There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 400

By the time the news arrived, it was already March.

This side started to be busy with farming, Wu Youwei was also busy preparing things for Wantong and the others, merchants were preparing merchant ships and goods, this time they were going to Champa with them, and they were still doing business.

The goods prepared are more and more year after year, because there are also merchants in Champa, and the merchants there will resell the goods after receiving the goods from them. Can't the country consume it?

Isn't there a neighboring country?

Annan is good, as well as Siam and other places. Although Champa is now the territory of Ming Dynasty, the habit has not been changed. The officials are all people with high eyesight. How can they pay attention to business?

What they care about is to contact the local gentry and rich people and integrate the government and the people.

So taking advantage of this rare opportunity, many merchants started buying and selling.

Most of the things produced in the factory in Shanghai are sold to them, and a few are sold to the mainland, so the supply is still in short supply.

Renzi in March, bestowed on Xie Qian and other Jinshi and ranks, and his background was poor.

Xin Wei, should have been the death of Peng Shi, but unfortunately, the elder of the cabinet is living a good life, and it is because of him and Shang Ren that the cabinet is stable until now.

It's just that this old man is also sixty years old.

In the 13th year of Ming Yingzong's orthodoxy, Peng Shi was the number one scholar and was awarded the Imperial Academy for editing and writing.

In the next year, he joined the cabinet to participate in the maintenance, and was a tired official of the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple and served as a student.

After the death of the first emperor Yingzong, he fought with Li Xian for the title of Empress Qian, and moved to the Ministry of Officials as the right servant and a bachelor.

During the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War, Prince Taibao and Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion.

From April of the fourth year of Chenghua to March of the 11th year of Chenghua, after the death of Li Xian, Chen Wenzhi succeeded as the chief assistant of the cabinet.

The chief minister of the cabinet has a heavy workload, and he couldn't take it anymore, so he begged for bones.

Begging for bones means to ask for resignation, which means asking for the bones to be buried in their hometown and return to their hometown to spend their old age in peace.

Of course, Emperor Xianzong was reluctant to part with him. It was a lot easier for him to have this one, and after he came to power, the first generation of cabinets were Li Xian, Chen Wen and Peng Shi.

Chen Wen has already sent his scholars back to their hometowns, will Peng Shi also leave?

Not only Peng Shi, but also Shang Ren, who has reached his age.

They wanted to go together, but Emperor Xianzong didn't dare to let go like this: "At least take the people who came later? Just leave like this, I won't allow it.

Because he always respected them as their elders, Emperor Xianzong left the dragon chair and stepped down from the throne, stretched out his hand to hold the hands of the two old men and said, "Let's stay for a while."

The two old men were very moved: "Okay, but where to go back to settle down for the elderly, I also ask the emperor to allow the veterans to choose by themselves.

"Okay!" Emperor Xianzong nodded. , but then asked curiously: "Where do you want to go?"

"Of course the family members are going back to their hometown, and the two veterans want to visit Shanghai County." Shang Ren stroked his beard and said, "The old minister is still the seat teacher of the magistrate of Shanghai County."

"I heard from Shaohe that the place has changed a lot, and he also said that if every county in Daming can do like that, our Ming Dynasty will have a different look." Peng Shi also said: "So the two veterans want to go and see, Take advantage of this old bone to move around." Shaohe is Liu Xuan's word.

Liu Xuan sent a letter to show off to them, and then the two of them found out that this guy had sent letters to everyone he knew, and in it he especially showed off the political achievements of his good student, and said that he also wanted "threesomes must have My teacher" let the students go and have a look when they have time.

The changes in Shanghai County are also very noticeable in the court, but it is a pity that the emperor is protecting it, and no one can move. Look at the original Songjiang Mansion, it has been cleaned up quite badly.

Now the magistrate there is Zhang Sheng, who was the number one scholar in the same year as Wu Maid.

In addition, there are two counties in Songjiang Prefecture, Qingpu County is Yang Yiqing, and Huating County is Cui Tieniu.

These are all people related to Wu Youwei, and the relationship is said to be not weak. Anyone can see the emperor's maintenance of Shanghai County.

"Oh?" Emperor Xianzong didn't expect that the place the two elders wanted to go after retirement turned out to be Shanghai County.

"The emperor is sure!" The two of them stroked their beards with smiles, wishing they could pass by the next moment.

"Those two elders, can anyone recommend them?" Emperor Xianzong thought for a while, these two are either old or in poor health, so let's step down.

It's not bad to replace yourself, but. ...This depends on the meaning of the cabinet.

"The veteran recommends Li Dongyang, a Hanlin scholar." Peng Shi said: "He has already completed a round in the Six Departments.

"The veteran recommended Luo Lun. His political achievements in the south are obvious to all." Shang Ren recommended Luo Lun.

These two people are both top picks, and the most important thing is that they are still young.

He is less than ten years younger than the emperor, and he is the number one scholar hand-picked by the emperor, especially Li Dongyang, who has known the emperor since he was a child.

At that time, the emperor was still King Qi.

Emperor Xianzong was taken aback. Li Dongyang was cultivated by him, and he was indeed prepared as a cabinet minister.... He did not expect that Luo Lun was recommended by Shang Ren.

"Luo Lun...he is now the chief envoy outside." Emperor Xianzong said: "And he manages well there.

It means that I don't want him to return to Beijing, and it's good to be a party member outside.

"Your Majesty, it's a pity that Luo Lun's talents are put outside." Shang Ren said: "He can lead the people's livelihood of a province, and he can manage double rice crops and three rice crops, which shows that he is bold and careful, and you are the emperor. The first number one scholar, a student of the Son of Heaven, is quite suitable as a cabinet minister. He is different from Li Dongyang. Li Dongyang has never been out of Beijing. Only one in the pavilion who knows about local affairs and one who knows about the situation in the center can complement each other."

This was a heartfelt statement, and Emperor Xianzong understood it: "Then please invite the two elders to find a successor for yourself."

To put it bluntly, these two people are Emperor Xianzong's own people.

The two elders really planned for him, or rather, for Daming.

"I will obey the order." The two old people looked at each other and smiled. After being tired for a lifetime, it was time to rest.

And here, Wu Youwei also sent Wantong away at the pier, but Wantong still went out to "Jinghai" with his men, which became a big event twice a year for the navy.

Moreover, Wantong led people to go farther each time, and according to Wu Youwei's sea chart, people "draw" the sea chart where they walked. On the island, Wantong is like occupying a territory. The dragon flag of Daming and the dragon flag of the navy stand tall, which proves that this is the territory of Daming.

Xia Siyue Yiyou, Li Dongyang, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and a Bachelor of Hanlin, joined the cabinet to pre-engineer.

Wu Youwei and the others received the news in May, and immediately prepared regular congratulatory gifts for people to send to Beijing. At the same time, Wu Youwei also sent letterheads to Zhang Sheng and the others, asking, what's the situation?

Yang Yiqing simply came to him: "Why did you transfer Brother Ying Kui back? Now his deputy is taking over there."

Luo Lun can be said to be the director of a show there, and he was famous earlier than Wu Youwei's Shanghai County, and it was for this reason that he brought a Champa into the territory of Ming Dynasty.

"It's good to go back." Wu Youwei said: "He is in the middle of the capital, and he joined the cabinet, so he can show his talents."

In history, Luo Lun in the book records that he taught and educated people. It was because he was disappointed with the government and would rather go back to the countryside.

But what about now?

Now Luo Lun is full of energy, if he enters the cabinet, it will also be a blessing for Daming.

At the same time, Li Dongyang in history spent 20 years in the Hanlin Academy, how much youth was wasted?

But now, he has gone through six rounds. He is familiar with government affairs, plus he is smart, young, and aggressive, so he is very suitable for joining the cabinet.

The most important thing is that these two people have a very good relationship with him.

Among the current cabinet ministers, there is only one old minister left to support the cabinet.

And Liu Xuan sent a message, telling them to calm down, Luo Lun and Li Dongyang are still young, they entered the cabinet, they are juniors, many people are watching, don't cause trouble for them, the gift is just a proper congratulations to Gao Sheng.

The two nodded quickly and agreed in haste.

Renchen, clean up the family disaster.

The news spread quickly. After all, the whole world knew about such a big incident as the Qianqingmen fire.

Because there was a fire, so immediately, Ji Hai, Lu Prison.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Wu Youwei looked forward to it, hoping that Wantong and the others would return safely.

In May Guiyou, Emperor Xianzong probably lost face because of the fire at Qianqing Gate, so at this time, he generously exempted the autumn grain that was delayed due to disasters in Hu and Guang.

Wu Youwei couldn't quite understand it with the report from the imperial court. This Emperor Xianzong... what happened?

Just when he was wondering, Lao Zhang came over beamingly: "Master, my lord, they sent someone back!"

"Oh?" Wu Youwei stood up happily: "I'll go and see!"

In the living room, there was another team of scouts, all of whom were tanned. Seeing Wu Youwei coming, without him asking, the team leader said, "Da Ling, our army will return in three days, but we will leave this time." Quite far, saved a few people on a large island.'

"Who is it?" Wu Youwei asked curiously. If it was an ordinary person, they wouldn't say it on purpose. The few times they went out, there were also rescued fishermen who were in distress.

And the person who told him specifically was definitely not a fisherman in distress.

"How many foreign people?" The leader said, "I don't understand what they are saying, my lord said, I'll let you see if I can speak when I come back...the interpreter on board can't understand them."

"Ah?" Wu Youwei was stunned for a moment: "I don't understand what they said

"After gesticulating for a long time, I just know how to write. These are the characters they wrote, and they use a strange thing, which is goose feathers." The leader handed Wu Youwei a piece of paper.

Wu Youwei picked it up and looked at it, and he had a "fucking" face at that time.

He only knew a little of the words on it, but he could tell that it was in Latin!

Latin was originally a dialect in the Latium region of central Italy. Later, due to the expansion of the power of the Roman Empire that originated here, Latin was widely spread in the empire, and Latin was designated as the official language.

After Christianity spread widely in Europe, Latin J became more influential. From the Middle Ages to the early [-]th century, Roman Catholicism was the official language, and most academic papers were written in Latin.

Although in later generations, only the Vatican used Latin, some academic vocabulary or articles, such as the naming rules of biological taxonomy, still use Latin.

Wu Youwei was able to understand Latin because of this, and many Western classical records use Latin.

And he also learned some, but apart from the Latin language of academic papers, he didn't know much else.

"Da Ling, do you know him?" the team leader asked cautiously.

"I know them, but not many." Wu Youwei asked him, "How do people get here?"

"I don't know!" said the team leader, "We found a big island and went ashore to find fresh water and enclose territory. They didn't dare to come over at first, so we thought they were savages! Later, we found out that we were both...civilized people. , then gestured, the interpreter changed several languages ​​to talk to them, but they couldn’t understand, but they gestured for a long time and we could understand some, it seemed that they were in trouble at sea, and we also found some wrecks of their ships nearby .”

If they don't make it through, the other party probably still has a lot to endure.

Meeting them is considered a blessing for them.

If you encounter barbarians, or if there are cannibals on the island, you will... die a long time ago.

"Bring it back, it's really not good, after three to five years of study, you should be able to speak." Wu Youwei thought for a while: "When will I come back?"

"Three days later." The team leader said: "My lord, looking at them like this, they seem to be a little out of order. They kneel down all day long with the things in their hands, like crazy people.

Wu Youwei smiled and said: "Is it crazy, I will know when I see it.

Juan Wu Jidou