After listening to the silent analysis, Hu Zongxian's heart brightened a lot, and he rubbed his palms and said, "In this way, it is best for him to go back." As he spoke, he sneered slightly: "In fact, although he saw that the officers and soldiers had also won some battles, but the Japanese were constantly coming, gathering and scattering, and he didn't know that the Year of the Monkey would be calmed down, and he had already lost his patience and couldn't stay, but His Majesty didn't call him back at the beginning, and now it's not so easy to go back." ”

"There is no need to worry about this, when it comes to the thirty-six strategies, Zhao Shilang is far stronger than you and me." Shen Mo smiled and said: "I see that this person has special expertise in bragging, as long as you can win a battle, no matter how big or small, he can be extravagant and make a decision to fight, and then try to get out." ”

"Victory? This one comes first. Hu Zongxian said with a smile: "I have a good news, I just received it." As he spoke, he got up and took out two copies of the report, handed them to Shen Mo to read, only to see that the wolf army had won a battle in Zhoupu, east of Huangpu, and set fire to the nest of the would-be robbers. The Japanese had no choice but to board a boat and go to sea, and Yu Dayou and Wang Zhenggu, the deputy envoy of the military garrison, pursued the naval division. In winter, the northwest wind was blowing on the sea, and the Japanese who were heading east were in the downwind, so Yu Dayou caught up with a fire and burned several big ships, which was another big victory.

"That's enough." Shen Mo smiled and said, "When Zhao Shilang plays a sparse performance, he will be able to invite him, and Brother Merlin can make plans early." ”

"It's really a wish!" Hu Zongxian said diligently: "Don't worry, as long as my daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law, I will start to implement our plan." Afraid of thinking too much, he sighed again and said, "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't." As long as the authority is different and the order is not exclusive, our method will not work at all. ”

"I know that." Shen Mo nodded, and said with a worried face: "Over there, there is still no news at all?" "As soon as Shen Jing went, it had been more than half a year, and there was no news at all, which made people worry when they thought about it.

"I was about to tell you." Hu Zongxian said softly: "I received a letter from Chen Keyuan a few days ago, saying that they had actually arrived at Yuben a long time ago, and they had been waiting on Kyushu Island for four or five months, but they had never seen Wang Zhi. ”

"It's good to have news...... Shen Mo said with a sigh of relief: "Obviously, Wang Zhi can't be so busy, he is eighty percent on the sidelines, so he is not in a hurry to see them." ”

"Wait and see what?" Hu Zongxian asked.

"Let's wait and see if the campaign can succeed." Shen Mo smiled and said: "If you are knocked out of power by others, why should Wang Zhi spit on them?" At the end of the day, people are still looking at whether you are qualified to talk to him. ”

"Well, that's what I thought, too." Hu Zongxian nodded and said: "This time it's all thanks to humble words, I didn't fall, I guess he will meet our people, right?" ”

"I guess so." Shen Mo bowed his head and said: "But at most, it is a tentative contact, if you want to make substantial progress, you have to have Brother Merlin become the governor." ”

"Ah, Governor-General." Hu Zongxian smiled bitterly: "I'm about to become an official fan." ”

"As long as it can benefit the country and the people, what does it matter if you are an official fan?" Shen He said with a smile.

At this time, the next person invited him to eat, Hu Zongxian invited Shen Mo to go to the side hall to eat, he is a person who likes pomp, when he saw that the dining room was more cold, he smiled apologetically: "This wilderness is not as good as the city, but the chef and ingredients are from my house, authentic Huizhou cuisine, just eat it with your eyes closed." ”

The two sat down, smiled silently: "I'm not the kind of person who pays attention to people, let alone eating and eating, eating is food, and the dishes are really good." As he spoke, he pointed to the table where the three square tables were put together and said, "It's so rich!" ”

I saw that the long dining table was full of more than 30 exquisite dishes. Shen Mo has eaten several times in Hu Zongxian's mansion, and he knows most of them, including 'Huangshan stewed pigeon', 'steamed stone chicken', 'pickled fresh mandarin fish', 'Wenzheng mountain bamboo shoots', 'bayberry balls', 'Huizhou balls', etc., which are all classics in Huizhou cuisine.

Hu Zongxian said with a smile while washing his hands: "This meal has taken a lot of effort, you see this 'ham stewed soft-shelled turtle', it is not Zhejiang soft-shelled turtle, but our unique 'sand horseshoe turtle' in the mountainous area of Huizhou, plus Xuanwei ham as a condiment, quickly taste what is the difference." ”

Someone scooped a bowl for Shen Mo, and tasted it silently, and sure enough, the soup was mellow, the meat was rotten and fragrant, and what was more valuable was that the skirt was smooth and smooth, and there was no fishy smell. couldn't help but praise: "It is indeed the best of the best." ”

Hu Zongxian smiled proudly: "That's it." He reprimanded his subordinates, personally took a quaint wine jar and said: "If you have good food, you have to have good wine, and if you eat our good dishes in Huizhou, you naturally have to drink our good wine in Huizhou." ”

"But Shaxi Gujinggong?" Silent laughter.

"It's not." Hu Zongxian shook his head and smiled: "Although Gujinggong is an excellent famous wine, what we drink today is a different kind of wine...... Wang Lun wine in Xuancheng Peach Blossom Pond. ”

Shen smiled silently: "But that Jingchuan Wang Lun who deceived Li Taibai? "There is an allusion here, saying that Wang Lun, a wealthy man in Jingchuan, admired Li Bai, so he wrote to Li Bai: 'Mr. is so swimming? There are ten miles of peach blossoms here. Is it good to drink? There are 10,000 hotels in this area. Li Bai claims to have traveled thousands of miles, and it is naturally not unusual for ten miles of peach blossoms, but he has never seen ten thousand hotels.

Even Chang'an, the capital at that time, probably did not have 10,000 hotels. Li Jiuxian thought of this, his throat grunted, swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, and then he was happy. When I came to Taohuatan, I realized that I had fallen for Wang Lun, the 'village man'. Because there is only one hotel here, the name is 'Wanjia', but it is similar to the 'IKEA' of silence.

Hu Zongxian poured a bowl of blue wine for Shen Mo, and said with a smile: "Yes, Li Taibai felt the teasing deeply, and he was so angry that he brushed his sleeves away, Wang Lun hurriedly chased him to the boat with his mash alcohol, and asked Li Bai to taste the wine he brewed no matter what, Li Bai is a good wine person, how can he shirk it, so he drank it and tasted it, and immediately turned his anger into joy." Immediately take advantage of the ......"

The two raised the wine bowl and touched it lightly, only to hear Hu Zongxian say softly: "Li Bai was about to go on a boat, and suddenly heard the sound of singing on the shore. The Peach Blossom Lake is thousands of feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun to send me love. Then he drank it all on his back, wiped his mouth, and said with red eyes: "Humble words, thousands of words are in this wine and this poem, if I, Hu Zongxian, are negative to you in this life, let me thunder and thunder in the sky, and I will not die well!" ”

Shen Mo patted his arm vigorously and said in a deep voice: "I know Brother Merlin!" And he drank it all.

After drinking the three candied wines, the atmosphere of separation became thicker, and Shen Mo kept saying that he had moved out of his views on the situation against the Japanese, the maritime merchants of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the big clans in Jiangnan, and told Hu Zongxian all of them.

He rarely knew everything and said everything as he does now...... Hu Zongxian knew that Shen Mo was worried that he would not be able to come back, so he taught him what he had been hiding in his heart, so he listened extremely carefully, and he didn't even dare to breathe.

Originally, I only wanted to give a few final instructions, but who knew that it took me enough hours to finish my views in general, and finally concluded: "The problem of Zhejiang and even the southeast is, in the final analysis, the problem of the sea ban the problem of the sea ban, and the problem of the sea ban must be solved, so that the southeast can never be plagued." ”

"I heard that Mr. Jing Chuan has sent a letter to the imperial court, please open the sea ban." Hu Zongxian said thoughtfully: "What does the humble remark mean, let me second? ”

"No," Shen Mo shook his hand and said, "I've been in prison and don't know about Uncle Shi's book, but I can make a statement, I don't support the current ban on the sea." ”

"Not supported?" Hu Zongxian said unexpectedly: "Didn't you say that only by solving the problem of the sea ban can the problem of the southeast be solved?" ”

"The sea ban is definitely going to be opened, but not now." Silent and self-deprecatingly smiled: "The reason why the current situation can still be controlled is largely because a large number of Japanese are focused on smuggling...... As far as I know, the annual profits generated by the Golden Triangle routes of Daming, Nanyang and Yueben are far higher than the financial revenues of my Daming, and the reason why they can make such huge profits is because of the word monopoly. ”

"Once we open the sea ban, the rich merchants on the road will definitely join in, and those maritime merchants will definitely not want to be divided into profits." Shen Mo said: "It will be crazy to go ashore to attack, and when the time comes, there will be no pure land for thousands of miles of sea and territory, what will the imperial court do?" ”

"Enforce the ban on the sea." Hu Zongxian said in a deep voice: "If it really comes to that time, even if the great grandfather is reincarnated, he will not be able to save the Ming Dynasty." ”

"That's true." He said silently: "So we must first subdue the Japanese bandits, so that they can't rob or smuggle, and then open the sea ban to get twice the result with half the effort." ”

"How?" Hu Zongxian asked with a wry smile: "These guys are fierce, they come and go like the wind, the big troops can't catch them, and the small troops can't beat them, which really makes people feel like tigers eat the sky and have nowhere to put their mouths." ”

He said silently: "Shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, capture the thief first capture the king, try to catch Wang Zhixu Hai, and all problems can be solved." ”

"It's easier said than done...... Hu Zongxian said with a smile: "It's back again." ”

"It doesn't matter, it's man-made." Silent but confident, he said: "Although the Japanese are powerful, they are wary of each other and have no trust at all. "It's just that he can't explain clearly, how to outwit, so he can only ask him to improvise when the time comes...... At this time, Zhu Shisan's voice sounded outside the door: "Two adults, it's not early, it's time to hurry." ”

(To be continued)