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Walking out of the gate of Dongchang, Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang were really like a world apart, although as two political prisoners, Dongchang did not torture them, but it was a prison, not their own home, or the mentality of waiting for when they would die every day could also make people collapse.

Qu Shiyun stood at the gate of the East Factory and bowed down to Jiang Yueguang and said: "Yan Jigong, thank you for your rescue, our master and apprentice are not going to be officials, I want to go back to Changshu to farm for a living, and I want to go back to Jiangling in other mountains." ”

Qu Shiyun is now completely disheartened, and during the Chongzhen period, Qu Shiyun was implicated by his master Qian Qianyi and was dismissed from office and went home. It's easy to wait until Chongzhen died, and his teacher came to power and planned an errand for Qu Shiyun as the governor of Guangxi, but before he took office, Hongguang Dynasty died.

Qu Shiyun had no way to vote for Zhu Youlang, but Zhu Youlang was also fighting in the court, but at that time, the government could still hold on under the maintenance of Qu Shiyun and Lu Daqi. Who knew that there was a Zhu Hongsan on the edge of Guangxi, and this faint monarch was more ruthless to Zhu Youlang, his cousin, than the Qing army, and finally drove Zhu Youlang to Yungui.

After Qu Shiyun was captured by Zhu Hongsan, he originally wanted to die, but he knew that Zhu Hongsan, a faint king, seized Qu Shiyun's weakness and coerced him to become an official again with the righteousness of his family and country. This time, Qu Shiyun thought that he finally didn't have to get involved in the party struggle in the court, after all, he was not a central official but a local official. But who would have thought that Zhu Hongsan's party competition here is more powerful than Zhu Youlang's side, Zhu Youlang is only divided into the Chu Party and the Donglin Party, and there are four big political factions on Zhu Hongsan's side, of which the Chu Party is also divided into three small groups, and the Zhejiang Party is also divided into the East Zhejiang faction and the North Zhejiang faction.

In addition, after this Suzhou incident, Qu Shiyun found that Zhu Hongsan, the emperor, and his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang were all the way, cruel and ruthless. It's better for this kind of monarch to leave early, so Qu Shiyun made up his mind in prison that as long as he could get out alive, he would resign immediately and never wade into the troubled waters here again.

Jiang Yueguang saw that Qu Shiyun was so resolute and knew that he had made up his mind, but Jiang Yueguang couldn't let Qu Shiyun resign like this. Now the Donglin Party is in short supply, and only Jiang Yueguang is a person in the cabinet who is struggling to support him, and only one or two squires in the ministries are from Donglin. There are a few feudal officials in the locality, but they are either too old or not qualified enough, so Jiang Yueguang treats Qu Shiyun as his successor.

Now seeing that the successor wants to pick a son and not work, Jiang Yueguang didn't say anything, just said: "Okay, don't talk about this now, go back and freshen up first!" ”

Jiang Yueguang asked his family to go to the mouth of the alley, found two small sedan chairs, and then pulled Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang back to their home.

Jiang Yueguang's mansion is very large, as a first-class official, Jiang Yueguang has a monthly salary of 1,000 silver dollars, tens of thousands of silver dollars a year, not counting some winter and summer subsidies, so Jiang Yueguang lives a good life even if he does not accept bribes.

Jiang Yueguang's son Jiang Xiang followed Zhu Hongsan with his father when he was in Jin Shenghuan Jiangxi anyway, and he was also regarded as an anti-Japanese cadre, so after the national victory, Jiang Xiang was elected to Sichuan and became the prefect of Chongqing. Therefore, in addition to the servants of Yahuan in Jiang's mansion, only Jiang Yueguang's wife is there.

After Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang entered the mansion, they first visited Jiang Yueguang's old wife, and then freshened up and changed into a new set of clothes under the service of the servants.

Jiang Yueguang was waiting for Qu Shiyun's master and apprentice in the study, and after seeing the two of them sit down, Jiang Yueguang asked, "Qitian, do you really want to resign and go home?" ”

Qu Shiyun listened to Jiang Yueguang's question, sighed and said: "Yan Jigong, in the next place, Zhu Hongsan, a faint gentleman, can refresh the rule of officials and return the world to a bright future, but look at the present!" The DPRK and China are controlled by traitors, the place is full of black smoke and miasma, the people are all for money, and etiquette and music are collapsing everywhere! This society is no longer what we imagined, so we have to resign next! ”

Jiang Yueguang is also a master of Confucianism, and naturally knows that traditional Confucianism believes that only the noble and the low, the noble and the low, the elder and the young, and the relatives and relatives have their own courtesies, can we achieve the ideal society of the monarch, the minister, the father, the son, the brother, the husband, and the woman in the Confucian mind. However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming, a sage, appeared, and Wang Yangming's mind advocated emancipation of the mind and independence of personality. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, and the mistake is to catch up with the great turmoil at the end of the Ming Dynasty when this kind of thinking is in a pandemic.

Before Wang Yangming, when Cheng Zhu Lixue was popular, Confucianism had no practical significance in objective reality, so it was only "thinking", not "doing". However, the emergence of Wang Yangming made some scholars discover that traditional Confucianism is not just "thinking", but "doing" better.

Of course, this kind of thinking is progressive, but Wang Yangming forgot that there are only a few people in this society who can do things after all, and most people stay at the stage of "thinking". Therefore, after Wang Yangming's "Xinxue" occupied a dominant position, the traditional Confucianism was completely expelled from the imperial court, which was also the fundamental reason for the continuous party strife in the late Ming Dynasty. Coupled with the fact that Xinxue advocates personality independence, what's wrong with you Zhang Juzheng? Isn't it the same as us, with one nose and two eyes? What's wrong with your emperor? Isn't it also three meals a day?

When the elders and the young are not respectful, what is reflected in the local is moral degradation, the local intellectuals take the trend of wearing strange costumes, and the landlords and squires take money as their own responsibility! In the imperial court, it is a bunch of incapable villains who look down on capable people, and at the same time, because of the influence of psychology, they can't look down on you Lao Tzu and will scold you, no matter what kind of emperor you are! In the end, it developed to the point that with Zhang Juzheng's authority, he didn't dare to suppress speech, can such a court still be good? (Regarding the negative meaning of mind, Xiaosheng has time to post a separate post to talk about it, so I won't go into detail here!) ）

Qu Shiyun studied under Donglin boss Qian Qianyi, and what he learned was the set of heart learning, but Qu Shiyun was much stronger than other Donglin Party members, Qu Shiyun had many years of experience as an official, and he knew that it was not okay to just say nothing, so he was able to be bewitched by Zhu Hongsan after being captured, and he went out again for the sake of his family and country, and implemented this new deal with great resistance.

But what did Zhu Hongsan do? Unexpectedly, under the false accusation of the Chu Party in the DPRK, Qu Shiyun was arrested without investigation and without any evidence, which really made the doer Qu Shiyun too sad.

Jiang Yueguang sighed and said after hearing Qu Shiyun say this: "Qitian, the old man knows that you are depressed in your heart, but we have no one available in Donglin now, the old man is sixty-nine this year, and he will be in office next year, who do you say will be able to support Donglin's stall when the old man leaves?" ”

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were seventy Zhishi, but it mainly depends on the emperor's meaning, the emperor can't help you even if he wants to, Yan Song is seventy-six years old and is still doing the errand of the first assistant. But Jiang Yueguang knew that he was not Yan Song, and he did not have the emperor's holy family, plus the Chu Party in the DPRK and the Central Committee was eyeing him on the side, as long as the time came next year, Ma Mingyuan would definitely squeeze himself out of the cabinet, and it would be too late to find a successor.

"Yan Jigong, why don't you pick the top and the bottom? Lu Daqi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Hou Sui, the governor of Zhili, He Tengjiao, the governor of Sichuan, and Liu Siyi, the governor of Huguang, a disciple of Yan and Gong, are not all qualified to enter the cabinet? ”

"Qitian, Hou Sui is about the same age as me, he is sixty-eight years old this year, how many years can he work? He Tengjiao was at both ends of Huguang back then, and he was not trusted by His Majesty at all, and he couldn't enter the cabinet at all! Lu Daqi is old and qualified, but don't forget that if Lu Yan is from Suining, Sichuan, and Feng Ziyong is a township party, how can such a person convince others in Donglin! As for Liu Siyi, he is too young, only fifty-two years old this year, and it is almost too early for him to take over from you after you are the official! ”

Qu Shiyun thought about it like this, the Donglin Party looked very powerful in the local area, and the Donglin Party accounted for four of the ten governors in the country, not counting the governor's political envoys, but although these people were large, they were really the ones who were qualified to enter the cabinet.

At this time, Qu Shiyun was fighting fiercely in his heart, whether to stay or not? Stay in the future, you must fight with the Chu party, the Chu party is powerful, and it is very likely that you will not get a good death. But what about not staying? The attraction of entering the cabinet is too great, Confucianism pays attention to self-cultivation to govern the country and level the world, self-cultivation Qu Shiyun has done it, and Qu Shiyun has not had the ability to ask himself, then there is only governing the country!

Jiang Yueguang saw Qu Shiyun hesitate and knew what he was worried about. Jiang said that he has been an official for decades, and he is really cunning, he knows that Qu Shiyun wants to resign from the official is not a matter of will, in fact, he is not reused is the main reason. Now that the highest honor of entering the cabinet is placed in front of him, it is fake if he is not moved. It's just that he hasn't expressed his position yet, so he must be worried that he won't be able to compete with the Chu Party.

Jiang Yueguang said to Qu Shiyun: "Qitian, but are you worried about Ma Mingyuan's revenge? You can rest assured that Ma Mingyuan's family is not the only one in the cabinet, and Li Zhi is on our side. Even the Chu Party is not monolithic among them, and Tong Yangjia, Feng Ziyong, and Fu Wenlong are restraining Ma Mingyuan, you can rest assured! Not to mention His Majesty! ”

Qu Shiyun has never been a central official in Zhu Hongsan's group, but he has also heard of a mess of mud in Zhu Hongsan's group, which is really better than Zhu Youlang's side. But Qu Shiyun heard Jiang Yueguang say that His Majesty still wants to clean up Ma Mingyuan, so this is not clear!

"Yan Jigong, just now you said that Your Majesty is not at ease with Ma Mingyuan? Aren't they peace with kings and ministers? Didn't Ma Mingyuan follow His Majesty in Wuchang? ”

"Hmph, if you think so, you're underestimating Your Majesty!" After Jiang Yueguang finished speaking, he looked outside the house, and there was no one, so he whispered to Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang: "Your Majesty, this person has a generous appearance, but in fact, he is very small-minded. The old man has followed His Majesty for seven or eight years, and found that every time His Majesty prides himself on Li Shimin, he will say that Ma Mingyuan is his Fang Xuanling, but after the old man's observation, His Majesty is not Li Shimin at all, if you want to find a similar emperor, the Taizu of this dynasty is very similar to His Majesty the Emperor, and he really deserves to be a family! ”()

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