Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 296
Nanhui Fangcheng, Zhu Yihai watches the sea and listens to the tide.

This city was built by Tang He, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. After the city was built, it belonged to Jinshanwei and was set up to guard Nanhuizui Zhonghou.Nanhuizui is the easternmost point of the impact plain of the Yangtze River Delta. It is named Nanhui because the Yangtze River carries a large amount of sediment on the sea and joins the water of Qiantang River.

This once important coastal defense town in the southeast, at this time the green flag of the Qing army is still standing on the top of the city, and the second son of Yan Wogong, Yan Jizu, is stationed there.

But now Zhu Yihai led the fleet of the Northern Expedition to stop in this city. Although Zhu Yihai did not fly the banner of the Northern Expedition here, many people knew that such a mighty fleet was the Ming Army.

But before Songjiang, Li Yuchun was the general town, and Mr. Yan was the magistrate, which has already brought down the atmosphere here. What's more, the Ming army navy often passes through the border. Everyone is used to turning a blind eye. Even Nanhui City has become an important A smuggling trade port, where a large amount of cargo gathers.

The thirteen piers on the outskirts of Fangcheng were originally used to guard against the beacon, but now they have become Yan Jizu and others' guard towers for the rest of the Qing army.

Outside the city, a large group of people are on the pier.

"Your Highness, Qian Sun'ai and Liu Rushi have arrived and ask for an audience."

Zhu Yihai looked at the vast East China Sea, looked at the white sails dotted on the sea, and nodded after hearing the report, "Since you're here, let's see you. Qian Qianyi writes to me every now and then, and he's not afraid of being exposed."

Qian Sun'ai is Qian Qianyi's only son and his fourth son, but the first three sons all died young. For some unknown reason, many generations of the Qian family in Changshu have died young, just like Qian Qianyi's grandfather. I lived to be 29 years old, and my three uncles all passed away in their early twenties.

He had four sons by himself, the first three all died, but Sun Ai, born to his concubine, grew up. He was very attentive to this only son, Qian Qianyi. He not only invited famous teachers and scholars to teach him, but also often introduced courtiers, hoping to pave the way for him to become an official.Qian Sun'ai is also considered young and motivated, and she won Juren very early.

Liu Rushi is a famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River, one of the most famous eight prostitutes on the Qinhuai River. Chen Zilong, Xie Sanbin, Qian Qianyi and many other celebrities pursued her in the past. In the end, Liu Rushi followed Qian Qianyi alone. The most important thing was Qian Qianyi's most generous one. go out.

Qian Qianyi started by marrying Liu Rushi as a concubine. At that time, countless people ridiculed and scolded Liu Rushi. Liu Rushi is a prostitute on the Qinhuai River.

However, Qian Qianyi, as the beauty in his arms, ignored the criticism, married into the family with the gift of a prostitute, and married a prostitute. Rushi is Qian Qianyi's wife.

Qian Sunai also respected this stepmother, but his father asked him to go to Jiangning to send Liu Rushi back to his hometown after returning from Beijing. It was not too far from Jiangning to Changshu, but they took a detour and went to Nanhui, Shanghai. Here comes the mouth.

The public reason was to visit Liu Rushi's family, but in fact he came to see Lu Jianguo.

"Students pay homage to His Highness Jian Guo." Qian Sun'ai is tall, tall and elegant, but he is a bit frail. Zhu Yihai looks at him, as if he is a little weak and sick. Think of Qian Qianyi and his family in the past few generations. Many men are around 30 years old Just died of illness, he guessed that the Qian family must have a serious family genetic disease.

Liu Rushi paid a visit together, very generous.

This well-known Qinhuai courtesan was only 27 at the time. To be precise, he and Zhu Yihai were born in the same year.

If you put aside your reputation and just look at the woman in front of you, she is dressed in elegant and decent clothes, but she has an extremely seductive aura. Unlike the shy and introverted women of good families in this era, she is very generous and does not avoid it.

Whether it's appearance, makeup, or even temperament, conversation, Liu Rushi is indeed attractive, no wonder so many celebrities were fascinated by it back then.

However, although Zhu Yihai appreciated it, he was not fascinated. The main reason was that he felt that Liu Rushi's feeling was not much different from the stars and idols of later generations. Human temperament, but to Zhu Yihai, that's all.

After all, it's not surprising that you have already had immunity.

"sit."

Qian Sun'ai had been sizing up Zhu Yihai secretly just now, for fear that the young His Royal Highness Lu Jianguo would have something wrong with his stepmother, which would put him in a difficult position.

Fortunately, His Highness was only a little surprised by Liu Shi, but quickly recovered his calm, without any greedy desire on his face.

"Your Highness, this is a wish from my father and the Changshu Qian family."

Qian Sunai handed over a piece of paper.

Zhu Yihai took it, 10 taels of silver.

"I remember that Qian Shilang spent tens of thousands of gold to build Jiangyun Building and Hongdou Pavilion. He was so short of money that he had to borrow money from Xie Sanbin and others. He even sold his collection of Song edition books to Xie Sanbin cheaply. How can he now come up with 10 taels? Come Silver?"

"Father sold the magnificent and magnificent Jiangyun Tower and Red Bean Hall on Yushan Mountain, and sold a lot of books, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and then negotiated with the clan to sell some farms, and collected a total of 10 taels of silver."

Zhu Yihai was surprised.

"Jiangyun Building and Hongdou Pavilion were built by Mr. Qian for Mrs. Liu, how can they be sold?"

Liu Rushi, who had been silent all this time, said, "Money is needed to restore the country, and this is the meager effort of the Qian family and my concubine."

"One hundred thousand platinum, this is not a meager effort. The tax of a government is only about so much a year." Zhu Yihai accepted it with a smile.

There is not too much money, let alone burning hands, not to mention that it was sent by Qian Qianyi.

To be honest, Zhu Yihai hated Qian Qianyi very much before. He felt that this guy was too cold and had an itchy scalp. He had no bottom line and no sense of shame. After all, he was not an ordinary official. It's the leader of the Donglin Party.

But looking at what he has done in half his life, he is known as the leader of the poetry circle, the leader of Donglin, and the representative of Shilin. However, this person is very smooth and has no position. The Chongzhen Dynasty failed in the power struggle with Wen Tiren and was dismissed.

When supporting the King of Fu, Qian Qianyi originally planned to support the King of Lu along with Shi Kefa, but later found that Ma Shiying had wooed the four towns army leaders to support the King of Fu, so he immediately wrote a letter to Ma Shiying to praise the King of Fu regardless of his position.Qian Qianyi was attached to Ma Shiying, and Ma Shiying recommended Qian Qianyi as Minister of Rites, and Qian Qianyi recommended Ruan Dacheng as Minister of the Ministry of War according to Ma Shiying's instructions.

When the Qing army approached the city of Nanjing, Liu Rushi persuaded Qian Qianyi to throw himself into the water to die for his country. However, Qian Qianyi went into the water and tried it, saying that the water was too cold to swim in. Angrily, Liu Rushi jumped into the water, but Qian Qianyi insisted on supporting him and carrying him back.

He took the lead to welcome the Qing army into Nanjing, and followed him to Beijing as a servant.

This man is simply a typical traitor.

But after this guy arrived in Beijing, he continued to write letters to Liu Zongzhou, Zhang Guowei, Song Zhipu, etc. in the south, and finally wrote to Zhu Yihai.

Especially lately, writing letters is very frequent.

While talking to Zhu Yihai about the situation in the world, listing the most urgent tasks, he also reported the deployment of the Qing court, the movements of the Qing army, etc. that he had collected and mastered, and even told Zhu Yihai, who are his students and who are some of the Ming officials who are now in the Qing court? Is it firmly attached to the Qing, and which ones are just temporary helplessness, which can be won, etc., and which ones are his fellow villagers, friends, students, etc.

This guy looks like a spy who broke into the enemy camp.

Zhu Yihai didn't know whether this guy was weak, treacherous, or duplicitous.But he has verified Qian Qianyi's information, and most of them are still accurate. Although there are some deployments of the Qing army, he only knows about them, which is much worse than what Yan Wogong knows, but it is still quite rare.

Zhu Yihai felt that most of Qian Qianyi's suggestions and strategies were empty and unrealistic, but some of them were still applicable.

"My father has already begged for his return to the Qing court."

Qian Qianyi's current position in the Qing court is the right servant of the Ministry of Rites in charge of the secretary and academy, and the vice president of Ming History.In Beijing, it is said that they are not very important. The regent trusts Feng Quan and other Han scholars, and it is Yan Wogong.Although Qian Qianyi and other Donglin parties took refuge in the Qing court in large numbers, Dorgon reused mostly the eunuchs, the Zhejiang party, the Chu party and so on.

But no matter whether Qian Qianyi is not reused in Beijing, or he thinks that the revival of Ming Dynasty is hopeful, his active contact in private is still worthy of praise.

In fact, it is not only Qian Qianyi, but more and more officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty are secretly contacting the south. Most of them said that they were forced to surrender to the captives, but in fact they are still loyal to Ming Dynasty. Go south.

For these people, Zhu Yihai thought about it, but he couldn't say that he would reject them all. In this way, he would only completely push them to the Qing court. No matter whether they were sincere or not, at least they were still helpful now.

So now Zhu Yihai specially arranges Chen Qianfu to be in charge of contacting and replying to the people here, giving them more comfort, and even declaring that they will not blame them for the past, retain their original titles, etc. The demoted family will be preserved.

Many of these people may be just hedging their bets, and not many of them actually drop, but it is still useful to keep them.

"If Mr. Qian said he was sick and begged to return now, I'm afraid the Qing court would not believe it. Even if he agreed to resign, he would be closely monitored and even regarded as disloyal. He might find a reason to frame him at any time. This is very dangerous. In fact, Gu suggests that Mr. Qian You might as well continue to lurk in the Qing camp for the time being, as long as you are loyal in your heart, you can serve the court everywhere."

"If he stays in the Qing court, he can also collect more useful information for us and contribute more to the fight against the Qing."

"When the two capitals are restored in the future and the Tartars are driven away, Gu and Daming will certainly not forget Qian Gong's loyalty."

Qian Qianyi wanted to find an opportunity to leave Beijing and run back to the south of the Yangtze River to invest in the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Yihai was not willing. There is no shortage of such old tricksters in the imperial court. After coming, it will not be of much use except for intrigue. It is better to stay in Beijing as an internal response. Also bigger.

"The imperial decree of the Guxian belongs to Qian Qing, and Sun Ai will collect it for him."

"Emperor Qian Qianyi, Shao Fu."

Qian Sunai knelt down to thank Jian Guo for his kindness, and Zhu Yihai told him to return to Changshu, "It's not convenient for you to stay by Gu's side for the time being, so you send Madam Liu back."

"Your Highness, the concubine heard that Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun are both in Shaotian Mansion now. The concubine also loves the sisters very much. We have been separated for a long time and want to see each other again. If you want to stay in Shaotian Mansion, please allow your Highness." Liu Rushi said I don't want to go back to Changshu.

Qian Sunai was stunned.

Zhu Yihai looked at them, "In this case, please go back to Changshu first, Mrs. Liu, and Mrs. Liu will go to Shaotian to meet friends. It's better to stay there for a while."

Qian Sun'ai looked secretly at Jian Guo and then at Liu Shi, seeing that the two of them seemed to have no personal affair, so he could only nod his head in agreement.

(End of this chapter)