Cutting 1719

Chapter 439

"Sell newspapers! The cabinet has issued a new decree, and land prices are suspected to have plummeted!"

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! Exclusive news from "Qingliu Daily", the last one!"

A small newspaper boy who was only seven or eight years old was shouting on the street. He was carrying a blue cloth bag, which contained stacks of newspapers and periodicals, and on the top newspaper periodicals were written three large characters—— "Qingliu Bao".

If this newspaper was in a place outside of Nanjing City, it would probably be sold out immediately. However, in Nanjing City, where the news has been announced for three days, it is no longer news, but has become a Everyone knows the old news, so that the last copy of "Qingliu Bao" has been unable to sell for a long time.

"Qingliubao? Kid, give me a copy!"

The person who spoke was Xu Zhai who had rushed to Nanjing. Naturally, he and Shen Luochuan couldn't come to Nanjing directly after falling into the water. Instead, they went home first, changed into clean clothes, and prepared the money for the journey, so they hurried Hurriedly, together with Shen Luochuan, they entered Nanjing City, and happened to meet a small newsboy selling newspapers.

Xu Zhai took out the copper coins from his pocket, and smiled at Shen Luochuan: "This is the biggest newspaper in the world today, and there are often a lot of things about the imperial government's decrees on it, and the printing volume is not much on weekdays. It's hard to get a report, and now we are lucky, and we caught up with the last one as soon as we came to Nanjing!"

Shen Luochuan nodded, but unceremoniously took the "Qingliu Daily" from the newsboy, and then opened it just like that, only to be surprised when he saw it.

"What? The court's imperial examination system has changed?"

"We can retake the stereotyped exam again? But it's unreasonable to only go to a remote area to become an official!"

Hearing Shen Luochuan's words, Xu Zhai, who couldn't wait for a long time, snatched the newspaper and began to browse quickly, but the more he read, the more gloomy his face became, and finally he even threw the newspaper on the ground!
"The imperial court's move is simply a change of order! What's going on? Send us or fool the scholars of the world?"

Shen Luochuan let out a long sigh, "No, we can't just let it go, we have to find other scholars in the capital, no matter what, we have to make a fuss!"

"Yes, let's make a fuss, if we don't make a fuss, what will we get back home!"

Speaking of this, Xu Zhai's face was somewhat disappointed. His expenses along the way were sponsored by his classmates, and the expenses were quite large. Originally, he planned to get a family background in Nanjing. In the future, no matter whether he paid back the money or whatever This confidence, but now that he has just arrived in Nanjing, he has encountered such an imminent blow.

"If there is trouble, maybe there will be a turning point. If there is no trouble, we will be completely dead!"

Jiangnan is a place where cultural contexts converge, and it is also a place where the gentry and gentry have fundamental influence. Although the industry and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River have flourished in the past two years, the open and secret struggles between the two sides have never stopped. The most important thing is that there are even newspapers and periodicals belonging to both sides fighting with each other every day!

Naturally, 1 Jiangnan gentry are dissatisfied with the New Deal. This is more than digging a hole for them, it is digging a grave for all of them.If we really want to follow such a taxation plan, the tens of millions of acres of land in their hands will become their graves.

rebel?But the problem is, let’s not talk about the gentry in other places. After the baptism of bloody storms, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have no force at all. Everyone has nothing but money. Under the coercion of the army, he was just like fat.

No one would choose to cause chaos knowing that they would die. For the pampered Jiangnan gentry, they never had the courage to die with the enemy. When the Qing army went south, these gentry were honest and honest After cutting off the braids, even diving to commit suicide would worry about the water being too cold.

Therefore, when Ning Yu promulgated these policies, he never thought that the gentry would choose to kill the fish and break the net. All his property was offered up, and he did not have the courage to rebel.

At this point, the gentry had no choice but to spend money to bribe officials in Ningchu. From the Executive Yuan to the cabinet, as long as they were individuals, they would throw money at him, as if they wanted to make a way by throwing money.

But the problem is that the gentry dared to smash it, but none of the officials dared to accept it. With the emperor Ning Yu watching from behind, and the gang of stern censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who would dare to mess around?It's really worthless.

When the gentry repeatedly hit the wall, they realized that the wealth they were once proud of was nothing more than a pile of waste paper. When the court really moved, they had no choice but to obey. way out.

Nanjing City is the most prosperous place in the world. The brothel art hall on the shore is more than half of the flower boats in the water. Among the most famous ones, there is one called Ruanxianglou, which can be said to be one of the best in the world. Absolutely.

Whether it is a wealthy businessman with a lot of money or a romantic literati, they can almost find their own fun in it, so people at the time lamented it as a gold-selling cave and a hero's grain.

But in today's Ruanxiang Building, there is no laughter and laughter in the past, instead it is filled with the angry words of some young people, the voice seems to be so loud that it can reach the palace.

"The imperial court is in chaos! Chaos!"

"We gentry are the foundation of the country and the lifeblood of the world. How can we do such a thing? If it goes on for a long time, the country will not be the country!"

"Nowadays, I wait for the world's rich and powerful families to buy a lot of land. How many tens of thousands of acres? If we continue to collect taxes like this, we might as well invest in the north!"

"Be careful!"

With a bang, a good Jun Kiln porcelain cup was smashed to the ground, but its owner didn't seem to feel sorry for it at all, he just waved his hand lightly, and then some servants came over to clean it tremblingly .

Shen Weijun stared at a few juniors who were talking nonsense with an extremely ugly face, and said coldly: "Keep shouting, shout quickly, and see if we can call the tens of thousands of Fu-Han troops in Nanjing City! See if we can call your Zhou family , the Wang family, and our Shen family, we are completely shouted to exterminate the family!"

In the south of the Yangtze River, the gentry's family was like a crucian carp crossing the river. Every year, some new big families pop up. The original big families disappeared with the establishment of Ningchu, but there are still other families to replace them. Their position enjoys the prosperity brought by the south of the Yangtze River, and Shen, Zhou, Wang, and Tian are the leaders among them.

As the eldest son of the Shen family, Shen Weijun was originally a scholar. He planned to pass the scientific examination and become a member of Ningchu's bureaucracy, so as to ensure the continuation of the family business. Will go to manage the family business again, but concentrate on studying, just to become a high-ranking official in Ningchu.

And these sons and brothers grew up in wealthy families, and their social circles are naturally limited to other major families. These scholars who are valued by the family often gather together to eat, drink and have fun, and occasionally hold poetry meetings together Wenhui and the like, even pretending to be mysterious to talk about Da Chu's officialdom news.

But all of this was completely shattered with the series of decrees of Ning Yu. Almost all the gentry looked at the seemingly familiar behemoth beside them with a look of extreme fear, for fear that the other party would ignore them and start ransacking their homes. ——As for these young masters who have nothing to do, they naturally started drinking like crazy.

"Shen Weijun, there is no one else here, and the old men are busy spreading money, what can we do? There is nothing we can do except to vent."

A young man sat down on the embroidered stool in despair, holding a jug in his hand. This man was named Zhou Weiqing, the second son of the Zhou family in the south of the Yangtze River, and he often hang out with Shen Weijun.

"Brother Shen, what do you think we should do? This is obviously a joke, but we can't continue to sit here and wait to die."

The other son was crying, he called Wang Yongqi, he was the son of the head of the Wang family, so he was spoiled and pampered since he was a child, but he had never experienced any difficulties.

Shen Weijun had a gloomy face, if he knew what to do, he wouldn't drag these two idiots here to drink.It's just that what makes him stronger than the other two is that he will not give up any hope of survival.

"The imperial court has made up its mind. If we choose to resist, the whole family may have to go to the Hexagonal Tower!"

The so-called hexagonal building actually refers to the name of the shadow, because the shadow built a six-storey pavilion on his office site years ago, and the eaves protrude from six directions, which looks quite strange, so It has also become a reference place for shadows.

People at the time often said that it is easy to enter the Palace of the King of Hades, but it is difficult to get out of the Hexagonal Tower.

The reason is that once you enter the hexagonal building, it is very difficult to get out, because for those low-key shadows, if you are not completely sure, it is impossible to act rashly, they will only stare at you in the dark every move, and then find your incriminating evidence.

Although Ruanxiang Building itself is the property of the Shen family, and there are all members of the Shen family here, even Shen Weijun is not sure whether he is under the supervision of the shadow. Who knows if there are any maids from the shadow among the maids Spy?
"Brother Shen, do you have any good ideas? You can feel at ease if you tell us." Wang Yongqi had a bit of expectation on his face. In the eyes of these young masters, Shen Weijun can still be regarded as a capable person.

Shen Weijun pondered for a while, and he naturally had his own plan in mind, so he said in a low voice: "The reason why there is such a big disturbance this time is because of the imperial examination, those old people thought it was an opportunity to oppose the New Deal , but I didn't expect to fall into His Majesty's arms."

Thinking of this, Shen Weijun became a little angry. A group of arrogant and extremely incompetent old people originally hid behind Shilin to stir up trouble, but they didn't expect some people to show their tails like that, causing the emperor to go crazy hit.

I really regard the imperial court as a vegetarian. Those heads that were chopped off row after row outside the city of Nanjing have not completely rotted yet. How dare they touch the tiger's beard?

"Shen Weijun, don't you mean to use Shilin? But now His Majesty has given Shilin a chance to take the old subjects, and I'm afraid they won't make trouble anymore."

There was a trace of coldness on Zhou Weiqing's face. Originally, this matter was a conflict between Shilin and the imperial court, but now somehow, Shilin got what he wanted, but the gentry were thrown out and became a The target of the imperial court, when he thought of this, he became more and more annoyed in his heart, and said coldly: "If you rely on them, you may be betrayed without knowing it."

Shen Weijun coughed lightly, "We are also members of Shilin after all, how can we cut ourselves off from Shilin?"

"Scholar? Of those so-called self-proclaimed masters, how many of us are serious about us?"

Zhou Weiqing thought of some past situations, but became more and more annoyed, "Everyone holds those broken books all day long, do they really think that the truth of the world is in these books? How did the current emperor become the emperor? That is Did you learn it from reading? It’s not about seeing whose knife is stronger!”

Shen Weijun really felt that he had some headaches now, so he had no choice but to say: "It doesn't matter whether they look down on anyone or not, at least one point, we big clans can't continue to stand in front, we still have to let Shilin rush in front, as long as They continue to petition the emperor, and the emperor will definitely not stare at us gentry clan, and there may be a turning point."

Wang Yongqi heard this, but felt a bit of taste, which meant that he had to find someone to attract firepower, and Shilin was famous and made a lot of noise, even the emperor was not good at it. Be ruthless, otherwise Da Chu's reputation will be completely ruined!
"Brother Shen, this is a good idea! Then tell me, what should we do? I'm afraid those scholars will not easily continue to make trouble now."

There was a wry smile on Shen Weijun's face, "It's hard to say whether it's a good idea or not, but I think this is the last chance for now. The two brothers can quickly find their old Shilin friends and explain the stakes to them." , not much else to say, just one point, are they willing to go to the borderlands to be the border officials who cross the river with their eggs in their hands!"

"If you want to continue to be an official in the bustling world of flowers and flowers, then this bill can't just be left alone! At least you have to get the same status as Xinxue, and everyone has to stay in your heart to be an official!"

"Hey, Shen Weijun, your idea this time is really good!"

Zhou Weiqing grinned, he stretched out the folding fan in his hand, fanned it a few times, and said with a smile: "I can do this, at least I have spent a lot of money on those scholars in the past. Those who have little poetry and literary skills still have some face, but how many people can be convinced is hard to guarantee."

Wang Yongqi on the side also nodded, and he said repeatedly: "My father also had some reputation among the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. Although it is not as good as Lu and Yan, he is also a forest of peaches and plums. I have also known many scholars. , tell them about the relationship, and if you think about it, you can win some people!"

Shen Weijun smiled slightly, but raised the wine glass in his hand, and said in a low voice: "In this case, let's act quickly. This matter will be set on the eighth day of May, and the scholars will be called together to beat the Dengwen drum. I can't believe it won't happen!"

(End of this chapter)