Qian Yiai listened to the roar of the cell next to him, and immediately knew that the old guy was his senior brother Qu Shiyun.

Qu Shiyun is also a frequent acquaintance of Suzhou Prefecture in Nanzhili, and Qian Qianyi is a fellow countryman, only eight years younger than Qian Qianyi. Qu Shiyun's family background is very awesome, his grandfather Qu Jingchun was a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, his father Qu Ru was a senator in Huguang, and when he was young, he worshiped Donglin Confucian Qian Qianyi as a teacher, with such a great teacher and family background, Qu Shiyun was selected to be a jinshi at the age of twenty-eight, and was selected to be sent to Yongfeng, Jiangxi as a magistrate.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Qu Shiyun was promoted to the household department, and at the beginning of his tenure, he wrote a book to describe the injustice of the government, asked for compensation for Wang Zhiyu, and appealed for Sun Shenxing, requesting that Yang Hao and Wang Huazhen be killed immediately, clarifying the injustice of Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou colluding with others, and discussing the sins of the former auxiliary ministers Wei Guangwei, Gu Bingqian, Feng Quan, and Huang Liji, and then said that Zhu Tongmeng, who gave up his funeral post and built an ancestral hall for himself, was unforgivable, and Tang Bin, who had been dismissed for a long time, was not to be used. Emperor Chongzhen also took his advice.

When Qu Shiyun saw Chongzhen follow his advice, he couldn't help but be a little inflated, and when he recommended the cabinet elder in October, Qu Shiyun recommended his teacher, Qian Qianyi, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to enter the cabinet. Qu Shiyun offended Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the imperial cabinet, and the old fritter Wen Tiren's methods were not comparable to the political rookie Qu Shiren, so the master and apprentice were both dismissed from office and returned to their hometown in Changshu to retire. However, the mountains and rivers take turns, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the emperor hanged himself in Beijing, Qian Qianyi served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and immediately recommended his students to go out of the mountain, first as Ying Tianfu Cheng, and then as the governor of Guangxi in less than half a month.

In the original history, Qian Qianyi was the first rat at both ends, surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and was not reused, and after resigning and returning to his hometown, he was still unclear with the resistance forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and finally ruined his family. However, Qu Shiyun was different, resisted to the end in Guangxi, and was finally captured and never surrendered. After being executed by Kong Youde, the Yongli Dynasty gave him "Wenzhong". In July of the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo, the former general of the peasant army of the Lianming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty, recovered Guilin and summoned his grandson Qu Changwen to commemorate the Qu Shiqi Temple.

After the elimination of the Southern Ming Dynasty, in order to further consolidate the rule, alleviate the national contradictions, disintegrate the national consciousness, and reach a unified thought, the Manchu Qing Dynasty vigorously commended the loyal ministers (that is, the Ming Dynasty officials who died in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties for resisting the Qing Dynasty) At the same time, in the 41st year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor ordered the compilation of the "Biography of the Second Minister", which included all the original Ming Dynasty officials who defected to the Qing Dynasty, and even the founding minister Fan Wencheng was also selected, and the loyal to the Ming Dynasty were praised greatly”。

Qian Yiai walked to the door of Qu Shiyi's cell, bowed to the ground and said, "It turned out to be Senior Brother Qitiangong, Qian Yiai is so polite!" ”

Although Qu Shiyun is a student of Qian Qianyi, the two are only eight years old, and they are more friends than teachers and students, so Qian Yiai is so respectful in front of Qu Shiyi.

Qu Shiyun snorted and asked, "You are the teacher's second son, Qian Zigao?" You have grown so big and come out to be an official, what position do you hold now for Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu! Qu Shiyun saw Qian Yiai when he was a child, but at that time, Qian Yiai was only seven or eight years old and was still a Mengtong teenager.

Qian Yiai heard Qu Shiyun say this, and hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Your Majesty appointed Zigao as the county commander of Shangyuan!" ”

"What are you doing this time? Did you follow the order of the King of Chu to persuade him to surrender again? You tell that faint gentleman that the old man will never be loyal to him, and he will kill our master and apprentice early! ”

Qian Yiai saw that this pair of masters and apprentices were so stubborn, and knew that it was not easy to complete today's persuasion. Qian Yiai's brain teaser is spinning rapidly, what method do you want to use to impress these two?

Know it with reason, move it with emotion? No way! Both of them have been imprisoned for nearly three years, and there are not a hundred or fifty people who persuade them to surrender, so they must have used this trick.

Threaten them with death? Not at all! Neither of them is afraid of death, and this kind of trick is useless.

Threatening them with their families? No matter how you say it, you are also a scholar, and this kind of obscene trick really can't be used.

Qian Yiai thought of Ma Mingyuan's ignorance of himself last night, and couldn't help but be angry in his heart! Good! You Ma Mingyuan looks down on me, then I will set up a little obstacle for you to make your new deal impressed!

Thinking of this Qian bereaved love, he had an idea, bowed down and said: "Qitian Gong, don't be a mountain brother!" I'm not here to persuade you to surrender this time, but my father has resigned and returned to his hometown, and before leaving, he specially ordered his son to come and say goodbye to the two! Especially Qi Tian Gong, my father said that he is seventy years old this year, and he will probably never see him again, I hope Qi Tian Gong will cherish it! ”

Qu Shiyun and Qian Qianyi are both masters and apprentices and friends, and now they can't help but feel a little sad when they hear that their friends have resigned and returned to their hometowns, and said that they are likely not to see each other in the future.

"Hey! Why did the teacher resign? Could it be that he was oppressed by that faint king? ”

As soon as Qian Yiai heard that there was a play, he hurriedly said: "That's not it, His Majesty the Emperor is very good to his father, and he gave him the honorary title of Taishi before leaving, and the main reason for his resignation is... ”

Qian Yiai's hesitation, Qu Shiyun's curiosity was aroused, and he hurriedly asked: "Tell me quickly, why did you resign!" ”

"That's the case, after Your Majesty came back, the first assistant Ma Jiyuan was deposed, and the two of you know, right? Then Ma Jiyuan's younger brother Ma Mingyuan came to power, this is nothing, the most important thing is that Ma Mingyuan wants to continue to implement the new policy, that is, to spread the land into the mu, and the officials and gentry pay for the grain! My father disagreed, believing that at a time when the country was in crisis, it was the time for the whole country to work together and the people to work together, how could such a chaotic government be carried out! It was for this reason that Ma Mingyuan attacked my father, my father lost confidence in the entire government, and he was old, so he resigned and returned to his hometown! ”

After listening to Qian Yiai's words, Qu Shiyun stood up and walked around the cell, saying as he walked: "Bastard! Monkey business! Ma Mingyuan has also been in charge of the government for many years, how can he be so nonsense? “

Qian Yiai heard Qu Shiyun say this, and hurriedly asked: "Does Qitian Gong also oppose the New Deal?" “

"The old man has read the new deal you got from Xu Bengao's letter, and it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, it's just to carry forward Zhang Jiangling's whip law! However, the timing of the implementation of your new policy is not right, if it is in a peaceful era, this new policy will definitely be like a whip law, and will prolong the life of the Ming Dynasty for decades, but what time is now? The war in the Central Plains has not stopped, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty still occupies half of our Ming Dynasty, and now it is necessary for the scholars to work together to drive out the Tartars. This Ma Mingyuan is really messing around! “

Qu Shiyun is also an old bureaucrat, the county governor, the prefect, the governor, and the central bureaucrat have all done it, so he naturally sees through the essence of the problem at a glance, so he came to the same argument as Ma Jiyuan, that is, the new policy is good, but the timing of its implementation is not right!

Qian Yiai heard Qu Shiyun say this, and hurriedly asked, "Qitian Gong, in that case, why don't you want to serve Your Majesty?" ”

Qu Shiyun heard Qian Yiai say this, sighed and said: "That Chu King is vicious, I heard that in Xinyang, in order to escape for his own life, he actually opened the city gate and let Kou into the city, how can such an emperor make me equal to loyalty?" Although Emperor Yongli is a little cowardly, he is much kinder to the scholars and the people of Limin, much stronger than the King of Chu! ”

"But Qitian Gong, King Gui has been beaten to Yunnan, I heard that Sun Kewang was defeated by Li Chengdong on the border of Yunnan and Guizhou, and fled to Myanmar with King Gui! And His Majesty has decided that the Northern Expedition will be made in March next year, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely not be able to stop the royal division, so the reunification of the world is just around the corner, why is Qitian Gong entangled in this? ”

Qu Shiyun sighed after listening to Qian Yiai's words, and sat on the grass without saying a word. It's not that Qu Shiyun is loyal to King Gui Zhu Youlang, it's just that he doesn't want to surrender and succumb to others.

Qu Shiyun has studied the Shenwu Imperial Court, and the court is divided into several factions to fight, and there is no need to be bad at all in the Chongzhen period. The Donglin Party is headed by Qian Qianyi, which is nothing, Qian Qianyi is Qu Shiyun's teacher, but the second-in-command of the Donglin Party is that Jiang Yueguang.

In Qu Shiyun's eyes, what kind of thing are you, Jiang Yueguang? Born in Jiangxi, he is just a peripheral member of the Donglin Party, so can he be compared with the disciple of Donglin boss Qian Qianyi? So only you are the second-generation core of the Donglin Party, and you Jiang Yueguang is not.

But the facts are diametrically opposed to what Qu Shiyun thought, Jiang Yueguang participated in Jin Shenghuan early in his hometown in Jiangxi, and made great contributions to the elimination of the Duoduo group, so he naturally became a celebrity in the Shenwu court, while Qu Shiyun was supporting Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, and Zhu Hongsan went to the opposite side. Therefore, even if Qu Shiyun surrenders to Zhu Hongsan now, he will have to succumb to Jiang Yueguang in the Donglin Party, which is really not something that the arrogant Qu Shiyun can bear. It is precisely because of this that Qu Shiyun was stubborn to the end after being captured and refused to surrender.

Qian Yiai is so smart, seeing Qu Shiyun's demeanor, in contact with the changes in the government, he immediately understands what Qu Shiyun thinks in his heart.

"Qitian Gong, let me tell you the truth, this time I came to be a lobbyist for Ma Mingyuan! Ma Shoufu will start to measure the land in Suzhou and Songjiang in the south of Zhili, that is, to prepare for the implementation of the new policy, let me persuade Brother Beishan to serve as the political envoy of Jiangsu, mainly responsible for measuring the land! ”

As soon as Qu Shiyun heard it, he understood what the hell Ma Mingyuan was thinking: "Hmph! Ma Mingyuan's good idea, did he want to borrow the name of Jiangling Gong to wave the flag and shout for him to implement the new policy? Go back and tell him that this heart is dead! ”

"Qitian Gong, I originally thought so, but I thought deeply, if this position is not our own person, and someone else, such as someone from the Huguang faction or the Guangdong faction, then our scholars from Nanzhili will not be unlucky? That's why I wanted to come in and discuss with Brother Qitian and Brother Beishan, can we talk to Ma Mingyuan and take this opportunity to make the new deal work, wouldn't it be better? ”