Three days later, Ruan Yuan, who was back home from the date, was informed by his wife Jiang that a businessman named Xu from Shanghai had someone handed a post and a few bags of local products from Yangzhou during the day, saying that he would set up a seat in the private room on the second floor of Zhengyang Building tomorrow evening and beg for a gift.

Ruan Yuan was shocked when he heard this. His surname was Xu, Shanghai, and Yangzhou local products were all the secret codes that the shopkeeper "Huang Shengtai" had told him before. Once someone posted these three things, it means that the people from Beihai Town have come.

"What's wrong with this, Master?" Jiang felt a little strange when he looked at his husband's dazed and dazed.

"Oh, I remembered it! On May Day, Brother Zhongzi wrote a letter, mentioning that a relative named Xu was coming to donate to the office and asked me to help me take care of him." Ruan Yuan pretended to explain, if you could hide this kind of thing, it would be better to hide it from it first, so as not to show his strength to outsiders because of concern.

The "Zhongzi" mentioned by Ruan Yuan was named Ling Tingkan, a native of She County, Anhui Province. He was also a guy who was depressed and unsuccessful in the imperial examination. The two have been together for ten years and are considered close friends. In addition to Ruan Yuan, Ling Tingkan has two particularly good friends in Yangzhou, one is Wang Zhong and the other is Jiang Fan.

After hearing this, Jiang suddenly said, "Since this relationship is not good, it's not good to push it. Master should go and meet him."

The next day, Ruan Yuan was busy in the Nanshu study until Shenmo left. He first went home to change his casual clothes, then brought his close servant to the front door in a mule cart. The summer time for the Beijing officials in the Qing Dynasty was Shenzheng - that is, at 4 pm and in winter, one hour ahead of the winter. As for working hours, hehe, at 5 pm, Mao, basically you have to leave at 3 pm.

Zhengyang Tower is located on the west side of Qianmen, just a stone's throw from Qianmen. It is a restaurant that mainly sells barbecue, which is similar to the "barbecue season" in later generations. Although it is not far from Liulichang where Ruan Yuan's family is, he has never been here because he is not used to beef and mutton.

According to the market, more than 20 years ago, Qianlong Bailong Fish Clothes had eaten crabs here, which made it famous. After that, a crab banquet was added to Zhengyanglou, and the business became more and more prosperous.

The mule cart stopped at the entrance of the restaurant. Ruan Yuan got out and saw a row of three-bedroom facades in front of him. Five huge red lanterns were hanging under the eaves of the corners. Looking up, the three floors were covered with hip-mounted roofs, which looked very magnificent.

The guy in charge of the "Gaoer" at the door saw countless people every day. Although Ruan Yuan only wore a moon-white bamboo robe, the demeanor he had cultivated in the Hanlin Academy could not be concealed. So he went up and bowed and said kindly, "You please, please."

In some so-called "Beijing-style" restaurants in later generations, when guests arrived at the door, there would be waiters shouting loudly: "Two! Please come in there!" The sound was so loud that it was so loud. In fact, these were all fake folk customs, and the serious restaurants did not do this.

When I entered, I saw that there were guests in the hall on the first floor. There were six vermilion red lacquer columns in the building, and more than a dozen eight-immortal tables were placed. To the north was a stage. Although the sun had not set outside, due to insufficient light, more than twenty gathering lamps were still lit, and lights were also hung on the pillars, which were bright and bright.

There was someone singing a song on the stage at this time, but it was not the popular Hui style, but something called "Children's Book". The singer held an octagonal drum with copper pieces on it, and it made a rustling sound when it shook. Next to him was another person fiddling with the Sanxian. The tune was relaxed and the sound was loud.

"Okay, you're hiding Qiuxiang behind my back. I guess you love her pair of feet. Master Xu blushed and said nonsense, Madam, you're here to be mean to us. Also see what Qiuxiang looks like, Zhu Bajie, who doesn't look like Sun Dasheng's aunt. Madam sneered and said that he was still stubborn. As the saying goes, "Mr. Xu shook his head and said that this is out of the way. Master Xu shook his head and said that it's out of this. At such an old age, he's really not a fool. He's not afraid of laughing at me. Madam smiled and said, "Don't worry about laughing at me..."

While listening, Ruan Yuan had already gone up to the second floor. Huang Shengtai's shopkeeper Dong had already greeted him. The two of them greeted each other. The shopkeeper Dong first asked the head of the hall to take Ruan Yuan's Changsu to the first floor to eat and drink, and then led him to the private room.

When passing by the private room next door, Manager Dong whispered Ruan Yuan that in order to prevent the partition wall from being in trouble, the two private rooms on both sides and the seats were all his own people.

When I entered the door and lifted the curtain, I saw that the Eight Immortals table was covered with dishes. A man stood by the window. He heard the sound and turned around. This person was not tall, and he had a long, dark face, but his eyes were bright and bright. His dark mustache was decorated very neatly. He was wearing a gray poplin robe, a black satin vest, and a Xiangfei bamboo fan in his hand.

"I'm in Xu Dachun, I have long admired Mr. Boyuan's name! I often heard Mr. Wang and Mr. Jiang mention it before." After all, the capital was the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty, so Xu Dayong didn't use his real name.

When Ruan Yuan heard the other party’s words, he knew that this person was not a scholar, so he smiled and bowed, "I have really offended Mr. Xu when I asked him to wait for a long time."

Manager Dong smiled and said, "Where does Mr. Bo Yuan start? No one is outsider, please sit down."

After giving in for a long time, Xu Dayong finally sat in the main seat. After the three of them sat down, Manager Dong raised his glass and said, "Today, Mr. Boyuan has been enjoying the glory, and Brother Xu has come all the way. It is rare to get together. If you have anything to ask, Mr. Boyuan must not worry. I will give you a cup first, and I wish you good things a success!"

The three of them toasted each other and started talking too much. Ruan Yuan then asked Manager Dong: "What's the name of the song you sang downstairs just now? I've never heard of it."

Manager Dong smiled and explained: "This is called a book of children. It is the most popular among the children of the bannermen in the capital. The first few days, "Peach Blossom Fan" was not allowed to be performed, and several other plays were stopped. I guess the shopkeeper found someone else in order to be safe. He just sang "The Stealing Armor" in Water Margin. Did you see the drum on his hand? There are three copper pieces inlaid on each of the seven sides, which means seven flag colors, representing Manchu, Meng, and Han. The end with the long ears he held was the flag where he was."

Ruan Yuan nodded slightly after hearing this, recalling that the octagonal drum in the man on the stage looked like this.

Xu Dayong said: "Old Dong, do you think the person who sang the song is a bannerman? Why are all the bannermen getting into this position? This is Beijing City, under the feet of the emperor!"

Manager Dong smiled and said, "You really pretend to be confused when you understand."

Xu Dayong shook his head and said, "Haha, where do you start? I really don't know."

"If not," said the shopkeeper Dong, raised his hand and pointed to the north, and then said: "Now the imperial court has used troops and the Han army that had previously released the flag returned to the Eight Banners, and the money and grain expenses have soared. I heard that the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not afford so much money and grain at all, so I could only pay half of it. Now the livelihood of the bannermen is not easy, so I secretly sold my skills to earn a few bucks. Brother Bo Yuan should be clear about this, right?"

Ruan Yuan shook his head and said, "I am busy preparing books every day, and the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are not clear. Alas, I didn't expect that this is already the case!"

The three of them chatted for a while again. Seeing that the time was almost done, Xu Dayong said, "Thank you Mr. Bo Yuan. Please give me your letter after reading it. King Zhao specifically reminded you to be careful in everything so as not to cause trouble for you."

Ruan Yuan nodded slightly, and then Xu Dayong took out the letter from his arms and handed it over. When he opened it, his first reaction was that the word Zhao Wangdian was really bad, and it was just as good as a child. But what he didn't know was that it was not easy for Zhao Xin to write this word, and he had practiced intermittently for two years.

Zhao Xin came up in the letter and pointed out that the Qing Dynasty had not been around for a few years. He said that although Qianlong mobilized more than 100,000 troops north of Outer Mongolia and asked Agui to lead the troops, for the Northern Navy, it would be a dish, and it would be known in less than two months.

Then he explained the reasons why he did not send troops to cut off the grain transportation or to advance from Dagukou. In a word, it was to stabilize people's livelihood and avoid human disasters caused by panic in various places. In the end, the people were unlucky.

Zhao Xin told Ruan Yuan to make plans early. Although the scholars and officials said that "it is proud of being loyal to the whole family and being ashamed of losing the family and losing the reputation", it also deserves the points. A Tartar regime that is often convicted for words and even the bones of scholars is not worthy of loyalty.

A monarch cannot rule alone in the world. When you, Ruan Boyuan, worked in the Hanlin Academy, you should know better than me what the so-called "Manchu and Han family" is.

While Qianlong spent money and grain in the world to fight with Beihai Town, he also spent countless silver to build the Old Summer Palace. These were the blood and sweat of the people. The purpose was nothing more than to make his family live comfortably. What should the people who were displaced due to famine, selling their children and even being forced to go to a dead end? Now the corruption of the administration lies in Qianlong.

Finally, he quoted Gu Yanwu's words to end: "In the past, Gu Tinglin, Lin, was the one who saved this man from the trouble and brought peace to the ages. This is our responsibility!"

Why did Zhao Xin win over Ruan Yuan? Why did Ruan Yuan meet Xu Dayong? This matter has to start with the negotiations in Dagukou two years ago.

Although Ruan Yuan was frightened to death because he suddenly ran into his best friend Jiang Fan, he participated in the negotiations throughout the process. From then on, he realized that the court was no match for Beihai Town at all, and that the Manchus would sooner or later be driven off the throne of the emperor. In this way, Ruan Yuan, who was a master of Gu Yanwu's lineage, unconsciously had the idea of ​​"disputing China and the barbarians".

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although the kings who lost their country, from Chongzhen, Hongguang to Longwu, and Yongli, were all foolish and cowardly bastards, for Han officials, especially the scholars and officials in Jiangnan, it was natural for the Han emperor to take control of the power of the world. If the emperor doesn't work, change it, at most, "change the surname and change the name"; but when the Qing Dynasty came, it was called "leading beasts and eating people", which was to destroy the world.

Although Qianlong's rule had pushed himself to the commanding heights of "governance and Taoism", and with the image of a "Confucian teacher", he also accompanied the literary inquisition and controlled his thoughts, and made scholars lose the right to interpret the "Taotong", but it has only been 150 years since the fall of the Ming Dynasty. When the warships of Beihai Town were blocking Dagukou and forcing Qianlong to negotiate, when Zhao Xin and Wang Yuanfang were upset by the Yangzhou city, especially when they discovered that Wang Zhong, Jiao Xun, Zhong Huai, Huang Chengji and others were serving Beihai Town, the flame of "unwillingness" in the hearts of Han officials began to rekindle.

Qianlong, who had been arbitrarily in the court for more than 50 years, actually knew the above situations. Since Zhao Xin took the banner of the former Ming Dynasty, he has been paying attention to the movements of the gentry class in Jiangnan. But now, unlike the past, Qianlong could not have killed the Han people, otherwise he would push the Han people to an opposing side.

At the end of the 49th year of Qianlong, just one month after Ruan Yuan returned to the capital from Tianjin, when he returned home after visiting the Liulichang calligraphy and painting shop, he was shocked to find that there was a letter in his arms. When he opened it curiously, he was shocked to death because the person who wrote the letter had already applied to Wang Zhong and Wang Rongfu of Beihai Town.

In the letter, Wang Zhong first congratulated Ruan Yuan on his passing of the Jinshi exam and praised the other party's talent. Then, he took advantage of the fact that Ruan Yuan edited "Shiqu Baoji" in the Hanlin Academy and mentioned the "Book of Ye Qian'an" written by Gu Yanwu, and insinuated Ruan Yuan not to serve the Qing Dynasty.

When the Qing Dynasty opened the History Museum of Ming Dynasty and wanted to ask Gu Yanwu to take up his post. When Gu Yanwu heard the news, he wrote this letter to Ye Qian'an, who was in the capital, who was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, who was in charge of the Hanlin Academy. He used his elder mother, Mrs. Wang, to die on a hunger strike against the Qing Dynasty, to express his attitude. The implication was that I would not go. If the Qing court dared to force me, I would obey my mother's last order and sacrifice myself for my life!

Then Wang Zhong changed his subject and roughly told Ruan Yuan what he saw and heard in Beihai Town, and praised Zhao Xinyitong fiercely. He said that he had the power of heaven and was not inferior to Tang and Song Zu. Since he fought against the trend in the northeast, people's livelihood has been the first priority, which is an abnormality in ancient and modern times. In short, he advised Ruan Yuan not to work for the Qing Dynasty and quickly take his family to Beihai Town. After reading the letter, Ruan Yuan burned it without saying a word, but he did not report it to the official.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! More than a month later, the wind was calm and Ruan Yuan, who had been in a state of mind, thought that the matter had passed. Unexpectedly, a few days later, he actually received two handwritten letters from Jiang Fan and Jiao Xun in the same way, with the content similar to those from Wang Zhong. In particular, Jiang Fan's letter specifically mentioned that Zhao Xin valued him very much, and then he sincerely solicited him again and again.

You should know that Jiao Xun's wife is Ruan Yuan's cousin, and Jiang Fan and Ruan Yuan have a childhood relationship. The actions of these two people almost made Ruan Yuan's nose crooked, thinking that you really don't treat me as an outsider! But he was also a little satisfied, and he didn't expect that he would be attracted by the King of Zhao.

In fact, Zhao Xin not only felt that Ruan Yuan was young, his thoughts were not so stubborn and he was prone to turn around, but more importantly, Ruan Yuan's political experience and character in another time and space history. During his tenure as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, this person first saw the British's wolf ambitions, which was a typical fear of power and morality. So he built a Humen Fort to ban merchants from smuggling opium. He also submitted a memorial request to punish foreign cargo ships that had entered Guangdong's internal oceans to stop trade, stop their merchant food, and fire fire attacks. However, these requests were rejected by Jiaqing, resulting in the increasingly rampant opium smuggling.

In addition, Ruan Yuan received three letters without making any statement, which gave the Intelligence Bureau an opportunity, and then asked Manager Dong to try to contact him. After a while, Ruan Yuan knew what the other party was doing, so he proposed to see Zhao Xin’s handwritten letter.

Ruan Yuan read the letter back and forth twice before handing it back to Xu Dayong. After pondering for a long time, he said softly: "When King Zhao is valued, Ruan is not as talented as Mr. Rong Fu, and he has no son and brother Ping to carry a spear. Even if he talks about the world's abilities, he doesn't know what he can do for King Zhao? As for taking his family to Beihai Town, Ruan is really difficult, so please forgive me for Brother Xu."

Ruan Yuan is no longer an editor of the Hanlin Academy, but a young minister of the Zhanshi Mansion. He walked in the Nanshu's study and every move was under the eyes of the court. If he dared to escape and defect, Qianlong would be furious, he would definitely cause big trouble to his family and a group of old friends in Yangzhou.

In February this year, the Qing court held the "Han Zhan Grand Examination". Ruan Yuan was promoted to the first-class first by Qianlong because of his outstanding literary talent, and directly jumped from the seventh rank to the rank of the fourth-rank senior officials.

If this had not appeared in Beihai Town, the young minister would be the minister after that, and then he would be appointed as the minister of the government, and then return to Beijing to be promoted to the cabinet bachelor and minister of the minister, and the minister of the minister. If he had the opportunity to be promoted to the position of cabinet bachelor and minister of the Ministry of Rites, he would be the future "Captain Prime Minister", and the Grand Secretary of the "Three Halls and Three Pavilions" would definitely not be able to escape.

In another time and space history, Ruan Yuan went down step by step. During this period, he served as governor and governor, and formulated a strict policy for those who sold opium in the position of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Until he was seventy years old, he finally became a Grand Secretary of the Tiren Pavilion.

Xu Dayong smiled slightly after hearing this and said politely: "Mr. Boyuan is too worried. King Zhao will not force you to go to Beihai Town. It's just that the movements in the court will be large and small in the future. I hope you can regularly notify Manager Dong of the shopkeeper."

In fact, Zhao Xin did not intend to let Ruan Yuan go to Beihai Town. His idea was to let him be a secret son. With this person, the movements of the Qing Dynasty could be clearly grasped, so as not to avoid any troubles from happening to the Qianlong and his son.

Ruan Yuan nodded after hearing this. He could still do this "dog and horse" at all. Xu Dayong was overjoyed and gave a wink at the shopkeeper Dong. So shopkeeper Dong began to explain to Ruan Yuan one by one how to contact him in the future and how to deliver messages and other details.
Chapter completed!