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This version of "Ming History" is finally normal. There is no concubine Wan Gui who killed the prince, and Zhu Jianshen's achievements are more objective.In addition to resettling millions of refugees, Zhu Jianshen's achievements in Mongolia and Liaodong are also written in full detail.

After all, the Jianzhou Tartars were the mortal enemy of the Datong New Dynasty. Zhu Jianshen, who Zeng Liting swept the caves and copied the Tartars' lair, would naturally be described as a talented and bold monarch.

Of course, there were also negative comments, and Zhu Jianshen became dizzy at the end of his life.

After reading Emperor Zhengde's biography, Zhao Han couldn't laugh or cry: "The two armies fought for seven days, but they only beheaded the sixteenth level of Mongolia?"

Qian Qianyi replied: "Your Majesty, the ministers were afraid of making mistakes, so they specifically consulted the generals of the Dudu Mansion. The "Records of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty" should not be scribbled, and it may even be protecting Wuzong. The Ming army may die more than in the Records of Wuzong. More."

"Tell me in detail," Zhao Han said.

Qian Qianyi estimated that he had really studied it carefully, and he talked eloquently: "Beheading the sixteenth level does not mean killing 16 enemies. It should be that the Ming army had no time to cut off the heads of the Mongols."

"On the first day of this battle, the two sides encountered an accident, and the Mongols ran away without much fighting."

"On the second day of the battle, Wang Xun's department of the Ming army was besieged by a lone army. According to the records, the two armies killed each other. But the Ming army was always surrounded, so it was naturally impossible to cut off the head."

"On the third day of the battle, there was a heavy fog. The Mongols were afraid of being attacked, so they took the initiative to withdraw and leave. The two sides did not fight fiercely."

"On the fourth day of the battle, Wang Xun should have received Wuzong's order to go out of the city to fight, using himself as a bait to keep the Mongols behind. On this day, Wang Xun was always besieged. It didn’t work. Moreover, the Ming army’s war was quite unfavorable, and there was no time to cut off the Mongolian head.”

"On the fifth day of the battle, Wu Zong went into battle in person, trying to encircle and wipe out the Mongols. People from all walks of life feared that Wu Zong would lose, fought desperately, and finally succeeded in joining forces, but still could not encircle the Mongols. Wu Zong's car almost fell, and Wu Zong said that he personally Killing one enemy should also be at this time. The Ming army is always at a disadvantage, and there is no chance of cutting off the head."

"On the sixth day of the battle, the Mongols ran away and were unable to break through the Ming army's formation, so they were unwilling to fight the Ming army."

"On the seventh day of the battle, the Mongols ran so far on horseback that the Ming army could not catch up."

Zhao Han listened carefully to the whole process, and found that there was indeed no loophole.The casualties of the Mongols must be more than double digits.However, the Ming army was suppressed and attacked, so they could only form defensive formations, and it was difficult to go out to cut off their heads. Once the heads were cut, the formation would be chaotic.Therefore, no matter how many casualties the Mongols have, they can leave calmly with their corpses.

This is a standard battle between infantry and cavalry. The cavalry cannot break through the infantry formation, and the infantry cannot catch up with the cavalry who want to leave.

Strictly speaking, it should be a tie.

The defect of the Ming army is that there are too few cavalry, and a lone army is used as a bait to let other reinforcements come to encircle and wipe out.But the reinforcements came too slowly, and some arrived first and some later, the encirclement plan became a refueling tactic.In the end, if Zhu Houzhao hadn't played in person, forcing the generals to desperately, Wang Xun, who was used as a bait, was likely to be surrounded and wiped out by the Mongols.

"Let's write it like this, the main chapter of "History of Ming Dynasty" is fine," Zhao Han said.

call!

Qian Qianyi let out a long sigh of relief.

On the second day, Zhao Han was doing his daily work, and Li Xiangjun suddenly brought a magazine.

Today's magazines and newspapers are basically monthly, and some are quarterly and semi-annual.These publications, Zhao Han must read, in order to understand the situation of the people.

Zhao Han was puzzled, "It's the end of the month, why are there new publications?"

Li Xiangjun said: "It's a supplement. Some scholars, after learning about this exam, that some women signed up for it, wrote an article saying that women's imperial examinations are the same as the hen's morning."

Chapter 801 [Debate of Fan Lou]

Fan Lou.

Since it was changed to this name, literati like to come here for banquets, and merchants have followed suit.

A scholar about 40 years old, holding a magazine at the moment, stood in the lobby and said: "This majestic essay is a new work by Cang Xuzi. It criticizes the current problems, and every sentence makes sense..."

The authors of the Ming Dynasty all used pen names, and they didn't even bother to keep the pen names. When they were published, they only indicated "edited by so-and-so".Now that publications are popular, besides poetry, other articles also like to use pseudonyms.

Who knows who this "Cang Xuzi" is, and often writes articles to give advice.

The scholar read: ""Book of Rites Nei Ze" says: The child can eat food, teach the right hand... For seven years, men and women sit at different seats and do not eat together. Eight years..."

Scholars are afraid that some diners will not understand, so after reading a paragraph, they translate a paragraph: "What do you mean? It is the "Book of Rites" that stipulates that children can eat and teach them to use their right hands. Children can speak, and they need to teach them the etiquette of answering. Boys use Wei, girls use Yu. The purses on the body are made of leather for boys, and they can be brave when they grow up; they are made of silk for girls, and they can weave when they grow up. At the age of seven, men and women should not sit at the same table. Eat...at the age of ten, boys have to leave home to learn poetry, books and arithmetic, and girls have to stay at home and learn to do housework..."

"What a man should do, what a woman should do, is determined at birth. How can the principles passed down by the sages go wrong?"

"Today's Holy Son of Heaven, studying heaven and man, realized the theory of personality. Scholars like me agree with the theory of personality. The theory of personality is equal in the world, but their personalities are different. Men and women are also equal, but they have different functions. Male For work, women are kun, men are strong, women are soft, men are outside, women are inside. Mr. Cang Xuzi also believes that men and women should be equal, but they should perform their duties. Men are busy outside, women should take care of the house Only when the husband and wife are harmonious can the family business prosper."

"The "Yi Family Hexagram" also says that women are in the right place, and men are in the outside. Men and women are right, the righteousness of heaven and earth. When this woman comes out to show her face, it violates both the "Book of Rites" and the "Book of Changes." If things go on like this, the position of men and women is not right, and the righteousness of heaven and earth will not exist!"

"Nowadays, boys and girls sit together in the same room to study, disregarding the difference between men and women. There are women participating in the imperial examination..."

"Ah!"

At this moment, a young student slammed the table, stood up and pointed at the scholar and cursed: "Nonsense, you're such a jerk!"

The scholar was interrupted suddenly, and asked sullenly, "Who is your Excellency?"

The young student held his head high and held his chest high: "Xiatang Zhen, whose character is Zhuwan, is a native of Dazhou, Sichuan, graduated from Chengdu University, and is a candidate for an undergraduate degree!"

The middle-aged scholar suddenly had a conversation: "Since I am rushing to take the exam, you should help me to speak. How can I let a woman occupy the imperial examination quota? You shouldn't come to make trouble!"

Feminist thought, to be precise, the idea of ​​equal rights had already appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, Tang Zhen served as a county magistrate for ten months in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and went into business when he was unhappy, and gave lectures when he stopped doing business in his later years.This gentleman's "theory of moral status" is very similar to Zhao Han's "theory of status".

He believes that heaven and earth are equal, all living beings are equal, and men and women are equal.

The sky is above the earth, and it is different.The earth is under the sky, which is a virtue of humility.If the husband is above, it is a position; if the wife is below, it is virtue.Husband and wife are equal and should respect each other.The relationship between husband and wife is the foundation of society.If a husband does not respect his wife, there will be disharmony in the family.Emperors, officials, and common people are also equal.If the emperor does not respect his subjects, and the officials do not respect the people, the country will surely perish.

Tang Zhen pointed at the other party and asked, "Is it okay for a man to farm and a woman to weave?"

The middle-aged scholar said: "It should be so."

Tang Zhen asked again: "You can go to the countryside to see if there are any women among the people who work in the fields?"

"This..." the middle-aged scholar defended, "The woman in the field is here to deliver food to her husband, and to help out a little by the way."

"You're either deceiving yourself, or you don't know about farming," Tang Zhen said without saving face. "I don't know about other places, but in Sichuan, there is no difference between men farming and women weaving! When it is busy farming season, peasant women also When going to the fields to plant seedlings, the peasant women also cut rice and threshed the rice, and the peasant women also picked manure to irrigate the fields. As for sericulture, men also had to pick mulberries, men also fed silkworms, and men also peeled silk. Where did men plow and women weave? "

The middle-aged scholar belongs to the scholar of the former dynasty, has read many sage classics, and is full of great principles.But facing this fact, he didn't know how to refute it at all, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "In the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, education is not prosperous, so we must pay attention to the difference between men and women."

Tang Zhen sneered: "Pay attention to the difference between men and women. Could it be that only men farm and women weave? The rice planting season is only a few days, and now the farmers have divided the land, and every household has a lot of land. Could it be that the husband is too busy planting rice plants, and the wife can only stay at home?" Are you in a hurry? Because of the so-called men farming and women weaving, who will be responsible for the delay in farming? Are you going to help farmers plant seedlings?"

"I..." The middle-aged scholar is trying to recall the classics, trying to find rebuttals from the sages' books.

Tang Zhen didn't give him a chance to breathe, and continued: "Do you understand what is the change of the world? Men plow and women weave, it is an ancient etiquette. I have read through the agricultural books of the past dynasties. This kind of field tool has always been used It has changed for the better. In ancient times, farm tools were simple, and plowing was really hard work, and women were powerless. Today, farm tools are excellent, and women can also plow and cultivate the land, so why are you clinging to men and women for weaving?"

The middle-aged scholar gave up struggling with male farming and female weaving, and tried to change the subject: "Ahem...Farming is hard work. Since women can help, it is also okay to violate the etiquette as appropriate. However, men dominate outside and women dominate inside. mustn't..."

"absurd!"

Tang Zhen interrupted again: "Women plant seedlings and plow fields, which means that women can also rule outsiders. Men who pick mulberry and shredded shreds mean that men can also rule inside!"

The middle-aged scholar feels that he has grasped the loophole: "The man is in charge of the outside, and the woman is in charge of the inside. The key lies in the main character. The woman helps the husband plant the rice seedlings, but the husband is still the master, and the husband still needs to do more farm work."

Tang Zhen said with a smile: "Women can also take part in the imperial examination. Nowadays, there are not many women who take the imperial examination, and few women are officials. The imperial examinations and officials are still dominated by men. This is not helping my wife. Is the husband planting rice seedlings the same as the husband helping the wife shred the rice?"

The middle-aged scholar was so depressed that he almost vomited blood, and said angrily: "How can the imperial examination and farming be the same? The national talent ceremony, the foundation of this society, must not be fooled!"

Tang Zhen said: "Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and farming is also the foundation of the country, just like the imperial examination. Don't you think that farming is not the foundation of the country?"

"I...you..."

The middle-aged scholar really wanted to pass out, because many of the diners in Fan Lou were watching him make fun of him.

Another scholar couldn't stand it any longer, so he stood up to help and said, "There is a saying in the Book of Rites that women treat their aunts as much as their parents. When the rooster crows, washes in salty water, combs the scorpion, the boss, the gentleman in clothes... If a woman As an official, how can you be filial to your parents-in-law when you are busy with paperwork?"

Tang Zhen asked: "If a woman does not become an official, can she serve her parents-in-law in the dark every day when the cock crows, as the "Book of Rites" says? Can your wife do it?"

The second scholar was stunned for a moment, and then said: "My wife is very virtuous, she can do it herself! Don't talk about such useless things. If a woman becomes an official through the imperial examination, how can she have time to care for her husband and teach her children?"

Tang Zhen said: "In a wealthy family, you can hire servants to serve your parents-in-law, and you can hire a husband to teach your children. In a poor family, women don't serve as officials, and they are busy with their livelihoods all day long. How can they have time to care for their husbands and children?"

The scholar was furious: "You are talking nonsense. Even if you are from a poor family and are busy with making ends meet, you should take care of your husband and children. What's more, can hiring servants to serve your parents-in-law be the same as serving yourself? Can hiring a husband to teach your children be the same as teaching yourself?" ?”

Tang Zhen stood with his hands behind his back: "Two years ago, I graduated from Chengdu University and have been traveling around. Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, where textiles are booming, countless women work as weavers. They earn far more silver taels than their husbands. This is already It’s not about helping, but a real hostess! I’ve asked many weavers, they don’t have time to care for their husbands and children, and they don’t have time to serve their parents-in-law. But they also have a harmonious family, and even their parents-in-law feel sorry for their hard work. Prepare meals and wait for the daughter-in-law to come home to enjoy!"

Tang Zhen looked around, pointed to many diners and said, "You people only know the difference between men and women, you only know the difference between men and women, and you only know how to search for chapters and excerpts. Why have you ever cared about the peasants in the countryside, and have you ever visited the textile factory?"

"well said!"

Another young student stood up and bowed his hands to the diners: "My lord, Yan Yuan, styled Yizhi, is from Boye, Hebei. Whether it is a local or an immigrant from other provinces, who doesn’t work with her husband in the countryside? Have you ever seen land reclamation? It’s very tiring, shoulders and backs. How can a woman avoid it? It’s the urban women in Hebei. , and because the population is not prosperous, they still do men's work. The largest restaurant in Boye County is run by a woman, but her husband can only help!"

Yan Yuan's thinking started from his own experience, he had seen too many human tragedies in Hebei.

Therefore, in history, he said that if there is no woman, human beings cannot reproduce, and husband and wife should be equal.He also said that he only knows how to reprimand women for losing their virginity, and men should also be condemned for having extramarital affairs.The birth of this idea is probably because of the war in Hebei, too many women lost their virginity.

The emergence of this idea of ​​equal rights is due to the development of productive forces, women can work and do farm work, and their economic status will inevitably lead to the improvement of family status;

Zhao Han put forward the "Gate Theory" in his capacity as the emperor, and undoubtedly poured a spoonful of oil into it.

Shang Jinglan was eating wine on the second floor, and said with a smile: "Well said, we can make friends."

Liu Shuying's gaze fell on Tang Zhen all the time, and she said: "There are also good men in the world who can speak for our women."

Chapter 802 [Materials are raging]

The chief of the Procuratorate is the censor of the left and right, responsible for supervising officials.It is generally held by civil servants, and occasionally there are exceptions and special recruits. It mainly works with the cabinet and the Ministry of Punishment, and can also bypass the cabinet and be directly responsible to the emperor.

The chief of the National Security Council is also the censor of the left and right. Internally, he is responsible for postal stations and supervising tycoons, and externally, he is responsible for inquiring about the military situation, placing spies, and so on.It mainly communicates with the cabinet, the Ministry of War and the Inspectorate, and can also bypass the cabinet and be directly responsible to the emperor.

As the domestic situation stabilized, the spies Xu Ying recruited at the beginning, due to the quality of the spies, continued to have messy problems.

For example, extortion, fish and meat people!

They used to be called Black Clothes Guards, and some of them used their status to act recklessly, and the local officials didn't dare to interfere at all.Even the Inspector of Integrity did not dare to take action directly, so he could only make a small report to the emperor after returning to Beijing.

There were more and more such things, and Zhao Hancai decided to formalize the black guards.

Not only did the Black Clothes Guards change their name to the National Security Council, but they also put all the postal system across the country under the jurisdiction of the National Security Council.A large number of low-level spies were transformed into postmen at the post station.High-level spies, transformed into Yicheng, or simply transferred to the Inspectorate as a clean government official.Therefore, in the post stations all over the country, those postmen are basically part-time spies, and the postmen will sort out the information collected by the postmen every day.

In every important border area, the National Security Council will set up a branch to be responsible for foreign intelligence and foreign spies.The headquarters of the National Security Council is responsible for analyzing the intelligence sent by the whole country.

After losing its arrest power, the National Security Council was completely reduced to an intelligence organization and postal unit.

It was the inn boy in Huangjia Town who took over Xu Ying's control of the National Security Institute.The guy who could only write his own name and only recognize the names of dishes, now not only can read thousands of words, but also asked his husband to change his name - Huang Zundu.

Like that old man Huang, he is of the generation of "Zun".

"Have you ever found out who paid for "Scholarly Picking Up Interests"?" Zhao Han asked.

Huang Zundu said: "The Scholars has six major shareholders, three of which contributed the most. One is the Li family in Nanjing, the second is the Zhang family in Jiaxing, and the third is the Zhai family in Qingzhou."

Zhao Han felt very strange: "It is quite reasonable for the gentry in the capital and the south of the Yangtze River to run newspapers. Why are people from Shandong coming to Nanjing to invest and run newspapers?"

Huang Zundu explained: "The Zhai family's ancestral home is Anhui. In the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants first came to Zaoqiang, Hebei, and then were distributed to Qingzhou to settle down. During the Tianshun period, they moved to Xihe Village and multiplied into a large clan, known as 'Xihe Zhai'. During the Wanli period, Zhai Fengchong became a Jinshi, joined the Donglin Party, and was demoted and dismissed by the Eunuch Party. Chongzhen came back in the second year and became the right servant of the Ministry of War. He was promoted to the left servant of the Ministry of War. Taking pictures of schools, governor of Tianjin and other places. The front line was defeated, and Zhai Fengchong was dismissed and returned to his hometown."

Zhao Han sneered: "It turns out that I have supervised the Liao pay, no wonder I have money to go south to run newspapers."

Huang Zundu continued: "The person who went south to run the newspaper was called Zhai Wenben, who was the nephew of Zhai Fengchong. Zhai Wenben was elected during the reign of Chongzhen, but he did not go to Beijing for the test due to military disasters and plagues. After our dynasty recovered Shandong, Zhai Wenben volunteered to serve, but he only became an ordinary official. It is estimated that he felt that the official was hardworking and shameless, so he resigned and returned to his hometown to study. He was over six years old in the imperial examination three years ago, so he could not apply for the Shandong Provincial Examination. There was a riot in the provincial capital, and I was arrested and locked up in a cell for three days. After that, I went to Nanjing to hang out, participated in literary conferences, made friends, and co-authored "Scholars Picking Up Fun."

"This is resentment! Looking at the whole country, this generation is not ordinary." Zhao Han said with emotion.

Zhai Wenben was purely self-destructive. The Datong Army recovered Shandong quite early, and he was already an official at that time.If you can work hard and have a diploma from the Ming Dynasty Juren, you may have been promoted to the county magistrate by now.

But he disdained to be an official, and voluntarily resigned and went home.After finally looking forward to the imperial examination, who knows that the imperial court is stuck on the age limit, and now they can only run newspapers and take sour water.

Even if the age of the imperial examination is not stuck, even if Zhai Wenben succeeds in the entrance examination, his official position will not be higher than the honest promotion from the beginning.

Zhao Han asked again: "Who is that Cang Xuzi who wrote the article?"

Huang Zundu replied: "Zhang Tianzhi, from Xiushui, Jiaxing, has also passed the imperial examination period, and in the first imperial examination, his age was only over three years old. Since then, this person has been annoyed everywhere, writing articles complaining about the imperial court's imperial examination system .Because some articles were written too far, no newspapers were willing to publish them, so he partnered with Zhai Wenben and others to run his own newspaper.”

"Very good, you go down." Zhao Han approved of the intelligence work of the National Security Council.

In fact, this information can be obtained without leaving Nanjing, because Zhai Wenben and Zhang Tianzhi are too high-profile.

After Huang Zundu left, Zhao Han opened "Scholars Picking Up Interests" again.

This is not so much a newspaper as a magazine.The news is very small, and it is not market news, nor is it political news. It is all elegant and interesting stories among literati.In addition, there are all kinds of literary works, which are not for ordinary people to read at all.

However, the sales volume of "Schools of Scholars" is quite high, because the articles are quite out of the ordinary, often insinuating and criticizing policies, which suits the taste of traditional gentry.

This article against women's imperial examinations quoted classics throughout, and even quoted Zhao Han's "Gate Theory".

The position theory was used by Zhao Han to advocate equality between men and women, but in Zhang Tianzhi's pen, it became a theory against women's imperial examinations.He clings to the words "men and women have different positions and the same personality", and repeatedly says that he supports equality between men and women, but he must also pay attention to the actual differences between men and women.A woman should be in charge of the family, should be a husband and a child, and should not show her face, let alone take the imperial examination.

Judging from the article alone, there is no violation of regulations, nor is it disrespectful to the emperor, and there are many places throughout the article shouting "The Holy Son of Heaven is above".

Since he didn't violate the rules, Zhao Han didn't bother to take care of it. He didn't engage in crimes for his words.

The Chinese New Year has passed in a blink of an eye, the weather is still very cold, and there was a heavy snowfall on New Year's Eve.

It is estimated that it was discovered that "Ru Lin Pick Up Fun" was not punished, and other newspapers and magazines began to follow suit and publish similar articles.Some of these follow-up newspapers are venting their dissatisfaction, and some are purely for sales.

After all, opposition to women's imperial examinations is the current mainstream of public opinion, and newspapers must cater to readers!

One article after another was published, and back and forth on those few sets of rhetoric, "Book of Changes", "Book of Rites", "Nvjie", and "Geweilun" were repeatedly quoted.Moreover, every article must cite the "Gate Theory", making Zhao Han a vanguard against women's imperial examinations.

At the beginning, only newspapers and magazines were taking the lead, but gradually, folk discussions also increased.Teahouses, wine shops, theaters, brothels, wash houses... This matter is being discussed everywhere, and the public opinion is one-sided. Few people dare to speak out for women anymore.

Eastern suburbs.