Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 225 0220 [Start brainwashing]

On a cold winter night, the river wind howls.

In the quiet countryside, occasionally there are a few dogs barking.

Zhu Ming took a shower to wash off the smell of alcohol, and ran back to the bedroom with his head shrunk and his neck shrunk.The charcoal in the brazier in the room was red, and it warmed up as soon as he entered the room, which made him feel very comfortable.

"Come up soon, Mr. Xiang, the bed has been warmed up." Zheng Yuanyi shouted.

Zhu Ming picked up the porcelain bottle on the table, got into bed and said, "Smell this."

Zheng Yuanyi unplugged the plug and felt the perfume with a woman's sense of smell: "It's rose dew, and other fragrances were added, but I can't tell what exactly was added."

Since there is already a perfume, it is inevitable to add fragrance.

The scholar named Wen Zhengtong, apart from improving the distiller a little, his real skill is in perfumery.This bottle of perfume is thick but not stuffy, fragrant and fragrant, and it smells really comfortable.

"I'll wipe it off for you." Zhu Ming said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, smear everywhere." Zheng Yuanyi opened the quilt further.

Zhu Ming's action of applying perfume was not very honest. Zheng Yuanyi lay on the bed with her eyes closed, with a smile on her mouth, enjoying it quite a bit, and her cheeks gradually turned red.

"Have you finished wiping?" Zheng Yuanyi asked.

"It's finished wiping, let me smell it." Zhu Ming moved his head over her body, arching her body, making Zheng Yuanyi giggle uncontrollably.

Holding the man's head and not moving, Zheng Yuanyi asked, "Do I smell good?"

"It's very fragrant." Zhu Ming said.

Zheng Yuanyi said: "It's been half a year and nothing happened. I want to give birth to a baby for Mr. Xiang."

Zhu Ming comforted: "Don't worry, take your time, you are still young."

It must be that the charcoal was burning too much, and the two were sweating from the heat.Moreover, the air in the room was not good, and it was as if he was suffocating if he was panting heavily.

It took a long time to calm down, and the darkness returned to calm.

Zheng Yuanyi lay on Zhu Ming's chest and said, "Today, I saw a girl in the school, so I went to attend the class too. The things taught here are a little different from what I used to study."

"What's different?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zheng Yuanyi said: "Half of it is math class, so I started to learn abacus at such a young age, and I will be able to work as an accountant in a few years."

Zhu Ming laughed and said, "All the children from Daming Village can be accountants."

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the abacus had not been fully popularized, and it was difficult to see it in remote areas.

Even in big cities, many tricks of the abacus are private secrets that have not been widely disseminated at all.Song Huizong promoted arithmetic schools across the country, paying more attention to traditional arithmetic, and now also adopts "Zhu's Mathematical Classics", and abacus is also ignored.

The abacus formula for Daming Village was compiled by Zhu Guoxiang himself, and Meng Zhao and Yu Shanwei also added it.The children in the village can learn this stuff, coupled with the orthodox math class, they can really be competent as the accountant.

After chatting about school anecdotes for a while, Zheng Yuanyi said again: "Sister Yu at the inn is amazing, she looks like she understands everything, even men want to listen to her."

"Yu Shanwei is really smart." Zhu Ming said.

Zheng Yuanyi laughed and said: "I overheard today that Sister Yu reprimanded Mr. Meng, and Mr. Meng was obedient and didn't dare to answer back. When they came out to meet people, Mr. Meng held his head high again, looking like a good man with strong bones .”

"Hahahaha!" Zhu Ming could imagine that scene, Meng Zhao completely became a strict wife.

Chatting and chatting, a pair of young people hugged each other and fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, after breakfast, all the scholars gathered at the inn again.

Yesterday was to complain about the current situation and talk about some new inventions, but today we have to conduct academic discussions.

It is mainly about certain contents of "Tao Yong Ce". For the convenience of dissemination in Tokyo, Chen Yuan sometimes writes his views rather vaguely, for fear of violating the taboo of new learning.

After the book was sent back to Yangzhou, the scholars did not understand it very well, and accumulated many doubts and wanted to ask for advice.

For three whole days, Ju Ming was answering doubts, and his thoughts were very radical.

Ling Guxu asked: "The king is not right, and it is difficult for the ministers to persuade them, so they can only place their hopes on the new king. If the new king is not right, what can we do?"

The scholars looked at Zhu Ming, wanting to know the answer.

Zhu Ming said: "Have you ever read history? In the past dynasties, if there are consecutive ignorant kings, what will happen to this dynasty?"

"It's true that the dynasty has changed!" Ling Gu Xu said.

Zhu Ming said: "The change of the dynasty is only a result. The ruler is not right, and the ministers advise him. If the advice fails, he wants a new ruler. The new ruler is stupid, and the country's affairs will become more corrupt. What do the people want? Businessmen just want to do business safely. Those who only want to grow food safely. If the business tax is too heavy, the merchants will complain; if the food tax is too heavy, the farmers will complain. If everyone complains, the whole world will turn against him. When the traitorous party prospers the government, the gentleman will renounce his morality."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked, because Ju Ming's hint was too obvious.

Lu Heng asked: "Your Excellency said, this Song Dynasty..."

Zhu Ming said: "All the people in the world are like bamboos in the forest. The harder the bamboo is crushed, the stronger the rebound will be. If the bamboo cannot be crushed, the bamboo will stand upright. You don't know, Jingdong Road is already full of thieves. Shaanxi There have also been more thieves, many of whom have fled into the mountains. The [-] barbarians in southern Sichuan have just been pacified, and I guess there will be rebels in the south of the Yangtze River."

"The south of the Yangtze River is rich, how can there be rebels?" Yu Dayuan asked.

Zhu Ming said: "The government is building large-scale construction projects and ordered Zhu Mian to transport flowers and stones. That Zhu Mian is vicious and vicious. If he targets a household, as long as the household is not strong, he will use the excuse of collecting strange stones to rush into the rich family's house to extort money." .In Zhejiang and Jiangdong, wealthy households go bankrupt every month. The wealthy households are in such a difficult situation, how can the common people? They may be conscripted as servants, ordered to buy tribute, or even occupied by corrupt officials. .”

Yangzhou scholars really don't know these things, and they feel incredible after hearing that, the people in Jiangnan are actually worse than Hanzhong.

Wang Chang asked, "Are state and county officials just sitting back and doing nothing?"

Zhu Ming sneered: "The officials are very fond of Zhu Yu. That guy Zhu Yu already has the power to mobilize the Southern Xiang army to transport the flowers and stones. In addition, Zhu Ming also keeps private soldiers, which has long been regarded as a rebellion. The officials turned a blind eye to this. Officials from prefectures and counties in the two Zhejiang provinces and east of the Yangtze River all went to visit Zhu Miao, claiming to be his disciple. If anyone dares to oppose Zhu Miao, he will not be able to serve as an official in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time."

"This... this is simply unreasonable!" Ling Guxu felt that it was too nonsense, and even suspected that Zhu Ming was lying.

Zhu Ming said: "Let Zhu Xi continue to behave mischievously, at most three to five years later, the people in the south of the Yangtze River will definitely rise up. This is the inconvenient theory of rules. If the ruler is not right, the ministers are not right, the people will be wrong. You can't ask for others, you can only ask for yourself. If one man raises his arms, ten thousand will follow, and disaster is not far away."

Lu Heng said: "Jiangnan is a land of wealth and wealth. There is a rebellion there, and the imperial court sends a large army to conquer it. All states in the world will inevitably increase taxes."

Zhu Ming sighed: "The first to bear the brunt is Huainan and Jingdong. The people there must be hard to bear. Especially Jingdong Road, the people are already burdening Hebei and Gyeonggi. If we supply the army to conquer Jiangnan, I am afraid that the rebels will rise one after another."

Song Jiang just kicked off the prelude. During the Fangla uprising, Shandong and Hebei were also rebelling.

In terms of the number of insurgents alone, Shandong and Hebei even surpassed Jiangnan.It's just that Jiangnan has a unified leadership, while Shandong and Hebei fight on their own, and were finally defeated by officers and soldiers.

It was just broken, not really eliminated.

The remnants of the rebel army fled into mountainous areas such as Taihang Mountain and Yimeng Mountain, and were still active until the Jin soldiers went south.The Jin soldiers were more brutal than the Song court, forcing the rebels to resist the Jin and help the Song Dynasty. Many leaders of the rebel army went to join Zongze, or fought guerrillas in the name of Zongze's generals.

Ju Ming looked at the surging river outside the door: "The way of heaven is to make up for what is not enough; the way of man is to damage what is not enough and make up for what is not enough. Nowadays, humanism is rampant. The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. And officials and treacherous officials, They are the richest, but they still want to plunder the property of the common people. When the human way is exhausted, the way of heaven must come true in this world!"

Everyone trembled in fright.

The way of heaven in Ju Ming's mouth is not the way of heaven that is commonly said.

What does it mean to make up for the deficiency?It means that the people at the bottom have nothing, and through violent struggle, they get back what they should have from the rich.

Ling Guxu asked: "Is there no way to turn the tide?"

Zhu Ming said: "The chaos in Jiangnan, Hebei, and Shandong may be able to be quelled. But what about after pacification? Excessive taxation will still be imposed, and people will rebel. In the long run, with years of wars and chaos, how can all states and counties in the world afford heavy taxes?"

The crowd was silent.

Zhu Ming is vaccinating them, so he can’t say more: “I was admitted to Tanhualang, and I also became a court official to know the state. The Mausoleum restricted area improved the lives of the people near the Yaoling Mausoleum. It also punished evil gentry, arrested thieves, equalized taxes on Fangtian, arrested demons, and cleaned up temple fields... All these things have deterred Puzhou officials and gentry, and I only need to do it again Knowing the state for two years, Puzhou will surely be governed, and merchants, gentry, and common people will all benefit."

Yu Dayuan cupped his hands and said in admiration: "The prefect is really a capable minister!"

"So what if you are a capable minister?" Zhu Ming slapped the table angrily, "I was about to show my strength, and all the counties in Puzhou were waiting to be built, but I was transferred to Jinzhou by a piece of paper. It's because there are several big households in Puzhou who are Cai. Dang, if I offend Cai Dang, I can’t stay here. The Qian family members were responsible for dozens of murder cases, and the government personally sent court officials to interrogate them, and they were all acquitted!”

Although Zhu Ming is pretending, some emotions are real, and he is getting more and more angry at the moment.

Ling Guxu could feel the kind of grievance, and sighed: "It is said that Dalang's youth was successful, and he was appreciated by the officials and soared to the sky. But he never expected that Dalang would be so wronged and helpless when he was an official. Can't you use your fists?"

"How to use it? How can there be a place for honest people to speak in the court?" Zhu Ming said angrily, "Now the Cai party is fighting with the Zheng party, and the upright ministers are leaning on Zheng Juzhong. But what is Zheng Juzhong? He I used to be the Cai party. When the two of them fight, it’s nothing more than dog bite dog. Even if Cai Jing is defeated one day, how can Zheng Juzhong be in charge? Zheng Juzhong has Wang Fu under his command, and this year, Hanzhong has turned upside down. The heavenly Huang Qianshan is the confidant of that Wang Fu!"

Hearing what he said, Gu Xu was a little disheartened, and he didn't even want to go to the imperial examination anymore.

Zhu Ming said again: "Brother Min and Brother Bai, they became Jinshi together with me. With their talents and learning, they couldn't even pass the pass test. Do you believe it? Anyway, I don't believe it. Especially brother Min, his family has a long history, and Guan He knew the content of the test by heart, and he could pass the test with his eyes closed. It was nothing more than someone bribing the gangsters and occupying the test quota. The two of them had to be recommended by me in front of the officials, so they each got a small official. dispatch."

Min Zishun and Bai Chongyan are local scholars, of course everyone is not worthy of them, and the impression of the court monarchs is getting worse.

What follows is a confused king, treacherous ministers, disorderly people, what should the scholars do?

(End of this chapter)