On the land of the south of the Yangtze River, countless academies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and every morning, the sound of reading aloud is heard in the academies.

These academies are different from the original academies, the original academies, such as Yuelu Academy, Donglin Academy, etc., can enter the academy to study are people with a certain talent, or people who have already made a certain reputation. But these academies, all the people studying in them are children!

It is not so much a academy as a Mongolian education institute, and the education here is based on literacy, not on gaining fame. The people who teach in the academy are all hired talents from all over the world.

The college has a large classroom, and a teacher can give lectures to thirty or forty students at the same time. Although Wang Xinyu has invented the blackboard, most teachers are still not used to the blackboard. So they wrote on large pieces of paper, and when they were done, they hung it up for the children to read. Because the teaching is Mengxue, the teaching is "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text" and the like, and the requirements are only to make every child literate, so the characters can be written very large, every three words and five words on a piece of paper, hung up for everyone to read.

However, in the Mengxue Academy, in addition to teaching children literacy and learning basic characters such as the Three Character Classic, arithmetic education was also opened according to Wang Xinyu's requirements, of course, they are all simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as long as they learn to calculate numbers. Mathematics courses that are too advanced are not suitable for large-scale promotion at present.

In the barracks in various places, every day when it gets dark, the barracks resound with the sound of reading aloud, and the teacher stands on the podium, like those gentlemen who teach in the academy, and teaches these soldiers to read and write on paper with large characters written on it.

Jiangnan is rich, there are many scholars, and there are too many talents in various places, and there are not so many private schools to run, except for the above. In addition to the best Xiucai can get a little bit of income from the state, the rest of the Xiucai can only make a living by themselves to find a way, and the only advantage of Xiucai is that he does not kneel when he sees the official, is exempt from hard labor, and has no other benefits. Some Xiucai whose families are poor and have no money to open a private school live a poor life.

Now the Ming Dynasty has opened a large number of Mongolian academies in Jiangnan, and it is necessary to hire a large number of teachers, and these talents have been hired to teach in the colleges. Go to the barracks to teach.

The talents who were selected to teach in the academy were all elated, although they were teaching a group of five or six-year-old children to learn, but after all, they were regular teachers, there was nothing to be ashamed of, and there was little difference between those private schools in villages and towns on weekdays, and it was a very good way out for the poor talents who could not afford to open private schools. Imagine that you don't have to solve the house for teaching, and you don't have to solve the paper, pen and ink by yourself. Students don't have to have a headache to find a way to get a fixed income every month, and they can guarantee income in drought and flood, where to find such good things.

But for Zhang Jingting. He was unlucky enough to be drawn to teach in the barracks.

Zhang Jingting is a showman, like most poor scholars who have no money at home, he has studied for many years, and only one of them has won the show. And it's not a high-level endowment, so you can only find your own way out, except for less servitude and no kneeling than others. Nothing else has been gained.

These two preferential conditions are actually the same for Zhang Jingting, he is exempt from forced labor, and he is not a farmer who farms the land. Qing Chengming system, although there is no Yongzheng's apportionment into the mu, but it has also implemented unified tax payment, which is not beneficial to him. As for the article that the official does not kneel, it is useless for him, he is an honest scholar, and he does not fight lawsuits with others.

Zheng Chenggong entered the river, the Ming army recovered part of the Jiangnan region, and Zhang Jingting's life did not improve much.

However, the government recruited Mr. Teaching on a large scale, and Zhang Jingting went to apply for Mr. Teaching. Before the arrival of the Ming army, his source of livelihood was to rely on his wife to do some needlework and sell it to the weaving house to support him; After the Ming army came, he founded a formal silk factory, and his wife went to work in the silk factory to earn money to support him.

Because there is no way to get a higher fame, every time I have to bear the white eyes of my wife and my father-in-law's family, I am ridiculed for being a useless scholar. Now that the government is recruiting a teacher, he will apply for the job so as not to be made fun of.

"Teaching in the barracks? Soldiers also need to be literate? Zhang Jingting learned that he was assigned to teach in the barracks, and his originally high mood fell into a trough. As the saying goes, it is unreasonable to show that when you meet soldiers, those big-headed soldiers are all symbols of rough people, and teaching them is not a self-surrendering identity?

No matter how poor the poor scholars were back then, their social status was still quite high. Thinking that he had to mix with those soldiers every day, Zhang Jingting felt very uncomfortable.

Zhang Jingting is an honest scholar, he has no scheming at all, and his hesitation was seen by the officials who recruited Mr. Teach. The Jiupin petty official sneered: "How is it?" Do you go or don't go? If you don't go, you won't have a chance in the future! We won't use you anymore. ”

"Go, I'll go!" Zhang Jingting hurriedly replied. If you go to be a teacher, you can get two taels of silver every month, and if you teach well, you will have a salary increase in the future. This salary is enough for his family to live well. How can you miss such an opportunity?

After signing and being formally employed, Zhang Jingting took his bedding and went to a barracks in Huzhou. Because the barracks was far away from his own in Songjiang, he could only live there. There are two days off a month to go home.

Huzhou is considered to be the junction of the control areas of the Ming army and the Qing army, and this is the front line. Although there is a danger that the Qing army may counterattack, if you go here to teach, you can get three taels of silver every month, which is higher than other places. Zhang Jingting, who was fed up with the white eyes of his wife and father-in-law's family, decisively chose to teach in the front-line barracks.

This is a barracks built on Mount Inwang in the west of Wuxing, but it is actually a fortress. At that time, Taihu Lake was bigger than it is now, and this fortress was on the shore of the lake, not in the middle of the land as it is now.

Zhang Jingting took a boat to the gate of the barracks, raised his head, and saw that the shape of this fortress was similar to that of Songjiang Mansion City, which had been transformed by the Ming army, with a fortress and a top fort. Because the area of the fortress was much smaller than that of the fortress, there were only four bastions, one on each of the four corners of the city wall. On the city walls and fortresses, there are faint traces of being bombarded by Qing artillery, and it is obvious that this fortress is often attacked by Qing troops.

Although Zhang Jingting has never been a soldier, looking at the layout of this fortress, he knows that the Qing army's counterattack is just a waste of death. After all, in Suzhou and other places. There are castles with this structure.

When the Qing army counterattacked in Songjiang and Suzhou before, Zhang Jingting saw the Ming army defending the city, and saw that the Qing army besieging the city fell under the city piece by piece like harvested rice, but he couldn't even touch the edge of the city. So he knew how powerful this kind of castle was. Being a teacher here is actually relatively safe, and it is almost impossible for the Qing army to break through the castle.

Entering the castle, Zhang Jingting was warmly welcomed by the officers and soldiers. But after he came here, he realized that he was not the first teacher here, and there was a teacher named Fan Xiang in front of him.

"Fan Xiang?" Zhang Jingting was taken aback when he heard the name.

Fan Xiang, who was dressed in the uniform of a Ming army officer, appeared in front of Zhang Jingting, which made him even more stunned. I couldn't close my mouth for a long time. Shocked, Zhang Jingting asked, "Mr. Mo'an?" You are a tribute student, how did you join the army? ”

Fan Xiao replied with a smile on his face: "This official is a military Chinese officer, Wang Ye has got a new official position, called a military academy officer, and now I am holding this position." ”

Zhang Jingting sighed more than once: Fan Xiang, the words are white, and the number is Mo'an, this is a great Confucian in Haining! Fan Xiang is a former tribute student, and he is as famous as Cha Jizuo in Haining. Both were implicated in the Ming Shi case and imprisoned. But it is said that Zha Jizuo has Wu Liuqi as a guarantor. before he was released. For the sake of his fellow villagers, Zha Jizuo asked Wu Liuqi to protect Fan Xiang as well.

But Fan Xiang also heard some rumors, saying that in fact, the whistleblower of the Ming History case was the Zha Jizuo who pretended to save himself! It's just that there is no evidence at the moment.

In fact, Zhang Huangyan, Gu Yanwu and others were also very puzzled about this matter, maybe Zha Jizuo was really an informant. Because of his whistleblowing, a large number of Jiangnan scholars died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Qing court. It's just that this mystery can't be solved for the time being, and several of the fast arresters who handled the case in Haining died in the war, and Zhu Guozhi, who really mastered the core secrets, didn't catch it. There is no evidence that Cha Jizuo is a shameful whistleblower.

However, Fan Xiang had already secretly identified it as Zha Jizuo, because he had carefully considered the problem and felt that there were many doubts. Wu Liuqi is a hardcore man. Although the Cha family was helpful to him back then, if Zha Jizuo was really involved in a big case, could Wu Liuqi, who was loyal to the Qing court, help Zha Jizuo? The only explanation is that Zha Jizuo himself is an informer!

Zha Jizuo is also a well-known figure, and a famous novelist in later generations is his descendant.

Zhang Huangyan was struggling to find evidence, so he could only comfort Fan Xiang that if he could find evidence, he would definitely not let go of Zha Jizuo, a shameless whistleblower! However, now that the king of Nanhai wants to establish a military academy, he needs to teach Mr. Zhang, and Zhang Huangyan hopes that Fan Xiang can help.

Fan Xiang agreed without hesitation and became a military cadet.

The main task of this military officer is to instill hatred for the enemy in the non-commissioned soldiers and to brainwash and educate the newly recruited recruits in the army.

After Fan Xiang became a military cadet, he found that what he was doing was to instill hatred for the Qing court and brainwash recruits, so he quickly liked such an official position. Because Fan Xiang had many friends who were implicated in the Ming history case, his good friends who used to sit together and chant poetry and drink died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Qing court.

"I'm going to avenge them! This is the only way I can get revenge! Fan Xiang said to himself.

Fan Xiang held this position in the military camps in Songjiang, Haining and other places, and educated a large number of officers and soldiers who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty and hated the Qing court to the core. One thing is certain, when those officers and soldiers go to the battlefield in the future, everyone will be able to sacrifice their lives and die to move forward bravely! Even if you hit the last person left, you will hug the Qing soldiers and detonate the national surname bottle on your body!

A few months ago, the Qing army counterattacked Suzhou, and a group of soldiers who had been brainwashed by Fan Xiang went to the front line, and as a result, they became crazy soldiers in the mouth of the Qing army, and became the most feared force of the Qing army.

Fan Xiang felt that it was not enough to hide in the rear and brainwash people, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to be transferred to Renwangshan Castle, which was under the serious threat of the Qing army, as a military cadet. Not only that, but Fan Xiang also practiced marksmanship hard, some time ago the Qing army attacked Wuxing, Fan Xiang also personally entered the fortress and fired a gun, killing a number of Qing soldiers.

Listening to the officers in the castle tell the story of Fan Xiang's legend, Zhang Jingting was even more stunned, he never thought that a scholar could actually stir the hearts of thousands of officers and soldiers, and he could personally pick up arms and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy!

"Want to know the answer?" The Ming army general said mysteriously, "Mr. Zhang, go and listen to Mr. Mo'an's lecture, and you will understand everything!" ”

When Fan Xiang gave a lecture, Zhang Jingting deliberately went to listen to what he said.

Fan Xiang, who was standing on the podium, first told the story to the soldiers, telling the story of a pair of lovers in Yangzhou who really loved each other. The lovers have been childhood sweethearts since they were children, and their parents are also very satisfied with each other and have set a family relationship for them. It was clear that they were a young man and a woman who were sure to get married. But Fan Xiang changed the topic: The Qing army is here! The next thing happened was Yangzhou 10th! The man was killed, and the woman was captured by the Qing army and suffered ****, and finally committed suicide.

After hearing this story, all the officers and soldiers boiled and let out a roar from the bottom of their hearts: "Kill the Tartars!" Kill the Tartars! ”

Later, Fan Xiang told the story of the young hero Xia Wanchun, and when Xia Wanchun was heroic, the eyes of the officers and soldiers were red. When it was finally said that Hong Chengchou deserved his crime and was beheaded to make a Jingguan, everyone applauded.

Fan Xiang also told the story of the three major cases in Jiangnan that were closest to each other, because more or less distant relatives and friends among these Zhejiang soldiers died in the three major cases in Jiangnan, and they were filled with righteous indignation when they heard this story.

"Why do we Chinese people suffer? It's because of the puppet court in the north! Our Chinese land is heavily suppressed by the demons in the north! What you have to do is to kill all the demons! Fan Xiao gritted his teeth and said.

In fact, people's concept of the country and the nation was very weak back then, so after the Qing army entered the customs, many people took the initiative to go to the Qing Dynasty. In response to this phenomenon, Wang Xinyu formulated a set of methods: let the military cadets describe the atrocities of the Qing army in a storytelling way, so that the soldiers could feel as if they were there, and they really felt sadness, anger and excitement.

In just half an hour, Zhang Jingting was sometimes grief-stricken, sometimes indignant, and sometimes angry in his heart. After listening to the lecture, I felt that my whole person had been integrated into it, and I couldn't wait to pick up a weapon and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy!

"Mr. Mo'an said it so well! It's just exciting! Zhang Jingting stepped forward and saluted.

Fan Xiang replied expressionlessly: "If Mr. Zhang had personally experienced the unjust case at that time, he would have understood my current mood!" (To be continued.) )