Chongzhen also remembered the years when he was bullied by Wei Zhongxian when he believed in the palace, and remembered the knife that Cao Huachun blocked for him. Although the knife was cut at Cao Huachun's non-fatal position, if Cao Huachun hadn't blocked it, the knife would have slashed at the neck of the young Chongzhen, and Chongzhen even had nightmares for several nights. Even now that I think about it, I feel scared.

"Look, big friend, how good it is now, don't think about those unhappy days."

When Cao Huachun heard this, he smiled even more bitterly: "Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, how have you ever enjoyed it, every day is not so hard. Now I have to travel thousands of miles to Suzhou, and the mountains and rivers are long on the way, and the old slave can't accompany Your Majesty......"

Only then did Chongzhen understand that Cao Huachun still wanted to persuade him to dispel the idea of going south: "Okay, big companion, there will be no danger for me to go south." Don't say that I myself am no longer the powerless child I was back then, let's just say that the brocade guards arranged for me are better than the guards of the Xinwang Mansion back then, right? Not to mention that this time I knew that I was going south, there was no reason to send someone to assassinate me. Even if there really is, could it be that the assassin who doesn't know if there is one can be stronger than the assassin arranged by Wei Zhongxian? ”

Cao Huachun thought about it and agreed with what Chongzhen said, but watching Chongzhen grow up since he was a child over the years, he had a feeling of being a mother - although it was disrespectful to think so. Knowing that he couldn't persuade Chongzhen, Cao Huachun asked Wang Chengen to explain how to take care of Chongzhen on the road.

Chen Zilong and Wu Weiye both participated in Chongzhen's four-year examination, Wu Weiye became the current Huiyuan, and Chen Zilong because of the smearing of the paper, the examiner Zhou Yanru was worried that Wen Tiren would use him as a handle to impeach him, so although the two examiners who scored the papers were very optimistic about his test papers, he still fell off the list.

Although Chen Zilong felt that his talent should not be off the list, he didn't take it too seriously, it was normal for him not to be admitted in an exam, and no one dared to say that his answers to each exam were favored by the examiner, especially when this kind of essay exam was different from fill-in-the-blank questions, and there was no standard answer. Therefore, Chen Zilong should review and review after he goes back, and he should not delay drinking and composing poems.

Three years later, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Chen Zilong came to participate in the examination again, this time he was well prepared and full of confidence, but unfortunately he met Wen Tiren himself, and almost all the members of the Restoration Society were kicked out of the list. Chen Zilong, together with a few friends, organized a student group with a strong learning atmosphere, called "Several Societies", and later, "Several Societies" and some other clubs united to be called "Fu Society". Complex has many meanings, as well as revival. Because of the relationship between inheritance and philosophy, the Restoration Society is almost considered an extension of the Donglin Party, or a reserve. And Wen Tiren is a sworn enemy of the Donglin Party, of course, it is impossible to let the backbone members of the Restoration Society pass the examination smoothly from him. So Chen Zilong fell off the list without any suspense. He didn't fall off the list because of his difference, on the contrary, because he was also a backbone in the Restoration Society, so he was naturally targeted by Wen Tiren.

This time it was a big blow to Chen Zilong, one failure was a mistake, and what reason did he use to convince himself the second time? Chen Zilong was disheartened by the imperial examination, began to be depressed, went home and closed his door, claiming to be "dedicated to learning", in fact, he still drank and wrote poems, but he hardly read the Bagu articles. In addition to poetry, he had other knowledge to do. He was different from other students who were dedicated to learning Baguwen writing. Chen Zilong's philosophy is to "apply it to the world", and he learned a lot of things other than articles from his teacher Xu Guangqi, such as astronomical calendars and agricultural affairs.

Before this imperial examination, when Chen Zilong was mourning his recently deceased mentor Xu Guangqi, he asked Xu Guangqi's grandson Xu Erjue for more than ten volumes of the draft of the "Book of Agriculture" made by Xu Guangqi, and wanted to complete the unfinished business of his mentor and sort out the book. Now that the imperial examination has failed, Chen Zilong simply sorted out the draft of the "Book of Agriculture" at home, copied it day and night, and enjoyed it.

This year is the year of the imperial examination. Over the years, although Chen Zilong has done a lot of poems, and "Agricultural Books" has also sorted out a lot, he has hardly practiced Bagu Wen. The so-called fist does not leave the hand, the song does not leave the mouth, Chen Zilong has not reviewed the eight shares for three years, naturally there are some hand students, but fortunately, he had a good foundation before, so this year he came to the exam again with the attitude of giving it a try. It was also his mother who had ardent hopes for him to win the lift, and in order not to disappoint his mother, he had to come to Beijing to take the exam. But he didn't expect that he had the intention to plant flowers and flowers and not bloom, and he had no intention of planting willows and willows, this time he didn't have any hope for himself, but was admitted. Although the results of the top three or so did not match his talent at all, he knew that he only had so much left in the eight-strand literary level, so he was not frustrated.

The top three, according to the system, is called Tongjinshi origin, and it has to be released from the local officials. Chen Zilong is visiting relatives and friends in the capital these days, waiting for the end of the election of officials before going to work. Most of his friends in Beijing are Jinshi who have been in Chongzhen for four years, just like Wu Weiye, who is also the leader of the Fushe. After all, in Chongzhen's seven-year imperial examination, few members of the Restoration Society were admitted.

Wu Weiye is different from Chen Zilong, Chen Zilong is undoubtedly the backbone of the club because he organized the club by himself; Wu Weiye did not organize a society himself, but his mentor Zhang Pu was the leader of the Restoration Society. Zhang Pu, together with fellow villager Zhang Cai and others, organized the "Ying Society", which, like Chen Zilong's "Several Societies", was part of the Restoration Society. However, Chen Zilong pays more attention to the knowledge that can be applied, and Zhang Pu pays more attention to current affairs. Therefore, Zhang Pu and others published a lot of articles criticizing Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen, which were respected by the world, and Zhang Pu was also an absolute leader in the entire Fushe.

Wu Weiye is seven years younger than Zhang Pu, but the relationship between the two is a real mentor-apprentice relationship, which is different from Chen Zilong and Xu Guangqi. When Chen Zilong studied under Xu Guangqi, he was already knowledgeable, and he asked Xu Guangqi for advice on "practical learning", which was equivalent to asking "Academician Xu", who was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to take him as a doctoral student. As a well-known scholar, Zhang Pu felt that he was very talented after seeing Wu Weiye's article, but he had not met a famous teacher, so he was accepted under the door, which is equivalent to a famous teacher in a university attached to the middle school, and found that the "Olympiad prodigy" was outcast, so he tutored him exceptionally, in the hope that he could achieve good results in the "Olympiad Competition". Wu Weiye's knowledge, in addition to Mongolian learning and self-study, is basically taught by Zhang Pu.

In Chongzhen's four-year imperial examination, Zhang Pu, as a teacher, and his student Wu Weiye won the Zhongjin Shi together, and Wu Weiye should be the top spot, Zhang Pu won the first place, but he was the first in the top three, and there was a difference between a tanhua and sixty-seven second grades. Wu Weiye is considered to be blue, and Zhang Pu is embarrassed but also very pleased. When he saw Wu Weiye's article, he had a premonition that "he will one day be better than himself", but he didn't expect it to be so fast at that time.