Chapter 2, the twenty-seven moments of Chongzhen's four years (2) Continue to update the 10,000-character chapter, ask for votes and reward encouragement)

The second moment: the mental journey of the heroes of yesteryear

Quanzhou, Fujian, South China

While the city of Beijing is already cold and the water is dripping into ice, Quanzhou in the south is still as warm as spring.

Since the Tang Dynasty, Quanzhou has been an important port in the southeast, and there is an endless stream of merchants from the Western Regions and big food merchants. After the Song Dynasty, Quanzhou became China's most important seafaring port, known as the "City of Light" because of its brilliant lights, and the goods of the Song Dynasty set sail from here to Vietnam, Thailand, India, and even exported to Baghdad and Egypt, and then resold to Europe by Venetian merchants.

Unfortunately, the Mongol and Yuan invasions followed, and the sun set over the cliffs and mountains, plundering the wealth accumulated by the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years. After the brutal war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the country had almost no currency that could be used for trading. Among the taxes levied by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu every year, silver was only 100,000 taels. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, China's domestic trade almost degenerated to barter, and taxes were almost completely turned into taxes in kind. Against this historical backdrop, Quanzhou, a trading hub, also declined sharply, and commerce shrank to the point of almost disappearing.

However, in the late 16th century of the Ming Dynasty, with the advent of the Age of Discovery, the port of Quanzhou was again a scene of thousands of sails racing and hundreds of boats competing for the current - today's Quanzhou is the time of great prosperity, and the streets and alleys are full of merchants from the north and the south, who talk on the streets in all kinds of southern and northern tones, and occasionally there are foreign languages, that is, golden-eyed whites and blacks with charcoal-colored complexions can also be seen everywhere. The monks of Kaiyuan Temple in the city knocked on the wooden fish, and the treasure solemnly recited the scriptures; The sturdy man at the entrance of the street food bar pù is shirtless, dancing with a wooden stick to smash fish balls, and there is a loud crackling sound...... Throughout the market, there is a bustling, prosperous and prosperous scene of peace and happiness.

In the fortieth year of Wanli, the Spaniards of Manila wrote: "...... The Silk Road on the sea became more and more prosperous, and Chinese merchant ships sailed from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to Manila, forming a sea passage. At first glance, a person can almost jump from a sea boat one after another, from Manila all the way to Quanzhou. Although since the Ming Dynasty entered the Apocalypse year, the pirates in the Taiwan Strait have flourished, but the maritime trade has also continued to prosper, as long as you master Quanzhou, the "city of light", you can get a cornucopia of gold and silver.

But the strange thing is that the Ming court, which was far away in Beijing and was sluggish, still regarded it as a barren land, and that the annual tax that could be received from the whole province of Fujian was only 600,000 taels of silver -- and in Quanzhou alone, there were dozens of wealthy merchants worth more than one million taels of silver......

In short, since Zheng Zhilong, a "coastal defense guerrilla," was defeated and killed in an attack by "thieves" last year, Huang Dashuai, who took advantage of the situation to sweep through Fujian, moved his troops from Xiapu in northern Fujian to Quanzhou, so that he could control this important trading area and raise enough military salaries -- although he no longer needed to bother with the actual collection of taxes, if he wanted to make those maritime merchants pay obediently, he needed the deterrence of 10,000 Funing troops.

At this moment, on a three-story small building in the rear residence of the Fujian General Army, Huangshi Huang Dashuai, who had just won the victory in the crusade against the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain and had returned from Japan in triumph, was enjoying a warm family banquet in the refreshing sea breeze and the twilight of the sunset.

The dishes on the table are very simple, there are only four things: leek box, taro bun, fried meat roll, and then fish balls with pork filling, which is a famous dish in Fujian - unlike those balls in the north that are formed by adding flour, Fujian likes to use shark and other sticky fish to make meatballs, which are said to be elastic enough to jump three feet high when thrown on the ground, and after adding pork filling, there is not only the crisp taste of fish balls, but also the rich and mellow aroma of pork balls...... All of these dishes are common in the Fujian market, but the drink that accompanies the meal is more special, not the traditional rice wine or liquor, but a bottle of kvas: a low-strength Russian alcoholic drink with a sweet and sour taste, made by a group of travelers on Hainan Island.

Huang Shi, who has recently had enough of Japanese shabby meals, is happily eating the meatballs made by his wife while they are hot, while enjoying his wife's singing.

“…… Who cut the time into fireworks, and in an instant, see all the prosperity;

Who turned the years into crumbs, and in an instant, saw through the red dust;

Who interprets youth into sand paintings, and reads all the exaggerated ......"

The former second sister of Zhao, now the wife of the Fujian General Soldier, Zhao, wore a water-blue silk skirt, leaned on the window railing of the small building, and sang a "new song" of "South China Sea Thief" with a smile.

Originally, in the traditional concept of Chinese, singing music is a lowly thing. The recognition of singing by the upper class only began after the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. After the Manchu Qing ruled China, because the blood and blood of the barbarians had not faded, they had a pathological fascination with the literary and artistic form of drama. From princes and nobles to ordinary Eight Banner people, they began to be obsessed with opera not long after entering Beijing, and many Manchurians liked to sing a few words when they had nothing to do.

Since the Manchu rulers liked to sing music, this affected the habits of the entire Chinese society, although the Chinese people of the Qing Dynasty still regarded the quyi industry as a cheap industry, but occasionally able to sing a few words of opera, but it became a more elegant thing. But in the earlier era of the late Ming Dynasty, except for a few rare wild people, the entire Chinese society not only regarded the quyi industry as a cheap industry, but also believed that singing was a lowly thing that only opera singers would do. Those wealthy ladies are determined not to take it lightly.

However, in the spring of the second year of Chongzhen, Huangshi and Funingjun were attacked and excluded by the entire Fujian officialdom and even the Beijing court, and were almost on the verge of falling apart...... The elder brother of Zhao Er's sister, Juehua Island, sentenced Zhao Yinggong, had already been hit because of Huangshi, and died unexplained at the end of the first year of Chongzhen's office, and it was said that he "died of depression", so he could not count on it - as a result, on the side of the travelers in Lingao, Zhao Ermei enjoyed a high standard of treatment because of Huangshi, and was exposed to all kinds of modern lifestyles, and learned that her husband was also a big leader of "thieves", so he deliberately imitated and learned, and soon all kinds of speech and behavior were closer to the traversers.

――Before the crossing of the Lingao people, Huangshi was naturally just an ordinary soy sauce crowd. But after the crossing, in view of the fact that Huangshi has been operating in time and space at the end of the Ming Dynasty for ten years, not only has high hard work, has a huge personal power, but also has more valuable connections, reputation, influence, and extremely rich war experience, in order to avoid causing internal division among the traversal (Huangshi also has a lot of friends among the traversal), the boss Wende had to pinch his nose and give Huangshi the title of a formal member of the executive committee, and then promoted to the vice chairman who leads the construction of the 6th Army, listed as one of the five giants of the executive committee.

For example, if we compare the forces of the Lingao Travelers to the Soviet Union, if Wen Deji is the eternally glorious, great, and correct Comrade Lenin, then Huangshi is the "father of the Red Army" Trotsky, who only brought a large number of people to the Bolsheviks after the February Revolution in Soviet Russia, the first batch of indigenous troops of the Lingao Crossing People, and it was also Huangshi who sent close officers to help with training, and many soldiers were sent from the Funing Army...... To get back to the point, due to the "wind" that has been impregnated in Lingao for nearly two years, it turned out that in the autumn of Chongzhen's third year, that is, more than a year ago, Huangshi finally stabilized the situation in Fujian, and when he brought his wife and children back from Hainan Island, he was stunned to find that his wife had naturally worn a pink women's casual dress, and his two-year-old daughter Huang Qin also wore Western-style children's clothes and cute red leather shoes...... Of course, Huangshi still likes to hear about this.

“… Mrs. Papapai really has a good voice, and her singing skills are becoming more and more exquisite, this song is really comparable to heaven."

As soon as the song was finished, Huang Shi applauded vigorously, "...... Hey, it's a pity that our husband and wife finally reunited last year, and then they still get together less and leave more, first to crusade against the remnants of the Zheng family, and then to expedition to Ryukyu and Japan, after the triumph, we have to rush to Lingao for a meeting, when I really passed the door and did not enter, I was so busy that my feet did not touch the ground, and I only heard the natural fairy voice of Mrs. Ah It's a pity that in two days, I will go to Liaodong again......"

“…… Hehe, how can you say such an exaggeration, it's just a few words of idle humming. Although she knew that Huang Shi was patting her ass, Mrs. Zhao couldn't help but blush slightly, "...... When you were in Japan, didn't anyone entertain you to watch singing and dancing? ”

“…… Well, when I was in Japan, there were a few Japanese daimyos, well, the princes of Japan, what did they entertain me to see, and what kind of ape music did they listen to,...... It's a pity that I felt furious when I heard them sing, and that voice was really unbearable than a wolf's howl......"

When it comes to Japan's Noh and Sarugaku, Huang Shi immediately showed an uncomfortable expression, "When I was in high school, my whole mind was focused on the quarrel at the meeting, and I didn't have any intention of entertaining...... By the way, I'm bringing some new gadgets from Qiongzhou this time, you can try it."

As he said this, he found a small tin box containing many small black chocolate cubes—not long ago, a Dutch merchant ship had tried to transport a small batch of American cocoa to Lingao, and the people who had passed through it were immediately found to make chocolate sauce. Since the amount of chocolate was too small, the nuts of peanuts and walnuts were mixed in, and finally made into a sugar cube, and because the amount of cocoa was small, each patriarch was just enough to get a box. After Huang Shi got the box of chocolates given to him, he was reluctant to taste it at all, so he brought it back to his wife to offer treasure.

Looking at these strange little black squares, Madame Zhao curiously picked up a small piece, took a bite, and immediately smiled—the aroma of caramel and peanuts was perfectly combined with the smooth taste of chocolate, and the taste immediately conquered the young woman, who was only twenty-five years old.

“…… By the way, what was the situation on the ground in Fujian during the days when I was away? Huang Shi continued to eat the balls and asked at the same time.

If it is in the court of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, the harem concubines are strictly forbidden to be involved in government affairs, and they can't even talk about it, and the violators will be killed immediately. But on the side of Yellowstone and the Thief, "women can hold up half the sky" is not a joke - otherwise wait for the female patriarch to soar

According to Huang Shi, if you can't even trust your wife who lives with you day and night, then how many people in the world can be trusted?

“…… It's not very good, since those teams started to go to the countryside to collect grain and fields, there have been constant conflicts. It was even difficult to recover the original military fields of the Funing Military Guard. At the beginning of the year, we only released a few rumors of asking for Zhangtian, and before we could do anything, hundreds of talented people poured into Quanzhou City, holding the tablet of Confucius's holy ancestor on the street to set up a boot formation, and almost entered the yamen."

-- The "broken boot array" of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty was not a very civilized protest, but more similar to the square movement and color ♂ revolution in later generations, with the goal of subverting the regime (although it was only a local yamen), relying on the privileges of scholars, and beating officials and burning the yamen

“…… How dare you make trouble at our doorstep? I guess I was already on my way to the Ryukyus. What happened? Huang Shi asked curiously.

“…… What else? Jin Qiude immediately took a battalion of freshly shaved recruits into the street, and shot at the group of scholars, and there was nothing to do. However, after the death of only eight people, the tablet of Confucius's holy ancestor was lost all over the street, and he fled to the point where he did not see anyone, and what kind of scholar demeanor and iron bones did he say, tsk, on courage, these fake Taoists are not as good as those rich people in the countryside who are in rebellion."

Zhao Ermei, who was a mother, pursed her lips and said disdainfully-since her brother who was sentenced to death was unclear, and after receiving a bunch of education to "defeat Kong Lao Er" on the side of the "thief" in Lingao, combined with her personal experience and her husband's position, she no longer has the slightest awe of these hypocritical and righteous "Wenqu Xing", but completely agrees with the "thief" of the extreme view of the Ming Dynasty scholars: waste and moths

Huang Shi felt that it was normal when he heard it - although the scholars of the Ming Dynasty boasted of being arrogant, but like Zuo Guangdou in the Apocalypse period, the iron-blooded and fierce Sven warrior who was willing to torture was after all, a very small minority of the very few, and most of them were at best the courage to fight a Taiping fist. If the Ming Dynasty readers were as keen as some of the madmen who believed in Allah in later generations to blow themselves up as human bombs, then where could the Manchu Qing Dynasty enter the world for 300 years?

“…… At present, we have not sent a team in Fujian, but we have cleared two pieces of land near Xiapu and Quanzhou, and we have already had to let one county magistrate and two counties be killed by illness. In the end, we had to make up a plague to barely fool us through, but there are still gentry who are determined to go against us, and they are obviously sitting on a lot of money, but they refuse to pay even a child's tax."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Zhao couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "...... Hey, in Liaodong, in Changsheng Island, everyone knows that it is the enemy who combs his braids, and it is his own people who keep his head. In Fujian, there are enemies everywhere, and some people will not only not be grateful in the slightest when you have just saved their lives, but will also stab you in turn, and what is even more puzzling is that the agricultural cooperative group sent agricultural technicians to the countryside in several villages last year to promote high-yield seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery for free, doubling the yield per mu of those rich landowners. But when it came time to collect taxes, most of them still denied it to the death, and even tried to kidnap agricultural technicians as hostages, I really don't know how long their conscience is."

“…… How does conscience grow? This group of people has never had the slightest conscience at all, where can they still grow? Huang Shi snorted coldly and said murderously, "...... Ben Marshal and the Executive Committee of the Senate did not expropriate and expropriate, but just let them pay taxes truthfully according to the number of acres of land, and they actually dared to make trouble with open fire, it was really a toast and did not eat and drink Since they like to die with their lives so much, how can Ben Shuai disobey their wishes? It doesn't matter if you are the champion or Tanhua, whether you are a retired squire or a retired scholar, you will all be wiped out by Ben Shuai, and then a public trial will be held to appease the people, and then report to a sea robber attack, and the whole family will not see if their heads are hard with Ben Shuai's knife."

When he said these decisive words, Huang Shi's heart was filled with a malicious joy, as if the grievances of the past had been swept away.

In the past, Huangshi used to be very young and looked down on the ancients, and felt that with the insight of the Yue era, he would definitely be able to play with them on the applause, and he set up an earth-shattering ambition: to seek a dynasty and usurp the country, to flaunt the annals of history, to wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauties As a result of the Liaodong battlefield, in the face of the Houjin Eight Banners and Donglin civil officials, the enemies of internal and external coercion, Huangshi finally found himself so powerless. It was as if Sun Monkey was facing the five-fingered sacred mountain of the Buddha, Huang Shi felt that he couldn't jump out of the other party's calculations no matter how much he jumped, and no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't reverse the decline in the slightest.

-- No matter how many battles you won on the front line and how embarrassed the enemy was, the civilian officials behind you who didn't know how long they had their brains had the ability to ruin the entire battle situation overnight, and by the way, they would put the charge of losing their division and land back on the military attaché

This indescribable sense of loss makes Huang Shi often can't help but want to point at those civil officials and shout: If you don't make trouble for your own people, will you die?

But it didn't work, the pig teammates from all walks of life, who were civilian officials, still remained steadfast and happy to make trouble for their own people and give points to the enemy.

After another period of time, Huangshi gradually appeared, no matter how high-sounding and loyal and patriotic they were, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty did not regard the military attache as their own person from the bottom of their hearts, but regarded them as a more dangerous enemy than Jiannu

Therefore, they put the imperial war machine into the so-called superintendent system: the civilian officer of the supervising army is responsible for the overall strategy of the land, and the deployment of troops, as well as when and where to fight with what enemy, are also decided by the civil minister; The eunuchs of the supervising army are responsible for the supply of grain and grass for the whole army, the release of military salaries, and the transportation and distribution of various baggage and weapons; The specific work of siege, defense, arranging troops, and defeating the enemy in the field are all the work of military attachés.

From the point of view of civilian officials, this is really a wonderful military system, if you can win the war, the merit is naturally the civil servants in charge of strategy, China has highly emphasized the decisive role of strategy since ancient times, especially civilian officials; People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic. After the victory, the credit of the eunuchs in the prison army was naturally indispensable; And the merit of the generals is only calculated according to the head. And if defeated. At this time, Wenchen did not recognize the great guiding significance of the strategy, and the responsibility for the defeat must be borne by the military general, because the military general specifically commanded the battle process, and it must have been this group of Qiu Ba who messed up the good plan; If the military generals died in battle, the civilian officials could generally put the blame on the eunuchs who supervised the army, and it must have been these eunuchs who embezzled armor and military salaries, or they did not give the army enough food and grass out of their instinctive habit of harming people, which led to failure.

In short, no matter whether the war is won or lost, civilian officials only reward but not punish, but military attaches often do not even receive military salaries, and can only rely on raiding homes and houses to get by, thus gaining a stigma. Civilian officials can impeach and attack in the name of justice, and re-defeat military attaches who have made meritorious contributions.

Since the end of Wanli, border affairs have been frequent, and the imperial court has to rely more and more on military generals. In the eyes of the gentlemen in the court, the generals from all walks of life are like the monkeys who are being suppressed under the Wuzhi Mountain, and they are about to jump out, so the more generals they can fight, the more the gentlemen have to put seals on their heads, and suppress the temperament that has been grinding for 500 years below

Not to mention that the weapons that came down were all firecrackers that exploded after three shots, and Yanling knives that curled the blade after two slashes... It's just sending you to death

Therefore, as a military general, whether it is to save the country and the nation, or to realize his personal ambitions, as long as he keeps playing in this extremely unfair rule they have made, he will never have a glimmer of hope of success. Only by overthrowing and destroying all these corrupt and corrupt things and establishing a completely new and more advanced social system may still have some possibility of recovering the nation's luck

With Yellowstone's ability, at most the former can be achieved; But combined with the power of the five hundred traversal crowds on the high ground, perhaps the latter can be realized.

Therefore, when the five hundred traversers descended on this world, Huang Shi did not hesitate to choose to return to the collective, even if he couldn't be the boss.

However, no matter what kind of social change, it is bound to cause the dying throes of vested interests, as well as all kinds of wailing and barking.

After this meal, when Mrs. Zhao removed the leftovers, Huang Shi's personal guard sent a letter from Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, Huang Shi frowned and lit a candle, opened the envelope and looked at it, but there was no text in it, only two notes. One of them is "I don't want to seal the marquis, I hope the sea is flat", and the other is "The inner library is burned to splendid ashes, and the heavenly street is full of public bones." But the note was stamped with Zou Weilian's governor's seal.

“…… Even if he already knows that there is nothing he can do about Ben Shuai, he still has to use such dumb riddles to question Ben Shuai, do you want to be Qi Jiguang or Huang Chao? Hehe, this stubborn old man" Huang Shi smiled faintly, and was about to say something more, but was suddenly interrupted by the sound of bells one after another. Looking back in a daze, it was only then that as the sun set in the west, the various temples in Quanzhou City were ringing loud bells, and the clergy of different religions were also singing, waving their arms to the sky, expressing their infinite praise and admiration for the gods.

-- Since the Ming Dynasty opened the sea ban, merchants from all over the world have come to Quanzhou to trade, and by the time of the Apocalypse, the total number of Arab and European merchants who chose to settle here has exceeded tens of thousands, and for several decades, in addition to the traditional Chinese temples, new mosques and churches have been built in the city. As for the port of Quanzhou, it is full of ships from all over the world, although the sky is gradually darkening, but the market is still bustling, shops have lit candles, a large number of citizens and business travelers are also stopping and lingering on the street.

On the street outside the wall of the Fujian General Army, men and women with happy smiles on their faces passed by endlessly, and from time to time you could hear the laughter of children. The crowd on the street, happy, serene, peaceful, and carefree, at the entrance to the harbor. A late sailboat is slowly approaching the berth, the sails are gently lowering, and if you listen closely, you can still hear the joyful songs of the sailors on board as they arrive home......

Overlooking the bustling street scene from the top of the building, Huang Shi knew in his heart that if he couldn't change this time and space, then at most, more than twenty years later, the streets would be full of people. Whether it is a pale old man, or an innocent and lovely child, whether it is a vigorous young man, or a happy girl with drooping hair, on average, two out of every three people will be killed......

Such a tragedy will not only be born in Quanzhou, but the entire land of Shenzhou will fall into a pool of blood, hundreds of shipyards along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang will be burned along with ships, and every living person within 30 miles of the coast will be killed......

Why should our nation suffer such a catastrophe? Why are our defenseless people being killed? Why should our civilization endure such a reversal?

Who is tolerating the adulterer, so that the tiger is in trouble? Who are the people who are betraying our country and pushing our people into misery?

Those sanctimonious Donglin gentlemen may blame a qiē on thieves and the Mandate of Heaven. But Yellowstone would never think so:

-- Throughout history, the collapse of any group, organization, state, or class has always started from within. In the words of Jia Tanchun in "Lou Meng", it is: You will make trouble, make trouble. Outsiders didn't copy it, so you copied your own people first.

-- The direct cause of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty began with the financial collapse, and the financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty was due to the unscrupulous encroachment of national interests by the landlord bureaucracy. In the early stage, reforms could be carried out to alleviate the problem, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, no matter what kind of tax policy the imperial court adopted, it could no longer guarantee the interests of the country. Because the Ming Dynasty managed the country, it relied on this landlord bureaucracy, which had become completely corrupt and sick. This is like looking at the granary with a rat and the fishing ground with a gluttonous cat, and in no case can it avoid the end of the national interests being embezzled by the landlords and bureaucracy.

In today's Huangshi view, the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty, including the clan, the aristocracy, the landlords and the bureaucracy from the landlords, these vested interests used their power to constantly erode the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, even in the face of peasant uprisings and foreign invasions, they still did not consider the overall interests of the country at all, and would only continue to plunder unscrupulously and frantically, almost to the point of psychological and physical perversion - their sins overturned the country and annihilated civilization. Letting the people suffer is excessively merciful to these national sinners who have ruined the fortune of China, no matter what kind of fate they end up with. Even if Hitler's treatment of the Jews was used to defeat them, it would have to be called revolutionary humanism.

For these people, Huangshi has secretly sentenced them to death in his heart - if they do not change their ways in time.

“…… I've never been a murderer, and I've never betrayed this country. Since I was literate in elementary school. The teacher taught me to always love your nation and the people of the motherland. Even if I am broken to pieces, I cannot stand on the opposite side of hundreds of millions of people......"

Looking at the note of Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, Huang Shi, the hero of the Ming Dynasty who had repeatedly broken the Jiannu and "killed Nurhachi", said to himself silently.

――The hero has the hope of the court and the wilderness, and the demon king has the ambition to sweep the **.

Really, for a while, I actually wanted to be a hero, and I really wanted to prosper the Ming Dynasty and open the peace of the world.

But the cruel reality forced me to be a demon king who subverted the Ming Dynasty.

I once won many battles in Liaodong, played triumphant songs, and almost forced Jiannu to a desperate situation on all sides. However, Emperor Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the warlords of Guanning, and the civilian clique of the Donglin Party failed me in their bloody battles, and also failed those brave warriors who sacrificed heroically, and in just one or two years, they buried the good situation with one hand, so that the Houjin regime, which was close to collapse, was resurrected again, and countless innocent people died miserably.

Even if the Emperor of the Apocalypse had not died so early and continued to trust and reuse me, as a military attaché, I might have been able to quell the rebellion of Lu'an, the bandits of Fujian and Guangdong, the blow of Jiannu's destruction, and the sore on the body of the empire, but it would still be of no use - countless corrupt officials who were as brazen as moths would still continue to do evil and once again make the motherland full of holes. Countless people suffering from hunger and cold in the Central Plains are still not exempt from additional taxes, and the state still has no money to help the victims, no funds to clean up the rivers, and no money to pay the soldiers.

When the people of the world are still forced to endure it and are forced to rise up, will I still wield a butcher's knife at the hungry?

The army I have built with my own hands is not designed to slaughter innocent people, I would rather cut the butcher's knife at the wicked and corrupt hypocrites in the court

Today, you are no longer outstanding members of the Chinese nation, but sinners who hinder the Chinese nation's innovation and self-help

Now, the time for the Final Judgment is not far off, and you will either give up your former privileges and move with the times, from parasites to operational agricultural capitalists. Or let me all die

I used to fight for the Ming Dynasty and China in Liaodong, and now I still have to fight for this land and the people of this land

Of course, the new system that we, the traversers, can bring to the Ming Dynasty is also not perfect. Perhaps there are some critics who are full of moral cleanliness but never know how to do things -- in this era, it is the hypocrites of the Donglin Party who flaunt "heroic righteousness" and will accuse us "thieves" of betraying etiquette and religion, "violating morals and customs", "shameless and promiscuous ♂", and so on...... Thinking of the various speculations and condemnations about "thief sexual ♂ immorality" in the notes of some scholars collected recently, Huang Shi couldn't help but want to laugh: Who of you "righteous gentlemen" is not a family with three wives and four concubines, and you have a girl in the room to sleep with you at the age of thirteen or fourteen? Are you embarrassed to accuse those traverser elders who have no more than two or three personal maids?

Moreover, no matter how extravagant and extravagant the private lives of those veterans of Lingao were, even absurd ♂ and corrupt, they all represent the requirements of China's most advanced productive forces, the direction of progress of China's most advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the Chinese people

Only our Senate can put China on the right path of the industrial revolution ahead of schedule, and even rely on the technological advantages of the first four centuries or so to allow the people of the Ming Dynasty to greatly reduce the pain of the industrialization process and enjoy the benefits of the industrial revolution in advance...... Whether it is to adopt the line of capitalism, imperialism or socialism, and to imitate the United States, Germany or the Soviet Union, it is at least much better than the current desperate Ming

-- People are changeable, Huangshi, the Fujian general soldier of Chongzhen for four years, has long ceased to be the loyal and brave general in the Apocalypse, but has been determined to break with the Ming Dynasty The vanguard of the anti-thief, and now it is only because the time to erect the anti-flag has not yet arrived, so he temporarily continues to wear a Ming skin.

However, as a person with feelings, this does not mean that Huangshi can completely forget about the past qiē.

For example, those old friends who once fought side by side in Liaodong, as well as the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town who struggled with hunger and cold...... According to some sporadic news from the north over the years, as well as some occasional letters sent from the north, Huang Shi knew very well that since Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan, Dongjiang Town, which was isolated behind the enemy, had fallen into endless internal strife and famine. The supply of silver and grain was also intermittent, which was even more difficult than in Mao Wenlong's time, and the morale of the guards in various places was depressed, and they only knew about corruption and looting, and they no longer had the ambition to protect the Liao people and restore the Liao land.

Under such circumstances, the livelihood of the soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town is naturally even more difficult, and there is hunger everywhere almost every month of the year.

Although since Sun Yuanhua, the governor of the Christian Westernization faction, Denglai, some of the Dongjiang army and Liao people who could not survive were withdrawn by him to Dengzhou, Shandong for resettlement, Huangshi's brother-in-law Kong Youde was one of the generals who withdrew south. However, Shandong has also suffered from disasters in recent years, and life has been very embarrassing. After the sudden influx of so many Liao soldiers and Liao people, the struggle for land and work immediately led to a fierce conflict between the Liaodong and the native of Shandong in Dengzhou -- the great Dengzhou Rebellion in history broke out against the background of the tearing and antagonism of this ethnic group.

In Kong Youde's recent letters to Huangshi, he is full of resentment at the various exclusions of the locals in Shandong, as well as complaining that the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town are starving and fighting against the Tartars in Liaodong, and they will be ostracized and hostile by the locals when they arrive in Shandong......

In fact, for the tragic experience of the military and civilians in Dongjiang Town in the past two years, Huangshi, who was also born in Dongjiang, will naturally not be untouched. In the early years, it was really difficult to protect itself, but now that it has been stationed in Quanzhou and coerced the whole of Fujian, Huangshi naturally wants to pull those Dongjiang soldiers and civilians to help -- after some struggle, out of an extreme thirst for population and labor, and Huangshi has repeatedly promised to peacefully solve the problem of recruiting personnel in Liaodong by virtue of its own prestige, the executive committee of the Lingao Senate finally approved the military and civilian recruitment plan of Dongjiang Town in Huangshi, preparing to go north to seize Jeju Island in North Korea as a springboard and relay station. The hungry were then transported south from the remaining islands in eastern Liaodong in Dongjiang Town. At present, a fleet has been assembled on the Penghu Islands, and just waiting for Huangshi to deal with some of the general affairs accumulated in Quanzhou, he will lead the team north to Liaodong to recruit the Dongjiang military and civilians.

However, the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town, who are still in Liaodong, finally have a way to go to the south, but what about those who have been displaced to Shandong? Do you really want to sit back and watch Kong Youde be completely excluded in Shandong, and finally embark on the road of no return to mutiny and rebellion, defeated and built slaves in Liaodong?

Huang Shi thought for a long time, but still couldn't think of a suitable solution, so he sighed, took out an inkwell, paper, and quill from a stationery bag he carried with him, and began to write a reply to Kong Youde in the candlelight and twilight...... But only a few strokes fell, so I stopped writing again - this letter was sent to the past and I don't know if it will be received in the year of the monkey, anyway, I will go north by boat in a day or two, so when I pass through Dengzhou, I will find a way to meet with Kong Youde and a few of their old acquaintances secretly, and find out their thoughts and bottom line in person

But what Huangshi didn't know at this time was that even the plan to save the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town had now been forced to come to naught -- according to the latest decision suddenly made by the Lingao Senate, the operation of going north to Liaodong to contain the hungry people in Dongjiang Town had just been urgently canceled......

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