This damn world simply doesn’t give people a way to survive!
At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about slowly climbing up through the system and eventually reforming the entire Ming Dynasty. But now it seems that the path of the system is unworkable. In this case, he can only do the opposite!
However, it is only the spring of the first year of Chongzhen, and the peasant uprising in Shaanxi has not even started yet, and Huang Taiji has not invaded Beijing. On the surface, the Ming Dynasty seems to have a good government and people.
Even if Ming's strength has declined, even if Ming is just a paper tiger that looks very powerful, a paper tiger is still a tiger. If it falls on Zhu Yuanzhang at this moment, it will be like a mountain or a sea, invincible.
So he thought about it and didn't directly raise troops to rebel. Instead, he went to Liangshan and turned into a bandit!
But before the grass fell, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to do something big!
After all, things like falling grass are easy to talk about and hard to hear. And after the grass falls, what will everyone eat? What will they drink? What will they use? These all need to be considered carefully. The most important thing is money, food and weapons.
The main ones are food and weapons. Only with these two things can we have a bright future, so we have to put a lot of effort into it before it falls apart!
The next day, the new civil servant in the court disappeared.
The elder has only been in Datong for a month. Half of this month was not in the mansion, but doing activities in some multi-person sports venues.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang did not put much effort into kidnapping him, and many preparations were not used. Of course, this is also because today's Ming Dynasty is still ruling the world, so many people do not have this string in their minds, and the way of thinking about problems is still the same as in peaceful times.
What are you looking at?
What do you think of you?
In peaceful times, the most a bully like this can get is a beating. But in troubled times, how many stubborn people dare to do this? Doesn't that mean they don't take their own wealth and life seriously?
In times of peace, the government officials of the imperial court, covered with a layer of official skin, dared to conquer a village or even a township by themselves. In times of war, not to mention a government official, even a Jinshi master could not do such a thing.
In times of peace, we rely on righteousness, people's hearts, and principles, while in times of war, we rely on strength.
Comparing the strength of both sides, Zhu Yuanzhang had himself and a few veterans who were not afraid of death, but the governor only had himself and a few errand boys.
These people are proficient in eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, and are extremely proficient in all kinds of hidden rules and rules for collecting money and doing things. But if you ask them to compete with veterans in killing people, then you think too highly of them.
In times of peace, the governor never thought that someone would dare to directly kidnap a court official!
So the kidnapping was a success, the governor fell directly into Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, and the errand boys started working with the blackmail letters.
The food is too heavy and there are too few people. It is definitely impossible to ask for food directly, so there is no food in the ransom.
Gold and silver are indispensable, but silver is still too heavy. Tens of thousands taels of silver weighs thousands of catties, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver weighs tens of thousands of catties.
With tens of thousands of kilograms of silver, Zhu Yuanzhang had less than a hundred men in total. Even if he could carry the silver, there would be nowhere to run away.
So one of the ransoms was 10,000 taels of gold, and the other was armor, which had to be of the highest quality. Even while kidnapping, Zhu Yuanzhang was still recruiting people.
There are too few people, and it is impossible to accomplish anything just by relying on dozens of people.
If you want to successfully escape after the kidnapping and have the strength to fight back against the imperial army, you will need at least hundreds of heroes, but fortunately, the most important thing here in Datong is capable heroes.
As long as you have money and food, you can recruit hundreds of good men.
The next day, the entire Datong officialdom was shocked!
The governor sent by the imperial court was kidnapped!
"Rebel, this is the real rebel!"
"Yes, the rebels don't have any dignity of the imperial court in their eyes. Such rebels are the most terrifying, because they really dare to rip off votes!"
This is how to do?
If the governor is really defeated, then the entire Datong military town, the civil servants and military officers from top to bottom will not have a good ending.
Civil servants might be able to make some arrangements and rely on their connections to serve as officials in other places. But for local military generals, do they have any other options besides being dismissed from their posts?
Report to the court?
No, no, no, whoever dares to report it to the court is everyone’s enemy!
It seems that this rebel is also knowledgeable and professional. He has saved face for everyone and is quite good at getting things done...
The robbery also yielded technical content. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't react on the first day, but on the second day he understood the twists and turns in officialdom, and immediately had a new understanding of the degree of corruption in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was very courageous, immediately changed his robbery plan. He even openly took the governor back to the city at one point. He and the governor were holding hands, which looked quite strange.
In the eyes of strangers, it's normal. The governor is the legendary Jinshi master. Their tastes are different from ordinary people. Ordinary people like girls, but they like rabbit boys.
But this Mr. Rabbit in front of me is too rough, just a rough guy. I really don’t know what the governor likes about him!
This dramatic robbery lasted for three months.
In March, more than 2,000 Datong men took refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang under the temptation of food and money. However, Zhu Yuanzhang ultimately only wanted more than 300 men who could ride horses. In addition to the original dozens of
Although he is a backbone, he can digest them completely.
Arms and weapons are available, and the senior officials' patience with Zhu Yuanzhang is getting to the limit. No fool can become a senior executive.
If in their eyes at the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang was just a bold rebel, but to this day, no one knows that this guy is a super rebel like Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng!
If this continues, maybe he will directly rebel, and everyone will still die at that time? So before the upper-level patience reached the limit, Zhu Yuanzhang released the governor, left Datong with more than 400 heroes, and went directly into the grassland.
The majestic and adorable founding emperor, now had to turn into a bandit. This is nothing better than fate playing tricks on people.
Da da da
The clatter of horse hooves is not a return home, but a passing one!
After watching Zhu Yuanzhang enter the grassland, the commander-in-chief of Datong Town was also a little helpless. He felt distressed because a full 30,000 taels of gold were just gone!
In his opinion, it is not incomprehensible that Zhu Yuanzhang ran to the grassland in order to avoid the next blow from the court, but once he entered the grassland, it was not the court that had the final say.
Who knows whose treasure Zhu Yuanzhang’s thirty thousand taels of gold will become?
On the day Zhu Yuanzhang left, a piece of news spread throughout the grassland. There was a guy named Zhu Laosan who was carrying thirty thousand taels of gold...
"Tsk tsk, he is indeed Zhu Yuanzhang. Even if he doesn't know how to make steel or iron, and he doesn't have a golden finger, he can still get ahead. The first pot of gold turned out to be robbing the governor. In peacetime, rob the governor. tsk tsk, did Hei Xiaodou see it? This is
What a hero!" He said to Liang Xiaoju while petting the cat.
Hei Xiaodou: Meow! (I have no love in my life)
She stroked Liang Xiaoju and then she snapped her fingers, and a barrier appeared. Then she carefully took out the communication talisman, her thoughts entered it, and she instantly came to a virtual reality space.
Liang Xiaoju hugged Hei Xiaodou in her arms and suddenly shouted: "The holy fire is shining!"
"Holy Fire Yaoyao!" The speaker was also a guy holding an orange cat, but he was a man.
"Every one of my disciples!"
"Meow meow meow meow!"
"It's late, it's late, then I'm the most important person?"
"What's our slogan?"
"Oranges fill the sky!"
"Your Queen Liangju is here!"
"Yeah, the goddess is here."
A long time ago, the dream of a university student was to serve the country, to join the army, or to join the expedition department, but now there are many dreams for university students.
Some want to become great scientists with their own laboratories, some want to become a true immortal who will live forever, and some want to be the master of the world.
Liang Xiaoju’s dream is to build a big orange dynasty and become the Queen of Wanju herself. These classmates in front of her are the first batch of Liang Xiaoju’s team. They are the future Wanju Menghou, Wanju Immortal, and Wanju Immortal.
Grand Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion in Wanju and Grand Bachelor of Huagaidian in Wanju.
But it seems that their fighting spirit is not very high. They are not as confident about the future as Liang Xiaoju. They look more like they are playing with Liang Xiaoju.
"Menghou, Immortal, Grand Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, Grand Bachelor of Huagaidian, how are your observations going? Have you gained anything?" Liang Xiaoju suddenly asked.
"Well, the time traveler I'm observing here is quite extraordinary. I don't know who the senior was who created it. Maybe this time traveler was a master of Chinese studies before crossing over? Or someone like a great Confucian. Of course it's also possible.
He is a philosopher and a thinker."
The person who spoke was Wan Ju Menghou. He was holding a white little kitten in his hand. It was really a little kitten when it first came into his hands, but now it has become a fat kitten.
"Oh? What did he do?"
"This guy has been studying hard since he came here. Although it has only been half a year, he has already passed the imperial examination and is preparing for the imperial examination. With his level, there is no problem in passing the imperial examination."
"But if it's just that, it's not worthy of my admiration. He also wrote a book in private, which contains many views on the reform of Confucianism. It can be seen that he intends to reform Confucianism."
Confucianism has shortcomings. This is not only known to the emperor, but also to the vast majority of scholars.
Therefore, since the birth of Confucianism, there have been thousands of scholars who have attempted to transform Confucianism. Those scholars who can effectively change the Confucian worldview, or effectively supplement the Confucian worldview, are called great Confucians.
It does not mean that you can call yourself a great Confucian by passing the Jinshi examination, becoming a minister of the six departments or a cabinet minister, but you must transform, supplement and upgrade the Confucian worldview in order to become a great Confucian.
For example, Zhu Xi, although many people say that Neo-Confucianism is not good and has many shortcomings, and many people say that Zhu Xi's character is not good, but these are not directly related to Zhu Xi becoming a recognized great Confucian during his lifetime.
Another example is Wang Yangming. He became a great Confucian recognized by the world, not because he won the battle and put down the rebellion of King Ning, but because he proposed the theory of mind, which effectively supplemented the Confucian worldview.
"Oh? Then why did he become a great Confucian? It's not easy to be recognized by scholars all over the world. Besides, it's the first year of Chongzhen. If he doesn't become an official or train in the army, but he comes to reform Confucianism, he can't be Old Master Xun
They did it, right?”
"Yeah, it's a bit out of date. Fortunately for Confucianism, the conflict between Confucianism and the empire is too strong. It's understandable that Master Xun wants to reform Confucianism, but I don't think he can succeed."
"Not necessarily. You all know that the attitude of Confucianism is incompatible with the ideas of the empire. Historical records record that when Confucianism first appeared in the eyes of the empire, Master Xun personally took the sword and led his disciples to cut it.
people."
"That time, Old Master Xun, who had always been very kind, went crazy and killed hundreds of so-called famous scholars with his own hands. This is really worthy of the true inheritance of Master Kong..."
"Hehe, isn't it? Master Kong immediately killed Shaozhengmao after he became an official. He took the lead and did not allow other Confucian scholars to follow his example?"
Nowadays, the status of Confucianism in the empire is really embarrassing. Anyone who has read other world history books will hardly have a good impression of Confucianism.
Although Confucian people can find many reasons, the Northern Song Dynasty collapsed because the Jin Dynasty was too powerful and the emperor at that time was a waste.
The Southern Song Dynasty collapsed because the emperor at that time was fatuous, the ministers were exercising power, and the Mongols were too powerful.
The Ming Dynasty fell because the emperor was fatuous (cross out, the civil servants were not shameless enough to say that Chongzhen was fatuous), the ministers wielded power, and the Manchus were too capable.
The demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty was due to the incompetence of the emperor, the manipulation of power by the ministers, and the overpowering of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
After reading the history books, you will find that the reasons cited by the Confucian scholars are always the same. They are nothing more than the emperor being fatuous, the ministers wielding power, and the enemy being too powerful. As for the sins of the Confucian scholars themselves, they are never mentioned.
Even though Confucian scholars have always been the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Southern Ming Dynasty, they were right. What was wrong was the world, and what was wrong was the world!
At least Liang Xiaoju and her classmates don't have much favorable impressions of this kind of Confucianism.
In this situation, what can Old Master Xun do?
Of course, as the ancestor of Confucianism, he publicly announced that Confucianism is not Confucianism, Confucianism is good, and Confucianism is illegal...
"Ahem, this guy is not simple. He first proposed that the ultimate goal pursued by Confucianism is the Dao. The Dao is infinite, and it is difficult to directly obtain the Dao. So he proposed the concept of the small path, and the Dao is composed of countless small paths.
, it is extremely difficult to directly pursue the great road, so pursue the small roads first, and eventually the small roads will converge to form the great road."
"This great road is the ultimate result of the three views of Confucianism. Except for the dead Master Confucius, no Confucian scholar dares to say that he has achieved the great road. And this small road is defined by him as everything in life. Dongporou is a small road, settling accounts.
It is a small road, fighting is a small road, farming is a small road, invention and creation are a small road..."
"In addition, he also proposed the induction method and the deduction method. He wrote the three induction methods and the deductive method's syllogism, but they have not yet been sent out."
"When he publishes the method of inductive romance, the Confucian worldview will be greatly completed, and he will become a great Confucian who is famous all over the world. Although many of these scholars are idiots, they still look at the quality of the method of inductive romance.
It’s got to come out.”
"But I don't know what he will do after he becomes a great scholar."