When Kosuke Yoshikawa got out of the rented carriage with Naoyu Gamo, Yuo Yoshida, who heard the movement, hurried out of the small courtyard rented by the mission. Wild Sand Literature Network

When Kosuke Yoshikawa, who was directing the handymen to unload the luggage from the carriage, saw him, he immediately waved to him happily and shouted, "Goro, you came just in time, hurry up and give me the carriage money, I have all the change." Not much, it is enough to give him 3 silver dollars. ”

Yoshida Yuo's eyelids jumped suddenly, "Not enough?" On his ship, a skilled sailor earned only six silver dollars a month. What's more, renting such a carriage should be enough for 2 silver dollars a day, and apparently this Mr. Yoshikawa promised the coachman a reward again. ”

Although he was still complaining in his heart, Yoshida Yuo respectfully agreed to step forward, took out his wallet and paid the coachman's honorarium. After seeing that the few pieces of luggage tied to the top of the carriage were unloaded, the coachman greeted Kosuke Yoshikawa and drove away.

Yoshida Yuo was about to say something to Yoshikawa Kosuke, but the other party spoke up to him first, "Goro, has it been dinner time?" Ume Taro and I are still hungry? ”

Looking at Yoshikawa Kosuke, who was looking at him expectantly with a look on his stomach, Yoshida Yuo couldn't help but change his words and said: "It's past dinner time in the museum, why don't I invite the two adults to a nearby restaurant to eat a little, and I can just report to you what happened to you not here in the past few days." ”

Yoshikawa Kosuke sighed when he heard this and said, "Talking about things while eating, it's easy to get indigestion." But if you have mapo tofu and spiced whale, there is no problem. ”

Yoshida nodded in response with a smile: "If Yoshikawa-sama wants to eat, naturally there is nothing wrong with it." He then turned to himself and instructed him, "Send these luggage to Yoshikawa-sama's room..."

Although it was already dark, the street lights had been lit from the inside of the building to the outside, so the three of them did not borrow any lighting equipment from the handyman, so they walked slowly towards the restaurant that Yoshida Yuo had mentioned.

The three of them didn't feel anything when they were in the museum, and when they walked out of the door and onto the street, they found that the street outside was still crowded with pedestrians. This is not because the street lamps are arranged on the streets to illuminate the whole street as bright as day, but also because it is also a cooler time of the day, and everyone can't help but go out for a walk and enjoy the coolness.

Seeing such a scene, Yoshikawa Kosuke couldn't help but say to the two companions next to him: "I can't believe that after three consecutive years of large-scale drought, the people of the capital of the Ming Kingdom can still live such a stable life. ”

Yoshida Yuo hadn't been able to figure out how the scene in front of him was connected to the vast land, but Gamo Naoyu, who was next to him, had already answered: "I'm afraid it's not necessarily because of China's vast land and natural resources, but because the Ming Kingdom is now able to import a lot of resources from overseas." Just before we arrived, didn't the Ming conquer another country in the south? If we could also have conquerable land overseas, like the Ming Dynasty, then the people would not have to be as burdened as they are now. ”

Kosuke Yoshikawa smiled and didn't pick up Naoru Gamo's words. But at this time, Yoshida Yuo finally reacted and complained to Yoshikawa Kosuke: "My lord, where have you been these days?" Didn't you say before that you just went out for a day or two? ”

Kosuke Yoshikawa laughed a few times with some embarrassment, and then replied: "Yes, originally Mei Taro and I just wanted to go around the capital and see what new changes have taken place around the capital over the years.

However, I heard that there were some epidemics in the south of the capital, and travel around the capital was restricted, and then I heard that the railway from Beijing to Zhangjiakou had been completed, so I simply took Mei Taro to Zhangjiakou to see, the grassland beyond the Great Wall is really vast..."

Kosuke Yoshikawa resonated with Naoru Gamo, and he kept nodding and saying, "Yes, that feeling of grandeur and vastness is something that I can't feel in this way." If it weren't for the time, I would have liked to keep on the train, which is said to be able to extend to the north of the desert to a place called Ulaanbaatar..."

On the way to the restaurant, Yoshida Yuo listened to the descriptions of the customs and people they saw on this trip, and he couldn't help but yearn for it for a while.

However, after sitting down in the restaurant and the restaurant had all the dishes they ordered, Yoshida Yuo finally remembered that he still had something to report to Yoshikawa Kosuke, so he had to interrupt the conversation between the two and said to Yoshikawa Kosuke: "Yoshikawa-sama, after you left, a little change has taken place here in the capital, and Katsunobu came to visit you the day before yesterday." ”

After hearing this, Yoshikawa Kosuke couldn't help but put down his wine glass, looked at Yoshida Yuo a little more seriously and asked, "Did Miyamoto-sama send him?" Did he say anything? ”

Yoshida Yuo replied, "Although Katsunobu didn't say it, I listened to the meaning of his words, and I should have come on behalf of Miyamoto-sama. However, when he saw that the adults were not there, he didn't say anything, but just said to me, I hope that we can get in touch with these children more.

Hey, if you want me to say that adults really shouldn't run around. You see that you are leaving, we are like a headless fly, and we don't know how to negotiate with which yamen of the Ming Kingdom in many things. It's very frustrating that someone comes to the door and you don't want to tell us anything about it. ”

Regarding Yoshida Yuo's half-truthful complaints, Yoshikawa Kosuke smiled and said, "Some things are useless even if I am here. As long as the Ming court does not make up its mind, the more we do, the more wrong we will be, and we may even get the opposite result. ”

Yoshida Yuo was a little surprised at this time, he looked at the other party in confusion and said, "Why did the adults say that?" Doesn't that mean that whether or not we can succeed in this mission has nothing to do with ourselves? ”

Kosuke Yoshikawa looked at the wine glass in his hand and said in a trance: "Although it is very frustrating to say this, it is the truth. In addition to showing the Ming people that the Shogunate is determined to reform the shogunate, whether or not we can succeed will depend on how the Ming court intends to determine the future of relations between the two countries.

You know, we ourselves are accustomed to doing things first and then thinking; The Chinese, on the other hand, are accustomed to thinking of the whole plan before doing it. So the most difficult thing to deal with the Chinese is at the beginning. Thankfully, we finally got through it. ”

"Huh? What does it mean to have passed? At this time, Yoshida Yuo and Gamo Naoyu both became confused, and the two couldn't help but ask Yoshikawa Kosuke in unison.

After drinking the remnants of the wine in the cup in one gulp and smacking his lips, Yoshikawa Kosuke replied to the two of them with a comfortable heart: "Didn't Katsunobu bring a message from Miyamoto-sama, let's go and get in touch with your friends more during this time." Miyamoto-sama is the Emperor's swordsmanship's master, and since he dares to say this, it means that His Majesty the Emperor has approved of our shogunate reform plan. Gorou, let's get ready when we go back, and we'll go to visit Taiko and the two of us together, and then it's time to get really busy..."

Just when I was talking about the future of Ben, Chongzhen summoned Zhang Pu for three consecutive days and conducted an in-depth discussion of the ideas and theories he proposed, in order to conform to the current direction of reform of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Youzhen felt that the ideology and theory proposed by Zhang Pu were almost in line with reality, he stopped discussing with Zhang Pu and said to him: "Next, you stay in the capital for a while, and I will issue an order to amnesty a group of exiles.

After pardoning your punishment, I will ask Yenching University to issue you a letter of appointment, and after you enter Yenching University, I will first assist Sun Zhiqi in doing the work of the Daming Times, and by the way, spread the theory you explained to me.

After you have established yourself in the capital, I will let Master Cui slowly talk about the affairs of land reform and hand it over to you. I hope you don't live up to my expectations of you. ”

Although he got what he was seeking, Zhang Pu's heart became nervous, he knew that once he publicly threw out his theory, there would be no turning back. The gentry, whom he regarded as rebellious and thieves, were obviously not going to have any chance of peaceful coexistence with him.

However, this thought only flashed in his mind, and was replaced by an irrepressible excitement that he had waited for more than 20 years to receive such recognition from the emperor. At this moment, it was as if a new life was beckoning to him, so he used all his strength to salute Chongzhen and replied: "The minister should be a man of heart and brain, in order to repay His Majesty's grace..."

Just when Zhang Pu was losing his sincerity to Chongzhen, the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River were dissatisfied with the natural disasters and the repeated rise of major cases in the imperial court in recent years, and a new round of political discussion was rising.

For example, Huang Zongxi of Yuyao, Zhejiang, in the literary society he organized, while criticizing the inadequacy of the government to these friends, openly put forward his own political propositions, claiming that the power of the imperial court should not be concentrated in the hands of the emperor or a few people in the cabinet, and that the affairs of the world should be put into public discussion, and that there should be "separation of powers" and "rule by the people."

In a small town in Kunshan, Suzhou, 29-year-old Gu Yanwu is guarding filial piety for his grandfather Gu Shaofu, while collecting records about farmland, water conservancy, minerals, transportation, etc., as well as materials on geographical evolution, to write "The Book of Diseases of the County of the World" and "Zhaoyu Chronicles", hoping to use these two books to achieve his political proposition of benefiting the country and enriching the people.

Compared with another time and space, these readers are less desperate and angry, but they have not changed their desire to use their political ideas to change reality. 166 Reading Network