After discussing a series of policies aimed at the gentry class, or after these literati representatives understood and accepted Chen Wen's will, they left the tent and returned to their respective tents to rest.

It was getting late, but there were still many military affairs to be handled, especially the report of a training report on new weapons, which attracted great attention from Chen Wen. Among them, the principle of selecting soldiers had been decided, but the officer in charge of the recruit training camp reported another matter. It was that when using this weapon, the standardized hat-helmet was extremely inconvenient, which attracted his attention.

During the war not long ago, the jaw-dropping shooting techniques of the cavalry of the Eight Banners of Mongolian still appeared in his mind from time to time. Face armor needs to be equipped, but it seems a bit inappropriate to add facial armor on the helmet, but it takes more time to change to other helmets, which is really difficult to weigh.

However, this thinking has not yet been achieved. Wang Jiang, who has been invited by Chen Wen to assist the staff in the curtain so that he can get familiar with the system as soon as possible, came to visit overnight and wanted to talk to Chen Wen.

"Duke."

"Uncle Chang, there are no outsiders here. You call me this and blame me for helping you get out of the tiger's den until now."

The Duke of the State is an official title, and Chen Wen clearly remembers that he and Wang Jiang were not like this when they were in Tiantai Mountain. Perhaps, in recent years, especially this time, he participated in the reconstruction of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, but in the end he had to ask Chen Wen for help. Wang Jiang had already had some knots in his heart, so he was like this.

This is something Chen Wenshou didn't want to see. The two of them shared the joys and sorrows on Tiantai Mountain, and it was not comparable to Huang Zongxi. More importantly, although Wang Jiang once surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, in fact, he just wanted to paralyze the Qing Dynasty. In history, he escaped from Hangzhou and finally died in Dalan Mountain. He was much better than Huang, who was in danger of his late life.

"Well, hey, Fu Ren."

“That’s right.”

After re-determining the private name, the distance between them was also closer. From the posture of sitting there, it can be seen that Wang Jiang has become much more relaxed.

"For the years, thank you for taking care of your mother and the lowly ones."

Wang Jiang's mother passed away and his wife remarried, both of these two things were fake. To put it bluntly, they were all illusions deliberately created by Chen Wen to rescue Wang Jiang.

In history, Wang Jiang set up a plan to escape from Hangzhou. First, when his mother died, he took a concubine, and then used his concubine's existence to commit suicide and divorce his wife, so that his wife could leave Hangzhou first. In the process of divorce, Wang Jiang's wife even promoted Wang Jiang's despicableness and moral corruption in accordance with the plan, which made others, especially the Qing officials responsible for monitoring him, despise him and then relaxed their vigilance. In the end, Wang Jiang pretended to be unrestrained and played around, but never delayed his return. In addition, the concubine was still at home, which made the Qing officials completely relax their vigilance and finally went away forever.

In order to escape from difficulties, Wang Jiang sacrificed his concubine, but in this era, the concubine was just the private property of the head of the family, which clearly shows that it was an object, completely different from the wife. In this era, it was very common to give his concubine to others, and it was even a kind of elegant thing.

As for the joke that he was angry with the beauty, he was just a habitual burden of the country's demise on Chen Yuanyuan, a weak woman. Wu Sangui was not a time traveler, so he naturally could not surrender to the Qing Dynasty for a concubine. Wang Jiang's approach, even Huang Zongxi, who had many complaints about the Ming army in Dalan Mountain in history, did not use it as a cannonball, which shows this.

Out of contempt for the evil feudal society, especially his appearance, which led to Wang Jiang's mother and wife not being captured by the Qing army, making Wang Jiang's plan unable to be carried out. So Chen Wen created an illusion to try to paralyze the Qing officials in the supervision, thus prompting Wang Jiang's escape. In fact, this plan was just a modification of Wang Jiang's original layout, and he had never done any great achievements.

"It should be so. After this, Uncle Chang can set off for Jinhua to reunite with his family."

Speaking of this, Wang Jiang's eyes were immediately overwhelmed by tears, and it was not until a long time later that he soothed. After wiped away the tears, Wang Jiang immediately expressed his purpose for coming here.

He took the book handed over by Wang Jiang in confusion. The Analects of Confucius was clearly written, but Chen Wen could not understand that Wang Yi told Wang Jiang that he could only hand over the book to him after confirming his death. He just looked at the lines of the book, which was full of Wang Yi's understanding of the teachings of the saints when he was studying. He had already contempt for the literati and officials, but he couldn't help but feel a little respect for loyal and kind people like Wang Yi, or the belief that has been passed down to this day.

Chen Wensi thought about it, perhaps, in Wang Yi's heart, he was also a remnant of the eunuch party as Feng Jingdi and Huang Zongxi said, and even a demon king who came to disturb the Confucian scholar-official class. Therefore, before the Battle of Siming Lake, Wang Yi would surrender to the generals of Siming Mountain and put him on the shelf.

This feeling has been a long time. At first, Feng Jingdi excluded him due to party struggles, and was calculated by Wang Sheng. Later, it was Cao Conglong's betrayal and Huang Zongxi's attempt to start a new trick. Even he himself once agreed to the remnants of the eunuch party, thus becoming more hostile to the Donglin Party, which represents the interests of the Southeast gentry.

However, until he turned to the section "Yan Yuan", Chen Wen's heart was shocked and then he sat there silently for a long time.

"Zengzi said: A gentleman uses literature to make friends, and uses friendship to help benevolence."

The book is clearly written, but when he saw all this, Chen Wen suddenly remembered that when he first climbed Dalan Mountain, Wang Yi asked about the word "大子" and said clearly "Fu Ren?" But the Master in the Analects said: A gentleman makes friends with his writing, and the Fu Ren who helps his friends with his friends?"

This was said by Zeng Shen, not Confucius!

"Mingluo Wang, have you ever suspected me since then?"

Hearing this, Wang Jiang was stunned at first, then sighed, and agreed to it.

At the beginning, Chen Wen did not intend to stay in eastern Zhejiang, but wanted to get some money from Wang Yi to go to Fujian to join Zheng Chenggong. From the beginning, he did not plan to stay for a long time, so he did not do a smooth job in many things. He called Zhu Yuanzhang's name and those who talked about the names of the emperors in ancient times, and did not hide his competing for Sun Yu and others. Even when he opposed going to Japan to beg for his master, he did not get rid of this mentality. Even at that time, he was very suspicious of Wang Yi...

"No wonder Wang Jingluo finally chose to listen to Mr. Feng's words and prevent me from participating in the Battle of Siming Lake. This is true."

Trust is relative. Chen Wen had many doubts and intentions about Wang Yi and others at that time. No one was a fool. On the other hand, he would naturally be treated the same way.

"Fu Ren, Wan Xun, just hope you don't forget the teachings of the saint."

"The teachings of the saints?"

Wang Yi once said this, but over the years, he has not read many Confucian classics, but Chen Wen asked himself that there has never been few things that echo the core of Confucianism, benevolence.

Siming Lake was defeated in a crushing defeat, and it was benevolence to protect the people from evacuation; Fubiao camp slaughtered the people of Yiwu and avenged them; Ma Jinbao abused the soldiers, peasants, industries and commerce, and first expelled them, and then killed them; the wars were continuous, and the people lived in poverty. Since the restoration of Jinhua, the principle of defending the land was still ruling, and the taxes of the affected people were exempted were also benevolent; even today, it is still benevolent to rescue Dalan Mountain and revenge the soldiers who died in Siming Lake.

Over the years of the Qing Dynasty, I destroyed my clothes and etiquette, forced me to change customs, killed my innocent people, and stole my beautiful mountains and rivers. In the days to come, the Eight Banners would eat Chinese ointment and blood like parasites. The Qing Dynasty used literary inquisitions and edited the "Siku Quanshu" and other means to destroy my Chinese classics and cut off my cultural pulse. It even pretended to be the Manchu and Han family. In fact, it enslaved China by barbarians and carried out the essence of national oppression, which eventually led to our great China becoming the sick man in East Asia!

The barbarians have no civilization to speak of. They can only destroy the beauty, happiness and hope of the world. At that time, resisting the Qing Dynasty is a manifestation of benevolence. And those Confucian scholars and officials who had considerable responsibility for the Qing Dynasty were able to sweep the world, read the books of sages on the surface, and were full of benevolence and morality on the surface, but were even more unkind and unrighteous. They were actually scumbags in the famous teachings. Punishing them and forcing them to go on the right path must be a manifestation of benevolence.

"In my heart, there has never been a day or forgotten!"

However, Wang Yi's incident did remind Chen Wen. In this world, no one is a fool, and hostility toward scholars and officials is his original intention, but differentiation and disintegration and appropriate deception are also inevitable.

"Uncle Chang, the wise man doesn't say secret words. I feel very unhappy in my heart when Huang Taichong is like this."

Huang Zongxi reopened Dalan Mountain, and this matter had changed from what they had in history. They knew what they wanted to do and what they wanted to achieve, but they just didn't point it out. At this moment, when Chen Wen mentioned it, Wang Jiang's face turned red immediately.

"Fu Ren, they are not all able to accomplish anything."

"If things cannot be accomplished, things will always be bad."

Chen Wen's eyebrows were raised, and Wang Jiang's words of comfort immediately swallowed it back. But the next moment, Chen Wen shook his head and said, "Even if they are thinking about it now, don't I know?"

They can't do things, but they are very good at doing bad things. On the one hand, the fight with Chen Wen is to reduce Chen Wen's dissatisfaction with them, so as to prevent political blows and protect themselves and their family; on the other hand, they are to conduct tests to determine whether to encourage others to drag their backs behind their backs. As for this mentality of "making trouble if you don't give candy", Chen Wen naturally has to give some candy today, even if it's just sugar-coated, he has to block their mouths.

"Uncle Chang, if you have time, you can tell them that Chen Wen was also half a scholar back then, and knew that this country still requires scholars. However, in order to prevent being deceived by the clerks below, scholars must undergo training to enter the officialdom. Otherwise, if you drive them on the shelves and don't know anything, you will only mislead the country and yourself when you go to the local area."

It is impossible to kill all the gentry in this era. Both Confucianism and the gentry class have long been deeply rooted in the soil of China, and they can't be done by saying it. What's more, the Qing Dynasty is still there, and the bears have not been killed, so they have killed all their companions to share their flesh. He did not have much interest in the idiots in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

However, in Chen Wen's opinion, as long as the military merits and landlords group in his hands are strong enough to become a class, there will be time to fight with the scholars and officials in the future.

Yes, slow work and meticulous work are done, don’t worry, and you can’t worry!

"What Fu Ren said is very true. This matter is in my mind, and they will be used by the King of Zhejiang."

Wang Jiang is a person, how could he not know that this training requires scholars to change their ranks and take them into Chen Wen's pocket. As a smart man, he naturally knew how to say these words to Huang Zongxi to achieve the best results. However, he had never been to Jinhua Prefecture, and he was not very clear about the situation in the Zhejiang Ming Army occupied area here, let alone how strong Chen Wen's hostility was towards the scholar-officials in the late Ming Dynasty.

For Chen Wen, Wang Jiang was the only one he trusted to restart the several leaders of Dalan Mountain. Others, not mentioning the Huang brothers and Wan brothers and Jiang Han who had never met before, Chen Diaolun and Zou Xiaonan have not defected to him for so many years, and they have not even asked anyone to take over the words. Perhaps they are either not optimistic about the Ming army in Zhejiang or not optimistic about him. It is only if they maintain some things on the surface. But Wang Jiang must prepare a suitable position to better play his talents.

"Uncle Chang, I think you should know that your position, Your Highness King Lu had already been dismissed from the Ministry of War and the Censorate. If those were not mentioned, the governor of Zhejiang also gave Cao Conglong. Later, Your Highness King Lu went to the title of state supervision, and we changed the Emperor Yongli to orthodox, and the King of Qin, who was in charge of the rule, also gave this position to Sun Yu."

Hearing this, Wang Jiang nodded, saying that he had heard of it, and expressed that as a traitor who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he did not expect anything to be in an official position, but just wanted to do more things to clean up the stains.

"Boyang and I are all happy to come back this time. Before going to war, Boyang even expressed his willingness to do things under your hands again."

"This definitely won't work."

Wang Jiang's decisive denial, but Chen Wen just waved his hand and signaled that he would continue to say something.

"You should know how handsome he is, Uncle Chang. But over the years, he has always been in charge of the internal affairs. If someone has changed rashly, I also need to take into account the influence. This time, I will invite you to the court to the Ministry of Revenue and return to Jinhua. After familiarity with it, the financial affairs will still be left to you to take charge, while Bo Yang will handle the political affairs and common affairs."

"this……"

"Just listen to mine."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

The division of labor between Wang Jiang and Sun Yu was solved. Chen Wen mentioned some things about the new Zhejiang policy with Wang Jiang, inherited the Dalanshan version of the fire and return to the public, improved the garrison system, and realized the separation of justice and administration. After talking for a long time, Chen Wen suddenly remembered something and looked disdainful.

"At the end of last year, Mu Weng sent someone to send news that the court appointed Rugao Li Zhichun as the Southeast Administration and serve as the supervisor of our surname and the country and the royal army in the southeast."

Logically speaking, it was too late to win over such a large army. Since the Cao Conglong Rebellion had occurred, it was naturally impossible to send any military inspectors to come. It was really easy to attract suspicion. No one was a fool. When Wang Jiang heard this, he immediately understood the intention of King Sun Kewang of Qin. However, when he thought of the current situation, he couldn't help but sigh.

"This appointment was brought out by Yao Ziqiu from Guiyang nearly a year ago. It was delivered to Mu Weng last winter. It was already May. It took him half a year to go to Zhejiang. It seems that either Sun Kewang found the wrong person or happened to choose the right one."

When he was on Dalan Mountain with Wang Yi, there were a lot of dirty things in the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang or the court of the Lu Jian State. It was said that Wang Yi had had conflicts with Huang Binqing and Zhang Mingzhen, and there were more of them among other departments. He had been under house arrest in Nanjing for many years, and he knew nothing about many things. As soon as he returned to Zhejiang, he realized that the same was true between the Ming army in Zhejiang who co-wrote Chen Wen and the Qin vassal in the southwest. He didn't know what to say for a while.

Wang Jiang was speechless, but Chen Wen was not the same. However, compared to Wang Jiang, Chen Wen had known what Sun Kewang was, so naturally that was the case.

The next day, Wan Sicheng and others looked at him, the "remnant of the eunuch party", and their eyes became much more cordial. Although Huang Zongxi didn't say anything, he took the initiative to mention the incident of welcomeing Wang Yi's daughter to the door, and had the intention of restoring their relationship. Then, the Ningbo defenders also opened the city and surrendered. From the Ningbo General, Ningbo Prefecture, Yin County Magistrate and other civil and military officials all went out of the city to tie up and surrender. Chen Wenbing recovered the giant city in eastern Zhejiang without bloodshed.

After entering Ningbo Prefecture, Chen Wen soon saw Lu Yuding among the gentry who was greeting, then turned over and dismounted, walked closer and bowed.

Chen Wen is now a Duke of the Kingdom, and has a number of nobles in the Ming court, and is the leader of the army in Zhejiang. He even bowed to salute a local scholar. Even if this scholar had an official position as an observer in the court of the Lujian State, it was not necessary.

"Duke, you must not."

Seeing Chen Wen bowing, Lu Yuding hurriedly fell to the ground. Although the two of them used the word "大" when they were in Jinhua, the gap between the nobles and former officials in front of outsiders still made him feel panic.

He helped Lu Yuding up with both hands, and Chen Wen shouted to the officials, generals, gentry, and people present: "This worship is not for Zhou Ming's years of running and support, but for the sake of thanking the righteous man Lu Gongyuding, who took back the head of Zhonglie from the Tatars, and did not avoid the crime of death hidden in his family!"

Wang Yi's head was stolen, and almost everyone in Yin County knew that some of Lu Yuding's best friends even knew that this was done by Lu Yuding, Mao Mingshan, Jiang Han, and the head was also hidden in his home. However, when Chen Wen made this matter public, the praise for loyal ministers and righteous men immediately melted the people present, and even spread it to the streets at an indescribable speed.

Wang Yi's body can no longer be found, but Wang Yi's daughter is still there. Whether to return to her hometown, or be buried in the land where Wang Yi once fought in Dalan Mountain, or be buried with Feng Jingdi and Dong Zhining's corpse, whom Lu Yuding had previously been buried, Chen Wen planned to take some time to ask for her opinion. Lu Yuding also expressed his understanding and agreement.

When he entered Ningbo Prefecture, Chen Wen went directly to the Lu family. Lu Yuding was his biggest supporter in eastern Zhejiang, especially another supporter Huang Zongxi, who had changed things and people, and he had to be more appeased. However, Lu Yuding's supportive attitude towards clarifying taxes and other matters during the meal still surprised him, so that after this appetizing side dish, he ate a lot of more meals.

After nightfall, Chen Wen still returned to the camp outside the city to live. After the Ningbo Prefecture City was under, Shaoxing was said to be extremely smooth, and the only thing left was Zhoushan. For this reason, Chen Wen sent Ma Xin's Tiantai Camp to Dinghai. The defenders there were Dingba who fled back. Seeing that the Zhejiang Ming army had no hesitation, they opened the city and surrendered.

Ma Xin sent someone to send the news back. Chen Wen knew that if he wanted to attack Zhoushan, it would be better to set off at Dinghai. His Zhejiang coastal cruise navy was about to arrive. The recovery of Zhoushan was about to be imminent, and the eight eastern Zhejiang prefectures were about to be fully taken. However, within half an hour, Ma Xin sent another news, saying that Zheng Tai's ship was approaching Dinghai Port, which really made him frown. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!