It is impossible to commit suicide by throwing yourself into a river. At least Peng Ziqin, a scholar from Anlu County, De'an Prefecture, will never commit suicide by throwing himself into a river in his lifetime. He is not yet thirty this year, and when he is in high spirits, he still wants to be a high school Jinshi.

Then go and become a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, Dashun Dynasty or Qing Dynasty. It doesn’t matter who you serve as an official. It doesn’t matter if you have two ministers, three ministers or four ministers. The key is to have an official position, make money, and be able to honor your ancestors!

But what he never expected was that the three families of Ming, Dashun, and Qing were all going bad!

The last time the Ming Dynasty opened Enke in Nanjing, he went there. He was full of knowledge, and he especially studied the "Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn" among the Five Classics. Ming Dynasty scholars often selected one of the "Five Classics" to study

He studied hard and used it as his own "classic" to prepare for the imperial examination. Some of the more talented scholars among them also studied the two classics at the same time. Peng Ziqin was such a great talent who studied both classics at the same time.

But he never expected that this time Enke would not take a test on the Four Books and Five Classics, or an eight-legged essay, but a policy essay to determine the winner!

Of course he can also write strategies! He is also familiar with history books and can speak the great principles of the ancients.

But the topic of Enkoce's discussion was actually about collecting business taxes! This is an exorbitant tax! Peng Ziqin lent his identity as a juren to three Anlu businessmen. How could the imperial court tolerate a treacherous minister who extorted excessive amounts of money? At that time, he followed

A group of people with a strong sense of justice started a riot.

As a result, he was picked up and beaten up by a group of "disgraced scholars" who spoke with northern accents. It was so polite and disgraceful!

Fortunately, he was only beaten once, and his reputation as a civil servant was still there, and Huguang was not the territory directly controlled by the "Black-hearted Prince" for the time being, so his good days continued for a while.

After hitting a wall in Nanjing, Peng Ziqin did not give up his ideal of taking the exam and becoming an official. Instead, he set his sights on Li Zicheng, who lived in Xiangyang Prefecture next door. There was a "black-hearted prince" in the Ming Dynasty, and it seemed that he would not last long.

And the Tatars don’t know what kind of medicine they took wrongly, and they are going to fight against Confucius. It is obviously not a good place for scholars to become officials, so I am afraid that in this world, people with the surname Li will eventually die!

But his good wishes were once again in vain. The Dashun Dynasty actually launched a plan to equalize land! They no longer wanted to do it on their existing five prefectures, but wanted to go to Peng Ziqin's hometown to equalize the land of Peng Ziqin's family.

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This is really life-threatening! He didn't care about becoming an official, so he quickly took his family's wealth to Hankou. Before he could take a breath, Da Shuntian soldiers followed him.

So Peng Daju and his whole family arrived at Wuchang Fucheng empty-handed. They started making trouble because they had no money to eat. If he was willing to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, all the problems would be solved. Why would there be any fuss?

Now Peng Ziqin and hundreds of Hubei scholars and scholars have gathered on the bank of the Yangtze River. They are also holding many flags made of tattered cloth of various colors. There are words on the flags, but they are not embroidered.

Yes, they were written in big characters with a calligraphy pen. Things like "Condemn the people and attack the crime", "Northern Central Plains", "Drive out the bandits", "Recover Xianling", "Swear to kill Li Zicheng" and so on.

It turned out that they were not going to throw themselves into the Yangtze River, but were going to cross the Yangtze River north to kill Li Zicheng! So they not only carried banners, but also brought murder weapons, including wooden sticks more than two feet long, rulers for hitting children's palms, and meat cutting weapons.

There are kitchen knives and bricks that can be used to hit people on the head! They have both long and short knives, which are enough for a group fight on the streets of Wuchang.

But if you want to attack Li Zicheng's Da Shuntian soldiers, no matter how you look at it, it's a bit risky!

Guarding the banks of the Yangtze River are Liu Kongzhao's soldiers. They are not the new army to overcome difficulties, but the remnants of the Nanjing squadron. They are all southerners and they have a high regard for scholar-bureaucrats. Of course, we cannot just watch thousands of scholars here go.

Hanyang is going to die! So we stopped them and refused to let them go. In fact, they couldn't go without stopping them. There are no ships at the Hanyang Gate Pier, so how can they cross the river? Can they swim across?

As soon as Liu Kongzhao's Jiangdu soldiers stopped him, Peng Ziqin and others had the opportunity to perform, and everyone was filled with indignation and impassioned.

"We, the Huguang scholars, are heroes in life, but heroes in death! How can we ignore the elders of Jiangbei and the emperor's mausoleum?"

"We want to go north to fight against thieves. You are also soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. If you don't follow me and go north to serve the country, that's it. Why do you want to stop us?"

Peng Daju wasted no time in stepping forward. He was good-looking, tall and burly, with a Chinese character face, handsome features, and three strands of beard under his chin, which extended to his chest. He looked like a famous official of a generation who was loyal and good!

Peng Dazhongliang was dressed in a Confucian Taoist robe (not a Taoist robe worn by Taoists, but a kind of Confucian clothes), and he was carrying a kitchen knife in each hand. I don’t know where he got it from. He was a judge, so he took two without telling anyone.

Can a kitchen knife still be called stealing?

"You soldiers are all paid by the imperial court. Now the bandits who have crossed the river are in Hanyang Mansion. Instead of standing up to kill the thieves, you are preventing us from going north to serve the country. What are your intentions?"

Peng Dazhongliang raised his kitchen knife, pointed at a flag captain of the Wuchang soldiers wearing a helmet, and asked sternly.

The flag captain looked at the rusty kitchen knife, and then at Peng Ziqin, who looked like a loyal minister and good general. He really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He refused to let anyone beat him, so he had to persuade him nicely: "This Duke Xiaolian (another name for Juren)"

) Stop making trouble, you want to kill Li Zicheng with just two kitchen knives? Then Li Zicheng is so cruel, he kills people without blinking an eye, and eats people without spitting out their bones! If Mr. Xiaolian really wants to serve the country, he should take the imperial examination and get a military qualification.

Go to the Nanjing Martial Arts Lecture Hall, and from now on you will become an officer in the New Army, and you will be able to lead troops to kill bandits."

The Nanjing Military Academy is the Nanjing Martial Arts School, and its name was changed not long ago. Zhu Cixiang also issued a special edict to praise the Military Academy, and also mentioned the advanced deeds of the three "Confucian scholars" Yan Yingyuan, Xu Ermo, and Qi Yuanbi who exchanged literature for martial arts and joined the army.

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The flag captain, who was born in Caojiang Navy, had read books and saw this matter in the notice sent by the above, so he talked about it.

Peng Ziqin thought to himself: I want to have a Jinshi and I am still making trouble. I have already become a corrupt official. Now everyone is making trouble together. Isn’t it because I have no family business, no job, and no livelihood?

They are not going to kill Li Zicheng, but they want to eat and ask Prince Zhu who lives in the Chu Palace to give everyone a good meal!

"Your Highness, we can't let those scholars make trouble anymore."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, let the old ministers come forward to appease you!"

"Your Highness, the scholar-official lady still needs to clean up her mind."

In the main hall of the Prince of Chu's Mansion, Yuan Jixian, Qiu Yu, and Fang Gongyue were persuading Zhu Cixiang to try to appease people's hearts. There was also a newly appointed Jiangdu left-behind Liu Kongzhao standing beside him without saying a word, but with a sad face. Prince Zhu was a bit moody, but wait a moment.

Order the left-behind department to send troops to suppress it!

"They just want to go to the Northern Expedition. Why should I appease? Want to clean up?" Of course Zhu Cixi understood what those people were thinking? But he still pretended to be confused. He didn't want to drive all the landlords, old money and profiteers who came to Wuchang City to death.

, although they are not good people, they are also a relatively smart and capable group of people here in Huguang.

Smart people are still useful! But Zhu Cixiang doesn't have so many errands to reward them, and he won't regain the lost ground in Huguang for them. Instead, he wants to force them into the market. Even capable people have to be forced!

"Sanfu!" Zhu Cixiang said with a smile, "Where is Wu Sanfu? Go find him!"

Wu Sanfu is busy setting up defenses! Zhu Cixiang, a great military strategist, only commands him. How busy he is! Moreover, his work is in vain, and the credit is all recorded in Zhu Cixiang's name.

The officers and soldiers of the guard battalion guarding outside the main hall also served as messengers, and soon someone went to fetch Wu Sanfu from Phoenix Mountain.

Wu Sanfu went to Fenghuang Mountain to inspect the artillery positions. Just after he finished his work, he was called back to the Prince of Chu's Mansion. As soon as he entered the hall, before he could salute, Zhu Cixi asked: "Sanfu, are the cannons ready?"

"It's ready!" Wu Sanfu replied.

"Can we fire now?"

"Yes!"
Chapter completed!