"I sound good." Shen Mo smiled: "Why do you want money to die?" ”

"There's a hidden word in this." Shen Jing said angrily: "It's actually a price list." ”

"How?"

"Fifteen is dedicated to learning, which means that as long as you want to go to this school, you must first take fifteen taels of silver for the registration fee, otherwise you will not be able to talk about it." Shen Jingdao: "After paying this, you will pay the tuition, and those who pay the tuition fee of thirty taels can only stand and listen to the class, so it is called 'standing at thirty'." ”

Shen Mo smiled and said, "What if I pay forty taels?" ”

"Forty is not confusing." Shen Jing said solemnly: "Those who have paid forty taels of silver can ask questions until you have no doubts." ”

"What do you say about the Fifty Knowing Mandate of Heaven?" asked with a silent smile.

"After paying fifty taels of silver, then you can know the proposition of the exam one day in advance."

"Sixty ears?"

"People who can afford the price of sixty taels, no matter how disobedient they are, Mr. will not scold, I promise to make you obedient."

"I know the treatment of seventy taels," Shen Mo laughed so much that tears came out of his eyes: "As long as you pay seventy taels of silver, you want to lie down and sit in class or come or not, you are happy, and Mr. is not considered to be your violation, right?" ”

Shen Jing nodded indignantly and said, "Do you think he is poor and crazy?" Shen Mo said very seriously: "Then pay thirty taels, bring Mazha to class, and let him earn forty taels less." ”

"Forget it, let's pay seventy taels, I can't stand that sin." Shen Jing pouted.

"People just grasp the rich mentality of you." Shen Mo smiled: "It's hard not to get rich." The two laughed and scolded for a while, and then arrived at the door of Shen's house. Shen Mo noticed that the door had been reopened, and the servants were even hanging lanterns on the door, preparing to welcome the Shangyuan Festival...... It's like nothing happened.

But when he entered the study and saw the old man Yin sitting in the rocking chair, he was stunned, only ten days after not seeing him, the old man's hair was already gray, and he never reverted to his elegant and graceful middle-aged appearance.

Seeing the silent stunned expression, Master Shen reluctantly smiled and said, "Humble words, come and sit next to the uncle." ”

Shen Mo sat down as he said, and said gloomily: "Uncle, you ...... It's not easy. Even if he didn't see it with his own eyes, he could understand the hardships of this patriarch.

Master Shen shook his head slowly and said, "For the sake of this big family, it is worth it to suffer no amount of grievances and slander. Then he sighed and said quietly: "I have removed your master from the family tree......

"The situation...... Is it that serious? Shen Mo's eyes widened.

"Zhao Wenhua gave a letter of approval, the little prime minister of Yanjing is going to kill chickens and monkeys this time, and he won't even give Lu Dudu's face." As he spoke, Master Shen shed two lines of tears: "Your master also expected it, before he went out, he had already written a letter of resignation for your master and wife, and severed the father-son relationship with his three sons...... He also drove you out of the door, he was completely clean and did not intend to come back alive. ”

The silence was darkened...... The prison of the Criminal Department must be dark and damp, dirty and unbearable, even if you don't kill your head, you will die if you squat in it for a while.

The two sighed for a while, and Master Shen asked again, silently about his plans for this year.

Shen Mo said softly: "Let's go to Hangzhou first, are you going to do it?" It's all peace. ”

"Peace is a blessing." Master Shen said with deep feelings: "Humble words, now that our family is walking on thin ice, you have to be careful everywhere and be less showy." Saying that, he was afraid that his young man would feel wronged, so he comforted: "Stay in the green mountains, don't worry about no firewood, and believe that the uncle will come to run the day sometimes." ”

This is the difference in the attitude of the two people, when encountering this kind of storm, what Shen Mo thinks about is to face the difficulties, rush out of the rain clouds, and fly to the high sky of Yongqing; But Master Shen wanted to retract his wings for the time being, hiding in the nest and waiting for the rain to pass and the sky cleared. Shen Mo knew that this was the generation gap, so he nodded very smartly and shut up.

Master Shen asked him to study hard again, so he didn't have to worry about his career being affected...... Yan Ge Lao is very lenient, and he will not ask about the situation of the township test in a province: "As long as you can win the Toad Palace, and then test him to solve the yuan, you will have an iron future." Master Shen smiled proudly: "Zhejiang is the land of the country's scholars, if you can win four consecutive championships, who would dare not take you in the examination?" Wait to be drowned by the spittle stars of the world! ”

Silent but not confident, he smiled bitterly in a low voice: "Don't hide it, the child has not had time to read for several months, and I wanted to review it a few days ago, but I couldn't read it." He also made a conclusion to himself: "This heart is impetuous, and it can't be still." ”

"You have to be still!" Master Shen was more anxious than him, patted Shen Mo's arm and said, "Don't think that if you win the little three yuan, everything will be fine, and you won't have to work hard...... You must know that the imperial examination is different from the children's examination. ”

said and explained to him: "Uncle has a man in the same year, who started the exam at the age of fourteen and barely passed the examination until he was forty-two years old. After entering Pan, just like this time, it happened to be another year of the township test, so he tried it and won the move, and entered the word forest, and it was only more than a year in total. At the Qionglin banquet, he sighed with emotion and made a couplet and said: "The county examination is difficult, the government examination is difficult, and the Taoist examination is especially difficult. The township test is easy, the test will be easy, the palace test is especially easy, and it has been registered in fifteen months. It's not an isolated phenomenon, so it's not a time to work, do you know the real reason? ”

Shen Mo shook his head, and then listened to Master Shen say: "Because of the small questions in the children's examination and the big questions in the imperial examination, the small questions have to be far-fetched and far-fetched in order to guess the meaning of the question. But starting from the township test, all the big propositions are used, and the big questions are complete and clear, and there is no need to bother to guess, but to compare the understanding of the scriptures and the old way of writing. In this way, the longer you study, the deeper the effort, the better......"

The silent face finally became solemn, and said slowly: "You mean, since the township test, those old-timers with deep skills have shown their strength?" ”

"That's right," Master Shen said, "A young man like you, although he is talented, he hasn't worked hard for as long as anyone else, what if you don't work hard?" ”

Shen Mo found that Master Shen and Shen Lian have completely two styles, the teacher is the kind of, you have to do this, and you will tell you why when you are done. is not as good as Master Shen's presentation of facts and reasoning, which makes him feel happy and convinced.

Seeing that he was finally convinced, Master Shen smiled and said: "Of course, you are not weaker than arrogant, you have achieved great success, if it is in normal times, it is no problem to order a Hanlin." ”

Shen Mo smiled bitterly: "But now if I don't pass the exam, I may be killed in the exam, and I won't even be able to pass the Jinshi, right?" ”

"It's good to understand." Master Shen nodded and said, "Don't look at you, you are already the commander of the Zhejiang Patrol Army, but if the Yan Party wants to hack you, it will definitely be effortless." Saying that, he said with annoyance: "You were originally a future made of iron and gold, and Hanlin was destined for a long time, but you were made extremely dangerous by your master's toss...... What a mistake, a mistake. ”

Although Shen Mo was about to complain about this stinky old man since he knew the news of Shen Lian's book, in the Ming Dynasty, students could not blame the teacher no matter what, so he still had to say good things for Shen Lian, saying, 'The teacher has confidence in me', 'Or have other arrangements' and so on.

Before leaving, Master Shen handed him a heavy bookcase, which is said to contain all the experiences recorded by the two brothers who have studied the scriptures together for nearly ten years, which is of great help to him to deeply understand the meaning of the scriptures. ’

Coming out of the door of Shen's house, Tie Zhu asked, "My lord, let's go home?" ”

"No, go to the prefect's yamen." When he came back from Jianhu, he had a question that needed to be answered, and Xu Wei, a heartless person, couldn't say it clearly, so he had to ask Uncle Tang for advice.

Tang Shunzhi was writing when he went, and when he heard him come in, he didn't raise his head and said, "I know you have a question to ask me, but I can't help you." ”

"Why?"

"Because I don't know how many big families are connected with the Japanese Bandits." Tang Shunzhi raised his head and said, "I can only tell you that there is no connection at all...... Not much. ”

Shen Mo was stunned and said, "Not really, right?" ”

"We have one thing in common, you know?" Tang Shunzhi said with a smile: "Almost every family has a textile factory, and the cotton cloth and silk produced can produce thousands of horses every day. ”

Shen Mo's heart was like a stormy wave, he knew that there was a great drought in the north for many years, and the people had difficulty eating, and they couldn't afford to consume so many good and expensive things, so the only way to export was to sell overseas.

Although the maritime ban of the Ming Dynasty has existed in name only, it is illegal after all, and it is clear that it is necessary to lose its head, so it must be traded through those smuggling maritime merchants...... In this era of slack coastal defense, the maritime merchants basically ran the sea when they were trading, and became robbers when they were idle, and they could be treated as the same as the Japanese pirates.

Of course, if the government had not turned a blind eye, I am afraid that it would not have evolved into such a large-scale smuggling of the whole people.

Big households, maritime merchants, Japanese invaders, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong government, and even millions of weavers, all of this constitutes an extremely terrifying net, no wonder the northern court has repeatedly defeated it, the original crux is here!

(To be continued)