Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

Now that the Qing Dynasty has lost Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi, the five relatively wealthy provinces, their revenue has plummeted compared with before the war, so the tax revenue of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces is even more important, accounting for at least Half of the annual income!

In addition, it is also the most important point.Among these three provinces, Zhejiang Province also produces white sugar!

Although Zhejiang's white sugar production and quality cannot be compared with Guangdong and Fujian, but for the Qing Dynasty, it was a question of whether or not.

Now sugar has gone from the kitchen to the battlefield, and has become the most important military supplies!But now the white sugar in the world comes from the four provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, and Zhejiang in China.Among them, Guangdong and Fujian have the largest output and the best quality.

And Guangdong and Fujian are now the territory of Daming!

In addition, Guangxi is now under the joint rule of Wu Sangui's cousin Zu Zeqing and Wu Sangui.As long as Guangxi is not lost, Wu Sangui will not be without sugar.

And the white sugar of the Qing Dynasty can only be supplied by Zhejiang... If Zhejiang is lost, then the white sugar supply chain of the Qing Dynasty will not be in its own hands.

Although it is unlikely that Zhu and Qi could completely control the flow of white sugar, the cost of obtaining white sugar for the Qing Dynasty would definitely increase significantly.

If the Qing Dynasty lost the income and population of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui at the same time, it would be really difficult to sustain this war.

Kangxi was actually waiting for Yue Le to say that the three provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang were important.So he immediately took up the topic and said: "What the emperor said is very true. I also feel that the three provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang have too much to do with the gains and losses! So I want to follow the example of the previous Ming Dynasty and change Jiangning back to Nanjing Yingtianfu...Uncle Emperor What do you think?"

"Prince An," the academician Mingzhu rushed to speak without waiting for Yue Le to answer the question, "the imperial court sent envoys to Jingzhou to redeem the captured soldiers of the Eight Banners from Wu Sangui. According to the reports from Hong Shiming and Wang Shirong who served as envoys , now the people in Jingzhou Fucheng are happy up and down, and everyone is happy. And Fu Honglie and Zhou Peigong, who once went to Guangfu to investigate the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, also reported that the people in Guangzhou Fucheng welcomed Zhu Ni and resisted the court. This shows that the court not only lost in the battlefield It also loses in the hearts of the people. The hearts of the people in Huguang, Guangdong, and Fujian are not toward the imperial court, but what about the hearts of the people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui?"

"Malji, tell me!" Kangxi immediately transferred the question to the governor of Liangjiang, Malji.

What did Malji say?

Said that the Qing Dynasty was very popular in Jiangnan?Isn't this bullying?And this gentleman doesn't seem to want to hear such nonsense.

But the truth...

Forget it, don't say anything.

Malji hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground, with his buttocks pouted, without saying a word.

The meaning of this is obvious, if you want to fight, just fight, anyway, I dare not tell the truth.

"Cao Xi, tell me, you are my own person, there is nothing you can't say." Kangxi also found Cao Xueqin's great-grandfather Cao Xi, who was Kangxi's "personal person".

"Returning to the emperor," Cao Xi said, "this servant thinks that people in Jiangnan can be saved compared to Guangdong, Fujian, and Huguang. The key depends on what the court does."

His words are back to the level!

Don't directly say that the court is unpopular, but that it can be restored.Moreover, it was compared with the place already taken by Zhu Heqi and Wu Sangui.

Kangxi nodded, "I regard Jiangning as Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing, and I personally sit in the town, just to win back people's hearts. As long as people's hearts are on the side of the Qing Dynasty, I will be sure to win!"

"I don't know how the emperor plans to save people's hearts besides sitting in Nanjing?" Yue Le said a few more words at this time.

He really couldn't bear it anymore, things have come to this point, how can he save people's hearts?How to recover?Is it to recover by extortionate taxes?Or use words to save?

When Kangxi was asked by Yue Le, he felt a little bit troubled, and said in a low voice: "Then how did the third prince Zhu and Wu Sangui win the hearts of the people?"

This question... most people in this cabin know about it, maybe only the Holy Lord Kangxi doesn't know about it.

The way for Zhu and Wu to win the hearts of the people is actually very simple, just two words - Daqing!

In fact, after the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains, there was no need to toss so many things, and you can live a flat life for more than two hundred years.But the Qing Dynasty wanted too much "tens of thousands of years", so it changed its style and tossed the Han people. In those years of the early Qing Dynasty, the executive power was relatively strong, so it was particularly powerful.Naturally, this person's heart has been greatly lost!

Of course, Cao Xi didn't dare to say this to Kangxi, but Cao Xi already had a way to deal with it, and saw him take out a bright red post from his arms, and raised his hands.

"Your Majesty, look at this."

Kangxi was taken aback, "Is this... a wedding invitation? Getting married? Or having a son?"

"Your Majesty, this is a hero post." Cao Xi said, "This is a hero post for a hero meeting to be held in Jiugong Mountain next spring to discuss state affairs. It is issued in the name of the fake third grandson of Zhu!"

"Who is it for?" Kangxi asked hurriedly.

"Anonymous." Cao Xi said, "As long as you call yourself a hero, you can take the post to Jiugong Mountain. These days, many porcelain bottles sent from Jingdezhen to Jiangning are stuffed with this kind of hero post. There are also some smuggled salt and The smuggling Jianghu bandits are also distributing such hero posts everywhere."

"So that's how it is...bring me to have a look." Kangxi winked at Little Guizi's father-in-law, who immediately sent this hero card to Kangxi.

"It turns out that this is Zhu Ni's way of defrauding the hearts of the scholar-bureaucrats," Emperor Kangxi opened the hero post, and said to himself while reading, "I also have the ability to speak widely. I know everything and say everything, and the speaker is innocent. Well! I also want to hold a Nanjing Heroes’ Meeting, so that all heroes from all over the world will come to help me and protect the Qing Dynasty!”

Chapter 333 Hero, open the door!

Emperor Kangxi was a heroic king who liked to walk around, and now he was young and strong (the rabbits in Nanjing will soon know how powerful he is), and he didn't like to go out in a carriage or sedan chair.

The Qing Dynasty took the world with its bow and horse!Of course, Emperor Kangxi should set an example by riding more horses and taking less cars.And today was his first visit to Nanjing Yingtian Mansion in the Qing Dynasty, so he naturally wanted to leave the first impression of a heroic king on the people of Nandu.

Therefore, after Emperor Kangxi got off the imperial boat, he chose to ride on horseback in armor, and under the guard of a group of slaves who had been promoted from the coat slaves to the Eight Banners Han Army, he entered the Nanjing Yifeng Gate in a mighty way.

And when Kangxi rode his horse out of the gate of Longjiangkou Tax Customs and walked on the street outside Yifengmen, he immediately realized that something was wrong—the people in Nanjing behaved very strangely!Why are they all standing upright and kneeling?And they all looked up at him with their necks raised and their eyes widened.

What kind of rule is this?

Kangxi said in his heart: "Shouldn't the common people kneel to greet the holy driver? Shouldn't they kneel? Why are they kneeling straight? The kneeling posture is wrong! And they are still staring at the emperor... What's wrong with the emperor? He's wearing the wrong clothes ? The hat is on backwards?"

"Little Guizi!" Kangxi didn't have a place to look in the mirror now, so he had to call his confidant eunuch to his side.

"Master, what are your orders?"

Kangxi asked: "Look, I'm wearing the right clothes and hat right?"

"No... Your Majesty, do you feel uncomfortable wearing it?"

"No," Kangxi said in a low voice, "Didn't you find that the people here in Nanjing City are very strange? They are all kneeling upright, and they are staring at me!"

"This..." Father-in-law Xiao Guizi thought to himself, "People are looking to see if your head is original?"

Thinking of this, Eunuch Xiao Guizi had no choice but to tell Kangxi the truth: "If you go back to the emperor, these people are not real people. They are all the family members of the Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers stationed in the garrison, and some are officials in various government offices in Jiangning City. Prince An and the others are afraid that some unscrupulous people will blow up the thunder when you pass by, so..."

"What does that have to do with them kneeling upright?" Kangxi still didn't understand.

Father-in-law Xiao Guizi had no choice but to continue to say in a roundabout way: "Your Majesty, that's what happened. Many of the family members who were stationed in the Eight Banners entered the pass from the Dragon. I have been staying here, and I haven’t seen our master in the Qing Dynasty for 30 or [-] years. Now that the emperor is here in person, they naturally want to take a good look.”

"Oh, so that's the case," Kangxi nodded and said with a smile, "Then I'll let them take a good look."

As he spoke, Emperor Kangxi pulled the reins and rode his horse up to a kneeling white-haired old man. He smiled and said to him, "Old man, do you see clearly?"

"See it clearly," the old Eight Banners laughed out of his confusion, "it's the emperor, you are the real emperor...you have pockmarks on your face! Your majesty, is the injury on your neck healed? Does it hurt? ?”

A wound on the neck?

Kangxi was taken aback for a moment, but he immediately realized that he was cooperating with this group of servants to see if I was really Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty!

However, Kangxi was still a bit wise. Although he was very upset, he deliberately slowed down so that the servants below could take a good look—he was real!The neck injury is also good, everyone can feel at ease as slaves!

Not to mention, Kangxi's generous attitude is really reassuring.He just wanted someone to cut down that nonsense old Eight Banners, and that would be the end of it... He was killing people to silence him!Who still believes that he is the real Kangxi who "beheaded and never died"?

So Kangxi rode his horse and walked slowly, and faced the questioning eyes with a long face full of pockmarks and a smile.

Kneeling outside the gate of Yifeng, the high imitation common people finally believed that Kangxi really "beheaded and survived" this time, this is the real man!It seems that the Qing Dynasty will not be over for a while.

Then the earth-shattering cheers rose immediately.

"The emperor is invulnerable! Long live the emperor..."

"Your Majesty is invulnerable! Your Majesty lives forever!"

"The emperor is invulnerable! The Qing Dynasty is invincible..."

Also invulnerable!

Kangxi was also dumbfounded, but he would not come forward to stop such rumors that are beneficial to him... This year is the "magic boom", and it is said that there are magic schools in Guangdong.If Emperor Kangxi didn't have a little bit of morality, this emperor would really be a little bit unbearable.

Thinking of this, Emperor Kangxi felt a little better, but this good mood did not last long.When he rode his horse into Fengyi Gate, his heart suddenly sank.

Because the streets inside Fengyimen were deserted, all the shops were closed and no common people knelt there to pick up their drivers, only the fully armed Eight Banners soldiers stood guard on both sides of the street, one post at five steps and one post at ten steps.From Fengyimen to Jiangning Qicheng, that is, the road outside the original Nanjing Imperial City, this is the case!

It turned out that Yue Le and the others could mobilize [-] to [-] "high imitation ordinary people", half of them were placed outside Fengyi Gate, and the other half were greeted in Qicheng.

On the two long streets between Fengyimen and Jiangning Qicheng, only soldiers from the Eight Banners stood guard.

None of the real people spontaneously took to the street to pick him up...Of course, people like Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, and Cao Xi didn't organize the people to go to the street to visit the emperor—in fact, they didn't let them see, they had to kneel down Welcome, if you are not careful, you have to drag the Eight Banners soldiers down for a good fight, who can eat enough to join in the fun?

Moreover, people like Yue Le, Er Chu, Malji, and Cao Xi don't want the common people to kneel on the street, because now is the era of "magic prosperity"!Kangxi can behead his head without dying, but Zhu Shengren in Guangdong can fly swords and thunder... Maybe he will send a dead man to lurk in the south of the Yangtze River with Tianlei on his back, mix with the people who greet him, and explode when the emperor passes by. It's hard to guard against!

So a few of them simply ordered that all the shops along the road from Longjiangkou Wharf to Jiangning Qicheng were not allowed to open their doors, and the windows along the street were not allowed to be opened!

That's why Emperor Kangxi saw Jiangning City, which was deserted and deserted, and the air was filled with hostility!

This is where Zhu Yuanzhang's dragon flourished!

When Emperor Kangxi entered the Jiangning Banner City, this idea suddenly popped up in his mind: "It's easy to go to the south of the Yangtze River, and it's not easy to win the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River! No, I must compete with the surname Zhu for the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River...to win Let all the heroes in the south of the Yangtze River come to support the Qing Dynasty, but we can’t let them all go to Jiugong Mountain. By the way, who are the heroes in the south of the Yangtze River?”

……

At the end of December in the 12th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the New Year is approaching, and the eastern Zhejiang area is experiencing the coldest season of the year.

The Little Ice Age that started at the end of the Ming Dynasty has not yet passed, and the winter in Zhejiang is still extremely cold, and it is not the dry and cold in the north, but the damp and cold unique to the south. The combination of humidity and low temperature makes the chill almost penetrate the bone marrow.

But in the Witness Academy in Baiyun Village outside Ningbo, a group of middle-aged and young people with bald heads and no hats, showing money and rattail braids, rushed over in the cold, looking eagerly at a man wearing a hood ( It's the hat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom), a thin old man in a cross-collared cloth robe.

And the old man was sitting behind a desk, and there were two bright red invitation cards on the desk.

On the covers of the two invitations were written three large characters: Heroes!

These are two registered posts, both for this old man.One of them was issued in the name of Zhu Cijiong, the King of the Ming Dynasty.

And the other one was sent by President Wu Sangui!

The person who can invite Zhu Cijiong (Zhu Heqi) and Wu Sangui at the same time is called Huang Zongxi!

The two invitation cards were delivered to Baiyun Village one after the other, and they were all invited to Huang Zongxi, a well-known Confucian who is well-known all over the country, to attend the Heroes' Meeting in Jiugong Mountain.

But Huang Zongxi couldn't go!

"Teacher, teacher..." A middle-aged man rushed into the study where Huang Zongxi was staying, "Fan Zhijun has already kissed outside the village... Baiyunzhuang has been surrounded by the pacesetters from the governor's office!"

Chapter 334 I'm Not A True Hero!

The man who rushed in to report the arrival of Fan Chengmo's soldiers to Huang Zongxi was named Wan Sitong, a disciple of Huang Zongxi, and also one of the famous eight dragons of the Wan family in eastern Zhejiang. Wanjia's industry.

After the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty in Nanming, Huang Zongxi once summoned [-] volunteers in his hometown to fight against the Qing Dynasty.He also served as the head of the Ministry of War under Lu Jianguo, and once led troops to attack Zhapu.Later, he hid in Siming Mountain with some other anti-Qing heroes to "fight guerrillas". Saki.

Later, when Lu Jianguo's anti-Qing cause became so cold, Huang Zongxi was also disheartened and no longer insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty. Instead, he set up lecture halls in Cixi, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Haining and other places, and at the same time wrote "Ming Yi Waiting for interviews and Liushu are two works that are sufficient to establish his status as a great Confucian.

In the sixth year of Kangxi, Huang Zongxi, who completed "Mingyi Waiting for Interviews", reopened the Witness Academy founded by Liu Zongzhou in Baiyunzhuang, Ningbo, with the support of his disciples, and began to publicize his thoughts and ideas in the cracks of the literary prison ... And such an academy that doesn't study stereotyped essays, and studies "Ming" and "Yi" all day long, is of course the key target of the Zhejiang government.

If anyone can arrest Huang Zongxi as the chief culprit of the literary inquisition, then the credit will be too great.

So when Fan Chengmo was the governor of Zhejiang last time, he had already sorted out Huang Zongxi's black materials, and wanted him to be executed early.

But before he could submit this material, Kangxi sent him a court letter asking him to troubleshoot the descendants of Zhuge, and even asked him to find some "Zhuge Suicide Notes"... Now Fan Chengmo dared not report Huang Zongxi's black material up.

Master Fan knows the minds of the masters too well - the master asked you to find "Zhuge's Suicide Note", if you can't find it, you are incompetent!But if you can find a copy of "Ming Yi Waiting for Interview" and hand it in, what will the master think?

It's useless to deal with these things all day long if you don't handle the business that your master told you to do well!

So Huang Zongxi escaped unintentionally.

Later, Fan Chengmo went to Fujian again. Although he returned to Zhejiang as the governor not long after, he did not wait for him to send troops to arrest Huang Zongxi... Kangxi was beheaded, and the news that the Qing Dynasty was about to end spread throughout Zhejiang overnight.

How could Fan Chengmo have the mind to run a literary prison now?The Qing Dynasty is about to disappear, and by then he himself will be a rebel hiding in Tibet, and he will deal with others?Maybe it was Huang Zongxi who came to deal with him!

Just when Fan Chengmo was about to run away, the emperor's most trusted father-in-law Gui finally came to Hangzhou from Jiangning, and brought Kangxi's imperial post and a "list of heroes".Kangxi first explained the truth of "beheading and not dying" in the court letter, and then asked Fan Chengmo to invite people according to the list, and then personally escort them to Nanjing Yingtian Mansion—Jiangning Mansion.After Kangxi arrived in Jiangning, he issued an imperial edict, announcing that Jiangning Mansion should be changed to Yingtian Mansion, which would be Nanjing of the Great Qing Dynasty, and its status would be equal to that of Shengjing outside the pass.

After seeing Eunuch Gui and Kangxi's autographed Tingji, Fan Chengmo finally let go of his hanging heart, so he cheered up and did a good job for Emperor Kangxi.

Huang Zongxi ranked first on the "list of heroes" that Emperor Kangxi asked Eunuch Gui to bring!

Such a great hero, we can't let him escape...

"Don't panic, now is not the time to set up a literary inquisition... Prince Zhu and Wu Sangui are both trying to win the heroes of the world to work for them. No matter how stupid Kangxi is, he will not start a literary inquisition at this time."

Huang Zongxi heard that Baiyun Village was besieged, but he didn't panic at all. He smiled and said to the 18 disciples in front of him: "In this troubled time, the world is divided into three parts, and it's time for heroes to make achievements. You have already obtained my knowledge, and now you can learn from me." When you are in your prime, it's time to go out to serve Mingjun. You can take the "Ming Yi Dai Interview Record" and "Liu Shu" as your teacher to Jiugong Mountain. As for the Ming Dynasty or Wu Sangui, you can decide for yourself. [-] people, why don't we divide it into nine!"

"Teacher, then you..." Wan Sitong hurriedly asked, "We are all gone, what should you do?"

Huang Zongxi laughed and said: "As a teacher, I will bring "Ming Yi Dai Interview Record" to see Kangxi!"

……

Lizhou, Hunan, Shimen County, Jiashan Temple.

In a snow-covered pavilion, a tall old monk with broad shoulders, protruding cheekbones, a full sky, high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, thick gray eyebrows, and a scar under his left eye was guarding a red mud Stove, sitting with legs crossed leisurely, looking at the flames on the stove for a while, and looking at the red invitation card in hand for a while.A pot of yak tea is hot on the stove, the tea is fragrant, and there is a faint sense of Zen in it.

The old monk's name is Feng Tianyu, he is the abbot of Jiashan Temple, and he is also a rather mysterious figure.

He traveled here with a large group of disciples in the early years of Shunzhi. It was a pity to hear that the Jiashan Temple, which was built by the imperial court during the three dynasties, was burnt down after being robbed by the Qing soldiers.So I went to Wei Shaofang, the magistrate of Shimen County at the time, and after some management, he successfully "contracted" Jiashan Temple, and then used an astronomical amount of "private savings" to restore the temple.In just a few years, there was a "massive move in the jungle", which not only "restored the old view", but also added many halls and facilities.It actually made this Jiashan Temple flourish in one fell swoop, with a grand scale, far superior to the past, with nine halls and one palace, and it is said that it needs to "ride a horse to close the mountain gate".

It would not be surprising if this kind of thing happened in a peaceful and prosperous age with too many rich people. Maybe that rich man wanted to cultivate the afterlife?

But what happened in the early years of Shunzhi?Not to mention the turmoil, the population has decreased by seven or eight, and there is a desolation everywhere. There is such a rich monk... and he has not been robbed by robbers.