marquis of jingan

Chapter 72
The ills of the court are not a matter of one dynasty and two dynasties.

In the early years of the first emperor's accession to the throne, he was in the same state as he is now. He wanted to revive Dachen, and even wanted to go to Huaibei and take back the old capital.

At that time, all the officials who were used by the late emperor were "hawks" in the court, and the whole court was screaming and wanting to meet Bei Qi.

Thirteen years ago, the Chen army crossed the Huaihe River and collided head-on with the Northern Qi army in the Jianghuai area. The 13 elite Chen army fought for only one month, and only 2 remnants of the defeated army fled back to Huainan.

However, the Northern Qi Army only lost more than 1 people in battle.

11 years ago, the late emperor once again launched the Northern Expedition, and suffered a disastrous defeat in the Pengcheng area. The family property accumulated for two years was directly emptied. In this big case.

So far, no one in the capital of Jiankang dared to lead troops to fight for war, the late emperor gradually put down the idea of ​​the Northern Expedition, and the "hawk faction" in the court gradually declined, and the tortoise faction headed by Yang Jingzong re-emerged in the court, until the death of the late emperor At that time, Yang Jingzong was appointed as the chief assistant to assist the young emperor.

More than five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the power of Yang Xianggong's family in the court has reached an extremely large level. However, the little emperor is about to take charge of the government. Conflict, which gave an obvious message to the government and the opposition.

Today, it is not "Turtle School".

It also means that the hardliners who have been dormant for seven or eight years are about to rise again.

Zhao Changping from the household department, as well as Zhao Changping's student Zhang Jian, and probably the entire Ganquan Academy department, are almost all hardliners. The reason why Zhang Xianzun is so excited is because he feels that his faction is about to reappear.

But now, after being splashed with cold water by Master Lu, Zhang Xianzun's originally excited mood calmed down a little. He sat opposite Lu Anshi, looked at Master Lu in front of him, then sighed, and said slowly: " It is a fact that we are weak in military power, but I am gentle and orthodox. As my uncle said, if things go on like this, Da Chen will fall into the hands of barbarians sooner or later. Since fighting is death, not fighting is death, It’s better to fight hard.”

"Elegant" and "Orthodox" are the only two remaining signs of Chen Guo.

However, 60 years have passed, and the two remaining signboards are in danger. The Northern Qi Dynasty has sent students to Jiankang more than once to discuss learning with Southern Chen students. In the past, the knowledge of Northern Qi students was naturally far inferior to that of the South, but in recent years , can already be evenly divided.

As for orthodox...

All the great treasures handed down by the Great Chen Taizu were lost when Sejong traveled to the south. The northerners have mentioned this matter more than once, and even openly declared that the Southern Chen Dynasty is a false dynasty, and the Northern Qi Dynasty is the orthodox one!

"If you fight, you will die, if you don't fight, you will die..."

Master Lu heaved a long sigh, and said, "I hope that the government and the people will think so."

"Otherwise, even if we want to fight and fight, there will be someone behind us who will fight for Beiqi. In recent years..."

Master Lu snorted coldly: "In Jiankang City, there are more and more people speaking for the people of Qi. Isn't there someone who wants to designate Jiankang as the capital of the country and abandon the capital of Yan in the north?"

Zhang Xianzun lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and said in a muffled voice, "Anyone who doesn't think about the old capital can be killed!"

Hearing Zhang Jian's words, Master Lu didn't answer, but silently glanced at Zhang Xianzun in front of him, and sighed inwardly.

He is close to 50 years old this year.

When he was born, Da Chen had already lost his old capital, not to mention Zhang Xianzun who was only in his 20s?
………………

This year's county test went very well.

The first test was the scripture examination, and Shen Yi passed it without any surprises. Then the second test was the Four Books and Essays. Shen Yi could read the Four Books and Five Classics two or three years ago.

There is no problem in the third test post poem, and the county test will not require you to write any ancient quatrains. Generally, as long as the writing is fluent and the rhythm is neat, you can pass. Although Shen Yi's poetry is not as good as Chen Qing, he can write a neat poem. Poetry is not a big deal.

If he is willing, he can even write one or even several ancient quatrains, which will directly become famous as a young man and become Da Chen's contemporary poet.

But it's not necessary.

If you really want to show your holiness in front of others, you have to go to the capital to show your holiness. In the Jiangdu County Examination Center, just answer the paper honestly.

Each county test lasted one day, and after the test, there was a second test in two days, so by the time of the fourth county test, it was already the seventh day of October in the fifth year of Hongde.

The fourth and fifth rounds are together, so this day is the last day of the county test.

In the examination room No. [-] of Yuezi, Shen Yi got the examination questions for the last county examination.

The topic is "Brave for Justice".

Do not do what is right, no courage.

The Analects of Confucius.

This is still a regular topic, and because the four books are all the contents that the gentlemen have repeatedly said, it is not difficult. Anyone who can sit here can write a decent article on this topic. policy theory.

But how to write it, whether it is written well or not, depends on the individual candidate.

For the past few months, Shen Yi has spent almost all of his time in the academy. Except for occasionally going out to give advice to Xu Fu and others, he spends the rest of his time in the academy, basically writing a policy every three days.

Although Shen Yi has never written about this topic, he has seen similar ones in policy and theory collections, so it is not difficult to come up with an article by himself.

He sat on his desk, pondered for a while, and then began to write.

It took about half an hour for him to write a policy theory of about [-] words. Of course, it was still written on the manuscript paper at this time, not on the test paper. Wait for a series of taboos, and check for typos. After confirming that they are correct, they will be transcribed on the official test paper.

After Shen Yi finished writing the policy theory, it was still in the morning. He put away the manuscript paper, ate something, slept on the table, and recovered his energy. transcribed on the test paper.

Dachen’s county examination cannot be handed in in advance, and the test papers will be collected one by one after the yamen clerk strikes the gong. However, the yamen clerk will knock the gong for three rounds in total, and it is not until the third round that the papers must be handed in.

At sunset, the first round of gongs sounded.

Shen Yi handed the test paper to the passing yamen servant, then got up and stretched, turned his head and carried the test basket, and strode out of the test room.

The entrance of the examination room was almost full of people, some family members of the examinees, teachers, and some vendors selling food. What's more, there were seven or eight fortune tellers at the entrance of the examination room to tell fortunes.

What kind of fate?Naturally, it is considered whether it can be piloted!

Shen Yi was the first batch to walk out of the examination room, and there were not many people who handed in the papers with him and walked out. There were only a dozen or so people. Among the ten or so people, some were confident, while others were broken.

As soon as Shen Yi walked out of the examination room, he saw his third elder brother Shen Ling striding over, stepped forward and pulled Shen Yi's sleeve, and said with a smile: "It can be regarded as coming out, your sister-in-law has already prepared food at home, I called my younger brother back from the academy, let us brothers have a good meal today!"

Shen Yi looked at Shen Ling and smiled: "Third Brother, don't you ask me how I did in the exam?"

"After all the exams, why ask him?"

Shen Laosan smiled heartily, and said: "Brother, I only wait for the case to be committed, and then please invite Lao Qi to have a good meal!"

(End of this chapter)