinese army could not fully enter the ranks of the modern army, thus forming a sufficient generational advantage for the Qing army. The specific defect of middle-level grass-roots commanders lies in the fact that their thinking is still flat, and they cannot incorporate as many factors as possible into their thinking, and they have a physical operational thinking.

This is the background of Li Shi's desire to retrain the commanders in the army, to break the canons one by one, and to turn them into systematic knowledge of these officers.

Looking around at this group of officers, Li Xian said: "You are all from the Huangpu Martial Arts Academy, and you are all my disciples, so you don't have to be outside of me......"

After some exhortation and admonition, the officers retreated with some trepidation in excitement, and Han Zaixing mustered up the courage to ask for a private audience.

Li Xi met him in the comfortable government hall of the grass hall, and said casually: "With your merits in Guangzhou that night, I still wronged you now." However, this is the case in the army, if you are not capable enough, you have to be in a high position, which will not only harm your subordinates, but also harm yourself. That's why I'm giving you a step-by-step approach as much as possible. ”

According to the sitting posture practiced in the Whampoa Academy, Han Zaixing held his head high and sat up straight, very moved by Li Xi's encouragement, and when asked what he wanted, he hesitated for a while before finally expressing his father Han Yujie's concerns. , Li Xi said very seriously: "Your father is also confused, what does he have on his mind, let him say it himself, I won't listen to what you say on his behalf." ”

Han Zaixing suddenly sweated profusely, but he didn't want Li Xi to ask again: "Then yourself, what do you think about the matter of the Ming Zen position?" Han Zaixing still wanted to hesitate, but he didn't have any worries about Li Xi's calm eyes that came from him, and said straightforwardly: "Zhu Ming has been dead for decades, and we Yinghua, regardless of civil and military, have never taken a cent of Zhu Ming's salary, let alone worked for Zhu Ming. This Yinghua was set up by the King of Heaven with us, and he wanted us to sacrifice and shed blood for Zhu Ming, even if it was a day, I was unwilling! ”

Li Xian was silent, and only after a moment did he say, "How did Zhu Ming die?" ”

This is Li Xian's self-question, and without waiting for Han Zaixing to answer, he continued: "Zhu Yuanzhang built the Ming Dynasty, expelled Meng Yuan, and won Huaxia Zhengshuo." But he founded the country, took Legalism as the degree, and promoted retro. In his sketch, the Ming Dynasty is the three parties of peasants, scholars and the Zhu family. Industry and commerce, craftsmen, prostitutes, etc., are all inferior, and they are pushed to the edge of the map of the world he painted. ”

"Based on the eternal calendar of the Ming Dynasty, the former Ming Dynasty was established for 294 years. Zhu Yuanzhang's sketch was barely in line with reality at first, but before he died, there was a clear difference. By the time of Chengzu, merchants rose in the southeast, and the map of the world was completely different from the reality. ”

"But the literati still use this plan to govern the country, not to be pedantic, but to rely on this map, they can grasp the authority. Gradually, there are only three parties on the map, but there are actually four parties. The merchant relied on the literati to win over the literati, and in addition to the map, he rentiered with the literati, and the king of the Zhu family was limited by the map and could not directly control the merchants. ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people were in turmoil, Manchuria knocked on the customs, and the merchants not only did not help Zhu Ming stabilize the world, but took profits in the chaos. Literati such as the Donglin Party, intertwined with businessmen, are still smoking grease and fighting openly and secretly, is this a moral difference? More than that, the fundamental issue is profit. Zhu Ming did not give the businessman a place, and the benefits could not come from the right path, so it was naturally difficult to expect the businessman to lose profits for Zhu Ming. ”

"Do you see the cause of death? That is the problem of the pattern, Zhu Ming's national political pattern cannot take care of and accommodate the interests of all parties, especially important groups such as businessmen, so this pattern will eventually collapse. ”

Han Zaixing listened quietly, and felt that his soul was being washed by the deep flow of history, which made him extraordinarily transparent. Although he is not a literati, he can fully understand the truth that Li Xian deliberately uses crude words, so as not to interject and say such demented words as "We Yinghua take care of businessmen".

Li Xi continued: "We, Yinghua, have to learn such a lesson when we sketch the map of the world. Merchant, if we draw in, is that to draw the reader to the edge as the former Ming treated the merchant? Of course not, that is to make the same mistake. Yinghua's readers will be very different from traditional readers in the future. But there is no essential difference in the foundation, there will still be sage books, and there will still be benevolence, righteousness and morality. Governing the country, advocating morality, researching the Tao, and even leading the army all depend on scholars. Therefore, the reader has to draw it in. ”

"Not only businessmen and scholars, but also craftsmen, farmers, soldiers and even happy households, as long as they are people who follow the principles of heaven and the right way, we must draw them in, and treat them equally, this is our Yinghua's map of the world."

When Li Xianzheng said this, Han Zaixing felt something strange nearby, and swept the corner of his eyes, but saw that a door on the side of the hall was slightly open, and there seemed to be a figure leaning against the door, was that eavesdropping...... No, no, it should be the Heavenly King's document that is recording.

Li Xi didn't pay attention to Han Zaixing's movements, he was already immersed in his thoughts: "At this point, why do you want to be clear?" Is there still a widow of the former Ming? No, it's because Qianming has been dead for more than 50 years...... If Chongzhen's death is counted, it has been more than 70 years, but it is the right time in China. In it, there are too many lessons, and too many legacies. ”

"In terms of the king, the son of the future guards the country, and the king dies, this is our Yinghua, no, it should be said that I Li Shi must inherit. In the past, the theory of one country in the Ming Dynasty did not make peace with foreign races, did not pay tribute, and did not bend the knees, which is also what we Yinghua and China want to inherit. Specific to the civil and military warriors, the three hundred years before the Ming Dynasty have left enough and dazzling chapters in the history of China. This banner, if we are not connected by the roots of Yinghua, how can the history of China continue? ”

"I know that the old and new Confucians, and even some businessmen, have bad intentions against the Ming Chan Rang, but what is the relationship between my Yinghua and the former Ming, this question cannot be avoided. After all, the former Ming Dynasty has only been dead for a few decades, and there are many people born in the former Ming Dynasty, not isolated from me Yinghua for a hundred years, and have nothing to do with it. ”

Li Xi finally noticed Han Zaixing again: "Yinghua and Zhu Ming, what should be the relationship, this question is also a role, it must be drawn on the Yinghua map, otherwise it will be a blank." What does the empty space mean to the military? ”

Han Zaixing subconsciously straightened his chest and replied: "If we don't occupy it, the enemy will occupy it!" ”

Li Xi nodded with satisfaction, "As for how to occupy it, whether to monitor it from a distance or send people to garrison it, it depends on the actual needs, and at the same time, it also depends on where the enemy is and what he is trying to do." ”

Han Zaixing understood, not only understood the whole thing, but also understood how to persuade his father to rest assured.

In the empty government hall, Li Shi turned to the hidden door on the side of the hall, and his words were full of ambiguity: "Miss Duan, are you willing to share a top-secret history with me, and your uncle?" (To be continued)