Dashun Yongchang

But Gu Jiang himself actually likes to make friends, and also likes to travel around, which can be seen from his 27-year-old reluctance to be trapped in his footsteps after starting his career, and he and Wang Lue get along well because of the other's personality It can be said that he treats his friends wholeheartedly. Of course, Wang Lue's experience of losing his father when he was young can also arouse his empathy.

In addition, his trip to the north was not purely for visiting friends, and he still needed the help of these friends, so after flipping through the newspapers and brochures, he cleared his throat and said, "Earlier this month, I also saw a proclamation issued by the Manchurians, which said: I am deeply saddened that the Ming Dynasty has no legacy, and it is difficult to stand alone. Use it to move my Qing Dynasty house to the north. If you fight hard, you will wipe out the ugly people, so as to calm the world. Having the heart to make the world rich is actually a plan to save China.

Zier Hebei, Henan, Jianghuai, the old ministers of honor, the generals of the festival, and the heroes of the common people are loyal and admiring, whether they have received the grace of the country in the world, or they are newly appointed as the lord's family, or they are self-sufficient. Shameless wish?

…It is appropriate to assist those who do not forget the Ming Dynasty, the virtuous vassals, and work together to protect the left side of the river.But when you make peace and talk about it, you will live up to the dynasty, and you will continue to be kind to each other, which is the righteousness of good neighborliness.and so on.

The intention of the Manchus to try to unite with the righteous heroes of the dynasty to besiege Dashun is already evident.But Yu thought that the newspapers and pamphlets issued by Dashun actually had two purposes.

One is to prove that the death of Ming Dynasty was not caused by Dashun, but by the emperor and ministers of Ming Dynasty. Therefore, there is no enmity between the emperor and father between Daming and Dashun, but the reincarnation of heaven.Just like Emperor Taizu Gao drove the Mongols out of China with commoner clothes, it was not a rebellion against the Mongols, but a response to the heavens.Emperor Yongchang also overthrew my Ming Dynasty with a piece of commoner clothes, not betraying my Ming Dynasty, but obeying the sky and responding to others.

The second is to deny that the Manchus are the Jurchen of China, but a genus of barbarians from other than barbarians.Therefore, the Manchus are less qualified to rule China than the Mongols.From this, it was deduced that Nandu's attempt to unite slaves and attack Chinese people not only violated the righteousness of Emperor Taizu Gao to drive out the Hu people, but also degenerated into the Hu people's accomplices, leading beasts and cannibalism.

These two points are irrefutable, if you refute it, you will lose the way, then we will really become: the thief of the people, the enemy of the country.up.People in the world will only stand on Shun's side, not on our side.Then in this world, there will be no such thing as Ming Dynasty, but the dispute between the Shun and the Manchus.

Both of these two sides are the theory of punishing one's heart, no matter Manchu or Emperor Yongchang, they are morally higher than Nandu.If Nandu talked about the hatred of the emperor and his father, he became a vassal of the Manchus, and if he didn't talk about it, he couldn't resist the army going south.I don't know how to comment. "

After hearing Gu Jiang's words, the scholars present fell silent for a while. The greatest righteousness in Nandu right now is the revenge of the monarch and father, but the prince who helped the emperor's empress Zi Palace to go south made Nandu's righteousness crumbling, because Hongguang It is impossible for the emperor and the ministers in the court to accept that Emperor Daxing be buried next to the Xiaoling Mausoleum. That is to remind the people in the south of the Yangtze River that Nanjing is a group of rebellious officials.Not letting the crown prince and empress Zigong cross the river, even exposed the so-called lie of the Nandu's alliance with the slaves for revenge, and Hongguang Dynasty's reputation has quickly bottomed out.

Even among these scholars, those who still hold on to the banner of enmity between the monarch and father, have no words to refute the two points Gu Jiang said at this moment, because they can't find a foothold.The scholars who are still loyal to Ming Dynasty, except for a few people, all want to insist on the morality they advocate. This is a strange event in the last years of Chongzhen.

Unlike the party disputes in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty had not lost their morals, so the party disputes in the Ming Dynasty were mainly moral disputes rather than power disputes.During the period of the Niu Li party struggle in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang royal family had already lost morality, so the two factions did not need to consider the appeal of the royal family to the people when the two factions competed for the main power; as for the new and old party disputes in the Song Dynasty, it was because the Song royal family was too involved in the struggle , causing the imperial power to dominate everything.

In the last years of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen did not have any immoral actions, nor did he use party struggles to punish people. Except that he would not be an emperor, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen was almost the emperor that scholars hoped for.Therefore, the Donglin party members can only attack their political opponents morally, and beat those officials and gentry who do not agree with them into eunuchs.

Then the Donglin Party members, who were in power from the end of Wanli to the early years of Tianqi, created an eunuch group that even the ruling group could hardly contend with. Simply put, if the Donglin Party members cannot maintain their moral high ground, then their The act is actually the reappearance of Li Linfu, and they have not contributed as much as Li Linfu.

Under the influence of the Donglin Party members, Jiangnan Shilin has entered a misunderstanding, placing integrity and morality at an overwhelming height, and can't even think rationally about how to do some practical things to save the country.On the other hand, when these scholars lost their integrity and morality, they began to break their cans and serve the power without any scruples, because they had nothing to lose.In the eyes of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, all but the gentleman are villains, and there is no middleman.

Therefore, there will be no shortage of people to let these scholars point at Li Zicheng and curse and be beheaded.But to let them destroy their morality, very few people are willing to stand up.

Even Li Yu, Si Shipan, and Song Lu, who were the most impassioned in the hall just now, could only sit silently at this moment.Of course, Gu Jiang didn't come to help Li Zicheng suppress the enthusiasm of these patriots, so when he saw that the atmosphere in the hall was too quiet, he hurriedly said: "Of course, these words in the newspaper may not mean what Emperor Yongchang meant, maybe they are the people around him. People's plans, just like I don't believe that Manchus can write such a statement."

Hearing this, Si Shipan suddenly said: "I heard that Emperor Yongchang has a statistics department around him, and he has collected some literati from the North, but I haven't heard of any outstanding figures among them. Instead, he is in charge of this statistics department." It is said that the daughter of the Secretary is Chen Yuanyuan, a famous Qinhuai prostitute, brother Ning, have you ever heard of this woman?"

Gu Jiang just showed a surprised expression, and denied it: "I have met Chen Yuanyuan a few times, but I don't think he has such a boldness. Commenting on Taizu, Shenzong and Daxing Emperor, how can a mere girl be able to complete it?" , it’s not that she doesn’t have such intelligence, it’s just that she doesn’t have such a chance just by reading the memoir…”

Chapter 148 Meeting One

What Gu Jiang said is very true. Among literati, there are also grades. Scholars from poor families can read the Four Books and Five Classics. It is considered good. In fact, it is not a poor family who can study the Five Classics in depth, because It is impossible to study the Five Classics without understanding ancient historical documents, and without knowing the background, you can only remember the literal meaning, and it is difficult to understand the true meaning in the text.

Therefore, the Five Classics can only be learned in the family, and only through the continuous efforts of generations of annotations and textual research can future generations benefit. If poor scholars cannot invest in famous teachers, they will not be able to master the classics.

As for the Four Books, it was thanks to Zhu Xi that he published the Annotations of the Four Books so that children from poor families could learn by themselves.It’s not that Zhu Xi’s Annotations of the Four Books were perfect and that they were respected by scholars of the Ming Dynasty, but that Zhu Xi was the first to publicize his own research, making it the most widely spread, and as more people studied it, it became the standard for the imperial examinations , because the imperial examinations are not for admiring the knowledge of the aristocratic family, but for the emperor to select talents for governing the country, so the annotations to the Four Books that the more people study, naturally become the standard for the imperial court to select talents.

For a famous prostitute like Chen Yuanyuan, if you learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, you can get ahead in ten years, but if you want to rule history, you don’t have the support of a well-educated family and don’t put in 30 to [-] years of hard work. Even the context of history may not be able to sort out clearly.

The booklet issued by Dashun now seems to have only a dozen pages, and the text is very plain, even a villager and a foolish woman can understand it, but the amount of knowledge contained in it, even Gu Jiang would be amazed of.From Zhou Zhao Gonghe, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising, to Emperor Taizu Gao’s Northern Expedition, and then to Dashun’s Uprising, the principles are in the same line.

In other words, if they denied Dashun's uprising, they would deny Taizu's achievements in expelling Meng Yuan, and then Daming would lose the righteousness of the destiny.Therefore, behind the seemingly superficial pamphlet, there is a huge mountain of history. This is the reason why many scholars will change their attitude towards Dashun after reading the pamphlet, because they were defeated first in terms of knowledge.

Although there were still a few people who still hated Dashun, they had changed from public hatred to personal anger, and it was difficult to gain everyone's approval.It's just that, before Gu Jiang came, everyone didn't clearly realize this point, so everyone still had arguments, but after being pointed out by Gu Jiang, everyone had nothing to argue about.

After passing Chen Yuanyuan, everyone fell into silence again, because they still haven't figured out who their opponent is, and they don't know how to attack.If they can't refute the historians who have made suggestions for Li Zicheng first, it will be difficult for them to shake the new image Li Zicheng has established in front of the public. They can't run in front of Li Zicheng and swear, just to vent their breath, right?That price is not something some of them are willing to bear.

Seeing this, Gu Jiang said: "How many days has this meeting been held? Can we outsiders also participate?"

Wang Lue replied subconsciously: "Yancheng belongs to Huai'an Prefecture, so it has the right to send representatives to participate in the meeting, but because the two places are far apart, His Majesty thinks that Yancheng County can not be notified to send representatives for the time being."

Hearing this, Li Yu immediately jumped up and said: "I just said, Li Zicheng pretended to be close to the people and love the people, but in the end he was just deceiving the world. Our Yancheng is also a member of Huai'an Mansion, why can't we Send representatives to the council?"

Si Shipan and Song Lu also echoed their voices: "Yes, I, Yancheng, will naturally have a say in the affairs of Huai'an Mansion. We will go to the council meeting tomorrow as a representative of Yancheng to see if he dares to take our People from Yancheng kicked out..."

A group of scholars from Yancheng became united at this time, thinking that since this meeting was to discuss the affairs of Huai'an Mansion, they had to participate.The few local scholars on the side were speechless. Just now, these Yancheng friends advocated that Yancheng should obey Daming and not surrender to Cao Cao. At this time, Cao Cao expelled Yancheng from Huai'an Mansion. This change is a bit fast.

At this time, everyone had no intention of staying at Wang Lue's house, and they all ran to find out how to participate in tomorrow's meeting.So in the lobby that was full of guests just now, there were Wang Lue, Gu Jiang and the remains of melons and fruits all over the place.

Gu Jiang then asked Wang Lue to arrange a place to stay, and then followed the servant with newspapers and pamphlets.That night, Gu Jiang and Wang Lue talked for half the night. Apart from reminiscing about the old days, they mainly talked about the actions of the Shun Army's arrival in Huai River and the process of convening the meeting.In the early morning of the second day, Gu Jiang and Wang Lue had breakfast together, and then went to the feudal palace in the east gate in a sedan chair.

At the intersection in front of the feudal mansion, there were soldiers setting up card registrations, and horse sedan chairs were not allowed to enter. After Gu Jiang and Wang Lue got off the sedan chairs, they could simply register their names and reasons for their visits before they could enter.After the two of them walked more than ten steps into the alley, Gu Jiang looked at the surrounding scene and couldn't help but said to Wang Lue: "Emperor Yongchang is also open-minded, the place where he lives is so loose, it is not difficult for people to see him what?"

Wang Lue smiled and said: "Dashun is different from my Ming Dynasty. My court values ​​rules, while Dashun emphasizes systems. Rules are set for each person, and the system does not distinguish between high and low. Therefore, officials in my dynasty value ethics, while Dashun emphasizes legal principles. Therefore, it is difficult for the people of Ming Dynasty to see officials because of their different status, but it is easy for the people of Dashun to see officials because there is no distinction between high and low."

Gu Jiang glanced at her friend in surprise and said, "You seem to appreciate Dashun's system?"

After pondering for a moment, Wang Luue replied: "Because people like us can live a simpler life, and don't have to live in the government."

Gu Jiang stopped talking immediately. Although he and Wang Lue knew each other well, there was still some difference in their status.As a member of the Gu family in Kunshan, he doesn't need to think about the government's issues, what he needs to consider is the conflicts between the clan and the children of other big families in Kunshan and himself, because the Gu family is the official family.

Although Wang Lue's family has money, it is always a private household. Not only does he not consider the conflict between the local big households and his own family, but he also worries that the government will distribute the labor, money and food that those official households should bear to his own head, so he has to Make good friends with the government.Therefore, it is reasonable for Wang Lue to support Dashun on this issue.

The two continued to walk seventy or eighty steps forward and saw an open gate. Standing in front of the gate and registering again, someone soon greeted them. It was yesterday that they were guests at Wang Lue's house. Those friends from Yancheng.

After completing the registration at the gate and receiving a bamboo number plate, Gu Jiang followed everyone into the gate.Gu Jiang looked at the bamboo card in his hand with some curiosity. According to the dealer's explanation, the number card in his hand can only be walked in the front yard. If he sets foot in other courtyards, he will be taken down and wait for the guarantor to come to him. Therefore, Don't run around and make trouble for yourself and others.

After entering the gate, you can see a large playground. Unlike ordinary mansions, as the Department of Health, there is only Yimen and no screen wall, so it looks extraordinarily empty.After passing the Yimen Gate and going to the left, there is the meeting hall, and on the right is a military camp.Entering the meeting hall following the flow of people, Gu Jiang, Wang Lue and a group of familiar scholars sat together, and there was no fixed seat. Anyway, they were first come, first seated, so a group of people took priority to occupy the middle of the first two rows. seat.

While Gu Jiang was talking with the people around her, she heard three beeps on the cloud board in front of her right, and then a group of people filed in through the wicket on the right, and then walked to the upper hall opposite the patio and sat down.In the middle of the seats was a big man wearing a blue arrow jacket, with a blank head and short hair. He must be Emperor Yongchang.

Facing the appearance of Emperor Yongchang, Gu Jiang was also a little shocked, this is really not polite.But he found that the representatives of the Huai'an Mansion around him seemed to be familiar with it.Just when he was puzzled, he heard Wang Luewei explain to him and his friends in Yancheng: "It is said that when Emperor Yongchang left Beijing, he made a will when he bid farewell to the people in the capital. Surprised."

Si Shipan at the side suddenly realized: "Let me tell you, how come there are so many monks with shaved heads in the Shun Army, who originally learned from Emperor Yongchang, but having such ambition can't be said to be a bad thing..."

Sitting in the upper hall, Li Zicheng saw that there seemed to be a lot more councilors today, so he couldn't help asking Lu Zhenfei beside him: "Why are there so many councilors today? Didn't it mean that many councilors took leave?"

Lu Zhenfei replied calmly: "Ao, Yancheng and other counties have also sent representatives to attend the meeting. According to the rules for the establishment of the Huai'an Council, I have no reason to reject them."

"Oh." Li Zicheng nodded and sat upright, then picked up the gavel and knocked it three times before saying loudly: "The fifth meeting of the first session of the Huai'an Council has officially started, and now the members on duty are invited to come forward and roll their names. Verify the members present at the meeting today."

Li Zicheng put down the gavel and leaned on the back of the chair, and a 27-year-old young scholar walked to the courtyard with a register book, and ticked off the names while calling the book.A quarter of an hour later, the young scholars who called the roll reported to the upper hall: "There are 216 members in the council, 186 of them actually attended, 14 of them took personal leave, 13 took sick leave, and 3 were absent without reason. Over."

Li Zicheng picked up the gavel and tapped it three times and said: "Quiet, quiet. The council is an institution that serves the people. Members are not here to express their personal opinions, but to speak out for the people who elected you. Please take sick leave I can understand, but what kind of personal leave can be more important than the affairs of the people? Absent from work without reason, I can't understand it even more. The people elected you to come here as representatives. Is this how you live up to the expectations of the people?

I suggest that the first item of today's agenda is to discuss the discipline of the council. This is not a vegetable market. Members can come and leave whenever they want.I think that members who are absent without reason should be disqualified as representatives, and members who take personal leave should also be disqualified as representatives if they cannot provide a reason why they really need to take leave..."

Member Zhang Huashan stood up after asking for permission to speak and said: "It is wrong to be absent from work without reason, but His Majesty has not formulated such a rule before. I think it should be implemented after today. As for today's three absentees, they should be fined and reprimanded. Rather than expulsion directly. Members who are on personal leave should also be allowed to reform themselves..."

Chapter 149

Gu Jiang and the scholars in Yancheng were a little stunned listening to the councilors who were bargaining with Li Zicheng. As a result, Li Zicheng chose to vote for several disciplines proposed by the councilors, and then expressed a decision.

Gu Jiang said to Wang Lue beside her in disbelief: "It looks like a servant woman buying vegetables in the vegetable market. The process of bargaining between the two sides. Can state affairs be so trifling? What is the majesty of the court?"

Wang Lue was not very accepting of this way of discussing matters at first, but now he also thinks that this way of discussion is not bad, so he replied to Gu Jiang: "Sitting is at least better than standing or kneeling. Bargaining is always better than buying and selling by force. Brother Ning, did you say in the past that the power of the imperial court is too great while the power of the local government is too small, which is not the way to long-term stability.

The so-called: The ruler of the world cannot rule alone.If one is governed alone, the punishment will be complicated;After the compromise between the county system and the feudal system, isn't this the feasible way you want to strengthen local autonomy without letting ambitious people control local affairs?I thought that during the three generations, the king sat down with the villagers to discuss state affairs in the same way. "

Gu Jiang was suddenly speechless, what Wang Lue said was exactly some of the ideas he had put forward in the past.As a son of a big family in Kunshan, the immediate problem he feels the most is that local officials have no long-term plans and are unwilling to do things.This made him quite agree with Zhu Zi's Fang Zhen's theory, and believed that local officials should be given more power and their terms of office should be extended, so as to give them time to do things.

Otherwise, the term of a county magistrate is only 2 to 3 years, and the only political affairs they can do are to collect land taxes or build schools. As for water conservancy or transportation projects that require a lot of manpower and material resources, no one cares about them.Because this kind of project is easy to offend the gentry, and you can't get any benefits yourself. When the project produces results, it will be the achievements of the next official.

But for the large households in these places, water conservancy projects and transportation projects can only be planned by local officials, otherwise they can only make small troubles, because such large projects must benefit some people and lose them.Just to raise funds for the project, everyone needs to contribute money together, but not all contributors will benefit, and even cooperation with neighboring counties is required. This is not a project that a large family in that place can afford alone.

Therefore, expanding the power of local autonomy is the natural voice of local big households, because they are the direct beneficiaries.Even Wang Lue would not object to the current council mode, because at least he could learn about local government affairs and express his opinions on this occasion, instead of only knowing what happened when he was apportioned money and food afterwards.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Gu Jiang also had to admit that the council had regulated the power of the local gentry to manage the area, and had given those commoner-born landlords and wealthy merchants a chance to speak. You can also try to protect your own interests.

Li Zicheng, who was sitting in the upper hall, didn't pay attention to what some members of the lower hall were talking about. To be honest, parliament is not suitable for Chinese people, because there are always some members who feel that they should have more power than other members, and even want to let Some other MPs unconditionally support themselves.Just to correct the thinking of these congressmen, he has added more than a dozen regulations during the meeting.

If it weren't for the fact that he needed this council to contain the local officials, he actually didn't want to sit here and discuss these cumbersome matters with these congressmen.Unlike the local council established before, Dashun does not have the extra manpower to fully control Huai'an, and he also needs Huai'an to set an example for Yangzhou and other southern regions, so he has to give this local council more autonomy.

He also needs to be present to confirm where the autonomous power of the local council should stop, which is why he has to waste precious time here.Only when he was present, those MPs who came from officials and gentry did not dare to blatantly suppress those MPs who came from civilians, denying them the right to speak.

For example, Lu Zhenfei sitting next to him and Wang Fan who is farther away, the two former Ming officials who ruled Huai'an, the former hoped that the council would be controlled by officials and gentry, while the latter believed that the council could only be used as a consultation institutions, rather than issuing decisions to the government.If he really let go of the meeting, it is estimated that in two days this place will become a bureaucratic club.

After covering his mouth and yawning, Li Zicheng knocked on the table with a gavel, and then announced: "Well, the first discussion proposal has been passed, and now the second meeting process will start. Members will discuss in groups the previous few days The results will be reported. First, the representatives of the first group will come forward to report the results of the discussion..."

Zhang Zhizhong, the representative of the first group, was about to step forward when a voice suddenly interrupted the order of the venue, "Wait a minute, our representative from Yancheng wants to speak."

Gu Jiang and Wang Lue turned their heads and saw that it was Song Lu standing up. Wang Lue subconsciously covered his forehead with his hands. He felt a little bad, because Song Lu was the one with the most extreme views in his home yesterday. one person.

Sure enough, without waiting for Li Zicheng's consent, Song Lu pointed at him and angrily scolded him: "You are a traitor who has no king and no father. What kind of face do you have to sit on the top and preside over the discussion? Don't you know the words of the monkey and the crown? Our Yancheng is the home of the Ming Dynasty. Yancheng, how can you follow a thief..."

Gu Jiang looked at all the students in Yancheng in astonishment, and found that except for one or two people who looked normal, the rest of them were pale. Obviously they didn't know that Song Lu would stand up and denounce Li Zicheng face to face at this time.

When Song Lu pointed at Li Zicheng and scolded him, he was afraid of being interrupted by the soldiers around him, so he spoke very fast, and the people around him couldn't stop them if they wanted to, so they could only sit there stiffly and resign themselves to their fate.

Sitting next to Li Zicheng, Lu Zhenfei looked at Song Lu with no joy at all. After talking with Li Zicheng a few times, he knew that the fight with Li Zicheng was no longer a simple battle of power, but a battle of morality.A young man like Song Lu just wanted to have a headache, but he cheated the gentry sitting here who were inclined to Daming. If Li Zicheng took the opportunity to raise a big case, his busy work these days would be wasted.

Lu Zhenfei kept watching Li Zicheng, thinking about how to solve this disaster.It's just that Li Zicheng seemed completely unmoved. On the contrary, he made a gesture to stop the guards who wanted to arrest him.

When Song Lu stopped, Li Zicheng asked lazily: "You just said that all of you in Yancheng are unwilling to follow my Dashun. Do you have a letter of authorization from the people of Yancheng?"

Li Zicheng's reaction was somewhat beyond Song Lu's expectations, but he replied not to be outdone, "I don't know what kind of power of attorney, but how can I, a loyal man of the Ming Dynasty, follow a thief?"

Before Song Lu finished speaking, Si Shipan and Li Yu, who were sitting next to him, also stood up, expressing their support for Song Lu.The other Yancheng students looked hesitant, wondering whether they should stand up or not.

Li Zicheng waited for a while, then knocked on the table with a gavel, and then shouted: "Who is the councilor on duty today, why didn't he come forward to stop it just now?"

Wu Yiqing could only stand up and reply, "I didn't have time to react just now? According to the rules of the discussion, I accept the punishment."

Li Zicheng glanced at him, and then asked: "Then what punishment should these three people receive for disrupting the discipline of the meeting?"

The stone in Wu Yiqing's heart was dropped, and he quickly replied: "The representative who cursed at the venue admitted that he made inappropriate remarks without the authorization of the people of Yancheng, so he should be removed as a representative. The other two stood up to support His representative should also be removed from the representative qualification. In addition, according to the discipline of the discussion, he took a personal attack on His Majesty, and he was fined one tael of silver for each word, which should be 35 taels of silver."

Li Zicheng suddenly felt uncomfortable. He stared at Wu Yiqing and said, "He was fined 35 taels for scolding for so long just now? Did you make a mistake?"

Wu Yiqing unhurriedly repeated Song Lu's swearing words, and it was accurate word for word. Li Zicheng had to accept his proposition, but he still said to Song Lu: "Do you choose to pay the fine, or choose to pay the wages?" Punishment?"

Song Lu stared at Li Zicheng with wide eyes and said, "Why should I pay the fine? Am I still scolding wrong?"

Wu Yiqing who was on the side immediately interrupted him and said: "The meeting is a place where representatives of the people from all parties discuss official affairs. Since you have not been authorized by the people of Yancheng, then your actions just now are personal actions. According to the decision discussed before the meeting, this It is to disturb the order of the venue. It is not His Majesty who wants to punish you, but the council. If you have no money to pay the fine, then according to the regulations, the council can decide to punish you to work hard to offset the fine. 35 taels is enough for you to do hard labor for two years .”

Song Cao, who was on good terms with the three of them, quickly got up and said, "We accept the punishment, accept the punishment."

No one would carry so much money, so all the living people in Yancheng gathered together, which gave them the opportunity to get out of the trouble of expressing their opinions.However, Song Lu and the other three felt that they were a little embarrassed to be punched in the air, because not only the representatives of Huai'an showed dissatisfaction towards them, but even their companions avoided their eyes.

Wu Yiqing took the money bag handed over by Song Cao, and without saying much, he signaled Song and Lu to go out with him.After all, Li Yu was still unconvinced. He looked at Li Zicheng who seemed to have sent away a few flies, and his heart burst into anger for a moment. He stood up and shouted at Li Zicheng: "Even if you have the ability to do it yourself, today Song Jun's angry reprimand It will also spread throughout the world, and let the world know that you are a traitor."

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "This is also worth 1 tael. Besides, don't you scholars of the Ming Dynasty read "Dagao"? There are five articles of No. 40, good and evil, written by the Qimin Zou. If you are in a city or a village, you will have to wait for a lawsuit to destroy the words." If there are those who control the government or set up officials to harm the people, Xu Siyi and the people of Hejun will go to Beijing to make a face-to-face performance, so as to get rid of them and comfort our people. Woohoo! Evil troubles the people. Therefore advises.

Do I have any personal enmity with Emperor Lie?I just carried out the will of Emperor Taizu Gao, to comfort the people.Since there is no personal enmity, how can you be rebellious?You scholars keep saying that you are the loyal ministers of Ming Dynasty, but you ignore the imperial edict of Taizu, who is the traitor?

The bad things about the country are caused by you scholars who don't know right from wrong.If you want to bully the sky from above, abuse the people from below, and keep claiming that you are loyal ministers, then I want to ask you, who are you loyal to? "

Chapter 150

Li Zichang stood up, glanced at all the councilors in the hall, and then yelled loudly: "Some people, under the banner of Emperor Lie, oppose Emperor Taizu Gao, not to mention being a traitor. To drag Emperor Lie into the water and make Emperor Lie the king of subjugation who betrayed Emperor Gao of the Great Ancestor, this is the real treason.

I'm not talking about these few scholars, they haven't even read the book, what right do they have to harm the country and the people?It's just a bunch of nerds who are stupid about reading.Where is the real traitor?Just above the court, among you gentry.

I set up the meeting hall not to give you rebels to play loyal ministers and filial sons, but to give a chance to those who really want to do things for the people.My Dashun is not the Dashun of the gentry emperor, but the Dashun of the people of Dashun. If you still want to continue to ravage the people under the banner of the emperor like the Ming Dynasty, then you can leave here now.

No matter whether you go north to join slavery or go south to vote for the false emperor, I will not stop you, because the way is different and you will not conspire with each other.I rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, and it was you rebels who rebelled. As for Emperor Lie, he was just a poor guy who was fooled by you rebels. filial son. "

Whether it is Song Lu, Li Yu, Si Shipan, or Yancheng Zhusheng and Gu Jiang are all at a loss, they can no longer tell who is the traitor.They also noticed that the Huai'an representatives sitting beside them remained silent. Obviously, they did not intend to deny Li Zicheng's statement. It was not because there were Dashun soldiers beside them, but they really recognized this opinion.

Lu Zhenfei, Wang Fan and the officials in Huai'an also had ugly faces, but no one would stand up and refute Li Zicheng at this time, no matter what reason they had, they used the sign of Lie Huang to oppose the crime of Emperor Taizu Gao There is no way to shirk it. Instead of discrediting yourself, it is better to keep silent.

Right now, the cooperation between these officials and gentry who surrendered to the prince and Dashun can only be called cooperation rather than surrender, because everyone still has reservations about Dashun.But it doesn't mean that Dashun can't touch them, as long as it proves that they are not loyal to the prince, then who can stop Li Zicheng who holds a knife?

Therefore, after the meeting was held, officials and gentry were desperately downplaying the historical entanglement between Da Ming and Da Shun, because after Li Zicheng produced a pamphlet stating that rebellion was justified, the more he emphasized Da Shun's traitorous traits, the more The more it proves that the actions of the peasant army are in line with the original intention of Taizu's uprising, the Daming after Taizu is the Daming who really betrayed Taizu.

Every time there is an argument on this issue, the justice of the position of the gentry and officials of the Ming Dynasty will be questioned once, because they have to bear the responsibility for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.Under Li Zicheng's characterization, Liehuang did not lose his virtue, but he just couldn't be an emperor, so he didn't have to bear the main responsibility for the demise of Ming Dynasty. Those who should bear the responsibility for the subjugation of the country were those ministers who made the peasants unable to survive.

Li Zicheng's conclusion was recognized by the crown prince, and Zhu Cihong confirmed it: "Father the emperor said that the traitors are also the common people of the Ming Dynasty."

Since neither the Peasant Army nor the Chongzhen Emperor was responsible, of course the responsible ones were the officials and gentry who messed up the world.In the past, officials and gentry had been propagating to the common people that those who disturbed the world were those who rose up in riots. As for the saying that Emperor Chongzhen was incompetent after he committed suicide and died for the country, this kind of saying disappeared immediately.The king is martyred and the minister is still alive. At this time, he still accuses the king of being a king of subjugation, which is in itself unconvincing.

At this time, even a capable official like Lu Zhenfei can only tell the public: "History should be coarse rather than detailed."

And Wang Fan and other Ming officials were even more unwilling to hear about how Emperor Chongzhen died, because talking about this issue without righteousness was like putting a noose around their necks.Li Zicheng does not move them now because they can still get the support of the local people. Why do the local people support them because they think they are loyal ministers.

Young scholars like Song Lu came out to provoke the controversy of enmity between the monarch and his father. Are they attacking Li Zicheng?No, it is to slap them in the face and make the people think further about Dashun's propaganda.How can such a move arouse their favor?

So during Li Zicheng's pause, Lu Zhenfei got up and said: "Emperor Taizu Gao once issued an edict that students are not allowed to discuss state affairs, and I think this is very reasonable. The representatives of the council should set rules. They should be elected as representatives. Besides, why don’t the on-duty councilors drive these people out of the venue?”

Some of the members below nodded in approval, but the other part of the members expressed their opposition, and the opponents were representatives with student identities.When the two sides began to argue about whether the students could be representatives, Wu Yiqing also directed several other Yancheng students to push Song Lu and the other three out of the venue.

After being taken outside the meeting hall, Wu Yiqing ordered the guards to take back the number plates on these scholars, and then said to them: "Your names will be registered in the register soon, at least you can no longer participate in this meeting. After you go back, study hard and don’t be so impulsive again.”

He was reprimanded by Li Zicheng just now. Although Song Lu couldn't refute it, he was still holding his breath. Hearing Wu Yiqing's words at this time, he couldn't help but said: "I'm here for righteousness. Is it called stability if you bow your head and obey your ears like a human being?"

Song Lu's words were a bit harsh, and the Huai'an local councilors who followed Wu Yiqing's persuasion to leave Yancheng were somewhat dissatisfied. Even Li Yu and Si Shipan dared not follow Song Lu's words. After all, they are different from Song Lu, and they still have to consider their own family.Offending Li Zicheng and offending the locals are not the same thing.

Wu Yiqing looked at Song Lu and shook his head and said: "What is righteousness, Your Majesty has already explained it very clearly in it. But I couldn't understand what righteousness you said. Could it be that you betrayed the prince and made Emperor Daxing become a The subjugated king is your righteousness? I think neither the Daxing Emperor nor the crown prince will agree with your righteousness.