At the eastern foot of Qingliang Mountain in Nanjing, Chongzheng Academy looms in the shade of the trees, but in the rather quiet academy in the past, there seem to be a lot of people at this time, but it seems to be a little lively.

The scale of Chongzheng Academy is not large, it was originally founded by Geng Xiangsuo, the former Ming Dynasty when he was the Nanjing Inspector of the Imperial History, claiming that the name of the college was taken from Wen Tianxiang's poem "Heaven and Earth have righteousness", and the scholars at that time admired orthodox Confucianism, but with the loss of power later, Chongzheng Academy immediately declined, and even was changed to a Buddhist temple in the Qing Dynasty, and it was not until now that it was changed into a academy again.

At this time, the Chongzheng Academy gathered the old scholars in Nanjing, and they had been running back and forth for the past few days, so they agreed to contact Chongzheng Academy, so everyone called friends and companions, and they had to ask for an explanation for Shilin.

"The court is unfair, Your Majesty is unfair, we wait for Haoshou to bury his head in the classics, just in order to be able to be on the emperor's list one day, when the imperial examination was reformed, we also tolerated many times and reduced at least half of the places, but now the court no longer even leaves us with the last hope, which is unbearable!"

A scholar raised his arms and shouted on it, he was Shen Luochuan who was imprisoned in the prison back then, but unlike the graceful young man in white back then, at this time he had a sloppy beard on his face, his hair was tied in a bun at will, and he was wearing a shabby robe.

Fortunately, most of the scholars standing on the side are also this virtue, but the eldest brother does not laugh at the second brother, and they are also full of anger and panic on their faces, after all, after so many years, they have learned a profound lesson, and if they do it against the court, they are dying!

"Mr. Shen, the imperial court wants to fully implement the new school, but it will no longer give me the old bachelor a way to live, and even the age and number of exams are limited, we will never be officials in the future, and we will not be able to be masters anymore!"

Another old scholar said with a sad cry, like Shen Luochuan, he was the kind of historical remnants who refused to let go of the old school and couldn't accept the new school, and now he was completely desperate in the face of this big stick from the imperial court.

Everyone else also nodded, yes, yes, this emperor is really, isn't this scholar's business, the older he gets, the more popular he becomes? Why don't you let the exam pass 30? Is this an official or a concubine?

Shen Luochuan saw the sadness on everyone's faces, but he gritted his teeth with hatred, after Xu Zhai, who marched with him, was released, he relied on his family relationship to go to a new-style university, and then soon after he came out, he was admitted to the Xiucai test, and he became an official smoothly, and later he was promoted, as for Xu Hunzhang, although he had no money to learn a new school, he was also admitted to the old Xiucai test, and was sent to Yunnan to become an official, and now it seems that he has been sent to Myanmar.

Only he, Shen Luochuan, not only resisted learning a new school, but also did not want to pass the old school exam and be put on the border, and he had been dead for all these years, until this time the imperial examination was completely reformed - Shen Luochuan couldn't help but regret a little in his heart, he knew that it was better to take the exam earlier, even if he went to the border, he would be an official!

But if he is an official, he will have the opportunity to get ahead in the future, but now he is in his thirties, and he has not studied a new school, so he is not qualified for the exam at all, which can be regarded as a dream of saying goodbye to being an official completely.

"I'm going to beat the drums again! Even if I die, I will die clearly! ”

Shen Luochuan's face turned red, and he raised his hands high, but he didn't notice the frightened expressions of the soldiers beside him.......

However, the ideas of Shen Luochuan and others are destined to become a joke, in fact, the comprehensive retreat of the old ministers of the court has laid the groundwork from the demonstrations of that year, so that the anticlimactic incident made everyone in the world see the essence of Shilin's fierce inwardness, and to put it bluntly, this group of people can't succeed at all.

Therefore, in the thirteenth year of the revolution, with the gradual ascension of the new ministers, the old courtiers naturally retreated, and the gentry who were the foundation of the old school have also been comprehensively suppressed, and many of the Shen family have fully turned to capital industry and commerce, and now they have a new name - capitalists.

No matter how much the capitalists were criticized by later generations, it is undeniable that compared with the gentry group represented by the traditional feudal forces, capital is a more advanced existence, and their factories on both sides of the river are continuously providing productive forces, which also makes their voice further improved - although Ningyu is constantly suppressing capital involved in politics, but from the general trend, capital will one day drive out the traditional gentry in an all-round way.

Ning Yu saw through the gentry's clumsy combat effectiveness, so he made up his mind to completely abandon this decadent group, before he also hoped to rely on the clear stream to balance capital - this is purely a dream, can check and balance the development of capital, only the more combative group, not the gentry this historical garbage heap.

All in all, with the support of the big stick and capital, Ningyu has fully kicked off this education reform, and the shock behind it has not fully stopped, but it is foreseeable that compared with the previous change, this time will be more stable, and the popularization of new education will also effectively change the face of the next generation.

.......

Edo, Japan.

Tokugawa Yoshimune, the shogun, dressed in a kimono, knelt at a small square table, and the rest of the shogunate ministers also knelt aside, and all eyes were fixed on a woman sitting in the middle, only to see that she was wearing a kimono with a handkerchief pinned to her front and a folding fan behind her, and her face was very serene.

Although the whole room is not very large, it is very quiet, and there is a faint fragrance, only to see a landscape painting hanging on the wall, which is covered with the seal of the Japanese tea ceremony master 'Sen no Rikyu', and in the corner of the room is placed a small square table, on which there is a porcelain vase, with flowers in it.

In front of the woman's table, there are wind stoves, tea kettles, water injections, white charcoal and other utensils, I saw her kneeling on the tatami mat, stretching out her plain hand to make tea, holding the bowl with the palm of her left hand, holding the bowl with five fingers of her right hand, and then kneeling on the ground and lifting the tea bowl, sending it to the shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, gently bowing her head.

Tokugawa Yoshimune stretched out his hands to receive the tea, then turned the tea bowl three times, drank the tea lightly, and waited until the tea was drunk, then gave the tea bowl back to the woman, and said with a smile: "It is worthy of being the descendant of Master Sen no Rikyu, and Master Hosokawa's tea ceremony has reached the realm of transformation." ”

The woman immediately thanked her, her real name is Nanako Miyagawa, and her ancestor is Hosokawa Tadashiko, and Hosokawa Tadashi is the eldest disciple of the Japanese tea saint Sen no Rikyu, and once called the ten philosophers of the Japanese tea ceremony together with other disciples of Sen no Rikyu, which can be said to have obtained the essence of the Sen no Rikyu tea ceremony.

Seeing that the general was in a happy mood, the old man Nakamino Tadayuki on the side also smiled, and said softly: "General, Da Chu has sent officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come to mourn, but he is only the director of the East Asia Department, and he is not an important person, do you see it or not, general?" ”

A smile appeared on Tokugawa Yoshimune's face, he was very satisfied with Emperor Ning's behavior, after all, it was the emperor who died, and if he really wanted to send the prince or something like the same last time, it would make him a little uneasy.

For Tokugawa Yoshi, the more he could downplay the impact of the emperor's death, the better he would be able to enhance the position of the shogun, which would be of great benefit to his future plans.

"I won't go to meet, it's better for Lao Lao Zhong to send someone to meet, and there is no need to say anything superfluous, but for the education reform in China during this period, Lao Zhong might as well pay more attention to it."

That's right, for the shogunate at this time, they have been trying to cross the river by feeling the stones of Huaxia, so whenever there are any new changes in Huaxia, they will want to learn it, even if they can't learn it, they have to see if they can learn it.

Old Nakamino Tadayuki hurriedly babbled at the moment, he also understood now that the current shogunate has actually reached a crossroads, if it can go further, then it will naturally be a sea and a wide sky, but if it can't go, then the shogunate will probably usher in a big chaos.

The so-called crossroads refers to the combination of public and military forces, which is also the essence of the emperor's death, and it was because Tokugawa Yoshimune and the rest of the shogunate were in a hurry to implement this policy that they sent people to force Emperor Nakomon to death regardless of it.

In fact, at this time, Japan has begun to be filled with all kinds of foreign thoughts, whether it is China or the West, they are using their own ways to influence the Japanese of this era, just like the merchant ships from China to Japan, all kinds of newspapers and periodicals are always indispensable, these things that can be seen everywhere in China, once they arrive in Japan, their net worth will rise a hundredfold.

Under the impact of this foreign trend of thought, many promising people in Japan were naturally not satisfied with the status quo, and were greatly dissatisfied with the current situation in which the forces of the Tokugawa shogunate, the local powerful feudal domains, and the three feudal feudatories of the public court coexisted.

However, in the current Japan, the most magical point is that almost everyone supports the combination of public and military forces, but everyone also knows that it cannot be implemented smoothly, and the reason is very simple, the combination of public and military forces does not say whether it is for the shogunate to annex the imperial court, or for the imperial court to annex the shogunate, especially since there are many local powerful feudal clans watching from the sidelines, and it is precisely because of this naked conflict of interest that the combination of public and military forces has become a dream.

Edo streets.

The samurai walked over with swords on their waists, and the poor people on the side all knelt to the side, which has become a sense of dignity and humility imprinted in their bones - if anyone dares to stop in front of the samurai master, even if they are slashed alive, they deserve it, after all, the samurai have the privilege of 'cutting the royal exemption'.

At this time, in an izakaya on the street, there was a person who was looking at the samurai of the past with great interest, he was Han Ming, director of the East Asia Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was sent by the Great Chu to mourn, Han Ming, director of the East Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was born in the Foreign Affairs University in Nanjing, has undergone all-round diplomatic studies, and has served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for many years, and is very proficient in East Asian foreign affairs.

"Han Sang, it's really our fault that those ronins disturbed Han Sang's Yaxing just now."

Opposite Han Ming sat kneeling at this time a shogunate official, his body was very short, with a somewhat humble smile on his face, he was not an ordinary person, he was born in the famous Japanese Konoe family, named Konoe Kiyou, responsible for serving as the shogunate Gao family, specializing in the reception of the imperial court.

Originally, the Japanese court put the meeting in the palace, but after the business process was completed, Han Ming took the initiative to leave the palace, and Konoe Kiyo could only follow the guests and came to this small izakaya on the streets of Edo.

With a smile on his face, Han Ming said softly, "It's okay, since you've come to the streets, it's not surprising to see this." It's just that I can't see His Excellency the General this time, which is really a pity. ”

Konoe Kiyo was also smiling, and said in fluent Chinese: "It's a pleasure to have friends from afar." His Excellency the Shogun also wanted to be able to see the envoy, but His Majesty the Emperor was unfortunately in Bintian, and the Shogun was very sad and was in the process of serving his filial piety. ”

Han Ming's eyes lit up, and he said softly, "I wonder when Prince Zhaoren will ascend the throne and become the new emperor?" After all, His Majesty the Emperor had already sent his envoy to send gifts to welcome Prince Zhaoren to the throne. ”

"This ......."

Konoe Kiyo wiped the sweat on his face, and forced himself to laugh: "It's only April, and the weather is already so hot that people are a little impatient, but Nanjing has pleasant scenery and a comfortable climate!" ”

Han Ming didn't say anything more, just quietly watched Konoe Jiyou wipe the sweat on his face, and after a while, he said coldly: "Does the general want to be the emperor?" ”

"This, this, this...... What are these words? Don't be joking. ”

This sentence was as if a thunderbolt sounded in Konoe Jiyou's ears, and he stood up on the ground, looking at Han Ming with a flushed face, but then he seemed to think of something, and quickly bowed and apologized.

"Don't be joking, how could the general have such an idea?" It's just that when he said this, Konoe Kiyo's voice trembled slightly, and he didn't know whether it was excitement or deep fear.

Han Ming had an indifferent expression, he poured himself a glass of sake, and said slowly: "In the thousands of years of history of our China, it seems that all conspiracies and tricks have happened, and I am used to seeing and hearing more, I should have left Japan after the condolences were completed, but now I really want to ask a question, if the general is just for the sake of replacing people, does it need to be so fanfare?" ”

At this point, he took a sip from his glass, but the light in his eyes became brighter and brighter.

"Since the general wants to bet on the 'combination of public and military', have you ever thought about who the powerful clans in the southwest will help?"

"And who will our Da Chu help?"

A thunderclap exploded over Edo, followed by a pouring downpour, and people on the streets of Edo rushed to their homes, while Han Ming and Konoe Kiyo stood in the long-emptied izakaya, silent.