Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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Before execution, the executioner would take out the rags from their mouths, so Zhang Xianzhong's men could shout out loudly.

The rag from Zhang Xianzhong's mouth was also taken out, but Zhang Xianzhong didn't yell like his subordinates.

From the looks of it, Zhang Xianzhong seemed to be the calmest and least afraid of death.

But all of these are just appearances, no one can remain unchanged in the face of death.

When the ghost head sword swung, fear finally appeared on Zhang Xianzhong's face.

The duration of the fear was very short, and in an instant, the fear gathered on the face and left the body together with the falling head.

Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates also separated their corpses just like him.

The bloody smell became more intense, drifting from the high platform to the bottom of the high platform.

However, the people below the high platform didn't care at all, they were all cheering non-stop.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

The cheers were louder and louder, and spread far away.

Not long after, the people in the distance began to cheer, and the cheers continued to spread.

At the end, the whole Xuan Town began to cheer.

Zhao Wen, who was sitting in the imperial study room, also heard the cheers. He put down the brush in his hand, looked outside the imperial study room, and murmured, "What's going on? Why are there all these voices?"

"Your Majesty, I think it should be the cheers from His Majesty's people to commemorate the beheading of Li Zicheng and his ilk." Chen Donglai, who was standing next to Zhao Wen, said.

Zhao Wen nodded, "What you said makes sense!"

"Okay, let's not talk about these things. How are Zhang Xianzhong's adoptive sons?" Zhao Wen asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, these people have been sent to primary school according to His Majesty's instructions," Chen Donglai said.

Zhao Wen once promised Zhang Xianzhong that he would not do anything to people like Li Dingguo.Of course, Zhao Wen didn't want to do anything to Li Dingguo either.

After all, the three famous kings in history have a great reputation and have been passed down through the ages. It is impossible for Zhao Wen to do anything to such a person.

However, because of the existence of Zhao Wen in this era, Li Dingguo's three famous kings are doomed to be false.

But Zhao Wen did not attack Li Dingguo for this reason.

Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons are Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi.

Among them, Li Dingguo has the greatest reputation and the greatest contribution in history.

At the beginning of the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo led [-] troops to attack Hunan after making full preparations.

First captured Yuanzhou and Jingzhou, then attacked Guilin, Guangxi, defeated the Qing army, and forced the Qing army commander, the famous traitor Dingnan King Kong Youde, to commit suicide.

At the beginning of July, Li Dingguo occupied Guilin, and then took Liuzhou, Hengzhou and other four states, and his troops pointed at Changsha.

The Qing court was shocked when they heard the news, and sent an additional [-] troops for reinforcements.

The Qing court soldiers and horses came fiercely, Li Dingguo avoided their edge, temporarily withdrew from the outskirts of Changsha, and retreated to Hengzhou.

The coach of the Qing army, Prince Nikan, led his troops in pursuit. Li Dingguo set up an ambush to encircle the Qing army and attacked from all sides.

The coach of the Qing soldiers, Nikan, defeated the Qing soldiers.

When the news reached the Qing court, the entire Qing court was shocked and even prepared to retreat outside the pass.

As for Zhang Xianzhong's other adoptive sons, they are not even a little bit worse than Li Dingguo.

Sun Kewang finally surrendered to the Qing court, and Ai Nengqi died relatively early, leaving nothing rich in history.

Liu Wenxiu led the army to resist the Qing soldiers until the last moment, and finally died of illness.

The four sons of Zhang Xianzhong, except for Sun Kewang, have good conduct, much better than Li Zicheng and his like.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhao Wen to deal with them like he dealt with Li Zicheng and the others.After all, these people are still half-grown children.

After Zhao Wen agreed to Zhang Xianzhong, he sent Li Dingguo and the others to the elementary school in Xuanzhen.

In Zhao Wen's plan, in the future, they will decide their future path based on their learning situation.

However, from then on, they also completely drew a line with Zhang Xianzhong.

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Chapter 770 Zhang Xianzhong's Adopted Son

In Zhao Wen's plan, in the future, the four adoptive sons of Zhang Xianzhong will be educated in a non-discriminatory way.

If these four people can play a big role, then slowly cultivate them in the future, but if these four people can't be used, then Zhao Wen can't waste time on these people.

Of course, the premise of cultivating them is that they are interested, otherwise, it would be impossible for Zhao Wen to cultivate a few ungrateful enemies for himself.

Zhao Wen looked at Chen Donglai who was standing in front of him, and said, "If that's the case, that's fine."

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he continued to deal with the memorial.

Now Zhao Wen has a lot of talents in his hands, almost from all walks of life.Therefore, for people like Li Dingguo, Zhao Wen did not have much hope.

In Xuanzhen now, the number of primary schools has increased a lot compared to before.

At the beginning, there were only one or two primary schools, but with the increase in the population of Xuan Town and the implementation of Zhao Wen's policy of encouraging children, the number of children in Xuan Town is now increasing.

As the number of children increases, the number of schools also increases. Now there are more than 20 primary schools.

These twenty primary schools are scattered all over Xuan Town. In essence, there is no difference between these primary schools, and there is no high or low status.

However, where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and where there are people, there will be high and low. Although Zhao Wen has been avoiding this kind of thing before, there are some things that Zhao Wen can't control.

In today's Xuanzhen, the closer the primary school is to the palace, the higher the status, and the students there are basically the children of civil servants and generals.

Zhao Wen had been expressly prohibiting this kind of thing from happening before, but even Zhao Wen couldn't completely put an end to this kind of thing.

In silence, the status gap between the school and the school slowly came out.

However, in essence, they are still the same. The teaching resources that Zhao Wen gave to these primary schools are the same, whether they are the children of civil servants, military generals, or ordinary people, all the educational resources are the same.

The adopted sons of Zhang Xianzhong were arranged by Zhao Wen in the elementary school closest to the capital. The name of this elementary school was Xuanzhen No. [-] Elementary School.

In addition to the fact that the school is close to the imperial palace, it is also because the school has been established for a long time.

The area occupied by this school is relatively large. In Xuan Town, where every inch of land is expensive, the area occupied by this elementary school is not small at all.

The layout and teaching methods of this elementary school are similar to those of later generations. It is divided into six grades, and each grade is divided into several classes.

In the classroom of Class [-], Grade [-], several boys in ordinary clothes sat quietly in the classroom.

The cheers outside also spread to the outside of the elementary school, and it didn't take long before the cheers came from the elementary school as well.After a while, other children in the classroom also started cheering.

A dark-faced boy looked at the cheering children around him, his face full of sorrow.

As the cheers in the classroom grew louder, the boy lay down on the table in front of him and began to cry.

This boy is none other than Li Dingguo, one of Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons.

In addition to Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu and others were in the classroom.

These people are considerably older than the rest of the classroom.

People like Li Dingguo have been running around with Zhang Xianzhong all year round, and they rarely have time to study systematically.

Although Zhang Xianzhong also found someone to educate them, but only to the point of being able to read.

Therefore, the current level of people like Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo is only at the level of the first grade of elementary school, or even worse than that of the first grade students of elementary school.

Li Dingguo was lying on the table, sobbing softly, and now Li Dingguo was only thirteen or fourteen years old.

He understood what these cheers meant. Li Dingguo already knew that his adoptive father would be executed today, so when he heard the cheers, he guessed what happened.

Although Zhang Xianzhong is not very good, he is still very good to his adopted sons, among them, he has nothing to say to Li Dingguo.

"Don't cry, if you cry now, let these people see it and expose our identities, what should we do?" Li Dingguo's eldest brother, Sun Kewang, stood beside Li Dingguo, patted Li Dingguo's shoulder, and comforted him in a low voice.

Sun Kewang's age is the oldest among Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons, and he is also the one who can see the form most clearly.

In the past, Zhao Wen had talked to people like Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, so Sun Kewang now clearly knows what the situation of these people like himself is.

"Yeah, brother is right. If you are crying now, the people next to you will see that you are weird, and you will inevitably suspect us. If these people know our identities, our situation will be bad. When we left our adoptive father before, our adoptive father warned us to forget our previous identities and live honestly, you can’t forget our adoptive father’s warning!” Ainengqi also joined Li Dingguo’s In front of him, he comforted Li Dingguo in a low voice.

Although Li Dingguo and these teenagers are young, their experience is much richer than that of their peers.

They have experienced life and death and bloody storms at a very young age, which makes them very determined.

Li Dingguo is also a very determined person. If the people who died today were just ordinary people, even if Li Dingguo witnessed it with his own eyes, Li Dingguo would not have any reaction.

However, the person who died today was Li Dingguo's adoptive father.Although this adoptive father is not so qualified, if it weren't for his adoptive father, Li Dingguo might not know where he died.

Li Dingguo's affection for Zhang Xianzhong is unquestionable. Now that he knows the news of his adoptive father's death, it is impossible to remain indifferent.

Zhang Xianzhong's warning was still echoing in Li Dingguo's ears, and under the comfort of Sun Kewang and others, Li Dingguo calmed down not long after.

Li Dingguo wiped the tears from his face, forced a smile, and said to Sun Kewang and the others: "I'm fine, I'm almost fine now!"

Sun Kewang patted Li Dingguo on the shoulder and said, "Since you're fine, then get ready, class will start right away, don't be seen by others."

"By the way, you have to remember in the future that we have nothing to do with our adoptive father. Forget our previous identities. Only by forgetting our previous identities can we live a good life!" Sun Kewang left a word and returned to his seat superior.

When he saw Zhang Xianzhong for the last time, Zhang Xianzhong told his four adoptive sons, let them forget their previous identities, don't think about the past, and don't think about avenging him.

Zhang Xianzhong could see clearly that relying on Li Dingguo and others to avenge himself was simply a fantasy.

Not only could he not avenge himself, but it was also easy to get them involved, so Zhang Xianzhong didn't think about asking Li Dingguo and the others to avenge him.

Not long after, the cheers gradually died down. As the class bell rang, Li Dingguo began to take out the class books and put them on the table in front of him.

Li Dingguo quietly looked at the empty blackboard in front of the classroom, recalling Zhang Xianzhong in his mind.

The teacher walked into the classroom, and the students in the classroom stood up and saluted the teacher respectfully.

This teacher is an old master, about 40 years old, with white beard and hair, who used to be a Juren of Ming Dynasty.Because of poor health, he couldn't be an official, so he went to a primary school to teach Chinese culture.

The teacher spread the book in his hand on the table in front of him, and opened the page that he was going to talk about today.

The teacher looked at the contents of the book, cleared his throat, and said: "Today we are going to talk about "Zuo Zhuan", students, follow me to read, Yu and Tang sin against oneself, and their spirits are also contradictory, Jie and Zhou sin against people, Its death is also sudden."

After the teacher finished reading, the students in the classroom also started reading together.

After reading it two or three times, the teacher looked at the students in the classroom and asked loudly: "Is there any student who knows how to explain this sentence? Can any student explain the meaning of this sentence to us?"

As soon as the teacher's voice fell, a handsome student stood up, "Teacher, I know what this sentence means!"

"Okay, okay, since you know the meaning of this sentence, then tell everyone what it means!" The teacher looked at the student with a smile.

"This sentence means that Yu and Tang blamed themselves, and their prosperity was very rapid and unstoppable. Jie and Zhou blamed others, and their demise was also very fast and sudden." The student explained the content of this sentence in detail. .

Listening to the student's explanation, the teacher kept nodding his head, "That's right, that's the reason. You should sit down first!"

The teacher looks at the standing student.

After the student sits down. , the teacher said again: "This sentence can also be said in the same way, its prosperity is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden. Just like the rogues who were executed today. When these rogues rise, they are like raging fire. , unstoppable.

But now?Their rise only lasted for a short period of time, and within a short time, these thieves were wiped out by His Majesty.The reason is that these thieves don't know what the general trend of the world is, and they don't know what production is.These rogues scurry around like locusts, eating up everything they come across.

Moreover, the local people were coerced, leading the people to wander around the land of the Central Plains..."

The teacher talked for a long time, and for most of the class, what he said was about Li Zicheng and these thieves.

Sitting below, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and others listened to the teacher's voice and suppressed the anger in their hearts, but they had no choice but to act as if they hadn't heard it.

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At the same time, Chongzhen was sitting in the hall of the house arranged for him by Zhao Wen, holding a newspaper from yesterday morning in his hand.

Not long after the cheers had passed, Chongzhen knew what had happened after hearing the cheers.

"Hehe, people like Li Zicheng really deserved their deaths. They died well, well." Chongzhen looked at the newspaper in his hand, his face was full of coldness.

For Chongzhen, the execution of Li Zicheng and others by Zhao Wen was the best news Chongzhen had heard during this period.

Chongzhen was very resentful towards Li Zicheng. In Chongzhen's view, people like Li Zicheng also had a great responsibility for his loss of power.

From the beginning to the end, Chongzhen never felt that he was at fault.

"My lord, it's good that Li Zicheng died. If it wasn't for him, the imperial court wouldn't have been reduced to using troops on two fronts!" Wang Chengen said excitedly as he stood beside Chongzhen.

Chongzhen frowned and looked at Wang Chengen, "Did you forget what I told you before? From now on, call me Master, don't call me Huangye anymore! I'm just an ordinary person now."

Wang Chengen knelt on the ground like he did a long time ago, kowtowing to Chongzhen, repeatedly pleading guilty.