On the 22nd day of March 22 in the 45th year of Wanli, Zhang Yuan, the Hanlin Academy's revision and Zhan Shifu's right Chunfang, the right Zanshan, as the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to canonize the prince of the Joseon Dynasty, was ordered to go out of Beijing, the deputy envoy was Ruan Dacheng, the pedestrian of the pedestrian department, and Zhen Zidan, the deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei, led Guan Wen of the Left Army Governor's Mansion and the Military Department to lead sixty saber captains to accompany him.

Zhang Yuan is an angel on behalf of the Ming Emperor, the Wanli Emperor gave a python robe a collar, a jade belt around, for Zhang Yuan to wear when he canonized the Korean prince, the Ministry of Rites also sent 16 people to show the prestige of the country, respectively holding the festival Yue, the flag, the guide drum, the cloud gong, the instrument knife, the leopard tail gun, etc., Zhang Yuan brought Mu Jingyan, Wang Zongyue, Ma Kuoqi, Sheba, Hong Ji, Hong Xin six people as personal attendants, canonized the mission a total of 86 people, the carriage and horses are neat, the prestige Xuanhe -

He Zongyan, Langzhong Shao Fuzhong, and the officials of Honglu Temple and Huitong Hall saw off the mission, and a total of 24 people followed the Celestial Empire mission to the road, and the team of more than 100 people set off from Daming Gate and went to Chongwen Gate, the weather was fine on this day, and the spectators along the way were blocked, reproducing the grand occasion of the Champion Praise Street of the Great Ceremony of Chuan Yu in March last year.

Laifu, Wuling, and Wang Dazhui followed all the way to Chongwen Gate, Zhang Yuan rode on the chestnut horse that he got from Dongyue Temple last time, beckoned the three of Laifu to come over, and advised: "Don't make trouble, don't bully others, go out of the city without anything, and take care of your family - okay, you don't have to send it again, you all go back." ”

The three of them stood still and watched the young master ride a high-headed horse, a guard of honor, and a chariot and horse. Wuling's tears fell, Wuling is Zhang Yuan's scholar and playmate since childhood, Zhang Yuan has gone out to study and take exams all these years, and Wuling has followed, so this time they are very reluctant -

Zhang Yuan rode on horseback and turned his head to look back at the towering inner city tower, and said silently: "Farewell for the time being." Beijing. "The heart is also reluctant, the twenty-eighth of this month is Xiao Hong's first birthday, and the day after tomorrow is Xiao Mingqian's three dynasties. He is twenty years old and has two sons, so he really wants to spend more time with his wife and children. But the trip date has been set, and he can't stay, what makes him happy is that Mu Zhenzhen gave birth smoothly, the mother and child are safe, and now his sister and brother-in-law are also here, and there are brothers-in-law and eldest brothers at home who can help, and he has no worries-

Ruan Dacheng, the deputy envoy on the right side of Zhang Yuan, said with a smile: "Zhang Xiuxian, is he worried about his wife and children before he leaves Beijing?" He said in his heart: "I have no choice but to be a pedestrian division, I can't excuse it, I really can't figure out why you Zhang Jiezi want to ask for this drudgery!" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and asked, "Haven't the family members of Brother Jizhi been taken to Beijing yet?" ”

Ruan Dacheng said: "I originally planned to send someone back to Tongcheng to pick him up in March and April, but now I have been ordered to send an envoy to North Korea. I'll have to wait until I get back. He also said: "We are also quieter when we go out of Beijing this time, and we stay in Beijing all day long to talk about Jingcha, which makes people panic, and this Jingcha turmoil will not subside for two or three months." "Ruan Dacheng is extremely concerned about Ding Si Jingcha, who is a disciple of Gao Panlong, the leader of Donglin. Six members of the Donglin Party have been dismissed from their posts in this Beijing inspection, which has made Ruan Dacheng sad and frightened.

Zhang Yuan asked: "The self-presentation of the Beijing officials above the fourth rank should be sent to the imperial review, right?" ”

Ruan Dacheng said: "Six days ago, it was submitted to the emperor for ruling, and the day before yesterday, the six science corridors had already copied and passed on the self-Chen Zuoshu of the Beijing officials above the fourth grade, and now they are waiting to pick up the relics, Sun Yushi of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, Weng Shilang of the Ministry of Officials, Sun Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Xijiu, Zhu Xijiu, Shuntian Mansion Qiao Fucheng, and Wang Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, these officials are all in danger, and my fellow townsman Zuo Guangdou is upset-"

These officials mentioned by Ruan Dacheng are all high-ranking officials in Donglin who Ding Sijing will want to get rid of in this inspection. Xu Shaoji, Henan Provincial Imperial Historian Han Jun and other officials of the three parties have already collected black materials to prepare for impeachment, and they want to sweep away the forest forces in the east and east of the DPRK. …,

Ruan Dacheng sighed lightly in the sound of the horse's hooves: "When we return from North Korea, I'm afraid that these predecessors and righteous people are no longer in Beijing, and things are wrong." ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head slightly, he is now low in official position, shallow in qualifications, powerless to reverse the defeat of Donglin, rather than staying in Beijing in the miasma of internal fighting, it is better to take the opportunity to inspect the Liaodong border preparation, many things have to be experienced personally to have a deeper understanding, it is useless to talk on paper, the Wanli Emperor will not live long, and the dictatorship of the three parties will not last long, what he is worried about now is that the Donglin Party will retaliate against the three parties after returning to power, so that the party struggle will become fierce, he is worried that it will be difficult for him to convince those self-righteous Donglin bigwigs, such as Xing, But it's useless to think so much now, the most important thing is to do what is in front of you.

In the evening of the same day, the Ming canonization mission and the Korean winter solstice envoy Liu Dongming and his party of more than 100 people rested at the Luhe post in Tongzhou, from this day, Zhang Yuan began to write "Ding Si Joseon Chronicles", that is, a diary, the things worth recording on the way are recorded, and the diary of the next three days is briefly as follows:

"March 23, crossing the Baihe, Tongzhou is dry, the river is shallow, the wilderness is barren, the hills along the way are all children and children, according to the clouds and trees are cut down and burned charcoal Yunyun, all the way through the fire and burned Tun, Zhaolipu, Mayipo, Liuhetun, to Xiadian Station for lunch, set off in the afternoon, to Sanhe County Post for the night-"

"On March 24, I got up in the morning and talked with Sanhe Wuzhi County and Liuxian Cheng, stayed at Gongle Station overnight, drank with Jizhi, Uncle Mu and others, and celebrated Qian'er in the three dynasties——"

"March 25, over Yuyangyi, the sky is cloudy and rainy, when Shen Shi is two o'clock to Wulidian, the heavy rain is pouring down, take shelter from the rain in Dongyue Temple, the rain breaks for a while, and rushes to Yangfanyi to rest the night......"

The rain was dripping, Zhang Yuan wrote his "Ding Si Joseon Chronicles" under the oil lamp in the guest house of Yangfanyi, it was late at night, and when he was about to undress and go to bed to rest, Mu Jingyan suddenly knocked on the door and said: "My lord, the post official said that there was a person who came in the rain to see Zhang Xiu, this person did not have a name, only said that his surname was Ke. ”

Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "Ke Yinyue still let his cousin come." He said, "Let the man come to me." "Dressed up, sit upright and wait.

After a while, a guest light came to Zhang Yuan's room first, Mu Jingyan and Ma Kuoqi and Sheba saw that Ke Guangxian was strong, and they were all vigilant, Mu Jingyan stood behind Zhang Yuan, Ma Kuoqi and Sheba stood beside Ke Guangxian on the left and right, staring at Ke Guangxian, and if there was any change, they would be captured immediately.

Keguang first took out a palm-sized cowhide bag from his arms and respectfully presented it to Zhang Yuan: "Please see it for myself." He stood aside and said nothing more.

Zhang Yuan didn't rush to open the cowhide bag, and asked Ke Guangxian: "Are you going to go with me to North Korea?" ”

Keguang bowed first and said, "Yes." ”

Zhang Yuan nodded, and asked Keguang to change clothes and eat first, and after Mu Jingyan, Ma Kuoqi, and Sheba also exited the room, he opened the cowhide bag, which contained a letter and a string of Buddhist bead bracelets, the letter had no head or end, and the words were also written very poorly, it was the tone of Ke Yinyue, and he said two things, one was that the red-faced man he met in Dongyue Temple that day was very likely to be Tong Nuer's eighth son, Hei Huan, who had not seen him for many years, she couldn't recognize it clearly, Hei Huan had been scheming since he was a child, please pay attention to Zhang Yuan; The second is that her brother Jin Taiji and Buyangu did not know that she was in the capital of Daming, and she left Yehe City fourteen years ago and never heard back, please Zhang Yuan not to leak her traces, Keguang let Zhang Yuan send first, as long as it is beneficial to Yehebu-

Ke Yinyue did not say in the letter what the meaning of this string of Buddhist bead bracelets is, it seems to be a gift from Ke Yinyue to Zhang Yuan, the top of the finger size of the best East Pearl, a total of twelve, each of which is exactly the same, emitting a soft pearl under the lamp -

Zhang Yuanmo held this string of Buddhist bead bracelets, and thought: "That red-faced scholar is really Huang Taiji, but it's a pity that he escaped, if he can see him again next time, he must not be allowed to escape, killing Huang Taiji is equivalent to cutting off one of Nurhachi's arms." ”…,

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Zhang Yuan did not record the arrival of Keguang first in "Ding Si Joseon Chronicle", and what he did not remember in detail was: these days he has learned Tai Chi from Wang Zongyue every morning and evening, practicing Tu Na, and the eye disease five years ago was tempered to calm the mind, Tai Chi is to be calm, so Zhang Yuan entered the country quite quickly, not seeking to become Yang Lu Chan, just to strengthen the body;

In addition to learning boxing from Wang Zongyue, Zhang Yuan also learned Jurchen language from Wang Zongyue, and learned Korean from the general surnamed Fan.

Keguang was the first to fall into disagreement, never took the initiative to talk to others, Zhang Yuan said to Zhen Zidan that Keguang was the guard he invited first, Zhen Zidan of course had nothing to be suspicious of, he only thought that Zhang Xiuzuo was too self-loving, and it was not enough to have sixty brocade guards to protect him, and he also invited a master of inner boxing as a guard.

The delegation went all the way through Luanzhou, Yongping, Funing, along the way to see every ten miles there is a beacon tower, the fourth day of the first month of April, to the world's first Xiongguan Shanhaiguan, if according to the place name of later generations is through Tangshan, Qinhuangdao came to Shanhaiguan, Shanhaiguan by the early years of the Ming Dynasty Zhongshan King Xu Da was ordered to build, north of Yanshan, east of the Bohai Sea, so the name of Shanhaiguan, the city wall is as high as five zhang, the city tower book "the first pass in the world" five big characters, later generations say that these five words come from the hand of Wang Xi, in fact, it is a blind biography, this is the calligrapher Xiao Xian in the Chenghua period.

Shanhaiguan has a member of the head of the military department to lead the military officials to guard, because of the last time the Jurchen spy in Beijing, the left army governor's office and the military department strictly ordered to check the customs people, etc., so now even the women, woodcutter children in and out of the checkpoint have to check the card, very strict, but the red-faced scholar still did not catch, I think the red-faced scholar did not dare to go out of the customs through this, it should be from the Xifengkou Great Wall side of the plug -

In the evening of the same day, the head of the military department guarding Shanhaiguan invited Zhang Yuan, Ruan Dacheng, Zhen Zidan and Liu Dongming to the banquet, Zhang Yuan asked about the defense of Shanhaiguan, and learned that the defense was quite empty, and the Ming court did not pay attention to the defense of Shanhaiguan now, after all, Shanhaiguan is not a border guard, Nurhachi's soldiers are far away, only next year, after the loss of Fushun and Qinghe, the imperial court will pay attention to the role of Shanhaiguan, and then Juniper will be appointed as the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan.

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