Under Bai Zijin's explanation, Ning Jiang finally knew.

Bai Zijin's grandfather, Bai Chu, once made military exploits in the Miao people who suppressed the Xiling rebellion, awarded the national pillar, and ate thousands of households.

And unlike other Confucian generals, Bai Chu is not even a lifter, but Xiucai was born, from a centurion, from a centurion, step by step, awarded the national pillar, among the generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is also an alternative.

In fact, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, almost all those who could be knighted or awarded medals were Confucian generals, and military generals could be said to be very few. And Bai Zijin's grandfather Bai Chu is not the kind of general who directly charges on the battlefield, his force is just mediocre, as for the temperament, Xiucai's temperament is almost useless on the battlefield.

A talent who is neither a military general nor a Confucian general can go from centurion step by step to becoming a famous general until he is awarded a medal, which to a certain extent also shows his difference.

Of course, it should be noted here that the Great Zhou Dynasty, with the civil and military unification, since the cutting of the domain, in order to prevent the generals from supporting the army and self-respect, all the lords and lords are honorary, and the food is all empty, even if it is sealed to the prince, it does not have a substantial territory, and the food is only converted into silver taels, which are issued with the moon.

Although he was awarded the national pillar, because he was just a showman, in this era of imperial examinations, he was naturally not very valued. Despite this, he is also a scholar who has walked through the field and been admitted to Xiucai, compared to those ordinary generals who were born and died in front of him, scarred, and all his credit was taken away by Confucian generals after he came back, but he is not much better.

Bai Chu was only forty-three years old when he died, and after his death, his only son Bai Boliang started as a cloud cavalry captain, although he did not go to the field, but by fighting against the barbarians who often swept the border in the north, he was also named the captain of the Shangqing car step by step, which can be said to be a tiger father without a dog.

However, just a few years ago, in the northeast of Beiluo, the barbarians rioted.

Although the people of Beiluo are barbarians, they have actually been naturalized for a long time, and in the land of Beiluo, the barbarians and the people of China are mixed with each other, and they have always been peaceful. However, I don't know when more and more Beiluo people joined Zoroastrianism, and they were connected under the nose of the local government, and overnight, these Beiluo people picked up machetes and slaughtered the Chinese people everywhere.

The local officials were unable to suppress it, and all fled back to the Central Plains, and most of the Chinese people in the land of Beiluo were killed. At this time, Bai Boliang, who knew about the Beiluo riots, directly led his troops into Beiluo and forcibly suppressed the local mob without receiving an order from the imperial court.

It would have been better if it had been all that, but after seeing the tragic situation of the slaughtered Chinese people, especially after seeing a large number of babies burned alive in the fire by the Zoroastrian mob, Bai Boliang did something far beyond what the Confucian way of forgiveness could allow...... Kill the prisoners!

As long as the barbarians who had joined the riot, whether they had put down their swords or not, whether they had surrendered or not, they were all pushed into the river and shot. With the connivance of Bai Boliang, the Chinese people who survived the catastrophe picked up swords and guns together with the soldiers, and killed the Beiluo barbarians to the point of blood.

This incident directly caused a shock in the Manchu Dynasty, where is the way of forgiveness? Where is the love for the people? Transferring troops without authorization was originally a taboo, and it was even more unforgivable to connive at the large-scale massacre of officers, soldiers, and civilians. For a time, I don't know how many civil officials took the sage book and played it one after another, and the local officials who governed Beiluo also took the opportunity to put all the responsibility on Bai Boliang.

Bai Boliang was dismissed from office, imprisoned, and his family's property was confiscated. Eventually, he vomited blood and died at the insults of numerous officials during the triage of the three divisions, and his wife committed suicide after her husband's death, leaving behind only an underage orphan and a gray-haired old mother.

After Bai Boliang "died in shame", the satisfied Confucian officials finally let go of his orphans and widows, and allowed Bai Boliang's mother, Feng, to take her grandchildren back to their hometown and return to their hometown. However, according to the origin of the hundred families, although they are from Chengyuan County, Guchu County, Tongzhou, they were not a big family before, Baichu and Baiboliang father and son have fought horses all their lives, and they have hardly returned to their hometowns, and the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been an official in a different place and a general in a different place, so that the two grandparents and grandchildren, in this so-called "hometown", there are almost no people who know each other.

What's more, the trees are falling and scattering, and the people they have befriended in the past are all afraid to avoid them one by one, and who is willing to help them? Although Baijia still has a few acres of land left in Chengyuan County, the Feng family is already old, and Baizi Jin was also clothed and fed when he was young, where can he plant land?

The grain grown is barely enough to fill the stomach, and even the land endowment cannot be paid.

Fortunately, Baizijin is finally more competitive, and this year's children's examination has been admitted to Tongsheng and Xiucai, although it is the end of epiphysis, but from this year, Tianfu can be exempted. It's just that if Ning Jiang hadn't arrived just in time, he would have been forced to sell his land if Tian Fu failed to hand it over last year, even if Tian Fu was exempted, what use would it be?

didn't expect Bai Zijin's life experience to be like this, and Ning Jiang couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.

It's just that, to some extent, this is also a helpless thing.

In the history of another world, when the literati have the complete right to speak, this kind of thing is always unavoidable, such as Di Qing, such as Yue Fei, such as Qi Jiguang, it is difficult to have a good end, and this world with a literary atmosphere is far worse than the other world.

Because it was summer, the sky was getting darker slowly, but even so, the afterglow of the golden crow was slowly fading, and the sound of frogs appeared in the fields, and the moon had risen, but it was pale and inconspicuous in the sunset sky.

Ning Jiang said: "Since Brother Zijin has already passed the government examination, why don't you try this year's autumn festival?" ”

Bai Zijin said helplessly: "The younger brother's family is in the middle of the road, not to mention that he can't afford to hire a good teacher, he can't even afford to buy a few books, this time he can be admitted to the epiphysis, it is already by luck, I originally thought that I would enter the county school first, and wait until the autumn, and then take a look at ......"

Ning Jiang shook his head and said: "The lecturers in the county school are probably some Xiucai who can't pass the government exam, and even the children who can't even pass the Xiucai exam, and the ones they teach are basically Mengxue children, since Brother Zijin has the ambition to take the imperial examination, why don't you go to the provincial capital with me and enroll in Tangyu Academy?" ”

Bai Zijin lowered his head and was silent.

Of course, Ning Jiang knew what he was hesitating about.

At least you have to be a student to enter the state for free, Baizijin is just an epistudent, and it costs money to enter the school. He can't even afford Tian Fu, I'm afraid he can't even make up the fare to Tongzhou, how can he afford to go to the state?

So he smiled and said: "If Brother Zijin doesn't mind, why don't you go to the provincial capital with my brother and sister, and the tuition fee for entering the house will also be paid in advance. ”