There is a mound called Mashan Bu in the western suburbs of Laiyang County, which belongs to Dengzhou Prefecture, which is said to have good feng shui and is a good place to bury people and raise corpses. Now the largest scholarly gate in the Denglai area, known as the ancestral tomb of the Laiyang Zuo clan known as "the ninth floor and eighteen Mao (two generations of 27 famous Confucians), one door and four jinshi", is on the southeast slope of the Mashan port - this is still a school district tomb!

And Zuo Maodi, one of the four scholars of the Zuo family, now lives in this school district cemetery in Mashan Bulu, of course, he is not buried in the ground, he is not dead! Instead, he built a grass hut to live on the edge of the big grave shared by his father Zuo Zhilong and his mother Mrs. Chen.

This is called "knotting the house and guarding the tomb", and the so-called "keeping filial piety" is guarded in this way. According to the most standard filial piety in China, the dead father is three years, and the dead mother is three years, if it is born to a little wife, it is three years for the mother-in-law and three years for the biological mother...... Theoretically, it can keep the great filial piety for up to nine years.

Of course, it is impossible for ordinary working people to be so filial, or they have to starve to death. Those who keep filial piety in this way are generally scholars, and if they are talented and famous, it is nothing. Anyway, Shouxiao does not delay the collection of rent, money and tax evasion, if he becomes an official, it will be a bit delayed. For example, in his forties, he was a junior sergeant, and then his father died, his mother, his mother, and his mother were filial piety for nine years, and they were all in their fifties, and they were about to retire! If you are in poor health, maybe your son will have to keep filial piety. And the most ironic thing is that the old mother died when the father and son were officials in the same dynasty, in this case, the old father of the dead wife has to continue to be an official, and the son of the dead old mother goes home to keep filial piety and gnaw the old ......

However, Zuo Maodi's filial piety is not delaying his filial piety to his mother Chen, he is an official while keeping filial piety, and no one can say that he is against human morality, but he can also get a reputation of "the son of filial piety".

The so-called loyalty and filial piety are nothing more than that.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this official has just received news that Duoduo, the prince of Dongyu, has led 100,000 troops to the city of Qufu. Another Tang reported that the Dongyu army burned, killed, looted, excavated graves, and did all kinds of evil along the way......"

On the edge of the large tomb where Zuo Zhilong and Chen were buried together, a hall with adobe walls and thatched roof was erected at some point. Zuo Maodi, who was dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, was sitting upright on it, talking nonsense with great righteousness.

If Dodor had heard him, he would have cried out that he had been wronged. also burned, killed, looted...... The leeks are all gone, what else can be grabbed and killed? As for the excavation of tombs, it is even more absurd, there are no imperial tombs along the canal, and the tombs of some rich families are at the top of the sky, which are all very scattered, and there are not necessarily treasures in the tombs. How could Dordor scatter all his limited troops to dig graves? This is simply ridiculous!

But Zuo Maodi is such a righteous and awe-inspiring Confucian, and he is a great filial son, and his words are credible in Shandong!

Plus, Zuo Maodi is organized!

He is the successor of Donglin in Shandong, and joined the famous Wenshe Shanzuo Taisha as early as the Wanli period. There are 91 members of the Sanzo Taisha Shrine, all of whom are well-known Confucian scholars in the Tenglai area. Through the relationship between clansmen, teachers, fellow villagers, and in-laws, a relationship network covering Deng, Lai, and Qing has been formed.

The Confucian scholars gathered in this hall now all come from this network. And because of the "diversion and return to the soil" more than a year ago, these land-headed snakes in the three mansions of Denglai Qing have hardened their waists, and everyone has hundreds or thousands of Ding Zhuang in their hands.

And the Laiyang Zuo family is no exception, they also pulled up a Zuo army, modeled after the establishment of the Dengzhou Association, and also established a "cottage association", and also learned "997", training day and night. However, there is no land and silver, at most it is rent-free and interest-free and all Laiyang tenants who pick up the Zuo family army can enjoy rent-free and interest-free treatment, and if they are martyred, their families will be raised by the Zuo family.

In addition, the principle of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness is also enough! There are so many scholars in the Zuo family, and they have prestige in the local area of Laiyang, and they smear the Tartars every day.

What kind of murder, arson, rape, and fighting is simply doing all kinds of evil. If they are allowed to get Shandong, the common people will definitely have no way to live, and even the ancestors buried in the ground will have to be dug up and fed to the dogs......

"Teacher!" Zhang Boren, a high-density talent, is the talent who "got the wrong paper" in Deng Laienke, and is now Zuo Maodi's proud protégé, so he was naturally the first to jump out and echo the teacher.

"The Tartar soldiers are coming to Yanzhou, they are here to destroy my famous religion and destroy my homeland! Anyone who reads and writes should stand up, have money to contribute, and make a strong contribution! The students suggested that the regimental training should be rectified in 15 prefectures and counties, including Laiyang, Qixia, Zhaoyuan, Yexian, Pingdu, Changyi, Gaomi, Jiaozhou, Weixian, Anqiu, Zhucheng, Yishui, Rizhao, Wendeng, and Huangxian, and that each prefecture and county should produce an association, and that there should be 2,000 soldiers and auxiliaries in the company, and that they should also be equipped with spears, knives, infantry bows, javelins, attack cannons, and three-eyed guns, and all pikemen should be equipped with cloth iron armor and helmets......"

Zuo Maodi, the minister of regimental training in Shandong, is now directly in charge of these 15 "autonomous prefectures and counties," and all of these 15 prefectures and counties are led by the local gentry. However, these group exercises are also uneven, and some places are doing very well, and it is inevitable that the three group exercises in Laiyang, Gaomi, and Jiaozhou will be very good. can pull out a team of 2,000 people according to Zhang Boren's request, but other places are worse.

"I'm afraid one association is not enough!" Zuo Maodi's cousin Zuo Maoji spoke, "Now is not the time to be reluctant to give up money and food, think about the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, more than 30 people died in our Zuo family alone...... At that time, we hadn't signed "Asking for Hu Luxuan"! ”

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the entrance of the Qing army once hit Laiyang County, and the Laiyang Zuo family behaved very heroically in this catastrophe, rose up to resist, and organized forces to stick to the county seat. From November of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, it persisted until February of the following year, and the city was broken.

And the Zuo clan lost thirty-seven people in this battle, which can be described as a loyal martyr!

Of course, the Laiyang Zuo clan should also be loyal. Because their family is the largest landlord in Denglai Erfu, they own 120,000 acres of land, and the manors are all over Denglai...... Basically, they don't pay taxes! In addition, the Zuo family still has a lot of non-taxable transactions to do.

Although this Laiyang County is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the benefits that Emperor Chongzhen gets in Laiyang every year are a fraction of the Zuo family, maybe not yet!

So this Laiyang is nominally surnamed Zhu, but in fact his surname is Zuo.

If you don't work hard, who do you want to fight?

However, I thought that although the Ming Dynasty could not collect taxes, it was still very wary of local heroes, and they were generally not allowed to hold large-scale group exercises.

Fortunately, since last year, Zhu Cihong has loosened the ties to the Shandong people...... If you have money to contribute, you can make a strong contribution, whether he is a local tyrant or a warlord lord, arm yourself!

Also, don't forget to sign the "Asking for Hu Luxuan...... Now that Zuo Maoji reminded him, the big guys were all nervous.

"Yes, we all signed it, and let Sun Zhiqi's thief copy it and bring it back to Beijing!"

"Dongyu also made Sun Thief the governor of Shandong, he must have brought the list to kill us!"

"It's so hateful, don't give us a way to live!"

"Not only don't you give a way to live, even the dead ancestors don't have a good life......"

"Fight with them!"

"Yes, fight!"

Seeing that everyone was willing to sacrifice their wealth to protect the country (in fact, they were all small lords), Zuo Maodi also felt very pleased, nodded and said: "Then one state and county will practice two associations, a total of 4,000 people, and the training will be completed within three months."

In addition, the prefectures and counties also have to pay a sum of money and food to the regimental training yamen to provide relief to the refugees and to recruit new regimental training troops among the refugees......"

Zuo Mao's face was upright, his eyes were gloomy, and he slowly swept through the hall, "Don't be reluctant to give up money and food...... The Tartars are here this time! Let's spend some money and food to save our lives, keep the land, and turn the fifteen prefectures and counties of Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Qingzhou into our own territory, and we are afraid that we will not be able to get it back in the future?

Moreover, the official recruitment of refugees as soldiers is also for the good of everyone...... Even if there are 4,000 regiments in a state and county, it may not be able to keep the city from falling, so it is necessary to train an elite army that can go back and forth to rescue the cities. What do you think? ”