Chapter 69: Gossip about Donglin
Combining several reports submitted by the time traveler "inner ghost" Yu Guozhen, as well as the interrogation records of the "Donglin Gentlemen" who came to Hainan Island, Wang Qiu quickly figured out the Jiangnan Donglin Party's influence on Hainan Island. Traveling through the group’s absurd plot, and couldn’t help but feel ridiculous about it:
"...You have been carrying out land reform in Quanzhou, Fujian, and asking the landlords and gentry to take bullets. You have been struggling for a year or two, and now they only realize it. With such a few hands and brains, A loser who is obviously lacking in talent actually dares to investigate some major rebellion case?”
Looking at the case files whose contents were comparable to absurd novels, Wang Qiu couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, "...Do they think they are Lu Xiaofeng, the strange hero in Gu Long's novels? Not to mention that they don't have the martial arts and resourcefulness, even if they really find it. What kind of evidence could there be? Mobilizing soldiers from all over the world to crusade in Fujian? Didn’t you see that the Ming Dynasty was already burning in all directions, and even the city of Beijing was transformed into a battlefield twice in a row? "
"...Haha, when will the Donglin Party members look at the problem from the perspective of the imperial court? On the surface, they claim to be morally high and serve the country and the people all day long, but in fact, they have never thought about this country at all? This is A bunch of die-hard movement enthusiasts who are afraid of chaos in the world! ”
As the "victim", General Huangshi sat at the table holding a teacup in his hand and said nonchalantly, "... Of course, you are right about one thing. It is different from the plots in TV series and movies. Such things as rebellion The determination is never based on evidence, but on strength. As long as you are strong enough, you will still be a loyal minister even if you kill the emperor. So these Donglin gentlemen are not here to investigate the case, but to engage in conspiracy. "
"...Connect in series? With whom?" Wang Qiu frowned.
"...Local government officials, scholar-officials, landowners and gentry, retired officials...in short, they are the most prestigious and powerful people in the local area."
Huang Shi yawned sadly, "...theoretically, as vested interests in the old society, they are all our enemies!"
"...Then what?" Wang Qiu asked.
"...Then? Naturally, the local gentry wrote a petition, and the court officials launched an impeachment, accusing Huang of treason to Emperor Chongzhen, and at the same time publicized my crime of 'cutting off the literary spirit' and harming the gentry to the officials and gentry all over the world...otherwise... What can I do?" Huang Shi was a little confused.
"...Won't they send servants to incite the tenants to rise up and plunge your 30,000 Funing troops into a guerrilla war like Iraq?"
"...How is it possible? If you really do this, I guarantee that the first one to be robbed, burned, burned and killed will be the big landlords themselves!"
Huang Shi laughed dumbly, "...the landowners in the north forced out Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the landowners in the south were not much better. The land in Fujian was barren, and the rice harvested from an acre of paddy field could only be sold for half a tael of silver, but the landlord's rent However, the taxes from the princes and the government were as much as two taels of silver. As a result, the farmers were forced to pay taxes! Families were destroyed, and even in good years, thousands of people had to flee. Nowadays, Fujian Province is full of abandoned fields and people dying of hunger—not mainly because of natural disasters, but because they were forced out. You said if those tenants were forced out. Armed, who will you kill first?
What's more, my Funing Army is not a vegetarian either. In the past two years, many scholars and scholars have been killed. The county magistrate also killed one and scared away a lot of them. The governor of Fujian has not dared to leave Fuzhou City since he took office. Last spring, in addition to going to Japan, I also burned down the Southern Shaolin Temple in Putian, hung more than a hundred bald donkeys on trees, and organized local tenants to hold a public trial... In short, since the Funing Army went south, Since then, we have worked with these The big landlords have been fighting for six years. The most disobedient thorns in Fujian's land have now been almost wiped out. As for the remaining ones, they have been scared out of their wits and dare not take the initiative even if they have ten courages. Be right with me..."
"...So you've even done things like burning down the Shaolin Temple?! Well, even though it's Southern Shaolin, it's still powerful enough." Wang Qiu said with a tongue-tied tongue, but then his eyes lit up and he was full of gossip. Daqi, "...the stick over there Is it troublesome to deal with the monk? Have you encountered the legendary Eighteen Bronze Men? Also, the image of Southern Shaolin seems to be quite positive. Is it not good if you just make it so violent that you even burn down the temple? Huh?”
"...Hey, can the stuff in Jin Yong's novels be taken seriously? He also said that Emperor Qianlong was a Han descendant of the Chen family in Haining!"
Huang Shi rolled his eyes, "...Rural temples these days are actually no different from big landlords. At least nine out of ten monks do not abide by the rules and precepts, and each one is more ruthless and compassionate than the other. Nothing. For example, in the past few years, Southern Shaolin felt that its Buddhist fields were too small and the rent it received was not enough, so it colluded with the government officials to destroy a nearby village. The people of Zizi had their household registration cancelled, and then reported it to the government without conscience, claiming that these hundreds of acres of good paddy fields and more than 2,000 acres of dry land were wasteland, and took it as their own, so they suffered unforeseen disasters. Those who became tenant farmers in Southern Shaolin were forced to become refugees because they lost their household registration, and became bandits - legally speaking, they are dead!"
"... Just seize the land and seize people as serfs?! Hey, is this almost as good as the horse racing after the Eight Banners entered the customs?" Wang Qiu was dumbfounded. "... After all, we are already civilized people. , they are still a group of monks who are supposed to be compassionate, not so cruel, right? I remember the novels before liberation, right? It has been said here that those big landowners first find ways to hoard and store a large amount of grain in good years, and then take advantage of the disaster years when the poor with no savings are about to starve to death, using a bucket of millet per acre of land for extremely low prices. At a reasonable price, buy their fields bit by bit?”
"...That's an inefficient way of playing for small landowners with little power. The real big guys are the ones who keep the secrets! If a rich man doesn't have power over his head, he might wake up one day and find that he has become someone. He is a runaway slave of the Jin gentry—otherwise, how can it be called a plundering? ”
——Indeed, it was really dangerous to make a fortune and buy real estate in ancient times. Sometimes, even if you were sitting at home, as long as someone changed the file in the yamen, you would have "died of a sudden illness" and donated all your property to a certain house. A temple or a "respectable" gentleman... Of course, the general approach seems to be the other way around, first getting a large group of killers to kill you, and then forging wills and transfer documents...
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"... As for whether we encountered any Shaolin monks during the battle against Southern Shaolin, the officer leading the team did not tell me in detail. However, the monks there all have Scud attributes, so it should be absolutely correct - through In the tunnel of the temple, two hundred of the three hundred monks fled, and among the more than one hundred bald donkeys, only about thirty old, weak, sick and disabled people were found in the temple, and more than seventy bald donkeys were found from various places. Found in brothels and tenants’ homes..."
"...Searched from the tenants' homes? Didn't you say that this temple is very unpopular? Why are there still tenants covering for them?"
"...Where are those bitter and resentful tenants hiding the absconding monks? It's clearly those flowery monks who are sleeping with the tenants' wives and daughters! The first people to report were the bitter monks who were forcibly cuckolded - and the white-haired girl story one In the same way, it is also common for tenants who cannot pay the rent to ask the women of the family to pay the rent... What is even more disgusting is that I heard that there are monks sleeping with the tenants' youngest sons, and even let the father sleep with him..."
Huang Shi said with a disgusted expression - the late Ming Dynasty was an era when masculinity was prevalent and homosexuality was overflowing, and Fujian was the most popular place among all provinces in the country for homosexuality. It has reached the point where homosexuality is no different than marrying a wife. To the extent that there are even "special matchmakers" who connect men with men. If an ordinary farm family has a beautiful little boy with outstanding appearance, he will often ask someone to send him a betrothal gift when he is eleven or twelve years old... It is said that at that time, there were many young slaves who had their butts fucked so much that their psychology was distorted. After growing a beard, he still refuses to be a man again and build a family and carry on the family line (homosexuals are true love, heterosexuals should be burned!), so he simply castrates himself so that he can wear women's clothes and be a ***** for the rest of his life. Eh? Suddenly I remembered Lin Pingzhi in "The Swordsman" who became a eunuch in the palace and practiced the sword technique to ward off evil spirits, and the ancestor of the Lin family who developed the family martial arts that "if you want to practice this skill, you must first leave the palace", they are also Ming Dynasty. The Fujian people in North Korea...could it have something to do with the gay culture in this area?
"...Although the abbot of Southern Shaolin and a group of great monks ran away, the temple and the fields could not escape, so after using the power of thunder to kill this thorn, the ground in southern Fujian finally calmed down a lot. ...Sigh, I finally understand now that killing chickens to scare monkeys is of no use at all. Kill the small landowners. No matter how much you do, those wealthy families will still fight against you without restraint. Only by attacking the big tigers from the beginning and then killing the monkeys to scare the chickens can it have a little deterrent effect - after the annihilation of Southern Shaolin, those eyes have grown. The wealthy gentry above them finally began to relent.
The envoy of the Choshu Domain who was in Quanzhou at the time also congratulated me on this matter, but this Japanese samurai really couldn't speak, but he actually complimented me like the "Sixth Heaven Demon King" Nobunaga who burned down the Hieizan Monastery in the past. The wind will surely bring long-lasting martial arts and sweep across the world... I was so angry that I asked on the spot, if I am Oda Nobunaga, then who is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and then who is Akechi Mitsuhide? "Huang Shi's nagging continued, but Wang Qiu felt that this matter was too complicated and he didn't know how to explain it, so he brought the topic back to the case itself.
"...Well, well, if it is said that they are here to engage in collusion and incite dissatisfaction among Guangdong officials and people against the time-travelers...it doesn't seem right. According to Yu Guozhen, and the confessions of those guys, before They only paid one visit to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and they only exchanged some polite words, and served tea to see them off in less than half a quarter of an hour. In addition, they did not convene any private secret gatherings - is there such a connection? "
"...Do you think the ancients were more efficient than modern diplomats? Not to mention that these guys like to talk in circles in order to show off their literary talent. Unless it is really urgent, with the procrastination style of these romantic talents, how can there be any You just get straight to the point when you meet?”
Huang Shi raised his eyebrows. Ever since he time traveled, he has been intolerable to the arrogant way of speaking of ancient "cultured people". The point is that when others make detours, he must also follow them, otherwise he will appear to be weird... …Fortunately, he is a military commander, and it doesn’t matter if he is laughed at as vulgar. “… Next, the people in the team who really know some political struggle skills, They were scared away early by the false news that our army was about to attack Guangzhou, and Fang Yizhi, a foolish young man who stayed behind, reversed the priorities under Yu Guozhen's deception - it is estimated that those dispatched. The boss of Donglin who came out just asked them to go out for fun. He never expected that these stupid young people would actually come to Hainan Island..."
"...Ahem, no matter what, in short, the spies from the Donglin Party who came to Guangzhou are finished without causing any impact. But the people who went to Fujian to engage in collusion, and the Donglin Party in the north and south Have you considered how to respond to the impeachment efforts of the Beijing imperial court? After all, unlike Hainan Island, which has been completely conquered, your Funing Army cannot control the entire Fujian, not even half."
Wang Qiu thought for a while and said, still a little worried - according to the historical materials he knew about the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty (blackened version), as a group of "ancient square movement experts" and professional troublemakers, Donglin controlled the world's public opinion. It is true that the Lin Party has little construction ability, but its destructive power in all aspects is extraordinary. It is especially good at sowing discord and engaging in mass movements... just like those street fighting experts in Taiwan in later generations.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty official army and the time traveler army are not as civilized as the "Strawberry Soldiers" of later generations in Taiwan. When encountering this kind of thing, it is light to put on the bayonet and discharge the musket, and it is easy to just drag out the cannon and blast grape bullets. normal.
"...I still don't know what they will do right now, whether they will stop at a superficial level or fight to the death. I can only stop quietly and wait to see if they can take action."
Huang Shi curled his lips disapprovingly, "...Anyway, in troubled times, all struggles must rely on force in the end. And the imperial court does not have a field army around Fujian or even in the entire southeast that can confront our army head-on. And even if there is Soldiers are not something that the Donglin Party can mobilize at will. Although the power of the Donglin Party these days is huge, its biggest flaw is that. There are no reliable direct troops - these noble scribes despise warriors so much, how can they be willing to associate with despicable sergeants like us? It will not be until a few years later, after they have suffered enough because they have no military power, that they will learn their lesson? , pinching their noses to support Zuo Liangyu and other warlords, but at least now, their hands are still empty! "
(Zuo Liangyu, who was known for his extremely corrupt military discipline in the late Ming Dynasty and openly rebelled against Nanjing, directly leading to the fall of Nanming, was actually a direct line of armed forces strongly supported by the Donglin Party, and Zuo Liangyu's rebellion also gained support from Donglin in Nanjing City. The party's vigorous instigation and internal support completely ignored the fact that the Qing soldiers had already A large-scale march south, troops arrived at Yangzhou... As a result, Zuo Liangyu died of illness on the way, the remaining troops mutinied and collapsed, and the main force surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The Donglin Party, who was waiting for Zuo Liangyu's rebels to enter the city and depose Emperor Hongguang, made a mistake, and the military power of the Nanjing court was restored. They defeated themselves and had to surrender to the Qing court...)
"...An enemy standing in the open is not scary. I know this, but scribes never use swords to kill people!"
Wang Qiu blinked, "...Aren't you afraid that they will use the factional conflicts between the old Liaodong troops in the Funing Army and the southern generals to instigate rebellion?"
"...to dismantle our opponent from within? Well, this is indeed the Donglin Party's favorite method, but it is also not easy - first of all, the Funing Army has been to Hainan Island and Taiwan for rotation training in the past few years. Fully instilled in everyone With the idea that "big landlords deserve to die", countless families have been destroyed in the past two years, and they have already formed a deadly feud with the local Jin Gentry. Since the Donglin Party wants to support the Jin Gentry landlords, who will listen to what they say? < br>
Secondly, in the past few years, the Funing Army has always labeled them as minions of the eunuch party. They have been suppressed so hard that several of my capable old troops almost lost their lives... If Dong Lin The party is willing to spend five million taels of silver to buy bribes, which may be a bit troublesome - but they are definitely reluctant to even part with five million taels! Now that we have the upper hand, the old and new grudges have not yet been settled, how can we join the enemy? ”
Huang Shi was still not worried, "...just like during the Anti-Japanese War, no one would join the Japanese invaders and become puppet soldiers in August 1945!"
"...Well, as far as I know, there seems to be such idiots, and some of them even surrendered on August 14th and became traitors..."
"...What? Is there really such a fool?" Huang Shi's eyes widened slightly, and his expression suddenly became very subtle, but then calmed down again, "...I think, no matter who followed me from Liaodong to the There will not be too many subordinates in Fujian or new people who have passed the screening and review in Lingao. Such fools are like this. Besides, we have wireless telegraphy here and the reconnaissance satellites you brought. If there is really any serious trouble here in Fujian, we can rush back to deal with it. After all, there is nothing like this in the world today. The Global Traveler Summit here is more important..."
"...Indeed, this meeting may be related to the fate of the entire earth - of course, the earth here. I heard that the central government plans to establish a global traveler organization similar to the European Union in this time and space to coordinate various travellers. The interests of the forces and avoid internal conflicts, but the specific name. Whether the name is the Chinese League or the Viet Minh has not yet been decided. The location of the headquarters of this global organization and the selection of the first chairman are also big troubles - I heard that representatives from all parties Mass brawls have been staged several times..."
While Wang Qiu was muttering about the meeting that was being held secretly in Sanya to determine the fate of the world, he started to pack up the documents on the table and prepared to stuff them into the drawer. However, he accidentally discovered that there were a few pieces of letterhead paper underneath that he had not read. Passed. So, he picked up these pieces of paper curiously, "...Dai Erdong...or Dai Yaohan? It turns out that there is another female time traveler next to Yu Guozhen in Anhui..."
Then, Wang Qiu carefully read the autobiography of this single female time traveler from the Ming Dynasty, and then couldn't help being horrified: "...She actually ended up in such a miserable state... Hey, it's like a Ming Dynasty time travel story. The history of blood and tears of a peasant girl..."