Wanli 1592

Chapter 477 Visiting Xu Guangqi
In the winter and November of the 25th year of Wanli, the city of Beijing was bitterly cold.

The icy cold wind whizzed and blew the icy cold air to every pedestrian on the streets of Beijing, urging these pedestrians to speed up their pace, while warming their bodies, they hurried home to avoid getting sick.

Since late October, the climate in the north has turned cold suddenly. At the end of November, it is already too cold to wrap up in cotton-padded clothes and trousers to keep out the cold.

The families of high-ranking officials and nobles are wrapped in cotton clothes and fur robes to keep out the cold. Ordinary people can't afford fur robes, and the cotton clothes are not very thick, so they can only stay at home as much as possible to keep warm.

Xu Guangqi is also one of the general public who huddled at home to keep warm and tried not to go out. As a southerner, when he set off for the capital in Dezhong Township Examination, he never thought that the capital would be so cold. do not adapt.

In the winter, let alone go out to enjoy the snow and express your feelings, even standing by the window and exhaling the cold air can make your teeth freeze.

Xu Guangqi, who didn't have brocade hat and sable fur, could only huddle in his hut. Fortunately, the charcoal fire was still strong and the room was warm, which allowed him to keep reading, so he wouldn't have to huddle on the bed to read.

His family was once rich when he was in his grandfather, but in the hands of his father, he failed in business and fell into poverty, so he could only switch to farming. The savings for many years will not be wiped out all at once. There are still some savings, which can be regarded as a wealthy family. It is not difficult to support him as a scholar.

And now that he has won the Juren, his family already has acres of land that can be exempted from taxes, and he has no worries about his future. Of course, he has high ambitions and he does not want to stop at Juren and live the life of a landlord and gentry.

His purpose is to display what he has learned all his life in the court, bring Daming back to the right track, and use what he has witnessed and learned over the past few decades to change the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, he devoted himself to preparing for the exam in the capital. For him, he had passed the most difficult part of the imperial examination, the rural exam, and winning the exam meant that he would be able to pass the imperial exam and become an official. In that case, His dream has initially come true.

He is preparing for the exam with hope and confidence.

At noon, he simply ate some warm meals, took a nap, and then got up to continue studying. When he was serious, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

This is a cheap small courtyard he rented in the capital. There are two houses and a small courtyard. It can be regarded as a sparrow. Although it is small, it has all internal organs. One is for people, the other is for the kitchen, and there is a thatched shed for Chu Gong. Toilet room.

He likes this place very much. The house price in the capital is not low, at least he can’t afford it as a scholar rushing for the exam. It is more cost-effective to rent a small house until the exam is over, and it is also the choice of many scholars.

The door was knocked, his thoughts were interrupted, and he had to brave the severe cold to go out to open the door. Under the attack of various factors, Xu Guangqi was naturally in a bad mood.

He yelled "Who is it" very unhappy, but he put on his cotton coat and went out shyly to open the door.

There are two worlds outside and inside the house, one is warm and the other is freezing to death. Xu Guangqi inhaled and exhaled fiercely while running to the gate. When the door opened, he saw a strange young man carrying a long box.

"May I ask that your Excellency is Xu Guangqi, Mr. Xu?"

Xu Guangqi frowned and looked this person up and down.

do not know.

"Who are you? Why do you know your name?"

The young man bowed his hands.

"Mr. Xu, I am under the command of Xiao Ruxun, the Marquis of Zhennan, and I am here to visit you at the order of Marquis Xiao."

Xiao Ruxun?
Xu Guangqi suddenly understood everything.

After the success of the Shuntianfu Township Examination, Xu Guangqi once went south to return to his hometown. When passing through Nanjing City, he visited Ye Mengxiong, Minister of the Nanjing Military Department, who appreciated his talents very much.

Ye Mengxiong told him that it would be difficult for his talent to achieve great things in the current capital court, but if he changed places, he might be able to do a great job.

Xu Guangqi was very surprised at that time. He felt that a famous scholar like Ye Mengxiong should not have said such a thing.

Ye Mengxiong told Xu Guangqi that after he made great contributions, he was squeezed out by the court and had to go south after he almost lost his life. He told him that a practical talent like him is not popular in today's court.

why?Because many things that need to worry about the court have been solved by one person, this gives the ministers of the court and China a good time to fight against each other and fight for power and profit.

The current imperial court is full of smog, and the officials are fighting among themselves. It is difficult for talented officials to do much.

Xu Guangqi was very curious, so he asked who that person was. Ye Mengxiong showed the look of reminiscence, and said the name——Xiao Ruxun.

Xu Guangqi is no stranger to the name Xiao Ruxun. Since the Korean War, Xiao Ruxun’s name has been widely spread in the north and south of the country. Everyone calls him the No. 1 general in Wanli. The Great Wall of your country.

The reason is very simple. Since he emerged, he has never been defeated. In Ningxia, he cleared up the mess of the Gubai Rebellion, and gained the reputation of being a lone loyalist who resisted adversity. The court was shocked.

Afterwards, he competed with Li Rusong for the position of the chief general of the Korean War, and he won the battle. He commanded an army of 23 troops to fight against the Japanese rebellion. He was only [-] years old at the time.

After several consecutive victories in North Korea, they crossed the ocean to hit the Japanese mainland, killed the Japanese regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and broke the unified Japan into two halves.

Xu Guangqi was amazed upon hearing this, and felt that a real general with a strategic mind finally appeared in Daming, even a handsome talent.

In this battle, Xiao Ruxun killed nearly 20 Japanese pirates, completely maiming Japan, the confidant of Daming for many years, and the coastal people no longer have to worry about the Japanese pirates coming back.

Therefore, when the battle report came, the happiest and most admired Xiao Ruxun were the coastal provinces of Shandong and the southeast, including Xu Guangqi who was born in Shanghai.

What's even better is that Xiao Ruxun found gold and silver in Japan, which not only strengthened the gold and silver, but also demanded that Japan pay war reparations and give Daming a large sum of money every year, so Xu Guangqi thinks that Daming's finances are abundant and many things can be done It's done, it's all thanks to Xiao Ruxun.

Then Xiao Ruxun went south to the Dongwu Kingdom to suppress the rebellion of the Dongwu Kingdom, and established Burma Town in the Dongwu Kingdom.

These are the reasons for Ye Mengxiong?

(End of this chapter)