After finishing morning school, Shen Yichen did not go to the public canteen to eat as soon as possible, but sat at the desk and repaired the "family letter".

His previous promise to Li Da can be described as a swear, but if he really wants to let Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong listen to it, to be honest, he is not sure.

Shen Yichen's biggest reliance at present is the afternoon after the family banquet, Zhu Yong showed his "respect" for himself, as well as the sentence "glory and glory" that can be called not hypocritical.

Since Zhu Yong thinks that becoming stronger will contribute to the prosperity of the Chengguo Gong family, he will inevitably understand the benefits of letting Li Da, a group of military generals, join the army. Especially now that Mongolia is also strong, under the pressure of the border, it will rely more on military generals, and it will not be a bad thing to have more of their own cronies.

In a sense, Shen Yichen deserves the blood of Chengguo Gong, and both of them have a hidden ambition to consolidate power in their hearts.

After the end of the course, Shen Yichen went home alone, and now Zhao Hongjie and others are also used to his "studious" style, and they will not easily pull him to play again if there is no important matter.

However, when he stepped out of the corner gate and came to the alley next to the mansion, Shen Yichen saw Chen Qingtong with the maid Xue'er, looking anxiously left and right.

Seeing Shen Yichen come out, Chen Qingtong showed joy on his face, and trotted over with his skirt all the way.

"Slow down, watch out for the stones under your feet."

I don't know why, I may not have seen him for a long time, but when I suddenly saw Chen Qingtong come out, Shen Yichen also felt a sense of joy in his heart.

"Brother Yichen, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you lately?"

"It's good."

"By the way, and you have passed the county case head, and I have never had a chance to come to you to congratulate you."

"It's okay, isn't it coming now?"

"Now the meaning is different, I should have seen you sooner."

Chen Qingtong seemed to have a lot of things to say to Shen Yichen, and as soon as they met, they kept saying all kinds of things, but when it came to meeting, it was difficult to hide a sense of loss in his tone.

"Brother Yichen, have you heard about the Wako? I overheard my father's conversation with Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, as if the Japanese were attacking Songjiang Mansion, and the soldiers of the Nanzhili Guard Station and the Shenji Battalion had begun to assemble and prepare to go to Songjiang Mansion to assist in the defense. ”

The outer courtyard of the family school has already spread to the boiling matter, not to mention the inner courtyard, for Chen Qingtong, he can already know the specific military deployment.

"I heard that, but it shouldn't be a big deal."

Although Shen Yichen is not sure whether history will change, he really does not believe that a few Japanese robbers in the orthodox period can defeat the foot of Nanjing City.

You must know that even if the Ming Dynasty has decayed during the Wanli period and entered the decline period of the reincarnation of the dynasty, it can still overthrow the invading army of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Korea.

Of course, limited by the amount of information received, everyone cannot be required to have the perspective of Shen Yichen. After all, in ancient times, thieves were like combs, and soldiers were like grates, whether it was a just or unjust war, whether they won or lost, it was the common people who suffered in the end.

With so much history of blood and tears in front of us, it is normal for ordinary people to be worried and afraid of war.

"I heard that the Japanese are very cruel, if something really happens, then Brother Yichen, you will come to the Taining Marquis Mansion for refuge. The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing, the Soldiers and Horses Division of the Five Cities and other soldiers will focus on defense, and they will definitely be fine. ”

Looking at Chen Qingtong's serious appearance, Shen Yichen had to nod and smile: "Well, I know." ”

Just when Chen Qingtong was about to say something more, the maid Xue'er next to him reminded in a whisper: "Miss, the carriage is here, we have to prepare to leave." ”

Facing the maid's urging, Chen Qingtong's expression of loss on her face was even worse, she had to look at Shen Yichen and said, "Brother Yichen, I can't stay outside for a long time, remember what I said, if there is danger, come to the Taining Marquis Mansion." ”

"Qingtong, are you in a hurry?"

Looking at Chen Qingtong's hurried look, Shen Yichen finally couldn't help but ask.

In fact, after that trip to Nanshi Street, Shen Yichen also wanted to find opportunities several times to inquire about Chen Qingtong's current situation.

It's just that he didn't enter the genealogy, the inner courtyard of the Guogong Mansion is a forbidden place for him, and after experiencing the family banquet incident, the relationship between the students in the inner courtyard and Shen Yichen has dropped to the freezing point, and it is not bad if he doesn't deliberately make a stumbling block, how can he help him inquire and ask.

"It's okay, it's just that my father asked me to go back earlier."

"Is it because of my relationship?"

This kind of writing all the things on his face, how could Shen Yichen not be able to see it unless he was blind.

"Why, Brother Yichen, don't think about it."

In order to reassure Shen Yichen, Chen Qingtong squeezed out a reluctant smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Brother Yichen, then I'll go back first, and I'll see you next time."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

After waving goodbye, Chen Qingtong turned around and walked in the direction of the carriage, but her maid Xue'er deliberately slowed down a few steps, and then quietly retreated to Shen Yichen's side and said.

"Shen Gongzi, Xue'er hopes that you can take the dragon mark as soon as possible, so that the young lady will not have to be grounded by the Hou Ye."

Suddenly hearing this, Shen Yichen was still a little unclear, and when he was about to ask for details, Xue'er had already run away to chase Chen Qingtong.

Looking at the backs of the two of them leaving, Shen Yichen stood in place and thought about Xue'er's words, realizing that Chen Qingtong did not appear during this time, but he was grounded by Chen Ying, Marquis of Taining.

And it can also be learned that the reason why Chen Qingtong was grounded was because of himself.

But the question is why did he let her grounded, could it be that Taininghou did not have the open-mindedness on the surface when he traveled together in the southern market that day, and after he went back, he imposed a punishment on Chen Qingtong for not strictly guarding the defense of men and women?

Even so, what does this have to do with his own imperial examination?

I have to say that Shen Yichen is not as sensitive as Taining Hou Chen Ying in terms of the sensitivity of the relationship between men and women. This may also have something to do with the fact that he put all his energy into the imperial examination, after all, it is difficult to use one heart for two purposes.

Back in his small courtyard and sitting in front of the desk, Shen Yichen did not delve into knowledge, but planned to continue to write the "repair book" that he had not finished in the family school before.

In fact, seriously speaking, the content of this letter is not complicated, it is nothing more than asking Chengguo Public Relations to take care of Li Da and help him arrange a good position in the army. And with the relationship between Li Da's father and Zhu Yong's cronies, even if there is no letter from Shen Yichen, this kind of request is not much of a problem.

So the difficulty is not in the content of the letter, but in the complicated father-son relationship between Shen Yichen and Zhu Yong, and I don't know what kind of identity to use to describe it.

After thinking about it for a long time, Shen Yichen finally gave up the writing method of "knowing with reason" and adopted "moving with emotion".

Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, can talk to himself very bluntly about "both glory and glory", but in ancient times, filial piety paid attention to the ethics of a monarch and a minister, so Shen Yichen could not be so straightforward with his "father" in any case, and he had to talk about feelings.

So the content of the book can't be too unfamiliar, and too close doesn't have that emotional foundation, and he was busy until midnight, Shen Yichen finally finished writing the letter, he breathed a long sigh of relief, this may be more difficult than writing the exam paper by himself!

After going to school on the second day, Shen Yichen handed over this "family letter" to Li Da, what he had to do had been done, as for when he could convince his father to go to Beijing, it would only be fate.

In addition, the news of the Japanese rebellion did not spread for long, and before the Nanjing Five Armies Governor's Office sent troops to assist in the defense of Yingtianfu, the Japanese invaders retreated on their own.

Because compared with the guards along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, Songjiang Mansion can already be called a fortified city, unless you open the city gate to meet the enemy, it is simply a fool's dream to cut it down with those few broken katanas.

Compared with the collective dispatch of the students from the outer courtyard two months ago, only Shen Yichen was left alone and almost "wiped out".

To be honest, even Shen Yichen himself didn't expect that the academics of the outer courtyard would be so strained, and so many people participated in the competition, and they were selected as one, which was not as good as the average admission rate of the county examination.

The examination room of the government examination is still the Xiajiang examination shed, but the candidates who take the examination have expanded from the previous Jiangning County to the entire eight counties under the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu, including Shangyuan, Jiangning, Jiangpu and Liuhe.

Although the scope has been expanded, the number of candidates taking the test has been reduced considerably. The number of candidates in each county is between 50 and 100, which means that the number of candidates for the entire provincial examination will not exceed 800.

Standing in the open space in front of the faintly lit examination room, looking at the sparse crowd of test takers, Shen Yichen suddenly felt a sigh.

This is the cruelty of the imperial examination, some people take the exam, and the person is "gone".

But soon Shen Yichen saw a few "outliers", and Zhu Qingyu from the inner courtyard family school actually appeared in the examination room, which means that they passed the county exam.

Shen Yichen didn't know much about Zhu Qingyu and others, but during this time, by observing Li Da, the second generation of officials, he also roughly understood the virtues of this group of children of the family.

As far as Li Da is concerned, among the children of the family, he can already be called a person with "noble character", and Zhu Qingyu will only be more unbearable than him.

Even if some of them are talented and smart enough to pass the county exam, then how can several people pass, this is outrageous!

Cheating in the imperial examination!

Four big words popped up in Shen Yichen's mind, and only this one could explain why they passed.

To be honest, Shen Yichen has always known that there was corruption in the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, and primary examinations like the county examination were the hardest hit areas. Especially in the Chenghua years of Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, the dark box operation has come clearly.

But after all, the orthodox period is still twenty or thirty years away from Chenghua, is it already so blatant?

On the other side, under the order of Zhaowen Academy, Xu Donghai and others were also waiting, and unexpectedly saw Shen Yichen and Zhu Yuqing and other students of the Chengguo Mansion.

"Donghai, is the Chengguo Mansion so strong? Unexpectedly, so many county exams have passed, which is on par with our Zhaowen Academy. ”

After all, Xu Donghai is also the son of an official eunuch, and the same class is theoretically more familiar with the Chengguo Mansion, so a student of Zhaowen Academy asked him.

"Heh, as I expected, there is a problem with the county exam of the Chengguo Mansion!"