I rested overnight in Chengshan, entered the county seat of Luxian County the next day, and then continued on the road. After two days, I finally arrived in Tongzhou.

As a provincial capital, Tongzhou is naturally much larger than Linhai County, and the city is full of prosperous scenes, with people coming and going. Ning Jiang was not in a hurry to report to Tang Yu Academy, but first took his sister to play in various scenic spots in Tongzhou.

The first time I came to this kind of small dream in a big city, it was naturally new everywhere, and I just felt that it was fresh to see this and that one.

Ning Jiang said funny, a provincial city made her so excited, and she went to the capital to do this in the future?

Of course, he said that, but in fact, he had never seen what the capital was like during the prosperous period. In the life before his rebirth, although he had been to the capital several times, but the capital at that time had already been looted by the barbarians back and forth, and they had been looted many times, and the "warriors" in the barbarians took pleasure in killing people in the capital, ten rooms and nine emptiness, and corpses everywhere, and when the Ningjiang River entered the capital, the crows looked forward to the corpses, and the bones blocked the river.

The barbarians, who realized that they would continue to kill and that a plague was about to break out, left the capital with thousands of "two-legged sheep", leaving behind the once glorious Haojing.

The so-called two-legged sheep are all women who have been captured by the barbarians, the older ones are called "unenvious sheep", and the underage little girls are called "and bone rotten", which means that when boiled, even the bones can be boiled.

It is precisely because of this that Haojing in Ningjiang's memory is a ruined and almost hellish tragic scene.

Xiaomeng naturally didn't know this, and when she heard her brother say, "What should I do if I go to the capital", she was happy, not only because of ordinary people's yearning for the capital, but also because of her brother's self-confidence. My brother is a scholar, and when he goes to Beijing, of course, it is to take the top prize.

If you can go to Beijing to take the top prize, at least you will be lifted.

Her eyes narrowed with a smile.

In the process of touring the mountains and rivers, Ningjiang was also inquiring about the current situation, and learned that there was a riot in the area of Longyan Lake near Xiling, and many people who could not survive rose up, and the leader of this riot was called Zhong Xiang. The imperial court has sent a Confucian general who has been in Tanhua, with several jinshi and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to suppress it.

Such rebellions have always occurred from time to time in the southwest, and at the present time when the land annexation is extremely serious, a great drought is enough to bankrupt hundreds of people because they cannot pay all kinds of miscellaneous taxes, and the gentry who hold a large amount of land are exempt from paying taxes for various reasons.

On the one hand, the government could not collect the taxes of these scholars and doctors, so they could only pass on the burden to the common people, and on the other hand, once the common people went bankrupt, they could only sell their land, so more land was annexed by those "village sages" and "squires", and then they were exempted from paying taxes because of their own fame or official position, falling into a vicious circle that everyone knew but no one could change.

The riots caused by this almost never stopped in the history of the Great Zhou, but they were also suppressed without exception, in the emperor and the scholars ruled the world together, almost every Jinshi was the "enemy of ten thousand enemies" of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and ordinary peasant uprisings could not roll up the waves at all.

But this riot in Longyan Lake, Ning Jiang has some impressions.

In his previous life, although the peasant army of Longyanhu was forcibly suppressed, the subsequent collapse of Confucianism and Taoism made Longyanhu, which had almost become a dead ash, fall into the chaos of the entire southwest to resist the government with the momentum of sparks, and after the fall of the north, the Great Zhou Dynasty, which originally had the hope of establishing a Southern Dynasty regime south of the Changhe, further collapsed.

Although the Longyan Lake riot became a heavy stone on the head of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Ning Jiang did not plan to do anything about it.

Those were just ordinary people, who either did nothing and starved to death, or fought hard and were killed by the officers and soldiers under the rule of the scholars.

If Ningjiang was them, there was no doubt that they would make the second choice.

The riots and rebellions in the far southwest, except for some people in the rivers and lakes who occasionally talked about it, paid little attention to ordinary people.

In the area of Tongzhou, land annexation is also serious, but because it is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it belongs to the land of fish and rice, which is naturally much better than those places that need to rely on the sky to eat, and unlike the southwestern part where the roads are not very smooth, officials and squires are almost equal to the soil emperor, the squires in this area have not yet seen the unscrupulous situation, and the people at the bottom can barely survive.

It's just that when it comes to Longyan Lake, Ning Jiang remembers a name that he had heard mentioned in his previous life.

And that person, at this moment, should still be just a student in Tongzhou, right?

Tang Yu College, located in the north of the provincial capital, there is a Hubo around, called Luopei Lake, legend has it that there was a goddess of heaven to fall jade pendant and here, so it became this lake.

To the east of Tang Yu Academy, there is a famous mountain, called Kongshan, every autumn, the mountain is full of maple leaves, the Kongshan is dotted like a bright red flame mountain, it is the most favorite place for the city's people to play. Of course, it's only summer, and it's not summer yet, and it's still a little far from the autumn foliage season.

In order to settle his sister, Ning Jiang rented a small courtyard by Luopei Lake and lived in it with his sister. Then, the next day, he went to Tang Yu Academy to report.

Although it is a state school, but the school of the Great Zhou Dynasty is more of a symbolic meaning, and the students of the counties of the state live here, while studying, while waiting for the arrival of the autumn festival. Lecturers will be arranged to give lectures, explain the meaning of the scriptures, and teach strategies and theories.

Just like the universities in the other world known to Ningjiang, for the students who are stationed in the state school, they can choose what classes to take and whose classes to take, which is very free and casual.

In fact, for those who have money in their families, whether it is a county school, a county school, or a state school, it is not of much use. But for poor students who can't afford to hire teachers or buy books at home, it is of great significance, and only in schools can they get real guidance.

After registering for the name, Ning Jiang asked the scripture master in front of him about someone by the way.

The scripture master sat behind the table and looked up at him: "Baizi Jin? Our Tang Yu Academy should not have such a student. ”

Ning Jiang knew that Tang Yu Academy belonged to the state school, and this year's students could be enrolled for free, and the additional students and epiphytes could actually come in, but it only cost money. And that Bai Zijin, although he doesn't know much about this person, he should be from Tongzhou, and he is a talent in this session.

However, since he did not enroll here, either he was only hyperplastic or epiphytic, or he chose to study hard at home, although he was a child.

Despite this, he continued to inquire with other students, but unlike his previous life, which was famous in Huaxia more than ten years later, at this moment, it seemed that no one had heard of this name, and asked more than a dozen people one after another, all of them shook their heads.

It wasn't until Ning Jiang himself was ready to give up that someone finally glanced at him and said disdainfully: "Baizi Jin? The end of the epiphysis! ”