On a cold winter night, the river wind howls.

In the quiet countryside, there are a few dog barks once in a while.

Zhu Ming took a shower to wash away the smell of wine on his body, shrunk his head and trotted back to the bedroom. The brazier in the room was red with charcoal, and it warmed up as soon as he entered the room, which made him feel extremely comfortable.

"Xianggong come up quickly, the quilt is already warm." Zheng Yuanyi shouted.

Zhu Mingshun picked up the porcelain bottle on the table, got into the quilt and said, "Smell this." ”

Zheng Yuanyi pulled the cork and felt the perfume with a woman's sense of smell: "It's rose dew, and other spices are added, but I can't say what I added." ”

Since there is already a perfume, it is inevitable to add more spices.

The scholar named Wen Zhengtong, in addition to slightly improving the still, is actually a perfume. This bottle of perfume is thick but not stuffy, fragrant and rich, and it smells really pleasant.

"I'll wipe it on you." Zhu Ming said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, smear it everywhere." Zheng Yuanyi lifted the quilt wider.

Zhu Ming's action of applying perfume was not very honest, Zheng Yuanyi was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, quite enjoying, and his cheeks gradually blushed.

"Is it finished?" Zheng Yuanyi asked.

"I'm done, let me smell it." Zhu Ming tilted his head and arched back and forth on her, making Zheng Yuanyi giggle.

Holding the man's head and not moving, Zheng Yuanyi asked, "Am I fragrant?" ”

"It smells so good." Zhu Ming said.

Zheng Yuanyi said: "I haven't moved for half a year, I want to give Xianggong a doll." ”

Zhu Ming comforted: "Don't worry, take your time, you are still young." ”

It must be that the charcoal is too hot, and the two of them are sweating hot. And the air in the room is not good, panting is like suffocating.

It took a long time to subside, and calm was restored in the darkness.

Zheng Yuanyi leaned on Zhu Ming's chest and said: "Today I saw that there was a girl in the school, so I also went to listen to the class, and the things taught here are a little different from when I used to read." ”

"What's the difference?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zheng Yuanyi said: "Half of it is a math class, so at such a young age, I began to learn abacus, and in a few years I will be able to do a bookkeeper." ”

Zhu Ming laughed and said: "All the children from Daming Village can be bookkeepers. ”

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the abacus had not yet been completely popularized, and it was difficult to see it in the poor countryside.

Even in big cities, many of the tricks of abacus are not passed down from private to private sources, and they have not been widely disseminated at all. Song Huizong promoted arithmetic schools throughout the country, paying more attention to traditional arithmetic, and now he has also adopted the "Zhu's Arithmetic Sutra", and the abacus has also been ignored.

The abacus formula of Daming Village was compiled by Zhu Guoxiang himself, and Meng Zhao and Yu Shanwei also made supplements. The children in the village can learn this thing, and with the orthodox math class, they can really easily become the bookkeeper.

After chatting for a while about the school, Zheng Yuanyi said again: "That Sister Yu in the inn is so powerful, she knows everything, so even men have to listen to her." ”

"Yu Shanwei is indeed smart." Zhu Ming said.

Zheng Yuanyi said with a smile: "Today I overheard that Sister Yu reprimanded Mr. Meng, and Mr. Meng didn't dare to talk back. When they came out to meet people, Mr. Meng held his head high again, looking like a good man with iron bones. ”

"Hahahaha!" Zhu Ming can imagine that kind of picture, Meng Zhao has completely become a strict wife.

Chatting and chatting, a pair of young people hugged and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, the scholars gathered again at the inn.

Yesterday was to complain about the current situation and talk about some new inventions, but today we have to have an academic discussion.

Mainly for some of the contents of the "Tao Yong Strategy", Chen Yuan sometimes wrote his views in vague ways in order to facilitate the dissemination in Tokyo, for fear of committing the taboo of Xinxue.

After this book was transmitted back to Yangzhou, the scholars did not understand it very clearly, and accumulated many doubts and wanted to ask for advice.

For three whole days, Zhu Ming was answering questions, and his thinking was very radical.

Ling Guxu asked: "The monarch is not good, and it is difficult for the ministers to advise, so they can only hope for the new monarch." If it's the new king, what can you do about it? ”

The scholars looked at Zhu Ming, wanting to know the answer.

Zhu Ming said: "Have you ever read history? In all dynasties, if there are continuous faint kings, what will happen to this dynasty? ”

"It's also a change of dynasty!" Ling Gu Xu said.

Zhu Ming said: "The change of dynasty is just a result. The monarch is not square, and the ministers admonish. The exhortation failed, and he wanted to be a new king. If the new monarch is mediocre, the state affairs will become more and more erosive. What did the people ask for? Businessmen only want to do business in a stable way, and cultivators only want to grow food in a stable manner. The commercial tax is too heavy, and the businessman is resentful; The grain endowment is too heavy, and the peasant households are resentful. If everyone has grievances, the world will be reversed. The traitorous party is prosperous, and the gentleman will also deviate from morality. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and Zhu Ming's hint was too obvious.

Lu Heng asked: "Xianggong is saying that this Great Song ......"

Zhu Ming said: "All the people in the world are like bamboos in the forest, and the harder the bamboo is pressed, the more powerful it will rebound." If the bamboo can't be crushed, the bamboo will stand. You don't know that Jingdong Road is already full of thieves. There were also more thieves in Shaanxi, and many fled into the mountains. The 100,000 Yi people in southern Sichuan have just been pacified, and I estimate that there will be rebels in Jiangnan again. ”

"Jiangnan is rich, how can there be anti-thieves?" Yu Dayuan asked.

Zhu Ming said: "The official family built a lot of construction and ordered Zhu Mian to transport the flower and stone gang. That Zhu Mian is vicious and vicious, if he targets any household, as long as the backer is not hard, he will rush into the rich family's house to extort money under the pretext of collecting strange stones. In Zhejiang and Jiangdong, rich households go bankrupt every month. The rich are so difficult, how can the small people be? or were conscripted as servants, or ordered to buy tribute, or were forcibly occupied by corrupt officials. ”

Yangzhou scholars really don't know this, and they feel incredible after listening to it, the people in Jiangnan are even worse than Hanzhong.

Wang Chang asked, "Will the state and county officials just sit idly by?" ”

Zhu Ming sneered: "The official family is very fortunate to be fond of Zhu Mian, and Zhu Mian already has the power to mobilize the southern Xiang army to transport Huashigang." In addition, Zhu Mian also raised private soldiers, which had long been a rebellion, and the officials turned a blind eye to this. Officials from the prefectures and counties of Zhejiang and Jiangdong all went to see Zhu Mian and claimed to be his protégé. If anyone dares to oppose Zhu Mian, he will not be able to be an official in Jiangnan for a long time. ”

"This ...... This simply makes no sense! Ling Gu Xu felt that it was too nonsense, and even suspected that Zhu Ming was lying.

Zhu Ming said: "If Zhu Mian continues to do nonsense, in another three or five years at most, the people of Jiangnan will definitely rise up." This is what the theory of square rules is inconvenient to talk about, the monarch is not the party, the ministers are not the party, and the people must not be the party. And the people think in their own way, and they can't ask for each other, but they can only ask for themselves. One husband raises his arms, ten thousand husbands are obedient, and disaster is not far away. ”

Lu Heng said: "Jiangnan is a land of wealth, where there is rebellion, the imperial court sends a large army to levy, and the states in the world will inevitably increase taxes. ”

Zhu Ming sighed: "The first to bear the brunt are Huainan and Jingdong, and the people there must be difficult to bear." Especially in Jingdong Road, the people are already burdening Hebei and Gyeonggi, and if they supply the army to conquer Jiangnan, I am afraid that the rebel people will rise one after another. ”

Song Jiang only kicked off, and during the Fangla Uprising, Shandong and Hebei were also rebelling.

In terms of the number of rebel armies alone, Shandong, Hebei, even surpassed Jiangnan. It's just that Jiangnan has a unified leadership, while Shandong and Hebei fight separately, and they are finally broken by officers and soldiers.

It was only broken, not really destroyed.

The remnants of the rebel army fled into the mountainous areas such as Taihang Mountain and Yimeng Mountain, and were still active until the Jin soldiers moved south. The Jin soldiers were more brutal than the Song court, forcing the rebel army to resist the Jin and Song Dynasty, and many leaders of the rebel army went to Zong Ze or fought guerrillas in the name of Zong Ze's generals.

Zhu Ming looked at the surging river outside the door: "The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency if there is more than is lost; The way of man, the loss is insufficient and the benefit is more than gained. Nowadays humanity is rampant, the poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer. And the officials and traitors, they are the richest, but they still have to plunder the property of small people. When that humanity is exhausted, the way of heaven will surely be fulfilled in this world! ”

The crowd trembled with fright.

The way of heaven in Zhu Ming's mouth is not the way of heaven as it is ordinary.

What does it mean to make up for what is lacking? It is that the people at the bottom have nothing, and through violent struggle, they take back what they should have from the rich.

Ling Guxu asked, "Won't you be able to turn the tide?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "The rebellion in Jiangnan, Hebei, and Shandong may be able to calm down. But what about after pacification? It will still be expropriated and expropriated, and it will provoke the people to rebel. In the long run, after years of war, where can the states and counties in the world afford heavy taxes? ”

The crowd was silent.

Zhu Ming is giving them vaccinations, and he can't say more so far: "I was admitted to Tanhualang, and I also became a court official and governor, so I thought I could govern the place." I went to Puzhou to take up my post and re-demarcate the Yaoling Forbidden Zone, so that the lives of the people near Yaoling could be improved. He also punished the inferior gentry, arrested the thieves, taxed the fields, arrested the demons, and cleaned up the temple fields...... In this way, the officials and gentry of Puzhou were all shocked, as long as I was the governor of the state for another year or two, Puzhou will inevitably be able to be governed, and the merchants, gentry, and common people can all benefit. ”

Yu Dayuan arched his hand and admired: "Taishou is really a capable minister!" ”

"What about Nengchen?" Zhu Ming slapped the table angrily, "I was preparing to show my strength, and the counties of Puzhou were in ruins, but I was ordered to move to Jinzhou." Just because there are several big households in Puzhou that are Cai Dang, I can't stay if I offend Cai Dang. The people of the Qian family were burdened with dozens of murders, and the official family personally sent court officials to try them, and they were all acquitted! ”

Although Zhu Ming was pretending, some emotions were real, and the more he talked at the moment, the more angry he became.

Ling Gu Xu could feel that kind of grievance, and sighed: "It is said that Dalang is a young man, and he is appreciated by the official family and soars to the sky." But I never expected that Da Lang was so aggrieved and helpless as an official, and the upright people in the world couldn't show their fists? ”

"How? Where is there a place for the upright to speak in the court? Zhu Ming said angrily, "Now it is the Cai Party and the Zheng Party that are fighting, and the righteous ministers are all leaning on Zheng Juzhong." But what is Zheng Juzhong? He himself used to be a Cai party. The two of them fight, it's nothing more than dog eats dog. Even if Cai Jing is defeated one day, how much better can Zheng Juzhong Bingzheng be? Zheng Juzhong has Wang Hao under him, and Huang Qianshan, who has made a lot of trouble in Hanzhong this year, is Wang Hao's henchman! ”

After hearing these words, Gu Xu was a little disheartened, and he didn't even want to go to the imperial examination anymore.

Zhu Ming said again: "Brother Min and Brother Bai, join me in the Jinshi." With the talents of the two of them, they couldn't even pass the exam. Can you believe it? I don't believe it anyway. Especially Brother Min, with a family history, he is already familiar with the content of the exam, and he can pass the exam with his eyes closed. It is nothing more than someone bribing the traitorous party and occupying the quota for the examination. The two of them had to be recommended by me in front of the official family, so they were each sent by a petty official. ”

Min Zishun and Bai Chongyan are local scholars, and of course everyone is not worthy of them, and their impression of the court monarchs and ministers is getting worse and worse.

What followed was the dazed king, the traitorous ministers, the chaotic people, where should the scholars go?

(End of chapter)