When Du Ruchong heard this, his brows furrowed.

This Wu Xinzhong, how to speak, feels a bit like those college students in Guangzhou City.

Open your mouth to fight for hegemony, and close your mouth to fight for China's living space.

What kingdoms are vying for hegemony?

The nations of Europa are thousands of miles away.

How can it be a threat to the current Ming Dynasty.

It would be good if the Ming Dynasty didn't fight them.

And what kind of living space is there.

Since ancient times, it has been strictly forbidden for peasants to migrate.

This Ming Dynasty is good.

First the South Seas, then the Northeast.

It is said that immigrants to the New World are also being recruited.

This Emperor Zhu tossed so much that the whole country was jumping with chickens and dogs.

Still the nations are fighting for hegemony?

In a few years, it would be good not to blow himself up like Emperor Yang of Sui.

Du Ruchong thought to himself.

However, he did not refute Wu Xinzhong.

Emperor Zhu's set of theories is indeed a bit of a fallacy to confuse the public.

At present, most of the students of several universities in Guangzhou have been brainwashed by this set of theories.

Take a look on the streets of Guangzhou.

Wearing a costume modified from the military uniform of the Ming Army, with a large horizontal knife hanging from his waist.

They are all supporters of Emperor Zhu who are full of thoughts about "using the sword of the Ming Dynasty to lay the foundation for the next three thousand years in China".

This scene made Du Ruchong very worried.

Such a country of tigers and wolves is not a blessing for the people.

I don't know if it's a blessing for the people.

Anyway, Wu Xinzhong is quite satisfied with the current situation.

After there is no hope of being an official.

Wu Xinzhong is focused on trading.

The enrollment of the Lanxiang Technical College he ran was very smooth, and more than 100 students had already signed up.

And now he plans to continue to run a college entrance examination assault class to fight against New China.

After leaving the editorial office of "Gentleman Daily".

Wu Xinzhong went straight to the university town in Huangpu.

Guangzhou is where Emperor Zhu started.

So there are quite a lot of universities in Guangzhou.

The headquarters of the Army Military Academy and the Naval Military Academy are in Huangpu.

Besides.

There are also two "national key universities" of Daohua University and Guangdong University.

In addition, there is Nanyang University, which is run by the local maritime business in Guangzhou.

Now it's also very famous.

are concentrated in Huangpu.

Whampoa is now a "university town".

Moreover, Guangzhou is located in the south, quite far from the central capital and the northern capital, so there is a bit of freedom of speech.

Within the university town.

Many college students have formed clubs.

Some clubs have people behind them.

After all, these college students will definitely be a new force in the Ming political arena in the future.

It is also normal to burn the stove in advance.

For example, Wu Xinzhong met a rich son and son in Guangzhou.

is also surnamed Wu, called Wu Wanghai.

I donated a sum of money to Nanyang University and enrolled in the university, and now I have opened a "Democratic Republic Research Association" in the university town, which is still quite influential.

Not many joined, though.

But the fame of this "Democratic Republican Research Society" is very great.

Because you can tell from the name that many of the views of the Democratic Republican Research Society are a bit against the monarchy.

In such a monarchy as the Ming Dynasty, what democratic republics are studied.

It's really bold.

Oh.

Elixir.

If Wu Wanghai established some kind of organization such as the "Association for the Promotion of Democracy and Republic" that clearly wanted to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic, then the Guangzhou government could arrest and try it according to etiquette.

But this "Democratic Republican Research Society" has played a sideshow.

In the name of academic research, the republican system of ancient Rome and the republican system of France today is studied - when applying for funding to universities, it is in the name of "historical research".

So I applied for a classroom at Nanyang University as an activity venue.

"Students, now the emperor has made a fatal mistake! He even excluded scholars over the age of 30 from the imperial examination system! He must have been dizzy, the role of the imperial examination system was completely changed by him, he would definitely end up being abandoned by the Chinese scholars, and some of the scholars who had no way out would definitely begin to turn in other directions, historically."

Wu Xinzhong has just walked to the door of this "Democratic Republican Research Association."

I heard someone talking.

I took a look at the door.

It turned out to be Sun Wen, vice president of the "Democratic Republic Research Association".

Wu Xinzhong knew about this Sun Wen.

His father was Sun Yuting, the former Qing Dynasty Guangdong Yanzheng Daotai.

It can be regarded as an official family.

But at the time of the Battle of Canton.

This Sun Yuting was a little unlucky.

Originally, as a civilian official, he didn't need to go to the battlefield, but a shell of the Ming army missed, and he just killed the unlucky one.

As Sun Yuting's eldest son, Sun Wen - the young man originally called Sun Shanwen, changed his name and lived in seclusion in Guangzhou, but although the Sun family is an official family, the Qing Dynasty is gone, and the Sun family who does not want to be an official of the Ming Dynasty is not a way to sit and eat empty, so Sun Wen came out to take the university entrance examination, planning to learn a medical skill, and in the future, he can be regarded as having a skill, and now he is studying at the Department of Medicine of Nanyang University.

Later, I didn't know how to get on the line with Wu Wanghai, and I wanted to build this "Association for the Promotion of Democracy and Republic".

"Zhong Shan, Zhong Shan, are you free?"

Wu Xinzhong shouted at the door of the classroom.

Oh, my God.

The surname is Sun, the name is famous, the word Zhongshan, and he is still a medical student!

If Emperor Zhu hears this, he must not immediately order Jinyi Wei to take people.

Fortunately.

The pronunciation is correct.

It's just that the words are different.

Emperor Zhu should be relieved for the time being.

"Students, that's all for the time being, I have a friend to meet."

The relationship between Sun Wen and Wu Xinzhong is still very good.

Sun Wen and others have a good impression of these gentlemen in Wu Xinzhong.

And Wu Xinzhong often donated money to Sun Wen and others, and also asked Sun Wen to publish articles in "Junzi Daily" to make him famous.

"What? Mr. Wu, do you plan to set up a school to recruit scholars over the age of 30 to study medicine, law, and accounting, and let our students from the Democratic Republic Research Institute become teachers? ”

The students of the Democratic Republic Research Association are all official students of Nanyang University, Guangdong University, and Daohua University.

It is at least enough for medical students to train barefoot doctors.

There is no need for any profound suicide note.

If you can deal with a headache, fever and cold, you will prescribe some medicine, bandage and suture the wound, and it is enough to have a little awareness of disinfection.

Six years after the liberation, at the end of the year.

The end of the year is approaching.

The first month of the seventh year of the liberation came in the noisy atmosphere of this year.

By the Qinhuai River.

Inside the Confucius Temple.

A group of scholars who had long passed the age of thirty got together to chat, and there was a taba tata smoking cigarettes.

"Alas, today the emperor went to the port to send the first batch of immigrants to the New World, and on the way back, someone knelt on the ground to petition, but the emperor didn't pay attention to it at all."

"The excerpt of the petition that was submitted was also rejected."

"The emperor is determined not to let us take the exam."

"Alas, if I knew this, I wouldn't have made trouble two years ago, what a fuss, and now I can't take the test if I want to."

"How good it was to take the test at the beginning, 1,000 people got 200, but now? Even if you can take the test now, it is difficult to pass the test, and you will take 200 for 10,000 people. ”

"It's better to be an official, even if you don't get promoted, you can earn two or three hundred yuan a year as a grassroots petty official, and you will have an iron job in this life, and you will retire at the age of sixty and have a retirement salary."

Everyone fell silent as they spoke.

Only sighs remained.

"It's actually nothing if you can pass the test or not, but it's fatal if the identity of this gentry is gone. Without fame and future, we can't count on the relationship in the officialdom, and people don't treat us as gentry. The mayor of my house has already come to say hello, and next year's field tax will be collected in full. ”

"It's the same over there, I won't lose a single one."

"It's good that we don't charge a long price, we people have no fame, it doesn't matter, who do the local officials bully if they don't bully us? Fortunately, it is now the locals who are officials, and the villagers dare not do too much. ”

That's when it happened.

A scholar dressed as a Confucian scholar walked in.

The name of the person who came was Hong Xiu, and he was a scholar from Guangdong.

I am thirty-one years old this year.

But it looks a little delicate.

Small.

It seems that you can get through the test and take it again.

However, he took the Xiucai exam in Guangzhou Prefecture at the beginning, and the result. Didn't hit.

It's over.

Leaving a file of name, place of origin, and age.

Although you can also try to get through the tricks, after all, this document is spy, and the Daming Bachelor's Mansion may not be able to find out.

But

Guangzhou Xiucai, who was so good in the test back then, didn't pass the exam.

Now it's thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge.

If you want to pass the exam, I'm afraid it will be as difficult as the sky.

Hong Xiu said loudly: "Everyone, now the only way out is to go to university or go to technical school. New China and Lanxiang have branches in Guangzhou, Zhongdu and Shanghai, everyone go to sign up and hold my name card, and the tuition fee will be discounted by 20%! ”

Hong Xiu said, and began to distribute his name post.

"Hong Xiu, do you do both New China and Lan Xiang?"

"Yes, do more work and make more money."

"Is it better to go to the new China or to read Lan Xiang?"

Hong Xiu smiled and said: "It's up to you, if you have a family and property, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, then it's not bad to go to college, you have to study in college for four years, and the annual tuition and living expenses are a lot." If you can't support it, you can go to Lanshen, pay the tuition if you can afford it, and if you can't afford it, you can sign a contract and pay it back after you come out and find a job in the future, of course. Interest is to be calculated. ”

"Have you heard? The royal consortium plans to open hospitals all over the country, to recruit a large number of doctors, now to study medicine can have a future, this royal consortium is also a royal industry, go to the royal hospital to be a doctor, even if the doctor is considered an official. ”

Hearing Hong Xiu's words, a group of frustrated scholars burst out laughing.

It's a good excuse to comfort yourself.

"Okay, then I, Lin Wanrong, will be his imperial doctor!"

"Lao Hong showed us a clear way, this royal consortium is building hospitals in various places, and junior doctors will give 50 almost a month's salary, 50 yuan, and the county magistrates in some places can't get this amount."

"The tuition fee can still be paid on credit, this is indeed a good way out, it seems that people are not afraid that we will not pay it back in the future."

Many of the scholars dispersed, returned to their hometowns to raise money, and went their separate ways.

The age of an imperial examination and the limit on the number of references may seem to have nothing to do with the land issue, but its marginal effect is quickly transmitted to land and agriculture.

The industrial and commercial development of the southeast coast is very fast, and there are many ways for "overage" scholars.

In addition to going to university or technical school, you can also directly invest your money in the industrial and commercial industry to be your own boss.

Of course, the premise is that they sell their own fields and take out the silver buried under the backyard - without the gentry's skin, no matter how deep they bury the silver, they may not be able to keep it!

It's better to live in those big cities that are more about the king's law as early as possible.

Now the "ceremony" of the Ming Dynasty is still very particular in major cities.

But locally, especially in the countryside.

The inertia of tradition is so powerful.

A rich man without the status of a gentry.

In these places where "etiquette" is not talked about much, it is easy to be eaten and wiped clean.

For hundreds of years, the silver that has been flowing into China has once again been leveraged - from the very beginning when it was stipulated that only the Ming Yuan was legal tender, and all kinds of commercial activities and taxes must be used in the Ming Yuan, Emperor Zhu has always wanted to pry the silver from the cellars of these landlords sleeping all over China.

This is a huge wealth that is incalculable - in history, this wealth has been almost completely reduced to comprador from the dumping of opium, Western industrial products, reparations from several wars, and even after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, from Beiyang to a certain Chiang, the country has been opened, foreign goods have been dumped, and domestic wealth has been plundered by various means.

And now.

None of this has been experienced.

In Chinese folklore, these cellars are stored for silver.

Always lying in the cellar, it became a "dead money".

Zhu Daohua stipulates that those over 30 years old cannot take the Xiucai exam.

In fact, the original intention was not to promote the transformation of these "dead money" into "living money".

But I didn't expect an unexpected gain.

A large number of landlords who lost their gentry status chose to sell their land, exchange silver for Ming Yuan, and then poured into Guangzhou, Shanghai and other big cities that were more "courteous".

A lot of dead money becomes living money.

The industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty, with so much silver input, became even faster.

Of course.

The transformation of society cannot happen overnight.

There was also a large class of gentry who remained in the countryside.

They have also been impacted by the times and changed by the times

Li Zhongyi went home from vacation from Luojiang Academy in Luojiang County.

I just got home.

I heard crying and scolding coming from inside the Li family's compound.

"Sir, sir, please. The way for our family of five to live is those acres of land, you can't take them all, how can we live if you take them away! ”

"Xu Fugui, it's useless for you to beg me here, this field belongs to my family, my family has been renting to you for thirteen years, and you owe eight years of rent! Eight years! My family has enough for you, when will you be able to replace the money you owe? Shall I rent it to you again? I'm going to drink the Northwest Wind myself! ”

"Master, you can't count it like that, my family's annual harvest is used to repay the money, I work day and night, but that's all I can dig out of this field, and I can't take more if you want my life."

"I don't want your life, you can go, I will give you the money you owe, anyway, your family will not be able to change it in a few lifetimes. I'll show you a clear way, go to the New World, go to the New World now, it's yours to circle as much as you can, hurry up. ”

(End of chapter)