Xianqin Multiverse Empire

In peaceful times, the governor never thought that someone would dare to directly kidnap the imperial court official!

So the kidnapping was a success, the governor directly fell into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the runners started to operate with blackmail letters.

The food is too heavy and there are too few people, so it is definitely impossible to ask for food directly, so there is no food in the ransom.

Gold and silver are indispensable, but silver is still too heavy. Tens of thousands of taels of silver weigh thousands of catties, and tens of thousands of taels of silver weigh tens of thousands of catties.

With tens of thousands of catties of silver, Zhu Yuanzhang had less than a hundred people under his command. Even if he carried the silver on his back, he had no place to run away.

So one of the ransoms is 1 taels of gold, and the other is the armor, which must be of the highest quality. Even at the time of the kidnapping, Zhu Yuanzhang was still recruiting people.

There are too few people, and dozens of people alone cannot accomplish anything.

If you want to escape successfully after the kidnapping and have the strength to counterattack the imperial army, you need at least hundreds of heroes, but fortunately, the most important thing here in Datong is a capable hero.

As long as there is money and food, hundreds of heroes can be recruited.

The next day, the entire high-level officials in Datong were shocked!

The governor dispatched by the imperial court was actually kidnapped!

"Rebel, this is the real rebel!"

"That's right, the rebels don't have the slightest majesty of the imperial court in their eyes. Such rebels are the most terrifying, because they really dare to tear up votes!"

This is how to do?

If the governor is really torn up, then the entire Datong military town, the civilian and military generals up and down will not have a good end.

The civil servants may still be able to take care of it and rely on their connections to become officials in other places, but for the local generals, besides being dismissed, do they have other ways?

Report to the court?

No, no, whoever dares to report to the imperial court is everyone's enemy!

It seems that this anti-thief is also knowledgeable and professional, and he has saved face for everyone, and he will come to trouble...

The robbing also robbed the technical content. Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't realized it on the first day, but on the second day he understood the twists and turns of these officialdoms, and immediately had a new understanding of the corruption of the Ming court.

The courageous Zhu Yuanzhang immediately changed his robbery plan. He even took the governor back to the city openly at one point, holding hands with him, which looked weird.

In the eyes of strangers, it is normal.The governor is a legendary Jinshi lord. Their tastes are different from ordinary people. Ordinary people like girls, but they like rabbit masters.

It's just that the rabbit master in front of him is too rough, he is just a rough guy, I really don't know what the governor thinks about him!

This dramatic robbery lasted for three months.

During March, more than 2000 men from Datong were tempted by food and money, and took refuge in Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Yuanzhang finally only needed more than 300 heroes who could ride horses.Coupled with the original dozens of backbones, they can be completely digested.

Armor and weapons are all available, and the tolerance of the high-level officials for Zhu Yuanzhang is getting to the limit. There is no fool who can become a high-level person.

If Zhu Yuanzhang was just a daring traitor in their eyes at the beginning, no one still knows that this guy is a super villain like Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng!

If things go on like this, maybe he will directly rebel. At that time, won't everyone still die?So before the limit of the high-level patience came, Zhu Yuanzhang released the governor, left Datong with more than 400 heroes, and entered the grassland directly.

The majestic founding emperor of Dameng now has no choice but to become a bandit, and there is nothing better than this.

Da da da

The sound of horseshoes rattling is not a home, but a passing guest!

After watching Zhu Yuanzhang enter the grassland, the commander-in-chief of Datong Town was also a little helpless. He felt distressed, a full 3 taels of gold, just gone!

In his opinion, it is not incomprehensible for Zhu Yuanzhang to run to the grassland in order to avoid the next blow from the imperial court, but once he enters the grassland, the imperial court has the final say.

Who knows whose treasure the 3 taels of gold on Zhu Yuanzhang's body will become?

On the day Zhu Yuanzhang left, a piece of news spread throughout the grasslands. There was a guy named Zhu Laosan with 3 taels of gold in his pocket...

"Tsk tsk, as expected of Zhu Yuanzhang, even if he doesn't know how to make steel and iron, and doesn't have golden fingers, he can still stand out. The first pot of gold turned out to be robbing the governor. In peacetime, he robbed the governor. Tsk tsk, did you see Heixiaodou? What a hero!" said Liang Xiaoju while stroking the cat.

Black Bean: Meow! (I have nothing to love)

Luan Xiaoju snapped her fingers, and a barrier appeared, and then she carefully took out the communication talisman, her thoughts entered it, and she came to a virtual reality space in an instant.

Liang Xiaoju hugged Hei Xiaodou in her arms and suddenly yelled: "Holy fire is on display!"

"Sacred fire!" The guy who spoke was also holding an orange cat, but he was a man.

"All my disciples!"

"Meow meow meow!"

"It's late, it's late, so I'll focus on big oranges?"

"What's our slogan?"

"Oranges fill the sky!"

"Your Queen Liangju is here!"

"Yeah, the goddess (jing) is here."

A long, long time ago, the dream of Tai students was to serve the country, to join the army, or join the Conquest Division, but now Tai students have more dreams.

Some want to become great scientists with their own laboratories, some want to become immortal immortals, and some want to become the masters of the world.

And Liang Xiaoju's dream is to establish a Great Orange Dynasty, and become the Queen of Wanju herself, and these students in front of her are the first batch of Liang Xiaoju's team members. They are the future Wanju Menghou, Wanju Immortal, Wanju Ju Wanju Wenyuange University Bachelor, Wanju Huagaidian University Bachelor.

It just seems that their fighting spirit is not very high, they are not full of confidence in the future like Liang Xiaoju, more like they are playing with Liang Xiaoju.

"Menghou, Immortal, Grand Scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion, Grand Scholars of Huagaidian, how is your observation going? Did you gain anything?" Liang Xiaoju asked suddenly.

"Uh, the time traveler that Ben Hou observes here is not simple, and I don't know who made it, this time traveler may have been a master of Chinese culture before crossing? Or someone like a great Confucianism, of course it is also possible A philosopher, a thinker."

The one who spoke was Wanju Menghou, holding a small white milk cat in his hands. It was indeed a small milk cat when it first came into his hands, but now it has become a fat milk cat.

"Oh? What did he do?"

"This guy has been studying hard since he came here. Although it's only been half a year, he has already passed the Juren exam and is preparing for the Jinshi exam. With his level, there is no problem getting into the Jinshi exam."

"However, if it's just that, it's not worthy of my admiration. He even wrote a book in private, which contains a lot of views on the reform of Confucianism. It can be seen that he intends to reform Confucianism."

Confucianism has shortcomings, not only the emperor Laozi knows this, but most scholars also know it.

Therefore, since the birth of Confucianism, thousands of scholars have attempted to reform Confucianism.And those scholars who can effectively change the Confucian worldview, or effectively supplement the Confucian worldview, are called great Confucians.

It does not mean that one can claim to be a great Confucian after passing the Jinshi examination, becoming a minister of the six ministers, or a cabinet elder, but one must transform, supplement, and upgrade the Confucian worldview in order to become a great Confucian.

For example, Zhu Xi, although many people said that Neo Confucianism was so bad and had so many shortcomings, and many people said that Zhu Xi's character was not good enough, but these have no direct connection with Zhu Xi becoming a recognized great Confucianist while he was alive.

Another example is Wang Yangming. He became a great Confucian recognized by the world not because he won the battle and quelled the chaos of King Ning, but because he put forward the theory of mind, which effectively made up for the world view of Confucianism.

"Oh? Then why does he become a great Confucian? It is not easy to be recognized by scholars all over the world. Besides, it is the first year of Chongzhen, and instead of being an official or training soldiers, he came to reform Confucianism. Could it be Old Master Xun? Did they do it?"

"Yeah, it's a bit out of date. It's okay for Confucianism to say that the conflict between Confucianism and the empire is too strong. It's understandable that Old Master Xun wanted to reform Confucianism, but I don't think he can succeed."

"Not necessarily. You all know the attitude of Confucianism. It is incompatible with the ideals of the empire. According to historical records, when Confucianism first appeared in the eyes of the empire, Old Master Xun personally took the sword and led his disciples to chop it. people."

"That time, Old Master Xun, who has always been very kind, directly killed hundreds of so-called famous Confucian scholars with his own hands.

"Hehe, isn't it true that Master Confucius killed Shaozhengmao immediately after he became an official, and the old man took the lead in the front, so why don't other Confucian scholars be allowed to follow suit?"

Now the status of Confucianism in the empire is really embarrassing. It is difficult for anyone who has read other world history books to have a good impression of Confucianism.

Although Confucianists can find many reasons, the Northern Song Dynasty perished because the Jin Dynasty was too capable of fighting, and the emperor at that time, Lao Tzu, was a waste.

The fall of the Southern Song Dynasty was due to the incompetence of the emperor at that time, the ministers took power, and Mongolia was too good at fighting.

The fall of the Ming Dynasty was due to the stupidity of the emperor (strike out, the civil servants are not shameless enough to say that Chongzhen is stupid), the ministers exercised power, and the Manchus were too capable of fighting.

The demise of Nanming was due to the incompetence of the emperor, the power of the ministers, and the overpowering of the Manchus.

After reading the history books, you will find that the reasons Confucian scholars always look for are exactly the same, nothing more than that the emperor is fatuous, the ministers exercise power, and the enemy is too powerful. As for the crimes of Confucian scholars themselves, they never mention it.

Even though the Confucian scholars have always been the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Southern Ming Dynasty, they are right, what is wrong is the world, and what is wrong is the world!

At least Liang Xiaoju and her classmates don't have much affection for such Confucianism.

In this case, what can Old Master Xun do?

Of course, as the ancestor of Confucianism, he publicly declared that Confucianism is not Confucianism, Confucianism is good, and Confucianism is illegal...

"Ahem, this guy is not simple. He first proposed that the ultimate goal pursued by Confucianism is the Dao. The Dao is infinite, and it is difficult to directly prove the Dao. So he proposed the idea of ​​the Xiaodao. The Dao is composed of countless small paths. , It is extremely difficult to directly pursue the Dao, so we should first pursue the trails, and eventually the Dao will be formed by the convergence of the trails."

"This great way is the ultimate achievement of the three views of Confucianism. Except for the dead old master Confucius, no Confucian scholar dares to say that he has obtained the great way. And this small way is defined by him as everything in life. Dongpo meat is the small way. It is a small way, fighting is a small way, farming is a small way, inventions are a small way..."

"In addition, he also proposed the inductive method and the deductive method. The three kinds of inductive methods and the syllogisms of the deductive method have all been written by him, but they have not been published yet."

"After he sends out the Inductive Romance Method, the Confucian worldview will be greatly complemented, and he will become a famous Confucian who is famous all over the world. Although many of these scholars are idiots, they still have to judge whether the Inductive Romance Method is good or bad. figured it out."

"But after becoming a Confucian, I don't know what he will do."

Extra: Manifest Destiny (this chapter says it has been restored)

This time traveler Juren, the future time traveler Jinshi, great Confucianism, is indeed one of the experimental products of Confucianism, Liang Xiaoju and the others guessed it right.

Over the years, Confucianism has been improving, except that the core of benevolence has not been abandoned, and other external aspects have been changing.

On the surface, it seems that Confucianism is being squeezed out, but in fact, this is not the legalist's fear of Confucianism.But Confucianism only needs to firmly grasp the core of benevolence to be invincible.

Benevolence itself is definitely good, even if people of different classes have different perceptions of 'benevolence', there are still commonalities, and this must be a good thing that leads people to be good.

No organization or force on the side of order will declare that benevolence is illegal. This is impossible.

Therefore, no matter how Legalists deal with Confucianism, as long as Confucianism itself firmly abides by the laws of the empire, keeps up with current events, and takes benevolence as the core, then nothing major will happen.

And most of the conquered new worlds have legends left by Laozi, Confucius, Zhuangzi, and Mozi in the world.

However, the specific situation in the world is basically the same. The Mohist school is almost extinct, and some world Mohist schools have even really cut off their inheritance.

Legalism was devoured by Confucianism, and Taoism was devoured by Confucianism, leaving nothing but cultivating immortality and refining Qi, and the way of governing the country was almost forgotten.So every time a new world is conquered, Confucianism gains the most.

This is also the reason why Old Master Xun took the lead in beheading people. He personally beheaded people, and he could still retain the essence of Confucianism in the New World. Otherwise, if we let firm legalists like Xi and Fengyi come over, it would not be as simple as beheading people.

Therefore, Confucianism has always been full of food. They even need to continuously absorb the Confucian classics and Confucianism from the attached world, and combine them with the laws of the empire to live well.

But Confucianism is self-motivated after all, so they have been actively participating in various imperial activities all the time. As for the experiment of reforming Confucianism, they have also been doing it.

This future Confucian in the world of Shushan is not the first experiment, nor will he be the last experiment. This kind of experiment itself shows the attitude of Confucianism-actively support His Majesty's rule, actively support Qin Fa, and actively be a good commoner !

There are experiments of Confucianism, but naturally there are also experiments of Legalism and Taoism...

Jiangnan Peng's house.

The Peng family is one of the most famous big salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. His family earns a lot of money every year. Even if the supply and all aspects of management are removed, the annual net profit is a full 50 taels!

It doesn’t seem like much, it’s not as good as the Ming Dynasty’s annual income of 400 million taels, and it’s also not as good as the property confiscated when the king’s house was raided in Beijing, but the Peng family is only one of the big salt merchants after all, and their annual net profit is so high. Much has been very good.

However, the little son of the Peng family suddenly fell into a coma for unknown reasons a few days ago, and only woke up three days later.

His name is Peng Bing, he is the young son of the family and the only one. He has three older sisters. As the only male, Bing's life is of course very comfortable.

So when Peng Bing fully accepted the memory of his predecessor, he found that he was an ignorant guy, and his understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics was limited to the level of literacy.

This kind of level in Jiangnan, where the literary style is prosperous, is actually the level of a seven or eight-year-old child. Let alone a Jinshi, even a scholar, it is difficult to pass the exam in this lifetime.

Time flies, and it quickly changed from the summer when the apocalypse fell into the water to winter, and came to the first year of Chongzhen, and half a year passed in a blink of an eye.

In the past six months, Peng Bing has not done a single major event. Instead, he has been reading and observing everything around him.

After half a year of observation, coupled with the knowledge he got from books, he finally had a preliminary understanding of the Daming in front of him, and a close understanding of the family's business.

Just yesterday he came up with the idea of ​​drying salt and started experimenting.Peng Bing didn't know when the experiment would be successful, but he was certain that with the direction and the money, it was only a matter of time before the experiment was successful.

He is not worried about this, but what Peng Bing has to think about today is the future direction!

The apocalypse fell into the water, Chongzhen became the emperor, Yuan Chonghuan pacified the Liao Dynasty for five years, and Mao Wenlong was still the general soldier of Pidao, but it is estimated that it will not be long before Mao Wenlong dies.

Even next winter, the wild boar skins will enter customs, come to the city of Beijing, and be plundered throughout Northern Zhili.

After 17 years, Ming Dynasty will perish!

Peng Bing studied it very carefully, and he found that he was not a material for studying at all, and it was too difficult to be admitted to the Jinshi by ability.

It's too difficult for me, as a time traveler, I don't even have any cheats!

Without a golden finger, why should you compete with so many scholars in the south of the Yangtze River for the places of scholars, candidates, and Jinshi?

Can't do it!

So, would you like to change your hairstyle into a money rat tail?

His head was bald except for a small piece at the back of his head, and he had a slender braid. Peng Bing shook his head vigorously after thinking about such a scene.

If it was just the hairstyle alone, Peng Bing would not be unacceptable, but what Man Qing brought was not just this hairstyle, but slavery!