Chapter 29 (9) Battle of Yanwu in Kunshan

Speaking of Wang Zuozhi's talents, Daming actually has no shortage of them.The extensive and profound Confucian culture has nurtured innumerable intellectuals, and there are definitely more than one or two who are aware of Hong Chengchou's quick-cutting approach. For example, Gu Yanwu, a university student, was the first to discover Hong Chengchou's beheading. Gu Yanwu is the old scholar who put forward the view that "the rise and fall of a country is not responsible for everyone; the rise and fall of the world is responsible for everyone".This point of view holds that the death of a country is not a trivial matter, and it is not worth the blood of the people.Because the country is just a violent machine, if someone actually bleeds and dies for a violent machine that suppresses himself, it is obviously not enough brains.

However, if the Han nationality is in danger of survival, this is everyone's responsibility. For the survival of the nation, everyone should leave their wives and children, go out of the house, and sacrifice voluntarily. For example, this time the Jurchen tribe of the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains and formed a state of extermination against the Han nationality, so Gu Yanwu threw down the books and asked all the students in the class to gather, let him give a lecture, and called on everyone to fight the Qing court.The training was impassioned, and suddenly there was a letter from Kunshu, inviting Mr. Gu to go to Kunshan to preside over the important event of fighting the Qing Dynasty and saving the country.

The outbreak of the anti-Qing upsurge in Kunshan began with Dorgon's hair-shaving order.Without this order, the nerds in Kunshan would not be serious with Dorgon, because Confucius said: Xia Ye is the one who changes barbarians with Xia.Those who change the summer with the barbarian, the barbarian also... This sentence means that even if a foreigner dominates the world, as long as he abides by the public order and good customs of the Greater China, respects the old and loves the young, and emphasizes five things and four beauties, it doesn't matter, because it means The culture and traditions of the Han people still exist.However, Dorgon's order to shave his hair clearly shows that the Yiyi will change the summer and completely destroy the Han nationality.

So the nerds in Kunshan immediately became angry, gathered together, marched and demonstrated, non-violent non-cooperation, and expressed strong protest.While protesting, Yan Maocai, the magistrate of the county, dispatched a fast rider of 800 miles to deliver a letter of surrender to Hong Chengchou, and on behalf of the people of Kunshan, he sent a warm invitation to the Qing soldiers—in fact, rogues—the people of Kunshan welcome you... Now the nerds in Kunshan became very angry, they immediately started clamoring, rushed into the county government office, caught the county magistrate Yan Maocai and beat him to death.

Then the nerds began to arrange the defense of Kunshan, and suddenly remembered the earnest teachings of Old Master Gu, so they immediately revised their books and asked Old Master Gu to come to Kunshan to preside over the war. Gu Yanwu was overjoyed, so he went to bid farewell to his mother, kowtowed and said: Mother, my son will go here, and he will never come back alive. Gu Yanwu's mother reassuredly said: Son, although your mother and I are just a village woman, I have also been commended by the court, which can be regarded as a national favor.You go to your own, if something happens, your mother and I will kill myself.

So Gu Yanwu bid farewell to his mother, and hurried to Kunshan with his disciples to die.But he was one step late, and the monster Li Chengdong arrived before him. The Battle of Kunshan was the reaction of ignorance to thought, the deep-rooted hatred of slavishness for the independence of intellectuals, and the crazy revenge of the big bosses on intellectuals.The side that attacked the city was all rogues, and the side that defended the city was all nerds.People say that intellectuals are the backbone of a nation, but no matter how strong the backbone is, it cannot withstand a group of big bosses swiping their knives.

Besides, Li Chengdong, when Shi Kefa was alive, was frightened by his upright and great personality, and the animal nature in his heart was suppressed by this noble personality, so he behaved very well.But this kind of obedience is only out of a kind of fear, not the expression of nature and conscience.So when Shi Kefa died, Li Chengdong lost control of his evil and demonic nature for many years. Hate! All ignorant and wicked people have an indescribable hatred for knowledge and freedom. This kind of hatred has never been vented on intellectuals. First besieged the city with iron cavalry, and killed all rebels regardless of age, and then entered the city and massacred the city.For a moment, the sky was filled with blood, and the ground was covered with corpses. All the people in Kunshan City were killed by Li Chengdong.

Seeing this situation outside the city, Gu Yanwu was shocked, and suddenly realized: Li Chengdong must have been ordered by Hong Chengchou to be so vicious.He did this intentionally, intending to use the most brutal means to completely wipe out the Han people's will to resist. This is beheading, beheading the thought and inheritance of the hope of the Han people. At that moment, Gu Yanwu murmured: I can't be fooled by Hong Chengchou. If I die, not only my Gu family will have no descendants, but also the ideological inheritance of the Han people will be cut off, and there will be no hope anymore...

So Old Master Gu returned home, only to find that his mother had died of a hunger strike.He buried his mother's body and quietly left his hometown. From then on, Gu Yanwu traveled all over the world, changing his name and surname wherever he went, marrying a woman, and when she became pregnant, he left behind his flesh and blood. His elder brother quietly ran away from home, leaving the child behind for his wife to find a way to raise him.He ran around the world, propagandizing everywhere, calling on the people to rise up, rise up, and overthrow the foreign rule of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

Gu Yanwu's struggle will last for a long time, a long time, and it will take dozens of generations before the hope of the Han people can be hatched and formed.