The ninth and sixty-fourth chapters of the four seas tossing clouds and waters (eight)
Mid-May, Fuzhou.
The sun is rising slowly from the direction of the port. The fishing fleet has already gone out to sea. Along with the shouts of workers on the dock, the crowded streets and alleys, markets, squares, and construction sites in the city are already in sight.
The scene became lively.
People in simple clothes had breakfast at roadside stalls and walked in a hurry, and children selling newsprint ran among the crowd. The brothels, Chuguan, teahouses and restaurants that had become obsolete have also become more popular in recent days.
It has been open for business and has started to be renovated. In these half-new and half-old buildings, literati and poets gathered here, and traders from afar began to socialize and discuss for a day...
The large influx of refugees and the temporary location of the capital decided by the new imperial court brought such prosperity to Fuzhou. A similar situation lasted for several years in Lin'an more than ten years ago, but compared to Lin'an at that time
Chaos amidst prosperity, refugees dying in large numbers, and various cases occurring frequently, Fuzhou's seemingly chaotic prosperity has a vague sense of order.
In the past few months, a large number of court officials have divided their work into several main directions. On the one hand, they encouraged the local aborigines in Fuzhou to participate in business activities related to people's livelihood as much as possible, such as renting out residences with houses.
, those with cooking skills selling breakfast, and those with store capital to expand their operations. With the influx of people in large numbers, the demand for various market segments related to people's livelihood has greatly increased. As long as there is a street vendor selling breakfast, every day
The business here can be doubled several times.
While guiding and encouraging local people to expand business and take care of people's livelihood, new docks began to be built in the east of Fuzhou, shipyards were expanded, technical employees were placed, and residential and workshop areas were expanded in the north and west of the city. The imperial court used decrees as resources to encourage people who fled here from other places.
Vendors built new factories and shacks, and recruited homeless refugees to work for them. They provided work-for-relief services, which at least ensured that most of the refugees would not end up living on the streets and would be able to find something to eat.
At the same time, redundant soldiers participated in patrols and cooperated with lower-level officials to deal with security issues strictly and quickly. Almost every day, criminals were taken to Caishikou and beheaded, attracting a large number of people to watch. As a result,
Although more criminals were killed, and many innocent people were inevitably unjustly accused, on the whole, it had the effect of killing chickens to scare monkeys, so that there was not much conflict between outsiders and locals for a while.
From a macro perspective, the new monarch's ability to handle political details in Fuzhou at this time was countless times higher than that of Nai's father who was in power in Lin'an more than ten years ago. On the other hand,
It can be seen that Lin'an back then had half of the Wu Dynasty and the entire Central Plains as nutrients, but the nourishment Fuzhou can attract now is far less than Lin'an back then.
By May, huge shocks were sweeping through this newly prosperous city.
As ordinary people who are not involved in government affairs, what people can see is the shock when the court began to announce the results of the Southwest Battle on the second day of May, and the courage and magnanimity shown by the new monarch behind this shock. During this period, he abused Wu
Of course there are some court officials, but what follows is a lot of new news and new things that fill people's attention.
Li Pin's newspaper began to interpret the concept of the Study of Things based on the results of the Southwest Wangyuan Bridge. Every day thereafter, the newsprint spread the concept of the Study of Things to ancient Luban and extended to the Mohists. Storytellers were in restaurants and teahouses.
He started talking about Lu Ban’s wooden kite that could fly for three days without setting, and started talking about Zhuge Kongming’s wooden ox and flowing horse during the Three Kingdoms period... These are all things that ordinary people like to hear and see.
Accompanying the study of Gewu was Li Pin's discussion of New Confucianism. These ideas were a bit far away from ordinary people, but among the middle and lower class scholars, there began to be more discussions about the concentration of power and loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. By mid-May
, some stories about Guan Zhong and Emperor Zhou in the "Spring and Autumn Gongyang Zhuan" have frequently appeared in discussions among readers, and the core ideas of these stories are ultimately attributed to four words:
——Respect the king and fight against the barbarians.
While the halo of the artifacts of geophysics continues to expand, most people have not been able to see clearly the undercurrents hidden underneath. On the fifth day of May, the Fuzhou court dismissed Li Long, the old minister of the Ministry of Works, and subsequently reorganized the Ministry of Works.
It seems to be just a continuation of the new emperor's emphasis on craftsman thinking, and at the same time, there are a series of actions such as backing Wei's army to attack Quanzhou. At the same time, in private, there is a story about the new emperor Junwu and the eldest princess Zhou Pei once in Southwest Ning.
Rumors spread like wildfire that the demon's subordinates were learning to learn karma and arithmetic.
In the past, Ning Yi's regicide and rebellion were indeed treasonous, but his ability was so powerful that no one in the world can deny it. After the death of Emperor Jinghan, Emperor Jingping Zhou Ji was kidnapped and headed north. At that time, many dignitaries from Jiangnan were among the many
The royal family chose Zhou Yong, who was not outstanding, in fact, hoping that these siblings could turn the tide after inheriting Ning Yi's mantle. Among them, the eldest princess of Jiangning, the consort Kang Xian and others also
They have made a lot of efforts, just looking forward to one day when the siblings will do something...
These half-truths and half-false statements caused a strange atmosphere among the people, but they also indirectly eliminated the negative emotions of people thinking about their own problems due to the war situation in the Southwest.
On the ninth day of the fifth lunar month, Beiwei's army made careful arrangements inside and outside the city to capture Quanzhou in just four days. When the news came, the whole city was excited.
These are the movements in Fuzhou that ordinary people can see, but if you go up, you can find that a huge storm has been roaring in the sky of Fuzhou City for a long time.
From a general perspective, it is not surprising that there will be one emperor and one courtier in any change of court. What is the character of the new emperor, what are his ideals, who does he favor and who does he alienate?
In the normal replacement process, people have to pay attention to and adapt to things.
Wu Jianshuo's dynasty left Lin'an with Zhou Yong, and almost disappeared in name only. The prince Junwu who followed him has been at the center of the war and suffered countless ups and downs. After he succeeded to the throne, he "revitalized" the court, and in the fierce fighting and
He finally managed to gain a foothold during his escape. The power of the Wu Dynasty has declined, but from a general point of view, he can still be said to be the most legitimate new king of the Wu Dynasty. Once he has a firm foothold and ascends to the throne, at this time,
Half of the wealthy families in Jiangnan will still choose to support him. This is the power of status.
The Wu Dynasty was indeed a broken ship as a whole, but the broken ship also had three points. What's more, given that the original size of this broken ship was extremely huge, the fundamentals of this righteousness were placed on the stage of fighting for the world at this time.
, it still appears to be extremely large, at least much larger than Tie, Wu and others in Lin'an, Liu Guangshi, Dai Mengwei and others, and even the bandits in Jin.
Countless wealthy families are waiting for the new emperor to clarify his thoughts and make a sound to determine what form of support he will provide. Many of the forces that have gathered towards Fuzhou since February and March are actually those who still retain their power.
They are representatives or messengers of local forces, and some are even the people in power themselves.
In May, the emperor Tuqiong Dagger saw it and officially made a sound. The sound of this sound was a disaster that caught countless wealthy families off guard.
Respect the king and fight against the barbarians!
Since the second half of last year, the new emperor named Zhou Junwu has been fighting in the most brutal environment. In Jiangning, he was besieged by millions of soldiers.
After Jiang Ning succeeded to the throne, he was forced to abandon Jiang Ning soon and fled in Jiangnan. Behind his back, countless people were massacred. He reorganized the army and once chose to concentrate power and organize a supervisory team with the backbone of low-level soldiers whose families had been destroyed.
These actions of the Military Law Corps are all excusable.
People are waiting for him to calm down and look at the overall situation from a higher perspective. In essence, many people are waiting for official appointments to make wishes, and many families are waiting to make contributions from the dragon under the new political framework. These families have resources.
There are reserves, strength, and talents - these talents were cultivated in the past system framework assumptions - as long as the new emperor shows his magnanimity, the entire broken ship of the Wu Dynasty will still be one of the best ships in this ocean.
Since February, countless people have submitted outlines and suggestions one after another to the Fuzhou court under the overall framework of a high-level construction. The Jin people left, the wind and rain stopped, and the broken ship was packed up and began to be repaired.
It is certainly not easy to achieve perfection in this direction, but if you just want to pass, then it is something that ordinary political wisdom can achieve.
But the people at the top were surprised to find that the stupid emperor seemed to be trying to smash the ship and prepare to rebuild a ridiculous little sampan.
After waiting for three months for this result, the confrontation began almost immediately. Some powerful families began to try to escape. In the court, various implicit or explicit suggestions and objections came one after another. Some people began to plan the future for the emperor.
Tragically, someone may have begun to reveal that a certain wealthy family is dissatisfied, and the Fuzhou court is about to lose support from somewhere. The new emperor is not angry, he persuades and appeases with earnest words, but he will never let go of his promise.
At this time in the Fuzhou court, the emperor had almost absolute control over the situation. Officials could only threaten and cry for help, but they could not actually make much checks and balances on his actions. Especially in Junwu, Zhou
After the news about Pei and Ning Yi's old relationship came out, the court lost face, but the emperor's face was regained. Some people petitioned, saying that such gossip damages the reputation of the royal family and should be stopped. Jun
Wu just said, "Rumors stop only the wise, I don't want to deal with the people because of my words," and he blocked it.
The worried officials got together in private and prepared to launch a large-scale protest later. However, news of the Wei army's capture of Quanzhou came immediately. In line with the public opinion in the city, the complaints of the officials were suppressed with a series of blows. By the fifth
On the fifteenth day of the month, a long-rumbling news quietly came out:
In order to change the weak military situation of the Wu Dynasty in the past two hundred years, the emperor will take the lead of Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others to build the "Jiangnan Armed Forces School" to train military generals and officials and provide more loyalty education in the Armed School to replace the past.
The self-castrating civil servant and military supervision system is already selecting its personnel.
This news spread in the court, and although it was not implemented for a while, people were increasingly certain that the new emperor's belief in respecting the king and repelling the barbarians was almost a foregone conclusion.
When the country is stable, the power of the military must be weakened, and the power of the monarch must be checked and balanced; when the country is in danger, power must be concentrated and the army must be revitalized. This idea may seem simple, but it is actually the policy of governing the country for two hundred years.
A sudden turn. If we want to "respect the king and reject the barbarians", it is impossible to "rule the world with the scholar-officials". If we want to "ruler the world with the scholar-officials", there will be a direct conflict with "respect the king and reject the barbarians".
As for late May, the emperor's overall will to reform began to become clear, and countless remonstrances and lobbying continued to appear in Fuzhou City. These remonstrances were sometimes delivered to Jun Wu, and sometimes to the eldest princess Zhou Pei.
In front of me, some fierce-spirited veterans agreed with the new emperor's innovations. Among the middle- and lower-class literati, many people also expressed their approval for the new emperor's courage. But in a larger place, the dilapidated ship began its journey.
The collapse of...
At the end of May, Ning Yi was in Jiange and probably learned a series of information about the Fuzhou imperial court launching reforms in Lin'an. This day also happened to be the day when the Zuo family's envoy team passed by Jiange. At this time, as the envoy leader, Zuo Xiuquan, the second-ranking figure of the Zuo family,
I asked to see Ning Yi.
After the death of Zuo Duanyou, the head of the Zuo family is now Zuo Jiyun, but Zuo Jiyun's ability is limited to Shoucheng. Over the years, Zuo Xiuquan, a collateral branch of the Zuo family, has been in charge of most things of the Zuo family, which is considered to be essentially
The successor who inherited Zuo Duanyou's will. He was a traditional scholar in his fifties, with a handsome appearance, a gentle and refined temperament, and a strip of white hair hanging from his right forehead. After meeting Ning Yi, he exchanged information about Lin'an with him.
message.
The places are more than 2,000 miles apart. Although the high-level information channels have begun to open up after the Jin people withdrew, many of the first-hand information are often false. Only through cross comparison can we see a relatively clear outline.
"...The little emperor's combination of killing and fighting is a bit unexpected." The information at hand was only rumored to be released by Jiangnan Military Academy. After some comparison, Ning Yi said this, and he was quite sighing, "Previously,
Yue Fei's troops forced Quanzhou, but instead of attacking it, he must have been working in tandem with the city in private, contacting spies, and persuading internal officials to surrender... Who would have thought that when he attacked Quanzhou, he was actually preparing for public opinion in Fuzhou. It's interesting that he attacked in time.
Coming down..."
Zuo Xiuquan smiled and said: "I heard that Mr. Ning was in Jiangning in the past and had a mentor-disciple relationship with Xinjun. I wonder if you are a little relieved to know this news today?"
"It's not easy for him and Zhou Pei over the years." Ning Yi said, "When the Jin people went south, we kidnapped Liu Yu and blamed it on the Wu Dynasty. He used Xuzhou to get the problem back. In fact, he did it
Very good. By the time of the Battle of Jiangning, he had really grown into a man who stood upright... In fact, his sister had a stronger personality back then, while Junwu had a weaker personality. It was not easy, thank you for your hard work..."
For a long time, due to Zuo Duanyou, the Zuo family has maintained good relations with the Huaxia Army and the Wu Dynasty. In many discussions with the old man in the past, Ning Yi also knew that although Zuo Duanyou strongly supported Huaxia
Jun's resistance to the Jin Dynasty, but at his core, he was still a Confucian scholar who cared deeply about the Wu Dynasty and the Taoist system. Before his death, his arrangement for the Zuo family was probably in favor of the Wu Dynasty. But Ning Yi didn't mind this.
He also knew that what he said here was likely to pass through Zuo Xiuquan's mouth and enter the ears of the little emperor thousands of miles away in the near future. Therefore, he did not hesitate to speak to that child here.
Say a few words of encouragement.
——It’s really hard work to get to this point.
Zuo Xiuquan nodded.
"How do you feel, Mr. Ning, about Xin Jun's decision?"