It was June 15, and it was very hot.

In retrospect, Wu Jie had been in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for two months.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Everyone was shouting, earth-shattering.

But in the midst of this noise, there was a faint sound of rumbling tides. Although the voice is not bright, it is deep and long, with no beginning and no end, like a giant beast roaring in your bones.

Looking up, a few miles away on the river, there was a line of tide rolling in, pulling out a long line on the mouth of the Yangtze River, which was almost boundless.

That's right, this is the best place to watch the Qiantang tide in Zheshan Town, which is 100 miles away from Hangzhou City.

It was also Xu Wenchang's enthusiasm that not only invited Wu Jie's family, but also invited many local gentry and officials to accompany him.

Wu Jie wondered in his heart, didn't this Qiantang tide only exist on August 15, and now it's only mid-June, can you see it?

Xu Wei smiled and said, "Shizhen, this tide is every month, but the size is different. It is smaller in winter, larger in summer, and the largest in August 15. ”

Wu Jie suddenly realized, yes, the reason why the natural phenomenon of high tide and low tide occurs is because of the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth, which occurs every day. It's just that on the 15th day of the first month of each month, because it is a full moon, the gravitational force reaches its maximum, and it does not appear on August 15 every year.

He's been in a bad mood lately, and he didn't plan to join in the fun. Helplessly, since it is not easy to come to sail, it is a pity not to come to see the Qiantang tide in the civilized world. Second, Moth also seems to be a little depressed, she came to the south this time to look for her father and brother, but she didn't want her family to disappear suddenly. In order to let her relax, Wu Jie came with her.

According to the records in the hydrological literature, the size of the Qiantang tide is not necessarily, and it is also related to the amount of water. By the time the water is small in winter, it is almost invisible.

Therefore, Wu Jie and the others came here this time with the intention of trying their luck.

Hearing the surging waves, everyone looked up. This tide is not small, and I am shouting in my heart.

The people cheered in unison, and heard that Wu Jiehe, who was famous all over the world, and Xu Wenchang, the number one celebrity today, were coming over, and almost all the people on the table of Hangzhou Mansion came over to bet on the demeanor of the two famous men.

At this moment, on the high platform one hundred steps away from the riverbank, Xu Wen held a wine party, and the audience was full of elegant people.

"Good!" Xu Wen screamed. Said: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, the tide flourished in Shandong, and the Han and Six Dynasties flourished in Guangling. After the Sui and Wei periods, the tide flourished in Zhejiang, covering the earth from north to south, and there were those who really knew it. The fifteenth day of the month is the largest. I look at today's water potential, it must be not small, it is really a monstrous turbidity wave empty, overturning the river and the sea and mountains can be destroyed! ”

All the gentry also applauded at the same time, and implored Xu Wei and Wu Jie to write a poem.

Xu Wenchang shook his head, grabbed Wu Jie's palm with his right hand, and laughed loudly: "Brother Shizhen, you are a generation of poets, and you have to sing a song no matter what today." Let me wait and see. ”

Wu Jie didn't expect this slender and shriveled old man with such a stiff body to have such a big voice, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Brother Wen, I have been shocked by the great power between heaven and earth now, but I can't write a single poem." ”

Xu Wei laughed: "Disappointment, really disappointment." A few days ago, I had fun with my brother's poetry and wine, and I gained a lot, but I didn't want to get nothing today. It's a shame. That's fine. Let's just watch the tide! ”

Everyone else sighed at the same time.

The old man was old and his blood had decayed, and he was held by Xu Wei's hand. It felt cold and uncomfortable.

Wu Jie couldn't help but show a hint of boredom on his face. When it comes to writing poems, the masterpieces related to Qiantang Chao can be said to be innumerable, and copying a random poem is enough to shock everyone. For example, the song "Long memory and watching the tide, the Manguo people compete for the river." The sea of suspicion is empty, and the drums are beating on all faces. The tide stands towards the waves, and the red flag is not wet. Don't look at it in a dream, the dream is still cold. ”…,

But the problem is that Wu Jie has no interest in showing off in front of everyone at all, and he doesn't bother to show off this limelight.

The days of Wu Festival have been extremely depressed for a while.

It has been two months since he came to the south, and he still remembers the situation when Emperor Jiajing asked him to find a way to urge Hu Zongxian to send troops to fight a decisive battle against the Japanese as soon as possible when he left the capital.

The emperor was also extremely pleased at that time, and even said: "Wu Aiqing is doing things, I am very relieved." words.

But as soon as he saw Governor Hu, he gave himself a field hunting demonstration, which made Wu Jie very unhappy.

However, after coming down, Hu Zongxian's chief staff Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang came over to discuss with him how to use troops against the Japanese invaders, which surprised Wu Jie.

First, looking at Hu Zongxian's appearance, Wu Jie thought that he wanted to raise his self-esteem in order to maintain his position in the southeast, but he didn't expect to discuss with himself how to use troops. Wu Jieda breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that although Hu Zongxian is extremely enthusiastic about power, he still stands firm in the face of national righteousness.

Moreover, Wu Jie has been famous for Xu Wenchang for a long time. I think when I was learning calligraphy and painting, I used his works as a model and copied them day and night. Even Qi Baishi, a master of modern Chinese painting, also carved a seal "Lackeys under the Qingteng Gate", which shows the influence of this Xu Wenchang on later generations. Suddenly, seeing this cultural giant of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Jie was naturally very happy and couldn't help but humbly ask for advice.

The two of them should be in harmony with poetry and wine all day long, and they have become close friends.

However, when it comes to how to use troops against the Japanese invaders, it is a different story.

After seeing Xu Wenchang, Wu Jie couldn't help but be overjoyed, and after a few words of greeting, he couldn't wait to talk to him about how to fight against the Japanese invaders, and this conversation lasted for half a day.

Xu Wei has been in Hu Zongxian's scene for many years, and he is very familiar with the situation in the southeast, so he naturally knows everything. The more they talked, the more excited they became, and soon they talked about whether coastal fishermen should be forbidden to go to sea and join forces to protect the Japanese from the villages. At the end, Xu Wei proposed that although Brother Jiuwen Shizhen moved the world with his articles and poems, he was quite proficient in economic and financial management, and could he get a piece of information on the products and acres of land in the coastal areas of southern Zhejiang and Fujian to see how much silver would be needed if the fishermen were converted to fishing.

This thing is Wu Jie's forte, so he has to come to the entire coastal area of Fujian and Zhejiang in the past ten years, and after staying up for a few days and nights, he finally wrote a statement of tens of thousands of words.

During this period, it was too hard to watch Wu Jie, Xu Wenchang also held a literary meeting to invite Wu Jie to meet with local scholars, drank a lot of wine, and chanted a lot of poems, which naturally won a lot of color.

Wait for Wu Jie to get all this done. Xu Wenchang came up with a new trick.

"Brother Shizhen is really talented." Xu Wenchang said with a smile: "After Hu Butang saw the adult's article Chen, he was full of praise, and said, when ordinary people mention Wu Shizhen, they will say that he is a poet. In fact, when it comes to financial management skills, I'm afraid that even Xiaoge Lao can't compare. ”

Then there was a boundless compliment, which made Wu Jie a little impetuous.

He couldn't help but ask, "Wen Chang." When will Hu Butang be able to send troops? ”

"Hey, in fact, the ministry also plans to use troops earlier, but the military salary is scarce."

"How is it possible, isn't it for the army to set up its own cards to collect cents?"

Xu Wei: "Shizhen, you don't know, when there was no gold in the past, the army was opened. All the food and clothing in the place of travel are supported by the locality. The required amount is set off against the tax payable in the coming year. Now that there is a centigold, the local government is no longer willing to pay this money, and the little centime collected is not enough. Not much better than before. ”

He sighed: "The ministry still wants to trouble you with one more thing, see if you can calculate it, if you use soldiers against the Japanese, how much military salary is needed?" ”

Wu Jie secretly complained in his heart, isn't this a toss? ..., the next few days. Wu Jie buried himself in the information again, and his eyes turned red, and only then did he come up with a data.

"Shizhen is really a genius." Xu Wei praised again and again, and then said: "The war against the Japanese needs a naval army, and we have to build ships." Of course, it's too late now, so I can only rent some civilian ships and merchant ships to deal with it. The cost of this...... I have to ask Brother Shizhen to help count ......"

Wu Jie only felt that his eyes were black for a while, I was born in a serious liberal arts, and I traveled to the Ming Dynasty but dealt with data all day long.

Is this Xu Wenchang trying to exhaust me? Wrong...... was interrupted by him. There was another week of delay......

In the following few days, Wu Jie discovered something unusual. I stayed in the yamen of the governor's palace all day long, and I was surrounded by Hu Zongxian's people.

These people are eyeing each other one by one, and they are also very unkind to Wu Jie, a noble person of the Hanlin Academy, who is often reprimanded, and also talks about military law.

The Governor's Palace is heavily guarded, and even if you want to go out, you have to tell you layer by layer, isn't this a house arrest in disguise?

"This Hu Zongxian is playing with me to drag himself, as long as it drags through this autumn, as soon as the weather is cold, there will be no way to use soldiers."

Wu Jie, who realized that something was wrong, hurriedly went to find Hu Zongxian, but the people from the Governor's Mansion replied that Governor Hu had returned to Nanjing, saying that he had something important.

Hu Zongxian couldn't see anyone anymore, Wu Jie was surrounded by Xu Wenchang's elegant face all day long, which made him panic for a while.

After staying in the house for more than ten days, it was about to see that Wu Jie was not in a good mood, and Xu Wenchang suggested that he go to see Qiantang Chao.

The Qiantang tide is more than 100 miles away from Hangzhou, and it takes four days to come and go. After a few days of eating and drinking in the local area, and socializing with the local scholars for a few days, the month passed.

Xu Wei is very calculating, and he has worked hard to grind the water to the fullest!

Wu Jie felt bitter in his heart.

As he spoke, the tide came closer, and it was about a few minutes before it was under the high platform.

Xu Wei waved his hand downward: "It's time to go, tide makers, use all your tricks!" ”

"Yes!" Under the high platform, there were three small sampans parked for a long time, and at the bow of the boat stood a man wrapped in a red scarf and covered in **.

Hearing Xu Wei's order, they all responded at the same time, and then picked up a bowl of rice wine, raised his head and poured it into his stomach.

Then he slid the boat towards the head of the tide.

Suddenly, people and tides collide together.

"Boom!" In the sound, the white waves were raging, and two boats were overturned, and the people on board fell into the water.

But there is still a high wave, unfurling a red flag high.

"Good!" Amid the cheers of thousands of people, the tide finally hit the shore, stirring up a wave of nearly five meters.

It's so spectacular that you can't breathe.

Wu Jie and Xu Wei stood at the front, wet from the waves.

Wu Jie was pushed out of Xu Wei's palm by the tide, and took a few steps back before standing.

But seeing that the little old man was still standing proudly in front, he was really outstanding.

Wu Jie felt a burst of relief in his heart, and his heart moved: "Take a step back and open the sky, I fell into Xu Wei's calculations before!" Hehe, let's not play with you! You Hu Zongxian don't want to send troops, okay, I'll find someone else. ”