Chapter 83 The Ming Dynasty perished

At the same time when Fu Qingzhu's family was in misfortune, the Ming Dynasty was about to come to its end. In this year, Fu Qingzhu and some classmates went to visit a 100-year-old old monk. This old monk once lived in Liaodong After staying there, Fu Qingzhu and the others really wanted to know about the battle between the Ming army and the Qing army, so they asked the monk, "How is Lord Xiong Tingbi doing in Liaodong?" The old monk looked up to the sky and sighed: "What a Xiong Jinglue, what a Xiong Jinglue!" Then he kowtowed to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time. When he got up again, he was already in tears.

Fu Qingzhu and the others were shocked by the old monk's actions, and hurriedly asked why. It turned out that Xiong Tingbi was framed by court traitors and had already been sentenced to death by Emperor Chongzhen. That day, everyone felt extremely heavy in their hearts, and everyone seemed to have a premonition of the decline of the Ming Dynasty. In the same year, Fu Qingzhu took part in the provincial examination, but failed. The old monk came to congratulate him. Fu Qingzhu felt very depressed, thinking that this person would make me happy?He said: "Old monk, you made a mistake, I didn't win!"

The old monk said seriously: "Yes, I congratulate you because you missed!" After hearing this, Fu Qingzhu suddenly realized, and since then gave up the idea of ​​imperial examination. During these years, Fu Shan wrote such a professional book as "The Rhyme of Names of Scholars in the Two Han Dynasties". This book is rigorous in textual research and a huge project. "The book, note that this "History of Sexuality" is not about the relationship between men and women, but about the problem of heart and nature, and discusses the "principle of filial piety". It is a purely academic research work.

At this time, the only thing that made people feel a little excited was that Sanli Academy sent an invitation to ask Fu Qingzhu to be a teacher and give lectures to the students. This seems to be a good thing. It is also a good job to be able to stay in school to teach after graduation, but Fu Qingzhu is not happy at all, because Li Zicheng is about to call (or has already called). The school asked Fu Qingzhu and other teachers to give lectures on military education, etc., such as fire attack and city defense. I don’t know the effect of the literati teacher Fu Qingzhu’s lectures. In short, there is only one sentence left in the literature to comment on the education policy at that time: “Pedumatic, the words of Cai Gong (the governor at the time and also in charge of the work of Sanli Academy) must not He who rises and walks."

In fact, this sentence is very empty, and I didn't put forward my own opinions. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether I judge others or myself, it doesn't matter at this moment, because no one can stop the trend of the world! I believe that anyone who is in the Ming and Qing Dynasties will feel extremely confused, because the current situation changes too fast. In 1644 AD, which is the famous Jiashen year, Li Zicheng conquered Beijing in March, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself. The Ming Dynasty perished, and when these literati loyal to the Ming Dynasty scolded Li Zicheng, the Qing soldiers entered Beijing in May, and then the Qing soldiers swept across the Central Plains. It is estimated that the common people at that time could only see the army fighting. It's hard to tell who hit whom.

After the Qing soldiers came over, the conflicting nature of the struggle changed. It turned out to be an internal strife in the Central Plains. This was the invasion of foreign tribes. Although the Manchus are now a big family with us, I still have several buddies whose wives are Manchu people, but the understanding at that time was not like this, otherwise you would not be able to understand why so many people would rather lose their heads and fight to the end. Nature, resisting foreign aggression. In the blink of an eye, the Ming Dynasty, the pillar in the hearts of literati, was destroyed, and those who replaced them were foreigners on horseback.

This was an incomparably huge and real blow to Fu Qingzhu, and he couldn't even get out of this shadow in his entire life.In those days, after Fu Qingzhu tried his best to participate in the struggle several times, he felt that he could not contend with the whole situation with his own strength, what should he do?At this time, the Qing soldiers began to require all Han people to shave their heads. Do they also have to be shaved into a melon?That's a shame, what should I do? At this time, another doctor, Yu Jiayan, decided to become a monk. Fu Qingzhu and Yu Jiayan's approach has the same effect: become a Taoist priest.

In this year, Fu Qingzhu was thirty-eight years old. He went to Wufeng Mountain, worshiped Huanyang Master Guo Jingzhong as his teacher, and became a Taoist monk.