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"Dad, my son doesn't want to study anymore!" At the dinner table, Zhang Renjie sandwiched a chopstick of sweet and sour pork ribs and said.

"What did you say?" Zhang Youde was a little confused by Zhang Renjie's sudden words, and his hand that was picking up vegetables also stopped. What do you mean by not reading anymore? "What do you want to do without reading? I sue you, and I can't help it. ”

"Dad, don't worry, listen to me, I'm going to donate an official." Zhang Renjie said what he thought, but in Zhang Youde's eyes, no matter how he looked at it, he still looked very childish, and Zhang Youde felt that this kid couldn't grow up!

"Donating officials, how old are you, you want to be an official. Son, you heard from your father, you took the Xiucai exam at a young age, and it won't be a big problem to take the exam right away. At that time, it will really be the glory of the ancestors, you must know that our Zhang family has not been raised for four generations, and my father can all point to you to fight for the Zhang family! Don't think about it, it's important to study hard, ah! Zhang Youde's tone eased, he really didn't want to see his son give up the right path of studying, go to donate a Rausch child, and let alone where he had so much money for him.

"Son, your father is right, don't think about it, it's important to study seriously, ah. Besides, if you say you want to donate officials, our family can't afford to take out so much silver. "My mother-in-law, Zhang Wu, also helped on the side.

Zhang Renjie knew that his father and mother would definitely not agree, and only those who were still scholars would be respected in these years. In this rural place, even if this dock town is relatively prosperous, those who really have status and prestige must be scholars, even if the elders of the clan respect scholars from the bottom of their bones. Of course, this is for scholars with meritorious reputations, and if they don't get a meritorious name, no one cares. "Dad, I'll figure out how to donate the official's money, but I really don't want to study anymore."

Zhang Renjie knows his own family affairs, although he received the memories of scholar Zhang Renjie, but it does not mean that you can use it well if you remember some things. And Zhang Renjie's modern thinking is also very repulsive to these eight strands, and it is really difficult for him to make a fuss. It's the bookshelf in the study, he can't read it at all now, let alone go to the exam, even if he asks him to take the exam again, it will be difficult to pass the county exam.

"You think of a way, you can think of a way. Do you know how much money it costs to donate an official? Listen to your tone, the youngest also wants to donate a county cheng, I know the money to donate the county cheng, as long as three hundred taels, our family can also take it out, but if you donate an official, you will have an official position, and if you want to fill the shortfall, it will cost at least three times the money, and the total will be at least 1,200 taels. Our family doesn't have a thousand taels of cash, do you want to sell your house and land to donate to you! "Zhang Youde can't eat anymore, so he put down his chopsticks and said to Zhang Renjie." How good it is for you to study hard, with your ability to take the exam, not only do you not talk about the glory of your ancestors, but it is also easy to turn around and want to be an official. Do you need me to talk about this? ”

Zhang Renjie also knew the memory in his head, of course, relying on lifting people is a glorious lintel, but it is too difficult to rely on the road of the imperial examination to be an official. He showed that he had passed the examination, but then he had to take the exam, and after the lifting was over, he would take the examination and obtain the qualification of the tribute, and then he would take the palace examination and obtain the qualification of the jinshi, and he could only be assigned an official position after the jinshi. Although you can do the seven pins of the county as soon as you send it to the county, it will have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse. At present, there are 40,000 people in China, and once every three years, more than 300 people are taken at a time, and an average of 100 people are taken every year. I really don't have that ability!

"Dad, I'll tell you the truth. Since the last time I injured my head, I have felt that my head hurts at every turn for more than a month, and I can't read at all. I have a headache when I read a book, and I can't continue to participate in the scientific expedition if I continue like this. ”

"You, still have a wound in your head? Then why didn't your fifth uncle say it? Don't you say you're lying to your father! Zhang Youde was a little disbelieving and asked with a frown.

"Dad, have you ever seen me read these days? I didn't even move my pen and ink. ”

"You go down first and pack up the things on the table!" Zhang Youde took his big cigarette pouch, lit it, sat on the chair and smoked it. It can be seen that he is really angry at this moment, alas, just such a precious son, who originally pointed to him to get ahead in reading, but now looking at this situation, I am afraid it is difficult.

The old man took two puffs of his cigarette and stopped and asked, "Ajie, tell me the truth, what the hell is going on, your recent changes are indeed a bit big." In the past, although you also learned two kung fu from others, it was just a showmanship, which I can still see. But a while ago, Da Niu told me that you killed all those bandits. I just pretended not to know and didn't think to ask, but today you made this request, I don't understand?! ”

"Dad, do you think it's useful for your son to study so seriously? Now that the court is in charge of treachery, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, even if I read well, what's the use? I am self-aware, although I have passed the Xiucai level, but I am really not sure about lifting people, let alone going to the Jinshi exam again. It used to be better, but over the years, how many of the people who won the emperor list had no background like us? Even if it's a qiē shun lì, and finally you were admitted to the Jinshi, it doesn't matter which corner of the six yamen you throw away, what is the future? Without money and no way, it is impossible to have a chance to get ahead. ”

"Then you want to donate officials, this is not the right way. Well? Do you want to learn from the county order to be a corrupt official, wantonly loot the people's fat and ointment, and then buy officials for promotion? Sue you, Dad would rather you be an ordinary person than you go to buy an official and be a corrupt official and harm the people. Zhang Youde seemed to think of something, and suddenly raised his head and said with a stern face.

"Dad, where do you want to go, my son has read the sage books for so many years, how can he do such a thing and shame the ancestors, I'm afraid the clan elders won't let us enter the ancestral tomb!"

"If you know, it's good." Zhang Youde nodded, fortunately, his son is not unreasonable. "But Ajie, Dad told you the truth, our family really can't take out so much silver, if you really want to be an official, it's barely enough for you to be a county official, but after a few years, you don't have the money to bribe Shangguan, don't you still have to be dismissed and go home."

Zhang Renjie didn't stand at this time, sat down and took a sip of tea and said, "Dad, I didn't say that I would donate now, I have a way to get money, so you don't have to go to the gate." It's just that I need some help from you at the beginning. ”

"It's not up to you to do what you want to do, from childhood to adulthood, how many of your requests have not been agreed to? Say, while my old bones can still move, I can help you for a while. I can't tell when my father buried the old bones in the loess, but there will be no one to help you anymore, alas, Renyi, this kid has a hard life, and he was killed by the damn bandits after just over half a year after he came back, otherwise with him, you can be a lot easier! Zhang Youde suddenly thought of Zhang Renyi again, and felt very sorry for entrusting his younger brother, sighing, and his expression was very depressed.

"Dad, I'm going to hold a group exercise first." Zhang Renjie said seriously.

"What are you doing here! Are you a scholar, and you really want to dance with those rough guys in the future? ”

Since the ** War of 1840, on the one hand, the Qing Dynasty has been invaded and plundered by foreign powers, and it has been trapped deeper and deeper; On the other hand, all kinds of internal rebellions continued, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was only the largest wave, and the Qing court faced continuous people's struggles, and those Eight Banners and Green Battalions, which were backwardly equipped, unprepared, not strict in governing the army, and had the best camp style, suppressed the people's struggle to maintain the decadent and declining feudal system.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they had to start using local armed forces. The Qing government ordered all localities to set up group exercises, and at that time, there was a phenomenon that group drills were called "militia groups". After Xianfeng, the regimental training was also called "people's regiment" and "township regiment". After the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the armed forces of the regimental training or militia groups in various places were weakened in different ways due to the return of regimental members to the peasants or financial constraints after the end of the war, but most of them retained the institutional setup and management functions of the regimental defense bureau, that is, the rural regimental defense system has continued as a whole. During the Taiping Rebellion, the grassroots rulers who were mainly landlords and gentlemen recruited and trained personnel, and the more famous ones were the Xiang army of Zeng Guo and the Huai army of Li Hongzhang. Even now, the only teams that the Great Qing Kingdom can pull out to fight are these two teams.

"Dad, what you say is biased, don't look down on the militia, Zeng Wenzhenggong and Li Zhongtang of the DPRK founded the Hunan Army and the Huai Army respectively and based on the temple, and they are both extremely popular ministers. Now the world is not peaceful, bandits are numerous, and foreigners have to bully our Qing Dynasty from time to time, so it is the right way to put pen to paper. The son also wants to take this road, not to be like Zeng Wenzhenggong and Li Zhongtang, but to be loyal to the country to show the true colors of a man, father! ”

Zhang Youde is not a person who eats the ancients, he has never seen anything in his life, and now he looks at the earrings like this, and his attitude is firm. "You have to think about it, it is not easy to join the army, whether it is in the army or politics, as long as you step into the officialdom, it is a big quagmire. Originally, my father just wanted you to study seriously and live a good life, but if you want to take this road, alas, you come with me! ”