Zhang Yuan didn't expect that his room master would be Yang Lian!

Qian Qianyi presided over the Zhejiang Township Examination, Zhang Yuan has long known, he is now in high school Xie Yuan, Qian Qianyi is his teacher, generally speaking, if the teacher and the protégé are officials in the same dynasty, they often become friends, the teacher recommends, promotes the protégé spares no effort, the protégé respects the master as a father, if he has to occupy a high position in the future, the descendants of the master and the master will be taken care of, and the protégé will be spurned by the world as ungrateful, this is also a community of interests, the late Ming Dynasty cabinet ministers who did not have a large number of protégés who served as Beijing officials and magistrates, Of course, there are also protégés who impeach the division, but that is really rare, even if the protégé is justified, the reputation will not be good, so for the protégé, the seat teacher is not only a guide, but also a stumbling block, will Qian Qianyi become a stumbling block for him Zhang Yuan?

For Zhang Yuan, he is actually disgusted with this kind of teacher, protégé relationship, he respects Wang Siren, Huang Ruheng, Jiao Hong, these teachers who taught him his studies, as for the field of learning, only based on the text tested, the examiner and the candidate have not met before, how can the teacher-student status? The disaster of party strife in the late Ming Dynasty has a lot to do with this, but now Zhang Yuan can't be a maverick and not come to participate in the Luming banquet and not come to apprenticeship, which is self-isolation from the Ming officialdom - according to Zhang Yuan's understanding of Qian Qianyi, Qian Qianyi has not been an official for a few years in the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen dynasties in the past 30 years. Zhang Yuan does not think that Qian Qianyi will become a resistance to his career in the future, but it is Yang Lian, who is difficult to deal with, and I am afraid that such a teacher will be more of a blessing than a blessing - Yang Lian is a typical Donglin Party member, he reveres Gu Xiancheng who takes the world as his own responsibility, and often goes in and out of Donglin Academy to discuss the study of surname and reason with the gentlemen, and discuss the way of governing the country Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou are the vanguard of Donglin, talk about excess, act decisively, leave no room for attacking political enemies, the emergence of the eunuch party, and their intolerance has a lot to do with it, as a personal moral character, Yang Lian should be honest and honest, in last year's local official inspection of the first honest official, it is rumored that after the township test will enter Beijing to give the matter, the fifth year of the apocalypse, Yang Lian impeached Wei Zhongxian for the twenty-four major crimes, the contradiction between Donglin and the eunuch party quickly intensified to the point of life and death, the result of the struggle was the fiasco of the Donglin party, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others were imprisoned, tortured, and never pleaded guilty, the eunuch party fabricated the charge of embezzlement to Yang Lian was 20,000 yuan, but after Yang Lian's death, all the property of the family and the official was less than a thousand gold, the old mother and wife were homeless, and lived in the building, the two sons begged for food and survived, and Yang Lian, who was a high-ranking official of the fourth grade, was poor and made people cry - of course, Zhang Yuan is now evaluating Yang Lian with hindsight, as Yang Lian himself, he cannot know all the consequences of his actions, he only knows that good and evil are not separated, morality lies, and he will never give up. Zhang Yuan knew that Huang Zunsu also died in that unjust prison, Gao Panlong Wenti rode to arrest him, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water - the party struggle since the middle of Wanli is quite mild, five years after the apocalypse, it is incompatible, which has caused great damage to the Ming Dynasty government, Zhang Yuan wants to save the country, it is necessary to avoid this life-and-death situation in the court, now, because of the Yimao Township test, Yang Lian has become his house master, the straight line to save the country is really a straight line, Yang Lian's integrity and integrity is what he admires, Yang Lian's spirit and paranoia is what he wants to correct, The problem is that this is not so easy to correct, can the protégé teach the teacher, with Yang Lian's stubborn temper, it is not easy to listen to different opinions, I am afraid that I will first scold him for being loyal and not arguing, and there is no distinction between right and wrong - when Qian Qianyi talked with Zhang Yuan for two moments, he greatly appreciated Zhang Yuan's knowledge, and praised him, if it weren't for the impatience of other new imperial examination people waiting outside, Qian Qianyi would continue to have a long talk with Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan felt a little awkward in the face of this famous Qian Tanhua, well, a generation of famous Liu Ru will not be born in a few more years, After growing up, he married this Qian Tanhua, at that time Qian Tanhua was sixty years old, the old cow was tender grass, so there was nothing more - Yang Lian had a big beard, his expression was solemn, he was not angry and self-assured, and when he saw Zhang Yuan, his face smiled, and he suddenly showed kindness, and said: "Mr. Jingyi and I talked about you, the rise and fall of the country, the husband is responsible, this is very good, you can stand out from my room, and you can see the real talent and learning." He added: "I am about to go to the household department to give the task in the matter, and you can come to see me when you come to Beijing at the end of the year." ”

Zhang Yuan said respectfully: "Students should come to meet the teacher. Xin said: "I must be here to meet, first to find out your temper." ”

Yang Lian asked Zhang Yuan to wait beside him, and meet with other new imperial examination people in the same room, the same subject of the same person called the same year, the same room official called each other the same door, than the same year of the relationship is more intimate, "Spring and Autumn" room this time in the nine people - at noon, Minglun Hall deer banquet began, singing the poem "Deer Song", the dance of the stars, the feast until the Shen Shi Fang dispersed, these new imperial examination people met in the Wangxian Restaurant when the Ming Dynasty said, this is called the same year, Zhang Yuan is very familiar with this, it is the graduation party.

In the evening, before the next day, Zhang Yuan summoned more than 100 members of the Han Society who participated in the township test to a restaurant on the side of Wanxian Bridge for a banquet, this is the first guest of his Zhang Society, and it is really not good for a big society in the main league to have no economic strength. They have great hopes of going to high school, and their confidence has doubled.

On the one hand, Zhang Yuan wants to unite the community with the help of the spirit of "the rise and fall of the country, the responsibility of the husband, the cold wind and blood, and the washing of the world", and on the other hand, it is necessary to enhance the prestige and influence of the Han Society through the imperial examination. Seven copies of the Zhu scroll recommended to President Qian's case were embedded with the words 'once a flat step to the blue sky', and these seven Zhu scrolls originally had a great chance of being lifted, but President Qian was dethroned, saying that these seven people were not right, and no matter how good the craftsmanship was, they would not take it. ”

Zhang Yuan asked aloud all the people here, do you have these seven words embedded in them? Everyone said no, because Zhang Yuan had explained it to them before entering the venue—Zhang Dai shook his head and said, "Those fools were harmed by the rumors spread by Dong Zuchang—"

When the members of the Han Society heard this, their spirits were lifted and they asked one after another?

Zhang Dai was a little embarrassed, knowing that he had lost his words after drinking, and looked at Zhang Yuan-Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "I have found out that the rumor was spread by Dong Zuyuan, the son of Dong Qichang, and a Huizhou giant businessman named Wang Ruqian, the purpose of which is to frame me and you. ”

Everyone said, "How can we be so stupid as to believe this clumsy rumor?" ”

Zhang Yuan laughed secretly in his heart, how many people came to ask him about this, wouldn't he be skeptical, and said: "Dong and Wang can't wait for me to frame me, I'm afraid that there will be another plan, and I will use this township test to regenerate rumors about my Hanshe's great victory, and slander me that Hanshetong will have such good results——"

A member of the club said: "What Zhang Sheshou said is very true, I heard this rumor on the road below, saying that my Han Club deliberately released rumors to let other candidates embed words, and these test papers with embedded words will be degraded——"

Zhang Yuan and Huang Zunsu, who was sitting next to him, glanced at each other, and both of them thought in their hearts: "This rumor is very poisonous, this is to set the Han Society against the fallen beings, and use the fallen first beings to create trouble for the Han Society." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "This is another rumor spread by Dong and Wang, we can't sit still and let the slander, we must fight back." ”

The members of the club were full of indignation, and they wanted to severely punish the rumors, and when they were discussing, someone came to report, and thousands of candidates gathered outside the gate of the Gongyuan Academy, asking to grind the examination papers and strictly investigate the fraud-Zhang Yuan sneered in his heart: "Dong Zuyuan and Wang Ruqian are really impatient, as soon as the Luming banquet was dispersed, they instigated the first candidates to make trouble, and those candidates were lost and depressed, and this rumor was like a fire, which could burn them in an instant-Does Dong Zuyuan have these old scheming, Wang Ruqian doesn't seem to have it, there seems to be a master behind these two people." , Now it seems that the rumors of 'once stepping into the sky' seem clumsy, but in fact, it contains deep meaning, this is a serial plan, if it weren't for the fact that you are meeting Dong Zuyuan in the West Lake, I may really be caught off guard. He whispered to Huang Zunsu beside him: "We must also do it, and lure out the servant of the Wang family who is not tied to the garden and send him to the political envoy Si Yamen." ”

Huang Zunsu nodded, and ordered the servant behind him a few words, and the servant called Zhang Dai, Qi Biaojia and Zhou Menong's servant to go together.

Zhang Yuan got up and said: "Everyone, let's go to the Gongyuan together, argue in person, accuse the annihilation, and return the innocence of our Han Society." ”

Everyone's emotions were mobilized at once, they were all from the Han Society, how could they be slandered out of thin air, it was a matter of reputation, and they didn't fight for when!

On the night of August 29, there are stars but no moon, Zhang Yuan and his entourage of hundreds of people came to the gate of the Gongyuan through the streets and squares, the chief examiner returned to Beijing to resume his life, and the township test curtain officials left one after another, the gate of the Gongyuan will be closed, this is called the withdrawal of the court, the next time the door is opened is three years later, and now, Qian Qianyi and other examiners still live in the Gongyuan.

After the aftermath of the ———————————————————————— township test and the layout of Beijing, a broader picture scroll is about to unfold.

(To be continued)