Chapter 17: Before the Temple Examination (I)

Although the turmoil between the DPRK and Chinese officials is related to Lin Pingzhi's future, it cannot actually affect our bitter bamboo talent for the time being.

Because after the exam, the next step is the most important and glorious Son of Heaven Hall test in the Ming Empire of this time and space.

The Ming Dynasty Tianzi Palace Examination in this time and space, like the Ming Dynasty in the history of the previous life of the ontology in Lin Pingzhi's memory, was an exam that was personally written by the Son of Heaven of the Zhu family, and personally inspected the exam, but because of the changes in time and space in the universe, the questions were different, but the form was the same.

At the same time, this is also the first time in their lives that most of the high-level intellectuals of the Ming Empire in this time and space will meet their monarch.

Therefore, after a short period of celebration, the people who passed the examination went back to their homes to prepare, striving to leave a good impression on the saints of today when they met the king in the temple.

Of course, these lifters, who are about to leap into the sky at one time, are still a little more relaxed than the tense atmosphere when they participated in the examination before.

After all, according to the rules, since the establishment of the imperial examination, there is no saying that the palace examination will not pass, even if the last person in the palace examination is born in the third class of the jinshi, he can get a fellow jinshi background. To be able to come to this point, the biggest threshold of the future career officialdom has been crossed by them, and there is no saying that the palace examination has not passed since the establishment of the imperial examination.

"Alas, Childe, what a pity!"

Just on behalf of Lin Pingzhi, he sent away a scholar Sijiu from a low-level official in Donglin of the Ministry of Rites, and said to Lin Pingzhi who was sitting in the courtyard with a resentful face.

"The eunuch party controls the government, when will there be a son, and there will be a way out of Donglin Zhengdao!"

As a scholar who followed Donglin and entered Lin Pingzhi and studied for several years, Sijiu naturally stood on the side of the Donglin Party.

As mentioned before, Donglin Juzi, who went to Beijing to take the exam this time, is not only Lin Ping, but he is the most famous.

Because a certain high-level Donglin in the Beijing Division has not yet started, the plan that has already ended, this time in the rush to take the exam, the number of students from Donglin accounted for the vast majority, and the connotation of nearly a generation of people lurking after the eunuch party gained power was once revealed.

However, except for Lin Ping, who was famous and lost his future because of his involvement with the clan lord, almost all of the Donglin Juzi above the ninth level did not pass the examination controlled by the senior officials of the Eunuch Party throughout the whole process, which dealt a big blow to the momentum of the Donglin Party.

In the past few days after the end of the examination, the Donglin Party officials in the court of Beijing have constantly sent their own people to appease these people, after all, these Donglin people with meritorious achievements are all local landlords and celebrities, and they are the real foundation for the Donglin forces to control the southeast coast and spread throughout the country, and the top level of the Donglin Party does not dare to let these people return cold.

Although Lin Pingzhi was moved, in the eyes of Donglin's high-level officials, he who fell for the rumors and poisonous tricks of the eunuch party was the person who lost the most after their plan failed this time, and others could continue to refer to it later, but Lin Pingzhi never had a chance again.

In addition, Lin Pingzhi's teacher, Gu Dazhang, who is a veteran of the Donglin Party, naturally came to personally appease and encourage.

And unlike the resentment of his scholar's words, Lin Pingzhi in the courtyard of the Beijing Dart Bureau lowered his head, holding a volume of "The Mean" and reading calmly, and after hearing his scholar's complaints, he whispered indifferently.

"There's nothing to be sorry for, Forty-Nine!"

"The current Donglin Righteous Path is barely considered to be the right path, but in a few years, it may not be the same!"

If it were someone else, saying that Donglin might not be the right way in the future, the scholar Sijiu would have stepped forward to theorize in person, but Lin Pingzhi said differently.

After following Lin Pingzhi for a few years, what scholar Sijiu admired most was that his own young master was able to learn, because whether in reality or in theory, the current situation judged by his own young master Lin Pingzhi and the conclusions he said have never been unconfirmed.

He hurriedly walked to his young master's side and asked in surprise.

"Oh?"

"Young master, isn't Confucianism Donglin in the future the right way?"

"Alas, there are already signs of getting out of control!"

Lin Ping sighed, after all, he is from later generations, the incarnation of Hong Tiangui, the great savior of the people of the world, and he is well versed in the later prosperous era of Taipingism, and countless historians have the confidence to evaluate the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty of the East, and he naturally has the confidence and ability to stand at a certain height to make speeches.

"After the great righteousness of the former Song Dynasty and the Confucian Song Dynasty and the treasure of Wendao Wenquxing, after being destroyed by Kublai Khan, the supreme Khan of the Blue Wolf Great Yuan, the Confucian literati of my Ming Dynasty are not as good as the generation!"

"Because of the ban on the sea of the previous generations of emperors, the Confucian Donglin Party members before the generation of my division commander Gu Dazhang were okay, most of them were born from small landlords and peasant families, they sarcastically discussed the government and commented on the officials, they demanded honesty and integrity, revitalized the rule of officials, opened the way of speech, eliminated the accumulated evils of the government and the opposition, and opposed the corruption and perversion of the law by the powerful."

"Although the ideology is full of idealism, and the serious means of governance are relatively weak, but when generalized, the vast majority of them can be regarded as good officials who are close to the people and love the people!"

"However, after the succession to the throne and the eunuch party came to power, everything changed."

"That group of eunuchs, in order to make money, dare to do anything, suppress loyal officials, and make the sea ban decree enforced along the coast look like a waste, resulting in a prosperous smuggling at sea in many provinces on the southeast coast where Donglin's forces are concentrated!"

"In order to protect the government and business, a large number of maritime businessmen joined Donglin."

"Of course, this has brought a lot of financial and human support to the Donglin Party, but the atmosphere of Donglin has also been infected by the legitimate or improper atmosphere of those businessmen, and it is no longer so pure!"

In the history books of later generations, it is clearly recorded that in June of next year, in order to maintain his health after falling into the water, he overdosed on "Linglu Drink", resulting in a sudden death.

The Donglin Party forces immediately launched the "Eunuch Eradication Plan", but the Eunuch Party desperately fought back, including Lin Pingzhi's own teacher Gu Dazhang, a large number of older generations of Donglin veterans and officials fell in batches, which directly led to the fault line in the Donglin Party.

And after the eunuch party finished killing the Donglin party and won a crushing victory, he was recuperated for a long time, and Chongzhen, who ascended to the throne, grabbed the handle and was easily eliminated.

After the Emperor Chongzhen took power, the children of the maritime merchants who flourished united with some of the so-called descendants of Donglin to establish the "Fushe".

"Fushe" is known as the successor of Donglin, stole the legal system of Donglin, and entered the court by virtue of Donglin's reputation, and was known as the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty at its peak! As a result, there is a reputation and no ability, and in addition to the fact that this group of people interfered in the salt politics for the sake of interests, it directly led to the later deep-rooted salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty colluding with foreign enemies to govern a huge Chinese dynasty and destroy the world again······

In these normal histories, the things that are about to happen in this time and space, although Lin Pingzhi knows it, he has never spread it, and the scholar Sijiu naturally does not know these core secrets.

However, Lin Pingzhi's move of being a businessman's son is infecting Donglin with an exaggerated atmosphere, but it makes Sijiu, a scholar who thinks he is half a Donglin scholar, feel the same way.

In the days when he followed Lin Pingzhi to Beijing to participate in the examination, the scholar Sijiu heard that he came from a certain southeast maritime merchant family, known as the son of Donglin, who was born in Donglin, and wantonly squandered gold and silver.

In ancient times, merchants were a lowly profession in their own right.

There was a reason why the feudal agrarian society devalued the status of merchants in ancient China, of course, I won't go into detail here.

The Lin family, who made such a big business dart game and was still a member of the martial arts, was occasionally burdened by this reputation before Lin Pingzhi's literary name was widely spread, not to mention those maritime merchants who had already relied on gray smuggling.

Maybe a small amount is harmless, but if they enter the Donglin Party in large numbers, then the atmosphere maintained by the older generation of Donglin will be corrupted.

"Alright, Forty-Nine!"

"Don't think about it so much, the elders in the Eastern Forest, such as my teacher, have already sensed this kind of atmosphere, as long as their group of elders are still there, this atmosphere won't blow for long!"

It's just a pity that they will soon be gone!

Lin Pingzhi didn't say the last sentence above, just stood up and walked into the wing room in the courtyard under the reverent gaze of scholar Sijiu.

I'm going to have an early rest today.

Tomorrow, it's time to meet the Son of Heaven and participate in the palace exam······