On the one hand, he felt that Guo Zhiyuan was young and promising, with extraordinary knowledge, and a strong background, he was indeed a worthy person to assist, on the other hand, he was a little unwilling, and leaving with Guo Zhiyuan meant that he had completely given up on himself, and no matter how he was in the future, he would just be a strategist, which made him still a little difficult to accept.

After some fierce struggles in his heart, Xu Guangqi finally refused politely: "Gongzi is kind, I am very grateful for it, I have been preparing for next year's spring for a long time, it is a pity to give up at this time, if I fall off the list again next year, I will definitely go to find my son and serve my son!" Can? ……”。

As soon as Guo Zhiyuan heard this, his heart was half cold, because he knew that in history, Xu Guangqi would be able to enter the Jinshi in the spring of next year, and it would be basically impossible for him to beat him again, so he had to sigh secretly and said with a wry smile: "Since Mr. has made up his mind, the kid can only wish Mr. the top of the high school list next year, and the future ......is bright."

In the next few days, Guo Zhiyuan did not give up, and came to visit Xu Guangqi almost every day, Guo Zhiyuan chose the topics that Xu Guangqi was interested in to chat, but they talked very happily, which made Xu Guangqi speak more highly of Guo Zhiyuan, but as long as Guo Zhiyuan showed the intention of soliciting, Xu Guangqi was entangled, either talking about him left and right, or prevaricating with the previous set of rhetoric.

A few days later, the official appointment document of the Ministry of Officials finally came down, and sure enough, it was the county order of Gutian County, Fujian, and Shen Li's recommendation of Guo Zhengyu as the governor of Gansu was also approved by Wanli.

Now Guo Zhiyuan is already a little disheartened about persuading Xu Guangqi, and only thinks of making one last effort before leaving Beijing, so he comes to the Songjiang Hall again.

Seeing Guo Zhiyuan's arrival, Xu Guangqi wanted to pull him to discuss the manufacturing of bicycles, but Guo Zhiyuan seemed to be lacking in interest, and arched his hand and said: "Mr. Xu, I have received a formal appointment from the Ministry of Officials, and I will leave Beijing to take up my post in a few days.......

Xu Guangqi's expression was stunned, obviously a little reluctant, but in the end he just said politely: "Then I can only wish Guo Gongzi a smooth journey and a bright future!" ……”。

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, Guo Zhiyuan said in his heart that he could only take strong medicine, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Mr. Xu, Mr. is so talented, the kid is deeply admired, but why does he fail to succeed repeatedly?" I don't know if Mr. has ever thought about it?! ……”。

A trace of annoyance flashed in Xu Guangqi's eyes, isn't this revealing people's scars? If it weren't for the very speculative chatting with Guo Zhiyuan in the past few days, he was afraid that he would have to send off the guests, so he said a little embarrassedly: "Maybe it's because of the shallow learning at the bottom, and it is difficult to get into the eyes of the examiner, or if the times are bad and the world is impermanent, who can be sure?" ……”。

"No, no!" Guo Zhiyuan shook his head again and again and said: "Mr.'s great talent, don't say that it is easy to be a high school champion as a mere scholar, the reason why Mr. has repeatedly failed is because of the corruption of the imperial examination system in the imperial court today, the partisan strife in the court, the superiors are busy fighting for power, and nepotism has caused such a great talent as Mr. to be buried!" ……”。

Guo Zhiyuan's words are a bit rebellious, although Xu Guangqi deeply sympathizes, but it is not easy to answer, so he has to be embarrassed: "Guo Gongzi, please be careful, I am afraid that the wall has ears!" ……”。

Guo Zhiyuan became more and more excited the more he spoke, stood up suddenly, and said impassionedly: "Mr. is a talent at the age of nineteen, and it has been more than twenty spring and autumn seasons so far, how many twenty spring and autumn seasons can there be in life?!" I'm really sorry for my husband! Today's Ming Dynasty seems to be a country and a people's peace, very strong, but in fact it is full of crises, internal and external troubles, and it is ridiculous that the princes of the dynasty still don't know it......".

"Although the kid is shallow, he doesn't dare to be a frog at the bottom of the well, compared with the current Europa continent of Franc and other countries, I have fallen behind a lot, if I don't work hard, catch up, he is the enemy soldiers in the city, the mountains and rivers are broken, and the lives are ruined, can we still hope for the princes of the dynasty?! ……”。 (Note: The Franc Machine, that is, the Spanish Empire that was all over the world at that time.) ）

Xu Guangqi was really moved at this time, the current Chinese people have a limited understanding of the West, Xu Guangqi has some contact with Western missionaries, although he has some understanding, but it is only superficial, but Guo Zhiyuan came as soon as he opened his mouth, how not to shock him! And Guo Zhiyuan's attack on the evils of the Ming Dynasty was even more deafening, making him feel as if his soul had been touched, and he opened his mouth wide for a while before he was surprised: "Guo Gongzi is also interested in the continent of Europa and the country of Franco?" Some time ago, I saw "The Complete Map of the World" from Mr. Ricci Ricci, and I knew that the world is so big, it is really vast, and my China is only a very small part of the world. ……”。

Guo Zhiyuan said with a heavy heart: "Western countries have strong ships and guns, sophisticated firearms, far better than our dynasty, but this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that the national system of Western countries is far more democratic than our dynasty, under this democratic system, whether it is the speed of development of productive forces, or the speed of development of science and technology, it is far better than the feudal system, from this point of view, we have lost at the starting line......."

"Democracy?!" Xu Guangqi muttered to himself with some doubts, Guo Zhiyuan's words seemed to help him open a window, let him see a completely different world, completely subverted his previous cognition, and made his attitude towards Guo Zhiyuan become more and more respectful, and hurriedly asked: "Then what is democracy?" What are the advantages of democracy? Please give me advice ......".

Guo Zhiyuan saw that he had successfully aroused Xu Guangqi's appetite, but instead sold the pass, waved his hand and said: "Alas, don't mention it, it's too perverse to say it, if it is spread out, you and I may have the disaster of punishing the nine clans, Mr. Xu, you better prepare for next year's imperial examination, I believe that when you really enter the court, you will definitely have a deeper feeling of my words today!" ……”。

Of course, this is Guo Zhiyuan's plan to capture and indulge, whether he can successfully recruit Xu Guangqi, an immortal genius, is here to make a last effort, but he has used this strategy on Xu Guangqi several times before, but whenever he finally proposes to solicit, Xu Guangqi hesitates again, can he succeed this time?