After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 162 Southwest Enke
"No!" Master Lu said indifferently, "The court is currently in urgent need of Confucian scholars, some will be sent to Goryeo, some will be sent to Qiongzhou, some will be sent to Kaigang, and some will be sent to Tubo. Educating those barbarian people. Now even the Hanlin Academy is desperately short of manpower, when you scholars are serving the country, you still want to stay out of it?"

When he said that he was going to educate the barbarians, his tone was obviously a little proud.

It can be seen that this is the role played by Emperor Zhu in sending troops to conquer Goryeo.Daming dared to fight, and even won the battle, the people under his rule were naturally proud, and he spoke a lot harder without knowing it.

He was proud of the Ming Dynasty he belonged to, and proud of the emperor of Shengming.

Proud of the strength of the court, proud of being the descendants of Yan and Huang.With this kind of pride, once encountering foreign enemies, there will be unprecedented unity, and people with lofty ideals and those who dare to sacrifice for the imperial court will emerge one after another.

On the other hand, if they encounter the weak Song Dynasty, the government will pay back the common people, and the common people will lead the way for the aliens.

"Let's put it this way, as long as the Confucian scholar who can win a scholar in the imperial examination has something to do. It is possible to go abroad and go to a foreign country to educate them. If he can win a man, he may become the staff of the expedition general. If you can become a jinshi, you are likely to enter the Hanlin Academy and work with Liu Bowen and others. In short, it is the era of the great rise of Ming Dynasty, and it is time for you to show your ambitions.”

"You don't want such a difficult opportunity?"

The three of them fell silent.

"Master Lu, you know our situation..." Luo Guanzhong said.

It's not that he doesn't want to be an official. His executives, Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, still really want to work with three of today's most famous scholars, Qingtian Liu Ji, Jinhua Song Lian, and Changzhou Gao Qi.

The shadow of the tree, as a scholar, who doesn't want to work with them?
Wouldn't it be nice to talk about literature together and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty together?
But the two wanted to be loyal to Zhang Shicheng, and they were afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would settle old accounts with them, so they did not dare to serve as officials.

"I understand your situation." Lu Xiu said coldly, "Zhang Shicheng, an illicit salt dealer, is worthy of your loyalty? He is short-sighted and doesn't listen to his loyal words.

"It's not worth wasting your talent for someone like that."

"Secondly, in your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Robben, didn't you say that you must respect the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty? Today's Emperor Zhu is the orthodox of our Han family.

"I know that you are afraid that the emperor will liquidate your old accounts. Don't worry, the emperor is not such a person. If the emperor really wants to liquidate you, do you think your Water Margin Romance of the Three Kingdoms can write so much?"

"The emperor is too short of reading talents now, and will not kill you."

Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong, master and apprentice, looked at each other after hearing the words. Indeed, what Lu Xiu said made sense.If Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to liquidate them, they would have already fallen to the ground.

"By participating in the imperial examinations, you are showing the emperor that you are loyal to the Ming Dynasty." Lu Xiu continued, "The emperor is happy and thinks that you are talented people, so maybe you will be forgiven for your sins. But If you still don't want to go out and don't even participate in the imperial examinations, you're fighting against the imperial court... Do you remember what happened to the Shandong Erxian?"

Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong fell silent after hearing the words.

"Okay, I've already informed you. If you don't go to the scientific examination, this officer will order you to carry you and put you in the examination room!"

"Master Lu, the old man is already old, so I don't have to participate, right?" Shi Naian said.

"No!" Lu Xiu resolutely said, "There are very few scholars in the Southwest, and you can only make up a thousand of them by patchwork. You still want to escape? Besides, from the Water Margin you wrote, you also have good people." Talent. Even Cao Cao said that he is an old man with great ambitions. Jiang Ziya met King Wen of Zhou at the age of 80, and you can also meet the Lord Ming at the age of 70."

Shi Naian sighed helplessly.

"Okay, go back and prepare. Three days later, you will be ready to go to Beijing. This official is gone."

After Lu Xiu finished speaking, he turned and left.

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"Lord Lu's attitude towards us seems to have changed a lot." Luo Guanzhong said when he saw Lu Xiu's departure.

"He used to be respectful to us, and every time we finished writing a chapter, he would come to take a look at it non-stop." Shi Nai'an said, "But now he likes to watch "Breaking the Sphere". There has of course been a big change in attitude.”

"Yes, he hasn't come to urge me to write "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for a month." Luo Guanzhong sighed: "It's really not ancient."

"There is a high probability that we will not be killed by the emperor when we participate in the imperial examination this time." Shi Nai'an analyzed, "As Lu Xiu said, the emperor is currently too short of talents. Every time he sends people to conquer a place, he must send Confucian students in the past, Daming is really short of Confucian students at the moment. Have pity on me, an old man, who still has to participate in scientific examinations with the Confucian students of those grandchildren.”

"With the talents of the two teachers, it's easy to lift a person." Li Zian said.

"It should be like this." Luo Guanzhong has always considered himself very high, feeling that he is a certainty in the examination, and said, "At present, what I am most worried about is that the emperor will send us to a foreign country..."

"The old man doesn't want to think of foreign countries, and to educate those people who are outsiders. The emperor should not send me, and I don't have the ability." Shi Nai'an said.

"It's impossible for the teacher to be sent, and I'm in danger." Luo Guanzhong said, "I haven't married yet. I heard that most of the Confucian scholars sent by the emperor did not marry. The emperor wanted them to marry Fanbang women."

"I, Luo Guanzhong, don't want to go abroad, let alone marry a woman from Fanbang."

"I heard that those foreign women who are very beautiful when they are young, will change their body and appearance greatly when they get older, and there is an unpleasant smell on their bodies. And foreign women, their personalities are not gentle."

"I don't want to be a teacher." Shi Naian said.

"How should it be?"

"Teach you a way." Shi Nai'an said, "Just don't finish writing "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for now. The emperor should not let books like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" go to Fanbang."

"Thank you teacher for your advice!" Luo Guanzhong suddenly realized when he heard the words.

"It would be great if we could be the No. [-] in high school and the second place this time." Shi Nai'an said, without the worries of being sent to Fanbang, he began to think of a bright future, "If we can go to high school, we will be able to make peace with each other in the future. Liu Bowen, Song Lian and the others have worked together."

"Students hope so too." Luo Guanzhong said.

(End of this chapter)