Shi Kefa stood in front of the palace gate in Jinling on crutches, looking at the vermilion paint on the palace wall was a little mottled, and the various flags symbolizing the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty were all shrunk in the cold wind.

Just like his mood at the moment.

The assassination five years ago did not kill him, but because of the long delay, his younger brother Shi Kecheng's insistence almost killed him, and finally the military doctor sent by Yu Guozhen had to amputate his leg - in this era, amputation is a high-risk thing, but in the end, his life was saved.

But as a result, he resigned from the post of secretary of the Ministry of Works.

The court officials of the Ming Dynasty, even if they are not beautiful men with dignified appearances, at least they can't use a lame man with few legs. This is not someone else's opinion, but Shi Kefa's own opinion. This made him still have little affection for Yu Guozhen, and although Yu Guozhen can be said to have saved his life, it also ruined his political career.

Since then, Shi Kefa has lived in seclusion outside Jinling City, almost without leaving the gate, and only some like-minded Donglin comrades come and go on weekdays.

Even Qian Qianyi is now regarded as an outlier by him and is no longer allowed to enter his home.

Before coming to the palace today, he was prepared to die.

Taking a deep breath, he stepped forward on crutches, and then bowed down in front of the palace gates.

"The former cabinet scholar and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Shi Kefa, beg Your Majesty to issue an edict to summon the world's righteous teachers and kings, and never let a few traitors be allowed to do so, so he will give the 270-year foundation of his ancestors to the unwritten villain!"

When he knelt in front of the door. has long been seen by a few guards, Shi Kefa's one-legged is very famous, so the guards know that he was a minister, these days there are many former high-ranking officials who came to the palace to hang their respects, the guards originally didn't care, but he knelt down, and then shouted, the guards had to come forward to mix him.

"Master Shi. You don't have to be difficult for us big soldiers, it's not been a few days now, so don't learn from that group of students. ”

"Too student?" Shi Kefa originally came with the heart of death, and when he heard this word, his eyes suddenly lit up,

Yes, there are too many students. There is also the Nandu weekend, even now that the big people in the DPRK and China have abandoned the Ming Dynasty. He can also exert influence on these people.

"Besides. The palace has no time to take care of this now, our Majesty the Son of Heaven is busy playing with the palace maids, and the old men are reading the newspaper, it is said that Yu Guozhen came to Weifu for a private visit, and was almost beaten - Master Shi, you also go and see. You will be glad to see it. ”

Originally, Zhu Yousong would be careful and fight for power with his ministers. But after Ruan Dacheng came back from signing a five-year reunification agreement five years ago, he devoted all his thoughts to the palace maids in the harem. And the news that Xia Yunyi brought back the Chongzhen Son of Heaven is still there. It made the ministers even more stunned.

They deliberately did not mention this matter very tacitly, but the ministers were still actively thinking about how to confront Yu Guozhen and let the Ming Dynasty continue as much as possible, but since then, everyone has watched the so-called Huaxia Military Strategy Committee come over step by step, a new treaty today, a new payment tomorrow, everyone is thinking about how to cooperate with the requirements of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee as much as possible, how to leave a good impression in front of Yu Guozhen, and how to win a good position after being "reunified" in the future.

A group of retainers!

Shi Kefa thought so in his heart, but still struggled to get up: since there is still a way, then ...... There is no need to die for the time being.

Even if everyone in the world gives up, I, Shi Daolin, will not give up!

With such a tragic and lonely heart, Shi Kefa felt that he would definitely be able to leave a long-term reputation in the green history, just like his teacher Zuo Guangdou.

He arrived here early in the morning, and he really didn't read the newspaper, so he didn't know what was new in the newspaper today. After leaving the Hongwu Gate of the Imperial City, he got on the tricycle when he came, and he said to the coachman: "Go to the nearest ...... Teahouse. ”

After Yu Guozhen advocated the New Life Movement, he called on the world to stop taking the sedan chair to show festive respect when the groom picked up the bride. Originally, Jinling ignored him, if he didn't sit in a sedan chair, how could he reflect the dignity of the people? However, after the signing of the five-year reunification plan, since Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, they no longer took the sedan car, saying that it was in response to the call of the Chinese commander Yu Guozhen - so everyone changed to take the car.

The tricycle produced by Xinxiang Jili and Qirui, in fact, the bureaucrats of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty have long been drooling about it, this kind of tricycle is naturally specially made, and it is much more luxurious and expensive than those soliciting customers on the street, and it is not much more expensive than carrying a sedan chair. In the past, these bureaucrats always thought that they were afraid that people would attack and buy Xinxiang's car as "collecting people's wealth to fund the enemy", and they were afraid that people would scold them for "being poor and extravagant".

After all, the tricycle is more stable and comfortable than the sedan chair, and the disadvantage is that there is some trouble when crossing the stone bridge steps, but now it is okay, the steps of the large and small stone bridges in Jinling City are all made of cement out of the three-wheeled lane.

At this time, Shi Kefa had to admit that Yu Guozhen was changing the entire Chinese ...... No, the Ming Dynasty went down from the bureaucracy to the lives of the common people. If he can open the imperial examination, appoint Donglin Confucian as an official, attach importance to power, don't learn from Emperor Taizu, and then give Zhu Yousong a little favor, Shi Kefa feels that he may not be unable to accept him as the emperor.

When I arrived at a teahouse, I moved in on a wooden crutch. Because it was early in the morning, there were not many guests in the teahouse, in fact, the merchants in Jinling City opened late in the morning, but the unified work and rest time of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee was required, and it was not only the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee, but also the Jinling Small Imperial Court also arranged the working hours from 8 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the evening, with an hour's rest time in the middle, so the various shops also changed their time.

Thinking of this work and rest time, Shi Kefa was a little unaccustomed to it: Yu Guozhen not only managed the work and rest time of the Jinling court, but also the work and rest time of the common people, and he explicitly ordered each workshop to arrange the craftsmen hired to do things, and the working hours should not exceed ten hours a day. In Shi Kefa's view, this is extremely unconscionable. The proprietor needs the craftsman to work hard, and the craftsman also needs to do more work to earn more money to support the family, so why force the family to rest?

"Get the latest newspaper and let the old man see what's going on." He sat down and commanded.

Dr. Cha, who came up to wait, immediately brought newspapers, these teahouses are used to doing business, at least five or six newspapers have been ordered, and if the business is good, even more than ten copies of each newspaper have been ordered. After reading a newspaper, the customers who came to refill the water at least three or five times, and naturally gave a reward at the checkout. Moreover, there is also rent and newspaper money for reading newspapers, one copper dollar at a time, although it is not much, but it is also an income.

Shi Kefa habitually looked at the headlines of the newspapers.

"The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Chinese Dynasty - What Does It Mean for the Imperial Power to Not Be in the County?"

This huge title made Shi Kefa's heart sink.

Then there is Yu Guozhen, commander of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee, who recently discovered an incident during his "investigation" in a certain place in Shandong, and saw this. Shi Kefa didn't want to look at the content behind first, but slapped the table hard. Scared Dr. Tea.

"This dog thief actually paid a private visit. It's a pity, it's a pity, no one recognizes it, otherwise if you don't have good defense around it, you only need a projectile to get rid of this evil fang for the people of the world! ”

Shi Kefa muttered, but he understood. He was just fantasizing.

Shandong is a place where Yu Guozhen has been operating for more than ten years, and on the whole, social security is still good. Even if an ordinary person walks in the process, it is rare to encounter thieves. Even petty theft is much less. is like an arrogant and strong man like Master Qi, and he is a little cautious in his actions, otherwise with his old grudge against Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan, seeing that Li Laoqi would have beaten him to death a long time ago, how could he just detain people!

Not to mention that Yu Guozhen still has guards by his side, and he can summon the militia at any time - even if that Mu Kui is bought by Master Qi, he still doesn't dare to discount the orders Yu Guozhen gave him.

Those who thought that Yu Guozhen's white dragon fish suit would be deceived by shrimp and crabs inevitably underestimated Yu Guozhen.

Shi Kefa complained twice, and looked down again, but saw that what he said was that the inferior gentry in a certain place bullied the left and right, bribed officials, arbitrarily cut off the country, and dominated one side. Shi Kefa has never heard of this kind of thing, and they, Donglin, often boast that they can destroy local heroes, and the original Hairui Haigang Peak has made everyone in danger of local heroes.

Shi Kefa is definitely not stupid, he has suffered so many setbacks over the years, and he has made some progress, so when he saw this, he gasped.

Yu Guozhen...... It's time to declare war on the local powers!

Declaring war on Confucianism, declaring war on local heroes, what kind of bold thing is Yu Guozhen doing, Yu Guozhen is really arrogant to such an extent, he thinks he can fight against this tradition that has lasted for 1,800 years?

Shi Kefa sneered, he felt that this was another opportunity.

No wonder all the princes in the court are reading the newspapers, what they are looking at is not the fact that Yu Guozhen was almost beaten, but what kind of incident will be caused by Yu Guozhen's declaration of war on the local powerful gentry......

More importantly, at this time, it is the critical time to complete the five-year reunification plan, and if Yu Guozhen throws out such a thing at this time, will it affect reunification?

If this really caused the Quartet under Yu Guozhen's rule to be on fire, it would be fine, that would be able to restrain Yu Guozhen's energy and make his reunification plan have to be postponed. And this can let the world see Yu Guozhen's weak side, maybe the next step is for the people to rise up, and Yu Guozhen's subordinates are in groups, and then Yu Guozhen is at the end of the road, has to flee overseas, and never dares to return to the Central Plains......

"Shi Daolin, what makes you so happy, you even laugh out of your saliva!"

Just when Shi Kefa was dreaming, a person's voice sounded, which shocked him back to his senses, and he looked at the person, it was Xia Yunyi.

Only then did Shi Kefa realize that he was daydreaming.

"Didn't Brother Xia go to Tamluo, why did he go back to Jinling at this time?" Shi Kefa said with a bit of yin and yang: "Brother Xia is a loyal minister of the emperor, it has only been the New Year now, the emperor should still be busy, you come back at this time, are you not afraid that there will be no one available in the hands of the emperor?" ”

"There has been no one available in the hands of the emperor for a long time, when he was trapped in the Forbidden City, Shi Daolin, you were a heavy soldier, 100,000 Jianghuai rebels, but you haven't advanced an inch north for two months, tsk, where can anyone use the emperor?"

Hearing Shi Kefa's tone, Xia Yunyi couldn't help but sarcastically, he originally felt that Donglin was not doing things realistically, and in the past few years, he often went to visit Chongzhen, and often listened to Chongzhen complain, and knew some things back then, knowing that whether it was Donglin or the eunuch party, they all tried their best to set up Chongzhen, so that they could deceive and hide from them to form a party for personal gain. This made him have no good impression of Donglin, and he was also unkind to Donglin's cadre Shi Kefa.

"Xia Yizhong, what do you mean by this?"

"Don't you understand? If it weren't for you, how could the emperor get to where he is today? Don't be happy too early, the emperor will come back sooner or later, Yu Jimin said it in front of me, Yu Jimin has never spoken and doesn't count, it's not like you ......" Xia Yunyi glanced at the newspaper in Shi Kefa's hand: "Ha, I see, you think this matter will cause trouble for Yu Jimin, right?" ”

"Don't be too happy, the thief Yu made this kind of incident, anyone with a discerning eye can see what he intends to refer to, he will hit a thousand waves with this stone, and then the waves will be too big, overturning your boat, see if you can still laugh!" (To be continued)