Cui Chengxiu, who came to the palace again, was quite surprised by Chongzhen's purpose of summoning him, and after listening to the emperor's instructions, he couldn't help but subconsciously ask: "Didn't Your Majesty ask the ministers to stay quietly in the Central Government School for a while?" Why do you want to go to Shaanxi now to deal with this extremely troublesome matter? ”

Zhu Youzhen bowed his head slightly at him and said: "Because the situation is different from the situation at that time, I originally wanted you to stay in the central government academy for two or three years, train two or three new officials, and then implement the plan of cultivators having their own fields, which is more secure."

However, the sudden outbreak of the popular uprising in Shaanxi Province made the imperial court urgently need a qualified minister to soothe the pressure of the place. Of course, in my opinion, this is not a good opportunity, and you can familiarize yourself with the experience of dealing with these squires before implementing the Cultivator Ownership Project. ”

Seeing Cui Chengxiu's somewhat disapproving look, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but remind: "Taking land from these squires, their attitude is different from when they ask for you. A single squire may tremble in front of you, but the squire class assembled into a group is not a force to be taken lightly.

During the Apocalypse, the Jiangnan gentry dared to incite the people to besiege the Jinyi guards and tax supervisors. Do you think that when you push the cultivators to have their land, the gentry will not dare to deal with you? Therefore, you can take this mission as a test, if you can't even deal with the gentry in Shaanxi, how can you deal with the pressure of the entire northern gentry in the future? ”

Cui Chengxiu suddenly came to his senses, and replied to Chongzhen seriously: "The minister is thinking about it for a while, thank you Your Majesty for mentioning it." If you go to Shaanxi, you will definitely try your best to resolve this incident safely, and you will not be disappointed. ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "Since I asked you to go to Shaanxi, then this incident in Shaanxi must be resolved." But when you go to Shaanxi, in addition to solving this matter, I feel that I can also take this opportunity to examine the competent officials and members of the Youth Society as a helping hand for future plans. ”

Cui Chengxiu thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty means that this time I will go to Shaanxi, select a group of officials from the central government school, and go down with the ministers?" ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and said: "When you go to Shaanxi this time, don't negotiate with the entire Shaanxi gentry, but go to negotiate county by county, and it's not a bad thing to bring more people to go." ”

Cui Chengxiu thought for a long time, and finally said again: "Your Majesty's thoughts, the minister has already understood. However, there is one more thing that the minister wants to ask His Majesty for, and the squires of Shaanxi think that they can still deal with it, but for those clans, what attitude should the minister take to deal with it? ”

Regarding Cui Chengxiu's question, Zhu Youzhen was obviously a little unimpressed, he waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about any clan problems on this trip, when you arrive in Shaanxi, there will be no clan problems..."

Cui Chengxiu left the palace with a lot of doubts but a little excited, and when he left, Zhu Youzhen also asked Wang Chengen: "After I conferred the title of the general of the new army yesterday, did there be any reaction outside the palace?" ”

After Wang Chengen put down the Chinese document in his hand, he straightened up and replied to the emperor: "There are some voices outside the palace, mainly because Mr. Sun is dissatisfied with the title of marshal, thinking that the power of this official position is still too great and should not be accepted by the courtiers. Moreover, Mr. Sun did not refuse, which also damaged the character of a gentleman. ”

Zhu Youzhen pursed his lips and said: "They are all hypocrites who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, don't pay attention to their gossip." Let Sun Zhiqi publish more news about Shaanxi in the Daming Times, as well as the news of Taiwan's opening up of gold mining, to suppress the discussion of Mr. Sun and the rationing system.

How is Xia Yunyi's Youth Society organized? Cui Chengxiu: When they go to Shaanxi, can they select some people to join in? ”

Wang Chengen first agreed, and then continued to reply: "Your Majesty personally wrote an inscription for the Youth Society, and the establishment of the Youth Society is unusually smooth, and basically the scholars studying in various schools in the capital hope to join the Society.

Moreover, the student union of Yenching University has made a lot of efforts in it, especially that Niu Jinxing, who has formulated a set of admission procedures and membership constraints for the society, which is very appropriate. There should be no problem in picking out some people and doing what His Majesty wants..."

On 5 April, when the examination in Beijing came to an end, the results of this year's township examination in various provinces also began to unveil the cotton yarn one after another. If the results of the township test in Daming are the most attractive, then no one will not think that the results of the township test in Nanjing have been announced, which has attracted the attention of many Jiangnan scholars.

Although the number of candidates for the Nanjing Township Examination has declined in recent years due to party disputes, the number of scholars participating in the Township Examination is also floating in the range of 5,000. There were as many as 5,000 scholars who participated in the examination, and together with the entourage of scholars who served these scholars, the number of immigrants in Jinling City increased by 20,000 to 30,000 during the township examination every three years.

Most of the scholars who were able to come to participate in the township examination were people of considerable wealth, and when they arrived in Nanjing, the neighborhoods and alleys near the Nangong Courtyard in Jinling City began to be lively. And the most happy thing for these scholars to live in is the rental houses located on both sides of the Qinhuai River.

These houses rented to scholars during the examination, from the Huaiqing Bridge can be lined up to Dongshuiguan, in order to suit the aesthetics of the scholars, all of them are newly decorated, vermilion railings, green painted panes, door curtains made of Xiangfei bamboo, and there are pavilions built near the river for scholars to enjoy the scenery on the river, which can be described as pleasant scenery.

Of course, the use of these river houses is not cheap, in the past, the rent of 8 taels a month is now 12 silver dollars a month, not including food. Rich scholars naturally don't care about this little money, but those who don't have a lot of money need two or three people to share a house together.

If the scholars are more shy in their pockets, they will choose to rent the study or small courtyard of ordinary people, or the temple and Taoist temple far away from the tribute courtyard as their residence. Of course, there are also wealthy scholars, who simply stay in the brothel by the Qinhuai River, for these scholars, it does not matter whether they can pass the township test, and the main purpose of their visit to Nanjing is to appreciate the boundless wind and moon on the Qinhuai River.

After the list of the township examinations that were advanced to the mid-March examination this year was posted, the scholars who watched the list in front of the Gongyuan found that most of the outstanding candidates in the township examination were actually members of the Fushe Society and students of Jinling University.

In addition to the leader of the Restoration Society, Yang Tingshu Gao Xie Yuan, other leaders of the Restoration Society, such as Zhang Pu, Wu Weiye, and Chen Zilong, were also listed on the list one by one. All of a sudden, the reputation of the Restoration Society was greatly boosted among the scholars of Jinling.

In addition, more than 10 students from Jinling University are on the list. However, the scholars who did not make the list felt admiration and admiration for the promotion of the scholars of the Fushe Society, but for these students of Jinling University, they felt disbelief and suspicion of fraud.

After the announcement of the list on this day, the scholars of the Restoration Society and some scholars of the middle school celebrated with a banquet in the old courtyard across the river from the Gongyuan, also known as the Fuller House. The center of the courtyard is a small lake built with water from the Qinhuai River, and in the middle of the lake is a water pavilion, and on the west and east sides of the lake are two lakeside terraces.

The scholars feasted and talked on the east and west platforms, while the courtesans danced and sang on the high platform in the middle of the lake, which was not very large, and the sun could still see the faces of the courtesans on the other side of the lake.

But the living water from the Qinhuai River in the evening of the spring and summer season, will bring a little fog, under the lights across the lake, the middle of the high platform singing and dancing prostitutes are full of shadows, like the fairy in the sky, at this moment even if it is five or six points of color, it can also rise to eight or nine points of color. Therefore, this place has become the most popular place for those who come to participate in the examination.

However, tonight, most of the scholars' minds were not focused on the color of the courtesans in the lake, after the township examination list was posted, some people were naturally happy and some were sad, nearly 5,000 candidates only won more than 300 scholars, and the frustration was naturally the majority.

Compared with the pride of Yang Tingshu, Zhang Pu, Wu Weiye, Chen Zilong and other scholars, a large number of scholars led by Wu Changshi were bowing their heads and drinking stuffy wine. Among this group of people, the most unwilling was about Wu Changshi, he thought that this township test should be a steady move, but the outbreak of the two Huaiyan cases made him have no intention of reviewing at all, and the advance of the township test made him almost miss the exam.

Although at the last moment, he gave in to Xu Xianchun in exchange for the opportunity to take the exam, but he has not touched a book for half a year, and it is no surprise that his name is Sun Shan.

However, Wu Changshi does not think that he did not pass the exam because he was implicated in the salt citation case, and judging from the results, it should be said that he asked for trouble. Although it was the Jinyi guard who arrested him and detained him until the exam. But at this moment, he didn't dare to complain about Xu Xianchun, these brocade traitors, but hated Yang Tingshu and Zhang Pu in his heart.

Wu Changshi felt that he went to Yangzhou this time to contribute to the resumption of the society, but after being implicated in the salt introduction case, the friends of the restoration society actually did not help him, and let him be imprisoned, only caring about preparing for his own township test, didn't this delay his future. Although he was sent to Nanjing by Xu Xianchun, Wu Weiye, Chen Zilong and others came to comfort him, and said that they had already found the Grand Master, but the official in charge of questioning the case ignored the Grand Master Yunyun at all.

But Wu Changshi only saw that Yang Tingshu understood the Yuan, while Zhang Pu regarded himself as a giant of the Restoration Society in front of everyone, surrounded and flattered by everyone, and did not mention his contribution to the Restoration Society at all, which made him feel like a fire.

After a few glasses of stuffy wine, the anger in Wu Changshi's heart finally turned into a stomach full of malice, he looked at Yang Tingshu and Zhang Pu who were sitting proudly on the top, and finally thought of an idea to break the rice pot and make everyone unable to eat. Thinking of this, he took advantage of the strength of the wine to stand up and shouted: "Friends, everyone be quiet, please listen to me, I think that there must be fraud in the current science and township test..."