Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Jiangnan Clan

"I wonder if Mr. Zhou can send craftsmen to help us build a cannon factory in Guangxi? Guangxi is too close to the thieves, we need a weapon in our hands to fight the thieves! Sun Yanling made a request.

"Since the general has made a request, the subordinate will definitely do it!" Zhou Peigong arched his hand.

Zhang Changgeng stroked his beard and smiled slightly: "General Sun, it costs a lot of silver to set up an artillery factory, do you have the silver to build a cannon factory in Guangxi?" ”

Kong Sizhen replied: "The matter of silver is wrapped in the slave family, and the slave family is going to go to Beijing to ask for military salaries for Guangxi." ”

The Huguang Arsenal founded by Zhou Peigong was greatly appreciated by Kong Sizhen.

Kong Sizhen looked at the handsome Zhou Peigong, and the more she looked at it, the more she committed nymphomania: This person is so handsome! Compared to my dog slave Fu Honglie, he is more than a hundred times more handsome. Compared with the old lady's waste husband, she is a thousand times more handsome! No, the old lady must find a way to get him!

Fu Honglie is Kong Sizhen's loyal lackey, and at the same time has some unclear relationship with Kong Sizhen. This person is known as the famous "Qing official" of the Qing Dynasty, who loves the people and has outstanding political achievements. During his stay in Guangxi, he resolved the ******** so that the people of all nationalities in Guangxi could live and work in peace and contentment.

Many of the comments were written by Zhao Erxun in the late Qing Dynasty. But who is Zhao Erxun? Speaking of his younger brother Zhao Erfeng, many people are familiar with him, the executioner who suppressed the road protection movement, after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Zhao Erfeng fought against the revolutionary army, and was later killed. And what about Zhao Erxun? When he was in Sichuan, he slaughtered the people of Sichuan, went to the northeast, and suppressed the Fengtian Revolutionary Party that responded to the Wuchang uprising. Later, because of bribing Zhang Zuolin, he escaped justice punishment. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Erxun was a famous widow who had a deep affection for the Qing Dynasty and was specially responsible for compiling the Qing Dynasty.

Just imagine, what kind of good goods will Fu Honglie, whom Zhao Erxun recognizes the most!

Everything can only be blamed on the incomplete Xinhai Revolution, so that the executioner of Zhao Erxun, who slaughtered revolutionaries, escaped the punishment of justice!

To get back to the point, after Kong Sizhen saw Zhou Peigong, in his mind, Zhou Peigong's status surpassed Fu Honglie. It's a pity that her husband is staring at the side, so Kong Sizhen has never had a chance to start.

"I've got to figure it out, there it is! After returning to Guangxi, I used the excuse to enter Beijing, didn't I have to pass through Huguang to go back and forth? At that time, I will be able to contact Mr. Zhou alone! Kong Sizhen secretly thought in her heart.

As for the excuse for entering Beijing, it is very easy to say that Kong Sizhen is a person cultivated by Bumu Butai, loyal to the royal family, and it is also appropriate to go to the capital if there is nothing to do. In addition to taking a fancy to Zhou Peigong's handsome appearance, Kong Sizhen also has a very important point, at present, Zhou Peigong is a person who worships, Kong Sizhen does not want Zhou Peigong to go further and further on the evil road, and wants to help the royal family pull talents like Zhou Peigong over, and finally let him assist the emperor.

Kong Sizhen is very confident in her appearance, believing that she will be able to succeed in sex and Zhou Peigong.

……

On the shore of the West Lake, a building is hidden between pines and firs, surrounded by high walls on three sides, and a two-story building in the courtyard, revealing the atmosphere of books in the tranquility.

"Should we continue to hide that incident?" Zhu Changzuo has been hesitant about the Ming history case.

If you stand up and expose this matter, isn't that tantamount to doing things for the Ming Court? But continuing to conceal it, Zhu Changzuo felt a little sorry for his conscience.

When he was captured, it was Wang Yu who personally untied himself and handed him cigarettes. Since he was captured for more than a year, the Ming army has not thrown himself into prison, let alone abused himself. Although he was under house arrest and lost his freedom, he was a prisoner and refused to surrender, so did he still want to come and go freely? Giving yourself freedom is equivalent to putting yourself back on the side of the Qing court, is this possible? Although he will punish himself when he goes back to the Qing court.

For more than a year under house arrest, Zhu Changzuo lived on the shores of West Lake, submerged in a small courtyard in a cedar forest, on a hillside near the Yuewang Temple, with a two-story building in the courtyard, and he could see the West Lake from his study. In the courtyard, there are Zhu Changzuo's own old servants serving him, and the housekeepers who take care of the courtyard are all retired Ming soldiers who have changed into civilian clothes. Except that he can't leave casually, Zhu Changzuo's life here is quite good.

The daily food fee is guaranteed, and Zhu Changzuo can not only eat 100 meters of white noodles every day, but also have meat every day. Living outside Hangzhou, the famous dishes of the Hangzhou Gang can also be guaranteed to be supplied every day, and the Ming Court did not let Zhu Changzuo be wronged.

Zhu Changzuo also fell in love with Nanyang Red Double Happiness, that thing can refresh the mind, when writing articles and reading books, draw one, and the unsmooth thinking will be unblocked immediately, what a magical effect it is!

As the saying goes, Li repays the peach, Zhang Huang treats himself well, and Zhu Changzuo should repay him.

Zhu Changzuo knew that Zhang Huangyan was investigating the Haining Cha family, and the informants of the Ming history case, Wu Zhirong and Lu Qi, had been arrested, and they would be severely punished. And Zha Jizuo, another informant in the Ming History case, was extremely cunning, and he didn't even let Zhang Huangyan find evidence of his informant.

In fact, Zha Jizuo is the first informant of the real Ming History Case, but for various reasons, he became his Wu Zhirong as the first informer, but Zha Jizuo made Shencha become a victim of the Ming History Case.

As for why Zha Jizuo was acquitted in the end, according to many people, Wu Liuqi saved Zha Jizuo in order to repay his kindness. But in fact, Zha Jizuo was a shameful informer, so the Qing court released him. Later, the Qing court divided the property of the Zhuang and Zhu families who were raided to Wu Zhirong, Zha Jizuo and Lu Qi.

In real history, Zha Jizuo obtained the property of the Zhuang and Zhu families. But in this time and space, because of the arrival of Wang Xinyu, the Ming army was powerful. Zha Jizuo, who had a keen sense of smell, feared that the Ming army would come at any time, so he refused the property assigned to him by the Qing court and dressed himself as a victim.

As for why Zha Jizuo betrayed his friend in the first place, it was because the knife of the Qing court was already on his head, and in order to save his life, he became a shameful informer.

Although Wang Xinyu's historical knowledge is not very good, he is still very clear about the affairs of Haining's Cha family. After the Ming army recovered Haining, Zhang Huangyan wanted to avenge the victims of the Ming history case, and Wang Xinyu proposed that Zha Jizuo might be a whistleblower, because of his whistleblowing behavior, so the Qing court gave him a part of the property of the Zhuang and Zhu families.

However, after investigation, Zhang Huangyan found that Cha Jizuo had never received a penny of property, and the property of the Zhuang and Zhu families was divided equally between Wu Zhirong and Lu Qi, two informants.

Because he didn't have the right number, Zhang Huangyan had no evidence to arrest Zha Jizuo.

When this news reached Wang Xinyu's ears, he was still wondering if he had remembered things wrongly, could it be that the historical knowledge he had learned before was wrong? Is Zha Jizuo really a victim as the later Jin Daxia said? But he didn't expect that because of the butterfly effect caused by himself, Zha Jizuo didn't dare to reveal his identity as an informant.

Later, through various investigations, Zhang Huangyan unanimously determined that it was Wu Liuqi who rescued Zha Jizuo in order to repay his kindness, and in the Ming History case, Zha Jizuo was also a victim.

It is precisely because Cha Jizuo is extremely cunning that whether it is the Qing court creating the Ming history case or the Ming court punishing the informant, this person has escaped punishment. But no matter how you say it, Cha Jizuo is the first whistleblower in the Ming history case, no matter how cunning he is, in the hands of Zhu Changzuo, he has the evidence of his guilt.

Zha Jizuo is treacherous and cunning, and he is good at seeing the wind and steering the rudder. Whistleblowing before hurt a lot of Jiangnan scholars. The Ming army fought back, and this person changed again and took refuge in the Ming court. Thinking of such a villain, Zhu Changzuo's heart was panicked. But Zhu Changzuo thought about it again, and comforted himself in his heart: Zha Jizuo is a scholar who is loyal to my Qing Dynasty! He also whistleblower to stabilize the rule of our Qing Dynasty. Since he is loyal to my Great Qing, how can you harm him?

But later, Zhu Changzuo regained his freedom, and not only that, Zhang Huangyan also allowed him to establish a academy!

In addition to teaching, teaching, and academic research for a group of students, the academy can also publish periodicals and newspapers. After Zhu Changzuo regained his freedom, he founded a academy with an elegant name, called Xizi Academy, and Zhu Changzuo also bought printing equipment and founded his own newspaper.

There are a lot of people who come to this academy every day, and many of them come for the name of the former governor.

The Xizi Academy is as lively as a vegetable market every day, and scholars can only speak here.

"There is freedom of speech here, there is no prison of words, and the reader can speak freely. But it doesn't work that way! Emperor Chongzhen was killed by you scholars! Because of this, after the Qing Dynasty came, he didn't want to be defeated by these scholars, so he used knives against them. Zhu Changzuo picked up his pen and wrote down the article he was going to publish.

Zhu Changzuo wrote: Scholars in Jiangnan always like to make waves, thinking that they can look down on the king with Confucius in their hearts! At that time, Emperor Chongzhen was defeated and destroyed the eunuch party, but he could not develop a new person to lead the factory guard to deal with these scholars, so that the Ming Dynasty was plagued by the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, and even the taxes could not be collected, so the northern refugees rebelled. After the Qing Dynasty got Jiangnan, it learned the lessons of the previous dynasty, and then started from the Jiangnan scholars.

However, the article was not published, and it was stuck when it arrived at Zhang Huangyan.

"Mr. Zhu, if such an article is issued, it will be drowned in the saliva of Jiangnan readers!" Zhang Huang said. In fact, by this time, Zhang Huangyan and many Jiangnan scholars realized that the Donglin Party had indeed harmed the Ming Dynasty. After killing the former dynasty, the butcher's knife of the Qing Dynasty fell on their necks.

Three days later, Zhang Huangyan came to Ningbo with this article written by Zhu Changzuo.

"Prince Wang, just take a look at this article! This Zhu Changzuo, in vain we treated him so kindly, he actually still has his Tartar puppet court in his heart! In the article, it is said that the Tartar court is better than our Ming Dynasty! Zhang Huangyan pointed to the article and said angrily.

Wang Xinyu picked up this article, read it carefully several times, and felt that what Zhu Changzuo said was very reasonable: What Mr. Zhu said is not unreasonable! At that time, the scholars in Jiangnan were all for their own selfish interests and blindly reduced the taxes in Jiangnan, and the first emperor could only collect more taxes in the barren north, which caused the displaced people to rebel. Their Jiangnan scholars saved so much silver for their families, and in the end they all cheapened the tartars for nothing!

But in this case, Wang Xinyu could only say it silently in his heart, and he didn't dare to say it to Zhang Huangyan publicly. After all, in this era, the energy of the Jiangnan Shi clan represented by the scholars is still very large, and the Ming army is inseparable from their support.

How to go in the future, Wang Xinyu naturally has his own ideas in his heart, for these Jiangnan scholars, of course, the Ming army can't follow the Qing court's knife and kill those elements who wavered in the middle, and there is no way to learn from the great men of later generations to carry out land reform in Jiangnan and fight local tyrants to divide the land.

How to take away the land of the Jiangnan Shi clan may only be to take the road of capital, so that they can see the benefits of capital and turn the land into capital to participate in investment.

At present, what Wang Xinyu is doing is to develop overseas and expand the territory, which is also a way to reduce the price of land in the south of the Yangtze River. Let more people go outside to develop, and the price of land in Jiangnan will naturally be reduced, which will invisibly reduce the wealth of the Jiangnan Shi clan, and gradually weaken them step by step.

At the same time, Wang Xinyu can also exchange all the silver in the hands of the Jiangnan Shi clan by manufacturing a large number of luxury goods such as glass products. Wait until enough shadows have been accumulated, and then start mass production with horsepower to reduce the price of luxury goods, which is also a way to invisibly deprive the Jiangnan Shi clan of their wealth.

Of course, if there is a vision, the Jiangnan Shi clan who refuse to hold on to the land may also become capitalists and complete the transformation, and they will not be eliminated by the times.

In the future, there will be large conglomerates that will gradually replace the Jiangnan Shi clan, but that is a matter of the distant future.

As for the imperial examination system, it will also be reformed in the future, and with the development of society, there is a need for talents from various aspects, especially in science and technology, and this is what will be done in the future.

"Master Zhang, in fact, this article can still be published if it is revised. In fact, what Mr. Zhu said is one thing, every mistake, is that people have selfish intentions. It was precisely because of the selfishness of the Jiangnan scholars that they paid less taxes to the court for their own selfish interests, what was the result? In the end, it's all cheaper! And the greedy Tartars engaged in the three major cases in Jiangnan, and in the end, the butcher knife still fell on their heads! Wang Xinyu pointed to the article and said with a sigh.

After all, Zhang Huangyan is not a pedantic old Confucian, he is still more reasonable, of course he understands that what happened in the late Ming Dynasty, many scholars in Jiangnan could not escape the involvement. So Zhang Huangyan replied: "Let's change this article, old man." ”

"It's still good for us to keep Zhu Changzuo, in fact, he can let us see our shortcomings. As for being drowned in the saliva of the reader, that is his business, not ours. Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

After Zhu Changzuo was revised, it was finally published in the newspaper.

"I didn't expect that Lord Wang and Lord Zhang were open-minded, and the old man explained that the court was not, they could let the old man go, and they could let the old man's article be published." Zhu Changzuo was very surprised by this ending.

"By the way, there's one thing, it's better to say it!" Zhu Changzuo finally made up his mind. (To be continued.) )