Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 115 Living Immortal, Like a Dragon but Not a Real Dragon

"Your Majesty, after the minister made a small plan, the officials and gentry of Jiaxing Mansion began to cooperate with the implementation of the new policy. In the past few days, the fields in Xiushui and Jiashan counties have been measured."

"There are still a few diehards who don't know how to live or die secretly to make trouble. The minister used the field dispute to sow discord, but they also obediently obeyed, like a grandson."

"Li Chenyu, the magistrate of Jiashan, and Li Daosan, the captain of the Jinyi Guards School, have made great efforts. I request the emperor to issue a decree to commend them. By the way, Zhu Yousong also performed well. This boy still has the emperor and the court in his heart."

Li Cunming laughed so hard after looking at Ren Qi's secret information.The secret was dictated by Ren Qi and written by Zhu Yousong, detailing what Ren Qi did in Jiaxing Mansion and the progress of the New Deal.

"Qi Dazhuang is still right. Ren Qi is a bad boy! It's a good idea to win the masses to fight against the officials and gentry, and follow the mass line. The most wonderful thing is to hide the heart of the dead in the statue of Confucius. Luckily, he can figure it out. Shameful!"

Li Cunming clapped his palms and laughed loudly. Having laughed enough, he asked Wang Chengen, "What are the scholars in the city doing?"

"The old slave was about to report to the emperor that the news of Lord Ren's implementation of the New Deal in Jiaxing Mansion spread. The scholars in Nanjing were very excited and angry, and colluded to stop the exam. As for the leader, Dongchang is still investigating .” Wang Chengen replied.

Li Cunming said calmly: "Let's make trouble, let them make enough trouble, the scholar rebellion will fail in ten years! Let them make trouble for a few days, and I will come to collect the net again."

After thinking for a while, he said with a smile: "Wang Daban, I happen to have free time today, you accompany me out of the palace in Weifu, and let's take a stroll in Nanjing."

Immediately changed his clothes. Li Cunming wore a floating scarf on his head and a moon-white Taoist robe (a kind of robe often worn by scholars in the late Ming Dynasty, similar to a straight robe), and held a folding fan with an ivory handle.

Wang Chengen said: "Your Majesty, looking at your outfit, this old servant thought of a sentence, the handsome young master is as smart as an orchid!"

"You have also learned how to flatter horses." Li Cunming laughed, and greeted Wang Chengen out of the palace.

Knowing what the emperor was thinking, Wang Chengen led Li Cunming to wander around the Guozijian area.When passing by a mansion, I saw a large group of scholars cursing around the door, and some people held banners.

"Whose mansion is this?" Li Cunming asked.

Wang Chengen was in charge of Dongchang, which was responsible for spying on information in Nanjing City. He already knew Nanjing City well and replied without even taking a second glance: "This is Ruan Dacheng's mansion."

"What, the Ruan Mansion is under siege again? Ouch, Ruan Dacheng is an unlucky guy!" Li Cunming laughed.

At this time, Ruan Dacheng was furious in the study. He cursed with a sad face:
"Heaven, earth, what kind of crime did I, Ruan Dacheng, do? No matter how angry the scholar is, he will come to vent his anger on me the first time. Am I a dung bucket? Sin, crime..."

Having had enough scolding, he shouted: "The emperor once said that if the Donglin party members are too careless, they should use their knives. Shutong, grinding, master, I still have a lot of news to write!"

Li Cunming took a detour to leave the Ruan Mansion. Along the way, he could always see groups of scholars gathering together, either some people were spitting and giving speeches, or a large group of people paraded through the streets holding banners and screaming.

Wang Chengen thought that the emperor would be angry, so he observed secretly, but found that the emperor's face was calm, and he didn't take it seriously.

"The emperor's palace is getting deeper and deeper, and the holy will is unpredictable!" Wang Chengen secretly sighed.

After shopping for half an hour, Li Cunming walked to a noodle stall on the side of the street, sat down, and said, "Boss, here are two bowls of Yangchun noodles."

The noodle stall owner is a middle-aged man with a very friendly attitude.After bringing two bowls of noodles, he stood by the table and said, "Sir, are you also here to take the exam? If so, I would like to advise you not to wade into muddy waters."

"What do you mean, boss?" Li Cunming asked with a smile.

The boss wiped his hands on the rag, and said: "You scholars, after reading a few sage books, you think you know everything, how can you understand the mind of the current emperor?"

"Oh, so you understand the emperor's thoughts?" Wang Cheng'en said.

Just as the boss was about to speak, there was a sudden commotion at the door of a drugstore next to him. Suddenly, a huge crowd gathered, pushing each other forward.

Someone even shouted: "Living Immortal, my surname is Li, and my family has been surnamed Li for generations, so please do a fortune telling me!"

Li Cunming was very curious and asked, "Boss, what's going on?"

The boss turned his head and glanced at the door of the pharmacy, then turned his head and said with reverence: "I don't know when, a fortune teller suddenly came to Nanjing, and he set up a stall in front of that pharmacy every day to tell fortunes. This gentleman is blind. , he has a weird rule, he only counts three trigrams every day, and only accepts people with the surname Li."

Wang Chengen frowned: "What a weird rule! How is he capable?"

"Oh, you've got a lot of skill, you're a living god!" The boss became excited, and the reverence on his face deepened.

"A murder case occurred in Gaochun County. A person died in a village. The deceased was killed by a sickle, but the murderer could not be found. Later, Chief Li from the county came to Nanjing City to do business. He happened to meet this gentleman. After doing the math, go back and catch the murderer."

"How do you guess the fortune teller solved the case?" The boss blinked, asked himself and answered, "Mr. told Catcher Li to confiscate all the scythes in the village when he went back, label the owner's name, and take them out to dry in the sun. One of the scythes was infested with flies, and the murderer was identified!"

Wang Chengen was puzzled and said, "The sickle is covered with flies, how can we determine that the owner of the sickle is the murderer?"

Li Cunming said: "It's very simple. The murder weapon is stained with blood. Even if it is cleaned and exposed to the sun, it will still emit a bloody smell, which will attract flies."

"Yes, yes, that's the truth!" The boss gave Li Cunming a thumbs up and praised, "Master, you are very smart!"

Just as he was talking, there was another commotion in front of the pharmacy. It turned out that several young scholars ignored everyone's objections and forcibly jumped in line to stand in front of the fortune teller.

The first one was a young man about 20 years old, he was dressed in extravagantly luxurious clothes, his face was handsome and heroic, and one could tell at a glance that this person had a lot of background.

The young man bowed his hands and saluted, "Sir, please do the math for Xiaosheng."

The blind man asked, "Is your surname Li?"

"It's said that Mr. is a living god, my surname is not Li, I think you can figure it out." The young man threw a silver coin on the table.

"Are you here to smash the booth and find fault? The old man's rules are only for those surnamed Li..." The blind man waved his hand.

Before he could finish speaking, the young man said without doubt: "If you calculate correctly, I will reward you; if you calculate incorrectly, you will ruin your business and reputation, and I will do it."

The blind man frowned, and beckoned the young man to come closer to his head, with two big hands stroking his head.After a while, the blind man's face changed drastically, and he was stunned for a while.

"How?" asked the young man.

The blind man shook his lips, and said sharply: "These appearances are not trivial. Tell me truthfully, is your surname Li? If there is any concealment, the old man will guess wrong, and you will be responsible for the consequences!"

Seeing his solemn expression and serious tone, the young man said frankly, "Xiao Ke's surname is not Li, but Zheng."

The blind man let out a long breath, as if he had lifted a heavy burden, but his face was a little disappointed.

"Hey, what did you figure out?" the young man urged.

"Like a dragon but not a real dragon, it is also a hero for a while. Where to make meritorious deeds is not on land but in the sea!" The blind man said leisurely.

The young man was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it for a long time, he threw down another piece of silver and waved away his companions.

"Like a dragon but not a real dragon, this sentence is extraordinary, who is that young master?" The onlookers began to discuss.

The voice fell into Li Cunming's ears, and he immediately became vigilant, and hurriedly opened the Overlord's Eye to look at the back of the young man, and got an unusual message.

"Zheng Sen has a suspicious and complicated temperament, and he has the talent to dominate one side. Remind the host to pay attention, this person is also good and evil, and it is difficult to subdue."

Except for Li Chengdong, after the system gave a person's information, it made comments and reminders again, and Li Cunming's heart skipped a beat.

"Zheng Sen, I seem to have seen this name somewhere..." Li Cunming touched his chin.

Wang Chengen leaned close to his ear and said in a low voice: "Zheng Sen's father is Zheng Zhilong, who was appointed as the commander-in-chief. My lord, you must have an impression of Zheng Zhilong, right?"

"Zheng Zhilong? Oh, it's him!" Li Cunming suddenly got up, but Zheng Sen was nowhere to be seen.

Zheng Sen was the national hero Zheng Chenggong who became famous and famous far and wide!
Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty gave Zheng Sen the name Zhu Chenggong, and later generations called him Guo Xing Ye.After the defeat of various small courts in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chenggong changed his surname back to his original name, but kept the name "Chenggong" and continued to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Because of Li Cunming's time travel, history has changed. Without the name given by Emperor Longwu, he failed to remember who Zheng Sen was at first.

When he came back to his senses, Li Cunming couldn't help admiring the blind fortune-teller. This man was really capable, and he even revealed Zheng Sen's secret of "like a dragon but not a real dragon". He couldn't help but look at him with the eyes of an overlord.

Li Cunming's expression changed many times. Suddenly, with a smile on his face, he walked up to the blind man and said, "Please, sir, please give me a fortune."

"Is your surname Li?"

"Don't worry about my surname, this hexagram must be counted!" Li Cunming leaned down, his voice was very low, "Song Xiance, I didn't expect you to come to Nanjing!"

(End of this chapter)