Chen Wen and the Sun family are good friends, if they were someone else, who would dare to shout in the home of Sun Fuzun, who is known for his strict self-discipline and strict treatment of others.

At this time, Sun Yu, who came with him, was not the slightest dissatisfied with Chen Wen's rudeness, Chen Wen had lived in his house for a period of time when he was in Dalanshan, and the two had a good relationship, and Chen Wen was also the godfather of Sun Yu's eldest son. In such a relationship, Sun Yu just smiled and walked side by side.

With Chen Wen's hearty laughter, the two quickly walked to the door, Sun Yu casually pushed open the door, but saw his own lady and a strange woman about to get up and salute. Just after a little look at the woman's appearance, Sun Yu immediately guessed the identity of the person who came.

"Little lady Zhou?"

It was not only Sun Yu who guessed the little sister of the Zhou family, her brother had been in Chen Wenmu for half a year, getting along day and night, and Chen Wen had also seen the little sister of the Zhou family dressed as a man in Quzhou, so naturally there was no reason not to recognize it.

"The concubine has seen Linhai Bo and the mansion."

The sudden uninvited guest did not affect the etiquette of the little sister of the Zhou family, until the two sides met the courtesy, the little sister of the Zhou family retreated to Yi Qing's side, and after Yi Qing attached to the ear of "This is my son's godfather" after laughing, Yu Wu was ashamed of himself and thought about waiting for the Sun family and his wife to talk and then got up and left.

At the same time, ignoring the Sun family and his wife, who were discussing what to eat at noon, Chen Wen's attention was focused on the woman he had seen in Quzhou before.

The last time we met, the little sister of the Zhou family not only dressed as a woman, but also seemed to deliberately wear a costume, but even so, Chen Wen still saw her gender, and the feeling at that time was that her facial features were more delicate and her appearance should be good. Moreover, he quickly fell into the contemplation of the rebellion at that time, and he has not been seen again, so his impression is relatively vague.

But at this time, the delicate porcelain face seems to be shattered with a little force, the skin is fair, supplemented by a shallow powder, and the unique softness of the women in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, it looks even more beautiful, tall and well-proportioned, the emerald belt outlines the slender waist, and the youth that has not yet faded is a lot of the girl's unique softness. If it is said that Chen Wen just felt that this woman was just good-looking in the Quzhou camp for the first time, then at this moment, the beauty in ancient costumes who came out of a landscape painting scroll really made Chen Wen's eyes shine, and even his breathing was stagnant.

It's just that when those big eyes as clear as water entered the line of sight with a little shyness and annoyance, Chen Wen suddenly remembered the scene when the Zhou family returned to Fucheng last year, and the familiarity that once haunted his heart only reawakened some fragments hidden in his heart in an instant.

"Chen Wen, you're a big idiot!"

"Goodbye."

Graduating, in many cases, is equivalent to unemployment, and it often means going their separate ways. Many years have passed, and the curious and scrutinizing gaze when he first met has always been hidden in the depths of Chen Wen's heart, just like when he watched the convoy of the Zhou family and his party that day, especially the source of the sight looked so similar to the eyes back then under the cover of the tulle.

Needless to say, the little sister of the Zhou family is far better than the woman in Chen Wen's memory in terms of appearance and temperament, but after this moment of trance, Chen Wen quickly woke up from the depths of his memory. Chen Wen took a deep breath, as if to use oxidation to re-harden the fragility in his heart.

Already, there is no way back to the past; Even if you can go back to the past, you can't go back to the past.

At this time, as the woman in front of Chen Wen was surprised for a moment, her curious and scrutinizing eyes flashed, and she got up and retreated. However, she had just stepped out of the back door of the mansion and had not yet had time to board the carriage when a voice behind her made her give up her plans to ride for the time being.

"I happened to be on the way with Zhou Xiaoniang, why don't you give a ride to the next side?"

"This, then there is Lord Lao."

Since it was two people walking together, even a fool could see Chen Wen's inaction and courtesy. As a result, the maid of the little sister of the Zhou family and Chen Wen's personal soldiers were far behind, and the carriage of the Zhou family followed last.

"The rebellion was able to be quickly quelled, and Mrs. Zhou contributed greatly."

"The righteous deeds of Linhaibo are blessed by heaven. The concubine body is just following the trend, and it is not worth mentioning. ”

Hearing this, Chen Wen shook his head. "After Pingyang, it is rare to see a heroine like Zhou Xiaoniang."

Chen Wen's words made the little sister of the Zhou family feel a little surprised, because according to her brother's description, Chen Wen's behavior at the moment was very abnormal.

"Princess Pingyang incorporated the rebel army, attacked the city, and her troops were strictly disciplined, and the order was like a mountain, that is, Qu Tutong was defeated under the horse. The concubine just took the maid and the coachman out of the house, and she didn't dare to compare with that Li Gongzi. ”

The answer of the little sister of the Zhou family made Chen Wen's eyes light up, the princess Pingyang he was talking about was not the wife of Wei Qing, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, and the sister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but the daughter of Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and the wife of Chai Shao, a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty. His deeds are recorded in the "Old Tang Book" and "New Tang Book", and the first time Chen Wen heard about this character was because of a martial arts novel, the princess became the gossip girlfriend of the male pig's foot after being paid Li Xiuning's name.

"Little Lady Zhou is erudite and knowledgeable."

"Don't dare."

The two have already walked a distance, and although there are no people to communicate with each other on the road they chose, there is a question, but the little sister of the Zhou family does not intend to let go of this opportunity.

"Dare to ask the sir, what do you think of Mr. Zhuowu's doctrine?"

Mr. Zhuo Wu is Li Zhen, this is a question that the little sister of the Zhou family has long wanted to know, today Chen Wen caught up inexplicably, and it happened that it was better to choose a day than to hit the day.

It's a pity that it seems that the title of Mr. Zhuo Wu seems very unfamiliar to Chen Wen. Confirming that she was not misjudged, in Chen Wen's confused and puzzled face, a trace of disappointment flashed in the eyes of the little sister of the Zhou family, and then she used the excuse that it was not far from the house, suggesting that it was not convenient for Chen Wen to continue escorting, so she boarded the carriage and left alone, leaving only Chen Wen still standing there, watching the carriage drive past the corner in the distance.

Li Zhen!

The confusion is long gone, and Chen Wen, who doesn't even seem to have ever appeared, savored everything that these two words represented. It was only after a long time, as if a shiver, that he beckoned his men to gallop towards the city gate.

"It's really worthy of the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the women of a large family actually had the idea of freedom and equality. It seems that he should have just read Li Zhen's forbidden books. ”

"It's a pity that in that era when traditional politics has been solidified, Li Zhen's ending can only be a tragedy, maybe it's really not as easy to open up new thinking as it is in today's chaotic world."

"Perhaps, I could have done more!"

………………

On August 24 of the fifth year of Yongli, Hongdou Villa in Changshu County, Suzhou Prefecture was as quiet as ever.

Since Qian Qianyi's retirement, Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru are a couple who have privately sponsored the anti-Qing rebels, persuaded the Manchu officials to do it anyway, and contacted anti-Qing people in the southeast to deliver news to the Ming army.

It's just that the news in Nanzhili has been more tense recently, and the Qian family has taken advantage of the occasional cold of the head of the family to close the door to thank guests, thinking that they can temporarily put the worries of the outside world behind, but they waited for an uninvited guest.

The person who came was dressed like an ordinary peddler and pawn in the Manchu occupation area, and his medium stature was very inconspicuous in the crowd, but he always wore a hat to hide his face intentionally or unintentionally, as if he was afraid that others would see him. The porter of the Qian family saw that the person handed over a post, and after careful inspection, he respectfully invited him in, and was soon taken to a remote courtyard in the depths of the villa.

After entering the house, when the visitor took off the hat, Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru glanced at each other, and the latter walked out, and practiced calligraphy on a stone table in the small courtyard in the afternoon when the dark clouds had just begun to disperse, only from time to time to look at the main hall that had already closed the door.

The servants and maidservants of the Qian family all know that although the lady of the Qian family is from a bad background, she is deeply favored by the head of the family, and she even violated etiquette and married her with a great gift, which was once intolerable to the people. This lady is still a good temper on weekdays, but when practicing calligraphy and composing poetry, she is not allowed to be disturbed by others except Qian Qianyi, so when she saw Liu Ru practicing calligraphy in the small courtyard, these servants retreated one after another, and each was busy with her own work, only Liu Ruye's personal maid stayed outside the courtyard gate and listened to Hou's orders.

The small courtyard has been cleared, and there is no longer a partition wall to worry about, so the two people in the house sat down and talked.

"Taichong, have you heard that Kong Youde died in Guilin and Wang Shi recovered Guangxi?"

The person who came was none other than Yuyao Huang Zongxi, who had served as the left deputy governor of the imperial court of Lu Jianguo.

Hearing Qian Qianyi's question, Huang Zongxi shook his head, and then said: "Mu Weng, I have learned about this matter on the road, and I am here for the sake of eastern Zhejiang. ”

Zhedong?

As soon as he heard the word Zhedong, Qian Qianyi immediately understood the purpose of Huang Zongxi's visit. If we talk about last year's eastern Zhejiang, there are still two major events to speak of, the Battle of Zhoushan and Chen Wenguang's recovery of Jinhua Mansion, but they have already discussed this matter, and it is impossible for Huang Zongxi to go again for the things that have been notified. In this case, then there is only the incident that he heard from other taxis who were running for the Qing Dynasty not long ago.

"Cao Yunlin and Chen Wen are fighting, does Mu Weng already know about this?"

Qian Qianyi had already learned about Chen Wen's reconquest of Jinhua last year from his acquaintances among the Manchu Han officials, as well as from Wei Geng and Guizhuang, who had come to see him from Huzhou. It's just that it's not as good as Wei Geng and others, but Qian Qianyi's heart is very complicated about this matter.

On the one hand, Chen Wen recovered Jinhua Mansion and smashed the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, which was the biggest victory achieved by the Ming army in the southeast in recent years, and also recovered the territory of a prefecture, which made him feel very gratified; But on the other hand, Ma Jinbao, the general soldier of Jinhua in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, has always been the most important target of Qian Qianyi's rebellion, and he believes that Ma Jinbao will be anyway sooner or later, as long as the situation is slightly more on the side of the Ming army......

But now, Chen Wen, who killed Li Rong, the deputy general of the left battalion last year, entered Jinhua Mansion, although he recovered the lost territory, but he completely crippled the strength in the hands of the object he wanted to rebel against, so that Qian Qianyi felt a little unhappy from the bottom of his heart.

If it is according to his ideas, it is best for Chen Wen to recover other prefectures and counties, and then he will persuade Ma Jinbao to do it anyway, and then these two generals will go hand in hand to recover Hangzhou, and even Nanjing. In this way, the strength of the Ming army will be stronger than it is now, and it will be more convenient for civilian officials to check and balance the two generals in the same province.

However, something has happened, and Qian Qianyi has to rethink his plan, but there is no need to change the strategy from the overall situation, but only modify the part of Zhejiang.

As for Cao Conglong's rebellion, he also got the news from the same channel, along with the news that Chen Wen quelled the rebellion, carried out a purge, and Ling Chi executed Ma Jinbao. But the surprise when he first heard it, the panic after thinking about it, and the apprehension after thinking about it twice, Qian Qianyi thought about things no less than Huang Zongxi, or even more.

"How is Cao Yunlin now?"

Seeing that Qian Qianyi obviously knew about this, Huang Zongxi replied: "Cao Yunlin is fine, Lin Haibo did not embarrass him, but he was placed under house arrest in a well-guarded mansion. In addition, Lin Haibo's song has been sent to Fujian, although this person is not a good person, but he also knows the bottom line. ”

"It's fine."

Qian Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief, he knew very well that once Chen Wen executed Cao Conglong without authorization, it meant that it was impossible to cooperate with other Ming armies, and it had a great impact on the plan that he had always been committed to instigating the joint operations of all Ming armies to restore the Yangtze River defense line, and then the northern expedition to the Central Plains.

But now there is another problem, which is bound to affect the overall situation......

"Taichong, I received news last month that the Tartars sent Arzin, the commander of the infantry army, to lead the Eight Banners of Manchuria to the south, with the intention of pacifying the southeast. At the beginning of the month, the army moved south from the canal, but later it did not go directly south, but turned upstream. It seems that he is going to Jiangxi, but the destination is not known whether it is Quzhou, Guangdong, or Huguang. ”

Jiangxi is located at a key point, linking the southeast battlefield and the southwest battlefield. This elite of the Qing army went to Quzhou, and the target was Chen Wen; If you go to Guangdong, it may be Zheng Chenggong in southern Fujian, but it is more likely to prevent Li Dingguo from entering Guangdong; Only the last destination, it is already self-explanatory.

"In addition, there is also news that Nikan, one of the three kings of the Tartar Empire, led a large army composed of real Manchuria to the south, and the goal was to go straight to the southwest, and he was already on his way at the moment."

Qian Qianyi had already sent someone to inform the Ming army in the southwest of Nikan's southward journey, but the victory in Guilin had not yet happened when Arzin set off. Historically, the purpose of Arzin's southward movement was to exterminate the remnants of the Ming army in Guangdong in the four prefectures of Gao, Lei, Lian, and Qiong in western Guangdong, as well as Hao Jiushang, the general soldier of Chaozhou, who could rebel at any time. However, Chen Wen's sudden rise on the battlefield in Zhejiang made Arzin set off ahead of schedule, and the target became the more threatening Chen Wen.

This matter is no longer something that they can plan clearly, they must inform Chen Wen in time and prepare in advance, and Qian Qianyi had also sent someone to inform Huang Zongxi before, but he didn't expect Huang Zongxi to come directly after leaving Jinhua, but he missed the messenger.

However, when Huang Zongxi heard about this important military situation, his attention was all focused on Nikan. Neither Nikan himself, nor that large army of "real Manchuria" was much more terrible than Arzin's small army of a few thousand men. But after a moment of trance, Huang Zongxi immediately realized the problem, what Nikan could threaten was the Ming army in the southwest, their hands could not reach there, and now they had to guard against the convergence of Arzin and Chen Jin to deal with Chen Wen, or go south to Fujian to attack Zheng Chenggong, who was still besieged, this is the key at the moment.

After exchanging information with each other recently, Huang Zongxi took his leave and returned to Jinhua, although he has always looked at Chen Wen unpleasantly, but what this general and the army of Lian Zhan Lian Jie said were also Wang Yi's hard work when he was alive, and Huang Zongxi could not sit back and watch it be wiped out by the Qing army. Besides, Chen Wen is not useless.

After sending Huang Zongxi away, Liu Ru returned to the room where Qian and Huang had a secret discussion.

"Does Huang Taichong still think that Lin Haibo is a remnant of the eunuch party?"

The opinion of the remnants of the eunuch party was mentioned by Huang Zongxi when he came to meet Qian Qianyi at the end of the previous year, because of the letter written by Wang Yi to him about Chen Wen's opposition to the beggar teacher who went to Japan. This matter has long since changed due to the existence of Yu Huang's eunuch remnants, and Chen Wen's resistance to Japan has been regarded by them as a political side.

It's just that Chen Wen has overcome obstacles and been stunned in the past few years, and Huang Zongxi always feels that he owes Wang Yi and Chen Wen something in the treatment of Wang Yi's orphans, plus Chen Wen is Wang Yi's general, so even if Chen Wen is not pleasing to the eye, he still goes south to Jinhua again and again. After all, on the battlefield in Zhejiang, he has no second object to choose from.

"Taichong, it's still the old thinking of the old Donglin, and it's extremely rare to be able to get to this point now." After that, Qian Qianyi sighed, and then said: "But in the current situation, if you are still stuck in the views of the party, how can the various divisions and divisions fight side by side. I'm afraid that not only will I not be able to revive the Ming Dynasty, but Huaxia will also die in the Tartars again. ”

Qian Qianyi's lament immediately aroused Liu Ruyi's approval, when Qian Qianyi was imprisoned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty twice, it was Liu Ruyi's vigorous efforts to rescue him from prison. Later, he planned to resist the Qing Dynasty, collected intelligence for the Ming army, passed on news, and even sold his property to fund the rebel army, all of which were completed under the encouragement of Liu Ruye.

At this moment, Qian Qianyi's sigh was full of unfavorable feelings about the current situation, Liu Ru knew very well that this was not as simple as Huang Zongxi's matter, Cao Conglong's rebellion completely disrupted Qian Qianyi's train of thought, and further aroused his uneasiness, as for Ma Jinbao's death, it eliminated the previous hesitation.

"I have to find a way to find out whether Uncle Wang really voted for Tartar, or if he thought it was a snake." Speaking of which, Qian Qianyi moved on to another thing with an elusive leaping mind. "Hedongjun, when the wind slows down, it's time for the old man to go and meet the famous general of the Southeast Dynasty in person."

In a word, the reverence and love in Liu Ru is eyes have long been so strong that they can no longer be dissolved, for talent, wisdom, and even more for the rare courage that Qian Qianyi just showed. (To be continued.) )