On May 25 of the first year of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Yueguang, who was heading south, finally came to Guangzhou. It took nearly 20 days to go south this time, and in fact, it was completely possible to go faster, but Jiang Yueguang and his family couldn't get up quickly.

Coming to the outside of Guangzhou, Jiang Yueguang looked at the only big city in South China that was still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and thought in his heart, he was finally going to see that bastard emperor Zhu Hongsan, some people said that he was eloquent and strategic, some people said that he was cruel and easy to kill, this time I want to see for myself what kind of person he is, if it is really a person from the Zhongxing Ming Room, then the old man is desperate to help him with a thousand knives.

Guangzhou was originally a large city in South China, except for Nanjing and Hangzhou. Now there are a large number of wealthy families who have fled from the south, and Zhu Hongsan's new army is strong, and the news of the 7,000 annihilation of 100,000 in Ganzhou has reached Guangzhou. There is even more fearlessness in the city of Guangzhou, completely running and dancing according to the horses, and there is no atmosphere of dying at all.

Jiang Yueguang just came from Jiangxi, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not kill many people in Jiangxi, but after several years of war, Jiangxi is also a ruined image. Now when I first arrived in Guangzhou, I saw that it was prosperous, and there was no sign of war at all, and I was really a little uncomfortable.

Jiang said that Guangyi walked by water, passing through Shunde from the Beijiang River, and then passing through the mouth of the Pearl River to the Nancheng Wharf in Guangzhou.

Now there are a total of 21 wharves in the south of Guangzhou, lined up along the Pearl River. On the shore is the bustling Nancheng district of Guangzhou, where porcelain from Jiangxi, fruits from Fujian and Guangxi, sugar from Leizhou, silk from Zhaoqing, etc., are all traded in the commercial houses of Nancheng. In addition to the above goods, there are also iron, paper, cloth, bamboo, medicinal herbs, tea, wine, lacquerware, money, etc. The sea ships carried the goods of Guangdong and South China, and brought in the specialties of all parts of the South Seas, such as sumac, pepper and ivory from Siam and Cambodia, silver and copper ingots from Luzon, with rich and exotic goods, very delicately carved rhinoceros horns, white and bright ivory, bird's nests as white as snow, and candles burning in temples with exotic sandalwood fragrances. Others such as quilts, rattan mats, yellow wax, borneol, straw mats, pan paper, pan mirrors, torches, coarse silk cloth, Western cloth, all kinds of leather goods such as sand fish skin, roe skin, otter skin, horse skin, snake skin, ape skin, various minerals such as gold, tin, lead, copper, bauxite, etc. There is also a large amount of rice imported from Annam and Luzon to feed the southbound migrants.

There are seven markets for commodity trading in Nancheng District, which are very prosperous. The market faces the harbour road, and small boats can be driven to the door of the shop. Residents have shops, and every household does business, including bean cake shop, rice shop, sugar winter melon shop, rock sugar shop, medicinal herb shop, and Zhuding shop. Streets, docks, shops, and temples are populated with visitors with accents from all over the world, including Westerners with high noses and blue eyes.

Jiang Yueguang came to Guangzhou when he was young, and Guangzhou was quite prosperous at that time, but it was still much worse than Nanjing, Yangzhou and other places, that is, a prefecture-level scale in Nanzhili, but he didn't expect that more than a dozen people who didn't come to Guangzhou have developed into this.

Now that Jiang Yueguang's boat has landed on the official wharf, standing at the bow of the boat, Jiang Yueguang looked at the crowd of people on the wharf, and asked the Qian family around him: "I didn't expect Guangzhou to have developed to such a point, this Guangzhou magistrate is very capable!" ”

"Huh! Master Jiang is wrong, Guangzhou can develop like this is a matter of the past few years, since Emperor Shenwu set up a development zone in Nancheng four years ago, Guangzhou has only begun to prosper, there were not so many merchants before! ”

"Oh? This is all developed in the past four years? In Jiang Yueguang's heart, it is completely impossible to develop into this state without ten or eight years. It's only been four years since I heard that it has developed into this, and I can't believe it at all.

"That's right! If there is a chance, Mr. Jiang should go to Dongguan to see, which is now the second Guangzhou, and the population is not inferior to here at all. But the air there is not very good, my lord said what kind of pollution, and the villain doesn't understand what it is! ”

Jiang Yueguang also knew that this family member couldn't say anything, he was very anxious to see Qian Qianyi now, and he had a lot to ask Qian Qianyi.

There were not many people in the Jiang family, so they quickly got off the boat, hired a few big cars on the dock, and the group ran along Nancheng Street to Beicheng Qianfu.

Jiang Yueguang looked at the residents of Guangzhou, if he hadn't just come from Jiangxi, he had seen too many unkempt and skinny homeless people, and he had completely forgotten that he was in troubled times. A peaceful scene in the city of Guangzhou, the naughty boys playing on the streets, the merchants coming and going, the merchants selling along the street, and the guys greeting on the street, seeing this Jiang Yueguang thought of the Nanjing he traveled to after the lift, and it was completely peaceful and prosperous. Wherever you can imagine, it's a hellish sight thousands of miles to the north.

Qian Qianyi's mansion was next to the palace, and when he came to the gate of the Qian mansion, the servant asked Jiang Yueguang to wait for a while, and ran into the mansion to inform that Master Jiang was coming.

After a while, the door of Qian's mansion opened, and a young man walked out. Seeing Jiang Yueguang standing outside the door, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute.

"Uncle is on top, and the little nephew is polite!"

Jiang Yueguang and Qian Qianyi are both Donglin bosses, so they naturally met Qian Qianyi's youngest son, Qian Sunai.

Jiang Yueguang stepped forward to help Qian Sun Ai and said: "Virtuous nephew, please get up, I haven't seen the virtuous nephew grow more and more handsome in a few years!" Qian Sunai is twenty years old this year, and he just married Chen Zizhuang's niece last year, and he is full of spirit, which is the most perfect moment for a man.

Hearing Jiang Yueguang praise himself, Qian Sunai blushed and said, "Uncle praised him, the little nephew is still much worse than the younger brother!" ”

Jiang Yueguang glanced at his son Jiang Huan and said: "How can he compare to you, he just took the exam in his thirties, and his nephew is a lifter at the age of seventeen!" ”

Jiang Huan, who was behind Jiang Yueguang, was really embarrassed when he heard his father belittle him so much.

Qian Sunai was also embarrassed to be said, so he hurriedly interrupted and said: "Uncle and brother, please come in, my father is on duty, I have already sent someone to inform my father, he will be back in a while!" ”

Jiang Yueguang nodded and followed Qian Sunai into the Qian Mansion.

Qian Qianyi is now on duty in the military aircraft department in the palace, and now that the north is in a tight situation, the military aircraft department in charge of military affairs is naturally very busy. Several other deputies, Zhu Hongyi, followed Emperor Zhu Hongsan every day, Qian Lide was in charge of Jinyiwei, and Cao Fang was in charge of Dongchang.

Qian Qianyi heard the report from the waiter outside the door that the servant in his house was coming, saying that an important guest had come to the house, and asked him to go back. Qian Qianyi knew that Bacheng Jiang Yueguang was coming, so he hurriedly said to Chen Bangyan, went out of the palace gate to find the servant, and went home with him.

Qian Qianyi attaches great importance to Jiang Yueguang's arrival, now he is the only one in the Donglin Party in Guangdong, and Nan Zhili has also escaped a few scholars, but seeing that his own people are lonely and lonely, they are all under the door of Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia, and Jiang Yueguang's arrival this time is a good opportunity to increase Donglin's strength.

Qian Qianyi was in contact with military intelligence at the military aircraft, and he knew that with the strength of the new army, as long as the emperor wanted the Northern Expedition, he could completely recover Nanzhili, and at that time his identity as a giant of Donglin would definitely be reused. When the time comes, he will marry Jin Shenghuan externally, and suppress the Huguang faction and the Guangdong faction in Donglin, and he will definitely be able to put his grandson on the throne of the prince.

Qian Qianyi returned home with wishful thinking, and Jiang Yueguang was talking in the house accompanied by Qian Sunai.

"Brother Yan and Xian, I'm finally waiting for you!" Qian Qianyi was still at the gate of the courtyard, so he shouted loudly.

Seeing that Qian Qianyi was back, Jiang Yueguang also stood up, greeted the door, and said, "Hmph! What is Brother Mu Zhai doing with my old bones out of the mountains? ”

"Brother Yan and Xian, there's no way! Now that the country is ruined and the family is ruined, do you still want to stay out of the matter? ”

Qian Sunai sprayed when he saw the two old guys meeting, knowing that these were not something that his junior could listen to, so he hurriedly pulled Jiang Huan out, leaving the two old guys to fight.

Seeing that there was no one in the house, Jiang Yueguang had no scruples, he didn't look down on Qian Qianyi going north to be an official of the Manchu Dynasty.

"Brother Mu Zhai, didn't you go to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to be an official? Why did you run to Guangzhou again? ”

Hearing Jiang Yueguang say this, Qian Qianyi secretly scolded in his heart, this old guy really can't open any pot, but it was really a foolish move to go to Beijing at that time, and he could have thought that Zhu Hongsan could make such a big career.

"Brother Yan and Xian, don't humiliate Brother Yu. At that time, the city of Nanjing was broken, I thought that the Ming Dynasty was over, and in order to reduce the suffering of the people of Nanzhili, I agreed to the request of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and went to Beijing to be an official! ”

Qian Qianyi sighed, to be honest, he regretted it in his heart now.

"Brother Yan and Xian, you don't know! When I arrived in Beijing, those Manchurians were like slaves to us and other former Ming officials, and they had to kneel and kowtow to the court, and they could not be reused. Let the foolish brother go to the Ministry of Rites as a waiter, responsible for compiling the history of the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, at this time, the foolish brother was not in good health, so he took a leave of absence and went back to his hometown in Changshu to retire, I thought that this life would be like this, but I didn't expect Emperor Shenwu to read the old love and let people go to Changshu to invite me out of the mountain, so the foolish brother came to Guangzhou. ”

Qian Qianyi This is completely for the sake of putting gold on his face, after all, it sounds good to say, and the literati still have some face.

Jiang Yueguang is not a young man who has not been deeply involved in the world, and he knows that Qian Qianyi is not in good health, and he is a fart for the people or something, and it is the main thing that he cannot be reused when he goes to Beijing. However, Zhu Hongsan was able to send someone to pick him up unexpectedly, Jiang Yueguang knew about Qian Qianyi and Zhu Hongsan's dirty affairs, when Lao Qian's daughter was snatched away by Zhu Hongsan, Lao Qian also said that he would cut off relations with this daughter, but he didn't expect to be able to come to his son-in-law in turn.

"Brother Mu Zhai, I remember that you didn't get along with Emperor Shenwu when you were in Nanjing, how can the emperor still go to Changshu to pick you up?"

Qian Qianyi's old face flushed, he could say that people were going to pick up his original partner Chen, and he was cheeky to follow him afterwards.