Chapter 31: Qian Qianyi

It is now winter, coupled with the influence of the climate of Xiaoice River, the drizzle and wet clothes in Jiangnan have also begun to flutter snowflakes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Muchun Garden, located in Changshu County, Nanzhili, is also hidden in the white snow.

The owner of Mu Chunyuan, Qian Qianyi, as the leader of the Donglin Party, pushed open the window of his Xiaoxuan, looked at the snowflakes in front of him and sighed.

Thinking that it is now the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and it has been three years since he was dismissed in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Qian Qianyi's mood is extremely heavy.

Although he said in front of countless friends that he was willing to be a farmer and didn't want to go to the temple again, how could he, who had always been greedy for power and fame, really not care about the black veil on his top and the beast on his chest.

In addition, since August this year, especially after His Majesty's sudden recovery, countless old Donglin officials have been reinstated, such as Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Sun Chuanting and many other court officials who are intolerable to the eunuch party have been reinstated or even promoted to another level, but he, the most famous and talented man in the Donglin Party, has been crowned in the south of the Yangtze River, but he has not been able to get the news of his recovery.

Of course, he also went to the capital like Han Yi, and even Wang Chengen received his gifts, even now Wei Zhongxian has arrived in Jinling (now the real place name will be alphabetized, so the place name will be replaced by other words in the future), Qian Qianyi has also secretly visited it.

But even so, the court still didn't want to use him.

It was not until recent days that the news came from the north that countless Donglin Party officials had their homes raided and Jin merchants had been uprooted, that Qian Qianyi realized that His Majesty had never intended to reactivate the Donglin Party in large numbers.

It turned out that he was just paralyzed, and when he thought of this, he couldn't help but sulk secretly, but when he learned that the Fan family, who had a deep relationship with him, was also raided, he was very worried, worried that he would not be implicated.

"Master, this is the latest "Daming Daily", at this time, the housekeeper in his house walked up and handed over a newspaper.

Today's Daming, especially in Jiangnan, "Daming Daily" has long been a must-read for everyone every day, even Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, is also reading, his pseudonym "Changshu Laoru" is its columnist, and he is also a member of the pen war with the newly emerged so-called royalists.

Seeing that the new "Daming Daily" had been delivered this day, Qian Qianyi put aside the depression in his heart for the time being, ordered the maid to make a cup of Longjing before the rain, sat on the yellow rosewood chair, and read the newspaper by the snow outside the window.

By the way, let's also see how the royalist guys reacted to their own questioning yesterday.

It took Qian Qianyi three full days to come up with twenty-eight questions, from the words of Confucius to the Hongwu ancestral system, Qian Qianyi believed that the royalist group of unlearned and unskilled people would never be able to refute themselves.

Before that, however, Qian Qianyi usually reads the latest headlines on the front page of newspapers and editorials written by the literati of the Daming Daily newspaper themselves.

The content is naturally what Zhu Youxiao did and said, what policies the imperial court promulgated, and what the surrounding relations were.

These all represent the latest trends of the imperial court and the recent developments of the rulers of the empire, and the appointment and removal of some high-ranking officials will also appear here, and Qian Qianyi has to see it.

But when he saw a piece of the title "An old talent who has been tested for 48 years - the causes and consequences of the trial fraud case in Jiangsu, Zhejiang Township in Xinyounian", he couldn't help but be stunned.

Xin Younian is the first year of the Apocalypse in Jiangsu, Zhejiang Township Examination examiner is he Qian Qianyi, that time he did accept a lot of bribes from the children of businessmen, and admitted a lot of businessmen's children, but who knows that due to the imperfection of things, in the end it was still discovered, if it was not for the Donglin Party at that time, he would not have just been fined, but I am afraid that the head has already landed, but this matter has been seven years long, but why would someone suddenly mention it.

The gale started at the end of Qingping, could it be said that this was a signal that the imperial court wanted to rectify him?

But he no longer has any official position, and the court still wants to do anything to him.

Qian Qianyi looked at it with doubts, the text was very simple, poking at the point, at the beginning of the story of a poor family Xiucai at the age of twelve, even the inspirational story of the middle and middle school Sanyuan, and because of this, relatives and friends in the clan expected their height, but who knew that they had been stumbling on the township test for more than 40 years, and in the township test of Xin Younian, he committed suicide by jumping into the river because he fell first again, but that time there was a fraud case, and after the re-selection, he was selected to the sixth place in the township test, but the person died.

Then it is natural to discuss how much the examiner's fraud has done to a poor student, to a country's morale and long-term peace and stability, the pen is very sharp, and the scolding is also merciless, and the climax of the article directly points out that the examiner of that year is him Qian Qianyi.

Even if he only saw the words, Qian Qianyi couldn't wait to eat the man's flesh and drink the man's blood, and his face was swollen and red.

But because this "Daming Daily" was run by Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch guarding the town, and it is said that it was instructed by His Majesty, he did not dare to dismantle the newspaper.

He could only take the newspaper to steam off and tear the newspaper to shreds: "What nonsense!" ”

However, on the second day, the editorial topics published in this issue of the newspaper continued to ferment, and countless literati who failed the exam began to criticize Qian Qianyi.

On the message board of "Daming Daily", the topic of Qian Qianyi and Xin Younian's scientific examination fraud case kept appearing, and Wei Zhongxian, who secretly supported it, did not stop it, and even personally invited Ma Shiying, who had just been promoted to the governor of Fengyang, to publish his recital asking the imperial court to severely punish Qian Qianyi.

For a time, countless low-level literati from poor backgrounds became more and more emboldened, and some even came directly to Changshu, holding banners and standing in front of the gate of the Qian Mansion to insult Qian Qianyi as a hypocrite.

Qian Qianyi's inscriptions in various temples were also smeared and smashed, and some temples also smashed the inscriptions left by Qian Qianyi in order not to offend the public.

Qian Qianyi didn't expect a newspaper to put himself in such a disadvantageous situation, and he also hurriedly mobilized his protégé to write articles to publish in "Daming Daily" to fight back.

Wei Zhongxian also did not prevent these literati of the Donglin Party from publishing articles anonymously in the "Daming Daily", but there must be one premise, that is, the royalists not only did not charge a page fee for publishing articles, but also had an additional reward of 1,000 words and 5 yuan of silver for the manuscript fee, but the literati of the Donglin Party had to pay silver, which was also calculated according to the number of words, and a correction fee of two taels of silver for every thousand words.

There are many literati in the Donglin Party in Jiangnan, and since then, "Daming Daily" has not only not lost money because of deliberate political propaganda, but has made a lot of money.

Without further ado, although Qian Qianyi's students here spent a lot of money and wrote a lot of words, they couldn't stop the anger of the masses that he had cheated and caused many poor children to lose their promotion opportunities, and even with the help of the "Five Money Party", things became more and more serious.

Qian Qianyi had to visit Wei Zhongxian in person and beg him to stop letting the Daming Daily discuss the matter.

But he was rejected by Wei Zhongxian, the reason is very simple, Wei Zhongxian said that His Majesty's original intention was to make "Daming Daily" the tongue of the people in the world, not to mention scolding you Qian Qianyi, that is, scolding me Wei Zhongxian, scolding His Majesty the Emperor, and I have to publish it for him without making any changes.

For this reason, Wei Zhongxian also specially took out the article of the Donglin Party literati scolding him as a thief-hearted eunuch to prove it to Qian Qianyi, but the signature of the article happened to be Changshu Lao Confucian.