Chapter 60. Nautical genius

In the elegant seat of the tavern, Xu Xianchun danced with his hands for a while, sobbing in pain, and his mouth vaguely muttered about the difficulty of Jinyiwei and the current precariousness of the Ming Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Looking at Xu Xianchun, who was crying like a child, Hou Guoxing sighed in his heart, and suddenly thought of the current situation when Zhu Youxiao and himself lamented that the treasury had no money. What happened to the Ming Dynasty?

"This... This Brother Xu, my brother knows that you are wronged, and he knows that our Jinyiwei is wronged, but it has been like this for many years, you see that even a few of us can't change anything! Hou Guoxing persuaded softly on the side.

"You!" Xu Xianchun shouted again.

Hou Guoxing was speechless for a while, thinking to himself that I know that this Jinyiwei is a hero, but Jinyiwei is spurned by the world, and it is not my two who did it, so it's useless for you to lose your temper with the two of us!

"Look at today's world, there are many people who interfere in politics and power, corrupt people are all over the court, and the so-called ministers in the court are full of moral articles, but they do things that are not as good as pigs and dogs. The businessmen collaborated with the enemy and treason, and the generals brutalized their compatriots and risked the military exploits. At the slightest famine, people were displaced everywhere, and the situation in Liaodong had collapsed...... This world? This world? How so! ”

After saying that, there was another burst of crying......

Hou Guoxing was speechless for a while, his heart and feelings have met an old and angry youth, although the current situation of this Ming is worrying, it is not as unbearable as you said, right?

"This Brother Xu, don't force everything, take your time, take your time..." Hou Guoxing really didn't know how to comfort the old angry young man in front of him.

Xu Xianchun had already suppressed his tears at this time, lay on the table, stared out the window, and said in a deep voice:

"One day, if I am in power, I will be in prison!"

"Catch all these sour Confucians, traitorous businessmen, and military generals!"

"The corrupt pervert scrub and fry. Collaborate with the enemy and traitors! ”

"Killing compatriots, risking 3,600 swords to lead the meritorious service!"

After speaking, he was drunk on Zhuo!

Xu Xianchun was drunk and unconscious here, but these words made Hou Guoguang and Keguang on the side shudder!

Looking at the drunk Xu Xianchun, the two of them had no interest in drinking, so they could only exchange for the shopkeeper and order Xu Xianchun to be sent back to his residence.

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In the early morning, Hou Guoxing lived in the room of the inn, looking at the moonlight outside the window, quietly thinking about Xu Xianchun's words.

Is the world really as it says, corrupted to such an extent?

What's the problem in this world? The final demise of the Ming Dynasty in history also proves that what Xu Xianchun said is true!

This Wei Zhongxian has not yet come to power, but it looks like there are already signs of chaos in the world.

Donglin Party! These three words flashed in Hou Guoxing's mind. A hard punch slammed into the table.

The Ming Dynasty is now clearly divided into two factions, the Donglin Party and the so-called traitors in their mouths.

What are these loyal ministers who have left their names in history doing now?

He Hou Guoxing is not a fool, if he didn't understand why he was in prison and almost died at the beginning, but later Yang Lian's appearance and the hardships of the officials revealed everywhere that it was definitely the Donglin Party behind it.

But he Hou Guoxing really didn't understand why this group of people was inexplicably right up against him.

Is it because he is a traitor in their mouths? What exactly does the Donglin Party want to do?

How are these so-called loyal ministers going to save this Ming?

After thinking for a long time and having no clue, he got up and pushed open the window.

In the early morning of October in Beijing, there was an abnormally hot wind, and Hou Guoxing felt irritable for no reason.

At this time, only a rough voice was heard:

"Hey, uncle, looking at this year's scene, I'm afraid that there will be another big drought?"

Another hoarse voice with a slight vicissitudes of life replied:

"Little brother, don't talk nonsense, it's so good that you talk about a big drought."

Hou Guoxing looked for the voice, and saw that on a stall on the side of the official road, a sturdy young man about his age, wearing a gray shirt and black boots, although there were many patches on the clothes, and the boots seemed to have a few holes, so that he could not hide his shrewd and capable atmosphere.

An old man in a blue shirt with a wrinkled face on the side of the stall was handing over a bowl of tofu brains and refuting this sturdy man.

The man took the tofu brain, didn't use a spoon, drank it into his stomach in three or two sips, handed it to the old man, motioned for him to bring a bowl, and then said:

Uncle, don't believe it, we don't have any other skills in Fujian, so we will say a good .....

Seeing that the old man didn't believe it, the young man began to point to the surrounding spiders, ants, and the like, and told the old man about the weather.

But at the moment of speaking, there were two bowls of tofu brains. It seems that this man is really hungry.

After a few bowls of tofu brains, the man seemed to have stopped his hunger, took another bowl of tofu brains, burped, and said:

"Uncle, if you have land at home, hurry up and prepare, so as not to panic when you get it, hey, look at the situation, this drought is estimated to not be a matter of one or two days, it is better to leave more food ......"

Hou Guoxing, who was by the window of the inn on the left side of the official road, listened with interest at first, and felt that this kid was really a talent for the weather. But when he heard that this kid asked the old man to store food, he interrupted:

"You kid, why don't you fool an old man."

After all, the weather is the same, even in the later life of Hou Guoxing, he dare not say that it is 100% accurate, not to mention this artificial prediction? According to this man's statement, every household stores grain, and if it is not good, it will cause panic in Beijing.

"I have a good heart, whether I listen or not, how can I become a fool? When talking about this weather, I recognize the second, and it is estimated that no one dares to admit the first in this world! ”

When the man heard that he was fooling people and questioning his authority on the weather, he was a little angry for a while, and opened his mouth to refute it.

At this time, the old man on the side looked at Hou Guoxing on the other side of the window and said:

"Lord Hou, it's you......"

After the day before yesterday with the cavalry team of the Han generals, there was a lot of trouble in the Beijing Division, and now Hou Guoxing is a man of the year in the Beijing Division. This old man, as a street vendor and a victim of the Shizi riot that day, of course he had a deep memory of Hou Guoxing, and now he saw Hou Guoxing on the side, hurriedly walked to the window, knelt down, and began to thank him with gratitude.

Looking at the kneeling old man, Hou Guoxing was embarrassed for a while, as a modern person, he was really not used to others kneeling, so he climbed out of the inn window in a hurry, helped the old man up, and was polite.

But I was speechless for a while, it doesn't matter if you kneel, I will go straight out of the window to help me.

"Uncle, your compensation is here." After helping the old man up, Hou Guoxing asked with a smile.

"It's here, it's here, thanks to the blessing of the adult, I paid a tael of silver to the old man......"

Speaking of compensation, the old man pulled Hou Guoxing with a smile on his face and said excitedly.

It turned out that on that day, Hou Guoxing's suggestion to Zhu Youxiao was that the scholars should personally replant wheat seedlings, push up houses, and rebuild stalls for the losses caused in the process of smashing and looting.

After being beaten, the group of scholars quickly found a list of damaged people from the household officials in charge of statistics, and visited each household from house to house, hoping to lose money.

After all, for the scholars, there are indeed a lot of injured people, and it is indeed a loss of identity to let a group of rich and noble men who are powerless to do this kind of tinkering thing on the street.

However, listening to the old man's statement, this stall was accompanied by one or two pieces of silver that day, and the scholars who sent the money also specially instructed that if anyone asked, they must say that the scholars did it themselves.

For this old man, he was originally going to pinch his nose and think that he was unlucky, but now the compensation of one or two pieces of silver has far exceeded the price of his tofu stall, so he didn't care. What's more, the scholars and old men are not what they dare to care.

Listening to the old man's speech, Hou Guoxing nodded, being able to suppress the scholars was also his original purpose, and now that he is consensual, there is no need to pursue it.

However, I have not heard anyone negotiate the price of compensation with him, and it seems that this group of scholars is still ready to rebuild the Hou Mansion by themselves.

Just when Hou Guoxing and the old man were polite, the strong man on the side spoke:

"You are Hou Guoxing!"

The old man who was talking to Hou Guoxing heard the young man call Hou Guoxing's name, turned his head and calmed his face, and reprimanded the man:

"Little brother, how do you speak? Called an adult? ”

After speaking, he smiled at Hou Guoxing and said:

"Lord Hou, don't be angry, this young man is from out of town, young and ignorant......"

For him, this Hou Guoxing is their benefactor. said that this young man called him by his name to Jinyi Wei Qianhu, and the old man was also afraid that this young man would make Hou Guoxing unhappy, so he persuaded him with kindness.

Hou Guoxing smiled and shook his hand at the old man, signaling that it was okay, and then arched his hand at the man and said:

"This brother, I see that the weather, although it is hot, it is not as red as you said, you must know that this climate is the most unpredictable......"

"Lord Hou, the grass people's hometown of Nan'an, Fujian, mostly go out to sea to fish for a living, so they are ...... to the weather."

This man is indeed a master of weather forecasting. In order to convince Hou Guoxing, he explained the 24 solar terms and agricultural proverbs, as well as the methods of looking at clouds and winds to identify the weather.

Later, he also pulled Hou Guoxing to point to the action status of spiders, ants and other animals around him, and analyzed them one by one for Hou Guoxing. What's even more amazing is that he actually talked about the five elements of yin and yang and divination, and only stunned Hou Guoxing for a moment.

At the end, he added a sentence:

"Adults may not understand, when we go out to sea to fish in our hometown, we feel the temperature of the sea with our hands, so that we can know the law of the tide and ensure the safety of going to sea."

After the man finished speaking, Hou Guoxing looked at it blankly, held back the excitement in his heart, bowed deeply to the man and said:

"Dare to ask my brother's surname!"

Seeing Hou Guoxing saluting himself so solemnly, the man was a little out of shape for a while, and hurriedly helped Hou Guoxing to speak:

"Lord Hou is polite, grass man Zheng Zhilong!"