On the 26th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the two Ming armies met under the city of Wenzhou and completed the siege of Wenzhou City.

At this time, it was June 19 of the Gregorian calendar, and the weather in southern Zhejiang was already very hot, and the cotton armor could no longer be worn, and all the archers, musketeers and dragoons wearing cotton armor were replaced with rattan armor. The ironclad soldiers are still ironclad soldiers, although the ironclad is a little better to wear than the cotton armor on the body, but if you stand in the sun, wear the iron armor like an iron can, and wear a mask, it is also very unpleasant.

"It's so hot!" The Oroqen people recruited from the north were almost too hot to bear. In their time, they lived between black water and white mountains, and the highest temperature in summer was only more than 20 degrees.

In the south, the temperature in June can reach 356 degrees, but the most terrible thing is the humidity and heat, the humidity of the air in the south is high, and the humidity means that the heat contained is greater, which makes people feel as hot as in a steamer. It is also because of the humidity in the south, which is colder in winter than in the north, because the cold and humid air can absorb more heat.

In fact, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, located in the subtropical plateau, are the hottest places in summer, on the contrary, Fujian, Guangdong, Qiongzhou and even Southeast Asia do not have the summer heat in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Walking in the riverside woods of Jiangxinyu in Wenzhou, Wang Yuyou said: "Although there are not many Qing defenders in Wenzhou City, after all, it is a city where the Yamen of the former governor of the two provinces is located, and this city is still very strong. ”

"It's indeed taller and stronger than Ningbo City. Fortunately, there were not many defenders in the city. Wang Xinyu nodded and said.

The two walked and walked to the Wentianxiang Temple in Jiangxinyu. After Wen Tianxiang was captured for the first time, he found an opportunity to escape from the Yuan army, and he once hid in Jiangxinyu in Wenzhou. In order to commemorate Wen Tianxiang, the descendants established the Wen Tianxiang Temple in Jiangxinyu to commemorate this national hero.

Seeing Wen Tianxiang Temple, Wang Yuyou said: "There was Duke Wen back then, and there are Shi Gong and He Gong in the contemporary era!" ”

"Shi Kefa and He Tengjiao?" Wang Xinyu sneered, "Shi Kefa is better, it's just a little stupider, but what kind of thing is He Tengjiao!" ”

Wang Yuyou deliberately pretended to be surprised: "I don't know why the big man said this?" ”

"It was precisely because of Shi Kefa's so-called joint capture and extermination of the Kou that Hong Chengchou took the opportunity to play the banner of avenging the first emperor, and led the Tartars to occupy the north effortlessly! Join forces to exterminate the Kou? His pig's head really thought that the Tartar was for the revenge of the first emperor? Amusing! It's ridiculous! Wang Xinyu sneered.

In fact, to a certain extent, Wang Xinyu even had to "thank" the Qing court for entering the Central Plains and entering the south of the Yangtze River, it was precisely because the Qing army entered the customs and stole our Huaxia rivers and mountains that a group of so-called literati Qingliu was exposed.

If Wang Xinyu had come to this era for decades, not to mention his current achievements, it is estimated that the saliva of the scholars could drown him, and the recitals of civil officials could crush him to death.

It is true that this era is the darkest era in Chinese history, but it is not the worst era, precisely because those guys who are full of honesty and integrity, benevolence and morality on weekdays have either been killed or defected to the enemy. The Qing court killed He Tengjiao and others, but instead reduced the resistance to Wang Xinyu; As for those guys who defected to the enemy, they didn't need Wang Xinyu to bother, Zhang Huangyan and a group of other literati were eager to kill them.

In fact, the meaning of the great man's original words Wang Xinyu can indeed feel it after coming to this era, some literati have read more books, and they say everything to their own advantage, which can really be described as two official words.......

If you fight with those civil officials, you will definitely not be able to fight. If it came decades earlier, if you want to subvert the concepts of morality and etiquette in this era, it is really unthinkable, those Qingliu scribes, the kung fu in their mouths is more powerful than anyone else, and the political methods are more vicious than the other, even Emperor Chongzhen was fooled to death by them, and an ordinary person in later generations wants to fight those civil officials? That's just a dream.

But now it's different, after the Qing army came, the most hateful thing is not that they are aliens, in fact, people in this era have a very poor sense of identity with the nation, and the reason why the Qing court will be hated is that the most important thing is that they are easy to shave.

Wang Yuyou and Zhang Huangyan are both scholars, but they are unambiguous in national righteousness, and they are much better than those who have taken refuge in the Tartars.

Now Wang Xinyu is waving the two banners of national righteousness and anti-shaving and easy to obey, and he will be able to wipe out all those original scholars, completely overthrow the so-called benevolence, righteousness and morality of this era, and establish a new order.

In this era, industry and commerce are the most inferior, but the development of society and the progress of science and technology are inseparable from industrialization, and it is also inseparable from the activity of businessmen in the market. During the Ming Dynasty, those literati Qingliu said that merchants were the inferior, but they desperately tried to lower the commercial tax, and their own representatives were engaged in commerce. However, it was a comprador official businessman, because there was no competition in the monopoly, and there was no benefit at all except that it would harm the people and fool the court.

What Wang Xinyu wants is to fully open up the commercial market, so that those officials and businessmen have competitors. If he had come decades earlier, even if he had the ability to climb to Zhang Juzheng's position, he would have ended in failure, because the power of the civil officials and gentry was too strong.

Now most of the gentry have taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and for those people, they only need to speak with a knife.

"He Tengjiao is even more of a sinner who has misled the country, in order to maintain their integrity, in order to protect their reputation, and in order to have no stain on their reputation behind them, they can die generously. As for the mess after death, whoever cares about it will take care of it. Wang Xinyu said angrily.

Manchuria has a population of only one million, so why was it able to dominate the Central Plains? In fact, it was the Han people themselves who defeated themselves.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the East had fallen behind the West in many ways, but the Ming Dynasty had been catching up.

The wheel of history has entered this era, and the feudal system has fallen behind and needs to be replaced by more advanced capitalism. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, capitalism sprouted, and if it had not been for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to reverse the wheel of history, the Han people would have entered capitalism in the near future and caught up with the pace of history.

The productive forces determine the relations of production, and in the period when the relations of production need to change, it is also the period when the Han nation is the weakest, at this time, it needs to go through turmoil, after a series of wars and changes, and finally can be reborn from the ashes and catch up with Western civilization. It's a pity that the Manchus took advantage of the situation at this time, and they colluded with the most conservative gentry landlords among the Han people to establish a Manchu dynasty that made China far behind the West.

The backbone scholars were basically killed, and the spineless ones went to the Manchu rulers.

Therefore, Wang Xinyu even had to "thank" the Manchu rulers for helping him get rid of those opponents who hindered him politically, because he personally wielded a butcher's knife to kill those soft-boned scholars, and this "credit" could also be tied to the Manchu rulers. If it weren't for the shaved hair of the Manchu ruler, who wielded a butcher's knife to kill those scholars, wouldn't that put himself in a position opposed to the gentry of the world?

The Ming Dynasty had a high status of civil officials and a low status of military generals, just like the Song Dynasty. But in troubled times, the status of military generals is higher than that of civilian officials, and this era is who has a hard fist and who speaks loudly.

Leaving Jiangxinyu, crossing the Oujiang River, and coming to the barracks on the other side of the river.

"My lord, the prefect of the Tartars refuses to surrender." Li Rui came to report.

"As I thought, since he won't surrender, that's the best! After the city is broken, kill it! Whether it is the prefect or those gentry and scholars who took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, kill a group, and confiscate the rest of the property! Wang Xinyu sneered.

The refusal of the Qing court prefect and the gentry in the city to surrender was a good thing, so that Wang Xinyu would have an excuse to punish them, confiscate their family property, and make it his own. At present, the Ming army is mainly to cheer up the banner of opposing shaving hair and changing clothes to gain support, in this era, most of the Han people are not willing to shave their hair and change clothes, and those who have taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty are actually standing on the opposite side of most Han people.

Although the Manchu rulers used butcher knives to kill the blood of the Han people, in just a dozen years, they still could not completely eliminate the hatred and identification with the mantle of their ancestors. At this time, it was not like the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was slandered by most Han people as long hair, because after two hundred years of rule, the later Han people instead recognized braids.

Outside the city of Wenzhou, because of the failure of persuasion, the Ming army was in full swing preparing to attack the city.

After all, Wenzhou is a fortified city where the governor's yamen is located, and Wang Xinyu still has to be fully prepared to attack this strong city.

Wenzhou City has Zhenhai Gate, Ruian Gate, Yongning Gate, Laifu Gate, Ying'en Gate, Yongqing Gate, Wangjiang Gate and other seven city gates, and this city also has Songtai Mountain, Huagai Mountain, Haitan Mountain, Jigu Mountain, Guogong Mountain and other five mountains and the city wall rely on each other, constitute a natural line of defense.

The natural mountain and the city wall rely on each other, plus the city gate, forming a natural water chestnut, attacking one city wall, will be hit by fire from three sides. In particular, those mountains that rely on each other with the city wall are natural caves and natural barriers.

"Fortunately, there are not many Tartar defenders in Wenzhou City! Otherwise, it would be more difficult to attack this city than the big cities of Guangzhou and Hangzhou! Second only to Nanjing, Beijing, Wuchang and Xiangyang, which are the world's strongest cities! Looking at the layout of the Wenzhou city wall, Wang Xinyu couldn't help but gasp.

"There is no city in the city, and there is no Eight Banners, they are all Han people who are desperate to give their lives to the Tartars." Chen Yonghua of the Heaven and Earth Society reported on the situation in the city.

"Those who betrayed their ancestors and worked hard for the Tartars are the most hateful!" Wang Xinyu said. (To be continued.) )