Chapter 240: Today After the Seventh Voyage to the West......
"Are you sure that Wu Tianshi has entered that Wang Qin's outer house?" Jizong frowned, looked at the house slave who was bowing to the ground and asked in a deep voice. "How long has Wu Tianshi been there, and besides, what is going on?"
The house slave said respectfully: "The eldest young master, the little one has seen it with his own eyes, Wu Da Tianshi entered the outer mansion of Wang Qin and Wang Qin for a full hour before he appeared, and the little one was worried that someone would run into him, so he only followed Wu Da Tianshi in secret, and only after he returned to the temple, the little one met with him." ”
"Master Wu told the little one that he had already given the prince two pills of pills, and the prince gave him two hundred taels of silver, saying that if this medicine is effective, someone else will come to buy it later."
"Very good, Sun Qi, you work hard, take a thousand taels of silver to Wu Tianshi, and then take a few copies of the notes written by his son with the teacher's reading, so that he can feel at ease. Tell him that as long as he does what we tell him, not only can he save the lives of his whole family, but he can also make a lot of money, which is enough for his family to be rich for a lifetime. You know? Sun Jizong exhaled slowly.
"Don't worry, the big young master, the little one understands." The house slave named Sun Qi nodded very understandingly, and after respectfully giving another salute, he exited the study and hurried away.
The second eldest Xianzong next to him took a deep breath, and the expression on his face did not have a trace of joy, but a gloomy and melancholy color. "Brother, isn't it too risky for us to do this? And let's hide it from our father, they ......."
Sun Jizong retracted his gaze looking outside the study, fell on Sun Xianzong's body, raised his hand and patted Sun Xianzong's shoulder: "Second brother, my father's health is not good during this time, and the third brother and the fourth brother are also running around for the emperor's affairs. You know, our old Sun family, but keeping up with His Majesty the Emperor, all glory and loss, all losses......"
"Now, if we didn't still have eyeliner in the palace and happened to know about it, then we would have really missed this rare opportunity." Sun Jizong sat down, took a sip of tea, and saw that although Sun Xianzong's face was a little relaxed, he still had doubts. Sun Jizong gently persuaded: "Now, His Majesty the Emperor has made so many arrangements in the Xuan Mansion, we are all looking at it, and those of us who are uncles can not help him." ”
-------------------- "Besides, for my brother, I just arranged such a secret chess move, and they had to bump into it by themselves, so it's no wonder that they were brothers." Sun Jizong stroked his long beard under his chin and smiled coldly.
"But brother, you need to be cautious in this matter, if it leaks a little......" Sun Xianzong nodded, revealing a ruthless expression.
Sun Jizong saw the change in Sun Xianzong's expression, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and explained with a smile: "Sun Qi is the son of our family, and there is no doubt about his loyalty to our old Sun family, as for the few domestic slaves sent by my brother, you can rest assured that they will do things, and there will be no mistakes." ”
"Brother, is that Wu Tianshi really reliable?" Sun Xianzong asked again.
"That Wu Tianshi's common surname is Wu, he is just a miscellaneous servant of Qingyunguan in Zhuozhou, and then I don't know which Fangshi got a few aphrodisiac prescriptions from the hands, so he simply pretended to be a Taoist priest, and took the Taoist name Wu Qingzi, specifically relying on the pill in exchange for money, and came to Beijing for almost five or six years of kung fu, he has a wife, two concubines, three daughters and a son in his hometown of Zhuozhou, and he will falsely claim to be traveling every year, but in fact, he is going back to his hometown......"
The corners of Sun Jizong's mouth curled and continued with a little embarrassment and helplessness: "It's a coincidence, your nephew who is not a good thing once sent someone to buy medicine, and later, when the house slave who saw him went to Zhuozhou to do business, he saw this Wu Tianshi dressed as a rich man and traveling with his wife and children...... It just so happened that the mother-in-law of the slave was your sister-in-law's neighbor, so your sister-in-law knew about it, and only then did my brother know that he cleaned up the kid. But this matter, my brother didn't pay attention to it at the time......"
Also, the dignified uncle of the country, no matter what, is it still difficult for a person who sells aphrodisiacs? Just listen to it and forget it.
But who would have thought that since these days, that Zhu Qiyu has been obsessed with the game of hide and seek, this guy's small body is not a strong bull owner, in less than two months, his body has been a little empty, and the amount of supplements in the palace has increased greatly.
And this news reached Sun Jizong's ears, and after thinking about it, he thought of this fake Taoist priest who sold aphrodisiacs in the Taoist temple in Beijing and became more and more famous, so he began to plan, originally thinking that this Wu Tianshi would take the initiative to offer pills.
However, who would have thought that this side has not yet come up with a safe way to let Wu Tianshi sacrifice the pill. Over there, Wang Qin actually sent someone to visit. Since he bumped into Sun Jizong's arrangement, Sun Jizong, who was worried that he couldn't find a way, naturally felt that joy fell from the sky, and there was no reason to shirk again.
"Providence is so, providence is so......" Sun Xianzong couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, with a little more disdain on his face, this is a standard self-throwing net, it's no wonder.
"Second brother, you just have to rest assured, in fact, that Wu Tianshi didn't do anything to hurt the heavens and reason, it's just that the original amount of medicine has been slightly increased by 20%." The corners of Sun Jizong's mouth were crooked. "If it is an ordinary person, once in a while, the amount of medicine is not much hindering to the body, but if it is not restrained over the years......"
"What will happen?" Sun Xianzong couldn't help but ask. Sun Jizong just smiled mysteriously and didn't say much, but Sun Xianzong had already seen something from his brother's somewhat strange expression, and he shivered slightly in his heart, but when he thought of the ordeal suffered by his nephew and the prince, Sun Xianzong threw away the last trace of hesitation.
The south of the Yangtze River is good, and the scenery is old. Since ancient times, it has been the dream of Chinese literati, precipitating any beautiful fantasy of the four seasons: the green embankment in spring; Xia said that lotus seeds are made in the depths of Lihe Township; Autumn comes to drink and enjoy the autumn moon; In winter, you can walk in the snow and look for plum blossoms...... Now, it is the spring of March, in the Ming Dynasty, many places are still a little cold, but the south of the Yangtze River is already the spring is melting, the willows are clear, the city is full of flowers, more than a dozen can not hide the face of the wind and frost of the color of the plagiarism of the big man, is a curious look to appreciate the bustling metropolis of the river with the river, by the mountains and rivers, Zhongshan Longpan.
-------------------- leader, a young handsome scholar who was no more than twenty years old, raised his finger and pointed around, and introduced to those fierce knights, as well as several people behind him, with a smile: "This is Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and it is my Yanjing in the early Ming Dynasty, and now it is the capital of Accompaniment." The history of this city can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, with the Spring and Autumn Period of Wu, Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, and Song, Qi, Liang, Chen (known as the Six Dynasties in history), Sui and Southern Tang ......"
"It's a rainy Jiangnan, the old man has never seen such a situation since he left here twenty years ago......" In the team, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe, nearly fifty years old, stroked his long beard, and said with some emotion.
"Lord Yin has been in Nanjing?" The young scholar couldn't help but be stunned, and patted his forehead with a smile: "Look at the surname of Wansheng, my lord has been to the West with the eunuch of Sanbao, and I have never stayed in Nanjing." ”
"Hehe, the old man actually stayed in Nanjing for less than a year, Xuande five years on the three treasure eunuchs wandering on the ocean for several years, to Xuande eight years in July to Nanjing, after less than a year, and with the Nanjing garrison prince (Wang Jinghong) to the Nanyang countries, to Xuande ten years, in order to send the Sumatra king brother Hani rarely to Yanjing to pay tribute, the old man stayed in the Yanjing Ministry of Industry, never came south. I don't want to, there is still a time to come back here in this life......" This Lord Yin looked at the green water of the spring river and the purple and red Nanjing, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart. "Old friends in the past, but now, I don't know how many people there can be."
The young scholar smiled and said with relief: "Lord Yin's words are wrong, when he went to the West, there were tens of thousands of people, and most of them traveled the world in the prime of life. ”
"That's true, but it's a pity, the Three Treasures Eunuch and the prince have both passed away, if you can get the help of these two, Your Majesty's wish can be fulfilled as soon as possible." Yin Daren's surname is Yin Mingwei, the word analysis Rui, was originally the director of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing, because of his ancestors, he was engaged in maritime trade, he was quite proficient in maritime affairs, and he was quite proficient in the affairs of ships, when he was in his prime, he had gone to the West with the eunuch of the Three Treasures, as far as the Persian Gulf and the east coast of Africa, and then went to the South Seas with Wang Jinghong, and accumulated rich experience.
However, after Xuande arrived in Yanjing in the ninth year, he never returned to his beloved navigation career, and became a Yanjing Ministry of Industry official, and during the Battle of Tumubao, Yin Wei, who was quite proficient in equipment, also went with the army, and was finally captured, and in the end, he was rescued by Zhu Qizhen.
At that time, when he heard that Yin Wei was actually a member of Zheng He's trip to the West, Zhu Qizhen stayed for half a cup of tea, and then left this Gongbu Langzhong, who was already cold and discouraged and only wanted to return to his hometown.
At that time, Zhu Qizhen, who was still a prisoner of war on the tile spurs, didn't know when he would be used, but Zhu Qizhen knew very well that if this guy didn't stay, it would prove that he was not qualified to be an excellent traverser. Before the advent of the Age of Western Discovery, all his current hopes could only be pinned on him.
After Zhu Qizhen returned to Xuanfu, after in-depth exchanges with this Yin Langzhong in many aspects, he finally made this Yin Langzhong understand that Zhu Qizhen did indeed have the determination and courage to rebuild the Ming Dynasty and expand official maritime trade, so he made up his mind and served under Zhu Qizhen.
And this time, it was precisely because of his suggestion that Zhu Qizhen, who was planning to regain the throne, realized this major problem, so he sent this Xuanfu official surnamed Zhao, who was originally from Nanjing, as the leader of the team, to Nanjing to make arrangements and preparations.
At this time, 18 years have passed since the seventh trip to the West, and 16 years have passed since Wang Jinghong returned to the South Seas......
(To be continued)