Mid-May, Fuzhou.
The sun is rising from the direction of the port, and the fishing fleet has already set out to sea. Accompanied by the shouts of the workers on the wharf, the crowds are already in front of the streets, markets, squares, and construction sites in the city. The scene became lively.
People in plain clothes had eaten breakfast at roadside stalls and hurried along, and children selling newsprint ran among the crowd. The old brothel Chu Pavilion, teahouse and wine shop, which have become outdated, have also been opened and renovated in recent days. In these half-new and half-old buildings, literati and poets gathered here The merchants who have come from afar start a day of communication and negotiation...
The influx of refugees and the tentative capital location of the new imperial court brought such prosperity to Fuzhou. A similar situation lasted for several years in Lin'an more than ten years ago, but compared to the chaos in Lin'an's prosperity at that time, the death of a large number of refugees, and the frequent occurrence of various cases, this seemingly chaotic and prosperous Fuzhou. , but there is a vague guidance of order.
In the past few months, a large number of court officials have subdivided their work into several main directions. On the one hand, they encouraged the local aborigines in Fuzhou to participate in business activities related to people's livelihood as much as possible, such as rental housing with houses. , There are cooking breakfasts, and the expansion of store capital. In the case of a large influx of people, the demand for various market links related to people's livelihood has greatly increased. Any vendor who has a small stall on the street selling breakfast, every day The business here can be doubled.
While guiding and encouraging local people to expand their operations and be responsible for people's livelihood, new docks were built in the east of Fuzhou, shipyards were expanded, technical staff were placed, and residential and workshop areas were expanded in the north and west of the city. Vendors built new factories and shacks, recruited homeless refugees to work, and offered food for work, at least to ensure that most of the refugees would not end up on the streets and could find a bite to eat.
At the same time, redundant soldiers participated in patrols and cooperated with lower-level officials to deal with security issues in a strict and swift manner. Almost every day, criminals were taken to Caishikou for beheading, attracting a large number of people to watch. In this way, although there are many criminals killed and innocent people who have been wronged in many cases, it has the effect of killing chickens and warning monkeys as a whole, so that there is not much conflict between foreigners and locals for a while. .
From a macro point of view, the ability of the new ruler to handle political affairs in Fuzhou at this time is almost countless times higher than that of Naifu who was in power in Lin'an more than ten years ago. On the other hand, Lin'an in those days had half the world of the Wu Dynasty and the whole of the Central Plains as nutrients. The nourishment that Fuzhou can attract today is far less than that of Lin'an in the past.
By May, huge shaking was sweeping the burgeoning city.
As ordinary people who are not involved in political affairs, what people can see is the shock when the court began to announce the results of the Southwest Battle on the second day of May, and the courage and generosity of the new king behind this shock. During this period, there were certainly some who abused the Wu Dynasty, but with it, many new news and new things filled people's attention.
Li Pin's newspaper began to interpret the concept of the study of objects based on the victory of Wangyuan Bridge in the southwest. Every day after that, the concept of the study of objects was extended to the ancient Luban and the Mohist school in the newsprint. He started talking about Luban's wooden kite that could fly for three days without falling, and he started talking about Zhuge Kongming's wooden ox and horses during the Three Kingdoms period... These are all things that ordinary people like to see.
Accompanying the study of things is Li Pin’s discussion of New Confucianism. These ideas are a bit far from ordinary people, but among the middle and lower class scholars, discussions about the concentration of power and loyalty to the emperor and patriotism have begun to increase. As of mid-May, some stories about Guan Zhong and Zhou Tianzi in "The Spring and Autumn Gongyang Biography" have frequently appeared in the discussions of readers, and the core ideas of these stories are ultimately attributed to four words.
Respect the king against barbarians.
While the aura of the divine artifact of Grid Science continues to expand, most people have not been able to clearly see the undercurrents hidden beneath it. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Fuzhou Chaotang dismissed Li Long, the old minister of the Ministry of Works, and then reorganized the Ministry of Works. It seems that it was just a continuation of the new emperor's emphasis on craftsman thinking. At the same time, in private, there were rumors that the new emperor Junwu and the eldest princess Zhou Pei once learned calculus and arithmetic under the devil of Nanning.
In the past, Ning Yi committed rebellion against the monarch, and it was indeed a great rebellion, but his ability is strong, and no one in the world can deny it today. After the death of Emperor Jinghan, Emperor Jingping Zhou Ji was taken captive north. At that time, there were many powerful and powerful people in Jiangnan. Among the royal family, Zhou Yong, who was not outstanding, was actually expected to be able to turn the tide after inheriting the mantle of Ning Yi. Among them, Jiangning's eldest princess mansion, consort Kangxian and others also After making a lot of promotion, I look forward to the day when this pair of siblings will do something...
These half-truths have caused a strange atmosphere among the people, but they have also indirectly dispelled the negative emotions of everyone thinking about their own problems due to the situation in the Southwest.
On the ninth day of the fifth lunar month, the Beiwei Army joined forces inside and outside the city, and in just four days, they captured Quanzhou.
These are the movements in Fuzhou that ordinary people can see, but if you go up, you can find that a huge storm has been roaring in the sky of Fuzhou City for a long time.
From a general perspective, it is not surprising that there will be a phenomenon of one emperor and one courtier in any change of court. What is the character and philosophy of the new emperor, who he favors and whom he alienates, these are things that people have to pay attention to and adapt to in every normal change of kings.
The Wu Jianshuo Dynasty left Lin'an along with Zhou Yong, which was almost equivalent to the existence of the name. After his accession to the throne, the "revitalizing" court has managed to gain a firm foothold in the tragic fighting and fleeing. The national power of the Wu Dynasty has declined, but in terms of justice, he can still be said to be the most legitimate. The new emperor of the Wu Dynasty, once he stands firm and shouts, half of the wealthy families in Jiangnan will still choose to support him. This is the power of name.
The Wu Dynasty is indeed a broken ship as a whole, but the broken ship also has three points of nails. What's more, under the premise of the original size of this broken ship, the basic plan of this righteousness is placed on the stage of competing for the world at this time. , still seems extremely huge, at least compared to Lin'an's Tie, Wu and others, Liu Guangshi, Dai Mengwei and others, and even more than the bandits in Jindi.
Countless great clans are waiting for the new emperor to sort out his thoughts and make a sound in order to judge what form he wants to support. Many of the forces that have gathered in Fuzhou since February and March are actually representatives or messengers of these local forces that still retain their power, and some are even those in power themselves.
In May, the Emperor Tuqiong Dagger saw, and officially made a sound. The sound of this sound was a disaster that caught countless clans by surprise.
Respect the king!
Since the second half of last year, this new emperor named Zhou Junwu has been fighting in the most tragic environment. He was besieged by millions of soldiers in Jiangning. Jiang Ning succeeded to the throne, and soon he was forced to give up Jiang Ning and fled in the south of the Yangtze River. Behind his back, countless people were slaughtered. He rectified the army, once chose to centralize power, and organized a monitoring team and a military law team with the bottom-level soldiers who had broken their homes as the backbone. These actions are all justifiable.
People are waiting for him to calm down and look at the overall situation from a higher perspective. In essence, many people are waiting for officials to make a wish, and many families are waiting to make contributions from the dragon under the new political framework. These families have the resources. Talents such as reserves, strength, and talents were cultivated in the past system framework assumptions. As long as the new emperor showed his generosity, the entire broken ship of the Wu Dynasty was still one of the best ships in this ocean.
Since February, countless people have handed over sketches and suggestions to Fuzhou Chaotang under the overall framework of the high house. In this direction, it is not easy to achieve perfection, but if you only want to pass, it is really something that ordinary political wisdom can do.
But the people at the top were surprised to find that the stupid emperor seemed to be trying to smash the ship, ready to rebuild a ridiculous little sampan.
After three months of waiting for this result, the confrontation began almost immediately. The power of some big clans began to try to flow out. In the court hall, various vague or explicit suggestions and objections continued. Some people began to plan the tragic possibility of the future to the emperor. Information to lose somewhere to support. The new emperor was not angry, he persuaded and appeased, but never let go of his promise.
At this time in the Fuzhou court, the emperor's control of the situation was almost absolute. The officials could only threaten and cry out, but they could not actually make much checks and balances on his actions. Especially after the news of Jun Wu, Zhou Pei, and Ning Yi broke out, the court's face was lost, but the emperor's face was recovered, and some people petitioned up, saying that such gossip would damage the royal family's integrity. The reputation should be stopped. Jun Wu just said, "The rumors stop at the wise, and I don't want to deal with the people because of the words", so I blocked it.
The worried officials then joined together in private, preparing to raise a large-scale protest later, but the news of the Beiwei Army's attack on Quanzhou came immediately, and in line with the public opinion in the city, the complaints of the officials were stopped with a series of blows. As of May 15th, a long-awaited news quietly came out
In order to change the weakness of the army of the Wu Dynasty in the past two hundred years, the emperor will take the lead in Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others to build the "Jiangnan Wubei School" to train generals and officials in the army. The self-castration-style system of civil servants and military supervisors is already selecting personnel.
This news spread in the court, and although it has not been implemented for a while, people are more and more certain that the new emperor's belief in respecting the king and repelling foreigners is almost a foregone conclusion.
When the country is stable, the strength of the soldiers must be weakened, and the strength of the monarch must be checked and balanced; when the country is in danger, the power must be concentrated and the army must be revitalized. Such an idea may seem simple, but in essence it is an abrupt turn in the direction of state governance over the past two hundred years. To "respect the king and deter the barbarians" would be impossible to "govern the world jointly with the scholar-officers", and to "rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats" would be in direct conflict with "respect the king and deter the barbarians".
As for the last ten days of May, the emperor's entire will to reform began to become clear, and countless persuasion and persuasion continued to appear in the city of Fuzhou. These persuasion were sometimes handed to Jun Wu, and sometimes to the eldest princess Zhou Pei. In front of him, some old officials with fierce personalities agreed with the new emperor's innovation, and among the middle and lower literati, there were also many people who agreed with the new emperor's boldness, but in a bigger place, the dilapidated ship started it. the collapse of...
At the end of May, Ning Yi was in Jiange, and probably knew a series of information about the reforms launched by the Fuzhou court in Lin'an. This day was also when the Zuo family's messenger team passed by Jiange. At this time, as the leader of the messenger, Zuo Xiuquan, the second figure of the Zuo family I asked Ning Yi.
After Zuo Duanyou's death, Zuo Jiyun is now the head of the Zuo family, but Zuo Jiyun's ability is limited to being successful. Over the years, Zuo Xiuquan, who is a collateral member of the Zuo family, has taken charge of most of the affairs of the Zuo family. Inherited the successor of Zuo Duanyou's will. This is a man in his fifties, with a handsome appearance, a gentle and elegant temperament and a traditional scholar, with a strand of white hair hanging from his right forehead. After meeting Ning Yi, he exchanged information about Lin'an with him.
The places are separated by more than 2,000 miles. Although the information channels of the high-level people have begun to be smooth after the Jinren were removed, there are often many first-hand information that are fake. Only by cross-comparing can a relatively clear outline can be seen.
"... The little emperor's series of eliminations and fights is a bit unexpected." The information at hand was only released by the rumors of Jiangnan Wubei Academy. After a comparison, Ning Yi said this, but he was quite sighed, "Earlier Yue Fei The soldiers forced Quanzhou, besieged but did not attack. In private, they should be connecting with the city, contacting spies, and persuading the internal response... Who would have thought that when he attacked Quanzhou, he was preparing for the public opinion in Fuzhou. It is interesting, thanks to his timely capture. …”
Zuo Xiuquan smiled and said, "I heard that Mr. Ning was in Jiangning in the past and had a mentor-disciple relationship with Xinjun. I wonder if I am a little relieved to know this news today?"
"Over the years, it's not easy for him and Zhou Pei." Ning Yi said, "When the Jinren went south, we kidnapped Liu Yu and dumped the blame on Wu Chao, and he passed the Xuzhou side to throw the problem back, in fact, he did it. Very good. By the time of Jiangning's first battle, he had really grown into a man who stood up to the sky... In fact, his older sister's character was stronger back then, while Jun Wu's character was weaker, it wasn't easy, it was hard work..."
For a long time, due to Zuo Duanyou, the Zuo family has maintained a good relationship with the Huaxia Army and the Wu Dynasty at the same time. In the many discussions with the old man in the past, Ning Yi also knew that although Zuo Duanyou strongly supported the Huaxia Army's anti-golden campaign, he was still a Confucian scholar who was rooted in the martial arts and Taoism. The layout of the Zuo family is probably also inclined towards the Wu Dynasty. But Ning Yi didn't mind this.
He also knew that what he said here would probably pass through Zuo Xiuquan's mouth and enter the ears of the little emperor thousands of miles away. That's why he didn't hesitate to treat the child of that year here. Say a few words of encouragement.
It was really hard work to get to this point.
Zuo Xiuquan nodded.
"Mr. Ning, what do you think of the new king's decision?" .