That day, the monarch and his ministers had a great conversation.
Liu Zhaosun and Emperor Wanli had an in-depth and friendly exchange on issues such as Kaiyuan grain and grass supplies, military reissues, and civilian selection. In a beautiful atmosphere of harmony between the monarch and his ministers, the two sides reached an agreement on the affairs of Ping Liao.
Of course, during this period, General Xuanwu suffered a bloody head injury, Emperor Wanli also fainted many times, and the scene was chaotic for a time.
Fortunately, in the end, General Xuanwu prepared his troops and returned to Zuo'anmen Wengcheng safely, accompanied by Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch in charge of rituals.
Kang Yingqian had been waiting impatiently in Wengcheng for a long time. He was pacing back and forth under the city wall. He was afraid that there was something wrong with the real Jiaolong, and his two months of speculation would be in vain, and he might even be betrayed by the Liao Dynasty. Settle accounts after the fall.
Fortunately, the auspicious people have their own destiny, and in the evening, the real dragon comes back.
Seeing from a distance that Liu Zhaosun had a white cloth wrapped around his head and a dark-skinned Nanman beside him, Kang Yingqian was shocked. He was about to step forward to ask clearly, but he tilted his body and was pushed away by Jin Yuji.
In the general tent of the Central Army, the North Korean beauty Pear Blossom was crying while checking Liu Zhaosun's wound, and re-bandaged the wound with a gauze soaked in boiling water.
Liu Zhaosun stretched out his hand to wipe away Jin Yuji's tears, looked at her reddish eyes, and comforted:
"It's nothing. I was playing hide-and-seek with the emperor in Qianqing Palace just now. I got excited and accidentally ended up like this."
In a sense, Liu Zhaosun is now playing a hide-and-seek game.
The time traveler is a mouse, and the historical destiny is a cat.
Once caught by fate, Liu Zhaosun would die without a burial place.
Jin Yuji was extremely exhausted, Liu Zhaosun comforted her gently and asked her to go back to the military tent to rest.
After Jin Yuji left, Liu Zhaosun lay on a chair, picked up Zhang Zai's "Hengqu Yi Shuo", and started reading roughly by the dim candlelight.
"Xiang said: Heaven is moving vigorously, and a gentleman should strive for self-improvement. Don't use the hidden dragon, because the sun is down."
In the late Ming Dynasty, there were many ideologies, including Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Catholicism, and all kinds of ideas were rampant. Except for cults like Bailian Wenxiang, the imperial court adopted a tolerant attitude towards most doctrines.
Liu Zhaosun knew that he would have to deal with literati in the future, so he had to understand some of these theories, such as Wang Yangming's theory of mind and Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
After reading a few sentences, I felt dizzy and couldn't figure out the point. At this time, Dian Wei, a personal soldier, shouted from outside that Lord Kang was here.
Liu Zhaosun quickly put away the book, and just as he sat down, Kang Yingqian walked in with a wicked smile on his face.
What he saw and heard when he went to Beijing to present prisoners this time made the twenty-year-old Liu Zhaosun more mature and gradually grow up. Now he has more respect for the civil servant next to him who did not hesitate to surrender his status. When Kang Yingqian sat down, he Immediately let the soldiers serve tea.
The two drank tea for a while, and Liu Zhaosun briefly explained the matter of entering the palace today. Of course, he omitted the part where Wanli asked about the traitors in Liao Town. Kang Yingqian was dumbfounded. When he heard Liu Zhaosun and Wanli bargaining, he couldn't help but clasp his hands and laugh.
After listening to Liu Zhaosun's words, Kang Yingqian was silent for a long time and then said:
"General Liu, your ability to seize chestnuts from the fire is really good. I am not as good as me. I admire you. The ancients said that when the emperor is angry, he will lay down millions of corpses. You are angry, you got two hundred thousand taels of silver, and you will still owe the court." The 50,000 liang troops Xiang asked for came back, and it was worth it."
"Master Kang is laughing, but I have never been angry. What I say is from the bottom of my heart, and I only express my feelings."
Kang Yingqian knew what Liu Zhaosun was going to talk about, but he was too lazy to listen, so he changed the subject and reminded Liu Zhaosun that he could use part of his money to buy grain in Tianjin and hire a few lucky ships to transport it back to Liaodong.
The price of grain at Tianjin port is only half that of Liaodong. Including the cost of the ship, sailors, and losses along the way, it is much more cost-effective to buy grain here than to buy it back to Liaodong with money.
The grain business in the Yingkou area is monopolized by Liao Town. If you go there and buy tens of thousands of shi of grain at once, Liao Town will definitely raise the price.
I don’t know how much money Ding Bi will make. Since he has already fallen out with Liao Zhen, it’s better not to do such a stupid thing to capitalize on the enemy.
Liu Zhaosun nodded in agreement. After leaving the capital, he planned to buy 10,000 shi of grain in Tianjin, which was expected to cost more than 20,000 taels of silver. By the way, he would recruit 500 trackers at the canal wharf and go back to train them as combat soldiers.
It is said that the best sources of soldiers in this era are trackers and miners. There are hundreds of thousands of trackers on the canal. Many people have no work, so it should be easy to recruit people.
Liu Zhaosun is now the commander-in-chief of Kaiyuan. According to the Ming Dynasty military system, the commander-in-chief can recruit tens of thousands of soldiers.
At present, the number of troops is sufficient, but the money and food are insufficient.
Kang Yingqian asked who the new Nanmanzi was.
Liu Zhaosun explained Yuan Chonghuan's matter to Mr. Kang. Kang Yingqian squinted his eyes, sipped his tea and said:
"It was also Yuan Chonghuan's bad luck. When he met Mr. Liu, he suddenly found a fourth-grade military preparation. He controlled a group of soldiers and horses, only one grade lower than me. He said that he would be able to pacify the Liao Dynasty for half a year. It is worthy of others’ seven or eight years of training in officialdom. From what I see, with this person’s qualifications, it would be difficult for him to become a county magistrate in Fujian and Guangdong.”
Liu Zhaosun laughed. Historically, Yuan Chonghuan really went to Fujian to become a county magistrate.
Now, Wanli has left this chubby little girl to himself. I don't know whether it is a blessing or a misfortune for Ming Dynasty.
"Master Kang has been promoted to Liaodong Governor this time. He is Yuan Chonghuan's immediate superior. We must train this person well in the future."
Kang Yingqian smiled sinisterly at Liu Zhaosun, patted him on the shoulder and said:
"Don't worry, Mr. Liu, I will let him know that the ups and downs of the officialdom are unpredictable."
The two chatted for a while, and Liu Zhaosun sent Kang Yingqian back. He came back and lay on the bed, thinking about Yuan Chonghuan's incident, which was a bit funny.
Yuan Chonghuan is also too arrogant. He opened his mouth to say Ping Liao for half a year. Today, he amused the emperor with just one sentence. He is also a talent.
In the 47th year of Wanli reign, this person was one of the top three and forty Jinshi. After the examination, he settled in the capital. He fantasized about being a candidate for county magistrate and returning home in fine clothes. This was of course just a fantasy.
After waiting for forty-five days at the Guangdong Guild Hall with no news, he was preparing to return to Guangxi tomorrow. He was about to go out to make soy sauce this morning. As soon as he stepped out, he was bumped into by Eunuch Lu, who was looking for him all over the city.
"This must be Yuan Chonghuan, the new scholar in science and technology. I wonder if you have any opinions on Ping Liao?"
"Street boy! Are you leaving? You're not making fun of yourself."
Half an hour later, Yuan Chonghuan, who was out doing soy sauce, was recommended by the cabinet and promoted to Kaiyuan Military Preparation Road by the front line. He took office that day along with General Xuanwu and Kaiyuan Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhaosun.
The poem says: Are golden scales just a thing in the pond? They turn into insects when encountering wind and clouds.
The next day, Eunuch Lu, together with Wei Zhongxian and several young eunuchs, escorted more than a dozen carriages and brought 250,000 taels of silver to Zuo'anmen Urn City.
Liu Zhaosun and Kang Jianjun counted the money together and gave Lu Shou and Wei Zhongxian two thousand taels each.
Wei Zhongxian refused to ask for money. He said that he had three taels of money per month and was not short of money to spend. Liu Zhaosun had nothing in Kaiyuan. If he accepted it, he would have no conscience and would be punished by heaven and earth.
Liu Zhaosun tried to talk all kinds of things, but in the end he lost his face and said angrily that he didn't accept it because he looked down on his younger brother. Besides, only with money can he be active in the capital and help Kaiyuan better.
Kang Yingqian also persuaded him, saying that the money would be useless in Liaodong, so it should be kept with Eunuch Wei first.
To put it bluntly, Wei Zhongxian only accepted 500 taels in the end, and the remaining 1,500 taels were still alive.
Lu Shou was all smiles.
On the same day, Kang Yingqian gave three thousand taels each to Fang Congzhe and Huang Jiashan, Minister of War, and chatted with the two adults about anecdotes about the capital. After some refusals, the two adults accepted the gifts. He said that things in Kaiyuan will be his own business in the future, and asked Liu Zhaosun to go ahead and do it in Kaiyuan, and don't care about those lies, and ignore those officials who can only bite people... So Liu Zhaosun had a broken head and blood in exchange for his second son. Before the 150,000 taels of silver left the capital, there was a shortage of 10,000 taels.
This does not include the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Industry, and the officials...
Of course there is good news.
After Liu Zhaosun's mediation, the two father-in-laws no longer fought to the death, but formed an alliance.
Liu Zhaosun took out the note he had written and asked his two father-in-laws about the people he wanted to get to know and see if these people were in the capital.
Lu Shou shook his head after reading the note and said with a smile that the Jinyi Guards of the North and South Town Fusi usually only monitor the officials of the capital and do not interfere with ordinary people. But why is there a Folangji in this list?
"Xu Xiake, Tang Ruowang, Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing..."
Wei Zhongxian took the note filled with names, squinted his eyes and read it, and suddenly said:
"My dear brother, this Xu Xiake is a strange man. He said that he sold half of his family property and traveled around. He just went to Tianjin. Our family has also heard of this Song Yingxing. He was a failed candidate. He didn't have time to leave after the examination. Some time ago, Poyang Lake There was a bandit trouble, and the road from the capital to Jiangxi was cut off. He and his brother Song Yingsheng were impoverished and lived in the Chenghuang Temple in the southwest, so they must be able to find them."
Liu Zhaosun was a little disappointed. He wrote about dozens of talents in various fields during the Wanli Dynasty, but he did not expect that only Song Yingxing was in the capital.
There were the emperor's spies near the Wengcheng. Liu Zhaosun did not dare to keep the two of them for too long, so he sent them out of the Wengcheng in a hurry. Before leaving, he asked them to help find this person as soon as possible.
Kang Yingqian didn't know Song Yingxing, so he was curious about Liu Zhaosun when he saw that he was so interested in him.
Instead of making friends with so many high-ranking officials in the capital, they wanted to find an unknown person. In order to find this person, they did not hesitate to use Dongchang's gossip. If the emperor pursues the investigation and there is another war of words, who knows what Liu Zongbing's head is? Is it because the marble of Qianqing Palace was damaged?
"If a person's ambition is not far-reaching and his mind is absent, he will not succeed in learning."
Liu Zhao and Sun Youyou recited Mr. Hengqu's famous saying, leaving Kang Yingqian with a confused look on his face and walked away.
Early the next morning, while the soldiers in Wengcheng were still running for exercise, Shen Lian, a small flag officer of Fusi in North Town, came to tell him that Song Yingxing had been found in the Southwest City God's Temple.
Liu Zhaosun was overjoyed and quickly took Jin Yuji and Kang Yingqian with him and followed Shen Lian.
When he arrived at the Chenghuang Temple in Nancheng, he saw a slim scholar offering incense from a distance. Shen Lian pointed at the man and said to Liu Zhaosun, this is Song Yingxing, a candidate from Jiangxi who has failed the examination three times.
Song Yingxing looked at the statue of the founding general Xu Da enshrined in the center of the City God's Hall. The incense rose in front of his eyes, making his eyes reddened.
At this time, an old man in ragged clothes limped up to Song Yingxing and held out a broken bowl. Song Yingxing let out a long sigh, touched his body for a while, and finally took out five copper coins. After hesitating for a moment, he put it in. In the bowl.
He looked at the old man and said in a friendly tone:
"Old man, the eunuchs are causing trouble outside the city. Buy some food and go home."
After that, he turned around and left the City God's Hall.
After crossing the threshold, the old man's ethereal voice came from behind:
"Young Master has a kind heart, but his current situation is full of twists and turns. However, it is just a passing smoke and a deception. Golden scales are just like things in a pond. They turn into dragons when encountering storms. Your future is limitless..."
Song Yingxing was speechless after hearing this, with red eyes. The morning breeze gently blew over his slightly gray temples. The vicissitudes of life were written on his face, which was less than thirty years old. Under the morning sun, his face became increasingly gray.
From a distance, Song Yingxing looks like a little ghost who stepped off the mural of the City God's Temple, lonely and independent in the wind.
He raised a hand and counted on his fingers.
Since the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, there have been one, two, and three chapters. This year is the third chapter. Not a single examiner understands his article.
Even if the Hanlin Academy cannot recognize talents, can't even the emperor understand his own strategy?
The Ping Liao policy he wrote this time advocated reopening sea transportation to transport grain from Wusong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the Liaohai Sea without having to go through the canal. The policy theory also listed twelve advantages of sea transportation over water transportation, such as reducing the amount of deductions from officials, so there is no need to worry The canal is blocked, shipping is faster, etc...
However, no one has the discernment to recognize the pearl.
This was the third time that he and his brother had gone to Beijing to take the exam. The third time was three three-year exams. They studied hard for nine years and failed three times.
The Song family was a poor family. In order to raise Sichuan capital (travel expenses) for the two juren, they sold ten acres of farmland at home. They were at the end of their rope. The remaining eighty acres were all farmland. No one bought it even if they wanted to sell it.
Song Yingxing stood in the dim light of the morning, looking at the believers walking around in the Chenghuang Hall, and couldn't help but think of the Song family's "Family Code".
"Those who have extraordinary talents, talents and intelligence but are unable to become teachers among the children of the clan should be accepted and taught, either attached to a private school or given tuition, so as to cultivate one or two good people who will serve as role models for the future..."
He has been a so-called extraordinary person since he was a child. He was specially trained by his family and given great popularity.
Over the years, relatives in the clan have spared no expense and spent heavily to support him and his brother in private schools, reading books by sages, and participating in scientific examinations.
He closed his eyes and thought about how he could see his family members face-to-face this time when he returned to his hometown in Fengxin, Jiangxi.
But now he doesn't need to worry about these things, because the Sichuan capital he and his brother returned to are no longer there.
Living in the capital is not easy.
Because the road to Poyang Lake was blocked by water bandits, the two brothers lived in the capital for one month and spent more than ten taels of silver.
After several days of thinking and wandering, he finally made up his mind to sell calligraphy and write articles to earn some scrap money to fill his stomach, so he went to the Chenghuang Temple to see if there was any writing and writing business here.
He had just walked through the gate of the City God's Temple when he came face to face with a general wearing armor, followed by several fierce servants.
Song Yingxing knew that the Northland warriors were arrogant, so he quickly got out of the way and passed by the general.
"Sir, is he Song Changgeng, an official from Jiangxi?"
Song Yingxing looked at the general with some surprise, wondering why he knew his cousin's name. He had never met this person. Looking at the mountain armor on his body, he knew that he was not an ordinary general. He hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and said:
"It's you, General. May I ask who you are?"
"I am the commander-in-chief of Kaiyuan, Liu Zhaosun."
Song Yingxing looked at the majestic general in front of him. This man's head was wrapped in a white cloth, but it was very strange. After looking at it for a while, he realized that this was the Kaiyuan general who had been captured at the Meridian Gate the day before yesterday.
"General Liu, what can I tell you?"
Liu Zhao and Sun Gong cupped their hands and said:
"I heard that he could compose poems at the age of three, and he has a photographic memory, which is not inferior to that of Zhang Taiyue. Later, he read a lot of books, was familiar with the classics and history, and also studied firearms and settlement. He was a great scholar who could apply himself to the world. It's a pity that I failed the three-time test. I wonder if I would like to commit myself to Liaodong? To share the worries of my emperor!"
Liu Zhaosun knew that the strength of a person like Song Yingxing should not be underestimated. It is just because they put too much energy on side theories that have nothing to do with the scientific examination that they have no time to study the eight-legged essay. As a result, they repeatedly failed in the imperial examination and suffered a bad fate.
Song Yingxing is a more powerful character than Mao Yuanyi. This person has a wide range of research fields, ranging from philosophy to architecture, from firearms to farm tools, from medicine to military affairs.
More importantly, this person believed in Zhang Zai's study of things to achieve knowledge, advocated practice first, and was a pragmatist.
To prosper the country through hard work, Liu Zhaosun needs such people most now.
At this moment, Song Yingxing stood there at a loss, staring blankly at the world-famous young commander-in-chief in front of him and the group of soldiers standing behind him. His tone did not sound like he was joking.
The down-and-out scholar hesitated for a long time before finally saying:
"I am only a member of the Juren family. I am not even qualified to be a top three Jinshi. I cannot enter the palace. How can I..."
Seeing that Song Yingxing was still hesitating, Liu Zhaosun stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, smiling:
"Mr. Song has profound knowledge and practical ability. I heard from my staff Mao Shimin that you often mentioned you and said that Mr. Song has a great talent in the world and cannot be missed!"
"At present, Liaodong is in crisis. The emperor and the cabinet have promised that I will act expeditiously. Anyone below the rank of Jinshi can be directly hired without any court recommendation. When we get to Kaiyuan, the appointment documents from the Ministry of Personnel will be filled in."
"There are vacancies in all the yamen of Kaiyuan Councilor's Office, Bingbei Road, Sanwan Wei Department, Liaohai Wei Department, Procuratorate, Anle Prefecture, and Kaiyuan Beiyudu Division. As long as the gentleman comes, he can be appointed. Liu I am eager for talented people, just as Cao Mengde said: The young and young disciples are in my heart. But for the sake of you, I still ponder it!"
Song Yingxing stared blankly at the emotional general in front of him. Hearing him ramble like this, although he thought it was absurd, he was vaguely moved!
Regardless of whether he is a top scholar or a Jinshi, whether he is a majestic scholar or a dull person, the minds of scholars are actually the same!
Read the books of saints and sages, and the goods belong to the emperor's family.
Liu Zhaosun was not an emperor, but he had the ability to recruit talents. The court gave him the power to temporarily recruit officials below the fourth rank.
The great things Liu Zhaosun did in Liaodong these days have already spread throughout the capital. Song Yingxing usually pays attention to Liao affairs, so it is impossible that he has not heard about it.
Song Yingxing was not a fool. He knew that if he could defeat Jiannu and go to Liaodong at this time, he would be able to make great achievements and leave his name in history.
Song Yingxing hesitated for a long time and finally said:
"General Liu, how is Mao Shimin now?"
Mao Yuanyi (also known as Shi Min) was one of Song Yingxing's few friends. The two had similar interests and were both very interested in natural sciences. They were aliens under the imperial examination system. Aliens usually liked to stick together, and they always had endless topics to talk about when they were together. .
Unfortunately, Mao Yuanyi followed Yang Hao to Shenyang and has not been heard from since. Song Yingxing suspected that he had died for his country in Saerhu, and he inquired about businessmen from Liaodong every now and then. He never thought that his friend was actually under the command of Liu Zhaosun.
"He is very good. He is busy making red barbarian cannons every day. He eats, lives and sleeps with the craftsmen, day and night, like crazy. When the red cannon is built, it can destroy dozens of miles with one shot. I will use this Protect Kaiyuan with magic weapons and kill thieves for the country. Mr. Song, don’t you want to go to Kaiyuan to help this friend?"
After Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, he did not explain to Song Yingxing what the Hongyi cannon was, and continued:
"If Sir, you can go to Liaodong to save the people and protect the environment and the people, it is in line with what Mr. Hengqu advocated to establish a heart for the world and a destiny for the people. This is the great way."
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