XXXVIII. The people are miserable
Comfortably took a hot bath, ate a delicious meal, and finally returned to his soul, the next half a month is to wait for the township trial list, Zheng Guang does not plan to return to Suzhou, plans to wait for the news of the release of the list in Nanjing, this is also the plan of most students, and grandma and aunts have returned to their hometown in Suzhou, where no one can take care of them for a long time, so for the time being, in the Nanjing courtyard, only Zheng Guang and Zheng Jiang have two or three servants waiting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Tang Shunzhi wrote to say that there were some housework to deal with at home, and he couldn't catch up for a while, but he would definitely rush over before the township trial list, so in the half month before the release of the list, he had to stay in Nanjing City and wait for the release of the list, and there was nothing else to do, so it felt quite boring.
Generally speaking, most of the students who have completed the township examination will choose to go to the famous red light district of Nanjing City on the banks of the Qinhuai River to drink flower wine, talk about life and ideals with those famous oirans, and by the way imagine a better life after the YY lift, whether it is a wealthy family or a wealthy family, they will go once, which is an eye-opener and a long insight, Zheng Jiang also suggested that Zheng Guang go to see, there are also many students there, get to know each other, which is good for the future.
Zheng Guang refused, if going to those places is considered a long insight, an experience, then not going to that kind of place is a very different approach from ordinary people, it is also a rare experience, they experience what I have not experienced, and I have experienced what they have not experienced, so why go to those places to fool around? Speaking of the third uncle, you ......
Zheng Guang looked at Zheng Jiang with the eyes of a man, Zheng Jiang's old face was red, he turned his eyes to the window, and stopped talking, Zheng Guang shook his head depressedly, and said: "Forget it, I'll go outside, I'm always nesting in the house, it's boring enough, I'll be back before dinner." ā
Zheng Jiang naturally will not stop him, Zheng Guang changed his clothes, and held a necessary weapon for literati to go out - folding fan, saying that this is not Zheng Guang himself bought, it was Tang Shunzhi who gave it, saying that it was his handsome figure in white clothes and dancing fans that made the master fall in love at first sight, and committed himself to marrying him, he has always been very proud, so he transferred this fan to Zheng Guang, put aside those boring YY, with Tang Shun's reputation all over the world, this fan that he personally painted and inscribed is a priceless treasure.
You must know how many people begged Tang Shunzhi to paint an inscription, but Tang Shunzhi ignored it.
Now that the examination has just been completed, thousands of scholars are staying in Nanjing, and you can see groups of literati gathered together on the streets, laughing and talking, passing by some tea stalls, and you can also see some scholars gathering together to talk about the topic of the imperial examination, and the shopkeepers next to them look at these proud sons of heaven who can read with envy, and feel that they can boast to others in the future -- those scholars who have taken the imperial examination are drinking tea and chatting in my stall, and I also know what the imperial examination is.
As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the capital of a hundred years ago, the prosperity of Nanjing City is undoubted, the Ming Dynasty also has a set of administrative teams in Nanjing, at the beginning it was a copy and paste of Beijing City, but with the passage of time, it has gradually become a place of retirement and exile for the losers of the political struggle, except for a few positions and real power, most of them are idle officials who drink tea for the elderly, the imperial examination is a big event, these idle officials also come out in groups to go shopping, chat, and see the spiritual outlook of the new scholars, As an idle egg ache to relieve boredom.
Unconsciously, Zheng Guang felt a little fluttering, living in such a beautiful world, there are laughter, birds and flowers, you come and go, there are scholars, such beauty, shouldn't it be allowed to last forever? But a hundred years later, the barbarians made this beauty a complete memory, and they cruelly cut off the tradition, tyrannically tore the fine clothes, and suppressed the vitality of the land in a disgusting way, degraded it, and regressed it......
How can it be endured!
In a trance, Zheng Guang's steps never stopped, and when Zheng Guang returned to this world, he found that everything in front of him had changed, and the laughter and laughter of Fang Cai were gone, only with the gasp of despair, Zheng Guang felt as if he had walked from one world to another at once, almost making him think that he had come to a terrifying world full of despair a hundred years later......
As soon as he turned his head, the prosperous world was still there, but his position was no longer there, here, as if it was really another world, there was no laughter, no architectural art, no merry scholars, and everywhere he looked, there were only poor people in ragged clothes and gray eyes, and at this time, Zheng Guang realized that he had walked through the prosperous world and arrived at this miserable land.
Like just a street, but like a chasm split by the blade of time and space that cannot be crossed, the prosperity there can't reach here, and the despair here can't be smelled by people there, at this moment, Zheng Guang finally understands that the world he is in has always been an illusory world, and the real world is here, the real Da Ming is here.
The low and dilapidated houses, the ragged people, the desperate faces, the gray eyes, the spiritless movements, like the dried corpses that have been drained of all the blood, every move seems to be struggling, struggling on the boundary between death and survival, where is there still a little bit of the beautiful world, where is there still a little bit of the world......
Whether it is in the past life or in this life, Zheng Guang has never seen real sorrow and despair, in modern times, he is worry-free, and he is also a leader in the Great Song Dynasty, and he is used to seeing the pain of the country's ruin, so that he even thinks that people's pain comes from the fall of the country and the sorrow of being bullied by foreign races.
It was only at this time that he understood why historians unanimously agreed that the expulsion of the Yuan by the Ming Dynasty was not a national war, but a change of dynasty in a general sense, and he finally understood why Zhang Yanghao was not a national hero of the anti-Yuan fighter, but he was reciting the desperate poem sadly - Xing, the people suffered, died, and the people suffered.
These people who belong to the same nationality as themselves, they are bitter!
The Ming Dynasty is powerful, if there are only external enemies and no internal troubles, even if the Manchu Qing is twice as strong, it will not be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to enter the Central Plains with a population of only a few millions, why? Is it because of Wu Sangui? Or is it because of Zhu Youzhen? Maybe it's because of Li Zicheng?
Now, Zheng Guang may understand, no, he really understands, why the Great Song Dynasty failed, why the Ming Dynasty failed, why it collapsed and could not be saved, why it fell under the sword of a mere alien race, there is not so much analysis, not so much side references, not so much historical research, not so many meteorological observations! Everything is just because of three words!
Hundred! Surname! Bitter!
Those ragged beggars looked at Zheng Guang dressed as a scholar, or they didn't know what it meant or what it meant, maybe they just took a fancy to this clean clothes, compared with the dirty rags on their bodies, this clothes, like the emperor's new clothes, dirty faces, the envy and longing revealed in the two eyes, made Zheng Guang's heart feel as if he had been hammered by a heavy hammer......
I led the army to fight, from the south to the north, killing countless Mongols and traitors, I think I have contributed to the country and the nation, but what have I changed? I am determined to restore the Great Song Dynasty, and I will do whatever it takes to do so, I have killed many people who should have lived, and I have also made many people who should have died for me, but what have I changed? When I go back to the Great Song Dynasty and return to that day, is it really to let the damned die and let the deserving people live?
I've been asking, I've been pursuing, why did I die in the Great Song Dynasty, but I was reborn in the Ming Dynasty, how many times do I have to go back and forth like this to be free, what are the people who dominate me in the dark thinking, what do I need to do, is it just for me to save the Great Song Dynasty and save the Ming Dynasty?
Meritorious service, famous in history, that is the emperor will fight for the belief of a lifetime, win the world, seize the supreme power, that is the dream of countless heroes, they climb up, look up, strive to climb up, a strong want to break through the sky, become a unique son of heaven!
However, for thousands of years, emperors and generals, how have you ever moved your eyes down a little? Even a little, a little......
Do you know what is the indispensable foundation that underpins your ambition and utilitarianism? Do you know what it is that sustains you in fulfilling your ambitions and becoming supreme beings? They are not born to be ruled, they are not born to suffer, no one should be born with a certain fate, no one should be born with a predetermined fate, no one should be born with a predetermined destiny!
But you never went to see it, even if you were one of them.
People, the memory of laughing at the goldfish is only seven seconds, but, emperors and generals, how many seconds can your memory last?
Zheng Guang turned around and began to walk back, towards the prosperous world of singing and dancing, he needed to think, he needed to calm down, he needed to think carefully, himself, how to go the next way.
There is no road in the world, there are more people walking, there is a road, people are lazy, but also timid, only willing to follow the footsteps of their ancestors, and unwilling to open up a new road by themselves, never thought about what the development of a new road will bring to this old world.
But there are always people who want to open up new paths, there are always people who want to walk out of a new future, and one day, the old roads will not be able to support more people to go up, and this day will come sooner or later, instead of being forced to take the first step, why not take the first step bravely?
I would like to be the first person to take the first step with my courage.