"As the saying goes, if you are proud and arrogant, you will hurt yourself ......if you are arrogant."

Liu Mazi Liu Jingting was talking about the ancient times in the painting boat, and in another painting boat not far away, Dong Xianting was bored when he heard it, closed the glass window hard, and muttered a low curse in his mouth.

"Xinkui, why be angry?"

The speaker's eyes were half-open and half-closed, and although his speech was slow, his tone was extremely tough. Dong Xianting sighed: "How can you not be angry, that Cheng Zhengfu, who got our benefits, but was scolded for two sentences and left the burden - how can such a character do a big deal?" ”

"It doesn't matter, the first and second phases have already started in his name, and all parties have become familiar with them. The third phase of the industry has been prepared and is only waiting to be printed, and when it comes to the fourth issue, let's say that because of some kind of pressure interference, Cheng Xianzhen had to resign. But all the colleagues of "Nandu Weekend" vow to fight those pressures to the end...... And so on. ”

Dong Xianting nodded again and again when he heard this: "Yes, yes, this is a good way, but someone has to replace Cheng Xianzhen, right?" ”

Neither Yu Guozhen nor Qian Qianyi thought that after Cheng Xianzhen was scolded by Guizhuang and Wei Xi together, he would be ashamed and would resign as the chief writer of "Nandu Weekend" and go into seclusion. He was originally a native of Texas, and an important reason why he was so active in making enemies of Yu Guozhen was that his family's property in Texas was expropriated when the railroad was built in Texas, and he was not willing to give cash compensation or industrial equity compensation, and was finally forcibly expropriated. Therefore, he could not return to Texas, so he could only go away to other places and remain incognito.

This incident disrupted Dong Xianting's plan. Luckily, the man who came with him had a plan to spare.

Hou Sui.

If Qian Qianyi is the leader of the Donglin Party on the surface, then this Hou Sui's influence in Donglin is definitely not under Qian Qianyi. When Wei Zhongxian was still alive, Hou Sui and his father Hou Zhipu, when Wei Zhongxian was arrogant, they were Donglin cadres, and they were both dismissed. Since then, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he has been imprisoned twice and has a prominent reputation. Not for a while.

Even at the end of Chongzhen's fifteenth year, Hou Sui, who had just finished his father's funeral and kept filial piety for a year, continued to be imprisoned after returning to the capital. Until Li Zicheng broke through the capital. He was released from prison with Zhou Yanru, but Zhou Yanru successfully escaped back to the south, but he was held by the army on the way.

He insisted on Li Zicheng's expedition, and it was precisely because of this that in the face of Cheng Xianzhen, he had a psychological advantage: he was not a second minister.

At the same time, he also knew the military strategy, once recommended Yuan Chonghuan, and repeatedly supervised the division to fight with the Liukou, which can be regarded as a capable minister, and at the same time does not lose the means of flexibility - at the beginning, Sun Jin and Feng Yuanbiao proposed that Donglin should also be "vast". even did not hesitate to use bribery, collusion with factory guards and other means to control the government, so Zhang Pu and Wu Changshi sought to make Zhou Yanru recover, and when they were raising shares, Feng Quan and Ruan Dacheng of the eunuch party each contributed 10,000 taels of shares, and Hou Sui also made up 10,000 taels of shares. plus the other enough, a total of 60,000 taels, went to the door of Tian Guifei, and finally sent Zhou Yanru to the throne of the first assistant.

"Yu Jimin is too arrogant, I asked Sun Mingqing to ask him when he will start the scientific examination, but he is not ashamed. said that he would no longer take the Four Books and Five Classics...... The kid is rebellious, if he is allowed to be in charge, there will be nothing left in the world. Hou Sui said slowly: "Mr. Xinkui, you should understand that this matter is very important, although the lord behind you has ulterior motives, I will not pursue this matter, as long as I can give Yu Jimin some hindrance." ”

"That's what Mr. Liuzhen said." Facing Hou Sui, Dong Xianting did not dare to have the slightest arrogance, and said respectfully.

"I will let my son Fang Yu come to the national prison, and your people will not harm him." After a while, Hou Sui said again.

"Why did Mr. Liuzhen say that?"

"If only you knew it in your heart."

After a brief conversation between the two, they stopped talking, Dong Xianting understood that the other party was going to leave by himself, he asked the boat lady to bring the painting boat ashore, and Hou Sui did not give it a gift, so he left, and the painting boat entered the river again, and quietly disappeared into the countless painting boats on the river.

"This guy is careful." Dong Xianting sneered.

On the surface, he was very respectful to Hou Sui, but in fact, he had a kind of contempt for these civil officials from the academic background, perhaps because of his own lack of ambition. There is another reason for this contempt: even if Zhou Yanru, who became the first assistant, was not played by him at the beginning!

At this time, it was already night, the Qinhuai River was brightly lit, looking at this brilliant and splendid piece, there was a clear and tactful voice of the singers on the painting boat song tower in the distance, Dong Xianting felt that such a beautiful and moving Qinhuai River should belong to a talented and capable person like him.

It shouldn't be a mediocrity like Yu Guozhen.

In Dong Xianting's heart, Yu Guozhen is a mediocre person. He is knowledgeable, but he doesn't know the criminal name, he doesn't know the law, and he doesn't know the Four Books and Five Classics, he doesn't know the Eight Shares and can't write the pavilion style, such a person, if he is afraid of their knowledge, and appoints someone like them to be in charge, then it's fine, but Yu Guozhen has no reverence for them, and even tries to train a group of people to replace them completely!

Just as Hou Sui, Sun Jin and others realized that the talents cultivated by Yu Guozhen's new education would make there no longer have the place of the old literati in the government, Dong Xianting also understood that not only the official position was gone, but even the official position was gone. If the new officials, as Huaxia is now, all start from the grassroots level and cannot be promoted without going through actual affairs, it means that a master like Dong Xianting will also lose his livelihood in the future!

And the same is true of the servants. Yu Guozhen's statecraft had not yet been promulgated, and those with a keen sense of smell noticed that he was declaring war on the old ruling system!

Naturally, the old forces will not sit idly by.

"However, Yu Guozhen is not completely without skills, he can train troops, command battles and is not afraid of death, in addition, he has a brain full of strange skills and tricks......"

Dong Xianting looked at the big mirror of a shop in front of him and smiled, this is the new thing brought by Yu Guozhen's strange skills, now the shops in Jinling City, almost all of them have a large mirror behind the door panel of their door, when they open the door during the day, there will be a mirror facing the street, and the guests who come and go see their figures, there are always some people who can't help but stay, and then they are naturally greeted to the store by the guys.

But this time, Dong Xianting's smile quickly retracted, because he saw a figure in the mirror, which seemed to be a little familiar.

The man had been following him for some time, seemingly shortly after he got off the boat. He looked back several times before, but now that he has turned two streets, he is still there, so it is not normal!

Dong Xianting knew that Yu Guozhen had his own intelligence system. As soon as his heart moved, he immediately suspected that this person belonged to Yu Guozhen's intelligence investigation system.

"Jinling affairs, just leave it to Hou Sui, I have to leave." Dong Xianting thought to himself.

If the other party is really Yu Guozhen's subordinate, it means that he has been targeted, and the only problem can be Cheng Xianzhen. Dong Xianting knew very well what would happen if a person like himself fell into the hands of Yu Guozhen, so he didn't dare to delay for a moment, passed through two shops in the alley, left through the back door of the store by urinating, and then stopped a small boat that was soliciting business along the Qinhuai River, and after crossing the river, he summoned a carriage and told the coachman to go straight to the wharf.

When he arrived at the pier, he bought a ticket from Jinling to Anping Town. Nowadays, the small steam ships produced by Xinxiang have entered the Yangtze River and the canal, and the small steam passenger ships from Jinling to Beijing are departing every three days, and can carry more than 120 passengers. Dong Xianting found an inn at the dock and stayed, and got on the boat the next day, when the boat started, he saw through the glass that the familiar person was hurrying to the dock with several people, so he immediately shrank his head.

In any case, it cannot fall into their hands.

In the past, the ship from Jinling to Yanzhou was smooth, and it took about ten days along the way. The steamer, on the other hand, can sail with the wind and against the water, even at night, it only drops to half speed, and moves slowly under the guidance of the dead wind lamp in front of it. Therefore, it only took him three days to arrive in the town of Anping.

Since the diversion of the Yellow River, Anping Town has become the mouth of the Yellow River and the canal. Dong Xianting got off the boat here, because the matter was in a hurry, he had not yet thought about whether to go west along the Yellow River or continue north, so he temporarily settled in Anping Town.

At this time, Anping Town was very prosperous, and with the convenience of water transportation, it became an important town in Yanzhou Prefecture. Dong Xianting had dinner in the evening, strolling alone on the bank of the Yellow River, seeing that the water and land transportation was busy, and before he knew it, he came to the outside of the town.

Just outside the town, he saw hundreds of migrant workers, carrying all kinds of tools, coming down the canal, all looking very tired. When he saw this, he felt a little strange, so he stopped one of them: "Where did you come from?" ”

"Dredging the Yellow River, taking advantage of such a winter when the water is dry, hurry up and dredge, and strive to be able to go directly to Xi'an along the Yellow River when the water rises next year!"

"You don't have common sense when you say this, and the Yellow River is no more than Xi'an." One of the migrant workers laughed.

"Doesn't it mean that there is another river that leads to the Yellow River...... Weishui or what? This gentleman is a well-informed person at first glance, and he must know? ”

"It's Weishui." Dong Xianting nodded: "But if you want to ship into Xi'an next year, I'm afraid it won't work, right?" ”

"What's not to do?"

"Now Xi'an is still in the hands of Marshal Liu of Dashun, and on the way, you have to pass through the land under the rule of Prime Minister Niu Cheng."

The nominal Dashun still exists, Liu Zongmin is the marshal, Niu Jinxing is the prime minister, but the two have been divided, Liu Zongmin controls the southern Shaanxi and Hanzhong areas, and Niu Jinxing controls most of Henan and the northern part of Huguang.

"So what, sooner or later Huaxia will be unified." There is a migrant road.

"Speaking of this, a few days ago, I heard that the envoy of Marshal Liu of Dashun passed by our side, saying that he was going to Qingdao to discuss matters - it seems that he wanted to fight with the Huaxia army to attack Prime Minister Niu Cheng, and the two sides would divide the land equally."

Hearing these migrant workers gossiping about major events in the world, there are many vulgar and ignorant things, and Dong Xianting originally disliked it in his heart: When will it be the turn of these mud-legged people to point fingers at the world's major events. But when he learned the news that Liu Zongmin's envoy was here, he was stunned, and when he learned that he was going to fight Niu Jinxing with the Huaxia army, Dong Xianting was even more shocked.

Because his lord is the bull Venus. (To be continued)