Dominate the Country

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At night, the full moon rose, and a tranquility spread over the earth with the silver mist-like moonlight.

In the backyard of the Shen Mansion in the north of Lushan County. Shen Guozhen and his son Shen Shiying, who had been living in a corner of the land temple in Zhoujiakou, were now dressed appropriately and had rosy faces. They sat on the stone table and stone bench under the weeping willows by the pool, expressing their feelings and drinking to the moon.

Fujian revolted, and the flames of war burned in Lingnan. Good, great. More than half of the land in Fujian was no longer owned by the Qing Dynasty. Such a fierce uprising shook the world, allowing the Shen family father and son to truly see the hope of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and re-establishing the Han Dynasty, and saw a "glory" that was ten times more brilliant than the "light" they had thought at the beginning!

Shen Shiying was still a sixteen-year-old boy. He really admired Chen Ming, who was only two or three years older than him but was so "far-sighted". He was very clear about the origin of the Dark Camp, the supreme weapon of the Fu Han Army in the dark, and he also knew that it was Chen Ming who supported the layout of the Dark Camp in the southeast. Now Taiwan and Fujian have risen in rebellion, and major events that affect the world have come one after another, which have greatly hit the Qing Dynasty. It is difficult for people not to attribute these credits to Chen Ming.

"Dad, Fujian's military strength is extremely empty now. The Tiandihui will suddenly rise up and catch the Tartar government off guard, and will surely sweep across the eight Fujian provinces. By then, not only Zhejiang will be in danger, but also Guangdong and Jiangxi. It will be of great benefit to the Grand Commander to establish a foothold in Nanjing. Moreover, the Grand Commander wiped out the elite troops of Fujian and Zhejiang in a battle in Changzhou, and the threat from the south was eliminated. Now the troops are heading north to northern Jiangsu. If they can sweep Huai'an in one battle..." Shen Shiying's eyes flashed brightly. If Chen Ming can wipe out the Qing army in Huai'an in northern Jiangsu, then the Fu Han Army may really be able to establish a foothold in Nanjing forever.

From Henan to Hubei, from Hubei to Nanjing..., the prospects are too good.

Even if Chen Ming's main force returned from northern Jiangsu, even if he rested for a few more days in Nanjing City and did not immediately march into northern Jiangsu, the army's march south, east, or even split into troops to the west would be a huge threat to the Qing Dynasty. And now the entire Jiangnan region is already completely corrupted!

The Shen family father and son are from Zhejiang. They were born in Chongde County, Zhejiang. The Shen family in Chongde is a family of scholars for generations, with a large family and many branches. Some people in the family are obsessed with imperial examinations, and there are many scholars, but some people are not interested in imperial examinations, such as Shen Guozhen and Shen Shiying's ancestor Shen Zaikuan.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Confucian scholar in Chongde County who lived in seclusion and did not serve as an official. This person was Lu Liuliang.

Lu Liuliang respected Zhu Pi Wang for his studies, that is, he respected Zhu Xi, promoted the original purpose of Confucianism, refined the Four Books, and distinguished the difference between the barbarians and the Chinese. Such a proposition is very inappropriate for the current Fu Han Army. Chen Ming liked Wang Yangming very much and sneered at Zhu Xi. But it doesn't matter, Lü Liuliang has been dead for many years. Death is the greatest thing, and the Fu Han Army now seeks only Lü Liuliang's "spirit".

Yongzheng scolded Lü Liuliang in "Da Yi Jue Mi Lu": "All under heaven is the king's land; all the people are the king's subjects. Lü Liuliang has been in our dynasty for decades, and has been a family and raised his descendants, but he doesn't know the meaning of great unification!" It is because Lü Liuliang insisted that "the distinction between Chinese and barbarians is greater than the relationship between monarch and minister", and his integrity and thoughts have a great influence on Chongde students.

Shen Zaikuan, the ancestor of the Shen family, was a disciple of Yan Hongkui and a second-generation disciple of Lü Liuliang. He was arrested in the Zeng Jing case in the sixth year of Yongzheng. His collection of poems includes words such as "Land and land do not need to be submerged by floods, who will manage the old borders for Shenzhou" and so on. He was accused by the Qing court of deliberately mocking the court. He was killed in December of the tenth year of Yongzheng. All his direct relatives were punished according to the law, and the side branches were exiled to the northeast. Shen Guozhen was still a child under ten years old at the time, less than sixteen years old, so he survived.

The entire Lu Liuliang case, Chongde scholars suffered heavy losses. In addition to the deaths of Shen Zaikuan, Huang Fuyan, Che Dingfeng, Che Dingben, Sun Yongke, Zhou Jingyu and others, their families were either killed or demoted to slaves. Also involved were Fang Mingchou and Jin Ziqi, who were removed from the status of students, beaten with a hundred sticks, and exiled three thousand miles; Chen Zutao, Shen Yunhuai, Shen Chengzhi, Dong Luyin, Li Tianwei, Fei Dingyuan, Wang Lifu, Shi You, Shen Doushan, Shen Huihou, Shen Linyou and others were removed from the status of teachers, juren, students, students, and students, beaten with a hundred sticks, and sentenced to three years in prison.

However, among so many injured families, only Shen Guozhen and Shen Shiying, father and son, were able to come here after hearing the news of the uprising of the Henan Fu Han Army.

To be precise, Shen Guozhen himself was not a great talent who would never appear. He was just a scholar who hated the Qing Dynasty. He studied the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and was good at writing. The policy propositions and government system of the Fu Han Army were obviously very different from Neo-Confucianism and even Confucianism. This was nothing to Shen Guozhen. As long as he could overthrow the Qing Dynasty and avenge the national hatred and family feud, the Fu Han Army would not follow Neo-Confucianism, and would not promote Confucianism. Shen Guozhen did not mind. Because he was not a stubborn person. If Shen Guozhen was stubborn and did not bend, he would have died in the Northeast. In order to survive and live a better life, he endured the disgusting things of flattery and licking, and in exchange for a certain amount of freedom, the father and son of the Shen family were able to risk fleeing from the Northeast back to the interior after Shen's death, and to escape back to their hometown in Zhejiang where they left when they were young.

Shen Guozhen is now the deputy editor-in-chief of "Zhongyuan Daily". When Shen Guozhen was exiled, his fellow tribesmen and other elders who were exiled with him also drank a lot of ink when he was young and young. What he studied was true Neo-Confucianism and contained the essence of Zhu Xi's scholarship, but Shen Guozhen himself was not a disciple of Neo-Confucianism. After the father and son escaped back to the customs, they had to hide their names and lived a very hard life. This kind of suffering in life, combined with the thrilling and difficult obstacles that the father and son faced on their way out of Guandong, created the father and son's adventurous spirit that is different from others. In other words, Shen Guozhen's mind became more flexible and flexible because of the pressure of life.

The father and son are absolute realists, not idealists.

Shen Shiying is currently attending a cadre school. He is not engaged in politics or law. He is not interested in engineering and miscellaneous subjects. He studies military affairs.

Many of the combat cases involved in the military training of the Fuhan Army, as well as specific training courses and subjects, are all based on Chen Ming's experience. This is simply a silent cultivation of Chen Ming's admirers. Where is Shen Guozhen? Sitting in the position of deputy editor-in-chief of "Zhongyuan Daily", it is not necessary to receive too much news from all directions. Of course, I know how great Chen Ming's contribution was in the establishment of the General's Mansion.

It can be said that Chen Ming played a greater role than his father and the current General Chen Hui. The two father and son have become Chen Ming's admirers.

Now the Tiandihui in Fujian is revolting, the Lingnan war is raging, and the world is in chaos. A feeling of great things to be expected arises in the hearts of Shen Guozhen and Shen Shiying, father and son.

"Ying'er, the current situation is very similar to that of the late Ming Dynasty. The general's mansion in southwest Henan was the original Guandong. It attracted most of the elite soldiers of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and cost the Manchu and Qing Dynasties an unknown amount of food and material resources. And Hunyuan in Shandong The religious army, the Tiandi Hui rebels in Fujian and Taiwan, and even the military governors who swept across the Yangtze River were the rogue bandits that were growing stronger at the time.

The Manchus dispersed their troops everywhere and gathered troops everywhere. They besieged the general's palace. They surrounded and suppressed the Hunyuan Sect and the Grand Governor from all sides like a dragnet. The former was a teacher of no avail and wasted money and food. The Hunyuan Sect penetrated into the mountains of Western Shandong and was like a fish in water. , tens of thousands of troops were in vain; the latter's commander-in-chief used his troops like a god, and the expeditionary army swept across the Yangtze River, becoming stronger as the war progressed. Huguang is rotten, Jiangnan is rotten, and now Lingnan is also raging with war..." Shen Guozhen raised his head and drank the strong wine in the cup. A layer of blush appeared on his face, but his eyes were sparkling. "Look for my father, The Tatar empire cannot be saved! "

This is a very strong feeling. It is clear that the Manchu Qing Dynasty still has great power, but Shen Guozhen just feels that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is going to be finished. It is really going to be finished.

He looked up at the sky and saw a full moon hanging high in the deep night sky, with a few white clouds drifting around it, and the moon giving off a faint white light. Shen Guozhen feels that today's full moon is particularly good, even though today is July 15th, not August 15th.

The hazy moonlight casts a mysterious shadow in the pool, and floating silver glow spreads on the water, like a group of silver fish dancing there.

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Also in Lushan, under the same bright full moon, Peng Zhongrui was drinking to drown his sorrows.

The bright full moon in the sky is really like a silver disk. The silver moonlight reflects a few feathery light clouds, which is wonderful. But Peng Zhongrui couldn't appreciate the beauty at all.

His heart was filled with sadness and sentimentality. What happened to the Qing Dynasty? Not to mention the General's Office, the Hunyuan Sect's ragtag group of people could not be eliminated quickly. The previous uprising in Taiwan continued to cause chaos, foreign bandits were rampant, and the sea altar was in an unbelievable situation. Up to now, almost all the Fujian and Fujian areas have fallen into chaos and disasters. This is Fujian. It is located in the southeast, connecting Zhejiang at the beginning and Guangdong at the end. If Fujian is in chaos, there will be no peace in Zhejiang and Guangdong, and the situation in Jiangnan will be completely ruined.

It's just that in the Peng family, unlike the Shen family where father and son work together, his children are very unhappy with Peng Zhongrui's sentimentality.

"Mom, you have to persuade Dad. Now everyone in the entire cadre school is happy, but he is the only one with a sad face, as if he has no love in life. The officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty will really come to Lushan. , the Fuhan Army was really defeated, can the Qing soldiers spare our family because of his sad face all day?" Peng Zhongrui's son was very depressed about his father. To put it very disrespectfully, if my father is alive but not dead, this in itself is a breach of integrity towards the Manchus. Then simply follow the Fuhan Army? What's more, the future of the Fuhan Army is very good. But he wears a mandarin jacket all day long and looks like a loyal loyalist of the Qing Dynasty, which makes them suffer discrimination in daily life.

Peng Zhongrui's son felt that his father seemed to be loyal to the Manchus, but he was really not as good as Lu Liuliang. The latter's deeds have been published a lot in newspapers these days. I heard that some of Lu Xue's descendants were leaders in newspapers. They said a lot of good things about Lu Liuliang in the newspapers, which also washed away some of the stigma on Lu Liuliang.

For example, Lu Liuliang changed his name to Guanglun in the 10th year of Shunzhi and passed the exams, but he still kept in touch with Zhang Huangyan and others who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty. Yong Zheng accused him in "Dayi Jue Mi Lu" of "taking the exam during the Shunzhi period and getting a good position in the field. He passed the exams many times over the years. With his superficial talents, he always occupied a high position, stole false reputations, and boasted in the countryside...according to his years. , Lu Liuliang has been a member of this dynasty for more than ten years, but he was suddenly called a remnant of the Ming Dynasty..."

"Zhongyuan Daily" cleared Lu Liuliang's mind on this matter. The writing style describes this experience of taking the exam in detail, describing the deep regret and self-blame that Lu Liuliang expressed many times in his subsequent poems and essays. Lu Liuliang always used "slip" to describe this test: "Who taught me to fish after I lost my footing?" Ji, the traces of my heart are everywhere. The clothes and hats in the elegant collection are changed, and the names on the party members' monuments are not easy to talk about. It's easy for the governor to starve to death and be buried in cloth without shame. Head back."

Peng Zhongrui's son felt that his father had also made a 'misstep'. Peng Zhongrui had always been loyal to the Qing Dynasty. But obviously, if Peng Zhongrui refused the olive branch extended by the Fuhan Army, the Peng family would suffer miserably, so he became an "official" of the "Fuhan Army". Instead of living in seclusion and not serving as an official like Lu Liuliang. Finally, he was forced to cut off his hair and become a monk.

The Tiandihui uprising in Fujian and the flames of war instantly burned through Fujian. After the news reached Lushan, many discerning people felt that the situation had changed drastically and that troubled times were really coming. The advantage of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was severely cut off. Although the Fuhan Army did not dare to say that they would have the last laugh in this 'great war', their chances of winning were greatly increased. From the beginning, the General Mansion had no chance of winning, to at least two or three points of certainty. This cheered up the hearts of the entire base area.

Since the day before yesterday, the three major newspapers have introduced the great momentum and important role of the Fujian Tiandihui uprising. They have really helped the Fuhan Army a lot. Its significance is much greater than that of the Hunyuan Rebellion. In particular, Chen Ming also defeated the elite troops of Fujian and Zhejiang Lu Yong in Changzhou, almost annihilating more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. In conjunction with the Fujian Tiandihui uprising, this was a real double happiness.

Wherever the newspaper went, soldiers and civilians were delighted. This is a shot in the arm, making the already good morale in the base area even more exciting. Since the Hunyuanjiao uprising, the morale in the base area has always been good. After the summer harvest, the Fuhan military government was able to keep its word, which made the foundation of the General Mansion more solid. The Yunyang refugees, the main force of the army, have been well resettled, and the military family members have been treated better. This has also made the army's morale and cohesion higher and more stable.

Last month it was Taiwan, and now it's Fujian. Thousands of miles away in the southeast, people have been revolting one after another, and the scale is so large that it has swept through most of Fujian. This gave the soldiers a feeling of "I am not alone". Listening to the endless comments in the newspaper [Someone Reads the News], and listening to the exaggerated effectiveness and praise of those pens, many soldiers had the impression that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was about to collapse.

Whether the Manchu Qing Dynasty is going to collapse is not something that can be decided by a group of pen writers writing commentaries. It is something that needs to be decided on the battlefield.

The area north of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu.

After Chen Ming destroyed the elites of Fujian and Zhejiang Lu Yong in the battle of Changzhou, the threat to the south of Nanjing ceased to exist in a short time. The Qing army in Jiangsu had just been beaten by the Fuhan army. The artillery group used hot bombs to beat the bannermen living in Suzhou to shame. No one knows how many people died in the fire caused by the shelling, and the fire How to find new residences for these old men later became even more difficult for the Suzhou government and made the people of Suzhou furious. In addition, the naval battalion of the Fuhan Army raided the Eastern and Western Mountains and ravaged the towns around Taihu Lake. The Qing soldiers in Suzhou did not have enough time to recuperate, so they would not immediately stab the back of the Han army.

As for the 156,000 Fujian, Zhejiang, and Lu Yong elite, especially the tens of thousands of Fujian Green Camp soldiers in the middle, they were beaten by the Fuhan Army in the Changzhou Battle. The remaining defeated soldiers had completely lost their fighting spirit and combat effectiveness. . The Qing army south of Nanjing was like a bear in the short term. After the Han army moved north, the vest was naturally very safe.

Now Chen Ming's plan is very clear. The army will cross the Yangtze River from Yangzhou and Zhenjiang. The Yangzhou part will attack the Yangtze River and go straight to Gaoyou Prefecture to restore the land and water connection between Yangzhou and Gaoyou. The cavalry battalion is specially designed to deal with the Manchu Eight Banners cavalry. ; And what about the team heading towards Zhenjiang? , that is, starting from Taixing and pushing to Rugao, cutting off the communication lines between the Qing army in Nantong and Haimen and the Qing army in northern Jiangsu. At that time, we will see the progress of the Fuhan army in Gaoyou Prefecture. If the latter goes well, they will go eastward from Gaoyou Prefecture to recapture Xinghua. County, one from the south and one from the north to attack some Qing soldiers in Taizhou. If the Qing army still refuses to retreat, it will attack them from the north and south and kill them in one fell swoop. If the Qing army retreats at the right time, the Fuhan army will still march north and south, along the Yunyan River in the north, sweeping all the way to northern Jiangsu. ——The area near the sea in Jiangsu and the area east of Sheyang Lake. Threaten Huai'an City from the east and avoid the threat of Gaoyou Lake, a 'hanging lake' on the ground. The southern route went straight eastward, sweeping Nantong Prefecture again, and even attacked Haimen Hall.

On the water, the Fuhan Army was helpless against the Qing's overseas navy, but on land, the main force of the Fuhan Army was really not afraid of the Qing troops.

After the second sweep of Jiangnan and returning to Nanjing, the army had just been reorganized for two days. It only smoothed out the achievements in the previous battles, and then promoted and demoted, plus a series of material and spiritual rewards. After that, the main force immediately went to Jiangbei. The morale and energy of the troops have declined to varying degrees.

"Grand Governor, the soldiers and horses are fighting continuously. The soldiers all look tired and have low fighting spirit. They are not the image of a winner." Liu Dezhao persuaded Chen Ming to postpone the march to Jiangbei and let the team rest more in Nanjing city.

Why didn't Chen Ming know that the army was going to war? His morale was much lower than in the previous battle. He has a bug.

In his eyes, if the morale of the army during the second sweep of Songjiang was like a raging fire, burning the sky, the morale of the Fuhan army now is like an ordinary fire, similar to the Qing army during the Battle of Changzhou.

"Time waits for no one. The Tiandihui uprising in Fujian has shaken the whole world. Now is the time when the enemy is weakening and we are growing stronger. If we don't take advantage of this great opportunity to defeat the enemy, show our military strength and military prestige, and pour a pot of kerosene on this fire, when will we wait?"

"Don't worry. Although the continuous battles have dampened our army's fighting spirit, the Tiandihui uprising in Fujian has swept across Fujian, and the news has spread all over the world. The Qing army knows about it, and their morale will be even lower."

Drive out the Tartars and restore China. Perhaps before long, these eight words will once again ring loudly in China.

Chen Ming suddenly thought of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and Zhu Yuanzhang. At that time, he will definitely hold a grand and grand sacrifice to him and his descendants.