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Chapter 705. Nanming falls, Mao Jue is full

Literary! The most shameless person in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was these literati! They completely lost the courage of their ancestors to take charge of the world during the Han and Tang dynasties, and secretly carried out mutiny and seized power. This group of Donglin Party members, but when the country was in crisis, they were the first to hide.

Even if he agreed with Shi Kefa's plan, no one had the courage to take charge of the commander and go to the battle. Gao Hongtu claimed to be a foot disease, Qian Qianyi suffered from wind and cold, Jiang Yueguang's pneumonia was violated again, and the responsibility of the supervisor fell back to Shi Kefa, who had not been in court for three years.

At the beginning, he was unwilling to take on this supervisor, not because Shi Kefa was afraid of death and was afraid of taking responsibility. You should know that this New Taipei Prefecture was taken back from Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng. From top to bottom, he was completely purged by the Donglin Party. The officers of the army were either disciples and former officials of the Donglin bosses, or the slaves and servants under their family. Shi Kefa had no basis at all. If the generals could not be single-minded, how could they fight?

It's okay, there were masters, apprentices, masters, and slaves. When they heard that they were going to go to war, they competed with the aggressive 500,000 rebels. In the past few days, the 180,000 Northern Prefecture Army, eliminated more than 50,000 people who had been vacant for all kinds of face-related families on paper and completely disappeared. More than 60,000 people fled. Part of the former Nanjing Imperial Army in the battle left and right. The Nanjing nobles after Hongwu Yongle were not optimistic about Shi Kefa, and tried their best to get rid of their troops and then eliminated those who had to stay in Nanjing. In the end, they fell into Shi Kefa's hands. The troops that could be mobilized were only more than 20,000 left.

Fortunately, Shi Kefa was not completely alone. He had the right again, which gave some hope of recovery, so Fushe leaned over.

Fushe is known as the Little Donglin, and its political purpose is also highly consistent with Donglin. It all eliminates the accumulated corruption, opposes eunuchs' interference in politics, and opposes the random collection of commercial taxes and mining taxes like Emperor Wanli. However, one Donglin and the other Fushe are two political groups after all! The Donglin Party was born in a scholar-official and sectarian family, such as Qian Qianyi and Gong Dingzi, were all major landlords in Jiangnan. After more than ten years of being in trouble, the Donglin Party has developed an industry at the end, and they are considered vested interests of the ruling class.

But most of the people who came from Fushe were young scholars. What are the characteristics of young people? Unfortunately, they are poor! Except for some of the second generation of Donglin officials, such as Zuo Guoqin, the son of Zuo Guangdou, Wei Xuelian, the son of Wei Dazhong, Gu Yushu, Gu Zunsu, and Huang Zongxi, the son of Huang Zunsu, the remaining Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, the leader of Fushe, Lou Dong and Zhang Zhang, were all from ordinary families. Zhang Pu even had a cold experience of chapped hands and feet due to carbon-free heating and studying in winter.

In addition, Fushe itself has two meanings. One is to promote the culture of retrospect, and the second is that if you fail the exam for a long time, you need to take the imperial examination again. Such a group of young people with political frustration gathered together, adhering to the political philosophy of Donglin Neo-Confucianism, while the members of Fushe also have their own political demands.

But now, the saints who surrounded the former leader have completely ascended to dominate. Has the interests of the Fushe achieved?

It cannot be said that there is no such thing as Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai at least had a job as a clerk, Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, Huang Zongxi and others also became officials in the Kedao. However, except for these leaders, there were only a few thousands of scholars who made their debut in Fushe.

Moreover, the political demands have not been met, and the political status and economic interests of the members of the Fushe are becoming increasingly worse. The so-called reform of the Donglin Party, which is called the restructuring of ancient times, encouragement of rural and commercial education, and closing down the industry is not only a regression in society, but also a large landlord in Jiangnan like Qian Qianyi, who was a big landlord in Jiangnan, swallowed up small and medium-sized landlords and self-cultivated farmers. The entire social structure was completely incorporated into large feudal manors across states and counties. The owner of the manor was equivalent to the king. In the past, the small industrial and commercial owners who could make some money in industrial and commercial operations also completely lost this right and were ruthlessly imprisoned on the land. Even some decent scholars and members of the Fushe were beaten to be serfs. The series of political reforms of the Donglin Party were completely disappointed for Fushe.

Either it perishes in silence or erupts in despair. After fighting for so long, how could it be willing to be perished by fish and meat?

On this side, groups of Donglin's old friends escaped from the military camp in shame. On the other side, the children of Fushe who were dragging their luggage immediately came to report in high spirits. No matter whether it is civil officials or military officials, they are at least officials now. Moreover, Shi Kefa issued official seals to report at this time, and Donglin, who was in power, could not say anything. After all, Shi Kefa is about to go to war, so you can't let these official positions be empty, right?

To be honest, Shi Kefa frowned when he looked at the troops under his command. Mao Jue, the three towns in the old Jiangbei, almost ate 50,000 to 600,000 people. Only Liu Liangzuo fled back to Jiangnan, and was still a weak brigade among the weak brigade. Liu Liangzuo died of illness, and the hearts of these people also collapsed.

Then there is the old subordinate of Ma Shiying, the political leader of the Governor of Fengyang, and Fengyang is now occupied by the Beiming, which makes this part even more depressed.

These are still stronger and have some military experience, but if you gather those people in the city, you are completely scoundrels. Even if you wear armor, you don’t look like a soldier. On the stage, Shi Kefa ordered the drum to beat the drum. The new scholars of Fushe or the military and lakes of the scholars tried their best to gather together. However, in ten minutes, 20,000 people have not even been put out in a square formation. Shi Kefa was really frowning when he saw it.

Fortunately, at this time, the second benefit brought by the Fushe was revealed. Although Zhang Pu was a political speculator, he was a little bit timely and Song Jiang's side, which was loyal! Everyone knows all the people in the world. At the gate of the military camp, a roar like thunder suddenly suppressed the chaos in the military camp.

"Yan Yingyuan, a native of Jiangyin, came to join the army with the special party members at the command of the alliance. I hope the Grand Secretary will take him in!"

Hearing this roar, Shi Kefa's face turned red with a red face. He left the troops excitedly and hurriedly walked out. At the gate, a man wearing a purplish head and a solemn man in a robed mansion suit, with a curly beard slightly wide open. He was so tall that he didn't want a black man from the southerners of this era with a big sword on his back, standing majestic in front, followed closely behind. Although thousands of young men were wearing local cloth clothes, many of them were barefoot, and they were carrying hoes and sticks in their hands, they looked so energetic that they were many times better than those real military men in the military camp.

"Meet the Grand Secretary!"

With a loud bang, Yan Yingyuan knelt down like a loud bang with his commander, and Shi Kefa was shocked to take two steps and pulled him up suddenly, saying, "No need to be polite! No need to be polite!"

After the etiquette, he looked up at the children of Jiangyin. Shi Kefa finally stroked his beard happily again, and finally showed a smile.

"I have received help from a hero! My business has come true!"

With Yan Yingyuan's Jiangyin soldiers joining, Shi Kefa's Western Expedition team finally took shape. On August 19, a series of Donglin bosses such as Qian Qianyi and Gao Hongtu were watching with gloomy faces. The troops left the capital in a mighty manner and headed straight for Jiujiang against the Yangtze River. There, Liu Zongmin's 500,000 troops were waiting for him!

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But no matter what the outcome of this battle was, the impact of the riot army's eastern expedition had spread throughout Jiangnan. The Donglin Party relied on ancient times to reform and divided the society into feudal manors like beehives, and the consequences were also revealed.

Not all the masters of the aristocratic families are not afraid of death! As soon as the news of the annihilation of Zuo Liangyu spread, the entire Jiangnan caused great panic. The owners of the big manors in the country immediately took their relatives and wealth to escape. The bigger ones went straight to Nanjing, and the smaller ones hid in the nearby county town. At least there was a city wall to protect them to avoid the coming war.

But as soon as they left, there were not tens of thousands of peasants and serfs on the land of which family, the men were afraid of death, and the people below were not afraid of it? In addition, they had long been dissatisfied with the exploitation of this feudal manor. As soon as the men fled, the entire village and the entire town also fled, forming a terrifying wave of refugees that was like the destruction of the world during the Chongzhen period.

At this time, the entire Southern Ming Dynasty was already in panic, and the gloomy generals and local officials had no power and had no intention of caring about these refugees.

However, it is different from the Chongzhen period. The refugees in the north had nowhere to go and had nowhere to eat, so they could only go wherever they could go. These refugees in the south of the Yangtze River were different. They could go to work in "big cities"!

The quiet West Lakeside is approaching the autumn harvest, and it is once again lively. Just like the large-scale talent recruitment fair in later generations, the largest East India Company, and the small shops and workshops that have emerged below, all of which have set up banners on the lakeside and shouted desperately.

"It's all for food and accommodation! Five insurances and one fund! There are also double breaks!"

"Double salary during holidays, salary is paid monthly, and you will never be owed!"

"Recruiting workers! Recruiting workers!"

This storm was originally directed by Mao Jue. In major cities such as Hangzhou, Ningbo, Quanzhou and Fuzhou, the East India Company and the emerging bourgeois owners had naturally prepared a lot. They had stored food, clothes, and so on. On this side, refugees from Jiangnan fled to these coastal ports with trepidation. On the other side, they were directly silly signed contracts and pulled out the cans they sent. They wore new clothes they sent out after taking a shower and were pushed onto the sailboats that went south.

Southeast Asia is now a treasure pot. In the huge Luzon, Taiwan, the huge Borneo, the warm and fertile land is picked up for free, and there are various precious spice veins. As long as someone develops it, the silver will be smashed to the forehead like rain. If you can recruit one person, you will get a little more profit, just like picking up money! Under the trend of interests, the owners of the "black-hearted" bosses and manors are doing their best to export their population overseas, and sailing ships filled with sea-working refugees, setting sail towards the southeast heavily.

On the other side of the sea, I was guarding the harbor every day. Watching the ships of Ming people pouring in, my city quickly became richer, and Huang Degong's old face couldn't help but feel happy.
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