There is a mound called Mashan Buyi in the western suburbs of Laiyang County, Dengzhou Prefecture. It is said that it has good feng shui and is a good place to bury people and raise corpses. Today, the largest scholarly family in Denglai is known as the "Ninth Floor"

The ancestral grave of the Laiyang Zuo family, who was one of the 18 most famous scholars (27 famous Confucian scholars in two generations) and one of the Four Scholars, is located on the southeast slope of Mashan Buyi. It turns out that this is a school district grave!

And Zuo Maodi, one of the four Jinshi in the Zuo family, now lives in the school district cemetery in Mashanbuyi. Of course, he is not buried underground. He is not dead yet! Instead, he is buried in the cemetery of his father Zuo Zhilong and

Next to the big grave shared by his mother, Mrs. Chen, they built a thatched cottage to live.

This is called "keep the tomb in the house", and this is how the so-called "filial piety" is observed. According to the most standard Chinese filial piety, it takes three years after the death of the father, and another three years after the death of the mother. If the child is born to a younger wife, it will last three years for the eldest mother, and three years for the biological mother.

Theoretically, a person can observe filial piety for up to nine years.

Of course, it is impossible for ordinary working people to observe filial piety like this, otherwise they will have to starve to death. Those who observe filial piety in this way are usually scholar-bureaucrats. If they are scholars, their reputation as a scholar will not matter. Anyway, observing filial piety will not delay the collection of rent, lending money and evading taxes.

Being a Jinshi and becoming an official is a bit of a delay. For example, if you are a Jinshi in your forties, then your father dies, your aunt dies, and your biological mother dies. After nine years of filial piety, you are already over 50, and you are about to retire!

Those who are in poor health may have to have their sons to keep their filial piety. The most ridiculous thing is that the mother dies when the father and son are officials in the same court. In this case, the father of the deceased wife has to continue to be an official, and the son of the deceased mother has to continue to be an official.

Go home, observe filial piety and eat old age

However, Zuo Maodi, the filial son of Zuo Maodi, is now keeping filial piety to his mother Chen, which is not a delay in business. He is keeping filial piety while serving as an official, and no one can say that he is contrary to human ethics, but he can still get a "most filial son"

Good reputation.

The so-called loyalty and filial piety are nothing more than this.

"Everyone, I have just received news that Duduo, the gold-touching prince of the Eastern Lu, has led one hundred thousand troops and attacked the city of Qufu. There is also a report saying that the Donglu army burned, killed, looted, dug up tombs, and committed all kinds of evil along the way."

Zuo Zhilong, beside the big tomb where the Chen family was buried together, a hall with adobe walls and a thatched roof was built at some time. Zuo Maodi, dressed in linen and filial piety, was sitting on it, talking nonsense with dignity.

If Duduo heard what he said, he would probably scream that he was wronged. He also burned, killed, looted, and all the leeks were gone. What else could be looted and killed? As for digging up tombs, it would be even more ridiculous. There are no imperial tombs along the canal.

The graves of some rich families are scattered, and there may not necessarily be treasures in the graves. How could Duduo disperse all his limited troops to dig graves? This is simply ridiculous!

But Zuo Maodi was such an upright and righteous Confucian and a filial son, so his words have credibility in Shandong!

In addition, Zuo Maodi is well-organized!

He is the successor of Donglin in Shandong. He joined the famous literary society Shanzuo Grand Society as early as the Wanli period. Shanzuo Grand Society has 91 members, all of whom are famous Confucian scholars in Denglai. Through clan, teachers, and fellow villagers

, in-laws and other layer-by-layer relationships, forming a network of relationships covering the three prefectures of Deng, Lai and Qing.

The Confucian scholars gathered in this hall now all come from this network. And because of the "return to native land" more than a year ago, these locals in Denglai Qingsanfu have become hardened, and everyone has them.

Hundreds or thousands of young men.

The Zuo family in Laiyang was no exception. They also raised a Zuo family army and established a "shanzhai association" based on the organization of the Dengzhou association. They also learned from "997" and trained their troops day and night. But the land

There is no money and money, the most is rent-free and interest-free. All Laiyang tenants who choose to join the Zuo family army can enjoy rent-free and interest-free treatment. If they die for the country, their family members will be raised by the Zuo family.

In addition, the principles of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness are also enough! There are so many scholars in the Zuo family, and they have prestige in Laiyang, so they smear the Tatars every day.

They do everything from murder to arson, rape and rebellion. If they were allowed to take over Shandong, the people would definitely have no way to survive. Even the ancestors buried underground would have to be dug out and fed to the dogs.

"Teacher!" Zhang Boren, a talented scholar from Gaomi University, was the talented scholar who "got the wrong test paper" in the Denglienko exam. Now he is Zuo Maodi's favorite student. Naturally, he was the first to jump out and agree with the teacher.

"The Tatars came to Yanzhou to destroy my famous religion and destroy my homeland! Anyone who is educated and literate should come forward and contribute money if they have the money and the strength to do so! The students suggested that we should build a new city in Laiyang, Qixia, Zhaoyuan, and Yexian

, Pingdu, Changyi, Gaomi, Jiaozhou, Weixian, Anqiu, Zhucheng, Yishui, Rizhao, Wendeng, Huangxian and other fifteen prefectures and counties have organized regiment training, and each prefecture and county has an association, and the company soldiers and auxiliary troops should be

For 2,000 people, we need to prepare enough spears, swords, rifles, javelins, assault cannons, and three-eyed muskets. All spearmen must be equipped with cloth-covered iron armor and helmets."

Zuo Maodi, the minister of regiment training in Shandong, is now directly in charge of these 15 "autonomous prefectures and counties." All of these 15 prefectures and counties are led by local gentry to organize regiment training. However, these regiment training are also uneven. Some places are doing well, and Laiyang must be the best.

, Gaomi and Jiaozhou have done very well in team training. They were able to pull out a team of 2,000 people according to Zhang Boren's request, but the other places are worse.

"I'm afraid one association is not enough!" Zuo Maodi's cousin Zuo Maoji said, "Now is not the time to be reluctant to give up money and food. Think about the time in the 16th year of Chongzhen, when more than thirty people died in our Zuo family alone.

At that time, we hadn’t even signed our names on the "Call to Hulu"!"

In the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Qing army had already reached Laiyang County. The Zuo family of Laiyang performed very heroically in this catastrophe. They stood up to resist and organized forces to hold on to the county seat. From November of the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign to

It was not until February of the following year that the city was broken.

The Zuo family lost thirty-seven people in this battle, so it can be said that they are a loyal family!

Of course, the Zuo family of Laiyang should also be more loyal. Because their family is the largest landowner in Denglai Prefecture, owning 120,000 acres of land, and their estates are spread all over Denglai and they basically do not pay taxes! In addition, the Zuo family also

There are many businesses going on that do not pay tax.

Although Laiyang County is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the benefits that Emperor Chongzhen gets from Laiyang every year are only a fraction of the Zuo family, maybe not yet!

So Laiyang's surname is Zhu in name, but actually his surname is Zuo.

If your Zuo family doesn’t fight hard, who will you ask to fight?

However, I thought that although the Ming Dynasty could not collect taxes, it was still very wary of local powerful people and generally did not allow them to hold large-scale group training.

Fortunately, since last year, Zhu Cihong has loosened the shackles of Shandong people. He has the money and strength to contribute. No matter whether he is a local tyrant, evil gentry or a warlord, he should be armed!

In addition, don't forget to sign your name on "Chasing the Hulu". Now Zuo Maoji reminded everyone, and everyone became nervous.

"Yes, we all signed it, and we asked the thief Sun Zhixian to copy it and take it back to Beijing!"

"Donglu also made Sun Thief the governor of Shandong. He must have brought a list to kill us!"

"It's so hateful, it won't give us a way to survive!"

"Not only are we not given a way to survive, but our dead ancestors are not even able to survive."

"Fight them!"

"Yes, let's fight!"

Seeing that everyone was willing to sacrifice their wealth to protect the country (actually to protect the family, they were all small lords), Zuo Maodi also felt very pleased, nodded and said: "Then one state and county will practice two associations.

, a total of 4,000 people, and the training was completed within three months.

In addition, all states and counties must pay a sum of money and food to the Tuanlian Yamen, which will be used to relieve refugees and recruit new Tuanlian troops among the refugees."

Zuo Mao's face was upright for the first time, his eyes were gloomy, and he slowly swept around the main room, "Don't be reluctant to give up money and food. The Tatars are going to die this time! Let's spend some money and food to save our lives and land, and we can also save Dengzhou.

Laizhou and Qingzhou’s fifteen counties have become our own territory. Are we afraid that we won’t be able to get them back in the future?
Chapter completed!