Zheng Zunqian stood up angrily, "Now the Tartars are invading the south, destroying our country, killing my people, and forcing us to shave our heads and change clothes. This is not only a change of dynasty, but also the destruction of the country and the species. As a scholar, do we have to be cowardly?"
Kneel down?"
"No, I am not only a scholar, but also a passionate young man. My knees are not so weak, and my scalp is not itchy! I am here to tell you that this time, no one can stop me."
"Also, I just came back from paying a visit to Duke Yu in Yunmen Mountain, and I want to tell you the news that King Lu of Taizhou has been appointed as the supervisor of the country, and a proclamation for the Qing Dynasty has been issued. Duke Yu has been appointed as the inspector of Zhejiang Province to carry out the governor's duties."
"Shaoxing Mansion is about to resume its old rule."
Zheng Zhiyin's face changed slightly when he heard this.
"King Lu oversees the country?"
"Yes, there are still brave people in the Ming Dynasty royal family after all. Those weaklings in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who surrendered to thieves will be captured and accounted for by us one by one!"
"Do you think you can achieve something with just your passion? Xu Du originally had a great future, but when he encountered something trivial, he acted randomly out of anger, and ended up hurting so many people? Didn't you still think about that?
Haven’t you been taught a lesson?”
Zheng Zhiyin slapped the table angrily, "You are not young anymore, why are you still so simple-minded in doing things?"
Zheng Zunqian replied coldly to his father, "Oh, my father once taught his son to think twice before doing anything, but the son wanted to ask, what is the reason for thinking twice? Do you only think about personal gains and losses, without considering loyalty, filial piety and trustworthiness?"
"You bastard, you still want to teach me how to do things?"
"Father, as you get older, you have become more timid and fearful, and you have even given up on your loyalty. How can a son respect you? Today, even if the King of Heaven comes, I will do it anyway."
"Now, please father, please bring out the key to the home's warehouse and the certificate of the bank's silver deposit."
"what are you up to?"
"I want to rebel, and rebellion costs money, so I plan to use my family's money and money to support the army."
"Although Brother Xu is dead, his charity society is still there, and our faith is still there!"
"Today, I will raise a flag, Yixing!"
Zheng Zunqian no longer has any respect for his father, and he even looks a little pitiful. His poor father was once a famous figure, but now he is so cowardly and fearful of death. Living like this is worse than death.
Yi Xing, righteous society should be prosperous, and loyalty should be prosperous.
Zheng Zhiyin's hands were shaking with anger, and he knelt down directly in front of his son.
"Don't act recklessly or involve the clan or family. You are still too young. Many things are not as simple as you think. Think twice before you act."
"That's enough. I've had enough of your preaching. Think about it again and again. What have you come up with?"
Zheng Zunqian directly pulled out the knife from his waist and chopped off a corner of his father's favorite red sandalwood desk.
"Today, there is no father and son, no family, only country, nation, and loyalty. Please hand over the keys and tokens, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"You traitor!"
Zheng Zhiyin was trembling all over.
Zheng Zunqian just said with a dark face, "If the world were full of people like you, the world would be hopeless. Fortunately, there are still hot-blooded people like His Highness Lu Jianguo, Yu Gong, and me in the world.
"
"Someone's coming!"
"You don't need to scream. Do you think it will be like last time and someone will come to help you tie me up and lock me up? No, your behavior has already made people disgusted. Besides, I came prepared today. There are people outside.
I have many charity brothers."
Zheng Zhiyin calmed down.
"Asshole, you just want to do something, but do you think you can achieve it by messing around like this? If you want to do something big, you need to be more careful. Now the three armies of the Qing Army are stationed in the south of the Yangtze River. If you raise a flag to rebel now, you will just hit an egg against a stone. You
Can’t you just endure it and be quiet for a while?”
"Endure? The world is going to perish, why should we endure it?"
"I can't wait any longer. If I wait any longer, the little blood I have left will become cold."
"Bring it here."
Zheng Zhiyin gritted his teeth and breathed rapidly.
The son's sword has been raised.
Zheng Zhiyin said helplessly, "It's up to you!"
After getting the key and the token of exchange for the bank deposit, Zheng Zunqian thanked his father, "Father, please study in peace in this bookstore. As long as you don't step out of the house, I can keep the Zheng family safe."
Zheng Zhiyin originally wanted to tell his son what he and Qian Qianyi were secretly planning, but in the end he thought that with his son's bad temper and fiery temper, telling him would not help, so he might as well let him go.
The son walked away.
Zheng Zhiyin sat slumped in his chair.
King Lu came to the throne to supervise the country, spread the word to the world, and sent envoys everywhere. This was going to set off a big wave. However, the main force of the elite Qing army is still in the south of the Yangtze River. If they are so impatient to raise troops, they are probably just throwing an egg against a stone and ruining the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.
Strength, and even people's hearts.
But he couldn't stop it.
King Lu, a distant relative of the Ming Dynasty clan, why should he supervise the country?
The name is unfair and the words are inappropriate.
Why.
As for the family's money being robbed by his son, Zheng Zhiyin didn't care too much. Originally, the money was going to be sent to Qian Qianyi, but now that it was robbed by his son, it didn't matter.
Where will this precarious Ming Dynasty go in the future?
He grabbed the tiny braid on the back of his head and smiled bitterly. Who could understand them?
Zheng Zunqian returned to the front yard of the mansion.
In the courtyard, many key members of the charity community are waiting here.
"The King of Lu has been supervising the country in Taizhou. He has sent a special envoy named Yu Gong to act as the inspector of Zhejiang. He has ordered the gentry, soldiers and people everywhere to revolt. We, the charity community, must not be the first to bear the brunt."
"There is still room for action in the world. I want to hold high the flag of righteousness. How about that?"
"Okay!" everyone responded.
Zheng Zunqian drew his sword and said, "In this case, our Yishe will hold high the banner of Yixing, the military trumpet of Yixing army, and I will be the marshal of Yixing."
"The military rules of the Yixing Army are: no sex, no goods, no personal enmity, just work together to regain the two capitals, how about it?"
"good!"
Many of the people in these volunteer societies had joined the White-headed Army in Xudu. After the rebellion in Xudu, the White-headed Army had several military regulations, such as no robbery, no killing of people, no rape, etc. Military discipline
Strict and clear, Qiu has no fault.
Now Zheng Zunqian raises the flag of righteousness again to continue the military regulations of Xu Du.
They will be a righteous force to save the world, not robbers who take advantage of the situation.
He, Zheng Zunqian, will clear Xu Du's name and overturn the verdict of the Whitehead Army.
Xu Du took out a white forehead cloth, tied it around his forehead, and wrote the word Yixing on it.
Other key members of the charity community also took out the white towels they had prepared earlier and tied them on their foreheads.
"Bring Qu Shangzhong and Chen Zeming up!"
Someone brought two people who were tied up. One was named Qu Shangzhong, who was originally a eunuch in the Hongguang Palace in Nanjing. Nandu was destroyed and fled all the way to Shaoxing. The other was named Chen Zeming, who was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty from Hangzhou and was sent to Kuaiji to serve as an official.
of.
"Anyone who is a fugitive official can be killed, and anyone who is a surrendered minister can be killed!"
"These two are rebellious officials and traitors. Today I will behead their thieves and sacrifice their blood to our banner of Yixing!"
The two begged for mercy, but Zheng Zunqian ignored them and directly chopped off two heads with a knife, holding the heads and dripping blood on the Yixing flag.
"Brothers from Yixing, please raise the flag and follow me to the county government to restore Shaoxing!"
Zheng Zunqian and others held high the Yixing flag and tied a white scarf on their heads, and went out to fight towards the Yamen. Along the way, people from the Yixing Society continued to join, and many common people joined them, and they fought to the Yamen.
The county magistrate Peng Wannian was still fettering the people who refused to pay taxes. Zheng Zunqian said angrily, "A dog demoted from the official position still dares to harm the people of the Ming Dynasty. Kill him!"
Cut him down with one knife, and then kill him at the government office.
Zhang Su hid in the backyard and asked a group of Tatar soldiers from the government office to protect him.
The Qing army raised their bows and fired arrows. Zheng Zunqian held his shield and bravely took the lead. He jumped over the wall and slashed with his sword.
The crowd swarmed forward and killed all the Tatar soldiers in the courtyard. Seeing that Zhang Su, the pseudo-prefect, was no longer spared, he knelt down and begged for mercy, but was also chopped down by Zheng Zunqian.
He occupied the yamen, took the official seal, then ordered the treasury to be opened, took swords and shields to arm the Yixing army, and ordered the granary to be opened and distributed to the hungry people in the city.
Sitting in the lobby, Zheng Zunqian wrote to Lu Jianguo to report his victory!
Yishe Xue Yunxun, Zheng Zhihan, Zhou Jin, Shi Tangxian, Zheng Tiren, Fu Shangbi, Shi Zaihui, Ruan Risheng, Zheng Xifan, Lu Douyu, etc., on Zheng Zunqian's order, divided their forces and began to capture the puppet officials who surrendered throughout the city.
"Marshal, there are squires in the city named Shang Zhou Zuo who once served as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Jiang Fengyuan who once served as the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and there are many other registered officials and gentry. How should we deal with these people?"
Zheng Zunqian wrote the victory memorial while saying without raising his head, "Shang Zhou Zuo and Jiang Fengyuan have been generously paid by high-ranking officials for decades. Now that the country has been destroyed and the emperor has perished, and the rebellion has begun, how can they enjoy their wealth? What's more, these people
I have already gone to Hangzhou to meet with the commander-in-chief, and I even heard that they donated a lot of money. Well, they all deserved to be killed, but now I give them another chance to atone for their sins and donate half of my family wealth, so I will spare them for the time being.
Pass them."
"half?"
"Well, count their wealth and ask them to turn over half of it in silver. We will give half of the silver to His Highness Jian Guo, and the remaining half will be divided by our Yixing Army and Yu Gong for military use.
"
"What if they refuse?"
"Then we'll cut it down and confiscate the house directly, and we'll confiscate the remaining half." Zheng Zunqian said unceremoniously, "Brothers from the Yixing Army, in these special times, you act in a special way, so there is no need to be polite to them.
Everyone, hurry up and put up recruiting flags at the city gates to recruit volunteers. We will raise the army by recruiting 5,000 men first."
If you want to do it, then do it vigorously.
"My Zheng family will take the lead in donating half of our family property to help pay for the army!"
As soon as these words came out, the backbones of other charity societies also expressed their willingness to actively donate their property to support the military.
"Everyone, one thing I want to reiterate is that the Yi Xing Army is an army of benevolence and righteousness. It is not allowed to rob, kill people, or rape people. Anyone who dares to mess around will be killed without mercy!"
Zhou Shangzuo, Jiang Fengyuan, Wang Shaomei, etc. are all high-ranking officials who usually take the boys of the Zheng family seriously. However, at this time, the Yixing army surrounded their mansion and faced each other with swordsmen asking for donations to support the army. These people only retorted a few words.
, and then he was so frightened by the flash of swords and arrows that he didn't dare to breathe, so he had to obediently express his willingness to raise money.
"Go and invite Mr. Yu into the city. Brother Liu Dadao and I have restored Shaoxing!"