In the winter and November of the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, the cold cone of Beijing was biting.

The cold wind whistled and blew on every pedestrian on the streets of Beijing, urging these pedestrians to speed up their pace, warm their bodies, and hurry home to avoid getting sick.

Since the end of October, the climate in the north has turned cold suddenly, and now in November, it is already cold and it is difficult to keep out the cold with cotton clothes and pants.

Ordinary people can't afford to wear robes, and the cotton clothes are not very thick, so they can only shrink into the house as much as possible to keep warm.

Xu Guangqi is also one of the general public who shrink at home to warm up and try not to go out, as a southerner, he never thought that Beijing was so cold when he set off to Beijing in the middle of the countryside, and he was very uncomfortable with the cold.

In the winter, let alone going out to enjoy the snow to express your chest, even if you stand by the window and breathe a cold breath, your teeth can be frozen.

Xu Guangqi, who did not have such high-quality cold protection things as brocade hats and mink furs, could only shrink into his cabin, but fortunately, the charcoal fire was still vigorous, and the room was warm, so that he could still insist on reading, so that he would not shrink into bed and find it difficult to read.

His family used to be rich when he was his grandfather, but in the hands of his father, he failed in business and his family was in the middle of the road, so he could only turn to farming.

And now he has to lift people, his family has acres of land that can be exempted from taxes, his fame is in his body, and he has no worries, of course, he is not willing to stop at lifting people, so he lives the life of a landlord and gentry.

His purpose was to apply what he had learned in his life to the court, bring the Ming Dynasty back on track, and change the Ming Dynasty with what he had witnessed and learned over the decades.

Therefore, he carefully prepared for the examination in Beijing, and for him, he had already crossed the most difficult part of the imperial examination, the township examination, and winning the Zhonghui examination meant that he would definitely be able to take the middle temple examination and become an official, in that case, his dream would be initially achieved.

He prepared for the exam with hope and confidence.

At noon, he simply ate some hot meals, took a nap, and then got up again to continue reading the book, and when he saw that he was serious, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the house.

This is a cheap small courtyard he rented in Jingshi, with two rooms and a small courtyard, which can be regarded as a small sparrow, one is a house, one is a kitchen, and a thatched hut is the toilet used by Izugong.

He likes it very much, the housing price of Jingshi is still not low, at least he can't afford it for a scholar who is rushing to take the exam, and it is still more cost-effective to rent a cottage until the end of the exam, and it is also the choice of many scholars.

The door was knocked, his train of thought was interrupted, and he had to brave the cold to go out to open the door, under the impact of various factors, Xu Guangqi's mood was naturally very bad.

He shouted "Who" unpleasantly, but he still put on a cotton coat and shrunk to open the door.

Outside the house and inside the house are two worlds, one is warm, the other is frozen to death, Xu Guangqi inhaled and exhaled fiercely, while running quickly to the door, the door opened, looking at a strange young man carrying a long box.

"Dare to ask Your Excellency is Xu Guangqi, Mr. Xu, right?"

Xu Guangqi frowned and looked this person up and down.

I don't know.

"Who are you? Why do you know the name below? ”

The young man bowed.

"Mr. Xu, under the command of Xiao Ruxun, Marquis of Zhennan, I came to visit on the order of Marquis Xiao."

Xiao Ruxun?

Xu Guangqi immediately understood everything.

After the success of the trial in Shuntianfu Township, Xu Guangqi once went south to return to his hometown, and when he passed through Nanjing City, he visited Ye Mengxiong, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, who appreciated his talent.

Ye Mengxiong told him that it would be difficult for his talents to make great achievements in the current Jingshi Imperial Court, but if he changed places, he might be able to do a great job.

At that time, Xu Guangqi was very surprised, he felt that a famous Confucian like Ye Mengxiong should not say such a thing.

Ye Mengxiong told Xu Guangqi about the past when he was ostracized by the imperial court after making great contributions and had to go south after almost losing his life, and told him that a practical talent like him is not popular in today's imperial court.

Why? Because there are many things that need to be worried about by the imperial court, which has been solved by one person, this gives those ministers of the court and China a good opportunity to compete for power and profit.

The current court is full of miasma, the ministers are not fighting among themselves, and it is difficult for talented courtiers to make great achievements.

Xu Guangqi was very curious, so he asked who that person was, Ye Mengxiong showed a look of reminiscence, and said the name - Xiao Ruxun.

The name Xiao Ruxun, Xu Guangqi is not unfamiliar at all, since the Battle of Korea, Xiao Ruxun's name has been widely spread in the north and south of the river, people are called the first general of Wanli, and some supporters have praised it as the Great Wall of the country beyond Li Chengliang and Ma Gui.

The reason is very simple, since he came to prominence, he has never been defeated, and he cleaned up the wreckage of the Bibai Rebellion in Ningxia, gained a reputation for resisting rebellion and being loyal, and created a classic battle of "overturning a giant city like revealing a piece of paper", which shocked the imperial court.

After that, he and Li Rusong competed for the position of the chief general of the Korean Campaign, and won the battle, commanding an army of 40,000 to defeat the Japanese rebellion, at the age of 23.

After a series of victories in Korea, he crossed the ocean to the Japanese mainland, killed the Japanese regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and broke the unified Japan in half.

When Xu Guangqi heard this, he was greatly admired, and felt that Daming finally appeared a real general with a strategic mind, or even a handsome talent.

In this battle, Xiao Ruxun killed nearly 200,000 Japanese pirates, completely crippled Japan, the confidant of the Ming Dynasty for many years, and the coastal people no longer had to worry about the return of the Japanese pirates.

Therefore, the war report came, and the happiest and most admired Xiao Ruxun was the coastal Shandong and southeastern provinces, including Xu Guangqi, who was born in Shanghai.

What's even better is that Xiao Ruxun found gold and silver mountains in Japan, which was not only much stronger, but also required Japan to pay war reparations and give Daming a large sum of silver every year, so Xu Guangqi thought that Daming's finances were abundant and many things could be done, which was all Xiao Ruxun's credit.

Then Xiao Ruxun went south to Dongwu Kingdom, pacified and exterminated the rebellion of Dongwu Kingdom, established Burmese Town in the territory of Dongwu Kingdom, and was named the Marquis of Zhennan by the emperor, the chief military officer of Yubian Pingnan, Shizhen Burma, and the legend came to an end temporarily.

These are the reasons for Ye Mengxiong?