Shi Dayong, who was hundreds of miles away, scolded Donglin for misleading the country, not knowing about military affairs, ignoring the main affairs, delaying the fighter plane, and wasting the country's food and salary. The young genius in Beijing also gritted his teeth and sulked in the Dongnuan Pavilion for a few days.

dismissed Zhou Yanru, in order not to be subject to the Donglin Party anymore, but what Chongzhen did not expect was that Donglin's backlash was so strong, and Wen Tiren, who had always been a "non-party" first assistant, couldn't be suppressed.

On the 11th, Zhou Yanru was dismissed, and on the 12th, the emperor's holy decree could not get out of the palace gate, and they were all sealed back by the various departments, and they found all kinds of reasons to refute the holy decree, and Chongzhen was so angry that he jumped like thunder, but there was no way to take this gang to the matter. Let's ask the cabinet to come forward, Wen Tiren, the first assistant, has just taken office, and it is inevitable that he will be alone, He Ruzhong, Wu Zongda and other Donglin party members simply ignore him and think of a way to oppose him. Wen Tiren had a hard time, knowing that this was Zhou Yanru's instigation behind his back, but he could only swallow his anger.

He could swallow his anger and secretly deploy and wait for the opportunity to counterattack in one fell swoop, but Chongzhen couldn't wait, the thieves in Shanxi, the thieves in the Central Plains, the thieves in Huguang, the rebels in Denglai, and the Dongyu outside the gate made him feel at ease as the emperor.

At present, the country is in trouble, internal and external difficulties, but his courtiers are engaged in party disputes, do not think about the country's worries, only think about the selfishness of the party, Chongzhen was so angry that he had a seizure during the court discussion, and reprimanded several scholars and officials of the six departments of the Donglin Party, I don't want to, half of the courtiers knelt on the ground on the spot to fight with him, and there were those who wanted to cry to death, all of them were iron-clad, as if they were loyal to the king's courtiers, Chongzhen was so angry that he laughed, and then threw his sleeves and left, never wanting to watch the performance of these people again.

After returning to the palace, the more Chongzhen thought about it, the more angry he became, and with a secret edict, he asked Cao Huachun, the admiral and eunuch of Dongchang, to go south to Gusu.

After getting the secret edict, Cao Huachun immediately took several stall leaders from Dongchang to secretly go south, the day before the battle of Xiaoguantun.

After arriving in Suzhou, Cao Huachun did not enter the city, but lived in the West Garden outside the gate. This west garden is the private residence of Xu Taishi, the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple of the Jiajing Dynasty, when he returned to his hometown, expanded the old house into the east and west two gardens. After Xu Taishi's death, his son Xu Rong sat on the mountain and ate empty, the family was declining day by day, and the family business was scattered within a few years, and the two houses went through more than 40 years of wind and rain, unable to repair, and became dilapidated.

But for Cao Huachun, this dilapidated West Garden is exactly what he wants, because this West Garden is very quiet, close to Tiger Hill, convenient to enter the city, and fast water and land passages, so he wrapped up the West Garden.

Just after lunch on this day, Cao Huachun sat in the garden with tea, and when he was savoring it, a stall under his hand flew in, presented a full-gold worship post, and said in a low voice: "Factory father, someone comes to worship." ”

"Who?" Cao Huachun was taken aback, he lived in Xiyuan extremely secretly, no one knew about Nan Zhili and Ying Tianfu officialdom, even the eunuchs in Nanjing, he didn't say hello, why did he only come for a few days, and the news leaked?

Seeing that the factory man changed color, he hurriedly said: "Don't worry about the factory father, the old friend who comes to call Feng Xianggong must not be an outsider." ”

"Oh? Feng Xianggong's old friend? Well, order him to come in! ”

As soon as he heard that it was Feng Xianggong's old friend, Cao Huachun immediately relieved himself. This Feng Xianggong is an uncle's old friend Feng Quan, and when he passed through Zhuozhou when he went south, he visited him.

Feng Quan was a scholar in the forty-first year of Wanli, and because of his attachment to Wei Zhongxian, he was appointed to the Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar and the Household Department Shangshu, and the Shaobao and the Prince Taibao. After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, when he copied Wei Zhongxian's house, he found the birthday poem he made for Wei Gelding, and he was humble, and he really did not have the dignity of a minister, so he was punished with a rod and demoted to a commoner.

Cao Huachun saw Feng Quan, because he had been in seclusion for many years, so he didn't have to be cautious when he spoke, and there was a little bit of the emperor's desire to punish the Donglin Party between idle conversations. That Feng Quan is also a character who has been trained in the officialdom for a long time, he has insight into the world, and he knows that there must be a big incident in the DPRK and China, and it can't be that Donglin, the dominant party, has made the emperor feel threatened, otherwise, the emperor will not let Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the Dongchang Governor, secretly go south to Nanzhili, the old nest of the Donglin Party.

Therefore, although Cao Huachun didn't say much to him, and most of his words were just reminiscences, the astute Feng Quan smelled the smell of going out of the mountain again, and after Cao Huachun left, he immediately sent a letter to send a servant to Nanzhili on a fast horse. The person he sent the letter to was not a member of the Donglin Party, but Ruan Dacheng, a remnant of the former Dynasty Eunuch Party

Cao Huachun took out the big red gold post, and the red gold silk plate on it became a few lines of small characters in the real block book: "Cao Gonggong is around: special music banquet, a little bit of knowledge, waiting for condescension, I can't wait for it." Slim elementary school student Ruan Dacheng round sea hundred worship. Cao Huachun thought that Feng Quan said in Zhuozhou that he had an old friend in Nanzhili, who was not only knowledgeable, but also wealthy, and this person was Ruan Dacheng. couldn't help but ponder, it seemed that Feng Quan revealed the news of his coming to Gusu to this person.

recalled it in his mind, and regretted that this Ruan Dacheng had been a member of the Donglin Party for a few years during the Apocalypse Dynasty, and he seemed to be a member of the Donglin Party, but for some reason he suddenly fell out with the Donglin Party and turned the spearhead to attack the Donglin Party, which led to Wei Zhongxian's purge of the Donglin Party. When today's son succeeded to the throne, this Ruan Dacheng was listed as a reverse case, because he was not a backbone of the party, and he had not done anything treacherous, so he was listed in the sixth class, and he was dismissed and sent home.

Since this person is an old friend of Feng Quan, he must be not young, and he is called a small student with contempt, which is really a strange anecdote, and the flesh is extremely numb, Cao Huachun thought so. But this heart is still very useful, and he raised his head and asked, "What is Quyan?" If you play with those winding waters, it is the turban of the poor literati, and it doesn't mean much! ”

"Factory father, the music banquet here is to eat wine while listening to the music, and there is no turban. Haven't you heard of the three major classes in Jiangnan? "This stall is from Nanzhili, but he has been in Beijing for a long time, and he speaks in Beijing, but if you listen carefully, you can still hear Wu Nong's soft language.

"What three big classes?" Cao Huachun has been in Beijing for a long time and has never gone south, so he doesn't know much about the famous trips in the south.

"Factory father, these three big classes are said to be Shaoxing Zhang Dai's family class, followed by Jinling Ruan Dacheng's family class, and then Changzhou You Dong's family class. What other sachet class, pipa class, unicorn class...... It can only be regarded as a small class that does not enter the stream. ”

After hearing him say this, Cao Huachun snorted lightly in his nose: "This Ruan Dacheng is so unreasonable, thinking that we are traveling in the mountains and rivers and walking around at will, and we want to go to Jinling to watch a play?" ”

"The factory doesn't have to work to go to Jinling, Ruan Dacheng has brought his family to Suzhou." The head of that stall may have received the benefits of Ruan Dacheng, and said good things for him.

The team was brought to Suzhou? Cao Huachun was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that this Ruan Dacheng is careful, and he has nothing to do in the past two days, so he might as well meet with the remnants of this eunuch party and see what he wants to do.

Nodding and instructing the stall head: "Since you brought it, you don't have to look at it tomorrow, go and tell Ruan Dacheng, our family will go and take a look at his family class tonight." ”

"Going tonight?" The stall was taken aback, this is too fast, right?

"What? Is he Ruan Dacheng not happy? Cao Huachun was a little displeased.

The head of the stall hurriedly said: "The factory master can go, he Ruan Dacheng is a blessing from eight lifetimes of cultivation, I'm afraid that he will die of laughter, can he still be happy?" The subordinates went to inform him. ”

"Hmm."

Cao Huachun glanced at him and waved him down. Then he took another sip of tea, and suddenly his mind moved, and he pulled out a secret letter from his bosom.

He had already read this letter, but this time, it seemed to have a deep meaning.

After looking at it for a long time, he gently put the secret letter on the table, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself: "Gao Qi Qian, Gao Qi Qian, you are really bold enough, you dare to treat the people who the emperor values like this, and our family will see that your good life is over." ”

Cao Huachun's temporary motion, he didn't know that this Cao eunuch would come when he said he would, and he was in a hurry, he thought that Cao Huachun would come tomorrow. So after the stage was arched, he put the workers back to rest, but he didn't expect Cao Huachun to come to watch the play overnight, so he had to hurriedly gather everyone.

Fortunately, the servants in the home class are all well-trained, and the costumes and repertoire are all ready-made, and in less than a meal, they are roughly ready, and Ruan Dacheng hurriedly went to the gate to wait.

Not long after, a small green sedan chair stopped in front of the door, Cao Huachun dressed in Confucian clothes got down in the sedan chair, and saw a man with a round face and many hairs, wearing a Ge robe, and a Dongpo scarf on his head came forward and said with a smile: "Distinguished guests are coming to the door, and they are shining." Please! ”

Cao Huachun didn't want to show off, knowing that this person must be Ruan Dacheng, seeing that he was also in his forties, and in his words, he didn't reveal half of his identity, so he couldn't help but like it, nodded slightly, and stepped into the middle hall.

When he arrived in the hall, Ruan Dacheng put Cao Huachun in the upper seat, bowed his head, and said: "Ruan Dacheng, a decommissioner of the imperial court, greets Gonggong Cao, and the emperor is Sheng'an." ”

"Flatten, get up and talk." Cao Huachun frowned, a demobilized and abandoned waster is no longer qualified to ask the emperor about his life, he looked at Feng Quan's face, forbearance, and said casually: "It seems that Brother Ruan Shi is under the forest, and he still has Wei Que in his heart!" ”

Ruan Dacheng hurriedly bowed and said, "Father-in-law smiled." The student has been away from Beijing for many years, and suddenly met his father-in-law, and he couldn't help himself for a while. ”

"That's it. Is the play ready? Cao Huachun didn't want to say more to him, he just wanted to see what the magic method of this three-family class full of Jiangnan was.