Poor Hongguang embarked on a difficult road to escape...

By the way, with his tonnage, the escape on the ancient road of Wuhan can indeed be called difficult. It was said in history that he really couldn't escape because of the tonnage problem, so he could only hide in a temple in Luoyang nearby, so he was caught by Li Zicheng.

Of course, the Fulu Banquet is nonsense.

Li Zicheng's taste is not that heavy.

Tan Qian's national quiz is very clearly recorded. After his death, a loyal minister begged Li Zicheng and buried him with a thin coffin.

And the minister committed suicide in front of his grave.

Just as he was following the ancient road of Wuhan and embarked on the west hunting road, Li Ruogui's subordinates in Ruzhou City collapsed. The soldiers who knew they were in trouble took advantage of the spring rain at night and opened the city gates to the south and drilled into the vast mountains. Before leaving, they looted Ruogui and killed Li Ruogui. These defeated soldiers were all mountain people in Yunyang. They knew very well how to take the harvest home. They could escape from Ruzhou and walk from Ruzhou to Lushan and go to Zu Dashou's cavalry and then turn to the main road in Nanyang.

After they escaped, there was no obstacle in front of Zu Dashou. On the same day when Hongguang arrived at Jiushi Pass and was about to start crossing Wushan, Zu Dashou's tribe drove into Luoyang in a mighty manner.

And on this day, the old friend of Zhennan King was also in trouble.

Qufu.

"You can't treat me like this. I am Yan Shenggong, I am Yan Shenggong!"

Yan Shenggong struggled and screamed in horror.

At this moment, he was being dragged by two soldiers, walking towards the white silk that had been hung in front of him like a pocket...

"If you weren't Yan Sheng Gong, we wouldn't have to do this!"

Du Yinxi said.

At this time, he was the general of an infantry army in the Imperial Camp.

Although most of them were actually famous scholars who were familiar with the tactics of the new army, they were all regarded as generals because they were familiar with the tactics of the new army. These people had extremely rich experience in this area. After all, they had been many years since they first started the new tactics. After the war, Tianqi reorganized a total of eight infantry troops. Most of the generals were from this group of people, and the cavalry army was led by Lu Xiangsheng.

Although Du Yinxi failed to realize his dream of becoming the top scorer in the imperial examination, he became the main general of the imperial camp at the age of 26.

Now he is also in charge of the title of deputy governor.

This is a blessing in disguise.

He followed Sun Yuanhua to rise up along the canal and the troops were divided into two groups in Jining. Sun Yuanhua led an army to continue to march forward to Dongping, preparing to meet with Hong Chengchou in Dongchang.

He led an army into Yanzhou, and after raiding King Lu's house, he then rushed into Qufu City.

"Yan Shenggong, we are trying to fulfill your reputation.

As the Grand Tutor of Emperor Hongguang, you of course have to commit suicide to sacrifice your life in this special time. We all know that Emperor Hongguang is the wise lord and the wise king, and the treacherous ministers are the traitors and the country is a traitor. But we do not have the integrity of you, so we have to surrender to the tyrant ministers. But you are different. You are Yan Shenggong. After the sage, you must be incompatible with the treacherous ministers. If you surrender to his tyranny, how can you be worthy of Confucius? Now at this time, you must commit suicide to show your integrity of not following the thief.

In this way, you will be remembered in future generations.

The sages and disciples of later generations will remember your integrity and you can be remembered forever."

He squatted in front of Yan Shenggong and said.

The poor Yan Shenggong dragged his broken leg and was carried by two soldiers. He looked at him in astonishment. It was obvious that he could not understand his strange theory for a moment. What the hell is this? I am Yan Shenggong, and I must hang myself. Why are you bastards colluding with Yang Xin? You said that Hongguang is the wise lord of the Holy Lord, so why do you stab him in the back?

"So, you'd better die for the feud!"

Du Yinxi said sincerely.

"I know you, I know you. In Wuxi, you made trouble with the students of Donglin Academy. You are revenge on private matters, you are revenge on private matters, I want to see Your Majesty, I want to see King Zhennan, you can't do this to me!"

Yan Shenggong screamed.

"Yes, I'm just taking revenge on my own!

When you followed Yang Xin to cause trouble in Jiangnan and killed Mr. Jing Yi, all the scholars in Jiangnan wanted to kill you, the traitor. Unfortunately, you, the traitor, have been free for many years. Today, I can finally comfort Mr. Jing Yi and all the gentlemen who died. Today, you have to die if you don’t want to die. Even if you apologize to Yang Xin, I will hang you.

Hang him up!

Seeing your face, I remembered the way you followed Yang Xin to make accomplices for the tiger!"

Du Yinxi stood up and shouted.

"They were killed by Yang Xin, and it has nothing to do with me!"

Yan Shenggong screamed.

The two soldiers carried him under the white silk, then directly held him under his armpit and hung it up. The weight of Yan Shenggong, who had one leg, was much lighter than that of ordinary people, and his head was easily put into the white silk while struggling.

"I admit that I can't kill Yang Xin, I can't avenge Mr. Jing Yi, but I can't kill Yang Xin, and you can't kill you? Hang this old thief and throw his son into the well. The family of Yan Shenggong is loyal and wise, and he swears to follow Emperor Hongguang to the death. He is really a model of my Confucian disciple. He deserves the reputation of the sages and wise men. From then on, he is still admired by the scholars, haha!"

Du Yinxi laughed.

This is not driven by his pure hatred...

Although he really hated this guy, in fact, when he was thrown into the river by Yang Xin in Wuxi, he had already remembered the face beside Yang Xin, but the plan of the Yan Shenggong family being hanged was made by their group, and it was actually for this purpose that he was asked to come to Qufu for this purpose. Because of Yan Shenggong's performance over the years, especially with Yang Xin's misfortune of Jiangnan and the evil deeds of harming loyalty and kindness, the reputation of Confucius was implicated, and the image of Confucian scholars was also seriously affected.

Of course, this is what they think.

In fact, the fundamental reason why the image of Confucianism is affected is that scientific progress has made corrupt scholars increasingly useless.

The people don’t care about anything else, but what is useful is good. Practical intellectuals are becoming more and more popular, and the natural status of traditional esoteric essays and corrupt scholars has declined. This is an inevitable trend.

But these Confucian elites who took it as their responsibility to revitalize Confucianism were unwilling to admit this. In their opinion, the decline of the Confucian image was caused by the bad image of Yanshenggong. Therefore, if you want to revitalize Confucianism, you must re-gold the image of Yanshenggong. Kong Yinzhi's actions could not be washed away. Since this would make him a wise man in this chaos, the once notorious Yanshenggong suddenly woke up and followed Hongguang to fight Yang Xin, a traitor. After unfortunately, he would rather die than surrender to Yang Xin, and took his whole family to commit suicide to show that he was loyal and treacherous.

What a great image.

Originally, the treacherous minister Yan Shenggong no longer existed, and the Confucian scholars gained another righteous Yan Shenggong.

Anyway, there are some people in the Kong family, so they just want to find another one. The Confucian scholars don’t care who is Yan Shenggong, as long as they don’t surrender to Yang Thief’s tyranny.

As for themselves...

They can succumb to Yang Thief’s tyranny.

They are just a group of unworthy disciples of Confucianism. If they surrender to the tyranny of Yang Thief, they will not affect the image of Confucianism. They are not Yan Shenggong.

"Zhennan King, where are you?"

Poor Yan Shenggong looked at the north with tears in his eyes and cried.

Then the two soldiers let go of their hands. The shout of Yan Shenggong, who was calling for the King of Zhennan, stopped abruptly, and then hung on it and started kicking his legs.

Capital.

"Ah Yeh!"

The King of Zhennan suddenly sneezes.

"Will I still catch a cold?"

He then said in surprise.

Obviously, I didn't know that a person who was calling him a king of Zhennan thousands of miles away was very puzzled about how he could sneeze. You should know that he had long been invincible for all diseases and poisons. It was indeed strange to suddenly sneeze.

He had no idea that this was just because of the poor Yan Shenggong's powerful and resentful King Zhennan, finally shook his head and looked at an urgent report in front of him. This was just sent by the Nanyang Navy Communication Ship. A Portuguese merchant ship that had just arrived in Macau brought Li Zhizao's memorial. The Western Consolation Envoy sent by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty had ended his visit to Europe, and from the last stop of his visit six months ago, Gothenburg, Sweden, set off for the Ming Dynasty.

I guess I will be almost in Guangzhou in three months.

Li Zhizao's memorial is very detailed and can even be regarded as a book.

The first Western imperson of the Ming Dynasty set off from Guangzhou, arrived in Goa under the escort of the fleet, and then formed a formation in Goa and Portugal's return fleet, crossing the Arabian Sea to Malindi in East Africa. After completing the supply there, it continued to move south along the African coastline. Zanzibar to the south was a trading port, so Zheng He had been there. He said that the king had already paid tribute, and probably got a tribute envoy, but he had not arrived yet. Mozambique was controlled by the Portuguese, but South Africa ahead was still wild.

The Dutch Cape colony would have been established for decades, but at this time Dutch merchant ships had already traded in large quantities through the Cape of Good Hope.

After entering West Africa bypassing the Cape of Good Hope, Namibia was still wilder, but some fishing villages along the coast were nomads in the inland, and this was the case at the southernmost point of Africa. Coastal fisheries, inland nomads, and then inland, the movie God is also crazy about the people inside, but after this area, it is Portugal's territory, which is the modern Angola area. There are many cities in the Portuguese, and Luanda is even more prosperous...

The prosperous slave trade.

Next along the coast of West Africa are paradises of the slave trade.

Speaking of which, Li Zhizao was also confused about this in his memorials. Although he did not care much about the slave trade, after all, there were slaves in the Ming Dynasty, but treating slaves like he did, still made him feel a bit devastating. The slaves in the Ming Dynasty were born in slaves, but slaves were also humans. The landlords and old wealth punished the slaves at most, only a few whips were whipped, but there were animals that were completely killed, and the cruelty of the Western colonists seriously impacted his faith.

He arrived in Europe in a daze.

Fortunately, the first one he went to was commercial cities in Southern Europe, Lisbon, Barcelona, ​​Marseille and the Apennines, which still saved some of his faith.

Although he shyly admitted that these places are incomparable to Nanjing, Guangzhou and Suzhou. After all, the population of just one Nanjing city is almost catching up with the total of these cities, the prosperity of the Apennine commercial cities and the urban scenery of Rome still allowed him to find something he imagined.

Finally, the personal reception of the Vatican Pope completely restored his faith.

But then it collapsed instantly.

Because he ignored the pope's opposition and Yang Xin's warning before leaving, he hired a large group of mercenaries in Venice to escort him to Vienna as a Pope VIP. Under the protection of the army sent by Ferdinand II, he went from Vienna to Paris by land, and met with the fleet by sea in Paris. This trip, which was completely exhausted in Yang Xin's opinion, was completely dissipated, and the glory that Old Man Li had just felt from the Vatican, even though he had not actually entered the core war zone of the Thirty Years' War...

"If the people of the Ming Dynasty live in the world, then the people of Taixi are all in hell."

Old Man Li admitted reality very directly.

"If we compare Chinese history, the inland of Taixi is like the Five Barbarians in the turbulent times, warlords are separatist, bandits are rampant, famine, plague, and killings are everywhere, the monarch is incompetent and cruel, the priests are greedy, ruthless, and unruly, but the killing is followed, and the bones are covered in the wild, and all the eyes are extremely poor."

Xu Guangqi read with complicated expression.

Old Man Xu's three views were also severely impacted.

Li Zhizao would not lie. The person he trusted the most was Li Zhizao. They all wanted to come to Taixi to see a bright world and a prosperous and peaceful world under the glory of faith. They imagined that there would definitely be a better place than the Ming Dynasty. However, when the truth was revealed, they were stunned. It turned out that the preachers described all the false descriptions. The largest city there was not as good as a city in the Ming Dynasty, and the countryside there was full of war and death...

What about the Western civilization that was agreed upon?

"We can't say that. Shinra is indeed in a civil war, so we should understand this."

Yang Xin said gloatingly.

"You've known this a long time ago."

Xu Guangqi said sadly.

"I don't like to waste my lips and tongue and persuade others, especially in this kind of thing. I prefer to send people to myself for a look. When I look back, I'm going to invite all the masters to visit places like Yeluyuan. After all, what I read in books is not as good as the eyes.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty in this world is what others look up to.

I admit that our Ming Dynasty is not perfect, and there are many kinds of problems. I can even say that our Ming Dynasty is also bad, but if it is worse in this world, you will find that our Ming Dynasty is the least bad one. There is no prosperous era in Taixi, maybe they will have it in the future, but at least not now. So far, the Ming Dynasty is still the paradise they yearn for, and Taixi has no country of etiquette under the illumination of faith. On the contrary, we are more in line with this word than them."
Chapter completed!