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Chapter 189 Is the Golden Scale a Thing in a Pool? It Turns into a Dragon When It Meets Rome
It took Wanji about ten days to go back and forth between Nanyang and Wuchang.

So when Shen Shuren was sure that Yang Sichang accepted his conditions, it was almost the middle of April.

Accepted is accepted, but Yang Sichang still has a little request - Yang Sichang hopes that Shen Shuren can help write the specific analysis of "Li Zicheng is about to go downhill, and Li Zicheng has nothing to fear" in more detail, so that Yang Sichang can directly copy the homework and hand it over to Chongzhen , so that Chongzhen would not be too hasty.

When Shen Shuren heard this request at first, he was quite surprised, because the secret letter he asked Wan Ji to bring back was already detailed enough, and it was written in Yang Sichang's position and tone.

If you want to submit a memorial to Chongzhen, you can basically copy it. Why do you have to ask him to revise it?
It can't be that Shen Shuren's theoretical analysis of political philosophy is not solid enough, right?Then it could only be that Gu Yanwu, the ghostwriter's literary talent and rhetoric are not good enough?
Fortunately, Yang Sichang's reply was also very clear, and Shen Shuren was not allowed to guess: Yang Sichang suggested that Shen Shuren develop and expand this theory. Thieves on the continuation".

Moreover, Yang Sichang made it very clear, don't "give credit to others", that is, don't analyze it in Yang Sichang's tone, but use Shen Shuren's own name instead.When Yang Sichang played, he would tell Chongzhen clearly, "This is not my point of view, but Shen Shuren's point of view."

When Shen Shuren saw this, at first he thought it was Yang Sichang who was not greedy for merit, and wanted to better support the younger generation and help young people to make a name for themselves.

But then, Shen Shuren thought about the taste: the ginger is still old and spicy!Yang Sichang is not giving fame, he is using his Shen Shuren's "magic calculation" reputation to enhance his persuasive power to the emperor, and to beat the morale of the bandits by the way!
After all, Shen Shuren has predicted Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's rising period in the first half of his life very accurately, even to the point that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who have lost their children and grandchildren, have an advantage in killing Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying and other lustful chieftains. It has been fulfilled!
Then, if Shen Shuren said some more prophecies in the future, the content would be unfavorable to the thieves, and spread widely, wouldn't it be able to hit the morale of the thieves!Even if it can't be hit temporarily, but one day if the bandits really start to go downhill, many people inside will start to panic and waver!
This is like in "The Wind and Cloud Dominate the World", the mud bodhisattva may not be believed by so many people at the beginning.
However, once the mud bodhisattva's prophecy of Xiong's dominance in the first half of his life, "Is the golden scale a thing in a pool, it will transform into a dragon when it encounters a storm" is accurately verified,
When the mud bodhisattva reveals Xiongba's second half-life commentary of "Success is like a storm, failure is like a storm", the number of people who believe in it will skyrocket. Even Xiongba himself will panic, and he attaches as much importance to it as an oracle.

However, Shen Shuren's analysis is all supported by solid political philosophy theory and the underlying logic of human greed, which is more terrifying than illusory oracles.

My brother predicted how Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would rise to the pinnacle of life, and the prediction was accurate.Now let’s predict how Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will die, just ask if you are afraid!Those people under your command, once they lose the battle in the future, their mentality will be shaken, are you afraid!
"Golden scales are not things in a pool. When they meet a Roman/horse, they will transform into a dragon. However, success is also a Roman/horse, and defeat is also a Roman/horse!"

Yang Sichang is not giving credit here, he is sure that the prestige and credibility of Shen Shuren in terms of "magic calculation" is much higher than that of Yang Sichang and other civil officials in Ming Dynasty, so he wants to make full use of this BUFF bonus .

Fortunately, Shen Shuren is not at a loss in this kind of thing, it is a win-win situation, so let's work hard.

……

Ever since, during the middle of April.

Shen Shuren waited for Zhang Mingzhen, Zheng Chenggong and others who had just rushed back to rest and reorganize the troops, so that the men and horses who had traveled thousands of miles to retreat quickly recuperate the wounded and treat the sick, and the army rations and vegetables were fully supplied to restore their combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

On the other hand, let Fang Yizhi, Song Yingxing, and Song Mingde's uncle and nephew continue to work hard on technology development and military industry. Of course, craftsmen such as Zhou Tiedan can't be idle.Taking advantage of the final sprint preparation period before the war against Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, the production of new weapons was raised.

As for Shen Shuren himself, he chose to stay at home for ten days and a half months, and supplemented "On the Continued Flow of Thieves" solidly. smuggled goods.

For example, the materials that Shen Shuren originally gave Yang Sichang to deal with Chongzhen would never make random predictions: "Last year I said that Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying would die at the hands of Li Zicheng, but now it has come true. It can be seen that Li Zicheng believed this statement.
The dead Luo Rucai and others must have suspected it, and they must have been wary of Li Zicheng.It's just that their precautions are not comprehensive enough, and their methods are not thorough enough, so that self-protection fails to work.But this does not mean that the self-protection measures that Luo, Ma and others arranged in the past are completely useless. In the future, there will definitely be Luo and Ma's confidantes who forbear for the time being, and after discovering the opportunity, they will fight with Li Zicheng out of fear and suspicion..."

"For Zhang Xianzhong, he will definitely learn from Li Zicheng's lesson of killing Luo and Ma, and Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons will definitely fight for power. To temporarily cover up the contradictions of the transfer and transition of the greatest power of the thieves,
But this contradiction cannot disappear, it can only be suppressed temporarily.One day, Li and Zhang's righteous sons will kill each other, and even secretly kill their fathers to pretend that other righteous brothers have killed their fathers, and kill all the righteous fathers and righteous brothers to seize power...Anyway, Yang Er, Li Er, Zhao Eryi The "Taizong" of the previous dynasties has provided them with countless materials with different priorities. "

Obviously, Shen Shuren wrote this in order to arouse Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng's mutual suspicion and killing each other, so that a group of their adopted sons and nephews would have no peace.

But this simple narrative logic is often the most easy to understand, even Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who are semi-literate, can understand it.

It is as effective as saying to Xiongba that it is your adopted son and apprentice who want to retaliate, especially when the first half of "Is the golden scale a thing in the pool" has been fulfilled.

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The days of arranging government affairs and writing books behind closed doors passed smoothly for several days.

On April [-]th, there was finally a little disturbance in the peaceful city of Wuchang.

Fang Yizhi, the prefect of Wuchang, who just went to Daye County for a few days to exchange work, finally returned to Wuchang.

In recent days, Fang Yizhi stayed in Wuchang City most of the time, helping Shen Shuren, who was also his boss at the same year, deal with some daily civil affairs.In a small part of the time, I went to Daye County to discuss natural science with Song Yingxing, and tinker with something interesting by the way.

In history, "Physics", which should have been written behind closed doors by Fang Yizhi after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, is now several years ahead of schedule, and the first draft is already being collected.

Fang Yizhi's "Physics" is just the title of the book, but the actual content covers the four major categories of astronomy, geography, physics, and biology.Now because of Shen Shuren's butterfly effect, it is inevitable to add a little more chemical knowledge.

In the future, it is estimated that it will become a heterogeneous but unsystematic encyclopedia of natural history.

A while ago, Shen Shuren invented the "canned" technology of fresh-keeping peas not to let farmers who could not plant early rice due to insufficient spring drought to plant some peas to survive the spring famine.

"Food can be kept fresh by sealing it after cooking", this discovery opened the door to a new world for Fang Yizhi,
He suddenly realized that this world seems to be exactly as brother Shen Nian speculated, there may be countless "invisible micro-worms" that are leading the daily food decay, and the remains of animals and plants are rotting and returning to the field.

And Shen Shuren was very tolerant to him and kept his promise, and he agreed to take three days off every half a month, so that he could do what he wanted, and the scientific research funding was also sufficient.So in the past month or so, Fang Yizhi spent the time discussing with Song Yingxing the topic of "Micro-worms cause animals and plants to rot".

During the few days when Fang Yizhi went to Daye County, Shen Shuren would also tacitly stop the writing task at hand, take the opportunity to take over and help with the daily civil affairs, and learn about the situation by the way, so as not to lose touch with the civil affairs and financial situation under the rule.

Everyone was satisfied with this rhythm, but some people in Fang Yizhi's mansion were not satisfied.

This time after Fang Yizhi came back, he was blocked by a woman as soon as he got home, and it was his sister Fang Ziling.

Last year Fang Ziling lived in Jiangling. As a girl who has not left the court, it is normal to live with her parents, and the governor of Huguang's office is in Jiangling.

But this year, after Fang Yizhi became the magistrate of Wuchang, Fang Ziling used a lot of tricks with his parents to come to Wuchang in the name of "helping his parents to visit and take care of his brother".

Fang Kongxuan and Wu Lingyi considered that nothing would happen to their youngest daughter at the eldest son's place, and they hadn't seen their son for several years, so it was not a bad thing to have a daughter to help them see how their son was doing, so they agreed.

Now, Fang Ziling has lived in his brother-in-law's house for a month or two.

When she first came to Wuchang, she also lived in seclusion, and the only man she could see every day was her own brother, who helped her brother and sister-in-law with some housework.

However, after staying for a month, with the news that "Li Zicheng attacked and defeated the governor of the three sides, Wang Qiaonian, and then held a banquet to lure and kill Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying under the prestige of the victory", Fang Ziling felt a shock in his heart, and felt a little bit ashamed feel.

Last year, Shen Shuren went to Jiangling to ask for help, and later visited Fang Kongxue twice, which can be regarded as maintaining relations with Shangguan.When I went to Jiangling in winter, I happened to be in time for the Fang family to cook wine and enjoy plum blossoms and snow.

Fang Ziling felt that he was also well-versed in poetry and history books, but at that time he had an academic debate with Shen Shuren by chance.She also advised Shen Shuren not to talk too much, and not to be too arrogant in speaking, making herself look like a magic stick.

In the end, Shen Shuren didn't appreciate it, and he didn't feel that he was a magic stick at all, only that he was a fortune teller.Fang Ziling was so angry that he felt that Shen Shuren was kind enough to treat him like a donkey, and he didn't appreciate it when he advised him to be humble, so he even made a bet with him in a fit of anger.

But now everything has come true!Shen Shuren is really planning a strategy, predicting the enemy thousands of miles away, and counting the enemy half a year later!
Fang Ziling realized that he had to apologize sincerely, admit his mistakes, and admit defeat.It's because my own knowledge is too shallow, and I don't deserve to persuade the other party to be humble at all.

Shen Shuren is not arrogant at all, he really has this capital!
It's a pity that Fang Ziling is a boudoir girl, and she can't come to the door to admit her mistakes, so she wants to ask her brother for help.

Unexpectedly, Fang Yizhi either prevaricates and says, "Brother Shen Nian is engrossed in the works assigned by the old and new Yang Ge, and has no time to socialize behind closed doors", or goes to Daye County to discuss biology with Song Yingxing and study "the principle of animal and plant decay" , Fang Ziling lost his temper.

This time when Fang Yizhi came back, he was blocked by his younger sister:
"You still know how to come back! Let me introduce you. You are either saying that people want to study behind closed doors, or you have disappeared yourself! Researching a canned food is worth your running around like this!"

Fang Yizhi was in the mood for excitement, and would not give in to his younger sister: "Why is it not worth it? Brother Shen Nian wants to deal with Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong is hiding in the deep mountains. How difficult is it to chase after the army to transfer?
This canned food can be big or small. It can not only help the common people store peas, but it may also increase the types of military rations, and allow some foods that are light and nutritious but not easy to store for a long time to be added to the military rations. This is very important for the imperial army. The fighting power is helpful, how is it not a big deal? "

Fang Ziling lost his temper, so he had to put on a pitiful tone: "You are doing business, right? Then you are back, so you have time to introduce me... Although we are women, we are also You have to keep your word and admit the bet. If you lost the bet with Shen Futai last year, you should come to the door and admit your mistake."

Fang Yizhi scratched his head: "I don't care about this matter. Let's see how busy Brother Shen is with his retreat works tomorrow. If he is free, I can introduce you to you. What he is doing, but alienation The most important thing is to disintegrate the thieves and the thieves from within.

Little sister, you don’t know brother Shen Nian well enough, don’t look at him sometimes just writing books behind closed doors, his pen can at least be worth a hundred thousand soldiers, as long as there is a matter of iron mouth, even if no one in the world thinks about it. Do it, if he said it, someone would do it—

Li Zicheng didn't necessarily want to kill Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying so soon at first, but brother Shen Nian reminded that mutual suspicion among the thieves intensified, implying that later, Li Zicheng did not want to kill him, so he killed him ahead of time.What a terrible magic trick, and you have to step on it even if you know it is a pit.In my opinion, in today's world, to save Daming really depends on a genius like Brother Shen Nian. "

Fang Ziling had listened to his brother chattering for so long, and felt as if he had been a lifetime away.

Before she came to Wuchang in February this year, she hadn't seen her brother for a long time, and they were a little strange to each other.Her original impression of her brother was still when she was only thirteen or fourteen years old.

At that time, she did not read as much as she does now, and she only worshiped her erudite and wise elder brother. In her impression, her elder brother never really worshiped outsiders in terms of knowledge, even when she was a child, she did not worship her father to the extent of her knowledge.

But three years later, my elder brother was so impressed by a younger brother and superior who was a Jinshi in the same year. It seemed that he was really a frog at the bottom of a well.

(End of this chapter)