Chongzhen revised the edict that was originally issued for the destruction of the ancestral tomb of Fengyang, and also issued a new reward.

This measure made the new science and technology scholars in the capital feel very excited, and they seem to have eaten a big melon that "someone is about to make contributions to the marquis and worship the prime minister".

The common people, and even thieves from all walks of life, reacted almost excitedly, and began to gossip about "how long can Zhang Xianzhong live".

It is said that later, when the news was announced to the provinces and spread to the Shangluo Mountains on the border between Shaanxi and Henan, even Li Zicheng, who is still hiding in the Shangluo Mountains to collect men and horses to fight guerrillas, was very angry, and even had an idea:

"Damn! Why is Zhang Xianzhong's head so valuable? Then if we chop him up, will we be able to make a marquis and worship the general and clear away the previous sins? ”

Don't think it's strange that Li Zicheng thinks so, in history, Li Zicheng didn't have much foresight for attacking cities and conquering cities, and he didn't think about building base areas well.

In the end, before Shanxi was defeated and Zhou Yuji was broken through at Ningwu Pass, Li Zicheng was still begging Chongzhen to be canonized.

It's completely a pair of "I have already occupied a province, do you Chongzhen admit that I am divided." If you don't recognize me, I'll fight another province, show your muscles** You recognize, and then you don't recognize another province", and finally met Chongzhen who would rather die than give in, and hit the capital hard.

(Note: There is no Hei Chongzhen at this point, Chongzhen has many mistakes, but it is right to swear not to surrender.) The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Ming Dynasty cannot be yielded)

Anyone's ambition is gradually inflated, and when they first start, they all want to earn a small goal first, or it is enough to be a general who conquers the west.

Of course, today's Li Zicheng is obscene and obscene, and he will not do it immediately. He also has a city government and knows how to wait and see the situation.

I want to see if after the announcement of the emperor's new oath, whether the people of the world really attacked Zhang Xianzhong. If Zhang Xianzhong's life is really difficult, Li Zicheng is not unable to go down the mountain to pick peaches and grab people's heads. If Zhang Xianzhong is not in a desperate situation, then let others go first.

In addition to Li Zicheng, others, such as Luo Rucai, the Junzhou battalions, and the fifth battalion of Gezuo, all still think the same way for the time being, and they all want to wait for the officers and soldiers to make the first move and see where the wind goes.

As a result, there was a commotion, and the most active and excited were the newly promoted officials and jinshi. These people have no experience in officialdom, and they feel that there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the heart of despising the enemy is overflowing.

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Here in the capital, the tenth day of the first month of March is also a week after the announcement of the palace examination.

Half of the appointment of the 300 new recruits has been completed. The top 60 first-class and second-class personnel, except for very few special circumstances, are all vacant-

And Shen Shuren, the tail of the second-class crane, also "offended" the emperor, which obviously belongs to the category of "special circumstances".

There are two hundred and forty remaining three first-class fellow jinshi, the amount is too large, and there are not so many shortages in the official department, and there is only one beginning for the time being.

The same years who studied nervously before the exam, taking advantage of the free time of waiting for job vacancies, also went to the Qinlou Chu Hall all over the capital, gathering every day to drink and drink, and listening to the music and women's branches.

In this environment, the topic of everyone's chatter is naturally inseparable from the future.

Every day, I either heard that this person entered Hanlin as an editor in the same year, or that he was released to a rich place in the south in the same year, and some were put in Henan, Huguang, and Anlu, where many officials were killed by thieves and there were serious vacancies.

If it was a previous year, I heard that I was assigned to an area where thieves were rampant in the same year, and most of the other people would feel sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, and the thing hurt it.

But this year, the situation is completely different, and many of the officials who have been assigned to the areas where Zhang Xianzhong has been ravaged are quite confident and feel that it is a good opportunity to take credit.

Fang Yizhi, who was a brother and sister to Shen Shuren, was assigned back to his hometown and went to Tongcheng, Nanzhili, to serve as a county commander, defend the land and fight against thieves, and soon had to take office.

This situation is difficult to imagine in the peaceful years, although the Ming Dynasty did not strictly implement the "appointment of officials in different places", but generally try to stagger as much as possible.

Now the thief situation is too serious, and the emperor and the officials feel that it is easier for the local officials to defend their hometown, and it is unlikely that they will sell their fathers and villagers to cooperate with the thieves, so they have no choice but to confer official titles in their hometowns.

On this day, it was the day for Fang Yizhi to practice, Shen Shu chose the most famous Qinglou in the capital to set up a few tables, and more than a dozen second-class jinshi who had just become acquainted in recent days also came to drink and listen to music.

After the palace test was announced, the top two jinshi were naturally divided into three small groups that they were more comfortable with according to their political opinions.

The largest group, led by Wei Zaode, Gao Eryan, and others, accounted for more than half, and there were thirty or forty of them. They were all high-profile people who advocated moral kidnapping when they asked the emperor that day.

Secondly, there are only about a dozen groups in each group, each accounting for about 20%. One faction is Shen Shuren's advocacy of advising the emperor to be pragmatic and not to make a name for himself. There is also a faction that is with mud and has nothing to claim.

In the pragmatic faction, Shen Shuren, Fang Yizhi and Ge Shizhen were the leaders, and the other seven or eight were followers.

Ge Shizhen doesn't like to talk about moral education very much, has a simple style of doing things, likes quantitative calculations, considers costs, and is a pragmatic talent. He should have been on the list, but now because of the butterfly effect, he has been reduced to the rank of passor, and his ranking is still enough to win the respect of this group of people.

Shen Shuren is at the bottom, but he is still respected and respected by others, because he dares to make a direct admonition. The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty all had a kind of admiration for their colleagues who were beaten by the emperor's court staff, but Shen Shuren did not suffer from the court staff, but the effect was almost the same.

In this group of people, there are Cai Qiu Ming in Quanzhou, Ma Mingluo in Hanzhong, Yan Hun in Anqing, Sun Yimai in Linyi, Song Mingke, Yao Xuzhi in Huzhou, and Ren Hongzhen in Wuchang.

Although it is impossible for Shen Shuren to write too much detail in the history books he read before he crossed over, most of these people he didn't know originally.

But in fact, this group of officials has been more virtuous in history.

Among these people, Cai Qiu Ming should have died in the battle of Zhang Xianzhong's attack on Sichuan in the future; Ma Mingluo followed Shi Kefa to defend the city and died at the hands of Yangzhou Ten Days Duoduo;

Yan Hun, Sun Yimai, Song Mingke, Yao Xuzhi, Ren Hongzhen, or exiled magistrates, or worked in the Sixth Department of Nanjing. Historically, at least it has been possible to refuse to go out after the death of the Ming Dynasty, or die of grief and anger, or die of hunger strike.

The worst of them should be Song Mingke, who died in the battle of Denglai when Duoduo went south. However, he left behind some literary works of hatred of the Qing Dynasty, which were cited and revised by Lu Liuliang of the Qing Dynasty many years later, triggering a literary prison during the Yongzheng period.

After the emperor of the Qing Dynasty split the coffin and killed the corpse of Lu Liuliang, he still did not relieve his hatred, so he dug up the literati of the previous dynasty that Lu Liuliang had quoted. Song Mingke had been dead for more than 80 years at that time, and his body was so rotten that he couldn't kill the corpse, so the Qing Emperor ordered it to be changed to crushing bones and scattering ashes.

In contrast, Wei Zaode's faction is now gaining momentum, but in the future, there will be a first-class and third-class traitor, and many of them have taken the initiative to surrender and seek officials.

Of course, those who sing high-profile songs cannot all be traitors, and there are a few people who really believe in moral purity.

For example, Yongzhou Chen Chunde is the loudest slogan of moral cleanliness in this Jinshi, so he was appointed as the official of the imperial history to stay in Beijing, specifically responsible for spraying people.

But he is really tough, when Li Zicheng broke through Beijing in history, he heard that after Chongzhen hanged himself, he also followed the hanging martyrdom, which is worthy of the emperor.

It's a pity that people like Chen Chunde only account for one or two percent of the moral model faction at most, and the rest are all hypocrites who shout empty slogans.

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Even though Shen Shuren doesn't know too many historical details, he still has a good eye for people. Whether a person has backbone or not, from the daily style of action, can be seen to some extent.

For this group of like-minded people in the same year, he will definitely be righteous and squandering money, making friends, and in the future, he will have a lot of friends to help him.

At today's practice banquet, Cai Qiuming, Ma Mingluo, Sun Yimai, and Song Mingke, the four who were also exiled, toasted Fang Yizhi one after another, wishing him to be assigned to the forefront of the war with Zhang Xianzhong's bandits.

"Brother Fang Xian, you are young in high school, and you can still go to Tongcheng to fight with Lin Chengcheng, and you will definitely have a bright future in the future, which is not comparable to us old decay.

Your Majesty is so magnanimous, maybe when you arrive in Tongcheng, Lin Chengcheng Liu Xiyao will turn against him and surrender with courtesy, lead the way for the imperial court soldiers, and go against him to kill Zhang Xianzhong. ”

The place where these four people were exiled was either Sichuan or Shandong, which was not as close to the war zone as Fang Yizhi.

They were still a little fanatical when they first stepped into their careers, and they all felt that Zhang Xianzhong was going to be finished soon, and anyone could have merit.

Among them, Sun Yimai and Song Mingke are both in their forties, their beards are a little gray, and they have tried to pass the exam four or five times, but they have no political experience like young people, and their attitude is relatively contemptuous.

Fang Yizhi has a lot of contact with Shen Shuren, and his hometown is on the front line, and he also knows the combat effectiveness of the thieves, so he does not dare to underestimate the enemy, and after drinking, he only responded cautiously:

"You young brothers have a good reputation. Zhang Xianzhong has been in trouble for many years, how can His Majesty be able to clean it up with an oath. I still have a long way to go. Let's work together and do our best for the country. ”

Fang Yizhi's slightly cold water made several other people a little unhappy, and they thought that Fang Yizhi was so modest that it was almost hypocritical.

When Ma Mingluo, who was assigned to Yangzhou as a county magistrate, heard this, he pulled Shen Shuren on the side and asked him to say something fair:

"Brother Shen Xian, we don't talk darkly, we are all our own people here, I know that Your Majesty's Taimiao oath is actually the idea you gave. Tell me, how long will it take for Zhang Xianzhong to be the head?

With your talents, although Your Majesty deposed you as the last of the second class, you will definitely be reused in other places. Before you try it, it will be the seventh product, and this time it will definitely be more important than Brother Fang Xian. Don't you want to get an errand to fight Zhang Xianzhong? ”

Shen Shuren didn't expect the topic to be crooked to him, so he just shook his head indifferently: "The ministry hasn't appointed me so far, there may be some variables, who made me the last of the second class."

As for Zhang Xianzhong, it is not so easy to deal with. I am sure that most of the people who think that this thief will not be peaceful now are ordinary people, new officials in the DPRK and China, or leaders of other factions among the thieves.

But most of the old ministers and generals in the DPRK will not be so optimistic - only they know how much prevarication the courtiers have for His Majesty's will. It's true that killing Zhang Xianzhong can be crowned a marquis, but who will be the first bird?

In my opinion, except for Yang Gelao, who has no choice, he has the responsibility of co-ordination and has to use his life, and the rest of the people, I don't know how many want to avoid hard bones and pick soft meat to eat. After a few months, the limelight recedes, and maybe it's the old party again. ”

Shen Shuren's tone was cold, and he was also quite frustrated when he heard the other years.

Indeed, in terms of understanding the atmosphere of officialdom, these people who have just passed the examination are indeed far inferior to Shen Shuren, who has been an official for more than half a year.

No matter how high the reward for killing the enemy is, with the current decadence of the Ming Dynasty, no one wants to be the first to export, waiting for the last time to make up the knife.

The atmosphere of the wine party suddenly became a little dull.

Just when everyone wanted to find some good news to comfort, a guest suddenly came in at the door of Goolan, asked the bustard to find a place, and went straight to the flower hall where Shen Shuren and others gathered.

Everyone looked at it, and this person was also the second class of the current department, Jiujiang Huangyun Division. This person was relatively silent before, and Chongzhen didn't speak much when he asked the right question, so he was considered a centrist.

This Huang Yunshi walked up to Shen Shuren and told him a piece of news: "Brother Shen Xian, the Ministry of Officials has also assigned the last batch of second-class people to be appointed today, and you and I are in this batch.

I'm here to report to you, you have been temporarily transferred to the Hanlin Academy for revision, and together with the first and first ranks, you are in charge of the historical records. I don't know why it ended up that way. However, the ministry has some news, saying that your revision should not be done for a long time, and it will be released soon, so let you be patient. ”

When everyone next to them heard this, they couldn't help but be very surprised, some were happy for Shen Shuren, and some were not worth it.

Because he is not worth it, it is because now that the circle has been formed, these people all think that Wei Zao De Gao is a person who tends to be inflammatory, and they don't want to be in the company of those people. Even if Shen Shuren goes, it is estimated that he will be excluded.

What was happy for Shen Shuren was that he felt that Hanlin Revision was a first-class and first-class treatment after all, and Shen Shuren enjoyed a high standard at this time.

Only Shen Shuren himself knows that in the face of the troubled friends of the same year, he congratulated or was not worth it, and he signaled everyone to be calm:

"You don't have to worry, you don't have to congratulate, I know what's going on. Since the ministry said that I will not be doing this revision for a long time, it should be that His Majesty will wait for the results of the reform of Cao Yun in various places.

When I came to Beijing this time, I was supposed to escort the military rations that were transported to Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, and I stopped by to take the exam. Now the canal and the Bohai Sea have long been completely thawed, and March and April were the peak seasons for the northward transportation of grain last winter. Your Majesty left me in Beijing to observe, and only after seeing the merits and demerits of the Caoyun reform and saving money did he finally decide on my official position. ”

Hearing him say this, Ma Mingluo, Song Mingke and others congratulated him one after another: "I see, then I wish Brother Xian a smooth pass, and when the time comes, he will directly get a real shortage that can show his strength in the matter of encircling Zhang Xianzhong." ”

"That is, even if those old and decrepit civil and military officials are clearly protecting themselves, I believe that loyal and righteous people like the virtuous brother will definitely go all out as long as they have the opportunity. The virtuous brother also happens to be an example for the loyal people in the world! ”

In the face of these compliments, Shen Shuren also smiled slightly bitterly, these people still thought it was so easy to deal with Zhang Xianzhong, and they really hadn't experienced the beating of officialdom and the battlefield.