Mao Bijiang and Wu Weiye couldn't pull their faces to be officials, and they had been messing around in Susong Changhu Lake for a long time, and they were comfortable traveling all day long.

With the interest of mountains and rivers, a number of excellent poems came out, creating a greater fame for them. . .

Wu Weiye's "Plum Village Style" took shape in advance, which was developed from Bai Juyi's "Changqing Style" and incorporated into Li Shangyin's style. It emphasizes sound rhythm, likes to use diction, has a turbulent structure, colorful rhetoric, and is mainly narrative, and often responds to and criticizes real problems.

At the beginning of this year, Wu Weiye wrote a song "Jiangzuo Song", which aroused enthusiastic responses in the Jiangnan area.

The cause was the third division of clans triggered by the Quzhou case, and a large number of Jiangnan clans were forcibly divided. Without giving any compensation, the imperial court took back the land of these great clans and forced the children of the great clans to move to Henan and Shandong to settle down and divide the land.

The imperial court had an order, and the magistrates did not dare to slack off, and the specific implementation inevitably appeared rude, which also caused many contradictions and tragedies.

Wu Weiye's "Jiangzuo Song" describes a love story. Men and women who are not in the right household, because of their admiration for each other, finally make a marriage contract after difficulties, and obtain the approval of both parents. The government suddenly wanted to move into clans, and the magistrate took the opportunity to encroach on the man's property. The man had a quarrel with the government, was thrown into prison, and was exiled to Taiwan on charges of disobeying the emperor's order.

The woman escaped from her home and went to Yangzhou, the provincial capital, to cry out for grievances, but the Yangzhou judicial yamen did not accept the complaint and asked the woman to go back to Suzhou to fight a lawsuit. The woman returned to Suzhou, sued to no avail, and wanted to crash to death outside the big court in order to attract attention. Fortunately, the rescue was timely and she did not die, but she was ashamed of her family, after all, she had not passed the door.

This story is not made up by Wu Weiye, but a real case that really happened.

The integrity inspector began to pay attention to the case when the woman committed suicide by hitting the wall. It was not until Wu Weiye's "Jiang Zuo Song" came out that the investigation of the case had just ended, and the officials who took the opportunity to seize the property of the big clan were beheaded, and the officials of the judicial and clean government departments who were on the corpse were dismissed.

Obviously, it is a clean government inspector who is conscientious and does his duty to eliminate harm for the people, but the time is too coincidental, and the people attribute this to "Jiang Zuo Song".

Wu Weiye's popular popularity in Jiangnan reached its peak as a result, and the Datong government became a complete villain.

In fact, except for the guy who took the opportunity to seize the property, the other officials who were dealt with felt wronged. They were reluctant to come out to take care of things, because they were afraid of delaying the emperor's policy of separating ethnic groups, and when the time came, they would be "beaten on the board" after being traced.

Wu Weiye couldn't get along in Suzhou, and the local officials hated him to the core, so they invited Mao Bijiang to Nanjing to do "Beijing Drifting" together.

When the two arrived in Nanjing, they were warmly welcomed by the celebrities and gentry, and they were invited to participate in the cultural meeting every once in a while.

Booksellers also like to ask Wu Weiye to write a preface, and the pen polishing fee is often ten or twenty taels, and they can live without worry by relying on this livelihood.

In this regard, Emperor Zhao heard a little about it, and said something that the female official couldn't understand: "Wu Meicun, Wu Meicun, "Round Song" is definitely gone. Crying and crying, the six armies are all vegetarian, and Chong Guan is angry and red-faced, this poem is better not to appear. ”

"Great victory, great victory, great victory on the front line!"

Wu Weiye and Mao Bijiang have been coming to Nanjing for two months, and they are having a banquet in a restaurant at this time, when they suddenly hear the voices of people on the street.

Mao Bijiang pushed open the window on the second floor, only to see a horse galloping by, waving the good news in his hand and shouting: "General Wang Tingchen, led the Datong Iron Horse out of the fortress, annihilated 20,000 Tartar elites (slightly exaggerated), beheaded the Tartar puppet Wang Haoge, and captured countless livestock, population, war horses, and goods...... The two generals, Xiao Zongxian and Hu Dinggui, led their troops to conquer western Liaoning, fought successive victories, and recovered Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Yizhou, Shanhaiguan ......"

Wu Weiye was stunned, then slapped the chopsticks on the table, picked up the wine glass and laughed: "Ning Jin and Shanhaiguan have finally been recovered." Gentlemen, drink this cup bitterly, and wish the king to recover the entire Liaodong! ”

Mao Bijiang was also very happy, turned around and picked up the wine glass and said, "Congratulations to the soldiers who fought bloodily!" ”

A group of literati raised their glasses and drank bitterly, and laughter and laughter were endless.

They are all former Ming scholars who have not been officials, and they are usually full of complaints, and they are very unaccustomed to the Datong court. The imperial examination has not been completely resumed, and the three relocations of the clans before and after have made them scold the emperor for being mediocre when they are drunk.

But on the other hand, they admired the emperor's generosity.

Someone drunk and scolded the emperor in the restaurant, which alarmed the street patrol police, and was arrested and taken to a prison for detention pending trial. The judge didn't know what to say, and after reporting it layer by layer, Emperor Zhao smiled casually: "A few poor and sour drunken words, don't make a fuss, and let them go." ”

This great victory in Hebei, Shaanxi, Liaodong, and Liaoxi made the poor literati proud. I opened my mouth and closed my mouth and said, my Datong soldiers are flourishing, and the Tartars are just clowns who jump off the beam, and sooner or later they will be able to restore the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties!

"Bang bang bang!"

In the city of Nanjing, there was the sound of crackling firecrackers.

In particular, trading companies involved in northern business have long been preparing firecrackers. The more territory the Datong Army regained, the easier their business became. Moreover, with the enrichment of immigrants to the north, there are unlimited business opportunities in it, and many businessmen have become rich in recent years.

"Meicun is famous in all directions, it is better for Meicun to take the lead, and we will jointly ask Your Majesty to resume the imperial examination." Shi Kecheng put down his wine glass and said.

Shi Kecheng is Shi Kefa's cousin, who returned to Li Zicheng in his hometown of Kaifeng, and then surrendered to the Manchu Qing in Kaifeng. When the Datong army besieged Shangqiu, the goods fled to Shangqiu and wanted to defect to Emperor Zhao, but there were too many chaotic soldiers who did not succeed, and they hid in the mountains halfway and survived.

As for Shangshu's request for the resumption of the imperial examination, it has to come once a year, and Zhao Han is too lazy to pay attention to it.

Wu Weiye shook his head and said: "Your Majesty has his own arrangements for the resumption of the imperial examination, and it is useless for me to wait for more." ”

"Mei Cun's words are wrong," Mao Bijiang said, "Ming Taizu also abolished the imperial examination, but without the imperial examination to elect officials, it must be full of evils." Ming Taizu was also aware of this situation, so he ordered the resumption of the imperial examination. Now that corruption cases have been exposed in various places, in the long run, the current saints will also think about resuming the imperial examination. We and other scholars insist on going up and down every year, which is also a step for Your Majesty to resume the imperial examination. ”

"Well said, we should persevere!" Tian Younian praised.

This Tian Younian has the same name as this year's minister, Tian Younian. But this field is not another field.

In front of him, Tian Younian is a native of Anhui, and the fifth Jinshi in the second class in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in history. He and his younger brother Tian Fengnian specialized in the study of Mao's poetry, and he was also one of the initiators of the Qing Dynasty's examination school.

Wu Weiye shook his head and said: "Ming Taizu abolished the imperial examination and wanted to recruit talents in the Guozijian, how could the small Guozijian recruit talents from all over the world?" Today, His Majesty has set up primary schools, secondary schools, and universities. It also opened up a system for selecting officials at all levels, and those who passed the examination could become reserve officials. Reserve officials, do not take the money to observe the government for half a year, familiar with the case work, can be turned into a formal official. He also set the rules for examination at all levels and promoted them according to the step, so that all local officials could govern the government and sweep away the mediocrity of officials in the late Ming Dynasty. ”

"Otherwise," Mao said, "if this method is used for a long time, the selection of officials regardless of their origins will inevitably lead to many evils." There are already many fraudsters among the officials of a county, who can pass the examination and who cannot pass the examination, and the newly elected officials are filled with a large number of mediocre people. This year, the anti-corruption inspectors found a major case in Rugao. There is a former Ming Xiucai, during the period when he was the chief of the Rugao County Officials, thirty percent of the Rugao officials who were admitted in those two years were his relatives and friends. Some people don't even know a few big characters, and they all rely on him secretly changing the answer sheet to get in. The clerks of a county are like this, what about the world? ”

"Indeed, the drawbacks have been revealed, and it is imperative to resume the imperial examination!" Shi Kecheng clapped his hands.

"Bang bang bang!"

Suddenly, someone banged on the door, and it was very fast.

The door opened, and Xu Lianggong rushed in: "Everyone, something is wrong!" ”

Xu Lianggong is Xu Xiake's nephew, who died this year in history, and the house slave rebelled and killed him. This goods have long been relocated by the clan, the new family address is in Shandong, he thinks that Shandong is too withered after the war, so he took his wife and children to do "Beijing drifting" in Nanjing for a long time.

"Why are you so flustered?" Wu Weiye asked.

Xu Lianggong spread out a piece of paper, and the ink was still dry: "I copied a copy of the notice posted today, and the court redefined the rank of officials." The officials continued the previous Ming Dynasty, and they were still nine grades and eighteen grades, and the officials were changed to six grades and twelve grades. The clerks of the town were the lowest from the sixth rank. When I arrived at the county office, the section chiefs were third-class officials. ”

This is nothing, the scribes of the Ming Dynasty also have ranks.

Everyone looked around the notice, and gradually showed surprise, because it faintly revealed the information of the imperial examination.

Perhaps because of the serious cheating in the selection of officials in various places, the Datong Imperial Court made stricter regulations.

For the Preparatory Clerk's Examination, you must take the Elementary School Leaving Certificate. In other words, if you don't have a primary school diploma, you won't even be qualified to be a preparatory clerk in the future. At the same time, from the third class, can work in the county. Third-class officials and above, that is, the county government section chief or above, must abide by the principle of non-local transfer.

It is also stipulated that those who hold a high school diploma can take the preparatory official examination and be directly designated as a third-class official or directly serve as a junior official from the bottom of the ninth rank when they become regular.

"Alas," Wu Weiye sighed, "Your Majesty's thoughts are undoubtedly revealed in this notice. In the future, even if the imperial examination is resumed, I am afraid that we will have to hold a university graduation certificate, and our fame in the former Ming Dynasty will definitely not count. ”

"Your Majesty is confused!" Mao Bijiang couldn't help but blurt out.

No one stopped it, it didn't matter if he scolded the emperor in private, and the government wouldn't care if he knew about it.

Shi Kecheng stood up suddenly: "Gentlemen say goodbye, I will return to Henan tomorrow." ”

"I wish you all the best in your journey!" Everyone arched their hands and said.

The notice said that Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, and other places, because the construction of primary schools is not yet perfect, temporarily follow the previous method of selecting officials.

Shi Kecheng used to disdain to be an official, but now he wants to hurry home, and while he hasn't been stuck, he will be a clerk first. If there is any further hesitation, there will be no more officials in the future!

There is more than one person who has this idea, and even the children of the big clans in the south took the initiative to apply for immigration to the north, just because they wanted to go to the north to be officials.

A group of cheap bones, toast without eating and drinking!

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