Wei Bao would not have doubted that Sun Chengzong had sent such a good signal to himself so quickly.

Take out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in minutes! Converted into the currency value of the 21st century, converted into soft sister coins, this can be hundreds of millions!

Who would casually donate hundreds of millions?

Regardless of whether he is an ordinary person or not, it is impossible not to attract attention with this financial strength and courage, coupled with his explosive appearance.

In this era, sending words is not a casual gift, it is either the relationship between classmates in the same year, or it is a token of love between men and women.

Because of the delivery of words, it is often necessary to pay for it!

So-and-so gave so-and-so to so-and-so in such and such a year.

For example, when Wang Tiqian inscribed on Wei Bao's painting fan, he vaguely called Wei Bao by the relationship between his son and nephew.

There's a lot of learning in it.

Like Wei Bao, who is just a weak-crowned boy, Sun Chengzong is a person of the age of a sixtieth year, and there is a huge difference in status between the two, and there is no possibility of even making a year-old friend.

A national-level member will definitely not be able to make friends with a country boy.

The relationship between Wei Bao and Sun Chengzong is definitely not that of classmates or friends.

The rest can only be a master-apprentice relationship.

Although he has not yet appeared and has not taken the officialdom route, Wei Bao already feels that he is now at least the strength of the gold level in the glory of kings.

Although Sun Chengzong sounds like a Jiliao Governor, and the official residence is very scary, but in actual power, Wei Bao estimates that Sun Chengzong is at most a star yao, or the lowest level in the star yao, and it cannot be compared with the super king level like Wei Zhongxian.

From the fact that Sun Chengzong could not apply for 240,000 taels of silver from the imperial court, it can already be seen that Sun Chengzong's weight in the court is actually very small.

Wei Bao had already thought about the advantages and disadvantages of getting close to Sun Chengzong just now.

Sun Chengzong will fall soon, although Wei Bao is not familiar with history and cannot accurately calculate how long Sun Chengzong will get out of the way, but he can predict that Sun Chengzong will not be able to jump for a year anyway. Because in Wei Bao's impression, in 1625 and 1626, two or three years before Chongzhen came to power, Yuan Chonghuan had already begun to be active.

Even if Sun Chengzong was in the Chongzhen Dynasty, in the original history, after Yuan Chonghuan was killed, he would have been revived, but he had never been really reused, because of the lack of political foundation, the lack of 'party' support, and the constraints on doing things everywhere.

In short, getting involved with Sun Chengzong, politically, in terms of power, does not seem to be of much help, and may even be deducted points.

In fact, after Wei Bao entered the officialdom, he had five options.

First of all, either choose the local faction or the central faction!

Wei Bao has basically ruled out taking the local route.

Taking the local line is undoubtedly to get together with Wu Xiangzu's birthday, and to take the local bigwigs as the leader.

Wei Bao feels that he can live more comfortably in the short term, but in the long run, it is a restriction on development, after all, it is constrained everywhere, and it is not transparent, and it is easy to be monitored by people for internal information.

It is different to take the central route, the emperor is far away, and he goes to the capital or to serve in other places, without delaying the local development, and the development of power outside and the development of local power complement each other, staggered with each other, go hand in hand, and benefit without harm.

Now that it is set to take the central route, it is necessary to enter the officialdom in a formal and upright manner through the scientific examination.

In the Central Committee, there are several choices, namely the centrists, the eunuch party group, and the Donglin party group.

In the case of the centrists, no one will be touched. Then he is faced with two choices, either with a centrist boss like Sun Chengzong, or with no one.

No one will follow, obviously it is better to be with Sun Chengzong, at least Sun Chengzong's reputation is enough, the emperor, he is still clean, at least he will never be looked down upon.

If you don't follow the centrist line, there are two remaining options, either the eunuch party line or the Donglin party line.

These two routes, don't think about it, they must be advanced with the bigwigs and the group, otherwise they are not as good as the centrist route.

The eunuch party will have unlimited glory in the past two or three years, but after three years, after Chongzhen comes to power, the Donglin party will become more and more bullish.

These are all the histories that Webbo already knows.

If he follows the eunuchs, he must ensure that he will develop enough to protect himself within three years, and Wei Bao feels that this is not difficult.

The key difficulty is that he no longer focuses on his personal self-preservation, but pays attention to the entire Ming Dynasty and the future of the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Bao's wish is to protect as many ordinary people as possible and let them survive in the troubled times.

Although in modern times, it is only a small role at the bottom, but it has never polluted Wei Bao's heart, and Wei Bao's heart is love, country, and society.

Only with love in the heart can people always be full of strength and notice many things that should be noticed and cherished.

Following Sun Chengzong, although it is not very helpful politically, there can only be one teacher, and there will not be many! If he establishes a teacher-student relationship with Sun Chengzong, he will get rid of the possibility that he will be forcibly co-opted by the eunuch party group or the Donglin party group in the future!

This is something that Weibao attaches great importance to!

Otherwise, if there is a Shangshu or Shilang level member who is from the Donglin Party Group or the Eunuch Party Group, such a big man suddenly wants to determine the teacher-student relationship with himself, and he has not worshiped the senior member of the DPRK as a teacher, it will be difficult to shirk it.

If you forcibly refuse someone, you will definitely provoke the other party, and the other party will publicize it, and when the time comes, the people of the group to which that person belongs will definitely see themselves as enemies together, and thus push them to the other group.

If that is the case, the other group will not pay attention to it when it sees that it is the one who has to come over, and neither group will be able to please it.

The biggest trick to walk the tightrope is to be impartial, waiting for both sides to pull together, but it has been swaying and difficult to decide.

At most, he will be criticized for being indecisive and sleek, but he will not become the primary target of others!

In the past few years of the Apocalypse, he secretly communicated with the eunuch party, and on the surface, he did not offend the Donglin party, and was slightly closer to the eunuch group.

When it came to the Chongzhen era, he fully fell into the arms of the Donglin Party, secretly preserved some eunuch group forces, and pulled them into his own banner.

Wow, perfect plan, mezzanine.

Sun Chengzong was still looking at Wei Bao expectantly, and seeing that Wei Bao seemed to be distracted, and there was still a smile on his lips, he smiled and said, "Master Wei, why are you so happy?" I'll send you a letter, what do you think? ”

"Students can't ask for it!" Wei Bao came back to his senses, extremely decisive, and extremely firm. As soon as he said this, it was a pretty big deal!

Wei Bao's sentence of students made Sun Chengzong very happy, and accepting students is the best insurance method in the world.

There is no need to invest in costs at all, if you want to invest, it will be at most a little saliva and some life insights, but in exchange for the filial piety and respect comparable to that of a son.

"Good, good!" Sun Chengzong was still thinking about whether he wanted to test it first to see if Wei Bao had already recognized a Korean official as a teacher? Or they recognized the local officials of Liaoxi and Liaodong as teachers.

If that's the case, he will dismiss or change the direction to implement the plan to receive Wei Bao, because the person Wei Bao recognizes must not be as big as him, and if the official Wei Bao recognizes happens to have a good relationship with him, he can say hello to the other party and let people transfer Wei Bao to himself. If it's a general relationship, or it's opposite, you can only give up.

But listening to Wei Bao's current meaning, Wei Bao should not have this kind of relationship yet, and his interaction with officialdom is still in the stage of innocence and spotlessness, which is great!

What a piece of good talent and beautiful jade! Sun Chengzong looked at Wei Bao happily, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

"Master Wei, have you ever visited a teacher?" Sun Chengzong asked directly.

"Yes." Wei Bao replied: "The student studied in Mongolia in the township, and he had a friend who was also a teacher and a brother, and later went to the Shanhai Academy in Shanhaiguan to learn from Meng, and worshipped Liao Fuzi from the academy as his teacher. ”

Sun Chengzong nodded with a smile, just like he thought, "I'm asking, have you ever worshipped any official as a teacher?" For example, people like the prefect and the county order? ”

"Nope. The student was born in a slightly cold background, and it is difficult to scruple about food and clothing, and he only earned some silver this year, and the official lord looks down on me. Wei Bao replied to Sun Chengzong's words.

Sun Chengzong smiled beautifully, and then withdrew his smile, thinking about how to phrase it? As the emperor's teacher, he is still the secretary of the military department! Jiliao Inspector! It's already the best in officialdom! And he is so much older than Wei Bao, is it better to receive Wei Bao directly? Or is it better to put Wei Bao under his own disciple and be his own disciple?

Sun Chengzong's eyes lit up, and he had an idea, "Master Wei, I see that you talked to me very well, and the old man likes you very much, I don't know if you are interested in recognizing a teacher?" ”

Wei Bao's eyes also lit up, and he secretly thought: 'It's coming'! Hurriedly said: "The student can't ask for it!" ”

"I have a student, named Yuan Chonghuan, although he is only a military officer now, but he knows the art of war, is honest and resolute, and will have a great future in the future, I want to introduce you to me as a student, what do you think?" Sun Chengzong looked at Wei Bao expectantly.

Burst!

Wei Bao was sweating, and he thought that Sun Chengzong wanted to accept himself! What the? You introduced Lao Tzu to Yuan Chonghuan?

Wei Bao does not have much prejudice against Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong.

Wei Bao thinks that Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong must be wrong, because standing in Huaxia and from the overall strategic perspective of the Ming Dynasty, it must be wrong!

But to blame the fall of the Ming Dynasty on Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong and the abolition of the foundation of the Dongjiang Army, Wei Bao also felt that it was not so serious!

The collapse of the Ming Dynasty is not good as a whole, the system is completely rotten, the whole team is rotten from top to bottom, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, at most it is just one of the events.

In Wei Bao's view, Mao Wenlong is loyal and patriotic, and in such a difficult environment, he opened up the Dongjiang base area. That's all there is to it.

If you want to make money, you don't have to stay in North Korea all the time.

After you can make a fortune, you can find a way to find an errand in other rich places, change positions, change official positions, can't you be a general soldier and governor in Dongjiang, and change to Jiangnan?

The fact that people can stay on the Dongjiang River is commendable in itself!

In the face of the military pressure of Houjin, he did not choose to surrender, but resolutely resisted, isn't this called patriotism?

Even if Mao Wenlong is not a saint.

Wei Bao knew that the reason why Yuan Chonghuan used to kill Mao Wenlong in the original history, Wei Bao believes that it should be absolutely not groundless, and believes that Mao Wenlong may have done a lot of false reports of war exploits, killing business travelers and so on.

And from some of the information that Wei Bao has received now from the Statistics Bureau of Heaven and Earth Firms, Mao Wenlong seems to have been doing this all along.

But Mao Wenlong was willing to go to the Dongjiang River, and he must have considered his personal interests, and after a few years of war, his official position was promoted to the governor of Zuodu.

Maybe Mao Wenlong is still looking forward to once Houjin is pacified, he can imitate Li Chengliang's story, Shizhen Liaodong, and lay a thick foundation for future generations of children and grandchildren.

The combat effectiveness of Mao Wenlong's army is not strong, so Yuan Chonghuan's statement also makes sense.

But so what?

Mao Wenlong could not surpass the times, and in the face of the Later Jin, the Ming army did not have troops with strong combat effectiveness, even if it was the Guanning Iron Cavalry that was blown into the sky, they only dared to defend the city.

In the current era, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, the discipline of the army is not good, and there is no shortage of such things as killing good people and harassing the people.

When the army of the Ming Dynasty was marching, the towns along the way would put military supplies at the city gates, and then close the city gates to prevent the army from harassing the people.

The Dongjiang River, where Mao Wenlong is located, strategically speaking, forms a two-sided attack with Shanhaiguan, even if his army has little combat effectiveness, as long as it exists, it is a threat.

As long as Mao Wenlong is still insisting, Houjin will not be able to devote all his combat power to the direction of Shanhaiguan.

Wei Bao looks at problems, likes to elevate his own perspective, tries not to be affected by various Weiguang positive images, and tries to look at a person in an all-round way.

Wei Bao would never think that a person is either a saint or a villain.

It's not like this, Mao Wenlong, who is corrupt and impostored, and Mao Wenlong, who is a hero of the anti-gold war, can perfectly concentrate on one person.

Mao Wenlong can be a patriotic general, or an opportunist, a scum who makes war money. The two do not conflict.

With the fact that Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, Wei Bao felt that Yuan Chonghuan should be placed below Mao Wenlong at least in terms of historical evaluation!

Even if Mao Wenlong may not be as famous as Yuan Chonghuan in later generations!

Even if there are many film and television works and works that beautify Yuan Chonghuan and slander Mao Wenlong in later generations.

However, these did not prevent Wei Bao from standing from the perspective of a bystander, looking at these historical figures and issues considerably.

Judging from the results of history, when Mao Wenlong was alive, the Qing Dynasty did not have a record of entering Shanhaiguan once!

After Mao Wenlong's death, the Qing Dynasty invaded Beijing many times, so there is no doubt that Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town did have the role of containing behind enemy lines.

After Mao Wenlong's death, Dongjiang Town was torn apart, and it did help Huang Taiji pave the way to the east.

There are many talents under Mao Wenlong, and three of the four kings of the Han people in the early Qing Dynasty are Mao Wenlong's subordinates (Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, and Kong Youde).

But Wei Bao thinks that Yuan Chonghuan is a traitor, but it is not necessarily, Wei Bao thinks that Yuan Chonghuan is more ambitious and talented, brutal and misguided, and he will return to Liao in five years, just watch it as a joke, and only Chongzhen, a mediocre emperor, can believe it.

But compared with the descendants of Liangmao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan, the superiority can be seen immediately!

After Mao Wenlong's death, his son appeared in history three times: the first time was when he was caught by Yuan Chonghuan and imprisoned, and wrote a bloody letter to Chongzhen in prison, with sad words, and the court looked at him; the second was the Dongjiang Mutiny, and he was sent by the imperial court to calm the anger of the Dongjiang officers and soldiers; The third and last time, this time, it was not the Ming court, but the Qing court held a sacrificial ceremony for Mao Wenlong, and sent Shang Kexi to invite Mao Wenlong's son to appear, but Mao Wenlong's son refused.

It is said that there is no news of Mao Wenlong's descendants in the official history.

Therefore, Mao Wenlong's descendants are the diehards of the Ming Dynasty! No doubt.

Yuan Chonghuan had no children and married a Manchurian concubine, and his widow Yuan Wenbi was carried up the flag "because of the merit of the army" (the Qing history is recorded as this, and no specific merits are written) and became the white flag of the Han army.

Later generations have passed down from generation to generation, and some people became generals of the Qing Dynasty, such as the famous Heilongjiang general Yuan Shoushan.

Why is Yuan Wenbi just?

Even if it doesn't mean that Yuan Chonghuan has a problem, it at least shows something else.

The end of the Ming Dynasty was a turning point in human civilization, from then on, the East began to be shrouded in barbarism and ignorance, after hundreds of years of humiliation and sinking, while the West rode away.

Wei Bao can't help but sigh every time he reads history so far in modern times.

What happened in that weird plane? Let a population of nearly 200 million! A great civilization with a territory of thousands of miles, conquered by hundreds of thousands of people?

This is what every Chinese citizen wants to know.

And this painful history, Mao Wenlong and Yuan Chonghuan are two points that cannot be bypassed.

The ancients said: The country of the dead must first go to its history. And the aftermath of that war of conquest continues, so history is vague and carefully sculpted.

At this moment, hearing that Sun Chengzong took the initiative to mention Yuan Chonghuan to himself, and wanted to make himself Yuan Chonghuan's disciple, Wei Bao's heart beat faster, but first of all, it was resistant!

Whether it was Yuan Chonghuan or Mao Wenlong, Wei Bao didn't want to be their disciple or junior, in that case, it would affect his interaction with these two people and affect his judgment.

Wei Bao doesn't mind being their colleague and being their sideline!

"Master Overseer, I want to be your student!" Wei Bao said to Sun Chengzong straightforwardly.

After saying this, Wei Bao didn't blush, and looked at Sun Chengzong with a cute expression, just like Sun Chengzong just now, he was also looking forward to it.

Sun Chengzong blushed for the old man, secretly thinking that Wei Bao's baby is really not ordinarily thick!

originally proposed to let Wei Bao be a disciple of Yuan Chonghuan, but Sun Chengzong was still thinking about how to persuade Yuan Chonghuan, because Sun Chengzong knew that Yuan Chonghuan had always had a high vision and was arrogant and abnormal.

Sun Chengzong didn't expect that Wei Bao didn't want Yuan Chonghuan yet, and wanted to be his disciple directly.

"Wei Gongzi, do you know that the old man's little grandsons are all older than you?" Sun Chengzong touched his beard funny: "And the old man has reached this age, and he doesn't have much time to show his face, and he will retire to the mountains and forests soon, so he can't help you." But Yuan Chonghuan is in the prime of life! He is the proud protégé of the old man, and he is a talented person! If you follow him, not only will Yuan Chonghuan be able to teach you a lot of things, but the old man will also remind you from time to time. If you worship Yuan Chonghuan as a teacher, there will be two people to teach you. If you worship the old man as a teacher, only the old man will teach you. ”

Wei Bao's eloquence, where is it so easy to be speechless? Wei Bao smiled and continued to sell cute.

It is not always the case that they walk on silver alone.

Wei Bao has two major weapons, one is to believe in the power of silver, when everything can rely on silver as a pioneer, he will never use other weapons, and will never say any nonsense!

The second weapon is his own appearance and eloquence, such a handsome little Zhengtai, not to mention dealing with girls, dealing with old men like Sun Chengzong, it is also very lethal.

"Master Inspector, if I become a disciple of the Inspector, who in the world will not envy me? This is one of them. If I become a disciple of the Inspector, what the Inspector teaches me is to pass it on to me personally, directly, not in the way that the master teaches his disciples. Tea separated by a layer is better than drinking it directly. Isn't it? Wei Bao said cutely: "Could it be that Master Inspector didn't want to recruit me as a closed disciple just now?" Did I mean it wrong? ”

“……”

At this time, Sun Chengzong was speechless by Wei Bao's words, and looking at Wei Bao's lost appearance, he suddenly felt pity and pity in his heart.

"The old man naturally thinks that Wei Gongzi is good, so he will introduce you as Yuan Chonghuan's disciple, Yuan Chonghuan is really good, and it will not be wrong to listen to the old man. Even if you are a disciple, the old man will teach you some of the things he knows, I have a few of my handwritten military books here, no one has read them, I will pass them on to you! "Sun Chengzong still has to work hard!

Wei Bao smiled: "No one can surpass the talent of the Inspector, since I can get the blue eyes of the Inspector, I must not miss this opportunity, so that I will regret it for the rest of my life!" ”

Sun Chengzong's attitude was soft, while Wei Bao's performance was very hard.

Wei Bao has already seen the weakness of Sun Chengzong's personality, no wonder he is often slammed against the wall, as an emperor, he has several ups and downs, and he is really not a good official.

Sun Chengzong was a little embarrassed, ordered someone to serve tea, and fell into thought.

Wei Bao was not in a hurry to urge, and stood quietly aside.

This is one of Wei Bao's great advantages, whether it is a fast heartbeat now, is it extremely looking forward to Sun Chengzong being able to take himself in? Anyway, the attitude is casual, and it is the Buddha-nature youth.

Just now, when Sun Chengzong expressed his affection and showed favor to Wei Bao, Wei Bao hesitated whether to get together with Sun Chengzong.

But then I figured it out, it is definitely a good thing to get together with someone like Sun Chengzong, who has a very high reputation, but he himself has little control!

You don't have control, I do, if you can become Sun Chengzong's closed disciple, then you will have an intersecting relationship with Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Wenlong and others.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to overpower more than eighty percent of the Ming officialdom in an instant? Isn't it beautiful?

After Sun Chengzong took a sip of tea, he squinted his eyes, looked at Wei Bao, and slowly opened his mouth: "Young Master Wei." ”