I have a cornucopia

Chapter 332: He who knows the current affairs is a hero
Zhoushan.

"Your Majesty, the crime of regicide is unforgivable, but to implicate innocent people, to punish the entire clan, and even the gentry of an entire province, regardless of whether they knew it or not, is unprecedented in history, and there is no law to follow."

Zhang Jiayu knelt at the feet of King Yang with a somewhat sad look on his face.

There are a lot more behind him!
These were all people from Fujian and Guangdong who came to join in. Although the gentry in Jiangnan suffered heavy losses, it was good for them in terms of interests, especially the gentry in Fujian. They almost went to war with the gentry in Zhejiang because of maritime trade, but now the latter were almost wiped out. At least in the short term, no one would compete with them anymore. But the problem was that they were also afraid that after Zhejiang was done with, it would be their turn. Besides, they were all gentry. No matter how much they fought, they were still in the same class. When they saw the gentry in Jiangnan being divided up by the unruly people, they felt the same way, as if their own property was also divided up by those manic unruly people.

So they all ran to Zhoushan, actually they were planning to go to the capital, and it happened that King Yang came here for inspection.

Just find him.

There is no need to disturb Her Majesty the Queen anymore.

So at this moment, in front of Yang Feng, there were a bunch of people who could be considered national heroes, such as Chen Zizhuang and Chen Bangyan, all of whom were begging King Yang to interfere in the war in Jiangnan and restore peace in Jiangnan. The court should send an imperial envoy to thoroughly investigate the regicide case, and the property of those who were guilty should be confiscated, but the Jingnan Army should not be allowed to continue making trouble like this.

"Everyone, Her Majesty has issued an order to forgive the regicide based on Kang Miao's last words. For the sake of the overall situation, no further investigation will be conducted. Do you want Her Majesty to break her promise?"

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, when Kang Miao passed away, I was right beside him. How could there be any last words?"

Zhang Jiayu was stunned.

Doesn’t he know whether Chongzhen had any last words?

That means he died on his back. The emperor was knocked unconscious by the house collapsed by the shells and never regained consciousness until his death. What were his last words?
"Dream!"

King Yang said with a pure look on his face.

Zhang Jiayu was speechless. After all, he really couldn't question this.

"Since Her Majesty has issued an edict to forgive those who killed the king, why did the Jingnan Army attack Jiangnan? Isn't that disobeying Her Majesty's order? Moreover, they used this to exterminate half of the gentry in the province, loot their property, and divide up their land. How is such behavior different from that of bandits?"

Chen Bangyan asked.

He is still very simple.

He was a great scholar who mainly taught and never served as an official.

"Mr. Iwano, you and I are both disciples of the sage. Now there is a loyal person who wants to avenge his father. Is it the way of the sage to stop him?"

Yang Feng said.

Chen Bangyan was speechless for a moment.

The key to this matter lies here. The Jingnan Army was under the banner of revenge for Chongzhen, and loyalty to the emperor is undoubtedly the noblest in the Confucian moral system. It can be said that the Jingnan Army's methods were somewhat inappropriate, but the justice of their actions cannot be denied. Although it is true that it has not been clearly convicted that the regicide case was done by the Council of Elders, everyone knows that it must have been done. In fact, now with the spread of internal information among the gentry, even the elders who insisted on attacking Xijiangkou at that time are already clear. Therefore, the justice of the Jingnan Army, at least in the framework of Confucianism, is absolutely just. At most, they can be criticized for killing innocent people, but they cannot be said to be wrong. To say that they are wrong is to deny the fundamental idea of ​​Confucianism that is respected by the emperor...

Loyal to the emperor.

Of course, this becomes easier if we step out of the Confucian framework.

For example, Fang Yizhi no longer uses Confucianism to criticize the Jingnan Army. He clearly points out the latter's true purpose and uses it to prove his theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest.

He encouraged the war.

beat!
Type out a result.

Losers should accept their fate of being dominated by the strong.

He even believed that if the Jiangnan Group won, they should go north to attack Shandong.

But Chen Bangyan was not as crazy as him. As a traditional Confucian scholar, he couldn't jump either.

"The Emperor Kang forgave them out of his kindness. Her Majesty the Queen decided not to investigate anymore out of her filial piety to the Emperor Kang. But the Jingnan Army's attack on Jiangnan was also out of their loyalty. No matter which one, we can only respect it and cannot stop it. As for the resistance of the gentry in Jiangnan, the court cannot stop it. After all, legally speaking, the Queen has stopped pursuing the matter, but she will not help them either. The Queen just stopped pursuing the matter, which does not mean that the regicide has been pardoned. They are still guilty, but their crimes will not be pursued anymore. It's rare to be confused. This is the only way for the overall situation. But the Queen cannot stop a group of loyal ministers who are avenging their father's murder. She has already taken the overall situation into consideration by not participating. If she deliberately stops them, wouldn't it be unfilial?

Since this is the case, we can only face reality.

As for those who died in the war."

King Yang paused.

“The dust of the times is like a mountain when it falls on everyone!”

he said helplessly.

He is already the gray of the times, how can people like Zhang Jiayu continue?

In fact, they also understood that Yang Feng and the Empress were essentially colluding. The former and the Shandong Group behind him and Gao Jie wanted money, while the latter only said that she was considering the overall situation. But if you think about it, you will know that it is impossible not to avenge the murder of their father. The Empress just didn't show up herself, but she could indulge the Jingnan Army!

As long as you kill the enemy's entire family, you don't have to care about the method.

If we want to save the gentry in Jiangnan now, the only option is for other provinces to work together and send troops to reinforce Jiangnan. There is no need to actually participate in the war. As long as all provinces take actual action and send troops to intervene like Jiangxi did, then the Jingnan Army can be stopped.

but……

How can this be.

Expect the gentry to work together?
Funny?
Yang Feng looked at their helplessness with satisfaction, and then went to inspect his own property.

He has a huge business here.

Now even tinplate cans can be produced, but the cost is relatively high. However, this is produced as military rations, and the military rations are purchased by the court, so he has the final say on the price, and he will use it no matter how expensive it is. Besides, he is not making small cans, but large cans that can hold 50 kilograms.

This thing actually costs less than grain and is more convenient to use, as the latter cannot be opened and eaten directly.

Besides, the calories in a stone of rice may not be as high as that in a can of whale meat.

Unpalatable?

That means I'm not hungry.

When Kaifeng was besieged, a bowl of fly larvae cost three hundred coins!
If you are extremely hungry, you can eat Guanyin soil, let alone fatty meat with plenty of salt, sugar and spices?

Moreover, he also stored a large amount of such canned food in the north in the name of military rations. In Dengzhou and Lushun, he built a large number of strategic reserve warehouses by digging caves and filling them with tinplate cans to maximize the preservation for disaster relief. Other canned food containers were used for civilian purposes in various places, such as earthenware jars, porcelain jars, and even glass jars. The production of glass is very large now, and preservatives are also used in large quantities. Of course, he did not get it from modern times. He did get it occasionally, but it was impossible to support the industry.

There are many naturally available preservatives. The cheapest bamboo leaves are antibacterial, so the water used to cook fish is made from bamboo leaves. In fact, cheap canned foods are cooked with the bamboo leaves.

It’s not like you can’t eat it.

Even the effects of Litsea cubeba oil are not much different from the almost ubiquitous potassium sorbate in modern times. Just add it all!
No matter whether it is harmful or not, these days no one cares if a few people die from eating it occasionally.

"Your Majesty, I never thought there was so much knowledge in this thing."

Zheng Chenggong looked at the huge aquatic product processing industry in front of him with emotion.

It's really huge.

The docks were full of sea fish that had been processed on the boats. Countless large pots were cooking fried sea fish on coal fires. The oil was not good, but black oil that had been used over and over again. Carcinogens seriously exceeded the standard? Not many people can live to see the carcinogens take effect these days. In fact, they all used soybean oil. King Yang did not use rapeseed oil, but soybean oil and encouraged the cultivation of soybeans in the north, and then used soybean cakes after oil extraction as fertilizer. This was the best rice field fertilizer before the large-scale use of guano, and it had a significant effect on increasing rice production. In fact, until the Republic of China, guano still did not completely replace soybean cake fertilizer from the Northeast.

Since the late Qing Dynasty, soybeans grown in the Liaoxi reclamation area have supported rice production in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

So in fact, the industrial chain of aquatic product processing is even larger when it is extended.

Coal transporters, tank transporters, oil transporters...

Merchant ships loaded with various materials also crowded the docks.

These are all gathered from the two water transport lines of the Yangtze River and Fuchun River. For example, the Litsea cubeba oil industry in Yongzhou, Huguang, is thriving thanks to the canning industry. This medicinal material, which was used in small quantities in the past, is now used by Yang Feng in large quantities in canned food for preservation. There are also ships coming from the south by sea. After Zheng Zhilong drove away the Dutch, he naturally robbed the sugar industry established by the latter. Yang Feng's canned food requires a lot of sugar and also a lot of spices. Spices are also high-quality preservatives, and spices are also controlled by the Zheng family, so the Zheng family is now Yang Feng's largest business partner.

Of course, the Zheng family also bought his canned food for use at sea.

Especially canned fruit.

These cans also greatly extended their reach at sea.

Zheng Zhilong was even preparing to send ships directly to America for trade.

The Ming Dynasty exported a large number of goods to America every year, from textiles to nails. The Indians all wore Ming Dynasty linen, but these were all exported through the Spaniards. If they could sail directly to America, they would undoubtedly make greater profits. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong had long known that the Japanese had been to America.

“Learning is not limited to the Four Books and Five Classics; real learning is everywhere.

Why is Zhoushan the largest fishing ground?
This is knowledge.

Why does this island in Zhoushan appear on the sea?
This is also a science.

Why your ship can sail is also a science, haven't you discovered it? Your ship can sail not only with tailwind, sometimes the speed of tack is not much slower than with tailwind. Except for headwind, it can move forward in almost all situations, it's just a matter of speed. So the question is, why can the side wind from the front still push the ship forward? "

Yang Feng said.

Zheng Chenggong immediately fell into confusion.

Indeed, he was used to being at sea and knew that one did not have to have a tailwind to move forward.

It is understandable that the wind from behind can push the boat forward.

But what about the front wind?
"Your Majesty, I also find it strange. I often climbed the mast and saw the sail fully spread, but there was no wind behind the sail, and the wind was stronger in front of the sail. If the wind was blowing the sail forward, there should be no wind in front."

A general next to Zheng Chenggong said.

They were completely gloating over this war, and their mission was just to block Shen Tingyang's navy and prevent the latter from going out to sea to harass the shipping of the Confucius and Mencius Knights. But Shen Tingyang was not free, because he was facing Gao Jie's army. Once his navy left Jiangyin, the latter would go straight to Jiangyin from Taizhou. It was all up to his navy to keep the Yangtze River defense line, so he had no ability to withdraw and intercept the sea. Besides, he couldn't intercept it at all. The shipping from Shandong to Zhoushan was all those trawlers, and they relied on Japanese engines and sails, which were much more flexible than him.

"This is knowledge. If you can figure out why this is the case, you deserve to be called a sage."

Yang Feng said.

"Well, I am just a rough man, how can I dare to aspire to be a saint?"

The general said in astonishment.

King Yang just smiled slightly...

If he could understand the Bernoulli effect, he would truly be worthy of being called a saint.

At least such saints are much more valuable than those who steal the ashes.

And at this moment...

Haining.

Of course, to be precise, it is Yanguan.

The three fortresses of Haining, Xishi and Pinghu, together with Jiaxing behind them, formed the iron wall of the Zhejiang Elders' Association, blocking the Jingnan Army that controlled Haining Wei or Haiyan County and the two thousand-household cities of Yanpu and Zhapu, forcing the latter to be trapped in a corner. However, the main target of the Jingnan Army has always been Xishi, so Haining did not suffer much damage.

And now...

The city was in flames.

Now there will be no more losses.

Because the Haining Hometown Association, headed by Cha Juren, was welcoming the royal teacher.

"Traitors, you are traitors who betrayed your hometown!"

Huang Zongyan, the commander of the Zhejiang militia, who was tied up, looked at the Jingnan Army marching in through the open city gate, and roared with indignation. He was the garrison commander here, but the Zhejiang militia mainly guarded Xishi. He was the headquarters and a battalion here, and the main force was the newly formed militia and the local braves under the Xiangxian Association. Then he was surrounded and disarmed by the latter in his own headquarters. In front of him, the local sages of Cha Juren and Haining, one by one with flattering smiles, holding small flags of "Exterminating traitors and rebelling, and defending the country with peace and tranquility", seemed to be lining up to welcome the traitors of the devil, and welcomed the Jingnan Army into the city. Amid Huang Zongyan's roar, a general in full plate armor rode in.

The latter came right up to him.

"Brother Huimu, this is called a wise man who knows the current situation. Bring him with you. I want him to watch us capture Hangzhou with his own eyes."

Li Zhifang looked at him and said proudly.

The attendant behind him immediately stepped forward and took Huang Zongyan from the militia leader.

"Let's go to Hangzhou and check the candidates. No, it should be the bondservants, the bondservants of Her Majesty the Queen, hahahaha..."

Li Zhifang waved to Mr. Cha.

The latter seemed not to understand his sarcasm, and instead looked at the local sages on both sides with a smug look on his face.

"Everyone, we have rebelled today and should make great contributions to our descendants. When the rebels in Hangzhou surrender, it will be our day to rise to prominence!"

he shouted.

……

(End of this chapter)