Chapter 69, gossip Donglin

Combined with several reports submitted by Yu Guozhen, the "inner ghost" of the traverser, as well as the interrogation records of the "Donglin gentlemen" who came to Hainan Island, Wang Qiu quickly figured out the absurd plot of the Jiangnan Donglin Party against the Hainan Island Crossing Group, and couldn't help but laugh deeply about it:

“…… You have been tossing around for a year or two to carry out land reform in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and invite the landlords and gentry to eat bullets. With just a few waste firewood who are powerless and obviously lack strings in their brains, they dare to investigate any major cases of rebellion? ”

Looking at the case file whose content was comparable to that of an absurd novel, Wang Qiu couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "...... Do they think they are the strange hero Lu Xiaofeng in Gu Long's novels? Not to mention that they don't have that martial arts and resourcefulness, even if they really find any evidence for them, what can they do? Mobilize soldiers from all over the world to come to Fujian to fight? Don't you see that the current Ming Dynasty is already on fire and smoking in all directions, and even the city of Beijing has been transformed into a combat field twice in a row? ”

“…… Hehe, when will the Donglin Party look at the problem from the perspective of the imperial court? On the surface, they advertise high morals all day long and serve the country and the people, but in fact, how can they think about this country for a single minute? This is a group of sports fanatics who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic! ”

As a "victim", General Huangshi sat at the table with a teacup in his hand and said nonchalantly, "...... Of course, one thing you really guessed correctly, unlike the plots in TV series and movies, the characterization of rebellion is never based on evidence, but on strength. As long as you are strong enough, even if you cut down the emperor, you will still be a loyal minister. So these Donglin gentlemen are not here to investigate the case at all, but to engage in tandem. ”

“…… Concatenation? With whom to tandem? Wang Qiu frowned.

“…… The local government, the scholars, the landlords, the gentry, and the retired officials...... In short, it is a person with local prestige and power. ”

Huang Shi yawned when, "...... Theoretically, as vested interests in the old society, they are all our enemies! ”

“…… And then what? Wang Qiu asked.

“…… And then? Naturally, the local gentry wrote a petition and the court officials made a strong effort to impeach, accusing Emperor Chongzhen of Huang's crime of treason, and at the same time preaching to the gentry of the world that I had 'cut off the literary style' and brutalized the gentry...... How else could it be? "Yellowstone is a little unclear.

“…… Wouldn't they send their servants to incite the tenants to rise up and plunge your 30,000 Funing troops into a guerrilla war like Iraq's? ”

“…… How can it be? If you really do this, I guarantee that the first ones to be robbed and burned to kill all will be these big landlords themselves! ”

Huang Shi smiled dumbly, "...... The landlords in the north forced out Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the landlords in the south were no better. The land in Fujian is barren, and the rice harvested from an acre of paddy field can only be sold for half a tael of silver, but the landlord's rent and the government's taxes have to receive as much as two taels of silver! As a result, the peasants' families were forced to die, and even in good years, thousands of people had to flee the famine. Now that Fujian Province is full of abandoned fields and starvation -- not mainly because of natural disasters, but because they were forced out by force, who do you think those tenants would be the first to kill if they were armed?

What's more, my Funing Army is not a vegetarian either. In the past two years, many people have been killed, and the county magistrate has also killed one, scaring away a bunch of them. Since taking office, the governor of Fujian has not dared to take a single step out of Fuzhou City. Last spring, in addition to going to Japan, I also burned down the South Shaolin Temple in Putian, hung more than 100 bald donkeys on trees, and organized local tenants to conduct a public trial of them...... In short, since the Funing army went south, we have been fighting with these big landlords for six years, and the most disobedient thorns in Fujian have now been almost wiped out, and the rest have long been frightened, and they dare not take the initiative to put me on the right ...... with ten of them."

“…… It turns out that you even made the fire of Shaolin Temple?! Well, although it's Southern Shaolin, it's powerful enough. Wang Qiu was speechless, but then his eyes lit up again, and his gossip heart rose, "...... Is it troublesome to deal with the stick monk over there? Did you meet the legendary Eighteen Bronze Array? Also, the image of Nan Shaolin seems to be quite positive, you directly made it so violent, and even the temple was burned, wouldn't it be good? ”

“…… Hey, can the things made up in Jin Yong's novels be taken seriously? He also said that Emperor Qianlong was a Han Chinese of the Chen family in Haining! ”

Huang Shi rolled his eyes, "...... In fact, the rural temples in these years are no different from the big landlords, at least nine of the ten monks do not abide by the rules and precepts, and one is more ruthless than the other, and there is no mercy or anything. For example, a few years ago, Southern Shaolin thought that his own Buddha field was too small and the rent he received was not enough, so he colluded with the government officials to cancel the household registration of the people in a nearby village, and then reported to the yamen with no conscience, and insisted that these hundreds of acres of good paddy fields and more than 2,000 acres of dry land were all wasteland and wild mountains, and they were taken for themselves. And the common people who were caught in the misfortune were either tenant farmers in Southern Shaolin, or because they had no household registration, they were forced to become homeless people, and they were already dead! ”

“…… Directly enclose land and arrest people as serfs?! Hey, hey, it's almost time to catch up with the horse race after the Eight Banners enter the customs? Wang Qiu was suddenly a little dumbfounded, "...... Anyway, they are already civilized people, or are they a group of monks who should be merciful, and they don't bring such cruelty, right? I remember that in the novels before liberation, didn't those big landlords first find ways to hoard and store a large amount of grain in the harvest year, and then take advantage of the disaster year when the poor people with no savings were about to starve to death, and used the ultra-low price of a bucket of millet and an acre of land to buy their fields little by little? ”

“…… That's the inefficient play of small landlords with little power, and the real bigwigs are in the dark! If a rich man does not have a power over his head, he may wake up one day and find that he has become a fugitive slave of a certain gentleman - otherwise how can it be called a clever plunder? ”

-- Indeed, in ancient times, it was really dangerous enough to make a fortune, and sometimes even if you sat at home well, as long as someone changed the file in the yamen, you would have "died of a violent illness" and donated all your family property to a certain temple or a certain "virtuous" gentleman...... Of course, the general approach seems to be to reverse the situation, first get a big killer to kill you, and then forge a will and transfer documents or something......

“…… As for whether or not I met the Shaolin stick monk in the battle against Southern Shaolin, the officer who led the team did not tell me in detail. However, the monks over there all have scud attributes, which should be absolutely correct - through the tunnels in the temple, 300 monks ran away 200, and there are only 30 of the remaining 100 bald donkeys found in the temple, and more than 70 bald heads are found in the temple, and more than 70 bald heads are found in the homes of green buildings and tenants everywhere......"

“…… Scoured from tenants' homes? Didn't you say that this temple is very unpopular? How can there still be tenants to cover for them? ”

“…… Where are the bitter tenants harboring the absconding monks? It's clearly the wives and daughters of those flower monks sleeping with tenants! The first to denounce are those who have been forcibly cuckolded - as in the story of the white-haired girl, it is also common for tenants to pay the rent and let the women of the family pay for it...... What's even more disgusting is that I heard that there are still flower monks sleeping with the youngest son of the tenant family, and even let the father sleep with him......"

Huang Shi said with a disgusting expression - the end of the Ming Dynasty was an era when male style was prevalent and full of basic feelings, and Fujian was the most popular place in the provinces of the country. If there is a beautiful little boy with outstanding appearance in an ordinary farmer's family, he is often eleven or twelve years old and has a strange Shu Huang to give a bride price to "hire...... It is said that at that time, there were many small people who were too happy because of their buttocks, and their psychology was distorted, and after they grew a beard, they still refused to be a man again to establish a family and inherit the family (the same sex is true love, and the opposite sex should be burned!). simply castrated himself ruthlessly, so that he could wear women's clothes as a child prostitute for the rest of his life......

Huh? suddenly remembered that Lin Pingzhi, who was a eunuch from the palace in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", practiced the sword spectrum to ward off evil spirits, and the ancestor of the Lin family who made the family martial arts of "If you want to practice this skill, you must first go from the palace", he was also a Fujian from the Ming Dynasty...... Could it be that it has something to do with the atmosphere of doing business in this area?

“…… Although the abbot of Southern Shaolin and a group of big monks ran away, the temple and the field could not run, so after using the power of thunder to knock out this thorn, the ground in southern Fujian finally stopped a lot...... Alas, I now understand that killing chickens and monkeys doesn't work at all, no matter how many small landlords kill them, those wealthy families will still oppose you without restraint. Only by beating those big tigers at the beginning and killing the monkeys and chickens upside down did it barely have a bit of a deterrent effect - after the extermination of Southern Shaolin, those gentry with eyes on the top of their heads finally began to soften.

The envoy of the Choshu Domain, who was in Quanzhou at the time, also congratulated me on this matter, but this Japanese samurai really couldn't speak, and actually complimented me on the fact that the 'Sixth Heavenly Demon King' Nobunaga burned down the monastery of Mt. Hiei in the past, and he would be able to use martial arts for a long time and sweep the world...... I was so angry that I asked on the spot, if I am Oda Nobunaga, then who is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then who is Akechi Mitsuhide? Huang Shi's nagging continued, but Wang Qiu felt that this matter was too complicated, and he didn't know how to talk about it, so he brought the topic back to the case itself.

“…… Well, that, if they are here to engage in tandem and incite the dissatisfaction of Guangdong officialdom and the people against the traverser...... It doesn't seem right. According to Yu Guozhen, as well as the confessions of those guys, they had met with the governor of Liangguang once before, and only said some polite words, and served tea to the guests in less than half an hour. Besides, they didn't call any private secret gatherings - was there such a conspiracy? ”

“…… Do you think that the ancients would be more efficient than modern diplomats? Not to mention that these guys like to talk in circles in order to show their literary talents. Unless it's really burning eyebrows, with the procrastination style of these romantic talents, how can they get straight to the point as soon as they meet? ”

Huang Shi raised his eyebrows, since the crossing, he couldn't stand the way the ancient "cultural people" spoke, the point is that once others go around the bend, he must follow, otherwise it will seem strange to him...... Fortunately, he is a military general, and it is not a big deal to be ridiculed as vulgar," ...... Next, the people in the team who really knew some political struggle skills were scared away early by the false news that our army was about to attack Guangzhou. And Fang Yizhi, the stunned young man who stayed behind, reversed his priorities under Yu Guozhen's flickering - it is estimated that the few Donglin bigwigs who sent them out were just letting them go out to have fun, and they didn't expect that these stunned young men would really come to Hainan Island......

“…… Ahem, no matter what, in short, the spies sent by the Donglin Party to Guangzhou all the way are currently finished without causing any impact. But the people who went to Fujian to engage in tandem, as well as the impeachment of the Donglin Party in the center of the imperial court in the north and south, have you considered how to deal with it? After all, unlike Hainan Island, which has been completely conquered, your Funing army can't control the whole of Fujian, not even half of it. ”

Wang Qiu thought for a while and said, still a little worried, and said - according to the history of the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty (blackened version) that he knew, as a group of "experts in the ancient square movement" and a professional-stirring stick, the Donglin Party, which controlled the public opinion of the world, really had no construction ability, but its destructive power in all aspects was extraordinary, and it was especially good at sowing discord and engaging in mass movements...... It's as difficult as those street fighting experts in Taiwan in later generations.

Fortunately, the official army of the Ming Dynasty and the army of the traverser in this year were not as civilized as the "strawberry soldiers" in Taiwan in later generations.

“…… I don't know what they'll do at the moment, whether they'll stop or don't die, and I can only brake quietly and wait to see the move. ”

Huang Shi pursed his lips disappreciatively, "...... Anyway, in the troubled times, a qiē struggle in the end still has to rely on force to speak. And the imperial court did not have a field army that could confront our army head-on around Fujian and even in the entire southeast. And even if there are soldiers, it is not something that the Donglin Party can mobilize at will. Although the power of the Donglin Party in these years was huge, the biggest flaw was that there were no reliable descendant troops - how could these noble scribes be willing to be in the company of lowly soldiers like us if they despised the martial arts so much? It wasn't until a few years later, after they had had enough of suffering because they didn't have military power, that they learned their lesson and pinched their noses to support Zuo Liangyu and other warlords. But at least for now, their hands are empty! ”

(At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zuo Liangyu, who was known for his extreme corruption in military discipline, and openly rebelled against Nanjing, directly led to the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was actually a descendant of the Donglin Party, and Zuo Liangyu's rebellion was also vigorously instigated and internally received by the Donglin Party in Nanjing, completely ignoring the fact that the Qing soldiers had moved south at this time and were in Yangzhou...... As a result, Zuo Liangyu died of illness halfway, the rest of the army mutinied and collapsed, and the main force surrendered to the Manchus. The Donglin Party, which was waiting for Zuo Liangyu's rebels to enter the city and depose Emperor Hongguang, made a mistake in their calculations, and the military strength of the Nanjing court was crushed by them again, so they had to surrender to the Qing court...... ）

“…… I know that an enemy standing in the open is not terrible, but a scribe never kills with a sword! ”

Wang Qiu blinked, "...... Aren't they afraid that they will take advantage of the factional contradictions between the old Liaodong troops in the Funing Army and the southern generals to instigate rebellion? ”

“…… Dismantle our adversary from within? Well, this is indeed a routine that the Donglin Party likes, but it is also not easy -- first of all, the Funing Army has gone to Hainan Island and Taiwan for rotation training in the past few years, and has fully instilled the idea that 'all big landlords should die' from top to bottom, and in the past two years, countless families have been destroyed and destroyed, and they have already formed a mortal enmity with the local gentry. Since the Donglin Party wants to support the gentry and landlords, who will listen to what they say?

Secondly, in the past few years, the Funing Army has always labeled them as eunuch minions, and they have been suppressed enough, and several of my powerful old troops have almost lost their lives...... If the Donglin Party is willing to take out 5 million taels of silver to buy bribes, it may be a little troublesome - but they are absolutely reluctant to take out even 500,000 taels! Now that we have the upper hand, and the old and new hatreds are not finished, how can we take refuge in the enemy? ”

Huang Shi still didn't worry much, "...... Just like during the Anti-Japanese War, no one would still defect to the Japanese as a puppet army in August 45! ”

“…… Well, as far as I know, there really seem to be such fools, and some of them even surrendered as traitors on August 14......"

“…… What the? Is there really such a fool? Huang Shi's eyes widened slightly, and his expression suddenly became very subtle, but soon became calm again, "...... I don't think there are too many stupid people like this, whether it's the subordinates who followed me from Liaodong to Fujian, or the newcomers who were screened and reviewed by Tongguò Lingao. Besides, we have wireless telegraphy here, and the reconnaissance satellite you brought with us, and if there is really any terrible mess on the Fujian side, we will have time to rush back to deal with it -- after all, there is nothing more important in this world than the Global Traveler Summit here......"

“…… Indeed, this meeting is probably at stake for the fate of the entire planet - this side of the planet, of course. I heard that the central government intends to set up a global time-traveler organization similar to the European Union in this time and space, in order to coordinate the interests of various time-traveler forces and avoid internal conflicts. However, the specific name of the Huameng or the Vietminh has not yet been decided. The location of the headquarters of this global organization, and the selection of the first president, are also very troublesome -- I heard that the group fights and brawls of the representatives of all sides have been staged several times......

Wang Qiu muttered about the fateful meeting that was now being held secretly in Sanya, and at the same time put away the text on the table and prepared to stuff it into a drawer, but he stumbled upon a few pieces of letterhead paper underneath that he hadn't read. So, curiously, he picked up the papers, "...... Dai Erdong...... Or Dai Yaohan? It turns out that there is another female traverser next to Yu Guozhen in Anhui......"

Then, Wang Qiu carefully read the self-described resume of this single female traveler in the Ming Dynasty, and then couldn't help but be shocked:

“…… It's miserable like this...... Hey, it's just a history of blood and tears of peasant girls in the Ming Dynasty......"