The three exams have been completed, but it will take time to mark the papers.

Huang Zongxi and other people have now become the proud sons of the Son of Heaven in Beijing, with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the sponsors of the imperial examination have covered all the expenses. They wore free well-dressed robes, and there were special carriages for entry and exit. After the exam, everyone relaxed, went in and out of the stores of various sponsors and suppliers every day, and held advertising activities for them.

This kind of life makes the crowd very satisfied.

Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Chen Mingxia and other leaders of the resumption society have become fragrant and sweet, every time they are invited to the station, they have to make a lot of noise, and the red envelopes that come in their hands afterwards are much thicker than others.

Now many of the nouveau riche lords in Beijing are aiming at these scholars who are in the limelight. It is said that all families have invited matchmakers, ready to wait for the list to come out, and then they will come out of the list to catch their sons-in-law.

The daughter of the nouveau riche of the imperial court, and the talented son of the new science and technology jinshi, this is simply a match made in heaven.

"This Da Shengchang is really bold, thicker than the red envelopes given by others."

Chen Mingxia and the others returned to the Diaoyutai Hotel and opened the bulging red envelope, which contained a red ticket of 100 yuan, a green ticket of 10 yuan, and a blue ticket of 1 yuan, adding up to 168 yuan.

Compared with the red envelopes given by several other sponsors, it is much richer. The other families are basically 100 yuan, but this one actually gave 168. And the general supplier, mostly give fifty or sixty.

These are still a few of their leaders of the Restoration Society, and ordinary candidates are not so lucky. Not every exam will be invited to the station, and those who can go are generally two or five yuan, and the generous ones are only six or eight yuan. Only Huang Zongxi and others who have a very loud reputation among scholars, and Zhongjin scholars may be extremely high, will become the darlings of all businessmen who are vying to invite.

Huang Zongxi is now also the most popular undergraduate. The casinos bet on Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu the most. Especially Huang Zongxi, who is not only the president of the Restoration Society, but also the Xie Yuan of the Jiangnan Township Test, everyone bets that he can win the Huiyuan, or even the champion.

Because he is the favorite of this year's imperial examination, Huang Zongxi has attended the most activities in the past few days. Not only did the sponsors invite them to stand on the platform, but many other shrewd businessmen in Beijing also discovered their advertising effect and came to invite them to go to the station and advertise.

In just a few days, Huang Zongxi earned more than 1,000 yuan.

It's really much higher than the family's annual income from the field.

The most important thing is that the money is clean and there will be no problem with collecting it. It's not like the money collected by those officials, and now they are all invited to Jinyiwei for tea.

But this is just this chance, waiting for the nomination on the list, and winning the jinshi. After entering Beijing Normal University, he will be a reserve official of the imperial court in the future, and he will have no chance to make money like this.

"It's a really good sponsorship program." Gu Yan martial arts. Many candidates have average family conditions, in order to rush for the imperial examination, it is really a loan or even sell land, and now this sponsorship program not only allows candidates to save a lot of expenses, but also has a better environment during their stay in Beijing.

There's even a chance to make a small profit. The imperial court also benefited, and the merchants also benefited. It's really mutually beneficial.

After taking the benefits of the imperial court, he naturally has to speak for the imperial court.

These days, the officials in Beijing have written to the newspapers, sided with the imperial court, and vigorously criticized the officials for accepting bribes and even deliberately using their power as their embezzlement capital. Soliciting bribes from local officials who are doing things.

Anyway, they are all just candidates now, and they haven't been officials yet, so they don't have a backache when they stand and talk, and they blame those officials one by one, which is unbridled.

The more they scolded. The more the newspaper likes.

If you just write an article commenting on current affairs, you will be famous, and you can also get a manuscript fee. Such a good thing stimulates them more and more to enjoy it.

In the early years, the Fushe also liked to comment on current affairs, but at that time, they mostly stood on the opposite side of the imperial court, scolding this today and scolding that tomorrow.

Now they are still commenting on current affairs, but they are no longer scolding. Instead, they follow the direction of the court, and wherever the court points out, they will fight. The imperial court has just invited a large number of officials to Jinyiwei to drink tea, if they were before, they would definitely scold Jinyiwei, no matter whether it was right or wrong, regardless of whether it was indiscriminate, scold first. But now they are standing on the side of the court, waving the flag and shouting for the court.

Even in the newspapers, there was a war of words with those who dared to question the policies of the imperial court and dare to attack the Jinyi Guard.

After the reorganization of the Society, there are now many people and the scale is even larger than before.

In particular, the organization is more sound, with a headquarters, a president, a vice president, a board of directors, a board of supervisors, and various provincial government branches, which they respond to.

used the newspaper to start a war of words, and they never fought at all. They are stragglers, but they are an organized group. Dare to fight with them, respond to every call, and rush forward.

"Big brother, someone from the Propaganda Department came here just now, and he asked us to mobilize the scholars of the Restoration Society to write some articles in response to the anti-corruption storm that just happened."

Huang Zonghui told his eldest brother Huang Zongxi.

"They also gave me some polishing fees." Huang Zonghui took out another stack of silver dollar coupons.

"The people in the Propaganda Department are really polite, even if they don't give money, we are duty-bound." Chen Mingxia laughed.

The north wind is howling, and the New Year is approaching, but Liaodong outside the customs is still full of war.

The Mongol tribes are now glad to be robbed, and they are not willing to stop fighting at all.

A group of Mongolian cavalry galloped vertically and horizontally, sweeping across the entire Liaodong.

Now, Allah has withdrawn to the Heilongjiang River, where the Mongol cavalry is blocked by the long distance and the extremely cold ice and snow. But for the Liaoshen land south of Harwin, they had no choice at all.

The Mongol cavalry could only be allowed to sweep.

Under the city of Liaoyang, a group of Mongolian princes camped down and surrounded the city of Liaoyang.

"Damn, this Liaoyang City is still quite difficult to fight, and it has been attacking for many days, but it has not moved at all." It was Chechen Khan Shuolei, one of the six county princes of Mongolia, who spoke.

Over the past few days, they have swept away the perimeter, and all the fortresses have been breached, and the population, livestock, money, and grain have been robbed.

If it weren't for the fact that the Jurchen population is now valuable, they would have been able to sweep the periphery a little earlier. In order to be able to capture more Jurchens, they had to spend a little more time.

Now everything that can be swept around the periphery has been swept clean, and everything that can be grabbed has been snatched. The remaining Jurchens in Liaodong fled to several big cities such as Liaoshen.

There are still no less than 200,000 people in Liaoyang City, which is a very beautiful piece of fat in the eyes of the Mongolian princes. Families have even agreed not to eat alone. Each family will attack with a coalition of troops, and after it is defeated, it will be divided according to the number of troops.

According to everyone's prior agreement. After conquering Liaoyang, the territory of the city belonged to the Han Dynasty, and the livestock, population, money, grain, etc., were first given to the Han Emperor, and the remaining eighty percent were divided among the families. Among them, because the Han sent artillery and provided intelligence support, he had to give 10% to the Han.

But they fought for a few days and found that Liaoyang, which had long become a lonely city, was not easy to fight.

Liaoyang is a big city, when Liu Jun went north to besiege Shenyang, he captured Liaoyang. He also sent troops to garrison here for more than half a year and built a lot of fortifications. Although it was destroyed when he left, now the Jurchens have long since recovered. Liaoyang City is large, the Jurchens fight the trapped beasts, refuse to surrender, and men, women and children go to the city to defend.

It was freezing cold, and the Mongols attacked several times, but they didn't get a bargain.

They are good at mounted archery. For siege warfare, there is really no strength. What's more, today's Mongolia is not the Mongolia of the early years, and in the past, their battles with the Jurchens were also less victorious and more defeated.

"Otherwise, let's ask the artillery to be dispatched."

Shuo Lei is a little painful, and the artillery of the Han Dynasty is under the city, but it is not easy to invite them. Although they have already given the big Han a share. But those artillerymen don't care about that, as long as they are dispatched, they will get money.

It's all clearly marked prices, how many caliber guns, how much does it cost to fire a gun. Clearly, Tong Su is not deceived. But the price is too high, the cheapest cannon, one shot will cost a Jurchen prisoner of war. In the case of siege grenades, the small one will get three, and the large one will get ten.

When I thought that after an artillery battle, at least more than 100 shells would have to be fired, and it was estimated that 1,800 prisoners of war would be sent over, and Shuo Lei would have a toothache.

Now the Jurchen captives are much more expensive than cattle and horses.

But the artillery of the Han Dynasty only needs to be captured by the Jurchens, and they don't want cattle, sheep, or gold and silver.

"Do you want to ask Jianzhou Town for help?"

Jianzhou Town is all Jurchen, and its chief military officer is Hao Ge, the eldest son of Huang Taiji of Qing Taizong. Now he is a general of the Han Dynasty, who has just been promoted from earl to marquis not long ago, and he leads 20,000 Jurchen soldiers and horses, and is also the representative of the Han army that attacked Liaodong this time.

"I guess Hauge is not very willing."

"Then please the Royal Knights or the Samurai!"

The Royal Knights and the Samurai Order, each with 5,000 people, were also representatives of the Han army this time. However, although they are crowned with the word royal, they are actually all Mongols, and they are the most courageous warriors in the previous Mongol expedition to Korqin. Later, he was given the title of knight and warrior by the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and was divided into feudal provinces in the territory directly under the Han in Xing'an Province, and became a Mongolian warrior directly under the Han Dynasty.

Each knight and samurai had his own retinue, and a subordinate militia. On this basis, these Mongolian warriors are now organized into the Han Royal Knights and the Han Royal Warrior Order, each with 5,000 people.

These brave Mongol warriors were not now affiliated with any of the Mongol princes. It's not easy to invite them to fight.

Zasaktu Khan Subadi, one of the six county princes of Mongolia, thought for a moment, "Since we can't defeat it, then whether it is the Jurchen cavalry of Jianzhou Town, the Royal Knights or the Samurai Regiment, it may not be useful. In my opinion, it is better to ask the artillery to come out. ”

The artillery sent by the Han to coordinate the operation was a target scale, and the artillery commander was invited over.

"My lord, we implore the artillery to cooperate in the battle and blast Liaoyang City for us."

The artillery commander smiled, "No problem, do you want cannons or siege artillery, do you need shrapnel shells, and how many rounds are you going to fire?" ”

Shuo Lei waved his hand very arrogantly, "We are willing to take out 10,000 young Jurchen prisoners to ask for artillery support." ”

The artillery commander was dazzled, 10,000 young and strong prisoners, this is a good deal.

"Hahaha, okay, since the county prince is so bold, then our Han artillery can't be stingy, so let's do it, I won't talk to you about artillery, 10,000 young Jurchen prisoners of war, we promise to open a gap in the Liaoyang city wall for you!"

"Okay, it's a deal!"

"It's a deal!"

The two big hands clasped together, and everyone laughed together and laughed happily.

The Mongol princes such as Shuolei and Subati felt that there were at least 200,000 Jurchens in the city, and they took out 10,000 artillery to blast the city wall, although the cost was not small, but as long as a gap could be opened, Liaoyang City could be taken, and the Mongol tribes could avoid many casualties.

The artillery commander smiled even more happily, although the city of Liaoyang was high and strong, there was a lack of artillery in the city, and only a small number of catapults could threaten the artillery. The artillerymen can easily push the cannon under the city, and then a hundred cannons can blast a gap.

You can earn 10,000 young and strong Jurchen captives by firing a hundred cannons, this deal is too worthwhile!

Both sides had their own calculations and soon reached an agreement.

The artillery commander went out of the tent with a satisfied face and went to his artillery camp to give an order, and ordered, and the Han artillerymen who had been resting and watching the drama in the camp all came to the spirit, leading the horses and pushing the artillery.

"Damn, it's finally our artillery's turn to shoot!" (To be continued.) )

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