Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 352
Before Wang Yaozhi arrived in Yingtian, Wu Weiye was already sick, and the results of a series of compromises were also revealed. The Zhang family in Puzhou had an additional general merchant in Yangzhou, but the successor of Jiangnan Dao Yushi had not been decided yet, and The recruiting of the begging army is still stuck on the source of soldiers and salary and has not made any progress. So far Song Qingshu is still the commander-in-chief of Lianghuai tomorrow, and he is a thief.

In other people's eyes, he, Marshal Song, is probably impatient, but they don't know that this is Song Qingshu's deliberate action. Not to mention that many people in the begging army still hate Zhao'an, and it will take time to dilute it. If it is delayed for a day, it will be a day later for the court to order the begging army to fight east and west, and Song Qingshu will be delayed.

The Jiangnan Martial Arts Hall with Ruan Dacheng as the leader also opened its signboard under Zijin Mountain. Zhang Pu, who was refuted by Song Qingshu in Meilou that day, had nothing to say for a while, but he really gave the Lecture Hall some fame. Unfortunately, he and Ruan Dacheng's reputation is still not enough, most of the people who come here are those who follow the trend, but none of the truly talented people left their names in history.

At the end of September, Donglu, who had ravaged the Ming Dynasty for three or four months, had returned to Liaodong, guarding the devastated Gyeonggi area, and the bigwigs in the court were relieved. Soon, another exciting event happened. That's right, while the imperial court was busy dealing with the Eastern captives, Gao Yingxiang, the emperor of Guyuan Zhenlong, was defeated and captured.

In this space-time court without Sun Chuanting, Zheng Chongjian, who succeeded Shaanxi governor, blocked Gao Yingxiang in Heishuiyu. The 20 army was defeated in the narrow mountain road of Heishuiyu, and he brought his generals, sentinel Huang Long, and the marching commander. More than [-] people including Liu Zhe were captured together.

Different from the execution of Ling Chi who escorted the capital to death recorded in history, Gao Yingxiang and others were directly beheaded on the spot. It was not because Zheng Chongjian was so kind, but because northern Shaanxi was still fighting bloody battles with Li Zicheng's army. Hun Tianxing, Gao Yingxiang's younger brother Gao Yingen led the remnant army back to Hanzhong, the road to Gyeonggi was too unsafe, if Gao Yingxiang ran away again, the whole country would be shaken.

However, even if only his head reached the capital, it still greatly boosted the morale of the court army. Those who dared to proclaim themselves emperors still had no good end. For the title of governor, 1000 taels of silver will be rewarded.

Song Qingshu got the same news as the imperial court. He never expected that the old friends who met this year would not escape the catastrophe of fate. Few of the comrades who went out of Shanxi together with a brave spirit to seek a way out One, looking at the news, Song Qingshu couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief.

However, the most important thing at any time is to be alive, let yourself live, let the beggar army continue to live, after only sighing for a moment, Song Qingshu has already gathered the news into a ball and threw it into the fire, and immediately passed on the pile of capitals below He paused heavily on the table for his confidential letter, sandwiched it, and hurried out.

Qin Hui still has three friends, not to mention Ruan Dacheng, he really knows a few great scholars in Nanzhili, at least not so that the academy doesn't even have a teacher, and then he stares blankly, even bribes and cheats, and there are nearly a few in the martial arts hall. Fifty or sixty scholars, although less than one-tenth of the original plan, at least it will not make the academy empty and unpopular.

The academy is not far from Song Qingshu's house near Zijin Mountain. You don't even need a carriage. You can walk there in a few minutes. When Song Qingshu came, the academy was busy. Behind, more than 100 workers were burning cement with lime. About half of a small two-story building has been erected.

This place is the library of Song Qingshu. It swept from the north, and there are many ruined state capitals. There are also many ancient books pulled out from the hands of aristocratic families. Orphaned copies are also one of Song Qingshu's trump cards in attracting scholars. The biggest blow to ancient Chinese history books is the fire. Before transporting books from Anqing, Song Qingshu simply planned to build a building similar to the university library of later generations, all made of cement and lime. Watch how it burns!
In the front yard, in a traditional Chinese school, dozens of scholars of all ages and ages are studying with the master. Some poor scholars have torn robes full of patches, and some rich children are still dozing off on the table. , the good and the bad are mixed, which can be seen.

However, the time was urgent and he couldn't take care of it. When he entered the room, Song Qingshu directly interrupted the ongoing "Doctrine of the Mean" lecture.

"Distribute these! Each person writes ten copies, and then spreads them out as much as possible. Within a few days, there must be an uproar, and everyone knows!"

Even Ruan Dacheng's friend, a scholar has the dignity of a scholar. Yuan Hongdao, a great Confucian of the Taizhou School who was giving a lecture, immediately angrily knocked the ruler on Song Qingshu's shoulder.

"Teaching people a job, what a big deal, you are messing up the school, how decent it is, get the old man out immediately!"

There are really not many people who can get Song Qingshu out, but this old man is one of them. He is a student of Li Zhi, an extremely important leader in the Taizhou School. It's really not easy to invite him if he can't come here, anyway, he got the old guy here by tricking him, and Song Qingshu was in pain when he hit him all of a sudden, and he had to turn his head back and hug his fist sadly.

"Excuse me sir!"

"The former teacher, Mr. Li Zhi, hated empty talk the most. Although the class is suspended today, it will take a few days. The number of students speaking will increase by a hundred times and a thousand times, and the Taizhou School will be carried forward. I believe that even if Mr. Li is alive, he will still be smiling!"

"This!"

The Taizhou School is different from all the Confucian schools these days. Just like Li Zhi, his ideas are almost close to those of later generations. He criticized Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and even put forward the outrageous views that Confucius’ right and wrong should not be regarded as right and wrong. Economically, he advocated emphasizing business and promoting Utilitarianism, Li Zhi's teaching, doesn't stick to the status of students, young women, young workers, woodcutters, as long as they come to study, he will teach. It is said that it is the most in line with the interests of the beggar army, and it is also the most flexible school.

Inviting them to come to Song Qingshu was also a risk, seeing that Song Qingshu had said so, and even lifted his teacher out, even though his beard was still shaking with anger, the old man Yuan Hongdao had no choice but to throw the ruler angrily.

"The old man goes to study first!"

"Congratulations sir!"

This one managed to settle the old man, and the soldiers who followed him had almost issued the documents, but the scholars were always listless. Many people came here to seek officials. Originally, Taizhou A lot of the content of the school has nothing to do with the imperial examination, so they are not interested, and now they have to work for Song Qingshu, and they are even less interested.

However, in just a moment, the interest of these people was completely aroused. Song Qingshu has a trump card, money!
"20 taels of silver per person! Spend whatever you want! As long as you can spread the article in your hand, let everyone know the author of this article!"

Being an official for thousands of miles is only for money, let alone these poor scholars who are not yet able to become officials. One tael of silver is equivalent to more than 600 yuan in later generations, and 20 taels is more than 1 yuan. Who is not happy?
But after sending them out, looking at the empty school, Song Qingshu still shook his head in distress.

"There are too few people!"

It was really him who said what he wanted to do recently. While he was in distress, a laugh suddenly came from outside the door.

"Tsk tsk, this Jiangnan Lecture Hall is really magnificent, much better than our Dai County University Hall, Mr. Song, you are really giving preference to one another!"

Song Qingshu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly greeted him in disbelief, and greeted him outside with a smile, a somewhat sissy butcher, wasn't it Fu Shan Fu Qingzhu or who?

"Mr. Fu, why are you here?"

The voice was an octave higher, Song Qingshu yelled in surprise, raised an orchid finger, and Fu Shan joked with a smile: "Speaking of which, you are my nobleman of Fu Shan, and the next term of office has not yet expired. He has already been promoted to the prefect of Anqing, Marshal Song has the final say in Anqing City now, no, I will come to visit the pier first!"

"By the way, more than 200 students have been sent by the Daixian University to continue their studies here. Before I came, I was afraid that I would not be able to let go of this. It seems that there is no need to worry. Brother Song, you are too serious. It's booming, and there's only one student."

One?
Turning around wonderingly, Song Qingshu saw that there was a skinny guy still sleeping on the table, the article he gave was wet with his saliva, he smiled wryly and shook his head, Song Qingshu immediately stared in surprise Eyes rounded.

"Brother Fu, you said, you brought more than 200 students from Dai County College? Where is it? Song is in urgent need and needs their help!"

"Oh? It's in the Jinshang Guild!"

Looking at Song Qingshu's face is really urgent, Fu Shan stopped joking, and said seriously.

"Take me there!"

The carriage was speeding all the way again, and it arrived in less than a moment. More than 200 scholars arrived at Yingtian Mansion with great difficulty, and were immediately arrested by Song Qingshu as coolies. They are all business and industry children from Dai County, even if they study a lot, it is related to business and industry. Song Qingshu is like a business god in their hearts.

Under the oil lamp, these people were copying and reading, and many of them quickly finished copying and took the money out one after another, heading straight to the Qinhuai River. Not only the scholars, but also the merchants of the Shanxi Merchants Guild were arrested as coolies. , followed by looking at the article, under the oil lamp, looking at a few pieces of letterhead given by Song Qingshu, but Fu Shan's brows were almost frowned, and he muttered as he read.

"Being safe from the outside must be done first!"

(End of this chapter)