Zhang Guowei is a member of the Donglin Party, and he just came to Nanjing this spring to serve as the secretary of the military department.

Zhao Han's rise in Jiangxi led to a major change in provincial officials. Moreover, Jiangnan was even more short of grain, and the famine was more serious.

Those who were replaced either went back to their hometowns or went to prison for questioning.

At this moment, many cities in the south of the Yangtze River have begun to recruit troops to defend the city. First, he was afraid that Zhang Xianzhong would cross the Yangtze River, and second, he was afraid that Zhao Han would suddenly send troops.

As for combat effectiveness, huh...... It's hard to say.

Let's start with a story -

In the 34th year of Jiajing, about 70 Japanese invaders landed on the coast of Zhejiang, moved to three provinces within 80 days, killed and wounded thousands of people, and finally fled.

During this period, two people were captured and more than a dozen were killed.

It's a pity that this kind of record has nothing to do with the officers and soldiers. It was actually the common people of Wuhu, standing on the roof and throwing lime cans, beating the widows and fleeing.

The surviving more than 50 Japanese invaders went to attack Nanjing, which had a garrison of more than 100,000 troops.

Of course, not all of these 100,000 officers and soldiers were in Nanjing. Some are guarding the imperial mausoleum, some are in the suburbs of the city, and anyway, there are more than 100,000 soldiers on paper.

Zhu Xiang and Jiang Sheng, the two commanders of the Nanjing Guard, took the initiative to lead the troops out of the city to fight. Because the weather was too hot and the Japanese did not come, the officers and men disarmed one after another to enjoy the coolness, and the officers drank a little wine under the trees.

More than 50 Japanese soldiers suddenly attacked, and the officers and men were so frightened that they immediately fled and fell into the trap of the ditch they had dug in advance.

In this battle, the Ming army suffered more than 300 casualties.

The two leading generals, Zhu Xiang was killed, and Jiang Sheng was seriously injured.

The whole city of Nanjing was under martial law, and troops were recruited to resist the Japanese invaders. Until a few days after the departure of more than 50 Japanese pirates, Nanjing was still under martial law, for fear of being killed by the enemy.

After the Jiajing rebellion subsided, decades passed, and Jiangnan became even more empty.

It is said that the prefectures and counties recruit troops to defend the city, but where does the local government have the money?

Even if there is money to recruit soldiers, there is no food to support.

Jiangnan money and grain have been shipped to Beijing!

For example, in this Nanjing City, tens of thousands of new troops were temporarily organized and trained. Most of them are forcibly recruited people, and some of them are people in the city who are on duty, and they can make up the number by giving them a bite of food anyway.

A few swordsmen with their backs stood there, and the Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department did not dare to catch them.

After arresting these people, what should Zhao Thief do if he doesn't sell grain?

The anger of the people in the whole city had to be burned on him Zhang Guowei.

Zhang Guowei thought about it, anyway, the Nanjing treasury had no money, so he went to ask the nobles and gentry to buy grain, and let the scholars of the restoration society in the city be witnesses.

As long as the nobles and gentry bought food, Zhang Guowei was not afraid of being impeached as a thief.

As long as the scholars of the restoration society have witnessed, if these noble gentry who buy grain dare to hoard and sell at a high price, Zhang Guowei will not be afraid of provoking public resentment.

Moreover, you can also take advantage of the people's grievances to force the noble gentry to open a warehouse and release grain!

Two days later, the nobles, gentry, and heroes around Nanjing City rushed to hear the news with silver.

Nanjing Wharf.

Liu Shunyi, the general of the anti-thief sailor, stood on the dock and shouted: "Today there are fifteen ships of grain, six dollars of silver per stone of rice, and three dollars of silver per stone of bud grain." ”

So cheap?

A man dressed in brocade suddenly asked his entourage to strike a gong, and then shouted: "Silence, silence, don't rob, my family will buy five big boats of rice first!" ”

The people did not dare to speak, but they were afraid and angry.

The person who spoke was a servant of the Duke of Wei.

Liu Shunyi smiled: "Each family can buy a boat at most." ”

Wei Guogong's house slave immediately said: "For every stone of rice, I will give one or two pieces of silver!" ”

Liu Shunyi shook his head: "I don't sell one or two, only six yuan." ”

There was an uproar.

The slave smiled and said, "Hey, I've never seen anyone who does this kind of trading, and he doesn't sell it for one tael of silver per stone, but only sells it for six yuan." Is it much shallower and hot? ”

Liu Shunyi arched his hand to everyone: "Friends, there is not much grain in Jiangxi. At present, more than 10 boatloads of grain are all made up by the people of Jiangxi Province and frugally. King Zhao couldn't bear the hunger of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, so he specially asked me to transport grain here. Rice costs only six dollars per stone, and the grain merchant sells it to make white rice, and you can calculate the price for which it should be sold! ”

"Good!"

"Zhao Tianwang is righteous!"

Liu Shunyi turned around again and said to Wei Guogong's house slave: "If you want to buy it, you can buy it, you can only buy a boat!" ”

The slave looked at the guns on the ship, looked at the heavily armed sailors, gritted his teeth and said, "One ship, one ship, the biggest one!" ”

The city gate of Nanjing was closed, and the thieves were on the river.

However, there were many wharf coolies, hired to carry grain on ships, and the scholars and people outside the city watched the whole process of the noble and powerful doing business with the thieves.

The scene is a little weird, and it's outrageous.

The officers and sailors also came, as well as many boats and troops. They knew that there were many ships, but they did not dare to attack the anti-thief sailors, and even hid far away for fear of being beaten.

Liu Shunyi sneered disdainfully, which family bought how much grain he bought, he would write it down in a small notebook.

Whoever sells their grain at an outrageous price will definitely be liquidated in the future!

Huang Zongxi shook his head and sighed: "The world is collapsing, the world is upside down, it's really ......"

"Alas, I don't want food prices to fall, I just want food prices to stop rising." Gu Gao sighed.

Gu Gao is the son of Gu Xiancheng, the founder of the Donglin Party, and Gu Xiancheng's family only has a few hundred acres of land. If the landlord can keep 20 acres of land per person, the Gu family is really not afraid of being divided.

At the beginning of the founding of the Donglin Party, its purpose was very simple, that is, to save the country, and its members were mostly small and medium-sized landlords.

After the big upheaval, all parties joined in one after another, resulting in a mixture of fish and dragons, and became a political tool of big landlords and big businessmen.

The Restoration Society is just the opposite.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Restoration Society, most of them were big landlords and big businessmen. After the organization was expanded, countless poor scholars joined, and the number of small landlords and small merchants increased rapidly.

Wu Yingji suddenly said: "Before the summer harvest, it will inevitably rise to two taels of silver per stone!" ”

Chen Zhenhui said: "Indeed. ”

"I want to go to Jiangxi to surrender to the thief, can you have someone to go with you?" Wu Yingji asked.

Gu Gao said: "I also want to go to Jiangxi, not to be a thief, but to watch his governance." ”

Huang Zongxi said: "Then let's go together." ”

Wu Yingji had already made up his mind and persuaded Zhao Han to immediately take Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

This gentleman comes from a big family, not only does he mix well in the Fu Society, but he also likes to make friends with the rangers.

Based on his perennial experience in mixing rivers and lakes, he wrote "Jiangnan Bandits" to discuss and summarize how to exterminate bandits. He also wrote "Jiangnan Parity Discussion" to discuss how to stabilize prices, and many of them are very practical articles anyway.

Wu Yingji swaggered over and said to Liu Shunyi: "I want to be a thief." ”

Liu Shunyi corrected: "It's to join the rebels." ”

"It's all the same," Wu Yingji said with a smile, "I'm too lazy to find a boat, and I'll give me a ride with a warship." ”

Liu Shunyi arched his hand and said, "Sir, please get on the boat." ”

Seeing Wu Yingji get on the boat, Gu Gao and Huang Zongxi also ran to follow.

Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, was standing on the city tower at this moment, watching the three Fushe soldiers board the thief ship, and his facial expression was incomparably wonderful.

The grain on the ship, as well as porcelain and other goods, were transported for two days and sold to the gentry and merchants of Nanjing.

After the warship was unloaded, it immediately dragged the giant wood to Shanghai, and its own sea ship with Zheng Zhilong helped transport it to Guangdong.

Zhang Guowei watched the anti-thief fleet leave, and sat down weakly.

He often had a sky full of dark clouds, as if it was going to rain.

It would be nice if it rained, which means that the drought is not severe this year.

Historically, Zhang Guowei is widely known as a martyr against the Qing Dynasty, but his real identity is that of a water conservancy expert. He wanted to calm down the soldiers, build water conservancy in a down-to-earth manner, and enjoy it even if he worked hard.

Shanghai.

Looking at the Jiangxi Navy Division and handing over the giant wood to the Zheng family's sea boat, Wu Yingji said: "Zheng Zhilong has colluded with Jiangxi, and the whole province of Fujian will be able to take it in October." ”

"It's best to take Jiangnan!" Huang Zongxi said indignantly.

Huang Zongxi's resentment towards Chongzhen, although it has not accumulated to the peak, has already been secretly scolded countless times.

In the midst of this resentment, his thinking gradually changed, but he had not yet systematically written an article. He felt that the evaluation of the chaos in the world was not about the rise and fall of one surname, but about the sorrow and happiness of all the people.

As long as all the people can be happy, it doesn't matter if the dynasty changes!

Zhao Han's "On the Family and the Country" was simply written in Huang Zongxi's heart. And there are many contents, Huang Zongxi didn't expect it, and after reading the article, he suddenly felt empowered.

Back in the cabin, Huang Zongxi read "The Theory of the Family and the Country" again, and suddenly began to write a manuscript.

"Yuan Jun"!

"At the beginning of life, people have their own selfishness, and each person has his own interests. There are public interests in the world, and there is no ...... for prosperity"

Since the beginning of human society, people have been selfish.

Undertakings that are beneficial to the public are not carried out; No one will get rid of things that are harmful to the public.

If there is such a person, he does not seek personal interests, but only the interests of the world, and does not seek personal avoidance, but makes the world avoid harm. Then he must work thousands of times harder, pay tens of millions of times harder, but he doesn't enjoy the benefits, ordinary people will not do it...... This has been the case throughout the ages, and three generations of saints are not exempt from vulgarity.

Three generations later, the monarch regarded himself as the master of the people, attributing the benefits of the world to himself and the harm of the world to others. It also makes people in the world dare not be selfish, and regard their own private interests as the public interests of the world. Maybe I feel ashamed at first, but after a long time, I feel at ease.

Huang Zongxi's "Yuan Jun" was influenced by Zhao Han's "Treatise on the Family and the Country", and it was written in much more depth than the original history.

He compared the state to a big business, the emperor is the chief treasurer of the firm, the officials are the second, third and semicolon treasurers, and all the people in the world are shareholders of the firm.

The firm name is the business name of the shareholders, and the world is the world of the people of the world.

If the emperor and officials are incompetent, they should all be replaced. Just like the removal of many treasurers by shareholders, this is the most reasonable. In today's world, the big shopkeeper and the second shopkeeper are actually trying to seize the shareholders' industry, and they have to starve the shareholders to death.

Only those foolish Confucians will stick to the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, thinking that the relationship between the monarch and the minister is inherently unchanged.

The real Confucianism should understand the truth: the people are more important than the community, and the society is more important than the king!

After writing this "Yuan Jun", Huang Zongxi took it to Gu Gao and Wu Yingji.

When the two of them saw it, they were shocked and inexplicable.

Wu Yingji said: "This article must not appear in the world, otherwise which monarch can tolerate it?" ”

"It's about to burn, I'm afraid of death!" Gu Gao persuaded.

Huang Zongxi said with a smile: "Many of the meanings of this article come from "The Theory of the Family and the Country", but I wrote it more freely. That Jiangxi Zhao Han, if he can tolerate it, then this person will be the master of the ages. If he can't bear it, then he is a deceitful and a thief, and it is better to kill me, so that the world can see his true face. ”

(Suddenly cooled down, caught a cold, throat and nose were uncomfortable, and there were only two shifts today.) ）