Zuo Guangdou's family is a Tongcheng family, and since his great-grandfather Zuo Lin, he has been quite wealthy.

Therefore, the Zuofu in the depths of the Hutong, although it cannot be compared with those luxurious mansions in the capital, is a fairly spacious courtyard.

Zuo Guangdou, 45 years old this year, has a wife and a concubine.

The left concubine Yuan stood at the door in the twilight, waiting for Zheng Haizhu's car, full of respectful greetings, and still dignified.

Zheng Haizhu and Hua Er followed her into the door, and Zuo Guangdou's wife, Dai Shi, saw the movement, and immediately helped her mother-in-law Zhou to come out of the hall.

Zuo's mother has heard her son explain that the distinguished guest is not an ordinary woman, and when it comes to the six-grade edict, it is higher than Zuo Guangdou, the seven-rank who supervises the imperial history.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu saw that Zuo's mother had a kind face, but her face was a little panicked, thinking that this old lady from Tongcheng Township was simple and honest, and she didn't know how to entertain the "people of the court".

After Zheng Haizhu performed the gift of the younger generation, he smiled and asked the Yuan family to help Hua Er, and presented the Songjiang cotton cloth and Han embroidered handkerchief brought from Yanzhou Trading Company to the old lady and his wife Dai.

I sat down and talked to the lady of the Zuo family about some Songjiang scenery and the like, and then offered to rest early, and the guests and hosts were more relaxed.

Her Zheng Haizhu's time is precious, and she really doesn't want to spend it on family cooking, so it's better to be alone with the moonlight and think about how to go step by step.

The next day, Zuo Guangdou returned to the house.

Zheng Haizhu was already waiting in the front hall.

Rao is Dong Qichang has already paved the way, and Zuo Guangdou has also made another inquiry with his colleagues, and when he saw Zheng Haizhu, he still couldn't hide his surprise.

Unexpectedly, this Zheng family is not yet thirty years old.

Zheng Haizhu has seen too many big names in history in the past five years, and now that he sees Zuo Guangdou, where is the excitement of checking in celebrities, he just wants to get down to business.

She listened to Zuo Guangdou praise a few words of her righteous words in Tongzhou, so she fine-tuned the direction of the topic in a timely manner.

"Master Zuo attaches so much importance to planting rice in the north and in the south, is it also because he feels that the sky is different over the years?"

Zuo Guangdou took a sip of tea, squinted his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Madame not only knows business affairs, military affairs, but also agricultural affairs?" ”

Zheng Haizhu was neither humble nor arrogant: "I grew up in Fujian, where there are eight mountains, one water and one field, and the grain harvest is not good, which has not been possible since ancient times. But in recent years, I have found in Nanzhili that the south of the Yangtze River, which should be warm and rainy, is cold in winter and spring, like falling into an ice cave, and often drought. originally said, Suhu is ripe, the world is full, I am afraid that it will become a cloud of the past. Otherwise, Xu Gongguangqi, why did he spend so much effort to grow sweet potatoes in our Songjiang? It's not because of this thing, the desire for the time of heaven is not as high as rice and wheat, and the famine years are also long, which can save the lives of the people. ”

What Zheng Haizhu said is actually the "Xiaoice River Period", and later statistics show that the end of the Ming Dynasty experienced the "fifth Xiaoice River Period", the average temperature was lower than the normal era, the climate was generally cold and dry, and natural disasters also increased accordingly.

Zuo Guangdou listened attentively, and sighed: "The honorable driver is from the countryside, and he really sees it clearly compared to those empty talkers in the court. Brother Nian is from Hubei, and he is also worried, saying that in the past few years in his hometown, the harvest in the fields has been extremely poor. ”

Zheng Haizhu asked inquiringly: "Brother Nian that the master said, but Master Yang?" ”

Zuo Guangdou's eyebrows relaxed, and he said with a slight smile: "Yes, it's Yang Lian, I am a jinshi in the same year as him." ”

Zheng Haizhu said frankly: "That's great, I don't know if Dong Gongke can tell Master Zuo, I came this time, and I was anxious to meet Yang to admonish, and talk about the benefits of Songjiang Switch, and there is no disadvantage, impeachment of Songjiang Mansion Switch, will let the Tartars mix in Liaodong and North Korea's merchant ships to spy on my Daming, it's just because of choking." ”

Yang Lian is a member of the six branches, and the official is the most important position, even if it is out of the interests of Huang Zunsu, the local official of Songjiang, who is also from Donglinmen, Yang Lian will take action to resist the impeachment of the Zhejiang Party, Zuo Guangdou of course understands that Zheng Haizhu's thoughts are right.

Zuo Guangdou only asked again: "Madam said Baili?" What are the benefits of the switch except for the silver and customs duties that are collected from the ship? ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "Import grain. Master Zuo, the Ming Dynasty froze from Hebei to Jiangnan and Huguang, but beyond the sea frontier, Luzon, Siam, Champang, and America at the end of the East Ocean did not have cold and drought. If you want me to say, not only Songjiang needs to be switched, but Denglai and Ningbo must be switched. ”

"Oh......" Zuo Guangdou was a little stunned for a while.

The list of place names that Zheng Haizhu said was beyond his cognition.

He, who is often sent by the imperial court to patrol the imperial history of various prefectures, has always been responsible for reading the national situation, but at this time, he suddenly realized that the world is not only the Ming Dynasty.

Zuo Guangdou appreciated this woman's sincerity and insight, and after understanding her remarks on agriculture and people's livelihood today, he felt that what she did in Tongzhou was innocent from her heart.

……

Two days later, Zheng Haizhu followed Zuo Guangdou to visit Yang Lian.

Even though Zhu Changluo's enthronement ceremony will be half a month later, the day this new monarch supported by the Donglin faction enters the Qianqing Palace is already an auspicious day for the Donglin disciples of the government and the opposition to celebrate with their hands in hand.

Yang Lian is naturally one of them.

"Gongzhi," Yang Lian called Zuo Guangdou's words, high-spirited, "Long live is ready to issue an edict to recall my Donglinmen who was deposed when the first emperor was dethroned, and Mr. Jingyi will also come back!" ”

Mr. Jingyi is Gao Panlong, the leader of Donglin after Gu Xiancheng.

Zuo Guangdou looked at this young brother with a red face, but he was not as excited as him: "Brother Yang, in the opinion of the foolish brother, Zhou Shangshu should not be in such a hurry." ”

Zhou Shangshu is today's official Shangshu Zhou Jiamo, and politically speaking, it can be regarded as the Donglin faction.

Yang Lian was splashed with cold water by his friend, was stunned, and asked, "Why?" ”

Zuo Guangdou said: "At the beginning of the change, if you drive people out so quickly, I can't wait for overnight, our Donglin will occupy the seats from the cabinet to the six ministries, and it is a trivial matter to be looked at sideways, I am afraid that some talented ministers will also be injured by mistake." ”

Yang Lian was slightly disdainful: "Who said that?" ”

Zuo Guangdou smiled calmly, and raised his chin towards Zheng Haizhu, who was sitting quietly at the bottom: "This Donglin friend said." ”

Yang Lian's face full of beard turned to Zheng Haizhu.

When Zuo Guangdou sent his servants to pay homage, he had already elaborated on the reason, emphasizing that this Mrs. An Yuan had a close relationship with Huang Zun, and also mentioning her anger in Gyeonggi against Wei Zhongxian.

A few days ago, when Dong Qichang came to socialize, and when he presented the map of Wusong Customs and the map of the battle of Minghe Navy, he also mentioned this woman, Yang Lian did not treat this Zheng family as an outsider, so he did not hide the joy of Donglin regaining power in front of her.

I never thought that she would comment on the current situation with Zuo Guangdou's sample, and Zuo Xiandi seemed to think so.

Yang Lian's eyes were cold, and he said to Zheng Haizhu: "That's how you look at me Donglin?" ”

(End of chapter)