Just as Zhang Guowei was about to board the ship, a group of scholars also came to the dock.

They wore scarves with iron swords at their waists and scarves on their heads, and they knew that they were going to travel in all directions. This style of travel, which was initially prevalent only among the wealthy, has now spread to ordinary well-to-do families.

These scholars in front of them were not in a hurry when they arrived at the dock, but pointed around a group of outcasts.

There was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old scholar who laughed at the exile and said, "These are all rats, and my generation should spurn them." As he spoke, he walked over and spat with a "phew".

"I'll do it too!"

Immediately, a scholar responded, still leaning his neck, making a "heh" sound in his throat, and finally brewed a mouthful of thick phlegm and spit it out.

"Phew!"

The scholars stepped forward one after another, saliva and thick phlegm flying, and the exiles could not stop them with their flails, so they had to turn around in shame and anger, and use their backs to take the phlegm.

The little official who escorted the exile did not stop this, but watched the excitement with a smile.

Seeing this, Zhang Guowei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "They are all scholars who are about to reach the crown, but they are still like naughty children." ”

But one of the scholars didn't move, and others asked: "Brother Jianchen, why don't you take a bite?" ”

The gentleman replied, "Everyone can fight the water dog, and there is no shortage of me." When I am admitted to the Jinshi and is in charge of the political side, it is not too late to beat the dog slowly. ”

"It's not easy to take the Jinshi test." Everyone laughed.

There are not many official ships in winter, and Zhang Guowei is too lazy to wait, this time he is going south on a civilian boat.

He took a few entourages on the boat, and those scholars also followed, and someone recognized him: "But Zhang Shangshu, who governs the Yellow River, is in front of him?" ”

Zhang Guowei smiled and arched his hand: "It's contemptible." ”

The scholars who were still spitting just now were suddenly in awe and stepped forward to greet each other. These people are all Shandong scholars, Zhang Guowei has been running around Shandong for more than ten years, and the people's prestige is extremely high, because he not only has to control the Yellow River, but also dredge the rivers in Shandong.

Zhang Guowei looked at the only scholar who didn't spit and asked, "What's your name?" ”

The scholar replied: "Back to Zhang Shangshu, student Pu Songling, the word Jianchen." After graduating from the University of Jinan this summer, he missed the spring entrance examination and had to wait another three years for the imperial examination. These are all classmates from the University of Jinan, and we are traveling together to increase our knowledge and knowledge. ”

Zhang Guowei asked, "Where did you swim?" ”

Pu Songling said: "I went to Liaoning in the autumn, and I also went to see the pseudo-capital of the Tartars, Hetuala, and now the name of Jianzhou has been restored. Just as General Hu (Hu Dinggui) sent troops to fight, we also volunteered to accompany the army and be the man who transported grain, and watched General Hu fight with the Tartars from afar. ”

"There's a war in the Northeast?" Zhang Guowei has not received the news yet.

Pu Songling said: "The Tartar puppet king died of illness, and Ningguta fought endlessly. When General Hu learned of the situation, he immediately seized the fighter plane and sent troops, bringing only 3,000 strong soldiers, and defeated tens of thousands of Tartars in one fell swoop. Now that Ningguta has been recovered, there are no more Tartars in the northeast. The Tartar officials were all arrested to work as miners, and the Tartar civilians were scattered and relocated to the shores of the Heilongjiang River. ”

"Sure enough, it's great news." Zhang Guowei said with a smile.

This civilian ship was carrying coal, and its destination was Yangzhou, and it was not really a passenger ship.

Zhang Guowei naturally had a separate cabin, but those gentlemen were crammed into the boatman's cabin. Fortunately, in recent years, food prices have been cheap, and they can't spend too much money when they travel around - there are also individual rich families, but they must be gregarious and not too high-profile.

Pu Songling's father has retired, and he has reached the prefect at the highest, and his experience as an official is quite magical.

Pu Pan is the only son of a large landowner, married a wife and two concubines, and has no children when he is over forty. When Zuo Liangyu ruled Shandong, there were drought locusts and plagues, and the local people died of illness and starvation. Pu Pan thought to himself, no matter how much property he had, he would have no heirs to inherit, so he would simply scatter his family resources to help the people.

Therefore, Pu Pan took out all the grain deposits, saved hundreds of people, and forgave all the tenants of rent and arrears.

Since then, he has had four sons one after another.

Not only that, the Datong army recovered Shandong, learned of Pupan's righteous deeds, and immediately made him the acting county minister. After the field division was completed, the acting county was turned into a regular, and three years later, he was promoted to the county magistrate.

Fate is like a roller coaster, Pu Pan, who is in his forties, has no son, and his family wealth is scattered. Suddenly, sons were born one after another, and he was still prosperous.

In Pu Songling's childhood, he always listened to his father's nagging: people are doing it, the sky is watching, as long as you do good deeds, you will be rewarded, and God will not disappoint kind-hearted people.

Pu Songling in this time and space will definitely not write "Strange Tales" again.

In "Strange Tales", many stories have realistic metaphors. War plagues, locust droughts, and plagues ravaged repeatedly, and Shandong almost became a ghost, and under the sparse population, tenants could eat at the same table with the landlords. Pu Songling grew up in that environment, and heard countless ghost stories. In many cases, he also wrote about the atrocities of the Qing army in the story, and he needed to cooperate with the local county chronicles to understand it.

And today's Pu Songling only thinks about being an official in the imperial examination, and has no interest in writing.

The coal ship traveled to Yangzhou, and everyone got off the ship and landed on the shore, casually looking for Datong to stay, waiting for the next southbound ship.

Yangzhou is becoming more and more prosperous, and the population is exploding.

Many of the unemployed vagrants in the city would rather fool around in Yangzhou than go to the north to make a living. Just like the migrant workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, they are willing to struggle at the bottom of society, and they can't look down on other small places at all.

The outside of the city is already full, and last year because of the fire, the government also cleared the shack area.

Xu Ying, the political envoy of Jiangsu, could not bear it, and did not let the imperial court pay for it, so he used Jiangsu's finances to forcibly relocate the poor people in the shack area to various counties in Hebei.

After staying in the inn Datong for a few days, these Shandong scholars traveled everywhere and wrote a lot of poems and articles.

"There's a ship, Xu Buzheng's official ship!"

Xu Ying is going back to Beijing to report on her work, and her next position will either be a scholar, or she will directly enter the cabinet as an auxiliary minister.

Zhang Guowei also boarded Xu Ying's official boat, and before he set sail, this group of scholars caught up and explained his intention to rub the boat.

"Let them come up." Xu Ying said with a smile.

The scholars were overjoyed and rushed to get on the boat to meet them. None of them have been to Nanjing, and this time they want to spend the New Year in Nanjing and visit all the scenic spots. After experiencing the Lantern Festival Lantern Market in Nanjing, they traveled up the Yangtze River to Sichuan, and some people even wanted to go to Tibet to see.

Outside the city of Nanjing, looking at the majestic and majestic city wall, the scholar Wang Fu drew his sword and shouted: "The great imperial capital, the great Jingshi, I was born in the prosperous era, and I should lift the sword to surpass the merits of the Han and Tang dynasties!" ”

"Hahahaha!"

The scholars laughed, made an appointment to drink when they entered the city, and let the richest Wang Fu treat him.

Wang Fu, whose name is Zhensheng and whose name is Luzhan, is Pu Songling's fellow villager and friend. The ancestors had three jinshi, so the Wang family was very rich, and even if they were divided into land, they were very rich.

The article "Ma Jiefu" in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is specifically satirizing Wang Fu. This thing was very afraid of his wife, not only did he not dare to take a concubine, but even his father was kicked out of the house by his wife, and finally died of illness in the inn. Because of this, Pu Songling broke off his friendship with Wang Fu in middle age.

There shouldn't be any more severance in this plane, because Wang Fu didn't marry that woman. Because of her father's reputation, this daughter was directly raided by the Datong Army, and all the immigrants were dispersed to Hebei.

Xu Ying and Zhang Guowei disembarked together, and the scholars came to say goodbye, and then flocked into the city.

"Good news, good news, great victory in Guangnan!"

The scholars were still wandering the streets of Nanjing, and when they heard Lubu's victory, they were immediately overjoyed. Wang Fu took the silver ticket of Datong Bank, went to exchange some silver dollars, and dragged his friends into Fanlou to consume.

Palace.

Zhao Han received the good news, and his expression did not change, he only said: "Order the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites to draw up a reward." ”

The fall of the Nguyen clan in Vietnam was smoother than Hu Dinh Quey's elimination of the remnants of the Tartars.

Those Hue gentry, after killing Nguyen Phuc Binh, sold their land while frantically exploiting the people.

In a word, turn power and land into silver, and surrender directly when the Datong army comes!

Everyone knew that they could not withstand the prestige of the Datong army, and when Nguyen Phuc was on the verge of death, he not only harmed the interests of the gentry, but also forbade the gentry to sell land. Nguyen Phuc is dying, so everyone can toss it casually.

It's just that there are too many people selling land and too few people buying land, and land has become a cabbage price.

Then you can only exploit the people, plus deduct the severance pay of the new army, and provoke the people to revolt in one and the other, and there are rebels on all sides.

When the Da Dong army arrived in Hue, Hue was already surrounded by rebel troops. That scene didn't look like it was going to destroy the country, but more like it was coming to quell the rebellion. For more than a month after that, they were basically fighting with the rebels, because many rebels were unwilling to surrender, and they also burned and looted everywhere during the uprising.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites and the Cabinet have repeatedly discussed, and they have agreed that the loyal officials who sacrificed their lives in the city should be given the 'Wenjie'," Wang Tiaoding explained, "It is good to be honest and self-restrained, to be able to keep the festival, to be careful about the system, to be unrelenting, not to take the festival in righteousness, and not to take the festival in difficulty." ”

Zhao Han said expressionlessly: "Yes." ”

Those officials who were resolutely unwilling to join the crowd and were brutally killed, Zhao Han originally planned to collectively give "Wenzhong".

At that time, the emperor was angry, and no one dared to stand up against it, but the Ministry of Rites kept dragging its feet. Because among the literati nicknames, "Wenzhong" ranks second, second only to "Wenzheng", and the collective gift of "Wenzhong" will lose its gold content.

Although the ranking of "Wenjie" is relatively low, it is also a good nickname, such as Yang Wanli and Huang Tingjian's nickname "Wenjie".

And in terms of meaning, "Wenjie" is also more suitable for loyal ministers who are in trouble, good and honest, can stick to what they do, be cautious about the system, be indomitable, do not take away righteousness, and do not take away hardships, these are not just corresponding to those officials who are honest and tragic to death?

Zhao Han didn't want to mention this, so he ordered: "Those Hue gentry have the merit of dedicating the city, and they will also disperse the immigrants to Hebei and Liaoning." They were allowed to take their goods with them, and give all the land to the peasants, and if they stayed, they would have trouble sooner or later. ”

It has to be said that the Vietnamese Hue gentry, their plan was half successful.

They want to monetize their power and land and stay in Vietnam to continue to be rich. Although he can't stay now, he can leave with his belongings, which is better than following Ruan Phuc to the dark.

For Zhao Han, the gentry took the initiative to dedicate the city, but they still offered the royal city, so they couldn't turn their faces indiscriminately, right?

The demise of the Nguyen regime is somewhat similar to the historical Taiwanese Zheng clan.

The main reason for the fall of the Zheng clan in Taiwan was not military. However, Zheng's Group has a deep degree of commercialization and maintains trade contacts with Fujian and Guangdong all year round. Kangxi could not attack the island of Taiwan, so a strict sea ban would be imposed, and the Zheng group would not be able to do business, and it would split internally.

The Hue gentry of the Nguyen regime, who were also heavily involved in maritime trade (mainly to supply Han merchants), were blockaded by the Chinese economy, and one by one they tried to jump and surrender.

In any case, Vietnam was completely recovered.

Zhao Han said: "The newly occupied land is all incorporated into Quang Nam Province. The northern mountainous areas of Quang Nam Province are partly assigned to Yunnan and partly to Guangxi, and the geographical advantages must be controlled on the Guangxi side of Yunnan to prevent the rebellion of the Yue people after dozens or hundreds of years. ”

(I don't write about wars anymore, huh!) ）

(End of chapter)