Wen Renjun looked at Pang Gang with an expressionless face, knowing that if he didn't pass this level, he would still be waiting for him with a severed head, but this Wen Renjun was also very courageous, and his face was still as usual.

I saw him laugh loudly and said: "The general's training skills are famous all over the world, and the general has expanded the army in the past two years, from a hundred households to a feudal official with tens of thousands of troops, and that's it, but the students found that the general is vigorously forming a water division, which is a bit intriguing, you must know that the forbidden sea is my Ming national policy, and even the only water division has been cowering in Nanjing due to disrepair, so that it has to recruit Zheng Zhilong, a sea thief, which is really sad and lamentable." On the other hand, the general did the opposite, not only forming a naval division, but also fighting a major battle with the invading Zheng Zhilong naval division, inflicting heavy losses on him and ordering him not to retreat. All this shows that the general is a person who cares about the world, otherwise you would not do such a thankless job, and the battalion of elite soldiers you left in Luoyang a few days ago is not for the sake of greedy for that little money and food, right? Doesn't that prove that you're getting closer to rebellion? ”

Pang Gang stared at Wen Renjun, and a look of appreciation flashed in his cold eyes.

Wen Renjun continued to talk, "If the students are not bad, the general should also ask the Cen prefect to garrison troops in Kaifeng when he and the others are drinking tonight, right?" ”

"Enough, enough!" Pang Gang waved his hand, and his originally tense face slowly softened, "What you said is good, and this official also admits it, but you haven't said what the purpose of your coming here tonight is, it won't be to sell your knowledge to this official, right?" ”

Hearing this, Wen Renjun stood up and came to Pang Gang, bowed down to Pang Gang with both hands, and said loudly: "If General Meng does not give up, the students are willing to help the general and make a meager contribution to the general!" ”

"Oh, did this Wen Renjun really take refuge or did he come in as an undercover agent?" This was Pang Gang's first thought, after all, Ren didn't dare to believe anyone from unknown origin.

Pang Gang's eyes rolled a few times, he stood up and took two steps forward to help Wen Renjun up, and asked solemnly, "Mr. Wen, are you serious?" ”

"What the students say is true, and there is no lie." Wen Renjun replied in the affirmative.

"Since Mr. is interested in the same thing, let's bother Mr. to report to his family."

"That's nature."

Wen Renjun smiled slightly, so he told his origin. It turned out that Wen Renjun was a promising person in Kaifeng City, but he offended people when he entered Beijing to catch the exam during the Apocalypse.

It wasn't until April this year that he returned to his hometown, but after ten years of travel, his vision was not comparable to ten years ago, during his travels he saw too many things that were not written in books, and now the rich of the Ming Dynasty are getting richer and richer, and they are living a life of spending all day and wine, while the poor do not even have a place to stand, and the strong contrast makes him, a person who only knows how to read the books of sages, gradually have an indescribable disgust for the current court. During his travels, he had to conclude that the Ming Dynasty had run out of energy, and a change of dynasty was imminent.

It just so happened that Wen Renjun had also been to Qingzhou, and in his opinion, Qingzhou was a vibrant city, which he had never seen anywhere else in Daming. In Qingzhou, the status of military households is different from other places, it is quite high, not only every family has been allocated to the field, and those who are soldiers are treated very high, Wen Renjun is even more in Jinan to see, Jinan's conscription notice is posted, the nearby young and strong people are flocking to sign up for the scene, which also makes Wen Renjun, who has always believed that good men are not soldiers, and they are not nailed.

However, after Wen Renjun wandered around Shandong for a while, he came to a conclusion, that is, the actual ruler of Shandong, Shandong General Peng Gang, was a talented person, and it was a good choice for him to join Pang Gang who had broken off the idea of his career but had ambitions.

So, Wen Renjun planned to go home after a trip to Qingzhou to join the Ming Lord, but he didn't expect to go home less than a month, and he heard that Pang Gang led the army to aid Henan.

After listening to Wen Renjun's narration, Pang Gang wiped his sweat very much, he has been in this era for almost three years, but there are few people available under him, the military generals are good to say, they can be found among the lower-level officers, but there are very few literati who can really work hard for themselves, and there are only a few poor and sour talents such as Huayan, Meng Qing, Lin Feng, etc., although the prefects and county commanders in Shandong seem to have taken refuge in themselves at present, but it is also because of their military and financial power, coupled with the coercion of their father-in-law Wei in the same year, they have to listen to their own wordsAfter all, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in the past three hundred years is still very sufficient, and he has not openly pulled up the anti-flag, so officials at all levels in Shandong have turned a blind eye to their orders, and now the arrival of Wen Renjun has given birth to the idea of cultivating a group of literati who are loyal to him.

Looking at Wen Renjun in front of him, Pang Gang asked tentatively: "Mr. Wen, although this official occupies the land of Shandong at the moment, if the officials in Shandong are all appointed by the imperial court, how can we ensure that they are all loyal to this official?" ”

As soon as Wen Renjun heard it, he knew that this was the first exam question for his future boss, and he laughed: "The adult's words are wrong, and the students already know what the adults think in their hearts, but the students think that the things that the adults are worried about are not necessary." The students know too well the minds of the officials of the current imperial court, and some of them may be loyal to the imperial court, but the vast majority of them are loyal to themselves and their families. As long as the adults have the power of the army, they will never have any disagreement with the adults. ”

"Oh, is that still the case?" Pang Gang was very curious, although he had come to this era for several years, but he didn't know much about the thoughts and behavior habits of Ming officials, and hearing Renjun say this in the same year aroused his curiosity.

"Of course, please listen to the students."

Seeing that Pang Gang had a strong interest in his words, Wen Renjun was overjoyed, so he cheered up and began to explain to Pang Gang in detail.

Although there is a folk proverb, called poor literature and rich martial arts, it refers to going to study when you have no money, reading books and taking the exam to become a champion and become famous, returning to your hometown in fine clothes, building a house into a piece, and marrying a wife. As for why Chen Shimei was beheaded, I won't say anything off-topic, and when he meets the old bag who admits death, his life is not good. Poor people learn literature, they can hang their heads and cone bones, they can dig holes to get light, they can catch fireflies and put a small yarn bag to read at night, in short, no matter how poor they are, as long as they can wrap their stomachs, eat a nest head in three days, kick and pull a broken straw sandals to go to the capital, they can get famous.

But in fact, this is not the case, the folk say that poor scholars are poor scholars, in fact, in ancient times, most of the people who could afford to read were very rich at home, and your family could not reach the level of a well-off family, that could not afford a scholar.

First of all, when the child is young, you should ask a good enlightenment teacher, and then you have to enter the county school or the government school to study, and wait for two years after you are admitted to the Xiucai fame, and you can go to the capital to catch the exam, so that a scholar does not have at least ten years of hard work and wants to get out, and the stories of those teenagers or teenagers who are high school champions are basically legends, and in reality, most of the people who can be in the Jinshi are middle-aged uncles who are twenty-six, seven, or even thirty or forty years old.

And in the past ten or twenty years, this scholar has not engaged in any production, that is to say, you have offered a great god at home, and he has covered all his food, drink, and Lazar, plus this person has to constantly go out to socialize and travel to and from the capital and the state capital, such a huge expense is enough to drag down a well-off family.

And after this scholar became an official, the first thing he wanted to repay was naturally the family that had provided him with food and drink for so many years, there is no doubt that the emperor of the court had to lean back. Therefore, what Pang Gang feared that after he showed his anti-flag, it was basically impossible for all officials from all over the country to leave, because if they ran away like this, it would mean that their efforts for so many years were all in vain. Of course, there are no absolutes, and there are not no people who are loyal to the court and the emperor, but this proportion is relatively small.

Listening to Wen Renjun's words, our huge officials couldn't help but be full of guilt, Nima's bloody TV series in the later generations killed people, in later generations, the champion or Jinshi talked about on ancient costume TV is not a teenager, one by one in his teens and twenties on the gold list title Spring Breeze is proud, and there is a TV series that is even more exaggerated, what is the name of the nine-year-old county master, Nima's, even if you don't have this kind of treatment when you are the emperor Yanjing.

Now after listening to Wen Renjun's explanation, Pang just now knew that it was all made up by those uneducated directors, the Ming Dynasty held the exam every three years, and there were tens of thousands of people who went to Beijing to take the exam every time, and these tens of thousands of people coaxed together to grab only one or two hundred or even only seventy or eighty people, which shows that it is difficult, and its difficulty is many times more difficult than the civil service examination in later generations, and it is not an exaggeration to say that thousands of troops are walking a tightrope.

"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years, and this official is now taught." After listening to Wen Renjun's explanation, Pang Gang stood up and bowed deeply to Wen Renjun.

"Don't dare, don't dare, this is what students should do!" Wen Renjun quickly stood up and returned the salute.

After a lot of literacy, Pang Gang's attitude towards Wen Renjun was much better, he took a sip of the tea that had become cold before he said: "Mr. Wen, you can help the official, the official is very pleased, so let's do it, now the official temporarily appoints you to the post of praise painting in the army, what do you think?" ”

Wen Renjun was overjoyed in his heart, bowed down and thanked: "Thank you for your kindness." "Since you serve other people's jobs, this title naturally has to be changed.

The post of praise painting in the Ming Dynasty is also a kind of official name, take the meaning of praise and painting, clerical, specific responsibilities and grades are not customized, the size of its authority depends on the trust of the old book, and this position is very suitable for the Wen Renjun who served Pang Gang. After all, he was a newcomer, and it was impossible for Pang Gang to give him a high position.

After thinking about it, Pang Gang asked casually, "Who else is in Mr. Wen's family?" ”

Wen Renjun said with some shame: "There is still a good wife and a daughter in the family, when Wen sold his family property to Beijing to catch the exam, not only the name fell to Sun Shan but also even the qualifications of the person were cut off, shameless to go home, wandering outside for many years, the lady in the family not only worked hard to keep the family, but also pulled the little girl up alone, and the humble position is really ashamed of them." ”

Pang Gang looked at Wen Renjun with some surprise, and said in his heart: "This guy has married a good wife, her husband has been wandering for more than ten years, not only did he not go out of the wall at home, but raised the child hard and waited for his husband to come back, this guy's luck is not ordinarily good, if any man dares to leave his wife to play missing in the future, it will not take ten years, it is estimated that the wife will play with splitting legs in three months." ”

I had the heart to laugh at Wen Renjun for a few words, but considering that this guy had just taken refuge in himself, he didn't know if he could afford to make a joke, so Pang Gang swallowed the joke he was about to say and ordered: "Okay, it's getting late, Mr. will be here for one night now, and tomorrow will bring your family to the army, and this official will order someone to settle you down." ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Wen Renjun was very interested in giving up his hand to Pang Gang and left the big tent and rested under the leadership of a personal soldier.

"Interesting!" Looking at Wen Renjun who went out behind the soldiers, the corners of Pang Gang's mouth turned up slightly, "It seems that there are still too few talents around me, and even a person who has been eliminated from his fame can be happy to be like this, it seems that he will increase the search for talents after he goes back." ”

With a burst of alcohol, Pang Gang fell asleep deeply

When Pang Gang finished washing and walked out of the tent, he saw Wen Renjun with a middle-aged woman who was about forty years old and a girl about eleven years old wearing a red jacket Standing outside timidly looking at Pang Gang, there was a big cloth bag behind them, which was probably their family's salute.

Seeing Wen Renjun's family of three standing at the door, Pang Gang greeted him with a smile: "Mr. Wen, did you take Mrs. and Ling Yan over so soon?" ”

Wen Renjun said indifferently: "Yes, anyway, there is only one broken house in Kaifeng for a lowly family of three, there is nothing to worry about, and it is just right to hurry up and run errands for adults." ”

"Well, it's good to have this heart." Pang Gang nodded, walked up to Shi Bowen, who was standing outside the big tent, and said, "Shi Qianhu, you arrange Mrs. Wen and Ling Yan's family to a larger tent, and in addition"

Speaking of this, Pang Gang whispered: "In addition, you take another hundred taels of silver and quietly hand it over to Mrs. Wen." ”

Pang Gang saw that in addition to Wen Renjun, the three of them passed on a half-new gown, although the clothes on his daughter-in-law and daughter were very clean, they had been patched, and it seemed that Wen Renjun's words were not easy, so he specially instructed Shi Bowen.

"Yes, my lord, I understand the lowly position." Shi Bowen nodded, and then led Mrs. Wen to the big tent behind.

And Wen Renjun followed Pang Gang into the big tent, which also means that from now on, Wen Renjun will officially take up his post.

"Sit down."

Pang Gang pointed to the side casually, and he took the lead in sitting down on a stool, while Wen Renjun waited for Pang Gang to sit down before sitting down on a stool in front of Pang Gang.

"Mr. Wen, you were right yesterday, this official did make an agreement with the Kaifeng government, leaving a battalion of soldiers and horses stationed in Kaifeng City to prevent thieves from killing horses. Moreover, the official also proposed to help them move all the displaced people in the city to Shandong, and Kaifeng City will pay us 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 stone of grain for this purpose, and these things will be delivered to our army within three days, do you have any opinion on this? ”

Pang Gang told everything about yesterday and sought the opinion of the newly appointed Zanhua.

Wen Renjun thought for a while and nodded, "If this is the case, we will not suffer a loss, and the 200,000 taels of silver are enough, and only these 200,000 stone grain will be enough to support the 50,000 or 60,000 immigrants in the city to survive this year's winter." However, I am worried that I have heard that the adults have been moving to Shandong in recent years, which will have an impact on the people of Shandong. ”

Pang Gang understood Wen Renjun's meaning, there is only so much land in Shandong, if there are constantly displaced people moving in, it will inevitably create a situation where there are more Chengren and less land, Wen Renjun is worried that these displaced people will cause a heavy burden to Pang Gang in the future.

Pang Gang laughed and said: "Mr. Wen understands what he is worried about, but now Shandong still needs a large number of displaced people to enrich the workshops, farms and mines, and that kind of situation will not occur in the short term. Don't forget, there is still a large expanse of land in Liaodong waiting for us to occupy! ”

Looking at Pang Gang with a proud face, Wen Renjun couldn't help but secretly admire, now in the entire Ming Dynasty, except for the general in front of him, who else dares to make such a bold statement that he wants to snatch the land of Liaodong from the hands of the Tartars.

Seeing that his boss had made up his mind, Wen Renjun volunteered to go to the prefect's yamen to urge the government to prepare the money and food as soon as possible, he wanted Pang Gang to see, he Wen Renjun is not a useless scholar who commands rhetoric, he will also do practical things.

Pang Gang smiled: "Cheng, then you can go, remember to bring a team of soldiers and horses." The official is here waiting for your good news, remember, it is very important to rush all the money and food within three days, otherwise there will be a delay. ”

Wen Renjun stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely get the money and food back!" ”

After finishing speaking, Wen Renjun went out in a hurry

(To be continued)