"Yes, therefore, I think that everyone who has experienced the test of marching and fighting is naturally much more loyal than ordinary people, let alone the treacherous little officials. Those little officials are often passed from father to son, son to grandson, and they think that they can control the political affairs of a county by holding things like fish scale atlases. But what's the use of a broken booklet? ”

"I've heard such a true story..."

"After the martyrdom of Emperor Lie, there were some righteous people in Shandong who did not forget the emperor's Ming and relied on the elm trees that grew locally to fight against the Dongyu, the elm trees covered the sky and the sun, and the Dongyu often couldn't find the way as soon as they entered. Moreover, they dug tunnels hundreds of miles long under the elm trees. Dongyu tried to destroy them many times, but there was no way. Later, Dongyu used the stupidest method: chopping. Thousands of Dongyu cut down the entire Yuyuan just a little bit. In the end, the Dongyu set fire to the exposed tunnel entrance, killing many rebels, and the Yuyuan army failed. ”

Zhu Youlang's words were unliterate, and even a little verbose from the perspective of the entourage minister, but such words were also the most suitable for the cognitive level of the audience in front of him, and for a while, "those who heard it were sad".

"I just thought, Myanmar is such an elm garden. As long as everyone is willing to work hard, Yuyuan can always be cut down. Could it be that everyone is not as good as those traitors? ”

"Dog traitor...!" "him...", the queue was first chaotic with their respective responses, and soon converged into one voice:

"The traitors of the East are defeated!"

"The traitors of the East are defeated!"

"Say it! Dongyu, what the traitor can do, we will definitely be able to do! Therefore, learn the culture well, kill the enemy and restore sight for me and the Chinese people in the barracks; In the future, I will not be a soldier, but I will govern the people and benefit the people! ”

"I have heard that there are only 10 million acres of land in Myanmar, and one person can measure one mu a day, and tens of thousands of people can measure it in a year, and the land can be measured, so what else is difficult to do?"

Whether it was a simple-minded soldier or an entourage following the emperor, they had no sense of secrecy about this speech with guns and sticks. However, after an artillery duel, where did the self-proclaimed scholars and doctors in the city dare to compare blindly? lest I go to prison and eat sticks. Some even became discouraged and began to take exams with the children of merchants who did not have a single soldier or fame, and even Burmese who could speak Chinese.

What the? Why don't they take the "make-up exams" for serving officials, you ask?

Naturally, thanks to their former comrades, after the rebellion, the Emperor took the opportunity to raise the standard of the examination, and the examination papers were different for each category of position. According to the words of the edict, it is "to make it impossible for villains who do not learn and have no skills to blend into the court, and so that those who have real talents and real learning can make great achievements." ”

"Phew! What kind of real talent and real learning, it is the fortunate road of some treacherous villains! ”

"Brother Tai said cautiously, although the six gentlemen have noble character, but the weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of the weapon, it is better not to commit crimes against the wind."

"Alas, the eunuch party misleads the country, the eunuch party misleads the country!"

Similar conversations can be heard from time to time in the teahouses and restaurants of Ava City. It often starts with an attack on the subject exam and ends with complaining about the slaves of the Son of Heaven. On the premise that they didn't know why the emperor's brain had made a 180-degree turn, the Qingliu people could only focus their questions on the eunuchs.

You surround the emperor every day, the emperor is deceived, don't blame you, who do you blame?

Of course, in the streets and alleys, the voices heard are more like this:

"Guest officer, our store has a new batch of "Han-Burma Double Interpretation Dictionary", a copy only costs half a tael of silver, which is necessary for the subject exam."

"Your Majesty's Concise History of China Exercises, written by His Majesty, is on sale! Add two cents of silver to get a memory card! ”

"The "Test Center Collection" circulated in the palace..."

"Brother, let me tell you, some time ago, those who killed people and rebelled, and the strategy will definitely test the topics of articles related to loyalty..."

Compared with those who lost their roots (their roots: the land was under the rule of the Qing court), those who came from small landlord and merchant families, and the number of retired soldiers who witnessed the misdeeds of the gentry far exceeded the former, and as soon as they arrived in Ava, they received a subsidy of two taels of silver, so they naturally had the money to go to the teahouse and other places to sit and drink.

Although Zhu Youlang did not run an official newspaper, some tabloids were sent out in the palace from time to time. In the teahouse, there are often some newspaper readers, in addition to reading the news in the tabloids, they also read some changed commentaries, mostly related to the war. Although the prosperity of the city has been restored, the atmosphere of war is far from leaving the city, so there are always many people who listen to this kind of "sticking to the present" story. There are those who preach the great victory of the Ming Dynasty --- "King Min regains Nanjing", and there are also those who cater to the authorities "King Jin fights Guangzhou City Er", and what Liu Guanshan is listening to is a script adapted from what happened not long ago.

"Let's say that the reckless white man carried out the plan of the tanuki to change the prince, escaped from the palace, and escaped outside the city to find the rest of the evil... Ten days later, a few trumpets outside the city, the Burmese people suddenly burst out of the grass, into the city, how do you know that the king of Jin is the reincarnation of Wu Quxing, has been prepared for this, the war drums rumbled, a fine cavalry will be killed from the side, breaking the enemy formation, the remnants of the city will also be killed. ”

"I didn't expect that among these rebellions, there was a person wearing an official uniform with a round neckline, who was the official of the court who regarded himself as a loyal minister in the court a few days ago."

At this point, the storyteller deliberately took a sip of minced tea and paused. Now, the melon-eating masses who listen to the rise can't wait.

"What about the back?"

"Who is this court official?"

That's what the storyteller wanted, and he gripped his beard and was about to put it on, but he was caught off guard by a punch in the back. "Thou, this corrupt thing!"

"A person who begs for food dares to insult the court officials?" The beater looked like a scribe in his clothes, but he did have some muscles on his body.

Liu Guanshan flew up and kicked the beating ruffian into the corner. "Insulting the imperial court? Hey, what kind of court official is a thief? Kong Youde, Hong Chengchou and others are also the court officials of the Ming Dynasty? And thou shalt open thy eyes for them? ”

used brute force to knock off a few tricks in a row, Liu Kanshan was even more contemptuous of this person, he had seen a lot of this person on weekdays, and he regarded himself as both civil and military, but that bit of martial arts was just a trick on the rivers and lakes, and it was useless in the fight at all, and it was as easy as catching a chicken when he met an old army like himself.

"I see you've been upset for a long time! You claim to be both civil and military, but Wen only sees you reciting a few words of Confucius, and Wu Ze just performs a few flower fists and embroidered legs back and forth, and any veteran in the official army can smash you to the ground like me. What's in it? ”

Liu Guanshan was about to give this person a land and water dojo on his face, but two military men dressed as soldiers came outside the door of the teahouse, just patrolmen wearing armbands. But he was not afraid: the patrol officers were former officers, and most of these officers were old soldiers who did not know enough to read, and many of them he knew.

At this time, there were already a lot of spectators around, and the patrol officer casually asked a few people, and he probably knew the reason for this incident. One of them said to Liu Kanshan kindly:

"Come with us."

Liu Guanshan responded and followed with a smile.

And that ruffian was not so lucky, and was almost dragged out of the teahouse.

"Er, this killer who eats and smashes pots!"