I'm in the Red Mansion

Guanjun Hou gave them land and freedom so that they could farm and make a living in the future.

This is something the Qing court could not give them.

Ever since the land was divided, these Manchu people no longer had the Qing Dynasty in their hearts, and only had Jia Cong, Marquis of Guanjun, in their hearts.

The people are very real. If you are a little good to them, they will remember you very well.

At this time, if the Qing army attacked, these people might even hope that Jia Cong could defend the city.

They don't want to be Manchu citizens again.

Because in the Qing Dynasty, only the people from the upper three banners were considered upper class people.

Those flag owners could enclose land with impunity, and didn't care about the lives of the common people at all.
In the past, they lived a very hard life.

After winning the hearts of the people over, Jia Cong then continued to lead his troops to attack.

Jia Cong did not plan to attack quickly, but decided to advance slowly.

Because Wu Sangui's advancement was really slow.

At this time, they had just attacked the riverside and had not yet crossed the river.

And judging from the situation, it doesn't seem like they are about to cross the river.

Jia Cong was quite disappointed about this.

In the original historical trajectory, Wu Sangui would have stopped at the riverside, giving the Qing Dynasty a chance to buffer.

Finally, a large army was mobilized to destroy Wu Sangui.

If Wu Sangui had been more decisive and crossed the river quickly at that time, he might have had a chance to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.

However, Wu Sangui, who was already very old, retreated.

He won't back down again now, will he?

If that were the case, it would be a real joke.

However, in this life, because Emperor Tianci came to the throne illegitimately, and Wu Sangui's reputation was not as bad as the first traitor in the history.

Therefore, Wu Sangui's army had already gained momentum at this time.

Even if Wu Sangui did not want to cross the river, I am afraid that the soldiers under his command would force him to cross the river.

Even if he doesn't want to make progress, the soldiers under his command are eager to go further.

However, it is difficult to predict when he will be able to cross the river.

Jia Cong inferred that it might be necessary to wait until after the New Year.

That would have been fine. On this side, Jia Cong also took the initiative to slow down the pace of advancement.

War is in the service of politics.

Jia Cong was afraid that if he was not careful he would overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and then he would have no excuse to stay.

However, several generals under Jia Cong were holding back their strength.

No matter who was assigned to the siege mission, the attack was so determined and the speed was almost lightning fast.

This is really the case of "the quick hand gets the reward, the slow hand gets the reward".

Once you are outdone by others, you may not get the chance next time.

As for the Qing Dynasty, they were so badly beaten by the Youzhou Army that they had no idea where to go.

The Youzhou army advanced step by step and attacked fiercely.

They didn't find any opportunity to fight back.

Their Qing army had no power to resist the Youzhou army.

At this time, everyone in the Qing Dynasty was in panic.

They were all very uneasy, for they knew very well that they could not resist the attack of the Youzhou army.

If this continues, they are afraid that their country will be destroyed.

Under such circumstances, the Qing Dynasty had no choice but to send envoys to seek peace.

The Qing Dynasty demanded a ceasefire with the Youzhou Army and that the Youzhou Army withdraw from the areas they occupied.

The Qing Dynasty was willing to pay certain compensation.

Naturally, Jia Cong scoffed at the conditions proposed by the Qing Dynasty.

Jia Cong said that a ceasefire was possible, but the areas occupied by the Youzhou army would belong to the Youzhou army.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty also had to compensate the Youzhou army with 100,000 shi of grain, 10,000 taels of gold, 100,000 taels of silver, and 10,000 high-quality war horses.

The conditions proposed by Jia Cong were completely unacceptable to the Qing Dynasty.

This is absolutely a humiliating treaty. If it is accepted, the Qing Dynasty will surely be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

Jia Cong did not waste any time and directly assembled a large army to launch a full-scale attack on the Qing Dynasty.

Seeing this situation, the Qing Dynasty was so scared that they pissed themselves.

The conditions proposed by the Youzhou army were indeed extremely humiliating.

But it can help them to conquer the Qing Dynasty and avoid national destruction.

But if the Youzhou army really attacks, then their country might really be destroyed.

They can still distinguish what is more important and what is less important.

Therefore, after a brief discussion, they had to agree to the conditions of the Youzhou Army.

At this point, the two sides signed an armistice agreement.

A month later, the Qing Dynasty sent all the compensation.

With these grains, they will no longer lack food and fodder, and they will no longer need to transport food and fodder from Youzhou to here.

With gold and silver, they can reward the three armies and boost the morale of the Youzhou army.

With the superior war horses, the Youzhou army will have an additional 10,000 cavalry.

With these compensations, the combat effectiveness of the Youzhou Army was further improved.

In fact, even if the treaty was not signed, Jia Cong decided to temporarily stop the attack.

After all, he still had to wait for news from San Francisco.

And now, it is even better that there are so many benefits to be gained from signing the treaty.

As for the signing of the treaty and how to attack the Qing Dynasty later.

This is not a problem at all.

Didn’t the Qing Dynasty do enough by signing an armistice agreement with Daxia and then tearing up the treaty?
The purpose of signing an agreement is to be torn up!

……

In the capital of Daxia, Jia Baoyu spent two months writing a book called Stealing Jade and Stealing Fragrance.

After finishing writing, he reviewed and revised it himself and was very satisfied with it.

Then he secretly took the manuscript to a bookshop to sell it.

The shopkeeper was also very impressed after reading the book and decided to buy the manuscript.

The final price was fifty taels of silver.

This price is actually not low, especially since Jia Baoyu is still a newcomer.

When Jia Baoyu heard this number, he was overjoyed and there was no reason for him to refuse.

Next, the bookshop owner asked Jia Baoyu what name to use for the publication.

Pornographic books from all dynasties were not required to be published using their original names.

Take the author Jin Pingmei for example, didn’t she also use the pen name Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng?

After thinking about it, Jia Baoyu gave himself a pen name, Master of the Crimson Flower Cave.

The Master of the Crimson Flower Cave was originally a nickname used by Jia Baoyu when he was young.

Using this pen name at this time, in conjunction with this book, is quite suitable.

However, the owner of the bookshop, after receiving the manuscript, quickly had it printed.

In half a month, a thousand copies of the first issue of this book were printed.

This print quantity is already quite high.

After all, the literacy rate of this era is very worrying.

Even if you can read, you may not buy this book.

The bookstore owner was also very optimistic about this book, so he printed a thousand copies in one go.

After the book was put on the market, it quickly became popular.

It turns out that Jia Baoyu is a bit of a talent after all.

Although his writing about stealing jade and stealing fragrance is not as literary as those of books such as Meeting the True Love and The Peony Pavilion.

However, Jia Baoyu's description is true and detailed, and many of the details in it are obviously not fabricated out of thin air by those poor scholars.

There is no doubt that the owner of the Crimson Flower Cave himself has experienced such wealth and glory.

However, there are very few erotic books with this kind of writing style on the market.

As a result, the thousand books were sold out very quickly.

This made the bookstore owner very happy, and he immediately ordered people to print another 10,000 copies.

If there are more, I would not dare to print them.

Because as long as this book becomes popular, there will inevitably be pirated copies, and then it will be difficult to sell.

At this time, the owner of the bookstore only regretted that he did not print more copies immediately.

If 20,000 copies had been printed at the beginning, it might not be impossible to sell all of them.

After finishing these things, the owner of the bookstore sent people to look for the owner of the Crimson Flower Cave.

Soon, Jia Baoyu was found.

After finding Jia Baoyu, the owner of the study immediately asked him to write an article.

Let Jia Baoyu write another book quickly. As long as the content is not worse than the previous one, the shopkeeper will guarantee him a minimum of one hundred taels of silver.

If the quality is good, we may raise the price.

Jia Baoyu was overjoyed when he heard this.

In fact, the shopkeeper didn't need to come to him, he had already been thinking about it.

He still has to support his family. Now his wife is pregnant again, and their second child is about to be born.

How can I afford that with only fifty taels of silver?
Besides, the book "Stealing Jade and Stealing Perfume" was the first book written by Jia Baoyu.

Due to lack of experience, there are inevitably omissions.

The experience of the first book also gave him more confidence.

Now that he had received the shopkeeper's guarantee, he became even more confident.

Therefore, he simply stopped writing letters, copying books, painting and other tasks and focused on writing books.

When Jia Zheng learned about this, he was furious.

This beast is now not doing his job?

If this continues, how will we support our family after the family is divided?

Thinking of this, Jia Zheng could not help but call Jia Baoyu to his side and became furious.

And he wanted to ask the servant to take Baoyu away - well, where could they find a servant in their house at that time?

Jia Zheng had to do it himself.

However, Jia Baoyu promptly mentioned that he wrote books to make money, and that he had already finished one and earned fifty taels of silver.

After hearing this, Jia Zheng still couldn't believe it.

He then ordered Jia Baoyu to bring the book he had written to him to read.

Jia Baoyu was very shy.

What he wrote was actually a pornographic book, so how could he have the nerve to show it to his father?
Not to mention in this era, even in the future.

Those online writers who write pornographic books are embarrassed to let their friends and family know the titles of their books.

But he could not pass this hurdle after all, and finally Jia Baoyu had to show Jia Zheng the first book he wrote about stealing jade and stealing fragrance.

Jia Zheng looked at the title of the book, flipped through a few pages, and then scolded Jia Baoyu severely.

He said that he was immoral and had brought ruin to the Jia family's reputation, and then he sent Jia Baoyu away.

After Jia Baoyu left, Jia Zheng opened the book and read it carefully. It turned out that the book was quite to Jia Zheng's taste.

It was just that Jia Baoyu was there just now and he was embarrassed to look through it.

After Jia Baoyu left, Jia Zheng read the book carefully and soon became immersed in the plot.

Jia Zheng finished reading the whole book in just one afternoon.

After all, the word count is very limited, only a few tens of thousands of words.

After reading it, Jia Zheng couldn't help feeling a sense of loss.

For the next few days, Jia Zheng was still immersed in the plot of the book.

Finally, Jia Zheng couldn't help but ask Jia Baoyu to bring him the draft of the book he had just written.

The writing of the new book Jia Baoyu is relatively slow, and I have only written three chapters so far.

However, because Jia Zheng asked for it, Jia Baoyu had to deliver the manuscript personally.

Jia Zheng picked up the manuscript, opened it and found that the title of the book was "A Mirror of Love and Lust".

As soon as he saw the title of the book, he knew it was to his liking and Jia Zheng couldn't help but praise it endlessly.

I flipped through it and soon became fascinated.

The writing style of this book is more delicate and much better than the previous one.

But there were only three chapters, and Jia Zheng finished reading them all in no time.

After reading it, Jia Zheng felt extremely itchy.

Unable to bear it any longer, he opened the book again from the beginning.

As he read on, Jia Zheng could not help but pick up his pen and start reviewing.

If all of them could be written down, how could we see the beauty of this book?
After writing this sentence, I still felt unsatisfied, so I wanted to record my own name as well.

But soon Jia Zheng was shocked.

This is an erotic book written by Baoyu. It would be a huge joke if he wrote his real name on it.

I would feel unwilling even if I didn't leave a signature.

After thinking about it, Jia Zheng wrote the three words "Zhi Yan Zhai" at the back.

After finishing writing, Jia Zheng read it twice before sending the manuscript back.

After Jia Baoyu got the manuscript, he flipped through it and found that the master had actually marked some comments on it, which made him very unhappy.

But after all, Jia Zheng was the boss, so he had no choice but to endure it.

Next, it was Jia Baoyu who wrote and Jia Zheng who read.

Later on, Jia Zheng became more and more fond of writing comments.

And I also fell in love with the books written by Jia Baoyu more and more.

Unconsciously, the father and son became a pair of close friends.

(Here I pay tribute to Mr. Cao Xueqin and his close friend Zhi Yanzhai. Writing Jia Zheng as Zhi Yanzhai is purely for entertainment. Zhi Yanzhai's identity is a mystery, and we don't even know whether he is a man or a woman, old or young.)

……

However, Jia Cong had already returned to Youzhou, while the army remained where it was.

Just wait for the Three Feudatories rebels to attack next year and see their progress before launching an offensive.

At this time, Jia Cong couldn't help but start thinking about his future plans.

If the sky is not taken, the blame is on the contrary.

When there is a deer in the field, many heroes will compete for it, and Jia Cong is also ready to fight for it.

As he had the Youzhou Army under his command, Jia Cong was at least 90% sure of victory, if not certain of victory.

At this time, Jia Cong was already considering launching reforms across the country once he ascended the throne.

Many things are best started at the founding of a country.

Once this period of time has passed, classes will become solidified and interest groups will continue to grow stronger, and it will become very difficult to make changes.

However, reforms must be carried out with caution.

Just like Wang Mang, after usurping power, he could not wait to implement a series of reforms.

Every policy of his is a good policy that benefits the country and the people.

However, because it was out of touch with reality, its ideas were so advanced that they far exceeded the times.

Therefore, he was eventually overthrown by Liu Xiu, the chosen one.

Jia Cong naturally had to learn from this lesson.

All changes are like crossing a river by feeling the stones, so he naturally has to be extremely cautious.

In the future, Jia Cong will naturally vigorously promote science and technology in Daxia, which will inevitably set off an industrial revolution.

By then, a large amount of labor will be liberated.

However, these workers must be given jobs to do.

Otherwise, I'm afraid it will cause another chaos.

At the same time, Jia Cong was also preparing to liberate women in the future.

Women can also work and serve as officials.

As for monogamy, Jia Cong is not planning to promote it for the time being.

Not for his own sake.

Because allowing women to serve as officials is already a huge step, and forcibly implementing monogamy is too big a step.

After women are liberated, more and more of them will become officials, and the idea of ​​equality between men and women will inevitably take root in the future.

As for monogamy, I'm afraid that someone would take the initiative to propose it even without me bringing it up.

If we want to liberate women, we must let them go to school and acquire knowledge.

Therefore, for now, Jia Cong is already preparing to establish a girls' school in Youzhou.

He also planned to take the initiative to promote the liberation of women in Youzhou.

It is not necessary to let women become officials in the early stage, but it is always possible to let them become shopkeepers, supervisors, etc.

The land of Youzhou suffered greatly from the Qing Dynasty.

The feudal ethics here are quite light, and Confucianism is not too restrictive here.

It is not difficult to promote it here.

The prerequisite for this is to open girls' schools so that girls can study, acquire knowledge and understand the truth.

Just as Jia Cong was thinking silently, Lin Daiyu walked in quietly with a bowl of ginseng soup.

When Jia Cong saw Lin Daiyu, he couldn't help but smile at her.

Lin Daiyu placed the ginseng soup in front of Jia Cong and asked, "Third Brother Cong, what are you thinking about?"

"I know you have a lot to do, but don't overwork yourself. Drink this ginseng soup first to replenish your body."

Jia Cong took Lin Daiyu's hand and let her sit in his arms.

Lin Daiyu's cheeks flushed. She glanced at Jia Cong but did not refuse.

Jia Cong sighed and said, "Yes, there are so many things to do now, but unfortunately I lack capable assistants around me."

"It would be great if Master and Father-in-law could come and help me."

Lin Daiyu couldn't help but say: "Then I will write a letter to my father and persuade him to come here."

Upon hearing this, Jia Cong nodded.

In fact, not only Lin Ruhai, but also Kou Xiang and Jia Cong are planning to take over after a while.

The capital city is about to fall into chaos. It would be very dangerous for them to continue staying in the capital city.

These two people are both pillars of the country. How could Jia Cong be willing to let them take risks?
Jia Cong said again: "Sister Lin, I have something here that I would like you to help me with. I wonder if you can help me?"

Lin Daiyu hesitated for a moment before she said, "If I can really help Third Brother Cong solve his problems, I would certainly be willing to do so."

After hearing this, Jia Cong clapped his hands and said, "That's really great. I'm going to open a girls' school in Yanyun. Why don't you be the principal of this girls' school?"

After hearing this, Lin Daiyu could not help but ask in silence, "Third Brother Cong, are you planning to allow girls in Yanyun to go to school from a young age?"

"But Confucianism believes that women's virtue lies in their lack of talent. Even if you let them study, they will not be able to leave the house in the future."

"After getting married, they have to stay at home to take care of their husbands and children. They are just duel books, so what's the use of them?"

Jia Cong couldn't help but smile and said, "I want to open a school for girls, let them study, and naturally let them go out to work in the future."

"There's nothing wrong with women, why can't they come out and do things?"

"I'm going to start with you and let you all help me do things."

Lin Daiyu hesitated for a moment and said, "Third Brother Cong, your idea is certainly good, but I'm afraid that everyone will oppose it."

"After all, the idea that men are superior to women and women should follow the three obediences and four virtues is deeply rooted and unbreakable."

"How easy is it to break this bondage?"

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Everything depends on human effort. How can it be said that it will not work if we haven't done it yet?"

In fact, Jia Cong has great confidence in this.

For example, the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and the founding of New China.

Isn’t equality between men and women something that can be implemented just by saying it should be implemented?
This is of course difficult, but not impossible.

Lin Daiyu was naturally happy.

Lin Daiyu herself is very rebellious, and she also longs for women to come out and do things.

Now that she has the support of her husband, she is naturally willing.

Next, Lin Daiyu asked Jia Cong about the establishment of a girls' school.

Only then did I realize that Jia Cong was not only planning to open a girls' school in Youzhou.

Instead, they wanted to open girls' schools throughout the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

Lin Daiyu was in charge of all affairs of the girls' school, which was a rather heavy workload.

Of course, Jia Cong didn't want Lin Daiyu to oversee all the work by herself.

He decided to ask his wives and concubines to help Lin Daiyu do this.

Instead of letting women be in the spotlight and do things, it is better to start with the people around them.

The teaching in girls' schools was mainly based on new learning, supplemented by the Four Books and Five Classics.

The content of the Four Books and Five Classics was even greatly weakened, and it was enough to just read them through.

After hearing this, Lin Daiyu nodded.

Then I started to think about how to carry out the work in the future.

Next, Lin Daiyu gathered her sisters together to discuss the matter.

Unexpectedly, within the group, Lin Daiyu aroused strong opposition from Xue Baochai.

It turns out that Xue Baochai believes in the idea that a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent, and thinks that a woman should at most know a few words and not be a blind person with open eyes.

If there is no special school, what's the point of sending them to school to study?
As for letting them come out and do things in the future, it would be even more unorthodox and absurd.

This kind of thing is absolutely not allowed.

However, girls like Xue Baoqin all thought that girls' schools should be established.

Although Lin Daiyu was the eldest wife, Xue Baochai did not dare to contradict her too much.

But she was adamant and refused to give in.

In the end, he took the initiative to find Jia Cong and tried his best to persuade him, hoping that Jia Cong would give up the idea.

Jia Cong had not expected that the first step of this reform experiment had not even left his home when his family members began to oppose it.

However, Jia Cong did not blame Xue Baochai.

Because the Three Obediences and Four Virtues are a kind of restriction on women's thoughts after Confucianism was tampered with by castration.

Breaking this shackles is not something that can be done overnight.

Is there anyone who is born to be lowly?
Next, Jia Cong began to patiently persuade Xue Baochai.

Let’s start with the class system.

Jia Cong has experienced the baptism of the information explosion in later generations and has sufficient theoretical knowledge.

After being baptized by Jia Cong, Xue Baochai thought hard, but in the end, she still held an opposing attitude. (End of this chapter)