On June 7, the third year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, there are still three days before the establishment of the Daming House.

The news that Wang Yangming's disciple grandson, the grandson of Wang Gen, a master of mind, abandoned his Jinshi background and entered the Science Society from Beijing City returned to Jiangsu!

As soon as this news came out, it immediately detonated the entire Ming officialdom, or the scholars who were interested in the imperial examination in the entire two capitals and thirteen provinces.

Taizhou, Jiangsu, the inheritance place of the school of mind, was shocked by this news, and almost everyone thought that Wang Shou was crazy, and gave up his Jinshi background for the sake of a few scientific societies? That is a dream that many people can't achieve in a lifetime, and it was abandoned by Wang Shou

Such behavior, of course, caused public anger, especially those old scholars who had buried their heads in the four books and five classics of the imperial examination all their lives, and they couldn't sleep all night, and they couldn't understand why this was so?

Of course, some people began to think about the significance of Wang Shou's move, or rather, one day, can the scientific society really be parallel to the imperial examination?

Can the people and scholars in the world who are interested in social welfare really take advantage of this to have a new path to advancement?

When the scholars of the Taizhou school quarreled endlessly over Wang Shou's behavior of giving up his status as a jinshi, more than 500 miles north of Taizhou, Pei County was still peaceful.

Yes, it is the Pei County in the hometown of Han Gaozu, which now belongs to Xuzhou Prefecture.

As the county's fast catcher, Liu Dasheng has always felt a heavy responsibility, and has been conscientious for decades, patrolling, catching thieves, maintaining public order, and regulating neighborhoods, and has quite a lot of popularity in the county.

The weather was gloomy in the past two days, so at the end of the street patrol tonight, Liu Dasheng refused his companion's suggestion to invite him to eat and drink, saying that he was tired and wanted to rush home to sleep.

In fact, in the past few days, Liu Dasheng was really upset, turned into the alley, and stopped in front of his house for a long time before Liu Dasheng sighed, creaked, pushed open the door of his yard, and stepped into the yard.

Smoke was rising from the kitchen on the west side of the yard, and from time to time there was the coughing of my mother-in-law.

In the wing room on the east side, his son didn't know what he was tinkering with, and he didn't like to read poetry and books all day long, but often went to the field to dig the soil and study some sweet potatoes and corn seeds that were passed from Xiyi.

"I have been in private school for more than ten years, but I can't get in!" Liu Dasheng muttered a complaint, I don't know what he remembered, shook his head and stepped into the hall, and after a while, he turned around and sat on the threshold.

Liu Dasheng took the pipe from his waist, knocked it on the ground first, and then took out the flint.

Yikes!

Stone light, sparks ignite the tobacco.

At the moment when the smoke came out of the spark, Liu Dasheng first inhaled violently, and then slowly exhaled, at the moment when the smoke just left the end of the nose, he inhaled again, and the smoke seemed to have life, and then violently drilled into the nose The tobacco burned at a very fast speed, and the cycle repeated three or four times before the smoke erupted from the nose, and the smoke lingered and then slowly rose into the air, and finally disappeared.

"Master, let's have dinner," his mother-in-law's voice sounded, and then went to call his son: "Brother Ding"

On the table in the hall, the dishes and chopsticks have been prepared, a plate of fried vegetables, a plate of fried bacon, two bowls of steaming multigrain rice, and a plate of black flour hard cakes on the side of my mother-in-law.

Wang Dasheng and his son did not communicate much in the past, and it is still the same at the dinner table today.

The two of them each ate the rice in front of them, and from time to time stretched out their chopsticks to add a piece of green vegetables or bacon.

At the dinner table, the atmosphere was a little dull.

The wife looked at her husband and son, as if she remembered something sad, and her tears fell on the table like pearls with broken threads.

"Cleaned up?" has no head or tail, Liu Dasheng still did not put down the dishes and chopsticks.

"Well," Liu Ding nodded, his voice was dull, and he hesitated a little after a while: "I'll go to Jiming Mountain with my brother next door tomorrow and come back in the evening." ”

"Chicken Song Mountain?" When Liu Dasheng heard this, he frowned and said: "The day after tomorrow is the time when the imperial court will apportion military service, what are you going to Jiming Mountain to do at this time?" ”

Because of the coup d'état in Beijing in April, the situation between the north and the south became increasingly tense, and the Nanjing court issued a decree to the provinces south of the Yangtze River to apportion military service in order to gather troops for King Qin.

And Liu Ding, the only son in Liu Dasheng's family, just responded to this conscription.

The worries of the past few days at home have all arisen because of this.

Speaking of which, the apportionment of the imperial court this time is also conditional, as long as you have meritorious fame, you can be exempted from military service, but Liu Dingke has been in the imperial examination for ten years, and now he is not even a showman.

It's not that Liu Ding is stupid, but his ambition is not here, he doesn't like to read since he was a child, but likes to study various crops in the field.

"I" Liu Ding chattered, and couldn't make up a sentence for a long time.

"Huh?" At the moment of the dishes and chopsticks, Liu Dasheng narrowed his eyes and looked at it: "You want to escape from forced labor?" ”

"Father, child, child heard that Qi Guogong established a scientific society in Beijing, if you take the examination, you can achieve the same fame as the imperial examination" After being silent for a long time, Liu Ding seemed to have mustered up enough courage before replying: "So, the child wants to go to Beijing and try to get the scientific society."

Liu Dasheng put down the dishes and chopsticks and looked at his son, the atmosphere in the air became more and more solemn.

"If you escape from forced labor, do you know what the crime is?" Liu Dasheng spoke, and his tone seemed to be discussing with his son.

"The "Da Ming Law and Household Law" strictly prohibits the leakage of household registration in order to reduce or reduce the number of errands, and all behaviors such as pretending to be a household, concealing a success, increasing or decreasing the number of years and making the old and the young and the sick in vain, in addition to the parents being punished according to the law, the governor and the officials in charge of the county are also investigated for their crimes according to how much they blurt out, among which those who know are guilty of the same crime as the prisoners, and those who receive wealth are punished with the law," Liu Ding lowered his head and replied.

"Most of the southern soldiers were gathered by scholars like you, and they went to the battlefield, compared with those soldiers of Liaodong who fought a hundred battles under the command of the Duke of Qi, it was no different from sending them to death," Liu Dasheng smiled, not knowing whether to laugh at himself or mock those masters in the Nanjing court.

"You can go to the north with peace of mind," Liu Dasheng looked at his son, he had high hopes since he was born, and wanted him to study and gain fame, and not to spend his life in this small world, but now it seems that maybe his son's own choice is correct.

Go to Beijing, maybe a talent like Qi Guogong can really reopen the world, so that everyone has an equal chance to advance to the official career, not just the imperial examination!

"If the child is gone, where will you and your mother take refuge?" Liu Ding's entanglement these days is that he can't bear to make his parents suffer because of his departure.

"My father still has some prestige in Pei County, and now in this kind of world, the county magistrate will not be embarrassed for me, at most he will give up some money," Liu Dasheng waved his hand: "You go and clean up, let your mother clean up some silver taels for you, and leave tonight, so as not to have a long night and many dreams."

After sending Liu Ding back to the house, Liu Dasheng turned his head to his mother-in-law and said, "After Ding'er leaves, the family will also clean up and go into the mountain overnight."

(End of chapter)