Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 475 Young Scholar
Su Songxia's family, Hou's family and Gu's family are relatives by marriage, and they often meet at the Hou's mansion in Jiading.

Needless to say, Xia Yunyi was a leader of the Fushe, Gu Xianzheng was the official of Yan'an Mansion, the Hou family was a nobleman in Jiading, Gu Xianzheng's son Gu Tiankui was Hou Qizeng's son-in-law, Hou Qizeng's nephew Hou Xuanzhen was Xia Yunyi's son-in-law.The three families share weal and woe, stand together through thick and thin, and often gather in Hou Xuanzhen's house, "talking about current affairs, each conspiring differently".

In fact, they are just a group of aspiring scholar-bureaucrats.In the original history, these people participated in the anti-Qing Dynasty one after another, and in the end they either committed suicide or died in the Jiading massacre.

"Beizhi and Shanxi have already enclosed land, and then they shaved their hair and changed clothes. Gu Yanwu said it well, not only will the Tartars come to China, but they will also destroy China."

Gu Yanwu often publishes articles in newspapers, and recently he has become famous. His cognition has been appreciated by a large number of scholars, and Gu Xianzheng appreciates it very much.

"Yeah, I'm going to die in the world."

In ancient China, there was no concept of nationality, only the concept of country and the concept of the world.Because this is a unified country, you are surrounded by people like you, the same language, and the same culture. It is really difficult for people to have a strong sense of similarity and difference.

The period with the greatest chance of emergence was actually the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, a concept was formed called Zhuxia!

Zhuxia refers to the various vassal states under the Zhou Dynasty. It is recognized that everyone is a legal system handed down from Xia Yu, so there is a word Xia, but the word Xia did not produce a national concept in the end, because Qin State soon unified In the world, everyone began to have the title of Qin people, and Qin did not form a nation, because it was soon replaced by the Han Dynasty, and all the names of Han people in later generations came from here.

The scholar-bureaucrats also advocated the civilization of the Central Plains with brocade clothes and Chinese clothes, so they took another Chinese character, collectively called Huaxia, which represented civilization.

The world is divided by culture. The so-called entry into China is the Chinese, and the barbarian is the barbarian. This is the traditional ethnic distinction. If you enter China, you will be in China."

It is to emphasize the etiquette system to distinguish Huayi, which is a view of Huayi generally accepted by scholar-bureaucrats.

Mencius said: "I have heard that Xia was used to change barbarians, but I have not heard of those who have changed from barbarians."

The staunch Master Mencius only recognized the Yidi learning the culture of the Central Plains, but not the Central Plains learning the Yidi culture, and was regarded as a standard by the scholar-officials.

Now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they implemented shaving and changing clothes from the very beginning. As a result, uprisings continued under the rule. Dorgon had to give up this policy, but in the two provinces of Northern Zhili and Shanxi where the enclosure was implemented, there was no need to give up. Now, the land in these two provinces has been occupied, and the people have become slaves in clothes. Who cares whether they will rebel, anyway, they will rebel if they don’t shave their hair and make clothes easier. is the most correct.

This situation made the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River extremely frightened, thinking that it was changing the summer with barbarians. Gu Yanwu immediately threw out his view of the world, saying that subjugation is not terrible, but going to the world is terrible.Said: There is subjugation of the country, and there is subjugation of the world.Said: Changing the surname to change the name is called the subjugation of the country.Benevolence and righteousness are full, and as a result of leading beasts to eat people, people will eat each other, which is called the destruction of the world.

Gu Yanwu's statement has been widely recognized by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. Changing the barbarians into the summer is the end of the world. This is obviously different from the concept of nationality and country in later generations, but this concept originated from traditional etiquette culture, even Yang Chao also I really don't understand, giving up benevolence and righteousness means perishing the world?Then the world of later generations is indeed dead!

"Whoever protects the country, the king and his ministers are the ones who eat meat; whoever protects the world, there is no sense of humiliation or responsibility. This sentence is especially wonderful!"

Xia Yunyi's son Xia Wanchun praised.

Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world in later generations, and it comes from here.

"Have you read the new Nanjing Mansion Newspaper?"

At this time Hou Xuanzhen hurried in, holding a brand new newspaper in his hand. It is still a trend for these scholar-bureaucrats to discuss current affairs together, just like they used to go to brothels.

"Brother-in-law, show me!"

Xia Wanchun jumped up, and was the first to take it over to look at it, frowning after watching it.

"How? Is there a new decree?"

Yang Chao is abolishing bad governance, so in recent months, government orders have been issued frequently.

"Or has another corruption official announced?"

Whenever criminal officials are found, Yang Chao will definitely publish them in the newspapers, making them famous all over the world.

Xia Wanchun said: "The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion recruits scholars to join the army."

This announcement made Xia Yunyi and the others stunned for a moment. Recruiting scholars to join the army has never been done since ancient times. Whoever dares to let scholars go to the battlefield does not give preferential treatment to scholars.

Xia Yunyi couldn't help asking: "Are you recruiting staff? Or joining the army?"

Scholars join the army, or join the army as a staff member. Obviously, their greatest reliance is knowledge, and there are obviously fewer people who give advice than those who wield swords and guns. Scholars are more willing to accept this kind of errand without taking too much risk. .

Xia Wanchun handed the newspaper to his father, and sighed: "It is directly recruiting soldiers and bravery. The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion declares that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and recruits the world's reading seeds to join the army and fight for the country!"

Gu Xianzheng snorted: "What kind of country is the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion? The country's dynasty is in Guangdong!"

He always insisted on the orthodoxy, and believed that when the Son of Heaven was in place, it was the dynasty.

Xia Yunyi said: "In terms of protecting the world, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has made more achievements than the Guochao."

While reading the newspaper, while posting this comment, Xia Yunyi's face suddenly changed: "The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion wants to open a course to obtain a scholar!"

Gu Xianzheng snorted, "Didn't he do it before?"

Xia Yunyi said: "It's different this time. Last year it was just an imperial examination in the military, but this time it's time to say it. But those who don't join the army won't get the imperial examination. Wouldn't it cut off the way for the world's reading seeds to thrive!"

Gu Xianzheng snatched the newspaper and read it carefully, only to see that the words on it were clear, declaring that all governors, regardless of scholars, farmers, businessmen, and those who do not join the army will not be allowed to participate in the reliable service, nor be an official.

Gu Xian's forehand trembled: "It's an insult to the gentleman, it's an insult to the gentleman."

Gu Xianzheng really couldn't accept the decree to let scholars go to battle.

What no one noticed was that after Xia Wanchun struggled for a long time with complicated expressions, he suddenly showed a sense of determination.

"Father, the child wants to join the army!"

"you?"

Xia Yunyi couldn't help being surprised when his son suddenly said that he was going to join the army, but after seeing his son's resolute expression, he nodded slightly.

"Since you have made up your mind, if you are willing to take the risk, you can do it. Governor Yang was born in a craftsman's family, and I am not a gentry. His behavior is indeed a bit biased, but without the assistance of a gentry, it is inevitable to do these absurd things. .You go to the army to save your useful body, and you will be an official in the court in the future, so that you can straighten the way!"

As soon as Gu Xianzheng heard Xia Yunyi's words, he immediately turned his face: "You think that he is going to be the emperor, but he is not yet the emperor. If you say such disloyalty and filial piety, I, Gu Xianzheng, don't know you."

After finishing speaking, he walked away.

Xia Yunyi couldn't help smiling bitterly, this in-law's temper is too fierce, isn't Yang Chao the emperor, he is already the emperor.

It's just changing the surname of Yi, but Yang Chao hasn't done it yet, but he is exercising the power of the emperor, and Xia Yunyi believes that Yang Chao has done things that the Ming emperor could not and dared not do, abolishing bad governance, fighting corruption, which emperor? It has been done well, even Zhang Juzheng has never done it. Zhang Juzheng's reforms are just to make the local government pay more taxes. Who would care about corrupt officials and people living in poverty? There is no harvest, but they have to be tortured and forced to pay taxes, and when selling children and daughters is not available, how can we not resist!
"I think Gu Yanwu should also join the army."

Xia Wanchun resolutely said that he has been a little impressed by Gu Yanwu's article recently.

Xia Yunyi smiled and said: "He won't go."

Gu Yanwu really didn't go.

After Xia Wanchun arrived in Nanjing, he made many inquiries and found that there were very few children from wealthy families like him who signed up. , claiming that a scholar has the ambition to throw a pen into the army, but he must not have the means to kill the enemy with a knife. The seeds of reading should not go to the battle, but should make suggestions and win with wisdom.

At this time, Xia Wanchun actually agrees in his heart, are you a scholar, it is too wasteful to go to battle to kill the enemy, but in order to gain a high position, he will persuade Yang Chao in the future that joining the army is just a stopgap measure.

"Xia Wanchun?"

"I'm."

"how old are you?"

"Seventeen."

"Can you write?"

"The Four Books and Five Classics are memorized backwards."

"Read this piece of paper to me."

At the conscription office in Xinjiangkou, an officer picked out a piece of paper from a stack of thick papers.

Xia Wanchun opened his mouth and read: "The righteousness of the son of heaven must be purely based on the law of heaven and earth and viewed from the sages. The righteousness of the common people must be enshrined in their parents and corrected by the emperor. Therefore, although there is a wise emperor, the scholars do not teach first, so they cannot be used. The ancient The people of the church must set up a scripture on the relationship between the noble and the humble..."

"Okay, okay, write the first ten sentences of the Three Character Classic here!"

Xia Wanchun swiped his pen and finished writing quickly. Seeing the recruiter click his tongue in admiration, the handwriting was so good, it was much better than the second sword in the army who was literate.

"Well, good. Sure enough, he is a scholar. Have you practiced martial arts?"

"No."

"Can you ride a horse?"

"meeting."

"Okay, take this note to report, and you will be a cavalry from now on."

It took Xia Wanchun two quarters of an hour to complete the assessment, and he got a small note, which said that he was excellent in reading and writing, and asked him to report to the cavalry instructor Guo Tongwu.

Xia Wanchun entered the barracks and was assigned a dormitory with a bed, cotton clothes, bowls and chopsticks, etc.

There are already several people in the same room, all of whom are eagerly discussing their military career.

I found that these people spoke more politely, and after inquiring, I realized that they were all scholars. After a few sentences, everyone warmed up to each other, especially when they heard that Xia Wanchun belonged to Songjiang Xia's family, they were even more enthusiastic towards him.

Except for Xia Wanchun, the entire barracks were filled with small rural landlords and sons of city merchants, none of the wealthy families.

One came because of his father's persecution. His family had been a happy household for generations. Yang Chao abolished the music registration.

There is a son of a small businessman who suffers from no hope in the imperial examination. He hopes to take a shortcut by joining the army. He heard that the military examination is very simple. There is no scripture test, only practical learning. He knows abacus and bookkeeping. petty officer.

There are not many people who are truly inspiring to serve the country, and there are not many people like Xia Wanchun who hope to win fame through serving in the army, so as to help the righteous way.

Just as he was feeling resentful, he suddenly saw another person walking in, Xia Wanchun couldn't help being taken aback, and called out.

"Brother Kexian!"

(End of this chapter)