It is not that Guo Zhiyuan has any prejudice against the Donglin Party, we must admit that many of the Donglin Party members are indeed honest and honest intellectuals who are worried about the country and the people, including the political slogans and programs put forward by the Donglin Party members are also of progressive significance in this era, but most of the Donglin Party members lack politics. Governing the foresight, without a view of the overall situation, and treating all those with different political views as enemies to carry out indiscriminate attacks, which led to the late Ming Dynasty. The intensification of the struggle indirectly led to the accelerated decline of the Ming Dynasty. The most typical example is that after Chongzhen committed suicide in Beijing, the Southern Ming regime was established, and there was still a chance to survive, but the Donglin Party was not thinking about how to resist the invasion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this critical moment, but was still fighting for the legitimacy of the Hongguang Emperor.

And as a traverser, Guo Zhiyuan knows very well that don't look at the Donglin Party now, it seems to be starting to gain momentum, but it will soon be attacked by the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party and other forces and lose power, at this time to join the Donglin Party, Guo Zhiyuan will be labeled as the Donglin Party, and Guo Zhiyuan's follow-up development plan will be completely disrupted, which is also impossible for Guo Zhiyuan to accept.

But if Guo Zhiyuan directly refuses, with the Donglin Party's character of "either me or the enemy", Guo Zhiyuan will definitely be violently suppressed by Xu Xueju and Qin Shou, the two top bosses, with Guo Zhiyuan's current status, there is no chance to fight back at all, and sometimes it is difficult for you to stand in line in the officialdom. Therefore, Guo Zhiyuan could only pretend to be confused, pretending not to understand Xu Xueju's intentions, and nodded again and again: "Mr. Donglin is worried about the country and the people, he is highly respected, and the lower officials can only look up to the mountains. ……”

Xu Xueju, who was talking about Xing, frowned when he heard it, he hadn't said his true intention to win Guo Zhiyuan to join the Donglin Party, Guo Zhiyuan blocked his mouth first, and said with some displeasure: "Guo Xian's nephew doesn't have to be arrogant, although you failed to gain fame, but you have made remarkable achievements after taking office in Gutian, which shows that you are still quite capable, as long as you have the ambition to revitalize my Ming Dynasty and support righteousness, the old man will also give you appropriate care, and you can enter the court in the future, and be a minister in the same hall as Lord Lingzun Guo, It's not impossible to make a good story......"

Xu Xueju really invested in order to win over Guo Zhiyuan, and directly began to draw cakes to lure him, if it was someone else, I was afraid that he would immediately be so excited that he bowed his head, and the governor said that he wanted to take care of you, can you still know how to lift? But Guo Zhiyuan had already decided not to stand in line, so he was naturally unmoved, and continued to pretend to be confused: "The governor is really too elevated to the lower officials, even if the swallow bird has the ambition of a bird, it will not become a bird, it will only die faster, the lower officials have self-knowledge, it is enough to be the governor of a county, how dare you dare to hope to enter the court......"

Xu Xueju saw that Guo Zhiyuan did not enter the oil and salt, and he didn't want to join the Donglin Party, his face was even more ugly, and he said coldly: "That virtuous nephew has to think about it clearly, you have no merit and fame, if you want to go further, I am afraid that it will be difficult to climb to the sky, Ling Zunyuan is in Gansu, if you want to take care of you, I am afraid that it is beyond the reach of the whip, you must not mistake your future......"

Obviously, Xu Xueju is a blunt threat if he can't win over, the implication is that if Guo Zhiyuan doesn't join the Donglin Party, he won't want to be promoted under him, but he doesn't understand Guo Zhiyuan's character, his threat has aroused Guo Zhiyuan's arrogance, and it has also made Guo Zhiyuan completely recognize his true face and ruthlessness, and his attitude is more resolute, and he arched his hand without humility or arrogance: "Thank you for reminding me, the future of the lower official is in the hands of the lower official, if it is left to the influence of others, this future is not good!" ……”

A cold light flashed in Xu Xueju's eyes, and he was obviously angry at Guo Zhiyuan, but he could be the governor, and the city government still had it, so he didn't get angry on the spot, took a deep breath, picked up the teacup on the coffee table and said coldly: "Since this is the case, this official will not delay Lord Guo's splendid future, you can do it yourself!" ……”

This is the eviction order, Guo Zhiyuan didn't want to stay anymore, and immediately got up and said goodbye: "Then the lower official won't bother the two adults, and the lower official will leave!" ......" After speaking, he left without humility or arrogance.

Xu Xueju looked at Guo Zhiyuan's back, the corners of his eyes twitched violently twice, and finally he didn't vent the anger in his heart, just put the teacup in his hand heavily, squinted his eyes and pondered without saying a word!

Qin Shou on the side was not as good as him, so he immediately slapped the case angrily and said angrily: "I really don't know how to lift!" The governor is so condescending to him, but he is so ignorant of promotion, when the official takes office, he will definitely want him to look good! ……”

Xu Xueju frowned when he heard this, he recommended Qin Shou to replace Huang Yihua as the prefect of Fuzhou, naturally looking at Gu Xiancheng's face, he didn't expect that this Qin Shou was Gu Xiancheng's disciple and acted arrogantly, which made him very disappointed, but he also had to rely on Gu Xiancheng's prestige to unite the Donglin Party in Fujian, so as to consolidate his control over Fujian, so it was not good to reprimand Qin Shou bluntly, shook his head and said: "This son is not simple, Huang Sihua is also a scheming man, but he has planted a heel in this son, Gao Yu's death was most likely designed by this son, Lord Qin must not underestimate him, now the Zhejiang party forces in Fujian have not been completely cut off, it is better not to have extraneous branches, you just need to stare him to death, don't give him a chance to take the lead, he is a small county is not to worry about......"

Qin Shou obviously disagreed with Xu Xueju's words, but Xu Xueju was his top boss after all, and he was not easy to resist, so he arched his hand very perfunctorily and said: "Xia Guan knows, Xia Guan will never give him a chance to take the lead!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan came out of Xu Xueju's mansion and knew that he was in trouble, although he did not directly tear his face with Xu Xueju, but he refused Xu Xueju's wooing, he would definitely be put into another book by Xu Xueju, as long as Xu Xueju was still in the position of governor of Fujian, he would not want to be promoted, but he couldn't afford to wait, Xu Xueju is now in the prime of life, who knows how long he will sit in the position of governor of Fujian, if he has been trapped in the small place of Gutian, then what is the grand cause?

This is not the worst, what's even worse is that Qin Shou is obviously not a good person to get along with, he is still his own top boss, as the so-called official level crushes people to death, if he finds fault everywhere, his life will be sad!

However, Guo Zhiyuan couldn't think of any good way to deal with Xu Xueju and Qin Shou's inevitable suppression of him for a while, Xu Xueju and Qin Shou were like two mountains pressing on his head, far from what his small magistrate could contend with, in the end, he was still too weak now, and he could only passively deal with the suppression of these big people. So Guo Zhiyuan decided to keep a low profile during this time and be a man with his tail between his legs.

Guo Zhiyuan wants to be a man with his tail between his legs, but the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, although Qin Shou ostensibly promised Xu Xueju that he would not make extraneous branches, as long as he stared at Guo Zhiyuan and did not let him take his head, but in fact, he was very jealous of Guo Zhiyuan, in his opinion, he was Guo Zhiyuan's top boss, is it not easy to handle Guo Zhiyuan? Therefore, after officially taking office as the prefect of Fuzhou, he began to pick bones in the eggs in Gutian County, and reprimanded Guo Zhiyuan in several official documents.

At this time, another person jumped out, Liu Qidong! Liu Qidong has been in a panic after Huang Yihua left his post, he jumped out and bit Guo Zhiyuan when Gao Yu came to Gutian, he thought that Guo Zhiyuan was dead, but he didn't expect Guo Zhiyuan to die, but he killed the indispensable Gao Yu, so he was afraid that Guo Zhiyuan would settle accounts with him after the autumn, and even Gutian didn't dare to stay, so he fled to Fuzhou and hid.

Unexpectedly, the newly appointed Fuzhou prefect Qin Shou didn't seem to be waiting to see Guo Zhiyuan, and soon after taking office, he even issued several official documents to reprimand Guo Zhiyuan, so Liu Qidong immediately realized that his opportunity had come again, and took the initiative to take refuge in Qin Shou, Qin Shou was worried that he couldn't find Guo Zhiyuan's handle, after all, Guo Zhiyuan had outstanding political achievements after arriving in Gutian, and Gutian's economy was developing rapidly. So regardless of the fact that Liu Qidong was Huang Yihua's old department, he gladly accepted Liu Qidong's refuge.

Liu Qidong found a new master, so he naturally had to work hard, and he dedicated Guo Zhiyuan's three crimes to Qin Shou, one is to privately revise the fish scale book, harming the interests of the students, the second is to expand the county school without permission, and spread false reasoning and heresy, and the third is to collect tolls from passing merchants without permission and exploit passing merchants.

In order to protect the right of students not to pay taxes, in the late Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party even incited local students to attack local officials, and there were also radical incidents in which students and scholars gathered to occupy the county government and expel the county. It was only because there were not many students in Gutian County, and Guo Zhiyuan's control of Gutian was very in place, that it did not cause an excessive incident, but now that Qin Shou, a member of the Donglin Party with strong roots, knows about it, he naturally wants to help the students "uphold justice".

In addition, the Donglin Party has always regarded itself as Confucian orthodoxy, and even Wang Yangming's "Xinxue" was denounced by them as "crooked reasoning and heresy", Guo Zhiyuan privately expanded the county school, so that the children of ordinary people could also study, and also spread the "absurd" "crooked reasoning and heresy" in the school, which is even more rebellious!