My life skills in Daming Liver

Looking at Tong An's young face, Yan Jun said: "In this turbulent world, the only way to save her is to fight."

Tong An murmured: "Only one fight?"

Yan Jun nodded and said: "Only by fighting can we achieve good results. If we don't fight, problems will accumulate forever. As more and more problems accumulate, we will never be able to solve them."

Yan Jun patted Tong An on the shoulder and said:

"Your idea is good, but the method is still too immature. These problems in the Ming Dynasty cannot be solved by changing who is in power."

Tong An stood up and bowed to Yan Jun and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yan, for your advice."

Yan Jun looked at Tong An and said, "Do you know why I came to the capital?"

Tong An was stunned for a moment and looked at Yan Jun.

Yan Jun asked again: "Changing the question, do you know why I don't go south to the southeast?"

Tong An also looked at Yan Jun doubtfully.

Academically speaking, Yan Jun's academics are closer to the theory of sovereignty among the people of the Southeast Governor Su Ze, and although Su Ze does not admit that he is a disciple of the Taizhou King's Clan, there are many people in his Southeast regime. They are all important ministers related to Taizhou Wangxue.

For example, the Minister of Justice He Xinyin, who holds a high position in the southeast, has academic ideas that are very similar to those of the Taizhou School. Some people say that he is from the Taizhou School.

Given Yan Jun's status and the series of things he has done, if he is willing to go south to the southeast, he will definitely be treated politely, not to mention being put in high regard by Su Ze.

But Yan Jun never went south. Even after Su Ze annexed the entire southern Zhili, he chose to go north to Shandong and broke away from the area controlled by the southeast.

Tong An was also a little confused.

Yan Jun himself gave the answer: "Because if I stay in the southeast, I'm afraid I will continue to fight like this, and it won't look so good in terms of face."

Tong An's balls ached.

Tong An himself did not go south, and in fact he did not agree with Southeast's theory.

But even so, in today's Imperial College, most of the students in the Imperial College highly respect Su Ze's ability and generosity.

After all, before the rebellion, Su Ze was a world scholar and academic master.

Even Zhang Juzheng's son Zhang Jingxiu once expressed his admiration for Su Ze in private meetings.

But this Master Yan actually said such a thing.

Yan Jun said coldly: "Is the southeast very good? I have never traveled in the southeast. Do you think the southeast is the land of peach blossoms?"

Tong An was stunned for a moment.

Yan Jun said: "Southeast is just better than the mess like Mingting, but in those workshops that work around the clock, aren't there the blood, tears and bones of the employees?"

Tong An did not answer Yan Jun's question.

Yan Jun said: "I left Southeast, not because I cared about myself, but because I wanted to improve my academic pursuits."

"My academic pursuit is to achieve the ultimate goal of world harmony through 'struggle', and to change the world through research and organizational competition."

Yan Jun looked at Tong An and said:

"Are you willing to learn from me?"

Tong An almost didn't hesitate, bowed directly in front of Yan Jun and said:

"Disciple Tong An, I am willing to learn from my teacher's academics."

Yan Jun stood up from the side of the road and said, "Let's go quickly. If you don't leave, the government police will come."

"Now that you have entered my door, your glory and wealth have nothing to do with you. Are you willing?"

Tong An said without hesitation: "Disciple is willing!"

"Then leave quickly!"

Everyone left Nancheng immediately. As expected, the Shuntian Mansion police officers quickly rushed into the warehouse where Yan Jun was giving lectures, but only captured a few innocent passers-by who were watching.

Immediately afterwards, the news of Huguang's defeat was sent to the capital via fast horse.

The New Southeast Army in Wuchang captured Hanyang and surrounded Jingzhou City, completely cutting off the waterway in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Guangdong's new army went south to capture Shaoguan, and was already overwhelming in the southern part of Huguang. The entire southern part of Huguang had fallen into the hands of the Southeast.

Xu Xuemo, the prefect of Jingzhou, led the Jingzhou New Army to resist in Jingzhou City, and the Ming court troops in Xiangyang also continued to ask for help.

After receiving this news, the internal fighting in Mingting finally came to an end.

The empress dowagers of the two palaces personally sent people to the residence of Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of Zhongshu, to entrust state affairs.

Immediately afterwards, the queen mothers of the two palaces all complained of illness, announced that they would remove the curtains, and entrusted all state affairs to Zhang Juzheng.

Now that Zhang Juzheng was no longer ill, the first thing he did was to drive Li Chunfang out of the court and send him to inspect the nine sides.

Zhang Juzheng regained control of the government. The second thing he did was to arrest Yan Jun in the Ming court and ban Yan Jun's academic work.

However, Yan Jun's academics are not based on writing. He has never written a book to explain his academic ideas. Moreover, Yan Jun only lectures to traffickers and lackeys, and no one has systematically recorded and sorted out his academics.

Therefore, the ban on destroying Yan Jun's academic work went very smoothly.

However, Yan Jun had sufficient experience in running away and fighting. The agents of Shuntian Prefecture searched the capital city for several days, but could not find any trace of Yan Jun or his followers.

A few days later, Tong An returned to the Imperial College, but Tong An became much more reserved and did not participate in study group activities as much.

However, Tong An's retreat from the study association made the new members of the study association breathe a sigh of relief.

Two young men, Zou Yuanbiao and Zhao Nanxing, are today the leaders of the Imperial College student organization.

They were generous and attracted many supporters.

But Tong An was once one of the initiators of the public petition, and he himself refused the shortcut in the last imperial examination. His personal character was impeccable, so he has always been very prestigious in the study group.

After Tong An semi-retired, Zou Yuanbiao and Zhao Nanxing quickly became active and became the leaders of the Imperial Academy Study Association.

But soon, the two men also had differences.

Zou Yuanbiao began to advocate Zhang Juzheng in the study meeting. He unequivocally supported all Zhang Juzheng's policies and believed that only a tough court could save the Ming Dynasty. He published articles in the Ming court's "Huangming News" many times to advocate Zhang Juzheng's new policies. .

Zou Yuanbiao's advocacy of Zhang Juzheng was so disgusting that even many Imperial College students in the study group couldn't stand it and took the initiative to cut off from him.

However, Zou Yuanbiao remained unmoved and continued to write articles in newspapers to advocate Zhang Juzheng, almost elevating Zhang Juzheng to the status of the Duke of Zhou, and praising him disgustingly as "Guan Zhong of the Ming Dynasty".

Zou Yuanbiao also had his own opinion. He believed that the Southeast was in great danger, and only a powerful Ming court could lead the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Southeast.

But Zou Yuanbiao was not completely licking Zhang Juzheng. He also criticized Zhang Juzheng's policies in newspapers.

Zou Yuanbiao believes that the current appeasement of local governors and the increase of local power have prevented the Ming Dynasty, which occupies a larger territory, from exerting its full strength against the southeast.

Zou Yuanbiao believed that it was necessary to take back the power of local governors and increase the authority of the imperial court in the capital, so that we could unite to deal with the southeast.

Zou Yuanbiao's statement was not only popular among the students of the Imperial College, but even many officials of the Ming court supported his ideas.

Compared with Zou Yuanbiao's more "radical" support for the Zhongshu prime minister system, Zhao Nanxing introduced the theory of "holy king".

Zhao Nanxing believed that only holy kings with perfect morals could save the Ming Dynasty, so Zhao Nanxing began to compile a book and enumerate the wise kings of ancient times.

In this "Emperor's Story", it includes the holy kings starting from Yao, Shun and Yu in ancient times to the emperors before Yuan Dynasty. Some short stories were selected from the life stories of these emperors and compiled into a booklet.

The book lists eighty-one good deeds and thirty-six bad deeds by ancient kings. Zhao Nanxing even hired a woodblock artist at his own expense to illustrate these short stories and printed and published them at his own expense.

This booklet quickly became very popular in the capital because of its easy-to-understand story and beautifully illustrated illustrations.

Zhao Nanxing also wrote an article in "Huangming Xinbao" explaining his purpose of writing "Emperor's Theory".

He hoped to use the deeds of the so-called "holy kings" to persuade the court and praise those ancient kings with noble virtues, hoping to make the Ming Dynasty strong again by restoring traditional morality.

After Zhang Juzheng saw "The Emperor's Theory", he was not angry. Instead, he greatly admired Zhao Nanxing. He renamed the booklet "The Emperor's Illustrated Theory" and personally verified the historical errors in several stories in it, and then used it as an education for the young emperor. The teaching materials were presented to the empress dowagers of the two palaces.

As a result, Zhao Nanxing became more famous than Zou Yuanbiao.

Zhang Juzheng recruited Zhao Nanxing to serve as an official, but Zhao Nanxing refused directly, saying that he wanted to participate in the imperial examination and become a minister of the Ming Dynasty, rather than being a personal minister promoted by Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng was not angry with the sixteen-year-old young man, and privately praised Zhao Nanxing for his virtue.

Zou Yuanbiao and Zhao Nanxing were originally on good terms, but as their differences grew larger, the study meeting began to be divided into two parts.

Shandong, in Jeju City.

Li Chengliang led his troops back to Jeju City since the last battle in Xuzhou.

After returning to Jeju City, Li Chengliang continued to promote Zhang Juzheng's New Deal and recruited troops to set up fortresses on the Jiaodong Peninsula to prevent the last time the Southeast Navy attacked Shandong from the sea and dragged his troops around Shandong from happening again.

After the Chinese New Year, Li Chengliang gathered many scholars in Shandong and gathered them at the New Army Minister's Mansion in Jeju City.

This was also the idea of ​​Li Chengliang's son Li Rusong.

Before and after the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Chengliang started a legal battle with Chen Yiqin, the governor of Henan.

Although because of Zhang Juzheng's relationship, Li Chengliang had a slight upper hand in the end, but after the emperor's death, Li Chengliang also felt insecure.

Both the Li family and his son have realized that the current balance of the Ming Dynasty is very fragile. Just the death of a violent emperor will almost destroy the entire balance.

After realizing this, Li Rusong suggested that his father recruit a group of scholars from Shandong to help Li Chengliang speak out.

Li Chengliang also realized the importance of public opinion. Chen Yiqin was a civil servant, and his reputation was not bad. He was a serious Jinshi.

Therefore, although Li Chengliang received the support of Zhang Juzheng, he was always suppressed by Chen Yiqin in public opinion, and his reputation among the civil servants of the capital was also very bad.

Although Li Rusong was also a general, Li Chengliang originally wanted his son to convert from martial arts to literature, so Li Rusong also received complete Confucian teachings since he was a child, and even became a scholar in Liaodong.

Of course, Li Rusong, a scholar from Liaodong, did not have much gold content.

Li Chengliang attached great importance to the advice of his son who had read books. He decided to start a newspaper in Shandong and let the scholars he recruited work under the editorial staff of "Shandong Xinbao" and pay them a salary to write articles to promote himself.

Li Chengliang also asked these scholars to contribute articles to the "Huangming New Newspaper". After the year, they published many articles in the newspaper, which indeed changed Li Chengliang's reputation.

This made Li Chengliang even more supportive of these scholars. He directly integrated the editorial department of "Shandong Xinbao" into his New Army Yamen, and even gave them the treatment of low-level officials.

Nowadays, scholars in Shandong who are eager to enter the official career have gathered in Jeju City to submit articles to "Shandong Xinbao", hoping to be favored by Li Chengliang and enter officialdom in one step.

Li Rusong took a manuscript and rushed to Li Chengliang's study.

"Father, please read this article."

Li Chengliang took the article and felt a headache after reading it for a while.

Although he had also read books, this article was too profound for him.

Li Rusong knew his father's cultural level, so he held the manuscript and said:

"Father, this article is well written!"

Li Rusong looked at the title, "On the Strength of the Tang Dynasty and the Weakness of the Song Dynasty". His impressions of the Tang and Song Dynasties came from various operas, and he could not understand this kind of scholar's article.

Li Rusong said: "Father, this article summarizes the lessons of the Tang Dynasty's strength and the weakness of Zhao and Song Dynasties."

"The article said that the reason why the Tang Dynasty prospered was because it paid equal attention to civil and military affairs and set up military mansions in various places to protect the country and the people. Therefore, when the Tang Dynasty fell, it still had a land far superior to that of Zhao and Song Dynasty."

"The Tang Dynasty set up a military government. Liangjiazi cultivated during busy periods and trained troops during slack periods. Now we, the Ming Dynasty, should follow the Tang system and use the military government to coordinate materials, fully support the war, and produce all materials to supply military supplies!"