I am the king of the dead

Chapter 853

The emperor used the current affairs as the examination questions for the palace examination and the general examination. It was not that Zhu Qiyu deviated from the scriptures, but a practice. The most famous of them was the nine questions of the palace examination of Emperor Chongzhen in the seventh year of Chongzhen.

Each of Chongzhen’s nine questions addressed the fundamental issues of Ming Dynasty. The analysis of the respondents was thorough and sound. Every examinee answered the question to the point. However, after ten years, Ming Dynasty still died.

Liu Lishun, the number one scholar who was famous all over the world for his [-]-year-old prose, was full of words, but these scholars had the ambition to revitalize the Ming Dynasty. After entering the court, how did they behave?

Inactive, silent and nameless.

What are the phenomena in Ming Dynasty, what kind of problems are behind these phenomena, what are the complicated causes behind these problems, and how to solve them, all are clearly written in this editorial.

Even these students who have not entered the officialdom are clear about these problems. Doesn't the court Minggong know how to solve them?
But Ming Gong in the court is always asking for the best of both worlds, and if he asks for this, the world will be gone.

For example, Chongzhen asked: "Furthermore, the bandits have been in trouble for a long time, and the amount of money and grain is lacking. The speaker does not consider the national economy, and every time he wants to reduce it."The people are the foundation of the state, so the imperial court doesn't know it, doesn't it sympathize with it?
But if you want to show compassion to the people and also want to support the army, how is it possible to benefit both ways?

This question is about Gao Yingxiang, the first generation Chuang Wang, who has a deep foundation in Shaanxi. The Ming Dynasty has repeatedly invaded and suppressed. As soon as it was wiped out, the government army just left, and the rebel army came out like a spring breeze?It's not that landless refugees are everywhere, and they can make trouble with a little noise.

The opinion of the courtiers is that the people should reduce and exempt the tax burden for the country, but how can they have both when they are sympathetic to the people and also support the army?
Both?

How can there be a way to have the best of both worlds?

When Shang Ren learned that His Majesty was going to highlight the key points for candidates all over the world in the residence newspaper, he hurried to Wenyuan Pavilion. He didn't come to beg His Majesty to take back his life, he didn't have that much face, and he didn't come to ask for both. , Your Majesty wants complete reform of the imperial examination system, as well as complete Confucian scholars all over the world, which is impossible to ask for.

He just came to ask for a face, such as the middle way he said.

"Your Majesty, I think that in addition to the main volume, an additional volume can be added to test the way of school scholars' classics and righteousness." Shang Ren said tentatively.

Zhu Qiyu didn't think about it, he really got off the ladder, nodded and said: "What Aiqing said is comprehensive, and what Aiqing said is true."

Shang Ren didn't expect His Majesty to be so eloquent at all, he was stunned before bowing his head and said: "On behalf of the scholars in the world, I thank Your Majesty for your kindness."

Zhu Qiyu went down this slope because he considered these candidates. They had studied all their lives, and they had read the Four Books and Five Classics, but when they came to the exam, they didn't take the exam. What's the reason?
These ten years of work have come to nothing?

Whether it is the attached volume of the scriptures or the Tao Te Ching, Zhu Qiyu's purpose has been achieved, and he is muddying the water.

Over the three generations of open-mouth and closed-mouth method, the sour Confucian scholars of Yao, Shun, Yutang, and Confucius and Mencius can only be dreamers in the Imperial Academy after entering the court, and they cannot be herdsmen in local Antu.

First of all, the water of the imperial examination must be muddied, only then can the deep-rooted academic elites be muddied, and only then can the court be cleaned up.

Zhu Qiyu is lenient, but he can only be lenient.

"Bachelor of Commerce, you have nothing to do today, follow me to meet the fairy." Zhu Qiyu stood up, planning to bring Shang Ren to see the world.

"Fairy?" Shang Ren was a little confused, but His Majesty liked to watch the excitement, and Shang Ren still knew it, and every time His Majesty finished watching the excitement, Shen Yi, Minister of the Household Department, could wake up with a smile from his dream.

For example, Zhu Qiyu saw the excitement before, so he smashed the county hall in Chaoyang, and built a new county hall after it was smashed. This new county hall is magnificent, and it is good everywhere, but it is built in a low-lying place.

It's just that the bustle this time really made Shang Ren confused. Seeing a fairy?

Zhu Qiyu himself was wearing Yesa, which belonged to ordinary clothes. He asked Shang Ren to change into ordinary clothes, and half an hour later, Zhu Qiyu came out of the martial arts hall and went out with Xing'an and Lu Zhong.

If this little Zhang butcher can recognize Zhu Qiyu at a glance, the people of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, guarding the roots of the imperial city, can they not recognize Zhu Qiyu?
But even if these common people recognize him, they are not quite sure that what they see is the emperor. They will probably feel a little like it and will not take it to heart.

After Zhu Qiyu went out, he turned left and right with Shang Lu, and came to a five-storey pavilion in the middle of the front, back, left, and right, which was no different from the Yanyun Tower of Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong.

This building is five stories high, covered by layers of eaves, it is quite grand, and it is also the largest brothel in the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Shang Ren looked at the huge signboard of the red sleeve move, and was completely speechless. He has been a gentleman's business road all his life, when did he visit a brothel?But he still had to go shopping today, and he was ordered by the emperor to go to the brothel.

"Bachelor of Commerce, do you know the origin of this red sleeve trick?" Zhu Qiyu took out a fan and flicked it, making him look more like a suave nobleman.

This Ming Festival has just passed, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty is still freezing at night. Zhu Qiyu’s fan is entirely for the purpose of being handsome. On the fan, it was a brothel woman who worked so hard to make it beautiful, and everyone who saw it would praise her for being romantic.

Zhu Qiyu's fan was selected by Lin Xiu from her internal funds, and I don't know where she copied it from the house. The fan is full of flowers.

Shang Ren watched His Majesty's examination, and hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Of course I know, it's Wei Zhuang's "Bodhisattva Man", which said: Now I recall the music in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, I was young and my clothes were thin. Riding on a leaning bridge, the building is full of red sleeves."

"So familiar, it seems that business bachelors often come." Zhu Qiyu said jokingly.

Shang Ren was sweating directly in the gusts of cold northwest wind, and he quickly denied it: "I just read a lot and memorized it."

Old scholars like Shang Ren are actually very similar to Chen Xun, they are both rigid conservative gentlemen, they don't like to come to this place of fireworks and willow alleys.

It is this poem that is famous, not this brothel.

"Go, go in and have a look." Zhu Qiyu walked forward, but Shang Ren hesitated for a moment, and walked into the red sleeve move helplessly.

To get a business bachelor to enter a brothel, you need to do a lot of psychological construction. Whether it is against your own principles or against His Majesty's will, Shang Ren finally violated his principles and walked into this world of flowers.

The smell of rouge and gouache came out after entering the door. It was not the smell of a fox's nest as rumored, but a sweet fragrance. Shang Lu sneezed abruptly. Although the smell was quite The relatively small place is already considered elegant, but for Shangren, it is still too pungent.

"Six nobles!" The tortoise in front of the door took a closer look at the people who came, and felt that they were too expensive, so he immediately cheered up and yelled loudly.

The tortoise immediately came up and said with a smile on his face: "Please leave a name for the masters. I will see you in the future, so I won't be so blind that I can't figure out where the nobles come from."

Zhu Qiyu pulled out a waist card from his sleeve and handed it over, "Jimo Huang, have you heard of it?"

When the tortoise heard this, his eyes became brighter, and he said with a more respectful attitude: "I know, I know, Jingyong is a great man of culture and virtue, and his book is upright and Daochang. .”

Zhu Qiyu didn't even know about this incision, but this young man is so familiar with it, it seems that the Huang family, a wealthy businessman from Shandong, has a very high status in the world.

When Nei Mian was choosing a waist card, he only felt that this family was low. Even this Jimo Huang family had a thousand choices.

This Jimo Huang family took the lead in responding to His Majesty's edict during the reform of farmland law in Shandong, and incorporated the farmland and pond under his name into the farm.

Then the Huang family in Jimo incorporated all their farmland and ponds into the farm. There are so many people in the Huang family, what do they eat and drink?Did the tree fall and the hozen scatter?

No, on the contrary, it became more and more prosperous.

Because the Jimo Huang family has obtained the shipping certificate from the imperial court, in terms of maritime trade, they don't have to go to Songjiang Mansion to fight with others every year to fight for the little quota. Not only did they not lose money, they also made a lot of money. He has earned the title of the number one wealthy businessman in Shandong.

This Jimo Huang clan has made such a big name, but it has not become more arrogant, but more submissive, and can clearly see the general trend. The Patriarch of the Jimo Huang clan is not stupid at all. Extravagant households, on the contrary, must cover up what they do, otherwise, they will use the lives of their entire family to test the limits of His Majesty's benevolence.

Therefore, this Jimo Huang family is not only arrogant but also kind in the Jianghu, so it has a great reputation.

"Open Jingxiu Pavilion, please come to the nobleman's side." The turtle man's eyes were vicious, he looked at the belt badge and then at the jade pendant, and immediately said loudly.

This jade pendant looked like it was made by a famous master, and it was very valuable, but this noble young man ignored the jade pendant, and didn't even look at it after bumping into it.
In the eyes of the nobles, gold and silver are all things.

And the person who served the noble son had a white face and clean beard, he looked like an eunuch at first sight, and only a noble family could afford such eunuchs.

Zhu Qiyu stopped talking and went upstairs, and then Xing'an said with a smile: "We heard that there is a teacher's banquet here today. I have never seen anything in the world since I was a child. I want to see it. I wonder if it can be arranged?"

"It's easy to say." Gui Gong smiled like a chrysanthemum, reached out to take the silver ingot, and shook it for about one or two, his smile became more sincere.

One tael of silver is already a lot of money.

Scholars who are going to Beijing to take the exam will probably have to hire a teacher in the capital. If they can learn some knowledge about the imperial examination, they will be satisfied. If they can get a few words of advice, they will be grateful. If you take care of it once or twice, then you will hold grass and tie a ring to repay your great kindness and virtue.

This is what Zhu Qiyu said, the students who came to Beijing are asking everywhere.

The disciples of each of these teachers have become the third kind of party after the same list and fellow countrymen. As long as the same teacher has this status, it is an alliance.

For example, Wang Huazhen, who suffered a disastrous defeat in Guangning during the Tianqi period, survived because he was Ye Xianggao, the Duke of Ming Dynasty and the leader of the Donglin Party in the world, but Xiong Tingbi, who guarded Shanhaiguan, was beheaded for public display.

What Zhu Qiyu wants to watch today is the feast for teachers.

This Confucian accepted ten bacon bundles for each student, not to mention these students who came to Beijing to seek advice?

Every time the imperial examination is held, it is a carnival in the brothel, because there are people who put wine and banquets everywhere.

Zhu Qiyu sat down, Xing'an had already ordered the table, noodles and other things, His Majesty did not eat food outside the palace, so these things ordered were naturally just for show.

As soon as he sat down, a melodious sound of the qin came to his ears. It was like an oriole singing a cappella. Behind the emerald green screen, there was a looming figure, and soon the rapid sound of a pipa sounded like a kingfisher flapping its wings.

The sound of the piano was melodious, the pipa was light, and when the silk and bamboo were pleasing to the ears, two groups of fairies flew out from both sides of the emerald green screen. When the sleeve is dancing, it is faintly visible.

The fairies who danced to the rhythm of the music, when the music stopped abruptly, held their red sleeves with one hand, half covered their pretty faces, and looked at the nobleman with big watery eyes, with The shyness of wanting to refuse or welcome.

Zhu Qiyu tapped his right palm with his left hand, expressing his affirmation for the opening dance. He said to Shang Ren: "We thought this fairy lived in the sky before, but now I know that it turns out to be in this Accord."

The folk nickname for prostitutes is fairy, which was widely circulated in the Tang Dynasty. For example, Li Shangyin referred to prostitutes as goddesses in "Untitled Mochou Hall under the Heavy Curtain".

"Thanks to Master Huang's praise, let Master Huang choose one or two?" Seeing the smiles on the faces of the host and guest, the young servant hurried forward to sell, but this young servant did not talk to Zhu Qiyu, but to Xing'an.

The servant himself is a servant, so when he asked about his name, he naturally had to answer with the host and the guest. After asking about his name, the servant only talked to the servant.

There is a difference between honor and inferiority.

Xing'an and Zhu Qiyu whispered a few times before Xing'an said with a disappointed face: "Just leave a few to accompany the wine."

Xing'an, the flower and bird envoy, asked himself hard enough, but if His Majesty didn't let go, no matter how much he did, it would be futile.

Ever since Ran Siniang and Chen Wanniang entered the palace, Gao Jieyu had been sent to His Majesty's side by the Empress Qiansui these years, and no one had been added to the harem, which was very worrying for Xing'an.

Xing'an is someone close to Zhu Qiyu, and he is very clear about His Majesty's preferences. The only request His Majesty has for the people next to him is peace of mind, but it is such a simple request, but it is difficult for Xing'an, who is omnipotent in the eyes of countless people, to break.

"In the fifth year of Jingtai, there was a student named Li Sui who was enrolled in an imperial examination. He was from Zhenxiong Mansion in Sichuan. I don't know if Master Shang still remembers it." Zhu Qiyu said to Shang Ren with a serious face.

Shang Ren shuddered suddenly and bowed his head and said: "I remember, this person turned around and went to Dengwen Drum Academy to beat the Dengwen Drum that hadn't been played for more than 50 years without reading the rankings when he was admitted to the imperial examination. The most serious case in Sichuan, as well as the Huanglong and Wei Baomin uprisings."

If Shang Ren was Sanyuan Jidi, his memory is really good. Zhu Qiyu can't remember the names of the two leaders of the civil uprising in Zhenxiong Mansion, Sichuan, but Shang Ren still remembers.

Zhu Qiyu saw that Shang Ren still remembered this person, so he said with a little emotion: "When we saw Li Sui, Master Hu said that he went bankrupt and walked five thousand miles. There is only a backbone left, and I refuse to bend down!"

"However, this kind of humble disciple has the ambition to serve the country, but has no money to invite a teacher. How can he afford such a banquet?"

Li Sui and Lang Keqian, the No. [-] scholar in the second year of Jingtai, are both Jane's characters in the emperor's heart. One has worked hard in the Xingdusi of Shaanxi for so many years, and the other is Li Sui who is still the same as before in Wenrou Township.

The Li Sui who refused to break his eyebrows and bend his waist to serve the powerful was still the Li Sui whose spine was too hard to bend down.

　The concept of a scholar was very broad even in the Ming Dynasty. Yu Qian was a scholar, Li Sui was a scholar, Ke Qian was a scholar, Hu Wei was a scholar; Chen Xun was also a scholar, Wang Zhi was also a scholar; The gap between scholars is even greater than the gap between humans and dogs. Some people say: author, you do not respect scholars in your books.However, did the Great Emperor disrespect people like Yu Qian, Li Sui, Ke Qian, Hu Wei, Chen Xun, and Wang Zhi?Even the great emperor Xu Youzhen didn't care much, so the great emperor doesn't respect scholars?Or do you not respect yourself?Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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