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When Zheng Xie came, Zheng Zhilong's bottom line for him was to keep Fujian, and he did not hesitate to take his eldest son as a hostage for this.

Qin Mu's condition was that only the Zheng family would maintain its military strength, and Qin officials would take over Fujian's civil affairs in an all-round way.

According to the theory of "power from the barrel of a gun", the Zheng family controls Fujian's military, and the civil affairs are also in control at any time. If we just use Fujian's "military" and "government" to confront each other, this theory is indeed valid.

The problem is that once the "government" in Fujian is owned by the Qin state, it does not exist alone, but is supported by a more powerful gun. Local officials could use the Jiangyin model at any time, hold the city, and wait for reinforcements from the Qin army.

In short, as long as the government is returned to the Qin State, Fujian will no longer be the Zheng family.

Zheng Xie naturally knew this, so he didn't dare to agree.

But Qin Mu threatened Westerners, and he didn't dare to refuse rashly, so he hurriedly returned to Fujian and went to Zheng Zhilong to get an idea.

Qin Mu didn't want to delay it too long, so he asked Gan Nan, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, to accompany him to Fuzhou and take full responsibility for the negotiations with the Zheng family.

Speaking from his heart, Qin Mu didn't really want to meet the Zheng family, such internal friction would only benefit external enemies.

As for uniting Westerners to attack the Zheng family, Qin Mu also threatened with his mouth, and he would not do this unless he had to do it.

After sending Zheng Xie away, Qin Mu began to grasp the military deployment of Huainan and dispatched troops to further strengthen the defensive counterattack capabilities of Huai'an and Luzhou. Large quantities of military supplies were mobilized to the front through the waterways.

Yang Shen is still in Songjiang Mansion, after he arrived in Songjiang. The first thing is to mobilize the people to weave cotton cloth. At the same time, a weaving factory of 7,000 people was organized, and batches of clothes were being transported from Songjiang Prefecture to the front.

In order to strengthen the defense capability of Jiangbei. Qin Mu also ordered Ning Yuan to lead an army of 20,000 to enter Yangzhou, ready to go north to meet Huai'an at any time.

On the other hand, Qin Liangyu in Sichuan was ordered to maintain an oppressive posture as much as possible and cooperate with Cui Feng, who was fighting in Yunnan, but not to start a war with Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu for the time being.

Two or three hundred thousand Qin troops after two months of rest. Although the combat strength has been restored, the consumption of war materials in the previous war was huge. It is not a problem to fight an internal defensive war, but if it starts a war on both sides, it will make Daqin's strings tight, and it may break at any time.

Of course. Strictly speaking, it is now a two-sided war. It's just that Cui Feng's side only has 13,000 people entering Yunnan, to put it bluntly, even if Cui Feng's entire army is wiped out, it will not pose a fatal threat to the Qin State.

It's different from Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu to start a war, these two people have a combined army of 70,000, once they lose the war, it is likely that they will turn the tables in Sichuan, and even threaten Huguang. So. If you can't go to war, let's not go to war yet.

Qin Mu, who had just stopped for a few days, began to be busy again. Consult with the ministers day and night to arrange arming. So much so that I almost forgot about Enko.

When Fu Shan, who was the chief examiner, handed over the list of candidates for the exam, Qin Mu was still in a trance.

A total of 362 people were admitted to the examination.

First place: Han Jing, a native of Xiangyin County, Huguang.

Second place: Zhu Tong, a native of Kunshan, Suzhou.

Third place: Xu Huaizhi, a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi.

In addition, Qin Mu paid attention to it, Sima An's son Sima Kai ranked twelfth, and Bai Tie's eldest son Bai Weiheng ranked ninety-second.

It is a major event of the country, although Jiangbei is now full of war clouds, but the palace test can not be ignored.

The palace examination was presided over by the emperor himself, and only one was examined. Those who are eligible to take the temple examination are those who are admitted as tributes in the examination. The tributes did not fail in the palace examination, but the emperor rearranged the ranking.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the three examinations were usually held on the 9th, 12th, and 15th of the first month of February, so they were also called the spring curtains. The examination is held on March 15, after the examination, at intervals of a full month.

This time, Qin Mu opened Enke, the time was not in spring, and considering that the war was about to start, it was not realistic to take the palace exam one month apart.

After Qin Mu and the ministers discussed, it was decided that the palace examination would be held in five days, and the location would be in the front hall of the palace.

Returning to the West Garden at dusk, Qin Mu pondered the topic of the palace exam while walking.

Although the previous palace exams were just a procedure, the emperor actually just looked at the test papers of the top ten and eight places, adjusted the rankings, and made a show.

But Qin Mu still hopes to test meaningful questions.

Unconsciously walked to Gu Hanyan's small building, a plum blossom in the corner of the building was slanted, reflected in the water, and the warm winter sun shone on the eaves of the painting, which looked very quiet.

Walking upstairs, I saw Gu Hanyan sitting quietly in front of the mahogany bandage, staring at her wrists, threading needles and threads with her ten fingers, embroidering stitch by needle, and hanging in front of the bandage was the "Lanting Yaji Map" that Qin Mu took her to the street to buy that day. The two maids stood next to them and watched so intriguedly that when Qin Mu arrived at the door, the three of them didn't notice it.

Qin Mu was immediately fascinated by Gu Hanyan's embroidered posture, it was really beautiful, under the evening window, the beauty's eyes were like smoke, her expression was quiet, and under the sleeves rolled up, a piece of her wrist was like frost and snow.

Slender jade fingers, with needles and threads, embroidered the smoke and rain apricot blossoms, embroidered the smoke curling across the bank, embroidered the rippling Wupeng boat on the clear waves, and embroidered the Shaohua under the oil-paper umbrella.

The time in the south of the Yangtze River has become so quiet here, what Jin Ge Iron Horse, what thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, all of them have been crushed into a piece of distant mountain eyebrows, smoke and water.

Qin Mu finally understood, why did she feel that Gu Hanyan was so quiet at first glance, the quietness on her body was different from Dong Xiaowan's kind of tranquility, her quietness was embroidered stitch by stitch, she embroidered the entire Jiangnan, and the rhyme of Jiangnan also melted into her life.

Qin Mu stepped over the soft carpet, hugged her shoulder from behind, and held her jade hand with an embroidery needle.

"King of Qin"

"Don't talk."

Qin Mu carefully admired her masterpiece, she embroidered it according to the "Lanting Yaji Map" on the wall, and only a small half of the whole picture was embroidered.

But this little half of this is done to imitate the brush-and-ink technique of painting. Writing with a needle, replacing ink with a line, sketching and blending, a seamless whole, using various intermediate tones such as old and tender, shade, shade and shade of the color of the scene, to complement the color and color matching, has reached the realm where people can't tell whether it is embroidery or painting.

To achieve this realm of "painting and embroidery", it is not only necessary to be skillful, but also to have a deep attainment in painting.

"Hanyan, you really surprised me, who did you learn from?" Qin Mu said with her cheeks on it.

Gu Hanyan was hugged by him, her fragrant flowers blushed slightly, and she replied shyly: "The slave learned from my aunt, and compared with my aunt, the slave is still far behind." ”

"Hanyan, you are too modest, in my opinion, you embroidery has reached the highest level."

"King Qin, you let go of the slaves first."

Qin Mu let go of her with a smile, Gu Hanyan walked to the wall, took out a picture album from a box, and casually opened a page to show Qin Mu.

If she hadn't reminded her first, Qin Mu would have really thought that this was a painting.

This embroidery picture is composed of distant mountains, rivers and beaches, and the space treatment is complex and simple. The undulating mountains of the distant mountains are far away with their low appearance. The river is vast, and a fisherman drives a lonely boat to fish the cold river, showing loneliness and loneliness against the background of the wide river.

The beach shore near is depicted in detail, a grass and a tree, dense and clear, still in front of the eyes, especially eye-catching is that an old pine rises from the ground in the low grass and trees, vigorously stands, and adds a sudden and vigorous rhyme in the faint and empty atmosphere.

The page is inscribed with "Han's Ximeng", and on the other side, there is a poem inscribed by Dong Qichang: Why bother Yingying, the mountains are high and the water is empty. The heart is as light as a leaf, and the pine is old and Jackie Chan. The economy is endless, and the grass is green. A rod in hand, thousands of stacks of breeze.

There are eight albums in this album, each of which is embroidered naturally, without stitches, so that people cannot distinguish whether it is embroidered or painted.

Qin Mu liked it very much, and he took the album to the stretcher and compared it with Gu Hanyan's embroidery.

Gu Hanyan said shyly: "King Qin, don't compare, the slave is really much worse than my aunt." ”

"It's not bad, even if it's bad, it's not much worse, you're still young, and you will definitely be able to beat the blue in the future."

Qin Mu said and looked at the "Lanting Yaji Map" on the wall, this picture is the picture of Wang Xizhi and a group of celebrities and family children in the Lanting in Huiji Shanyin, and there are many characters in the painting.

Qin Mu had a whim, and said with a smile: "Hanyan, can you embroider the two of us too?" ”

Gu Hanyan was stunned when she heard this, her small mouth as thin as a cherry opened slightly, revealing her white teeth, and her expression was extremely moving.

In fact, Qin Mu just said casually that the characters on "Lanting Yajitu" are all freehand, and they can't see their eyebrows clearly, so they can't talk about who and who they embroider.

Gu Hanyan's stunned appearance was really cute, and his eyes were like autumn evening smoke with a hint of confusion.

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