After the banquet to celebrate the promotion, and after cooking those officialdoms, they ushered in the send-off. Shen Tingyang continued to stay in Beijing, take charge of the Household Transportation Department, and promote the reform of Caoyun, all of which needless to mention.

On Shen Shuren's side, there is more than half a month of work handover, and it is time to go south to Huangzhou.

For this result, Shen Shuren is also quite emotional, and he still has a sense of unreality, and he is also glad for his choice.

If in August last year, when he first joined the country to buy officials, he would have directly bought a magistrate in the occupied area. At best, it can only be a deputy county level, and maybe it has been given to the thieves in vain now.

It dragged on for nine more months, and it dragged on until May of the second year, during which he made so many meritorious achievements, and he also took the exam. This is the real strength to wrestle with one party.

Of course, before leaving Beijing, he still has one last job to hand over-

Gu Yanwu, the gunman's staff, has been invited to Beijing by Shen Shuren for a month. During this time, Gu Yanwu has been following the theoretical ideas provided by Shen Shuren, burying his head in books and sayings.

Now, Shen Shuren wants to take advantage of the fact that he has not taken off the title of Hanlin Revision and seize the last opportunity to publish this political theory work. In the future, it can also better boost morale and stimulate the national will of the Ming people to pay attention to resistance.

Since the beginning of the crossing and the decision not to save Chongzhen in the future, Shen Shuren has raised this work to a very high level. He knew how hard the people would be if the north fell in the future. Something has to be done to plug the leak to reverse this.

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It was late April on this day, and Shen Shuren, who had been busy for the acceptance of Caoyun and the celebration of his promotion for a long time, finally had time to return to the Hanlin Academy to work.

Gu Yanwu was also there, and when Shen Shuren entered the door, he was still immersed in writing.

As a staff member officially employed by Shen Shuren, he of course also has the right to work in the duty room of the Hanlin Academy, and can consult all the historical materials and works collected by the Academy.

Gu Yanwu is very satisfied with the working environment here, although he has decided not to participate in the imperial examination for the rest of his life, but it is very enjoyable to be able to go to the Hanlin Academy to run an office, even if it is an "internship".

There are so many miscellaneous books here, and many of them are collections that the Gu family in Kunshan has never seen. Gu Yanwu is famous for his love of reading messy books from the three religions and nine streams, and he can be called a book-lover, so he is very active.

Going to work every day is like playing chicken blood, and I still read at night. In a month, Gu Yanwu was able to lose more than a dozen pounds, and it seemed that his eye sockets and cheeks were sunken.

He knew very well that the owner of this Hanlin would not be long in coming. After the transfer of the owner, he can't rub the Hanlin book collection, how can he not seize the opportunity.

"Brother Gu, didn't you finish writing when you were drinking the day before yesterday, why are you still busy? Can you lend me a look at the manuscript? Shen Shuren casually sat down next to him and picked up a few manuscripts.

"Keep improving, and you can continue to change when you have time. If you want to print it, you can do it whenever you want. Gu Yanwu didn't look up, he was still thinking there.

Shen Shuren looked at himself.

There are quite a few details in this manuscript in his hand, which are similar to the part of the "Daily Knowledge" written by Gu Yanwu himself in history, which involves "national righteousness, the rise and fall of the world".

For example, Gu Yanwu proposed many years in advance that "the rise and fall of a surname is sought by those who eat it." Those who die in the world are responsible for the husband".

The specific wording in the article, of course, is different from the "Daily Knowledge" in another time and space, after all, Chongzhen is still alive now, and Daming is not dead, so it is difficult to say "rise and fall", but only "rise and fall".

There are many such adjustments, and the general principle is to be more tactful and to ensure that no prohibition is violated.

Gu Yanwu systematically expounded the significance of the imperial court's resistance to foreign enemies to protect the race, defend the civilization, and prevent barbarism and cannibalism. Therefore, no matter how difficult the situation is, the people of the world should do their part for their own nation, not for the sake of the rulers.

Shen Shuren looked at it very carefully and was quite satisfied with this part.

Historically, Gu Yanwu's level of political philosophy was very good, and now relying on the Hanlin collection to consult with him, it is also very gratifying to be able to reach such a theoretical height so many years in advance.

In addition to the materials that Gu Yanwu thought of himself, there are also some contents in this book, which are proposition essays assigned by Shen Shuren.

The main issues involved are to demonstrate the difference in the degree of martial arts between the people of the north and the south, and the successful historical experience of the Northern Expedition to return the Central Plains to our rivers and mountains.

Shen Shuren felt that it was also very necessary to take this question seriously. Because as a person who has traveled back from modern times, he knows that there are many remarks attacking the Ming Dynasty in later generations, and he came up with "It is difficult to unify the north with the south, so it is appropriate for the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Yuan Dynasty to destroy the Song Dynasty".

After coming to the Ming Dynasty, Shen Shuren discussed with some friends who liked to discuss history, and also noticed this tendency. This kind of thinking inertia is of course a big poisonous weed for the future national will to resist, and it is necessary to get to the root of it.

Therefore, he asked Gu Yanwu to systematically sort out the successful examples of "conquering the north from the south and successfully recovering the Central Plains" in history, and summarize their common points and explain "what conditions are met, then the southern expedition to the north can be successful."

The most familiar example of the Ming Dynasty is naturally Zhu Yuanzhang, who successfully drove out the Tatars and restored China. Needless to say, just let people sing the praises of Taizu's achievements.

If it is a modern person, then you can still talk about it again in the late Qing Dynasty, but now these things have not happened, so there is no way to mention it.

As a result, there is only one orphan certificate of Zhu Yuanzhang, which does not seem to be very easy to use.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren himself is also very good at summing up, the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the end of the Qing Dynasty, that was the time when the cohesion of the nation was the strongest.

If you don't carry the banner of the nation, just fight for the emperor's family and surname, it will be extremely difficult.

After summarizing this principle, we can more or less find a few examples that are less rigorous but can also be used in ancient history.

After Shen Shuren and Gu Yanwu learned from each other, they used Liu Bang and Xiang Yu - when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the national identity of the people of the world was not unified, and they did not think that they were Qin people, nor did they think that they were Zhou people, but only identified with their own feudal country.

Therefore, it can be generalized that Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms was a war of national conquest, and it was "a process of integration between Xirong and Southern Barbarians and Central Plains China".

And Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are all Chu people, and using Chu to destroy Qin, of course, is to conquer the north from the south, and it is also to overthrow the "tyranny of the Xirong Shang Dynasty, which is less civilized".

Liu Bang broke Xianyang and took the Wuguan Road, and he entered Xianyang from Nanyang through Shangluo, which was of course the Northern Expedition. Later, after being named the king of Han, he took the Chencang Road from Hanzhong to kill back to Guanzhong, which was also a northern expedition.

It can be said that Liu Bang succeeded in the Northern Expedition twice in a row, and killed Zhang Han, who was newly sealed by Qin Ziying and Xiang Yu, respectively.

Therefore, carrying the banner of national righteousness, preventing the war of "destroying the world" and "barbarism defeating civilization", not for the sake of the emperor's family and surname, the Northern Expedition can be successful!

In addition, Gu Yanwu also added oil and vinegar to his own research, and traced back further, he couldn't wait to add King Wu's war as well-

After all, strictly looking at the map, whether it is the Yin Ruins of the Shang Dynasty or the Chaoge, they are all near Anyang in the later generations, which is a lot north of the Yellow River, and they are all close to Zhangshui. In contrast, Qishan (Chencang/Baoji), the base of the Zhou people, is more south in latitude.

Of course, in order to put this argument up, it is not enough to have victory and defeat and north and south, but also to prove that "Zhou punished Shang as civilization defeated barbarism".

This is difficult for Shen Shuren, because as a modern person, he does not feel that the superstructure of the economic system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties has obvious advantages and disadvantages.

But for a great Confucian like Gu Yanwu, this argument is simply easy to come by - when Confucianism first worshiped a sage, it was not Confucius who worshipped it, but the Duke of Zhou. The greatest achievement of the Duke of Zhou was to create ritual music and transform the "ghost worship" of merchants into the "saint worship" of the Zhou Dynasty.

Regardless of the merits of the Shang and Zhou economic systems, the Zhou people had much fewer human martyrdom and human sacrifices than the Shang Dynasty, and the reduction of ghost and god sacrifices and the worship of sages was always a great progress.

Gu Yanwu came prepared, so he took these points of strict research and special writing, and finally said all kinds of measures for the righteousness of the ancient and modern nations and the use of civilization to counter barbarism, and finally proved that:

Today's Jiannu is no exception, and the final victory must belong to the Ming Dynasty! Resist barbarism with civilization, for the civilization of the world, the Northern Expedition can also succeed!

The last few sentences, of course, must be added so that this point of view can be successfully published in the current situation of Chongzhen's thirteenth year and not be checked by the emperor.

Although the rhetoric "not to protect the surname Zhu" will be harsh to Chongzhen, it is also beneficial to the emperor to try to downplay this aspect and emphasize the belief that "the Ming Dynasty will win over Jiannu".

As long as the benefits to the Emperor outweigh the disadvantages on the whole, the Emperor will acquiesce in the publication of this thing.

Shen Shuren read through this booklet written by Gu Yanwu several times, and he was quite surprised in his heart.

Gu Yanwu's political and philosophical skills are really good, and many arguments and arguments are really something that Shen Shuren himself didn't expect.

"Brother Gu is really erudite and Confucian, and the younger brother, a second-class jinshi, is ashamed of himself. This book, the younger brother has no shame to sign alone, it is better to be co-authored by you and me, so as to pay for the engraving. ”

After reading it, Shen Shuren sincerely said that he would not take Gu Yanwu's right to sign.

When Gu Yanwu heard this, he was also impressed by Shen Shuren's understanding, and he was already very satisfied with this.

He didn't think about signing his name alone, because he was just a showman, and engraving with his name alone would only greatly reduce the popularity and appeal of the book. Shen Shuren has the name of the Hanlin Academy, and he is not white.

It's like a wild road sub-web writer in later generations, even if he thinks he is talented and has super political and philosophical writing skills. But if he writes a book and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is willing to co-sign with him, then the author of the online article will definitely want to hug his thighs.

"This matter is according to what the virtuous brother said, and the foolish brother can't ask for it." Gu Yanwu responded directly.

"In this case, I will have people carve out pages in the past few days." Shen Shuren said, collected the manuscript, and immediately went to find an engraver in the capital to do engraving printing.

Scholars at the end of the Ming Dynasty still attached great importance to being able to carve a manuscript of their own in their lifetime, even if there was nothing to come out, it was good to publish their own poetry collection.

If you don't consider the sales volume, the engraved book is very expensive, it takes a long time to hire craftsmen, and a thin collection of poems can cost three or five hundred taels, and you have to sell at least a few thousand copies to barely amortize the book.

But for Shen Shuren, this is not a problem, in order to speed up the progress, he even specially invited a large number of craftsmen at the same time, each of whom only carved a few pages, to ensure that the book was completed as quickly as possible.

The cost of hiring a large number of temporary workers is, of course, more expensive than hiring one or two permanent workers. In the end, Shen Shuren spent a total of one or two thousand taels of silver in order to engrave this "Rizhi Shijian".

The advantage is that in just ten days, the sample journal was printed, which can be called spending money to buy the construction progress.

In the blink of an eye, it was almost the day when Shen Shuren, the Hanlin Writer, left office, and he presented the sample of this book to the top, which was the result of his work in the past two months.

Just like Sima Guang wrote a historical book, he "learned" the success rate of the National Righteous War and the Northern Expedition in history.

Chongzhen personally looked at this manuscript, and it is said that when he first read it, he couldn't help but want to slap the table and scold it. But after seeing it, I found that it was indeed deliberate in order to encourage the will of the Ming army and people to resist the Qing Dynasty, and the slightest disobedience was endured.

The emperor didn't say anything, and the other Hanlin editors who didn't deal with Shen Shuren couldn't make any waves for the time being.

Wei Zaode and Gao Eryan criticized Shen Shuren behind their backs for not knowing the height of the sky, but after scolding, there was no follow-up.

This "Rizhi Shijian" soon began to spread and spread, and a large number of courtiers and scholars heard that it was written by the hard-headed Hanlin Xiu who dared to admonish Geng Jie, and they all gave a look at it.

Shen Shuren packed his luggage and took a boat south. After walking for more than half a month, I finally arrived in Hefei, and after meeting with Shangguan Shi Kefa, I entered the Yangtze River, went upstream, and went to Huangzhou to take up my post.