And he himself guarded his father with a sword, sad and helpless to watch the old man's life gradually pass. In the middle of the night, he was very sleepy, and when he was taking a nap with his sword, he heard his father's voice, crying out anxiously. He woke up to find his father's hand sticking out of the covers, his fingers bent as if he were about to grasp something. He thought about it for a while, and soon Ming Zhou knew what his father wanted, which was a jade seal ribbon, which was given to Zhou Chun by Emperor Zhou Zhengming, to prove his status as a minister. Zhou Chun attached great importance to the jade seal, and when he thought about things, he held the jade seal in his palm and played with it, and Zhou Yule hurriedly took the jade seal and put it in his father's palm. Zhou Chun, who was unconscious, clenched the jade seal suddenly, and his strength was incredible. Zhou Yule was surprised and went to shake his father's hand, only to find that Zhou Chun's hand was as hot as red charcoal, and the jade seal was cold.

Zhou Yule thought about his father, so he wanted to grasp the jade seal, the hot poison in his body was emitting out, and the body must be as uncomfortable as fire, and he tried to grab something cold to relieve it. He didn't care if his father would die, but only wanted to relieve his pain, so he took fresh snow from the snow outside to scrub his father's body. Throughout the night, Zhou Chun's hot body melted several large buckets of snow, and the original material of the jade seal was sky blue frozen stone, but it was eroded by the heat poison and had a smoky brown yellow. Incredibly, Zhou Chun's body temperature dropped back to the level of a normal person, and his breathing gradually recovered.

The next morning, Chun opened his eyes, and the first person he saw was Yu Le with tears streaming down his face. His first words were, "Can you still hear me clearly?" Yu Le replied that he could. Pure said, then I still hold 100,000 male soldiers, calmly close my eyes and sleep. After that night, his stroke symptoms disappeared and he was only partially paralyzed. Half a month later, his body returned to the level before he was bedridden. Whether fever can treat stroke has always been very controversial among doctors, and the "heat poison" of the human body makes a jade seal eroded into a brownish yellow, which is even more legendary, and these wild historical records themselves have a strong smell of rumors. However, the sentence of pure waking up quite reflects this person's character and ability. Zhou Chun was not a samurai, nor a heavy minister, nor was he particularly prominent in the clan, his ability lay in his understanding of power, and language. He was a legendary orator who was able to discern the situation in a few words and convince those he wanted to persuade. He is similar to Zhou Qing in that he has a personal charm with a sense of oppression, and those who are persuaded by him will become his comrades, and rarely defect from his camp. With just one mouth, he could establish authority in Tian Yuan City, which was full of wealthy families. It's just that the people he can influence, and the people that Zhou Qing can influence, are exactly two kinds.

Zhou Chun reined in his ability and rested quietly under Zhou Qing's eyelids. In Zhou Qing's impression, this old man should just be a wooden man who escaped death. However, Chun did not lose the ability to speak, and although he was paralyzed, he could still let his voice spread to every corner of the Donglu power network. In the end, Bai Li Yu carefully chose his first foothold in Donglu. They had been away from the imperial capital for more than seven months. In order to cope with such a difficult war, the elite of the imperial party almost poured out. Although Bai Liyu left an eyeliner in the imperial capital, the distance was far away, and he could no longer judge the situation based on the exchange of letters alone. He knew very well that the biggest bargaining chip in the hands of the emperor was the hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Fengyan Iron Brigade, although it was a remnant army, but this legion, which could be called the strongest in the history of the Eastern Continent, still had the strength to sweep away any vassal state, and the princes and the elders of the ancestral halls of various families had to be afraid of this, so all places were preparing for the grand ceremony to welcome the emperor's triumph, and the continuous congratulatory seals piled up at least a jubilant illusion. There may be trickery hidden under the jubilation of Baili Yuming, and they are all celebratory seals, some of which are sincere, and some of which are false. As a sophist, he had a deep understanding of the sinister human heart.

The territory of the Eastern Continent is vast, and different princes have different tendencies towards the imperial party and the princes' party, some of the vassal states may have become the political territory of the ancestral party, and some places the emperor also has great majesty, like a quagmire, some places are dry land where you can settle down, and some places are only covered with a layer of thin mud, stepping on it will swallow people, but it looks the same. Baili Yu needs to determine where is dry land. There are only two places that could be his first stop, one is the end of the Ming Kingdom, and the other is Wanzhou. Although Zhu Tingshen died in battle, the successor of the Ming State was Zhu Tingshen's eldest son Zhu Yichuan, and there was no problem with the inheritance of power within the Ming Kingdom. As a diehard supporter of Zhou Qing, Zhu Tingshen played an important role in both northern expeditions. Zhou Qing's support for the Ming was also evident, as the emperor paid a large amount of gold baht and secured the Ming's huge loan to the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce for the construction of the Wind Tiger Iron Cavalry, an elite force designed to fight against the barbarian light cavalry.

Of course, Wanzhou is also safe, at least there are Jiang Di and Li Jinglong there, and the area controlled by the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce is a free trade zone, and the ancestral party and the princes have not been able to put their hands into it. The merchants had no intention of turning against the emperor, at least for now, because the emperor owed them money, and the result of turning against the emperor was likely to be that the money they had lent out would be wiped out. After thinking about it, Baili Yu chose to stop. This decision may have been to find a good reason for him to return early - to help Zhu Tingshen's coffin return to China. Zhu Tingshen was known for his benevolence and stability in the Ming Kingdom, and the news of his death reached the Ming Kingdom, and the people mourned, and the Zhu Ancestral Hall naturally recognized Zhu Yichuan as Zhu Tingshen's heir, taking over as the Duke of Ming, and gave the chapter to Zhou Qing, who was still in the army, and Zhou Qing also immediately approved and personally wrote a eulogy to show his regret and sorrow for this loyal ally. Bai Li Yu imagined that in such a situation, he would land in the Ming Kingdom first, and he would inevitably get the support of the Ming Kingdom, so with this large northern country as a base, he could start a game with the ancestral hall party ministers in the imperial capital, and advance and retreat freely.

Bai Li Yu's consideration cannot be said to be wrong, if he chooses to land in Wanzhou, of course, no one will be able to physically harm him (he also carries with him thirty tiger ben and three hundred selected Jin Wuwei elites), but the merchant group will immediately put great pressure on him to give him a repayment plan, which will make the money-strapped imperial party extremely embarrassed. What's more, the influence of the ten cities of Wanzhou in politics is also relatively weak, and if Baili Yu goes ashore from Wanzhou, it will be difficult for him to immediately obtain a smooth channel to promote politics. On October 17, Baili Yu landed at Bizhi Port in the Ming Kingdom. Because of the skeleton of Zhu Tingshen, the grand welcome ceremony turned into a mourning field, hundreds of Ming officials and thousands of soldiers dressed and waiting, hundreds of flags flying in the fierce sea breeze, the chanting of the monks of Nagato and the sound of the sea tide correspondingly, the whole wharf was sprinkled with broken petals of flowers, and a young man was lonely at the end of the wharf blowing the sheng.

If Baili Yu knew the true origin of this young man, even if he was a conspirator and not a samurai, he would jump straight from the deck and cut off the young man's head with a sword. But he didn't know it at the time, so he just lifted the black and gold coffin to the dock with a sad expression. After standing silent for a moment, thousands of clothed people knelt down and cried loudly, and Zhu Tingshen's eldest son, Zhu Yichuan, kneeled forward from the crowd and threw himself on his father's coffin, crying until he fainted several times. A strong haze spread from the crowd, which made Baili Yu very uncomfortable. Some records indicate that Bai Li Yu was very dissatisfied with this welcoming ceremony, and he believed that the officials of the Honglu Temple of the Ming Kingdom had lost their manners, and no matter how sad they were about Zhu Tingshen's death, they should not let them cry, which made the emperor's already reluctant triumph look like a fiasco. Although this is closer to the truth.

The displeased Baili Yu naturally ignored the young man who played the sheng, maybe that young man was just a child of a certain family in the Ming Kingdom who was good at playing the sheng, and was invited to mourn. The young man's name is Wen Fuming. "Yesheng" Wen Fuming, he is not from the Ming Kingdom, he is from the imperial capital. Wen Fuming is Wen Gangyu's grandson, obviously he inherited some political skills from his grandfather, but he has never been an official in his life. He likes to play the sheng, so he is well-known, often practice all night in his own mansion, very persevering, the old mansion of the Xie family is large-scale, heavily guarded, Tianyuan folk called "night city". So he nicknamed Wen Fuming "Ye Sheng", he was not shy about it, and he calmly took it as his alias and signed it at the end of the article. After he was thirty years old, he was always an important leader of the ancestral party, and in his later years, even high-ranking officials like Sangong had to ask him for advice, and he was another Zhou Chun. But at that time, he was not well known. The person who sent Wen Fuming was none other than Zhou Chun.

During the period when Zhou Qing left the imperial capital, Chun reorganized the power of the ancestral hall party and mastered almost all political resources. But in order to deal with such a strong opponent as Baili Yu, Chun chose to send Wen Fuming, a young man with no official position and no reputation. This obviously reveals his great trust in Wen Fuming. Even before Bai Li Yu decided to finish the landing, Wen Fuming had already arrived in advance and was waiting for him. This young man is the same as Chun, as a lobbyist, he is a genius, he has quietly visited all the Dukes and Duke Zhu Yichuan, some secret agreements have been reached, and Bai Li Yu is still planning to break the parties separately. At this time in Wanzhou, Jiang Di was still waiting for Baili Yu to discuss the aftermath with him, and it was nine days after the news was delivered to him. Jiang Di was shocked and frightened at that time, and released a message to warn Baili Yu overnight. Being in the Eastern Continent, he knew the situation better than Baili Yu, and he had a hunch that Bizhi was the biggest trap. But it was too late, and when his news arrived seven days later, Baili Yu had already been arrested and imprisoned.

This conspirator was deceived this time, but Wen Fuming, who deceived him, used the skills he learned from Baili Yu. Wen Fuming has made almost an almost complete copy of Baili Yu's masterpiece in Huai'an, and when Bai Li Yu tries to convince Zhu Yichuan and the family leaders to unite and negotiate new repayment terms with the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce, Wen Fuming has proposed a new set of solutions. This plan is very simple, it is the word "debt", simply put, since the emperor guarantees this loan, as long as all the responsibility is put on the emperor, as long as the imperial party is pulled down, the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce has to obey.

Wen Fuming cleverly separates the concepts of "emperor" and "royal family". Of course, it is true that Zhou Qing's opinions have never been representative of the royal family. After Baili Yu contacted the major families of the Ming Kingdom, he received a satisfactory reply. On the surface, it seems that every family leader and Zhu Yichuan very much want to join forces and put pressure on the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce again to strive for a longer repayment time. And in fact...... Baili Yu was too anxious, he wanted to solve all the problems before the emperor's army returned home, and his anxious heart weakened his previously powerful insight. In fact, this conspirator has repeatedly made similar mistakes, and his life has been torn between great successes and great mistakes, all because of the desperate gambler character.

From this point of view, his student Xiang Kongyue is much better than him, Bai Li Yu highly emphasized calmness and steadiness when educating this student, so Xiang Kongyue's style of decision-making is secretive and cautious, and he has hardly made strategic mistakes in his life, if he has to say that there is a ...... I guess I just picked the wrong team. (The fact that Baili Yu is Xiang Kongyue's teacher is scattered in some private histories during the weekend years, and has been recognized by all romancers, and in the official history, Xiang Zhuang once claimed that his origin was "the learning of the emperor and the reckless art of the lower camp", which did not indicate that he was a student of Baili Yu.) And there are many emperors in the Zhou Dynasty, there are more than a dozen people in each dynasty, and anyone who has been the prince's teacher can be called the emperor's teacher, and the prince's teachers are constantly changing from enlightenment to governance. Bai Liyu emphasized the principle of "planning before acting" when cultivating students, probably because his failure was too heavy for him to forget.

Baili Yu decided to have a showdown. He publicly convened the master of the Ming Duke's family and held a meeting in the "Shanyang Pavilion" of the "Mei Palace" of the Ming Duke's Mansion, which was co-chaired by him and Zhu Yichuan. The agenda of this meeting was the preliminary settlement of the debts caused by the Northern Expedition, the calculation of the discount of the spoils, and the discussion of the repayment of the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce. A group of senior arithmeticians working in the Ming Kingdom were called to take charge of this financial accounting, and the results of their calculations will be announced at the meeting. It is worth mentioning that before this official announcement, the princes only knew the debts they should repay, but there was no accurate information about the debts of other princes and the royal family, as well as the discount of the loot. Of course, Bai Liyu himself knew that he just wanted to use this group of Ming arithmeticians to announce the results to the outside world.