Yu Jingning was waiting for Tan Huaiyu to come in the restaurant, the one they used to go to. In fact, if it is a discussion, it is still the best in Yu Jingning's house, Yu Jingning lives alone in the Shizi Mansion, and the rest of the people still have their own affairs, this is still the New Year, and there are many inconvenient times, so there is no one to disturb in the Shizi Mansion, and it doesn't matter if you want to stay all night.

But Yu Jingning is sometimes reluctant to discuss matters at home.

He felt that there was no "popularity" in his home.

Therefore, I am willing to choose a more popular place like a restaurant to discuss things.

He sat in the private room, which was on the second floor, and there was a window that opened to the first floor, and he could hear the noise of people below.

After a while, he saw Xiao Er leading Tan Huaiyu up. Today is the third day of the Lunar New Year, the day before yesterday, Tan Huaiyu accompanied Chen Yuexuan back to the door, today he did not change his clothes, he wore a new robe, draped in a coat, and went upstairs.

Yu Jingning retracted his head, sat back upright, and took a sip of tea.

That's how Tan Huaiyu came up, he said with a smile: "The snow on the road is very slippery, and I almost startled the horse, and I was almost late." ”

"Be careful." Yu Jingning just put the teacup on the table, crossed his hands and raised his head.

Tan Huaiyu didn't wait for Wan Juan, he tore off the chair opposite Yu Jingning and sat down: "Fortunately, I had people wrap the wheels around with iron chains, but they just slipped a little, and it was no big deal." ”

Yu Jingning had long been accustomed to Tan Huaijue's panting when he spoke, so he didn't feel strange, flattened his mouth, and pushed the teapot towards Tan Huaijue's end: "You have to wait for a while, let's drink some tea first." ”

Tan Huaiyu took a sip of tea and was about to speak, when he saw a group of people talking about it.

Yu Jingning looked up and looked down, and saw a few students wearing shirts, and a few who were not dressed as Confucian students, probably peddlers and pawns. During the reign of Daheng, things like "Qing Talk" were very popular, like discussing politics, but they were always spinning on the edge of politics, and they didn't talk about anything practical, and it was difficult for people to grasp the handle.

"Hey, you said that now that the sea is banned, I don't think the thirteen ports should have been opened in the first place." As soon as I heard this voice, it was mixed under the roots of the imperial city, and the Beijing accent was quite heavy, but it was about between the powerful and the common people, and I was afraid that it was not a Qingliu civil official. Yu Jingning's kind is not raised in the capital, although the official dialect is not spoken with an accent, but it is obviously not so heavy Beijing accent. And the children of famous families like Chen Yuexin and Gao Miao are not used to being so oily and slippery, and Qingliu civil officials like Tan Huaiyu and Chen Hui will not bite such a mouthful and make a tone. This accent sounded like Yu Zhiwei had just been approached by Yu Jingning from Yicui Building to Shizi's Mansion for a while.

"You know it again." The person next to him asked him.

"Not really." The man just spread his hands and raised his eyebrows, "You see, since the sea ban was opened, all kinds of messy things have entered it, and now it is the world that is making a big balance and the people's hearts are not ancient." ”

The other person looked quite unconvinced: "Come on, how many years have you been shouting about this 'etiquette collapse', and I haven't seen anything that came in and thrown it out again." ”

"As long as it is closed now, there will be a time to go back, and in two years, it may be impossible to say that this custom will go back." The man from before was picking up the fish bones in the bowl and muttering to the person, "Isn't this Guangzhou Port closed now!" There are wars going on everywhere in the south, and if you don't close it anymore, wait for foreigners to come in and take advantage of the fire to rob. I just said that this shouldn't have started in the first place! ”

This guy picked out the fish bones that were stuck between his teeth, smacked a guy, and caught the chopsticks king in his hand: "Think about it yourself, when the thirteen ports opened to the sea, how much silver did it cost to set sail after a sail order?" Where has all this money gone? It's not for the inspector eunuch of the Thirteen Ports City to swallow it. Now that there are no thirteen ports, these places to make money are gone, do you still think it's bad? Besides......"

He seemed to be talking too fast, choked on his saliva, coughed for a long time, and then continued to speak: "What...... If you think about it, there is no business and no treachery, and those people who have the ability to run out of the ocean to do business with the sail order, regardless of whether it is the East and the West, what is the origin of that? I think they are all a group of businessmen and thieves, and the collusion between officials and businessmen is not enough to harm the common people. Oh, and besides, isn't there a war going on now, and it's both the Japanese and the rebels, not to mention, the Japanese were put in when the sea was opened, and the rebels who colluded with the Japanese were the scourge I mentioned earlier. According to me, now the policy of the imperial court is against it, what kind of thirteen ports to reopen, I think, don't just scold the eunuchs every day, the new faction is also ill-intentioned. ”

He was spitting and talking loudly, and the one who chatted with him was speechless, and only shut up and ate the food.

The one who spoke felt that he had persuaded him, and he became excited, and continued to spit on people.

Yu Jingning listened upstairs, and couldn't help but snort coldly, Tan Huaiyu was shaking his head, and when he heard this, he asked, "Is it noisy?" Why don't we close this window and stop listening to what they talk about? ”

"Don't turn it off." Yu Jingning raised his hand, "You don't have to pay taxes to brag, and you don't need to listen to people to brag, let's listen to it, what else can they say." ”

Tan Huaiyu pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "What the virtuous brother said is reasonable, and it sounds good to drink." ”

So the two of them continued to look down.

The people in the scattered seats below all tilted their heads in twos and threes, and looked at the person who had just spoken, and the man spoke more and more vigorously, and his face was full of red light, and the wine glass was slamming on the table.

Finally, the students sitting at the table next to them couldn't stand it anymore.

A man with a folding fan in his hand opened his mouth, this young man was only seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a Confucian shirt, holding a fan in his hand: "That's not right. ”

The man was drunk just now: "What's wrong!" ”

The student sat upright and said: "Now that the rebellious army in Zhejiang and Fujian is rampant and colluding with the Japanese invaders, the direct reason is that the military rations and salaries have been deducted, and this case has now become an unsolved case, and it is still hanging in the criminal department, and no result has been made." Even if it is the origin, it is the result of our Daheng's perennial emphasis on literature and light on military force, and too lax control over border control, which has little to do with the ban on opening the sea. Even if it is to be related, I am afraid that it should not be said like this. ”

He slapped the fan on his hand and said loudly: "The ban on the sea is the real reason why the pirates are rampant and even the people and military households collude!" ”