Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 263 Invitation to the Grassland
Song Qingshu doesn't want both psychology and philosophy, and even Confucianism Song Qingshu is somewhat repulsive. Confucianism emphasizes agriculture and suppresses business. The main supporters in his plan in the future are the bourgeoisie. What is needed is the pioneering spirit of forging ahead and overcoming obstacles. Even his parents are not far away, so what kind of a fart is he playing?

This Dai County University Hall is now an attempt by Song Qingshu. He wants to follow the example of Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and other Westernization Schools in the late Qing Dynasty, and make a bold attempt. The ancient oriental continent brings some fresh breath.

Of course, there are still too many differences in this era compared with the Westernization Movement. First of all, the bourgeois industrial revolution in the West has only just revealed a clue, unlike the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Western strong ships and guns were all imminent. However, there are not many nutrients and advanced experience that can be absorbed. At the same time, it is extremely difficult to transform the agricultural dynasty of Ming Dynasty into mercantilism.

However, this era is also full of variables and opportunities. The East has not been completely thrown off by the West in terms of technology and culture. What if it succeeds?

Song Qingshu's world map is hung in the main hall of Dai County University Hall, and the courses on weekdays are still based on the five classics left by Li Jiantai. After all, many people still rush to the imperial examination, only after two o'clock in the afternoon , the main class was over, Song Qingshu and Tang Ruowang brought some western books they had translated, and told these students some things that happened in the west in the form of interest classes, such as the spread of Christianity, the collapse of the Roman Empire, and the British and French The Hundred Years' War, the Protestant Reformation, Joan of Arc, etc.

After distributing some history books brought by Tang Ruowang from Italy, Song Qingshu also assigned a big topic, asking his students to find out why such a powerful slavery Roman Empire could suddenly collapse in just a few decades. It fell apart immediately?

The purpose of Song Qing's bibliography is not so simple. The same great empire, the Ming Dynasty is not in this period of great collapse. Even if Chinese scholars are inspired by the study of the mind, they are bound by the rules of Taoism. Song Qingshu What I hope is to see if these students can let go of their arrogance, let go of the fierce political struggle at the top, and really bet on the economy, climate, population, society and other aspects that they didn't want to see and ignored.

With this purpose in mind, Song Qingshu forced himself to attend lectures and take notes when he had nothing to do, and also started to study and prepare lessons.

In the morning, he inspected the workshops and inspected the training of the begging army. In the afternoon, he took time to come to the university hall. The sixth year of Chongzhen began, and Song Qingshu was busy like a spinning top, running continuously, but this life was solid and abundant.

In the blink of an eye, the first few months of spring have passed.

This begging army is booming, but the general situation in the world has become less optimistic.

Since Hong Chengchou became the governor of the three sides, he changed the appeasement policy of his predecessor Yang He and turned to drastically suppress the peasant uprising. Since July last year, almost all the Gansu-Shaanxi frontier troops have been mobilized. In the Huanxian area, bloody massacres were carried out on more than a dozen battalions, large and small, under the leader of the West Road Peasant Army, Shen Yikui. Killed, in September, the rebel base in Gansu, Jiejiaocheng, was breached. After Shen Yikui's death, Hao Linyi, the leader of the rebel army who inherited the position, was killed successively, and he shined in the suppression of the peasant army. At this time, Bai Guangen, a professional traitor of the army, Nanming, and Manchu Qing, also formally joined the army.

At the end of last month, Qiu Ming, who had gone out to fight with Shanxi General Xu Dingguo for almost a year, finally came back, because the activities of the Mongolian tribes in the north seem to be very unusual recently, and the reinforcements from Shaanxi have also arrived, so they are not needed Local frontiersman, however, this is not good news.

In front of Song Qingshu was a letter that was written in a very hasty handwriting and was written in a hurry. The letter was written by the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying.

Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of Lintao, led Cao Bianjiao, Zhang Yingcang and others to leave Tongguan and head straight for Puzhou, where the uprising army was active. On the other hand, the Beijing camp sent [-] troops, and Tongzhou had [-] troops. Zhou Yuji, who was supposed to lead the team as a guerrilla in the Beijing camp, was hidden behind Song Qingshu's buttocks, but a more difficult figure than Zhou Yuji came out. Lu Xiangsheng!

Now the three-way army has formed a semi-encirclement, besieging the main force of the Shanxi rebels on the edge of the Yellow River near Luzhou in the south of Shanxi. Even Cao Cao and Luo Rucai can't stand on the Shanxi-Shanxi border. After being beaten back, this spring, the rebel army crossed the Taihang Mountains and tried to enter the North China Plain. The war also encountered setbacks.

However, the plight of the rebel army is not the main content of the old reply. The most important one is that King Zijinliang is seriously ill for himself!

Since the king of heaven, Wang Jiayin, lost his head in a daze, Zijinliang had inherited the position of leader of the rebel army, but it was also because Wang Jiayin's department was severely injured, and the prime minister of the right, Bai Yuzhu, even defected to the official army. Gotta loosen up.

Fortunately, Wang Ziyong is different from Wang Jiayin. He can be regarded as a man with a public heart and a wrist. He played a great role in reconciling the internal contradictions of the rebel army. He had received a letter of persuasion from Wang Ziyong's mediation, and with him around, the rebel army could hold together as a group, but now, such a character, at such a crucial point, is actually seriously ill.

For the rebels, this was like adding insult to injury.

There are heavy troops in the north, and the river is contained in the south, but there is a problem with the leader's relief. If he didn't know the direction of the rebel army in the future, even Song Qingshu would feel a little hopeless. The main meaning of the old letter is to invite Song Qingshu to rush to Luzhou Go, once Zijinliang dies, they Gezuo Fifth Battalion are willing to recommend Song Qingshu as the next leader of the rebel army.

Outside, you could hear the sewing machines of the leather shoe factory rattling the leather. Looking at this letter, Song Qingshu couldn't help becoming more and more upset.

The leader of the rebel army looked at the scenery, but almost none of them had a good end. First, Baishuiwang Er, then Shenyiyuanshenyikui brothers, Tianwang Wang Jiayin, and after that, Zijin Liangwang died of illness for his own use. Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang was escorted to the capital to be hacked to death. In history, Li Zicheng was beaten by Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Zheng Chongjian and other ruthless people. After the beating, he fled into Shangluo Mountain in embarrassment by eighteen riders. Unexplainably lost the world, died inexplicably at the foot of Jiugong Mountain.

Zhang Xianzhong's death was even more bizarre. He came out to investigate the military situation under the protection of thousands of troops, and was shot dead by a small leader of the Qing army, so Song Qingshu didn't think about this hapless leader at all.

The problem is that the situation of the rebel army is really precarious now. If they don't take action, can they survive the seven years of Chongzhen?If they can't make it through, they will become a thorn in the court's side sooner or later in Dai County.

In history, the peasant army has survived this first crisis. Song Qingshu doesn't know how it survived, because the records in history are too complicated. The best way is to let them fend for themselves and keep themselves safe. Guarding Dai County, waiting for the rebel army to elect a new leader, and then wandering around the world at the Xingyang Conference, completely disrupting the Ming Dynasty's arrangement.

But, now that I am a variable, if these bastards don't make it through, wouldn't I be in a tragedy?But if you want to go south, what will this county do?threw?Now many people under my command have taken root in Dai County. If I want to give up Dai County, I'm afraid it's easy for my subordinates to grasp and not understand.

Holding the letter, Song Qingshu went back and forth in circles in his factory office by the Hutuo River, struggling violently.

It is said that blessings come without pairs, and misfortunes never come singly. At this time, Shi Tianfu, the unlucky ghost, broke into Song Qingshu's office sweating profusely.

"Master! Something is wrong!"

"what happened again?"

Once Shi Tianfu comes, nothing good will happen!Seeing his ugly face, Song Qingshu, who was already troubled, spread his hands and feet and asked helplessly. His face was suffering, but it was more painful than his, which made Shi Tianfu rub his face embarrassingly. Chubby face.

"Dong Cao's family was detained by the Mongols during their trip to Mongolia!"

"what?"

I couldn't sit still anymore, Song Qingshu jumped up in astonishment.

Although the Mongols are plundering, they are extremely lenient towards merchants. There is no other reason. Most of Mongolia’s daily necessities are produced in the Han. If the merchants are killed, the Mongols themselves will starve, so A big businessman like Cao Sanxi who often travels to the grassland will receive courtesy and be treated as a nobleman in all ministries.

The detaining of businessmen often signifies that another major turmoil and disaster is about to occur in Mongolia, perhaps going south to fight a big battle with Ming.

Selling the tea bought from the south, the local light industrial products, and the leather of cows and horses, the income is almost 20 taels a month. The leather clothes and shoes in Dai County are all from Mongolian tribes. Misfortunes never come singly for the raw materials purchased. If something happened to the Mongolian side, the light industry base that he had just started would be dealt a heavy blow. Song Qingshu, who was listening, slammed his fist on the table in a dark and heavy manner.

Seeing Song Qingshu get angry, after being cautious for a long time, Shi Tianfu squeezed out the second half of the matter.

"The commander-in-chief, then, the Mongolian Tartar official who reported the letter also left a message, wanting to invite you to sit in their Khan Palace and discuss business, so let the shopkeeper Cao go!"

(End of this chapter)