The Ming Dynasty, especially the late Ming Dynasty, can be said to be a very strange era.

Capitalism began to sprout, and the merchants in the Jianghuai region began to know how to support scholars to fight for greater welfare for themselves. But the result of the germination is the infinite expansion of capital, so much so that the existence of the state is neglected.

Merchants constantly demanded that the sea should not be forbidden, but in fact they kept traveling by sea to obtain wealth. Constant demands for lower business taxes, in fact they don't know how much they are earning.

Perhaps this is a special situation of Chinese civilization, accustomed to the change of dynasty but still claiming to be Chinese orthodoxy, so no matter who eventually becomes the throne, it will only change the aristocratic class and the royal class, and there will be no change in their scholar and merchant class. No matter who is the emperor, there is always a need for someone to help them govern the country, and there is always a need for merchants to provide them with wealth. Therefore, they did not shy away from absorbing blood in the country's body, and even the Jin merchants learned to buy and sell the national fortune, that is, to put heavy pressure on Houjin, and then constantly draw blood and dig meat on Daming's body to provide for Houjin.

The Qing Dynasty was established, and these so-called Jin merchants became red-top merchants one by one, which were blood-stained tops.

In the absence of a threat to their lives, the scholars and merchants of Jiangnan, and even all the common people, lived a drunken life, and they still claimed to be the subjects of the Celestial Empire, despising all the rogues and barbarians. How powerful the so-called Houjin is, they don't know. They don't know how heroic the so-called rogues are.

In the beautiful story, the rogues and barbarians only take advantage of the convenience for a while, even if the Ming is beaten all over the body, in the end, there will always be heroes with a heroic team to stand up, take the Ming to drive away and kill all these barbarians, and then celebrate with the whole world, which is gratifying.

So much, there is actually only one thing to say, that is, the problem of concept, Jiangnan people do not have the sense of urgency and death threat of the border, so they can continue to be at ease, and they can despise a qiē.

Yang Ai, who grew up in such an environment and absorbed a lot of this concept, is the most typical example.

obviously came to the thieves' den, but he still demanded that Zhang Hongbin surrender with an awe-inspiring attitude, completely ignoring why Zhang Hongbin rebelled and how huge his force was.

The literati were at odds with the military attachés, so no one would personally see the appearance of the guards and the soldiers and battalions. In the impression of many literati, the soldiers are a group of Qiuba, a group of ruffians and a group of illiterate, who never have a common language with themselves.

Therefore, Yang Ai still doesn't know what the Ming army is like, and he doesn't know how much worse the combat effectiveness of the anti-thieves is compared to the Ming army.

This is the confidence that she can say so domineeringly, very ethereal, and has no actual confidence.

Is it sad, to say?

said goodbye to Zhang Hongbin, but Yang Ai did not have any fear, in fact, she did not have any qualifications to be afraid. She is not free, she can only be regarded as a servant girl, and she was sent to the thief's den by the buyer, or the original buyer is actually a thief. Trapped in a den of thieves, let alone ready to be defiled, I am afraid that Yang Ai is ready to die at any time at this moment.

A strange woman who can die for Daming in the future will naturally not be far worse in her bones.

She can only hope now that the anti-thief leader can repent and accept Zhao'an under her own persuasion, so that she will not be so desperate.

He was obviously saving him and showing him a clear way, why did he treat himself like this? You must know that in the original Water Margin, the final destination of the heroes of Liangshan was not to accept the recruitment of the imperial court and become the heroes of the Great Song Dynasty?

An eleven-year-old child, asking her to read the Water Margin as a political book is indeed embarrassing for her.

"Although the young master doesn't like you, you are the maid of the house after all, so there is still a room here that is yours. But at this stage, you don't have to do anything, you have to be in the academy for two years, it's an order, you have no room to refute. Chunxiang said proudly to Yang Ai.

"Anti-thief also has a school here?" Yang Ai has been struggling with this problem.

"What kind of rebels, we are a righteous army, the Ming Dynasty has no way to let the people suffer the pain of misery, and our uprising is just to save the people of Li. Also, the young master attaches the most importance to education, he asks all people, at least to recognize how big this world is, what kind of existence this Ming is, and why do we suffer, what should we do when we suffer, these are the most important questions that the young master requires the lecturer of the academy to focus on.

Of course, in addition to the basic enlightenment, there are further practical learnings that will still be taught. However, the young master doesn't seem to like poetry and songs, and I remember once he said, 'Poetry and poetry are not bad, and it is still good to cultivate taste.' However, what is needed now is not elegance, but cruelty. Chunxiang said to Yang Ai very seriously.

Don't be elegant, just be cruel? Sure enough, he is an out-and-out vulgar person...... I thought his argument was a bit interesting.

Yang Ai didn't say anything, she was not qualified to say anything at the moment.

The next day, she entered the school under the arrangement of Chunxiang. The school starts operating in the sixth year of junior high school, after all, the longer you study, the more nature you can teach and absorb, and no one likes to waste their time. In addition, there is nothing to do in the first place, so studying is the best choice.

Yang Ai is going to school for the first time, after all, in this era, women's lack of virtue is the mainstream thought. The qin, chess, calligraphy and painting she learned was a business need, and the poetry and song were due to interest, but there was no master, most of them were the seniors in the Guiyun Academy, after all, some of them were the daughters of criminal officials, and they had also learned some knowledge since childhood.

In the school, men and women are separated, but only by a curtain.

The first class had not yet been held, and the lecturer had already personally walked up to her and told her that she would stay to make up for the class from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (酉時 and 戌時), after all, she was a newcomer, and she was afraid that she would not be able to keep up with a lot of knowledge.

Yang Ai felt very touched by this, after all, the lecturer was willing to make up extra lessons for himself, which was a very happy thing.

In the following time, the tutor began to explain the three-character scripture, but Yang Ai saw a lot of strange symbols in the newly issued textbook. She knows the Three Character Sutra, and even knows the meaning of every word and sentence in it, but she just doesn't know what these symbols mean.

As the lesson continued, the instructor kept explaining what these words meant on a black board, and at this time she realized that these symbols were a kind of phonetic transcription used to aid in word recognition. Although I don't know the rules yet, it is certain that the epoch-making creation of Zào, but I don't know which great Confucian created Zào.

A class is actually not interesting, a talented woman who can already recite the full text of the Sanzijing and a group of novices who have just begun to learn the Sanzijing are studying together, which is a kind of torture. It was only in the afternoon when the so-called political lecture began that she felt a little interesting.

It's just that when I opened the political textbook, it was full of anti-thief arguments, and Yang Ai scoffed at it, which she saw as Zhang Hongbin's brainwashing of these children. Of course, there was no word brainwashing at that time, but Yang Ai knew that this word referred to this situation.

Anyway, she is a latecomer, and if she hasn't heard the previous courses, she naturally can't keep up with the lecturer's point of view. In fact, the lecturer had hinted before that she could take a look at the previous lessons in class first, and tonight he was giving her a little bit of explanation.

So, Yang Ai opened the first lesson, and what caught her eye was the five big words 'what is the country'.

Reading it little by little, as a woman who already has a hazy worldview, she is non-committal about the content of this book, but basically agrees with the arguments in it. The state is a violent machine, a violent machine in the hands of a few strata. A small number of people take advantage of this violent opportunity to earn benefits for themselves. Of course, these few rulers must also pay some responsibilities and obligations, otherwise the state will be the most complete machine of violence.

But after in-depth thinking, why do we need to control floods, why build roads and factories?

When the people suffer from disasters, there is naturally no way to generate benefits, and the restoration of the original state is to restore the income of the benefits; The same is true in other cases, and to put it bluntly, this is not a favor or mercy on the part of the ruling class to the people, but a kind of work to protect their own vested interests.

In other words, when the people are unable to bring any benefit to themselves, then even if the people are dead, the ruling class will not frown. Yes, this is the essence of the state, don't say anything about the people. Lord Freedom.

Yang Ai felt that she was a little confused, or that the arguments put forward by Zhang Hongbin had brought some damage to her three views.

She subconsciously denied these arguments, because she felt that if she was deeply involved, she was afraid that she would not have any confidence here. But the curiosity and the tragic experience of the past forced her to look, and to look deeply, she really wanted to get an explanation of why she was so miserable.

There is no way for any bottom layer to ignore the existence of this book, even if it is Yang Ai.

She is not of the ruling class, so she is bound to accept the arguments of the book, and she has no choice.

Just like this, a month later, Yang Ai's brain seems to have changed, but her proud confidence has never been taken out to show off. She knew that she was not qualified to show off, at least the world she had always known did not exist at all. Or maybe there used to be zài, but now everyone lives in a dream of the past and doesn't want to wake up.

"Yes, it looks a lot more pleasing to the eye." Looking at the shy Yang Ai, Zhang Hongbin nodded with satisfaction, "I know, you may still be very unconvinced, or you may not be able to completely accept such a fact." I also know that you have asked many students, and they have also learned about what kind of life the people are living now. But you haven't actually seen it, so you won't really believe it. So, for the next month, I'll take a leave of absence for you to go down in the countryside. If you need to get out of the Salvation Army's sphere of influence, I can also arrange for someone to escort you. Remember, you only have one month. ”

"The slave understands." Yang Ai nodded silently, but there was nothing she could do.

Without investigation, there is no voice, and this is a truth that she has only recently understood.