Sun Chuanting married a wife and two concubines, but only two daughters and no sons, so when he met a young man like Wang Pu who was brave and knowledgeable and had a temper with himself, he seemed to be particularly fond of it.

Wang Puthief smiled: "It's not impossible to recognize you as a godfather, but it's ......"

Sun Chuanting hurriedly said: "But what? ”

Wang Pu said: "But you have to get me ten Hongyi cannons." ”

"Hey, you stinky boy." Sun Chuanting said, "Do you really know how to open your mouth and ask for ten cannons as soon as you stretch out your hand?" ”

Wei Daben's thinking began to be a little unable to keep up, Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu's way of communication made him feel difficult to adapt, after all, the communication between people in this era is very particular about etiquette and methods, and the etiquette advocated by Confucianism has been deeply rooted in the hearts of everyone, and people with status and status pay special attention to pomp and circumstance.

"Lord Sun, Master Ma, did the lower officials retire first?"

Wei Daben really couldn't stand it, and the way of communication between Wang Pu and Sun Chuanting made him feel at a loss and even more incomprehensible, he felt that it was better to leave.

Sun Chuanting waved his hand, and Wei Daben left with interest.

Wei Daben could not understand the bargaining between Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu, but Sun Chuanting enjoyed this unfettered way of communication very much, and he and Wang Pu had already formed a friendship in the prison, and their special status at that time allowed them to communicate in a special way without restraint.

Now that time has passed, Wang Pu has been reinstated and has become the quasi-lieutenant of the horse, and Sun Chuanting has also become the governor of the five provinces, but the two still maintain the way of getting along and communicating in the prison very tacitly, and the two have not had much contact, but both of them can feel what kind of person the other party is.

What's worse is that both of them are very superstitious about their ability to read people.

In fact, Sun Chuanting believed in Yangming Xinxue, and he was very dismissive of the three outlines and five constants advocated by Confucianism, as well as many rules and regulations.

Yang Ming Theory of Mind advocates "the heart is reason", believing that all moral norms should be cultivated first in the heart and then formed, while Confucianism advocates "preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires", emphasizing the formulation of many moral norms to forcibly restrain people's behavior, Confucianism aims to imprison people's minds and make the whole society a pool of stagnant water, while Yang Ming Mind advocates self-centeredness and aims to emancipate the mind.

Therefore, it is reasonable for Sun Chuanting to ignore the etiquette advocated by Confucianism.

"Okay." Sun Chuanting nodded and said, "You call Dad first, and the old man will give you ten Hongyi cannons." ”

"Give the cannon first." Wang Pu said, "Then I'll call you again." ”

Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "The stinky boy is still the same as in prison, it really hasn't changed at all." ”

Wang Pu also smiled: "Old boy, you are similar, you refuse to be fooled." ”

"Then you should quickly kneel down and call Daddy." Sun Chuanting said, "The twelve Hongyi cannons have been brought in by the old man, and they should have been transported to the camp in the north of the city now." ”

What Sun Chuanting said was true, he did bring twelve Hongyi cannons to Datong this time, and they were intended for Wang Pu.

Of course, Sun Chuanting's gift of twelve Hongyi cannons to Wang Pu is not as simple as accepting him as a godson, Sun Chuanting actually has deeper considerations, saying that the cheesy point is actually to entrap Wang Pu!

Don't look at Sun Chuanting is now the governor of the five provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Jingshi, and Shandong, nominally the soldiers and horses of the five provinces are under his control, but he is actually a bare-bones commander.

Although the elite soldiers of Cao Bianjiao and Bai Guangen were reprimanded by him, both of them were cronies cultivated by Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting was not so handy in commanding after all.

The Jingying is completely the army of the Long Live Lord, and only Wang Chengen and Gao Qiqian can command it.

Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, is a good person, and the army under him is also a rabble, not to mention it.

Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Fierce Tiger and Jiang Zhu can be regarded as capable of fighting well, and the four of them also have a strong army under them, but these people are all warlords who support their own troops and respect themselves, and if they don't give them enough benefits, they can't obey Sun Chuanting's reprimand!

Therefore, Sun Chuanting does not have a real descendant army of his own, which is very fatal, if he does not have a strong enough elite army in his hands, it will be difficult for him to control Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, fierce as a tiger, Jiang Jiao, these arrogant generals, and it is even more impossible to talk about exterminating the thieves.

Sun Chuanting thought of Wang Pu and thought of the Datong elite soldiers in Wang Pu's hands.

Sun Chuanting finally chose Wang Pu as his cronie, not only because Wang Pu is courageous, knowledgeable, brave and strategic, and a rare young hero, but also because Wang Pu dares to act, dare to love and hate, and because Sun Chuanting himself is also a person who dares to act, dare to love and hate.

Therefore, as soon as Jiannu retreated to Liaodong, Sun Chuanting came to Datong with twelve Hongyi cannons.

After listening to Sun Chuanting's words, Wang Pu was stunned and said, "Old man Sun, what you said is true?" ”

"Of course it's true." Sun Chuanting said, "The old man knows that your firearms battalion is powerful, but the firearms battalion only has muskets and no cannons, no, Jiannu just left, and the old man sent you the cannons, you stinky boy, don't you kneel down and recognize Lao Tzu?" ”

"Whoa." Wang Pu was overjoyed, really knelt down in front of Sun Chuanting, and said incoherently, "I'm your Laozi, oh no, you are my Laozi, you are my father, Dad!" ”

Not to mention that Sun Chuanting really sent twelve Hongyi cannons, even if he didn't have these twelve cannons, it would be a long-faced thing to recognize him as a godfather like a famous minister through the ages.

What is it to kneel down and prostrate? It is regarded as kneeling down to worship the heroic soul of the nation.

"Oh, good son, get up."

Sun Chuanting responded firmly, and hurriedly grabbed it to help Wang Pu.

The corners of Sun Chuanting's eyes were actually a little moist, he thought that he had a son who had been thinking about it for almost thirty years, and today he finally got his wish, although he was not biological, he might accept a young hero like Wang Pu as a righteous son, and it could be regarded as the ancestral tomb smoking.

"Daddy." Wang Pu helped Sun Chuanting sit down on the chair and asked, "Your old man came to Datong this time, shouldn't he have come specifically to send cannons to his son?" ”

"Hmph." Sun Chuanting sneered twice and said, "Do you know that your kid has caused a big disaster?" ”

"Trouble?" Wang Pu said disapprerovingly, "What trouble did my son do?" ”

Sun Chuanting wrenched his fingers and said, "You have caused fewer troubles?" First, give food to the thieves; second, to join forces with thieves in private; third, privately trading with thieves, exchanging gunfire for weapons and armor; Fourth, the Datong Guard Army was dismantled without authorization; Fifth, imprison the king without authorization! With these five cases, your kid has ten or eight heads, which is not enough to cut off. ”

"Daddy." Wang Pu shouted, "You have wronged your son." ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Why did you wrong?" ”

Wang Pudao: "That's right, these five sons have done it, but each and every one of them is for the people of Datong and for the Jiangshan Sheji of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Are you still justified in saying this? ”

Wang Pu also counted his fingers and said: "Let's just say the first case, my son took food to help the thieves, that's because it is useful to keep this gang of thieves, at least to contain Jiannu, and later it was this gang of thieves who helped his son a lot, otherwise Datong would have been uninsured a long time ago, Dad, you are going to talk about it, in order to protect the nearly 100,000 people in Datong City, is it worth it?" ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Say, go on, see what flowers you kid can say." ”

Wang Pu said again: "The second and third piles are the same thing, my son won't say much, let's talk about the fourth case of the abolition of the Datong Weisuo army, Dad, you have also been the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, you should know what these dogs' Weisuo army has rotted into, Jiannu is coming, they run faster than rabbits, but the people are more fierce than tigers, such a garbage army is not cut and withdrawn, then it is called intolerable!" ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Let's go on." ”

Wang Pu said: "Let's talk about the fifth incident of confining the acting king, that's right, the son did it, but this is to protect the acting king, but also to protect the people of Datong!" ”

"What?" Sun Chuanting said, "Is the purpose of imprisoning the acting king to protect him? It's new. ”

Wang Pumian did not change his face and said: "Dad, you don't know, the acting king wants to kill his son, and it is nothing if his son dies, but the firearms battalion under his son is not vegetarian, these guys are either horse thieves or veteran ruffians, if their son dies, no one can restrain them, if these people rebel, the acting king will definitely die, and the people of Datong will also suffer." ”

"Sounds reasonable." Sun Chuanting nodded, and then changed the conversation and said, "But there is a big problem with your approach, you act so recklessly, despise the imperial court, and have no regard for the laws and disciplines of the country, where do you let the face of the Long Live Lord go?" Do you want Banzai to bow down to you? ”

"In troubled times, we should use heavy codes, and extraordinary measures should be taken in extraordinary times." Wang Pu said seriously, "My son may be a little reckless in doing this, and it may make Long Live Lord very faceless, but as long as the final result is for the Ming Dynasty and the people of the world, there is nothing that cannot be done." ”

Wang Pu deliberately accentuated the tone of the people's words, because he found that in the minds of many knowledgeable scholars, the weight of the people is actually heavier than that of the emperor, and Wang Pu believed that Sun Chuanting was also an insightful reader, and it was impossible to persuade him not to raise the problem to the height of the people in the world.

"Hmph." Sun Chuanting snorted lightly and said, "If it weren't for the fact that you still pretend to be the people of Datong in your heart, and although your behavior is out of line, you always put the protection of the people first, just with the big rebellious things you did, the old man would not be sitting here and talking to you well." ”

"Actually, my son was forced." Wang Pu smiled bitterly, "Dad, do you want to hear the truth from your son?" ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Of course I want to hear it." ”

Wang Pu said: "The son's truth is that the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty of the people of the world, not the Ming Dynasty of his Zhu family, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can let the people of the Zhu family do it, but they must think about the people of the world, if they are not willing to think about the people of the world, then we don't have to listen to their Zhu family." ”

It seems a bit abrupt to say this to Sun Chuanting so quickly, but in fact, it is not.

Although these words sound rebellious, they will never be more rebellious than what Wang Pu did, and the things of fornicating with thieves and imprisoning the king have all been done, and you are afraid of saying these things to others?

Of course, Wang Pu and Sun Chuanting said that there is another reason for this, that is, he feels that Sun Chuanting does not look like a corrupt Confucian, this guy dares to rob and kill local tyrants and inferior gentry to raise military salaries when he is the governor of Shaanxi, which shows that he is not a brainless person, if he can convince Sun Chuanting, with his identity as the governor of the five provinces, maybe he can really do something big.

"What do you mean?" Sun Chuanting's face immediately fell, and he asked in a deep voice, "Do you really want to rebel?" ”

"It's not a rebellion." Wang Pu shook his head and said, "The son has never thought of rebellion, the son just thinks that the emperor's power is too great, so big that it is boundless, if he meets the king of sages, it is good to say, if he meets a faint king, the people of the world will suffer, not to mention it, just talk about the affairs of the Wanli Dynasty." ”

Sun Chuanting said: "What happened to the Wanli Dynasty? ”

Wang Pudao: "Dad, you say in your conscience, is Wanli's new deal good or bad?" ”

"Do you need to talk about that? The Wanli New Deal is, of course, a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

Wang Pu's question touched the string in Sun Chuanting's heart, Sun Chuanting of course supported the Wanli New Deal, he even thought that the restoration of the Wanli New Deal was the only hope of Zhongxing Daming, and the platform called him to Chongzhen Emperor to restore the Wanli New Deal, but unfortunately it was fiercely opposed by the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military people, and finally had to give up.

"That's a good point." Wang Pudao struck the festival and said, "But it is such a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, but it makes Emperor Wanli abolish it in one sentence, Dad, do you think Emperor Wanli is right to do this?" I know he's wrong but still support him, just because he's the emperor? As long as the emperor did it, is it wrong and right? ”

If Sun Chuanting believed in Confucianism, he would definitely bring out the Three Principles and Five Constants to refute Wang Pu, but Sun Chuanting believed in Yangming Xinxue, and he was dumbfounded by Wang Pu's question, yes, if the emperor's power could be properly restrained, so that the Wanli New Deal has been implemented to this day, then the Ming Dynasty will be a completely different situation!

In that case, if the people are rich, who else will rebel?

In that case, the country has enough money and food, so why is it enough to build slaves?

Wang Pu continued: "Meng Shengren has said that the people are the most important, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light, it can be seen that the people of the world are the first, if the emperor's actions endanger the people of the world, then his behavior must be restrained, and we must not unconditionally tolerate the emperor's wanton behavior." ”

"Son." Sun Chuanting got up and patted Wang Pu on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "As you said, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Meng Shengren tried to restrain the power of the king, if we can really adapt to the power of the emperor, then the Ming Dynasty will never fall to this point, but unfortunately, you alone cannot change such a reality." ”

"So the son must have an army." Wang Pu said solemnly, "Only with the army can you do what you want to do." ”

Sun Chuanting said coldly: "Do you want to be Cao Ying? ”

Wang Pu said: "Dad, my son hopes that you can be Cao Ying." ”

"Nonsense." Sun Chuanting said angrily, "The old man should not be a minister." ”

"Dad, you're wrong." Wang Pu said, "Cao Ying did not usurp the Han until he died, he was actually a loyal minister." ”

"But Cao Pi, the son of Cao Ying, usurped the Han." Sun Chuanting suddenly asked, "Do you want to be Cao Pi?" ”

"I don't want to." Wang Pu shook his head and said, "My son is not opposed to letting the people of the Zhu family continue to be the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but he is resolutely opposed to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty continuing to have unrestrained power. ”

"Alright, that's all for today." Sun Chuanting said categorically, "Old man, when you haven't said anything, you should also treat yourself as if you haven't heard anything." ”

Although Sun Chuanting believed in Yangming Xinxue and was very dismissive of the "Three Principles and Five Constants" pursued by Confucianism, it was still not easy for him to change the deep-rooted concept of "the supremacy of monarchy" all at once, and it was even more impossible for him to learn from Cao Ying to become a warlord who supported the army and respected himself.

Wang Pu pursed his lips and said no more, he knew that everything could not be rushed, otherwise it would be too much, Sun Chuanting has now become his godson, and there will be time to slowly instill these new ideas in him in the future, Wang Pu believes that one day Sun Chuanting will accept these new ideas, because Sun Chuanting is not a pedantic and conservative person in his bones.

(To be continued)