Idle courtiers

Chapter 213 The Ugly Daughter-in-Law's Feelings When Seeing Her In-Laws

Zhou Nan heard the person who came to invite him say this, and suddenly felt a strong envy and hatred in his heart: the Kongxing case is considered to be understood, and the Ninth Young Master has 3000 taels of silver in his hand.She didn't do much in this matter at all, she just sat back and enjoyed the success and made a fortune.

No, I have to find her once after returning to Beijing to let her share some profits, and at least the debt of 200 taels has to be forgiven.

This girl... Speaking of which, she is really a concubine born to a maid.

Zhou Nan was exposed by Zou Yinglong at the state school that day that he had only a reputation as a scholar and was from a miscellaneous background, but now he was a little embarrassed to see Lu Zhizhou.

Busy worship down.

Lu Zhizhou quickly helped him up, and said with a smile, "Zimu is smart and capable. If he wins a Jinshi in the future and has experienced in the officialdom for decades, he will be the talent of a minister."

Zhou Nan: "Lord Lu is just joking. I can't afford to be an official who doesn't even say whether I can pass the provincial examination next year."

Lu Zhizhou said solemnly: "Tang Yingde and Wang Yuanmei's students can still be poor. In the future, the Imperial Academy will have a place for you. Please sit down, please sit down."

After each took a few sips of tea, Lu Zhizhou clapped his hands again and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that the matter of Zhou Xue was solved in this way that day. It's really unexpected. I can't help but admire it."

Zhou Nan was proud of himself: "Students, I have been studying for more than ten years. I am young and full of energy. Who doesn't like to point out the country and stimulate the writing. The Jianghuai area of ​​the lower official's hometown has a prosperous literary style. When I was studying in the past, there were three or five like-minded friends. Form groups with each other. It is also common to criticize current events and discuss the government's affairs."

"However, now that I think about it, it's ridiculous."

Lu Zhizhou asked curiously: "How?"

Zhou Nan: "Zhizhou has been a lifetime of ups and downs in the officialdom. Political matters are naturally clear, but it is not as simple as it is said in the book. The sage said: Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. How can it be so simple to adjust the Dingnai? There are so many people and things, and how can you understand them without a few years of experience, all of which cannot be obtained by reading alone."

"Zou Yinglong is also aware of this. He convened the scholars to discuss the state affairs, and the scholars naturally couldn't discuss anything. In the end, he could only vent the resentment in his stomach that I was born to be useless and began to criticize the local government affairs. Zou Yinglong as long as With a little guidance, if you hold on to one of them, you can lead the fire to Zhizhou. With so many students jointly signing a letter and accusing the state, it will be a big trouble."

"However, Zou Yinglong can guide the students, so can we. They don't understand local administration. Even if they understand something, it has nothing to do with them. So what about faction?" Zhou Nan said with a smile: "People can only see the things around them, so we might as well let them discuss with trivial matters. For example, the food in government schools, the affair between men and women. Everyone loves to talk about the relationship between men and women. Everyone wants to eat better. As for the major policies of the court, after this interruption, the scholars are not interested in talking about it anymore, this trick is called changing the topic."

Also called field control, it is a skill in negotiation.

After hearing him finish speaking, Lu Zhizhou put his hand on his forehead and laughed loudly: "It's a good move to change the subject. Zhou Xingren's grasp of the world and people's hearts is really wonderful, and my generation is not as good as it!"

Zhou Nan smiled secretly: "I heard this kind of thing from my parents when I was in the modern society, and it was their own experience. Now I just moved to the Ming Dynasty, and I didn't expect it to be the same."

Zhou Nan's parents were born in a rather unique era. In that year, almost all the students in all the schools were shouting for Pearl Petroleum, wanting to overthrow the poisonous rule of the principal and school leaders.

Then, the students started to make noise.

When the school leaders saw it, it was not good. We should keep up with the trend of the times and be open-minded.

Therefore, the students were gathered together for a meeting and asked them to give their opinions to the school leaders.

The students in the university are all half-grown children between the ages of 20 and [-], and they know something about ideology.Besides, these things are invisible and intangible, and have nothing to do with everyone.After talking for a long time, apart from shouting slogans, there is nothing new.

The conference was on and on, and when a girl began to criticize the cafeteria aunt, it suddenly became lively.The female classmate said angrily that the aunt in the cafeteria shook her hands badly every time she scooped up vegetables for herself.On the contrary, when feeding handsome boys, they are as stable as Mount Tai. This is judging people by their appearance, this is persecution against us, and it is objectifying women.

With her start, the students began to vent their long-standing resentment, from not giving enough meals to the cleanliness of the cafeteria, to the fact that the chef didn't cut his nose hair.

As a result, this vigorous and famous oil campaign turned into a cafeteria carnival.

In the end, the cafeteria was rectified, and the meals of the students were improved, and the curtain ended with great satisfaction.

After laughing, Lu Zhizhou asked: "Zhou Xingren, that Gu Xiu is what you arranged in advance, right?"

Zhou Nan smiled and didn't answer, just said: "Zhizhou, I would like to ask you for favors, and give this Gusheng a place to participate in the provincial examination next year."

It turned out that the Ming Dynasty's rural examination was held every three years, and not all scholars could take the examination.The reason is very simple, there are boys' exams every year, that is to say, every county produces a lot of talents every year.Over the past few decades, it is not uncommon for a county to have one or two hundred scholars.

There are so many scholars in a province, if they all go to take the exam, the Gongyuan will not be overcrowded.

Therefore, the state formulates policies.If you are a scholar in the middle of the year, you can be regarded as a freshman, and you can go directly to the township examination.As for the former students, there are two ways to obtain the qualifications of the provincial examination: first, to participate in the additional examination administered by the local officials;

Gu Xiucai hangs in the middle of the year-end exam every year in the government school. According to the rules, he will not be able to participate in the rural exam next year. Zhou Nan persuaded him with this exam qualification.

Speaking of this, some people may wonder, isn't Gu Sheng's grades bad? He may not be able to pass the provincial examination.But things like imperial examinations actually have a lot of luck. If your essay hits the examiner's mark, even if the quality is poor, you will still be on the top list.If it is not to the taste of the great master, no matter how good the writing is, you will be called a loser.Zhang Juzhengniu, a great talent in the Ming Dynasty, participated in the provincial examination in Hubei for the first time, but he was also defeated and made a mess.Xu Weiniu, after a lifetime of exams, he is just a little scholar, and he is so angry that his nerves split.

Lu Zhizhou nodded: "It's easy. As for Jia Xuezheng's injustice, he was fined a year's salary. It's a grievance. I just come down to subsidize Zhou's education."

After completing the work in Yanqing, Zhou Nan went back to the Pedestrian Department to hand over the errand, and the next step was to wait for the Beijing inspection.Anyway, if a political achievement is in hand, the left and right can be in the middle, but there is nothing to worry about.

Zhou Nan wants to resume the leisurely days of going to the pedestrian department every day to order a car and then sneaking home to read a book.

After coming out of the Pedestrian's Department and back home, Huang Dou came to report: "My lord, the old master of the former Fanwang sent someone to say that the old man Tang has left Beijing and returned to Nanjing, and asked you to go to the mansion to study."

"Mr. Yingde has returned to Nanjing, and Wang Shizhen asked me to go and study." Zhou Nan was greatly disturbed, feeling like an ugly daughter-in-law seeing her parents-in-law.

(End of this chapter)