In the spring of the seventh year of Yongli, Qian Qianyi went to Jinhua to congratulate Ma Jinbao on his recent son, and composed "Fubo Langzhang Song", comparing Ma Jinbao to Ma Yuan, the general of Han Fubo, aiming to persuade him to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty.

This is an old incident in history, and Qian Qianyi tried his best to win over the marshal who managed the green camp in the four mansions in Zhejiang, and he also worked tirelessly. It's just that this time, because Ma Jinbao was busy suppressing the Jiangxi Ming Army in the first half of the year, and led the army to aid Fujian in the second half of the year, he has not come back since he entered Xianxia Pass. As for the matter of the new child, unless it was Mrs. Ma who helped his husband put on a new hat......

The pressure on the Qing army in Fujian was too great, which made Ma Jinbao have to temporarily garrison Xinghua Mansion to assist in the defense even after the defeat. Ma Jinbao did not return to Hangzhou, and the Hangzhou Garrison Eight Banners on Jin Li's side was even more so. In this way, the people of Xinghua Mansion had a hard time, but the people in Hangzhou were able to breathe.

The garrison of the Eight Banners has been away for a long time, and the trading of business debts has also decreased, and the business travelers have learned that those Eight Banners Masters are temporarily stationed elsewhere, and they have also rushed to trade the goods in their hands, and even the government can't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they see the continuous recovery of commercial taxes, and they can't help but sigh with relief, and they can't wait for those Eight Banners Masters not to come back for the rest of their lives.

A few families are happy and a few are worried, the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong is worried about Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai, who are getting bigger and bigger, and even Huguang is in great danger. In contrast, although the small-scale anti-Qing struggle in Zhejiang, which had been in constant war in the past few years, was still one after another, the large-scale anti-Qing armed forces had been wiped out today, on the contrary, it seemed much calmer.

In the first month, in the back house of the Hangzhou Mansion, the prefect invited the Li family class of the filial piety workshop to perform here. The Li family class of this filial piety workshop is a new opera troupe that has recently become popular in Hangzhou in the past two years, and Li Yu, the owner and proprietor of the family, is a well-known talent in Jinhua Mansion. The year before last's "Sympathy for the Fragrance Companion" and last year's "Kite Mistake" are all rare masterpieces, especially with the foil of the former, once the latter is staged, it will immediately be a crowd of thousands of empty alleys, which is really hard to find.

However, it's hard to get a vote and a vote is hard to find, the prefect has spoken, and the opera troupe is not idle in this New Year's month, so he has to rush to perform for the prefect's family. And at this moment, on the stage of the back house, Shengdan Jingmo ugly appeared together, babbling and singing the "Kite Mistake".

This play is about Xichuan's recruitment to make Zhan Wucheng offend the eunuch and resign at home, there are two concubines and two daughters in the family, Mei's eldest daughter Aijuan, Liu's second daughter Shujuan, the eldest daughter is ugly and stubborn, and the second daughter is smart and beautiful and dignified.

It didn't take long for the place to be troubleful, there were barbarian rebellions, and the imperial court had to reactivate Zhan Wucheng. Before leaving, Zhan Wucheng was unable to avoid a quarrel between the two concubines in the family, so he built a high wall and divided the house into east and west courtyards. In addition, because the two daughters are both twenty-eight years old, they have reached the age of marriage, and he is away on the expedition, and he doesn't know how many years he can return, so he asked his friend Qi Tiangon to help Zhang Luo.

The Qi family and the Zhan family live next to each other, Qi Tiangon has a son named Youxian, who is a son who does not learn and has no skills, and another son named Han Qizhong, whose parents died in his early years and lives here. Han Qizhong is handsome and talented, which is just the opposite of his son. But the two were originally classmates, and the latter was sent under the fence, but they were all right.

One day, Qi You flew a kite for fun first, and found Han Qizhong to inscribe a poem on it, but unexpectedly, the poem was titled, but the kite broke the line and landed in the west courtyard of the Zhan family. The west courtyard was occupied by Liu's mother and daughter, and Liu's saw that the poem was fresh, so he asked his daughter to make a ...... after the original poem

On the stage, the musicians and actors of the Li family class were performing hard. Under the stage, the prefect's wife, Mrs., and Miss

and the ladies of the relatives who came to pay New Year's greetings were all attentively appreciative under the service of the maidservants and subordinates.

"The amorous road is like a fairy, and the sadness is full of sorrows;

has not passed the eyebrows in spring, but the sound of autumn has reached the ears;

Who can fall asleep in a good dream, and forget to sleep at night;

There is no place to bury worries in the world, and the question is sent to the kite to the sky. ”

"Where the sound of gold is thrown from the sky, the steps are thrown to wake up and sleep;

The paper kite only flies outside the clouds, and the color line is broken by the sun;

There may not be a heart to pass on the word goose, and there may be no tail to continue the mink article;

Sorrowful and momo, just for the sorrow of the immortals"

Miss Biao, who accompanied her father to pay New Year's greetings, carefully tasted Han Qizhong's poems, and muttered again and again, even if all she wrote was a sad word, but thinking of Han Qizhong's embarrassing situation in the Qi family, she finally gave an excellent evaluation. At this time, the prefect's youngest daughter also smiled and read Zhan Shujuan's poems, and also felt that these two poems complemented each other one after the other, which had their own wonders, and even had greater expectations for the talented and beautiful women on the stage.

This play is not like "Sympathy Companion" back then, but it is a talented and beautiful play. This kind of drama, especially the audience in the official gentry class, is still the sense of substitution, whether it is the reader's expectation of a talented and beautiful partner, or the beautiful fantasy that the female relatives of the official gentry family yearn for to be able to spend the rest of their lives with the talent. It's like ordinary people in the market prefer to watch dramas such as "The Oil Seller Monopolizes the Oiran", which is the same reason.

On stage, Han Qizhong and Zhan Shujuan have been made into a match made in heaven by the young ladies in the audience. Subsequently, the kite was retrieved by the servants of the Qi family, Han Qizhong was very happy, and even wrote a poem with admiration for beautiful women and wishes to see it at first sight, and took it and released it, but unexpectedly it fell into the hands of Zhan Aijuan, the eldest daughter of the Zhan family's east courtyard......

The title of the play "Kite Mistake", this kite is the clue that connects the four main characters of this play - Han Qizhong, Qi Youxian, Zhan Shujuan, and Zhan Aijuan, and the successive misunderstandings make the whole play ups and downs, and the plot turns around.

The people on the stage and off the stage are all immersed in the story. It is the table with the best viewing angle, and the main table with Li Yu as a companion, but the prefect is not interested in this, which is nothing more than the joy of the female relatives in the family, and then set off the festive atmosphere of the next year's festival. As for himself, he is more interested in this talented playwright.

“…… The good deeds of the ministers are none other than Guo Ziyi of the Tang Dynasty; And those who are not good at doing good deeds are like Li Guang. Ziyi worships the king of Fenyang, and his willingness is sufficient, and he does not ask for anything else, so he can be extremely poor and luxurious, and enjoy the blessings of people and ministers; Li Guang is ashamed of being inferior to others, and he will want to be a marquis, and he will be alone and single, and he will lose his way in the later stage and kill himself. Therefore he who does good deeds and rejoices will be content with foresight. Or cloud: contentment is not humiliating, knowing that it will not be destroyed. Not humiliated, the most enjoyable. ”

Sitting among the prefect and several relatives and male guests of the prefect, Li Yu showed humility and spoke eloquently.

This prefect, surnamed Long, came to office last year. Hangzhou is a big city, and there should have been something to do, but this ancestral dragon is a son of the ancestral family of Jinzhou, a tribute, and he is just a small person among the high-ranking officials and eunuchs of the ancestral family in the early Qing Dynasty. On weekdays, I have expectations in my heart, and I know that my roots are not enough, and I am still a civil official, so it is not easy to be like this. At this moment, after listening to Li Yu's timely and happy outlook on life, I can also listen to it.

"A good one is content and not disgraced, and he knows that he will not die. Not humiliated, the most enjoyable. ”

Zu Long clapped his hands and praised, most of the male guests were from this background, and now they are far inferior to him, and they also echoed it.

For more than a year, Li Yu has used drama to deal with people in the government, in addition to the wonderful drama, Li Yu himself has a good conversation, talking about pleasure, talking about women, and talking about articles, he can talk about it. In particular, he is not as arrogant as other talents, and he can welcome these officials who are far less talented than him, and he is very favored by some officials.

It is not the first time that he has talked freely with Li Yu and Zu Long. Just took office last year, and the former governor Zhang Qifeng invited Li Yu to come over to play the autumn breeze at the banquet for him, which can be described as a very happy conversation. In the months that followed, we met several times, and when we talked to the fullest, I felt like a confidant. In this way, chatting and chatting, and talking about some official affairs, I don't shy away from this scholar who started the theater team.

"I heard that the situation in Fujian and Guangdong is very tense, the last time I heard Sanbo talk about it, the nobles of the Eight Banners were very unhappy, and many scolded the prince of Jingnan and Jin Shuai."

"Who's to say it isn't."

The conversation between several people is nothing more than getting the inside information through those relatives. It was the ancestral dragon who was in his position, but he was clearer: "Actually, this thing is not strange. Jin Shuai's Eight Banners Army can fight, but the green battalion in Fujian has been wiped out by others several times, and it is estimated that the legs of Haikou's banner will tremble three times. And the prince of Jingnan, hehe, Geng Jimao's kid is still a pampered kid after all. ”

It is said that Kong, Shang, and Geng are all from the Dongjiang River, and their ancestral family is the Guanning lineage. In today's Qing court, the Dongjiang Army has produced three princes and a duke, and their Guanning Army was also a male soldier in the world back then, at least it will not be worse than those Dongjiang mud legs, but now there is also a prince of Wu Sangui, which makes them look at the Dongjiang family.

Speaking of this, Zu Long was suddenly startled, and Fang realized that it was inappropriate to call Geng Jimao by his name, especially when there was an outsider at the same table. It's just that Li Yu is talking to a cousin niece at the next table, nothing more than the cousin niece asked Li Yu if there is a new play in the near future, and Li Yu also respectfully said that there is a new play, but he has just started, thinking that the little girl will be able to see Yunyun next time she comes, and it seems that she didn't hear what they said at all.

This is a person who knows the depth and is knowledgeable, and Zu Long didn't care, and continued to whisper to his relatives about the war of the past year.

"The supplementary troops of the Eight Banners garrison in Hangzhou have passed, and they really rely on the convenience of the canal."

"That's good, that's good, without some Eight Banners Army, just with those green battalions, I really don't dare to worry. However, can the statement that the imperial court intends to change the commander be realized? ”

"It's been implemented, but the court has decided not to change the commander, or to focus on Jin Shuai, supplemented by Liu Shuai."

"The Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian ......"

"Liu Qingtai with it."

Like Chen Jin, the previous governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Liu Qingtai was also a member of the Han Army's banner, the difference is that one is the Han Army's Blue Banner, while the other is the Han Army's Red Banner.

On the surface, there are such subtle differences, but they are all bannermen under the banner of the Han Army, and they know better. This Liu Qingtai is a person from Liaoyang, and he was already a living before the Qing Dynasty. This person is a civil official, and he is very different from a military general like Chen Jin. It can be seen from this that the Qing court still relied more on marshals such as Jin Li, Liu Zhiyuan, Tian Xiong, and Yang Minggao in the military affairs of Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

However, Liu Qingtai is a Wenchen next to Huang Taiji, and after all, he is not a figure in their Guanning family like Chen Jin. Originally, when the news of Chen Jin's death came, they also had to operate another figure from the Guanning Army as the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, but in the end, it still fell into the hands of outsiders.

Within the Qing court, the power struggle, even the toppling, was extremely serious, but due to the fact that a small clan was in a big country, a sense of crisis existed, and the internal organization with the Eight Banners as the core was extremely strong, and the damage caused by the struggle to the national fortunes was far from comparable with that of the Ming court. What later generations saw was nothing more than the death of the Ming court's internal fighting, but in fact, the Qing court was also infighting, and infighting has always existed where there are people.

It's not a big deal here. After talking, they talked to Li Yuchang about those things about eating, drinking, and having fun.

A church meeting also came to an end with the end of the play "Kite Mistake", and it was already after nightfall, Zu Long sent a servant to accompany him, so as not to be reprimanded by the inspectors on the way back to Xiaozifang. This was supposed to be the right thing, and with such convenience, they soon returned to the opera garden of Xiaozifang.

The performance was a great success, at least the official wives, Mrs. Ru and the ladies liked it, and that was enough. Li Yu commented on everyone's performance, and took a reward to reward everyone, and everyone was always happy.

When everything was over, he was already exhausted but did not go back to rest, but went back to the study, only saying that there was some inspiration and wanted to record it as soon as possible, but after entering the study and locking the door, he took out a copy of "Water Margin" printed by a study in Qinghefang in the fourth year of Shunzhi, looked at it carefully, and sometimes wrote down a few numbers with his left hand in an account book.

When he had read a dozen pages and written down a bunch of numbers, he put the books back in and went back to sleep. It wasn't until the next morning that he handed over the account book to an account office that he had recruited last year, and the account room handed him back after going out for a long time and coming back, that Li Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the study to continue writing the new story he was conceiving - "Yi Zhongyuan".