"Rulin Pick-up" Magazine.

Originally a quarterly magazine, the magazine was highly sought after by traditional literati because of its outrageous rhetoric and frequent allusions to imperial court policies. As a result, it was soon changed to a bi-monthly and then a monthly publication.

Judging from sales, in fact, compared to the tabloids that are not listed, ordinary people don't like this kind of thing. But the advantage is that the readership is fixed, the sales have been stable and rising, and the magazine has a lot of die-hard fans. After this newspaper controversy, the sales of "Confucianism" even exceeded the 5,000 mark, and even people in surrounding provinces subscribed.

It can sell 5,000 copies in a single issue, which is already a best-selling publication!

Zhang Tianzhi came over with a manuscript: "Go and play brother, yesterday a Confucian scholar took the initiative to submit, I read it overnight, it was really heartwarming!" ”

"We won't take it." Zhai Wenben reminded.

Zhang Tianzhi said: "This book is different, it is about a certain place in Henan, which has been heirloom for generations, and has built bridges and paved roads, donated funds to run schools, and opened warehouses to help the people. In the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he first encountered thieves, recruited troops to defend the city and serve the country, and the children of the clan were loyal and brave. When the Tartars entered the customs, they scattered their wealth to fight against Houjin, and many of the sons and daughters of the clan died in battle, and many of the women in the clan were martyred. The remnants of the clan finally fled to the south and followed the Datong army back to Henan, and were later divided into clan fields......"

"Wait a minute!"

Zhai Wenben hurriedly stopped: "Are you crazy? Dare to accept this kind of too! ”

Zhang Tianzhi disagreed: "Don't worry, the division of fields is very subtle, and it is not explicitly against the government." If you don't believe it, read it yourself, you don't have much ink on the field, and you won't be guilty of it. ”

"Really not much ink? Show me first. Zhai Wenben didn't dare to be careless.

Zhang Tianzhi specially turned to the part of the field, Zhai Wenben read it carefully, and found that there was not much ink. It is an old squire whose son was martyred and his daughter-in-law who was martyred, because he could not recruit slaves and maids, and he could not recruit tenants, so he could only chop wood and cook by himself, and he had to plough the fields himself when he was over half a hundred years old. In the end, because of the humiliation of the former domestic slaves, the only remaining son passed the imperial examination age, and the old squire committed suicide in discouragement.

Zhai Wenben frowned: "Some dialogues need to be modified, and you can't have a grudge against the new dynasty." The magistrate must also be written as a good person. The bad ones are those house slaves, who share the master's property, and tease and insult the master. This son should not resent the court, and the ending was changed to go to the county to teach. It is also inappropriate for the old squire to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, and it is easy to be targeted by the government, so he was cured by quack doctors for his illness. ”

Zhang Tianzhi was a little unhappy: "If you change it like this, it won't be exciting." ”

Zhai Wenben sighed and said, "Alas, second brother, if you don't change, you will cause trouble." Last year, how many people died in the provinces because of the destruction of Tian Zheng? We oppose the women's imperial examination, no matter how fierce the trouble is, the court will not care. But once Tian Zheng is involved, this newspaper will definitely not be able to run! ”

Zhang Tianzhi did not refute, but he did not agree either. His family was divided into fields, and he himself was too old to take the imperial examination, and he couldn't get used to seeing the former house slaves and not taking himself seriously. This one, he has too much sense of substitution, and he really doesn't want to change a word.

Zhai Wenben persuaded: "Second first brother, my family has also been divided, can't I understand your feelings?" It must be changed, you can't do it, I'll write it. And even if it is changed, readers who can understand it can still understand it and empathize. ”

"Okay, it's up to you to change it." Zhang Tianzhi chose to compromise.

Before Zhang Tianzhi could start writing, partner Li Xun pushed the door in.

Li Xun said happily: "Good news, in today's examination, there is not a single female tribute, and all the women have failed the list." ”

"Great goodness!"

Zhang Tianzhi clapped his hands in admiration, and said: "We should take advantage of the victory to pursue, and write a few more articles to discuss the beginning and end of this examination, and discuss that women are not suitable for the imperial examination to be officials!" Let's write one for each of them, and then ask our friends to write a few more, and choose the best two for the next issue. ”

All three were happy, newspaper sales increased, and there was hope for victory in the debate.

Li Xun said with a smile: "Tonight, I'll go to the Xuanwu Lake Painting Boat to play." Invite famous prostitutes to have fun, you and my brother sing loudly, and when this happy event is a big deal! ”

"It's supposed to be celebrated, I haven't been so happy in the past few years." Zhang Tianzhi said.

There was a sudden commotion outside the house, and soon more than a dozen young people poured in.

The person at the head bowed his hand and said: "In Xia Zhang Xiliang, I have seen all gentlemen. ”

Zhang Tianzhi hurriedly returned the salute, and asked in confusion: "What is this ...... all beings?"

Zhang Xiliang explained: "We are all scholars who have fallen off the list today, and we intend to knock on the que, but there are few people who are in decline. I heard that the three gentlemen were kind and asked for help. Please three gentlemen, contact more unsuccessful scholars, and knock together to ask Your Majesty to increase the number of imperial examinations. ”

A student next to him who failed to make the list immediately helped to elaborate: "Brother Zhang used to be the first in the Hubei Township Examination (Hubei University Graduation Examination), but this time because he ate bad food, diarrhea and fever delayed doing the questions, and he didn't even get into the final list of the exam." ”

Zhang Xiliang said: "It's not for me to knock on the que, there are countless scholars in the world, and there will always be various things that will lead to bad results." And the imperial court only allows each person to take the exam once, which is too unkind! ”

Another student who failed to make the list said: "I am from Guangxi." The Guangxi Township Examination was presided over by Kong Yingtao, President of Guilin University, and jointly invigilated by Sun Mao, a member of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Junen, the imperial history of the Inspectorate, and Bian Tao, a Guangxi judge. Guilin scholars are all rumored, and the questions have been leaked before the exam. There are huge rich people who buy off the invigilators, so that people who do not learn and have no skills have also obtained a graduation certificate from Guilin University and are qualified to come to Nanjing to participate in the examination. And those who are diligent in learning have been seized by the fraudsters in the imperial examination. ”

"Is there really any fraud in the imperial examination?" Zhai Wenben's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"It's true!" The words of Guangxi's failure are conclusive.

Li Xun said: "Tonight, I will make Dongwu wine, and all living beings will go to Xuanwu Lake to drink together, and what is there is in the painting boat to talk about it slowly." ”

……

Zhai Wenben and Zhang Tianzhi were conceited and talented, but they could not participate in the imperial examination because they were too old. Now that the magazine has set off public opinion, they can't help but be a little fluttering, and even privately call themselves "white-clothed imperial history".

The white clothes are the cloth clothes, they are the common people, and they want to act as the imperial history of the people!

At the beginning of March, the palace examination was officially held.

On the same day, "Confucianism" was published. Two of the articles unilaterally declared the victory of the pen war, using "facts" to prove that women are not suitable to be officials in the imperial examination.

These two articles are nothing.

Another article reported that two years ago, Zhang Xiliang, the Hubei Xie Yuan, discussed whether it was reasonable to give Shizi only one examination qualification because of his bad stomach affecting the results of the examination.

There is another article questioning the fraud in last year's Guangxi "Township Examination", and the son of a wealthy businessman got the content of the test paper in advance.

At this moment, the students who will try to fail the list have not yet left Nanjing, waiting for the officials to be assigned to the positions of the last miscellaneous officials. As soon as the report came out, it immediately caused a sensation among the students who fell off the list, and people with good intentions took the opportunity to knock on the list in tandem to ask for their lives.

Just when the new science and technology scholars were in the Donghua Gate, more than 200 unsuccessful students and former Ming scholars were killed outside the Donghua Gate.

In fact, even if there is no such thing, the jinshi are confused.

Because the champion was set in advance, he didn't even participate in the palace examination, nor did he participate in the transmission activities, and I heard that he had gone to the Changlu Salt Field to do errands.

Bangyan and Tanhua were quite embarrassed, from Fengtian Hall to Donghua Gate, the champion seat in front of them had been empty.

Finally went out from the Donghua Gate, and was faced with a black oppressive piece, and more than 200 knocking soldiers knelt there to ask for their lives, blocking the exit of the city gate of the Donghua Gate.

Inside and outside the city gate, the new science and technology jinshi and the students who fell off the list looked at each other.

"Please Your Majesty thoroughly investigate the fraud case of the imperial examination in Guangxi!"

"Please increase the number of imperial examinations and leave a way out for the world's scholars!"

Petitions came one after another, and even won the sympathy of some Jinshi. They also felt that the examination should not be allowed only once, and that fraud in the imperial examination must be strictly investigated.

This battle was very noisy, and the onlookers nearby originally came to see Jinshi riding horses and parade through the streets, but they didn't expect such a big melon to suddenly be killed halfway.

Jinling Mansion Yin was at the scene at the moment, leading an empty horse that belonged to the champion. He felt that he could not suppress it by force, so he hurriedly asked the imperial city guards to report and ask His Majesty the Emperor to make a decision himself.

Yan Yuandian took the first place in the second class in the exam, and he was extremely puzzled: "It is natural to thoroughly investigate the fraud in the imperial examination, but why do these unsuccessful scholars come to ask for an increase in the number of examinations?" Your Majesty has been extraordinarily gracious! ”

Zhao Han has been adjusting, and this time he will try to be more preferential than last time.

At the time of the first examination, if you are admitted to the Jinshi, you can only release the eight-rank official. Among the unsuccessful students, publicly-funded college students can be released as Jiupin officials, and self-funded college students can only go to the provincial government officials.

This time belongs to the second session of the examination, and the adjustment is as follows: Jinshi can be released from the highest seven grades. Unsuccessful students are not divided into public and self-funded, as long as they get a university diploma, they can be released as Jiupin officials. University dropouts have been given priority in being admitted as provincial government officials instead of being able to take the provincial government clerk exam.

Since the students who fail to make the list can be the nine rank officials, why do they have to take the exam again?

If multiple exams are allowed, you will have to wait three years for one test and six years for two tests. If you fail the exam three times in a row, that is, nine years are gone. With those nine years for the exam, it is better to go directly to the ninth rank official, maybe by then it will be promoted to the seventh grade.

Yan Yuan thinks like this, but the students who fall off the list think differently.

They still have the concept of imperial examinations of the former Ming Dynasty, and they feel that only by becoming an official can they have a future. Although the Jinshi at the end of the list, he is only an eighth-grade official, no different from the nine-rank official who is not on the list. But a jinshi is a jinshi, and a failure is a failure, and there will definitely be circles in the future, and there will definitely be academic discrimination in the officialdom. They would rather take the exam for a few more years and have the status of a jinshi.

"Your Majesty is in charge of us! Woowoowoooooooo......oo

There are already students who are crying, and soon there is a wail, this behavior is called "crying and knocking".

Among them, there are also former Ming scholars, who lost their qualifications for the imperial examination because they were too old, and they are also following the bitter cold: "Please Your Majesty resume the township examination and cancel the age limit!" ”

In the first imperial examination, former Ming scholars under the age of 30 were allowed to participate in the township examination.

The second imperial examination was directly canceled, because there were almost no former Ming Xiucai under the age of 30. At the first level of the township examination, all college students participated!

These former scholars came to fish in troubled waters, what if the emperor changed his mind?

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