Daming: I have a showdown, my father-in-law is the emperor

Chapter 232 Donglin Party Leader
The living room fell silent all of a sudden.

No one spoke, and no one dared to make noise.

Chen Fan just sat quietly on the main seat and thought about it, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

After a while.

Chen Fan's thoughts were pulled back by Steward Wang.

"Master! Master!"

Butler Wang whispered in Chen Fan's ear.

Chen Fan was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, looked at Steward Wang and asked in surprise:

"what happened?"

Butler Wang explained:

"In the past few days when the young master is away, in addition to Huang Taiji, there are other important guests who have also sent messengers. Would you like to see the young master?"

In fact, Steward Wang was also at a loss.

He didn't understand why the young master went back for a while.

Suddenly there will be so many guests coming to the National Teacher's Mansion, asking to meet the young master.

The young master never dealt with them before!
How come so many guests came all of a sudden.

Butler Wang couldn't think of anything.

Could it be that there is something inside that he doesn't know about?

Chen Fan said in surprise:
"Oh! There are still guests?"

Now, Chen Fan couldn't figure it out.

Unexpectedly, apart from Huang Taiji's messenger, other people also sent messengers.

How strange!
He just came back, and there are so many people looking for him.

When did he become so popular?
Butler Wang quickly replied:

"There are two more guests, do you want to see the young master? If the young master wants to see them, the old slave will ask his servants to call them over. If you don't want to see them, when they come to visit the National Teacher's Mansion next time, let someone directly call them They sent away."

"Oh? Which two guests are they?"

Chen Fan asked curiously.

Do you want to see who is the guest?
If he knew and heard about it, he would still be very interested in meeting him.

Of course, if it was someone unknown, Chen Fan wasn't interested in wasting time.

But it's impossible to think about it.

Even Butler Wang said he was an important guest.

Then the identity of the comer and comer will not be so bad.

Steward Wang said with a serious face:

"One is Qian Qianyi, the leader of Jiangnan Donglin Party, and the other is Zheng Zhilong, a well-known businessman all over the country."

The reputation of these two great figures spread throughout the entire Ming Dynasty.

Even if Steward Wang's family is in the capital, Steward Wang's ears are like thunder for Qian Qianyi from Jiangnan and Zheng Zhilong from Guangdong.

The officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River is controlled by the Donglin Party.

As the leader of the Donglin Party, Qian Qianyi's influence naturally needless to say.

Scholars born in the south of the Yangtze River must first join the Donglin Party if they want to become officials.

Otherwise, he would be dismissed as a heretic by the Donglin Party, not to mention his official position.

It can be said that in the Jiangnan officialdom, Qian Qianyi is the Tu Emperor.

Chongzhen's imperial decree was not as effective as Qian Qianyi's words.

It is no exaggeration to say that Qian Qianyi is the number one literati in the world.

Even if Steward Wang is not in the officialdom, he can often hear people around him highly respecting Qian Qianyi.

Therefore, when Qian Qianyi sent a messenger to visit, Steward Wang understood that this was an important guest.

Speaking of Zheng Zhilong in Guangdong and Fujian, there is no one in Daming who does not know him.

It is rumored that Zheng Zhilong controls the maritime trade in the entire sea area.

Especially in the Nanyang area.

Anyone who dared to challenge Zheng Zhilong's position in the sea was wiped out by him.

Rather than saying that Zheng Zhilong is a big merchant, it is better to say that he is a great pirate.

Monopolized the maritime transactions in the entire Southeast Asia.

I don't know how much silk, porcelain, tea, and spices are shipped overseas every year, and they are exchanged for a large amount of gold and silver.

According to rumors heard by Steward Wang, Zheng Zhilong earns more than ten million taels of silver every year.

Think how horrible this is.

More silver than the Ming treasury.

It can be called a country that is as rich as an enemy.

Of course, Butler Wang also knew that this was a rumor and it was not credible.

But since it was passed on, it has a certain degree of credibility.

In Wang Steward's view, even if the annual silver earned is not tens of millions, there must still be millions of taels.

Such a rich and powerful merchant sent someone to the National Teacher's Mansion to deliver a letter. Of course, Steward Wang would receive the person attentively.

No matter where the rich are, they will be respected by others.

Not to mention the wealthy people who are as rich as the enemy.

After hearing the names Qian Qianyi and Zheng Zhilong, Chen Fan was stunned.

It's them?
The names of these two people, even those who are not familiar with the history of Ming Dynasty, have heard of their names.

Qian Qianyi, founder of Donglin Party.

The Donglin Party bears an inescapable responsibility for the rapid demise of Ming Dynasty.

Originally, Daming was on the verge of collapse, and the party struggle initiated by the Donglin Party accelerated the process.

Based on what Chen Fan knew, history's evaluation of Qian Qianyi was very contradictory.

Said that he is a patriot who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

When the Qing army broke through the city, Liu Rushi, Qian Qianyi's wife, advised him to throw himself into the river together, but Qian Qianyi said, "The water is too cold to go down."

Because the sentence "water is too cold" left him with eternal infamy, making him the object of the world's ridicule.

Judging from Qian Qianyi's series of practices, he is a literati with extremely bad character, a villain who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

However, the complexity of human beings lies in the fact that sometimes two faces can appear in one person.

Qian Qianyi is like this.

When the Qing army came, he didn't dare to commit suicide, but when he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he still cared about Daming.

When Emperor Hongguang of the Nanming Dynasty was captured, all the surrendered officials of the Manchu Dynasty laughed and ridiculed, but Qian Qianyi was the only one who wept bitterly and felt guilty.

Moreover, Qian Qianyi secretly contacted the anti-Qing and Fuming forces to provide them with support and intelligence.

Is Qian Qianyi ridiculous?

Of course it's ridiculous, all his life, for fame and fortune, for his life, he engaged in conspiracies and tricks, and even defected to the enemy.

In the end, he was included in the "Biography of Second Officials" by the Qing Dynasty, and his book was also listed as a banned book, and he tried to destroy it for decades.

However, then again, how many people in the world can not be afraid of life and death, and stick to their integrity?
What Qian Qianyi did was actually what an ordinary courtier would do.

As an ordinary person, he was greedy for life and afraid of death. He dared not commit suicide after the enemy attacked him, and even became an official in the Qing Dynasty.

As a literati under the influence of Confucian culture, Qian Qianyi also cared about the country, and secretly opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty.

Qian Qianyi has never done anything admirable or evil in his life.

He is greedy for life and afraid of death, but he still has a conscience.

It is right to say that he is shameless and ridiculous, but it is also right to say that he is pitiful.

This is Qian Qianyi, a literati who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and has a little bottom line.

Therefore, for such a patriot who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

Chen Fan's mood was very complicated and tangled.

but.

Chen Fan is also very curious, such a well-known figure with a very controversial history, what would he ask him for!

So much so that he sent someone to deliver a letter from thousands of miles away.

Could it be that, just like Huang Taiji, they asked him for a role?

After Chen Fan thought about it, this was the only possibility.

(End of this chapter)