Qian Yiai heard the roaring sound of the cell beside him, and immediately knew that the old guy was his teacher brother Qu Shisi.

Qu Shisi was also from Changshu, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, and was a fellow villager to Qian Qianyi, only eight years younger than Qian Qianyi. Qu Shisi's family background was very awesome. His grandfather Qu Jingchun was a minister of the Ministry of Rites, and his father Qu Ru served as a senator in Huguang. When he was young, he became a great scholar in Donglin. With such a great teacher and family background, Qu Shisi passed the Jinshi at the age of 28 and was selected to be the magistrate of Yongfeng, Jiangxi Province.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Qu Shixi was promoted to the Ministry of Revenue. At the beginning of his tenure, he wrote a letter to tell the unfair government affairs, requested pensions for Wang Zhili, and sued Sun Shenxing for injustice, requested to kill Yang Hao and Wang Huazhen immediately, clarify the unjust injustice that Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou colluded with others, and followed the crimes of the former auxiliary ministers Wei Guangwei, Gu Bingqian, Feng Quan and Huang Liji. Then he also said that Zhu Tongmeng, who gave up mourning and built a temple for himself, could not be forgiven, and Tang Binyan, who had been dismissed for a long time, could not be used. Emperor Chongzhen also adopted his suggestion.

When Qu Shishi saw Chongzhen obeying his advice, he couldn't help but become a little swelled. When he recommended the cabinet master in October, Qu Shishishi recommended his teacher, Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites, to the cabinet. Qu Shishishi did this offended Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the imperial cabinet. The old fried dough stick Wen Tiren's method was not comparable to that of the new political rookie Qu Shishi, so the master and apprentice were both removed from office and returned to their hometown in Changshu for retirement. However, the mountains and rivers took turns. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the emperor hanged himself in Beijing. Qian Qianyi became the Minister of Rites and immediately recommended his students to come out and serve as the Chief of Yingtian Prefecture, and in less than half a month he served as the governor of Guangxi.

Qu Shisi was generally much stronger than his teacher Qian Qianyi. In the original history, Qian Qianyi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was not valued. After resigning from his post, he was still unclear about the resistance forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and eventually destroyed his family. However, Qu Shisi was different. He resisted to the end in Guangxi and was captured and never surrendered. After being executed by Kong Youde, the Yongli Dynasty was given the posthumous title of "Wenzhong". In July of the sixth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo, the former peasant army general who was united in the Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty, recovered Guilin and summoned his grandson Qu Changwen to establish a temple for Qu Shisi.

After the Southern Ming Dynasty was eliminated, in order to further consolidate the rule, ease national conflicts, disintegrate national consciousness, and achieve unified thinking, while vigorously commending loyal ministers (i.e., Ming Dynasty officials who died in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in the early Qing dynasties), Emperor Qianlong ordered the compilation of the "Biography of the Two Ministers", including all the former Ming Dynasty officials who surrendered to the Qing dynasty. Even the founding minister Fan Wencheng was selected, and those who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty were praised. Qu Shixi was originally posthumously named "Wenzhong" in the Yongli Dynasty, and was posthumously named "Zhongxuan".

Qian Yiai walked to the door of Qu Shizi's prison cell, bowed and said, "It turns out that it was senior brother who raised Mr. Tian, ​​Qian Yiai is polite here!"

Although Qu Shisi is a student of Qian Qianyi, the two are only eight years apart, and there are more friends than teachers and students, so Qian Yiai is so respectful in front of Qu Shisi.

Qu Shisi snorted and asked, "You are the teacher's second son Qian Zigao? You have grown up so old and have come out to be an official. What position do you hold for King Zhu Hongsan of Chu now?" Qu Shisi met Qian Yiai when he was a child, but Qian Yiai was only seven or eight years old at that time, and was still a childish boy.

Qian Yiai heard Qu Shixi say this and quickly bowed and replied: "Your Majesty appointed Zigao as the magistrate of Shangyuan County!"

"What are you doing this time? Did you follow the orders of the King of Chu to persuade the surrender? Tell the foolish monarch that I will never be loyal to him and kill our master and disciple early!"

Qian Yiai saw that the master and apprentice were so stubborn, and knew that it was not easy to persuade surrender today. Qian Yiai's brain teasers turned rapidly. What method do you want to impress these two people?

I was told with reason and moved with emotion? No! These two people have been imprisoned for nearly three years, and there are not a hundred or fifty people who have persuaded them to surrender. I must have used this trick.

Threat them with death? It’s not possible! These two people are not afraid of death, and this trick is useless.

Use your family to threaten them? You are a scholar, no matter how you say that you are, you really can't use this kind of dirty trick.

Qian Yiai thought of Ma Mingyuan's ignorance of himself last night, and couldn't help but feel angry! OK! You Ma Mingyuan looks down on me, then I, Qian Yiai, will set some obstacles for you to prevent your new policy from being implemented!

Thinking of Qian Yiai having an idea, he bowed and said, "Mr. Qitian, Brother Bishan! I am not here to persuade me to surrender this time, but my father has resigned from his post and returned to his hometown. Before leaving, he specially ordered his son to come to bid farewell to the two! Especially Mr. Qitian, my father said that he is already seventy years old this year and will probably never see him again in the future. I hope Mr. Qitian will take care of him!"

Qu Shixi and Qian Qianyi are both masters and apprentices and friends. Now they hear that their friends resign and return home, and they say that they may not meet in the future, so they can't help but feel sad.

"Hey! Why did the teacher resign? Could it be that he was bullied by that foolish monarch?"

When Qian Yiai heard that there was a show, he quickly said, "That's right, Your Majesty the Emperor is very nice to my father. Before leaving, he gave the Grand Tutor the title of Grand Tutor. The main reason for resigning from office is..."

Qian Yiai's hesitation made Qu Shisi's curiosity aroused and he quickly asked: "Tell me quickly, why did you resign from office!"

"That's right. After His Majesty returns, the chief assistant Ma Jiyuan is dismissed. Do you know? Then Ma Jiyuan's younger brother Ma Mingyuan came to power. This is nothing. The main reason is that Ma Mingyuan wants to continue to implement the new policy, that is, to spread the vacancies into the acres, and officials and gentry will pay food together! My father disagrees, thinking that the country is in a crisis, and it is time for the whole country to work together and the people to work together. How can such chaos be implemented? It is for this reason that Ma Mingyuan attacked my father. My father lost confidence in the entire government. In addition, he is old, so he resigned and returned to his hometown!"

After hearing Qian Yiai's words, Qu Shixi stood up and walked around the cell. While walking, she said: "Bastard! Nonsense! Ma Mingyuan has been in charge of the government for many years, how could he be so nonsense?"

Qian Yiai heard Qu Shixi say this and asked quickly: "Does Qitian also oppose the new policy?"

"I have read from the letter from Xu Bengao that you made the new policy, but it doesn't matter whether it is good or bad, that is, it just promotes the Zhangjiangling's whip method! However, your new policy was implemented in the wrong time. If it were in a peaceful era, this new policy would definitely be like the whip method, extending the life of the Ming Dynasty for decades, but what time is it now? The war in the Central Plains has not stopped, and the Qing Dynasty still occupies half of our Ming Dynasty. Now scholars are in the heart of expelling the Tartars. Isn't it your own to harm yourself when implementing these new policies? Ma Mingyuan is really making a fuss! "

Qu Shixi was also an old bureaucrat, county magistrate, prefect, governor, and central bureaucrat, so he naturally saw through the essence of the problem at a glance, so he came up with the same argument as Ma Jiyuan, that is, the new policy is good, but the timing of implementation is wrong!

Qian Yiai heard Qu Shixi say this and quickly asked, "Qi Tian Gong, since that's the case, why don't you want to serve Your Majesty?"

When Qu Shixi heard Qian Yiai say this, she sighed and said, "The King of Chu is vicious and vicious. I heard that in Xinyang, he actually opened the city gate to let bandits enter the city in order to escape his life. How could such an emperor make me loyal? Although Emperor Yongli was a little cowardly, the people were much more kind to the scholars, and they were much better than the King of Chu!"

"But Duke Qitian, King Gui has been beaten to Yunnan. I heard that Sun Kewang was defeated by Li Chengdong on the border of Yunnan and Guizhou and fled to Myanmar with King Gui! And His Majesty has decided to go to the Northern Expedition in March next year. The Qing Dynasty will definitely not stop the royal army, so the world is just around the corner. Why is Duke Qitian struggling with this?"

After hearing Qian Yiai say this, Qu Shishi sighed and sat on the haystack without saying a word. It’s not that Qu Shishishi is so loyal to King Gui Zhu Youlang, but he doesn’t want to surrender and still surrenders to others.

Qu Shisi had studied the Shenwu court, and the court had a lot of fun in the battle, and there was no need to be a difference in the Chongzhen period. The leader of the Donglin Party was Qian Qianyi, which was nothing. Qian Qianyi was Qu Shisi's teacher, but the second-in-commander of the Donglin Party was Jiang Yueguang.

In Qu Shixi's eyes, what is Jiang Yueguang? You are born in Jiangxi and are just a member of the Donglin Party. How can you compare to yourself as a direct disciple of Qian Qianyi, the boss of Donglin? So only you are the second-generation core of the Donglin Party, and you, Jiang Yueguang, aren't you?

However, the fact is completely contrary to what Qu Shisi thought. Jiang Yueguang joined Jin Shenghuan early in his hometown in Jiangxi, and made great contributions when destroying the Duoduo group. Naturally, he became a celebrity in the Shenwu court. However, Qu Shisi was supporting King Gui Zhu Youlang and went against Zhu Hongsan. Therefore, even if Qu Shisi surrendered to Zhu Hongsan now, he would still surrender under Jiang Yueguang in the Donglin Party. This is really not something that the arrogant Qu Shisi could tolerate. Because of this, Qu Shisi was captured and forced to the end and would never surrender.

Qian Yiai was so smart. Seeing Qu Shili's expression, he was in contact with the changes in the court, and immediately understood what Qu Shili was thinking.

"Qi Tian Gong, let me tell you the truth. This time I came to be a lobbyist for Ma Mingyuan! The two prefectures of Songjiang began to measure the land in Suzhou, Nanzhili, and the two prefectures of Songjiang began to implement new policies, so that I could convince Brother Beishan to serve as the governor of Jiangsu, and were mainly responsible for measuring the land!"

Qu Shixi understood what Ma Mingyuan was thinking: "Hmph! Ma Mingyuan had a good idea. Do you want to use the name of Jiangling Gong to implement the new policy and shout for him? Go back and tell him, let me die!"
Chapter completed!