Chapter 199: The historical origin of "Still the internal stability before fighting foreign countries"

The so-called "nothing to find something" is just that. Li Meng's knowledge of firearms is much different from that of this era. Besides the conversation on the dock, Sun Hedou was not willing to say anything more.

After Sun Hedou stood up to greet him, he said a few polite and polite words, and sat upright and worked hard on his own. Anyway, the servants of the "Sun Mansion" here were arranged by Li Meng, so he didn't need to greet him. Naturally, the servants came to serve him in fear and fear. Someone from Li Meng poured tea and water.

These old and weak military households and servants were already used to Li Meng's arrival. After preparing the tea, they would bow down. When they needed them, Li Meng would greet him.

According to the report from the Sun family, Sun Hedou is in this study every day, and there is no change because Li Meng comes or not. The weather is already a little cold at this time, but because the house is filled with paper items such as books and notes, he dare not place heating equipment such as charcoal braziers, which is very cold.

The huge desk was filled with books, and Sun Hedou kept copying and copying. After Li Meng first visited, he revealed his identity, Sun Hedou explained what he was doing.

The mathematics, encyclopedia and weapons works translated and created by Sun Yuanhua during his lifetime were all gathered by Sun Yuanhua's life. He once said many times that after he retired, he would organize these things into books, but he encountered the misfortune of killing. Sun Hedou liked since childhood, which was quite consistent with his father's favorites, so he was determined to organize these things into books and spread them to future generations.

After the Sun family learned of Li Meng's identity as a general, they generally expressed cold hostility. After all, their family was Hu Weishang, who was destroyed by Shandong military generals (Liao Town is also affiliated with Shandong, and Kong Youde was strictly considered a Shandong military general). Speaking of which, Sun Hedou's attitude was better.

From the busy things of these people on weekdays, Li Meng could tell that Sun Hedou was the one who knew how to use firearms, so Jie Na focused on him.

If you say that this deliberate acquisition effect is indeed not good. Li Meng is a person who doesn’t even understand the rules of the general at this time. Where can he make friends with a family like Sun Hedou? It is a natural disaster for the nobles and martial arts to be humble, let alone characters like Li Meng who don’t understand any rules.

The current attitude is due to the muskets made by the blacksmiths under Li Meng. By the way, the dozens of blacksmiths recruited by the Zheng family have already arrived in Jiaozhou. However, after trying to build a few cannons of about 700 kilograms, Li Meng asked them to stop. The power of these large and small cannons was still not as powerful as they thought, and they were all cannons installed on wooden box trucks, which were not convenient to move.

A cannon requires a lot of copper and iron, and this cannon is not practical for Li Meng at present. Li Meng simply stopped and asked them to follow Guo Dong to make muskets and weapons. Seeing that the army was about to expand again, there must be some technical problems that he had not solved. I hope that when I got the light cannon I bought in Macau, I will be inspired.

Sun Hedou was copying things there. When he heard Li Meng ask "What kind of person is the governor of Shandong Yan Jizu?", the pen in his hand paused and said lightly:

"I didn't expect that this is really a Shandong territory. Yan Shengqi is a big shot in Donglin. When Ruan Dacheng was given the position of the official department, he made Donglin stand up in anger. It was amazing."

"Success", Li Meng was still stunned when he heard it. The ancients called the name, name, and number, which he still couldn't figure out. Sun Hedou was talking about some things that scholar Lin Gongzhi. Li Meng nodded and said "Oh". The previous few times he came to Sun Hedou asked some questions about the muskets. It seems that he had asked almost the same questions these days, so he stopped talking.

Li Meng remembered it very clearly. Sun Hedou was surprised when he saw the musket that day and asked many questions. Li Meng was very clear and could see the other party's excitement.

The two of them were speechless, and the scene was awkward and quiet. They could only slight sounds of Sun Hedou writing on paper. When Li Meng was about to say goodbye, Sun Hedou stopped writing, hesitated, and said with a smile:

"In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Yan Shengqi said in the title book to the current saint that 'Destroy the slaves first. If the slaves are against the slaves, they will definitely fight. But if the enemy is comparing with them, the slaves are still separated from the barriers, and the enemy is straight to the hall; if the slaves are still scabies, the enemy will be a terrible evil spirit.' He is very skillful!"

The classical Chinese used in memorials is different from vernacular language. It is really difficult for Li Meng to understand it, but he saw that the faint smile on Sun Hedou's face was a bit strange, not as if he agreed with the meaning of this sentence.

"Slave" refers to the Jurchens of the Qing Dynasty, and "Kou" refers to the rebel army led by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. "Scabies" and "Gaohuang". Fortunately, Li Meng has been insisting on reading and studying over the years, so he can understand this.

The personal soldiers guarding the yard knew the order not to get too close to the house, and the voices of speech were not heard. The personal soldiers were in the fortress. Li Meng was a brave man, and Sun Hedou was a rough man, but he was just a scholar, so they were much more relaxed.

Hearing a loud noise in the house, more than a dozen people outside immediately pulled out their weapons and stood up. The two of them immediately went out to contact the outside world, and the rest rushed into the house. With a "clang", the door of the house was already knocked open, but the guards who rushed in were all stunned.

The tea bowl that was smashed on the blue brick floor was already extremely angry when Li Meng stood there. The scholar sitting behind the desk was holding a brush in his hand, but he looked surprised on his face, but he was not afraid. When the guards were confused, they heard Li Meng say in a deep voice:

"It's okay, ask someone to come in and clean up the ground."

The guards nodded and bowed and took the door directly with them. When they left, they couldn't help but stare at the scholar, thinking that they were really ignorant of the literati, and my adult attitude was already enough. However, they did not notice that Li Meng's hands were trembling - in a very angry state.

"Why is Lord Li so angry?"

Sun Hedou asked leisurely, Li Meng took a few breaths, and then calmed down and said coldly:

"Governor Yan is so confused!"

Hearing Li Meng's words, Sun Hedou couldn't help laughing. The brush in his hand trembled, and the ink fell on the copied paper without even realizing it. He still joked:

"It's wrong for Lord Li to say this. Let's not mention that Yan Jizu is the Lord's Shangguan. In the court and the country, everyone in the country, everyone said this. Why should you be angry?"

Li Meng only felt that the chest and abdomen were about to explode. Just now, what Yan Jizu said in classical Chinese can often be seen in some articles. Things have been passed down for five thousand years in China. These things are common in the Ming Dynasty, the late Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China era after the later period.

Isn’t the saying in the title the meaning of “I must first settle the country by resisting foreign countries” and “I would rather give it to a friendly country than to a slave”? This kind of argument for treason in the country was unexpectedly already in the late Ming Dynasty.

If it comes to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other Shaanxi rioters, they have no overall view. The foreign enemies are ruthless and they still turn the Ming Dynasty upside down. They vaguely become a collusion with the Eastern Seizure Jurchens, and work together to bring down the Ming Empire, a big tree that was originally suffering from natural disasters and man-made disasters.

But when Li Zicheng entered Beijing and Shanhaiguan failed, the Han people in the world should have jointly fought against the Jurchen Tartars. The people who were dragging their backs behind and surrendered to the Jurchen Tartars were military generals and officials of the Ming Dynasty. Even when the Ming Dynasty could only retreat to the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty. When the remnants of the Dashun Army Daxi Army took the initiative to demand a joint fight with the Ming army to fight against the Jurchen barbarians, there were also important officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty who said that the Qing Dynasty was avenging the Ming Dynasty and should use the power of the enemy to expel the bandits.

It was not until the two sides retreated to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou that the two sides united. However, by that time, the Jurchens were already a giant and could not be shaken, and their final resistance was useless. As for whom did the so-called "the surging and clouds of anti-Qing struggles" that were all powers from the people, and the so-called stupid gentry and the people who did not know the transformation of destiny were also used.

Li Meng stood there, and after his extreme anger dissipated, he felt extremely confused and even a little lonely. What Sun Hedou said could also be seen in the official newspapers and proclamations he read on weekdays. The Ming Dynasty court almost devoted all his strength to the civil strife, but he always did not know enough about the threat of the Donglu Juzhen.

"Sir, the Eastern Captains are only one and a half million, and the Ming Dynasty is more than ten million. There is such a huge gap between them. This conspiracy is a disaster!"

Sun Hedou had already put down his brush and was still saying these words slowly, but the title of "Master Li" has become "Master", and he has obviously become much closer.

A servant came in with tea. Li Meng stopped talking and sat on the chair with a wry smile. When the servant went out, he picked up the tea and drank it, and said helplessly:

"Mr. Sun, you're all confused! The Ming Dynasty's biggest concern is not the thief, but the Eastern Captain!"
Chapter completed!