Several dual-purpose boats departed from Xiaguan Wharf and went east along the Yangtze River to the mouth of the Yangtze River. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoSeveral gunboats of the naval division of the Nanyue Army seemed to be the solution of the prisoners, and they were engrossed in slowly moving around these sea ships.

At a glance, the first impression is that the boats and the people on board are afraid to jump into the river or escape. At least, that's what the people on shore think. In addition to the refugees who went to sea on these boats, there were also dozens of former Qin legal officials who were assigned to Nanzhong.

"Alas! Who told them to fight those people at the Winter Solstice Festival!? The so-called good shoes don't step on stinky dog food, those broken boot parties, are they easy to provoke? ”

There was the old man on the dock shaking his head and sighing.

The Broken Boots Party originally referred to the local scholars whose families were in tatters, misbehaved, and communicated with each other to make trouble. Later, it also referred to gangs of broken scoundrels. For the Nanjing people who know the roots, the scholars who made trouble in the Confucian Temple that day were the boot-breaking party in the city. Relying on their own fame, they colluded with the officials of various yamen to collect bad money, "eat salt water", and extort money. All kinds of behaviors are sideways.

"Alas! It's a pity for those rectum-minded heroes! Where are they the opponents of these vicious villains? "The Shengdou people who are begging for life on the dock can't help but sigh in their hearts for those heroes who dare to speak up." It's another Lin Chong match! ”

Lin Chong's distribution is true, but the wild boar forest was not staged, but it was the second half of Lin Chong's distribution.

As soon as the officials of the Qin legal system were escorted onto the ship, they were invited by the sailors to the large cabin of the ship.

In the largest cabin on the ship, a sumptuous banquet has already been set up. Several officers of the sailor division stood in front of the door with neat clothes and smiles on their faces.

"You guys have taken a big breath of evil for our Nanyue Army this time! Although it is nominally assigned to Nanzhong. However, without this issued document, don't you also have to go to Nanzhong? Nanzhong is the world of our lord, and when you get there, this distribution document is a proof of your military exploits. In the barracks and workshops of the Yamen Academy everywhere, you are not allowed to queue up to invite everyone to drink? Nothing else, this time today, it can be regarded as a few of us who have made up together, so I will suppress the shock for you first! ”

The sailor battalion officer headed by him was also a cheerful man, and the officials of the Qin Law Department smiled in a few words.

As a result, these officials who originally thought that they were going to suffer some crimes were going to be ruthlessly punished, and they enjoyed the treatment of the head of the forest after they got out of the wild boar forest.

Except for the northern men who are a little uncomfortable with taking a boat and are a little seasick, it is basically no different from a business trip. Several escort officials from the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Officials also knew the severity very well and were very good at looking at the style, and they mingled with these prisoners who called them brothers and sisters, pushing cups and changing lamps.

However, the south ships the north horses. These Qin and French officials, mainly from Shaanxi, Henan, and other places, were still very unaccustomed to taking sea boats as a means of transportation. Within half a day's effort, dozens of officials rushed to the side of the ship and turned the delicacies carefully cooked by the ship's chef into sacrifices to the dragon king.

An official held on to the side of the boat, watched the yellow river water quickly roll up the food residues he vomited out into the waves, and took the hot water handed over by the sailor next to him with a pale face: "Alas! I really admire you heroes who haunt the waves like walking on the ground! Where have we been? ”

The sailor looked around and silently calculated in his heart, "It's probably going to Chongming." Soon it went out of the Yangtze River and into the sea. When we get to the sea, it's completely our world! ”

was comforting the seasick official, and a fast boat came against the current on the opposite side. Although it was going upstream, with the help of the tailwind and the skillful handling skills of the sailors on board, the fast boat came like a galloping horse.

"It's our ship!"

"It's a ship under Lord Lee's command!"

The sailors and the officials of the Naqin legal system made judgments about the incoming ship at about the same time.

From the shape, mast, number of sails, and flags of the ships, it is clear that the ships coming are the ships belonging to Li Huayu, the acting governor of Shandong, Denglai, and other places.

On the main mast of the ship, a huge red flag hung high. According to the rules, only if there is a big victory in the front, can there be a red flag or Lubu to report the victory.

"Lubu", as a literary style with the function of "soliciting and discussing the text", was slightly later than Pei Songzhi's Southern Dynasty Liang Liu Xian's "Wenxin Carving Dragon? In the "Shift", he traced its source and said: "Zhang Yi Chu, the book is two feet, and the text is understood, or Lubu." Those who expose the cloth will not be covered with a dew board, and it will be broadcast to the public and the public. Scholars consider its "shaku-two" as a mistake of "two-foot". Liu Xianyouyun: "Therefore, it is necessary to plant righteous words, to be strong, to show speed, not to slow down the speech, to expose the board to proclaim the public, not to make the righteousness hidden, it must be clear and reasonable, and the spirit and resignation, this is also necessary." It can be corroborated with Pei Songzhi's statement that Jia Hong "made Lu Buwen". It is worth noting that the "lubu" identified by Liu Xian here has both the characteristics of "inserting feathers to show speed" and "exposing the board to publicize the public", which shows that "lubu" can indeed be used as a means of transmitting emergency military information.

The "rubu" used for this purpose is also called "hazuku". The Book of Han? The Gao Di Ji once recorded that "I used feathers to recruit soldiers from all over the world". Shi Gu said: "The person who is a scholar uses a wooden slip as a book, two inches long, and uses a conscription." If there is an emergency, it will be inserted with a bird feather to show speed. Probably similar to the publicly released "chicken feather letter". It can be seen that this is another type of function used in the early days of "Lubu". Of course, Liu Xian's "Lubu" as a solicitation document can be traced back to the Warring States Period, which is a view that it may not actually have its name, but after all, it is revealed that the source of "Lubu" may be as early as the pre-Qin period.

It was in the Tang Dynasty that Lubu began to become a document for good fortune.

Now, Li Huayu's fanfare ordered to report victory along the Yangtze River against the current, obviously a big victory. Otherwise, no matter how bold Li Huayu is, he will not dare to make such a mistake.

"Weichen Li Huayu congratulates the Holy Lord on his well-being:

Lai Your Majesty Hongfu, the soldiers with their lives, the army of ministers and the Liao thieves will hunt the Central Plains, first break the thief's red flag, and then break its two white flags, the blue flag is a repentance, a counterattack, the Liao thief has become a trend of rebellion. Later, although there was a rebellious thief Cao Zhenyan stubbornly resisted, but in the end he was defeated by our mighty army, and the Taiwan Corps broke through its six formations in a battle and captured two trenches. Later, although they were attacked at night, the thieves were also repulsed. In total, more than 1,000 true Tartars were beheaded, and more than 10,000 rebels were attached. Although the results of the battle were not great, they were enough to boost the morale of the army. The strange thing is that only this battle is accompanied by the courage of the rebel thieves, and they are afraid of the punishment of the officers and soldiers, so they have to fight to the death. However, the strong and ugly jumped off the beam, after all, it was a laughing stock, and the morale of our army was like a rainbow, and it would be wiped out in the future. ”

Li Huayu's report book quickly spread in Nanjing. Thanks to the newspapers, the inscriptions recited in the teahouse and restaurant are the same as those recited by the ministers in the court.

The difference is that what the ministers heard in the court also included the clips attached to the inscription itself. The clip lists in detail the results of the battle and the analysis and review of the advantages and disadvantages of the Qing army and the current Ming army.

In the annex to this document, Li Huayu gave a detailed report on the details of several major battles, how to recruit the Manchurian soldiers and horses of the Zhenglan Banner, let them revolt in front of the battle, and cause the two red flags to be defeated. In the battle against the two White Flag Duoduo Divisions, the Taiwanese soldiers braved the dense artillery fire of the Qing army and broke through the six formations of the Qing army in a row.

In the clip, Li Huayu praised and boasted for his subordinates: "The Liao thieves, horses, guns, and artillery are fierce, and the guns and bullets are raining, and only by launching a white-edged charge can they offset their firepower advantage." Moreover, there is a brigade of rebellious officers and soldiers who act as tigers, and the fierce flames are even better. ”

Is this worth it?! This passage not only made Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, Shoufu Ma Shiying, Zhao Zhilong, Wang Duo and others stunned, but also made Li Shouhan a little surprised. Why, when did the Tartars have such fierce artillery fire, didn't the Tartars mainly shoot on horseback? Isn't Tartar not the benefit of a firearm that you don't understand? (Li Shouhan: Didn't the Tatars stop developing firearms after entering the Central Plains?) Did it interrupt the process of the development of firearms in China? How can there be such heavy artillery fire and so many firearms? Actually let my eldest son take out the housekeeping skills of the bayonet assault back then? This is not scientific! ）

However, in Li Huayu's letter to Li Shouhan, Li Huayu also explained the situation on the front line to his father very honestly: "Although the Tartar firearms are fierce, there is no need to worry, most of their gunners are illiterate, they do not know how to calculate the artillery, and they only operate the guns with experience, and their quality is far from that of our Nanyue Army." Its infantry team is centered on the Eight Banners Manchurian soldiers and horses, and there is a large group of rebellious officers and soldiers as the forerunner. ”

In the family letter, Li Huamei's tactics used in Tashan were highly admired, and the application of double-barreled short firearms in trench warfare was even more praised. In the letter, he asked his father to urge several factories in Hejing in the rear to speed up production, "Only horsetail grenades and rear-loading guns are sharp weapons to break the enemy." Please ask the father to order the rear to be transferred to this as soon as possible. ”

The shogunate sorted out Li Huayu's request, and while ordering the Shanghai direction to quickly transfer the hoarded materials to Shandong, they also ordered several factories such as Ha Jing Manufacturing and Ha Jing Heavy Industry to start work day and night to manufacture horsetail grenades for consumption at the front.

With this victory, the turmoil in Nanjing became silent. Although the implementation of the new policy was not officially announced on New Year's Day, there was little resistance to the implementation of the new policy in various state capitals. Of course, the meditation reading place prepared by Zha Jizuo and Li Huabao for those literati with conscience and backbone is already overcrowded. Someone kept writing thousands of words of whistleblowing materials in it, reporting their fellow villagers, the same year, and the same family. After that, these fellow villagers and fellow villagers were caught in the same year and continued to write exposé materials.

This time, Jiangnan Shilin's vitality cannot be described as a big injury. Almost lost. The gentlemen of Donglin also had to pack up their minions, change their banners, and devote themselves to the fiery implementation of the New Deal. What's more, such as Qian Qianyi and Qian Tanhua, he took the initiative to report to Emperor Hongguang and demanded severe punishment for those who made trouble. The reason is that at present, the great enemy of the country must be severely punished and the law must be severe. Otherwise, where is the prestige of the imperial court? Although this proposal was keenly discovered by Ma Shiying and others, he politely refused on the grounds that he could not raise a prison in an eventful season. However, his attitude is already clear.

is different from the generous and strict statements in the court, in private, when Qian Tanhua is a confidant and confidant in a secret discussion, it is a different face.

"Li Huayu's department fought against tens of thousands of thieves in the Liao thief Abatai's department back then, and they never fell behind. It can be called the most elite unit in the Southern Guangdong Army. Now in the good news he sent himself, he was also frank, but he could only beat the rebel thieves, and the real slaves of the Liao thieves were slightly harmed. After a big battle, more than 10,000 rebel thieves were beheaded, and there were only more than 100 real slaves. Counting up, since the Liao thieves stole Shenjing, Li Huayu's subordinates have only beheaded 851 Liao thieves and real slaves. This is far from when Li Shouhan beheaded real slaves with thousands of arguments! ”

"That's it! The defeat of the two red flags of the Liao thieves was because the Liao thieves came in front of the blue banner anyway. This battle feats can't be regarded as his Li Huayu's gains! ”

"Tan Huagong, I think, I might as well wait to ask for an order in front of the emperor and go to Jiangbei to check Li Huayu's military merits! lest this pair of powerful ministers and fathers join forces, deceive up and down, kill good people and take false credits, or falsely report military merits! ”

Although they can't compete head-on with the Li family's father and son, Ma Shiying and others, everyone in Donglin is still happy to find some trouble for the Li family's father and son's achievements, and use the standard of picking bones in eggs to find some flaws in Li Huayu's military exploits, and then make a big deal of it to achieve the purpose of adding some disgust to Li Shouhan and his son.

They selectively forgot that Zuo Liangyu, the main force of the Anti-Japanese War who was touted by them as the pillar of the country, the so-called "South, Left, and North Li", may not have cut off the heads of eighty-one real slaves after more than ten years of fighting. On the contrary, he often beheaded a lot in battles with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others. However, how many of these heads are the real so-called thief heads, but it may not be clear whether it is the king of Hades and the judges who organized all the imps in the palace of Hades to work overtime.

(At this point, Donglin's disciples and grandchildren hundreds of years later have also inherited the glory of their ancestors.) In order to avoid being scolded on the street, I won't mention that number, everyone knows that the most famous army commander has two characteristics, one is to kill his wife when he was the commander of the regiment, and the other is to pose for artistic photos. It is claimed to be the first army of the anti-Japanese army and the first terrorist army of China, but what is the result? During the Battle of Changsha, the Japanese army broke the preset positions of the 51st Division and the 57th Division of the army with the strength of three brigades, and the 51st Division was defeated by the Japanese army, and the regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons lost their formations, causing the loss of more than half of the whole army! At this time, the army was still under the command of Wang Yaowu, the head of the family, and his combat effectiveness was at its peak. At this time, the army had more than 30,000 elites, and it had just been reequipped with Soviet weapons, and it was the first batch of Soviet weapons in the national army. As for the Japanese army's brigade, the establishment of Class A was only more than 1,100 people. 30,000 people fought against 3,000 people, and they were defeated and lost more than half. With such a scale of troop investment, I am sorry, but on the battlefield behind enemy lines, in the so-called counter-sweep of a certain army base area with three points of resistance against Japan and seven points of development, it can only be regarded as a medium-scale battle. Unbelief? You can go and take a look at the information compiled by the devil himself on the North China public security war, which is clearly written that during the Battle of Chunhua Mountain, the Tuba Road counter-sweep in Yi County, Hebei Province defeated a Class A wing of the Japanese army. Sure enough, it is the main force of resistance against Japan! A certain army is really guerrilla but not attacking, three points of resistance and seven points of development! With a military subdivision with a full number of regimental strengths, it can only fight devils and one class A wing! ）

After degrading the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses of the Li family's father and son for a while, and lying about their military exploits, Qian Qianyi and his friends began to lash out at Ma Shiying, Li Shouhan and his minions Cha Baidi and others for their wanton conquest and looting of people's wealth in the south of the Yangtze River.

"There is a folk song in Liudu, 'The prince only loves money, but the emperor eats wine!'" If it goes on for such a long time, the Ming court is only afraid that sooner or later it will be in danger! Xincheng Bozhao Zhilong was indignant, and his face was worried about the country and the people.

"Exactly! What is Zha Jizuo?! Shameless literati one! But he was cited by Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan as confidants, and entrusted with important tasks, so that he poisoned Jiangnan! Today, all parts of Jiangnan are harassed by it. ”

The so-called poisoning of Jiangnan is a reminder of the arrears of money and grain carried out by Zha Jizuo in various places, acting in accordance with the Jiajing preferential exemption rules, and urging the officials and gentry in various places to pay taxes and grain.

Speaking of this question, several close friends present opened the conversation one after another, and all kinds of vicious curses and curses blurted out one after another, like the flooding of the Yellow River. It seems that if this kind of looting of people's wealth is not stopped immediately, Jiangnan will be a long night for eternity, and the country's society will be finished immediately. If you don't abide by the preferential and exemption rules formulated by the Divine Sect, and don't act in accordance with the old system of the Holy Tomorrow Son Divine Sect Wanli Emperor, you will have to suffer sooner or later. A few years ago, he still scolded Emperor Wanli for greedy money and good goods, and threw away the land of Yin Shang.

Qian Qianyi didn't speak, just took a wooden box from the bookshelf and took out a document inside.

"This is the official letter from the mad dog Chabai to Qian, which made me quickly hand over the money and food I owed. Otherwise,"

"Mu Zhai Gong, you are a scholar of the court, and you are a Tanhua Gong on the right path of Kejia, how dare this guy extort money from you?" Wang Duo, a scholar, exclaimed angrily.

"Alas! What about Tanhua? Tanhua is not as good as silver money can be spent! ”

Qian Qianyi sighed and handed the document to all the friends and confidants present to circulate it.

Zha Jizuo also had his purpose in targeting Qian Qianyi in the first round of strikes. Qian Qianyi is the leader of Donglin, a generation of celebrities, and a famous person who explores flowers, and is a scholar of the Ministry of Rites. If he can be taken down, then it will be much easier to collect money and grain from all over Jiangnan.

During the Jiajing Longqing period, who was the largest landlord in the south of the Yangtze River - Xu Jie, Xu Jie, who had a family property of 15 million taels of silver + real estate + handicraft workshops, all tax-free. Xu Jie's occupation of 240,000 mu of private land in Susong, with tens of thousands of tenants, what is the total amount of taxes in the country every year of Zhang Juzheng's reform? 2,000,000 taels of silver.

And Qian Qianyi's wealth will only be more than that of this Xu Daren, who used his granddaughter as a weapon in political struggle to gain fame for himself. Historical records record that Qian Qianyi's family property is amazing, this person has hundreds of houses, a library building, a land stretching for several miles, thousands of fertile fields, and more than 100 domestic slaves. The Qian family has accumulated a lot of wealth by relying on boiling salt and other businesses for generations, and Qian Qianyi also operates shipping.

Jiangnan Jiadi won the first place in the south of the Yangtze River, the crown and cover each other, and the wind of official dedication was particularly strong. Zhang Cai, the leader of the Restoration Society, once described the atmosphere of Jiangnan Shi Dafu receiving dedication: "Those who go to the township and will be listed, and those who do not succeed will submit their own books, wait for the Jieqi to ride to the direction, and enter the gold name to take refuge." Most of the slaves who entered the Jin Dai did not have a dry field house, otherwise they were slaves who betrayed their masters, and coerced the old master of the field houses, and said to surrender. Then the group does not go to the countryside at the rate of the phase, the number of horses is twenty or thirty, the field is signed with a poplar trunk, a certain office or a certain house photo, four to the surrounding, said to be a nail. The house is sealed with a large seal, and a certain house is sealed for a few months and a few months on the book. Civilians are washed and the soldiers are burned. Although Qian Qianyi is a celebrity, he also orders the slaves in his hometown, "or he surrenders his seal, or he pretends to deceive." It sounds better to say that it is a sacrifice, but in fact, compared with the peasant army known as the "thieves", it is even more cruel and ruthless.

Historically, our Qian Datanhua has a very bad reputation. Ming history experts Wu Han and Meng Sen both had a very low evaluation of Qian Qianyi, and Wu Han scolded him even more: his character is really poor, he was a prodigal son when he was young, he was a hot politician in middle age, he was a traitor who defected to the Qing Dynasty in his later years, he was a local tyrant and a shoddy gentry when he lived in his hometown, and he was a corrupt official in the court. Although Qian Qianyi descended to the Qing Dynasty, he conspired against the Qing Dynasty, which made Qianlong very disgusted with him, and specially compiled him as the second minister's biography, and also banned his "Beginner's Collection" and other works.

"Mu Zhaigong, you are our Zhiduoxing, and now the power traitor is in the court, blocking the way of speech and blinding the holy hearing. What should you and I be righteous and gentleman? Zhao Zhilong handed the notice of urging the payment of money and food to the people around him, and clenched his fists with both hands to ask Qian Qianyi for countermeasures. He also received such a paperwork.

As an outlier among the nobles, he didn't get a share of the maritime trade, he was originally angry in his heart, and now, he has to pay all kinds of taxes on his fields and shops in various places, how not to make him anxious. Looking at other noble families, relying on the benefits brought by the Jianghai Joint Defense Agreement, sitting in the mansion, they can do nothing, and they can make a lot of profits just by renting out the flag of the document to go to sea. Moreover, in today's tax system, this kind of behavior does not have to pay a penny of tax. How can this make him swallow this breath?! Why is everyone noble, the Xu family, the Chang family, and the Liu family can continue to make a lot of money and spend money, but he has to tighten his belt carefully and carefully to live, lest he be accidentally targeted by the tax collectors? !

"How dare you not bow your head under the low eaves!" Wang Duo also felt the same way. Although he did not see similar documents himself, several brothers and nephews in his hometown wrote to him to tell him that a tax collector had come to inform him.

"Let's not forget that the so-called strong winds never end, and heavy rains never end. No one can say how long these tyrannical methods of Li Ma and the others can last. What's more, at present, there are thousands of officials in the imperial court, and the number of sages and scholars in the field is calculated in tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. The reason why they dare to defy the condemnation of the world and forcibly carry out such an act of harming the people is nothing more than relying on a little military exploit on the battlefield. Maybe one day, a big defeat. At that time, it will be the time for us to support the dynasty and set things right. (To be continued.) )