Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

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This excerpt was written in the seventh year of Shunzhi.

The reason is that Hou Fangyu said that Zhang Cunren, the governor-general of the three provinces of the Qing Dynasty (his lord), was the father of Zhang Cunren, and he personally invited him several times and gave him the gift of kneeling first and then sitting (siting). He was not very frightened, so he only offered his advice -

Original words: "A certain scholar from Caoye was introduced to the governor's office by Duke Ming, who gave him a seat in front of him. He also handed him a few letters and asked about the strategy for killing the robbers today. I sincerely feel ashamed to meet him. Although he is busy in self-examination, he cannot be left speechless."

Maybe Hou Fangyu got angry and excited about his book business, maybe...

What about seeking an official position?

After Hou Fangyu made the mistake, there was an uproar in the literary field, and everyone was yelling angrily.

At that time, people all ridiculed him.

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In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Zhang Cunren really had nothing to do against the Yuyuan Uprising Army, so he somehow came up with this idea.

Especially the ending of the sentence - "If the fate of death is not eliminated, fire and water will be pitiful."

What does that mean?

If (Yuyuan Army) cannot be eliminated, water and fire can be forgiven.

Therefore, the "best" method with the support of Donglin - Zhang Cunren, a Liao man who "guards the Liao soil"...

Zhang Cunren, a Liao native who was the governor of the three provinces who wiped out the Yuyuan Army at that time, once again dug up the Yellow River!

This time, Li Zicheng was not as "benevolent and righteous" as he was in the Yellow River.

Zhang Cunren did it even more ruthlessly!

Before he opened up the Yellow River, he first burned all the elm trees, leaving no opportunity for the rebels to climb the trees to survive.

Then he opened up the river embankments everywhere...

The embankment he opened was not just one!

Instead, in the areas where the Yuyuan Army was present, all river embankments were destroyed and the Yuyuan Army's tunnels were flooded.

The endless land of Henan and Shandong was directly transformed into Zeguo.

Tens of millions of people, no one survived!

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It was not until 1662, more than ten years later, that the Qing government rebuilt Kaifeng.

The government sent people to walk from the old site of Kaifeng to the southeast (where the terrain is low and the direction of the water flows) for six days!

For a whole 700 miles, I didn't see a single living person along the way...

That was more than ten years later!

After walking for seven hundred miles, there are still no human traces!

This incident was recorded in the account of the reconstruction of Kaifeng!

Moreover, it is clearly recorded in the county annals and government annals!

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How many people died at that time?

no one knows.

Why did the land of Shandong, Beizhili, and Henan, which had been resisting constantly, suddenly die out?

Why, eight years after Shunzhi, the few surviving Diyuyuan troops could no longer make waves?

Just because - people are dead...

All of this is thanks to Hou Fangyu!

Qu Dajun, who devoted his life to fighting against the Qing Dynasty and joined the Yongli Dynasty, Zhang Huangyan, Zheng, Qi, and Wu Sangui anti-Qing armies, has a poem.

It's called Cai Ren Ai, and it records this period.

I'm hungry... I'm called a Japanese foodie. There was a man who married into a certain family, and his wife suddenly took three thousand dollars with her husband to send him back quickly. She left with tears in her eyes, her husband left her behind, her arm was broken, and she was hanging in the market.

If the couple starves to death together every year, it is better for the concubine to go to the vegetable market.

If you get three thousand pieces of money, you can travel one mile.

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After three days, my body was gone, but only one soul remained. I asked my husband where he could go, where the sun was setting and the sun was fading.

A woman who is born to be a good cook can make her husband live a happy life.

Several people were buried alive with full intestines, but luckily the black kite didn't peck them early.

Qu Dajun's Tomb

There is another poem like this called "Dead Rats Walking", which records the rampant plague. Go find it yourself, save yourself from posting too many, and you will be criticized for the word count.

Is it miserable?

To be honest, every time I sorted out the information I collected, I would feel pain in my temples, my brain would explode, and I always felt that my blood pressure would rise and I would die suddenly in the next moment.

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Yes!

Hou Fangyu didn't say a word about opening the Yellow River.

However, it was this advice that prompted Zhang Cunren to open up the Yellow River!

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Grandpa Taizu has an original saying - among the so-called four young masters in the late Ming Dynasty, the one who truly possesses national integrity is Mao Bijiang! (Not a word changed)

If Hou Fangyu is really of high moral character and is as powerful as they say...

Grandpa Taizu would say that?

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When I wrote the section about Mao Pijiang, someone asked me why I didn’t use Hou Fangyu?

I said his moral character was lacking.

But it caused doubts.

I want to ask: Who should these millions of innocent souls go to?

To be honest, Fang Yizhi is much nobler than him!

Does your back hurt when you stand and talk? Feeling scared? Dare you walk at night?

That’s tens of millions of lives!

Aren't you afraid of nightmares?

It is true that it was Zhang Cunren who opened the Yellow River!

However, if you, Hou Fangyu, had a little bit of integrity, you wouldn't go there and kneel down and kowtow, call daddy, and make suggestions...

Maybe, there will be no such thing as opening up the Yellow River?

Murderers shall be punished by death!

The person who hands you the knife is still hateful!

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The same great Confucian, the same member of Donglin Fushe, Yan Ermei, not only spent his own money and ruined his family to provide relief, but also organized a team of 7000 people to resist the Qing Dynasty.

After the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, he went north to join the Yuyuan Army.

He did not hesitate to violate the sage's words that "the body, hair and skin are affected by the parents", shaved his hair and became a monk. With the help of his status as a monk, he contacted people with lofty ideals and resisted the Qing Dynasty.

Even before he died, he still told his descendants: "Abide by the customs of the Ming Dynasty and never serve in the Qing Dynasty."

I dare to ask: Where is Hou Fangyu’s integrity?

At that time, Chen Mingxia, who was born in the south of the Yangtze River, was the leader of the Han officials in the Qing court, which once triggered the "North-South Controversy".

This was a big deal.

The dispute between the North and the South was the biggest official struggle in the Qing Dynasty. This incident eventually implicated three major Jiangnan cases. A total of at least [-] officials were denounced, dismissed, and killed, and more than one million people were implicated.

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As Hou Fangyu was born in the north, it is unknown whether the reason why he took the imperial examination in the eighth year of Shunzhi was because of the dispute between the north and the south.

When Hou Fangyu participated in the provincial examination in the eighth year of Shunzhi, he wrote a letter to Wu Weiye, a southerner (Jiangsu) from Wumei Village, asking him not to become an official.

But he rushed to take part in the imperial examination.

In the tenth year of Shunzhi, Wu Weiye came back.

This is how people ridiculed them at the time——

The two dynasties should promote the noble prince, and bear the peach blossoms and talk about Li Xiang.

Thousands of people sit on the stone, half Qing Dynasty and half Ming Dynasty. A message to the scholar Lou Dongwu, one emperor and two courtiers.

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A real man is born in this world, and there are things he can do and things he should not do!

This kind of people, even though my hometown is still in Henan and we are in the same province as him, it is difficult for me to compliment him.

Not to mention the story that was so far away, Peng Ershu was still from our town, so we still recorded it truthfully.

A traitor is a traitor, don’t even think about me avoiding it!

Promoting loyalty and nailing the scum to the pillar of shame is justice!

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And Hou Fangyu himself...

In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Zhang Cunren ran to participate in the imperial examination in Fangyu, and then...

Who dares to use poison?

Missed!

Even if he didn't win, the Qing government gave him a "secondary list."

Irony?

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In the ninth year of Shunzhi, Hou Fangyu renamed his study "Zhuang Huitang".

In the 11th year of Shunzhi, he died at the age of 37 in depression.

(Regarding Hou Fangyu’s rural examination, some say that he responded passively. We Hou Hou only did half of it and only wrote five questions. We are dedicated to the Ming Dynasty...

hehe~!

The provincial examination consists of three consecutive examinations, each lasting three days, and students are not allowed to come out within three days.

Let’s not talk about whether we can get no results in the first two games!

In the third session, there were only five questions in total.

But I don’t know - there are only five questions in total, and I have already done five questions...

Where does the so-called "only do half" come from?

Don't forget that Hou Fangyu himself recorded the five questions he wrote in the eighth volume of his "Collected Works of Zhuang Huitang".

What he wrote was - policy theory.

That is the content of the third exam! )

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