"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Shandong suffered from constant famines and wars, and the population was depleted. Those who survived claimed that they were missing from their households, and they were the households that were killed due to missing people."
Banyang Academy, Zichuan County.
Local gentry and officials, as well as the garrisoned troops, celebrated the reopening of Banyang Academy here.
The president of the academy came from Fengtian. His ancestral home was Zichuan and he later moved to Nanjing because he was an official. Now that he is back, he has many emotions.
Mentioning the history of Zichuan makes me sigh even more.
"From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the Jiajing period, we in Zichuan only had six Jinshi."
According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition, there was a great battle in Shandong. There was even a legend that Zhu Yuanzhang bloodbathed Shandong. Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Di was in trouble, and Shandong became a battlefield again.
Even due to war and famine, the Tang Saier Uprising broke out in Zichuan in the Yongle Dynasty.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the six immigrants from Shandong were added to farmland to restore Shandong.
By the Wanli Dynasty, the imperial court counted more than 17,400 Dingkou in Zichuan. During the Wanli Dynasty, it took more than 200 years of recovery for Zichuan to reach a good peak. During the Chongzhen War, Dingkou was lost again.
Several thousand.
There are six prominent families in Zichuan: Dong Wang Xi Bi, Nan Sun Bei Han, Zhong Gao Zhang.
During the Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, Zichuan passed 22 Jinshi examinations, of which 13 were from the six major families.
During the Chongzhen period, Zhang Zhifa returned to the cabinet and became a bachelor, and two years later he became the chief assistant.
Since Hongzhi, Zichuan has slowly prospered. Originally a rammed earth city, Zichuan was renovated three times in Hongzhi, Jiajing and Wanli.
The city was covered with bricks, piled with bricks, and the urn city was added. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, it was upgraded to a stone city. The city was three feet high, six feet wide, eight miles around, and the moat outside the city was one foot five deep and one foot wide.
Four gates also built forts and stored gunpowder.
After Zhang Zhifa returned to his hometown after becoming an official, he also mobilized funds to build 122 shelters, 13 enemy towers, and 11 hollow buildings.
Zichuan has become an iron-clad Zichuan.
At the end of Chongzhen, he even blocked the siege of tens of thousands of intruders.
But later, when the Qing army moved south, the iron city surrendered without a fight.
Under the support of Sun Zhixian, Wang Aoyong of the Wang family of Zichuan, who had served as the governor of Tongzhou in Chongzhen, and the governor of Yunyang, also agreed to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. With their active actions, Tiecheng finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was occupied by the Qing Dynasty.
Sun Zhixie, Wang Aoyong, and Han Yuan even gained the appreciation and trust of the Tatars for their contribution to their hometown and city. Wang Aoyong, with the title of Minister of Household Affairs and Minister of Industry, was ordered to recruit Henan and Shandong. Sun Zhixie was ordered to recruit Jiangxi.
, Han Yuan was also assigned to the Ministry of Officials of the Jin Dynasty.
However, later Wang Aoyong was in Shandong. Due to the Qingzhou Incident, Li Zicheng's general Zhao Yingyuan took the opportunity to surrender, occupied Qingzhou, and captured and killed the traitor. After his death, the Tatars presented him with the Minister of Household Affairs, and his son Wang Aoyong was awarded the title of Cavalry Commander.
, joined the Han army and set up a blue flag, and became a slave of the Tatars.
The former six famous families in Zichuan, Wang Bi, Sun Han, Gao Zhang, and the Sun and Han clans were all killed by Xie Qian in Santai Mountain last time. They were completely wiped out, leaving a group of young eunuchs and their women sent to Taiwan for exile.
As for the remaining four major clans, the Wang family was naturally punished because they had such a big traitor as Wang Aoyong, especially because they returned to the banner.
Wen Hu still asked Xie Qian to come forward and uproot the Wang family. He listed many crimes and ransacked their homes. Fortunately, they were not wiped out like the Sun and Han families, but they ended up being exiled to Taiwan.
Because of the enmity between the Zhang family and Ding Keze, the Zhang family suffered a devastating blow from Ding Keze. In the end, although they were protected by Wen Hu, Gu Xianshou and others, they were completely defeated and almost lost their money and food industry.
Only the two Gaobi clans were left, and because of their strong coordination, they escaped the disaster.
But after a series of back payments, liquidations, donations, etc., the vitality of the two tribes was seriously damaged, and now they are as docile as a kitten.
Even when Gu Xianshou originally wanted the Gao clan of Yuezhuang to be appointed as the headmaster of the academy, they all quickly declined.
Yuezhuang Gao family, Gao Ruden was born during the Jiajing period. He was well-known for his charity and charity. He owned four thousand acres of land. He donated money to build three bridges in his life. He also built the Prajna Academy and the county school several times. During major disasters, he even built Countless people were saved during the disaster relief work. When he passed away at the age of eighty, the entire city within 500 miles went on strike to mourn. The villagers were so grateful that they built a temple in the east of the city to offer sacrifices, which is still there today.
His son was promoted to Jinshi and became governor of Zhejiang Province.
Gao Suoyun's four sons, the eldest son Gao Suoyun, married the daughter of Xincheng Wang Xiangqian, the Minister of War. Gao Suoyun's second son, Gao Wei and Gao Heng, were both elected in the twelfth year of Chongzhen. Gao Wei was still Jieyuan.
Yun Yun's brothers were all educated and educated, and they all had good academic backgrounds, were officials and soldiers, were prime ministers of Guanglu Temple, and so on.
However, although the Gao family has indeed produced many talented people in recent years, there is a big problem. Like Sun Wang and Han's family, they are on the wrong team.
They actually thought that the Tatars could conquer the world after entering the country.
Gao Wei actually went to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination last year, won the Jinshi, and was awarded the title of official in Hejian Prefecture. Then he was captured by Tu Guobao at the beginning of this year, and his hometown was restored by the Ming Dynasty. He became a Jinshi, and then fled back to his hometown during the Jiashen Revolution.
As a result, he later followed Sun Zhixian and others to Beijing to meet with the Tatars and was given a Hanlin review.
His cousin Gao Jue also participated in the Tatar Shandong imperial examination last year, and his other brother Gao Yan failed to pass the provincial examination together last year.
The only member of the Gao family who was lucky enough to be in the right team was Gao Li. He failed in the imperial examination in his early years, so he simply gave up his studies and went into business, moved to Rizhao, Qingzhou, founded a business, owned a merchant ship, and had a successful career. Then when the Ming army went north, Rizhao became the Ming army. After the liberation, he followed the current situation and immediately surrendered. He also donated money to help pay, and became a righteous businessman praised by the court.
In the past two years, relying on the Ming Dynasty and the prosperity of the Shandong route, the business has become more and more prosperous, and he has become a famous wealthy businessman in Rizhao.
In comparison, the Gao family in Zichuan are all on the wrong team.
In fact, not only the Gao family, but almost all the six major clans were on the wrong side.
For example, Gao Wei's father-in-law was the eldest son of Zhang Zhifa, and his father Zhang Tailai. Although his father was the chief minister of Chongzhen, when the Tatars went south, although he did not go to Beijing, he also gave gold and silver to Sun Zhixian and others to pay tribute on his behalf. Qing Emperor.
His uncle Zhang Zhongfa was a famous calligrapher, and he ended up writing several calligraphy works for the Tatar emperor.
It is precisely because of these that Prajna Academy reopened. Although Gao Bi survived, he did not dare to take over the position of mountain chief.
In the past, all the successive mountain chiefs of Banyang Academy were basically members of the six major families. Most of the students there were children of the six major families and their relatives. They studied, wrote essays, and studied Eight-legged Eight-legged Part (eight-legged essays) here. Indeed, more than 20 people were born. There are local Jinshi, dozens of Jinshi from other counties, and countless talented people.
This is in Zichuan, which is truly the number one university.
But now that school has reopened, most of the original students have disappeared, and the descendants of the Sun, Wang, Han, and Zhang clans have almost disappeared.
The Gao and Bi families are also much more low-key.
The academy has admitted a large number of new students. Even the elder's family moved from Zichuan to Nanjing and settled in Nanjing for several generations.
Among the new students, there were even Xie Qian, Ding Keze's nephew, and some small families, even merchants' families. In the past, they were not qualified to study here, but now they all stood in the academy openly.
Times have changed.
The local celebrities and gentry members of Gao Zhang and Bi San's family were standing there in fear and fear. They still had the demeanor of local celebrities from high families in the past.
