Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 600
"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were constant famines and wars in Shandong Province, and the population was exhausted. Those who survived claimed to be leaking households, and the households that were missing and killed were also."

Banyang Academy in Zichuan County.

The local gentry officials, together with the garrison troops, celebrated the re-opening of Banyang Academy here.

The head of the academy came from Fengtian. His ancestral home was Zichuan and later he moved to Nanjing because he was an official.

When mentioning the history of Zichuan, I sighed again and again.

"The founding of the Ming Dynasty, until the Jiajing period, there were only six Jinshi in Zichuan."

According to legend, during the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, the battle was fought in Shandong. There is even a legend that Zhu Yuanzhang bloodbathed Shandong.

Even because of the war and famine, the Tang Saier uprising occurred in Zichuan in the Yongle Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the six immigrants from Shandong were supplemented to restore Shandong.

By the time of Wanli, according to the statistics of the imperial court, there were more than 200 Dingkou in Zichuan. It was also in the Wanli Dynasty that Zichuan reached a good peak after more than [-] years of recovery.During the war in Chongzhen, Dingkou lost several thousand more.

There are six prominent families in Zichuan, Xibi, king of the east, grandson of the south and North Korea, and Zhang Gao of the middle.

In the Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, Zichuan admitted 22 Jinshi, of which the six major families accounted for thirteen.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Zhang Zhifa returned to the cabinet and became a bachelor. Two years later, he became the chief assistant.

From Hongzhi, Zichuan gradually prospered. Zichuan, which was originally a rammed earth city, was repaired three times in Hongzhi, Jiajing and Wanli.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, it was upgraded to a stone city. The height of the city was three feet two, the base width was six feet, and the circumference was eight miles. The moat outside the city was one foot five deep and one foot wide.

The four doors also built forts to store gunpowder.

After Zhang Zhifa became an official and returned to his hometown, he also mobilized to raise funds to build 120 houses, [-] enemy towers, and [-] hollow buildings.

Zichuan has become an iron-struck Zichuan.

At the end of Chongzhen, it even blocked the siege of tens of thousands of intruders.

But later, facing the Qing army going south, this iron city surrendered without a fight.

Under Sun Zhixie's Zhang Luo, Wang Aoyong of the royal family of Zichuan, who had served as the governor of Chongzhen Tongzhou and Yunyang, also agreed to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. With their active actions, Tiecheng finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was thus occupied by the Qing Dynasty.

Sun Zhixie, Wang Aoyong, and Han Yuan even won the appreciation and trust of the Tartars for their contributions to their hometown cities. Wang Aoyong, with the title of Minister of the Household Department and Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was ordered to appease Henan and Shandong.And Sun Zhixie was ordered to appease Jiangxi, and Han Yuan was also promoted to the Ministry of Officials.

But later Wang Aoyong was in Shandong, and because of the change in Qingzhou, 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 the Household Department, and his son, Wang Xi, was awarded the post of Cavalry Captain, joined the Han Army with the Xianglan Banner, and became a slave of the Tartars.

The former six famous families in Zichuan, Wang Bi, Sun Han, Gao Zhang, and Sun Han were killed by Xie Qian in Santai Mountain last time, and they were regarded as extinct. A group of young eunuchs were left, and they were sent to Taiwan for exile along with their women.

As for the remaining four clans, the Wang clan was naturally punished because they were such a big traitor as Wang Aoyong, especially because they were also included in the banner.

Wen Hu still asked Xie Qian to come forward, uprooted the Wang family, counted many crimes, and ransacked their homes. Fortunately, they did not exterminate their families like the Sun and Han families, but they also ended up exiled to Taiwan with their entire family.

The Zhang family suffered a devastating blow from Ding Keze because of their grudge against Ding Keze. In the end, although Wen Hu and Gu Xian were saved by others, they were completely defeated, and their money, food and property were almost lost.

Only the Gaobi clan was left, and because of their extreme knowledge and cooperation, they escaped the catastrophe.

But after a series of supplementary payments, refunds, donations, etc., the vitality of the two clans was also severely damaged, and now they are as docile as a kitten.

Even Gu Xianshou originally wanted Yuezhuang Gao to come out as the head of the academy, but they quickly declined.

The Gao family of Yuezhuang, Gao Rudeng, was born in the Jiajing period. He was famous for being kind and charitable. He had 80 acres of land. He donated money to build three bridges in his life. He also built Prajna Academy and county school several times. There are countless people living in disaster relief. When he died at the age of [-], the city went on strike within five hundred miles to mourn. The villagers were grateful and even set up a temple in the east of the city to worship.

His son was promoted as a Jinshi in the middle school, and he became the governor of Zhejiang Province.

The four sons were raised high, and the eldest son Gao Suoyun Juren married the daughter of Xiangqian, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Xincheng Wang.Gao Suoyun's second son, Gao Wei and Gao Heng, lived in the 12th year of Chongzhen, and his brothers were in the same school, and Gao Wei was still Xie Yuan.

The brothers who have been educated, raised, etc., are all from Juren, from officials to soldiers, Taoists, and Guanglu Temple Chancellors.

However, although the Gao family has indeed produced a large number of talents in recent years, there is a big problem, that is, they are on the wrong team just like Sun Wanghan's family.

They actually thought that after the Tartars entered the customs, they could win the world.

Gao Wei actually went to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination last year, and won the Jinshi, awarded Hejian Mansion to promote officials, and then was captured by Tu Guobao at the beginning of this year, and his hometown was restored by Ming Dynasty. Gao Heng Chongzhen was Jinshi in 16 years , and then fled back to his hometown when the state of Jiashen changed.

As a result, he followed Sun Zhixie and the others to Beijing to court the Tartars and was given a Hanlin review.

His cousin, Gao Ting, was also a candidate in the Tartar Shandong imperial examination last year, and another brother, Gao Ting, failed in the provincial examination together last year.

The only one in the Gao family who was lucky enough to be on the right team was Gao Li. He didn’t go well in the imperial examinations in his early years, so he simply abandoned his studies and went into business, moved to Rizhao, Qingzhou, founded a business, owned a merchant ship, and had a successful career. After the restoration, he complied with the current situation and immediately attached himself to him. He also donated money to help pay, and became a voluntary merchant praised by the court.

Relying on Daming in the past two years, and taking advantage of the prosperity of the Shandong route, the business has become more and more prosperous, and he has become a well-known wealthy businessman in Rizhao.

In comparison, the Zichuan Gao family was on the wrong team.

In fact, not only the Gao clan, almost all the six major clans were wrong.

For example, Gao Wei’s father-in-law was Zhang Zhifa’s eldest son, Zhang Tailai. Although his father was the chief assistant of Chongzhen, when the Tartars went south, even though he didn’t go to Beijing, he also gave out gold and silver to Sun Zhixie and others to pay tribute on his behalf. Emperor Qing.

His uncle, Zhang Zhongfa, was a famous calligrapher, and he also wrote several calligraphy tributes to the Tartar emperor.

It is precisely because of these that the Prajna Academy was reopened. Although Gao Bi survived, he dared not take the position of the mountain leader at all.

In the past, at Banyang Academy, the previous headmasters were basically members of the six major families, and most of the students there were the children of the six major families and their relatives. They studied here, wrote essays, studied stereotyped writing, and indeed traveled to more than 20 localities. Scholars, dozens of Jinshi from other counties, and countless scholars.

This is in Zichuan, which is the real first school.

But now that the school has reopened, most of the original students have disappeared, and the children of the Sun King Han Zhang family have almost disappeared.

The Gaobi family is also much more low-key.

The academy recruited a large number of new students, and even the head of the mountain was a family member who moved from Zichuan to Nanjing for several generations in the early years.

Among the freshmen, there were even nephews of Xie Qian and Ding Keze, and some small households, even merchants' families, who were not qualified to study here in the past, but now they all stood in the academy majestically.

The times have changed.

The local celebrities and gentry of Gao Zhangbi's family stood there in fear and trepidation at this moment, how can they still have the demeanor of local high-ranking celebrities in the past.

(End of this chapter)