When the decree of appointing himself as the Duke of Xinguo was delivered to Yang Qing, he was facing another large-scale demonstration......

After all, the representative of the scholar still failed.

With more than 60 percent of the votes against, the Four People's Congress rejected the proposal put forward by the scholars' deputies to add an eight-strand literary examination to the miscellaneous subjects.

This is not the previous time.

The first time it was mainly the prisoners of the Guozijian who were watered, and the second time it was mainly the people who were beaten by the street tigers.

But this time it was the real Shilin public outrage.

Shuntianfu, Nanzhili, and even those who could arrive upstream came, and more than 10,000 talented people and even retired officials in the township all poured into Nanjing to form a cyan torrent. In the warm sun of Nanjing in winter, there are Chongzhen tablets, Confucius and Mencius, Zhu Xi tablets, and even those holding Wang Yangming's tablets, protesting against the discrimination and unfair treatment of Shilin by the Four People's Congresses......

"Discrimination? It's a funny word! ”

Yang Qing stood on the Xi'an Gate of the Imperial City and looked at this spectacular scene and said.

They did use the word discrimination.

They saw it as a combination of merchants, artisans and peasants who discriminated against scholars.

"If you don't listen to them, it's discrimination, this is pampering and arrogance, and it was used to being used by the emperors of our Ming Dynasty, who used to think that scholars were all Wenqu stars who had to be respected, but now I see that these people are actually no different from shrews who scold the street. As soon as they don't follow their wishes, they immediately start to make trouble unreasonably, messing around, which is obviously because they are unreasonable, obviously they want to seek personal gain, but now it is like how much they have been wronged, but they feel that others discriminate against them! This person really can't get used to it, he is used to getting used to it, and he is used to being pampered and arrogant! ”

Zheng Zhilong said disdainfully on the side.

Obviously, the eyes of the masses are bright, not only Zheng Zhilong is not used to it, but also the people on both sides of the street who are watching the bustle.

This matter clearly shows that the scholar represents a loss.

They just want to squeeze out others by joining the Baguwen exam, and then dominate the imperial examination of all five subjects, and in the end, no matter how many jinshi are examined, they are all selected from them, and they originally need to compete for the more than 300 jinshi places in three years, and the success rate has skyrocketed five times all of a sudden, and the scene is not too beautiful! It is said that they have studied Bagu Wen all their lives, as long as they join this threshold, then other agricultural and industrial candidates who are only literate but cannot write Bagu Wen will definitely not be able to cross this threshold.

Even if you start learning at this time, it's too late, and there is no comparison between sharpening guns and professionalism.

This is not the representatives of agriculture and industry bullying them.

This is purely because they want to treat the representatives of agriculture and industry as fools, and if they don't veto them, they will become really stupid.

This kind of thing is willing to gamble and lose.

Since the rules of the Four People's Congress have been set, then you have to follow the rules, if you lose, you have to admit it, and if you lose, you have to roll around and play scoundrels.

The scholars did not know that they were destroying the last bit of respect that the people had for them, and they were still immersed in the dream of the emperor and the scholars ruling the world together, and they could not hear the boos on either side, or even the occasional rotten vegetable leaves flying in. Their stale brains are still full of self-esteem, they are immersed in their own world, they feel that they are beyond mortals, that they are always right, that those ignorant and stupid women deserve only to be ruled. Sitting in the Great Hall of the Four Peoples with these people, they already felt that they had been greatly insulted, and when these people dared to veto their proposal, they finally broke out completely.

You people!

Don't you know that we are the truth?

How dare you disobey us?

Don't you know that everything is inferior, only reading is high, and we who read should be nobler than you, that is, we should be born to look down on you?

How dare you veto us?

Are you going to rebel?

However, they didn't know that as they marched towards the Temple of Literature, the last bit of brilliance on their bodies had completely disappeared, and the last trace of respect that ordinary people had for the name of the scholar was gone.

"A man will insult himself, and then others will insult him!"

Yang Qing said with a sneer.

"Xingong, don't make a mess if you go on like this!"

Zheng Zhilong said.

"Chaos? What are you afraid of, chaos will be cut! Besides, they don't have the guts! Nan Anhou, remember one thing, these people are indeed the most troublesome, but they are also the weakest, and when they really face the strong, they are usually the most straightforward. They dare to mess with me because they know that I don't kill indiscriminately, and as long as they don't cross the line then I won't do anything to them, so they won't be stupid enough to give me a reason to use the knife. And their purpose is not to put pressure on me, they are making an appearance to others! ”

Yang Qing said.

Indeed, these people dare to play demonstrations because they know that as long as they don't break the law, Yang Qing will not touch them, and if they submit an application and take the route of applying for it, then Yang Qing can't touch them.

They complied with the rules of the demonstration.

And their real purpose is indeed not for the reform of the imperial examination.

"Look, that's power!"

Qu Shiyun was in the restaurant, facing the cyan torrent under his feet, and raised his glass and shouted intoxicated.

"Moreover, this power will continue to increase, 100,000 scholars, at least 100,000 scholars will gather in Nanjing to welcome the holy car, didn't Yang Qing use thousands of representatives of the four people to manipulate public opinion? Then we will use 100,000 scholars to tell him what is the real public opinion, the Ming Dynasty has 100,000 talents, 100,000 talents, 100,000 soldiers! Public opinion? Aren't they the will of the people? Yang Qing has the Four Peoples Conference, and the Son of Heaven has 100,000 talents! ”

He shouted frantically.

The purpose of their agitation of this march was to call for more talents, and they and other newspapers controlled by the gentry would go all out to publicize the procession, and then sponsor those talents to come to Nanjing to prepare for the future.

At the same time, Yang Qing was prevented from breaking his word.

When Zhu Cihong comes back, these shows will become his backing, once something needs to be done, these shows can continue to march and beat the drums, and then Zhu Cihong will take the opportunity to deal with it with the holy decree, if Yang Qing stops it, then he will not only resist the decree but also go against the will of the people. What happened to the Four People's Congress? The Four People's Congress is the will of the people, so are these scholars from all over the world not the will of the people? Even Zhu Cihong can open another body similar to the Four People's Congress, and directly play the ring with the Four People's Congress, Yang Qing manipulates public opinion with the Four People's Congress, then Zhu Cihong uses this new institution to manipulate public opinion.

And behind these talents, there are those local gentry who can't bear Yang Qing because of the slave release order.

"But he still has an army of 400,000!"

Ding Kuichu said with a wine glass.

"The Son of Heaven has it too!"

Qu Shiyun said: "You have 100,000, Zhang Xianzhong has 200,000, Jin Shenghuan has 100,000, isn't this 400,000?" ”

"But will they join?"

Ding Kuichu said.

"If you don't have a chance, who won't have a chance?"

Qu Shiyun sneered.

Indeed, as long as there is an opportunity, no one will hold back, as long as Zhu Cihong gives an order, no one will miss the opportunity to press Yang Qing when there is an opportunity, and if the separatist forces want to maintain the separatism, then they must seize this opportunity.

Not to mention that the army is not monolithic.

Yang Qing's slave release order also affected the interests of a large number of army generals, if there was Zhu Cihong's emperor's righteousness, the public opinion of the Xiucai Council, and the economic support of the local gentry, it would be possible to buy some army generals who were dissatisfied with the slave release order. Once an army general joins the Yang Dynasty and King Gui's army in the south goes north out of Shaoguan, then Zhang Xianzhong and Jin Shenghuan will no longer be able to hold back.

It's not that they don't want to kill Yang Qing.

If they want to maintain the current happiness of the separatist side for a long time, then they must kill Yang Qing, the bane.

They just know they can't fight.

But if there is civil strife in Nanjing, the emperor summons them with a holy decree and gives them what they want, such as sealing Zhang Xianzhong as the king of Shu and Jin Shenghuan as the king of Chu, they will definitely join, so that Yang Qing's military advantage will collapse in an instant.

"Why don't you try to get in touch with the Northside?"

Ding Kuichu said.

If Dolgon can join, it can basically be said that it will be a sure victory, as long as 200,000 Eight Banners go south, and in exchange for part of the land, for example, Huaibei will be ceded to Dolgon, and the two sides will follow the example of Song Jin in the future, but they will keep the peace as brothers like Song Liao. Dolgon will definitely do it, otherwise he can only wait for death in Yang Qing's attack, but he can achieve a Jedi life, and with the current strength of the Ming army, Dolgon definitely has no ability to get involved in Huainan.

The demarcation of the two sides as a boundary can be guaranteed.

Anyway, for the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, the north has no value at all, and Yang Qing has already replenished more than two million taels of blood to Shandong every year after he conquered Shandong, so as to ensure that Shandong will no longer starve to death. And with the yield of this year's autumn harvest, for a long time in the future, Shandong must still continue to replenish blood, even if it is to promote sweet potatoes, just the number of blood supplements, but to say that it is impossible to fully achieve self-sufficiency without supplementing at all.

The presence of sweet potatoes did not make Shandong completely immune to famine.

It's like that in the North.

So what's the use of such land?

With these lands as a reward, let Dolgon attack on all fronts, forcing all Yang Qing's elites to go north to meet the enemy, and then contain part of King Gui's army in the south, and when the middle road was empty, Zhang Xianzhong and Jin Shenghuan's combined army went downstream, and then solved Huang Degong in various ways, and the rest was the army coming to Nanjing.

In Nanjing, Zhu Cihong suddenly attacked, and 100,000 Xiucai and the ministers worked together to solve Yang Qing in one fell swoop.

Even if he runs away, it's nothing!

Can he still take the princess and Zhang Yan and these people to run together? He is indeed immortal, but these people are not! As long as Princess Kunxing can be controlled, Yang Qing will be honest.

It's the perfect plan.

However......

"Jiannu? They don't deserve it yet! ”

Qu Shiyun said proudly.