No matter how big Jiang Xu's reputation is, no matter how high his official position is, he is just a coat, so there must be a high-level figure in the mission to support the scene, especially the royal family.

Therefore, Da Yu'er chose a respected Baylor Lord as the nominal envoy, this Baylor Lord's name is Xuanqi, and he is also the grandson of Huang Taiji, who is only in his early twenties this year, ranking fifth among his peers, so he is also known as the fifth elder brother, and the fifth elder brother is born with a talent, and his mind is also flexible, so he will not lose the face of the Aixin Jueluo family.

When the Manchu Qing mission entered Nanjing, the pomp was very large, Xuanqi Beile Ye led a group of Manchu and Han officers to swagger through the city under the escort of the Zhenghuang Banner Xiao Cavalry Battalion, the Manchu Qing officials did not sit in a sedan chair, they wore tall horses, wore blue official robes, wore black warm hats, and the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion were dressed in yellow cloth, copper nail armor, and the yellow tassels on the helmet seemed to have a javelin, bow and arrow, saber hanging from their waists, and did not carry long weapons out of diplomatic etiquette.

These soldiers were equivalent to the most elite Imperial Forest Army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and their martial arts were first-class, and they were sent to guard the mission, which implied a show of force.

The Ming Dynasty sent a team to greet the mission, and the troops of the Han generals changed into the clothes and armor of the ordinary forbidden army and surrounded the Qing delegation on both sides, one for protection, and the other was also to show the force, although the Han generals did not fight a hard battle, but the momentum was very strong, the average height was about 1.85 meters, riding a tall horse, majestic and majestic, no worse than the Manchu army.

The fifth elder brother wore a dragon python robe, walking in the front of the team, the weather in Nanjing was too hot, it was only April, and it was already hot to wear hats, the officials of the Ming Dynasty wore mesh-style black gauze hats, wore thin silk official uniforms, and naturally did not feel very hot, but the officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were different, they came all the way from the north, wearing winter official uniforms, the head was also a black warm hat, and was exposed to the sun in the spring, and the soldiers of the cavalry camp were all stinky and sweaty, and no one dared to move, but Belle Ye was not so serious, he took off the big hat on his head very casually, revealing a big bald head like a green duck egg, and a head the size of a copper coin was left on the back of his head, and a bunch of braids were drawn from this scalpCome, this is the so-called Manchu standard type money rat tail, seeing the fifth elder brother taking the lead, the other Manchu and Han officials also took off their hats and proudly showed their ugly type to the people of Nanjing.

"The little brother in front of him was so handsome, why did he shave a monk's head and hang down a little braid behind his head, like a pig's tail?" The crowd of onlookers on both sides of the road commented.

"You don't understand, this is called a rat's tail, and the Tartars like this tune, if they have a bun like our Han people, is it still called Tartar?" Immediately, well-informed people came out to answer everyone's doubts.

There are not many people in the city of Nanjing, who have seen the Tartars in the past, the nobles who fled from the north in the past are also fleeing from the wind at that time, and they have not seen the cruelty of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the recent war of the Ming army in Shandong is quite smooth, this antagonism between ethnic groups is not as strong as before, and the common people look at the Manchu mission more like a circus from the north.

The Manchu Qing mission did not think so, they were proud of their heroic appearance, they thought that their heroic appearance had touched the people of the capital of the Southern Dynasty, and the civil officials with the fifth elder brother frequently smiled and bowed to the people on both sides, but they were booed, and the people knew that these people were the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and they were not good birds.

The fifth elder brother and Jiang Xu and his entourage came to the pavilion post first, and because the diplomatic relations between the two countries were not confirmed, Zhu Youxiao would not be in a hurry to meet them, but the cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Rites jointly came forward to receive the Manchu envoys, in view of the current state of war between the two countries has not been lifted, the Ministry of War arranged a large number of forbidden troops to guard around the pavilion, not only to prevent the Manchu envoys from running around, but also to prevent the people from blindly protesting and demonstrating, and from storming the pavilion.

For this Manchu envoy, the Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to it, because the pattern of the world has changed again, the Qing Dynasty has pacified the Mongolian Chahar Department, withdrawn a large number of elite troops, and pulled back the 50,000 cavalry of the Mongolian Horqin tribe, the strength has been greatly enhanced, the new emperor ascended the throne, punished **, reduced taxes, eliminated ethnic contradictions, and Western Xia, Korea friendly trade is no longer the Manchu Qing that seemed to collapse last year.

The current situation is very similar to the situation of the long-term confrontation between Song and Jin in the Southern Song Dynasty, and both sides are eyeing each other and wanting to swallow each other, but they don't have that strength, so everyone tacitly talks with each other all day long, and all they talk about is to find out each other, delay time, and wait for their own strength to accumulate enough before starting a battle.

The Ministry of Rites is responsible for the specific reception work, Hou Xun believes that I am a dignified state of etiquette, no matter what the other party is, we must treat each other with courtesy, and we must treat each other with great courtesy, so that the barbarians such as Er know the power of the sky, so they did not restrict the movement of Xuan Qi and Jiang Xu, on the contrary, they also sent officials and entourage guards of the Ministry of Rites to let them wander around.

The fifth elder brother and Jiang Xu finally arrived in Jiangnan, so they naturally wanted to have a good time, they changed into a scarf and blue shirt, accompanied by officials of the Ministry of Rites and Jinyi Guard, to visit the famous Qinhuai scenery, and of course, the officers and soldiers of the Xiaocai battalion also changed into the costumes of the Ming Dynasty and followed the guards.

The Han culture is broad and profound, after the Manchu people entered the customs, they vigorously absorbed the Han civilization, controlled the etiquette system, and studied under the Han culture of the Ming Dynasty, the most reaching place is Jiangnan, as the master of Sinology, Xuanqi and Jiang Xu put on the Han shirt, learned the appearance of the southerners, took a fan in the hand, and there was also a bit of the charm of the Jiangnan genius, especially Xuanqi's appearance, he was very handsome, and he walked by the Qinhuai River, which attracted the screams of the girls on the flower floor, and seemed to be more popular than the four sons of Jiangnan back then.

After swimming for a while, the two felt that it was almost boring with the Bada Hutong in Beijing, so they continued eastward along the Qinhuai River and exited Dongshuiguan, and then another building was the famous Donglin Academy, and the fifth elder brother and Jiang Xu smiled at each other, and said to the official of the Ministry of Rites who accompanied them that they wanted to visit the academy.

Donglin Academy was originally located in Wuxi, founded in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty Zhenghe, when it was the place where the Northern Song Dynasty physicist Cheng Hao, Cheng Yiyan's elder brother, and the well-known scholar Yang Shi (Guishan) gave lectures for a long time.

The origin of the name of "Donglin Academy" is written when Yang Shi visited Lushan

The poem "Walking on the East Forest Road" is related. Later, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Xiancheng, who was deposed from Liju, together with his younger brother Yuncheng and Gao Panlong, An Xifan, Liu Yuanzhen, Ye Maocai, Shi Menglin, Xue Fujiao, Qian Yiyi and others jointly advocated for the reconstruction and rejuvenation of Yang Shi's lecturing legacy.

and successively presided over the gathering of lectures during the period. There is one general meeting every year, one small meeting per month, and three days each. In addition to the lectures, it may be pointed out that Chen Shi is a bad person, and the character is sharp, and the intention is new

"Donglin people" aroused the admiration of the government and the opposition. At that time, most scholars at home and abroad took Donglin as a model, which had a great influence. After the eunuch party came to power, he bent the law and destroyed the national academy, Donglin suffered from it, and first destroyed Yiyong Hall.

The following year, the academy was completely demolished, and no tiles and rafters were allowed to remain. Donglin lectures and others were also reprimanded

The "Donglin Party" was persecuted. After the Donglin Party seized power last year, Qian Qianyi sent people to rebuild the Donglin Academy, build a academy on the original site of Wuxi, and build a academy outside the east gate of Nanjing, called Erbu Banchi, Donglin Jingshe, Lize Hall, Yiyong Hall, Yanju Temple, Sangong Temple, East and West Corridor, Laifu Zhai, Daonan Temple, Donglin Baogong Temple and other main buildings are exactly the same as one in Wuxi, and because the second department is in the suburbs of the capital, so there are more students who come to study than one in Wuxi, the whole day is full of students, outside the gate of the academy is the small pier of the Qinhuai River, you can directly visit the Qinhuai ten miles of fireworks by boat, which is suitable for the merry and talented people to live and study.

The young people studying here are all the best young students in the country, whether it is talent, learning or family background, they are no worse than the students of Guozijian in the city, if Guozijian is Peking University, then Donglin Academy is Tsinghua University.

The group abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, and the fifth elder brother looked up at the couplet next to the mountain gate, and muttered in a frustrated voice: "The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, and the sound of reading are in the ears; Family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs, everything is concerned. ”

"This is the name of Mr. Gu Xiancheng, the ancestor of Donglin. The old gentleman is really a model for the world's scholars. Jiang Xu said teasingly.

"What Brother Jiang said is very true, Ben Baylor is also very interested in the story of Donglin, let's go in and have a visit." The fifth elder brother patted the folding fan in his hand and said.

The official of the Ministry of Rites who accompanied them on a tour of Nanjing was from Donglin Academy, and of course he was very happy to hear the Manchu officials praising his alma mater, and Hou Xun had confessed that as long as it was not a place involving military secrets, they could be allowed to go, so he readily agreed to the request of the fifth elder brother.

A group of people swaggered into the academy, at this time it was the time for the academy to rest, only to see the square scarves all over the courtyard swaying, many young people pinching books, shaking their heads and groaning, walking, seeing people dressed as officials enter the academy, scholars are not surprised, people all over the world like to go to Donglin Academy to walk around, whether it is a foreign prince or a feudal official, or an ordinary scholar, as long as it is a person who respects Confucian culture, then Donglin Academy is the holy place in their hearts, and it is too common for officials to visit privately in micro-service, they are simply connected to the work department, and they disdain to do it, you must know that the head of the academy is the current cabinet with money and Qianyi。

But this time, the guests were a little different, especially the guys who looked like guards in front of them, they had a fishy smell all over their bodies, and there was a braid hanging from the back of their heads, and they were arrogantly pushing and shoving the scholars in front of them, and they were extremely arrogant.

The scholars immediately surrounded this group of guys of unknown origin and stopped them, only to hear a question burst out from the group: "Is this how you Ming scholars entertain distinguished guests from friendly countries?" ”