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Chapter 62 The Rebellion of Scholars

In the following days, the rebuilt Dalanshan Ming army disobeyed military laws and regulations emerged one after another. However, due to Huang Zongxi's first favoritism, military laws were made first, and any soldiers who could have a relationship with the leaders began to regard military laws as if nothing had happened with the mentality of "there were people above me."

For this reason, there were more and more disputes between Jiang Han and Chen and others. Even later, even Chen Diaolun could not stand firm because of his confidants' crimes and continued to persist in the implementation of military law.

In this way, he quickly imitated Chen Wen, and many of Chen Wen's military laws were abolished by reasons such as "the remnants of the eunuch party were too strict and violated the teachings of the sages on benevolence." With this, the military discipline of this Dalan Mountain Ming army became increasingly corrupt.

Since ancient times, the rules and systems of organizations such as groups, army, and state have often been gradually eroded by such favors and personal interests, and even towards destruction. However, in this matter, it is actually just a replica of that period of history!

In the original timeline, in the tenth year of Yongli, Chen Diaolun responded to Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, and Chen Liuyu recovered Zhoushan and raised an army to rebuild the Dalan Mountain Ming army. This year, Wang Jiang set up a bureau to escape from the house arrest in Hangzhou and joined the brand new Dalan Mountain Ming army. In addition to Wang Jiang and Shen Diaolun, there was also the commander of the rear camp at that time. The return of Mao Mingshan, the leading general in the Dalan Mountain Ming army, was a complete group of the Dalan Mountain Ming army in the Wang Yi era. There were no outsiders like the Huang brothers and Wan brothers.

At that time, the situation of the anti-Qing army on the coast of Zhejiang began to reverse, Zhoushan recovered, and Ma Xin was the first to do so. Wang Jiang, who was famous for presiding over financial affairs, escaped from Hangzhou. People at that time thought that the Ming army in Dalanshan could be revived and formed a junction with Zhoushan again, and the anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang was about to rekindle.

However, half a year later, this Zhejiang East rebel army, which once had a glorious history, was not only not revived, but instead "increased its momentum". For half a year, not only had almost no influence, but also had no power to fight in the encirclement and suppression. Finally, Wang Jiang, Shen Dinglun and Mao Mingshan's death put an end to the anti-Qing movement in the early Qing Dynasty.

Later, Huang Zongxi made an evaluation of that history in "Xingchao Lu * Siming Mountain Village": "In the winter of Jia Geng, he roared together for half a year and was calm. However, they were all thieves who sneaked into donkeys and calfs, and they were all harmed by the people. His father killed people and avenged them, and his son lost his preaching."

In the original history, Huang Zongxi was just a bystander and a recorder. But now, due to Chen Wen, he replaced Chen Diaolun and became the initiator of the Ming Army movement to rebuild Dalan Mountain.

However, when the Lu Jian State was first established, the three thousand-person Shizhong Camp formed by Huang Zongxi's family property was finally wiped out due to military discipline issues. However, as a literati, a literati who praised Kangxi under the oppression and panic of literary inquisitions in later generations, naturally could not adhere to the strict military discipline that Wang Yi insisted on when he was alive. Even if he could understand some of the truths in this way, he was a member of the scholar class, and he was also a famous scholar in the Donglin Fushe who had no administrative experience. He was an amateur in evaluating others and doing things personally. His own foothold was naturally impossible to be like Wang Yi back then.

As for whether he would write words like "Shengchao Lu * Siming Mountain Village" in "Xingchao Lu * As he was a bystander, he would roar and gather for several months to calm down. However, they were all thieves who steal donkeys and calfs, and they were all harmed by the people. His father killed people and avenged his revenge, his son took robbery, and lost his preaching" as he did when he was a bystander.

As time passed, the military discipline on Dalan Mountain became increasingly unbearable, becoming less and less different from other Ming and rebel armies of the same era. Perhaps because of this, the funding that Huang Zongxi and others had originally negotiated with relationships was actually less and less, so that the daily exercises that originally imitated the Ming army in Zhejiang were forced to stop again and again.

"I have said a long time ago that we should have regained Yuyao in one go. With stable taxes, we can train troops. How could we not advance or retreat like now?"

With the relationship between the Wan family and the Huang family, everyone here understands who it is. However, even Wang Jiang is indifferent, so there is no possibility of others refuting it.

The daily regular meeting has begun to become a time for complaining. Huang Zongxi listened to it, but the result was the same as yesterday. There was no substantial content, so he parted for a while and went to work hard. In the evening, Wang Jiang finished handling today's affairs, and after dinner, he waved others away and started chatting with Huang Zongxi alone.

"Tai Chong, I'm blunt, in my impression, Fu Ren is not the kind of person who can't listen. Why don't you let me persuade him again, after all, Wanxun has the kindness of knowing him, and it will always be effective to move him with love and reason."

The series of events that have happened these days have made Wang Jiang feel a little discouraged and forced him to re-report the old things. However, Huang Zongxi may not have realized what the current situation means, or it may be difficult to get along, but he still refuses to give in any case.

"Haha, Uncle Chang, I haven't told him what he persuaded, but he actually told me that he was clarifying the Shifeng for Wanxun. Naturally, the scholars will solve the matters of the scholars themselves. A martial artist, even a Duke, is not his turn to clarify the Shifeng."

"this……"

"When Wanxun wrote me a letter to mention this person, I said he was a remnant of the eunuch party. Now it seems that I have misunderstood. Sooner or later, this son will become a demon king who will mess with the world!"

Huang Zongxi's words were not too unexpected to Wang Jiang. In fact, Huang Zongxi's evaluation of Chen Wen these days was similar, but when he revisited the old place, this sentence of the Demon King in the World still reminded him of something from his memory that had been covered for many years.

"I remember, someone told me before that Wuqu Xingjun of Kaiyang Palace and Pojun Xingjun of Yaoguang Palace also favor resolute and decisive people..."

The study of astrology is a fashion among the folk scholars and officials. As soon as Wang Jiang said this, it immediately aroused Huang Zongxi's interest. Next, he repeated the theory that Sun Yu heard from Chen Wen to Huang Zongxi, which actually caused this always stubborn and familiar thoughts.

"Since it is destined to be the reincarnation of the Pojun Star Lord, no matter how you guide it, it will be useless. This is inappropriate, so Uncle Chang should think carefully about it."

"Then are you sure that Chen Wen must be the reincarnation of the Pojun Star Lord, not the Wu Qu Star Lord Linfan, or some other star Lord?"

"What did you say?"

Huang Zongxi recalled his interactions with Chen Wen over the past few years. He was disrespectful to the orders and destroyed the ancestral system of using literature to control martial arts. He even now extended his sword to the literati and officials who supported the Qing Dynasty. He also had to clarify the taxes. No matter how he looked like a demon king in the world.

However, this demon king of the world never harmed ordinary people based on his own likes and dislikes, and even reduced taxes from prefectures and counties that suffered from military disasters all year round, not like Chen Sheng, Huang Chao, and Li Zicheng. All of this happened, Huang Zongxi's understanding of the Zhejiang Mingjun Group was not what civil servants strive for, but because of Chen Wen's original intention. It is really commendable in such a chaotic world, so many people in the Mingjun controlled areas had set up tablets of immortality for Chen Wen and Sun Yu.

If you talk about benevolence, Chen Wenyuan followed the teachings of the saints more than most people who claimed to be benevolent and righteous in this era. But it was this person who now pulled out the sword of understanding the wrist and was about to be impatient to cut his flesh on the gentry class to eat, so that Huang Zongxi felt a little confused for a moment.

"We are all mortals, how can we see clearly."

This is the first time Huang Zongxi has fallen in his momentum in these days. But after a moment, he probably remembered the history of the struggle between the predecessors of Donglin and the eunuch party, and how his father died in the imperial prison. A lot of fighting spirit that has been eroded over the past few days has filled his body again.

"No matter whether this is the case or not, we must first do this cause, and then rely on the ancestral system of the big and small general systems to restrain Chen Wen and prevent him from further persecuting scholars."

The persuasion blurted out, but it did not convince Wang Jiang as expected, even if it was just superficial. However, before he could continue to speak, he saw that the door was pushed open. Shen Diaolun walked in and put a letter on the table with a pale face.

The letter was sent by someone from Shen Guomo, but it did not look up or sign it. There was only one thing that was, the government office of Shaoxing Prefecture received an order from the Zhejiang Governor's Office to prepare food and grass and civilians for the arrival of the admiral army. There was nothing else.

After last year's war, almost everyone in the four southeastern provinces knew that the Southeast Qing army had temporarily lost the possibility of destroying the Zhejiang Ming army in one fell swoop. Unless there was a special situation, such as internal strife of the Ming army in Zhejiang and even self-destruction, the main force of the Qing Eight Banners Army went south, or the combat effectiveness of the Green Camp soldiers was increased to a level that was enough to fight the Zhejiang Ming army.

However, these things did not happen at this moment. After a long period of running-in, the Ming army in Zhejiang was like an iron plate. Even the gentry from the six palaces was dissatisfied with it, they could only adopt a cooperative attitude under pressure. The main force of the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty had just returned to Beijing from the southwest battlefield. After passing the bloody battle at the fork in the road, they suffered a lot of losses and needed time to replenish the various Niulu participating in the war. As for the sudden improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Green Camp soldiers, no one would believe it - imitating the Ming army in Zhejiang was clearly a shortcut, but the Qing court disagreed and was still strongly suppressing such changes. The Green Camp, if nothing unexpected happens, was still the original Green Camp.

Under such circumstances, Hong Chengchou could not let Tian Xiong go south to find Chen Wen through Shaoxing. The current situation did not allow the brigade camp to continue to strictly guard the Qiantang River defense line. Instead, it would be moved to Shaoxing, which was in danger of protection. Then the purpose could only be one!

"Can we have been making too much noise recently and has attracted the attention of the Tartars?"

It is inevitable to attract the attention of the Qing army, otherwise it would be impossible for the Extraordinary Battalion to risk crossing the Qiantang River. As for the size of the movement, attacking the county town, raiding small-scale Qing army, clearing out officials who went to the countryside to urge for statutes, and even exercising the rights of areas outside the county town on behalf of the Qing government, they had never done any of the things that the Ming army in Dalanshan often did back then. In addition to stealing around Dalanshan and attracting more people to support it in nearby prefectures and counties, Wang Jiang could not remember anything else that could alarm Tian Xiong.

"At least, this also shows that our momentum is growing, and even the Tartars have to be wary of it!"

During this period, Wang Jiang was almost annoyed by Wansicheng, or it could be said that he was so annoyed by such a verbal whisper. However, what he never expected was that this person had another great advantage that he had not discovered before, that was optimism.

Unfortunately, there is only Wang Jiang, a soulmate in this "revolutionary optimism spirit" in Wansicheng. After hearing this, the others' faces either turned ashen or pale. Even Wansicheng himself quickly abandoned Wang Jiang, and his face was very pale when he was frightened.

"As far as I know, the Tartars' Extra-Ball has now been expanded to 5,000 troops, which is better than four years ago. And we only have more than 300 new recruits in our hands, and we have only been practicing for a month. Duke Xiuguo also defeated the Extra-Ball with 500 combat soldiers and 1,500 auxiliary soldiers. Our soldiers have not been trained for a long time, and it is probably unlikely that they can win the battle."

At this time yesterday, some of them were still claiming that Chen Wen wiped out the 2,500-strong battalion with 500 soldiers, and the soldiers trained by these gentlemen would only be stronger. But now, Zou Xiaonan, who was not very fond of listening to this brilliant saying, clearly analyzed the comparison of the troops in that battle, and the answers they came up with made them sweat even more.

"Haha, Master Zou doesn't have to leave a face for the last general. The soldiers had already agreed to follow Duke Xiu's method, but they couldn't hold on until the end. The new recruits in the camp now, let alone the Nantang camp when Duke Xiu defeated Li Rong, even in that competition, I'm afraid that using the Mandarin Duck Formation would not be the opponent of the Central Camp."

It was a great regret for Jiang Han when he and Lu Yuding and Mao Mingshan stole Wang Yi's head and failed to die with Mao Mingshan. So even though Lu Yuding disagreed this time, he still came, just with the intention of working hard for Mao Mingshan again, even if he paid the price of his life for it.

The loyalty among men, especially among warriors, is just so good. Unfortunately, military discipline cannot be maintained from top to bottom. He is already full of anger when he is trained in the military. At this moment, he is about to vent his dissatisfaction.

"Governor Jiang's words are inappropriate. The remnants of the eunuch party are not a gentleman. Since ancient times, evil has not overcome the righteous, so you should not underestimate yourself."

"Haha, what a evil person cannot defeat the righteous."

"Okay, what we are talking about today is not that old thing. If you have time, think about how to deal with it." As soon as we complained to each other, and held guns and rods between each other, Huang Zongxi found that even Jiang Han, the martial artist, was becoming more and more able to talk about. However, the current situation is that the Qing army may have discovered them. If they want to come to encircle and suppress them, they will not have time to talk about these useless things.

"What do you think?" Huang Zongxi ignored Jiang Han and the Wan family's brothers who were staring at each other, and immediately asked Zou Xiaonan - those words were said by him. Since he said it, there should be more ideas for solving problems than others.

"It's better, just like Wang Jingluo did back then, just avoid it for a while."

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate. Now all the generals in Siming, Tiantai, and Zhoushan are scattered. No one can help me. Once the food is eaten, the soldiers below will probably run away."

"As it is like this now, let alone eating up all the food, maybe it's all gone on the road."

"If it really doesn't work, just ask Duke Xiuguo for help. As the king's army, he will not sit idly by. If he can win, we will also have a contribution to the cooperation between inside and outside..."

"no!"

Zou Xiaonan's second suggestion was immediately denied by Huang Zongyan. Unlike the Wan brothers, Huang Zunsu died in the imperial prison back then. The hatred between the Huang brothers and the eunuch party was not only politically simple, but also mixed with personal grudges. Now that he has identified the remnants of the eunuch party, he naturally cannot ask Chen Wen to rescue them again.

This is not possible, nor that is not possible. Zou Xiaonan simply kept silent. Listening to Huang Zongyan's fierce words, the old story of "a gentleman and a eunuch party are incompatible" and talking about the necessity of struggle. Seeing the Wan brothers agree loudly as if they had taken stimulants, their hearts were filled with fatigue.

At this moment, Huang Zongyan talked with the Wan family brothers, while Huang Zongxi was listening to these nonsense seriously, while Chen Diaolun and Jiang Han were simply sitting on the chair like Zou Xiaonan, exhausted, with their eyes blank. As for Wang Jiang, from beginning to end, just like in previous meetings in the past half month, sitting indifferently at Huang Zongxi's action, silent.

After a long time, Huang Zongxi found that after discussing for a long time, he did not even discuss a substantial solution. He had to end the emergency meeting on the grounds that "the goal of sending troops to the raising camp is unclear, and the situation is not clear yet." However, when the meeting was announced, in accordance with the principle of confidentiality, he ordered everyone not to leak today's affairs to prevent people from being uneasy.

Huang Zongxi cannot say that he is wrong in such a deal. After all, it is difficult to make a joke that the Qing army had no intention of attacking Siming Mountain but scared away the righteous men who claimed to be rebuilding Dalan Mountain. They must further observe the changes in the situation before making a decision.

Unfortunately, this emergency meeting was not effectively kept confidential. Wansida, who was not very concerned, almost the next day, was trapped by the heroes he recruited from the world, and spread rapidly throughout Dalan Mountain. In the next few days, soldiers and their families would flee every day, so that the preparation plan proposed by Wang Jiang to Huang Zongxi after the meeting - preparing chariots and horses for evacuation cannot be implemented smoothly.

In this way, day by day, within a few days, the vanguard cavalry of the ExtraBay Battalion approached the foot of Dalan Mountain. Huang Zongxi and others, who thought that they had supported the gentry, did not realize that they were actually completely blind. Except for the initial time when Shen Guomo, no one sent any news. In such a short time, the scouts trained by Jiang Han could only use their heads to be hung on the Qing army's cavalry to transmit the information back with their heads on their necks and their heads were hanging on the Qing army's cavalry spear, which was useless.
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