A few days ago, Zhou Shu was also taken to see Qian Mengjiu, and he also knew that Qian Mengjiu's status on the side of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty belonged to the real minister.

He thinks so, not because Qian Mengjiu is a scholar of the War Department, nor because Qian Mengjiu is a scholar, but because Qian Mengjiu is the minister of the imperial study.

The rise of the Tang Dynasty has been a few years, and the Ming Dynasty has some understanding of the various official systems and policies of the Tang Dynasty, and some people will even study it, knowing that the Tang Dynasty has some special official systems, not the traditional six, but as many as a dozen ministries.

And it is also in the fact that although the title of Shangshu on the side of the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty is also important, it is not a factor to measure whether a minister is a real core minister, because there are more than a dozen Shangshu on the Pseudo-Tang side, and the Monk Shangshu is basically the same level as the Imperial History, the left and right justices of the Grand Court, and the ministers of the military.

Basically, there are dozens of high-ranking officials at the level of Shangshu and ministers.

As for the title of scholar, the pseudo-Tang side is not the same, although three titles of scholar were awarded in the early years, but later it has not been awarded, and it is rumored that one of the scholars, Wang Wenhua, is still a well-known courtier, quite a pseudo-Tang official, and at the same time, this person has not yet entered the imperial study on duty.

So up to now, even the officials on the side of the Ming Dynasty know that to measure a pseudo-Tang official, it depends on whether he has entered the imperial study, the most awesome minister on duty, and the civil and military are only seven people, and their status is basically equivalent to that of the Ming Dynasty's elders.

Even those dozen or so walking ministers have a status that surpasses ordinary Shangshu and ministers.

The central decision-making level of the Tang Dynasty is in the imperial study!

Zhou Shu knew about this situation, so he also knew that Qian Mengjiu's status as the minister on duty was full of weight, and when he first saw Qian Mengjiu, he didn't dare to have any contempt.

This kind of disdain naturally does not mean that he will be humble, on the contrary, he just attaches importance to Qian Mengjiu.

was even mentally prepared for a debate with Qian Mengjiu, but Qian Mengjiu didn't talk to him for a long time at all, just chatted briefly, and sent Zhou Shu away after slightly testing whether Zhou Shu had the heart to surrender.

I was a little depressed to be honest with Zhou Shu!

This kind of depression is not because of anything else, but a feeling of depression caused by being despised and ignored.

He is also the Shangshu of the Ming Dynasty, although this Shangshu is the Shangshu of Nanjing, but it is also a Shangshu.

Whether you want to kill him or persuade him to do it anyway, you have to show an attitude of importance, so that he can make different choices according to the changes in many circumstances.

But now, Qian Mengjiu is hanging him up, as if he has forgotten him, which makes him a little uncomfortable!

How to say it!

Not used to it!

has been in a high position for a long time, and this suddenly becomes a dispensable role one day, many people will not get used to it, and they will always want to toss one or two more, regardless of whether it is good or bad.

And Zhou Shu didn't know that Qian Mengjiu didn't pay attention to him, but that Qian Mengjiu attached some special importance to him.

At the beginning, Qian Mengjiu also wanted to persuade this person to surrender, but after saying a few words at that time, he was blocked back by Zhou Shu, and Zhou Shu's attitude was very tough at that time, which made Qian Mengjiu feel that it was useless to say more.

I think this person is smelly and hard, so I simply ignore this person.

But using Zhou Shu to make a fuss will not stop because of Zhou Shu's own opposition.

When the time comes, forging a letter of self-incrimination or confession of Zhou Shu or the like, and then publishing it in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, can still have good results, as for whether this self-incrimination letter is true or false, does it matter?

Unimportant!

At that time, you can even forge one, Zhou Shu wrote a self-guilty book, and then came to a scene of suicide in fear of crime, in short, the Tang Dynasty did a lot of this kind of thing, and it didn't care about doing it so much.

Anyway, what the Tang Dynasty wants is only political influence, and Zhou Shu's life or death and his own real thoughts are actually not important.

However, the current Zhou Shu actually doesn't know it.

He continued to live a life under house arrest, although he had no worries about food and clothing, but this day was a little difficult, and in desperation, he could only pass the time with calligraphy and painting, fortunately, the soldiers of the Tang Army who took care of them were not too embarrassed by these high-ranking officers, and if they wanted to read books, they would also send them to read, and there would naturally be no shortage of pen and ink.

Of course, if you want to go out and chat with old friends and play chess or something like that, don't count on it.

Although it is said to be under house arrest, this house arrest is also imprisonment, how can you do anything!

However, unlike Zhou Shu who lived with calligraphy and painting when he was under house arrest, Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei who lived next door to him, did not have a good life.

At the beginning, Xu Pengju was the commander of the garrison of Nanjing and the governor of the Chinese army, and he could be said to be the largest military general in Jinling City, but in fact, in recent years, he did not have much real power, especially after Wang Yiqi served as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department and supervised the military affairs of Jiangnan.

Although there are still so many guards under his hands, the world has changed recently, and the guards are unusable, and the real army has become a variety of new troops.

Even the border armies in the north have already undergone reforms, equipped with a large number of guns and artillery, and reorganized into a new army.

In Jiangnan, the new army is also the Jiangnan New Army, which is controlled by Wang Yiqi.

It was not easy to wait until Wang Yiqi was defeated and died in Jianping, he just contacted a few other people to find a crime casually, killed the deputy general of the Jiangnan New Army who stayed in Jinling, and tried to take the 3,000 Jiangnan New Army, but although the deputy general was finished, the other commanders of the Jiangnan New Army were not easy to mess with, and they led the soldiers to flee on the spot, and they did not come back when they went to Yangzhou.

This Xu Pengju has not yet tasted the taste of controlling power in Jinling City, that is, he was besieged by the Second Army, and then, and then surrendered.

After the puppet Tang thief army entered the city, the huge Wei Mansion was naturally confiscated in minutes, although the Wei Mansion was still there, but this mansion had become a royal palace, and many clansmen and servants in the Wei Mansion were separated and scattered in an instant.

The Tang Army didn't care about the clansmen and slaves of the side branches, but those descendants were all arrested and imprisoned like the families of other high-ranking officials who surrendered.

And this, it's nothing, what makes him depressed is that some time ago, someone reported to him, saying that his eldest son Xu Bangrui actually took the initiative to surrender to the thief, and also published an article in the Tang Dynasty newspaper with his real name, scolding his father and Daming.

At the same time, he also changed his body and directly became a baron of the Tang Dynasty, and was also awarded the rank of major in the army!

This erector was so disloyal and unfilial, he really didn't misunderstand this person at the beginning, and he didn't waste his own efforts in vain, and only after dredging up many relationships did he establish the Zheng family as the Duchess of Wei, and he was ready to establish his young son as the son.

Of course, he naturally wouldn't know that his eldest son, that is, Xu Bangrui, who was a thief, also snorted coldly: You are unkind to me and unjust, since you want to take the position of my son, then I will simply surrender to the thief and go directly to become the baron of the Tang Dynasty, it is better than dying with you.

The changes in the Wei Mansion in recent years are properly a rich family grievance that can attract the attention of countless people, the dispute between brothers, the dispute between father and son, and the dispute between wives and concubines.

Since Xu Bangrui's son is already a thief, and he is still talking badly about his father and son on the side of the pseudo-Tang, if one of them is not good, I am afraid that he will really die in the hands of this thief.

After pondering for a long time, Xu Pengju took out a pen and paper and prepared a handwritten letter, this letter is naturally not an ordinary letter, if it is a letter to other friends, it cannot be sent out.

His letter was addressed to Qian Mengjiu.

The words in this letter are not simple, the head of the head is the sinner Peng bows down, and the letter calls Qian Mengjiu an adult, which cannot be described by humility, but should be described by flattery.

The main content of the letter is that he has deeply realized his past mistakes, and hopes that the adults will be gracious and let him stay guilty and contribute to the foundation of Datang.

To put it bluntly, this is a letter of integrity, and incidentally there are elements of a self-incriminating letter.

Qian Mengjiu soon received this letter, but after reading it, he shook his head slightly, and then said to others: "Let him write another one, what is this to write to this official, let him write a confession directly, the content should be profound, the attitude should be sincere, and then send the letter with Zhou Shu to the Chaobao Division, it is estimated that it will not be long before the people of the world will be able to see it, even if you are a prince of the country and a scholar, you are still willing to surrender to my Datang!" ”

The officials under his command studied many of Zhou Shu's articles, and then imitated and wrote them, and they also covered Zhou Shu's private seal in a dignified manner.

As for Zhou Shu's own opinion, it is not important, it is estimated that Zhou Shu will know when it is published in the newspaper.

Qian Mengjiu didn't pay much attention to the change in the attitude of Wei Guogong Xu Pengju, and even including Zhou Shu, he actually didn't care much, if these things were done well, at most it would make the propaganda work more convenient, and if they didn't agree, the propaganda work would be done the same, but it wasn't so convenient.

Now that Qian Mengjiu is in Jinling City, he is most concerned about moving the capital!

He doesn't care about the rest of the Jiangnan, and he can't control it, but this Jinling City and even the entire Chengtian Mansion, he has to complete the rectification before His Majesty arrives.

That's the days, and there's not much time left for him, so he has to hurry