Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 92
The water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the sky is bright and the water is beautiful, everything is flat.

Nanhu Lake is not far away from Jinjiayang. Yang and Dang have the same meaning in Wu language.

Jinjiayangli is full of large and small boats, sampans and bamboo rafts. These boats are powerful tools for local villagers to travel and even transport. The people are also good at handling boats and rafts.

Sometimes even when the boats and rows meet, a floating market can be formed immediately.

"Patriarch, can you win?"

The rows of boats are joined together, and under the starlight at night, a group of villagers are sitting together.

It is only more than ten miles away from Zhujiazhuang.

The patriarch, Yan Wogong, was smoking a bong, and the tobacco in the copper pipe was red and burning.

"If we lose, what shall we do?" Another young man asked.

Yan Wogong is in his early forties. He is a Juren who went to Beijing to rush for exams and failed several times. He can be regarded as a landlord in the countryside. He took over the heavy responsibility of the patriarch of the Jin family from his father. He is usually decent and fair, so he has won the support of everyone in the family.

Although An Xin manages the land at home and also does some business, life is not bad, even if the situation is getting more and more difficult, but after all, the family has a big business, and life is much easier than ordinary people.However, as a scholar who has studied for decades, he is also full of worries about the current situation. What ordinary people see is only an acre of land in front of them, and they only think about eating today and dressing tomorrow. Think too far.

But as a juren, he is very clear that the fate of the individual is bound to the country, and when the world is in chaos, the people will not live in peace.

Especially nowadays, it is not a general change of dynasty, it is an invasion of foreign races, think about the chaos of the Five Husbands, the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Husbands, and the Liao, Jin and Mongols. At any time, the invasion of the Central Plains by foreigners will only bring endless suffering to the Han people.

A scholar should always do something.

Before the arrival of this Great Ming Master, in fact, Yan Wogong had already started to act. He used the name of visiting friends as a guest to travel around to contact his classmates and teachers in the land of Wuyue.

Gu Jiang from Kunshan, Mao Qiling from Ningbo, Huang Zongxi from Yuyao, and Zhang Huangyan from Yincheng all contacted or visited by letter. When they talked about the disaster of Jiashen and the fall of the two capitals, their clothes were wet with tears.

"If we lose, Xiashi Town and Zhujiazhuang will be our end, as well as Yangzhou farther away," Yan Wogong sighed, "How can there be any eggs under the collapse of the nest?"

"When the country is destroyed, the family is also destroyed."

A group of young people couldn't help but feel heavy when they heard this. Zhujiazhuang and their Jinjiayang Village are only ten miles away. Both villages are big villages, so the two villages have frequent exchanges and even have many relatives and friends.

Zhujiazhuang was tragically slaughtered, and the families of the mothers-in-law, aunts, aunts, cousins ​​and mother-in-laws of many young men are gone.

"Yangzhou was slaughtered because it refused to surrender?"

"Zhujiazhuang was also slaughtered because he refused to surrender."

An old scholar smoked a cigarette and said slowly in the dark that he was the patriarch's uncle of Lord Yan, who once wanted to succeed his father as the patriarch.

"Uncle's words are putting the cart before the horse. Robbers rob and kill people. Instead of blaming the robbers, blame the murdered people for not being obedient and obedient? Isn't this the idea of ​​the robbers?" My father Yan is very dissatisfied with this uncle, and he always likes it. To embarrass tenants, they either take advantage of the opportunity to increase rents or take advantage of disasters to lend usury, and when they do some business, they are short of money and half of their money is used as a good, and they are always in the eyes of money.

No wonder I have given birth to thirteen daughters in my life, but I can't give birth to a single one. I have done too many immoral things.

"When the Tartars went south, didn't the big gentry in Xiashi Town, Haining bring oxen and wine to welcome them down? As a result, Li Yuchun said that those few collaborating with the enemy had their heads chopped off to pretend to be creditors. All of them were hacked off to pretend to be military exploits, and all the women were kidnapped and raped and even sold as prostitutes, how many survivors are there in the entire Xiashi Town?"

Yan Wogong said, he tapped heavily on the ship's plank with his bong, "Those Tartars are not of my race, and their hearts must be different. Li Yuchun is a traitor and running dog, working for a tiger, and he can't speak half of reason."

"We people have to see the faces of those people clearly. Why are we here now? Because we want to set an example for future generations, and also to protect the wives and children behind us. Qing captives and traitors are like wolves, and there is a reason for them speak?"

The old scholar continued to smoke a cigarette, "But an egg can't touch a stone, an arm can't twist a thigh, and a mantis arm can't block a car!"

"Eggs can't touch rocks, but why does Uncle think that we are eggs and tartars are rocks? I think it's the opposite. Our Lord Admiral Zhu wiped out thousands of Thieves Li in one battle, and injured a few of us." It’s obvious that Thief Li is the fragile egg, and Admiral Zhu is the hard rock.”

"Old Five, don't be too happy. It was just a small victory before, and it was a surprise attack. It was Li Yuchun's men, and his old battalion is still there. What's more, the five hundred Jurchen cavalry are not something they can beat. .”

"Uncle, why do you want to increase the prestige of others and destroy your own ambition?"

"I'm also thinking about everyone. Once the battle is lost, that Admiral Zhu may slap his ass and leave, or simply surrender like Li Yuchun, but have you ever thought about what will happen to us?"

My father Yan stood up angrily, and said excitedly, "Then I would rather die standing up than begging for mercy from the Tartars and being hacked in the end. I can't do the same thing as Xu Min, my daughter-in-law was killed by the Tartars." The son committed adultery, dared to be angry and dare not speak out, but gave a divorce letter to divorce his daughter-in-law, and then gave it to the tartar, is this still human? How will I face my grandchildren in the future, and how will I explain it to them?"

"Shame on my ancestors."

The old scholar couldn't refute what he was told.

I could only squat there and smoke a cigarette.

The atmosphere on board was tense for a moment.

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Shen Wenzhong, who had just been appointed as a staff member of the Ministry of War, Wai Lang, supervisor of the censor, and supervisor of the army in Jiangnan provinces, received a report in the middle of the night that some villagers reported that someone was plotting to surrender and was planning to communicate with the bandits.

After receiving the report, Shen Wenzhong didn't dare to delay the slightest, and immediately summoned his Habayashi personal soldiers, and then rushed to meet the guerrilla Yang Boxing of the Habayashi Guard Front Battalion.

"Someone wants to inform the Tartars secretly and betray us. Please ask General Yang to lead someone to help me capture them."

Yang Boxing was promoted from the head of the Ding team of the standard-bearer battalion to the guerrilla of the Habayashi Weiqian battalion. From managing 60 people to now managing 1000 people, this honor is extremely amazing. He declined repeatedly, but Zhu Yihai still insisted on this order. his ability.

Troops were drawn from each battalion to form the Habayashi Guard Front Battalion. Half of the troops were distributed to the supervisors of the battalions to act as law enforcement teams. The task of guarding.

There used to be sixty family members, but now they have become five hundred guards, and the number of security guards around Zhu Yihai has increased many times.

How to transform from a team leader to a qualified guerrilla general, Yang Boxing is still a little uncomfortable, so he can only handle the job with more diligence and prudence.

After hearing that there was a traitor, he immediately dispatched someone to arrest him with Shen Wenzhong.

When Zhu Yihai got the report, Shen Wenzhong and Yang Boxing had already arrested everyone in front of him.

"This person is the landlord of Jinjiayang. He was originally a scholar. He is 53 years old this year. He is currently the deputy battalion officer of Jinjiayang Xiangyong."

Zhu Yihai was woken up just after falling asleep, his eyes were still red, looking at this somewhat thin old man.

"Can the Tartars spare you if you surrender?"

The old man Yan was very frightened, and said with great effort, "Daming's vitality is exhausted, and the change of dynasty is also a historical trend. The people are just following the trend of the times. We are just a group of ordinary people who just want to live in peace. No matter who is in the world, there is always a need The common people farm the land and pay the emperor’s grain.”

"Haven't you heard that the Tartars slaughtered the city in Yangzhou? Li Yuchun slaughtered the whole town in Xiashi Town, and Zhujiazhuang just now, don't you know?"

"That's because they resisted. As long as we don't resist, they won't kill innocent people indiscriminately."

"When the Tartars slaughtered Yangzhou, you felt that the knife did not hit your head. When the Tartars slaughtered Kipshi Town, you felt that it was far away. When the Tartars slaughtered Zhujiazhuang, you felt that they deserved what they deserved for resisting. Then I will ask you again, you surrendered Afterwards, if the Tartars not only want to take your food and money, but also plunder and rape your wife and daughter, won’t you resist?”

The old man Yan couldn't answer.

"Don't have illusions about animals, and don't stand on the sidelines when the knife falls on other people's heads. When Yangzhou was slaughtered, you didn't want to stand up. When Xiashi Town was slaughtered, you didn't want to stand up. When Zhujiazhuang was slaughtered, you didn't stand up. When the knife falls on your heads, who do you think will stand up for you?"

"We can only save ourselves!"

"Junmen, don't talk too much to this kind of traitor and traitor, push it out and chop it with a knife." Yang Boxing said.

At this time, Mr. Yan, who was behind the old man Yan, stood up, "General, the student's uncle is also confused for a while. The student is willing to atone for his uncle and donate his family's wealth to help the army."

Zhu Yihai looked at him, and Shen Wenzhong explained that this person was Yan Wogong, the patriarch of Jinjiayang, a Juren, and now he is the battalion officer of Jinjiayang Township Group.

"He didn't participate in the raid."

Zhu Yihai asked, "How far have they planned?"

"Old thief Yan secretly contacted the gentry and landlords in several villages, and wrote a letter of surrender, which was fingerprinted. When we captured him, he was trying to find a way to send the letter of surrender to Zhujiazhuang."

Zhu Yihai couldn't help sneering a few times.

There is no shortage of capitulators at any time.

Strictly worship my father.

"General, the students have a strategy, you can use it to help the general defeat the captives!"

Zhu Yihai looked at him, "Let's hear it!"

"Students can add their own names to the uncle's letter of surrender, and then secretly sneak to Zhujiazhuang to meet Thief Li and surrender."

"It's kind of interesting. You are quite courageous. You are not afraid of being found by Thief Li and cutting you off?"

"The students hope that they can use this to atone for their crimes, and hope that the general can deal with my uncle lightly."

(End of this chapter)