"One is 'shy' and the other is 'you', what exactly does that mean? What kind of charades are these two playing?!"
In the backyard of the Jingnan County Government Office, the enchantress Ruonan was sweeping the floor with a broom while racking her brains to think hard.
However, I still can't figure it out.
"What on earth does that mean?!"
The evil woman Ruonan was going crazy from thinking about it. The marks left by the broom on the ground looked like ghost drawings.
Cowardly, didn't they say Zhu Ping'an was a coward?! The woman's family even asked Hua'er, the maidservant who came with her as a bride, to come and warm her bed, but the nerd actually lived like a monk and slept alone. If Hua'er hadn't said that the nerd had made the woman pregnant, I would have even suspected that the nerd was inhumane... ...
You, does it mean that Zhu Ping'an is a son-in-law who married into the family, and he has no status in front of the woman, so he has to use the honorific "you" to address her? ! However, the nerd is a fifth-rank official, so his status can't be so low, right? ! Impossible! The nerd is proud in his bones, how could he be so humble.
But if that is not the case, then what exactly do this "coward" and this "you" mean? !
The demon woman Ruonan racked her brains to think about it, and scratched her head subconsciously when she couldn't figure it out. In the end, she was almost crazy with her eyebrows furrowed, her face wrinkled into a ball, and her hair was a mess like a chicken coop...
"Little friend, do you have a lot of questions?"
Zhu Ping'an came out of the study and was surprised to see the appearance of the evil girl Ruonan. When he heard the evil girl Ruonan muttering to herself, "What do you mean by being a coward?", he couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth and teased the evil girl Ruonan who was racking her brains to think hard with the lyrics of the song "Little Princess".
"Tell me, what does your wife mean by 'shun'? And what does your reply 'you' mean? Tell me quickly..."
The evil woman Ruonan came up and grabbed Zhu Ping'an's sleeve, raised her battered face, and asked like a madman.
"Want to know?" Zhu Ping'an gently pulled his sleeve out of the hand of the enchantress Ruonan and smiled brightly.
"Yeah." The demon girl Ruonan nodded repeatedly.
“The answers others give you are not yours. Only the answers you think out for yourself are yours.”
Zhu Pingan said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" asked the evil woman Ruonan in confusion.
"I won't tell you, just think about it yourself. I do this for your own good, to train your habit and ability of independent thinking." Zhu Ping'an smiled at the enchanting woman Ruonan, his face full of sunshine.
Of course, this was not the case in the eyes of the demon woman Ruonan. In her eyes, Zhu Ping'an's face was full of the words "deserving a beating". The brighter Zhu Ping'an smiled, the more he deserved a beating in her eyes. At this moment, in her eyes, Zhu Ping'an's level of deserving a beating had reached the maximum level.
"Zhu Ping'an!" The evil woman Ruonan gritted her teeth.
"No need to thank me so excitedly. My name is Lei Feng, and I never leave my name behind when I do good things. I have something else to do in the county government office, so I have to go handle official business. I'm sorry I can't keep you company." Zhu Ping'an turned and left, his voice floating over.
"Bah! Who thanked you?! Stop being so self-indulgent! Also, you call yourself a **, but you still don't leave your name?! Wait, what **?!! You are the nerd Zhu Ping'an, I will recognize you even if you turn into ashes!"
The evil woman Ruonan was venting her anger towards Zhu Ping'an's back, but Zhu Ping'an didn't even turn his head.
As a result, the evil woman Ruonan was very angry.
Don’t you like to peek at other people’s letters?! I’ll let you peek as much as you want this time, let’s see if you will peek again.
Zhu Ping'an listened to what the evil woman Ruonan behind him was saying madly, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly in satisfaction.
Zhu Ping'an wanted to punish the evil woman Ruonan so that she would remember her lesson and serve as a warning to others.
Zhu Pingan received a letter from Wang Zhi, a copy of which was sent from Taizhou Prefecture, requesting the opening of the port for trade. When he saw the letter for the first time, Zhu Pingan could not help but sigh heavily. What was coming was coming.
The Japanese pirates are coming! The Japanese pirates are going to wreak havoc! For more than ten years, there will be no peace in Jiangnan... ...
"In the 31st year of Jiajing, Wang Zhi plundered the coastal areas of eastern Zhejiang because his request for trade with the government was rejected. Since then, the Japanese invasion in Jiangnan has become more and more serious. The Japanese pirates have been attacking cities and seizing land with great arrogance..."
Zhu Ping'an walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, reciting this historical record silently.
Zhu Ping'an remembers this time point very clearly.
Walking to the window, Zhu Ping'an opened the copy of Wang Zhi's letter in his hand and read it carefully.
Open up Zhoushan Ligang for trade, change private trade into public trade... ...
Wang Zhi is really imaginative!
Zhu Pingan closed the copy of the letter and shook his head speechlessly. He couldn't understand the situation or himself...
The fate of such a letter was already determined the moment it was sent from Wang Zhi's hands!
reject!
Apart from this, there is absolutely no other possibility!
History is the same, and it is estimated that in a few days, the imperial court will issue a stern rejection. Zhu Pingan knows this very well.
Next, Wang Zhi would become furious and in order to achieve his goal and vent his anger, he would allow the Japanese pirates to plunder the south of the Yangtze River, hoping to use this to threaten the government and achieve the goal of opening the port and opening up the market.
The Japanese invasion in Jiangnan was triggered by this incident and exploded, becoming increasingly serious and out of control...
"I received a copy from the Taizhou government office. The Japanese pirate Wang Zhi sent an envoy to request the court to open the port for trade and change private trade into public trade. The court will definitely not agree to such a request. I am worried that Wang Zhi is ambitious and may make a desperate move and allow the Japanese pirates to plunder in order to threaten the court and achieve the goal of opening the port for trade... ... Our Jingnan is located on the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not too far from Zhoushan Ligang where Wang Zhi's followers are entrenched. If he allows the Japanese pirates to plunder, our Jingnan will be the first to bear the brunt. In order to prevent it from happening, from today..."
Thinking of this, Zhu Ping'an could not stop for a moment. He called Liu Dianli and other county clerks to arrange and deploy the work of defending against the Japanese pirates, and required that from today on, Jingnan's work should make defending against the Japanese pirates the top priority.
Zhu Ping'an's prestige in the county government grew day by day. At his command, Liu Dianli and other clerks would immediately carry out the order.
Jingnan was quickly mobilized, and the newly built anti-Japanese sentry towers were immediately put into use...
In addition, Zhu Ping'an also ordered clerks and runners to notify each village and inform the people to beware of the risk of invasion by Japanese pirates.
Although this move will cause some social panic and affect the people's livelihood, compared with the lives of ordinary people, these impacts are nothing, and the Japanese pirates are really coming!
The people have the right to know and should have the right to know.
Informing the people in advance of the risk of Japanese pirates committing crimes again can allow them to prepare in advance and reduce the damage caused by the Japanese pirates.
Zhu Ping'an also sent someone to notify the Wuxi Miao people and asked them to be prepared to guard against the Japanese pirates.