Ming Zuo

Chapter 87 Knowledge
"You all know?"

In the carriage, Bi Maokang's expression was very complicated.There was anger, disappointment, panic, and weirdness.

Zhang Jimeng knew that the teacher was a smart person, and there was no need to tell lies with smart people.

"Students prepare the way for Linqing soldiers, how can they not know?"

"Do you know what you're doing?"

In Bi Maokang's view, Zhang Jimeng was playing with fire.If you are not careful, you may be ruined.

Zhang Jimeng was also calm.

"This is the public wish."

The only people who can act according to their own ideas in the political arena are those at the top.The rest must obey orders within their own sphere of influence.

Bi Maokang was stunned.

He thought it was Zhang Jimeng who was daring, but he didn't think that there was someone else behind him.

Zhang Jimeng even said: "Didn't the teacher notice it? The prefect of Dongchang and the prefect of Linqing have deep meanings."

He didn't say, Bi Maokang really didn't think deeply.After he woke up, Bi Maokang realized that some people had unknowingly laid out such a meticulous plan.

In the political arena, it has always been a habit to look at things and not look at them.

Just because people go to high places, water flows to low places.

If you want to have more power, you must enter the center, and being a minister is the pinnacle of ministers.

Although Daming has a lot of consideration for local administration, the appointment and removal of several local officials is often really difficult to detect tricky.

But it was in this unknowing that the Donglin Party had already grasped the control of the important town of Linqing.And under the cover of several chief officials, a weak ambition is sprouting.

"All the dukes are gentlemen, and it is their duty to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, so how can they do such a treacherous act?"

Bi Maokang couldn't figure it out.

How come the old people in the past have changed after resigning and returning home for a few years?

Zhang Jimeng smiled bitterly, but did not avoid it.

"Teacher, I also thought that the new king would ascend to the throne, and everything would be refreshed. However, you can see all the disturbances in the court today. What is the difference between this day and the past?"

Without waiting for Bi Maokang to say anything, Zhang Jimeng sighed.

"When all the princes were in Linqing, the young man once said something like this. He said that it is not the character and ability of the emperor that determines what the emperor does, but the chair under the emperor's ass. Since ancient times, there has been no An emperor will give up the power in his hand, and there is no emperor who does not eat the flesh and blood of the world to fatten himself. Because the whole world is not the king's land. The emperor takes everything in this world as his own, and naturally asks and asks, how can he care Thousands of people wailing, the grass must be hard?"

Bi Maokang was quiet.

He closed his eyes, lost in thought.

After a long time, he suddenly asked, "The boy was talking about the world, not the imperial court?"

Zhang Jimeng recalled Zuo Menggeng's words and said: "He once said something. If you change your surname and change your name, it is called the collapse of the country. The benevolence and righteousness are full, and when people lead beasts to eat people, people will eat each other, which is called the destruction of the world. Knowing to protect the world and then Know to protect the country. To protect the country, the ruler and his ministers, and the meat eaters to seek it; to protect the world, the humble and responsible of every man.”

Hearing these words, Bi Maokang's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but slap the knot.

"Seriously speaking!"

Hearing the praise from Bi Maokang's mouth, Zhang Jimeng was greatly excited, and he quickly continued to talk about Zuo Menggeng's remarks.

"That young man once said that a country is different from a country. A country with one family name is not the same as a country with thousands of people in the world. One is that the king's private property is private, ignoring the common people's life; It is a country of ten thousand people, not a country of one family and one surname.”

Bi Maokang's blood boiled when he heard it.

Don't think Zuo Menggeng's words are out of line. In fact, many of his remarks were made by Ming people during this period.

During the period of great ideological change, many ideas and speeches fill society, and people are not surprised at that time.

However, in addition to Gu Yanwu's superficial judgment of the country's subjugation and the subjugation of the world, Zuo Menggeng made an additional interpretation of the country.

He distinguished the imperial court, which the feudal king regarded as private, from the state shared by all the people, and also sought rationality for his actions.

Bi Maokang thought of something again, and said worriedly: "The people of Donglin, who are good at words and light in practice, are not a chance to succeed. If you take this risk with him, I am afraid that you will not escape the same mistakes."

He thought of his teacher Li Tingji.

That's right, the old Miaozhuge who wrote the most resignations in history.

During the Wanli period, the Donglin Party wanted to push Li Sancai and Guo Zhengyu into the cabinet.

Li Tingji was thin-skinned, couldn't stand it, and just wanted to resign.I don't want to be driven by Wanli and have a bad relationship with Donglin.

As a result, Wanli refused, and Li Tingji moved to the temple in a fit of anger, doing nothing but writing his resignation.

In five years, he wrote a total of 123 resignations.

Wanli is also hard-hearted, but he does not approve.

In the end, Li Tingji completely collapsed, and on the charge of resisting the decree, he ran back to his hometown on his own accord.

What is rare is that he was not investigated by Wanli, and he was safe and sound.

When talking about the court situation with Bi Maokang, Li Tingji was full of complaints to the emperor and the Donglin Party.

In addition to what he has seen with his own eyes over the years, Bi Maokang also feels that the Donglin Party is first-rate in its rhetoric and habitual opposition, but there are few practical facts, so he has to remind Zhang Jimeng.

Zhang Jimeng laughed, but his words were hidden.

"This Donglin is not this Donglin, or, in other words, it's better to get a new Donglin."

An electric current stimulated Bi Maokang's hair to stand on end. He never thought that Zhang Jimeng and the others were so ambitious.

But if you taste it carefully, this move is a great good.

Donglin is already rotten, and holding this rotten tree again will not have any great achievements except to rot.

Why not start over?

"So you abandoned the center and focused on the local area?"

The center is a mud pond, and the emperor only plays tricks and has no big plans, so he can't do anything if he stays in the center.

During these days, Liu Zongzhou, Hou Xun and others exchanged letters with Linqing, all of them expressing their disappointment with the new emperor and the court.

Especially Liu Zongzhou, life is quite sad.

Let Zuo Menggeng speak.

Chongzhen put his memorial to the side after reading it, completely disregarding it.

When Liu Zongzhou was the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, in addition to rectifying and rectifying the security of the capital, Chongzhen ignored several discussions on the government.

This made him feel desolate, and faintly had the intention to go away.

At this point, everyone has discovered that if you leave the center aside and operate a corner in the local area, you can let go of your hands and feet.

Anyway, Daming was in a mess from south to north, and rebellion and chaos happened from time to time.The imperial court's control of the locality is not bad at the provincial level, but when it comes to the state capitals below, it is no longer a concern.

If during the Wanli period, three Donglin party members held the power of the Dongchang government, it would be unimaginable.

But now, just because the repair of Chaoguan Wharf was fast and good, and the supply to the capital was quickly restored, the imperial court turned a blind eye.

Perhaps those bigwigs in the center want to come, and the district magistrates, prefects and other small officials, if they want to make a decision, is it not a matter of words?
But don't think about it, as time goes by, these people will take root.If you want to move, it will not be so easy.

The most important thing is that the big bosses in the court never thought that behind a few low-level civilian officials, there is a temporarily inconspicuous military general.

Now several civil officials are covering Zuo Menggeng. With time, when Zuo Menggeng is strong enough, everything will be reversed.

When Bi Maokang returned to his residence, it was difficult for him to calm down for a long time.

The shocking scene of the new musket always reverberated in his mind, and the young man's ambitious appearance was also shocking.

But in the same way, the turbulent country made him gloomy.

He has a long life and a lot of experience.

It is precisely because of so much experience that I know more that Daming's problems are really difficult to return.

In the past, he hoped to help Daming defend against foreign enemies and internal troubles by creating better guns, but it was just a little extravagant hope under the powerless.

The Liaodong Ming army was equipped with so many firearms, but the result was still unable to quell the eastern captives, but instead retreated steadily.

Originally, he felt that firearms were not good enough, and wanted to continue to work hard in this area.That's why I'm so happy to learn that someone has made a flintlock gun.

It can be seen that there is a weapon more advanced than a flintlock gun, but the boy's words have wiped out all his last hopes.

No human being, no matter how good a weapon is, it is useless.

Tossing and turning in the middle of the night, sleepless on the other side.

Bi Maokang felt that he should find an answer.

An answer to solve this world, this common people, this country.

The next day, he got up early, did not disturb Zhang Jimeng, and went to the rear camp alone.

He didn't know if his actions were right or wrong, but when there was no other hope in sight, any faint light attracted him to pounce.

The barracks is getting closer and closer, and I can already feel the charm that is different from other places.

Lines of neat soldiers ran past the carriage at a uniform pace.

During the run, the officer who led the team suddenly shouted: "It's all there, get ready... sing!"

In an instant, all the soldiers sang loudly one after another, a never-before-seen tone swept Bi Maokang from all directions.

"I am a soldier...from the common people...the Yangtze and Yellow River raised me...to fight for the people...I am a soldier..."

Bi Maokang has never heard such a song, and the simple and straightforward lyrics are so inspiring.

An army singing such a song should have the people in its heart!

(End of this chapter)