When Fu Dexiang left Yangzhou and passed Xingyuan Mansion, he made another small profit.

This time, he didn't dare to mess around, the transfer envoy was Cai Jing's person, so he just accepted some gifts and left.

Lu Rong, the envoy of the school, had received the news, happily mentioned wine to visit friends, and said with a smile when they met: "I asked Zhu Chenggong to pretend to be sick, but he did it more properly, and he resigned on the grounds of the imperial examination, and his upright work is amazing." ”

The friend he visited was named Gao Jingshan, and his official position was Lizhou Road Transport Judge.

The first and second leaders of the transfer department are not very concerned with specific affairs, and it is the third-in-command transfer judge who is really tired and tired of doing things.

There is also a general named Gao Jingshan in the Jin Kingdom, but that is from the Bohai Gao clan.

The Gao Jingshan in front of him is the Shandong Gao family, and there is a younger brother named Gao Jingyun, who is now working as a Lang official in the imperial court.

If there is no major change in history, when Zhu Ming rebels in the future, he will definitely "deal" with this Gao Jingshan. This gentleman will be promoted to the deputy envoy and transfer envoy of Chengdu Fulu, and he will be an official in Chengdu until the Jingkang period.

"You've got a good protégé." Gao Jingshan was quite envious.

Lu Rong said with a smile: "I can only be regarded as half a protégé, and Zhu Chenggong and I are more like New Year's friends." ”

Gao Jingshan asked the servant to bring some appetizers, and after a few glasses of wine, he said worriedly: "I'm afraid I will have to use troops against Western Xia next year." ”

"How do you know?" Lu Rong's smile froze.

Gao Jingshan said: "I just received an official letter from the imperial court, and the donation on Lizhou Road will increase again this year. It just rose last year, and it will rise again this year, which is really abnormal, and it must be the imperial court raising military rations. ”

"Not necessarily." Lu Rong said.

Gao Jingshan said in a low voice: "This year's summer and autumn grains are not all transported to the capital, but half of them are transported to the northwest. ”

Lu Rong understood and said in a deep voice: "Then it must be a big battle." ”

It is a great achievement to expand the territory, Cai Jing and Tong Guan, who have been planning to attack Western Xia for six years, have been building armor and storing money and grain.

In the next three or four years, Zhu Ming's rebellion in Hanzhong will be looking for death. The most elite troops of the Great Song Dynasty are all gathered in the northwest, and the soldiers are full of food and food, and they can kill Hanzhong at any time to quell the chaos.

At this time, it was tantamount to blocking the guns of the Western Xia and forcing the imperial court to pull back the army that was conquering the Western Xia.

Gao Jingshan said worriedly: "Now that the money and food are sufficient, and the fierce generals are like clouds, there is still hope for the recovery of Western Xia." I am afraid that the coach will command indiscriminately and bury the good situation in vain. ”

Lu Rong sighed and said, "Commander of the army, it must be that Tong Guan!" ”

"Alas, the eunuch misled the country, I just hope that he can make fewer mistakes." Gao Jingshan shook his head again and again.

Lu Rong and Gao Jingshan did not expect that this conquest of Western Xia would be a tug-of-war of attrition.

The Great Song Dynasty stored food and salary every year, and the front-line soldiers were actually starving, and the Western Xia took the initiative to attack when they got the news, and the Song Dynasty launched it in advance without making full preparations. After a few years of bad battles, the two countries finally lacked food together, but fortunately, the Western Xia couldn't hold it first, and negotiated peace and called the ministers to give Song Huizong face.

The two chatted about military affairs, and Lu Rong went home with wine.

The next day, he rode a horse to work in the Tixue Division, and found out the national Jinshi model text in recent years, and found out the excellent model text of the Lizhou Road solution test.

Lu Rong asked the scribes of the Tixue Department to copy a copy of these model texts, and then called his personal entourage and said: "Send it to Zhu Chenggong, I don't know when to enter Taixue, since he wants to participate in the imperial examination, he must be prepared." If you can't pass the Jinshi exam next year, you can also accumulate experience, and in another three years, you may be able to be named on the gold list. ”

not only sent the imperial examination model text, but also sent a set of "Three Classics and New Meanings".

Although Zhu Ming's concurrent scripture is the "Zhou Yi", without examining the "Book of Songs", "Shangshu" and "Zhou Li", the "Three Classics and New Meanings" can also be used as a reference. Cai Jing regarded himself as the successor of the new law, and vigorously promoted the "Three Classics and New Righteousness", citing the annotations in it, which can greatly increase the winning rate of Jinshi.

As for Wang Anshi's "Character Saying", it is similar to the official dictionary of the Northern Song Dynasty.

This thing has been rejected by readers, and Cai Jing can't push it to promote it forcibly. The book quotes a lot of Buddhism and Taoism, and the annotations are also very unscrupulous.

A few days later, Zhu Ming received a gift from Lu Tixue.

He first looked through the sample text of the Lizhou Road solution test and found that the level of the article was generally low. So for the same topic, correct these sample essays uniformly, find out their flaws and try to correct them, and then write one according to the topic.

Well...... It's not as good as those articles that lift people.

The standard eye is high, just like a food critic, commenting on the chef's dishes, and making all kinds of mistakes as soon as he gets started.

wrote two garbage articles in a row, Zhu Ming felt that the foundation of the dictionaries was too thin, and he couldn't express his ideas enough.

So he borrowed rhyme books from the library building, and practiced writing poems while looking through rhyme books.

The brain is blown up, which is tantamount to relearning "Mandarin".

Fortunately, he crossed over and has been learning the local dialect for a year, and the local dialect of Xixiang County also has a voice.

"Brother Zhu, someone is here again." Bai Sheng shouted.

Zhu Ming was a little irritable: "Please let him in." ”

After Zhu Ming refused the emperor's conquest, he became famous these days, and there were always rich and noble families who came to invite him to dinner.

Before the call, Zhu Ming must have been willing to go to the appointment, but now he must meet the personality. He has to serve it first, and he can't invite everyone to go, otherwise he won't have time to do his own business except for drinking every day.

An official school teacher made a gesture when he entered the door: "Yangzhou State School Teacher Sun Hui, on the order of the professor, came to meet Zhengjun." ”

Zhu Ming returned the salute: "Don't call Zhengjun, call me Zhu Chenggong." ”

Zhengjun, also known as Zhengjun, is an honorific title for those who refuse to conquer.

In the eyes of the world, it is a great honor to be conquered by the emperor. If you refuse the emperor's conquest, it will be even more awesome, and you must be a true gentleman with both talent and virtue.

Sun Jiaoyu said: "Zhengjun is in person, and it is inconvenient to call him by name. ”

"Mr. Sun, please take a seat." Zhu Ming didn't dare to slack off.

Because the teachers of Yangzhou State School are either from Jinshi or Tai students.

If someone else has been a teacher for a few years, he is very likely to be promoted to the magistrate.

Zhu Ming asked, "I haven't asked for advice yet, which rank is Mr. Sun?" ”

Sun Jiaoyu said: "In the second year of Daguan, he gave up his life in Taixue, and the official family gave him the same Jinshi background. ”

Well, this person is a classmate of the prodigal prime minister Li Bangyan, and he also belongs to the same class of graduates. But it's a bit miserable to mix, Li Bangyan has already become a governor, but Sun Jiaoyu is still a teacher in the state.

After chatting for a few words, Sun Jiaoyu said: "The state school wants to build a new library building, and I heard that Zhengjun is a joint for Yangzhou Academy, and Professor Wei also wants to ask Zhengjun to make a joint for the state library building. The state school is not as rich as the college, and the pen fee is only 30 yuan. ”

"It's my fortunate to be a union for the state!" Zhu Ming was very happy, it was too easy to make money by selling couplets.

He put pen to paper and thought about it, remembering a couplet from a previous visit to Yuelu Academy, this thing must not have been written yet.

Zhu Ming's calligraphy is ordinary, and he writes it at his highest level: the heart is beautiful and the thousand buildings are beautiful, and the air pressure is a hundred feet of Yuanlong.

Sun Jiaoyu took a closer look, and immediately praised: "Good union! This couplet is hung in the library building, which can encourage students to have the people of the world in mind. ”

A couplet earned thirty times, and Zhu Ming couldn't wait to write a few more.

Sending Sun Jiaoyu out in person, Zhu Ming returned to his room to continue to learn rhyme and practice poetry.

It wasn't long before another visit was made.

But it was the old lady of the Li family who died, and he bid a hundred times and asked Zhu Ming to write an epitaph.

What mess?

Zhu Ming politely refused on the spot, saying that he was not good at writing this thing.

This time he's really famous!

For the big family in Yangzhou, the Eight Elements Scholar is not interesting, and it doesn't matter if the eight amazing poems are, and it is even more trivial to lead the troops to exterminate the "anti-thief".

These deeds are not as good as rejecting the emperor's conquest!

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, Yangzhou has not yet sent out a conquest of the monarch, and Zhu Ming belongs to the only part of the scorpion baba.

The next day, someone came and invited him down the mountain for dinner.

Zhu Ming couldn't bear to be disturbed, and ran to find Chen Yuan and said, "Mr. Chen, I plan to go back to Xixiang County to hide for a while, and wait until the autumn to solve the test and come to Yangzhou again." ”

Chen Yuan also knew his situation, nodded and said, "Let's go together, I have doubts and want to ask Lingzun." ”

The two went to say goodbye to Min Wenwei together, and when the teachers and students heard about it, three of them were willing to follow. If it weren't for the autumn imperial examination, everyone would be busy preparing for the exam, and I am afraid that there would be more followers.

"Dalang, I'm ...... I won't go this time, and I'll come back to ask for teaching after the autumn. Bai Chongyan felt very guilty.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Why should San Lang be like this, studying is not a moment, and the imperial examination should be the priority." ”

He understands Bai Chongyan's choice very well, the Bai family is just a rich man in the countryside, and the whole family expects him to succeed in the imperial examination, which is not as good as those chic children of the big clan.

Li Hanzhang and Ling Gu Xu followed, although the Ling Gu family is not as good as the four major families in Yangzhou, but they have also settled here since the Tang Dynasty, and the family heritage is very deep.

Everyone came to the Han River, and before they boarded the boat, Min Zishun hurried after them.

"Mr. went down the mountain, I only know today, and I am willing to study with Mr." Min Zishun was respectful, he admired Chen Yuan very much, and even planned to follow Chen Yuan all the way to Fujian.

When Zhu Ming came to Yangzhou, there were only a few people.

When they went back, they became more than ten people, and Min Zishun and Ling Guxu brought their entourage.

The people took boats and went down the river.

When I arrived at the Golden Gorge, I invited a slender man to pull a boat.

Because there are several dangerous shoals, you have to drive slowly, and the role of the slender man is to hold the boat and slow down.

Those reefs were blown up by explosives hundreds of years later, and there was nothing people could do about it.

The boat passed through Shangbai Village, where the rape flowers have withered, and all of them are transplanted with rape seedlings handed down by Zhu Guoxiang, which can save a lot of manpower and time.

Continue to Daming Village, where the situation has changed dramatically.

Poor or very poor, mainly because of their different mental outlooks, they all have hope for life, and they don't know what chicken soup Dean Zhu poured them.

The people disembarked at the mouth of the river, and the big boat could not enter the small river.

Walking all the way to observe, Chen Yuan nodded approvingly: "I heard that this place was still a thief's nest last year, and now farming is thriving, Mr. Zhu is worthy of being a great Confucian." ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "My father once said that in one year, the villagers will be fed and clothed, and the villagers will become rich in two years." ”

"Fabulous!" Chen Yuan said with a smile.

After a little more walking, a high-drum car appeared ahead.

Several scholars from Yangzhou were all dumbfounded when they looked at the behemoth.

(End of chapter)