On a summer night, the silver moon hung high and the courtyard was full of clear light, and the light was shining in the study, and three or five moths repeatedly hit the window screen, making a slight sound, and the ancient night was exceptionally quiet.

Xu Jin paced slowly in front of the bookcase, playing with a "clairvoyant" in his hand, strictly speaking, it should be called a monocular, which was also the first telescope of the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that although Xu Jin only sat in the position of general judge for more than a month, this experience of commanding troops gave him a certain degree of understanding of the Ming army. In the past few months, Xu Jin has been concentrating on studying and preparing for exams, but in his spare time, he will also ponder what simple and practical equipment there are in modern times that can be applied to the army of the Ming Dynasty.

The first thing Xu Jin thought of was the flintlock pistol, and the second was the telescope, the flintlock pistol has a high technical content, and non-professionals are not easy to get out, and the telescope is relatively simple, as long as the students who have studied physics know that the telescope only uses the principle of the lens, and even the manual class of primary school students has a course of making a telescope.

So Xu Jin drew the pattern of the monocular, found a craftsman to polish two lenses with crystal, and made this monocular with bamboo as the tube. Xu Jin gave this monocular a name "clairvoyance".

In fact, the world's first telescope was invented by a European glasses craftsman, and it was only brought to China by Western missionaries in the late Ming Dynasty, so Xu Jin's monocular was the first in the Ming Dynasty, and it is unknown whether it was the first in the world.

Xu Jin paced back and forth for a while, put down the "clairvoyance", walked quickly to the back of the bookcase and sat down, re-laid a piece of rice paper, picked up the charcoal and rustled the drawings, with his sketching skills, it was easy to draw a few simple drawings, and soon, the shape of a cannon barrel came out......

In terms of Xu Jin's current status and status, he is not qualified to wrestle with Zhang Zhong and Xu Tai-level figures, and a hard collision will only hit a stone with an egg, so if you want to rescue the third lady of the Fei family, you have to exchange it for chips, and it must be a chip that can make Zhang Zhong's heart move.

For a eunuch, beauties are certainly not interested. Power? Xu Jin can't give it. Silver? Xu Jin himself is not enough to spend, even if he has silver, he will not be so Lo.

Therefore, Xu Jin hit the idea to Zhang Zhong's backstage boss, Zhu Houzhao, the son of heaven. In the final analysis, Zhang Zhong's power comes from the emperor's favor, and if he wants to maintain the emperor's favor, he naturally has to find ways to curry favor with the emperor.

And when today's son Zhu Houzhao is still martial arts, he likes novel things!

Xu Jinzheng was concentrating on drawing drawings, and when he heard the door curtain being lifted, he thought it was Yue'er's girl urging him to take a bath, and said without raising his head: "It's not done yet, you let Xiaowan sleep first." ”

didn't hear a response, Xu Jin subconsciously raised his head, and suddenly smiled: "Ruyi is here!" ”

It was Fei Ruyi who came in, carrying a food box in his hand.

Fei Ruyi wore a moon-white thin skirt tonight, with a jet-black hair holding a popular girl's bun, bright eyes and bright teeth, beautiful and picturesque, with a blush after a new bath on her pretty face, and said softly: "It's hot, I cooked you a bowl of mung bean soup to cool off!" ”

"Thanks, put it first, I'll drink it later!" Xu Jin continued to bow his head and work hard.

Fei Ruyi's cherry mouth couldn't help pouting slightly, this time she accompanied Fei Jixiang to Nanchang, although she was mainly worried about her sister, but she was not looking forward to seeing her sweetheart, after all, it had been a few months, and the taste of long-distance lovesickness was not comfortable.

Because of this, Miss Fei San also made a spoon with her hands at night, cooked a bowl of mung bean soup and sent it, just to get tired of her sweetheart, but someone's performance undoubtedly poured cold water on the girl.

Fei Ruyi put the food box on the coffee table, both aggrieved and a little curious, walked to the bookcase, saw Xu Jin drawing some strange graphics on the paper, he couldn't understand it at all, and suddenly lost interest, and his eyes couldn't help falling on the clairvoyance next to him.

"Hey, what is this?" Fei Ruyi stretched out his slender hand and picked up the clairvoyance and fiddled with it, and then curiously leaned in front of him to take a look.

It turned out that Fei Ruyi pointed his clairvoyance at Xu Jin, and at this time Xu Jin happened to look up again, but Xu someone's face came to a "big close-up" in front of Ruyi's eyes, and it felt like his mouth was about to kiss under his nose.

Fei Ruyi was caught off guard and screamed back, and fell to the ground with a stumble. Xu Jin was also taken aback, and hurriedly stood up and went around to the case to help Fei Ruyi, who was pale and said, "Xu Lang, what is this, so weird?" ”

Xu Jin couldn't help but laugh and explained: "Don't be afraid, this is clairvoyance, which can bring things in the distance closer, and lo and behold...... Well, try again! ”

Xu Jin picked up the monocular that fell on the ground and demonstrated it a few times, Fei Ruyi was shocked for a while, took the clairvoyant and tried it carefully, patted his chest and said, "I see, it's quite interesting!" ”

The girl's pretty face was close at hand, and her beautiful eyes were rippling under the long eyelashes, which was pleasing to the eye, Xu Jin couldn't help but take a sip on the fragrant cheeks, and said softly: "Ruyi, if you like it, I'll give it to you." ”

Fei Ruyi's cheeks suddenly flew away, and he was happy in his heart, and then the next second, someone took the clairvoyance back, and said, "However, I will use this one tomorrow, and I will give it to you when the new one is ready!" ”

Fei Ruyi bit her teeth, stood up and picked up the food box and walked to the door.

Xu Jin was stunned and said: "Ruyi, I haven't eaten the mung bean soup yet!" ”

Fei Ruyi glanced back at Xu Jin, and said angrily: "I'll eat this bowl myself, and I'll give it to you when it's cooked later!" ”

Xu Jin touched his chin a little depressed!

……

Ningwangfu.

After Zhang Zhong finished dinner, he was leisurely drinking tea in the house, while a little eunuch was beating his shoulders and another little eunuch was pinching his legs.

Zhang Zhong hummed a tuneless song in his mouth, obviously in a very good mood, it is no wonder that in the past month or so, Eunuch Zhang has made a lot of money under the guise of catching the anti-thief remnant party, and today he slapped Wu Wending in the face, and his heart is refreshing.

Zhang Zhong took a sip of the teacup, and said secretly: "Although this Hekou black tea doesn't look good, it still tastes good, and it's novel, we have to bring some to the emperor when we go back." ”

At this time, a sergeant walked in and reported: "Grandpa Zhang, someone outside has given you an invitation. ”

"Hey, someone is sending money again!" Zhang Zhong happily accepted the invitation from the sergeant.

During this time, there were really a lot of gentry who gave Zhang Zhong posts, either to ask him to raise his noble hand, or to set up a trick that was almost stuttering, this is the benefit of power.

Zhang Zhong opened the invitation and looked at it, and when he saw the word "Xu Jin" in the inscription, he immediately showed a mocking smile: "Ouch, the sun is coming out of the west!" ”

It is said that Zhang Zhong looked at Xu Jin quite rightly at first, but later Xu Jin took the account books of King Ning and "scared" him, which made him very dissatisfied. Moreover, some time ago, Zhang Zhong wanted to ask Xu Jin for help, and he gave invitations several times, but Xu Jin resigned for various reasons, so he was even more unhappy in his heart.

Zhang Zhong pondered for a while and guessed a rough idea, as we all know, Xu Jin is Fei Hong's protégé, and now he takes the initiative to invite himself, nine times out of ten, it is for the third lady of the Fei family to be arrested.

Zhang Zhong rolled his eyes and ordered: "If you go to deliver the letter, you will say that our family will go to the banquet tomorrow." ”

……

This is the second time Xu Jin has come to Taibai Building, the last time was after the hospital examination, and he held a banquet with his classmates, and this time he invited the eunuch Zhang Zhong alone.

In the private room on the fourth floor, Cuizhu Pavilion, Xu Jin sat quietly at the table in a green shirt, he just celebrated his birthday a few days ago, due to the reason of exercising every day, the sixteen-year-old boy was more upright, calm and calm temperament, and full of energy like jade.

Xu Jin didn't bring his own soldiers today, in fact, his personal soldiers were all arranged to serve in Nanchang Weizhong, and the minimum was 100 households, and Wang Lin'er of the pro-soldier team served as a thousand households of Nanchang Guard, and Xie Erjian served as a deputy, but he hadn't gone to perform his duties yet.

Right now, nearly half an hour has passed since the agreed time, and Zhang Zhong has not yet appeared, it is obvious that Eunuch Zhang is "playing a big name" and giving Xu Jin a horse.

In fact, Xu Jin waited for an hour (two hours), and Zhang Zhong came leisurely with someone, in addition to the two eunuchs who served closely, he also brought thirty Beijing army guards, this goods obviously knew that he had done too much evil, and he brought guards in and out, so as not to be retaliated by the enemy.

Zhang Zhong let twenty Beijing soldiers guard outside the Taibai Building, and he himself took ten guards to the fourth floor to guard the staircase passage and outside the Cuizhu Pavilion.

"Ouch, let Xu Xianling wait for a long time, our family really can't pull away!" When Zhang Zhong saw Xu Jin, he pretended to be authentic.

Xu Jin smiled and said: "It's okay, Gonggong Zhang directly called me Xu Jin, and he just took a temporary post in this county order, and he didn't care about anything, and he would resign when Futai University came back." ”

Zhang Zhong rolled his eyes, and said hesitantly: "Our family heard that Governor Sun appointed Xu Gongzi as the general judge of Guangxin Mansion when he was dying, and Xu Gongzi has repeatedly made meritorious contributions, not only eliminating more than 10,000 rebels, but also recovering the prefectures and counties along the way from Lead Mountain to Nanchang. With such a big credit, Wang Dutang not only did not promote Xu Gongzi, but also did not have Xu Gongzi's name on the excerpt that asked the emperor for credit, and took the credit for himself, how can it be reasonable, even our family can't see it! ”

Zhang Zhong is a bit exaggerated, Wang Shouren's request for merit to the emperor mentioned Xu Jin's name, but it was just a passing and did not highlight Xu Jin's merits, the purpose was to "press" Xu Jin, not to let him come out so quickly, it was actually a kind of protection for Xu Jin.

However, in Zhang Zhong's view, Wang Shouren was suppressing Xu Jin, so he wanted to use this to win over Xu Jin and let Xu Jin impeach Wang Shouren for embezzling the merits of his subordinates.