The Chinese people have always been the people who can endure hardships the most, but as long as there is a little way to live, no one is willing to rebel. Compared with the tenant poor in the vast rural areas, the people in Suzhou are living a decent life, at least there is no problem in having enough to eat. So let them fight with the brocade guards who crossed the sword and carried the gun, how would they be willing? Even the servants of the gentry did not dare.

It was basically impossible for Zhang Puzhi and his ilk to incite the people to attack Jinyiwei, who distributed newspapers, so they had to think of other ways, so they asked people to bring a message to Chen Zilong and invite him to go to Tiger Hill outside the city to debate. As long as he can win Chen Zilong in the debate and let him lose, naturally no one will believe Chen Zilong. Even if you can't argue with Chen Zilong, you can think of other ways, such as trying to make Chen Zilong unable to return to Suzhou City......

Chen Zilong also knew the plans of Zhang Pu and others, but he didn't care.

The newspaper's affairs have been regularized, and apart from finding time to write a few articles for the next issue, Chen Zilong doesn't need to ask more about other things. In order to speed up the printing speed, Chen Zilong ordered people to buy a printing shop, using the method of movable type printing, no engraving is required, and the newspaper is very fast, with a newspaper every five days.

Now that the newspaper is in charge of Xia Yunyi, Chen Zilong puts more thought into thinking about the current situation. After the news that Governor Mei Baohua's 8,000 army was burned back to Suzhou, the people in Suzhou were already a little panicked. And now, the lake bandits have captured Wujiang County, which is 50 miles away, which makes the people inside and outside Suzhou panic, for fear that those lake bandits will come to Suzhou. Wealthy families living outside the city took refuge in the city, hoping that the tall walls of Suzhou would save their lives. However, a large number of workshops and shops outside the city could not be moved into the city, and once the lake bandits were killed, these industries would inevitably not be able to be saved.

Most of the people in Suzhou are ordinary people, either working in workshops to earn money to support their families, or working as buddies in shops. There are at least 1,000 workshops outside Suzhou, and some large workshops, such as silk weaving workshops, often employ hundreds or thousands of workers. The number of workers inside and outside Suzhou is at least hundreds of thousands. There are also those small merchants and hawkers who sell vegetables and rice, and the total population of the entire city of Suzhou has already exceeded one million!

With so many people, it is impossible to escape in the city, and the city cannot accommodate so many. Moreover, for many workers, if they don't work, they will have no income, and they will go hungry, so they know that the lake bandits are dozens of miles away, although they are extremely frightened, they have to go to the workshop to work.

But the owners of the workshop, the wealthy merchant gentry, chose to flee from the city, or hide in the city, or flee far away. Because everyone knows that the army in Suzhou has been wiped out, and now there is no other force in the entire city of Suzhou except for the errand officers of the government and county government!

If you want to save Suzhou City, you must ask the emperor of Zhenjiang Mansion for help. However, the gentry and wealthy merchants were no less afraid of the emperor than the lake bandits, worried that once the emperor came, he would take advantage of the situation to release the slaves, and maybe they would also raid the homes of the rich merchants and gentry, so it was better to let the lake bandits rob the ......

There are very few gentry who really know the details of the lake bandits, only a few people such as the head of the Shen family and Zhang Pu, and the ordinary gentry do not know that the lake bandits will not come to Suzhou easily. All in all, from the ordinary gentry to the workers, the vast majority of the people of Suzhou were in a state of panic.

And this tense and panicked atmosphere, Chen Zilong can naturally feel it. After thinking about it carefully, Chen Zilong found that this was an excellent opportunity, an excellent opportunity to control the hearts of the people of Suzhou!

"Brother Yi Zhong, you watch here, I'll go to the mansion." Chen Zilong said.

"Bring more people with you, and be careful of Zhang Tianru's people messing around." Xia Yunyi instructed. Xia Yunyi is naturally clear about his friends' thoughts.

"It's okay, before the Tiger Hill debate, Zhang Tianru won't do anything to me." Chen Zilong didn't care.

Having said that, Chen Zilong still wore soft armor under his clothes, hung a sword around his waist, and carried a dagger in his arms, and then called two Praetorian Guards to act as guards, and then walked out of the house in a car.

"Brother in the middle of the people wants to go out?" Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu were playing chess in the courtyard and asked in surprise.

"I've been in the house for a long time, go out and breathe." Chen Zilong said with a smile.

Huang Zongxi opened his mouth, wanting to tell Chen Zilong to be careful, and closed his mouth again, because didn't it be clear that Zhang Pu would send someone to ignore Chen Zilong, although he was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Pu's recent behavior, Huang Zongxi didn't want to say that Zhang Pu was not in front of people.

"Coincidentally, I'm also bored, so I'll go shopping with my brother." Huang Zongxi said, thinking that if Zhang Pu sent someone to assassinate Chen Zilong, he could still block Chen Zilong, after all, he was also a friend, and he couldn't watch Chen Zilong go to death.

"I'll go too." Gu Yanwu also smiled.

Chen Zilong looked at the two of them and smiled slightly: "That relationship is good." ”

Chen Zilong took two guards, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu also brought two subordinates each, and the group walked on the street, looking quite powerful, attracting the attention of people on the street.

"Chen Renzhong, Huang Taichong, you, why are you together?" A scholar came up to him and asked in surprise when he saw everyone.

Chen Zilong smiled slightly: "I happened to meet Brother Taichong by chance, and I was about to go around, if this brother is free, you might as well be together." ”

"No, no." The gentleman hurriedly said, turned around and left quickly.

"I'm afraid that being with me will cause Brother Taichong and Brother Yi Zhong to be misunderstood." Chen Zilong said apologetically. The reason why the scholar left must have been because he was afraid of being with Chen Zilong, and he was worried that he would be misunderstood by the people in the Restoration Society and Chen Zilong, and Chen Zilong naturally knew this.

Huang Zongxi sneered: "What if you misunderstand, I, Huang Zongxi, don't need to look at anyone's face!" ”

Gu Yanwu said with a smile: "Brother among people, that scholar just now looked very raw, but I don't know who it is?" ”

Chen Zilong shook his head: "I don't know ...... either"

The number of scholars in the Restoration Society is as many as thousands, and there are hundreds of people in this Suzhou City, Chen Zilong and the three are famous people in the Restoration Society, and everyone in the Restoration Society naturally knows him, but they may not be able to know all the people in the Restoration Society, especially some ordinary talents who are not famous, such as the person just now.

"Is it Mr. Zilong?" Someone on the street suddenly asked, and everyone looked at it, but it was a young man dressed in a green coat and a short shirt, judging from the dress, it should be the runner or buddy of which store.

"Exactly down there." Chen Zilong smiled slightly.

The guy was very excited, and quickly came to Chen Zilong, holding up the newspaper in his hand: "Mr. Zilong, your article is really well written." They are all raised by mothers and fathers, so naturally everyone should be equal. But Mr. Zilong, can equality really be achieved? ”

Chen Zilong smiled: "Of course you can!" As long as everyone in the world agrees with the idea that everyone is equal, it will naturally be realized at an early date. ”

"But how can the whole world agree with it!" The fellow sighed. The untouchables, the poor, and the ordinary people want everyone to be equal, but how can those rich people, gentry, and wealthy officials be willing? All men are equal, and who do they oppress and enslave?

"So we need to unite those who agree with the idea of equality and gather under one banner so that we can confront those who disagree." Chen Zilong smiled.

"Unite? How do you unite, do you have an association? As the two talked, more and more people gathered around the street, and someone interjected and asked.

"It's okay to form an association." Chen Zilong nodded. Zhang Pu and others were able to organize the Restoration Society to unite the scholars to form a huge force, and they could also follow suit, but they needed the emperor's consent.

"If it is an association, I am willing to follow behind Mr. Zilong!" The first guy to speak said categorically.

"I'm also willing to wait for Mr. Aconite's tail!" Others said the same.

The royal people's newspaper has been sold all over the city of Suzhou, and many low-level people are very yearning for the equal society described in the newspaper and the life without the oppression of the gentry and officials in northern Shaanxi, Shandong and other places.

The people at the bottom will always be the most miserable people, whether they are rural or urban people. These people present may be able to eat their stomachs, but they are also bullied on weekdays, and they yearn for a society where everyone is equal.

"Not to follow me, but to follow His Majesty the Emperor. All the articles I wrote were instructed by His Majesty, and His Majesty sent me to Suzhou to run a newspaper. Chen Zilong hurriedly said.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" The guy shouted.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" Others followed suit.

Although they have never seen the emperor, the newspaper praised the emperor as a flower, and he is simply a generation of saints who love the people like children, and a generation of war gods who are invincible, so they are also in awe of the emperor.

"Mr. Zilong, will Your Majesty really release the slaves?" A man asked, looking at which family he was dressed as a slave.

"Absolutely. In northern Shaanxi, in Shandong, there are no more slaves. His Majesty has ordered that slaves should be released in Jiangnan, and the entire Ming Dynasty must cancel the slave status, and all slave status and lowly status must be converted into civilian households! Chen Zilong said categorically.

"That's a good feeling, a good feeling." The man said excitedly.

"Your Majesty is releasing Juntian in Zhenjiang, and after the Juntian in Zhenjiang is completed, he will go to other prefectures and counties, and he will come to Suzhou soon, so everyone is patient." Chen Zilong said loudly.

The people gathered around were all overjoyed when they heard this. A considerable number of these people are slaves, although they can also have no worries about food and clothing by doing things for the master's family, but for many people, slavery means not being free, which means that future generations are lowly people, and no matter how smart they are, no matter how good they are, they can't be officials. It's okay to be a slave yourself, but who wants to be a human being for generations?

There were more and more people surrounding them, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu were squeezed out of the crowd, looking at these many elated people, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu glanced at each other, and they could see the shock in each other's eyes.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu didn't agree very much with the idea that everyone is equal, but they didn't expect so many people to support the idea of equality and Chen Zilong. In a short period of time, hundreds of people were gathered, all of whom were attracted by Chen Zilong, and they were all full of yearning for equality for everyone. These people are the most ordinary workers, they are the most ordinary guys, they are the most ordinary people! There are too many people like this in the whole city of Suzhou!

The Restoration Society is known as thousands of scholars, but compared with these countless ordinary people, it is really a minority......

"It's unbelievable that a newspaper can make such a big difference." Gu Yanwu muttered. The reason why there is everything in front of you is naturally because of the role of newspaper propaganda. The two saw with their own eyes that in a few days, Chen Zilong led people to print tens of thousands of newspapers, which were distributed all over the streets and alleys of Suzhou City.

"Not only the newspaper, but more importantly, Chen Zilong is behind the emperor......" Huang Zongxi sighed.

The emperor is the Son of Heaven, the master of the Ming Dynasty, and the most powerful person in the world, which is the opinion of all the people. Now that even the emperor supports the idea of equality for all and announces the release of slaves and Juntian, it means that things can be done, and equality for all may really be realized. And with the support of the emperor, naturally there is no need to be afraid of the suppression of the gentry and wealthy households. Perhaps after a while, the rich gentry who oppressed them were all cleaned up by the emperor, just like the gentry landlords in northern Shaanxi and Shandong as advertised in the newspapers.

"Brother Yi Zhongxian, are you really right about what we insisted on?" Huang Zongxi said suddenly.

"What do you mean, Brother Taichong?" Gu Yanwu said in amazement.

"We believe that there is a difference between the inferior and the inferior, and there should be no absolute equality. But Brother Xian, if you look at the expressions of the people on this street, you can see that they really want everyone to be equal. Huang Zongxi sighed.

Gu Yanwu was silent.

"When we admired the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, we thought that the best time was the best. However, during the time of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, both the emperor and the ministers personally did things for the people, and all their actions were for the people. Like now, the gentry and officials are high, and they are called herdsmen, and the people of the world are treated like cattle and sheep. Huang Zongxi continued.

Gu Yanwu sighed, the difference between respect and inferiority is orderly, it is the idea of all the superiors. How can the gentry be the same as the untouchables, and how can the officials be equal to the common people?

"The purpose of our study is to establish a life for the people, for the heaven and the earth, for the sake of the saints, and for the eternal peace, so naturally we should take the heart of the people of the world as my heart, and the people of the world think as my heart!" Huang Zongxi continued, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

"The people are ignorant, they don't know what the truth is......" Gu Yanwu hesitated.

"No, it's not that the people are ignorant, it's that we scholars have been doing things that are stupid!" Huang Zongxi said categorically, "Whether it is the Four Books and Five Classics, or the teachings of the sages of the past dynasties, there is no division of people into three, six, nine and so on, and there is no word untouchable in the sage book!" It was a later Confucian scholar who misinterpreted the teachings of the sages, in order to elevate the status of Confucianism, suppress hundreds of schools, and belittle the people! ”

"Brother Taichong, you ......," Gu Yanwu said in shock.

"My mind has changed, and I feel that I should stand with countless people at the bottom! And you should not be proud of your status, you have to be superior. Huang Zongxi said, "Brother Yi Zhongxian, have you figured it out?" ”

Gu Yanwu closed his eyes, and after a long time, he slowly opened them with a smile on his face.

ps: This chapter writes what I think, but the level is limited, and I can't quote the scriptures.