Nanhui Fangcheng, Zhu Yihai watched the sea and listened to the tide.
This city was built by Tang He, ordered by Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. After the city was built, it was attached to the Jinshan Guards and was set up to guard the middle and rear posts of Nanhuizui. Nanhuizui is the easternmost end of the Yangtze River Delta impact plain, where the Yangtze River carries a large amount of sediment downstream.
It merged with the Qiantang River at sea and settled into land under the influence of the tide, hence the name Nanhui.
This was once an important coastal defense town in the southeast. At this time, the green flag of the Qing army was still standing on the city head. The man stationed there was Yan Jizu, the second son of Yan Wogong, with a guerrilla rank, under the command of Jinshan Xie Town, the main town of Songjiang.
But now Zhu Yihai is leading the Northern Expedition fleet to station in this city. Although Zhu Yihai did not fly the Northern Expedition flag here, many people know that this is the Ming army with such a mighty fleet.
But before Songjiang, Li Yuchun was the headquarter and Prince Yan was the prefect, which had long ruined the atmosphere here. What's more, the Ming Navy often passed through the border, and everyone was used to turning a blind eye. Even Nanhui City has become an important city at the moment.
A smuggling trade port, where a large number of cargoes gather.
The thirteen piers outside Fangcheng were originally used for warning and setting off beacons, but now they have become sentinels for Yan Jizu and others to warn the rest of the Qing army.
Outside the city, on the Datuantou Pier.
"Your Highness, Qian Sunai and Liu Rushi have arrived and request an audience."
Zhu Yihai looked at the vast East China Sea and the dots of white sails on the sea. After hearing the report, he nodded, "Since you are here, let's meet. Qian Qianyi writes to me every now and then, and he is not afraid of being exposed."
Qian Sunai is the only son of Qian Qianyi and his fourth son. However, the first three sons all died young. The recent generations of the Changshu Qian family do not know why many people died young and lived short lives. For example, Qian Qianyi's grandfather only died young.
He lived to be twenty-nine years old, and his three cousins also died in their early twenties.
He gave birth to four sons of his own, the first three of whom died in infancy, but Sun Ai, the son of his concubine, grew up. He was very attentive to his only son Qian Qianyi. He not only invited famous teachers and scholars to teach him, but also often recommended courtiers to pave the way for him to become an official.
Qian Sunai was also considered young and motivated, and won the imperial examination very early.
Liu Rushi was a famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River and one of the eight most famous prostitutes on the Qinhuai River. She was pursued by many celebrities such as Chen Zilong, Xie Sanbin, Qian Qianyi, etc. In the end, Liu Rushi followed Qian Qianyi alone. The most important thing was that Qian Qianyi was the most generous.
go out.
Qian Qianyi married Liu Rushi as a direct wife, which was ridiculed and reviled by countless people at the time. They all felt that Liu Rushi could only be a concubine, and she was not even qualified to be a concubine for a celebrity like Qian Qianyi, because
Liu Rushi is a prostitute on the Qinhuai River.
But it happened that Qian Qianyi took the beautiful woman in his arms, and regardless of criticism, he married her as a direct wife and took a prostitute as his wife. This caused a sensation, so most people in Shilin are still unwilling to admit Liu
This is Qian Qianyi's wife.
Qian Sunai also kept a distance from his stepmother, but his father asked him to go to Jiangning to send Liu Rushi back to his hometown after returning from Beijing. It was not too far from Jiangning to Changshu, but they took a long detour and actually walked to Nanhui, Shanghai.
The mouth is coming.
The public reason was to visit Liu Rushi's family, but in fact he was here to meet Lu Jianguo.
"Students pay homage to His Majesty the Supervisor." Qian Sunai is tall, elegant, and somewhat frail. Looking at him, Zhu Yihai seems to be a little frail and sickly. Thinking of Qian Qianyi's family, many of the men are in their thirties.
He died of illness around the time. He guessed that the Qian family must have a serious family hereditary disease.
Liu Rushi paid homage to him together, and he was very generous.
This famous Qinhuai prostitute was only twenty-seven years old at this time. To be precise, he and Zhu Yihai were born in the same year.
If you put aside the reputation and just look at the woman in front of you, she is elegantly and decently dressed, but has a very alluring temperament. She is worthy of being trained in music, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, and she even hosts social interactions. Even if her eyes don't speak, they have a very seductive temperament.
Unlike the shy and reserved women from good families in this era, she was generous and did not avoid it.
Regardless of appearance, makeup, or even temperament and conversation, Liu Rushi is indeed attractive. No wonder so many celebrities were attracted by her back then.
However, although Zhu Yihai admired it, he was not fascinated. The main reason was that he felt that Liu Rushi's feeling was not much different from that of the star idols of later generations. For the people of the Ming Dynasty at this time, this may be extremely tempting.
He has a good temperament, but to Zhu Yihai, it is just like that.
After all, it’s not surprising to see so many things, you already have immunity.
"sit."
Qian Sunai had been secretly sizing up Zhu Yihai just now, fearing that the young His Highness Lu Jianguo might have some inappropriate thoughts about his stepmother, which would put him in a difficult situation.
Fortunately, His Highness was only slightly surprised by Mrs. Liu, and quickly regained his composure, with no trace of greed or desire on his face.
"Your Highness, this is the wish of my father and the Qian family of Changshu."
Qian Sunai handed over a piece of paper.
Zhu Yihai took it and found one hundred thousand taels of silver.
"I remember that Minister Qian spent tens of thousands of yuan to build Jiangyun Tower and Hongdou Pavilion. He was so short of money that he had to borrow money from Xie Sanbin and others. He even sold his collection of Song Dynasty books to Xie Sanbin at a cheap price. How come he can now come up with one hundred thousand taels?
Silver coming?”
"My father sold off the magnificent Jiangyun Tower and Hongdou Pavilion on Yushan Mountain, and also sold many books, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and then discussed with the clan to sell some farms, and collected a total of one hundred thousand taels of silver."
Zhu Yihai was surprised.
"Jiangyun Tower and Hongdou Restaurant were built by Mr. Qian for Madam Liu. How could they be sold?"
Liu Rushi, who had been silent for the whole time, said, "Money is needed to restore the country. This is the meager contribution of the Qian family and my concubine."
"One hundred thousand platinum, this is not a small amount of money. The tax of a government is only about this much a year." Zhu Yihai smiled and accepted.
The money is not too much, and I am not afraid of burning my hands. Besides, this is a gift from Qian Qianyi.
To be honest, Zhu Yihai was very disgusted with Qian Qianyi before. He felt that this guy was extremely shameless, had no bottom line, and had no sense of shame. After all, he was not an ordinary official. He
He's the leader of the Donglin Party.
However, looking at his actions during this half of his life, he was known as the leader of the poetry circle, the leader of Donglin, and the representative of Shilin. However, this man was very smooth and had no position. In the Chongzhen Dynasty, he failed to fight for power with Wen Tiren and was dismissed.
When he supported King Fu, Qian Qianyi originally planned to support King Lu together with Shi Kefa and others. However, later he found out that Ma Shiying had enlisted the military leaders of the four towns to support King Fu, so he immediately ignored his position and wrote to Ma Shiying to praise his virtues and support King Fu. Qian Qianyi relied on Ma Shiying
, Ma Shiying recommended Qian Qianyi to be the Minister of Rites, and Qian Qianyi recommended Ruan Dacheng as the Minister of War according to Ma Shiying's instructions.
When the Qing army came to Nanjing, Liu Rushi persuaded Qian Qianyi to throw himself into the water and die for his country. However, Qian Qianyi tried the water and said that the water was too cold to enter. Liu Rushi was so angry that he jumped into the water, but Qian Qianyi held him back.
He took the lead in welcoming the Qing army into Nanjing, and then went to Beijing to serve as a minister.
This man is simply a typical traitor.
But after this guy arrived in Beijing, he kept writing letters to Liu Zongzhou, Zhang Guowei, Song Zhipu and others in the south, and finally wrote to Zhu Yihai.
Especially recently, I write letters very frequently.
While talking to Zhu Yihai about the situation in the world, listing the top priorities, he also reported the deployment of the Qing court, the movements of the Qing army, etc. that he had collected. He even told Zhu Yihai who were his students and who were among the Ming demoted officials in the Qing court.
Which ones are firm and clear, which ones are just temporary helplessness and can be fought for, etc., and which ones are his fellow countrymen, friends, disciples, etc.
This guy pretends to be a spy who has broken into the enemy camp.
Zhu Yihai didn't know whether this guy was weak, cunning, or duplicitous, hedging his bets. But he had verified Qian Qianyi's intelligence, and most of it was accurate. Although he only knew about some of the Qing army's deployments, he only knew roughly what he was doing.
What I know is much different, but it is quite rare.
Zhu Yihai felt that most of the suggestions and strategies offered by Qian Qianyi were hollow and unrealistic, but some were still useful.
"My father has declared illness to the Qing court and begged to return home."
Qian Qianyi's current position in the Qing court is as the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, in charge of the secretarial affairs, and as the vice president of the Ming Dynasty. In Beijing, it is said that he is not very important. The regent trusts Feng Quan and several other Han universities.
Scholars are Yan Wo Gong. Although Qian Qianyi and other Donglin Party members defected to the Qing court in large numbers, the ones Dorgon used most were the Eunuch Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, etc.
But regardless of whether Qian Qianyi is not reused in Beijing, or he still feels that there is hope for the revival of the Ming Dynasty, his current performance of actively communicating in secret is still worthy of praise.
In fact, not only Qian Qianyi, but more and more officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty are secretly contacting the south. Most of them say that they were forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but in fact they are still loyal to the Ming Dynasty and are willing to report the enemy's situation, even if they have the opportunity.
Return south.
Zhu Yihai thought about these people, but he couldn't refuse them all. This would only completely push the Qing court to the side. Regardless of whether they were sincere or not, at least they were somewhat helpful now.
So now Zhu Yihai has specially arranged for Chen Qianfu to be responsible for contacting and replying to the people here, giving them more comfort, and even announced that they would forget all the blame, retain their original titles, etc., report the enemy situation and other meritorious services, and even get promotions, and also give their families in the areas controlled by the Ming army.
The demoted family will be preserved.
Many of these people may just bet on both sides, and not many of them will actually lose, but it is still useful to keep them.
"If Mr. Qian now claims to be ill and begs to return, I'm afraid the Qing court won't believe it. Even if he agrees to resign, he will be closely monitored and even regarded as disloyal. He may find reasons to frame him at any time. This is very dangerous. In fact, Gu suggested that Mr. Qian
You might as well continue to lurk in the Qing camp for now, as long as you are loyal and wise in your heart, you can serve the imperial court everywhere."
"If he stays in the Qing court, he can also collect more useful intelligence for us and contribute more to the fight against the Qing."
"When the two capitals are restored in the future and the Tatars are driven away, Gu and Ming Dynasty will certainly not forget Qian Gong's loyalty and bravery."
Qian Qianyi wanted to find an opportunity to leave Beijing and run back to Jiangnan to join the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Yihai didn't want to. There is no shortage of such old slickers in the court now. After coming, they will not be of much use except for intrigues. It is better to stay in Beijing and serve as an internal response.
Even bigger.
"I have sent the edict to Qian Qing alone. Sun Aiyou collects it for him."
"I confer the title of Shaofu Qian Qianyi."
Qian Sunai knelt down to thank the supervisor for the favor, but Zhu Yihai asked him to return to Changshu, "Now that it is inconvenient for you to stay with me for the time being, you can send Mrs. Liu back."
"Your Highness, I heard that the two sisters Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun are now in Shaotian Mansion. I also have a deep love for sisters. We have been apart for a long time and want to see each other again. If I want to, I will stay in Shaotian Mansion. Please allow me, Your Highness." Liu Rushi said.
I don’t want to go back to Changshu.
Qian Sunai was stunned.
Zhu Yihai looked at them and said, "In that case, please ask Mr. Qian to go back to Changshu first, and Mrs. Liu to go to Shaotian to meet friends, or stay there temporarily."
Qian Sunai secretly looked at Jian Guo and then at Liu, and saw that the two of them did not seem to have any intention of having an affair, so he finally nodded in agreement.
