As soon as the three scholars heard Qin Shuhuai say such nonsense, their faces changed, and they lowered their heads and stopped talking. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info sneered in his heart, this kid is really a stunned young man, it's okay for us to talk about the government here, but when he says this, he is suspected of demagoguery and slander the court, and it is not good to attract people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang. This kind of brainless martial artist is better to stay away.

Qin Shuhuai saw that several people stopped talking, and felt bored, so he prepared to go home. The wine I drank just now was a little strong, my head was a little dizzy, and I was a little shaky when I walked, and I thought it would be better to drink less alcohol in the future.

But he didn't want to get up as soon as he got up, a tall and clean man came over and said to him, "This brother, my master asks you to go up and talk about it." ”

Qin Shuhuai was half drunk and half awake, looked at the visitor, and said, "Who is the master of your family?"

The man smiled faintly and said, "Brother, don't panic, my master just wants to chat with you." ”

Qin Shuhuai waved his hand and said, "Who is panicking?"

followed the man to an exquisite private room on the second floor, and saw an old man in a brocade robe sitting inside, about sixty years old, quite majestic.

Qin Shuhuai realized that he might have met a big man, and he was half sober.

The old man smiled kindly at Qin Shuhuai and said, "Little friend Shuhuai, can you accompany the old man to drink two sips?"

Although Qin Shuhuai was drunk, he still smiled and said, "The kid dares to die." ”

The two drank a few glasses, and the old man said again, "Xiaoyou just made a decision, which is really unique and empowering." The old man took the liberty of asking, which master did Xiaoyou learn from?"

Qin Shuhuai was stunned, it turned out that this old man had been listening before. After thinking about it, if he said that he came up with it, I'm afraid the old man wouldn't believe it. So he casually said nonsense, "There is no cliff in the family, but presumably Mr. has never heard of it." ”

The old man frowned slightly and said, "Wuyazi, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, such a high-ranking old man has never heard of it." If that's convenient, can you introduce you?"

Qin Shuhuai shook his head and said, "The family teacher has already gone immortal." ”

The old man sighed regretfully, "It's a pity that such a talent is ...... Shuhuai Xiaoyou, I don't know what school the respected teacher is?"

Qin Shuhuai faintly felt that this old man was not simple, and thought that if he could attract this person's attention, it might be helpful in the future, so he had to blow it well.

With a raised neck, he said proudly, "The family teacher only accepted me as an apprentice, but he didn't say which school we were." However, every time the solar term master has to worship Mr. Guiguzi, presumably he is our ancestor. ”

The old man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't help but wonder, "The Guigu faction, Xiaoyou, what did the Venerable Master usually teach you?"

Qin Shuhuai sighed and said, "The family teacher is erudite, astronomical and geographical, current politics and agriculture, the way of vertical and horizontal, and the method of ghost schemes, all of which are refined. It's a pity that the tutor went early, and the kid only learned a little bit. ”

The old man looked at Qin Shuhuai suspiciously, muttered for a while, and then said, "Xiaoyou has indeed only learned the skin. Fang Cai Xiaoyou's Liaodong strategy seems to be like a hole in the fire, but in fact, he only peeks at the leopard, and sees a spot but not the whole body. ”

Qin Shuhuai said, "I wish Mr. Wen a high opinion." ”

The old man said, "The trouble in Liaodong is not the trouble of one place, but the overall situation. What Xiaoyou said is not that the court does not know, and there are many helpless constraints, and it cannot be solved in a few words. ”

Qin Shuhuai nodded and said, "What Mr. said is extremely true. The trouble of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong is just one of the three. ”

"Oh, one of the three?" said the old man, taking a sip of wine, with great interest, "which three?"

Qin Shuhuai smiled faintly and said, "Then you have to ask the old gentleman's name first." ”

The old man laughed and said, "You pranky boy, hang the old man's appetite." ”

Qin Shuhuai said solemnly, "It's not that the kid hangs his appetite, but the tutor teaches the kid to tell the truth to some people, but some people can't tell the truth." ”

The old man smiled, "The Venerable Master really has a way. So, the old man's surname is Sun Chengzong, and his words are childish, I don't know if he is qualified to listen to Xiaoyou's truth?"

Although Qin Shuhuai had a certain psychological preparation, he was still shocked when he heard the words.

Sun Chengzong, how could he not have heard of this great name? He was the mentor of the Emperor of the Apocalypse and Yuan Chonghuan, and he was the only big man who could be called a strategist and military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty. It was the Guanning defense line built by him that lasted for more than 20 years for the Ming Dynasty. During his reign in Liaodong, Liaodong was extremely peaceful, and Houjin didn't even have the idea of attacking. In short, he has a vision and strategy that the civilian officials of the current dynasty do not have. Although he also has such and such shortcomings, he can be regarded as one of the only remaining sober literati in the Ming Dynasty.

Counting up, Sun Chengzong has been in the opposition for four years since he asked for resignation in the fifth year of the Apocalypse. However, in the wilderness, he is still the think tank that Chongzhen relies on. And according to history, after the change of Jisi, he will be activated again, and the official will be the Taifu.

In short, this thigh must be hugged!

Qin Shuhuai immediately got up, made a deep bow, and said, "It turned out to be Sun Ge Lao, and the kid didn't know Ge Lao, it was really Meng Lang's abruptness." ”

Sun Chengzong laughed and said, "Red tape is waived, the old man only asks, can Xiaoyou tell the truth?"

Qin Shuhuai said, "In front of the elder pavilion, there is no lie. As I said just now, Da Ming suffers from three, not in the eunuch party, but in Liaodong, civil officials, and martial arts. ”

Sun Chengzong bowed slightly, thought for a while, and then smiled faintly, "The trouble of Liaodong is known to passers-by, and the trouble of martial arts is not to be said for the time being, this civil official trouble is fresh, can you tell me more about it?"

Qin Shuhuai said, "The so-called trouble of civil officials is that civil officials form parties for personal gain and engage in party disputes. They are not our friends, and their deeds will be evil. Since the Ming Dynasty, how many talented people have stepped down because of civilian attacks?"

As soon as the civilian-official group was mentioned, Qin Shuhuai scolded endlessly.

The civil officials in the last years of the Ming Dynasty were fundamentally the spokesmen for the interests of the petty bourgeoisie and the bureaucratic class, and throughout the entire history of China, they can be said to be the most fruitful and shameless partisan group that defended the interests of the group. For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the civilian-bureaucratic clique led by the Donglin Party resolutely resisted the imposition of taxes on industry, commerce, and mining under the moral banner of "not competing with the people for profit", but advocated heavy taxes on agriculture to make up for the emptiness of the state treasury. It can be said that it was their deformed tax policy that led to the continuous peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty, and also led to the shortage of military salaries for the soldiers at the border gates, which indirectly helped the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty and finally destroyed the Ming Dynasty.

And that's just one aspect. The civil officials at the end of the Ming Dynasty also had a soft spot for quarrels, whether it was a hundred officials, the first assistant or even the emperor, as long as there was a slight flaw in the slightest, a large group of civil officials would rise up and attack it, imagine that in such a public opinion environment, who can boldly carry out reforms?

What is even more contemptible is that this group of civil officials regard themselves as "clear streams" every day, not only talk about ideals but have no feasible measures to land, but also after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, except for a few iron-clad scholars who fought to the end, a large part of the civil officials did what they once despised the most - surrender. The most famous is Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who shouted a lifetime of etiquette and shame, and also used this to attack countless political enemies, but when the Qing army came to the city, a generation of famous prostitutes Liu Ru wanted to drag him to jump into the river to martyrdom, but he refused on the grounds that "the water is too cold", and finally knelt at the city gate to welcome the Qing army into the city. Even a prostitute is more virtuous than him, which shows what kind of goods the so-called "clear stream" is.

Qin Shuhuai had already decided that if he took charge of Dongchang one day, the first thing he would do was to purge the civilian clique in the court, even if he was infamous for it.

scolded fiercely, the scolded Sun Chengzong's face was quite ugly, and Qin Shuhuai remembered that Sun Chengzong was also a civil official, and he was also a big civil official......

hurriedly explained, "That, Elder Sun Ge, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about those civil officials who form parties for personal gain. ”

Sun Chengzong smiled faintly and said, "It's okay." The old man asked you to tell the truth, and you just said it. ”

The two talked happily until the restaurant closed.

Before leaving, Sun Chengzong gave Qin Shuhuai a book and said, "Shuhuai Xiaoyou, I can't chat with you in a hurry this time, why don't we see you in Jingshi Liushi Library ten days later?"

Qin Shuhuai couldn't ask for it, so he immediately said, "The kid obeys!"