Geng Jingzhong's Jingnan Palace, built in Jiangning, was expanded on the site of the former Guozijian located south of Xuanwu Lake, which was originally the site of Sun Quan's Taichu Palace during the Sun and Wu periods of the Three Kingdoms, and later served as the capital of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoEmperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Chen Dynasty, and the Taichu Palace and the expanded Jiankang Palace were burned to the ground by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty fell, and the Southern Tang Dynasty built a palace in Jinling, the capital of Dingdu, on the site of Taichu Palace and Jiankang Palace. Soon after, the Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty built the Yingtianfu Academy on the basis of the Southern Tang Palace, and Fan Zhongyan and other celebrities once presided over the Yingtianfu Academy, which was the largest academy in the Song Dynasty.

The Yuan army captured Nanjing, and Ying Tianfu Academy was destroyed.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang built a Guozijian that could accommodate more than 20,000 people on the ruins of Taichu Palace and Jiankang Palace. But later, Yongle moved its capital to Beijing, and there were only more than 9,000 students left in Nanguo Zijian.

The Qing army entered the customs, and the Nanguo Zijian was changed to Jiangning Fuxue. After the three major Jiangnan cases, the number of students studying in Jiangning Mansion has decreased a lot. The Ming army conquered Zhejiang, and the number of scholars in Jiangning City was reduced to a trough, and Jiangning Mansion existed in name only. As a result, after Geng Jingzhong came to Jiangning, he changed Jiangning Mansion School into his own mansion.

Jiangning Jingnan Palace, located on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, can be said that the original Nanjing Guozijian has been expanded by generations of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, is a large area of splendid buildings, except that the scale is not as good as the Ming Nanjing Palace, the other specifications are not bad. In the Guozijian, there are garden rockeries and artificial lakes, there are patches of courtyards, there are offices for the officials of the Guozijian, there are also places where the Guozijian priests and others live, as well as rooms for students to study and dormitories for prisoners.

There were more than 2,000 buildings in the original Nanjing Guozijian, and Geng Jingzhong did not renovate the Guozijian too much, but only rebuilt some of the buildings and redecorated them, so the Guozijian became a splendid Jingnan Palace.

At this time, Geng Jingzhong was sitting in the study, and there was only one of his close associates inside.

"Lord Wang, this is a letter from over there." The cronies took out a letter from their bodies and presented it with both hands respectfully.

Geng Jingzhong took the letter, and the cronie retreated very well.

The letter was naturally sealed with fire paint, and the envelope was sealed on both sides to prevent someone from opening the back of the letter, peeking at it, and then gluing it with paste. The fire paint on both sides is sealed, which eliminates the possibility of anyone opening the letter without permission and peeking at it.

Geng Jingzhong glanced at the sealed letters on both sides, and said secretly in his heart: Mingren is really careful! He opened the envelope, took out a letter from it, opened it and looked at it, only to see a paragraph written on the letter, but this passage was not a hidden poem or a hidden tail poem, but an ordinary letter.

If this letter accidentally falls into the hands of the Qing army, there will be no flaws at all, because in the letter, it only says that several family members of the former Jingnan Wangfu in Fujian are currently in Guangdong, and they are doing well, and Wang Xinyu is ready to appoint Geng Zhongge as the king of Jingbei, and the two will definitely meet on the battlefield in the future, so now I say hello.

Geng Jingzhong opened the drawer, took out a small ceramic bottle from it, unscrewed the cap, and revealed a brush inside. He picked up the brush with the cap attached to it and brushed it on the back of the letter a few times.

It turned out that this small bottle contained a kind of potion, which was developed by Wang Xinyu and Song Yingxing, and with another potion, it could be used to write and display secret letters. This potion is called a display potion, and the other is called a cipherwriting potion.

The letter stated that the Ming army would attack Jiangning City in about two months, and hoped that Geng Jingzhong would cooperate. In addition, the letter also mentioned that the latest battleships of the Ming army will also come to Jiangning, and the siege troops are equipped with new artillery.

It can be said that Geng Jingzhong was afraid and admired the achievements of the Qiongzhou army, and he was not so loyal to the Manchu rulers, especially after coming to Jiangning, he also heard about many massacres that occurred because of shaving his hair and changing clothes, and Geng Jingzhong was already dissatisfied with the crimes committed by the Qing army.

"Little Liu, come in!" Geng Jingzhong said.

The cronies walked into the study, and Geng Jingzhong said to the cronies: "The Qiongzhou army is strong, they already have a mountain of giant ships, Hongmaoyi fought with them, and they were also defeated, and they also captured several giant ships of Hongmaoyi. Now that they are coming to Jiangning, if we don't cooperate with them, we will die in vain! ”

"Lord Wang, but your two younger brothers are still in the capital, if you surrender to the Ming army, the court will kill your younger brother." The cronies were taken aback.

Although his cronies listened to Geng Jingzhong's words very much, he also did not want Geng Jingzhong to carry the Ming army to the death, and finally be loyal to the Qing court. But he didn't want Geng Jingzhong to release the water too obviously, so that he was discovered by the Qing army, but he should pretend to resist, and in the end, he really couldn't resist being defeated and captured, and then pushed the boat down the river to surrender, so that it would not affect the two younger brothers Geng Zhaozhong and Geng Juzhong, who were held hostage in the capital.

Geng Jingzhong sneered: "The two younger brothers of this king, this king still doesn't know who they are?" They colluded with Kong Sizhen to curry favor with the little emperor in the north! The imperial court wants to cut the feudal domain and reduce the military expenses of our Fujian army, these two guys who turn their elbows outward and eat inside and outside actually listened to Kong Sizhen's words, and they also have to cooperate with Chaotian to cut the feudal domain, which makes my father very embarrassed! Now that this king is reversed, if Kangxi Xiao'er kills these two two or five boys in a fit of anger, wouldn't it be very happy? ”

The cronie said: "Lord, although this is the case, but you don't care about the feelings of brotherhood, if it spreads, I'm afraid it won't sound good." ”

"It's not this king who doesn't care about brotherhood, it's those two boys!" Geng Jingzhong sneered, "Little Liu, you go out first, I'm going to write them a reply." ”

"Wow!" The cronies retired.

Geng Jingzhong picked up his pen and wrote a reply letter to Geng Zhongge on a blank piece of paper. The so-called replies are all about some common topics, and there is no flaw at all. Then, after the ink on the front of the letter paper was dry, Geng Jingzhong turned the letter paper over again, picked up another brush, took out a small porcelain bottle, opened the cap, dipped the brush in the secret writing potion inside, and wrote a secret letter on the paper.

The ciphertext potion was written on the letter, and a faint trace appeared on the letterhead. After a while, when the water dried, nothing could be seen on the back of the letter. The content of this secret letter is naturally to ask for benefits from the Ming army, hoping to get more benefits.

"Little Liu, you call the messenger over." Geng Jingzhong said.

The cronies outside brought the messenger into Geng Jingzhong's study.

Geng Jingzhong put the letter into an envelope in front of the messenger, sealed the letter, and handed it to the messenger: "This is a reply, please help me deliver it." (To be continued.) )