Chapter Fifty-Eight: Refusal

"The concubine has just returned from incense, and she is about to go home to serve her father and mother......"

The woman in front of her politely refused Chen Wen's sudden invitation for a very simple reason, but Chen Wen couldn't have a temper at all, after all, he would not and could not force other girls not to fulfill their filial piety. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info And in the final analysis, the little sister of the Zhou family is still a girl who has not left the cabinet, even if he is already a marquis, it is not good to "bully men and women".

In fact, he originally planned to go to the government office to discuss with Sun Yu about the appointment of Lu Liuliang and Chen Chen, as well as to learn about the training progress of the following official training class, but when he saw the carriage on the road, he still followed him inexplicably.

After saying goodbye, he absentmindedly had a discussion with Sun Yu, and when he returned to the Hou Mansion, he realized that this move was unwise and rude, but for some reason, he still did it, and even cooperated very well to help the woman solve a small problem.

It has been two years since he came to this era, Chen Wen is busy for the future almost every day, although he has seen a lot of women, but the more impressive ones are only the little daughter-in-law of the Sun family and this woman.

When Chen Wen first arrived in Dalanshan, he lived in the Sun family for a period of time, and he had a good impression of the little daughter-in-law of the Sun family, who was a gentle woman, a very traditional little woman, and Sun Yu was a good match; And this little lady Zhou, scattered a few times to meet, but also left a deep impression on him, clear and beautiful, knowledgeable, and extraordinary, what is even more rare is that courage, in this Cheng Zhu science is popular, the world women only know self-denial and revenge in the era but can stand up bravely, use wisdom and courage to fight for the right to live for their relatives, every time she thinks of the scene when she enters the big tent and tells the story of the rebellion, Chen Wen can't help but admire.

It's just that after that time, Chen Wen never saw that woman again, not because he didn't have this idea, but because he really didn't have that time.

The New Year is approaching, even if he is not a civilian official, Chen Wen, as a noble in charge of military affairs in southwest Zhejiang, has already been busy.

Urging officials in all prefectures and counties to settle the year's detailed accounts, comfort the elderly, and distribute some condolences to some vulnerable groups have all been contracted by Sun Yu. And that's not even counting the supervision of the civil service training course and the assistance in reviewing some major and important cases of the criminal prosecution yamen. All in all, Sun Yu is currently doing the work of governor and prefect with the official title of prefect.

Compared with civil affairs, although all affairs of the army are in charge of special departments, a series of quasi-religious activities such as presiding over a series of quasi-religious activities such as praying for snow, thanking the heavens, and sacrificing still have to be handled by Chen Wen, the highest-ranking minister in Zhejiang at present, and Chen Wen must also take on these tasks, otherwise Sun Yu is afraid that he will not even have time to sleep.

In addition, the debriefing of the duties assigned to the towns and battalions, the organization of the Huaxia Revival Society, the final parting meetings with the envoys of Xuanzhao and Zheng Chenggong, and the meetings with some anti-Qing activists lurking in the Manchu occupation areas had kept Chen Wen busy.

Especially when the news of Li Dingguo's beheading of Nikan came, the news was accompanied by groups of representatives of anti-Qing people from all over the country. Most of these anti-Qing activists came from Ningshaotai in eastern Zhejiang, Yanzhou in western Zhejiang, Hangjiahu in northern Zhejiang, Susongchang Town in southern Zhili, and even Nanjing.

Of course, the most important purpose is to strongly demand that Chen Wen raise troops for the Northern Expedition as soon as possible to recover their hometown at a time when the Ming army in the southwest has launched a large-scale counteroffensive and the Ming army in the southeast has also seized the strategic initiative, and they are willing to be a qualified "leading party."

For the "loyal and patriotic" hearts of these anti-Qing people, Chen Wen said that he would recover more old Han lands as soon as possible, and then began to vigorously fool these people to buy large loans for requisition, as for the military strategy, he did not plan to make any adjustments at all for the time being, even if these people described the potential anti-Qing forces in their hometowns to the point that as soon as Chen Wen's army arrived, they could tie up the Qing troops in various prefectures and counties and dedicate the city to the Ming army, Chen Wen did not waver in the slightest.

In the Battle of Nanjing, which occurred a few years later, the anti-Qing people in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River heard that Zheng Chenggong had waved tens of thousands of troops to the north to tell each other, and actively plotted against the Manchu officials and troops. The Ming army in Zhejiang led by Zhang Huangyan was extremely weak in combat, but it still recovered a large area of land in the upper reaches of Nanjing, all of which were due to these people and their comrades.

Logically speaking, now that Li Dingguo has become a famous king, the world is shaking, and anti-Qing people from all over the country are rushing to tell each other, Chen Wen does not suspect that after the army marched north and defeated the main force of the Qing army, these anti-Qing people are not capable of turning the prospects they described into reality.

But for the future that has deflected the trajectory more and more, Chen Wen did not dare to take risks for this at all, because the Ming army in the Hengyang victory still did not achieve the encirclement, and the contradictions between Sun and Li would break out sooner or later.

Li Dingguo's behavior is beyond Chen Wen's control, but fooling these people to buy loans is still within his power, and the good thing of not only being able to support the Ming army, but also getting interest on Chen Wen's side is indeed a good thing.

In fact, before this, there were already signs of improvement in the purchase of large loans for requisition, but there were also people who were reluctant to buy loans and only wanted to simply praise military supplies, such as a friend of Wang Yi named Lu Yuding.

Chen Wen had seen it on the forum before, and he also admired this anti-Qing person who collected the bones of loyal ministers and righteous soldiers, especially this person was not only ruining the family and destroying the country, but also one of Zhang Huangyan's biggest supporters in the Qing army occupied by the Qing army in eastern Zhejiang.

This time, Lu Yuding came to say that he would try his best to collect intelligence for Chen Wen, and at the same time, like Qian Qianyi, he brought a dozen tickets, saying that he wanted to praise the military supplies.

Although the Lu family is a big family in Ningbo, it is still much worse than Qian Qianyi's and other rich families, but the tickets that Lu Yuding came to carry are not less than Qian Qianyi, and even after seeing the military appearance with his own eyes and learning the news that Wang Yi's daughter is still alive, after sighing with tears and sighing, he said that he would raise a sum of silver as soon as possible to praise the military quartermasters.

Chen Wen was very grateful for Lu Yuding's generosity, especially when he noticed that the clothes he was wearing when he came to see him were not new.

At present, Chen Wennai is the noble of the Ming Court, a marquis who holds a large army, and the highest-ranking military general in Zhejiang, and the old general of Lu Yuding's old friend. The ancients paid attention to etiquette, although there was no rule that you could not wear old clothes, but it was always more decent to meet a character like Chen Wen. In fact, if it were someone else, Chen Wen might still suspect that there was an element of showmanship, but Lu Yuding's actions he had seen in the history books, and the rest of the matter naturally only had to think about it with emotion.

Lu Yuding stayed in Jinhua for several days before leaving, for this friend of Wang Yi when he was alive, a righteous man who risked a big crime to steal and collect Wang Yi's head, just to be able to bury him for his scenery one day, Chen Wen also made an exception, and personally took him to see the training of some technical arms that needed to be kept secret, so that he could go back and "inform" Wang Yi about the current situation of this army, and the right to be comforted. (To be continued.) )