Dashun Yongchang

Chapter 418 Chasing Nine

When the Xuzhou Metropolitan Marshal's Mansion conveyed the great victory of the Shun Army in Henan to the south, Li Zicheng was comforting the people who escaped from the butcher knife of the Qing army. Faced with these people whose houses were demolished and their families were slaughtered, some people could still cry to Li Zicheng They said a few words, but more people looked numb, as if they had completely lost the meaning of existence.

Although at the beginning someone met these people with the intention of showing off, but after seeing too many people who had lost hope in life, someone felt that he should do something.As a modern person, as long as he is not from the ruling class, it is almost impossible not to feel sympathy for the suffering of these ordinary people, after all, someone is one of the ordinary people.

Someone has not yet learned to see ordinary people as the rulers of another race.In fact, in the eyes of the ruler, there is no difference between the ruled and the chimpanzee.From a biological point of view, the genetic similarity between humans and chimpanzees is as high as 96%, but from a political point of view, the difference between the powerful and capitalists and the proletariat is greater than 99%.

So American capitalists use revolvers to sterilize Indians, and red dignitaries use surgery to sterilize the proletariat. In essence, their treatment of the proletariat is more cruel than that of chimpanzees.Therefore, a ruler cannot feel the pain of ordinary people, but ordinary people can feel the pain of another ordinary person.

Unable to ignore the suffering of the people, Li Zicheng held a meeting in Tongxu County. In addition to generals such as Chen Yongfu, Fan Shoude, and Deng Qiannan, he also invited local tyrants and representatives of the people.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Zicheng explained his purpose of holding the meeting straight to the point, "The Marshal's Mansion cannot turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people; the Marshal's Mansion has the responsibility to help the people rebuild their homes; It also exists to deal with war, and the fundamental power of war comes from people, without people, there would be no Marshal's Mansion."

At the beginning, everyone didn't know the purpose of Li Zicheng's meeting. The local people's representatives were worried that the Marshal's Mansion would require the local people to bear too much responsibility. Whether it was food distribution or distribution, it would be a heavy burden for the local people. They are all ready to cry at the meeting in exchange for Li Zicheng's sympathy for the local area, thereby reducing the local apportionment.Of course, they didn't expect Li Zicheng not to apportion at all, which is too unrealistic, after all, the army can't fight hungry.

But they didn't expect that Li Zicheng would take the initiative to support those people who suffered misfortune due to the war, which was never the case in the Chongzhen Dynasty.Only during the Tianqi and Wanli years, when the imperial court was still operating normally, would it help the people affected by the disaster. Although the officials and local gentry would be corrupt, at least it could reduce the burden on the people.

After many years, someone finally stood up and said that he would take care of those suffering people. Even if the person who said this was a rebel leader, the representatives of the people present at this moment finally felt some hope of restoring social order.Some representatives of the common people took advantage of the situation and knelt down in front of Li Zicheng, shouting long live to him three times, and other people in the venue also praised him one after another, which made Li Zicheng blush. To be honest, this was not his original intention. Although he once thought of trying to win over the people of Henan by being close to the people, this time it was really not the case.

Li Zicheng blushed, and finally said a few heartfelt words to the people present, "I can't afford this thank you, and I don't think there is anything to be grateful for. I said that I should take care of these people, but everyone think about it carefully." , Can I conjure money and food out of thin air? Don’t these money and food still come from the taxes paid by the people?

Everyone needs to know that it is not the country that nurtures the people, but the people that nurture the country.Therefore, when the people are in trouble, the country will naturally help, otherwise what qualifications does the country have to collect taxes and ask the people to defend it?

I can't be greedy for the merits of heaven and take it for myself, I can't take the people's contribution to the country for granted, and I can't take the country's assistance to the people as a gift.Therefore, it is not that the people should be loyal to the country, but the country should be loyal to the people.A country that enjoys the support of the people but ignores the needs of the people is not a country that the people need, and the people naturally do not need to support it.

This is the difference between Dashun and Ming Dynasty. The smoothness of Dashun is the obedience to the will of the people, not the obedience to the will of God.The reason why I want to overthrow Daming is to establish a Dashun that belongs to the people rather than the emperors and generals.If you still treat Dashun the same way you treat Da Ming, then it can only mean that I have failed. Do you want to see my failure? "

At the beginning, everyone didn't understand what Li Zicheng was talking about. They just followed the tradition and felt that kindness comes from the top, and the people below should naturally be grateful, otherwise they would become beasts without etiquette.But Li Zicheng's words made them feel confused. If this Dashun belongs to the common people, then where should Li Zicheng and those high officials and dignitaries stand?

But at this time, two people stood up, one was Li Zicheng's new document in Suizhou, Zhang Taisheng, and the other was Deng Qiannan from the General Staff Department. These two people usually like to study Li Zicheng's speeches, so they understood it very quickly. Li Zicheng's idea, so he stood up and persuaded everyone to stand up and speak.

Although I don't know why, but seeing that Li Zicheng did not object to the persuasion of the two people, someone got up cautiously, trying to break the dull atmosphere in the hall.After these people got up, seeing that Li Zicheng had no intention of continuing to speak, other people stood up one after another, but everyone was still at a loss.

The Shun of Dashun is the Shun that complies with the will of the people. These words are indeed very pleasant. After witnessing the chaos of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty have already questioned the emperor's autocratic power. "The people in the world belong to the people in the world", this kind of thinking has also begun to spread among some radical scholars.This kind of questioning of autocratic power stems from the fact that Emperor Chongzhen, who possessed supreme power, not only failed to relieve the crisis of Ming Dynasty, but directly destroyed the country, which aroused their thinking.

After all, according to the theory of Confucianism, the biggest goal of scholar-bureaucrats is to assist an emperor who is diligent in governing and loving the people like Chongzhen, so that the world can achieve a state of governance.No matter from which point of view, Chongzhen met the requirements of Confucianism for the emperor. Although he was impatient and lacked strategy, this was not the condition for Confucianism to evaluate the quality of the emperor, but a question of whether the ministers assisted wholeheartedly.

The fall of the Ming Dynasty at the hands of Chongzhen broke the Three Views for scholars, because it obviously broke some Confucian theories, and it also made some scholars begin to doubt the rule of the three generations depicted by Confucianism.If Li Zicheng hadn't said these words, or on this occasion, maybe someone would have echoed them.

But on this occasion, it was Li Zicheng who said again, so everyone had to keep silent.However, under the pressure of Zhang Taisheng and Deng Qiannan, the atmosphere in the hall finally warmed up.Everyone tacitly avoided the topic that Dashun is the people's Dashun, and instead discussed how to help the people affected by the war rebuild their homes.

Helping people rebuild their homes is actually not troublesome. After all, in this era of war, which Henan people have not experienced the experience of rebuilding their homes?Therefore, the local tyrants and representatives of the common people quickly came up with a fairly proper plan for resettling the villagers and building the village. The only trouble was where the money and grain would come from.

It costs at least 15 taels to build two earthen huts for a family, and then distribute grain, farm tools, and rations until the summer harvest. This is already a very careful budget price.A family destroyed by the war in Tongxu County would cost nearly a thousand households, that is, 5000 taels. If the losses caused by the destruction of the Qing army in Henan were to be included, then at least 25 taels to 30 taels would be needed. , and this does not include relief to those families with lesser losses.

The tax amount for the entire Henan is 50 taels, which refers to the tax money that should be received in the accounts, not the tax money actually received.In the eyes of Zhang Taisheng, Deng Qiannan and other Ming people, this is a rather large number, so the relief standard for the people of Tongxu County should not be set too high.But for Li Zicheng, this number is acceptable.

In order to prepare for this war, the Marshal's Mansion spent tens of thousands of taels of silver, which did not include the food and supplies collected in kind and the free young adults collected.In his mind, numbers less than 10 taels are not too sensitive anymore, since they are just adding to the debt anyway.It must be known that the debt owed by the Marshal's Mansion has exceeded 1000 million taels of silver. Does he still need to care about tens of thousands of taels of silver?

Therefore, Li Zicheng stopped Zhang Taisheng and Deng Qiannan who wanted to continue to reduce the relief standard. He said to the crowd: "Just follow this standard to provide relief to the people. For some particularly difficult areas, it can be raised, but not more than 2%. But I also have two requests."

For Li Zicheng's generosity, the local tyrants and representatives of the people were surprised, but also listened carefully to Li Zicheng's request.Li Zicheng stood up from his seat, then walked to the middle of the hall, and then said to the local people's representatives: "First of all, the Marshal's Mansion does not have so many people to watch over the distribution of relief funds, so I ask all counties to rebuild or renew It is suggested that the council will make statistics on the people in need of assistance in this county and provide assistance.

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The Marshal's Mansion will send people to verify the relief accounts, and these accounts will be openly subject to the supervision of the people.As long as the common people are satisfied with the relief organization of the council, then I will have no objection.The Council will become a permanent body. In the future, it will not only be responsible for relief and construction of local public facilities, but will also serve as a channel for local people to communicate with the Marshal's Mansion. Therefore, I hope that you will treat the members of the Council with prudence. recommendation.

Secondly, the purpose of relief is to solve the current difficulties of the people, not for the achievements of some people, so

Relief must be timely.Before the money and food from the Marshal's Mansion are allocated, I hope that the big households with spare capacity can first lend a part of the money and food to the council for relief.It can be regarded as a loan from the Marshal's Mansion, and the principal and interest will be repaid at 3% interest after the autumn harvest..."

If there were no words of sympathy for the people from Li Zicheng, then when Li Zicheng asked for a loan from a large household, he would have heard a lot of complaints, because 3% interest is almost equal to no interest.But now no one dared to speak out, because it was not Li Zicheng who offended by speaking out now, but those local folks.

Chapter 419 The Pursuit Part 10

Since the war, one of the main reasons for the rise of the local tyrants in Henan is that they have built strongholds to protect themselves. Therefore, although the attacks between the tyrants are fierce, they still treat the villagers with lenient treatment. The angry oppressed united with outsiders to eliminate them, and only those who treated the local tyrants well could survive.

Of course, Haoqiang's lenient treatment of the village means not to squeeze too much, rather than treating the village as if it were his own family.If Li Zicheng hadn't publicly promised to rebuild their homes for the affected people, then the powerful local households would have helped some families to overcome this difficulty, but they would have made a choice and expected to get more returns in the future, but they would never just Charge 3% interest to help people.

In this way, it is better not to charge interest, at least it can be favored.But now, the reputation has been earned by the Marshal's Mansion, and they just took a dispensable interest.However, under the watchful eyes of the generals of the Shun Army and representatives of the common people, these wealthy and powerful households dare not say no, because since ancient times, it has been the power of the court to help the victims of disasters, and doing such things privately is called buying people's hearts. If the Ming Dynasty hadn't lost control of the local area , then it is impossible for these tyrants to exercise such power in place of the imperial court.

If they objected to the relief plan proposed by Li Zicheng, then these Shunjun generals present would attack them on behalf of the Marshal's Mansion, and because it was related to the personal interests of the people, and Li Zicheng gave them interest, not asking them Donations, on this issue, it is impossible for the people to support them to resist the orders of the Marshal's Mansion.

Therefore, Li Zicheng separated the local rich and powerful families from ordinary people with just a few beautiful words. This made some local powerful and powerful people feel quite lamented. Back here again, although this court may not be the one that is convincing, it is still the court after all, rather than the influence of a strong man covering here.

The meeting ended with all support for Li Zicheng's proposal. After recognizing the big and powerful family whose arms could not twist their thighs, they quickly changed their minds, expressed their obedience to Li Zicheng, and expressed that they dare not ask for interest and are willing to donate part of the money and grain Do such a good thing for the Marshal's Mansion.

Li Zicheng thought for a while and then replied: "The Marshal's Mansion is doing these things out of its own responsibility, and everyone is out of kindness. If you are foreigners, it is most convenient to donate to the Marshal's Mansion, but since it is a rescue For the local folks in this town, let the Marshal's Mansion take over, and there is no other meaning except for a few more procedures.

What I mean is this, everyone recommends a few representatives, the council and the Marshal's Mansion will send a few people to supervise the accounts, and then these representatives will arrange the use of the donations, and then the council and the Marshal's Mansion will announce the accounts to the people, so that Everyone can know your kindness and ensure that donations will not be embezzled. What do you think? "

This is of course an excellent suggestion. Don’t everyone donate money to the Marshal’s Mansion to gain a good reputation and show their loyalty to Li Zicheng? , not only accepted their kindness, but also made them not have to worry about the money and food they donated being used on strangers.

After the meeting, Zhang Taisheng handed over the meeting minutes he had recorded to Li Zicheng for review. Seeing Li Zicheng's frown, he couldn't help asking carefully: "Does your majesty think there is something wrong with the contents of the records?"

Li Zicheng put down the meeting minutes in his hand, looked up at Zhang Taisheng and said, "No, you recorded very well, and what I want to express is all on it. I just felt some hidden worries through today's meeting, and it has nothing to do with the meeting minutes." relation."

Zhang Taisheng was relieved at first, but he soon came to his senses. It seems wrong to keep silent at this time. Li Zicheng said that he felt a hidden worry. As a courtier, he didn't even ask. .So he asked cautiously: "Your Majesty's worries, can I share your Majesty's concerns?"

Li Zicheng looked at him and said: "Speaking of which, you may really be able to help with this matter, but for you, such a choice will offend many people, are you willing to share it for me?"

Zhang Taisheng naturally replied without hesitation: "Your Majesty's loyalty to His Majesty can be demonstrated day by day, so why not be afraid of offending others? If Your Majesty thinks that I still have something useful, Your Majesty can order it down."

Li Zicheng then said: "Today's meeting made me very anxious..."

Li Zicheng's first sentence made Zhang Taisheng a little dumbfounded. In his eyes, today's meeting was actually very successful. Li Zicheng not only won the approval of the local people, but also took advantage of the trend to quietly take back the local money from these wealthy and powerful families. executive power.The tyranny of local governments and the autonomy of local councils are completely different things. At least the latter represents a certain social order. For Henan people, this is a very happy result.After all, under the tyrannical separatist regime, they actually succumbed to the powerful, and there was no place to reason. The words of the powerful are the law.

As far as a monarch is concerned, Li Zicheng won a complete victory tonight, and even those tyrants expressed their obedience to Li Zicheng by donating money and food, so Zhang Taisheng was quite surprised, how could such a meeting make Li Zicheng anxious.

Li Zicheng didn't pay attention to the changes in Zhang Taisheng's psychology. He just continued according to his own thoughts: "In today's meeting, I didn't see anyone who really questioned the power of the Marshal's Mansion from the standpoint of the common people. It is a very dangerous sign for Dashun to regard the responsibilities that the Marshal's Mansion should fulfill as an extra gift."

Zhang Taisheng finally couldn't bear the doubts in his heart, and asked Li Zicheng: "Isn't it a good thing for the people to obey the orders of the Marshal's Mansion in Yudu? The country can be stable only if it works from top to bottom."

Li Zicheng stared at him sternly and said: "No, the people should obey the legal orders of the Marshal's Mansion instead of unconditionally obeying the orders of the Marshal's Mansion. Otherwise, once the world returns to peace and the officials become strong again, they will still be willing to fulfill their obligations." Responsibilities? Then at that time, Dashun will be just another copy of Ming Dynasty. After more than ten years of fighting, the lives of tens of millions of people will only be achieved in the end. The greatest betrayal to the people. Do you want to see such a great success?"

Zhang Taisheng felt speechless for a moment, he was not really speechless, but felt a little ashamed in his heart, when he joined the army, he thought in his heart that he came from the Dragon Hero.However, he hadn't completely broken away from the category of a scholar, and hadn't learned the ways of the world in the officialdom, so when faced with Li Zicheng's questioning, he immediately felt ashamed of his own selfishness.

Zhang Taisheng could only shake his head repeatedly and said, "Of course I don't want Dashun to become like this..."

Looking at Zhang Taisheng's appearance, Li Zicheng felt that this person could still be used. To him, what he disliked most was the kind of master of Chinese studies who taught young people how to behave in the world, and the smell of shrouds came from the grave.Teaching young people how to submit to their bosses, how to protect themselves wisely, how to get promoted and make a fortune, and regard it as traditional Chinese wisdom, in fact, in a word, isn’t it just “it’s up to others to laugh and scold, and I’m a good official myself?”.

When a country's young people are learning such traditional wisdom, what hope is there for the country?Sacrificing for others is a fool in the eyes of wise people; speaking out for justice is a manifestation of ignorance... As a result, a large number of intellectual elites have become exquisite egoists, doing things without conscience in order to get ahead thing.

The ruler of a country does not pursue the root cause of the change in the social atmosphere, but instead blames the problem on young people, believing that the decline in social morality is due to the destruction of traditional morality and the introduction of Western customs.

But in fact, 40 years of reform and opening up is the return of traditional society, not the loss of traditional morality.After all, in the Confucian tradition, there is no concept of public morality. For example, if someone sells women in the village, the whole village will stand up for the buyer. If someone in the village produces drugs, as long as it does not hinder their own family, they cannot report to the government. Otherwise, it is moral The lowly villain.

For someone, such a traditional society of human relations is really the greatest enemy of modern civilization, because in this kind of society, it is important to manage interpersonal relationships, not to do things, that is, the so-called talents with high emotional intelligence.You take care of me, and I take care of you. Even if you make a huge mistake, as long as you are my person, I will also cover you. After all, it is not easy to train a cadre.

But as far as the country is concerned, after such small private circles are formed, the integrity of the country will be eliminated, because there are only interests of the small circles, and there are no interests of the country and the nation.Of course, the advantage of later generations than at the end of the Ming Dynasty is that later generations can use a powerful propaganda machine to advocate patriotism among the masses, thereby deceiving a group of young people to love the country of the rich and powerful, but in fact this country has nothing to do with the people. related.

In Li Zicheng's position, talking about small circles is tantamount to suicide, because his background cannot establish any powerful small circles, but it will make the rebel generals who are united with him alienated, because he can build small circles, and others will also If it can be built, these former generals of the rebel army will soon become the upstarts of the new dynasty, and eventually a circle of powerful and powerful people will be formed.

Therefore, whether it is the values ​​of a modern person or the reality of Li Zicheng's position, he cannot tolerate continuing to use traditional Confucian moral concepts to guide the spiritual life of Dashun people.

Li Zicheng immediately took a box from a table in the room, put it in front of Zhang Taisheng and said, "Look at this first."

Zhang Taisheng opened the box curiously, but to his surprise, there were several bones placed on the satin cushion inside the box.He glanced at it briefly, then raised his head and asked Li Zicheng for advice: "Your Majesty, what is this?"

Li Zicheng replied: "This is a traditional Chinese medicine found in the crude medicine shop. Those doctors call it dragon bone."

Zhang Taisheng looked at it carefully for a long time, except for those strange notches on the bone, he thought it was a ox bone.So I had no choice but to honestly say to Li Zicheng: "I'm so stupid, I really can't tell if this is a keel bone, but it looks like a cow bone..."

Chapter 420 The Pursuit Part 11

"This is indeed a ox bone." Li Zicheng confirmed Zhang Taisheng's conjecture, and in his somewhat bewildered eyes, he continued, "But the notch on it is man-made. I asked many people before, and they guessed This should be the text used by ancient priests for divination."

After all, Zhang Taisheng was not from a big family with a profound background, and he had no foundation for learning the study of gold and stone, so he couldn't understand the meaning of Li Zicheng's words.In his opinion, a few ox bones that were used for divination by ancient sacrifices are really not worthy of such solemnity. After all, these things can neither be used to govern the country, nor can they be used to declare the destiny, and can only be used by some literati for self-entertainment Self-happiness, so why did Li Zicheng show it to himself?

Li Zicheng looked at Zhang Taisheng still looking confused, and shook his head in his heart. However, he was not dissatisfied with it. What comes to mind in a few words.Of course, if Gu Jiang was here, I'm afraid she would be able to think of something. After all, that person came from a real big family. He has been exposed to various antiques since he was a child and has a high sensitivity.

However, compared to the more independent Gu Jiang, Li Zicheng would rather let Zhang Taisheng carry out his plan, because even if Gu Jiang leaves the Marshal's Mansion, he still has a family to support him, so that such a person can master the academic discourse Right, there are too many variables.Zhang Taisheng was different, without the support of the Marshal's Mansion, those academic lords and prominent families would not allow such a person from a poor family and not very capable to gain the academic commanding heights.

Therefore, Li Zicheng went on to explain to Zhang Taisheng: "Before Caihou improved papermaking, the carriers used to record characters in the Qin and Han Dynasties were stone tablets, bronzes and bamboo slips. So when bamboo slips were not even invented before Confucius, how did the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties use it?" What kind of carrier records characters? And today’s characters originated from Xiaozhuan in Qin Dynasty, and Xiaozhuan was born out of Dazhuan. Dazhuan is Zhongdingwen and Shiguwen, so what kind of writing was used before Dazhuan? I think these so-called dragon bones are the answer .”

Zhang Taisheng finally came to his senses now, the few bones in the box were not superstitious objects used by priests for divination, but ancient documents with extremely high value.

The source of Confucianism actually comes from Confucius’ description of the rule of the Three Dynasties. To a certain extent, it should be that Confucius was dissatisfied with his own era and tried to propose a new political system to replace the chaotic Warring States politics. In order to strengthen his persuasiveness, Confucius adopted the way of reforming the ancient system.

Today, the rule of three generations and the system of three generations are the same as the heaven in the Bible, which cannot be questioned by others, because to question the rule of three generations and the system of three generations is to question the orthodoxy of Confucius and Confucianism, and lose these two things. Scholars who study Confucianism are tantamount to learning a lot of useless knowledge.

However, not to mention the contemporary era, even in the era of Confucius, the historical documents about the three dynasties have disappeared. The Zhou in the three dynasties here refers to the Western Zhou Dynasty rather than the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.King Ping moved eastward and established his capital in Chengzhou. In the previous year, the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty was captured by the dog army, and the ancient books in the capital were burned. Because of the disrespect of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, he had to seek the help of savages.

If the records of the three generations can be found from these bones, even a few words, it is a great honor for a scholar.Looking at the beef bones in the box, Zhang Taisheng's eyes became hot for a moment, and he couldn't help but said: "It's a pity that there are only a few pieces like this, and the content recorded on them should not be too much, but if you can recognize the words on them, This is also a great merit.”

Li Zicheng shook his head and said to him: "There should be many dragon bones like this, because medicine shops can take out compound medicines. If the quantity is rare, who can afford it? It's just that it doesn't matter whether they have words or not.

I have asked people to inquire, and it has only been three to forty years since keel was used as medicine. In the past, there was no such blindly traditional Chinese medicine.Therefore, someone should have dug up a large number of such bones before thinking about recycling.

I have already sent people to search for the place where the keel was unearthed, and a large number of keel will be brought back by then.Therefore, the next question is, how to distinguish and analyze the characters on the keel, and record them one by one. This is a rather large project, and I don't think it will be impossible to complete this task in a few decades. "

Hearing that there were still a large number of keel bones that would be brought back, Zhang Taisheng dispelled the last trace of doubt about these keel bones. If there were only a few pieces of keel, he really doubted whether they were forged, but if there were still a large number of keel bones that could be brought back, it would be very easy. It's hard to fake.Therefore, he nodded repeatedly and said in agreement: "Your Majesty is right. This is a big project. Without decades of research, I am afraid that it will not be able to achieve anything. But if we can translate these words that record the rule of the three generations, it will be a real achievement." It is also the best evidence that His Majesty has accepted the destiny..."

Li Zicheng stared at Zhang Taisheng until he calmed down and said, "I said before that my obedience is the obedience of the people's will, and my destiny comes from the approval of the people, not the will of God.

Therefore, when I show you these keel bones and tell you about this matter, I am not seeking the so-called approval of the destiny, but hoping to use it to correct the wrong understanding of the people.

I always believe that heaven should conform to the will of the people, rather than letting the people conform to heaven.If God does not allow the people to live, should the people also obey?If it is right to conform to God, then wouldn’t it be wrong for me to rebel? "

Zhang Taisheng was silent, although he knew what Li Zicheng said was very reasonable, but it still formed a sharp contrast with the education he received since he was a child.However, after he calmed down for a while, he still bowed to Li Zicheng and said, "Your Majesty insists on his own way and follows it consistently. Your subjects should obey your Majesty's orders, but I don't know what to do for your Majesty."

At this time, Li Zicheng also said calmly: "What I want you to do is actually very simple. It is to be the host of the analysis of the oracle bone inscriptions. To provide ideas for the construction of a new Dashun for the Marshal's Mansion."

Zhang Taisheng replied subconsciously: "I'm afraid I can't do it."

After saying what was in his heart, Zhang Taisheng felt that what he said was wrong, so he quickly explained: "Although I really want to obey His Majesty's order and do my best to distinguish and analyze these oracle bone inscriptions, I don't have much research on epigraphy. I'm afraid it will spoil His Majesty's affairs if I ask my ministers to discriminate and analyze these oracle bone inscriptions.

Moreover, the ministers kept their words light, even if they researched something, outsiders would probably not admit it.The minister thought that His Majesty should invite the great Confucian scholars from all over the world to distinguish and analyze these characters, so as to achieve something.The minister is willing to do some auxiliary work..."

But Li Zicheng interrupted him and said: "Of course you can't do it alone, so I just let you preside over it, not let you do it alone. But it's not impossible to invite the world's great Confucian scholars to study, no Now, at least you have to research something first, and then you can invite those great Confucian scholars to appraise it, but if you give the things to them for research, can the things they research be used by the Marshal's Mansion?"

Hearing this, Zhang Taisheng remembered what Li Zicheng said just now, this is a political mission, not purely academic research.Li Zicheng wanted to use the content on the keel to strengthen the persuasiveness of the new policy of the Marshal's Mansion. As for what was written on the keel, I am afraid Li Zicheng would not care.

With this understanding, Zhang Taisheng began to sweat continuously on his forehead. This is indeed a rather heavy task, if not done, he will fall into the predicament of being cast aside by scholars all over the world.However, once this matter is accomplished, it will also make him the originator of an academic field among scholars. In the future, his family will be able to perpetuate the seeds of culture for generations just by relying on the study of oracle bone inscriptions.

The greater the danger of this matter, the greater the benefit.After Zhang Taisheng pondered over and over again, he felt that he really couldn't give up such an opportunity. He threw himself at Li Zicheng in public, just to get a chance to stand out. Now that the opportunity was in front of him, how could he not seize it, let alone This is not something he can give up if he wants to.

So Zhang Taisheng bowed deeply to Li Zicheng and said, "I am willing to die for Your Majesty. However, if you don't ask those great Confucian scholars to study, who should I ask to study these oracle bone inscriptions?"

Since Li Zicheng called the inscriptions on these keel bones oracle bone inscriptions, Zhang Taisheng also used this name to refer to the inscriptions on keel bones.Li Zicheng was not particularly surprised by his surrender. If the other party was a truly independent person, it would have been revealed by his side these two days.

After he nodded slightly to Zhang Taisheng, he said: "It is actually not an easy task to restore Suiyang Academy, not only the people of Suizhou claim that Suiyang Academy is in the local area, but also the surrounding counties. In particular, Guide Mansion even set up a Fan Wenzheng Public Lecture Institute, thinking that Yingtian Academy and Suiyang Academy are located in Shangqiu.

Even if I set Suiyang Academy in Suizhou, the surrounding counties will not be convinced, and with the background of your academy, it may be difficult to claim to have inherited Fan Wenzheng's mantle.If Suiyang Academy becomes the object of ridicule by scholars all over the world after it is restored, then both your academy and the Marshal's Mansion will lose face.

But if Suiyang Academy is rebuilt after the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions, it will be difficult for scholars all over the world to question you.After mastering the documents of the three generations, who cares whether you have inherited the mantle of Fan Wenzheng?Therefore, this is not only your matter, but also the matter of the entire Suiyang Academy.Of course, those literati who oppose the Marshal's Mansion are not allowed to enter this research group..."

Zhang Taisheng finally understood Li Zicheng's intentions, and he also immediately realized that Jinxiang Academy would not reject this suggestion.

Chapter 421 The Pursuit Part 12

On January 22, Li Zicheng arrived in Weishi County, and Li Guo and the generals who stayed in Weishi County greeted him outside the city.The situation in Weishi County is slightly better than that in Tongxu County. Because the Qing army retreated two days ago, they were afraid of disturbing the Shun army outside the city, so they did not wantonly destroy Weishi County. However, the people in this county were also poisoned by the Qing army. .

Whether it was to draw a clear line with the Qing army in front of Li Zicheng, or to feel resentment towards the Qing army for the misfortune of his family in his hometown, the people in this county showed a very warm welcome to Li Zicheng's arrival.Li Zicheng also did not pursue the previous deeds of Weishi County’s surrender to the Qing army. Like Tongxu County, he reiterated to the people of the city that the Marshal’s Mansion will help the people affected by the war to rebuild their homes. This makes the Marshal’s Mansion The decree quickly won the support of Wei's people.

Not only that, at this time, the representatives waiting in other areas around Weishi County began to feel at ease after hearing Li Zicheng's announcement of the policy of helping the local economy to restore the economy and helping the people rebuild their homes, and one by one stepped forward to represent themselves The city or region dedicated to Li Zicheng.

Before the Qing army went south, although the Marshal's Mansion ruled Henan in name, it mainly obtained the rule in the name of the prince. A major factor in the army, because they don't have any sense of belonging to the Marshal's Mansion.

But since the Shun army will drive the Qing army back to the pass north of the Yellow River, no matter what kind of thoughts they had before, they can only serve the Marshal's Mansion at this time.These tyrants who survived the war may not be very capable of fighting, but they are still quite sensitive in some aspects. After the Shun army defeated the Qing army, the Qing army would definitely not be able to return in the short term. Be loyal to Li Zicheng, and the next step is to be wiped out by the Marshal's Mansion.

As for those people who just want to protect themselves in the troubled times, after hearing Li Zicheng's announcement of the local reconstruction policy, they really turned to the Marshal's Mansion, hoping that Li Zicheng could fulfill his promise, end the current troubled times, and let them Have a good time.

By this time, whether it was Li Zicheng or Shunjun, they could clearly feel the desire to end the war shown by the people in Henan.Standing beside Li Zicheng, watching the gestures of the representatives of several nearby cities presenting letters to Li Zicheng, he couldn't help saying to the people around him: "It seems that Henan has almost settled down, and the common people don't want to fight anymore."

After Li Zicheng accepted the letters sent by the representatives sent by these places, he also comforted these representatives one by one, and said that he would meet them one by one for individual talks later, and then entered Weishi County with civil and military officials. County government.

After entering the county office, Li Zicheng called Li Guo and the generals of the city, and asked about the battle situation.Liu Zongmin left behind the general who reported the battle situation, and he went out to Li Zicheng and said: "At dawn two days ago, the Qing army suddenly went out of the city in large numbers and began to kill our army's sentry cavalry near the city. At first, General Quan thought that the Qing army was preparing We started a war with us, so we made defensive preparations first, but we didn't find out until the sky was bright that the Qing army had withdrawn from Weishi County.

At first, the Qing army headed towards Xinzheng and Changge, but soon they retreated towards Zhengzhou.The Qing army was full of cavalry, and they abandoned their luggage. Our army failed to catch them at the beginning, and it was difficult to intercept them later. Therefore, General Quan had to lead five cavalry regiments to pursue them, and ordered the left Shi and Gu Shi go to Zhengzhou as soon as possible..."

Li Guo on the side also added: "I received the news that Your Majesty defeated the Qing army in Suizhou, so I rushed over with two cavalry divisions and conscripted some powerful cavalry. After arriving in Weishi County yesterday, I heard that Since His Majesty is going to arrive today, let Ma Shiyao lead the cavalry to support Liu Cishuai, and I will stay here and wait to see His Majesty..."

After listening to the reports of these generals and verifying the information collected by the previous staff, Li Zicheng can almost come to the conclusion that Azig really ran away this time, instead of hesitating as before , Still thinking about dealing with myself in Henan.