Chapter 541: Yangzhou Affairs

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Huang Zongxi stood on the high platform, and more than 60 scholars sat below. There are young people who have just grown hairy on their mouths, and there are scholars in their twenties and thirties.

Huang Zongxi has written books and spoken in recent years, and his reputation has gradually become apparent, because he has not been attached to Zhai Zhe, his father Huang Zunsu was one of the six gentlemen of Donglin that year, and his reputation in Jiangnan was louder than Fang Yizhi.

"Daming has always thought that agriculture is the foundation of the world, and this is certainly good. But in my opinion, agriculture and commerce are the foundation of the world. The people regard food as the sky, and the country must not lack food. Only business can be used everywhere, and the country can become rich and strong. He has been thinking about the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty for the past year, and the manuscripts he wrote are piled up in the bookstore. If it weren't for Fang's intellectual invitation, he would rather stay in his hometown.

In the northeast corner, a teenager listened carefully and memorized carefully. He was usually taciturn and had few friends in the academy.

The difference between Suzhou Academy and other academies in the Ming Dynasty is that not only Confucianism is taught here, but Fang Yizhici teaches Taixi here, and the textbook used is his "Physics Knowledge". However, in the past few days, there are very few people who are really willing to learn the learning of Taixi with wisdom, and more people still listen to the study of strategy.

Fang Yizhi has a history of Confucianism, and his Confucian attainments are no less than Huang Zongxi's, but in order to promote the cold Taixi learning, he gave up teaching and learning strategy and Confucianism. Students pick teachers, teachers also pick students, and he never reluctantly anyone who is not interested in Tessie's learning.

On the high platform, Huang Zongxi said very happily, everyone who has achieved success in learning hopes that their thoughts can be shared by more people, and he also hopes to get the recognition of more scholars with his book manuscripts piled up in the library, otherwise there is no fun like a night walk in brocade.

Suzhou Academy is based on wisdom, and the other lecturers are all Keqing. However, the content of each family's teaching was backed up in the Jin Palace.

Suzhou Academy has a total of 230 students, far beyond the imagination of Huang Zongxi and others. He, including Mao Xiang and Chen Zhenhui, actually didn't want to recruit so many students at once.

Chen Zilong, the secretary of the Ming Dynasty, personally came to congratulate him when the Suzhou Academy was listed, and at the same time ordered his disciple Yang Jinxin to come and teach Xu Guangqi's "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" written that year.

This is exactly what Fang Yizhi wants to see, since he gave up the governor of Jiangnan, he has deviated more and more from the policy theory and the imperial court, and put all his mind on the study of applying it to the world.

Suzhou Academy was founded by Zhai Zhe with the help of Fang Yizhi, others may not know the mind of King Jin, but Fang Yizhi guessed the purpose of King Jin hidden behind it. On the first day of the establishment of the Academy, he explained that the disciples of the Academy were forbidden to form associations. Of course, after leaving the college, it is not under his jurisdiction.

Suzhou Academy was established, and Donglin Academy became history.

Fang Yizhi once said that Western learning and Ming learning have their own strengths, and Confucians are ashamed of not knowing anything

Only a scholar with a heart like Fang He can be matched with the King of Jin, and only the King of Jin can be matched with a scholar like Shang Yizhi.

Suzhou Academy has just started, and the lecture hall in Hangzhou is almost the harvest season.

In May, the rainy season passes.

The Spring Festival farming in the south of the Yangtze River has ended, and the soldiers of various prefectures have been trained intensively

Usually after the rainy season, it is when the Ming army is about to go out. Because the Ming army had many firearms, the risk of attacking in rainy weather was too high. Whether it was Huguang or Taixing, the Ming army had been shrinking its defensive line in the spring

Lecture on the end of the training! One hundred military attachés were inspected by the general in the city of Nanjing.

A year and a half of training丨 so that these people can at least understand official documents, and at the same time be able to write a smooth report. People who don't have Huigen can't meet this requirement in a year and a half, and most of these people have a certain literacy background.

The lecture hall was expanded this year and now has 300 people. Scholars who are only 35 years old in various places and have a reputation for their children's lives can pass the guò examination to enter the lecture hall to study. Among them, the quota of 100 people comes from the recommendation of the general soldiers in the army, but it is not allowed to recommend 1,000 general positions and above non-commissioned officers, and after joining the lecture martial arts, they will leave the original military status, and the next step will be decided by the general's office.

Nanjing has long feet, and one hundred military attaches stand in ten columns, forming a neat phalanx.

Mighty armor, tall body, and slightly childish faces. Zhai Zhe walked around the phalanx, and stood directly opposite the phalanx after walking. He paid more attention than ever before, and deliberately put on armor

"You are all my wise men"

The general's majestic voice was loud in the vast school grounds.

"Although the Ming Dynasty is weak today, it will surely move towards new glory because of you" Zhai Zhe opened his arms, "We are warriors, and opening up the territory is our greatest glory"

These are the four words on the plaque of the inscription of the great general in the lecture hall.

The four people standing at the front were the most prominent of this group of military attachés.

Zhang Qiu in eastern Zhejiang, Jiang Rou in Hangzhou, Cheng Ziming in Songjiang, Li Daqing in Huizhou.

Zhang Qiu raised his right hand, and a hundred people shouted in unison: "The general is mighty"

"Go, treat the lives of your colleagues as your own, treat the Qing prisoners as enemies who do not share the sky, no matter where you go, don't fall into the name of your elite Ming"

Zhai Zhe's two palms pointed to the sky, and two Hai Dongqing above his head were circling.

The shouts of "the mighty general" made people's blood gush.

From the moment these people entered the lecture hall, in addition to their daily homework and training, what they knew most was the experience of the great general. From saving the lives of the Saihan people under the shape of Hulu surrounded by Hulu, to the anger of Chongguan when he was anti-shaving order, he recovered Jiangnan. Those deeds that have been deliberately rendered make Zhai Zhe stand tall like a mountain in them.

"What a good time," Zhai Zhe sighed in his heart. They will soon go to the battlefield, and the blood will make them mature, or sharper.

Mid-May.

Jiangnan continuously added troops to Yangzhou Prefecture on the north bank of the river, and Yuan Qizhou was ordered to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses across the river to join Yan Yingyuan's camp. So far, the Ming army has 30,000 troops stationed in Taixing County.

The 100 people who came out of the martial arts hall were incorporated into various battalions, and all of them were sent to Jiangbei, and the highest position among them was only 1,000 generals. Young people need to use their blood to accumulate military merits, but with the experience of speaking in the martial arts, they must be promoted quickly.

The Ming army kept reinforcing the Taixing defense line, and at the same time sent a small force of troops and horses to tentatively march into the depths of Yangzhou Mansion. The city gates of Rugao and Taizhou were closed, and the squires hid in the county seat.

Offense is the best defense. In order to prevent the Qing court from accumulating strength to invade Jiangnan, the General's Mansion decided to start a skirmish in Yangzhou Mansion to prevent the Qing soldiers from being idle. The Ming army took control of the Yangtze River waterway, and did not suffer a loss in fighting the Qing troops along the Yangtze River. It is better to put the war in Jiangbei than to wait for the Qing troops to enter Koujiangnan. There was no war in the south of the Yangtze River, so Zhai Zhe could have enough money to maintain the war.

The sea gate guard is located on the coast of the East China Sea, facing Chongming Island across the sea.

A column of huge warships was on the riverside near the shore.

The defenders of the Haimen Guard closed the city gates, which were often attacked by pirates, and there were no people for dozens of miles on the shore.

The warships opened fire five miles from the shore, and the iron balls bombarded the beach in front of the sea guards. After a few rounds of artillery, there were no casualties, and the defenders of the Haimen guard did not dare to come out to intercept.

The shore is shallow, and such a large sea vessel cannot be approached. After the shelling, small sampans like beetles were released from the sea-like ships. Thirty people sat on each sampan, and the sailors on either side slid hard to send the small sampans to shore

The defenders of the guard post were only 500 people, and after seeing the might of the Ming army's artillery fire, they did not dare to come out to block the Ming army's landing.

Dozens of small sampans escorted back and forth, and the Ming army on the shore gradually formed a phalanx of more than 2,000 people, some with spears, some with tiger cannons, and marched towards the sea guards.

Before the Ming army reached the front of the guard, there was a commotion in the guard, and the five hundred defenders opened the back door and fled. They were all Han Chinese, and they had no determination to defend the Qing court.

The Ming army continued to climb 6, and in the end, there were more than 4,000 people, who first patrolled around Haimen County, and finally returned to the Haimen guard to garrison. These are just a few of the activities of the Ming army, they are Wang Zhiren's sailors.

At the same time as increasing troops to the north of the Yangtze River, the Ming army began to use the advantage of the naval division to harass the coastline of Yangzhou Prefecture, and the deepest part even reached the mouth of the Huai River.

Yangzhou defender Bolo was miserable.

On the one hand, he was in a hurry to the city of Beijing, and on the other hand, he mobilized a large army to form a semi-encirclement posture in Taixing County, where the Ming army gathered the most.

Legend has it that as long as the Han people fled to Yangzhou Prefecture, the Ming army in Jiangnan would escort them across the river. The imperial court set up porridge sheds in Jiangnan for relief, and those who were in good health might even be conscripted into the Ming army.

The Qing captives continued to stake their land in Gyeonggi and Shandong, treating the Han people as slaves, and the people of Jiangbei constantly fled to Taixing and the county guards along the Yangtze River, waiting for the ships of the Ming army to respond. The Qing court imposed a harsh "fugitive law" and implemented a system of joint sitting, preventing the northerners from moving south.

Yangzhou is the strongest city in Yangzhou, and Taixing is sixty miles east of Yangzhou. The Ming army was stationed here, which was equivalent to setting up a fortress under the noses of the Qing soldiers.

Because Taixing blocked the passage from Yangzhou to the east, the three counties of Tongzhou, Rugao and Haimen to the east of Taixing were all under the threat of the Ming army.

Bolo knew that the Ming army was still testing so far, and if the Qing court did not react, I was afraid that the Ming army would have to take action against these three counties. But if he sent a large army to attack Taixing, he was worried that the Ming army would take the opportunity to take Yangzhou City. What's more, he knew that Taixing's guard would be Yan Yingyuan, who had been holding Yangzhou for half a year under the form of isolation and helplessness.

The urgent report was sent to Beijing, and Dolgon Xun reacted, ordering Ao Bai to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses from Xuzhou to the south to aid Yangzhou, with 5,000 yellow flag armor governors Li Chengdong.

After Huguang, the Qing court's confrontation in Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty intensified suddenly.

Feng Qin entered Nanjing from Changzhou Mansion to meet the general King Jin.

He is the chief general of Jiang Fang, and Yan Yingyuan is also acting according to his orders.

As soon as he saw Zhai Zhe, Feng Qin immediately asked for help: "The Qing court is already cold in Yangzhou Mansion, and it is in a difficult situation, and the Jiangnan Mansion is concentrated, and it is the time for the Northern Expedition to recover Jianghuai." ”

He came to ask for his life.

Zhai Zhe shook his head and refused, saying, "Now is not the time for a full-scale attack."

Feng Qin pondered for a moment and said: "The defenders of Yangzhou dare not move, the Qing soldiers who galloped south to help are arrogant, Li Chengdong is timid and mentally weak, if he can defeat the soldiers and horses galloping to help, he can reverse the situation that the army is suppressed in Yangzhou Mansion."

He came to ask for power, and if the General's Mansion did not allow him to attack, he could only shrink back in Jiangbei.