Idle courtiers

Chapter 412 Sudden realization
Wang Changsui: "I have been serving the Grand Master all this time, and I have been imprisoned in this tribute courtyard for more than a month. I naturally know the situation of this exam from the beginning to the end. In fact, although the name of Si Zheng's paper was blurred, it was transcribed again. The great master still recognized the students taught by Wang Yuanmei at a glance. After all, the great master and Mr. Yuan Mei are both from Suzhou, so it can be said that they grew up together since childhood. They are very familiar with each other's writing style and context. "

Zhou Nan: "Ah!"

Wang Changsui: "The great master loves to read "The Analects of Confucius", and he also intends to write questions on this book, and the world also guesses so. But the old man heard that Si Zheng was going to participate in the Shuntian Prefecture Examination, and he was a disciple of Duke Yuanmei. I am sure that Wang Yuanmei will write a question in that book, intending to teach Si Zheng a lesson."

"It was rumored in advance that there would be a topic on "The Analects of Confucius", but in the end it was replaced with one each of "University", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Analects of Confucius."

Zhou Nan: "So that's how it is..." This Gu Yan has so many twists and turns in his mind. He actually remembers the festivities with Wang Shizhen when he was young, and he is so hot-tempered!
Wang Changsui continued: "Because Grandmaster is so familiar with Wang Yuanmei's articles, he recognized Si Zheng's papers as soon as they were handed in, and threw them directly into the wastebasket. Mr. Fang also argued with my grand master for a long time, saying that such a good paper should be the solution. The grand master is not only not appointed as the head of the case, but also does not even give him a job title, what's the reason?"

"Since the great master didn't take me, why did he search for the remains?" Zhou Nan asked again.

That's right, those two articles were edited by Wang Shizhen after I wrote them myself, and they already have a strong personal style of my mentor, so it's not difficult for Gu Yan to recognize them.He felt a little regretful, I was supposed to solve the yuan, but now I have become a pick-up.Just because of the grievances and grievances of the previous generation, Xu raised that kid cheaply, so what!
Wang Changsui: "On the day the list was released, because there were still 21 places left for searching for relics, according to the system, they were selected from the eliminated papers. The Great Master ordered someone to find Sizheng's papers, write a verdict, and record it as the first place to find relics. At that time, the next I didn’t understand it either, so I asked the Elder Master why.”

"Why?" Zhou Nan was so surprised that he couldn't help asking.

Wang Changsui: "The great master said that the National Lun Cai Grand Ceremony is a public weapon, and I and Wang Shizhen are private grudges. How important is the imperial examination, how can it be abolished for public affairs, and take what should be taken."

Zhou Nan: "The great master has noble virtues, and I am grateful to you."

"No." Wang Changsui shook his head and said with a smile: "My master intends to embarrass Wang Yuanmei, but now that the elder has accepted you, we are all a family, so we might as well tell you."

Thinking about it, Zhou Nan immediately understood what Gu Yan was trying to do.He took himself, but he won a good name for exaggerating and not avoiding hatred.Then, he refused to accept him to enter the door, and he could slap the Taicang Wang family in the face severely to vent the hatred in his heart, killing two birds with one stone.

The Wang family in Taicang are all exam machines, old man Gu is naturally aware of their abilities.Even if he passed Zhou Nan this year, if he came back for the exam two years later, he would still win the exam. What's the point?
On the contrary, taking him and not accepting him as an entry-level scholar is a lifetime of humiliation for a scholar. In the future, not only will he lose his head in Shilin, but it will also affect his official career.

This is much more ruthless than simply calling Zhou Nan Luosun Shan.

What else can our Lord Zhou say, but a wry smile: This civil servant of the Ming Dynasty really wants to gain fame and punish people all the time!
"Thank you, Mr. Wang, for telling the truth. I hit you off right away today, and I will get closer to you in the future."

"I also intend to make friends with Si Zheng, but I have no choice but to go to Guangdong with the old man soon, and the future will be long!" After Wang Chang said goodbye to Zhou Nan, he looked at his back and sighed in his heart: They are all officials, look at Zhou Nan. My lord, you are well-mannered, amiable, and can discuss everything. Why is my master so pedantic?My luck is really bad with such a proprietor.

Wang Changsui is an only daughter. She talked about her marriage a while ago. She is a young scholar from a good family in her hometown. Her daughter is also very satisfied.However, the mother-in-law of the husband's family felt that her son was the proud son of heaven, and the Wang family had no fame, and a local cannon, how could he be worthy of being a scholar.So he put forward the condition that the in-law's family should marry a hundred acres of land and build a new big house.

After calculation, I got more than 1000 taels of silver.

Wang Changsui didn't have much income under Gu Yan's command, so his head suddenly became dizzy.Helpless, her daughter "wants to marry Wang Mazi" cried, made trouble, hanged herself at home, and kept writing letters asking for money.

Lao Wang is a typical daughter-slave, so he went to Gu Yan to explore the problem, and asked the Elder Master for mercy.In the end, Master Gu scolded him severely, and almost rushed back to his hometown.

Wang Chang did as he pleased, and couldn't control so much, so he just stole the question.

At this time, a businessman from Shanxi made friends with him, and this person was naturally Chen Ju.Naturally, Wang Changsui knew that this person wanted to buy questions from him, so he offered a high price of 1000 taels.But he didn't want to, the man took out his pocket angrily.

Wang Changsui also knew that selling imperial examination questions was a serious crime, so he only sold Chen Ju, so he stopped.

But he didn't know that Chen Ju was Zhou Nan's student, and he didn't know which candidate the exam questions ended up in.

……

Later, after the Shuntianfu rural examination was over, he followed Gu Yan to Guangzhou.

Because of the unacceptable water and soil, he was infected with miasma, and his body was seriously damaged.After staying in Chaozhou for a year, he resigned his job and went home to reunite with his daughter after raising his health. He never set foot in officialdom again, and died of an old illness at the age of 51.In the Ming Dynasty, it was considered to have lived past the average age.

……

Zhou Nan came out from Gu Yan, found a fly restaurant on the street, and ate a ghost meal worth [-] cents. When he thought of Kong Ming who was still under house arrest in Lu Zu's palace, his relaxed mood became tense.

He had issued a military order with King Yu, and within three days he found out who was behind the scenes and found the missing 1 taels of domestic money.This one is a ticking time bomb, and the fuse needs to be dismantled as soon as possible.Otherwise, once detonated, it is unknown how many people will be killed.

Back at Luzu Hall, Zhou Nan asked Shi Wenjiang how the situation was in the temple?
Shi Wenjiang: "Report to Sizheng, the prisoner is locked in a secluded courtyard, and there are two people from the Daolu Department watching closely at any time. The other Taoists in Zhiguan are also under surveillance."

Speaking of this, he cursed: "The Taoist priest and the supervisor of this Taoist temple must know that this money is the emperor's internal money, and they didn't explain it to me in advance. It's just hateful. No, we have to find a way." Clean up these two bull noses."

After speaking, his eyes flickered with anger, and he thought about how to find the bad luck of Lu Zudian.

(End of this chapter)