The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Wang Wenlong responded to Yang Tiansheng's question: "Whether the Zhejiang Party can secure its power depends on the personnel changes in recent years."

Yang Tiansheng and the others often have to smoothen their relationship, and they don't know how much money they have to send to Jiangsu and Zhejiang a year. They also have various analyzes of the situation in the court, but they all listen to hearsay, while Wang Wenlong's analysis is based directly on the basis of power.

Reminiscent of the embarrassing situation in which the first assistant Zhao Zhigao has been scolded in recent years, and Shen Yiguan and Ge Lao Zhang Wei recommended Yang Hao. Yang Hao was defeated in Korea, and Ge Lao Zhang Wei was sprayed into a sieve, but Shen Yiguan Being able to stay still, Yang Tiansheng felt that it did seem to be the reason why Shen Guangyuan was protected by the Zhejiang Party as Wang Wenlong said.

Zhao Zhigao is seventy-eight years old. He has been on sick leave for the past four years. It seems that he will not live much longer. He will naturally rise to power. According to Wang Wenlong, the Zhejiang Party will be at its peak in the next few years.

As for Wang Wenlong's belief that the power of the Zhejiang Party is still unstable, Yang Tiansheng disagrees. The chief minister is a member of the Zhejiang Party, and there are many Zhejiang Party officials among the powerful ministers. Isn't this the power of the Zhejiang Party?

Wang Wenlong saw Yang Tiansheng's happy look and knew that Yang Tiansheng and other maritime merchants would definitely bet a large amount of bribes on the Zhejiang Party when they returned.

There are still three years until the next Beijing Procuratorate. Yang Tiansheng's strategy can be implemented within these few years. However, Wang Wenlong knows that the Donglin Party is making plans at this time. They will know that the Donglin Party will only wait until the next Beijing Procuratorate begins. How at stake.

But now that Wang Wenlong has said what he should say, no more persuasion is necessary.

Yang Tiansheng asked again: "I wonder if Duke Jianyang is familiar with the situation overseas?"

Wang Wenlong smiled and said, "You want to ask Japan, right?"

Yang Tiansheng smiled and nodded. The Japanese route is the easiest route for Fujian maritime merchants like them to make profits. After all, there are no Europeans in the middle to make the difference.

Not involving the Ming Dynasty, Wang Wenlong's answer this time was very straightforward: "After Toyotomi Hideyoshi was killed in the Korean War, the situation in Japan has been determined. There were many contradictions in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's old department. No one can suppress him after his death." live."

Yang Tiansheng and others were mainly engaged in trade with Japan and were familiar with the situation in Japan. Hearing this, he asked in surprise: "Now that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's old troops have also formed a Western Army to resist Tokugawa Ieyasu's attack, Duke Jianyang actually Can you be so certain about the outcome of the war?"

"The interests of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's old army are unevenly distributed. How can they fight a tough battle when the boss is dead? The Western Army formed may have to fight first. Kato Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori may have already planned to rebel and attack Konishi Yukinagabu at this time. ." Wang Wenlong said with a smile.

He added: "Once Toyotomi Hideyoshi's power dies, and Tokugawa Ieyasu does not need to rely on foreign aggression to stabilize his position like those grassroots samurai, Japan will most likely stabilize. In a few years, Japan will focus on fighting with Ming Dynasty restored friendly relations and worked hard to develop the economy."

"Gong Jianyang is really a great talent. He has such a clear understanding of the situation in Japan even if it is not known from the Ming Dynasty." Yang Tiansheng was quite emotional.

Maritime merchants like them often predict the current situation in Japan, but most of them think that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's remaining troops still have enough power, and Japan's civil war will continue for a while, but they did not expect that Wang Wenlong's judgment would be so decisive.

Of course, at this time, he only regarded Wang Wenlong's words as an opinion and was skeptical. It was not until a few months later that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's old ministry actually split, and Governor Konishi died directly in an internal fight that the group of maritime merchants were stunned.

Wang Wenlong’s prediction is almost exactly the same as what happened.

Even many years later, Yang Tiansheng had become a powerful figure in the uprising. He had his own armed forces and territory on Da Yuan Island. When educating his children, he would earnestly say: "You have to open your eyes and understand the importance. Don't think that If you have some financial resources, you will look down on the people in the world... Don't think that Zhuge Kongming, who knew three parts of the world before he was a fledgling in the ancient books, was a liar.

At that time, I heard with my own ears that Wang Jianyang discussed the situation in the world, and every word he said was correct, as if the world was deduced based on what he said. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that there were such wizards in the world. .

Since then, I have often kept in touch with Duke Jianyang. Although there are few opportunities to receive such teachings, every time he speaks about current affairs, it always makes me realize that our family's light comes from his judgment. The profit is worth one hundred thousand taels of silver..."

On the eighth day of July, early in the morning, the Wang family in Liwenfang was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Wang Wenlong and Shen Jue first set up a banquet at home to entertain Yue Lao. Shen Jing did not arrive, so they could only treat Xu Xuezhu to have a meal, and there was also a letter of thanks from the matchmaker. The trustee sent it to Shen Jing. After the banquet to thank the matchmaker, Wang started to brag outside the door. Originally, the wedding banquet at this time was for dinner, but because too many refugees had gathered outside Fuzhou Prefecture in the past two months, Jin Xuezeng was afraid that something would happen, so he had issued a curfew order, and Wang Wenlong had to have lunch instead.

More than 80 pairs of official lanterns belonging to Shen Jue's family were placed outside the Wang's house, and lined up two streets. They were all deacons, a troupe of fine musicians, and eight pairs of gauze lanterns, leading Shen Yixiu's four-person sedan, followed by Shen Jue and Xu Xueju. They sent Shen Yixiu into the Wang family together with the official sedan.

As the sedan entered Liwenfang, the Shen family gave them a few envelopes to open the door, and then the door opened, and there was a sound of drum music inside to welcome them out.

Wang Jingui, considered the senior member of the royal family, came out wearing fine silk clothes, satin boots and gold belts, and bowed to the promotion.

Shen Yixiu got off the sedan chair, and Wang Wenlong led the bride to the main hall with her gauze hat, palace robe, and red hairpin. They paid homage to her parents' memorial tablets, then offered tea to Shen Jue three times and set up a banquet.

Weddings in this era were a ceremony for two families to become one family, and had little to do with the relationship between men and women. Throughout the whole process, Wang Wenlong and Shen Yixiu followed the etiquette and did not hold hands.

The ceremony was not over yet. Shen Yixiu had to go to the back house to do the rituals for women to enter the house. Zhang was responsible for leading the ceremony, while Wang Wenlong dressed like the God of Wealth in the New Year paintings and went to the banquet to entertain guests.

There are few people in the family and every position is in short supply. As the father-in-law, Shen Jue is also very busy and personally leads the people to welcome guests into the house.

At noon, guests also arrived one after another.

I saw an old man wearing a sour scholar's shirt walking into the house with an old and dim-eyed servant.

At first, Shen Jue only thought that this was some kind of editor invited by Wang Wenlong, until he heard the master of the Minhou County Government next to him whispered: "This is Huang Mingzhou, the former Minister of Rites of Nanjing!"

Shen Jucai was shocked and quickly raised his hands to greet him: "It turns out to be Mr. Zhi'an. I'm so polite to you, this junior."

Huang Fengxiang was the emperor's master, and his ranking during the Longqing period was much higher than that of the head of the Criminal Department.

Huang Fengxiang nodded and said with a smile: "Be courteous." He asked his servant to put down his newly compiled "Quanzhou Fu Zhi" as a gift and went in to talk to Wang Wenlong.

Soon after Huang Fengxiang entered, he saw several sedan chairs parked at the door, and a group of Wang Wenlong's young friends came one after another.

"Xu Xinggong and Xu Ji in Min County."

"Quanzhou Li Guozhu."

"Zhangpu Lin Zhirui."

The master next to him once again introduced to Shen Jue: "Li Guozhu is the son of the Li Dan family, the Xu family brothers are wealthy people in Min County, and Lin Zhirui is the sixth young master of Zhangpu Lin Shizhang..."

(End of this chapter)