When Ji Qingwen heard this, he seemed to have been awakened from his sleep, and agreed with an "oh", his mind was blank and dazed.

In this dazed and blank space, he suddenly thought of a famous person in later generations who said a famous saying: "Power comes out of the barrel of a gun"; Another unknown person once said a famous saying called "If you have a gun, you are the king of grass" - this is a wise saying.

This made Ji Qingwen realize: Only when he has the army in his hands and the army that is completely subordinate to himself can he really grasp his own destiny in the troubled times that are coming at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and his wife will be a rich man.

So Ji Qingwen asked: "I remember that I asked the emperor for an edict and wanted to train and write guard soldiers in the name of weaving the yamen, why didn't the emperor's decree mention a word?" ”

Li Yuanyin hurriedly replied: "The emperor's holy decree has not been approved, so it is naturally a refutation of the adult's statement." But ......"

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he was full of discouragement and asked, "But what?" ”

"But before I left the Beijing Division, the old superintendent Sun Chengzong specially brought a letter to the adults. Inspector Sun Lao is a person who is good at commanding soldiers, and he is also the emperor's teacher, so presumably the letter will inevitably explain the reason for the saint's rejection of the request. ”

Li Yuanyin said as he took out a letter tightly wrapped in kraft paper and handed it to Ji Qingwen.

Ji Qingwen saw that this letter was quite thick, and he didn't know what was hidden in it, so he was a little curious, and was about to open the cover, but he heard Li Yan whisper in his ear: "Brother Ji be careful, Li Yuanyin is a Jinyi guard after all, I don't know the details, the private message given to you by Old Inspector Sun, it's better not to open it in front of him." ”

These words really reminded Ji Qingwen, asked him to quickly hide the envelope behind him, raised a smile on his face, and said to Li Yuanyin: "We were so busy talking about official business for most of the day that we forgot to entertain Commander Li." Come, since I have arrived in Suzhou, I can't help but go to the Yuelou, where I have a seat with a long bag, and I can just ask Commander Li to taste the flavor of Jiangnan. ”

So Ji Qingwen asked Li Yan to lead Li Yuanyin to take the first step, and he put the letter that Sun Chengzong gave him in the insurance place in his room, and then chased him out.

After being full of wine and food, Ji Qingwen rented an upper room in the famous Yuanwailou Inn in Suzhou City, and asked Li Yuanyin to live - just because his identity as the commander of the Jinyi Guard was too eye-catching, if he was arranged to live in the weaving yamen, it would undoubtedly make Ji Qingwen feel that there was an extra nail around him that could not be pulled out.

After the arrangements were made, Ji Qingwen rushed back to the weaving yamen with Li Yan.

When he returned to the yamen, it was already unitary time, although the two of them drank some wine, but they did not feel the slightest sleep, and the first thing they did when they returned to the yamen was to open Sun Chengzong's letter together.

Because the sky was dark, Ji Qingwen instructed Xing'er to light a circle of five or six candlesticks to illuminate the room as if it were daytime, and then took out the knife used to cut paper, carefully cut the cover of the letter, and then took out an envelope, a stack of paper and a piece of yellow silk cover from it.

Ji Qingwen took the envelope first, tore it open and looked at it, and sure enough, it was a letter written by Sun Chengzong to himself.

At the beginning of the letter, Sun Chengzong greeted a few words, praised Ji Qingwen's deeds, and then used special words to explain why the emperor would reject Ji Qingwen's request to recruit guards-

It turned out that the weaving yamen had always been only responsible for manufacturing and purchasing tribute, and occasionally had the duty of collecting public opinion for the emperor, but there had never been a precedent for recruiting soldiers; Second, the imperial court cracked down on the eunuchs, and it was inevitable to reuse the Donglin Party, and the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce had close contacts with the Donglin Party, but the weaving yamen had a violent conflict with the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, which was equivalent to forming a beam with the Donglin Party.

Therefore, whether it is from the consideration of conventions and rules, or from the actual situation, the weaving yamen cannot be allowed to recruit soldiers in a short period of time.

Writing this, Sun Chengzong's words turned sharply-

However, soldiers did not have to be recruited in the name of weaving yamen, and although the emperor now rejected Ji Qingwen's request on the chapter, he agreed that he could recruit the village warriors in his own name to take on the duty of escorting silk and silver to prevent the small ones from coveting them.

In this regard, Sun Chengzong, who was deeply versed in military strategy, also specifically instructed him in his letter: Although the folk customs in Jiangnan are a little weak, it was the base camp of the Qi family army back then, but it is a pity that the Qi family army has disappeared after the expedition to Liaodong, and it is just the right opportunity to visit the descendants of the Qi family army and rebuild this elite division that has repeatedly made military achievements.

Of course, all the funds for organizing the training of the village warriors cannot be allocated by the imperial court, and can only be spent in the weaving yamen's own funds. At the same time, the imperial court can't completely let Ji Qingwen organize his own army, and Li Yuanyin, the commander of Jinyiwei, will be stationed in Suzhou from today, in addition to helping Ji Qingwen do some mobile phone intelligence and other things, it is also a constraint on him.

It seems that Li Yuanyin is really a chess piece left by Emperor Chongzhen's side.

After Ji Qingwen realized this, although he was a little disappointed, after all, Sun Chengzong had already said the ugly words in front of him, which made him feel a little relieved, so he continued to look down-

Sun Chengzong went on to write that Ji Qingwen's impeachment of Qian Qianyi's opinion could not be publicly approved by the emperor, but it was also adopted to some extent - Qian Qianyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, naturally could not be done, and even the original left attendant of the Ministry of Rites was also reduced to the right attendant, listed after Xu Guangqi. As for the selection of the first assistant to the cabinet, in order to calm down the public opinion, Zhou Yanru, who has no party or faction, can only be selected by casting lots in a golden bottle.

Next, Sun Chengzong mentioned Zheng Zhilong's problem again. He said that he was too close to Japan, and he did not know what his intentions were, and he could not but take precautions. However, now that the imperial court is financially tight, and it cannot rely on him to communicate domestic and foreign trade, it needs to be restrained first, and then dealt with in the future.

Therefore, Sun Chengzong specially asked the emperor for ten more surveys, and asked the new Zuo Lang Xu Guangqi of the Ministry of Rites to sign them and hand them over to Ji Qingwen, specially used to buy people's hearts - that stack of paper is a survey document worth thousands of gold in the eyes of maritime merchants.

For Zheng Zhilong, Ji Qingwen already had a plan in his heart.

He knew that Zheng Zhilong was not loyal to the Ming Dynasty in history, and he had also committed a failure to surrender to the Qing court. From this point of view, Zheng Zhilong is just a businessman by nature, and what he believes in is only the word "profitable".

From this point of view, this Zheng Zhilong and Ji Qingwen are quite similar.

Therefore, for Zheng Zhilong, the most important thing is to prevent him from becoming too big and avoid the occurrence of the situation of the Zheng family in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.

But this is all for later, the first thing to do now is to restrain Zheng Zhilong first, use him to earn a lot of silver, so as to expand his economic strength, eliminate hostile forces, support opposition forces, and finally establish a maritime force that Ji Qingwen can control.

After talking about Zheng Zhilong, Sun Chengzong taught Ji Qingwen in his letter that he must be cautious and cautious for officials, although the errands assigned by the emperor must be done well, but they should not offend people too much - you must know that Nanzhili is a place of great treasures and outstanding people, and it is also the base camp of the Donglin Party.

For example, when Ji Qingwen escorted the tribute silk to Songjiang Mansion for handover, after the conflict with the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, it attracted countless impeachment articles - the document on the cover of the yellow silk letter in the letter is the title and abridgement of the impeachment of Ji Qingwen.

Ji Qingwen opened the file and looked at it, only to see that the titles of these articles were shocking at first glance:

For example, "Impeachment of Ji Qingwen for Selling Tribute Without Permission" and "Impeachment of Ji Qingwen for Colluding with Bandits and Hearts Must Not Be Asked", all of which were written about Ji Qingwen's conflict with the weavers of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce in Songjiang Mansion; Another example is "Impeachment of Ji Qingwen's Crazy Rebellion Against Illegal Foreign Affairs", "Impeachment of Ji Qingwen for Colluding with Japanese Criminals for Plotting Misdeeds", which is about Ji Qingwen's friendship with Tang Ruowang and Zheng Zhilong; Another example is "Impeachment of Ji Qingwen Yue Li and Twenty Things", which is to collect and summarize the cowhide and pretending to be forced that Ji Qingwen has bragged about since he arrived in Suzhou, and use it to attack Ji Qingwen.

However, although the titles of these bullets are thrilling, there is no dry goods and real hammers inside, and there are sentences such as "with affection" and "it should be so" at every turn, for fear of using the "unwarranted" to frame Yue Fei and the "intention" to frame Yu Qian.