The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Jiao Hong nodded and said: "Jianyang's "Methodology of Exegesis" is about to be published, right? Although this book is for primary school students, its content is inextricably linked to archeology. I can write a preface for Jianyang. , just use your method. I will write an article about the actions of the historians of the past dynasties and the reasons for their actions. The title is "Archaeological Excerpts". How about attaching it to your new book? "

"Sir, it's decided!" Wang Wenlong said happily.

Jiao Hong was the most famous historian at this time, and this preface was probably the first time someone in the Ming Dynasty did research in this direction. If this article appeared in his new book, most of the book and the narrative would be included in the history books. Famous.

Because the "Lecture Notes on Text Dating" printed by the Imperial Academy was only sold on a small scale, Wang Wenlong planned to put "Methodology of Exegesis" and "Lecture Notes on Text Dating" together in this publication, and also added some textual textual research. Research content, intends to completely secure the position of the founder of the textual criticism school.

Jiao Hong also started writing the preface on archaeological history on the way.

There was a lot to write, and they only had half a month on the road. Originally, the two of them felt that there was not enough time to write. Most likely they would have to be busy for a while after returning to Nanjing before they could finish the manuscript. However, the situation changed as soon as they arrived in Kaifeng, because The river was blocked. To be precise, the Yellow River burst its banks and the entire water transport route was blocked.

If the main theme of Ming Dynasty weather in the first two years was drought, then the situation was reversed in the 32nd year of Wanli. This year there was so much rain that it caused disasters.

Starting from the end of June, a flood first occurred in Changping, the capital. The flood directly washed away the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum outside the capital. The drainage facilities in Changling, Tailing, Kangling, and Zhaoling were all washed away. Most of them had already accumulated water. Later, the floods gave birth to insect plagues, which ate up all the trees near Huangling.

In July, the floods became more severe. The city walls near Zhengyang Gate and Chongwen Gate of the capital collapsed by more than 70 feet. A large number of residents were affected by the floods. The floods extended to Yongping Mansion, and even the area where dignitaries lived in the north of the city suffered from waterlogging.

In other words, the drainage facilities in the Forbidden City were better built, otherwise Emperor Wanli would have had to wade through the water to go to work.

Floods are also raging in the south.

The dredging and siege of the Yahe River worked overtime, and it was actually completed before autumn. Cao Shipin, the minister of the river governor, made outstanding contributions. However, he had just been praised by Emperor Wanli, and a natural disaster hit the project just after it was completed.

The Yellow River broke out at Sujiazhuang and flooded Fengxian and Peixian counties first. After that, the Yellow River water had no way to divert it, so it poured back and flowed to Jining, Shandong Province.

Immediately after the incident, he launched an attack on the Ba River project: Li Hualong said that digging the Ba River could solve the water transportation problem of the Yellow River. This year, all the money for Yellow River control was spent on digging the Ba River. As a result, the Yellow River burst its banks, and Li Hualong was responsible for this.

This is really just for the sake of scolding. There has been too much rain in the entire Ming Dynasty this year, and everywhere from South Zhili to the capital has been affected. Under this amount of rainfall, even if the Ba River is not excavated this year, the Yellow River will probably burst its banks. In fact, the excavation of the Yahe River preserved a channel for grain transportation after the Yellow River burst its banks, and it also assumed part of the responsibility for diversion of the Yellow River.

Otherwise, it would not be just Henan and Shandong that would be flooded by the Yellow River bursting its banks this time.

However, the court officials would not listen to so many reasons. Li Hualong was scolded so miserably that he had no choice but to go to Shu to judge for himself. The same was true for Cao Shipin, who was actually in charge of the project. He worked hard to complete the project before the autumn harvest and turned around just after being praised. After being criticized, the entire Yahe project was belittled as a waste of money. Cao Shipin could only express aggrievedly to Shangshu that "the Yahe project can be trusted."

The courtiers began to line up, attack each other and quarreled.

But soon their attention was diverted because a bigger mess occurred.

Robbery case.

Do you remember the case of the fake King of Chu last year? The King of Chu, Zhu Huakui, promised to send Emperor Wanli 20,000 taels of silver "to help with the palace work." In exchange for this, Emperor Wanli took sides in the case and saved Zhu Huakui's throne as King of Chu. In September of the 32nd year of Wanli, Zhu Huakui finally collected the money and began to transport it to the capital. The King of Chu's clan, who were dissatisfied with the court's handling of the case of the fake King of Chu, entangled hundreds of people and stopped Zhu Huakui's money in Hanyang.

The clan members said that this was the property of the Chu clan, and Zhu Huakui's identity had not yet been determined, so he had no right to touch the money.

Zhu Huakui did not directly conflict with these clans. He decisively chose to report to the officials, and the Hanyang magistrate arrested more than 30 clans who took the lead in the robbery.

This incident was not a big deal at first, but everyone including Zhu Huakui underestimated the degree of rebelliousness of this group of Chu royal family members.

The Ming Dynasty has been raising clans for two hundred years, and all of these clans have high standards. The Chu clan even dared to steal the money given to the emperor. How could they take a small general judge seriously?
More than thirty young clan members were arrested, and their fathers and brothers led the clan directly to attack the palace, hoping to take back the arrested clan members, and by the way, they also wanted to take back the twenty thousand taels of silver.

Soon, this group of people drove away the local general magistrate. Zhou Yingzhi, the deputy envoy of the military patrol, came with the guardsmen to suppress them, but they could not be defeated. In the end, it was Huguang Governor Zhao Kehuai who led the Futai soldiers to suppress them.

However, Zhao Kehuai did not dare to be too harsh on this group of Ming clan members.

When interrogating Fan Zong, Zhao Kehuai not only did not dare to let anyone kneel down, but also asked the yamen servant to loosen his shackles, walked down the hall, and asked in a gentle and pleasant manner.

Master Zhao also thought that such an attitude would prevent the clan members from being angry. He probably didn't expect that he would have already touched the wrong scale if he dared to arrest them.

Just when Zhao Kehuai walked down the hall to ask questions, Zhu Yunqian and Zhu Yunxiang in the clan suddenly broke their shackles. Zhao Kehuai was frightened and had no time to run away. He was knocked over by the two men with wooden yoke. Continue to rush forward and beat Zhao Kehuai.

The wooden shackles used in the yamen were made of hard debris and weighed at least three to five kilograms. These clan members were so proud of themselves that they did not strike lightly. They beat Zhao Kehuai with all his strength and even hit him on the head.

Unfortunately, Zhao Kehuai, the Minister of the Ministry of War, the right deputy censor of the capital, and the governor of Huguang, were smashed to death in a short time.

Don't think that the clan members will be afraid after beating the governor to death. The actual situation is that they are still unafraid and go out to report the news to their father and brother.

The older generation of the Chu clan was even more ridiculous. When they heard that their disciples had killed the governor, they refused to do anything. They gathered more than 3,000 people and broke into the palace with weapons. They first robbed the 20,000 taels of silver and then began to take revenge. Officials who dared to arrest the clan officials, the deputy envoys Zhou Yingzhi and Dou Zicheng who had participated in the arrest, were seriously injured. These clan members also cut Zhao Kehuai's body into pieces, and sent people to search for Zhao Kehuai's family members, intending to kill them one by one.

Zhao Kehuai's family members were all in his hometown, but the only son Zhao Kehuai had with him also disappeared. He was probably killed in a random killing.

After destroying the governor's office, this group of clans rushed out and directly besieged the chief secretary's office, which was in charge of the feudal dynasty. They planned to rob the treasury. However, they could not break into the chief secretary's office, so they looted wantonly in the city.

All major yamen in Hanyang Prefecture were attacked, and officials were beaten and fled frantically. Only a Huguang inspector who had guarded the Yunnan border and a Huguang right political officer with a military background could still stick to their posts.

After Chen Feng Huguang imposed taxes and massacred the people of Hankou a few years ago, Wuchang Prefecture was once again burned and looted by clans. The local people were really unlucky.

Huguang's censor was stationed in Jingzhou. He escaped and became the only feudal official left in Huguang at this time. He hurriedly went north to Hanyang and at the same time went to the imperial court - the Chu clan rebelled! (End of chapter)