In the second hall of the Governor of Liangjiang Duolong, a few lamps of tea are exuding a fragrant aroma. Because the weather was a little hot, Duolong had already changed into thin casual clothes, did not wear a hat, shook a fan, and urged Jieshu and Geng Jingzhong to be crowned in a stack.

Duo Long used to be the head of the guard stall outside the Qianqing Gate, and he Jie Shu and Geng Jingzhong were all old acquaintances who bowed their heads and didn't look up, so these two didn't cover them anymore, they both changed their clothes, and just sat there chatting and laughing with Duo Long. Echu, Ma Hu, and Liang Huafeng, the three local officials in Liangjiang and Jiangsu, as well as Wang Zhongxiao, Cao Xi, Cao Yin, and Shi Lang, the four characters who were called by Duolong and Jieshu to accompany them, also changed their clothes and sat down.

The big guys were talking and laughing, and they were waiting to taste the banquet prepared by the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang, and they were also happy.

Wang Zhongxiao admired their important ministers while looking at Shi Lang's big and dark face. This is a prickly! Not only is he capable, but he is also very difficult to serve, just like the unfilial father Wang Fuchen, he is also repeatedly jumping between the Qing Dynasty and Zheng Ming, and because the family called Zheng Chenggong to be slaughtered, he has no time to share the sky with Zheng Ming, so it is impossible to support the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. Kangxi probably believed in Shi Lang very much because of this matter, and did not regard Shi Lang as a diehard member of the Ao Party because of Tuhai's dying "bite".

And if Kangxi labels Shi Lang as reliable, Wang Zhongxiao, the final minister, wants to frame this traitor, I'm afraid it will be a little difficult.

After Jieshu, Geng Jingzhong, Duolong, Echu, Ma Hu, and Liang Huafeng finished speaking, they finally started to get down to business. I saw Jie Shu's serious face: "Ma Futai, this time this king is not only sending Heshuo to the vassal, but also carrying a secret errand, the emperor can tell you in the court?" ”

Although the name of Jiangsu Governor Ma Hu is a bit "sloppy", this person is a shrewd and careful goods at first glance. He is a relative of Manchuria with a red flag, a translator in Shunzhi for nine years, and last year Kangxi released the governor of Jiangsu in eight years, and he is on the rise!

Hearing Jieshu's question, Governor Mahu immediately said with a serious face: "Lord Wang, the emperor has already told the lowly position, and when the lowly post got the letter, he immediately dispatched three hundred elite pacesetters, all of whom changed into civilian clothes, and monitored the Humble Administrator's Garden where Wang Yongkang lived. ”

When Ma Hu talked about monitoring the Humble Administrator's Garden, Shi Lang and Liang Huafeng both had a trace of surprise on their faces. Obviously, these two people didn't know that Wu Sangui's son-in-law was now the third prince of Zhu

However, General Jiangning's Echu, as well as Cao Xi, the Jiangning weaver who looked very similar to Cao Yin, were all calm.

Jie Shu asked again, "Does that Wang Yongkang look like the real Third Prince Zhu?" ”

This Prince Kang doesn't seem to be a brainless product, and he still has doubts about Wu Sangui's marriage of his daughter to the third prince of Zhu.

Ma Hu said: "Lord Wang, this Wang Yongkang is about the same age as Emperor Chongzhen's third son, Zhu Cijiong, and he speaks in a northern accent, and his appearance is also Sven. In addition, according to the investigation of the lowly office, he fled from the north in about three years of Shunzhi. When I first came, there were non-servant family members around me, and an old mother led by me. I bought a house in Suzhou City to live in, and then I sat on the mountain and ate nothing, and it gradually fell into decline. The year before last, his mother died, and after some manipulation, there was little property left, so he sold it all, and made up some plates to go to Yunnan, but he didn't expect to be the son-in-law of King Pingxi when he came back. As for whether he is really the third prince of Zhu, he can't be sure of his humble position. ”

That's true enough!

Wang Zhongxiao sighed softly, he was worried that this Ma Hu was "too careful", and if he accidentally found out that Wang Yongkang was really not the third prince of Zhu, it would be difficult to do.

And Shi Lang and Liang Huafeng, the two guys, were already so shocked that their jaws were about to fall - Wu Sangui's son-in-law was the third prince of Zhu? This product turned out to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and it was hidden so deeply.

Jie Shu shook his fan, thought for a while, and then asked Governor Mahu: "What has this Wang Yongkang been busy with lately?" Who do you associate with on a daily basis? ”

Ma Hu said: "This Wang Yongkang likes to make friends with officials and people in the Shilin, and from time to time he holds poetry meetings in his Humble Administrator's Garden to meet friends with literature. ”

"Oh?" Jie Shu asked, "Did you say anything against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"I don't know," Mahu paused, "but. . . Recently, there is an anti-book circulating in Suzhou Prefecture! ”

"Anti-book?" Jie Shu asked, "How anti?" ”

Ma Hu said with a solemn face: "It's quite powerful!" ”

"Is it to regain sight?" Geng Jingzhong, who was with Jieshu, heard the word "anti", and suddenly came to his senses, and he also sounded.

He's interested in rebellion

"More than that!" Mahu shook her head.

"What does it mean to be more than that?" Geng Jingzhong was stunned.

Ma Hu said: "If this book was left in the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that it will also be an anti-book!" ”

"What? It's so anti? Geng Jingzhong was taken aback, "Ma Futai, what is written in this book?" ”

Jie Shu also asked, "What book can be reversed like that?" ”

Ma Hu gave Cao Xi a look, and Cao Xi immediately took out a few thread-bound books from his sleeve pocket and handed them to his son Cao Yin, and asked him to send one to Jieshu, Geng Jingzhong, Shi Lang, and Wang Zhongxiao.

"The world is for the public" Jieshu took the book and looked at it, and read out the title of the book in a low voice, and then frowned, "The world is for the public. It's very familiar, this king seems to have heard it in Beijing! Could it be that Beijing also has the same party of the third prince of Zhu? ”

Ma Hu immediately explained: "Lord Wang, this 'world is for the public' is from the "Book of Rites", the original text is the journey of the avenue, the world is for the public, the selection of talents and abilities, and the cultivation of faith and harmony. Therefore no one kisses his own kinsman, nor only his son."

"Stop, stop, remember!" Jie Shu blushed and waved his hand, "When I went to school, my ears heard the calluses, and I still had to recite them. But although the words on this "Book of Rites" cannot be fully believed, it is not an anti-book! ”

"Lord Wang, you're looking at who wrote this book."

"Oh, this is Zhu Ci. Bright? Jie Shu looked at it, "Who is he?" ”

"He is the third prince of Zhu!" Mahu replied, "Lord, have you forgotten? This third prince of Zhu's name is Cijiong, the third son of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the king of Dingding. ”

"Oh" Jie Shu pretended to nod, he actually didn't know what the third prince Zhu's name was? Because the inscriptions sent below all use "pseudo-Zhu Third Prince" to call the unfinished Zhu Laosan.

"And where's the book?" Jie Shu asked as he flipped through the book.

"Lord, this book is not only against my Qing Dynasty, but also against all the emperors from the first emperor to the present!"

"Ah, so mad?" Jieshu was taken aback.

Geng Jingzhong's eyes widened next to him, "Wouldn't that even Emperor Ama Chongzhen rebel?" ”

"That's right!" Ma Hu nodded and said, "One of the articles in this book is called "The Original King", and it says that 'the latter is not the king. I think that the power of the world's interests comes from me, and I attribute all the benefits of the world to myself, and all the harms of the world to others, and I have nothing to do', and said, 'There is no other, the ancients took the world as the mainstay, the king as the guest, and the ruler of the world is the world's owner. Today, the king is the main one, the world is the guest, and those who have no land in the world and have peace are also the king. It is because of what he has not gained, slaughtering the liver and brain of the world, scattering the children of the world, and winning my own inheritance, which has not been miserable. As long as the emperor regards the world as his own inheritance, it means that he will attribute all the harm of the world to others, and he will scatter the children of the world to gain the inheritance of one person."

"This, this, is this Third Prince Zhu crazy? What does he want to do when he writes such an anti-book? ”

"That's right, does he still want to regain his sight? This is all a guest, why is that Daming still coming? ”

"This third prince Zhu is disloyal and unfilial!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's a crime that deserves death, and it's unforgivable!"

Jieshu, Geng Jingzhong, Shi Lang, and Wang Zhongxiao all exclaimed. They have also seen anti-books, but to this extent, it is simply appalling!

"It's not over yet!" Ma Hu said, "The next "Yuan Chen" is even more powerful, which says, 'The fate of the world is so big that it cannot be ruled by one person, but divided and ruled by a group of workers.'" Therefore, I am out of the world, not for the king; For all the people, not for one surname'. The great rebellion has reached the extreme!

What else do you say: 'The rule of chaos that covers the world is not the rise and fall of one surname, but the sorrow and happiness of all people.'" It is the death of the old and the suo, and it is because of the rule: the rise of Qin, Mongolia, and Manchuria is because of the chaos! This is also a great rebellion, and it is said that our Qing Dynasty is in chaos! also regarded the people's worries and happiness as the standard for controlling chaos, and Zhu Yuanzhang had to see it, and he had to kill this third prince Zhu!

What else is 'out of the king's office, not to the world, then the king's servants and concubines; If you take the world as a thing, you will be a mentor and friend. Fu Ran, known as the minister, his name has changed repeatedly. Husband and son are immutable'.Look, what are these words? Okay! Monarchs and ministers, fathers, fathers and sons can't have it, let alone those of us who are slaves! ”

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around!"

"It's really too rebellious, how dare this Third Prince Zhu be so rebellious?"

"He probably knew that the Ming Dynasty couldn't come back, so he simply broke the jar and fell?"

Mahu shook his head, pointed to the book, and said, "And what! ”

"And? Who else is he going against? Jie Shu asked with a glare.

Ma Hu said: "He still wants to oppose the gentry of the world!" ”

"What? Where did the gentry offend him in this world? ”

Mahu said, "The last part of this anti-book is about this. It is called "Juntian", also known as "Harada", and it is said that the cultivator is the foundation of the world, bearing taxes, labor, and military service, and the king, ministers, and gentry all rely on him to raise him. If there is an invasion by a foreign enemy, the cultivator must be used as a soldier to resist. Therefore all the land under heaven must be owned by the tiller. Otherwise, the cultivators will become weaker and poorer, and in the end, they will not be able to support the country and protect the country, or they will rise up! This is the fundamental reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty back then!

The third prince of Zhu also said that if the gentry and our children of the Eight Banners were merged too much, they enclosed all the land in the world, so that the cultivators had no land, so they had to rent the land to plant, and the rent was too high, and they had to bear the taxes and labor passed on by the landlords. Such a world is by no means rule, but chaos! It was necessary to tear down and rebuild, and then distribute the land to the peasants, and then serve as soldiers, serve in the army, and pay for food according to the amount of land divided. Although those who have meritorious service as officials can share more, they must be strictly restricted, and even if they are the kings of the world, they cannot occupy too much land.

Only in this way can the cultivators have their fields, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the world can be governed! ”

"This, this," Jie Shu exclaimed, "how is this similar to King Chuang's set?" Does this third prince Zhu want to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, or do he want to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore Shun? After saying this, he pointed to the book in his hand and asked, "Did the multi-system army, Ma Futai, and Cao Langzhong send it to the emperor?" ”

"Delivered!" Duolong sighed and said, "I have sent it a long time ago, and it should be sent to the South Study now?" I don't know what the emperor will be angry when he sees it? ”

"Have you read them all?"

In the south study of the Qianqing Palace, the voice of the Qing Emperor Kangxi forcibly suppressed his anger sounded.

"I'm done! Your Majesty, this book is so appalling that I can't keep it! ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers have also finished reading it. The minions also feel that this book has gone against the grain! ”

"Your Majesty, the whole book is a great rebellion, and the slave suggests that it be banned immediately!"

"Your Majesty, the servants also suggested that this book be banned, and those who dare to have private collections among the people will be punished severely!"

The ones who replied were four ministers lying on the ground, two full and two Han.

The two full members are Mingzhu and Suo Etu, and the most trusted ministers of Emperor Kangxi now are these two people who are engaged in personal gain.

And those two Han members are Kangxi's two teachers, Xiong Cixu, a bachelor in charge of the Hanlin Academy, and Chen Tingjing, a trial lecturer.

This Hanlin Academy was a yamen that was absent for a while during the Shunzhi and Kangxi periods. And whether there is a Hanlin Yuan or not involves the struggle between the Manchu imperial power and the power of the ministers of the parliamentary king. At that time, the Council of Ministers of the Council discussed military affairs, and the scholars of the three inner academies were responsible for drafting the edict, and the little emperor was responsible for agreeing.

But now that the little emperor is in power, the Council of Ministers of the Council of Ministers is responsible for standing aside, and the bachelors of the Inner Three Courts will take on the responsibility of discussing politics - the Little Emperor still has to listen to suggestions, so this Inner Three Courts has become a cabinet again, and after a while, it will not be called a scholar of the Inner Three Hospitals, but will be changed to a scholar of the Middle Temple, a scholar of the Baohe Palace, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace, a scholar of the Wuying Palace, or something.

But Kangxi didn't worry about handing over all the power to these scholars, so he had to reinstate the Hanlin Academy, let the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy draft the edict, and at the same time provide advice to himself - listen to it and make it clear!

At the same time, Kangxi was also an emperor who loved to learn, and had a good relationship with some scholars in the inner three courtyards who taught him Confucian classics, so he let them enter the Hanlin Academy as the pillars.

Along this "pillar of the top", the Han dog officials of the Qing Dynasty also have a way to rise - first "roll" a first or second class to be among the best, and then enter the Hanlin Academy to "roll", if you look handsome, speak well and reasonably, and have a good voice, the emperor and the queen mother like it, you can mix with the emperor, then you can be a very human minister. In history, the Qing Dynasty was a very popular minister, and there were probably only two people who did not have such an experience, one was Zuo Zongtang, who had been the Minister of Military Aircraft and a scholar of Dongge University, and the other was Yuan Shikai, who had been the prime minister of the cabinet

And at this time, the two Manchu ministers and the two Han ministers that Emperor Kangxi believed in the most gave a unanimous opinion - the book "The World is Public" must not be kept!

It's so reversed! Moreover, this book is still the same rebellion written by the third prince of Zhu, and the mouth of an unknown person is completely different from the mouth of the third prince of Zhu.

Due to the special identity of the third prince of Zhu, this book is no longer an "anti-book" in the simple sense, but also a reflection and self-criticism of a deceased prince, with blood and tears, sincerity and sincerity, which is very convincing.

However, Kangxi's response to his subordinates' suggestion of immediate prohibition was only a sigh: "Banned, it must be banned. But it's too late! Because the four books I have shown you are from Jiangsu, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan! ”

Hearing Kangxi's words, several ministers gasped.

Jiangsu's "The World is Public" is so forbidden that it is nothing more than a literary prison. But what about Yun, Gui, and Sichuan? This is obviously the Pingxi Palace's ghost, this book is not even printed on Wuhua Mountain, who can go up to Wuhua Mountain to check the anti-book? There are not only anti-books on this Wuhua Mountain, but also heavily armed anti-thieves!

"Your Majesty," Mingzhu said, "Wu Sangui is creating public opinion for rebellion!" If the scholars of Yunguichuan were all confused by him and believed that he was rebelling for the sake of the public of the world, then it would be difficult for the imperial court to exterminate him! ”

"Your Majesty," Xiong Cixu, who had just become the head of the Hanlin Academy, reminded, "Wu Sangui's rebellion in Yunguichuan is already a clear card, and the imperial court only needs soldiers to block it and water to cover it." Moreover, there are few people in Yunnan, Guichuan and the land is wide, and the method of dividing the land cannot confuse many people. What the ministers are worried about is that Wu Sangui and Zhu Sanzi secretly recruited Jiangnan people are many narrow in Jiangnan, and there are many inferior gentry and people, once they are bewitched by Zhu Sanzi, I am afraid that it will be a mess! ”

Kangxi frowned, nodded lightly, and said, "I'm also worried that Jiangnan will be chaotic!" Do you have any good ideas? ”

"Your Majesty," Chen Tingjing suggested, "Jiangnan must not be chaotic in Jiangnan, the imperial court will not have the military expenditure to suppress the southwest, and Wu Sangui will have a gap to take advantage of!" But the emperor shouldn't worry too much. Because the third prince of Zhu and Wu Sangui made a big mistake when they were demagoguery? ”

"What's wrong?" Kangxi asked.

"They shouldn't use the land to deceive people!" Chen Tingjing said with a smile, "The so-called original monarch, original minister, and original law are all virtual for most of the Jiangnan gentry, but their land is real. Wu Sangui and Zhu Sanzi want to divide their land, isn't that their lifeline? The emperor suggested that the imperial court could ban the original monarch, the original minister, and the original law of "The World is Public", and at the same time print more Harada chapters and distribute them in Jiangnan, so that the Jiangnan gentry can clearly see what Wu Sangui, Zhu Sanzi and others want to do is no different from Li Chuang! ”

"Good!" Kangxi was overjoyed, "Chen Tingjing, you are really my Zhuge Kongming!" ”

(End of chapter)