Chapter 734 Yang (II)

Follow the silent army to quell the rebellion. has returned to Zhejiang one after another, leaving only 2,000 Qi family troops, waiting to escort Lord Jingluo. On the day the army set off, the hundred officials went out of the city to see each other, but found that Lord Jinglu had already taken a step earlier...... Many people also prepared gifts, which I don't know who to give them to.

When the hundred officials were discussing, Xu Peng, the Duke of Wei, raised his voice and said: "Lord Jingluo doesn't like the scene of separation the most, so take a step first, he accepts everyone's wishes, and take the gift back, you are doing your duty, which is the greatest reward for him." ”

In a sigh, the hundred officials reluctantly turned back to the city, and Lord Shen, who released their pigeons, did not go south to Hangzhou, but went to the east by a boat...... Suzhou.

The boat was smooth sailing, and arrived in Suzhou for one day and two nights, and at dawn on the third day, he was the chief of the grain department of Nanjing. Coincidentally, he entered the city silently and leaned on the passenger ship dock...... His current identity is not trivial, every move is in the spotlight, and every word and deed is too much of a factor, so he can only secretly Chen Cang in this way, so that he can do some 'extraordinary' things in the southeast meridian with peace of mind.

When he appeared in the Suzhou Mansion, Gui Youguang was startled, and quickly ordered someone to close the door of the mansion and ask the adults to speak in the back hall......

"It's so hot...... Shen Mo looked at Gui Youguang's face full of sweat, and said with a smile: "You have been blessed in the past few years." ”

Gui Youguang wiped his sweat with a towel and said with a smile: "I have also reached the age of fortune." Seeing that Shen Mo's face was also sweaty, he hurriedly said, "I'll ask someone to bring ice cubes." ”

"No, it's good to sweat in the summer." Shen Mo shook his head and said, "Just cut a watermelon, it's best to go to Jingshui Town." ”

"Really." Gui Youguang asked people to hurry up to cut melons, and said to Shen Mo: "I didn't expect the adults to come so soon." ”

"If you don't hurry up, you can't do it," Shen Mo said, "There is still something waiting for Hangzhou over there." ”

"Your Excellency, you've worked hard." Gui Youguang immediately entered the state and said, "I don't know how many days the adults are going to be in Suzhou, what are the schedules?" ”

"Five days at most." After thinking for a while, he said, "The purpose of my visit this time is to meet with the shareholders of Huilian, and this has already been noted to them, and you should also attend...... This one takes at least one day; Second, Mr. Ouyang has invited me to visit the Suzhou Institute of Engineering several times, and it will take a day to display some achievements; Third, the Suzhou Translation Bureau and the School of Engineering are opened, and I want to speak, which will take at least half a day each; Fourth...... Can't that brother-in-law of yours save me some trouble? ”

After listening to the adult's complaints, Gui Youguang only smiled apologetically and said, "I don't know what's wrong with him, and I don't listen to what he says." I almost tied him to Hangzhou with a rope. He said, "Don't be like him, the smarter the person, the better he is at the horns." ”

"I know," Shen Mo smiled, "He deserves my attention." Saying that, he said: "This matter is put in the first place, first ask Mr. Kaiyang to go out of the mountain, and then do other things." ”

"I can't do it, I can't do it." Gui Youguang said in a loud voice: "It's still important to get down to business, it's really not good, I kidnapped him to see you, and I can't delay your big business." ”

"Alas, sincerity is the first thing." Shen Mo smiled: "I went to invite him immediately, and I came here; If you come back after doing something else, it will be a stop, and the sincerity will be far away. ”

Gui Youguang sighed and said: "Kaiyang, he is really, what a blessing......" can be seen, he is happy in his heart.

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Time is precious, just had lunch in the house, squinted for an hour, and waited until the twilight, the heat subsided slightly. Shen Mo urged Gui Youguang to go out, Zheng Ruozeng's home is in Zhengjia Village outside Suzhou, and if he doesn't go out before the city gate is locked, he can only talk about it tomorrow.

Out of the city, the river is still lively, end to end full of cargo ships waiting to enter the city, all know that today is hopeless, so they have dropped anchor, the guys began to cook, the guys jumped into the water naked, washed away the fatigue, and the boss shopkeepers lazily sat on the recliner, drank tea, hummed a little song, and watched the 'Shanghai Business News' that was still a rare thing in the Ming Dynasty, or ...... Smoke a fairy smoke.

"Am I right? When Shen Mo was close to a ship opposite, he clearly saw that a fat man sitting on a chair led a cigarette stick more than a foot long with a fire fold, and then sucked the dry tobacco with a look of enjoyment.

"What, what?" Gui Youguang has always been very nervous, although Shen Mo is not specifically here to inspect, but in case there is a leak, he can't explain it.

"Why do people still smoke?" As if he had discovered a new continent, Shen Mo exclaimed, "I've never seen it before!" The three feet on the side were very surprised, and the adults were not so surprised even when they learned of the mutiny.

"Smoking ......" Gui Youguang said suddenly: "You are talking about 'tamba mushroom', and I don't know when this wind will arise." Anyway, it won't be more than half a year, and it was only used by merchants who came back from the South Seas at the earliest, and now it seems that there are more and more of them......" said and pointed to several adjacent boats: "Look, there are two of the four boats." ”

Shen Mo had already seen it, and muttered, "Tamba? It's the Latin pronunciation of tobacco...... It seems that this thing really came from South America. He vaguely remembered that when Columbus discovered the New World, he saw the local natives smoking, and now seventy or eighty years have passed, and it is not unusual for trade to come to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the most important thing is that he has a slight cleanliness habit and does not like the smell of smoking, so after a moment of surprise, he is not very excited; Gui Youguang originally wanted to get one to show him, but when he saw that he was not interested, he didn't squeak.

And Gui Youguang found that since he saw the 'tamba mushroom', Shen Mo became unusually silent, and with his understanding of the adult, this was a sign of Shen Mo falling into deep thought, so he motioned to the people on the boat not to speak, so as not to disturb the adult.

The silence was indeed stimulated by the appearance of the tobacco. It's not that I thought of Lin Zexu Humen selling cigarettes or something, this kind of cigarette is not compatible with opium, although he doesn't like to smoke, but he has no intention of banning smoking. But this imported item reminded him once again that his original identity - under the skin of an ancient bureaucrat trapped in the game of old-style officialdom, there is still a country that knows the Great Voyage, knows the industry, knows the entry of the Manchu Dynasty, knows the Eight-Nation Alliance, and knows that this great country of 5,000 years is about to fall into the darkest, most backward, and most maddening 500 years in history......

But can one person really change the course of history? In all fairness, Shen thought it was unlikely, that history has its powerful inertia, and to change its direction is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg; Of course. He also has to admit that every progress in history is driven by a small number of people, but the premise is that the time and place are favorable, just as the times can create heroes, but heroes cannot create the times, this is the truth.

In particular, he lacked the romantic feelings necessary to become a great man of the times, and his biggest dream in his previous life was to become the director, not to mention the prime minister, and even the director and minister did not dare to think about it...... Being down-to-earth is his advantage, but being too realistic is his shortcoming, and it is more than enough for him to be a good ordinary person, but it is purely difficult for him to bear the prosperity of the nation and the turning point of the national fortune.

If possible, Shen Mo hoped that he could concentrate on government affairs, treat himself as a real Ming Dynasty official, and forget about what happened in the future...... He believed that as long as he was born fifty years early, he would definitely be able to do this, but damn God, he just threw him into the last years of Jiajing, this damned age when there were no heroes at times-

In this era, Columbus had discovered the New World, Magellan had completed his voyage around the world, Spain was about to annex Portugal, the sea coachman was about to set sail, and the first great queen of Great Britain was still learning how to govern the country......

The international situation is changing, and the country is not hopelessly incorrigible -- at this time, Japan's united war has already begun, and there will be no pirates to disturb the southeast for the next 100 years; Although the Mongols came to rob all day long, they had lost the glory of the golden family, and only to make a living, they had only played the role of robbers for decades, and they were not interested in the land of the Ming Dynasty; At this time, the real threat of the Ming Dynasty - women are really thriving, but compared to later, they are still only infants, and they have plenty of time to deal with it. In short, if the Mongolian problem can be solved, the Ming Dynasty will usher in a rare period of border tranquility.

Looking at the country again, although Shen Mo has no historical knowledge, he knows that the emperors after Jiajing are generally very slack, and the power of the cabinet will be unprecedentedly strong...... At least that's how the history books describe the conditions for Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

And he also knows that the Xiaoice period that destroys the agricultural civilization of the north is coming, there will be decades of crop reduction, extinction, and even no harvest, and countless farmers will face the fate of starvation, which has a far-reaching impact on all countries in Eurasia, Europeans left the land after many relatives and friends starved to death, joined the already vigorous development of the great voyage, went to the Americas, Africa, India to find a livelihood, and passively completed the difficult turn from an agricultural country to an industrial and commercial country; And the Chinese also left the land after many relatives and friends starved to death, but they did not know where the way to live was, and could only roam the land of Daming, forming a mighty army of displaced people, and wherever they went, they would cross the border like locusts, not only eating and drinking, but also venting their dissatisfaction with fate on the princes and gentry, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil. That's why Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others were born, and finally destroyed the Han family in the world, so that the alien race took the opportunity to enter the customs and completely cut off the possibility of keeping up with the pace of the times.

However, in stark contrast to the starvation of thousands of miles in the north, the vigorous development of industry and commerce in the south and the great material abundance of society and society...... The impact of the Xiaoice River is mainly concentrated in the northern region, and the south is not affected, which can still allow the poor to eat and the rich to be poor and luxurious. This is due to the irrationality of the fiscal system, and it is possible to change this extreme inequality between the poor and the rich and the rich through forceful adjustments.

Looking a little further and deciding who will dominate the ups and downs of the sea in the future, the fleet of the Ming Dynasty is not weak, although it is only dominated by maritime merchants at the moment, but it is also stronger than the power in the Far East; The businessmen of the Ming Dynasty have set foot in the countries of the South Seas, and even to India and the Persian Gulf, while the broader and richer Australia and North America are still uncultivated virgin lands.

All this, just thinking about it can make people excited and unable to sleep, but once they return to reality and want to complete it, it is difficult to go to the sky. He is not afraid of a long time, and it doesn't matter if he can't even finish this life, but this feeling of 'everyone is drunk and I am sober' is also the most tormenting, making you never be able to build confidence in the future, and even believe that you are playing with fire, and it is unlikely to die well...... It is precisely because of this psychology that he is not very attentive to the children's reading, in case something happens to Lao Tzu, the little rabbit cubs can only go overseas to colonize, if there is a day, he would rather his son become a moral villain, rather than a Taoist full of the words of a saint.

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Cranky thinking is just a release of the soul, in fact, Shen Mo has long walked on this road of no return, everything he does, although it is only piecemeal, but all of them are laying the foundation for the future. Although he was unwilling and reluctant, since he couldn't turn back, he could only go all the way to the dark......

Silently cheering himself up, on the way to find the future, even if he dies in ignorant persecution, he will point out the direction for future generations, and what he does will not be meaningless. Thinking of this, he felt that he was really like Copernicus, and he couldn't help but secretly laugh, his heart that had been heavy was finally relaxed, and his body was stretched.

Hearing the sound of the gurgling bow hitting the water, the silent eyes refocused, only to find that it was already dark, and the boat was far away from the hustle and bustle of Suzhou City, and sailed quickly towards Zhengjiazhuang in the small river full of fields on both sides.

The night was very beautiful, the moonlight was hazy enough, smelling the fragrance of the beans and wheat on both sides and the aquatic plants at the bottom of the river, I was silent for a while, and said secretly: "If there is a girl standing next to me at this time, it doesn't need to be too beautiful, I will break the vows." But fortunately, I calmed down and found that it was Gui Youguang's old face, and I lost my confusion when I landed, and I became angry and said: "What are you doing?" ”

There is a halo of light, the adult has not spoken for more than half an hour, and he opened his mouth to say, 'What are you doing'? As if he had lit explosives, he almost didn't overturn him, and it took a long time to come back to his senses and say, "I'm going to Zhengjiazhuang soon." ”

Following the direction pointed by Gui Youguang, Shen Mo vaguely saw a little light, and he thought it was there. After a bush of black pine trees, I saw the outline of the village, and even heard the barking of dogs clearly.

The boat bent into the fork and stopped at the humble wharf outside the village, where there were seven or eight small boats, but not a single one. However, when the group stepped on the dock, the creaking sound still aroused the alarm of the night watchman, and he asked in horror, "Who?!" "Apparently just woke up from sleep.

Gui Youguang hurriedly reported Zheng Ruozeng's name, and that person breathed a sigh of relief. Settle down and say, "The second one at the entrance of the village is it." "And muttered in a low voice, 'So many people, what are you doing so late,' and went back to sleep.

Without his guidance, Gui Youguang also knew where Zheng Ruozeng lived, and he led Shen Mo into the village, and when he arrived outside a small courtyard, he knocked on the door of the house and said, "Kaiyang, open the door!" ”

A woman's voice came from inside, "Brother-in-law, is that you?" ”。

After receiving an affirmative answer, the woman opened the tethered door, and said: "I don't know where I went to drink, and I don't know when I will come back, if I go on like this, I can't drink to death, brother-in-law, you have to talk about his ......" was chattering, looked up and saw Shen Mo and his party, her voice immediately stopped abruptly, she took off her apron in a panic, pulled her hair, and said to Shen Mo Fu Yifu: "It's rude." Saying that, he complained and complained to Youguang: "There are guests coming, and my brother-in-law doesn't say a word." "It's like a siege for yourself, with a gentle and beautiful voice, and a dignified and polite demeanor, and the chatter and complaints of the previous one are like two people.

Gui Youguang couldn't help laughing and said, "It's my fault." Saying that, he introduced her: "This is my family, and I came to see Kaiyang." ”

The woman had obviously heard of the silence, and was at first startled, and then quickly returned to normal, and invited the silence into the house, so that the children could see their uncles and adults, and then sent the children to the east room, so as not to disturb the guests; I asked if I had a meal, and after receiving a positive answer, I made tea for the guests, all calmly and elegantly, showing everyone's demeanor...... She is the daughter of a great Confucian, so of course she has to have a fan.

It's just that after seeing her initial complaints, Shen Mo always felt funny for a while, and secretly said: "Sure enough, women's clothes are no longer for any purpose, but a habit of life." ’

Gui Youguang asked Zheng Ruozeng where he had gone and if he could come back tonight, Wei replied: "I don't know if I went to the temple or Guanli, I may or may not come back." Said apologetically to Shen Mo: "You are afraid that you will come for nothing, even if he comes back today, he will be drunk and unconscious." ”

Gui Youguang said: 'Yes, you have to look at the thatched house three times......

But how precious is the time to be silent, how can there be that idle time to come again, so he asked: "Dare to ask my sister-in-law, is there a lot of places for Mr. Kaiyang to drink?" ”。

"Not much, three or five." Wei replied.

"Do you know where it is?".

"Yes." Wei Shi said all those places.

"Split up and invite Mr. Kaiyang back." Shen Mo ordered Sanchidao, and the guards immediately went out to find someone.

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The chapter "Yang" is very important, it is the main theme of the story in the future, after reading these more than 10,000 words, I will know where my story will be written in the future, and why I should write it like that.

I know, there's still a chapter owed......

Chapter 734 Yang (II)

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