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After sending off the new imperial envoy Wang again, Chen Yan, the first assistant of the Ming cabinet, fell into deep thought.

This time, Wang brought more letters, some of which were very straightforward, but most of them were very vague.

But the meaning is roughly the same, descending to the Ming minister, writing a letter to the Ming Shoufu, the meaning of which is actually very clear without reading the letter.

It's a lot of thinking about how to do it......

Recently, the emperor has been very dissatisfied with him...... Today's governance is too urgent, the employment of people is too fast, the law is too cool, the envy is unkind, and the less planning is more decisive...... Chen Yan shook his head lightly, thinking of this, he also made a decision in his heart.

"Someone!"

He summoned softly, and immediately a deacon butler pushed the door in the outer room and stood in front of Chen Yan.

"You take this," Chen Yan sat in front of the bookcase, and when the messenger came in, he wrote two small letters, and he didn't seal them, but handed them over directly, and ordered: "Hurry up and do it." ”

Dafu has a set of strict training, but when the housekeeper sees the two names, he is still shocked.

"Oh, you wait a minute."

Listening to the errand in a daze, Chen Yan stood up again, turned around in place with his hands behind his back, and then commanded: "Take my worship box, please come over to Master Guang." By the way, how is the charcoal tribute usually given to him? ”

"Two horses of Songjiang cloth, one horse of brocade, twelve taels of silver, and nothing else is to find some tribute, just make up the four."

The Cabinet Minister's Mansion, generally speaking, is of course a gift from others to Chen Yan, but in Chen Yan's hands, there are also some available people, regardless of whether they are protégés or fellow villagers, they are mainly ministers, civil officials, and can be used in case of political disputes.

"Oh, double it, drop by and send it to him!"

"Yes, the villain will do it immediately."

"Hmm."

The assignment was just a matter of a few words, and as soon as the errand went out, Chen Yan showed an extremely tired look on his face.

Right now, it's easy to do. However, you are putting yourself in a very strong whirlpool. If you fail, you will die, even if it succeeds, it is difficult to say whether the new dynasty will be able to protect him in order to cover it up.

But the wealth of the whole family is tied to himself, how can he be willing if he doesn't make a move?

Just as he was wandering around the room, he heard a messenger to report: "Master, Master Guang is here." ”

They are very familiar with each other, so the people in the house have introduced the military department all the way to the light Shiheng in the matter, this gentleman is in his forties, he has big ears in terms of birth, his demeanor is majestic and straight, and he is a person from Tongcheng, but he has a tall figure and a beautiful beard that the southerners do not have, so he is full of prestige, and when he is in the court, it is very eye-catching.

As a giving, Guang Shiheng is usually very stylish, and he doesn't smile when he sees people, but when he comes to the door, he is smiling on his face, and he salutes Chen Yan with very familiar movements, and then smiles: "I was rewarded by the teacher again." ”

"Hey, say what is this?" Chen Yan pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Sit, sit and say." ”

"Yes, Mr. Xie gave me a seat."

Guang Shiheng sat down honestly, with his hands on his knees, looking at Chen Yan squarely, looking like he was waiting for orders.

"What do you think of the changes in the situation lately?"

Chen Yan also wanted to meet guests, and he didn't want to talk too much to this protégé, so he went straight to the topic.

"This ......" Guang Shiheng pondered for a while, and said: "It seems that he is already immersed in his body, even if it is Bian Que and Hua Tuo, it seems that there is nothing to be done." ”

The relationship between each other, of course, does not have to be obscure, and Guang Shiheng is also telling the truth.

"How about moving south?"

"It's just a matter of catching your breath."

"The Yangtze River is in hand, and the land of Jiangnan is also rich, how can it be that you are surviving?"

"The scholar is a traitor, the towns have lost their temperance, Zuo Liangyu and Liu Zezhen's generation, can be relied on? At most, it's just a delay, people go down to Jiangling from Xiangyang, take Jiujiang, Anqing, and Nanjing are not at their fingertips? Guang Shiheng said energetically: "The most important thing is that the officials and gentry don't want to work for this dynasty!" ”

"Well, your view of the current situation is the same as that of the old man."

Chen Yan is a person, greedy and ruthless, but he is not a good match. And it's easy not to praise others, but when Heng gets his praise, he is in good spirits.

"Calling you here today is indeed a very important matter!" After some answers, Chen Yan knew that the person in front of him was available, but with his own strength, he might not be able to really convince the slippery and hands-free backward in front of him, so he said a word first, and then turned his head to the messenger and asked: "How is it, is the person coming?" ”

"Back to my lord, it's all here."

"Good!" Chen Yan stood up and said to Guang Shiheng: "You follow me to the flower hall, if there are important guests, let's meet together." ”

"Yes, of course the protégé follows the teacher."

The two of them went one after the other, bypassing the constant pavilions and pavilions, and the regulations of the Prime Minister's Mansion could not be compared with those century-old relatives and emperors' families, but they were also the most luxurious and magnificent mansions in the vicinity.

When he arrived at the flower hall, there were two old men who came forward, Guang Shiheng didn't care much about it before, and when he saw the two people, he was stunned at first, and then went deep: "The student has seen Mr. Wei." ”

"Oh, it's Hikari-sama." University scholar Wei Zaode nodded and said to Chen: "It seems that your protégé made a move?" ”

"Well, Shixiang has always been known for his outspokenness, and this time it is the best of the best."

Guang Shiheng didn't know what was going on, so he had to humble himself again and again, and only said: "How dare you, how dare the students!" ”

At the same time, he turned to the other person, bowed and said, "The student has seen Mr. Qiangong." ”

He was called a quality prince but also an important minister of this dynasty, Fan Jingwen, a clean minister who was famous for "not being instructed and not being fed", this person is not attached to the eunuch party, and he is also known as not Donglin, in fact, he is the best at hypocrisy, and has a deep relationship with the Donglin party.

But Chen Yan and Wei Zaode have always had a tense relationship, and it is inevitable that there will be open and secret fights in the cabinet, and Fan Jingwen has a shallow friendship with these two people, and they are not from the same party.

"Don't be afraid!" Chen Yan said to him: "Calling you here, there is indeed a big event that requires you to come forward." I asked you to see Mr. Wei and Mr. Qiangong, just to strengthen your courage and support your waist! ”

"Yes, protégé understood!" At this time, Guang Shiheng also understood that Chen Yan didn't say hello and brought him over, and he didn't give him a retreat at all.

Flinching in front of these big guys, talking about the future, it is difficult to protect the life of the family name!

The protégé is like this, Chen Yan also has a light on his face, looking at Wei and Fan at the moment, Chen Yan smiled faintly and said: "The two of them must have heard the rumors of this major event before...... There is a big event in the DPRK and China, but these people can't mess around, so the students have a plan, and they have to ask the second prince to discuss it together......"

The views on the current situation and the future of the Ming Dynasty are generally the same among all the people present, and those who have the same attitude as them are definitely the mainstream of the ministers of the Central Empire.

Therefore, everyone had no burden on the things in front of them, and they all nodded slightly, and under Chen Yan's invitation, they walked into the living room of Chen's Mansion together and discussed it carefully.

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Chen Yan's mansion is not far from the Chaoyang Gate, not far from the Xiangfu of the bell ringing Ding Shi is the city gate, it is late, the city gate is about to close, but there are still more than 30 people, six or seven carts, fifteen or sixteen horses, mules, donkeys formed a large team, in the twilight, the crowd of horses and horses slowly towards the city gate.

"Ume Village, to be honest, there were really two accidents today." Looking at Gong Dingxi, who was about to arrive at the city gate, with a small hat in a green coat and a gloomy expression, he said to Wu Weiye, who was also wearing civilian clothes: "First, I am surprised that you have delayed until now. Second, why did you go with Lao Tang, a Yiren, and take his apprentices who learned to draw ghosts...... Like a baby, I'm even more surprised! ”

To be honest, why did he take John Tang with him, and why did he take away all those apprentices of John Tang in the rebuilt history bureau of Shoushan Academy run by the Donglin Party, Wu Weiye himself didn't understand.

He only knew that he would mobilize Tang Ruowang to Nanjing, and then bring these "talents" and machinery and equipment, a whole set of stargazing things...... All up, the prince spent at least 20,000 silver!

This convoy will go out of the city and meet with the escort cavalry, these are the brave soldiers recruited by the master, more than 100 bird guns were bought for two or five dollars a shot, plus carts, mules and horses, and chewing grain all the way...... Is this a small amount of money?

The road along the way is from Jingshi to Tongzhou, and then to Dezhou, from the waterway to Zhangqiu, and then to the drought, through Dongchangfu to Tai'an, and then to Huai'an, along the way or water or drought, it is a thoroughfare!

Now there is no big group of thieves in Shandong, only a small group of poles of hundreds of people at most, and they do not dare to raid the prefectures and counties, let alone rob the official road of Caoyun, after all, the general military officer Gao Jie's department is now stationed in the Dongchang area, and then to the south, there are "flower horse Liu" Liu Liangzuo with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Zhengyang, Henan, and in Linqing, Shandong, there is still a part of Liu Zeqing, these towns, and Huang Degong town in Luzhou combined, it is the famous four towns in Jiangbei during the Hongguang period.

There are these towns, Zuo Liangyu is fighting with Bai Wang and other generals who break into the camp, Zhang Xianzhong has already set his sights on Sichuan, this time to the south, it should be said that there is a surprise at most, and there will be no danger.

But the crown prince spent so much money and took great pains to protect the safety of himself and Tang Ruowang, and Wu Weiye could only be grateful to Dade, and he only had the words "serve death to repay" in his heart.

"Ghost Drawing?" Wu Weiye was still groaning, but Tang Ruowang, a foreign devil, was not convinced at first, and came out to relieve the siege: "Mr. Xu Guangqi is also a ghost painter?" In the sixth year of Chongzhen, he and I relied on this astrological almanac to recompile the almanac, and now you are using it from me, or the old calendar? If this is a ghost painting talisman, Gong Xiaosheng, you will never use it again! ”

When it comes to this, of course, no one is unconvinced, and the calendar that is now in use in the world is compiled by the foreign devil in front of him and Xu Guangqi, which is painstaking and laborious, and extremely precise and accurate.

In fact, until later generations, the almanacs used by the Chinese were compiled by this color eye.

At that time, the scholars did not have too deep resistance to these Westerners, after all, the imperial court also pointed to the compilation of almanacs to calculate astronomy, and also pointed to these foreign devils to help cast, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua's master and apprentice, is the first batch of scholars who devoted themselves to the west, Xu Guangqi can not only cast cannons, but also extremely interested in geometric heavens, and write books to promote, and Sun Yuanhua is an expert in casting cannons, but unfortunately it was ruined in the Denglai Rebellion.

As for the calendar bureau composed by Tang Ruowang, in history it was experienced two major events of Li Chuang's entry into Beijing and Jiannu's entry into Beijing, and later the bureau was owned by the Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu ruler's unreasonable surname was also beyond Tang Ruowang's imagination, in the astronomical dispute in the early years of Kangxi, Tang Ruowang was sentenced to hanging, and almost lost his life, although he was proved to be right, but Tang Ruowang's hard work to bring out more than a dozen apprentices, all sentenced to beheading.

Decades of hard work, once lost, this blow is heavy.

For Zhu Cihong, protecting this foreign devil is not the main thing, he is not from my clan, and his intentions are also missionary, which is of little use. What he focused on was the new learning brought by the other party, as well as these dozen or twenty Chinese who were already proficient in Western studies, these people were the real baby bumps!

When Wu Weiye objected, Zhu Cihong was really embarrassed to say it...... In his heart, a hundred great talents are afraid that they are not as good as a calendar student who is proficient in geometry......

Gong Ding's grandeur was also dumbed by Tang Ruowang's shot, in fact, he also had a special embrace in his heart...... Seeing that one by one, his best friends, the colleagues of the Donglin Restoration Society are all gone, and because of the opposition of his concubines, he is also pregnant with the ghost fetus of Shun Xinchao...... All kinds of thoughts, seven up and eight down, have a belly out of place.

At the moment, he only waved his hand at Tang Ruowang and said: "Don't say anything else, you usually always say that preaching is the main thing, and everything else is auxiliary, what's wrong now, in order to make money, don't care about anything else?" ”

After a big teaching case in the Chongzhen period, the missionaries worked very hard, and they could only rely on the Jesu Society to keep transporting boring machines and self-striking bells, binoculars and other military and civilian items from Europe to open the joints, and even they were still discussing whether to form a mercenary musket team of several hundred people to go north to help the Ming Dynasty attack the barbarians in Jianzhou...... After all, Jesu will operate in Daming for many years, and Daming is also a civilized country!

If this were not the case, how could John Tang, who was dedicated to mission, be willing to leave Yanjing?

These things are top secret, Tang Ruowang just smiled, but he turned his head away, ignoring Gong who was bent on finding fault and wanted to quarrel.

"Filial piety," Wu Weiye was kind, and said to Gong Ding: "I know you don't have a hug, but my brother has a word to ask my brother to keep it in mind!" ”

"What?"

"Things to Come: Look at the Prince!"

"Hmph, don't talk about your prince!" Gong Ding's emotions today are also quite related to this matter, he looked left and right, and said to Wu Weiye in a very low voice: "You probably don't know, right?" Wang Duo praised the young master for his benevolence and virtue in Nanjing, and this matter is already well known, and some people will make a fuss. This time, the capital is empty, and many people are thinking about moving south...... You must not be involved in this matter! ”

"How?" Wu Weiye said: "Moving south is the right way, why can't you say it?" ”

"Alas, there is a lot at stake in this, what do you know about these tricks and scheming between the DPRK and China."

In terms of articles and poems, Wu Weiye is ten times stronger than Gong Dingxi, but in terms of inquiring about news and understanding people's hearts, Gong Dingxian is much stronger than this three Wu talents.

Seeing that Wu Weiye was quite unconvinced, Gong Dingyi suddenly said: "Wang Duo and you, help the master manage his reputation, and even build momentum for the master to move south to the prison country, and those who have a little wisdom have already seen it." This matter is very unwise, let me tell you, there is still something to say about the emperor's move to the south, but things are still very difficult...... There are quite a few people who plan to fight this matter, thinking that the new dynasty is the step to the body! You must know that people's hearts have changed dramatically now, and it is not the same as it was a few years ago! If anyone dares to mention the prince's move to the south, let me ask you, there is a story about the accession of Lingwu of Tang Suzong, the emperor listened to it, and was he willing to let the master go? Moreover, the emperor's surname is very suspicious, do you think he will like the person who mentions this matter very much, and the master, will he eat and hang? ”

These words were said quickly and urgently, and they were almost out of order, but for Wu Weiye, they were like an initiation, and many things that he had not thought about were suddenly much more transparent.

He looked at Gong Dingxi, who looked unlucky, and persuaded in a harmonious voice: "Xiaosheng, with your talent, it's a pity to stay in Jingshi." If you are a thief, you will regret it in the future. ”

"Hmph, I don't regret it." Gong Dingxin turned his head and said with a disdainful expression: "The future will definitely be mine, you see." ”

"Okay, I won't fight with you." Wu Weiye knew that this friend was extremely talented, but his character was inferior, so it was completely useless to blame the monarch and the minister, so he also sneered at the moment and said to him: "There is still something to say about the new dynasty, what if Jiannu enters the customs again?" ”

"Huh?" Gong Dingxin was stunned, scratched his head and said, "...... you say?"

"Didn't think about it?" Wu Weiye said in a mocking tone: "If you shave your head and keep your braids, what will happen to you if you finish it again and again?" ”

At that time, few people really thought about such a thing. In fact, there are indeed many officials who stayed in Beijing, and the Ming officials of the Ten ** chose to serve the new dynasty and Feng Li became the new master.

But as soon as the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, these officials who stayed in Beijing fled out of the city and were unwilling to serve the barbarians, and the real opportunity for the Ming Dynasty to turn over was in the shaving order after losing Nanjing.

"I want to discuss this matter with Chen Baishi!"

Gong Dingxi's attitude was actually just a microcosm of the attitude of many young officials at that time towards the replacement of the old with the new. Chen Mingxia and he usually have a very close relationship, and his thoughts are quite consistent, this talent is more talented, more long-sleeved and good at dancing, in Donglin and Fushe, Chen Mingxia is also far more valued than Gong and Wu, and his attitude is extremely important.

"Let's discuss it, Brother Xiaosheng."

Today is a real completion of a task assigned by the crown prince, Wu Weiye is very sure in his heart. Now that the overall situation is becoming more and more tense, the emperor can't take care of the crown prince's homework at all, and his burden of covering can be unloaded.

If they go down, they will take John Tang all the way back to the south, and in Nanjing, there is a new situation waiting for them!

It's just that after leaving the city, looking back, Wu Weiye is also in a heavy mood: among the Beijing Division, the situation is so paradoxical, it seems to be calm, but there is an undercurrent surging underneath, in which direction the major events will develop, whether the crown prince can get what he wants, and how the emperor decides, these are all extremely complicated and unspeakable things.

He let out a sigh, no matter what, the capital is behind him, looking ahead, Tang Ruowang and others are hurrying with great interest, the twilight is cold, the grass hut is lonely, although it is sluggish, but in the eyes of people with high interest, it is full of vitality. In any case, this road must be walked by people after all!