Just when Ji Qingwen thought he was fully prepared, he suddenly saw the door tremble, and the wooden door, which was originally very strong, was opened from the outside with a "bang", and the door latch, which was the thickness of the child's arm, was effortlessly torn into two sections.

Ji Qingwen didn't expect that the rather thick door in front of him was so vulnerable, he was so frightened that he forgot to pull the trigger for a while, and let Xu Hongru throw the flashing wooden door aside, and said with a smile: "Lord Ji, why did you hide in the house before we finished speaking?" ”

"If I don't talk to you, what else can I say? If you want to buy this 'Gunyuin', you can buy it, please forgive me for not being able to accompany it, and I will have to pay the bill and go home. Ji Qingwen said, not forgetting to aim at Xu Hongru with two pistols, one left and one right, and once he made any rash moves, he would make a bloody hole in his chest.

Unexpectedly, Xu Hongru's attitude was unusually polite: "Why does Lord Ji need to make such a picture of the current appearance of the enemy?" You and I are old friends, can't we talk well? ”

"Okay, okay, then let's talk." Ji Qingwen pushed the boat down the water and said, "Then let me ask you, this is the private room of our husband and wife, what are you doing when an old man runs in?" I ask you to go out first. ”

Xu Hongru is also the leader of the White Lotus Sect, seeing that in addition to Ji Qingwen here, there is also a delicate woman, but she doesn't want to be rude, she still puts on an old-timer style, and says: "What Lord Ji said is extremely true. This is the private room of Lord Ji and his wife, some things are inconvenient to talk about here, why don't you ask the adults to go out with the old decay, and then talk about it in detail? ”

Ji Qingwen immediately refused: "Talk about it in detail? What is there to discuss between you and me? ”

"Naturally, it's a grand event." Xu Hongru said, "In the first battle of the Jingshi, the merits of Lord Ji are not below in the slightest compared with Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou and others, but the emperor did not have the slightest reward, and the old man is really not worth it for Lord Ji." However, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, was punished for his merits and was imprisoned. This is not a kind of holy monarch, is it? ”

It stands to reason that Ji Qingwen can now directly fire two guns and kill Xu Hongru.

But the old White Lotus Sect Leader Xu Hongru actually commented in a few words that the emperor was coming, which aroused Ji Qingwen's curiosity.

So Ji Qingwen relied on the two powerful muskets in his hand, and teased: "You are a thief, and you dare to comment on the current emperor?" The so-called 'not a family, don't know the price of firewood and rice', let me ask you, have you ever had the experience of governing a province, a prefecture, or a county? Do you know how difficult it is to maintain the operation of a court? The current emperor is not very old, and sometimes he is not old, but just because you are a thief, you dare to talk about the current emperor, which is really shameless. ”

Xu Hongru was scolded by Ji Qingwen like this, and his wrinkled face couldn't help twitching twice, but he finally endured the indignation in his chest, coughed lightly and said, "Master Ji is right, the old man is indeed a thief." But can't thieves accomplish great things? Others don't say it, isn't Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, just a thief? And he once relied on Mingjiao. My White Lotus Sect is also a branch of the Ming Sect, and since he can succeed, why can't he ...... old decay?"

"Hahaha!" Ji Qingwen interrupted Xu Hongru's reading with a presumptuous laugh, "As far as you are, dare to compare with Zhu Yuanzhang?" Zhu Yuanzhang started as a small monk in his twenties and established the Ming Dynasty before he was forty years old. And you are almost seventy years old now, and you don't even have a small foothold, so you dare to compare with Zhu Yuanzhang? Isn't it shameful enough to think you're not ashamed? ”

Ji Qingwen's words can be described as heartbreaking, which made Xu Hongru's face a little unbearable, and his nostrils involuntarily gasped one by one.

Unexpectedly, Ji Qingwen was talking about the happy place, and he couldn't stop at all, and continued: "Do you think that Zhu Yuanzhang only relied on Mingjiao to achieve a great cause? No! What is the slogan he proposed? It is 'to expel the Hulu and restore China'. Don't look at this slogan as inconspicuous, but it named the main contradiction in society at that time: the contradiction between the vast number of Han working people and a handful of Mongolian nobles bought the hearts of the people at once. And you? What slogan do you have? Build Elysium? This is not a political slogan. ”

Xu Hongru listened to Ji Qingwen's words for a while, and followed his train of thought and asked, "What is that called?" ”

Ji Qingwen immediately replied: "You call this wishful thinking!" ”

"What a thief, you dare to say that the deity is 'delusional'! Come on, the old man is not like your nonsense, you have to go with me today, you have to go, you have to go, you have to go! Xu Hongru was already angry in his words.

Ji Qingwen couldn't give in again, and said: "Sect Leader Xu, I have told you all the things I can say, and the next things are things that can't be said and are not easy to say, and it will inevitably hurt your dignity if you say it." ”

Xu Hongru didn't care, and said-for-tat: "Why does Lord Ji need to refuse people thousands of miles away? What's more, the old man is not just talking nonsense, but also has a few important things, I want to ask you for help. ”

Ji Qingwen replied: "I'm a useless person below, I'm afraid there's nothing to do, I can help Sect Master Xu, right?" There is no need to talk about this matter in the future. ”

Xu Hongru's eyes flashed, and he said, "Lord Ji is too modest. Even if Lord Ji is useless, there is an extremely useful object in the hands of adults. What the old decay asks for is nothing else, this is the kind of thing. ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, his first thought was the two muskets in his hand, so he asked, "I don't know what Sect Leader Xu said?" ”

"Money." Xu Hongru's tone was extremely resolute, "It's money." It is said that Lord Ji is rich and rivals the country, even if he is placed in the Suzhou and Hangzhou paradises of the rich world, he is also a well-known rich man. Therefore, the old man dared to ask Lord Ji to leak a few taels of silver from between his fingers and give it to the old man. ”

Xu Hongru really found the right person.

Ji Qingwen is really a rich man, and with his character, as long as you plead with kind words, Ji Qingwen's heart will soften, maybe he can really give you a few thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver - it will be regarded as a begging for food.

But Xu Hongru is begging for it now, and he is obviously taking it by force!

Ji Qingwen thought about it: First, although Xu Hongru's martial arts are high, he has two pistols in his hands, and if he really fights hands, he may not really have the power to fight back; Second, he gave the White Lotus Sect silver, and he was accused of collaborating with the enemy, and those imperial historians of the Ming Dynasty were not easy to mess with, and when they encountered this kind of thing, they couldn't get up again, and they didn't know how to come over the next day with a snowflake-like concert; Thirdly, Ji Qingwen's own money was not blown by the wind, how could he give it away so lightly.

So Ji Qingwen was about to lie and said, "Sect Master Xu has wronged me." Be. I am the weaving admiral of Suzhou, and I do run a small wharf, doing business with foreigners. But there is a saying, it is called: 'There is a great difficulty'. I have more than 600 weavers, more than 1,500 dock workers, and a full 1,000 people in the village brave regiment, as well as a few capable helpers. How do these people feed? Who feeds you? Isn't it all my money earned with a tael or a tael of silver? ”

"So...... Could it be that the old man has found the wrong person? Xu Hongru asked rhetorically.

Ji Qingwen immediately took over the conversation and said, "It's good that Sect Leader Xu knows. In fact, it is now nameless and penniless. After a year, the money was spent completely. Now I really can't come up with the money, I have less money, and I'm afraid that Sect Leader Xu will laugh at it...... Otherwise, if the sect leader is still short of money in a few months, he might as well take a trip to Suzhou City and help him when he decides. ”

"Hahaha!" Xu Hongru suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Spreading falsehoods is really harmful!" It is said that Lord Ji is a rich man, and it is also said that the Lord paid the emperor to reward the three armies, which drove away the Manchurian Tartars. Looks like it's just rumors? ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he was so surprised that his eyes kept rolling.

You must know that you did not directly pay the emperor, but indirectly gave it to a group of Beijing officials in the court, and then handed it over to the emperor.

This matter is "concealed from the top and not from the bottom", although it is not done closely enough, but it is also something that the center of the imperial court knows, how can it be known by Xu Hongru, the leader of the White Lotus Sect?