"Sell newspapers! The cabinet issued a new decree, and the price of land is suspected to have plummeted! ”

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! "Qingliu News" exclusive news, the last one! ”

A young newspaper boy of seven or eight years old was shouting on the street, carrying a blue cloth bag containing stacks of newspapers and periodicals, and on the top of the newspaper were written three large characters - "Qingliu Bao".

If this newspaper had been outside the city of Nanjing, I am afraid that it would have been looted at the first time, but in Nanjing, where three days had passed since the news was announced, it was no longer news, but had become old news known to everyone, so that this last copy of the "Qingliu Bao" could not be sold for a long time.

"Qingliu Bao? Kid, bring me one! ”

It was Xu Zhai who rushed to Nanjing who spoke, he and Shen Luochuan naturally couldn't come to Nanjing directly after falling into the water, but went home first, changed into clean clothes, and then prepared the road money, so he hurriedly entered Nanjing City with Shen Luochuan, and just happened to meet the little newsboy who sold newspapers.

Xu Zhai took out the copper yuan from his arms and smiled at Shen Luochuan: "This is the largest newspaper today, there are often a lot of things about the imperial decrees, and the printing volume is not much on weekdays, so it is difficult to find a newspaper in our place, and now we are lucky, and we actually caught up with the last one as soon as we came to Nanjing!" ”

Shen Luochuan nodded, but unceremoniously took the "Qingliu Daily" from the newsboy, and then opened it like this, but he was taken aback when he saw it.

"What? The imperial examination system of the imperial court has changed? ”

"Can we retake the eight shares again? But he can only go to remote areas to become officials, how can this be reasonable! ”

Hearing Shen Luochuan say this, Xu Zhai, who couldn't wait for a long time, grabbed the newspaper and began to browse it quickly, but the more he read it, the more gloomy his face became, and in the end, he even threw the newspaper to the ground!

"This move by the imperial court is simply a change of the imperial order! What's going on? Send us away or fool the world's scholars? ”

Shen Luochuan let out a long sigh, "No, we can't just leave it at that, we have to find other scholars in the capital, no matter what, we have to make a fuss!" ”

"Yes, make a fuss, don't make a fuss, let's take something back to our hometown!"

Speaking of this, Xu Zhai's face was a little desperate, his expenses along the way were sponsored by his classmates, and the expenses were quite large, he originally planned to get a career in Nanjing, and he had this confidence in the future, whether he was repaying the money or how, but now he just came to Nanjing, and he suffered such a blow.

"Maybe there will be a turnaround if you make trouble, if you don't make trouble, we will be completely dead!"

............

Jiangnan, the place where the cultural context gathers, is also the place of the fundamental power of the gentry clan, although in the past two years Jiangnan industry and commerce flourished, but the open and secret struggle between the two sides has never stopped, and as a direct subordinate Nanjing City, it is the most important place for both sides, and even every day there are newspapers and periodicals belonging to both sides in the war of words!

For the new policy, the Jiangnan gentry are naturally 10,000 dissatisfied, this is not only digging a pit for them, it is simply digging a grave for all of them. If they really want to follow such a tax plan, the tens of millions of acres of land in their hands will become their graves.

Rebel? But the problem is, not to mention the gentry in other places, after the baptism of blood and rain repeatedly, the gentry in Jiangnan have no force in their hands at all, and everyone has nothing but money, under the pressure of Ning Chu's hundreds of thousands of troops, they are simply fat meat.

No one will choose to make trouble when they know that they will die, for the gentry in Jiangnan who are accustomed to being pampered, they have never had the courage to die with the enemy, when the Qing army went south, these gentry were not honest and cut off their braids, and even committed suicide by diving into the water will worry that the water is too cold.

Therefore, when Ning Yu promulgated these policies, he never thought that the gentry would choose to break the net - not to mention whether the net would be broken if the fish died, but the fish themselves, in order to live for one or two more days, they did not hesitate to sacrifice all their property, and did not have the courage to make a rebellion.

At this point, the gentry had to choose to throw money to bribe Ning Chu's officials, from the Executive Yuan to the cabinet, as long as it was a person, they would throw silver into his hands, as if they wanted to smash a way out by smashing silver.

But the problem is that the gentry dare to smash it, but none of the officials dare to accept it, with Ning Yu, the emperor, staring behind his back, plus the iron-faced imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who dares to move? It's really worthless.

When the gentry repeatedly hit the wall, they realized that the wealth they were once proud of was nothing more than a pile of waste paper, and when the court really moved the real character, they had no way out except to choose to obey.

Nanjing City is the world's premier prosperous place, the Qinglou Art Museum on the shore and the flower boat in the water is simply more than half, among the most famous ones, there is a soft incense building, which can be called the world's first.

Whether it is a wealthy businessman with a lot of money or a literati with a lot of money, almost all of them can find their own fun in it, so the people of the time sighed that it was a gold cave and a hero.

But today's soft incense building, there is no laughter in the past, but it is full of the indignation of some young people, and the loudness of the sound seems to be transmitted to the palace.

"The imperial court is in chaos! Death! ”

"Our gentry are the foundation of the country and the lifeblood of the world, how can we do such a thing? If it goes on for a long time, the country will not be a country! ”

"Now I am waiting for the families of the world's wealthy families, all of whom have extensive land and property, and how many thousands of acres are there? If we continue to collect taxes like this, we might as well go north! ”

"Be careful!"

With a snap, a fine Jun kiln porcelain cup was smashed to the ground, but its owner didn't seem to feel the slightest distress, just waved his hand lightly, and then someone came to clean it tremblingly. 12

Shen Weijun stared at a few juniors who were talking nonsense with an extremely ugly face, and said coldly: "Keep shouting, shout quickly, see if you can call the tens of thousands of Fu Han troops in Nanjing City!" Let's see if we can completely shout out your Zhou family, Wang family, and our Shen family to exterminate the clan! ”

In the land south of the Yangtze River, the gentry's house was originally like a carp crossing the river, and there were always some new big families emerging every year, and the original families disappeared with the establishment of Ning Chu, but there were still other families taking their place, enjoying the prosperity brought by the south of the Yangtze River, among which the Shen, Zhou, Wang, and Tian families were the leaders.

Shen Weijun, as the eldest son of the Shen family, was originally also a scholar, and was ready to become a member of Ning Chu's bureaucracy through scientific examinations, so as to ensure the continuation of the family business - this is basically the common operation of all the big clans, and their juniors will basically no longer manage the family business, but focus on studying, just to become a high-ranking official in Ning Chu.

And these sons and brothers grew up in wealthy families, and their social circles are naturally limited to other major families, and these scholars who are valued by the family often get together to eat, drink and have fun, and occasionally when they are interested, they will hold poetry meetings and literary meetings together, and even pretend to talk about the officialdom news of Dachu mysteriously.

But all of this was completely shattered with Ning Yu's series of decrees, and almost all the gentry and clans looked at the seemingly familiar behemoth beside them with an extremely frightened eye, for fear that the other party would start to raid the house regardless of it - as for these idle sons and brothers, they naturally began to go crazy with alcohol.

"Shen Weijun, there is no one else here, the old men are busy throwing silver, can we do it? I can't do anything but vent. ”

A young man sat on the embroidery stool in despair, carrying a wine jug in his hand, this person's name was Zhou Weiqing, the second son of the Zhou family in Jiangnan, and he often mixed with Shen Weijun.

"Brother Shen, what do you think we should do? This is a joke, of course, but we can't continue to sit here and wait for death......."

Another son-in-law cried with a sad face, he called him the king, and he was the son of the head of the Wang family, so he was pampered from childhood to adulthood, but he had never experienced difficulties.

Shen Weijun had a gloomy face, if he knew what to do, he wouldn't have pulled these two straw bales to drink here. It's just that he is better than the other two in that he will not give up any hope of survival.

"The court has already made up its mind....... If we choose to resist hard, I'm afraid that the whole family will have to go to the hexagonal building! ”

The so-called hexagonal tower is actually a synonym for shadows, because the shadow built a six-storey pavilion on his office space a few years ago, and the eaves stretched out from six directions, which looks quite peculiar, so it has become a reference to shadows.

People at the time often said that the palace of Hades is easy to enter, but the hexagonal tower is difficult to get out.

The reason is that once you enter the hexagonal tower, it is difficult to get out, because for those low-key shadows, if you are not completely sure, it is impossible to act rashly, they will only watch your every move in the dark, and then find evidence of your incrimination.

Although the soft incense building itself is the property of the Shen family, and it is all from the Shen family, even Shen Weijun is not sure whether he is under the surveillance of the shadow, who knows if there are any secret spies from the shadow among those maids?

"Brother Shen, do you have any good ideas? It's safe to tell us. Wang Yong's face was a little expectant, in the eyes of these sons, Shen Weijun could still be regarded as a capable person.

Shen Weijun pondered for a while, he naturally had his own plan in his heart, so he said in a low voice: "The reason why there is such a big turmoil this time is because of the imperial examination, those old immortals thought that this was an opportunity to oppose the new policy, but they didn't expect to fall into the hands of His Majesty." ”

As soon as he thought of this, Shen Weijun was a little angry, a group of arrogant and extremely incompetent old decays were originally hiding behind Shilin to fan the flames, but he didn't expect some people to show their tails like that, causing the emperor's crazy blow.

really regarded the imperial court as a vegetarian, and the heads that were cut off in rows outside Nanjing have not completely rotted yet....... Why did they dare to stroke the tiger's whiskers?

"Shen Weijun, don't you mean to use Shilin? But now that His Majesty has given Shilin the opportunity to take the old subject, they are afraid that they will not make trouble again. ”

Zhou Weiqing's face showed a trace of coldness, originally this matter was a contradiction between Shilin and the imperial court, but now somehow, Shilin got what he wanted, but the gentry were thrown out and became the target of the imperial court, when he thought of this, he became more and more annoyed in his heart, and snorted coldly: "If you rely on them, I am afraid that I will be sold and I don't know it." ”

Shen Weijun coughed lightly, "We are also members of Shilin, how can we isolate ourselves from Shilin?" ”

"Shilin? How many of those so-called self-proclaimed lords can afford to look down on us? ”

Zhou Weiqing thought of some situations in the past, but he became more and more annoyed, "Holding those broken books all day long, do you really think that the truth of the world is in this book?" How did His Majesty the Emperor become Emperor today? Did that come from reading? It's not about who has the most powerful knives! ”

Shen Weijun really felt that he had a headache now, so he had to say helplessly: "It doesn't matter who they look down on or not, it doesn't matter, at least one thing, our big clan can't continue to be in front, we still have to let Shilin rush to the front, as long as they continue to petition the emperor, the emperor will definitely not stare at our gentry clan at that time, maybe there is a slight turnaround." ”

Wang Yongqi heard this, but he felt a little bit of taste, which means that he has to find someone to attract firepower, and Shilin is famous, and the movement is also big, even the emperor is not good to be ruthless to them, otherwise Da Chu's reputation will be completely ruined!

"Brother Shen, this is a good idea! So tell me, what should we do? Those scholars are afraid that they will not continue to make trouble easily. ”

A wry smile appeared on Shen Weijun's face, "It's hard to say whether it's a good idea or not, but I think this is the last chance at present, the two brothers can quickly find their old Shilin friends, just tell them the stakes, and don't say much else, just one point, are they willing to go to the border to be a border official who crosses the river with eggs!" ”

"If you still want to stay in the bustling world of flowers and become an official, then this bill can't just be counted! At least we have to get the same status as Xinxue, and everyone has to stay in the heart of the heart to be officials! ”

"Hehe, Shen Weijun, your idea this time is really good!"

Zhou Weiqing grinned, he stretched out the folding fan in his hand, and after fanning it a few times, he said with a smile: "I can do this, but I have also sprinkled a lot of money for those scholars in the past, and participated in many poetry and literary meetings, this bit of face is still there, but how many people can be convinced, it is difficult to guarantee." ”

Wang Yongqi on the side also nodded, and he said repeatedly: "My father also had some prestige among Jiangnan Shilin back then, although he was not as good as Lu and Yan, but he was also a peach and plum forest, and I also knew a lot of scholars, and I explained the relationship with them thoroughly, and I thought I could also attract some people!" ”

Shen Weijun smiled slightly, but raised the wine glass in his hand, and said in a low voice: "Since this is the case, then let's hurry up, this matter is set on the eighth day of the fifth month, and gather the scholars to go to beat the drums together, I don't believe that this thing can't be done!" ”