Chapter 86 The story needs a background

The first year of Chongzhen is destined to be a very lively year.

"Will push the ministers, humble and considerate Shangshu Wen Tiren, and the waiter Zhou Yanru and push, then he will be famous and frustrated. Tiren pursued the Qianyi Dian to try to take money from Zhejiang, and gave the rod to redeem. Tiren repaid bribes and often acquaintances, Zhang Hanru, praised Humility and profitability, greed and lawlessness. Qianyi asked for help from the eunuch Cao Huachun and tortured Han Ru. The body is benevolent, and the humble benefit is also reduced. ”

The above passage is very short, more than a hundred words, but it is very rich. Literally, a guy named Qian Qianyi, when he was pushing the cabinet ministers, was cleaned up by Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru together, if it wasn't for the eunuch to save his life, he almost threw his head in the capital and couldn't go back.

Who is Qian Qianyi? The leader of the literary world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then I will not talk about it here in the Qing Dynasty. In short, this person smashed the literary world at that time very well, and the Internet language was ** bombing! Qian Qianyi's literary achievements are not the focus here, skip them.

What's the point? In the first year of Chongzhen, this guy showed himself as the leader of the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party is not a political party, but a group of literati who came together because of their political positions, and formed a party because of their political interests. (Note: Personally, I don't think these people are a thing)

is such a group of people, in the year of the Apocalypse, they were laid down by Wei Zhongxian. Interestingly, it's not that Donglin is incompetent, it's not that the eunuchs are too cunning, but that these people have committed a taboo, a taboo that the emperor will resent as long as he is an emperor. This taboo has an exclusive term: forming a party!

Because of the party, during the Apocalypse, Donglin was taken down by the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and the six gentlemen of Donglin who were famous in history appeared. (Note: I thought that these grandsons were not good birds, because they didn't do anything serious, but because of the party dispute)

Or because of the reason of forming a party, Qian Qianyi was fatally killed by Wen Tiren, and it was not enough to lie down directly, Zhou Yanru did not waste this opportunity, and he came up with a beating of the water dog. The specific process takes a lot of words to explain clearly, so I won't go into word here. Everyone just needs to remember that the person who saved Qian Qianyi this time was a eunuch, and his name was Cao Huachun.

Wen Tiren is the big guy who has entered "The Legend of the Traitorous Minister", oh, Zhou Yanru is also on the list. The literati of the past generations did not spare pen and ink, and ruthlessly wrote them in the dark. But there is a problem that everyone may not have noticed, the book "History of the Ming Dynasty" was written by literati of the "I Great Qing Dynasty" organization. Who are these literati? What do these people say about Qian Qianyi? "Yushan (Qian Qianyi) is still alive, and the history of the country is still not dead."

Well, I think Qian Qianyi's hacking this time doesn't need more ink to waste.

Another interesting thing derived from this court deduction is Emperor Chongzhen's imperial mental technique. This time, it was through the toss of Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru that he added fuel to the fire, and ruthlessly picked up the arrogance of the Donglin Party since the fall of Wei Zhongxian. Why is the Donglin Party arrogant? Very simple, the first reason is that there were nine members in the previous cabinet, five of which made the Donglin Party wash away with saliva, and automatically resigned and went home to retire. In the second court push, the Donglin Party played even more desperately, and directly drew salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and when the court pushed the audition, Zhou Yanru was directly put down, so that he did not even have a chance to be "caught lot" and become a cabinet member. (Note: Not a joke, really, the cabinet members are really produced by drawing lots, and the hand that draws lots belongs to Comrade Zhu Youzhen)

Don't think that this is Zhu Youzhen's first black hand against Donglin, there will be a next time, and it will come soon. Be a little patient, don't follow Comrade Zhu Youzhen's example, and shout "off the shelves" at every turn.

Briefly talking about the above matter, I don't want to irrigate, but I want to get a background of the times or something. The background of this era is that the Donglin Party is very arrogant and domineering, and it has gone too far on the issue of Tingtui. This excesses meant a threat to imperial power. If the emperor with a softer personality is replaced and the Donglin family is dominant, will the court stop? I don't think so! These grandsons will definitely set up an enemy to fight when they seem to have no enemies. If this is the case, will history take a different path? It is impossible to infer it.

It was in such a context that Chen Xie, who decided to speak with silver, began to plan to give Wang Qinian a seat of a thousand households at the end of the first year of Chongzhen, and it was also a fixed-point thousand households. But this matter has just begun, and it basically died. It's very simple, you don't need Weihaiwei's Xu Commander. The thousand-household office near Zhangjiazhuang used to be under the jurisdiction of Weihaiwei, and later after Dengzhou set up the governor of Denglai, this thousand-household office was abolished. This boundary is now under the jurisdiction of Penglai County, of course, Commander Xu, for the sake of the face of the silver, can consider giving a seat to a thousand households in Qishan.

At this time, Chen Xie was already dizzy, so he had to ask Zhang Yao for advice, and honestly knelt down for Zhang Yao: "Uncle Zhang, can you give a quasi-word?" Zhang Yao laughed three times, stood up and said, "Shaft, take the map." ”

In the study, Zhang Yao, a squire who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, taught Chen Xie how to dig the corners of the Ming Dynasty.

"Sihua came from the sea, you must know that the husband is not guilty, and he is guilty." Chen Xie nodded again and again when he was told this, and Zhang Yao continued with satisfaction: "This is Weihaiwei, this is Qishan, this is Kongtong Island under Qishan, and this is Yangma Island under Jinshanzuo. The sea route is the strength of Sihua, why bother to abandon the long and take the short? ”

Chen Xie looked at the map, dizzy for a while, this has passed Yantai, and he ran forward for a long time, and arrived at Muping. Engage in a thousand households as a site so far away? It's a bit of a pain! Chen Xie could only sigh in his heart that the Ming Dynasty scholars were unreliable, and many of Zhang Yao's truths were correct, and they were all based on officialdom experience. I didn't expect that Chen Xie didn't plan to go so far. The thing of the three caves of the cunning rabbit is actually of little use to Chen Xie, because if it doesn't work, it will be BIU, and time and space will be shuttled. Chen Xie is spending so much energy, isn't he just worried about the Zhang family and his own industry in Dengzhou? You make Mu Ping more than 200 miles away, something really happened, far water can't save the near fire, my Uncle Zhang. Empiricism kills people!

200 miles, you can't walk for two days in this era? If the troops march, they may not be able to reach it in two days, and the road is so bad now.

Chen Xie wants to cry without tears! At this time, it is very interesting to look at the geographical location of Zhangjiazhuang, backed by Longshan, less than 30 miles to the east is the sea, and 30 miles to the west is Huangxian. If you can buy a thousand households in Qishan with silver, and then buy a Huangxian garrison, wouldn't it connect the three places? If you have more money, you can also build roads, first build Dengzhou, then repair Huang County, and finally repair Yantai to Qishan depending on the situation. (Don't make a mistake, Yantai at this time is a poor countryside)

Looking at the location of Chen Xiexiu's private pier and group training camp, it is still more suitable to be close to Qishan.

"Uncle Zhang, is 10,000 taels enough to buy a Huang County garrison?" Chen Xie was ruthless, this time Zhang Yao didn't get mad, calmly looked at the young man in front of him, and was silent for a long time. Chen Xie twisted his body uneasily, and Zhang Yao gave a vague sentence: "I heard that you made a lot of movement in Zhangjiazhuang, I want to go and see it." ”

What kind of accuracy is that? Zhang Yao couldn't give a precise word, and he really couldn't understand Chen Xie's persistence. The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is in front of him, why does Chen Xie still want to seek a military position? Zhang Yao couldn't figure out this question, he would rather see Chen Xie under his arrangement, go to study or become a famous doctor, and no matter how bad it is, he can be a rich man in Zhangjiazhuang. You don't have to do anything, just rely on the goods from the Americas, Chen Xie can live very comfortably, what are you tossing about after all this?

If Zhang Yao asked Chen Xie this question, he would not be able to give an answer. How to say it, the wood that Chen Xie wants to float on the sea now is not a question of where he wants to go, but where the sea will send him. The reality is that if Chen Xie can do it, he doesn't care about this qiē in the Ming Dynasty, Dengzhou can't stay, just change places.

The problem is that if this is done, Chen Xie's conscience and sense of responsibility will not be able to pass. Chen Xie is not a saint, and he does not have the world in mind, he is just a very ordinary person, selfish, greedy for money, **, he uses all these human natures. But there is no shortage of a minimum conscience and moral bottom line for being a human being. As for Zhangjiazhuang, Chen Xie is operated as a nest, a nest without people's hearts, can you have a sense of security? Chen Xie has always lacked this thing, what he does has nothing to do with good and evil, and the essence of the starting point is interests, one is security interests, and the other is economic interests. It's just that the people of the Ming Dynasty can't see through his mask.

As soon as he said go, Zhang Yao immediately requisitioned Chen Xie's carriage, less than ten miles out of the city, the originally bumpy road surface eased a lot, and the probe went out of the window to take a look, and the cinders on the road smoothed out the potholes. The speed of the horse-drawn carriage was not fast, it was because of the bumps, but now it is because there are people on the road who are using wheelbarrows to carry cinders and fill the road.

As we continued a little further, the carriage sped up a bit. Zhang Yao said with feeling: "Sihua, build bridges and pave roads, and accumulate good deeds." "Accumulate Yin De? Chen Xie wanted to laugh, but he just didn't laugh. How is road construction related to Yin Virtue? If you want to get rich, build roads first. Zhangjiazhuang is a kiln and a workshop, if this road is not repaired, how can things be transported out faster?

didn't answer, Chen Xie's expression was very indifferent, and Zhang Yao secretly praised: Not arrogant or reserved.

The four-wheeled carriage increased its speed on the paved road, and the shock absorption effect of the spring steel plate was actually not very good, but in the Ming Dynasty, the effect of this kind of Cheng dù was already very powerful. Before arriving in Zhangjiazhuang, a new building came into view in the distance.

"Is this the school you built?" Zhang Yao asked, and the answer was: "If you don't go to school, it is to let the children have a place to read, learn to count, and have more skills to make a living in the future." ”

Chen Xie didn't plan to teach a group of nerds, he wanted talents who could do things in the future.

"Let's go check it out!" Zhang Yao's tone suddenly became excited, I heard that there is no money for going to school in this place.