"Why are you so weak?!"

"It's no wonder that the traitorous party in the DPRK and China is difficult to get rid of, and the etiquette system is difficult to keep!"

Shen Tao scolded bitterly, then turned around and left here, and because he was in a depressed mood, he saw that his servant was slow to squat down and become a horse stone, so he directly kicked him in the abdomen: "Tell you to stand, squat!" What a stupid thing. ”

"Why do you talk like this, it's a traitor who doesn't abide by etiquette, what does it have to do with us, it's just a nest?!"

"That's it! If you have the ability to directly raise troops on the side of Qingjun, don't you just dare to strike the exam, but you are talking about us here. ”

"There are so many servants, at first glance, they are the children of official eunuchs, so they naturally dare to boycott the exam, if they are like us, if they don't win the first place, they won't be able to glorify their ancestors, see if he dares to boycott the exam."

Shen Tao's scolding made many scholars who originally supported Wu Zhongxing feel dissatisfied and criticized Shen Tao one after another.

"Enough of you!"

However, at this time, there was also a radical scholar Wu Zhengzhi who couldn't help shouting at these scholars when he saw this, and then asked these scholars:

"Isn't he right? Aren't we cowardly?! ”

Wu Zhengzhi said and chased after Shen Tao with his servants:

"This friend, please stay, the contemptible person is willing to strike with you!"

At this time, several scholars also followed.

"Do you want to boycott the exam?"

Li Tingji asked about Ye Xianggao at this time.

Ye Xianggao looked at Wu Zhongxing, who was escorted away in front of him: "Why do you want to boycott the exam, is it because the imperial court no longer supports scholars, so how is it different from a mercenary businessman?" ”

Li Tingji smiled faintly: "Aren't you also quite dissatisfied with the current government?" ”

"Not dissatisfaction, to be exact, but worry!"

Ye Xianggao replied.

After hearing this, Li Tingji asked, "So you plan to continue the exam." ”

"Not only do you have to take the test, but you also have to admonish!"

"In fact, the boycott of the exam is not a sign of cowardice."

Ye Xianggao also left here as he spoke.

Li Tingji followed: "How to admonish, what if the admonition is not completed, what if it makes my parents sad?" ”

"A piece of ice is in the jade pot."

……

"If the family asks, tell them this poem by Uncle Wang."

Shen Tao did not decide to go south in the end, but stayed in the capital temporarily, only sent a servant back, and went to Beijing with Qin Hongzhi and others.

They were ready to gather scholars to imitate the custom of the government in Suzhou, and when they encountered a matter of peace with the government, they cried to the ancestor Confucius in the Jingshi Confucian Temple, and Xiao Ju instigated the people to complain to the higher authorities, and also organized a boycott movement.

Because Shen Tao and Qin Hongzhi still wanted to instigate more boycotts, because it was not interesting for them to boycott the exams with just a few dozen people, but it would still affect the social status of their own families among the local wealthy families, so they decided to try to use the matter of the Crying Temple to instigate more scholars to boycott the exam, especially Nanzhi scholars.

"On December 21, the tenth year of Wanli, Jiangnan Xiaolian took Wu Fu'an for Ti Cai, who was bold and domineering, blatantly violated the rules of the ancestors and raised scholars, ignored the benevolent government of the Holy Dynasty, and was willing to be a traitor to the party, intimidating and insulting Confucianism. The crime is monstrous, and the people are full of grievances. Those who study eat the country's temperament, but they can't get rid of traitors, and they are ashamed of the heart of the first emperor Tuohongshi to keep the system to the Zuozong Temple, and although they are afraid of involving the monarch's father and dare not criticize the government, they can only show that they go to the Confucian Temple to cry with the heart of the rejection of the examination......"

Under the gloomy sky, inside the smoky Temple of Literature.

Qin Hongzhi was kneeling in front of the statue of Confucius, reciting the weeping temple text.

He was followed by many kneeling scholars, and even many knelt in the court.

And Shen Tao on the side was crying silently at this time.

"Boycott!"

At this time, Zhao Bifan, a man from Suzhou, was encouraged by this, immediately stood up, clenched his fists, looked at the scholars present with green muscles, and said:

"If the harsh government is not eliminated, the traitorous party will not be destroyed, and I will never enter the office!"

"That's right! Don't abolish the harsh government, don't get rid of the traitors, don't release Mr. Fu'an, and never start a business again! ”

Nanzhi Changzhou scholar Zuo Jinxian also echoed.

"Puzhou is incompetent, allowing the eunuch Zhang Whale and the traitors of the foreign dynasty to deceive the monarch's father, and even allowing Ti to ride out in all directions, treating the doctor as a dog! I'm incompetent, I don't dare to go on the bus to study, don't I dare to go back to my hometown to study and wait for the chaos to be rectified?! ”

Qin Hongzhi also cried at this time and said.

"Boycott!"

"Boycott!"

"Boycott!"

……

Time.

Many scholars who came to the Temple of Literature began to raise their arms and shout for a boycott.

First, the scholars who interacted with Shen Tao, Qin Hongzhi and other big bureaucrats and big landlords were naturally mostly from the same class, and they were most disgusted with the current government that suppressed the mergers of the powerful and powerful.

Second, they also have relatives and friends who are officials in the DPRK, and they also know that the current situation in the DPRK and China is that the officials are not making a living, not only is it difficult to make money, but they are also very tired, and it is not interesting to join the government at this time.

Thirdly, most of them are Nanzhi scholars, and in recent years, the Nanzhi gentry have been the most oppressed, and many of them are fellow villagers and fellow villagers, and many of them are relatives and friends of Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian.

Therefore, this time, Shen Tao and others had a good effect in the Temple of Literature and weeping, and they instigated hundreds of scholars to strike the exam at once.

And most of the Minami straight scholars.

I have to admit that because Jiangnan has been a place of humanities since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there are many middle-class families, and there are many scholars, so the average quality of the lifts that can be taken in the Nanzhi examination is indeed higher than that of other places, such as being more familiar with how to manage industry and commerce, how to operate money and grain national taxes, and how to build water conservancy, which is equivalent to knowing more advanced management experience and advanced industries.

Although the disadvantage is that these people from Jiangnan are easy to take this opportunity to form gangs and manipulate the finances of the imperial court, so the Ming Dynasty has always had a rule that the household department does not allow people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to enter the army.

But we also have to admit that if these people are sent to relatively remote places, they are indeed very good at driving the local economy.

For example, Zuo Guangdou, a party cadre in Donglin, engaged in a new type of paddy field technology in the south of Gyeonggi in history, which greatly increased the grain output of Gyeonggi, and now Pan Jitao, as a native of Huzhou, has also made great achievements in water conservancy construction.

Therefore, once most of these Nanzhi scholars are dismissed, it will undoubtedly be very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, which needs to promote the advanced production and management experience of Jiangnan to the whole country.

……

"Boycott?!"

"When?!"

"How many?"

In the court, because everyone was concentrating on arguing about which person should be listed in the Wenyuan Pavilion, and it was a heated debate on whether morality was the highest standard or merit as the highest standard, and the matter of the cabinet examination was forgotten, so that Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers could concentrate on the examination and rectify the rule of officials.

But soon, Shen Shixing learned about the boycott from Wang Xijue, faster than Jinyiwei knew, because he and Wang Xijue themselves were also from Nanzhi.

"Inuzi said that there are probably hundreds of people, and most of them are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

Wang Xijue said to Shen Shixing: "Pavilion Elder, this matter is not trivial! ”

"One is not good for the world, Jiangnan controls most of the world's wealth, and it is a place where the world has a monopoly on all kinds of skills, often what is rising in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, what is rising in other places, what is despised in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and what is despised in other places, once Jiangsu and Zhejiang strike the examination, other places will follow suit, and at the same time, the bureaucrats in the DPRK and China are only afraid that the cadres who know water conservancy, money and grain will be greatly reduced!"

"The second is not good for us and other villagers! If it goes on like this, the DPRK and China will be dominated by Chu people, Qi people, and Jin people! ”

"The public is right, this matter is not trivial!"

"The servant has to hurry up and face the saint and let the Son of Heaven know!"

Shen Shixing immediately stood up and said to Wang Xijue: "Please also ask the public to persuade you." ”

Wang Xijue nodded: "I will try my best, but it is estimated that it is difficult, now the right and wrong of the temple, the world will want to do the opposite; And the right and wrong of the world is not the meaning of the temple! ”

(End of chapter)