After the ceremony, Zhou Yanru loudly played to Emperor Chongzhen, talking about how he was ordered to leave Beijing, how he worked hard, did his best, and finally lived up to the emperor's trust, did not cause civil unrest in various places, but collected grain and transported it to Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou. I implore the emperor to send another person to Zhangjiawan to count the grain and verify the amount.

In his words and deeds, the key point is highlighted, that is, he has worked tirelessly to complete the emperor's trust, and he is almost to the point of doing his best and dying.

After finishing speaking, he stood at the bottom and made a humble gesture, but his chest was upright, and his expression was flying between his eyebrows, but he couldn't escape the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, knowing what he was thinking in his heart.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't say anything, just picked up the piece of music on the imperial case and threw it into the corner of the imperial case. Gao Shiyue, the eunuch on duty on the side, immediately stepped forward, picked up the piece of music with both hands, and walked down to hand it to Zhou Yanru.

Seeing this, Zhou Yanru was slightly startled, not knowing what the emperor meant. Puzzled, he reached out and took it, unfolded it and looked at it.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, at a glance, the self-satisfaction just now flew out of the clouds. The smooth forehead also faintly beaded with sweat.

It turned out that what was recorded in this piece was the big and small things he did when he was ordered to go out of Beijing and run errands. Including when and where he went, how many times he went to the banquet, what level of banquet, and who accompanied him. How many times have I participated in the poetry tea party, how many poems have I written, and how many confidants I have. The amount of salt that is triggered, the amount of grain that is gathered, and so on, are all recorded in slightly important matters. These things strongly prove how nonsense Zhou Yanru just said about how hard it is to travel on a business trip.

Emperor Chongzhen was above, and when he saw that Zhou Yanru had finished reading it, he said lightly: "In the land south of the Yangtze River, the wind of association prevails. Zhou Qing is happy to be in it, and he is happy, it seems that he is very much in favor of it? ”

Zhou Yanru's hands holding the music trembled a little, and he bent down and bowed his head, not daring to make a sound.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, revealing a slight sneer. This Zhou Yanru is a typical sour Confucian in the late Ming Dynasty, like poetry, calligraphy and painting, like the stars holding the moon, and like the romantic life. At a young age, he was already an auxiliary minister, and when he went to the place, he was surrounded by everyone, and he did some things all day long.

Seeing that Zhou Yanru didn't speak at this time, Emperor Chongzhen said again: "Xu Qing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, left Beijing later than Zhou Qing, but he went around most of the Ming Dynasty, and now he has arrived on the grassland, this is conscientious and dedicated!" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yanru's waist bent even lower.

"Zhou Qing's trip to Jiangnan, I don't know what to think of the Restoration Society?" Emperor Chongzhen still asked in a light tone.

Zhou Yanru listened, if he didn't see the piece in his hand, or he would recommend the head of the society to the emperor and those backbone scholars. But at this time, he could already hear that the emperor's preferences for these were obviously disgusted, and if he said that again, he would really hit the wall with his brain.

Therefore, he hesitated a little, and then played in a low voice without confidence: "Back to Your Majesty, the atmosphere in the south of the Yangtze River is erosive, and the scholars like the style of women, and they are good at boasting, and the style of exaggeration prevails. Most of the backbone of the Restoration Society are the children of official eunuchs, and although they have talent and learning, they are not used for the right path, which is a pity. Through this trip to Jiangnan, the minister had a lot of contact with them, and he was really worried! ”

This resumption of society is currently in the limelight in Jiangnan. Under the rhetoric, it seems that there is also the trend of the leader Jiangnan Shilin. Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay much attention to it, judging from the news he had heard so far, he didn't like it very much.

Of course, if Emperor Chongzhen knew that in the original history, this Fushe would have replaced the position of the Donglin Party, and later became the giant of the Chongzhen Dynasty, controlling the imperial examinations of the Chongzhen Dynasty and controlling the government remotely. Zhang Pu, the first of its meetings, can even make Zhou Yanru, who is in the wilderness, re-emerge from the mountain as the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and his energy is so great that he is even called a folk emperor, I am afraid it is not just disliked.

At this time, after listening to Zhou Yanru's words, Emperor Chongzhen said to him: "Zhou Qing has worked hard to gather food, and for the sake of Zhou Qing's body, it is better to recuperate for a while." During this period of time, Zhou Qing might as well go to Jiangnan again, with Zhou Qing's talent, it may be possible to reverse the exaggerated wind of Jiangnan Shilin, how about it? ”

Although it is the language of discussion, the tone of speech is very resolute, and it does not give Zhou Yanru the possibility of vetoing at all.

Zhou Yanru looked at the piece of music in his hand, and the previous joy had already flown out of the clouds, sighed in his heart, and respectfully said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

He knew that this time he went to Jiangnan again, and it was estimated that he was going to fight the Confucians. It's really a creation and a trick, the first half of the year was still happy, and the second half of the year will be a sword.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw that Zhou Yanru agreed, his tone finally eased a little, and he said some polite words of condolence, and then let him retreat.

As far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, the Shilin atmosphere in the south of the Yangtze River has a great influence on the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the entire atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty is led by the Jiangnan side. Before, Emperor Chongzhen had learned about the erosion of the atmosphere over there through the chat group.

Just imagine, as the backbone of the Ming Empire, the future pillars of the talented scholars, but wearing women's clothes, competing in luxury, like this kind of atmosphere exists, what hope does the Ming have in the future?

And the reversal of the trend is not something that can be solved by killing a few people. The most important thing is that Emperor Chongzhen's current focus is still on the Liao affair and the disaster in the north of the Ming Dynasty. And Zhou Yanru is known for his talent and learning in Daming, so it can be said that he still has a relatively large influence in Damingshilin. It is believed that it will have a certain effect for him to go to Jiangnan and first stop the further erosion of Jiangnan Shilin's atmosphere.

When the matter of Liaodong Jianyu is settled and the Hetao side is stabilized, he will have the spare energy to start paying attention to the Jiangnan side and see how to clean them up!

Emperor Chongzhen thought so, so he put this matter behind for the time being. After all, although the affairs of Jiangnan are also important, they are not the most urgent. As for the grain that Zhou Yanru raised and transported to Tongzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, he did not need to transport it to Jingshi, and directly transferred it to Zhangjiakou. Let Hong Chengchou send troops from the grassland to Zhangjiakou to transport these grains back to Hetao, and as their winter food, it should barely be enough!

After arranging this matter, Emperor Chongzhen's eyes turned to Liaodong's side again. Through the chat group, he learned that the new army fleet was about to arrive at Phi Dao. Judging from Li Deming's message, the DPRK people are once again in dire straits. The Jianjun garrison in the capital of Korea coerced Gwanghaejun to send people to distribute grain everywhere, and more and more grain was forcibly requisitioned and transported to the capital for concentration.