He thought that if he took the initiative to apply for a transfer from Beijing, the imperial court would definitely give him a thankless messenger, either to the border of poor mountains and bad waters, or to the fierce hometown of war, but the imperial court actually let him be transferred to Fujian Province. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As far as he knows, although Fujian is also thousands of miles away from Beijing, the mountains are high and the rivers are far away, but with the opening up of coastal defense in recent years, the people's livelihood in the coastal areas of Fujian has gradually developed, and it is also convenient to build several large ports such as Quanzhou and Zhangpu, and make every effort to operate the Maritime Silk Road, and have frequent trade with Japan, Luzon, Siam and other countries, making some cities along the entire coastal area very prosperous, and the lively places are no less than the inland cities.

Because of this, the southeast coast has aroused the coveted forces of various countries, and they have competed for this southeast corner, making the situation in the coastal area of Fujian very complicated, and it is difficult for the Ming court to completely control it even if it has spent countless efforts.

But this was not the time to think about these things, and soon, he saw that all the mule and horse carts were ready, and under the command of Han Xiaoshui and Dongfang Shengping, they were slowly driving in the direction of Chongwen Gate.

Sun Yueling was about to hit his horse and leave, but he saw a person in the alley and walked towards him, Tsing Yi and a small hat, it was Liu Qing, the inner supervisor.

Sun Yueling was shocked, Liu Qing is here, isn't the princess nearby? In the past few days, he has been busy with leaving Beijing, but he has forgotten the princess's entrustment - perhaps he feels embarrassed in his heart about proposing marriage to the Son of Heaven, so he has been deliberately avoiding this matter in his subconscious.

Sure enough, Liu Qing smiled at him and said, "Master Sun, congratulations on your transfer to Fujian, and the little one is here to send him off." ”

Sun Yueling nodded at him with a smile and said, "Gonggong Liu doesn't have to be polite. The tone changed, and he said, "My father-in-law is here, could it be that he is entrusted by someone again?" ”

Liu Qing said: "The adults are really thoughtful, and the little ones are so impressed." Pointing to the deep alley behind him, he said, "Don't hide it, the princess is waiting in the alley at the moment." ”

Afraid of something, Sun Yueling smiled bitterly and said, "There is Lao Liu's father-in-law." With that, he walked into the alley.

When I came to the alley, I walked more than ten steps, and I saw that under the snow powder, Zhu Huiyan was holding an oil-paper umbrella and standing quietly on the bluestone road in the alley, looking pleasant, just looking at herself who was gradually approaching.

"Princess......" Sun Yueling felt guilty in his heart, feeling that the words he shouted were powerless.

Zhu Huiyan didn't speak, just looked at him calmly, her eyes not instantaneous.

Sun Yueling felt more and more uneasy, and said, "Princess, I'm ...... Going to go......"

After a while, Zhu Huiyan spit out a sentence from Sakura's lips and said, "Sun Yueling, you are a complete liar. ”

Sun Yueling felt even more uncomfortable when he heard this, sighed, and said: "Your Highness, I'm sorry, it's my fault, I shouldn't have been perfunctory to you......"

Zhu Huiyan's eyes welled with tears, and she said sadly: "Are you just watching me being persecuted by Wei Zhongxian?" ”

Sun Yueling clenched his jaw and said bitterly: "Wei Gelding is powerful, the Donglin Party has been completely defeated, I have to avoid the Jingshi, I ...... I can't do anything about it......"

Two lines of tears fell from Zhu Huiyan's eyes, and she didn't wipe them, but said: "So you don't care about me, and break your promise to me again and again?" ”

Sun Yueling closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said: "Princess, you should find another virtuous person to entrust for life, Sun Yueling is immoral and incompetent, and he dare not climb high!" ”

"You ......" Zhu Huiyan finally couldn't bear it anymore and sobbed.

Looking at her grief-stricken, Sun Yueling felt sour in his heart, walked over and hugged her into his arms, and persuaded softly: "Princess, you are a royal clansman, I am just a crazy scholar, why bother to be so ...... for me"

Zhu Huiyan drank and cried for a long time, leaned on his shoulder and said quietly: "Xiangshan Courtyard, sweet dreams are easy to wake up." It seems that I did have a big dream of spring and autumn that is easy to wake up day and night......"

Sun Yueling didn't know what to say, so he could only soothe her shoulders.

The world is silent, the deep alleys are lonely, and only the snow powder falls in the sky.

After a long time, Zhu Huiyan straightened up, got out of his embrace, looked directly into his eyes, and said, "Let me ask you, have you ever loved me?" ”

Sun Yueling looked down at her soft eyes, and his heart surged, did he ever love her?

Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhu Huiyan laughed bitterly at herself, and said, "It seems that I have been amorous all along......"

"No!" Sun Yueling put his hands on her shoulders, his eyes were resolute, and said, "Princess, I'...... Actually, I've always had you in my heart! ”

"Really?" Zhu Huiyan seemed very happy when she heard this, and she actually burst into laughter, staring at her with a pair of charming eyes, and she was very soft.

"It's true, if you say half a lie, you will die under ten thousand swords!" Sun Yueling said categorically.

Zhu Huiyan let out a long breath and said, "I believe what you say, don't swear by swearing." Then he smiled again, "It seems that the two of us are destined to be inseparable after all!" ”

Sun Yueling said: "The princess will definitely find a good man who is satisfactory, more than a hundred times better than me, I ......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Huiyan suddenly leaned forward, put her hands around his neck, and a pair of soft lips were already attached to his lips, sealing his next words.

Sun Yueling couldn't help himself, and couldn't help but kiss her lips bitterly and responded warmly.

The snow is sluggish, the cold wind is cut, but the alley is as enthusiastic as fire, and the blazing feelings penetrate the flying snowflakes and reach the nine heavens.

After a long time, the lips parted.

Zhu Huiyan's cheeks were on fire, and she gasped: "You get out...... The main temple will henceforth forget you as a person...... You don't deserve the care of this temple anymore......"

Sun Yueling's eyes shot strong emotion, and said, "Princess, take care!" ”

"Don't leave yet!" Zhu Huiyan closed her eyes and shouted, no longer looking at him.

Sun Yueling gritted his teeth and said, "Thank you, princess!" "Turn around and leave, not daring to stay for a moment.

Zhu Huiyan was finally willing to forgive him, and let him put down a big stone in his heart. Although he has no lack of affection for the princess, after all, the situation is pressing, and the reality is heavy, and he cannot be allowed to disobey at all, so he can only obey the arrangement of fate.

After he walked out of the deep alley and turned into the long street, Zhu Huiyan withdrew the gaze she had been looking at, sighed faintly, and turned to leave.

When he came to the street, Sun Yueling saw that the mule cart that had started before had almost gone, so he untied the reins of the horse tied to the side and turned over on the horse. At this time, Dongfang Shengping also rode a horse to his side and said, "My lord, all the goods have been moved, and we should leave." ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said, "Okay, let's go see Shoufu." ”

With that, the two men beat their horses and headed south.

This time he left Beijing, because the place of his appointment was Fujian, Sun Yueling went to Ye Xianggao's mansion in person to express his intention to go to Fujian with him. Ye Xianggao readily agreed to leave Beijing with him, so the team leaving Beijing this time was very large, consisting of people from two mansions.

According to the original arrangement, the two groups of them will go out of the city from Chongwenmen, and then meet at the Tonghui River ferry, take a boat south, and then take the sea route to Fuzhou after arriving in Yangzhou. Ye Xianggao's hometown of Fuqing is on the edge of Fuzhou, not far from Fuzhou, so they are worthy of the name of walking all the way.

Half an hour later, they caught up with the starting team and came to the crossing of the Tonghui River together. There were already three medium-sized passenger and cargo ships moored on the bank of the canal, which would be the ships they set off, of which only one belonged to Ye Xianggao, and the other two were hired by Sun Fu.

When he came to the shore, he saw that Ye Xianggao had already stopped on the shore to greet him, and Sun Yueling hurriedly greeted him and bowed down. Ye Xianggao smiled at him and said, "Vice Envoy Sun has such a big belongings, even the old man is ashamed of himself!" ”

Sun Yueling was Hao Ran for a while, and said: "Let the elder see it and smile, these are all some brothers from the previous Dongtang, as well as some properties left by the teacher, and the later life is just to receive the teacher's favor!" "Ye Xianggao is right, the materials of his Sun Mansion are not much better than those of Ye Mansion, and the number of people is several times more, so it takes two big ships to load them all.

Ye Xianggao sighed and said, "It's a pity that Sanshi is missing, otherwise everyone will leave Beijing together, which can be regarded as a happy and bitter thing!" ”

Sun Yueling also said: "What Elder Ge said is that my master and his old man would rather travel all over the world than stay in Beijing to live, which is really unexpected!" ”

Soon, the hired porters had loaded all the boxes, containers, and other belongings onto the two large ships, and all of them had been embarked according to their previous arrangements.

Sun Yueling and Ye Xianggao stopped lingering and boarded the passenger ship.

After Sun Yueling accompanied Ye Xianggao to the boat, the big ship lifted anchor and headed south. Ye Xianggao stood against the railing, looking at the Beijing city wall standing in the distance, and seemed to be extremely nostalgic.

Sun Yueling looked at the city of Beijing that was gradually disappearing from sight, sighed, and said, "Those who have lost their souls, only farewell!" ”

Ye Xianggao turned his face to him when he heard it and said, "Why sigh, the road is long, how about Deputy Envoy Sun accompany the old man to play a game of chess?" ”

Unexpectedly, Ye Xianggao still had this hobby, Sun Yueling said humbly: "You are shallow in playing chess, how dare you show off in front of the elder pavilion?" ”

Ye Xiang laughed loudly and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you won't know until you try it!" ”

Sun Yueling had no choice but to accompany Ye Xianggao to the cabin hall and sit down to play with him.

In his previous life, as a Go enthusiast, he also had a lot of research on the way of chess, but he didn't know what the difference between ancient Go and modern ones was, and whether he would get an axe in front of Ye Xianggao, smiling and generous.

He couldn't care so much, so he decided to accompany him to the end.

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Three passenger and cargo ships sailed south along the canal towards Jiangnan. The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is the Cao River of the Ming Dynasty, the grain collected by the household department from the south of the Yangtze River is transported to Beijing by the canal, the porcelain, cloth, tea and other things that are abundant in the south are also transported through this river, and the cotton, pine, leather goods and so on in the north also go south with the canal, making the canal from an important waterway artery across the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the towns along the way are even more prosperous and very prosperous.

Because of this, the Ming Dynasty has set up checkpoints at various waterway passes to collect commercial taxes to enrich the treasury, it is not an exaggeration to say that the canal is the economic lifeline of the entire Ming Dynasty, it is both the Cao River and the Shang River, as long as the canal can be kept unblocked, the imperial court does not have a lot of exploitation and greed, and the traders do not evade taxes, the trade between the south and the north will be enough to support half of the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue.

Due to the large number of ships coming and going in the canal, the three passenger and cargo ships of Sun Yueling and Ye Xianggao could not travel too fast, and it took three days to get from the North Canal to the South Canal.

In the past few days, Sun Yueling has nothing to do with Ye Xianggao to learn chess skills, he thought that a person like him in the future can naturally be on a par with Ye Xianggao, but unexpectedly, Ye Xianggao's chess skills surprised him greatly, it is simply the level of a national player. Every time he plays, he has to lose dozens of pieces, I'm afraid that Ye Xianggao gave him enough face and didn't let him lose too badly, otherwise, he probably doesn't know what to lose.

"Ge Lao's chess skills are excellent, and he is ashamed of himself in his later years!" Sun Yueling could only bow his head and admit defeat, and he had no temper at all.

Ye Xianggao said with a smile: "The way of chess is a small road, regard the world as a chess table, and it is the road to run and serve the country." Deputy Envoy Sun should keep the avenue in mind and think of the common people in the world, so as to live up to what he has learned in his life. ”

Ye Xianggao painstakingly advised, he valued him so much, which made him feel excited in his heart, and the decadence since the defeat of Donglin was swept away, and said: "Rest assured, the elder of the pavilion will definitely uphold the ambition of the elder of the pavilion in his later life, do not forget the original intention of Donglin, and serve me loyally and bravely." ”

Hearing him mention Donglin, Ye Xianggao sighed with relief and said: "At the beginning of Jingyang's campaign for Donglin, it was a good strategy to be loyal to the country, but things have changed a lot, today's Donglin is no longer the Donglin of the past, and it is reasonable to lose in the court battle......

Sun Yueling unexpectedly left the Beijing Division, Ye Xianggao's thoughts changed so quickly, and he became so accessible and open-minded, no longer caring about the loss of the party struggle, and said: "The elder Ge Lao's open-mindedness makes the late students admire!" ”

Ye Xianggao smiled faintly, shook his head and said: "Don't think that the old man can let it all go, in the court officials, in the wild people, the old man also suddenly woke up after leaving this strife court." With a sigh, he continued, "Everything in the world is changing too fast, and we and other Donglin people still use the old-fashioned method to govern the country, unable to keep up with the world, do not know how to compromise, and do not know how to be flexible, how can we not be defeated?" ”

Sun Yueling suddenly didn't know how to speak, but saw Ye Xianggao solemnly said to him: "Yueling, you have to remember, if you can return to the temple one day, you must no longer be able to govern the government according to the previous methods, you must fit the current situation, follow the trend, and no longer be arbitrary and disregard the common people in the world." ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said, "The teachings of the elder pavilion, remember it in your later life." ”

The ship continued southward, and within a few days sailed through Shandong and arrived at Huai'an Province. Huai'an belongs to the boundary of Jiangsu, is a big city on the side of the canal, belongs to the canal in the canal section, industry and commerce are very developed, Huai'an wharf is a lively and noisy scene, restaurants, shops are lined up, and the merchants from the south to the north are endless. (To be continued.) )