Of course, Gao Yu died in Gutian County, as Guo Zhiyuan, the county governor of Gutian, naturally could not escape responsibility, especially because of this incident, Shen has always been painstakingly operating in Fujian The Zhejiang Party forces suffered a heavy blow, and it made Shen always hate Guo Zhiyuan to the core, and slandered in front of Wanli, to punish Guo Zhiyuan, fortunately, Shen Li tried his best to protect him, and Guo Zhiyuan had just been rewarded and promoted by Wanli, and he immediately punished him again, wouldn't it be Wanli himself to slap himself in the face, so Guo Zhiyuan finally kept his official position, but was reprimanded by the imperial court.

At this time, there was another thing that seemed insignificant at the time, but the impact on history was very far-reaching, in October of the thirty-second year of Wanli (1604), Gu Xiancheng together with Gu Yuncheng, Gao Panlong, An Xifan, Liu Yuanzhen, Qian Yiyi, Xue Fujiao, Ye Maocai (then known as the Eight Gentlemen of Donglin) and others, initiated the Donglin Conference, formulated the "Donglin Covenant", this event marked the famous Donglin Party officially embarked on the Ming Dynasty government. The stage of governance has changed from a loose and unorganized coalition in the past to a real bureaucracy. Governance group.

In particular, the change of power in Fujian officialdom has made the Donglin Party taste the sweetness, and regard Fujian as the bridgehead of its power, thus speeding up the pace of its party, and Guo Zhiyuan, who has emerged in Fujian officialdom, has also entered the vision of the Donglin Party. The idea of wooing him to join the Donglin Party was raised.

Of course, the recruitment of members of the Donglin Party is very strict, and those who do not have the qualifications of Shu Jishi are not accepted (Note: Shu Jishi, a short-term position in the Hanlin Academy, is selected by those who have passed the imperial examination to hold the potential, responsible for drafting edicts, and explaining scriptures to the emperor, etc.), Guo Zhiyuan is not an official who passed the imperial examination, strictly speaking, he is not qualified, if it were not for his performance in Fujian after he arrived in Fujian, Xu Xueju would not have paid attention to him at all.

So Xu Xueju decided to summon Guo Zhiyuan to test his attitude, if it was someone else, he would definitely be ecstatic to receive such a notice, which is equivalent to a modern county magistrate being personally summoned by **, can he not be ecstatic? Although the evaluation of Xu Xueju in the history books is still relatively positive as a whole, Guo Zhiyuan found through some details that this Xu Xueju may not be as upright as recorded in the history books, which can be seen from Xu Xueju's attitude towards Shen Yourong, Shen Yourong has repeatedly made miraculous achievements in Fujian, but his official position has been standing still, only serving as the general manager of the small sea altar, although the history books say that Xu Xueju intends to ask for credit for Shen Yourong, but because of the failure to prevent Gao Yu and others, in Guo Zhiyuan's view, this is completely a pretext, Xu Xueju is the supreme administrator of Fujian, if he is really determined to promote Shen Yourong, can Gao Yu and others stop it? And later, Shen Yourong took the initiative to resign several times, but Xu Xueju was not allowed, isn't this typical and wants the horse to run and not let the horse eat grass? As a result, Guo Zhiyuan felt that Xu Xueju's boss was not very authentic, and he was a little wary of Xu Xueju's summons.

Of course, vigilance is vigilance, the governor personally summoned Guo Zhiyuan is not to go, so he didn't dare to slack off, and rushed to Fuzhou in a hurry, thinking that Xu Xuehui summoned him in the governor's yamen, but let the gatekeeper pass Binghou, but the gatekeeper led Guo Zhiyuan to the mansion of Xu Xueju, Xu Xueju chose to summon Guo Zhiyuan in the mansion of the Houya, naturally to express his closeness, but Guo Zhiyuan sighed in his heart, as the so-called abnormal things must be demons, he and Xu Xueju have a vegetarian life, Xu Xueju was so polite and virtuous to his small magistrate, it seems that today's summons must be unusual.

Came to Xu Xueju's mansion flower hall, the layout inside is very simple, it seems that Xu Xueju still pays attention to his official voice, Xu Xueju saw Guo Zhiyuan coming, so he greeted him warmly, Guo Zhiyuan was about to salute, but Xu Xueju held his arm, and laughed: "Guo Xian's nephew doesn't have to be polite, today don't talk about official business, only talk about personal friendship, don't pay attention to those red tape, I have been friends with Lingzun Guo for a long time, just a side of fate, today I see a virtuous nephew, I know that the tiger father has no dogs, family history, I can't hang up on the nephew so young and promising! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan was secretly funny, he didn't come to Fujian for a day or two, and he didn't see Xu Xueju take care of his "virtuous nephew", but now he is using the brand of a cheap dad to set it up, what personal friendship does he have with Xu Xueju in his life? This governor is really hypocritical, but his face is pretending to be very frightened and humble: "The lower officials dare not be ......."

Xu Xueju patted Guo Zhiyuan's shoulder and laughed: "Why don't you dare to be, that Gao Yu relied on the favor of the saint to be rampant and tyrannical in my Fujian, and did misdeeds, fortunately, the virtuous nephew is not afraid of the eunuch, and cleverly devised a clever plan to eliminate adultery for the people of Fujian, what a hero is a young man!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan pretended to be very stunned and waved his hand again and again: "Why did your lord say this? That Gao Yu was killed by the two bandit leaders he raised, and he had nothing to do with the lower officials, and the Imperial Governor Liu Guangxian and the former Fuzhou Governor Huang Yihua, who had returned to the field, were both present at the scene, and could testify for the lower officials! ……”

Xu Xueju's eyes flashed, and with his shrewdness, he naturally saw that Gao Yuan's death was very strange, most of them were killed by Guo Zhiyuan's design, and the magic of this plan is that even if everyone knows that Gao Yuan died strangely, no one will delve into the truth, it can be said that it is both a conspiracy and a conspiracy, so Xu Xueju will be so interested in Guo Zhiyuan, and he deliberately tried it, thinking that Guo Zhiyuan would be a young man and must get carried away if his plan succeeded, but he didn't expect Guo Zhiyuan to behave so calmly and answer without leaking, made his evaluation of Guo Zhiyuan a lot higher, patted his forehead and said: "It's the old man who lost his word, Gao Yu's death has been decided, it is all self-inflicted, and the death is innocent, and it has nothing to do with the virtuous nephew......"

There was another younger man in the flower hall, not wearing an official uniform, but he looked very arrogant, sitting on the chair and never getting up, Guo Zhiyuan was very strange about the identity of this person, this person was so arrogant in front of Xu Xueju, the governor, where did it come from? So he had been observing the man from the corner of his eye, Xu Xueju saw this, and hurriedly pointed to the man and introduced: "Nephew Guo Xian, the old man is here to introduce you, this is Lord Qin Shou Qin, who is about to take over as the prefect of Fuzhou, and he will also be your official in the future, how close and close you are......"

Guo Zhiyuan almost laughed out loud when he heard it, Qin Shou, beast? This name is too "level"! However, since Qin Shou succeeded Huang Yihua as the prefect of Fuzhou, he is Guo Zhiyuan's top boss, Guo Zhiyuan did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly held back a smile, and bowed to Qin Shou: "The lower official has seen Lord Qin, and in the future, the lower official will be on an errand under Lord Qin, and I ask Lord Qin to take care of him......

It is said that Qin Shou was able to become the prefect of Fuzhou thanks to Guo Zhiyuan, because in the original history, Huang Yihua would have to be the prefect of Fuzhou for several years before he was transferred, and it was not Qin Shou who took over, because of the appearance of Guo Zhiyuan, history changed a little here, and Qin Shou was born to become the prefect of Fuzhou.

However, Qin Shou obviously didn't think that it was Guo Zhiyuan's credit that he could become the prefect of Fuzhou, he had always been known as a young talent, he became the prefect of Fuzhou in his thirties, and he was indeed an upstart in officialdom in this era, but seeing Guo Zhiyuan so young and being so favored by Xu Xueju, Qin Shou felt a little unbalanced in his heart, and although Guo Zhiyuan didn't laugh out loud, the natural reaction that couldn't help but be handsome was seen by Qin Shou, and he became more and more displeased in his heart, and he didn't get up to return the salute. Still sitting on the chair with a big sting, he nodded at Guo Zhiyuan in response, and he didn't even open his mouth.

Xu Xueju was worried that Guo Zhiyuan would be young and vigorous, and he would be upset because of Qin Shou's arrogance, so he hurriedly added: "Lord Qin is Mr. Donglin's protégé, although Mr. Donglin is not an official in the court, but he is highly respected in Shilin, and the Donglin Academy he founded is famous all over the world, presumably the virtuous nephew should have heard of it......"

Guo Zhiyuan chuckled in his heart, it turned out that this Qin Shou was Gu Xiancheng's disciple, no wonder he was so arrogant, although Gu Xiancheng was not an official in the court, but as the leader of the Donglin Party, his influence in the officialdom should not be underestimated, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a hundred responses, since Qin Shou is Gu Xiancheng's disciple, it is really not easy to offend, otherwise it will provoke the Donglin Party officials in the court to attack him, then Guo Zhiyuan should have a headache, and hurriedly pretended to be very frightened and said: "Mr. Donglin's virtuous name, the lower officials are like thunder, I didn't know that Lord Qin was a disciple of Mr. Donglin, so it was really disrespectful......"

Qin Shou saw that Guo Zhiyuan respected Gu Xiancheng very much, his face finally looked better, and he waved his hand complacently on the surface of humility......

Xu Xueju saw that Guo Zhiyuan seemed to have great respect for Gu Xiancheng, and he was overjoyed, and the purpose of his summoning Guo Zhiyuan was to attract Guo Zhiyuan to join the Donglin Party and consolidate the power of the Donglin Party in Fujian, so he hurriedly stroked his palms and smiled: "It turns out that Guo Xian's nephew also admires Mr. Donglin so much, then do you know that not long ago, Mr. Donglin initiated the Donglin Conference and formulated the "Donglin Covenant", calling on the world's scholars to take the rise and fall of the world as their own responsibility, pinpoint the evils of the times, eliminate the accumulated shortcomings of the government and the opposition, and support righteousness...... This move will definitely allow me to wash away the accumulated shortcomings, and ZTE can be expected! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan watched Xu Xueju happily foaming at the mouth and talking, but his heart sank to the bottom, he finally understood that Xu Xueju's purpose in summoning him was to win him over and join the Donglin Party! But Guo Zhiyuan knew that he must not join the Donglin Party, because once he joined the Donglin Party, he would definitely be involved in the whirlpool of party strife, so no matter how great his ability was, he would become involuntary and be torn to pieces by the whirlpool of party strife!