No. 459 Déjà vu

Bidding farewell to friends of the same age, Wei Dongsheng personally experienced the bitterness and joy of the middle class of the Wei Domain in 1653.

The background of the seventh generation told Wei Dongsheng that in order to alleviate the financial pressure of studying, he found a part-time job in a nearby printing workshop to help with the selection and typesetting. Of course, this part-time job earns very little, and it can't improve the financial hardship of the people who don't make the list. However, Wei Dongsheng needed to buffer time to collect information about Qingdao Mansion and Weihe College, so he simply stayed in the printing workshop for the time being.

The owner of the printing workshop is surnamed Xiao.

The owner of Xiao Fang has no male under his knees, so he has to work hard to cultivate his eldest daughter Xiao Jingxiu.

Compared with the Zhao and Song dynasties, the Wei Xia Empire did not greatly improve the status of women, and the feudal domains still do not allow female students to sit for the proctoring exam. Wei Dongsheng wanted to do his part for women's educational power, and built two girls' schools, Wei He College and Wei Technical College. Unfortunately, it is difficult to improve the general environment with personal efforts, and after the death of the sixth Wei Dongsheng, the two girls' schools gradually became alienated into a social circle of celebrities, and directly ruthlessly eliminated motivated women from the door.

Xiao Jingxiu has the idea of reading, but because she is a woman, she can't take the entrance examination and the invigilator examination, so she can only increase her knowledge through self-study. The owner of Xiao Fang took pity on his daughter's lack of access to school, so he invited several superintendents, including Wei Dongsheng, to accompany Xiao Jingxiu and her daughter in the name of part-time work. Xiao Jingxiu also did not live up to her father's Zhang Luo, a few days ago she found this year's invigilated exam paper mock exam, she was only fifteen years old, and her conservative score was already very close to the admission score of Weihe College. If it weren't for being a woman, Xiao Jingxiu might have been admitted to Weihe Academy or other superintendents.

It's a pity that the Wei clan in 1653 never gave women a chance.

Fortunately, the owner of Xiao Fang did not ignore his daughter, and he has cultivated Xiao Jingxiu as the inheritor of the family business, and encouraged her to actively participate in the trivial affairs of the printing workshop. Xiao Jingxiu is a little older and has reached the rebellious period, and gradually realizes the different powers of men and women, and then especially hates the restrictions imposed on her by the shackles of female identity. Before long, Xiao Jingxiu gave up red makeup, wore men's clothes, and hated to change her name to Xiao Ruonan.

Wei Dongsheng came to the printing workshop, Xiao Jingxiu, or Xiao Ruonan, came heroically: "I heard that you also fell off the list?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Yes. ”

Xiao Ruonan: "Repeat another year? ”

Wei Dongsheng: "There is consideration. ”

Xiao Ruonan gave a thumbs up and encouraged: "Ambitious, much stronger than Cheng Feng." ”

Cheng Feng has the same identity as Wei Dongsheng, and he was also a part-time student in the printing workshop. Cheng Feng is a little older, he is twenty-two years old this year, he has been taking the exam for five years, and he has failed the list for five years. However, Cheng Feng's ability outside of exam-taking education is quite strong, and the owner of Xiao Fang likes him very much, and once wanted to marry Xiao Ruonan to Cheng Feng. However, Xiao Ruonan's heart was higher than the sky, and he ridiculed and resisted Xiao Fang's arrangement: "If I hadn't been born as a woman, I would definitely be among the country's eunuchs, how could he be worthy of me?" ”

The background of the seventh world is set that Wei Dongsheng and Cheng Feng have a familiar friendship, so Wei Dongsheng casually asked: "What's wrong with Cheng Feng?" ”

Xiao Ruonan pouted and said: "He has failed the list for five consecutive years, has no ambition, and wants to drop out of school." ”

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, and Cheng Feng happened to come over. Cheng Feng heard Xiao Ruonan's ridicule, but he was cheeky and disapproving: "It's not that I have no ambition, but I know that everyone has their own strengths." Especially with the comparison of Shaodong (Xiao Ruonan), Cheng had to admit that he really had no talent for reading. Alas, I repeated it for four years, except that my grades improved in the first year, and in the last three years, it got worse and worse every year, so what's the point of repeating it again? Rather than not dying in the heart of the Yellow River, it is better to get rid of the obsession early. ”

Xiao Ruonan was embarrassed to mock Cheng Feng in person, so she simply didn't speak.

Cheng Feng's family did not have much property, and after dropping out of school, he had to find a new livelihood, and he currently stayed in the printing workshop because of the importance of the owner of Xiao Fang. Cheng Feng has been in the printing workshop for a day, Xiao Ruonan is the young owner he can't offend, and he won't be stupid to quarrel with Xiao Ruonan at all. No matter what he thought in his heart, Cheng Fengjun faced Xiao Ruonan's disdain with a frank attitude, and kindly asked Wei Dongsheng about his current situation: "I heard that your score crossed the threshold of Heshu Technical College?" ”

Wei Dongsheng nodded: "Under Wei He, above the tree." ”

Cheng Feng suggested: "If you are not sure of winning, you should go to the interview of Heshu Institute of Technology." I think back then, I was also qualified to participate in the interview of Heshu, but I missed it because I only wanted to supervise the school. Now I regret it, but my score is getting lower and lower year by year, and I am not qualified to go to Heshu. ”

Xiao Ruonan interrupted Cheng Feng and suggested: "Don't listen to him, why don't you take the insulator exam if you can take the exam?" ”

Cheng Feng didn't refute, but he didn't think so.

Xiao Ruonan is the young owner of the printing workshop, and the annual profit of the printing workshop is calculated in hundreds of silver dollars or even thousands of silver dollars, so it is natural to repeat as many years as you want. However, Cheng Feng is a child of a poor family, and his family has exhausted his family's funds after five years of repeating school, and his parents and younger siblings have not eaten meat openly for several years. If the family is strong, who doesn't want to fight to the maximum age limit of 28? But as his parents grow old and his younger siblings grow up, Cheng Feng must shoulder the responsibility he should shoulder.

Cheng Feng also knows Wei Dongsheng's family background, Wei Dongsheng died of his father and mother three years ago, and his inheritance is a little less, how can he be eligible to repeat a year and repeat another year?

Cheng Feng was too lazy to argue with Xiao Ruonan.

Xiao Ruonan, who has no worries about food and clothing, how can he understand the plight of poor students?

Wei Dongsheng has a calm personality, Cheng Feng is used to hiding his words in his heart, and the topic ends without a problem. Wei Dongsheng had his own ideas, considering the weakness of the status of the commoners, Guozijian was still the only choice to break the shackles of the class. But if he wants to go to Jinan Mansion to take next year's proctoring exam, Wei Dongsheng must raise enough tuition and miscellaneous fees, examination fees, and travel expenses within half a year. This money is a heavy burden in the eyes of Cheng Feng and other students, and it is also a barrier for poor families to have no chance to supervise the exam, but it is nothing to Xiao Ruonan, and the net profit of the printing workshop in January can be easily handled.

Of course, Wei Dongsheng is also pessimistic about this fund.

Xiao Ruonan has the support of a printing workshop, and Wei Dongsheng also has the support of seven generations of experience and business skills.

Wei Dongsheng cheated and stole the logo of the printing workshop, and used the credit of the printing workshop and the owner of Xiao Fang to endorse the loan on credit, and buy and resell the goods for profit. In just over a month, Wei Dongsheng quickly earned more than 60 silver dollars in profits, which was infinitely close to the nominal father's three-quarter salary.

Unfortunately, the tuition and fees of the alma mater are as high as 72 silver dollars.

But Wei Dongsheng didn't hang himself on a tree, and since he couldn't calmly earn enough 72 silver dollars in tuition and miscellaneous fees in a short period of time, he simply transferred to another school with a slightly lower tuition and miscellaneous fee to repeat. Wei Dongsheng's self-confidence is based on himself, and the quality of the education conditions does not affect his success.

After a year, Wei Dong's business was expected to be admitted to the prison of the Lu Domain, and he was shocked again.

Compared with the sixth generation, Wei Dongsheng's admission to Guozijian was much less sensational. The sixth nominal father left Wei Dongsheng to a trading house, and after Wei Dongsheng went to Hangzhou Mansion to take the Guozi Supervision Examination, he had to return home to deal with the trivial affairs of the trading house. And the seventh world was destitute and had no worries, Wei Dongsheng simply lived in Jinan Mansion and waited for the result, and friends in Qingdao Mansion were not sure whether Wei Dongsheng was really admitted to Guozijian.

Four years of boring invigilator life, don't mention it.

Fast forward by 1656, and new clouds of war were brewing in the northern part of the empire.

It is said that the Duke of Wei Domain, Mao Shang, died in battle, and the powerful minister Jiang Zhongwei supported his 3-year-old daughter Mao Siyu to inherit the Wei Domain, and made his 4-year-old son Jiang Weimu and Mao Siyu engaged.

In 1647, Mao Siyu was pro-government and tried to win over some loyal ministers to fight against Jiang Zhongwei. Mao Siyu immediately found that she was too naïve, the officials she appointed were set aside by Jiang Zhongwei, and the forces outside the palace that she used her best friends to develop were also brutally suppressed by Jiang Zhongwei. Mao Siyu soon realized that she couldn't fight Jiang Zhongwei at all, and her only way to survive was to marry Jiang Weimou and let her and Jiang Weimu's son inherit the Wei domain.

However, Mao Siyu refused to give in and always refused to marry Jiang Weimou.

Jiang Zhongwei and Jiang Weimu needed Mao Siyu's marriage and bloodline, so they didn't dare to force Mao Siyu with a knife, so they could only communicate with Mao Siyu over and over again.

Mao Siyu rejected the kindness of the Jiang family.

In 1655, Mao Siyu suddenly announced that she had converted to Buddhism, and since then she has escaped into the empty door and never married. However, Mao Siyu can keep herself but can't keep Wei Fan, she compromised privately with Jiang Zhongwei and Jiang Weimu, and publicly stated that her fiancé Jiang Weimu's grandmother is of Mao's bloodline, and she is also a branch of the Mao family; And Jiang Weimu is the man she respects the most, rather than letting her son inherit the Wei Domain, it is better for Jiang Weimu to inherit the Wei Domain directly.

When the news broke, the world was in an uproar.

Mao Siyu certainly praised Jiang Weimu for being so good and good, but who can't feel the coldness covered up by gorgeous rhetoric?

Who doesn't know Jiang Zhongwei's ambitions?

However, Jiang Zhongwei had been in power for a long time, and soon suppressed the opposition within the Wei domain.

However, the surrounding feudal clans had an idea, and felt that Mao Siyu's escape into the empty door was a manifestation of Jiang Zhongwei's inability to control the Wei domain's government. Since there was a disaster in the Wei Domain, he took advantage of his illness to kill him, and quickly concluded the Three Kingdoms Anti-Wei Alliance with the Zhou Domain, the Zhao Domain, and the Yan Domain, which had land disputes with the Wei Domain.

It's a pity that Mao Jiuzhong's Wei Wushu phalanx is still there.

In January 1656, the Wei clan defeated the Zhou clan in a defensive counterattack, forcing the Zhou clan to go it alone and withdraw from the Three Kingdoms Anti-Wei Alliance.

In September 1656, the Wei Domain defeated the Yan Domain in a defensive counterattack, and successively captured Haizhou Mansion, Gaizhou Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Jinzhou Mansion and other places, and took away all the outlets to the sea in the south of the Yan Domain.

In 1658, the Wei clan turned to the Zhao clan in the south and defeated the Zhao clan at Baoding Prefecture.

Three battles and three victories, invincible.

To everyone's surprise, the Wei domain of Jiang Zhongwei's regent turned out to be stronger than the Wei domain led by Mao Shanghe, the "tiger father without a dog son", and the three decisive battles defeated the Three Kingdoms Anti-Wei Alliance, almost reproducing the glory of Mao Jiuzhong's era. It's a pity that both Yan Fan and Zhao Fan are unwilling to admit defeat and continue to fight with Wei Fan in a tug-of-war to prolong the war.

Just when the Northern War of Wei Yan and Zhao was in full swing, Wei Dongsheng successfully graduated from the Zijian of the Wei Domain.

Not long after the graduation of the sixth Wu Domain, Mao Jiuzhong set off a turbulent era; During the study period of the seventh Lu Domain, the Wei Domain made waves under the regency of Jiang Zhongwei, and everything was full of a sense of déjà vu. Can Jiang Zhongwei's regent defend the country and set off a magnificent era?