In the Cunzhai Pavilion, Xu Ge, who was nearly eighty years old, sat on the Taishi chair, holding a volume of "Nanhua Sutra", and was watching it with relish. The purple gold incense burner was lit with fine sandalwood, and there was silence all around, as if time had stopped.

When Xu Jie was young, he was most tired of cultivation, when Sejong worshiped the Tao, which led to Yan Song's abuse of power, the officialdom fought for power and profit, and the people were in deep fire and hot.

At that time, he really looked down on Sejong, even if he had teamed up with Lan Dao and brought down Yan Song, he hated the matter of cultivation in his bones.

But people's minds are not immutable, and as we get older, some ideas are slowly changing, such as attitudes towards Taoism.

It's not that he began to believe that cultivation can really make people immortal, but that he thinks that by reading these Taoist classics well, he can maintain a peaceful state of mind, and a peaceful state of mind must have great benefits for health preservation.

He will be eighty years old next year, and his great-grandson Youqing will be sixteen years old, and he has already decided on his family, if he can live for another twenty years, he will definitely be able to see his great-great-grandson, and that will be the real five generations in the same house.

With thousands of family wealth and fertile land, he has no livelihood troubles. The father is kind and filial, and the children and grandchildren are still competitive, so he doesn't need to worry about this.

Life is comfortable, of course, I am willing to live a few more years.

Of course, there are also uncomfortable places, the most popular thing for him is the Zhang Zicheng who was born out of nowhere, he still knows something about this person, speaking of Zhang Juzheng's illegitimate son, but he knows that this is not the case, Feng Bao once said a few words in vague words, if he expected it to be good, this child should be Mu Zong's son.

But he didn't want to pierce this secret, this was his killer weapon, unless it was a last resort, otherwise, he would rather swallow this secret in his stomach and take it to the coffin - there are definitely few people in the world who know this secret, except for the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces and Feng Bao, at most one more Zhang Juzheng.

Feng Bao is considered to have a good death, it is impossible to have any more extraneous branches, as for Zhang Juzheng, he picked up a good son in vain, and it is estimated that he is secretly having fun in his dreams at the moment, only he is the one who is against Zhang You, according to Li Caifeng's woman's scheming, as long as this secret is exposed, he can guess his head with his toes, he has self-knowledge, and he has not yet had the strength to confront the royal family head-on.

In fact, he doesn't have any lofty ideals, so he wants to get more silver for his descendants with peace of mind, and under this premise, everything is negotiable.

But the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, that Zhang You is bent on opposing him, making him disgraced and dirty, and even sent someone to Dongting County to check and repair the embankment, which is a bit deceitful.

You said you didn't spend your money, what the are you doing?

The court wasted a lot of money in a year, anyway, it either went into this person's pocket or into that person's pocket, so I really want to be red-eyed, and it's not impossible to share a little bit with you. Okay, it's not enough to meddle in overseas trade first, and now I'm here to check the lake account, and after checking Dongting Lake, is it Poyang Lake, then Taihu Lake, West Lake, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal...... Isn't this a deliberate attempt to kill them all?

He remembered that Liu Chuanfang, the prefect of Hangzhou, was killed for embezzling 1.3 million taels of silver from the West Lake, and that kid was still familiar and took all the matter on himself.

Now, do you have to sacrifice another Changde prefect? If it goes on like this, when will it be a head?

Xu Qingzhou, the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion, entered the door with two people, one was Xu Bin, and the other was Wuyazi.

One of the two is the Xu family's talker, and the other is the top master in the rivers and lakes, and they are also majestic on weekdays, facing the gray-haired drooping old man, but they dare not have the slightest carelessness, kneeling respectfully, kowtowing honestly, meticulously, and seeing His Majesty today, I am afraid that this is the case at most.

"Get up," Xu Jie put the "Nanhua Sutra" in his hand aside: "I brought you two here mainly to talk about the matter over there in Dongting Lake, the old man pondered for a while, Zhang You's men died five, according to his temper, once he got the news, he would definitely rush to Dongting County as quickly as possible, the old man estimated that maybe he had arrived at this moment." Wu will die, but he will confirm his speculation. At the end of these years, people are getting more and more bold, and they don't hide their work, even if there is no Wu Hui, after a little investigation, there are still clues and evidence. In this way, prepare with both hands, Wen Hui, you bring three million taels of silver tickets to see Xing Shangzhi, invite him to come to Songjiang with Zhang You, and say that the old man wants to talk to them about overseas trade. Wuyazi, you take people back to Huguang, if you have the opportunity, you will do that Zhang You. ”

"Uncle, since you have made up your mind to be Zhang You, do you still need to see Xing Shangzhi?" Xu Bin asked.

Xu Jie smiled bitterly and said, "Go, why don't you go?" First of all, that kid didn't leave his hands, and it wasn't the first time we made up our minds to be him, the last time he was ambushed in Suzhou, it wasn't for him to survive. This is one, and second, if Wuyazi can succeed this time, then he will have to go to see Xing Shangzhi, what do you say? ”

Xu Bin quickly reacted: "Little nephew understands, this can at least reduce some of our suspicions." ”

"The son can be taught, money is a foreign thing, and you can earn it if you spend it, in addition, if that Zhang You really comes to see the old man, the old man is really willing to cooperate with him to abandon his former leisure. The situation is stronger than people, you haven't seen it yet, in fact, it's not that Zhang You is willing to come to Jiangnan to make trouble, it's that Banzai is dissatisfied with our control of Jiangnan. Today's Jiangnan is no longer the Jiangnan of the past, people's minds have changed, if we still hold on to the old ideas, we can only be unlucky in the end. ”

Xu Bin nodded and was taught, even if he had different opinions, he didn't want to express them in this moment.

Xu Jie looked at Wuyazi with satisfaction: "By the way, has the Japanese envoy arrived?" ”

"Go back to the pavilion, I haven't arrived yet, I heard that it was a storm, and it is estimated that there will be another month, how should it arrive."

"Well, when they arrive, I will bring them directly to see the old man, the emperor's token, I can't let them take it back easily." After that, Xu Jie waved his hand, signaling that there was nothing else, so Xu Bin and Wu Yazi bowed and retreated.

Xu Qingzhou didn't move, don't look at him as just a subordinate, to some extent, he can replace Xu Jie, unless he is in a good mood, otherwise, there are really not many people in this world who are worthy of his personal send-off.

Seeing Xu Jie take out a seal from his sleeve and rub it, Xu Qingzhou smiled and said, "Master, such a little thing, can you really command Japan?" ”

The seal is the one that does not leave the travelers to be robbed, it was originally Wang Zhi's thing, but in fact it is the seal of the Japanese emperor, which was given by the empress Zetian in the past.

"What do you say? It's just a trick to give it to you, but it's different to give it to those famous generals in Japan, I've heard of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, as long as you have it, the situation of Japan's melee will end soon, do you think it's worth it? ”

"What are you going to exchange it for, sir?" Xu Qingzhou said with a smile: "Otherwise, why don't you go to Japan to be an emperor when you are old, and the old slave will also be a first-class general." ”

"It's just a broken island hanging overseas, where is it compared to our Ming Dynasty, the old man is not rare, or the silver is the most real, Japan is a country rich in silver, there are no 10 million taels of silver, no one wants to take away this seal."