A few days later, in the Imperial City of the Chinese Empire, which was renamed from the original Tianwang Mansion, a monk with long eyebrows and white beard, accompanied by Liu Changyou, deputy minister of agriculture of the Chinese Empire, sat in the left wing room on the side of the hall, waiting a little anxiously. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This old monk is none other than Wei Yuan, who is famous in history.

However, at this moment, Wei Yuan was a little uneasy in his heart.

As himself, although he has a certain reputation, it is limited to the Jiangnan literati circle. Moreover, that was a few years ago, and now, he can't even fit into the circle of literati.

The year before last, he was over sixty years old, encountered ups and downs, was impeached, and was dismissed and investigated for "delayed posting" and "playing with military aircraft", although he was found to be innocent and reinstated, but he was already disheartened, and he was too old to be deeply disappointed by the erosion of the imperial court, so he resigned and resigned because of the chaos in the world.

He came to Hangzhou, ordained himself as a monk in the East Garden Monastery in Hangzhou City, took the Dharma name Chengguan, devoted himself to studying Buddhism, and prepared to spend his old age in peace. Although he studied Buddhism, he inevitably felt a kind of sadness in his heart, he originally thought that he was like this, and he didn't have a few years to live, and he would eventually die quietly in this East Garden monk's house, and he was a hundred.

Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened to him!

A while ago, a man named Liu Changyou, led more than a dozen entourages, claiming to be the deputy minister of agriculture of the Chinese Empire, and was ordered by Feng Yunshan, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, to invite him out of the mountain.

Wei Yuan was taken aback! Although he didn't know what the position of the vice minister of agriculture was, and he didn't know anything about the Chinese Empire, he was still familiar with Feng Yunshan's name.

As early as the year before last, when he was still in Gaoyou and Ren Zhizhou, he noticed this Cantonese thief leader named Feng Yunshan.

At the beginning, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom arose, but what these ignorant peasants did along the way, Wei Yuan concluded that it was difficult for this group of thieves to succeed, if they overthrew the Manchu Qing in one go, it was still possible, if they occupied a prosperous place and began to enjoy it, it would be difficult to succeed. As a result, as he expected, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing set the capital of Nanjing, although they wanted to send troops to the north and west, but the main force was trapped in Nanjing City, and was trapped by the two large camps of Jiangnan and Jiangbei of the imperial court.

But Wei Yuan was very surprised by this leader of the Cantonese thieves named Feng Yunshan! Secretly broke away from the long-haired thief soldiers, and slowly reduced the traces of religion, and then, what the leader of the Cantonese thieves did surprised him even more:

Taking advantage of the mineral resources of southern Shonan, he began to develop Western industries, making iron and steel, and making poisonous water. Of course, it's just a small workshop, and Wei Yuan thinks that most of it should be a coincidence. However, taking advantage of the emptiness of the green battalion in Liangguang and the corruption and incompetence of the Eight Banners soldiers, they actually captured the city of Guangzhou and occupied Liangguang in one fell swoop. Since then, Wei Yuan has concluded that this Feng Yunshan is not simple.

Later, Wei Yuan became a monk and did not ask about the world for a long time. However, half a year ago, he happened to hear two pilgrims who were in the raw silk business say that this Feng Yunshan took advantage of the occupation of Guangzhou City to trade with foreigners and buy foreign guns and cannons from foreigners to arm himself. Only then did Wei Yuan know that this rebel army was not only armed, but also constructed, and was actually preparing for long-term development, which was not at all like ordinary rebels. They not only started trading business with foreigners, but also introduced foreigners' machinery and equipment, and developed Western industries in a planned and large-scale manner.

By this time, Wei Yuan knew that this Feng Yunshan was indeed a person with a unique vision today. He wanted to know more about the world than himself, Wei Yuan couldn't help but have a strong curiosity about him, if it weren't for the fact that he was old and in poor health, he would have the idea of going back to this Feng Yunshan. In this era, there are not many bosom friends with this vision!

This time, this Feng Yunshan's subordinates came to explore themselves and invited themselves out of the mountain, through the mouth of Liu Changyou, who is also a native of Baoqing Mansion in Munan and a scholar, Wei Yuan learned that in just over a year, the world has changed greatly!

Feng Yunshan, who was originally only the leader of the Cantonese thieves, formed a strong fighting army of captives, successively defeated the officers and soldiers of the Manchu court, and occupied the entire south. In the past two months, the Northern Expedition was launched, and the city of Beijing was broken in one fell swoop, and the entire Qing Dynasty, except for the three provinces of Manchuria and Liaodong, was basically replaced.

The Qing Dynasty has perished! And the long-haired thief will soon be swallowed up by this Feng Yunshan, and the world is now this heaven called Feng Yunshan.

So, for the invitation of this monarch named Feng Yunshan, Wei Yuan, who was full of the heart of serving the country, was moved again. Feng Yunshan established the Chinese Empire and renamed Nanjing Shengjing as the capital of the empire. At this time, Liu Changyou came to invite again, saying that the Yellow River was about to break and that countless people would be drowned. He was astonished: at the beginning, he had proposed a way to control the course of the Yellow River more than ten years ago, which was to change the Yellow River to the north.

So, he immediately agreed to return to the empire and serve the people.

"Oh, Mr. Wei, Yunshan is late, I hope Mr. forgiveness!" A hearty voice came, and Wei Yuan turned his head to see that a middle-aged man dressed in bright yellow service came to him under the arch guard of dozens of people.

Wei Yuan immediately realized who the person in front of him was wearing a Ming Huang dragon robe, and hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "Wei, a former criminal minister and now a person outside the party, meet Your Majesty!" ”

"Mr. Wei doesn't have to be polite! The purpose of my invitation to the old gentleman, I must have told you Zimo, I don't know how the old gentleman thinks the Yellow River should be governed now? Feng Yunshan asked about Wei Yuan directly, he was smiling, but his heart was full of joy!

Looking at the old man in front of him, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and secretly made up his mind that he wanted to ask the best famous doctor in Jiangnan to treat this modern thinker, who was famous in later history textbooks, and prolong his life.

In addition to the reverence for this famous historical figure, there was also a purpose, Feng Yunshan did not want this ancient, who was known as a modern enlightenment thinker, encouraged the Chinese people to learn modern Western science and technology, put forward the view of "mastering the skills of Yi to control the country", and compiled such a great work as "The Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", and finally fell to the point of being obsessed with Buddhism, depressed and quietly dying.

Feng Yunshan admires this famous scholar in modern times.

You must know that in that closed era, as a scholar who took the pursuit of disciplines as his first priority, Wei Yuanneng became one of the pioneers of modern China's "opening his eyes to the world", and had close contacts with Lin Zexu, Gong Zizhen and others, and was able to compile the world geography, history, political system, economy, religion, calendar, culture, and products of many countries on his own, especially after the defeat of the First Opium War, he advocated learning advanced technologies such as Western manufacturing of warships and firearms and methods of selecting, training, and raising troops. Reform the army of the imperial court, this kind of vision, even Lin Zexu does not have.

Moreover, Feng Yunshan admired Wei Yuan's idea of setting up an industry and caring for the people. This is an ancient man of noble quality, an ancient man with his own thinking, and Feng Yunshan is even more amazed by the idea of the democratic system of Western capitalist countries advocated by Wei Yuan and even others. If he hadn't known that there was such a figure in history, Feng Yunshan would almost have thought that this was also a traverser.

"Your Majesty, the grass people think that every six months, the Yellow River will burst on a small scale, and every three or four years, it will break on a large scale, and the reason for this is because the Yellow River is originally seized into the sea, and a large amount of sediment has been piled up, which has seriously blocked the river, so it will burst so frequently." Wei Yuan is also familiar with the Yellow River, he has carefully studied the Huanghuai region more than ten years ago, and he knew in advance that Feng Yunshan invited him to come this time, which is to control the Yellow River.

"Therefore, to cure the Yellow River, it is necessary to dredge the silt and sediment in the river!"