[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

"Jiangnan people!" Du Ruo shook the bowl in his hand, almost splashing it on his clothes.If he had a northern accent, he could be said to be a Tatar with Han blood, but the sudden appearance of a person with a southern accent made the situation even more treacherous.A man with a Southern accent, or even a pair of Southern accents, posing as Tartars and stealing the caravan from the bandits.Not only did they extract confessions from the people in the caravan, they also pretended not to understand Chinese and burned the most important evidence.And in the end, it is very likely that they deliberately released all these people.

What kind of purpose are these people holding, and who are these people?Everything is an unsolved mystery.You Er thought for a while and then said: "I think it's not right for them to kill people." Du Ruo knew that they had killed about twenty people by these people, but they didn't know what happened. "Why, tell me quickly!"

"Those people took the villains out for interrogation. The villains didn't know who had already been recruited. The villains saw that most of the people who were killed were usually unsteady people, and the confessions they were forced to reveal in those few days There are a lot of clues. Little ones,... boldly guess, these people who were killed were all recruited." The matter has come to this point, and it has become more and more difficult.Du Ruoke didn't know that Zhu Chenhao had the audacity to replace himself with a double, but he himself came to the northwest.

Without knowing anything, Du Ruo could only guess by himself.Could it be that someone in the south colluded with the Tatars?But this is not right, the difference is too far, and even if they colluded, why did they do such a confusing thing.Du Ruo is glad that he came, otherwise, according to these people's actions, wouldn't it be just like this. "Why didn't you write clearly when you wrote the letter first to report safety!"

"Please calm down. It's not that the little ones don't write it in. It's really not easy for everyone. After working so hard, they finally came back alive. The villain only asks the Guogong to let the little ones go when we haven't recruited." The villain has no choice but to wait for the Duke to come and talk to him personally." You Er also had his reasons for doing so.These survivors did have backbone and would not be killed in front of aliens, but this did not mean that they would trap themselves because of what You Er suddenly heard or even misunderstood.There are really two different things between being proud in the face of the enemy and having contact with the rebels.

If this is the case, then everyone is a hero like Ban Gu.But if this matter is revealed, it will be a huge event, and no one will know whether it will be life or death.You Er didn't want to test everyone's reaction, if someone objected at that time, no matter what happened to the objector, he would feel ashamed.He simply kept the matter a secret, secretly told Du Ruo, and begged Du Ruo not to implicate his brothers.

Du Ruo can still understand what he did, and it's none of these people's business, Du Ruo didn't want to do anything to them.It's just that this matter still needs to be investigated clearly, maybe a huge case will be involved.Du Ruo listened to You Er's detailed account of the journey, and he couldn't bear it anymore, so he asked you to take You Er down.He also heard that dinner had been served before, so he hurriedly asked the people from Jin Yiwei to go and check on these people who had escaped from the caravan.

After everything was arranged, Du Ruo could lie down and take a rest.The waiter saw that he was frowning and knew that he was not feeling well, so he hurriedly asked the maid to beat his legs, and then went to the kitchen to order a bowl of porridge, and Du Ruo had to drink it.Du Ruo lay down for a while, struggled to get up and took a bath before lying down peacefully.He just lay down, but his mind kept spinning, thinking about this matter all the time.

Now there are a lot of people here, since You Er kept this matter a secret, Du Ruo continued to hide it from them, and sent people to investigate quickly.It’s just that there’s really no doubt about it, the Tatars haven’t changed, and the Hami generation doesn’t have any unusual Jiangnan people. It seems that You Er got it wrong, maybe it’s just a simple catastrophe. The case was complicated by You Er's thinking.But consciously told Du Ruo that this matter is definitely not that simple.

It's not because Du Ruo's nerves are too sensitive, it's because of the reality that Du Ruo can't help but think in a bad way.Not only the reform of the administration of officials, but also the refusal to give in to the royal family and the further shrinking of the power of the eunuchs. In the context of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, it is the gradual weakening of centralization and the further transfer of vested interests.After experiencing a violent suppression, those voices who doubted the reform have indeed become more chaotic and weaker, but they will not disappear, but a bigger wave will be brewing under the calm water.

Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that there will be people with evil intentions who want to follow in Zhu Hui's footsteps.For example, Zhu Houzhao has carried out key surveillance in order to avoid suspicion of Zhu Youzhu and the British public who have no sons.Du Ruo also discussed this issue with Zhu Houzhao. Du Ruo warned him at that time that he wanted him to solve it in a more violent and authoritarian way. After all, what they wanted was only temporary progress, not to ensure the long-term rule of the Ming Dynasty.But Zhu Houzhao rejected Du Ruo's idea. After all, violence and autocracy are not long-term solutions, and Zhu Houzhao believes that as long as this difficult time is over, the immediate benefits will make these people give up their original ideas.

This is where you can see the difference in attitudes between Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo.Du Ruo is not a perfectionist, he is a pure businessman. Except for the matter about Zhu Houzhao, he calculates the output ratio accurately and always pursues the ultimate profit.But Zhu Houzhao's growth experience told him that running a country is not as simple as just doing a business, it is more like a side dish.It always has countless accidents and immeasurables, and it can only be prepared consciously and carefully. It is extremely boring to accurately measure each ingredient to the gram, and it may not necessarily lead to a good result.

For Du Ruo, the wife slave, of course it ended with his regress, because Du Ruo couldn't see clearly what would happen in the end. On the premise of not hindering Zhu Houzhao's life safety, Zhu Houzhao's opinion was of course the first.But for Du Ruo, who has a strong desire to control, this feeling of not being able to control him can't be more uncomfortable, so when Zhu Houzhao disdains to notice these changes in the officialdom, Du Ruo will always be the first to hold the news in his hands .

Every bit of unusualness provokes Du Ruo's nerves, and Du Ruo must eliminate all the dangers before giving up.There is no clue about this matter now, and most people have given up long ago, but Du Ruo will not give up.Because even if what happened to You Er that night could be explained by mishearing, then this group of Tatar soldiers who inexplicably appeared and disappeared on the border of the Ming Dynasty would not really be like a group of ghosts, without any traces showing.But before Du Ruo could investigate further, one incident disrupted Du Ruo's plan.

Du Ruo originally planned to stay in Hami until the end of October.Dealing with the current caravan is of course the top priority, but besides this matter, Du Ruo has other things to deal with.For example, one of the most obvious problems is how to deal with the problem of Xu Jin sitting in the northwest.There is no doubt that Xu Jin is a good general and a good official, but the fact that he is a good general is not so pleasant when people in Hami and Datong only know Xu Jin and not the court .

As a typical case of success in abandoning his pen and joining the army, Xu Jin doesn’t have much money. Of course, he is in control of the Northwest after renovation and the open mutual market. two.But Xu Jin has a shortcoming that most scholars have, and he is really famous.It's not that a good name is bad. If a good name is too good, people will hate it, especially when his reputation can prevent the implementation of the imperial court's policies. This is especially intolerable.

From taking back Hami at the very beginning, to the general executor of the Datong General Army and the opening of the Northwest Mutual Market, Zhu Houzhao has always trusted and relied on Xu Jin.There was a crisis of trust between them until Du Sheng returned to Beijing to see Zhu Houzhao for the first time.He brought back a piece of bad news, it seemed that Xu Jin had already regarded the opening of Hami as his own credit.In Du Sheng's eyes, he had already forgotten that this matter was originally ordered by Zhu Youtang, and the money to start it came not only from the appropriation of the imperial court, but also Zhu Youtang's internal treasury and the caravan under the Duke's Mansion.

At that time, Zhu Youtang only expressed his dissatisfaction vaguely in the imperial decree, and the fledgling Xu Jin naturally restrained himself consciously.However, following the great success of the Hami Exchange, Xu Jin's several victories, and the smooth opening of other exchanges, Xu Jin seemed to have forgotten that all of his success was due to the support of Zhu Youtang and Zhu Houzhao who spared no effort.

A nobleman always forgets things a lot. He has forgotten that Zhu Youtang fought against all opinions and allocated sums of sufficient military expenses to him. He also seems to have forgotten that Zhu Youtang has always He is protecting him, and the huge amount of silver brought by the caravan of the Duke of Anguo seems to be his own investment.Now in his heart, the rise of the Northwest seems to be due to him alone, and it is a great cause that he turned the tide with his wisdom and martial arts alone.

Good reputation, Zhu Houzhao can understand.But when Zhu Houzhao tried to take the mutual market away from the military color and slowly return the business behavior to its original form, he encountered unprecedented resistance from Xu Jin.Not only Xu Jin, but the entire Northwest seemed to have become Xu Jin's people all of a sudden.Only then did Zhu Houzhao believe Zhang Yue's words: Northwest only knew that there was Xu Jin but did not know that there was a sage.

Du Ruo came to the northwest to get a feel for Xu Jin's background and see what he has become. Whether Xu Jin is alive or dead is part of this trip.But to our disappointment, Du Ruo only stayed in Hami, where Xu Jin first started his business, until the beginning of October, which was far less than Du Ruo's originally planned time.The reason is of course Du Ruo's bad-hearted clansmen.Art comes from life, and the best relatives are not just those that appear in novels. In real life, who doesn't have one or two bad relatives.It's just that the clan has disintegrated in modern life, and it just maintains a little bit of kinship, and everyone's influence is not that deep.But Du Ruo was in ancient times, he not only had to take care of himself, but also took care of such a big family who seemed to have nothing to do with him.