I have a cornucopia

Chapter 190 Datong Kingdom

After lingering Duoduo to death, Yang Feng went to Jingkou to welcome Empress Yi'an.

Of course, he actually came to welcome Empress Yi'an.

Lingchi Duoduo was just a by-product.

Although Empress Yi'an of the Ming Dynasty lived through two emperors, she was actually less than 40 years old. She married Emperor Tianqi at the age of 15 and is only 38 this year. Although she was a captive of Dorgon for more than half a year, she was not bullied. After all, Dorgon claimed that Chongzhen had been killed, and the one in Xi'an was fake. He was invited by the successor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cilang, to enter the pass to quell the rebellion for the Ming Dynasty.

As for occupying the capital...

ceded.

This is a reward for the Qing army.

Using the former Song-Jin dividing line as an example, everything north of this line belongs to the Qing Dynasty.

The theoretical basis is of course that this originally belonged to the Jin Dynasty. Before the Qing Dynasty, we called ourselves the Later Jin Dynasty, so of course there is reason to restore the territory of the Jin Dynasty.

Needless to say, Xi'an belonged to a pseudo-regime supported by rebels and puppets. As for the Jiangnan Regent Court, it was controlled by the treacherous minister Yang Feng, who was a separatist force resisting the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. They pretended to be loyal ministers, but actually engaged in separatist activities.

Then loyal officials led by Ningnanbo Zuo Liangyu tried to restore order.

But he was murdered.

Of course, these are all self-proclaimed, used to fool the controlled areas, but in fact Zhu Cilang never issued any decrees in the name of the Ming emperor, and those issued by Dorgon on his behalf were all considered forged because they did not have his signature and could not be used as seals. But in any case, Dorgon had to maintain this theoretical system, even if it was just for his own amusement, and the powerful people in the north who surrendered, including Wu Sangui, also relied on this theoretical system to fool their subordinates.

It’s not right to say that it’s a scam.

After all, everyone knows it.

But no matter what, having such a set of things will make you look better and you can also have a memorial archway standing.

In this situation, both Zhang Yan and Zhu Cilang had to maintain the minimum courtesy. Zhu Cilang was even arranged to show up occasionally. Dorgon held his hand, and then a group of surrendered officials cheered that the Ming and Qing dynasties were brothers. Zhang Yan was also allocated a palace by Dorgon, and it was like this until she was sent to Ninghai City as an exchange...

Jingkou.

"Haoge didn't kill Dayuer?"

Yang Feng asked with great interest about Empress Yi'an, who was at a good age.

This is a nationwide audition.

Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, politicians liked to secretly select and train people from the public, and then send them to the palace to serve as internal supporters. Therefore, the concubines in the late Ming Dynasty were truly stunningly beautiful. This was not the case in the Qing Dynasty where only bannermen were allowed, so the range of selection was severely limited, resulting in a sharp drop in quality.

The ones chosen from tens of millions of girls are not on the same level as those chosen from hundreds of thousands.

"Why does Zhuguo ask this question?"

Zhang Yan said with a bright smile.

"Just curious."

Yang Feng said.

"Then I guess Dorgon has the same idea as Zhuguo.

I was escorted to Ninghai City by He Luohui, a trusted confidant of Dorgon, who led 3,000 soldiers. I did encounter rebels on the way. As for how many rebels Dayu'er will encounter on her way back, I don't know. But the name Zhuguo gave her was quite interesting. It was said that this was her maiden name. In the past, not only the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also the Jianlu knew little about it.

How did Zhuguo know this?"

Zhang Yan covered her mouth with a round fan and said with an obviously happy smile.

Speaking of folk rumors, countless versions of the story between Yang Zhuguo and Dayuer have been fabricated, so it is normal for Empress Yi'an to smile like this.

"Well, this was told to me by the gods."

Yang Fu said shamelessly.

"Even her affair with Dorgon?"

Zhang Yan said.

"There is no need for gods to help. Even if there are many people in Jianlu who know about this, they don't care much about it. According to my guess, she will most likely marry Dorgon after she returns to consolidate the alliance between the two sides."

Yang Feng said.

"The Queen Mother can still marry?"

Zhang Yan said with eyes wide open in astonishment.

"Of course they can. Dayu'er's family has been Huang Taiji's concubine for three generations. What's the big deal if another queen dowager marries into the family? In this way, Dorgon and Dayu'er's positions are stable, and Fulin doesn't have to worry about being kicked out. No matter where he is, his new father and old mother can ensure that he is still the emperor. The two yellow flags can also say that the throne still belongs to Huang Taiji's descendants.

There is a bright future for everyone.”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Isn't this a cover-up?"

Zhang Yan said.

"It's just like covering one's ears and stealing a bell. But who doesn't cover one's ears and steal a bell these days? It doesn't matter if you don't cover your ears and steal a bell. In this chaotic world, we are all hiding. Let's just live one day at a time!"

Yang Zhuguo looked at the sky with melancholy.

The officials and gentry behind him who also came to greet Empress Yi'an were all deeply touched. Even Zhang Guowei, Chen Zilong who led the troops, Xu Du and others were the same. Yang Feng's words made the atmosphere on the dock dim. Everyone was hiding their ears and stealing the bell. In the north, the Qing Dynasty was hiding its ears and stealing the bell, ignoring the fact that the emperor was captured, and continued to let a child who had fallen into the hands of the enemy for more than half a year be the emperor. The south was also hiding its ears and stealing the bell, bringing a 15-year-old girl into the palace as regent, and both the north and the south were desperately explaining this kind of hiding their ears and stealing the bell.

The North is of course loyal.

A loyal minister does not serve two masters. As long as Fulin is alive, he will be the wise and benevolent ruler of our Qing Dynasty.

Wherever he is.

It was really hard to explain to the South, so they simply took advantage of the situation to deliberately weaken the imperial power. It happened that the local elders' associations needed to gain greater power, so they built up momentum first. The literati in eastern Zhejiang had even begun to promote the Western heroine.

In fact, the British East India Company had already been to Guangdong before.

It was the Humen conflict.

Two British ships arrived in Macau, originally intending to trade with the Ming Dynasty through the Portuguese, but were tricked by the Portuguese. The British, unaware of the situation, became angry and returned to their old ways of piracy. The well-informed literati in eastern Zhejiang heard about Elizabeth, who had been dead for almost half a century, and began to introduce her...

Of course, the content had nothing to do with her.

The Ming Dynasty had a developed publishing industry, with copyright, piracy, and copycat studios. When Journey to the West became popular, Journey to the East, Journey to the North, and Journey to the South were immediately published. The latter two were written by one person, but to be more precise, they were written by a studio, and the speed was fast, with one book published every few days. So the story of Elizabeth, which has nothing to do with Elizabeth, has been put on the market as a pseudo-travel journal. The name is certainly not Elizabeth, but it is indeed about Britain.

Elijah.

As for how this pronunciation is transliterated, a lot has been said.

In the Ming Dynasty, the transliterations of these overseas countries, in addition to some that have existed for a long time, the newly known ones may be transliterations of Cantonese or Minnan dialect, and it is even possible that these dialect transliterations are secondary or tertiary translations, and they are not necessarily transliterations from the original language.

If the Minnan dialect transliterates the Latin word Britain, then converts it into Chinese characters and reads it in Mandarin, then don't expect to find something close to the modern one. Of course, Britain is certain, after all, this name is marked on the map.

It has to be said that the gentry in eastern Zhejiang did a lot to cover up their crime.

There are always great scholars debating on the scriptures!
As long as they choose to accept a ruler, they will naturally look for a legal basis for this rule.

In the midst of the gloom, Empress Yi'an landed and entered Zhenjiang City. She would then take a carriage to Nanjing, because the wind had turned northwest in winter, and it would be unfavorable to continue sailing to Nanjing. Yang Feng of course led his troops to escort them, and he was not ready to return to Shandong for the time being, mainly because there was too much silver, and it would take time to process it. This was a huge sum of nearly 20 million. In addition, there was the autumn harvest of grain from various places. In addition to the 2.8 million shi that the Suzhou gentry had to give, he also purchased a lot of grain in Huguang and Jiangxi, and now he had begun to transport it to Shandong.

These two provinces, especially Jiangxi, are the least affected by war and natural disasters in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, we also suffer from natural disasters.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was no province that was not hit by disasters.

Zhenjiang.

In the palace.

"Datong Kingdom?"

Yang Feng held the booklet in front of him.

The Zhenjiang prefect in front of him stood there with a look of panic on his face, while a young man knelt obediently in front of Yang Zhuguo.

"Replying to the Lord, this was sold in Zhenjiang City half a month ago. Although I live in Zhenjiang, I have always been worried about state affairs. I came across it by chance in a bookstore. I originally thought it was about admiring the world of great harmony and advocating loyalty and righteousness, but I didn't expect it to be full of words that were disrespectful to the king and father. I am worried that this evil book will continue to spread and fools will be deceived by it, so I brought this book here to report it."

The young man said solemnly with a look of concern for the country and the people.

The Zhenjiang prefect forced a smile and bowed to Yang Feng.

"Zhuguo, it's just a book, maybe some of the nonsense is not worth mentioning.

All booksellers are like this nowadays.

These people who only want to make money like to make something sensational, otherwise no one will buy it. But it is just for the money. It would be ridiculous to say that they have any other intentions. The people who write these books and sell them are all unsuccessful scholars or even students who were hired to make up stories.

There is not even a chance to name names, most of them are booksellers’ names.”

He said.

He hadn't expected such an accident to happen suddenly.

Yang Feng escorted Empress Yi'an to the palace, and then this young man came to report. Yang Feng was the right deputy censor of the Censorate, so he had the right to accept reports from the public. In fact, he encouraged people to report to him wherever he went, but he didn't expect that this young man would take this Datong Kingdom and report that the author was deceiving people and intended to disrupt the Ming Dynasty with evil books. However, this matter itself is really nothing big. This kind of book was not rare in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty. Those booksellers wrote sensational stories to make money. If the content is not exaggerated, it will not be popular!
Just make it up anyway!

"raving?"

Yang Feng sneered.

Then he flipped through the pages as if he was very absorbed in it.

As for why I say as if...

He made this up himself.

The content of the Datong Kingdom he edited, in addition to introducing the general systems of various countries, the most important thing is to improve Huang Zongxi's system. The latter is a system of academies discussing politics, and he directly changed it to a two-level system of elders and academies, kicking the imperial power aside, and the emperor ruled by sitting back and acting as a stamping machine. In short, based on Huang Zongxi's ideas and adding the current reality of various places, as well as the European system such as the Netherlands as a reference, he compiled a fantasy Datong Kingdom. Then he let his subordinates resell it through layers of resale and finally it fell into the hands of a bookseller in Zhenjiang. The latter was first sold in Zhenjiang, but it should have spread to Suzhou at this time.

The Ming Dynasty's developed publishing industry and extremely high literacy rate among the people made this booklet spread rapidly.

Piracy already exists.

The book in his hand is obviously a pirated copy. I guess the person who arranged this just bought it today.

The batch of genuine copies he printed previously has been sold out.

"This is not nonsense. It is well-founded. Not only does it quote from classics, but it also uses Western references. Moreover, there are elders' associations in various places, and many local academies have indeed become places where scholars can make decisions. Yesterday in Yangzhou, several academy students blocked the elders' association and asked the elders' association to pay money to repair the damaged academies.

This is intentional.

Someone deliberately spread it to mislead the people.

We are all loyal subjects of His Majesty. Although the situation forces us to adopt some stopgap measures, they are only stopgap measures. We must hold on for now, and we must return to the right track once the situation stabilizes.

Datong Kingdom?
Don't forget that our country's name is Ming Dynasty.

This trend must not be allowed to continue. All bookstores in all places should be raided immediately. Any bookstores that have this book should be closed down and fined one tael of silver for each copy. Only after paying the fine can they reopen. In addition, private holders should hand over all the books to the school officials within one month, and then they will be burned in public. After one month, private holders can be reported. Those who keep the book privately will be fined 20 taels of silver and 20 strokes of the cane for each copy. The informant will be rewarded 10 taels of silver. In addition, the book dealers and authors will be investigated and punished for spreading rumors and misleading the public."

Yang Zhuguo said viciously.

Then he looked at the young man...

"As for you, since you are a student, you should follow me from now on!"

He said.

"Thank you Zhuguo for your cultivation!"

The young man said quickly.

The prefect quickly agreed and left in a hurry.

Yang Feng was playing with the Datong Kingdom in his hand with a serious expression.

“We have to speed up!”

he said with emotion.

Ban?

The ban on my Ming Dynasty is equivalent to the hot search headlines.

Really, it would be better if it was not banned. After all, this era lacked effective advertising methods. Even books had certain geographical limitations and the speed of dissemination was relatively slow. However, the Ming Dynasty had a nationwide advertising method...

The residence copy.

As long as it was a ban by the court, it would be sent to all cities across the country through the post station system along with other imperial decrees, and those who copied the court reports from the government would send the court reports they copied from the government to the gentry. The latter would immediately know that the Ming Dynasty had published books that needed to be banned, and the result was that all gentry would go to buy them specifically, and booksellers from all over the country would immediately flock to the source and purchase them and take them back. This can be said to be the best advertisement of this era, so the Ming Dynasty banned Li Zhi so much that he was banned in the gentry's backyards, and even women worshipped him.

This is not a ban, this is an advertisement. Without the decisiveness of the Qing Dynasty to catch and kill the entire family, the ban would have resulted in an epidemic across the country.

It really needs to be accelerated.

At this time, gentry from all over the country have already taken practical steps, but the theoretical system has not caught up. After all, gentry from all over the country pursue different schools of thought, and have different theoretical explanations for the current situation. So they need something that can make them suddenly enlightened, let them put aside the last burden in their hearts, and truly move towards the dawn of a new era.

As for Yang Feng...

Of course, I was waiting for them in front with a big stick.

(End of this chapter)