Chapter 229: Huang Chao: I don't eat beef

The so-called Donglin Party refers to the bureaucratic class political group dominated by the Jiangnan gentry in the late Ming Dynasty.

Gu Xiancheng and others repaired the Donglin Academy where Yang Shi lectured in the Song Dynasty, and formed a political group with Gao Panlong, Qian Yiyi and others who gave lectures. In the name of 'Donglin Academy,' the opposition party that contended with it referred to the Donglin Academy's lectures and the government and opposition people who were related to it or who supported and sympathized with the lectures.

But if you want to say that as long as you are from Jiangnan, you are the Donglin Party, in fact, it is quite wronged. Jiangsu and Zhejiang have their own factions, called the "Zhejiang Party", which represent the interests of the landlords and literati in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The leader of the Zhejiang Party, Shen Zhengyi, is also the first assistant of Wanli, and the Donglin Party is a sworn enemy. The Zhejiang Party in the back could not get rid of the Donglin Party and defected to Wei Gonggong, so there was Zhejiang Governor Pan Ruzhen who asked Wei Zhongxian to build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian, and established the first Wei Zhongxian's exclusive ancestral hall in Zhejiang.

Of course, the Donglin Party was responsible for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but it was unfair to blame him for all the blame. It can be said that from Chongzhen's unremitting efforts to reverse, coupled with the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty, Qi, Xuan, Chu, Zhejiang and Donglin poured into each other, these together were the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

But the main reason has to be Li Aixin Jueluo Youjian to take over the pot, he is too......

But then again, if Chongzhen hadn't worked so hard, maybe Daming would have been able to survive for two more years.

I'm not afraid that the emperor is incapable, I'm afraid that the emperor won't realize that he is incapable.

That sentence is more suitable for Chongzhen - Zhu Youzhen, you are different from others, don't waste your energy on government affairs.

When the Ming Dynasty fell, the Qichu and Zhejiang Party began to show the flexible moral bottom line of Shunlai and Qing, while the Donglin Party still played that set of party struggles in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty......

At a glance, it is true, and the appraisal is not enough to succeed and more than to lose.

The fact that there are more than failures is not only reflected in party disputes, such as the collective cheating and trickery of the gentry in Jiangnan on taxes, which is really a tradition.

All show that the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River were heavy, and it was Li Zicheng of Shaanxi who rebelled.

Is it heavy or not? It can only be said that it is as heavy.

There is a sentence that is extremely appropriate to evaluate the Jiangnan gentry, "What do they know about capitalism?" Capitalism is going to invade the outside world, and if they are not invaded, they will be Amitabha! ”

If the country wants to defend against imperialism, it needs money, and it is good to look for them to collect taxes, good guys, and immediately sing the praises of imperialism, imperialism is good, imperialism is good, and imperialism rules the world order well. Asking them to collect taxes is really like killing your father's revenge. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the present, it has been like this.

As a result, when it came to Daiqing, Daiqing would not be used to them, and the days of being powerful in the Ming Dynasty were over.

In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), Shunzhi died of illness, and Kangxi ascended the throne. Auxiliary ministers Sonny and Ao Bai ordered the emperor to step up supervision and collection of arrears of money and grain. If the magistrates fail to complete their tasks, they will either be dismissed from their posts for questioning or demoted.

With this strict order, for the sake of their own future, the local officials have urged the gentry and landlords in Jiangnan to demand grain and taxes, and the pioneer is Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangsu.

Zhu Guozhi, a native of Fushun, Liaodong, belonged to the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army.

He arrested all 13,157 gentry in arrears of taxes in Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and Liyang County, including 2,171 squires and 11,346 students (Xiucai), and demanded that they must make up the arrears of money and food within two months, otherwise they will be severely punished, such as deprivation of their fame, beating boards, and even dismissal, confiscation of the army, and raiding their homes.

Seeing that the imperial court was moving, some of the gentry were frightened and hurriedly took the initiative to pay the arrears, and 1,924 gentry and 10,548 students paid a total of 49,000 taels of silver.

However, the difference between these arrears and the shortfall was too great, and Zhu Guozhi believed that some gentry landlords deliberately defaulted on the arrears and should be severely punished.

This is no longer an ordinary tax resistance, and it must be punched hard!

In the end, the Qing court removed all the fame of all the gentry who were arrested, and all of a sudden their fame after ten years of hard study and examination was gone, and they changed from a person with social status to a commoner. Their property was confiscated to offset their tax arrears, and they even became destitute.

Among them, 3,000 who owed the most taxes were shackled and sent to the prison of the Criminal Department, where they were not released until May of the following year. By the time they were released from prison, their property had confiscated, and they were already homeless.

At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty asked you to pay taxes, but you didn't pay them, and they also found all kinds of reasons to resist taxes, and secretly scolded the court. Well, now that the Ming Dynasty has fallen, you moths have come out of the trees. The Qing Dynasty doesn't care whether you are a literati doctor or not, as long as you are fat and oily, keep money and don't keep your head, choose.

You ask why the Jiangnan scholars of the Qing Dynasty began to miss the Ming Dynasty? It's all over for a fine tasting.

The Jiangnan gentry are an out-and-out reactionary group, with more than enough success and more than failure, and a bunch of white-eyed wolves. Li Ao said that "the minions that are beaten, the people who are killed, and the evil seeds that are used to it" are the most appropriate to describe them.

Judging from consistent historical experience, if the Jiangnan gentry began to beep and beep, it must be too gentle with them.

Huang Chao can be regarded as making up for the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and I feel that it is necessary to dig out my heart and lungs with these Ming Dynasty clans and scholars.

Lao Zhu was still a little snorting at first, feeling that this unworthy descendant should let himself take action, rather than Huang Chao, an outsider, doing it for him. As a result, he started to worry about the first house, and finally decided to hand over those children and grandchildren to Huang Chao to deal with.

Out of sight, out of mind, it's like this.

After cleaning up the blessed king Zhu Changluo, the world was terrified. After Zhu Youxiao learned that his uncle Zhu Changxun was lit by a person who claimed to be a "cupola general" called "Huang Chao", he cried and ate several more bowls of rice.

If there is a thief, the court will definitely not be able to sit idly by. Jiannu wants to be suppressed, and the thief army must also be suppressed, but Daming is somewhat overstretched now and has no money.

There are always priorities in things, although this Huang Chao killed the emperor's uncle and slaughtered a group of landlords and squires, but he didn't mean to take the land at all, but also distributed the fields and money to the poor people. The ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee would definitely not tell Zhu Youxiao about this matter, but Wei Zhongxian sent someone to inquire about it.

According to Wei Zhongxian's meaning, that is, don't care, love what's the matter, but the soldiers still have to come out.

Zhu Youxiao: What are you sending troops for?

Wei Zhongxian: Suppress bandits.

Zhu Youxiao: Didn't you say leave it alone?

Wei Zhongxian: Of course, it just makes people feel that we have to defend the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao: Let Huang Chao?

Wei Zhongxian: It's the courtiers! Huang Chao knows we don't!

Just when Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian were discussing the matter of sending troops, Huang Chao also marched all the way and entered Suzhou City.

On the same day, Huang Chao copied tens of millions of taels of silver in Suzhou. After thinking about it, Lao Huang felt that it was not like that, so he sent someone to connect with Wei Zhongxian's people and secretly sent 35 million taels to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the thirty-five million taels of silver in front of him and fell into deep thought.

This sky-high general...... Be kind.

What kind of rebellion is it to quell it, this is obviously my father-in-law......

Because of this, Zhu Youxiao was even more lazy to take care of it.

Kill, kill, do whatever you like, you can kill the Zhu family clan and those gentry, and I will leave a clean world.

Huang Chao finished rectifying Suzhou and set his next target on Hangzhou.

Of course, before leaving Suzhou, there is still something to do.

Huang Chaojun's folk evaluation in Suzhou is quite high, and in the eyes of the poor, Huang Chaojun is an existence that is anxious to help the poor and righteous. After all, they are scraping the gentry, not the poor people, and after scraping the gentry, they also divide the land to the poor, and the people have asked if the Yellow King's army still wants people, and they can drag their families to fight with the Yellow King.

Thanking the kindness of the people, Huang Chao rode a horse leisurely to Changshu.

He is very familiar with Changshu, there is a key person explained by the immortal master, who lives in Changshu.

When Huangchao arrived in Changshu, the sky was still bright. As a former Luodi man, Huang Chao also dressed as a scribe, coupled with his deliberately painted literati temperament, he is also quite like a scholar who has been immersed in the Four Books and Five Classics all year round.

Just thinking about the immortal master's entrustment, Huang Chao was summoned back to his senses by a voice.

"Friend, where did you come from?"

He followed the sound and saw that there was a middle-aged man sitting and reading a book in front of the house.

"Looking at my friend's dress, you're here to travel, right? But lost? ”

There are many names among the literati of the same generation in the Ming Dynasty, such as son, jun, qing, classmate, sheng, friend, honorable, step, and so on.

Huang Chao looked left and right, and said with a smile: "It's just passing by, and no one has opened the door to ask for a bowl of water from a friend." ”

"Then come in and sit down." The man greeted with a smile.

It is normal for scholars to cherish each other.

Huang Chao didn't refuse, he rolled over and dismounted, and handed the reins to the scholar beside the man.

"It's easy to get lost here." As he walked, the man said to Huang Chao: "I won't tell you the truth, in the second year of the Apocalypse, I took leave due to illness, and if I didn't greet him when I returned to my hometown, I wouldn't have been able to find a home." ”

With that, the two of them came to the main hall.

"The dog slept a little deeper yesterday, don't blame my friends." The man smiled and patted the sleeping child on his stomach.

When the child woke up, he first saluted the man, and then said, "Dad, has the girl of the Liu family ever bought it?" I'm going to play with her. ”

"Don't worry, my father will send someone to divide it at noon, my Qian family is only a peasant girl, why should you care?" The man smiled and comforted his son.

Huang Chao raised his eyebrows, this Qian family in Changshu is only one Qian Qianyi family. It seems that this is stepping on the iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, and it takes no effort to get it.

Well...... It was Qian Qianyi who refused to throw himself into the water to martyrdom because the water was too cold, and felt that his scalp was itchy and he shaved his head.

Even Yan Hongli thinks that his character is not good.

The child looked at Huang Chao again, and suddenly asked, "This uncle is the same year as his father?" ”

"A few years ago, I didn't enter Beijing, and I haven't taken the exam again." Huang Chao stroked his beard and smiled.

"I see." Qian Qianyi said, since he can enter Beijing for the exam, don't look at it and don't win, but at least he is a lifter.

Lifting people, in this scientific society, it can be regarded as the basic plate in Shilin. Even if he is a courtier, he will have a natural affinity for the lifter.

"Where did the friend come from, it must be from Suzhou City, right?" Qian Qianyi beckoned the scholar to tea, and when he saw Huang Chao nodding with a smile, he sighed and said: "I really guessed it, you are lucky, you can escape, now the life of Suzhou City is not very easy, occupied by the surnamed Huang, I regard my generation of scholars as grass mustard, and make trouble like purgatory on earth!" It can be called a first-class thief bone! ”

"Thief bones?" Huang Chao smiled.

"Isn't Huang Chao a thief's bone?" Qian Qianyi raised his eyebrows and asked: "Saying that he is a thief is cheap!" He's a mud-legged thief! A beast of beasts! ”

"A brute of brutes?" Huang Chao Yile asked, "Do you have a big enmity with him?" ”

"Of course," Qian Qianyi sat down, his tone full of righteous indignation, "It is not easy for my generation of scholars to buy an estate, but the efforts of several generations have been robbed of all the bones of this thief, and the silver of the white flowers is scattered to the poor, creating evil!" ”

"My cousin originally promised a family affair in Suzhou City, if it weren't for the indiscriminate killing of innocents by the pig and dog bastard in Huangchao, how could her husband's family be ruined? Will my cousin be that miserable? ”

As he spoke, Qian Qianyi pointed to the side.

"Look, my cousin is here. If you don't believe me, just ask her, she witnessed that bastard kill people! ”

Ever seen me kill someone? Huang Chao was happy.

He slowly turned his head and looked in the direction of Qian Qianyi's finger.

Ah, he remembers. The woman's husband who had not passed through the door was sentenced by him, and the crime was not set by him, but by the common people who had been persecuted by her fiancΓ©.

In the fish and meat township, she was rampant and domineering, annexed the fields, and forced the common people to sell their daughters, this is her fiancΓ©.

When the woman saw Huang Chao, her pupils dilated instantly.

She will never forget how Huang Chao treated her fiancΓ© in her life, three thousand six hundred dollars, three thousand six hundred dollars!

"I Qian Qianyi said it! Curse him for the rest of your life! Qian Qianyi was still indignant on the sidelines, "If you die, you must let him go to hell, and he will never be reborn in hell!" Don't give birth to a son! There must be no dermatitis when it is born! ”

"Brother, don't say it!" His cousin suddenly spoke to stop Qian Qianyi from continuing.

She was really afraid that Huang Chao would suddenly get angry and kill her cousin alive.

"Let's ...... Let me say hello. ”

Qian Qianyi looked at his cousin's expression, but his cousin was a little shy, maybe he had taken a fancy to Huang Chao, who was a talent. He nodded, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Hey, get a bowl of noodles for you, and try my Qian's beef noodles." ”

"Isn't it forbidden for the imperial court to kill cattle?" Huang Chao asked curiously.

"It's those mud legs that are forbidden, and they can't be controlled by my generation of scholars." Qian Qianyi got up with a smile: "I'll go and order, let the cook get a bowl of noodles for you." ”

"Okay, don't put chopped green onions." Huang Chao said with a smile.

After Qian Qianyi left, Huang Chao slowly turned his head again and looked at Qian Qianyi's cousin Song.

"You know me?" Huang Chao smiled gently.

"I ...... I know. Song said angrily.

"Come over for tea." Huang Chao greeted with a smile, and his hand was still gently touching the head of Qian Qianyi's son, who was sleeping on the side.

Where did the Song family dare to refuse this murderous demon king, her legs seemed to weigh a thousand catties, as if she had moved for a century before moving to Huang Chao's side.

Huang Chao picked up the teacup, poured a bowl by himself, and drank it all.

Song walked up to his side and pleaded in a low voice: "Please, please let go of the people here, let my cousin go......"

"Sit down." Huang Chao tugged at Song's sleeve and asked her to sit on the other side.

He looked at the frightened Song family, and remembered that when he faced the Cui family, the Lu family, the Li family, the Zheng family, and the Wang family in the late Tang Dynasty, those women were also so afraid of themselves.

Hey, didn't you just kill a few people? When you bullied those poor people, I didn't see you scared.

"Am I like a person who kills innocents indiscriminately?" Huang Chao's voice was quite gentle.

Song slowly looked up at Huang Chao, and then at him stroking the child's hand, and finally she closed her eyes and shook her head fiercely.

She didn't dare to nod, for fear of angering Huang Chao and causing her and her children to suffer.

"Isn't that the end of it?" Huang Chao said, and asked worriedly: "Will I really have no dermatitis when I give birth to a son?" What happens if I give birth to a daughter? What am I doing wrong? ”

"We ...... We're just ordinary people, we don't know each other......" Song lowered his eyebrows and said in a sincere voice, "Why do you want to kill people?" ”

"Ordinary people?" Huang Chao seemed to have heard some funny joke: "Ordinary people Tian Lianqianmo? Ordinary people can just use a little money to buy someone else's daughter? Ordinary people can ruin their families with a single word? ”

"Besides, do you need a reason to kill someone?" Huang Chao showed a bloodthirsty smile again: "When I was twenty-four years old, I took the Jinshi exam several times and all of them fell to Sun Shan, and the family gate valve blocked my ascent channel, squeezing my surplus value, and at the same time saying that I didn't study hard enough, so I realized that I shouldn't reason with them." ”

"When I picked up the knife, they were no longer as arrogant as before, they would no longer be arrogant about their hundreds of years of family business, he would be able to spend all the money I earned in a year, and he would not shout that there was no Wupin official in the family who was not worthy of scolding him. That's when I knew it wasn't going to make sense to talk to them. ”

"This is a falla......cy," Song shook his head and wept.

"Hey, it's in vain that you are a scholar, you don't understand such a simple truth." Huang Chao shook his head and sighed, turned his head and smiled: "That's it, I'll play a game with you, if you lose, I'll leave, win, you all have to die." ”

He looked at Song's big eyes, stretched out his hand and knocked on the table: "Just bet on whether there are green onions in the noodles that your brother brought in a while." ”

As soon as the words fell, Qian Qianyi brought the scholar in, and the scholar still had a bowl of noodles in his hand.

"Qian family's beef noodles, eat them while they're hot." Qian Qianyi didn't notice his cousin's expression, but greeted Huang Chao with a smile.

Huang Chao looked at the bowl, but froze in place.

Seeing Huang Chao's expression, Song's heart jumped fiercely. She looked into the bowl, and sure enough, there was only beef in it, no green onions.

Song raised his head in surprise, but he didn't expect Huang Chao to suddenly smile with relief at this time.

Just when she also showed a smile for the rest of her life, Huang Chao suddenly opened her mouth.

"I don't eat beef."

(Let's get some monthly passes, the biological clock is finally spicy back) (end of this chapter)