Although Xu Ping has not had time to go south, this does not mean that he does not care about the movements of Zhejiang, the field strength of the entire army regrouped in Zhejiang made him feel a headache, Nanming's recovery ability is much higher than Li Shun, in just a few months, the Ming army field troops in Zhejiang and Nanjing are once again as high as two armies of 60,000 people, which has posed a great threat to the Jiangnan Shun army. And Xu Ping, the five veterans in Jiangxi and Huguang, could only pretend not to see, and he was relieved that they had not recovered yet.

It is certain that they did not recover, but it was only a matter of time before they recovered, and after the victory in Anqing a few months ago, it seemed that the Shun army was about to sweep Jiangnan again, but now Xu Ping still had to spend time with the Constitution Division in Chunhua, and the target Quanzhou had become very far away. Now Xu Ping regrets a little that he didn't follow Zhou Dongtian's advice and venture south to Zhejiang, but he didn't expect the situation to evolve like this at that time. Time is Nanming's friend and not his own, but Xu Ping still decided to wait, maybe he can repeat the strategy of encircling Kaifeng again, forcing the Ming army to relieve Chunhua and Nanjing again and again, at least this time the Shun army will not repeat the mistake of being flooded by the embankment.

The intelligence from Zhejiang said that the thirteenth town of Nanming invited Wang Qinian as a deputy general, and also sent Ji Xinghui to the fourteenth town as a deputy general. Compared with the angry others, Xu Ping seemed a little calm, he read the information of the thirteenth town twice, and finally said: "When the time comes, we will fight it first." ”

"Fight to the death!" This is the common opinion of Liu Zongmin, Li Laiheng and other generals of the Shun Army who participated in the Shanxi crusade against the Northern Alliance, and now they are extremely eager for the Seventh Army to come and relieve the siege of Chun.

At the same time, Xu Ping also heard about the election of the Zhejiang Provincial Secretary of the Yuan, and Xia Wanchun was also in charge of the specific preparations, and when he introduced himself, he even confided in the fact that he had worked for the camp in Henan, and told the surprised southern media that he had been to Shunfang and had been to Liaodong not long ago, but in the end he still thought that the existing system of the Qing Yuan in the Southern Ming Dynasty was most in line with the Confucian idea of governing the country. Xia Wanchun admitted that he used to have great hopes for the Shun court, but in the end found that the king of Shun still went back to the old path of the cycle of chaos, and now Xia Wanchun believes that the electoral system is actually a cycle, and more quickly, before the government has time to complete the complete corruption to end their decline process, and replace a group of officials who are still in the rising period to come to power, and the most important thing is that this replacement does not need to be at the cost of the blood of tyrants and the people. In Xia Wanchun's opinion, Qi Guogong seemed to have decided that this cycle was inevitable, so he no longer tried to avoid it and suppress it, but actively promoted it, so that it would happen once in a few years at a small cost.

In this chaotic era, other literati have done a lot of shocking things, and the number of people who have rebelled has been thrown around, so although Xia Wanchun has been criticized a lot because of this statement, he has not become the finger of Qianfu. As for the accusations against the Ming Court in Xia Wanchun's words, the Constituent Assembly and the media do not sound too harsh, if the Ming Court should not be overthrown, and the system is not changed and revised, then the legitimacy of the Constituent Assembly is questionable, and some people secretly speculate that Xia Wanchun's purpose in saying this is also to create public opinion for the Duke of Qi to usurp the throne, after all, Xia Wanchun has accepted the official position of the Duke of Qi before.

Different from Nanming's reaction, the generals of the Shun army who heard about this were very angry, most of them didn't know the identities of Xu Ping's two senior staff members before, but they all knew that Xu Ping respected these two people very much, although he couldn't be called obedient in internal affairs (because of Sun Kewang), but he also attached great importance to it, at least for the two people who had never made military merits, Xu Ping was already a little too polite.

To this day, Xu Ping is reluctant to name another person, and he has never revealed his identity for the sake of Xia Wanchun's reputation (even after he defected from Dashun). Therefore, after the generals of the Shun army learned that Xia Wanchun publicly declared that Li Zicheng was not the master, Xu Ping had more ambitions and insufficient means, they all felt that he was a little ungrateful.

"The Tao is different, insufficient and conspiratory, if it is in harmony, it will be dealt with, and if it is not in harmony, it will go. Although I don't think that Qi Gong's businessmen are a good idea to govern the country, I know Mr. Xia very well, and I also know that he is full of desire to save the country and love the people. Xu Ping's reaction was more bland than his subordinates, and he was also quite sorry to think of the parting of ways with Gu Yanwu and Xia Wanchun, but what made him admire was that Xia Wanchun dared to say this matter: "There is nothing to say to people, what a big husband." ”

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Just when Xu Ping was evaluating Xia Wanchun, the latter was telling some colleagues about his experience in Liaodong, and in front of these colleagues who were not only curious about Liaodong because of "Liaodong People's Observer", but even had some fascination, Xia Wanchun said unceremoniously: "The King of Liao is completely a believer in Legalism, and as for the Minister of Liao, he is the reincarnation of Shang Ying." ”

Although everyone already knows from the report that Xia Wanchun does not have a good impression of the Liao Domain, if he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he wouldn't know how inferior Xia Wanchun's opinion of the Liao Domain was. In the Zhejiang Election Committee, there are a few others who have seen Hong Chengchou, everyone has the impression that this Liao State looks dignified, and he is even more chic and dignified between his gestures, and he is a famous celebrity in the world when he is in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and a person who heard Xia Wanchun say this can't help but defend Hong Chengchou: "Although I have no deep friendship with Hong Hengjiu, he can't pretend to be a great Confucian." ”

"Huh." Xia Wanchun sneered, his expression as if he had heard the most ridiculous thing in the world.

The people who defended Hong Chengchou mistakenly thought that Xia Wanchun looked down on Hong Chengchou because he was deeply favored by Chongzhen and did not commit suicide and martyrdom, or first helped the Northern Alliance to attack Dashun (this is not too difficult for everyone to accept, after all, Lin Dan Khan's banner is the banner of "avenging the great tomorrow") and then surrendered to Dashun and became the minister of Liao, but everyone has long been accustomed to this kind of thing:

Ninety percent of the Jiangnan celebrities and talents under the leadership of Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, voted over and over again to vote for Dashun and then to Daming: the Jiangnan talents who were actively persuaded a while ago voted back a lot after Xu Ping returned to Jiangnan to surround Chunhua, and also held a number of poetry meetings to celebrate the "great victory of Wang Shi Anqing", and their leaders were more shrewd - as the leader of Qian who had first led the persuasion of King Shun to inherit the emperor's throne and then led the persuasion of the Duke of Qi to add Jiuxi, after Xu Ping came back, he hid in Nanjing to raise his hope, and just spit out the "Qingyuan is deeply in line with the way of the sage" He swallowed it back immediately. At the most critical time in Chunhua, under the influence of "Liaodong People's Observer", several cronies of Leader Qian, such as Hou Fangyu, the son of Hou Xun, a former university scholar and inspector, jumped out and waved his flag and shouted that the construction of the Qingyuan was a number of classics and forgot their ancestors, and the Chen Zizhuang faction of the Donglin Party that had participated in the Constituent Assembly and the Qingyuan were all traitors to the Holy Religion and scum of Donglin. However, after the constitutional division shocked against Xu Ping's offensive, and when the words of those who scolded Chen Zizhuang and others were still in his ears, Leader Qian sneaked to Hangzhou at the beginning of this month, and for the first time was interviewed by reporters from the southern provinces in Nanjing, saying that he was very happy that the Donglin Chen Zizhuang faction could help the ruling minister, and said very confidently that the Donglin Party could play an increasingly important role in the imperial court in the future. He also sent Hou Fangyu and others to Quanzhou to discuss Donglin's intra-party cooperation with Chen Zizhuang;

The first person in the Ming Dynasty to surrender to the Beishun military generals, Yu Dong, the chief military officer of the Jiangbei Military Affairs of the Premise, surrendered Xu Ping without firing a shot, and united with other Ming generals to besiege Yangzhou and force the superintendent Shi Kefa to death, and also set up a notorious stone monument comparable to Zhang Hongfan in Nanjing. After the amphibious landing of the Ming army, Yu Dong did not say a word to offer Hangzhou to surrender, and he did not fire a shot, and once again actively led the way for the enemy, and when he met the local generals of the Shun army who hesitated and refused to surrender along the way, Yu Dong also personally rode his horse to the city to persuade him to surrender: "I have surrendered, what are you waiting for?" The prince of Qi doesn't even ask me about the crime, what are you afraid of? Afterwards, although the Northern Expeditionary Army did not punish him, but they all despised him very much, only Yu Dong himself was still complacent, when the Northern Expeditionary Army gained the upper hand, he repeatedly boasted to reporters about his achievements in the peaceful recovery of Hangzhou, as for the persuasion of a large number of Shun troops, Yu Dong boasted of being "Yan Yan second", and compared the matter of leading the way for the Ming army with Zhang Fei's entry into Sichuan. When He Feihu abandoned Nanjing and Xu Ping besieged Chunhua, someone suddenly broke out the shady curtain - Yu Dong secretly made a large number of black clothes and black flags, and when the reporter of "Quanzhou Daily", who was really not afraid of death, went to Hangzhou to ask Yu Dong what his intentions were, Yu Dong not only did not kill anyone, but also personally came out to explain that his intention was to disguise himself as a Shun army to find an opportunity to ambush (as for whether it was an ambush of the Ming army or an ambush of the Shun army, there was no word), and he said that this move was deeply in line with the art of war - since then, southern newspapers have generally used the term "great military strategist" or "great military strategist" to refer to Yu Dong. A reporter also asked He Feihu, commander of the Sixth Army, about this issue, and He Feihu, who was busy because of the urgency of the war at that time, replied to the reporter as follows: "If Chunhua is not lost, I will be convinced of General Yu's loyalty to the country. Later, although the reporter repeatedly asked what would happen if Chunhua was lost, He Feihu refused to answer. Chen Wei of Longtan was far less calm than He Feihu (there was a regiment in the council division that had to stay in the rear to guard against the sudden attack of friendly forces from all walks of life and could not go to the front line to fight against the Shun army), he shouted after being asked by reporters: "Everything must be on the good side, if Chunhua is lost, then next time it will be General Xu and General Yu's turn to fight side by side!" ”;

There is also Qi Guogong himself, who is regarded by the world as an important minister of the two dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, and is also developing in the direction of Prime Minister Cao Cheng at full speed.

Therefore, after hearing Xia Wanchun's sneer, people who disdained him and misunderstood him felt that Hong Chengchou didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and everyone couldn't help but think, didn't Xia Wanchun also throw in the break? A famous man like Chen Zizhuang did not commit treason, but didn't he also lead a group of people to betray his master, and even the old grandmaster Qian Leader didn't recognize it? In this world, who can be stronger than whom?

"I said that the Liao Domain was the resurrection of the violent Qin, and I was not a lie." Xia Wanchun had countless relevant experiences in Liaodong, and he casually picked a typical one: "What did Shang Ying's "Reclamation Order" say at the beginning? ”

Legalists believe that if the people have thoughts, they will not "cultivate grass" - cultivating grass is farming, so in addition to the nationalization of land prohibiting merchants from buying grain, people cannot be allowed to travel, because travel will increase people's knowledge - even if it is not good to go to the next village, communication will increase the frequency of thinking, so Shang Yang legislated to prohibit the common people of Qin from visiting relatives and friends or traveling, and also invented the earliest letter of introduction in human history. If there is no proof that the government is sent to go out, the post stations in various places are not allowed to stay - the people can save more energy when they don't travel, and use it to cultivate grass for the state-owned land of the Qin State.

Xia Wanchun told everyone that the Liao Fan had restored the identity letter system.

In addition, in order to strengthen the "reclamation of grass", Shang Ying also strictly prohibited the circulation of opera in Qin, and the "Reclamation Order" stipulated that all poetry and singing should be eliminated, Shang Ying thought that if the people did not have literary and artistic activities, they had to go home obediently to sleep, and the big animals slept enough at night, and they could get up earlier in the morning to "cultivate grass".

This is now also being implemented by the Liao Domain, but Xia Wanchun found that the Liao Domain did even more, not to rudely eliminate all operas as the Legalists did in the past, but to declare all the previous operas and poems to be "Zhi Jiao" (this word is also an invention of Shang Ying, and is used by Legalists to describe all Chinese artistic activities: singing, dancing, art, poetry...... and the Liao Wangfu compiled some template operas, all of which propagated the greatness of the Liao King, the benevolence of the Liao Wang, and the fact that the Liao King was the God-given leader of the people of Liaodong, and other content was prohibited.

Finally, Xia Wanchun also mentioned one point, that is, the Liao Fan also inherited the Shang Dynasty's idea of reward and punishment almost entirely, Han Fei has always emphasized that people do not raise the heart of love and increase the majesty of the momentum, but Shang Ying is actually more cunning in front of Han Fei, Shang Ying said that in addition to "robbing and punishing" the people, but also "driving rewards", of course, Shang Ying and Han Fei admit that the fairness of rewards and punishments is foolish, the so-called punishment of five rewards and five is the lowest, but Shang Ying advocates that rewards should be appropriately used as an auxiliary means of punishment, and he believes that the most appropriate proportion is " Nine punishments and one reward. "For example, criminals who are reduced to slavery (according to the law of Shang Ying, anyone who takes too many steps on the street is a criminal, and he must be reduced to slavery. Shang Ying advocated that the best of them should be allowed to redeem themselves for every ten convicts sentenced, so that all the slaves could be stimulated to work hard for the Qin king. Of course, the essence of Shang Ying's expulsion is to make the robbery and punishment run better, so this kind of self-redeeming slave is still different from normal people, if his subsequent work is less than the workload when he redeemed himself, he will still be demoted to slavery again - this threat can ensure that the ransom slave will also work hard for the King of Qin for a lifetime.

Xia Wanchun saw a staggering number of "resentful factions" in the Liao Domain, and the Liao Prince's Mansion set a percentage of the number of "resentful factions" found in all regions, and the government at all levels encouraged each other to report and denounce each other, and with a sentence or even just because of the intuition of officials, a person was designated as a resentful faction, creating a huge group of prisoners in society to deter other people, as Shang Ying proposed.

Of course, since they had to study to the end, shortly after Xia Wanchun's arrival, the Liao king announced that he would be lenient with these disgruntled factions in accordance with the principle of curing the sick and saving people, and if they actively studied the Liao king's "Liaodong Chronicles" and worked hard to improve the happiness index of the people of Liaodong in the labor camp, they might be considered to have repented and get rid of their status as "resentful factions".

As far as Xia Wanchun knew, the Liao Wangfu had also learned a full about how to deal with Shang Ying: that is, the "resentful faction" identified as repentant activists would receive the title of "repentant and resentful faction", and they would continue to be monitored, and if their enthusiasm for work declined, or if they did not study the "Liaodong Chronicles" more actively and diligently than normal people, they would immediately lose their identity as "repentant and resentful factions" and once again become "resentful factions" who needed to be imprisoned and concentrate on studying and working. ”

"This is Dong Shaojie's article, written in the "Liaodong People's Observer"," Xia Wanchun took out a newspaper that he had only received this morning and showed it to his colleagues: "Dong Shaojie said that it is possible to use seawater to irrigate farmland. ”

"What?" Countless exclamations rang out, not only for this judgment, but also because of Dong Shaojie's name, many people here knew that he was a famous agricultural expert under Qi Guogong, and he was also an authority on agriculture in Quanzhou University.

Not long ago, a village in Liaodong announced that through the full study of the "Liaodong Chronicles", the mixed irrigation method of seawater and fresh water has been invented, which is a brand-new agricultural technology invention and a miracle that can only happen under the great leadership of the King of Liao. Now the whole Liaoqun is following suit, if anyone says that they can't do it, it is obviously that they have not seriously studied the "Liaodong Chronicles", and if they question the achievements of others, it is even more obvious that they are resentful.

And Dong Shaojie's article is to explain why this miracle can happen from an agricultural point of view: he said that in fact, fertilizer water is also a kind of salt water, and there is no essential difference between it and seawater, since fertilizer and fresh water can be mixed to improve crop yields, so seawater can also be done as long as it is used correctly. Dong Shaojie also specifically pointed out that in the past, the reason why seawater was not used for irrigation was entirely because of the old thinking at work, but now the people of Liaodong have fully emancipated their minds after reading the "Brief Records of the Liao King", so they have drawn inferences from one case to another to put forward this kind of technology that can greatly increase grain production and reduce fertilizer consumption, which eloquently proves the advanced nature of the equal pay system for equal work in the Liao Domain--Irrigating fields with seawater is indeed a miracle in the world that can only happen under the Liao Domain, and Shang Ying could not do it.

"If Dong Shaojie doesn't want to become a disgruntled faction, he has to go along with the Liao Wangfu's finger deer as a horse." Xia Wanchun saw regret, doubt, disbelief and a trace of disdain on the faces of others, and finally this expression made Xia Wanchun can't help but defend the agricultural authority in Liaodong: "Mr. Dong's words are not his own shame, but from the Liaowang Mansion!" ”

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