Now is the time of the New Year's Festival, and the world's most prosperous Lin'an City is a gloomy fog. In the past, when the New Year was approaching, the streets and alleys inside and outside Lin'an City should be crowded. Isn't the one with all the shops along the street full of customers? In the days before the New Year's Festival alone, there is no thousands of accounts, who is embarrassed to say that they are trading in Lin'an?

Even if you carry a basket to get some home-grown candied cold vegetables or all kinds of small things to play with, and sell them along the street, you can earn half a year's expenses after a New Year's Festival.

This is Lin'an, not the richest city in China but the richest city in the world, there is no one! There is the world's finest silk, the world's finest porcelain, the world's finest paper, a wide variety of handmade products, and a wide variety of delicacies. Of course, there are countless beauties with beautiful looks and elegant temperaments, like fairies in the sky. There are also countless gentle, elegant, full-fledged, and talented scholars.

The new year was supposed to be the year of the Spring Festival, and the talents of the entire Jiangnan would gather in Lin'an. After the New Year's Festival, it is the Spring Festival, first the Ministry of Rites Examination, and then the Palace Examination, and the best talents of 500 to 600 articles will get the honor of roll call outside the Donghua Gate.

After high school, it is to give a banquet to Fengle Building, and to insert golden flowers on the royal street. I really don't know how many beautiful women will be fascinated by such a good man, and they are willing to paste a large amount of dowry money to ask for a hand in hand with the king - the Jinshi of the Song Dynasty made money by marrying wives, and when they won the Jinshi, they were immediately rich and handsome, short and handsome, or short and rich.

But now...... Oh, it seems that the talented people have also arrived in Lin'an, a lot more than in previous years. But these talents have lost their former passionate words. The heroic ambition of pointing the country, the kind of suave celebrity temperament is completely gone. Instead. Only lost souls. Even the talented people who are mixed in the green building tiles are full of sadness. It seems that they are all works after the Southern Tang Dynasty Li Houzhu was arrested and sent to Bianliang. The kind that makes you cry when you hear it!

There are also some talented people who gather in the original place of Taixue Guozijian when they have nothing to do, that is, Yue Fei's former residence. Most of them brought some wine and food, borrowed wine there to drown their sorrows, and sang sadly about wine. When you drink to the place of sadness, you will even cry loudly.

During the Chinese New Year, you can hear the crying of Jiangnan talents from time to time on this Lin'an Street. This crying should be from the heart, not only crying for Da Song, but also crying for themselves. The Great Song Dynasty is dying! Instead, the Ming Dynasty did not engage in imperial examinations, although there was also a system of recruiting officials by examination. But those who were released were all sent by the first level of officials. But what makes these talented people feel even more sad is that the foundation of their ancestors - the land, is about to be unable to be saved!

The scholars who are now gathered in Lin'an are all members of the Liangzhejiang Yimen, and most of their families have participated in the regimental training. I originally wanted to use the knife handle in my hand to confront the Ming Dynasty and talk about conditions, but I didn't expect the other party to eat this set at all! Those regimental training troops are also useless, and there is no one who will not be defeated against the sergeants, and they are not vulnerable at all! And the Ming army, which won the war, also had to be unforgiving, and it is said that it has destroyed several Yimen clans.

Extermination! It's a real killing. Who would dare to stay in their hometown? So they all rolled up one after another, took their families, and fled to Lin'an City like a lost dog under the protection of the most intimate regimental training soldiers. I always feel that there is Jia Nidao in this Lin'an City. There are still many regiments and elite soldiers, and the city is also strong, and it can always be defended.

But no one thought of it. Lin'an is actually a city of sorrow. The city is full of exiles from all over the world, inns, temples, Taoist temples, and vacant government offices and treasury in the city. Except for the Imperial Palace, there is a place where people can live. They were all crowded with soldiers who had fled. Even most of the houses in Taixue Guozijian, where the big guys gathered and drank stuffy, also arranged for scholars from Taizhou, many of whom were relatives of Jia Yidao. Therefore, the news is more psychic, and everyone will gather here to drink and inquire about the news.

In fact, I just heard where Chen Dexing's army fought? I guess I still have a few days to live! Before coming to Lin'an, the big guy still had a little fantasy. But when I went to Lin'an, I knew that there was no help.

Not to mention anything else, even for the current price level of Lin'an City, I also know that Lin'an City can't hold it. Lin'an Mansion is an industrial and commercial capital, with a population of more than one million, and the little land outside the city is only enough to grow some fruits and vegetables, and then plant some mulberry trees for raising silkworms. The kind of white rice that runs two or three times through one stone has always been transported from other places. This Lin'an is a place where handicraft products are exported, grain, meat and various handicraft raw materials are imported.

But now, the grain road is not very smooth, not to mention cut off, and the road of handicraft products is completely interrupted because of Chen Dexing's ban on the sea and smuggling! On the one hand, hundreds of thousands of handicraftsmen in the city lost their jobs, and on the other hand, the price of grain and rice skyrocketed. The life of the people has long been extremely difficult. Now hundreds of thousands of regimental training troops and soldiers from other places have poured in all at once. Not only is accommodation a problem, but the daily food is consumed in the foundation of Anseong's storage. The less materials are stored, the higher the price of goods in Lin'an City!

Oh, it's not all expensive, what silk, porcelain, lacquerware, paper, books and other things produced in Lin'an City, are not cheap, they are simply jumping off the building and selling in tears!

Looking at the faces of those shopkeepers and guys, and the fact that they glanced at the Qiantang River from time to time, I knew that they had long been eager to see through the Ming Wangshi!

However, it is not surprising that these Lin'an people look south to the king, because their lives are almost unbearable! Their livelihood is almost extinct, but the firewood, rice, oil and salt in Lin'an City are all expensive, and they are also consuming their old foundation these days, if Chen Dexing's army does not come again, they will probably go bankrupt, and after bankruptcy, are they not going to starve to death?

Their way out, after thinking about it, can only ask Chen Dexing to come in quickly.

And those righteous disciples and family members from other places are not consuming their limited family resources? They can't count on the ten thousand acres and two fields in their hometown, they can only live on the softness they bring with them! With the current prices in Lin'an, how long can the belongings they bring last? When the money runs out, how will everyone live?

But what everyone is most afraid of at the moment is not this, now Chen Dexing, the thief, has slaughtered several Yimen clans. In case this day the killer star also comes to Lin'an, everyone will have to suffer without words!

Now that the qi is exhausted, I am afraid that it is not only the Great Song Dynasty, but also the righteous families of these two or three thousand families in the south of the Yangtze River!

But what can you do when you run out of gas? What else can these merry men do except make poems full of bleakness and sadness?

You can also be a soldier! You can also pick up arms and fight!

This is Jia Yidao's opinion, and it is probably the last fight between him and the Jiangnan scholars.

Chen Dexing's butcher's knife seems to be about to fall, aren't the Jiangnan scholars still working hard to join the army to protect themselves?

But...... It's unheard of to show off being a soldier!

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, everywhere where the sergeants of Lin'an City gathered, recruitment notices were suddenly posted in conspicuous positions. It is a notice of the two Zhejiang pacification and establishment of the Yamen, and the content is to call on the two Zhejiang scholars to put pen to paper!

This time it's not a regimental exercise, it's a soldier! Be a glorious soldier who defends the Great Song Dynasty!

This is really a bit ridiculous, dignified talents, scholars, most of them are still from righteous families, and they are the pillars of Jiangnan Shilin, how can they be soldiers?

In the Great Song Dynasty, Mo said that he was a soldier, he was a dignified general, and he was also the object of contempt for scholars and scholars. Vulgar martial arts, that's what I'm talking about. As for the soldiers...... That's not even a human being.

This Jia seems to be Daoist Master Jia actually called on the scholar to become a soldier, probably also in a hurry, right?

Outside the gate of the Guozijian, more and more scholars gathered, and the voices of discussion became louder and louder.

"Xiucai is a soldier!? What kind of world is this? Co-author, let's read the book of sages just to be a big soldier? ”

"It's just a matter of being a soldier, being a soldier...... We don't have the strength to do this! ”

"Yes, we have all been concentrating on reading only the books of sages for so many years, who would have thought that we would have today?"

"Alas! How could it not have been thought of? We are not scholars born in Chengping......"

"But...... After all, we are readers! ”

"But this time, Chen Thief just can't get along with us scholars!"

"What should I do? Could it be true that we scholars who are powerless should become soldiers to protect ourselves? ”

"How can we scholars do such a vulgar thing?"

"If you don't do it, what will happen to us as soon as the Chen thief soldiers arrive?"

After the showmen talked about it, they suddenly fell silent, because they didn't know what to say. Soldiers, they should never be the ones who should not be. This is the mindset of 300 years -- the so-called "others have a sword, but I have a pen like a knife". Scholars have their own pen like a knife, and they don't need to practice martial arts and swords, let alone be a soldier to defend the country.

But now Chen Dexing has not embarrassed the ordinary people in Jiangnan, and even the wealthy businessmen are not the target of the Ming army's robbery. What the Ming army wants to rectify seems to be these soldiers who write like knives!

But can a pen like a knife deal with the big horizontal knife of the Ming army? No matter how good the article is, can you retire a million soldiers of the Ming Army? Not to mention the retreat of the Ming Army, it is to unite the hearts of the people in Lin'an City, and I am afraid it is not a matter of a few articles.

The population in Lin'an City is increasing, food is getting scarcer, and prices are getting more and more expensive. This person's heart has begun to fluctuate, Jia Rudao doesn't even dare to recruit Lin Anzi as a soldier, and even the regimental training feels unreliable - these regimental training has nothing here in the Great Song Dynasty, and if you go to Daming, you can still be a soldier and get a hundred acres of land! After thinking about it, Jia Rudao still felt that the righteous scholars who took refuge in the city were the most reliable, so he had the "absurd idea" of showing off his talents to become soldiers. (To be continued......)