Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 125 Wu Sangui, don't be cowardly;
"Xian Ting, Xuan Chu, my son-in-law, what do you think of this "Tian Mu System of the Heavenly Dynasty"?"

On the Wanjuan Building in Anbu Garden, Wu Sangui's old eyes seemed to be closed but not closed, leaning on a soft couch, holding a copy of "Tian Mu System in the Heavenly Dynasty" in his hand, flipping it lightly.

Wu Sangui has already carefully read the "Tian Mu System of the Celestial Dynasty"!
There was silence in the room.Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, and Guo Zhuangtu were sitting separately, each of them also had a copy of "Tian Mu System in the Heavenly Dynasty", and they should have read it carefully, so they all frowned, as if they were thinking hard.After a long while, it was Fang Guangchen who broke the silence: "Your Majesty, this "Tian Mu System of the Heavenly Dynasty" is actually an improved version of the Land Equalization System and Mansion Military System implemented in the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties."

He was right. Although this book "Tian Mu System of the Celestial Dynasty" borrowed its name from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the content in it is not Taiping Heavenly Kingdom style. Private ownership is almost denied.It is reasonable to put it in the late Qing Dynasty when the contradiction between people and land was extremely prominent, but it was still too difficult to implement, and it was not really implemented in the end.

Today's China has just experienced the great chaos in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, with serious population loss and the contradiction between people and land has been greatly alleviated.Although the desire of farmers to occupy a large amount of land still exists, this desire is not just to eat enough, but to make a fortune and leave a large estate for future generations.

Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s system is not suitable for today’s situation. On the contrary, the land equalization system and government military system of the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties are more suitable for the current situation.

Liu Xuanchu went on to say: "According to the "Tianchao Tianmu System", the land in the world will be divided into two categories: 'koufen' and 'xuntian'. Among them, koufen is the land given by word of mouth, and Xuntian is the land awarded for meritorious service. The land produced is divided into two types: 'cooked land' and 'wasteland'. Among them, mature land cannot be exempted from taxation, while barren land can be exempted from taxation for five to ten years. No matter whether it is koufen or Xuntian, it is not allowed to be traded, but it can be inherited by future generations, unless the owner of the land There are no descendants. However, if you inherit a certain number of honored fields, you must undertake military service! It seems that the main purpose of formulating this 'field system' is to encourage fighting!"

Guo Zhuangtu added: "The "Tianchao Field Mu System" also stipulates the implementation of the 'limited land system'. That is to say, the upper limit of per capita land holdings cannot exceed [-] mu. If it exceeds, the state will buy it back, so as to prevent The land is over-concentrated in the future.

In addition, this "Tian Mu System of the Celestial Dynasty" also stipulates the three iron laws of "equal taxation", "equal service" and "payment and exemption from service". disadvantages of fairness. "

A cold light suddenly flashed in Wu Sangui's eyes, and he glanced at the three advisers present: "Can we implement this "Tianchao Farm System"? If we implement it, can it inspire soldiers to fight?"

"Yes, but the effect may not be great," Liu Xuanchu frowned, thinking, "Because the land in our hands is sparsely populated, the land is not very valuable, and most of our soldiers are also awarded Tian. But."

"But what?" Seeing Fang Guangchen hesitating, Wu Sangui asked.

Liu Xuanchu said: "However, if we can hit Shaanxi-Gansu, which has a relatively large population, but poor land, and strong folk customs, we can use the rich Sichuan land to motivate the strong soldiers of Shaanxi-Gansu to fight. If we can have 20 With [-] strong men from Shaanxi and Gansu, isn’t the whole world at your fingertips?”

In fact, the current population of Shaanxi and Gansu is not too large, and the conflict between people and land is not very prominent.However, because the quality of the land in Shaanxi and Gansu is too poor and the carrying capacity of the land is relatively weak, the strong men in Shaanxi and Gansu have a strong desire for land.In addition, the Shaanxi-Gansu area was an important military town in the Ming Dynasty, with Yulin, Ningxia, Gansu, Guyuan and other important towns. The people have a strong military tradition, and since the end of the Ming Dynasty, there have been many soldiers. Few soldiers from Shaanxi and Gansu.

If Wu Sangui can take Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu in one go, and then use the sparsely populated and fertile Sichuan land to grant the soldiers of Gansu and Shaanxi to fight for the land, then the Qing Dynasty will be suspended!
Even the Ganshan strong men mobilized by the land of Sichuan do not have much combat power, as long as there are 20. 20 plus 30 is [-]!Fighting heads can also wipe out the Qing Dynasty!
"Xuan Chu, do you mean that we have to go all out to fight north after we raise our troops?" Wu Sangui frowned, seeming a little worried.

"My lord, if we want to formulate a strategy around this "Tianchao Tianmu System", we must fight north!" Liu Xuanchu said, "Sichuan is a land of abundance, and there are thousands of miles of fertile fields. A piece of land is just used to grant land. Since ancient times, there have been many strong men in Shaanxi and Gansu. The Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties all started from Shaanxi, and they all used the method of granting land. If we do not go north, but go east to Huguang, this book " The Tianchao Field Acre System" is not so useful. After all, the Huguang generation also has a lot of fields, and most of them are fertile paddy fields. If the fields there are equalized, everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. Who is willing to help the prince conquer the world? Well, the Huguang gentry are very powerful, and this "Tian Mu System of the Celestial Dynasty" is not good for them!"

Wu Sangui frowned even tighter, "That is to say, if the old man wants to use the powerful medicine of the "Tianmu System of the Heavenly Dynasty", he must go north to Ganshan?"

"Exactly!" Liu Xuanchu nodded, "Now we have trained thousands of wolf cavalry, and we are no longer afraid of the Eight Banners cavalry, and you also have a foundation in Sichuan, just go north!"

Wu Sangui frowned, "Although the wolf cavalry stabbing people are powerful, the Eight Banners soldiers should not be underestimated. And the Guanzhong Plain is the place where the Eight Banners cavalry can use their skills!"

Hearing what Wu Sangui said, Liu Xuanchu knew that the prince's "counseling disease" had committed another attack, and he must be thinking about entering the army in Huguang, where the water network is everywhere, so as to temporarily avoid the sharp edge of the Eight Banners cavalry.

But the problem is that Wu Sangui's army is not the southern army that is good at fighting in the water town of Zeguo.Wu Jiajun is Guan Ning's old background, plus the "Chuangxian Remnant Party" from Shaanxi and Gansu, basically no one knows how to play navy.The Eight Banners cavalry team in Huguang Water Town can't play well, and Wu Sangui's army can't play well either. What if they get stuck in the water net and can't move?

When Liu Xuanchu was thinking about how to help Wu Sangui cure his "cowardly illness", Wu Yingqi's loud voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Father, something has happened to the father, and the Tartar court will attack us soon! "

Before the words were finished, the door of Wanjuanlou's study room was pushed open, and then Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui came in one after the other. Among them, Wu Guogui walked up to Wu Sangui with a stack of folders in his hand, holding his hands together. Handed it over: "Father, this is a copy of Mingfa's edict sent by someone from Zheng Junmen in Sichuan."

"Issuing the edict tomorrow?" Wu Sangui looked at the copy in Wu Guogui's hand, "So many? What did you say?"

Wu Guogui said: "I just said three things. One is to garrison fields in five towns. The imperial court will set up four camps for garrisoning fields in Jingzhou, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Guilin, and they will be composed of Ezha, Shi Huashan, Sun Sike, Leerjin, and Wang Fuchen. Five people, including the President, will serve as Ministers of Farming Affairs for the President, and each will lead [-] Eight Banners or new green battalion troops to station in the south.

The second is the replacement of the two vassals. First, Wang Fuchen escorted Pingnan Prince’s son Shang Zhixin to go south to Guangzhou to take over Shang Kexi’s presidency of Pingfan’s vassal administration, and then Prince An Yue Le led a new army of Eight Banners to escort my eldest brother to Yunnan to assist you, Father Wang! "

Wu Yingqi said excitedly: "Father, it seems that the imperial court is going to divide the troops into five groups to encircle us this time! Make up your mind, who are we going to fight first and then?"

"My lord," Liu Xuanchu said with a smile, "it seems that this Kangxi still doesn't know how to fight! The soldiers are divided into five groups, and they are so far apart, how can we form a joint force? Let's defeat each other!"

Wu Sangui asked: "Do you know which way Yue Le goes south?"

"I don't know yet," Wu Guogui said, "but it should be impossible to come up from Guangxi."

Wu Yingqi said: "Father, we don't care where he comes from, we just fight in one direction!"

Wu Sangui glanced at Wu Yingqi: "You don't care about Brother Ni anymore?"

Wu Yingqi quickly shut up and said nothing—someone in Yunnan is already chewing their tongues, calling him "Wu Shimin".
Wu Guogui said: "Father, we have too many soldiers and too little food, so we can't last long. Once we start a war, we must march quickly to expand our territory. I suggest that we divide our troops into two groups and attack Sichuan and Huguang at the same time!"

"Where is the right place for the main attack?" Wu Sangui asked.

Wu Guogui said: "Where Yue Le is, that's where the main attack will be!"

Wu Sangui nodded his head heavily, as if he had made up his mind: "Okay! Let's do this! Yue Le is the only remaining Manchurian veteran." He squeezed his fist again, gritted his teeth and said, "As long as we can defeat him, we will be able to defeat him in the future." Nothing to be afraid of!"

Wu Sangui made up his mind to overcome his terminal illness, and when he was preparing for a battle with Yue Le, the last veteran general of the Qing dynasty, he designed him step by step to become a loyal minister who wanted to be a self-respecting soldier. The chief culprit, Wang Zhongxiao, is looking for "witnesses" along with Zhou Chang, Wang Shiyuan, and Wang Zhongyi in this area of ​​eastern Zhejiang!
But the "witness" he was looking for was not the witness who helped him frame the traitor, but the "witness" of the "Witness Academy"!
The so-called "Witness Academy" is not a school for training witnesses, but rather "proving humanity".The founder of this academy was Liu Zongzhou, a great Confucianist in the late Ming Dynasty. Zongzhou’s studies focused on prudence and independence. He specialized in studying how to be a moral gentleman. , That is to be cautious and independent, you can be a sage.

And this set of knowledge of "proving human nature" has been studied a lot by Liu Zongzhou and other Confucians in eastern Zhejiang, and finally proved to be wrong because there are people who are "naturally good" and people who are not human!When nature is good and you don't want to be a human, then no one will do it!
Therefore, Liu Zongzhou, Mr. Jishan, who pursued the knowledge of Shendu all his life, could only prove his morality by going on a hunger strike to die for his country, but at the same time, he also proved the truth that relying on Shendu cannot be a good person.
After Liu Zongzhou's death, the Witness Academy he founded was closed for a while, and it wasn't until two or three years ago that another great Confucian in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Huang Zongxi, was re-established.

The main activity place of the reopened Witness Academy is no longer Shaoxing Mansion, but moved to the neighboring Ningbo Mansion. Its main activity place is in a courtyard of Wanjia, a landlord in Ningbo, so it is called Yongshang Witness Academy.

The main purpose of Wang Zhongxiao this time, in the name of arresting Oboi and the members of the Tiandihui, left Suzhou for a stroll to Ningbo, was to find the Yongshang Witness Academy, and from there invited a group of Confucian scholars to set up a reform school in Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong.

According to Wang Zhongxiao's plan, Tiandihui's revolution should not only divide the fields at the bottom, but also have the truth and new knowledge for the middle and upper classes, and at the same time, it needs to cultivate military and technical backbones.And even if it is to equalize the land, it is necessary to win the support of some Confucian scholar-bureaucrats as much as possible-after all, the land equalization system is not completely equal, but a system that uses land distribution as a means of military mobilization.

If Confucian scholar-bureaucrats want to occupy more land, then go to the army to fight and accumulate military merits!
The Guangdong Restoration School was a tool used to win over some Confucian scholar-bureaucrats.

So at this very moment, the Yongshang Witness Academy in the Wanshi Manor outside Yinxian County, Ningbo welcomes a group of "big benevolent people" carrying swords, muskets, "The World Is All Right" and "The Heavenly Mu System".

Huang Zongxi, who was already old and thin, wearing a gray cloth robe and a certain gray hood on his head, didn't want to come out to receive these uninvited guests, but when he saw "The World Is Public" and "The Tianmu Farm System" The full text of ", I immediately knew something bad - someone took advantage of the "Ming Yi Dai Interview Record" that he wrote and passed on to future generations to make trouble!

Huang Zongxi is a thinker, but he is not a revolutionist. He just thought about it, reflected on it, and then quietly wrote a few counter-books for future generations of "Ming Jun", and did not intend to use this "Ming Yi Waiting for Interview" to compete with Da Qing Dynasty confrontation.

Unexpectedly, someone took half of his "Ming Yi Dai Interview Record" and changed its name to "The World is Public" to make trouble. What's more, this group of people copied the book and didn't copy the whole copy. , but copied half of it, and changed the "field system" into "Harada", and then wrote "The Tianchao Field Mu System" on the basis of "Harada"!
After these two rewritings, the rebellious spirit in "Ming Yi Dai Interview Lu" has been strengthened to the maximum, thus becoming a rebellious program!
This world. I'm afraid it's going to be a mess!

This Daming might be coming back!
Thinking of this, Huang Zongxi's face became cloudy and uncertain for a while—afraid!

It's not that he's afraid of chaos in the world, but that he's been blocked in his own academy by several Qing officials with anti-books related to him. Is this going to be "sacred"?
"Mr. Lizhou!" When Huang Zongxi was afraid, Wang Zhongxiao had already said with an easy-going face, "These two anti-books have been widely circulated in Jiangsu recently. I wonder if you have seen them here in Zhejiang?"

"No, no." Huang Zongxi quickly shook his head, "To be honest, this is the first time this old man has read such an article."

Well, this is not "Ming Yi Dai Fang Lu", but "The World Is Public" and "The Tian Mu System", which are different!

"Oh, how is that written?" Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "Mr. Lizhou, I don't read much, and I don't understand the words 'Yuanjun' and 'Yuanchen' at the beginning, but I feel that the 'Yuantian' at the end That's right, "The Tianchao Tianmu System" is also very good, and the song "Song of Great Harmony" is also good! What do you think, old man? The emperor asked me this time, how should I answer?"

What?Didn't come to catch me?Huang Zongxi felt relieved for a while, but he didn't dare to relax completely, "Wang Shiwei, you came all the way to Ningbo just to ask these questions?"

"No," Wang Zhongxiao said, "The younger generation came to the Witness Academy to find some masters who are proficient in Confucianism for my father to set up the Restoration Academy in Guangdong. This is good, so I want to learn the way of witness!"

What?Is the human nature of King Lu Bu's assistant ministers inherently good?This is impossible!Huang Zongxi thought to himself: It seems that my teacher's knowledge is still lacking. It is true that human nature is kind, but not everyone has human nature!How can there be any inherent goodness for a person without humanity?
Huang Zongxi, who had improved his knowledge, asked: "Wang Shiwei, did the word "ideal" in Weixin Academy you mentioned come from the "Avatamsaka Sutra" "If a person wants to know, all the Buddhas of the three times should contemplate the nature of the dharma world." , everything is created by the mind'?"

"It's not idealism," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "Can I use my pen and ink?"

Huang Zongxi turned his head and said to a fat man in his thirties with a Chinese character face and big forehead, "Ji Ye, get a pen, ink and paper for Wang Shiwei."

"is teacher."

The fat man quickly brought Wang Zhongxiao a piece of rice paper and a brush dipped in ink. Wang Zhongxiao picked up the brush and wrote down the words "Reform Academy", "Reform Society", and "Reform Reform" on the paper. line characters.

Seeing Wang Zhongxiao's handwriting, the fat man showed a surprised expression——Wang Fuchen's son seems to be a little educated.

"Reformation Society?" Huang Zongxi looked at the paper handed over by the students, and asked curiously, "What kind of learning does this society do?"

"New Confucianism!" Wang Zhongxiao said, "My father, Prince Jingnan, Prince Pingnan, and Gege Dingnan often discuss Confucianism together. Therefore, I want to establish a reform society in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, and open some reform academies. On the one hand, I will teach Mr. Ji Shan's way of witnessing;

In the future, the talents educated by the Restoration Academy will not only have a kind heart for the world and the people, but also have the ability to govern the world and help the people. This is no different from those who only know how to read the Four Books and Five Classics to take the exam. After passing the exam, they will be useless except for money Strong scholars? "

(End of this chapter)