Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 323

Zhou Congwen and others were called in, and the two officers of Jinyiwei began to ask him for details.Zhou Congwen briefly explained the situation to them, and the two Jinyi guards looked at each other and said, "It seems that, as predicted above, the White Lotus Sect has begun to take advantage of the peace of the world and prepare to breed again."

Another operator said: "They must not be allowed to develop like this. If grassroots organizations are wantonly infiltrated, then the original meaning of existence will be greatly reduced."

Zhou Congwen did not expect that the Jinyiwei side would attach so much importance to the White Lotus Sect, which is actually not very powerful now.

The officer of Jinyiwei shook hands with Zhou Congwen, and said: "Thank you for your report. We attach great importance to this matter. If you have any further information, please contact us. I will give you a mailing address and you can write to us. In addition, The White Lotus Sect is indeed a very dangerous organization. It is not ruled out that they may retaliate against you. We will arrest this group of people. At the same time, we are here this time, and we also hope that all villages can actively participate in the joint defense team organized by the township to jointly fight against this group of people. A group of evil people who defraud people of money and plot evil."

Zhou Congwen also hurriedly said: "Our Xiaojing Village will definitely cooperate with the organizational work."

After all, he can be regarded as a person in a big city. The organization construction he is doing everywhere now, including his unit Shanghai Library, and the various systems of the behemoth Daming, whether it is the administrative entrance, business entrance, or enterprise entrance, are basically the same. The feeling, and it also inevitably brings a lot of the tone of later generations brought by Bai Mingxiu.

Zhou Congwen also added some sense of mission, and regarded the White Lotus Sect as the enemy of the people.

The booklet he carried in his arms was written by a very high-level author. It not only revealed the secrets of various folk superstitionists, but also criticized organizations such as the White Lotus Sect in theory, pointing directly at its essence.Zhou Congwen understands that at the beginning, these secret associations may only be for the purpose of collecting money, which has already caused damage to the property safety of the common people, not to mention that when they form a large scale, they will create a bad atmosphere among the people and destroy social order.

The White Lotus Sect secretly started its own missionary activities in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. According to their past experience, the government did not notice them at all until they actually developed and expanded.

But the situation has changed a lot now, and the White Lotus Sect has been directly listed on Jin Yiwei's primary target list.

Jin Yiwei not only set up a special case team to countermeasures, allocated funds and personnel, but also acted very quickly. For example, Zhou Congwen saw such cadres, who have been scattered to hundreds of groups. Visit agricultural cooperatives in various villages to collect intelligence and evidence directly.

A big net that the White Lotus Sect can't see has been opened towards them.

Almost overnight, all cities and villages in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces suddenly received the pamphlets distributed by the above, and received orders to arrest the people involved in the White Lotus Sect.

This folk action to encircle and suppress the White Lotus Sect was like a thunderstorm on the ground, and Liu Chao'an and other members of the White Lotus Sect did not realize it at all.Usually, the government doesn't understand them, and they don't understand the government's actions.But now, the efficiency and ability of the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty are not what they used to be. With a thunderbolt, the White Lotus Sect immediately collapsed.

Many members of the White Lotus Sect resisted fiercely, and even carried murder weapons. In some places, personnel were injured, but soon the local guards were pulled out, and they directly encircled and suppressed the White Lotus Sect to suppress these evil personnel on the spot.

For a while in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the newspapers were full of attacks on the White Lotus Sect, and the common people were all telling vividly about where the White Lotus Sect monsters made trouble and were wiped out by the local guards.

Then, more surprising news came out.The report published that several important members of the Xinfu Society were arrested successively because they colluded with the White Lotus Sect and engaged in conspiracy activities, especially Mao Xiang, the leader of the Xinfu Society, has long received financial support from the leader of the White Lotus Sect, Liu Chaoan, and Liu Chaoan even incited gossip in the north Now there is evidence that the activities of the White Lotus Sect in the south of the Yangtze River are still aimed at subverting the country and harming the people.The scholars in Xinfushe are dissatisfied with the current government, especially dissatisfied with their own interests being violated and losing their privileged status, so they choose to collude with dangerous secret associations, and their hearts can be punished.

The next day, the Daming Daily also published an editorial, directly condemning some of the gentry, saying that they did not want to serve the country, and under the rule of the Manchu Qing, their tails were tucked, and they were obedient slaves. Here comes the opinion.I dare not make any protest against the vicious Tartars, because it is unreasonable for the Tartars to kill heads, but dare to yell at the benevolent, reasonable and reasonable Ming court. Confucian disciples and scholars.

The editorial in the Daming Daily also raised an important question—what kind of person is a real scholar, scholar, and what kind of person can be called a real gentleman.The article believes that scholars who can bend down, approach the people, solve livelihood problems for the people, and plead for the people can be called benevolent; people like Zhang Huangyan, Guo Zhiqi, etc. are still indomitable when the country is in crisis, running for their mistakes and throwing their heads Only scholars who shed blood can be called loyalty; scholars who can remember the equality of the four peoples, have no sense of self-superiority, can treat others equally, and will not abandon due practices because of interests, can be called polite; Knowledge and academics, through the study of things and hard work to create new knowledge, and ultimately knowledge that can benefit people, can be called wisdom; can be consistent, be a commoner, pay attention to integrity, be an official and not be greedy, and abide by yourself in any position Only by following the rules can we be called honesty.

Daming Daily regards these as the ultimate standard for judging a gentleman in the new era, and proposes that if these can be achieved, then a true gentleman who inherits Confucian virtues and missions is a true gentleman who is respected by the people and an important talent for the country. Daming is the last thing he needs now They are scholars like the clowns of the Donglin Party in the former Ming Dynasty and the clowns in the Xinfu Society today. They are greedy, selfish, benevolent and hypocritical.Such a scholar is a fake scholar, and no matter how good the article is, it will not help, and should be cast aside.According to the standards of the sages, these people are villains.

This set of "gentlemen and villains" completely established the public opinion of Ming Dynasty and triggered a wider discussion. The activities of various so-called scholars in Ming Dynasty were brought out for scrutiny. Jiang and the others immediately changed from romantic talents to villains who harmed the country.

(End of this chapter)