"Gong Liu, you died so miserably, fortunately, thanks to the emperor's grace, you have been posthumously crowned Taibao, you have to be loyal to Xuan, and you have been given sacrificial silver, woohoo! The undead of the public can be safe! ”

At this time, in front of Liu Daxia's road sacrifice shed, Xu Jin, the left attendant of the military department, cried so much that his liver and intestines were broken.

After being persuaded by an official for a long time, Xu Jin's mood eased a little, and he was helped into a sedan chair, but as soon as he returned to his official sedan chair, Xu Jin's eyes instantly lost tears, and his eyes only looked in the direction of the Forbidden City.

At this time, Xu Jin saw a paper ball flying into his sedan chair, opened it, and only wrote: "Meet at the Hedonic Teahouse on Xuanwumen Street." ”

So, Xu Jin immediately changed his clothes, let people drop off the sedan chair in a secluded place, and came in the direction of Xuanwumen with a few entourages.

As soon as he arrived in the teahouse, Liu Jin would personally come to greet him: "Xu Shilang, don't come unharmed!" ”

Although civil officials and eunuchs are often at odds with each other, in fact, it has become a common phenomenon for civil officials to befriend eunuchs in private.

Xu Jin still cares a lot about Liu Jin's relationship.

Not only because Liu Jin is behind the Ming Emperor, but also because he has recently been a little interested in Liu Jin's idea that the empire needs a strong monarch to reproduce the prosperity of Yongle.

Xu Jin felt that Liu Jin was an aspiring eunuch, and every time he talked to him, he didn't want to be the master of ceremonies, but what he wanted to do with the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Sometimes, Xu Jin felt that if Liu Jin had a man's thing, he was afraid that it would be Wang Anshi of the Ming Dynasty.

Eunuchs can have such ambitions, and Xu Jin sometimes thinks that the courtiers in the court who are degrading day by day just for fame and reputation are even more lost.

The Ming Dynasty was not the Qing Dynasty, and after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, as the imperial court's control over folk thought was greatly reduced, many scholars had the ability to actively think about society and the people, including their own lives, and even had a certain degree of tolerance and acceptance of heretical thoughts.

Otherwise, there would be no Wang Xue, and there would be no ideological trend in the late Ming Dynasty.

Today's scholars do not only regard themselves as the emperor's servants as they did in the Qing Dynasty, they also regard themselves as the masters of the country, and many scholars have their own sense of social responsibility.

Xu Jin is such a person, and he is also an aspiring person, so he is very interested in the Zhongjun Society organized by Liu Jin.

Because he discovered that Liu Jin's Zhongjun Society had a clear view of society and the emperor, he also let Xu Jin know the concepts of "nation", "state" and "citizen" for the first time. Even if it weren't for the fact that the organizer Liu Jin was a eunuch, he would have taken the initiative to apply to join as a servant.

But Xu Jin still doesn't know that this is all Zhu Houzhao asked Liu Jin to do, as the Ming Emperor, Zhu Houzhao intends to liberate the minds of the Ming people, once a person has no thoughts, he will be like a walking corpse who only cares about his own selfish interests and desires and let himself degenerate, and if the people of a country do not have ideas, it will lead to the whole nation without soul and motivation to move towards backwardness and decay.

History has proven that backwardness means being beaten, and backwardness in science and technology and civilization stems from ideological backwardness.

The people of the Ming Dynasty, especially the people who had mastered the knowledge, that is, the scholars, and doctors, many people were promoting the progress of the people's thoughts, and Zhu Houzhao wanted him to come earlier, so he mentioned that he opened a precedent for association and propaganda of ideas.

Zhu Houzhao, as the emperor, naturally has his own selfishness, and naturally chooses ideas that are beneficial to him, which can also be said to be a brainwashing theory, so he asked Liu Jin, Zhang Yong and others to organize the Zhongjun Society, from courtiers and eunuchs to the people at the bottom and people in the rivers and lakes.

Without further ado, Xu Jin followed Liu Jin to discuss the topic of the distribution of state power and the phenomenon of land annexation for half an hour, and when he wanted to continue the discussion, Liu Jin interrupted him: "Tingtui has already achieved results. ”

Liu Jin's words brought Xu Jin back to reality, Xu Jin is ambitious and enterprising, and naturally has a desire for official position and power, these days he is most concerned about the candidate for the military department, as soon as he heard Liu Jin say this, he said directly: "I want to hear it in detail." ”

Liu Jin gave him the list: "This is what I copied from His Majesty's case, Wang Hua, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and you are the two final candidates after the court push, Your Majesty has not yet decided who will be the secretary of the Ministry of War, you and Wang Hua, but you should know that in terms of qualifications, Wang Hua is the champion and has been in the Hanlin and East Palace, if you want Your Majesty to choose you, the only thing you can compare with Wang Hua is only a brave loyalty!" ”

As he spoke, Liu Jin took out the application of the Zhongjun Society and the program of the Zhongjun Society: "If Lord Xu really has the ambition to serve the country, he will join this society, because I Liu Jin does not want people who only want to be promoted and make a fortune to become the secretary of the military department." ”

Xu Jin understood what Liu Jin meant, and naturally he had to become a member of the Zhongjun Society in order to get Liu Jin's help in order to become the secretary of the military department.

Xu Jin first took the outline of the Zhongjun Society and looked at it, only to see that the title page was a sentence: "If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, do not enter the society, and go another way to get promoted and get rich." ”

"Your society is really different from other literati poetry societies, they think about fame and fortune in the imperial examination, but your society has directly abandoned these selfish desires, and the awe-inspiring righteousness jumps on the paper, I Xu is also a loyal minister, and I am not greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise I would not have killed the Tartars alone when I was the imperial history of Liaodong! Xu Mou will apply to join! ”

Xu Jin took the application with arrogance as he spoke, took the four treasures of the study on the side, and began to study and fill in the file and the reason for the application by himself.

"Lord Xu is really righteous all his life, I have an official like you can be described as a blessing of the society, and the introducer of the company writes the name of our Liu Jin", for a while, after Xu Jin wrote the application, Liu Jin took the application and said: "I will submit your application, and our Zhongjun society will assess you, and after passing the assessment, your application will be passed, and you will have to pay a social fee at that time." ”

Xu Jin felt in his heart that the way to join this Zhongjun Society was very novel, and he took the initiative to apply for joining, not only could not pass directly, but also was assessed, and after being assessed, he had to pay the club fee.

Xu Jin sometimes wondered whether Liu Jin and the emperor behind him were deliberately using this to sell their official titles and develop some kind of club in name, but in fact, they wanted to sell the military department Shangshu, because he had recently heard that the emperor was very fond of business, and even set up a royal industrial company, selling something called soap in the name of the royal family, and the business was very hot, but it was not like what a king should do.

Xu Jin wanted to test it, so he asked directly: "Dare to ask Gonggong Liu, how much is the cost of this social fee, and the officials should prepare in advance." ”

"You don't have to prepare, just one or two pieces of silver, pay it once a year, you Xu Shilang won't even be able to hand over one or two pieces of silver, can't you pay it, we will borrow you!" Liu Jin said.

Xu Jin couldn't help but smile embarrassedly: "This is not", and at the same time, he was secretly surprised in his heart: "Pay once a year, only one or two, so that you can get to the position of a military secretary?" It's too cheap, right, or are they not selling official titles at all, but really want to do something? ”