On the painting boat of the Qinhuai River.

"Dongyang Gong!"

Huang Zongxi and others saluted Zhang Guowei, who got off the carriage.

"The afterlife is terrifying!"

Zhang Guowei looked at these young generation of heroes in front of him with emotion, as if he saw their bright future, although these people are too high-profile and too extreme, but their talent still makes him sigh that there are successors. The era of the Donglin Party is coming to an end, even he understands this, he is the youngest in his fifties, and the rest are all a group of old men in their sixties, and they are really exhausted with Yang Qing.

Fortunately, there are still these people, and these young generations of heroes are enough to carry on their careers.

"Dongyang Gong, Yu Qiu Gong didn't come?"

Mao Qiling said suspiciously.

"Yu Qiugong is not coming, he has already handed over the old man's note, he is too old to hold on."

Zhang Guowei said.

Of course, Xu Shiqi is definitely not because he is too old, although he is indeed old, and he is already seventy years old at this time, but what really caused him to withdraw from the stage of struggle in the way of saying goodbye to old age is because one of his nephews in his own family was shuanggui.

He begged Yang Qing for mercy by telling the elder.

"Another veteran is lost in battle!"

Huang Zongxi sighed.

This is indeed very depressing, in the case that the appointment of the six Shangshu is controlled by Yang Qing, the resignation of any Donglin Shangshu is equivalent to giving up power, the resignation of Xie Xuelong last time was already a fluke, and no one expected that Yang Qing would let Qian Qianyi take over. But this time there is no such good thing is difficult to say, now the two sides are in fact at war because of the succession, Xu Shiqi's resignation has caused the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to suffer another heavy blow, especially he is still the most important official secretary, this position is related to the attributes of the new generation of civil officials.

Zhang Guowei didn't say anything, a group of people got on the painting boat and sat down, silently looking at the direction of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples in the distance in the breeze of the autumn night.

There, a star is radiating light.

Although it is four miles apart, under the light of this star, the bronze dome of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples is still clearly recognizable, with a reflected light that penetrates into the night sky, like an eye overlooking the whole of Nanjing.

And then there seemed to be a sneering face behind those eyes......

Well, that's just imagination.

In fact, it was Yang Qing who erected the first gas street lamp in the Ming Dynasty there, and the gas came from the coking plant outside the city that belonged to the Ministry of Equipment, and then the coke oven gas was transported through iron pipelines in the city. The coking plant was limited in size and could only supply the exterior lighting of the palace, plus the exterior lighting of his own marquis's palace and several military barracks and the Grand Doge's palace. But the construction of several other places has just begun, only this one has been completed, and the first completed gas lamp is installed in the square in front of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples, with a pillar nearly ten feet high in the air.

Just illuminate the decorative copper roof of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples.

As for why not just install it in the Great Hall of the Four Peoples......

He was afraid that he would serve the representatives of the four peoples in one pot.

This thing is only suitable for street lamps, at least under the current technical conditions, it would be pure death to install it indoors, but the lighting of this street lamp still quickly became a new symbol of the night sky of Nanjing, after all, it is much brighter than those lampposts lit with whale oil, and it is like a bright moon in the glass cover on all sides.

"Guys, we have to act!"

Zhang Guowei looked at the gas lamps that covered the brilliance of the stars in the night sky, and said with a resolute face.

Huang Zongxi and the others looked at each other.

"Yang Qing has reached the brink of danger, and the victory on the battlefield in Shandong has made him already forget about it, as evidenced by the recent rampant performance of Jinyiwei. In the past, we could indeed be false with him, after all, he still had a bottom line, and although the Jinyi guard was becoming more and more arrogant under his control, he still did not cross the bottom line of the court law. But now it's different, Yang Qing's indiscriminate arrest of innocents is just a test, testing whether we have the ability to fight back, if we can't really give him a strong counterattack, he will continue to make inroads. ”

Zhang Guowei said.

"Dongyang Gong, we all understand things, but what does Dongyang Gong want?"

Mao Qiling said.

Of course, they all understand that the previous Yang Qing was horizontal, but he was principled and respected for the court system and laws, and in fact, after deducting the emotional issues of different positions, they all admitted that the Ming Dynasty could be said to have taken on a new look under the rule of Yang Qing. Jinyiwei's spy rule is indeed outrageous, but it does make those officials walk on thin ice, as if they have returned to the state of "all frightened hearts, like gods coming to the court, not daring to be reckless" when Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, no one knows if there is a hidden stake of Jinyiwei by their side.

In other words, even the whispers of the boudoir can be known!

Even at this time, among the folk rumors, even the rumors that Yang Qinghui could hear other people's whispers thousands of miles away appeared, otherwise it would be impossible to explain a lot of his information.

Who isn't afraid of this?

But this time it's different!

This is the first time he has crossed the line, and the first time he has shown an attempt to break through the limits of the rules, don't underestimate this shuanggui, and don't underestimate the first time that Jin Yiwei has been arrested on a large scale without a driving sticker. If Yang Qing chose to tolerate the system in front of him in the past, but this time he openly stepped out of one foot.

If he doesn't knock his foot back from the outside this time, then he will definitely have to get out of this painted prison directly.

And then he will go further and further.

He can let Jin Yiwei arrest these implicated people without a driving post today, and dare to fabricate charges to arrest disobedient officials tomorrow, and I am afraid that the day after tomorrow he should covet the throne. He now clearly sees that the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are easy to bully, of course, not because of the victory on the battlefield in Shandong, which is not worth mentioning, and it is strange that the Ming army cannot win, but because of the performance of the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

I made up hundreds of thousands of taels in half a year!

Such a group of misers who forget their righteousness when they see small profits, and sacrifice their lives when they are facing big things, it is impossible for them to become a big thing, so he is still afraid of a bird!

"I still have to catch it!"

Zhang Guowei said.

"But who pays for the money?"

Mao Qiling said.

"At this time, we have to take care of the big picture!"

Zhang Guowei said somewhat earnestly to this junior.

The two of them, one Xiaoshan and one Dongyang, can be regarded as villagers in the township, but Mao Qiling is not ready to give face to this elder.

"That's fifteen million!"

He said unceremoniously.

"But if the saint doesn't come, then Yang Qing continues to be so unscrupulous, and both the government and the opposition will suffer, he is not one of those who does not learn and does not know how to do it, he has a whole set of laws for governing the country. Do you think it's just an imperial village, just a change to the imperial examination? His goal is to be Jia Nidao, it is the Gongtian Law! ”

Zhang Guowei said.

"If he dares to do that, the world will naturally punish him!"

Mao Qiling said.

The meaning is very simple, this is not the matter of the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang themselves! But if you want to pay for it, it must be dominated by the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the gentry of other provinces cannot be the Donglin Party. In the final analysis, it is for the sake of an imperial examination reform, and the imperial examination reform mainly touches the interests of the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because most of the imperial court officials are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the imperial examination reform will make the Donglin Party lose control of the government.

But......

The loss of control of the government by the Donglin Party does not mean that the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have lost, and the opportunity given to the provinces by the reform of the imperial examination is the same.

They still have a chance.

It's just that the sacrifice is the Donglin Party.

The gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are willing to support the Donglin Party, after all, the two sides have cooperated for decades, but it hurts their feelings to talk about money, and the Donglin Party is not worth fifteen million! If we spend 1.5 million to protect you, and if we spend 15 million to protect you, then our brains will be kicked by a donkey, and it is better for us to support a new political party than to protect you.

In a sense, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are ready to abandon the Donglin Party, so Zhang Guowei said that the future is terrifying as soon as he came.

These are the ones that are ready to replace them.

"What if he is Cao Cao?"

Zhang Guowei said with anger in his endurance.

"If he has the courage to be Cao Cao, naturally someone will be Liu Bei and Sun Quan."

Zhu Zhiyu said.

"He has hundreds of thousands of male soldiers outside, and tens of thousands of Jinyi guards inside, Liu Bei and Sun Quan? What can be done by the resurrection of Liu Bei and Sun Quan? Dolgon's soldiers are strong, and Li Zicheng's soldiers are strong, but which one is not his defeated general? Who else do you want to count on? Counting on Zhang Xianzhong or King Gui? This world is indeed five points, but Yang Qing tolerates this situation not because he is not capable of solving these people, but because he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to continue to carry so many burdens like the first emperor. He wanted to wait for the Ming Dynasty's grain output to be sufficient and could make up for the grain deficit in the north before making up for it, otherwise just one Shandong would force him to use extraordinary means to collect wealth to make up for the financial deficit.

But if you think he doesn't have the ability to dominate the world, then you can't help but underestimate him. ”

Zhang Guowei said.

These people are young, they think they have the ability to fight with Yang Qing, but they don't know that this monster is napping at all, and the only way is to invite the emperor back, while he is still napping, and tie him to a rope as quickly as possible.

Everything else is for nothing.

Donglin Qunxian fought with him for three years, although he was defeated and retreated, but at least he knew the strength of his opponent, these people didn't know what kind of opponent they were facing, but they were still dreaming there.

"Dongyang Gong, then can you guarantee that the Son of Heaven will be able to restrain Yang Qing? An empty son of heaven who has been a hostage for three whole years, without a soldier in his hands and without a cronies, can he control a powerful minister who holds military power? Or do you think a powerful minister like Yang Qing really cares about righteousness, or how loyal the generals of the army will be to the Ming Dynasty? As far as I know, it is true that the generals in the army want to add Yang Qing's yellow robe to their bodies, and we spent fifteen million to buy a useless son of heaven, but in the end, the bamboo basket was empty, and that was really a big loss. ”

Huang Zongxi said.

"The Son of Heaven really can't control him, you still don't understand our purpose, we never expected the Son of Heaven to have this ability. But the Son of Heaven can restrain the princess with the love of brother and sister, and the princess can restrain Yang Qing! ”

Zhang Guowei said.

"Dongyang Gong, are you joking?"

Mao Qiling was stunned.