Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

The so-called Donglin Party refers to the bureaucratic class political group dominated by Jiangnan gentry in the late Ming Dynasty.

Gu Xiancheng and others restored Donglin Academy where Yang Shi gave lectures in the Song Dynasty, and formed a political group with Gao Panlong, Qian Yiben and others. The opposition parties fighting against it took the name of Donglin Academy and collectively referred to Donglin Academy lectures and the people in the government and the public who were related to it or supported and sympathized with the lectures as the "Donglim Party".

But if you say that anyone from Jiangnan belongs to the Donglin Party, it is actually quite unfair. Jiangsu and Zhejiang have their own factions, called the "Zhejiang Party", which represent the interests of landlords and literati in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Shen Yiguan, the leader of the Zhejiang Party and the chief assistant of Wanli, is a mortal enemy of the Donglin Party. The Zhejiang Party later defected to Eunuch Wei because they could not defeat the Donglin Party. Therefore, Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, requested that a shrine be built for Wei Zhongxian, and the first shrine dedicated to Wei Zhongxian was built in Zhejiang.

Although the Donglin Party is responsible for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, it is unfair to put all the blame on him. It can be said that Chongzhen's unremitting efforts to reverse the trend, coupled with the ups and downs of the dynasty, Qi, Xuan, Chu, Zhejiang and Donglin were at odds with each other. These combined were the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

But the main reason has to be that Li Aixinjueluo Youjian took over the pot. He is really too good for others...

But having said that, if Chongzhen didn't work so hard, maybe Ming Dynasty could survive for two more years.

We are not afraid that the emperor is incompetent, but we are afraid that the emperor will not realize that he is incompetent.

That sentence is actually more appropriate to apply to Chongzhen - Zhu Youjian, you are different from others, don't waste your energy on government affairs.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qi, Chu and Zhejiang parties began to show the flexible moral bottom line of surrendering to obedience and surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, while the Donglin party still played the same set of mutually exclusive party disputes in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty...

At first glance, it is judged that the success is insufficient and the failure is more than sufficient.

Being exposed is not only reflected in party struggles. For example, the Jiangnan gentry collectively cheated and cheated on taxes, which is really a tradition.

It all shows that the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River were heavy, and it was Li Zicheng of Shaanxi who rebelled.

So is it heavy? It can only be said that it is important.

There is a saying that is very suitable to evaluate the Jiangnan gentry, "What do they know about capitalism? Capitalism requires foreign aggression. If they are not invaded, they will be Amitabha!"

The country wants to defend against imperialism and needs money, so it asks them to collect taxes. Good guy, it immediately becomes weird and praises imperialism. Imperialism is good, imperialism is good, and the world order ruled by imperialism is good. Asking them to collect taxes is like killing your father. This has been the case from the late Ming Dynasty until now.

As a result, when it came to Daiqing, Daiqing would not tolerate them. The days of being domineering in the Ming Dynasty were over.

In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), Shunzhi died of illness and Kangxi ascended the throne. In accordance with the emperor's order, the assistant ministers Sony and Obai ordered all localities to step up supervision to collect arrears of money and grain. If local officials fail to complete their tasks, they will either be dismissed for questioning or demoted.

With this strict order, for the sake of their own future, local officials began to urge the Jiangnan gentry landlords to collect grain and tax. The pioneer was Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangsu.

Zhu Guozhi was a native of Fushun, Liaodong Province, and belonged to the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army.

He arrested all 13157 gentry, including 2171 country gentry and 11346 students (scholars) in Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, and Liyang County who were in arrears with taxes, and required them to pay the arrears within two months. They must make up for it with money and food, otherwise they will be severely punished, such as being deprived of their honors, being banned, or even being dismissed from their posts, expelled from the army, and having their homes confiscated.

Seeing that the court was serious, some Jin gentry were frightened and hurriedly paid the arrears. 1924 gentry households and 10548 students paid a total of 4.9 taels of silver.

However, the difference between these arrears and the shortfall was too big. Zhu Guozhi believed that some gentry landlords deliberately defaulted on their arrears and should be severely punished.

This is no longer an ordinary tax resistance, we must take a heavy blow!

In the end, the Qing government expelled all the arrested Jin gentry from their honors. All of a sudden, the honors they had earned through studying hard for ten years were gone, and they were transformed from people with social status into ordinary people. Their property was confiscated to offset tax arrears, and they even became impoverished.

Among them, 3,000 people with the largest tax arrears were shackled and imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. They were not released until May of the following year. After they were released from prison, their property was confiscated and they were already homeless.

When the Ming Dynasty asked you to pay taxes, you refused to pay them. You found various excuses to resist the taxes, and even secretly scolded the court. Well, now that the Ming Dynasty has fallen, you group of borers have emerged from the trees. The Qing Dynasty didn't care whether you were a scholar or a doctor, as long as you were fat and oily, and kept money but not head, then take your pick.

You ask why the Jiangnan scholar-officials in the Qing Dynasty began to miss the Ming Dynasty? Just savor it and that’s it.

The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are a completely reactionary group. They are a bunch of white-eyed wolves who fail to achieve anything but fail. Li Ao's words, "Slaves brought out by beating, obedient people brought out by killing, evil breeds brought out by spoiling" are the most suitable descriptions of them.

Judging from consistent historical experience, if the Jiangnan gentry starts to be lazy, they must be too gentle to them.

Huang Chao had made up his mind about the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and felt that it was necessary to have a heart-to-heart with these Ming Dynasty clans and scholar-bureaucrats.

Lao Zhu was a little bit annoyed at first, feeling that he should take action against this unscrupulous descendant, rather than Huang Chao, an outsider, taking action for him. After he took action to deal with the first family, he started to get upset, and finally decided to hand over those descendants to Huang Chao.

Out of sight, out of mind is like this.

After taking care of the King of Fortune Zhu Changluo, the world was shocked. Zhu Youxiao cried and ate several more bowls of rice after learning that his uncle Zhu Changxun was lit by a man named "Huang Chao" who claimed to be "General Soaring to the Sky".

If there is a rebel, the court will definitely not be able to sit idly by and ignore it. The slaves must be suppressed, and the traitor army must also be suppressed, but the Ming Dynasty is now somewhat stretched and has no money.

Things always have priorities. Although Huang Chao killed the emperor's uncle and a group of landlords and squires, he had no intention of taking over the territory. Instead, he distributed the land and money to the poor people. The ministers and workers in the court would definitely not tell Zhu Youxiao about this matter. Wei Zhongxian sent someone to find out.

According to Wei Zhongxian's idea, don't worry about it, do whatever you want, but the troops still have to be sent out.

Zhu Youxiao: Why send troops?

Wei Zhongxian: Suppress bandits.

Zhu Youxiao: Didn’t you say don’t worry about it?

Wei Zhongxian: Of course, it just makes people think that we want to defend the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao: Let Huang Chao do it?

Wei Zhongxian: Let the courtiers! Huang Chao knows we don’t have it!

While Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian were discussing the dispatch of troops, Huang Chao also advanced all the way and entered Suzhou City.

On the same day, Huang Chao copied tens of millions of taels of silver in Suzhou. After thinking about it, Lao Huang felt that it was not the case, so he sent people to contact Wei Zhongxian and secretly sent 35 million taels to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the 35 million taels of silver in front of him and fell into deep thought.

This General Soaring to the Sky is so kind.

What kind of rebellion can we put down? This is obviously my adoptive father...

Because of this, Zhu Youxiao didn't bother to care anymore.

Kill, kill, do whatever you like. You can kill all the Zhu family clan and those gentry, so that I can leave a pure world.

Huang Chao finished reorganizing Suzhou and set his next target on Hangzhou.

Of course, there are still things to do before leaving Suzhou.

Huang Chaojun's reputation among the people in Suzhou is quite high. In the eyes of the poor, Huang Chaojun is a person who is eager for public service and good at helping people in need. After all, they were slaying the gentry, not the poor people. In addition, after shaving off the gentry, they would allocate land to the poor. The people asked Huang Wang if he wanted more soldiers in the army, so that they could take their families and fight with Huang Wang.

Rejecting the people's kindness, Huang Chao rode a horse leisurely to Changshu.

He is very familiar with Changshu. There is a key person mentioned by the immortal master who lives in Changshu.

When Huang Chao arrived in Changshu, it was still dark. As a former failed official, Huang Chao also dressed up as a scholar. Coupled with his deliberately drawn scholar temperament, he looked quite like a scholar who had been immersed in the Four Books and Five Classics all year round.

While he was lost in thought about the immortal master's instructions, Huang Chao was called back to his senses by a voice.

"Friend, where do you come from?"

He followed the sound and saw a middle-aged man sitting in front of a house reading a book.

"Looking at how my friend is dressed, he is here for a trip, right? But he got lost?"

Scholars of the same generation in the Ming Dynasty had many names for each other, including son, jun, qing, classmate, student, friend, your Excellency, honorable master, step down, etc. You can use them as you like.

Huang Chao looked left and right, and said with a smile: "I'm just passing by, no one opens the door here, asking for a bowl of water from my friends."

"Then come in and sit down." The man greeted with a smile.

It is normal for scholars to feel sympathy for each other.

Huang Chao didn't refuse. He dismounted and handed the reins to the book boy next to the man.

"It's easy to get lost here." The man walked and said to Huang Chao: "To tell you the truth, I took a leave of absence due to illness in the second year of Tianqi. If I hadn't been greeted by the servants when I returned home, I would have been unable to find my home. "With that said, the two came to the main hall.

"The dog slept a little deeply yesterday, don't blame me my friend." The man smiled and patted the sleeping child beside him.

The child woke up, first saluted to the man, and then said: "Dad, did the Liu family girl buy it? I want to play with her."

"Don't worry, dad sent someone to tell her at noon. What the Qian family likes is only a farm girl, so why should you be interested in her?" The man comforted his son with a smile.

Huang Chao raised his eyebrows. The Qian family in Changshu was no more than the Qian Qianyi family. It seems that there is no place to go after trying to find it, and it takes no effort to get it.

Well...it was Qian Qianyi who refused to drown himself in the water because the water was too cold, but also felt itchy and went to shave his head.

Even Yan Hongli felt that his character was not good.

The child looked at Huang Chao again and suddenly asked, "Is this uncle the same age as my father?"

"I failed to pass the exam in Beijing a few years ago, so I never took the exam again." Huang Chao said with a smile, stroking his beard.

"I see." Qian Qianyi nodded and said, since he can take the exam in Beijing, even if he fails, he is at least a candidate.

Juren, in this society of scientific examinations, can be regarded as the basic base of scholars. Even the current Prime Minister will have a natural affinity for Juren.

"Where do friends come from? Could they be from Suzhou City?" Qian Qianyi greeted the book boy to serve tea. When Huang Chao smiled and nodded, he sighed: "I guessed it right. You are lucky. After escaping, life in Suzhou City is not easy now. It is occupied by that man named Huang, who treats us scholars as nothing more than nothing, and makes the situation like hell on earth! He is a first-rate thief!"

"Thieves' bones?" Huang Chao smiled.

"Isn't Huang Chao a thief with bones?" Qian Qianyi raised his eyebrows and asked: "To say he is a thief with bones is to give him an advantage! He is just a mud-legged thief bastard! A beast among beasts!"

"A beast among beasts?" Huang Chao asked happily, "Do you have a big grudge against him?"

"Of course," Qian Qianyi sat down, his tone full of indignation, "It is very difficult for scholars of my generation to buy property, but the efforts of several generations have been snatched away by this thief, and the money is scattered to the poor. It is a crime!"

"My cousin was promised a marriage in Suzhou City. If that bastard Huang Chao hadn't killed innocent people indiscriminately, how could her husband's family be ruined? Would my cousin have been so miserable?"

With that said, Qian Qianyi pointed aside.

"Look, my cousin is here. If you don't believe it, you can ask her. She witnessed that bastard murder with her own eyes!"

Have you ever seen me kill someone? Huang Chao was happy.

He slowly turned his head and looked in the direction of Qian Qianyi's finger.

Ah, he remembered. This woman's unmarried husband was sentenced to Lingchi by him. The crime was not decided by him, but by the common people who had been persecuted by her fiancé.

In the fish and meat village, he was domineering, annexing fields and forcing the people to sell their sons and daughters. This was her fiancé.

When the woman saw Huang Chao, her pupils dilated instantly.

She will never forget how Huang Chao treated her fiancé, three thousand six hundred dollars, three thousand six hundred dollars!

"I, Qian Qianyi, said! I will curse him for the rest of my life!" Qian Qianyi was still filled with indignation. "Even if he dies, he must go to hell. Once he reaches hell, he will never be reborn! Don't give birth to a son! He will definitely be born. No dermatitis!”

"Brother, stop talking!" His cousin suddenly spoke to stop Qian Qianyi from continuing.

She was really afraid that Huang Chao would suddenly get angry and chop her cousin alive.

"Let...let me say hello."

Qian Qianyi looked at his cousin's expression and thought he was a little shy, maybe because he had taken a fancy to the talented Huang Chao. He nodded and suddenly had an idea: "Hey, I'll make you a bowl of noodles. Try my Qian's beef noodles."

"Isn't it forbidden by the imperial court to kill cattle?" Huang Chao asked curiously.

"What is prohibited is those mud-legged people, and it has nothing to do with the scholars of our generation." Qian Qianyi stood up with a smile: "I will go and tell the cook to make you a bowl of noodles."

"Okay, don't put the chopped green onion." Huang Chao said with a smile.

After Qian Qianyi left, Huang Chao slowly turned his head again and looked at Qian Qianyi's cousin Song.

"Do you know me?" Huang Chao smiled gently.

"I...I know him." Mrs. Song said with concern.

"Come here for tea." Huang Chao greeted with a smile, his hand gently touching the head of Qian Qianyi's son who was sleeping beside him.

How could Song dare to reject this murderous demon king? Her legs seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and it seemed like she had been moving for a century before she moved to Huang Chao's side.

Huang Chao picked up the teacup, poured a bowl of it, and drank it all in one gulp.

Mrs. Song walked to him and begged in a low voice: "Please, please let the people here go, let my cousin go..."

"Sit down." Huang Chao pulled Song's sleeve and asked her to sit on the other side.

He looked at the scared Song family and remembered that in the late Tang Dynasty, when he faced the Cui family, the Lu family, the Li family, the Zheng family, and the Wang family, those women were also so afraid of him.

Hey, didn't you just kill a few people? Then when you bullied those poor people, I didn't see you being afraid.

"Do I look like a person who kills innocent people indiscriminately?" Huang Chao's voice was quite gentle.

Mrs. Song slowly looked up at Huang Chao, then at his hand stroking the child. Finally, she closed her eyes and shook her head fiercely.

She didn't dare to nod, for fear of offending Huang Chao and causing disaster for herself and her children.

"Isn't that the end?" Huang Chao said, and then asked worriedly: "Will my son really be free of dermatitis? What will happen if I give birth to a daughter? What did I do wrong?"

"We...we are just ordinary people, we don't know each other..." Mrs. Song lowered her eyebrows and said in a sincere voice, "Why do you want to kill someone?"

"Ordinary people?" Huang Chao seemed to have heard some funny joke: "Ordinary people Tianlianqianmo? Ordinary people can use some money to buy other people's daughters? Ordinary people can destroy a family with just one word? "

"Besides, do you need a reason to kill someone?" Huang Chao showed another bloodthirsty smile: "When I was twenty-four years old, I passed the Jinshi exam several times but failed. The aristocratic family blocked my upward path while squeezing my remaining value. On the other hand, they said that I didn’t study hard enough, so I realized that I shouldn’t reason with them.”

"When I picked up the knife, they were no longer as arrogant as before. They no longer clamored about their hundreds of years of family business. They could spend all the money I earned in a year in one day, and they no longer clamored about their families. No fifth-grade official is worthy of scolding him. At that time, I knew that it would not make sense to talk to them properly."

"This is a fallacy..." Mrs. Song shook her head and cried.

"Hey, you waste your scholarly family, you don't understand such a simple truth." Huang Chao shook his head and sighed, turned his head and smiled: "Let's do this, I will play a game with you, if you lose, I will leave, if you win, you will all die. .”

He looked into Mrs. Song's big eyes, stretched out his hand and knocked on the table: "I'll bet on whether there are chopped green onions in the noodles your brother will bring later."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qian Qianyi came in with the book boy, who was still holding a bowl of noodles in his hand.

"Eat Qian's beef noodles while it's hot." Qian Qianyi didn't notice his cousin's expression, but greeted Huang Chao with a smile.

Huang Chao looked at the bowl, but froze on the spot.

Seeing Huang Chao's expression, Mrs. Song's heart skipped a beat. She looked at the bowl, and sure enough, there was only beef in it, not chopped green onions.

Mrs. Song raised her head in surprise, but she didn't expect Huang Chao to suddenly smile in relief.

Just as she was smiling as if she had survived the disaster, Huang Chao suddenly spoke.

"I don't eat beef."

(With some monthly tickets, the biological clock is finally adjusted back) (End of this chapter)