Wu Xiang listened to Wu Sangui's words, his mood became more and more irritable, and he said in a low voice: "Go back to Shanhaiguan tomorrow!" Remember, you must never let Xuexia and Wei Bao come into contact again! Tomorrow I will make it clear to this kid, if he is willing to listen to the Wu family, he can live in peace and become a rich man in the township, if he is not honest, don't blame me for cutting the grass and eradicating the roots! ”

Wu Sanfu was shocked when he heard this, knowing that his father was really angry, and he originally came to Weijiazhuang in person, thinking that Wei Bao would definitely buy his account, he would comply, and he would find the bottom of the stairs by himself, who knew that Wei Bao was so arrogant?

Daddy is really going to do it to Weijiazhuang and Wei Bao this time, although there are a lot of people in Weijiazhuang, and Wei Bao also has some backers, but after all, the foundation is poor, and Wei Bao's backers seem to be in Beijing, far away from water can not quench the thirst of the near, I can't help but be a little anxious for Wei Bao.

It's not that Wu Sanfu eats inside and out, but Wu Sanfu feels that Wei Bao is not a vicious person, on the contrary, in Wu Sanfu's cognition, knowing that Wei Bao is a kind of person who knows how to repay his kindness, and if others are a little good to him, he will be a hundred times more grateful.

Wu Sanfu felt that his father's attitude towards Wei Bao was a little too tough.

But Wu Sanfu didn't dare to say anything more, his character was originally very Buddha-like, and he wouldn't talk too much when others were angry, not to mention that Daddy Wu Xiang was very strong whether he was at home or in Liaoxi, and he was usually silent, but if he really made a decision, it would be difficult for Emperor Lao Tzu to change.

"Dad, you've finally figured it out? This trip shouldn't have come, I said earlier, this Wei Bao must be eradicated, just a villager got some silver, and he wanted to become a big family in the world, so it was not messy. Wu Sanfeng said with a smile.

"Dad, I'm also in favor of killing Wei Bao!" Wu Sangui said childishly, and his face was full of anger at a young age. At this time, in Wu Sangui's heart, Wei Bao is the biggest villain in the world, a traitor.

"Let's all eat, eat and rest early! asked people to send the food to Xuexia's room, she didn't come to eat, she would eat it when she was hungry. Wu Xiang said. To outsiders, Wu Xiang can be very strong and skillful, but for several children, Wu Xiang is a little too doting.

Even if Wu Sangui is always said, among the three sons, he doesn't like Wu Sangui very much, but in fact, it is far beyond the care of ordinary fathers for their children.

The three sons agreed together.

After finishing the meal, Wu Xiang and Wu Sanfeng went back to their rooms, and then hugged Wei Chunyan and Wei Rouge respectively, and greatly warmed them up a few times.

It seems that he wants to vent his dissatisfaction with Wei Bao on the woman Wei Bao arranged for them.

Wei Bao rushed back to Weijiazhuang at noon the next day, originally thought that Zhao Jinfeng and her mother would go around in front of the house in Shanhaiguan and then leave, remembering that Zhao Jinfeng said that she and her mother, including the two maids, rarely go out, and their necessary daily necessities are all transported from Jinshan by Zhao Kehu, and they live a worry-free life.

I couldn't meet Zhao Jinfeng when I went, so I gave up.

Wei Bao really couldn't understand what kind of strange relationship Zhao Kehu and Zhao Jinfeng's mother had, and he could obviously feel that Zhao Kehu was very good to Zhao Jinfeng and her mother, but in such an era of male power, and such a good man, why did Zhao Jinfeng's mother refuse to be with Zhao Kehu, but want to be separated for a long time?

Wei Bao returned to the Wei Mansion, and Wang Qiuya hurriedly reported to him: "Wu Xiang has asked people to come to find Gongzi several times. It seems to say that I want to leave today, and I want to have a separate banquet with my son, and say a few words. In addition, there were forty or fifty people at the schoolmate meeting held by Gongzi, and more than half of them were already over, and Rui'er asked them all to be arranged in the guest house. ”

Wei Bao nodded, although he slept well last night, but he loved the bed, and he had to sleep in the bed he was used to sleeping in before he could feel at ease, so he was still a little tired at this time.

"Wu Xiang came to me, he probably wanted to leave, wanted to talk to me for the last time, and forced me to accept the conditions he proposed." Wei Bao said: "As for the people in the alumni association, they came here at the invitation of me and Wu Sanfu. ’

"Then at noon today, Childe wants to accompany the people on that side?" Wang Qiuya asked.

Wei Bao secretly thought, he didn't want to snub Wu Xiang, or he wanted to dry Wu Xiang, since Wu Xiang had asked people to come to him a few times, it was estimated that he had misunderstood, since that was the case, it was better to simply dry this old boy more.

"I'll receive the people from the alumni club, just go over and toast Wu Xiang halfway." Wei Bao Road.

"Okay, then I'll let someone arrange it. Childe had a great time yesterday, and he didn't come back until this hour today. Wang Qiuya said casually.

Wei Bao smiled: "Are you jealous?" ”

"No, what am I jealous of? I'm happy for Childe. Wang Qiuya was duplicitous.

Wei Bao explained with a smile: "I sent Zhao Jinfeng back to Shanhaiguan yesterday evening, and then the two of them had dinner together, and I sent her home. ”

"I didn't think about what happened to Childe and Miss Zhao." Wang Qiuya pouted: "Childe said this, as if I am narrow-minded." ”

Wei Bao smiled, gently supported Wang Qiuya's arm to show comfort, and then went to rest for a while, ready to wait for a group of people from the Shanhai Academy Alumni Association.

The Shanhai Academy Alumni Association was led by Wei Bao, and there were only about 100 people, not many people.

If you want to enter the alumni association of Shanhai Academy, you must first be a member of Shanhai Academy, who has studied in the academy or is still studying in Shanhai Academy.

In addition, more than 100 people in the alumni association of Shanhai Academy are mostly children of rich families, and the students of Shanhai Academy are mostly composed of children of rich families.

There are also one-third to one-half of the poor students in the Shanhai Academy Alumni Association, most of whom are people who have at least achieved fame in childhood, and now most of these students have been recruited by Wei Bao to Weijiazhuang to teach in various primary schools.

Wei Bao provided salaries for these poor students, and asked them to take their families over, so as not to go out to escape the famine, and all of them were treated as 'teachers', as talents, and given preferential treatment, otherwise most of these people would have to flee the famine, let alone continue to study, and it would be difficult to survive.

The current situation of the alumni association of Shanhai Academy is basically a microcosm of the local intellectuals in western Liaoning.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were still local regiments that practiced arming, such as Liaoxi, where the big households were landlords, and the big households basically had their own arms, and this was also the case in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng died in the hands of the landlords.

As far as Wei Bao knows, in Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Shandong, there were many township soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty, but they were not very famous, and they did not have a domineering and mighty name.

The number of people is not large, except for the super large family of the Wu family, which can have thousands of private troops, and the others mostly range from twenty or thirty to four or five hundred.

The village warriors of the late Ming Dynasty and the private army of the landlords were the same in nature as the landlords' armed forces at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Why did the landlord armed regiment at the end of the Ming Dynasty kill Li Zicheng, and why did the Hunan army and the Huai army attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the end of the Qing Dynasty? Because the rebels threatened their interests.

Whether it was the end of the Ming Dynasty or the end of the Qing Dynasty, those landlord armies could not be really patriotic, and in the final analysis, it was not for the sake of safeguarding their own interests.

In the original history, Li Zicheng copied the home of the scholar in Beijing, and the Confucian masters and the thieves were naturally incompatible, and the Taiping rejuvenated the country and believed in Christianity, which was to cut off the roots of the landlords and old wealth, what is the most typical characteristic of the landlord class? It's that they're educated, and they're all Confucians.

The Confucian masters and saints still don't copy the guys and Hong Xiuquan.

After the Qing army entered the customs, they appointed former Ming officials and local gentry to eliminate turmoil, restore social order and the imperial civil service system, and open imperial examinations to ensure the privileges and status of scholars, but the order and privileges hoped for by the gentry were recognized and guaranteed by the Manchu and new regimes.

Confucian masters think, isn't this just a change of owner? Through the imperial examination, we can still be the same as before, as for playing with our lives?

From the Wubao lord of the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Han military leaders at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the landlord armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even the security regiment of the Republic of China, they don't care who is the emperor, who is the boss, who is orthodox, they only care about which owner can maintain their power and status.

The gentry and Confucian students were still very effective against Li Zicheng.

At least that's what Wei Bo seems.

In the current Ming Dynasty, various forces are competing to the death, and the regime is changing dramatically.

Wei Bao knew very well that in the near future, within fifteen years, the Dashun regime would be able to control the northern part of the Ming Dynasty almost overnight. The new regime immediately sent troops south along the canal to the western part of Shandong, and the local government of the Ming Dynasty was invincible.

While thinking about how to organize this gathering of Shanhai Academy classmates today, Wei Bao thought of a historical story that he had seen in his previous life.

The Dashun army could even enter Jining, a canal city that was at the center of the north-south transportation movement, with little resistance.

Dashun officials saw the wealth of Jining and severely punished the rich families in the city who did not want to lose.

The gentry who fled the city began to regroup the scattered militia of the Nine Battalions and the scattered soldiers of the Ming government to form an encirclement of Jining City.

The Dashun chieftain, who occupied the city for half a month, became increasingly anxious about the deteriorating situation, and on 11 May ordered all the gentry who remained in the city to assemble at the Chenghuang Temple for surveillance and further extortion.

The gentry deliberately slowed down their pace on the way to the Chenghuang Temple, secretly discussed countermeasures, went to the temple on the one hand, and secretly passed on the leaders of the Siguan Township Soldiers and the soldiers in the city to solve the problem, seeking to resist the enemy from inside and outside.

Bing Yong infiltrated the city in disguise and instigated and led a public riot among the inhabitants.

The situation reversed abruptly, and by midnight the Dashun army had all been annihilated.

The gentry held a ceremony to commemorate Emperor Chongzhen, and at the same time issued licenses to various states and counties, captured puppet officials, spread the word to all roads, and called for loyalty.

Within a few days, most of the nearby local regimes were returned to forces loyal to the Ming dynasty, and soon the Dashun regime collapsed in Shandong.

Former Ming officials and local gentry established grassroots political power in various localities to restore social order.

Class determines the position.

The thieves moved the interests of the Confucian landlords, and Li Zicheng actually copied the house of the scholar, and the landlords and gentry naturally did not share the sky with Li Zicheng.

As for the Qing army's entry into the customs, in line with the rebellion against Li Zicheng's deprivation of their privileges and family property, the gentry counted on the Manchu conquerors to defend their vested interests and find refuge in the new ruling order.

During the Manchu conquest, the vast majority of the gentry chose to submit to and cooperate with the foreign occupiers, in contrast to their previous rejection of the Dashun regime.

In fact, when the Dashun army first arrived, there was no fierce confrontation in Jining and most parts of Shandong, but when the property, rights, status, and social order of the gentry and wealthy families were trampled on, out of fear of "cutting the rich and helping the poor", they began to resist and drove out Li Zicheng's peasant army.

On the contrary, in the early Qing Dynasty, the order and privileges desired by the gentry were recognized and guaranteed by the Manchu and new regimes.

The lack of political power in the process of changing the dynasty exacerbated the deterioration of law and order, and the starving people in western Shandong formed gangs, seriously threatening the local hegemony of the gentry-landlord class.

The isolated gentry clashed with Li Zicheng and the local bandits, but the Qing regime emerged as their saviors.

After the occupation of Shandong, the Manchu rulers appointed former Ming officials to eliminate unrest and restore social order and the imperial civil bureaucracy.

In this political ecology, the gentry who had fled to the south returned to their hometowns, were given forgiveness, and their original possessions and identities were restored.

The restoration of canal trade and water conservancy infrastructure has also contributed to the stability of local urban and rural communities.

The Qing court also quickly reinstated normal imperial examinations in exchange for the support of the gentry.

The gentry needed order, in fact, they symbolized order to a considerable extent.

The gentry's dependence on political power, or rather stable state authority, determined their ultimate position of docility and cooperation in the relationship between the regime and the gentry.

On the whole, the Manchu conquerors and Han collaborators achieved a certain mutual adaptation, despite the so-called mixed ambivalence between the Manchu conquerors and the Han collaborators.

The former needed the latter's help to rule the Chinese empire with Confucian symbols, while the latter relied on the former's power to secure and secure their own interests and political aspirations.

In this game-like deal, the Manchu rulers restored the public safety environment, granted the gentry rights to a certain extent, and rebuilt their path to official careers.

The gentry's dependence on imperial power revealed their lack of autonomy.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why many of the innovative things that took place in the society of the late Ming gentry did not lead to any structural and substantive changes.

In the end, the change of dynasties in the Ming and Qing dynasties could not jump out of the traditional sense of "dynasty repetition".

Within this formula, the Manchu regime also completed the transformation of its role from a violent intruder to an inheritor of the imperial system.

Wei Bao felt that the expansion of power he was now envisioning could not jump out of this box, even if he was a native of Liaoxi, the expansion on the ground in Liaoxi would not be as disgusting as the faces of the Jiannu.

But the essence of the expansion of interests is the same, and you must abide by the order.

This order is not too ruthless to dig meat from the landlords around Weijiazhuang, after all, he wants to develop, he needs to deal with these people, and needs the support of these people, just like he packaged the sales part of the Tiandi firm to form a limited liability company, and pulled the large and small Lizheng Chiefs in the original four Weijiazhuang to his side, just killing the most stubborn among them.

The situation faced by Wei Bao is actually the same as that of Li Zicheng and the Jiannu regime.

This party is mainly to gather those rich children who have studied in Shanhai Academy to contact their feelings, as for how to do it, Wei Bao has already had an idea before, and at this time in the room, while smoking, he silently perfected it, and felt that it was feasible.

The regimental training of the Qing Dynasty was customized in the early Yongzheng period, and the official name was the system of selecting voters and strong.

Each province, state, and county has set up 50 people, and every shortage is only for miscellaneous labor. The criminal department Shangshu Li Tingyi asked the regiment to train the people, and ordered the prefectures and counties to select the strong men of the people, and to do the full number, and assign 20 shotgunseers, 20 archers, and 10 pikemen to the work and food, and select one of the strongest people to serve as the first officer, and practice from time to time, so as to ensure that the skills are skillful and can be applied, and those who are not effective will be punished.

These 50 men were armed not only with spears and bows and arrows, but also with 4 muskets, and then let these people take charge of local security.

The leader of these people "gives six taels of silver for every year", which is only equivalent to half a year's salary of a green battalion soldier.

The Qing Dynasty used such militia groups to reduce military spending.

Because the leaders of the militia have received military training and have a certain amount of firearms, the militia will fight better than the green camp when the Sichuan and Chu sects are in turmoil.

In order to make better use of the militia groups, the militia members began to enter the system during the Jiaqing period.

Luo Siju and Gui Han were promoted to the Green Camp as regimental members, and finally became the commander of the first rank.

This has also brought the militias closer to the system.

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom era, although the authority of group training was expanded, the whole process has undergone more than a hundred years of evolution, not from scratch.

The people of the Ming Dynasty did not have this kind of legal armament, even if they rashly engaged in it in the late Ming Dynasty, the result was only more of a group of mountain kings in Liaoxi and Liaodong.

Wei Bao felt that without considering politics, simply considering the economic factors that were almost paralyzed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, all the defense should be handed over to the landlord militia in various places, and this kind of militia can spring up everywhere like mushrooms after a rain in a few days, even if other places do not do it, Liaodong Liaoxi and Northern Zhili, these places where the Jiannu and Mongols may break through the customs and loot, should be carried out, in that case, the imperial court almost only needs to produce one person's silver, which can play the role of five soldiers, which will greatly ease the financial pressure.

In order to fight, the expropriation was tyrannical and the economy was directly dragged down, which was the main reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, because the landlord class had lost trust in the imperial power and the imperial court.

Wei Bao is now because of an accident, occasionally obtained a large amount of money from a group of big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong, in fact, it is also a bit of such a meaning, so, three years later, half of the silver back, this way to alleviate the contradiction, is the best way Wei Bao can come up with to solve the contradiction, Wei Bao admires the Confucian golden mean, to be a man and do things to leave a line, do not have to needle to the wheat mang, so that it will be good to see each other in the future.

"Childe, the drinks and food for entertaining the people of the classmates have been arranged." After a while, Wang Qiuya's voice came from outside the door: "Second Prince Wu came to find Gongzi." ”

Wei Bao sat up and went out: "Second Prince Wu is here?" ”

"Well, wait in the side hall." Wang Qiuya said.

Wei Bao nodded and went to the side hall to see Wu Sanfu.

"Master Wei, why did you come back? Where have you been? When Wu Sanfu saw Wei Bao coming, he immediately got up and asked with a split face.

"What's wrong? I went to Shanhaiguan yesterday to have some business, and I just came back. What's the matter?" asked Wei Bao, puzzled.

"You still ask me. You, how many good things did I say to you in front of my father? It's all over now. My father can come to your Weijiazhuang, it is already very face-saving for you, how can you not accompany two meals in a row? This is rude. Wu Sanfu said to Wei Bao bluntly: "Also, don't you like my sister?" Why is it unclear with Zhao Kehu's daughter? Did you go to Shanhaiguan to send Zhao Kehu's daughter back? ”

Wei Bao sweated, secretly wondering when Lao Tzu said that he liked Wu Xuexia? knew that Li Chengnei was talking nonsense to Wu Sanfu that day, saying that he liked Wu Xuexia, "I didn't go to Shanhaiguan for Zhao Lizheng's daughter, we just happened to go together." Didn't I ask my brother-in-law and a few of the main stewards of Weijiazhuang to accompany Master Wu? Where is the deliberate neglect? There are indeed some urgent things to do, and your father is too easy to get angry. ”

"Don't say so much, now hurry up and go to my dad to accompany you." Wu Sanfu pulled Wei Bao with a look of hatred that iron could not become steel.

Wei Bao was pulled out by Wu Sanfu, "It's okay to apologize, but I can't fully accompany Lord Wu for this meal, don't you know?" We have invited friends from the alumni association to come, and most of them have already come, why don't we receive them? ”

"I'll just go and receive them, you can accompany my father well for this meal, and besides, don't run around during this meal. My dad had dinner with others, and the most annoying thing was that others left the table halfway, and he would be very unhappy. Wu Sanfu replied.

Wei Bao snorted: "Then I can meet my classmates before I go to meet your father, right?" Can't people come to Weijiazhuang, I'm the proprietor and don't show up, right? ”

Wu Sanfu hesitated for a few seconds, "It's okay, then let's go and meet my classmates first, you can't stay and drink, just say a few words and go to accompany my father." ”

"Got it." Wei Bao smiled: "Don't you need to be so nervous?" ”

Wu Sanfu saw that Wei Bao didn't seem to be very concerned, he was angry and stomped his feet, Wu Sanfu knew that his father was already angry with Wei Bao, Wei Bao's situation was already very dangerous, but this guy seemed to be fine, how could he not let him be anxious: "Wei Gongzi, as a friend, I advise you, don't offend my father, otherwise it will be difficult for you and Wei Jiazhuang to survive in Liaoxi!" ”

Wei Bao still disagrees with Wu Sanfu's heavy words, Wei Bao is now psychologically not afraid of Wu Xiang! Otherwise, I wouldn't have dared to set up a family banquet to entertain Zhao Jinfeng and Zhao Kehu in the middle of Wu Xiang's visit yesterday.

Wei Bao is not afraid of Wu Xiang, because even if the Wu family and the ancestral family join forces to lead the troops to attack again, there are wine bottle bombs, and there are thousands of army and navy, and they can temporarily form a mixed force at that time, and in the current situation that he has enough food in his hands, the Wu family and the ancestral family have no ability to directly destroy their own side with military force.

"Big brother, don't worry, it's too late for me to confront Lord Wu, where do you dare to offend him?" Wei Bao smiled indifferently, and did not show his psychological fear of Wu Xiang.

Wu Sanfu nodded: "That's good." So he went straight to the State Guest House with Wei Bao.

The classmates and the banquet that entertained everyone in the Wu family for several days were in the Weijiazhuang State Guest House, but they were not in the same hall.

Wei Bao arrived at the State Guest House, and some people bowed and saluted all the way.

Wei Bao nodded all the way to the people, walked through the corridor, and arrived at the door of the reception of the classmates, and the two attendants hurriedly helped Wei Bao open the door.

Wei Bao stepped in, and more than fifty people were already seated at the full five tables.

When everyone saw Wei Bao, they all got up to say hello.

In Shanhai Academy, Wei Bao is actually inconspicuous, in the eyes of outsiders, Wei Bao is just a small rich family with a little silver in his family.

It's not so unusual.

Compared with Wu Sanfu, Wu Sangui, and Wang Dongming, the second generation of officials, and a group of children of wealthy families who lost a lot of money, Wei Bao's family is not without success.

The fineness is also obviously insufficient.

However, the spectacular construction site of Weijiazhuang, the construction scenes everywhere, the grand scale of construction, and a large number of people doing things, all of which have suppressed the new and old classmates of the Shanhai Academy Alumni Association led by Wei Bao.

Only then did everyone know how far the Wei family's financial resources had become?

Many of them had been to the four miles of the original place, and they were almost unrecognizable.