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The Storm of the Late Ming Dynasty 5200 Volume 2 Chapter 677: Zhongshan turns yellow due to storm (1)

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    wJinling City became lively in a short period of time.

    This ancient capital has been shrouded in a certain uneasy haze over the years. It was not until five days ago, when Yu Guozhen led the Chinese army into it, that this haze dissipated - there was no legendary street fighting, not even  One man committed suicide and died for the Ming Dynasty.  After the reunification plan was promulgated five years ago, everyone was prepared for this moment, so when this day came, what needed to be done had already been done.

    Huang Zongxi walked angrily down the long street. In order to show his disgust towards Yu Guozhen, he even refused to take a tricycle, which could have greatly saved his leg strength.  It seems that with this choice, like the two Yin and Shang princes who starved to death without eating Zhou Su, their integrity will be passed down through the ages.

    But he knew that if he did nothing, his integrity would never be passed down through the ages.

    Among the crowd behind him, there was no doubt a spy sent by Yu Guozhen. Huang Zongxi knew that Yu Guozhen had such an organization, just like the Ming Dynasty had factory guards.  It's just that Yu Guozhen's spies only have the power of reconnaissance, but they don't have the power of arresting people - only the Si Ji Station has this power.

    "Yu Guozhen is really smart. Compared with the single-minded thieves in ancient times, he is even more evil. He actually knows how to decentralize and restrict power But it is natural that the person who restricts the imperial power should be the prime minister of the scholar-bureaucrats, who should support the wise king with virtuous ministers and direct the emperor.  Serving the emperor, this is the principle of balance. A good emperor doesn't have to worry about anything. He only needs to stay in his harem and be responsible for raising children. Major national affairs are left to the scholar-bureaucrats"

    Others think that the conflict between Huang Zongxi and Yu Guozhen is that Yu Guozhen despises Donglin, and Huang Zongxian's father is one of the Six Gentlemen of Donglin.  Only Huang Zongxi himself knows.  The fundamental reason for my hostility to Yu Guozhen lies in their different political philosophies.

    Yu Guozhen was unwilling to hand over power to the scholars represented by Dong Lin, and Huang Zongxi already had the idea of ??"not being an emperor" at this time: he believed that the emperor was the source of all evil in the world, and he used the wealth of men and women in the world for his own pleasure. In fact,  It has no existence value.

    "You have to do something, but before that, you have to shake the tail behind you." Huang Zongxi thought.

    He walked along the street.  Seeing the markets on both sides starting to be decorated with lights, I felt even more unhappy.  These are all prepared for Yu Guozhen's enthronement ceremony five days later. It is said that it will be very lively then.  In the past two days, people and materials have been shipped from Shanghai ship after ship.  The world has not yet been settled, and the trend of extravagance and extravagance has arisen. Yu Guozhen is indeed a man of great talent and strategy.  But after all, he could not escape from the circle of emperors.

    When he came to a shop selling ready-made clothes, Huang Zongxi pretended to be checking the clothing materials, and used the full-length mirror in the store to observe the "tail" behind him, and found that several suspicious characters passed directly by without stopping.

    "It's cunning. Yu Guozhen is called a fish spirit. That's right. Even the shrimp soldiers and crab generals below are like this!"

    Huang Zongxi did not take it lightly because he had never seen the follower. He asked the shop owner.  He just complained that he was feeling anxious in his abdomen and asked for help in the hut.  The owner of the shop was very enthusiastic. Not only did he take him through the back door, he also led him to the latrine, but this latrine was extraordinary.  It is a flush squatting pit built according to the Xixiang style.

    "Hey, has a flushing pit been built here?" This was beyond Huang Zongxi's expectation, and he couldn't help but ask.

    "That's natural. Everyone says that since Commander-in-Chief Yu has taken over the world, our Jinling is still the best place. If it makes such a stink spread to the sky, I'm afraid the new court will not like it." The shop owner laughed: "  It needs to be changed anyway, and it is better to change it sooner rather than later, lest there will be a swarm of swarms of people trying to renovate the huts, and the labor costs will increase. A hut of this style cannot be built by a small mason"

    He rambled on about a story about a hut, which made Huang Zongxi almost constipated, because he came here to take the opportunity to slip away, not to admire the hut, but the boss was guarding the door of the hut, how could he escape?

    "I heard that Xinxiang uses tap water and uses galvanized iron pipes to deliver water. I think Commander Yu has secured his position. We in Jinling also need to change to this kind of tap water. Gee, I don't know where the water comes from. It's not like  Now I have to put a bucket and a ladle in the hut"

    "Well, boss, why don't you go to the front and look at the business?" Huang Zongxi said with a bitter face.

    "No need, there won't be any business today. Everyone is busy preparing for the enthronement ceremony in five days. It is said that all countries are coming to the court, and even the Bo Ni country in the South China Sea has envoys coming."

    This boss was too talkative, so Huang Zongxi had to say: "Boss, I feel weird when you are in front of me. It's really it's really inconvenient."

    "Oh, I forgot about this. Sir, you look like a gentleman who studies. The eating, drinking and eating of scholars is different from rough people like us, hahahaha"

    Hearing the boss's kind ridicule, Huang Zongxi felt a little unhappy and couldn't help but stabbed: "You just said about Yu Guozhen, aren't you afraid that someone will report you to the official and say that you are good at speaking out about the country?"

    "Now it's not the Ming Dynasty that doesn't talk about national affairs, it's China now, China!"

    The issue of the new national title has caused a lot of controversy in various places. This is also one of the issues that Huang Zongxi is dissatisfied with Yu Guozhen.  Yu Guozhen vetoed all the country names that were determined by the learned Confucians and the classics, such as "Great Chu" and "Great Tang". Chu was used as the country's name because the Yu State was revitalized in the south, and Tang was used as the country's name because Ming Dynasty was a fire virtue.  Water instead of fire should be Tang Yao's surname.  He named the country "Huaxia". At first, people were a little uncomfortable with the two-character country name, but now, even the people who have just entered the land under the rule of Huaxia can pronounce this name very smoothly.

    "What's wrong with China? Since ancient times, emperors have always changed the soup without changing the medicine."

    "Of course it's different. I have been to Shanghai. The people there talk about national affairs without any taboos, and the government never cares about it."

    It must be admitted that under Yu Guozhen¡¯s rule, considerable freedom of speech was given.  Ordinary people are not only not prohibited from talking about national affairs in private, but are sometimes deliberately guided in newspapers.  From this point of view, Yu Guozhen's "China" was much more open-minded than the Ming Dynasty, but Huang Zongxi was still dissatisfied: only Confucian scholars should be allowed to discuss the affairs of the country.  It should be the Qingliu like them who originally united around Nandu Weekend. As for the small shop owners, it is already a great grace for their children to go to school. Why do they still want to talk about national affairs?

    But there was no way he could say this to the shop owner face to face.

    "Over there in Shanghai, I heard an interesting statement. Some people in the Confucian community said that only wise men can discuss state affairs. Most important events in the world cannot be discussed by mediocre people, and they claim to be public-minded. Therefore.  It is true that they claim to be 'public wisdom'. However, some people say that they have controlled the power of the court in recent years and colluded with the top and bottom to deceive the emperor and harm the people. This is not a public wisdom at all. They are public hemorrhoids - the hemorrhoids of father-in-law"

    "Shut up!"

    "Ah, haha, I made a mistake, haha" When the shop owner heard that Huang Zongxi was angry in the hut, he immediately understood that this gentleman was probably a member of the public wisdom, and couldn't help but smile awkwardly. He was just the owner of a small shop.  , there is no need to compete with others over such things, just watch indifferently.  So he complained and finally ran to the shop.

    Huang Zongxi squatted on the squatting pit, closed his eyes and exhaled in pain - after squatting for a long time, his hemorrhoids were really aggravated.

    He has heard this kind of ridicule before, and the person who brought this ridicule is no one else.  It was Xia Yunyi.  Xia Yunyi heard it from Yan Yingyuan again, and Yan Yingyuan said that the first person to evaluate Qingliu like them as "public hemorrhoids" was none other than Chongzhen.

    Chongzhen now puts all his hatred of losing his country on the scholars, and on Yu Guozhen.  He could see clearly: Yu Guozhen had nothing against him at all. On the contrary, he was suspicious of Yu Guozhen step by step.  Now that he thought about it, the reason why he was suspicious of Yu Guozhen in the first place seemed to have a lot to do with the Confucian scholars in the court.

    "The people's hearts, the people's hearts, Yu Guozhen is good at deceiving the people. These fools have no idea that the temporary benefits of a single-minded thieves are to be exchanged for two hundred years of being slaves and maids At this point, only more drastic measures can be used to win the victory.  Arouse the people's hearts and let them see through the true face of Yu Guozhen, who pretends to be a benevolent monarch but is actually a solitary husband!"

    Huang Zongxi thought so in his heart.

    He left the clothing store through the back door behind the hut, thinking that the tails of those who followed him had been thrown away, so he quickly walked through the streets and alleys. After doing this three times in a row, he arrived at the river, and then he made a move  Take a small boat and let it take you to the old courtyard.

    The old courtyard is more lively than in the past. Because of Yu Guozhen's enthronement ceremony, many people from all over the world came to watch the ceremony and congratulate him. The largest number of them were members of Yu Guozhen's China Military Strategy Commission.  Huang Zongxi wore a leather hat and half-hided his face. When he saw those high-spirited members of the Chinese Military Strategy Commission, he felt disgusted in his heart.

    The power of the world is actually in the hands of these people, in the hands of these people who cannot recite poems, write lyrics, and are not familiar with Confucian classics!

    Huang Zongxi can tolerate this, but the most intolerable thing is that in this feast of dividing power, Dong Lin, whom he respects the most, is just a spectator!

    He naturally has his own sources of information and knows how Yu Guozhen will arrange the original small court in Jinling after he ascends the throne.  Qian Qianyi, Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying, etc. will all be honored, that is, they will be given a nice name, but without any real power, and a corresponding salary will be provided every year. It is said that this honoring institution is called "Ming History Compilation Institute", and the rest are large and small.  Officials will receive an amount equivalent to that of the past?? years' salary, and then sent back to his hometown.

    Based on Huang Zongxi¡¯s understanding of Yu Guozhen, it is not easy to get the salary for the past three years. If the audit team sent by Yu Guozhen finds corruption, he is afraid that the stolen goods will be recovered.  Therefore, many officials are now desperately selling antique jewelry, hoping to fill the deficit before the audit team arrives.

    Calculating this, Yu Guozhen¡¯s business of sending officials back to their hometowns with three years¡¯ salary would not only not make a loss, but he might even make a small profit.

    Of course, Yu Guozhen will not reject all those who are interested in continuing to serve as officials. For those who are younger and willing to learn new things, Yu Guozhen will enroll them in the so-called "reserve official training class" for training and then take up positions.

    Huang Zongxi could tell at a glance that Yu Guozhen was splitting up and delaying time. This training class claimed that he could study for three years with pay and for free. After three years, they would appoint positions based on their performance. However, based on Huang Zongxi's understanding of Yu Guozhen, he was afraid that the final one would be appointed.  There are also some less important deputy positions, and they even go to the local chronicle compilation departments in various places to compile local chronicles!

    In short, Yu Guozhen is too cunning and must use some drastic means to awaken the world's scholars!

    Thinking of this, Huang Zongxi finally made up his mind.  (To be continued) m

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