Uncle Wang’s face turned pale… It turned out that as early as the second half of this year, the government had published a short article in Lu Benzhong’s tabloid. It used the alchemy as an example to describe the principle of melting gold with mercury and then precipitating it. Then it proposed the conjecture that the solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter change with temperature, and the solubility or insolubility of various substances. Finally, it encouraged everyone to summarize the experimental information in this regard in the tabloid… After reading the tabloid, Uncle Wang conducted an experiment himself. Seeing that the gold was really dissolved in the liquid mercury, he was depressed as if struck by a thunderbolt in a clear sky.
Until now, whenever Wang Shuzhan thought about how Emperor Zhao had already seen through the alchemist's scam but still forced himself not to expose it, he couldn't help but want to slap himself twice... Everyone knew that because of this shit, he would never be able to turn things around in his life.
"That incident was also because Zhidao (Uncle Wang's pen name Zhan) was careless for a moment and fell into the trap of a swindler." Seeing that his relative's scar was exposed, Da Zongzheng Yu obviously couldn't bear it, so he simply spoke out to interfere.
"If you say you don't notice, what does it mean that the Grand Master repeatedly advised the emperor to worship the Eight Tombs?" Qu Duanfu turned back to look at the Grand Master, but still sneered. "The emperor hated the two emperors so much because of the Jingkang Incident. All he wanted in his life was to succeed in the Northern Expedition and unify the nine provinces so that he could make a clear distinction with the former Song Dynasty. When did the Grand Master realize this?"
"No matter when I realized it, I had gone against the emperor's wishes. I had a clear conscience at that time, and I am open and honest today. Why should I bring up the past again?" Zhao Shi? twirled his beard and answered calmly.
Qu Da took a look at the Grand Master and was somewhat convinced. He walked around him and reminded Zhao Bufan again: "If you can learn a little from your father's temperament, it will be useful when you join the army... And just as your father said, the past is over, your family's situation is still very good, and no matter what happened in the past, the first major plan in the future is the Northern Expedition. With your background, no one will dare to mess with your achievements. As long as you work hard, how can you not fight for a future?"
"What the governor said is very true." Zhao Bufan quickly stood up and prepared to pour the wine again.
"It doesn't matter if you die." Qu Duan took the wine, glanced at the scene in the outer hall, and laughed even more. "Anyway, your father has a lot of sons, and he wants to use you as a demonstration of his repentance..."
Zhao Bufan, who had just drunk a glass of wine, immediately blushed in the face. Even the Grand Chancellor Zhao Shi was embarrassed for a moment.
Qu Duan drank the wine by himself, but then looked at Wang Shuzhan and his son Wang Ruohai opposite him again, and then he seemed to be thinking about something for a moment.
Wang Shuzhan was startled for a moment, and his heart was slightly moved, but he actually stood up on his own initiative, and then, regardless of his status, he personally walked around to the other side to pour wine for the other party, and then said, "Does Qu Jiedu have anything to teach me?"
"I remembered something."
Qu Duan calmly took the wine from the other party and drank it all in one gulp. At this time, he was obviously drunk. Then he raised his eyebrows slightly, but directly grabbed the other party's sleeve and asked jokingly, "Does Wang Taichang still want to enter the Secret Pavilion in this life? Or can your son enter the Secret Pavilion in this life?"
Wang Shuzhan was very excited and immediately replied earnestly: "If you can do this, I will never let down Qu Jiedu's kindness in this life."
Hearing this, his son Wang Ruohai also came over and listened attentively.
"Don't remember me, this is a win-win for both sides." Qu Duan shook his head and smiled, while the father and son of the Zhao family beside him hurried to pick up the dishes, pretending not to see it. "The overall situation now is the Northern Expedition, and the credit for the Northern Expedition will either be sought through military strategy like you two sons-in-law, or through financial means. This is something that everyone knows... In fact, Wanqi Jinglüe had suggested it that day, but the emperor took the initiative and missed it. Now there is still a chance, don't you father and son have any intention?"
"If there is an opportunity, we are willing to do our best." Uncle Wang was puzzled. "But the court has already used every possible means to increase revenue, so how can we still have room to serve?"
"It's not about asking you to serve, nor is it about means, but about people's hearts." Qu Duan smiled. "Mr. Wang, think about it... Your two sons-in-law and several sons are all talented, and it's hard to tell who is better than the other. Why was it that Hu Jinglie was able to achieve great success first?"
Just as Wang Shuzhan was about to speak, Qu Duan had already answered himself, "He had joined the army during the Jingkang period, fought against the Jin people with weapons, and saw life and death on the front line of the city. He knew that this was a chaotic world, so he plunged into military affairs... and although he stumbled and was too honest, he was one of the first scholars in the world who knew about military affairs. This is what is called acting in time. Then, last year, the things he had accumulated in his heart for seven or eight years, and the temperament he had tempered, finally paid off... This is called acting in time with the great fortune, and accumulating a lot, so this was bound to happen sooner or later."
Uncle Wang and Zhan nodded sincerely, which was rare. Even the father and son of Da Zongzheng, who were pretending to eat, felt a little emotional.
"Besides, don't underestimate the difference between one day earlier and one day later, one year earlier and one year later. One day earlier can make a world of difference, and one year earlier can make a difference between life and death." Qu Duan was obviously drunk. "Han Shizhong was one year earlier than me, and he was the best in the world. Yue Pengju joined the army when the Jurchens first moved south. Even if he was just a death-defying soldier under Liu Ziyu's father, he had experienced the entire Song-Jin War. Without this qualification, how could he become the second in the world? Even if I, Qu Da, hadn't made a mistake and wasted a year in between, I wouldn't dare to say that I would not let these two people climb over me, but how could I let Li Yanxian be ahead of me?"
This is the absolute truth!
But Zhao Bufan and his son looked at each other but said nothing.
On the other hand, although Uncle Wang and his son Zhan were a little anxious, they could only nod their heads repeatedly: "Just as the governor said, the governor should also have a four-character banner!"
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