Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 123 0118 [Zhu Zhengjun]

When Fu Dexiang left Yangzhou and passed through Xingyuan Mansion, he made another small fortune.

This time he didn't dare to mess around, the transfer envoy was from Cai Jing, so he just took some gifts and left.

The envoy Lu Rong had received the news, and happily brought wine to visit his friends. When they met, he smiled and said: "I asked Zhu Chenggong to pretend to be sick, but he did it more properly. .”

The friend he visited was called Gao Jingshan, and his official position was Lizhou Road Transport Judge.

The first and second in command of the transshipment department don't care much about specific affairs, and it is the third in command, the transshipment judge, who really works hard.

Jin Guo also had a general named Gao Jingshan, but he was from the Gao family in Bohai.

The Gaojingshan in front of me is the Shandong Gao family, and there is a younger brother named Gao Jingyun, who is now an official in the court.

If there is no major change in history, when Zhu Ming rebels in the future, he will definitely "deal" with Gao Jingshan.This gentleman will be promoted to be the deputy envoy and envoy of Chengdu Fulu Transit, and he will be an official in Chengdu until the Jingkang period.

"You have a good student." Gao Jingshan was quite envious.

Lu Rong smiled and said: "It can only be considered as half of the disciples, and Zhu Chenggong and I are more like friends who have forgotten each other."

Gao Jingshan asked his servants to bring some appetizers, and after a few glasses of wine, he said worriedly: "I'm afraid we will use troops against Xixia next year."

"How do you know?" Lu Rong's smile faltered.

Gao Jingshan said: "I just received an official document from the imperial court. This year, the donation of Lizhou Road will increase again. It was raised just last year, and it will continue to increase this year. It is too abnormal. The imperial court must be raising military rations."

"Not necessarily." Lu Rong said.

Gao Jingshan said in a low voice: "This year's summer and autumn grains are not all shipped to the capital, but half of them are shipped to the northwest."

Lu Rong understood, and said in a deep voice, "It must be a big battle."

Expanding the territory is a great achievement. Cai Jing and Tong Guan have been planning to conquer Xixia for six years. They have been building soldiers and storing money and food.

In the next three to four years, Ju Ming's rebellion in Hanzhong is courting death.The most elite troops of the Song Dynasty were all gathered in the northwest, with enough soldiers and food, and they could go to Hanzhong to quell the chaos at any time.

Rising up at this time is tantamount to blocking Xixia's guns and forcing the court to bring back the army that conquered Xixia.

Gao Jingshan said worriedly: "Now that money and food are abundant, and there are strong generals like clouds, there is still hope for the recovery of Xixia. I am afraid that the coach will command indiscriminately and ruin the good situation for nothing."

Lu Rong sighed, "The commander in chief must be that Tong Guan!"

"Ah, the eunuch misled the country, I just hope he can make less mistakes." Gao Jingshan shook his head again and again.

Neither Lu Rong nor Gao Jingshan expected that this conquest of Xixia would turn into a tug-of-war of attrition.

The Great Song Dynasty stored food and salaries every year, and the frontline soldiers were actually starving. Xixia got the news and took the initiative to attack. The Song Dynasty did not make full preparations and launched it in advance.After fighting for several years in a daze, the two countries were short of food in the end. Fortunately, Xixia couldn't hold on first, so he negotiated a peace and became a minister to give Song Huizong enough face.

The two chatted about the military, and Lu Rong went home drunk.

The next day, he rode to the Department of Education to go to work, and found out the national Jinshi model essays in recent years, and found out the excellent model essays for the Lizhou Road Examination.

Lu Rong asked the clerks of the Tixue Department to copy all these model essays, and then called to accompany him and said: "Send it to Zhu Chenggong. I don't know when he will be admitted to Taixue. Since he wants to take the imperial examination, he must do it." Be prepared. If you don’t pass the Jinshi exam next year, you can still accumulate experience, and you may be able to get a gold medal title in three years.”

Not only sent a model essay for the imperial examination, but also a set of "New Meanings of the Three Classics".

Although Zhu Ming's concurrent classic is "Book of Changes", and does not examine "Book of Songs", "Shangshu" and "Zhou Li", but "Three Classics and New Meanings" can also be used as a reference.Cai Jing regarded himself as the successor of the new law, and tried his best to promote the "Three Classics and New Meanings", citing the annotations in it, which can greatly increase the winning rate of Jinshi.

As for Wang Anshi's "Zi Shuo", it is similar to the official dictionary of the Northern Song Dynasty.

This stuff has been despised by scholars, and Cai Jing can't push it even if he forces it to promote it.Not to mention the extensive references to Buddhist and Taoist ideas in the book, there are also many perusals and details in the annotations. Anyway, the compilation is very imprecise.

A few days later, Zhu Ming received a gift from Lu Tixue.

He first looked through the sample essays for the Lizhou road test, and found that the level of the essays was generally low.So facing the same topic, I uniformly corrected these model essays, found out their defects and tried to correct them, and then wrote an article according to the topic.

Hmm... It's not as good as those essays written.

The standard eyesight is high but the ability is low, just like a food critic who comments on the chef's dishes well and soundly, but makes all kinds of mistakes as soon as he gets started.

After writing two rubbish articles in a row, Zhu Ming felt that his rhetorical foundation was too weak, and he had enough ideas but could not express them.

So he borrowed rhyme books from the library, and practiced writing poems while looking up the rhyme books.

My brain is blown up, which is tantamount to learning "Mandarin" again.

Rusheng is the most difficult to learn and remember. Fortunately, he has traveled through time and has learned the dialect for a year, and the dialect of Xixiang County also has Rusheng.

"Brother Zhu, someone is here again." Bai Sheng shouted.

Zhu Ming was a little annoyed: "Ask him to come in."

After Zhu Ming refused the emperor's conquest, he became famous these days, and wealthy families always came to treat him to dinner.

Before it was called, Ju Ming would definitely be willing to attend the appointment, but now he must conform to the personality.He has to be the first one, and he can't invite everyone, otherwise he won't have time to do his own things except drinking every day.

A teacher of official studies bowed as soon as he entered the door: "Sun Hui, the teacher of Yangzhou State School, is ordered by the professor to come to see Zhengjun."

Zhu Ming bowed and returned the salute: "Don't call Zhengjun, call me Zhu Chenggong."

Zhengjun, also called Zhengjun, is a respectful title for those who refuse to conquer.

In the eyes of the world, being conquered by the emperor is a great honor.If you refuse the emperor's conquest, it will be even more awesome, and you must be a true gentleman with both ability and virtue.

Sun Jiaoyu said: "Zhengjun is in person, so it is inconvenient to call him by name directly."

"Please sit down, Mr. Sun." Zhu Ming dared not neglect.

Because the teachers of Yangzhou State School were either Jinshi or Imperial students.

If others have been teachers for a few years, they are very likely to be promoted to county magistrates.

Zhu Ming asked: "I haven't asked for advice yet, which list of Jinshi is Mr. Sun?"

Sun Jiaoyu said: "In the second year of Daguan, he was a student of the Taixue School, and the official family conferred him with a Jinshi background."

Well, this person is a classmate of Li Bangyan, the prime minister of the prodigal son, and belongs to the same class of graduates.But it was really a bit miserable. Li Bangyan had already become a magistrate of the state, but Sun Jiaoyu was still a teacher in the state school.

After chatting for a few words, Sun Jiaoyu said: "Zhouxue wants to build a new library. I heard that Zhengjun made a couplet for Yangzhou Academy. Professor Wei also wants to ask Zhengjun to write a couplet for the Zhouxue library. Zhouxue is not as rich and powerful as the academy. , the finishing fee is only [-] guan.”

"It's my good fortune to write couplets for the state!" Ju Ming was very happy. It was too easy to make money selling couplets.

He thought about it, thinking of a pair of couplets he visited Yuelu Academy before, which must have not been written yet.

Ju Ming's calligraphy is ordinary, and he writes it with his own highest level: a thousand-story building with a beautiful heart, and a hundred-foot building with a strong atmosphere.

Sun Jiaoyu took a closer look, and immediately praised: "Good couplet! Hanging this couplet in the library can encourage students to be mindful of all people in the world."

One pair of couplets earned thirty guan, and Zhu Ming couldn't wait to write a few more.

After sending Sun Jiaoyu out in person, Zhu Ming went back to his room to continue studying rhyme books and practicing poetry and fu.

Not long after, someone came to visit again.

It turned out that the old grandpa who was a true character of the Li family died, and he offered a hundred guan to ask Zhu Ming to write an epitaph.

What's the mess?

Zhu Ming declined on the spot, saying that he is not good at writing this stuff.

This time he is really famous!

For the big families in Yangzhou, the eight lines of scholars are meaningless, and the eight amazing poems don't matter. Leading troops to wipe out the "rebels" is even a trivial matter.

These deeds are not as good as rejecting the emperor's conquest!

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, Yangzhou has not yet been conquered by the emperor, and Zhu Ming belongs to Xie Zibaba.

The next day, someone came to invite him down for dinner again.

Unable to bear the disturbance, Zhu Ming ran to find Chen Yuan and said, "Mr. Chen, I plan to go back to Xixiang County to hide for a while, and come to Yangzhou after the test in autumn."

Chen Yuan also knew his situation, nodded and said: "Let's go together, I just have doubts and want to ask your father."

The two went together to bid farewell to Min Wenwei. When the teachers and students heard about this, three of them were willing to follow.If it weren't for the imperial examination in autumn, and everyone is busy preparing for the exam, there may be more people following them.

"Da Lang, I... I won't go this time, I will ask the teacher after Qiu Wei is over." Bai Chongyan felt very guilty.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Why should Saburo be like this? Studying is not for a while, and the imperial examination should be the most important thing."

He understands Bai Chongyan's choice very well. The Bai family is just a rich man from the countryside, and the whole family expects him to succeed in the imperial examination, which is not as good as those chic rich children.

Li Hanzhang and Linggu Xu followed. Although the Linggu family is not as good as the four major families in Yangzhou, they have settled here since the Tang Dynasty, and the family background is very deep.

When they came to the Han River, Min Zishun hurried after them before boarding the boat.

"Mr. is going down the mountain. I just found out today. I would like to study with him." Min Zishun bowed respectfully. He admired Chen Yuan very much, and even planned to follow Chen Yuan all the way to Fujian.

When Ju Ming came to Yangzhou, there were only a few people.

When they returned, there were more than ten people. Min Zishun and Ling Guxu all brought their followers.

Everyone took a boat and went down the river.

When they arrived at Huangjinxia, ​​they invited the trackers to pull the boat.

Because there are several dangerous shoals, you must drive slowly. The role of the tracker is to hold the boat and slow down the speed.

Those reefs were blown up by explosives hundreds of years later, but people at this time have nothing to do about it.

The boat passed by Shangbai Village. The rapeseed flowers here have withered. The rapeseed seedling cultivation and transplanting method passed down by Zhu Guoxiang can save a lot of manpower and time.

Continue driving to Daming Village, the situation in the village has changed drastically.

Poor or very poor, the main reason is that they have different mental outlooks, each of them has hope for life, and I don't know what kind of chicken soup Dean Zhu poured them into.

Everyone disembarked at the mouth of the river, and the big boats could not enter the small river.

Walking and observing all the way, Chen Yuan nodded in approval: "I heard that this place was a den of thieves last year, but now the farming is booming. Mr. Zhu is worthy of being a great Confucian."

Ju Ming said with a smile: "My father once said that it takes one year to solve the food and clothing of the villagers, and two years to make the villagers rich."

"Excellent!" Chen Yuan said with a smile.

After walking for a while, the high-drum trolley appeared ahead.

Several scholars from Yangzhou were all dumbfounded when they saw the huge monster.

(End of this chapter)