After sitting in the flower hall for a long time, Lian Chengbi suddenly called his entourage to summon Xu Guoliang to come. After Xu Guoliang, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" pavilion, came, he couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw a large stack of neat manuscripts on the wide desk in front of the old supervisor.

Lian Chengbi pointed to the manuscript and said to Xu Guoliang: "This is my life's painstaking work, about 780,000 words, and there is no order. The ancients said: Taishang is virtuous, followed by meritorious service, followed by words, which is called three immortals. Virtue and meritorious service, I can't reach it, and I may be hopeful. Even if there is no hope, you must think of publishing this manuscript into the world, so that the world will know that I have a piece of loyalty to the monarch and the Ming Dynasty even on the city wall. This was said categorically by the city wall, and his expression was extremely sad and indignant, and he was a little impassioned.

Xu Guoliang saw the appearance of the old superintendent, and he really couldn't bear it, so he persuaded: "The superintendent's literary name has long been known to the world, and the superintendent has engraved the "Poetry Collection" and "Diguan Collection" in his early years, and in recent years, there have been "Fuguan Recital" and "Xuanyun Recital" moments. ”

Even the city wall sighed when he heard this: "I have no choice but to be a courtier, so I have to put aside the mind of looking for mountains and rivers and contribute to the court wholeheartedly." I still thought about retiring, and then I continued but my long-cherished wish, but I didn't expect to fall into it, and there was no way out. ”

"The superintendent has just served the mandate of heaven, the spring and autumn period is long, the first-class war is over, and his subordinates will accompany you to wander the mountains and rivers, and also learn from Xu Xiake to travel between heaven and earth, leaving pictures and records for the famous mountains and rivers." Xu Guoliang said sincerely.

"Ande returned after success, and Qianxi suddenly teased Wuling smoke. Now that I think of my previous poems, I am also overwhelmed with emotion! I have also heard of Xu Xiake, before he was fifty years old, he traveled all over the famous mountains in the north and south, Mount Tai, Mount Song, Mount Hua, Mount Heng, Mount Wutai, Mount Huang, Mount Lu, Mount Putuo, Mount Tiantai, Mount Yandang, and as far as Mount Wuyi in Fujian. He has written a lot of famous mountain travel notes. I'm fifty-eight years old, and I can't compare to him. ”

Lian Chengbi shook his head, took the tea handed by Xu Guoliang and drank two sips, took Xu Guoliang's hand and said: "The way of the eunuch is also like drinking, which is just fun." The sage's mind is about the mean, the middle, the right way in the world; The mediocre is the theorem of the world. However, the mean is really not easy to grasp, I advise you to wait until you can study, not to come out to be an official, not to mention the sinister career, all day long to trivial and mundane things entangled, live up to the good time. ”

"Follow the instructions of the overseer." Xu Guoliang agreed and asked, "Tomorrow is the fifty-ninth birthday of the superintendent, and the staff are going to hold a banquet in Xingyuan to celebrate the superintendent's birthday......

"How can I bear it?" Lian Chengbi interrupted him, "Since I was appointed, they have followed and tried their hard work, and now that fifteen years of dismal business have come to naught, how can I bear to teach them to be happy?" ”

Xu Guo's conscience was painful, and he said patiently: "In the past fifteen years, it has become a practice for generals to prepare banquets for the superintendent to celebrate his birthday, and this time is especially indispensable, even if it is a scene. Otherwise, wouldn't it hurt everyone's hearts, and how could everyone's morale be restored? ”

Lian Chengbi nodded and said, "What you say is reasonable. Go down and prepare, everything is simple, not extravagant. ”

The banquet was really simple, there was no opera troupe singing and official prostitutes singing and dancing, and the wine and food were not rich. Lian Chengbi forcibly accepted the entourage's congratulations, sat on the banquet for a while, took a cup slightly, wet his wet blue and purple lips, and the banquet ended hastily. When he was about to leave the festival hall for his birthday, he burst into tears and said: "Everyone is gracious, how can the city wall be repaid? It's a drag on you. ”

"We follow the overseer and suppress thieves for the court, how can we drag it down?" Xu Guoliang looked around at everyone, "Did everyone say it?" ”

Even the city wall burst into tears, and without waiting for everyone to answer, he sighed: "Thank you for your kindness, the city wall has received it." How nice it would be if the courtiers thought the same way! The heart will not change lightly, so we can do it boldly without too many scruples. That being said, it's hard to do. Needless to say, the courtiers, that is, the gentry of Jiangnan Zuo who can see our thieves, they regard my city wall as a supervisor who was demoted by the imperial court, and they don't want me to be an auxiliary minister of the imperial court. The courtiers who are far away in Nanjing, want to teach them not to listen to the wind and understand my suffering, how can they? I only understood Yuan Chonghuan's difficulties today, and he was ordered to go out of the customs, how majestic! Unexpectedly, he ended up in the West City and was exiled by his family. Do you resent the emperor? Can't, can't! The emperor originally intended to make Yuan Chonghuan guilty and make meritorious contributions, but he was bewitched by those courtiers and had to endure the pain. Alas! And it's no wonder that the courtiers. When you go abroad, everyone is very eager, and the soldiers and horses take money and food at will, but they can't succeed immediately, can they not resent you and hate you? ... You have all followed me as a lonely minister, how can I deal with everyone. ”

Xu Guoliang was moved by his true feelings, and cried: "The superintendent is too worried, the superintendent is long, we should plan again, we must not be obsessed with the gains and losses of one city, one place, one person and one thing, discouraged and desperate, and take the opportunity to make up for the loss." ”

"Take care, my lord!"

Everyone got up one after another, and watched Lian Chengbi go out into the flower hall, and his steps were a little staggering. Back in the flower hall, Lian Cheng Wall sat alone by the desk to rest, his thoughts were chaotic. Hatefully thinking about the matter of Lujiang will cause an uproar in the imperial court, and there are not a few people who impeach him for his incompetence, and the emperor may come to the order to take responsibility and order himself to take the blame and save the decline. However, the arrogance of Jiang He and Anhui and other generals did not listen to the dispatch, and the two generals, Geng Zhongde and Qi Hao, were suspicious of him and obstructed the strategy of using troops in every possible way, but he was angry and resentful, and he had no way to vent it. For a while, I felt that the six gods had no master, my head was dizzy, and the handwriting on the official document was blurry and illegible, so I simply walked into the inner room and lay down in my clothes. I slept for a while, but I was unwilling to get up.

"I can't live up to the grace of God, although I didn't take the initiative to leave Beijing, but after all, I am the governor of the two provinces!"

Lian Chengbi let out a long sigh, propped himself up, asked his entourage for a hot hand towel, wiped his face, put on a purple gray squirrel robe, and walked to the back of the case to review the urgent documents. After approving one piece, I picked up another one, and it was actually sent by Jiang He. He was extremely tired of Jiang He, this person was arrogant and domineering, difficult to control, and the thief Xiucai trusted him extremely and entrusted him with important tasks. When he first received the order, Lianchengbi sent people to order Jiang He to march to chase and suppress the enemy fleeing from Anqing, and sent five shots in a row, Jiang He actually excused himself from illness, and watched the Qing army in Anqing escape from the encirclement and fall back into the Lujiang River, which was really a crime that deserved death. When he came to Anqing, Jiang He and the others did not come to greet him with all kinds of excuses, let alone give orders, so he saw that Jiang He was really a headache and bored, and he patiently opened the document, but found that this document was complete nonsense. (To be continued.) )