Caishikou, Mishi Hutong.

Not long after Zhu Shun left the Forbidden City, Zheng Yuanwai, who used to be the mouthpiece of the former official department, and Zheng Yuanwai, who is now the deputy of the First Division of the Official Residence, walked into the cheap shop located in Mishi Hutong.

Zheng Yuanwai's swaggering golden robe was taken off not long after the death of the official Shangshu, and when he switched to Feng Quan, the old man of the Donglin Party, he wore it on his body again.

Zheng Yuanwai came to the cheap shop with a swagger, not to eat roast duck, but to meet his mentor Feng Quan.

Lao Zaifu Feng Quan has a habit of coming to the cheap shop every five or six days to taste the lotus-flavored roast duck filled with lotus seeds, tea leaves, red dates, etc.

The owner of the bargain shop has set up an Accord for this old Zaifu, which is in an excellent location, facing the backyard of a teahouse, and you can see a verdant bamboo forest.

Zheng Yuanwai walked into the cheap shop of Qingbi painting and went straight to the private room on the second floor, and the cousins did not stop him.

After all, there are not many bureaucratic squires who dare to wear such a golden robe in the capital, and Zheng Yuanwai often comes over, and the cousins recognize this court official from the fifth grade.

Zheng Yuanwai came to the carved bamboo and wooden door, did not go in, and waited quietly at the door.

After half a pillar of incense, a beautiful maid came to the door with a pot of tea.

Zheng Yuanwai took it and walked in.

In the middle of the room, there is a table of eight immortals with yellow flowers, and next to it sits an old Confucian wearing a plain right robe, and the cuffs are embroidered with delicate embroidery techniques on a few green bamboos.

There is a pot of bamboo, and the lines on the dishes of the official kiln are also green bamboo, and even the chopsticks used in the hands of the old Confucian are also in the shape of green bamboo.

This old Confucian of the Donglin Party is obsessed with bamboo, and it has really reached the point where he can eat without meat and live without bamboo.

Zheng Yuanwai walked to the Eight Immortals table with a pot of fine Mengding tea, and poured a cup: "Teacher, please use tea." ”

Lao Zaifu Feng Quan closed his eyes and slowly tasted the tribute tea he brought, drank the third cup, and began to speak to himself: "There is a vacancy in Miyun's rectification and preparation road. ”

An inexplicable sentence, but it made Zheng Yuanwai's heart feel a pang, and his teacher was taking his test.

Zheng Yuanwai hesitated for a moment, and said unhurriedly: "Zhu Shun arranged for his cousin Zhu Yu to go to Miyun County to serve as the magistrate. ”

"The disciple has already arranged for a staff member who is good at agriculture to see it, using the kind of Daming steam engine that we have never been able to get, and continuously pumping water from the Chaohe River, which can completely ensure that there is no longer a shortage of water for thousands of acres of official land."

"It is not difficult to guess the intention of Zhu Shun's move, it should be to buy people's hearts, just like when he used the prestige of the Song family in the hearts of the people of Shuntianfu to smoothly implement the reform of the industrial faction."

Speaking of this, Zheng Yuanwai sighed inexplicably, whether it was Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty or Zhang Juzheng of this dynasty, the reformers have always been known for their toughness.

It is all a violent method of cutting through the chaos with a quick knife to forcibly promote reform, especially since people are bound to die.

I thought that Zhu Shun, who had risen suddenly, would strongly advocate the West French Party and follow the example of Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng to carry out a violent reform that quickly cut through the chaos.

As the ancestor of the Donglin Party, it didn't have to take action on its own, and there were too many means to encourage the common people to attack those so-called steam factories.

Who would have thought that the young Zhu Shun was a freak who was more calm than the cabinet Zaisuke, or that he had already seen through the hearts of the people and had been using the means of boiling frogs in warm water to carry out the reform step by step.

So that the Donglin Party's best means have nowhere to be used, and they can only watch the industrial revolution that Zhu Shun said is completely completed in Shuntianfu.

Not a single civilian has died.

The Donglin Party and the Jin Merchants suffered a big loss, especially the Jin Merchants directly from the Eight Jin Merchants to the Five Jin Merchants.

You must know that the more violent the reform of each dynasty, the more ordinary people will die, and these high-ranking bureaucrats and gentry will not be affected, at most they will be demoted.

Zhu Shun built water conservancy in Miyun County, so that the people were grateful to Dade, which should be paving the way for the industrial revolution.

Lao Zaifu Feng Quan was quite satisfied with Zheng Yuanwai's reply, took out the unfinished relief Sangu Thatched House pen holder bamboo carving, and slowly carved it with a carving knife: "Rectify the army and prepare the road, and hold the power of the guards, horses, money, grain, and tuntian." ”

The second sentence was also very inexplicable, Zheng Yuanwai thought about it for a while and understood the intention of Lao Zaifu Feng Quan.

As long as he holds this important position, Zhu Shun's plan to use Miyun as a fulcrum to win over the hearts of the people in the five northern prefectures will fall short.

In addition, what is more important is that through this key to the grassland, a large number of sought-after goods can be transported to the Qing Kingdom.

In particular, saltpeter and sulfur, which were the imperial court franchises for the manufacture of gunpowder, were vigorously developed by the Qing Dynasty, and there was a big gap.

As long as the saltpeter and sulfur can be transported to the Qing Dynasty, it will change hands to ten times and twenty times the silver profit, which is more profitable than any business.

Zheng Yuanwai glanced at Lao Zaifu Feng Quan without leaving a trace, and his heart shook.

Ning Yuan's great victory, King Xin's succession to the unification eradicated the eunuch party, and the gentlemen of the Manchu Dynasty are in the court, this exciting change can obviously be seen that the Ming Dynasty's qi is not exhausted.

What does Lao Zaifu Feng Quan mean by this, he actually hinted so clearly that he went to send a large amount of saltpeter sulfur to the Great Qing Kingdom.

Could it be that the Great Qing Kingdom can really enter the Central Plains, and Lao Zaifu is paving a back road?

But the strength that Daming has shown over the years is obviously not exhausted, why should he be a slave to the Qing Kingdom.

Lao Zaifu Feng Quan dropped the last knife, and gave Zheng Yuanwai the bamboo carving of the relief three-look thatched house pen holder in his hand, signaling that he could go.

Zheng Yuanwai held this precious relief and looked at the bamboo carving of the thatched house pen holder, walked out of the cheap shop with a contemplative face, stepped on the bustling Mishi Hutong Street, and inadvertently saw the exquisite Zhuge Liang.

Suddenly froze in place, and soon took another step, a smile on his face.

Zheng Yuanwai also likes to read the Three Kingdoms script, which is a bloody battle in the eyes of the generals, and a trick in the eyes of the Wenchen.

In Zheng Yuanwai's eyes, it is a history of the rise and fall of the family throughout the Three Kingdoms.

As a prominent family in Jingxiang, the Zhuge family launched the three brothers of the dragon and tiger dogs to enter Wei Shu and Wu respectively, no matter who gets orthodoxy in the end, the Zhuge family can always maintain prosperity.

Lao Zaifu should have made the same plan, on the surface, he is the old worship of the Ming Donglin Party, which can ensure that the Feng family will be rich for several generations.

secretly provided saltpeter sulfur for the Qing Dynasty, even if the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, Lao Zaifu Feng Quan was also a hero of the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Yuanwai suddenly clenched the bamboo carving pen holder, and the spring breeze was proud: "The opportunity of this official has finally come, as long as this official controls the exit of the Great Wall, the position of this official in the heart of the teacher will be irreplaceable." ”

"A scarlet official uniform is just around the corner."