It is not difficult for me to decide whether to go north to Beijing by land or by water.

The intensifying infighting in recent years has greatly damaged the orthodoxy and administrative operation of the Ming Dynasty, which can be seen in the short road conditions between the port and the residence of Qi Dudu.

Roads are the most direct embodiment of the level of local governance, and whether the roads are good or not can directly see the degree of local management.

It stands to reason that the local government department has a large amount of money invested in road repair and maintenance every year.

But along the way, the whole road was full of potholes, and the sides of the road were crowded with mornings, and at first glance, it looked like a mountain road that had been unmanaged for many years and almost seemed to be abandoned.

Looking at the leopard in the tube, it can be seen to what extent has the rule of the Ming Dynasty been decayed? Of course, this place is far away from the provincial capital, and naturally it is far away from the capital division, and it is understandable that no one cares about it in such an environment.

Therefore, we still chose to take the sea route, leaving the port from Penglai, going north to Jinmen, and then landing and taking a car to Beijing.

Ye Sizhong came by horse, and he still has his own soldiers, if he takes a boat with me, I am afraid that there will be many rumors from others. So he had to still ride back to Jizhou, and we naturally agreed to meet again when we set out on an expedition in the future.

Saying goodbye to Ye Sizhong, we came to the dock. Prepare to set sail in the morning mist.

The boat slowly opened, and I looked at Penglai in the fog, and I couldn't help but feel a little trance. One of the main purposes of my return this time was to visit Qi Dudu. Now that people have seen it, I feel even more empty in my heart.

A person's life, like a white horse passing through a gap, sometimes feels long, sometimes feels short. What are we doing in this short period of time? What should be done and what should be left behind?

Maybe like Qi Dudu, it is happiness to create immortal achievements and be famous for eternity. But in other words, what happiness is there for himself?

Half a world of horses, in exchange for a bleak evening scene, is really suffocating! Sometimes I really think that this little man is right, and it is better to have a glass of wine in front of him than to be famous. When the flowers bloom, they can be broken, and don't wait for the flowers to be broken and the branches are empty.

What is the right one? I couldn't figure it out.

In a trance, our fleet came to the Jinmen pier, which unsurprisingly caused a sensation again. By the time I landed at Jinmen, it was clear that Gyeonggi Wei had already received the above arrangement, and that there were already people waiting in the harbor, so I came up as soon as I got off the ship and saluted.

"Lord Sun! After years of not seeing, you're all right! The visitor laughed.

When I immediately returned the salute, I looked at this person with a very familiar look, it must have been seen before. was about to speak, but he heard Hua Mei behind him say: "Brother Qian has been promoted recently, wearing the clothes of a third-grade master!" ”

When the man saluted Hua Mei with a question mark, I suddenly remembered that this person had indeed crossed paths before—when Hua Mei's father, Li Zaixing, the secretary of the military department, played the little emperor and appointed me to repair the Great Wall, it was this Qian Sili who was the general coordinator.

At that time, he was just an official from the fourth grade, and now he has also entered the ranks of the high-level!

For a while, I sighed in my heart again, and smiled at Qian Sili: "Lord Qian's official fortune is prosperous, and I haven't had time to congratulate you yet!" ”

Qian Sili came over and grabbed my hand, but he smiled at Hua Mei first: "Although Master Li is at home now, we are still receiving his favor, Miss Hua Mei should not laugh at me." ”

Hua Mei smiled faintly, but she didn't speak, and Qian Sili didn't say much, pulling me forward and whispering: "Qilan, we are also familiar with each other, so we don't have to compliment each other, let's get in the car and talk about it!" ”

I deliberately frowned and said, "Military attachés don't take the car, this is the rule!" ”

Qian Sili was stunned, he served as the right attendant in the military department, although he was indeed a military attaché, but he had nothing to do with the war ahead, and he always went in and out by car. But I'm talking about the right way again, and I'm suddenly there.

I smiled faintly and continued to whisper: "But this time it's half a concierge event, and it's okay to take the car!" It's okay to take a ride! ”

Qian Sili immediately showed a polite but embarrassed smile: "Yes, yes, yes! Protocol! Protocol! I was almost led astray by you! Get in the car, get in the car! ”

A few people immediately got into the head of a row of carriages parked in the port, and Qian Sili didn't say much, so he ordered someone to drive and went straight to Jingshi! The fleet remained in port, under the command of No Regrets, and Adicon was there, and I was very relieved.

We sat down face to face, and Qian Sili bowed his hand to me again: "Brother, this time you can come back when the country is in trouble, regardless of your past suspicions, my brother respects your loyalty!" ”

I waved my hand, shook my head and said, "The reason why I came back is that on the one hand, Zhang Lao Shoufu has devoted his life to national affairs, and he will not want the country to collapse because of the war; On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty of China, as a descendant of China, the family and the country are in trouble, and there is no reason to stand idly by. ”

Qian Sili sighed: "Qilan righteousness! There is indeed the style of Zhang Jiangling, and there is also the righteousness of the Qi family's army, and it is worthy of the favor of Miss Li! It's just that this is going to Jingshi, with open guns and hidden arrows, Qilan has to be very careful! ”

I was secretly moved in my heart, and being able to say these words showed that this person was indeed loyal and conscientious, so I asked, "Brother Qian, can you tell me what is the current situation of the Jingshi?" ”

Qian Sili sighed and said slowly.

Since the death of the second uncle, Yu Shenxing, Shen Shixing and others have decisively carried the banner, intending to continue to promote various reforms, including a whip law. However, the opposition led by Zhang Siwei was extremely rampant, frantically attacking the deceased second uncle and ancestor, and constantly pouring dirty water on Yu Shenxing and others.

The little emperor Zhu Yijun's heart is higher than the sky and his hands are relatively low, and he is also panicked when he sees this battle, in order to maintain stability, he can only let Zhang Siwei and Yu Shenxing side by side, share the responsibilities of the first and secondary, and also check and balance each other.

In this way, the situation within the Ming Dynasty was better than in the previous life, but it was very limited. Because the little emperor Zhu Yijun was educated and suppressed by his second uncle all the year round, when he was able to say the count, he immediately broke out with a strong backlash.

On the surface, he was very interested in the reformers led by Yu Shenxing, Shen Shixing, and Li Zaixing, or the Protectors, but in fact, he set up customs everywhere and set up cards from time to time, trying every means to obstruct the continued implementation of all reforms related to the second uncle.

This is a typical self-destructive personality - knowing that these reforms are beneficial to his country, but still choosing to oppose and sabotage because of his personal emotions, and on the basis of being able to determine his intellectual normality, he can only blame it on character defects.

In the midst of such a struggle, several years passed in a flash. In the past few years, Zhang Siwei's death, Yu Shenxing's resignation, Shen Shixing's succession, Li Zaixing's illness and retirement, and Shi Xing's performance of duties in the military department A series of personnel changes have greatly changed the pattern of the Ming Dynasty's full peak.

The only thing that has not changed is the hatred and resistance of the little emperor Zhu Yijun to the reformers.

After Zhang Siwei's death, the conservatives, or the opposition, actually lacked people to carry the crown, and their arrogance was frustrated a lot. But the little emperor has grown up, and today's internal contradictions have been transformed into contradictions between imperial power and administrative institutions.

As mentioned before, the battle for the national capital is actually the national defense faction led by Shen Shixing who saw that the emperor wanted to abolish the elder and the young, and bravely stood up to resist the emperor. But the little emperor was extremely stubborn, and he played a petty character in the struggle of the courtiers, and actually played a small trick of not going to court for many years!

However, the national situation and national fortune are like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. While Western countries were riveting their efforts and racing desperately to get ahead, the Ming Dynasty in the Far East was wasting time because of which descendant of the emperor should succeed to the East Palace.

The treasury, which was originally increasingly abundant under the efforts of the second uncle, dried up again, especially in recent years, the people in various places have been surging, in order to solve these dishonest guys, Zhu Yijun did not think about how to start from his own reform and change the situation, but chose to face to face and fight the fire and suppress.

As a result, the situation in China has deteriorated, and the finances of various localities have begun to be in a hurry, and even the relatively wealthy Jiangling, Suzhou, and Hangzhou generations have begun to cause food shortages.

In the previous stage, Liaodong transmitted the military information of Dongying's invasion of Goryeo. The little emperor Zhu Yijun didn't kill, so he naturally knew that such a thing would not be groundless. However, when he knew that the enemy army was more than 100,000 and advancing by land and water, he really weighed the possibility of sending troops.

I know my own affairs, and now the financial and national strength of the Ming Dynasty can no longer support the use of a big war, 40,000, no, the military expenditure of 50,000 expeditionary forces is already the limit.

So, the little emperor Zhu Yijun began to play the trick that worked - pretending to be crazy and stupid. Despite the constant comings of military information, which are becoming more urgent and detailed, he still asks the same question - is this true?

What can the courtiers below say? He could only lay out the facts, reason, and persuade him to send troops as soon as possible. But no one could wake up a person who was pretending to be asleep, so it dragged on and on, and it got to today's situation.

At that time, the Eight Provinces of Goryeo were in disarray, King Li Hao was emphasizing civility over military force, and the internal fighting among the imperial parties was fierce, so that "no one knew how to fight for more than 200 years", and most of the more than 300 counties in the country were not fortified.

As a result, the Goryeo army was unable to organize resistance to the invaders, and the small number of government troops suffered one defeat after another. After the two armies landed, the territory of Goryeo was rapidly eroded and almost wiped out.

Powerful villagers from all over the country formed their own rebel armies, such as Kwak Jae-woo of Seongju in Gyeongsang Province on April 21, 1592, who organized volunteers and repeatedly defeated Anguksa Hye-kyung so that he could not enter Jeolla Province smoothly, and even defeated the army of Hosokawa Tadaheung and Hasegawa Shuichi in the First Battle of Jinju Fortress on October 10, 1592, known as the "Red Clothes General from the Sky", as well as Jeong In-hong, Son In-jia, and Kim Tsu-won, which also prevented Mori Huiyuan from successfully occupying Gyeongsang-do.

A large-scale civil struggle against Dongyeong aggression broke out in Goryeo. Kim Qian-yi of Gwangju, Jeolla Province, and Jeonju Ko Kyung-mei organized volunteers, and Cho Heon, who was born in Gongju, Chungcheong-do, and Monk Yeong-gyu, successively reorganized their troops and jointly resisted the Japanese Sixth Army Corps such as Kobayakawa Takakei and Tachibana Soshige, effectively stopping the advance of the Japanese invaders.

There is also Li Yanyu of Haeju, Gyeonggi Province, who fought against Kuroda Nagamasa, and the fight was also quite fierce. However, Goryeo's perennial armament was slack, and only a month later, it was reported that "the three capitals were lost, and the eight realms collapsed".

Everywhere the Japanese army went, they burned and looted, and in Jinju alone, more than 60,000 soldiers and civilians were slaughtered!

Now the king of Goryeo, Li Han, has retreated to the border between Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty, and has repeatedly sent letters asking for help and mourning. But the little emperor Zhu Yijun ignored it completely, completely ignoring whether the enemy army had arrived at the gate of the Celestial Empire, and just blindly pretended to be stupid.

I don't know what prompted the little emperor Zhu Yijun to order the dispatch of troops in history, but since I have arrived here in this world, I will definitely do my best to make this rebellious king change his mind and send troops to help the court!

One day and one night, in the morning fog of the next day, the majestic Forbidden City was already in front of us. From a distance, the pitch-black silhouette looks like a giant beast, smiling and waiting for my arrival......