It is often said that anger produces poets, and anger and repression can indeed lead people to do some shocking things. When Qian Qianyi's career was frustrated, he disregarded secular etiquette and was not afraid of scolding from the gentry, and married Liu Rushi, a dusty woman, with the courtesy of the main room; And in the deep remorse and self-blame, he did not hesitate to die for his life, desperately trying to make up for his past mistakes with his own practical actions.

“…… Mr. also regrets the grievances of the middle way, and wants to cover it late, but fortunately the heavens treat Mr. with kindness, so that Mr. will not end up ......"

"Ahh......h

"Mr. Qian, please get up." Cheng Dong, the head of the Changshu Station of the Intelligence Bureau, hurriedly got up and helped Qian Qianyi to sit up, then arched his hand to the south, and said: "Your Highness is benevolent, praised by the world, and broad-minded, and no one can compare. This time, I invite the famous scholars and Confucians, but I am really thirsty for the sages, and I don't want you to be under the rule of the Tartars again, and it will be difficult to get out of danger. ”

"Yes, yes." Qian Qianyi discerned the direction at this time, and arched his hand to the south, "Your Highness is affectionate, and you don't take the old and old evil as your grievances, and the old decay is grateful, and it is difficult to repay it." It's just, it's just—"

Qian Qianyi was rescued by Liu Ruyi, and after being released from prison, he returned to Changshu from Suzhou and moved to Hongdou Villa. On the surface, he stayed at home, built a cloud building to collect books and check his writings, and secretly liaised with the anti-Qing and Ming restoration forces in the southwest and southeast seas.

"Qianyun Building" takes the meaning of "the true Xuanyun Immortal Descends", and its book building is called "Jiangyun Building", there is a single copy of Song carving, and there are many secret books. Its collection of books has been re-governed, divided into 73 cabinets. He said: "I am poor in my old age, but I can be rich in books." Scholars say that "south of the great river, there is no richer collection of books than money".

In the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), the young girl and the nursing mother were playing in the study building, and the candle fell into the pile of paper by mistake and was burned. Qian claimed that the fire of Qianyunlou and the burning of books by Emperor Liang Yuan in Jiangling and the burning of books in Wenyuan Pavilion by Li Zicheng were "the three major misfortunes of book collection". Afterwards, he said bitterly: "The rebellion of Jiashen." Ancient and modern books and history books are a big catastrophe, the fire of my family Gengyin, and the history of Jiangzuo books is a small catastrophe. ”

As the main planner of the Yangtze River Campaign, the battle ended without a problem due to the internal contradictions and selfish self-use of the Ming army, Qian Qianyi was discouraged, so he devoted his main energy to the posthumous recording of the "Bibliography of the Qianyun Tower", in order to make up for the loss of the fire of the Qianyun Tower. In addition, he has collected and copied a lot of books over the years, and it would be a little difficult to give up if he abandoned them immediately.

"Mr. Qian doesn't need to be in a hurry." Cheng Dong comforted: "Your Highness has a saying: Mr. can go if he can, and if he can't go, he can write and sort out with peace of mind." There are many ancient books that have been lost and have been lost. It's heart-wrenching. His contribution to cultural heritage is also a great achievement. ”

"Cultural heritage?" Qian Qianyi heard this new word for the first time, and he was stunned for a moment before he understood, and bowed to the south again, "Your Highness's subtle words are old and decrepit, and I will try my best to save this and this cultural heritage with my crippled body." ”

His Royal Highness also said: Qian Qianyi is not good at being an official, but it is good to be a scholar. There is time. After that, he was able to cover it up as much as he could, although there were slanders in the world. But there will come a time when a fair verdict will be made, and I hope it will not have to be suppressed. ”

"With His Royal Highness's words, old decay is peace of mind when he dies." Qian Qianyi couldn't help but lose his voice.

After Qian Qianyi was imprisoned, he really understood the strange woman who had been with him for eight years and was willing to live and die with him. I understood the upright and generous nature contained in her, and this upright spirit. It's the bloody nature that makes many of Angzo's husbands, including herself, ashamed.

So, after escaping death, he instead stimulated a bloody heart. Subsequently, he spent all his family wealth to fund the anti-Qing cause of people with lofty ideals from all walks of life, and planned a strategic plan to use Jiangnan as the foundation to go north and forge ahead. even did not hesitate to risk killing his head and breaking his family, and contacted the anti-Qing righteous people to investigate the reality of the Qing army in Jiangnan. Running between Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan.

But Qian Qianyi, as a leader of the literary world for a while, was once respected by the world, and later the middle way defected and fell to the Qing Dynasty, and he became the object of ridicule and ridicule by everyone. Rummaging through the novel notes describing money in the Ming Season, all of them left behind the ridiculous figure of an old man who was greedy for life and afraid of death. But he repented of his old age and desperately tried to make up for it with practical actions.

Many literati desperately smear Qian Qianyi, in fact, they are not worthy of what they have done in their lives, but because Qian Shu is making a big move, demonizing and clowning Qian's behavior, it can undoubtedly divert everyone's attention, and cover up their cowardice and despicability by attacking money, and at the same time vent their inner depression and self-blame.

And only a few people such as Huang Zongxi and Lu Liuliang gave Lao Qian an understanding, and Huang Zongxi wrote three articles for Qian Qianyi overnight after Qian Qianyi was seriously ill and bedridden, and got 1,000 taels of silver, so as to solve Lao Qian's funeral expenses.

"Fifty years of the Four Seas Sect Alliance, who will pass it on after the end of the heart. With the words of the candle burning, the text is written to pay off the debt. The red bean is lost in the moon, and the beauty wants to refer to the zither string. Who is a confidant? Can it be a shame for the public. ”

Huang Zongxi's poem is a true portrayal of Qian Qianyi's heart, willing to risk killing his head, running around and working hard, but not getting recognition, still full of slander, and being depressed in his heart is certain. Now, with the respect of the imperial court, Min Fan has given understanding and encouragement, which can be regarded as a conclusion for Qian Qianyi. Once the depression and sorrow in his heart were vented, it was reasonable for Qian Qianyi to cry bitterly.

Cheng Dong sat for a long time after comforting him, talked about the current form, asked about the news of Huang Zong's persecution of Xi and Lu Liuliang and others, and listened to Qian Qianyi's excited statement of opinion, before leaving a gift and leaving.

Qian Qianyi was so excited that he read Zhu Yongxing's letter again, and then pondered the words of His Royal Highness Min relayed by Cheng Dong, suddenly smirked, suddenly shed tears, and suddenly picked up a pen and wanted to write......

"Who was here? Wearing official uniforms and escorts, you are inviting the master to be a high-ranking official, right? Liu Ru walked in with a frosty face, looked at Qian Qianyi's appearance, and sneered: "This is crazy, but I don't know when the master will take office?" ”

"Haha, haha." Qian Qianyi didn't care about the young wife's cold words, smiled heartily, looked up and down and nodded, "The peach blossoms are beautiful and beautiful." Well, my 'old peach blossom' fluttering in the wind is really angry with Hedong Junliu! ”

Caoyi's family lives in the east of the broken bridge, and the good sentence is as light as the wind on the lake. Peach blossoms are in the middle of the beauty. This is the peach blossom poem that Qian Qianyi praised Liu Ruyi for appreciating the festival back then, and made a harmony poem.

Liu Ru pursed her lips, glanced at the old man, saw the wooden box on the table, and said hatefully: "What did you give?" Yellow and white dirty, not smelly of the house. He said. She reached out and picked it up, and was about to throw it out the door.

Liu Ru was born in the dust, her social status is very low, and she has been suppressed for a long time, but she is born with a strong personality and heroic spirit. She uses all kinds of shocking behaviors and means all the time to prove her worth, mocking the hypocrisy and incompetence of those sanctimonious and high-ranking "gentlemen". In order to do this, Ryu even went so far as to die to declare her pride and bravery to the world.

"No." Qian Qianyi grabbed Liu Ruye's arm with the agility that the elderly rarely had, and said urgently: "This is the reward of His Royal Highness Min." Never damaging it. ”

"Your Highness?" Liu Ru rolled his eyes, he couldn't remember which Qing court dignitary it was, but his hand didn't let go.

"The Imperial Court of the Emperor Ming stayed behind to guard Prince Min, His Royal Highness Min." Qian Qianyi explained, his face a little proud.

"How so? You-" Liu Ru was stunned and inexplicable, glaring at Qian Qianyi with a look of disbelief.

"It's for the husband!" Qian Qianyi grabbed the wooden box and stroked it. He let out a sigh of relief, "Your Highness's grace." He forgave his previous sins and sent someone to invite him to go south......"

The Min clan remained behind, and the Ming army rose in the southwest. Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru didn't know anything about these news. It's just that Qian Qianyi has been in contact with Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Huangyan and other anti-Qing forces in the southeast, and he feels guilty of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty and is ashamed of himself. How can you be shy to be effective.

Liu Ru heard it clearly, and was pleasantly surprised, Qian Qianyi was able to have His Royal Highness's conclusion, and he could also be freed from those foul words.

"Your Highness's reward, you should collect it carefully. Do not let outsiders know. After Qian Qianyi finished speaking, he opened the wooden box and took out the contents with the same treasure.

"This is—" Liu Ru snatched the bowl-sized rhombic glasses, looked left and right, and saw small characters behind the mirror.

"Liu is so, Liu is so! It is difficult to provoke a trace of stubbornness, who will ask for the remaining flowers! Concubine Zhu rewarded the widow Liu. ”

"It was the princess who rewarded the concubine." Liu Ru stroked it gently, her eyes staring at the small words on the mirror were a little moist, and she murmured: "Also, I also sealed the concubine's body." ”

Qian Qianyi was also taken aback, opened his mouth for a long time, and said: "His Royal Highness Min is indeed a very person, such a thing - that foreign concubine actually calls herself a princess......"

"What about foreign races, sharing weal and woe with His Highness, he deserves to be famous." Liu Ru thought of her own background, and couldn't help but feel sympathy, and her anger interrupted Qian Qianyi's criticism.

Life is sealed, death is given. Judging from the gift system of the Ming Dynasty, only when a wife or mother or grandmother can she receive a gift with her husband or son, and she must also have certain qualifications. One of them is that the woman who is given the gift must have the qualifications of being married to the Ming media and being from a good family.

The Ming media is marrying, mainly referring to the fact that the wife who has received the gift must be officially married by the official in a traditional ceremony, and be in the status of a wife. Born from a good family, that is, the woman who is given the gift must come from a pure white family, and if it is a widow, advocate, or concubine who remarries, it is not allowed to be gifted. And although the widow is the lowest rank of a wife, she is not jealous of Liu Ruyi's background, her name is small and big, and she is a little shocking.

Qian Qianyi shook his head with a wry smile, stopped speaking, and took out all the treasures in the wooden box, but suddenly his eyes widened, and he took out the paper under it with trembling hands.

Qian Qianyi's eyes flashed with the big words "Donglin Party's Theory of Disaster and National Disaster", he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then looked carefully, sure enough, it was this even more shocking title, and there was a short text below that seemed to be clear.

"Not afraid of clear theories, not afraid of clear discussions, sucking people's blood, sucking the country's righteousness, controlling the government, turbidity and official evaluation, the power of life and death is not exercised by the court, and the power of taxation is not manipulated by the court, so that the poor people want to control the prefecture and county, and whether the sage of the prefecture and county is controlled by Donglin, why not? Caress are all their protégés. The way that you want to control, and the dethronement of the way is controlled by Donglin, why not? The Manchu dynasty has its own private party wings. So that the victim has no way to complain, and the wrongdoer has no place to redress his grievances......"

The words were shocking, Qian Qianyi was dumbfounded, and sat in the chair all of a sudden. Liu Ru didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly took a closer look, and when he saw the title and text clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

When the Southern Ming Dynasty was not yet established, Qian Qianyi, as the leader of Donglin, actively participated in the political struggle to support the new monarch. However, he was too angry, lacked the ability and experience to engage in politics, and at the same time seemed to have no principles and fixed opinions about politics. He is a coward, and he sees the wind and makes the rudder. In the end, the original comrades of Donglin scolded him for being "mad", and Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng only used him for a while, making Qian Qianyi not a human being.

Although the Donglin Party is considered to have completely broken with Qian Qianyi, this title is seen at first glance. Qian Qianyi was still shocked and inexplicable. You must know that although the Donglin Party is nominally gone, the Qingliu and southern gentry represented by the Donglin Party are still there, and this force representing tradition, conservatism, and self-interest is still strong.

"His Royal Highness Min has not decided Jiangnan, but regards the Jiangnan gentry as enemies, this, how can this be made?" Qian Qianyi shook his hands and looked at Liu Ruyi in a panic, as if he wanted to get an answer from this downright and generous young wife.

Liu Ru frowned and thought about it. He said, "Your Highness has already started, so you will continue to write." You should know the filth of the Donglin Party. His Royal Highness is heroic, standing up when the building is about to collapse, saving the court from danger, and breaking the Tartar in Zhengfeng, will he be afraid of these sour hypocrites. Besides, His Highness can have what he has achieved today. Are you a person who has no plan? You just have to write, and Your Highness uses it or not. It makes sense, but it's not something we can control. ”

Qian Qianyi blinked, and Mu Ran's expression soothed. He was the head of the Donglin Party, and he went through all the things of Chongzhen and Hongguang, if it is said that he is exposing the Donglin Party, he is really an excellent candidate. His Highness Min. Only this talent in employing people makes people have to admire.

"Then, I'll just write?" Qian Qianyi was still a little hesitant.

"Write, write the Donglin Party as bad as possible. Well, they don't have a lot of good stuff anyway. Liu Ru slapped the table. It can be regarded as giving Qian Qianyi a shot in the arm.

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The authorities of the people are like playing chess, and the small skills of the catalpa can be described as big. There are all chess moves, there are wants, there are urgency, and the good ones see the urgency of the situation and save it. If you are in a hurry now, you will have to do it; Now you want it, that is, you have it all. The key places in the world must be contested, but there are only four, and the Central Plains is fundamentally free in the south of the Yangtze River. Chang, Huai, Bianjing, if it is not the capital, then Xuan Xuan and the heavy troops of the southern Chu Dynasty will go all out to restore Jing and Xiang, strangle the Han Dynasty, shake Wuchang down, and the south of the river is between my fingers. Jiangnan is established, the wealth is gradually filled, and the root has been consolidated, and then the Jing and Bianzhi Feng are cleared of the river. Emperor Gao Dingding Jinling, the soldiers pointed to the north, and Emperor Gengshen escaped to Mobei, which has been effective.

Qian Qianyi's so-called grand strategy of "three bureaus of catalpa scales" undoubtedly had considerable strategic vision at that time. At that time, with the southeast forces of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan, Sun Kewang's southwest division, and the thirteen companies in the favorable position in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, they would have made joint efforts to attack from the east and west, and it would have been very certain to take the south of the Yangtze River. Then with Jiangnan as the foundation, there was plenty of money and food, and the Northern Expedition was also a situation that turned the world upside down.

It's a pity that the rare and easy to lose is also powerful, and the Zhongxing plan was finally put into water in the internal friction of the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty. As a result, Qian Qianyi was overwhelmed with grief, and sighed in a poem: "The cliffs and mountains of Haijiao are slanted, and they will not belong to China from now on." There is no fish belly to donate the ground, and there is ambergris? Looking at the Guanhe River is not a Han banner, blowing the sun and the moon is a beard. The boss of Chang'e has nowhere to return, leaning on the silver wheel and crying osmanthus. ”

However, the current shape is very similar to the plan of Qian Qianyi and others, the extermination of the Shuo army refers to the south of the Yangtze River, the Shuo army threatens Jingxiang, the southeast coast has Zhoushan, Chongming as the base of the sailors and marines, and the south has the Yanshuo army and the Zhengshuo army eyeing the tiger, the east and west attack, the north and the south echo the trend has been completed.

Striking while the iron was hot, the offensive of the Ming army did not stop, and it was still the strongest army that was singing the leading role.

On 16 August, most of the Qing reinforcements had not yet reached Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and more than 20,000 troops set out by boat from the large port of Xiapu, and under the cover of the fire of the fleet led by Deng Yao, they landed at Nangang in Cangnan County, in the Hengyang Zhijiang River valley in southern Zhejiang, and successfully circled to the Fuding Water Pass. The other fleet led by Yang Yandi cruised off the coast of Wenzhou, holding back the Qing army in Wenzhou and unable to go south for reinforcements.

On August 18, the Ming army attacked back and forth, broke through the Fuding water pass, and opened the passage from Fujian to Zhejiang by land. This is both a feint and a containment. The watershed pass was occupied by the Ming army, and it could make a posture of attacking Jiangsu and Zhejiang at any time. And if the danger is in hand, a small number of troops can hold on, freeing up the hands and feet of the main force to make another plan.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang were in an emergency, and the Zhejiang general Tula urgently transferred the Qing army from Jiangxi to Quzhou to strengthen the defense of Xianxia Pass, another pass, and then Hangzhou personally led the troops to the south to Lijiang to sit in the town, forming a second line of defense with Wenzhou, Lishui, and Quzhou.

After seizing the Fenshui Pass, the exterminating army did not penetrate deep into Zhejiang, but only sent a small number of troops to operate south of the Qing army's defense line, which seemed to be testing the reality of the Qing army. The other army was assembled in Yanping (now Nanping) and Shaowu (now still named) in northwestern Fujian to prepare for the westward invasion of Jiangxi Province.

To the surprise of the Qing army, the Zhengshuo army, which was originally sitting in Shaoguan and threatening Ganzhou, led 5,000 soldiers and horses led by its commander-in-chief, Li Sixing, the son of the Jin dynasty, had secretly rushed to Shaowu. In Shaowu, Li Sixing was rectifying the soldiers and horses while stockpiling supplies, and when the time came, he waved his troops into Jiangxi and showed his strength.

That is to say, there are already two troops in Fujian Province, the Zhengshuo Army and the Annihilation Army, and there are only more than 10,000 Ming troops guarding Xiaomeiling, and they have been assigned to the Shushuo Army under the command of Ma Weixing, the Duke of Xuguo.

The movement of troops and horses, the relocation of generals, these actions successfully deceived the eyes and ears of the Qing army. The change in the direction of the main attack was even more unexpected by the Qing army. Do not attack the enemy's heavily defended places, such as Ganzhou, and Zhejiang, even if it is a place of wealth, is temporarily suspended, but the attack on the enemy is weak. This mode of thinking is actually not new, and it is almost the same as besieging a fortified city and sweeping the surrounding area first.

………… (To be continued......)