The cabinet storm in the court did not have any impact on the people at the bottom of the society, even those noble scholars and gentlemen, and those who were preparing to participate in the examination, gathered in various parts of the capital, did not get a glimpse of the mystery from this cabinet storm.

But what everyone in the Jingshi knew quickly affected them.

"Did you hear that? Taiyuan is lost! Governor Wang dismissed His Majesty from his post and will go to prison! ”

"I also heard that the position of the governor of the four sides was given by Xiao Zhennan!"

"Xiao Zhennan is a military general, how can a military general get the position of the governor of the four sides? It's not in order! ”

"The rule is that the dead are alive, who else can be allowed to do it if Xiao Zhennan is not allowed to be the governor at this time?"

"But this is the first time in more than a hundred years that a military general has reached the position of governor! In the past few days, those Qiu Ba who are guarding the city outside are looking like something, and those who don't know think that he is the governor himself! ”

"Should I say it or not, Xiao Zhennan is an authentic general, he doesn't bring any water, this time he is the governor, and the generals in the world can raise their eyebrows!"

"Who's to say it isn't!"

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Since the emergence of commercial eating and drinking places such as restaurants and restaurants in the land of China, restaurants and teahouses are small societies, small inside, but mixed, some bragging, some have real sources, all in all, chatting after tea and dinner is people's favorite thing.

The people below can't get in touch with the information above, so they have an unconcealable yearning and pursuit of the information above, always thinking about knowing something to appease their hearts, that's all.

Xu Guangqi, who was preparing for the exam, and his friend Li Zhizao sat at a corner table, drinking some wine and eating some side dishes face-to-face, chatting while listening to and watching the faces of all beings here.

I have to say that there are really more well-informed people in this tavern today.

"Zixian, in recent days, Xiao Zhennan's reputation in Beijing has become bigger and bigger, the first person in more than a hundred years as a military general and governor, this name sounds really amazing, compared to Li Shaobao's name of the first person to be knighted for military merits, and the position of the first general in Wanli can be regarded as stable.

But I also heard that the reason why Xiao Zhennan can get this position this time is inseparable from the election of cabinet ministers, at this time, no one is willing to clean up the mess in Shanxi, tens of thousands of northern captives, in case the manpower sent fails, and ends up in the same fate as Wang Shiyang, how can he enter the cabinet? After thinking about it, he could only let Xiao Zhennan do it. ”

Li Zhizao took a sip of wine and said with some interest.

Xu Guangqi looked at Li Zhizao and asked, "Are you interested in Xiao Zhennan?" ”

Li Zhizao laughed.

"You know, I have a great interest in firearms, Xiao Zhennan is the most good at using firearms in the Ming Dynasty, I heard that he used 20,000 catties of gunpowder in Ningxia to overturn the city wall of Ningxia, and in North Korea, hundreds of artillery pieces were used at one time to bombard the Japanese invaders, and the flesh and blood of the Japanese were scattered and the corpses piled up.

Not to mention the kindness of my southeastern father to repay decades of blood and hatred, just to say that he is very interested in the use of firearms tactics, I heard that he brought a kind of artillery when he came to Beijing a few years ago, it is the latest artillery of the Francois Jiyi, called the Hongyi cannon, I heard that the cannon body is more than a zhang long, what a big artillery it must be! ”

Looking at Li Zhizao's excited face, Xu Guangqi couldn't help but think of the incident that Xiao Ruxun sent someone to contact him a few years ago, and remembered the exquisitely crafted flint firecracker, Xu Guangqi's heart had some seeds that had been planted a long time ago had already begun to grow, and broke through the ground.

"I also heard that Xiao Zhennan's musketeers are the most elite musketeers in the Ming Dynasty, their tactics are very skilled, and the speed of firing firecrackers is very fast, much stronger than those wastes in Beijing who use muskets as burning sticks, and the army should be the kind of army under Xiao Zhennan, that is called an elite division, and then it can win the battle!"

The more Li Zhizao spoke, the more excited he became, and then he began to criticize the corruption and degeneration of the Ming army in recent years and the plummeting combat effectiveness, etc., which was the main crisis that caused the Shanxi Datong Campaign, and as a result, not only Datong was lost, but even Taiyuan was lost.

Xu Guangqi looked at Li Zhizao like this, and he didn't know what it was like in his heart, but a certain thought somewhere in his heart involuntarily arose, and it became stronger and stronger.

On the twenty-third day of the first month of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, when there was still half a month before the start of this year's examination, Xiao Ruxun officially received the emperor's decree and appointed Xiao Ruxun as the governor of the four sides of Taiyuan Yulin, the Xuanfu of Datong, with full authority to control the soldiers and horses of the four towns and be responsible for the battle of Datong in Shanxi.

In the past hundred years, Xiao Ruxun, the first military general and governor, broke 10,000 captives in Qi County, beheaded 1,700, captured countless horses and materials, and the northern captives were defeated and fled, and Xiao Zhennan led his troops to chase and fight.

This good news gave a stimulant to the Jingshi, who was still in a sluggish atmosphere in the bitter cold, and people began to discuss the topic of the Shanxi War and Xiao Ruxun more enthusiastically, and the scholars who were preparing for the exam were inevitably affected by this heat.

If this is the case, then the attention will not be so great, but there is even more gossip that the strategy of this year's meeting and even the palace test may have something to do with current politics such as the Nine-Sided War.

The scholars suddenly remembered the old things about the current political issues in the several imperial examinations during the Jiajing Longqing period, and suddenly felt that it was very possible, so they immediately began to cram.

The period before the beginning of the spring of the 26th year of Wanli was a topic that the exam-takers could not avoid.

On the third day of the second month of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, another good news came.

After the victory in Qi County, the northern captives were pursued by Xiao Ruxun and fled everywhere, and then in Wenshui County and Fenzhou were chased by Xiao Ruxun twice, a hammer, and two great victories, Wenshui won the victory of more than 5,000 people in the north and beheaded 800, and the victory in Fenzhou completely annihilated more than 10,000 people in the north and beheaded 1,600, and the remaining remnants of the north captives continued to flee south, but the momentum was declining, and the defeat was decided.

In just half a month, three great victories, annihilating 25,000 northern captives and beheading more than 4,000, such a brilliant record shocked the Beijing division, and hundreds of officials were sideways.

Other generals still have the possibility of falsely reporting their military exploits, but it falls on Xiao Ruxun, which is really worth believing, because Xiao Ruxun has never had a false report of his military exploits since the Battle of Ningxia, which is a fact determined after several strict audits by the Ministry of War, and it is also the support of Xiao Ruxun's credibility.