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- On the southeast side of Jinling City, in an inconspicuous courtyard, Cheng Xiazhen lay at the door and looked out through the crack in the door.
There was no movement, which made him feel at ease. He turned around and let out a long breath.
This is really thrilling!
Who would have thought that Yu Guozhen, who was supposed to stay in Shandong, would suddenly appear in Jinling City and send people to find Qian Qianyi, but he ended up joining Qian Qianyi today!
It¡¯s really bad luck.
After taking a few breaths, Cheng Xiazhen calmed down and saw the figure standing in front of him. He exclaimed and almost jumped up.
"My dear brother, why are you doing this?" the man said with a smile.
"It turns outit's you." Cheng Xiazhen was shocked and sighed: "Mr. Xinkui, when did you come?"
"I've been here not long, why don't you welcome me? I brought you a lot of money."
"Welcome, why not welcome"
Cheng Xiazhen looked at this person with complicated emotions in her heart.
The man known as Mr. Xinkui was named Dong Tingxian. He was originally an aide of Zhou Yanru and a friend of Wu Changshi, Zhou Zhong and others. When Zhou Yanru was the chief assistant, he and Wu Changshi controlled the internal and external affairs. Anyone who wanted to see Zhou Yanru for help , must give him a bribe first. After Li Chuang broke into the capital, Zhou Yanru escaped from prison, but he, together with Wu Changshi and others, fell into the hands of Li Chuang.
"I originally thought that he had died in the rebellion, but I never thought that not only was he still alive, but he was also alive and well.
"Mr. Xinkui is here this time. Do you have any new instructions?"
"Your Majesty has already seen the manuscript of the worthy brother, and I highly praise it. This manuscript alone is worth a thousand pieces of gold." Dong Tingxian took out a cloth bag, and the jingling sound made Cheng Xianzhen's eyebrows slightly anxious.
"Is Mr. Cheng doing it for these idiots?" Cheng Xiazhen flatly refused. He stared at Dong Tingxian: "Mou. Cheng only seeks a way out for the Confucian sect in the world. He has the heart of a great prince. No matter how much Mr. Xinkui pays him, he will never give up. as well as¡¡"
"I know. I know you are a gentleman, my dear husband." Dong Tingxian said this with some disdain: "This is not for you, this is for you to run a newspaper, the last issue of the newspaper. It must have consumed a lot. See you, my lord." I am very happy and say that you have the talents of the Imperial Academy. It is a pity that the Ming Dynasty has lost someone."
"Don't mention this. Mr. Xinkui keeps talking about your Majesty, but your Majesty hides his head and tail. Mr. Xinkui, don't you think"
"It doesn't matter who the master of my family is, the important thing is that the Confucian tradition will not be cut off!" Dong Tingxian said solemnly: "It's not that I can't trust Brother Zhengfu, but I know too much, and it is not good for Brother Zhengfu. You and I both know that. .Yu Guozhen has great supernatural powers!"
Cheng Xiazhen held the money bag and said nothing more.
"This is the topic that the next issue of the newspaper needs to pay attention to. The population has changed since the three years of Chongzhen. From this, we can see Yu Guozhen's original intention of not rescuing the country and replenishing the country's wealth." Dong Tingxian saw that Cheng Xianzhen fell silent, and handed him another piece of paper. : "Didn't Yu Guozhen ask all forces to do a census in the past year? There is a comparison with the three years of Chongzhen!"
Last year, Yu Guozhen convened a meeting of all parties and proposed to compile household registration statistics of the Chinese population. This was a major event, and everyone did it, even Wu Sangui was in the capital. Demographics were also conducted. This set of data was released just in July. Among them, the population of Shandong increased instead of decreasing, the population of Guangdong and Guangxi increased rapidly, the population of Sichuan decreased slightly, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places basically remained the same, and the population of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan decreased rapidly due to successive years of famine. , and the population decline in southern Zhili and the capital is even more shocking. The total population of Southern Zhili has decreased by nearly 4 million, and the population of the capital has also decreased by this number.
When the data was first reported in Xinxiang Daily, it was accompanied by a comment, saying that it was precisely because of the good governance of the China Military Strategy Commission that the population in the areas controlled by it increased - according to statistics, in addition to natural growth, Two-thirds of population growth comes from immigrants who cannot tolerate migration.
Of course, these data do not include the population of Annan, Nanhai and Taiyuan Islands. Otherwise, the growth rate would be too scary.
"What's wrong with this string of data?" Cheng Xiazhen asked, stunned for a moment.
"Of course there is no problem with the data, but why did the population increase under Yu Guozhen's rule while the population decreased elsewhere? We are not fools. We are just beggar-thy-neighbor, letting problems continue to occur in other places, and then reaping the benefits for ourselves. Honest husband, with you There should be a way to improve the writing style, right?"
"This of course there is no problem!"
"Yu Guozhen always said that the newspapers in his hands should criticize current evils. Now this is a big current evil! If he listens, then millions of people under his rule will be sent back to their place of origin, and the repatriation expenses will be one It costs a lot of money, and because these laborers leave, he will have a lot of money on his hands.If there is a shortage of labor, the wealth and production capacity that he is proud of will be greatly reduced. Dong Tingxian smiled sinisterly: "By then, we won't have to be afraid of him." "
"Yu Guozhen is not that stupid. The late emperor often did things like destroying the Great Wall. Yu Guozhen can't do it."
"That's fine. It just proves that he is a hypocrite and a real villain. If he uses any righteousness to appeal to the people of the world, the people of the world will think twice."
Cheng Xiazhen secretly admired Dong Tingxian's plan as it was really vicious. Based on Cheng Xianzhen's knowledge of this person, he was extremely greedy for money, but his scheming didn't seem that deep.
Such a conspiracy - it should be said that behind the conspiracy, there seems to be a familiar shadow.
"Is Wu Laizhi dead or not?" Cheng Xiazhen suddenly asked.
He felt familiar because this method was really similar to Wu Changshi's. When Dong Tingxian heard him mention Wu Chang, his face changed slightly, and then he sneered: "Do you think Yu Guozhen is so easy to hide? When Wu Laizhi instigated the three towns to attack the north, even Gao Qiqian was beheaded by the court and given to Yu Guozhen, not to mention A Wu Laizhi! He¡¯s dead, he¡¯ll never die again!¡±
"Your methods are quite a bit like Wu Lai's style back then."
"Hahaha."
Dong Tingxian laughed dryly twice, and then said: "Wu Laizhi regarded Yu Guozhen as his formidable enemy, and it didn't happen in a day or two. Regardless of these old words, I have other places to go, so I'll take one step first. You should be more careful."
"Mr. Xinkui is going to meet the person who assassinated Shi Daolin now?" Cheng Xinzhen asked again.
"My lord, I have already told you that knowing too much will not do you any good!" Dong Tingxian said sternly: "You just need to know that we are fighting for a way out for the Confucian sects in the world!"
After finishing speaking, Dong Tingxian was furious and walked out the door.
He originally disapproved of letting Cheng Xiazhen preside over Nandu Weekend affairs, because Cheng Xiazhen had never been a core figure in their circle, and Dong Tingxian did not trust him. After so many things over the years, in their circle, Zhang Pu died, Wu Changshi died, Zhou Zhong died, Wei Xuelian also died, and Dong Tingxian did not want to be the next one.
Therefore, he would never come forward in person and would always let others do it. But Cheng Xiazhen was very unreliable. He had a good relationship with Gu Jiang and Gu Yanwu. It would be a miracle if he could pull Gu Yanwu over, but he couldn't. The two almost turned against each other because of this incident.
After leaving this small village, Dong Tingxian walked a few miles before boarding a carriage that had been waiting for him. The coachman asked respectfully: "Sir, where are you going now?"
"Old courtyard."
The carriage rumbled up and ran towards Jinling City. It took more than an hour to arrive at the most prosperous old courtyard in Jinling City, which is by the Qinhuai River. Opposite was the Imperial College. Dong Tingxian found a brothel in the old courtyard and went in. After a while, a boy came out and called a few students to the Imperial College.
When the clowns were running around in the shadows like mice, Qian Qianyi came to the dock again.
It is also a tragedy for the Ming Dynasty. As one of the cabinet bachelors and the Minister of Etiquette, he was a high-level official equivalent to the prime minister. However, in Jinling City, the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, he was ordered around by Yu Guozhen. Yu Guozhen sent twenty Chinese soldiers, and they were able to rampage through Shi Kefa's mansion, which was also a prime minister-level official. The whole city was armed with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and no one dared to look up at it!
Thinking of this, Qian Qianyi sighed.
He must get the "court stick" from Yu Guozhen. Today, Yu Guozhen took advantage of it and ran to Shi Kefa's house as a witness. If he can't deceive the "court stick" again, tomorrow the scholars will start to criticize him.
Yu Guozhen seemed to know that he would come, and was not surprised to see him. He just smiled and asked, "Muzhaigong is running around so hard. Can you have a cup of tea?"
"Yu Jimin, what do you mean by privately leading troops to Beijing? Are you preparing to rebel?" Qian Qianyi stroked his beard, put on a serious look, pointed his finger like a sword, pointed at Yu Guozhen and shouted sternly.
His voice was so loud that the people watching the excitement on the pier were agitated: This is Mr. Ge confronting a warlord. He dared to do this under Yu Guozhen's hundreds of muskets. Mr. Qian Ge is so brave!
Yu Guozhen was a little puzzled. Of course he didn't understand the little intentions of scholars like Qian Qianyi to defraud the imperial staff and invite him to the imperial court. However, looking at Qian Qianyi's appearance, it didn't look like he was really asking for help. Yu Guozhen said with a smile: "Why did Duke Mu Zhai say this? If I wanted to attack Jinling, I would not invite representatives from Jinling to participate in the meeting, let alone bring only 500 marines here."
"In that case, you are so arrogant and tense, what do you want?"
Yu Guozhen gradually understood what Qian Qianyi was thinking, I couldn't help but feel angry and funny at the same time. Back then, it was said that Li Bai was drunk with grass and frightened barbarian scholars. Today, Qian Qianyi also wants to have an angry fight and retreat the army.
"It's very simple. I heard that Shi Daolin was assassinated in Jinling City. The small court of Jinling is so stupid and incompetent that it can't even guarantee the safety of its own dignitaries, let alone protect the safety of the people in the city?" Yu Guozhen said seriously: "I'm not here for anything else. , just to shock Xiao Xiao and return a peaceful world to Jinling City!"
As soon as these words came out, some of the people watching cheered, while Qian Qianyi was suddenly stunned.
Yu Guozhen never likes to speak loudly. What does he mean by suddenly saying such words? Could it be that he is really here to take over the security of Jinling City?
As soon as he thought of this, Qian Qianyi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: If Yu Guozhen didn't have this intention in the first place, and he turned it into a fake show with a few words, it would be over.
Yu Guozhen looked at him angrily and amusedly. This Donglin leader wanted to challenge his acting skills, but he didn't know that he had seen such a superb actor's performance hundreds of years later! (You are welcome to come. Your support is my biggest motivation.) rv
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