There is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

Tiger Hill outside Suzhou is the first scenic spot in Suzhou. At the end of this Xiaoice period, the weather was far less hot than later, and Jiangnan was already high and cool in autumn. In this comfortable and pleasant season, it is a good season for literati to chant poetry and meet friends, and drink to the right. The talented people of the south of the Yangtze River, or groups of three or five, or twenty or thirty people, gathered together, walked by the Tiger Hill Spring, chanted poems, and admired the autumn leaves. It's a pity that these scholars, the money rat tail behind their heads, spoiled the scenery of this Tiger Hill Spring.

A Taoist priest who looked quite immortal sat alone at the stone table, watching these literati with money rat tails chanting poems against each other, destroying their three views, and then listening to the crooked poems chanted by the scholars, the Taoist priest let out a few sneers from time to time.

"This bull's nose! What are you sneering at? A scholar in a white robe walked up to the Taoist priest, "Look at your appearance, there are not a few taels of ink in your stomach, do you dare to go against this son's poetry?" ”

The Taoist priest stood up, raised his hands behind his back and laughed: "This son, poor and talented!" I'd love to see how talented Childe is! Childe, please! ”

"There are small garden pavilions and landscapes, planting trees and raising fish, and it is less interesting." The boy groaned casually. This man looks quite handsome, but unfortunately the slender rat tail at the back of his head swings back and forth with his head, which is really disgusting.

The Taoist priest immediately replied: "Although there is no orchestra and silk bamboo, the paper will be full of wine, and it will be full of romance." ”

"Good! Good! The surrounding scholars applauded.

"Idle is the master of Shuizhu Yunshan." Childe asked again.

The Taoist priest didn't think about it, and blurted out: "It's so quiet that it's so quiet." ”

Childe thought for a while, and then groaned: "Come here on a good time, about two or three confidants." ”

The Taoist priest smiled faintly: "The reward is not over, fill in half of the words." ”

When the surrounding scholars saw that this Taoist priest was answering like a stream, they immediately cheered.

This son has been pampered since he was a child, and in his circle of friends, everyone is afraid of him, who dares to steal the limelight from him in front of him? Suddenly, his face changed greatly, and he arched his hand to the sky: "You are handsome above!" ”

The Taoist priest smiled and gently tapped the corner of the child's clothes with a whisk: "It's a pig below!" ”

Gongzi was so angry that his face turned red, and he couldn't care about Sven anymore, pointing at the Taoist priest and scolding: "Okay, you bull-nosed old Taoist!" How dare you insult this son! There's a kind of you don't run! Wait here! Ben Gongzi turned around and asked someone to beat you into a pig's head! Find out who's the pig! ”

After speaking, the boy flicked his sleeves and left in a huff.

Although the surrounding scholars admired this Taoist priest, they were secretly worried about him. A kind-hearted gentleman stepped forward and whispered, "Dao Chief, run quickly!" That was Zhu Baidi's son just now! ”

The Taoist priest snorted: "Zhu Baidi? Poor Dao didn't believe that he dared to do anything to Poor Dao! ”

After speaking, the Taoist priest got up and walked towards Shanghu Lake to the north without any hurry.

Someone said with pity: "Alas! Although this Taoist priest is talented, it is a pity that he has offended the son of Governor Zhu, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape! ”

The Taoist priest walked into the door of a chic mountain villa on the edge of Shanghu Lake, and the family at the door just glanced at the old Taoist priest, then opened the gate and let him in.

A thief-headed rat-brained guy who followed far behind saw the Taoist priest walking into this villa, and hurriedly rushed back to Suzhou City to report to Zhu Gongzi.

"Sir! Madam, Mr. Tinglin is here! "There are already people in the villa who have gone to report to Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru.

This old Taoist priest was the famous Confucian Gu Yanwu in Jiangnan back then. In his early years, he resisted the Qing Dynasty and once dressed as a businessman. Later, he was captured and imprisoned several times. Five years ago, Gu Yanwu was accused of the crime of "connecting the sea" and was imprisoned, but fortunately he was rescued by Qian Qianyi and was released from prison. After being released from prison, he scattered all his family wealth, disguised himself as a Taoist priest, and traveled all over the world.

The so-called crime of "connecting with the sea" is the crime of colluding with "sea bandits." In fact, Gu Yanwu has also been secretly helping the Nanming regime. The connection between Qian Qianyi and Zhang Huangyan is all up to Gu Yanwu to lead the bridge. Later, Gu Yanwu was sued and imprisoned. However, because Qian Qianyi's power was still very large, the Songjiang prefect did not dare to offend Qian Qianyi, so he let Gu Yanwu go.

By the time Zheng Chenggong went on the Northern Expedition last year, Gu Yanwu saw the hope of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and returned to Jiangnan again to contact Qian Qianyi. Who knew that Zheng Chenggong was defeated in Nanjing, Qian Qianyi lost his last hope, and Gu Yanwu disappeared from Jiangnan again.

Although Qian Qianyi is a second minister, because of Liu Ruyi, he has been secretly helping Nanming. Zhang Huangyan formed the Righteous Army, and a large part of the source of military expenditure was the credit of Liu Ruye.

Seeing Gu Yanwu, the two chatted a few words, Qian Qianyi asked where Gu Yanwu was during this time, when Gu Yanwu replied that he had gone to Zhoushan, Qian Qianyi was shocked: "Tingshan, you went to see Mr. Cangshui again?" ”

"The student has gone to see Mr. Cangshui." Gu Yanwu was much younger than Qian Qianyi, so he humbly called a student in front of Qian Qianyi.

Liu Ru, who was standing on the side, asked with great concern: "How is Mr. Cangshui doing lately?" ”

Gu Yanwu nodded and said, "He's not bad, this time King Yanping sent someone to buy a batch of goods from him, and he earned a lot of money." Nading Xibo helped him train his soldiers again, and Mr. Cangshui was expected to recover. ”

Qian Qianyi asked: "After this defeat, does King Yanping still have any hope for Zhongxing Daming?" Some time ago, Da Su came to Suzhou, and Zhu Guozhi was hospitable, and asked the old man to go too. I heard that the king of Yanping lost another game in Xiamen and suffered heavy losses. ”

"Hahaha!" Gu Yanwu laughed, "I'm afraid that Dasu has been defeated?" Mr. Cangshui told the students that in the battle of Xiamen, only the Eight Banners of Manchurian and Mongolian lost five or six thousand people! All the sailors of the Manchu puppet court were lost in Xiamen! Now they simply cannot afford to cross the sea to fight. ”

"The Qing court is defeated? Really defeated? Qian Qianyi was overjoyed.

Although Qian Qianyi was ridiculed by the Jiangnan scribes for being too cold and having an itchy scalp, he turned around and shaved his hair and became a second minister, but he didn't really give much power to the Qing court, but has been secretly helping Nanming. If Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan can really succeed in restoring the Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty, Qian Qianyi will definitely stand up and do things for the Southern Ming court.

"Yes! At first, the students didn't believe it, when did the Manchu puppet court start to falsely report its military exploits? I didn't expect it, but it was true! Gu Yanwu said very happily.

Qian Qianyi was still worried and said: "But the victory in Xiamen can't make up for the defeat of our imperial court in Nanjing!" The elite of the king of Yanping was completely lost, and the general Gan Hui was damaged, and this matter of recovering my Ming Dynasty seems to be far away. ”

Liu said: "The Tartar puppet court brutalized my Jiangnan scholar, and the people and gods are angry, but it's a pity that the little woman is not a man, otherwise she will save the country and serve the country with her body!" ”

The three of them chatted a little more, and Gu Yanwu mentioned an important matter: "Nading Xibo entrusted Mr. Cangshui, hoping to buy Jiangnan silk, as well as tea, raw silk, porcelain and other things. It's a pity that the students are incompetent and can't help Mr. Cangshui, so they came to the teacher. ”

Qian Qianyi said: "Now that the Qing court has a very strict ban on the sea, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the old man to do it." ”

Liu Ru said: "Husband, since Mr. Cangshui wants to do this, it means that this matter is not trivial, and it is related to my great cause of reviving the Ming Dynasty!" The Tartar Sea Ban just wants to cut off the financial route of my anti-Qing rebels! The more they do that, the more we have to help! Mr. Tingshan, you go back and tell Mr. Cangshui, just say that we can help with this favor! ”

"Madam......" Qian Qianyi wanted to speak and stopped.

Gu Yanwu was overjoyed: "The student has thanked the teacher, thanked the wife!" ”

"Mr. Tingshan, you can rest assured! Although I Liu Ru is a woman, I will never break my word! "Liu Ru has helped Zhang Huangyan not once or twice, and she is very sure of doing these things. And Qian Qianyi seems to be a little afraid of guilt, Liu Ru is the real hostess at home.

Gu Yanwu mentioned another thing that Zhang Huangyan said: "I heard that the person who wants to purchase these goods is a young earl, who is Ding Xibo. Mr. Cangshui has a very good impression of him! Praise in front of students. And I heard about the battle in Xiamen, this must have made a great contribution to Xibo! The flowering cannonballs he made have suffered enough for the puppet imperial court sailors! After the Battle of Xiamen, this person landed in the sky again, and it took only three days to conquer the fortified city! It is said that with 8,000 men against 5,000 people, the city was broken in three days! Later, another day broke the edict! Yun Zhao fought two battles and annihilated more than 10,000 enemies! What a hero! ”

Qian Qianyi praised again and again: "This Dingxibo is indeed a talent!" ”

"Not only that, this person foresaw that the puppet dynasty would increase the intensity of the sea ban, so he asked Mr. Cangshui to prepare the goods as soon as possible. He said that when the puppet dynasty tightens the sea ban, the price of these goods in Xiyi countries will skyrocket, so that the rebels can earn more military spending! "Gu Yan Martial Dao.

Qian Qianyi touched his beard and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that a military general in Dingxibo would have such a business mind!" ”

"The students thought that Ding Xibo would be able to become king in the future! If you talk about the people of Zhongxing Daming, the king of Jin is newly defeated and is no longer able to counterattack; King Yanping was too selfish and unreliable; Mr. Cangshui's forces are too weak. In the eyes of the students, in the future, the expulsion of the northern Tartar court, Zhongxing my Ming Dynasty, must be Ding Xibo! Gu Yanwu said his judgment.

Liu Ru was overjoyed and said: "If there is such a young hero, my revival of the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner!" ”

Qian Qianyi asked: "Then can Xibo have a marriage match?" ”

"The students don't know either, and Mr. Cangshui didn't mention it."

"If Xibo is not married, the old man is willing to marry Xibo!" Qian Qianyi touched his beard and said with a smile.

Besides, the guy who was secretly following Gu Yanwu turned around and reported the situation to Zhu Gongzi.

"What? That Taoist priest entered Lord Qian's mansion? Zhu Gongzi was shocked.

"Young master, what the slave said is true!"

"Okay, you can step back first!"

"Wow!" The servant withdrew.

Zhu Gongzi arrived at his father's study, and as soon as he entered, he knelt on the ground and was in pain: "Dad! My son was bullied by a stinky Taoist priest today! Originally, the son wanted to ask someone to teach the Taoist priest a lesson, but who knew that the bull's nose actually went to Qian Qianyi's house! ”

"Why did the Taoist priest bully you?"

He recited poetry against him, scolding children for being children and pigs. The child suspects that he is taking in this Taoist priest because he is planning to do wrong! Father can give him a charge of treason, and even Qian Qianyi will take it down! ”

When Zhu Guozhi heard that his son was insulted, although he was very angry, he was helpless: "When Prince Heshuo Deyu led his army south, Qian Qianyi took the Manchu Dynasty civil and military to welcome Wang Shi in the heavy rain, and the saint also valued this person!" If he was a rebel, who would believe it? There is nothing you can do for a father! ”

Whether it was Zhu Guozhi or any Manchu Qing official at that time, it was impossible to imagine that a civil and military minister who personally took Nanming to greet Duoduo in the rain, and the Manchu Qing had not yet issued a shaving order, he took the initiative to shave his hair, and was reused by Dolgon and Shunzhi, would secretly help the Nanming court. Therefore, when Zhu Guozhi heard his son say that he wanted to charge Qian Qianyi with treason, he could only express helplessness. Once the matter gets bigger, it won't be good for him to get into trouble in Beijing.

Although he couldn't cure Qian Qianyi, Zhu Gongzi was still unwilling: "Father, although we can't cure Qian Qianyi's old thing, but this old Taoist, we can clean him up!" When he walked out of the Qian Mansion, his son found someone to teach him a lesson! Send them to jail again! ”

"This person must have a deep relationship with Qian Qianyi, I'm afraid it will be difficult to treat him."

"Could it be that my son was scolded for nothing?"

"Don't worry, kids! Qian Qianyi, an old thing, doesn't have a few years to live! When he dies, you can take revenge on him however you want! ”

Zhu Gongzi suddenly remembered something: "I heard that this Qian Qianyi has a daughter, who was born very beautiful, and her father can come to the door to propose marriage." ”