Chapter 63: Banquet in Suzhou

An army of 100,000 entered the city of Suzhou.

Let this Jiangnan water town also add a touch of slaughter.

The last time so many armies were gathered, it should have been the Battle of Pingjiang, that is, the Ming Dynasty. No, there was no Ming Dynasty at that time, but Wu Wangjun besieged Pingjiang on a large scale, and at that time, Xing Ruyun, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Tang He, Kang Maocai, etc., more than a dozen generals, Pingjiang City, that is, Suzhou City, was besieged and attacked for several months. Pull it out. In the street battle, Zhang Shicheng was defeated and captured.

After that, for a hundred years, it is estimated that there are not so many tiger masters near Suzhou City.

For a while, Suzhou's soft voice seemed to have become sonorous and powerful.

On the first day of Zhu Qizhen's arrival in Suzhou, although there was no military parade, the soldiers walked through the streets and alleys to control Suzhou City, a piece within the Suzhou City Wall, although it occupied a small part of the Suzhou City Wall, but it was not a place.

And at this moment, it was blocked by countless armor soldiers, three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry.

The next day, news came out that His Majesty the Emperor was going to summon the celebrities of Suzhou.

For a time, not only Suzhou, but also the entire Jiangnan was shaken.

Although the Jiangnan gentry have some complaints about His Majesty the Ming Emperor. But it doesn't prevent them, they want to participate in this banquet, not only to see Your Majesty, but also to look up to the sky, so that they can brag to future generations for a lifetime, and also prove to more people what happened in a year.

He is one of the celebrities.

Although hundreds of places were released, they were also sold out in an instant.

I want more, but I can't.

After all, it is already insufficient for the Suzhou Governor Yamen to hold a banquet for hundreds of people, and it is even more impossible to increase it to more than 1,000 people.

Even if the Qing Dynasty held the so-called Qiansu banquet, it still let many old people sit in the open space and let the cold wind blow, and many old people were seriously ill after they went back.

And Suzhou Yamen has opened a lot of rooms, but it may not be able to accommodate so many people.

Noon on the same day.

Suzhou is very lively inside and outside the city.

Most of the gentry were old men, and they all came to the place three streets outside the governor's yamen of Suzhou, and they were stopped.

After all, now Zhu Qizhen lives in the governor's yamen, and the security is naturally extremely strict, not to mention anything else, but now there are cannons, and it is very easy for the cannons to bombard a few miles.

Zhu Qizhen didn't want to be bombarded by being asked to hide a few cannons.

So, the cordon was placed outside the three streets.

After inspecting the invitations, a carriage was naturally prepared to pull the gentry to the door of the governor's yamen. Originally, there was no such preparation, but Wang Yue found that most of these gentry were old people.

So I sent someone to arrange it.

This is also normal, and the patriarchs of many families are mostly elderly. Many celebrities are also officials who have resigned and not worked, and their age is not the same

It would be too small.

When they arrived at the governor's yamen, it became lively.

After all, most of these so-called celebrities are in a circle. After all, they all know each other, so this conference is also a grand event in Jiangnan.

After all, there may not be anyone except the emperor who can gather so many celebrities in Jiangnan.

Zhu Qizhen naturally wouldn't arrive first.

Therefore, before Zhu Qizhen came, many people talked about it, and naturally they didn't say anything sensitive, they all greeted each other.

But I heard a eunuch say loudly: "The prince has arrived." ”

The crowd hurriedly saluted and did not say anything.

But after seeing one of them salute, he looked up and was stunned, and he secretly said in his heart: "I seem to have seen this person." He thought about it for a long time, and suddenly dug it out from the depths of his mind, and said secretly: "Isn't that the little official who went to my house a few decades ago?" ”

This is the son of the Yun family.

The things that old man Yun had in mind back then were finally completed, and the Yun family had the first Jinshi. This is the one. Let the Yun family change the court, and never the imperial family.

So that among the gentry in Jiangnan, there is also a place.

And this Yun family jinshi, named Yun Benchu, has a particularly good memory, which is also one of the reasons why he was able to kill from the difficult place in the south of the Yangtze River and be admitted to Beijing.

Yun Benchu was stunned for a while before he figured out what was going on? He suddenly remembered that it seemed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had inscribed his family, but he didn't know if that pair of words was still there?

"It should be there, right?" Yun Benchu secretly said in his heart.

Yun Ben was first admitted to the Jinshi, it was a big event for the Yun family to change the world, the ancestral hall was naturally going to be rebuilt, and the calligraphy and paintings hanging inside were all invited to local celebrities, and the inscription of the predecessors of the imperial examination had already been changed.

However, the Yun family, no, not only the Yun family, but even the entire Jiangnan has the habit of cherishing paper, and never discardes paper indiscriminately, even if it is waste paper, it is easy to sort out, it really can't be used, and it has to be incinerated in a proper manner.

If you think about the words of the year, even if you don't hang up, you will definitely put it away.

The prince didn't know that he was recognized by the old people, but the prince didn't have such a good memory, and his affairs in Wujin Yun's house were many years ago for him, and they couldn't be more distant.

The arrival of the crown prince shows that the time is almost up.

Sure enough, only a moment later, I heard the eunuch shouting at the male duck: "Your Majesty has arrived, kneel." ”

There was a bang. Everyone fell to their knees.

Then followed by the voice of the eunuch, shouting: "Li, Xing, Li, Xing." "Salute.

In fact, the etiquette of meeting the emperor is by no means a simple kneeling, it is a very cumbersome set of etiquette, so I won't say much here.

Zhu Qizhen waited for the salute before saying, "Flat." ”

That's when everyone got up and sat down.

There was silence for a while.

countless

looked at Zhu Qizhen with all eyes.

Zhu Qizhen was used to it, his eyes swept over, and he remembered what Wang Yue had told him just now, he couldn't help but sigh lightly in his heart, and said secretly: "The prosperity of talents in Jiangnan, indeed, only Jiangxi can be compared." ”

A few hundred people seems to be a lot, but for the Jiangnan area, there are even some inadequate.

Many families are masters of the imperial examination, and they are the first in the imperial examination in the family, and they have never been cut off. And such families are especially abundant in Suzhou. After all, what is Suzhou's native product?

Champion.

Almost everyone here is a jinshi, even if he retreats to the second, he is also a lifter, after all, after winning the jinshi, most of the people who want to be officials in other places cannot be in their hometowns.

But even if this is just a lifting person, there are also Jinshi in the family behind him.

The oldest Jinshi here is an old man in his eighties, Tang Shiliang of the Wujin Tang family, who is an eight-year Jinshi of Xuande, if this qualification is in the imperial court, the qualifications are enough to enter the cabinet.

The youngest is also a recent Jinshi, but he is in his early twenties. And as long as you count, almost every subject has the first place among Suzhou people.

This is not an easy task.

I know how the word groundbreaking came about, that is, Jingzhou in the Tang Dynasty, a place that has never been admitted to the Jinshi, and the first person to be admitted to the Jinshi was called a groundbreak.

There are hundreds of mansions and more than 1,000 counties in Daming. However, the imperial examination is only once every three years, and there are more than 300 places, which is not enough to score.

Not to mention, it is impossible to score evenly, many places do not get a Jinshi for many years, and Suzhou is a place where every time, and there are many times, there are several.

In addition to this, there are a lot of special talents. For example, the Yuan family in Suzhou, the Yuan family's wealth is not much, and the family name is not too high compared to other families. However, there are a lot of engraved books in the Yuan family.

In publishing, the Yuan family has expertise and is respected by many people.

Of course, whether the Yuan family makes money on it or not is another matter.

In addition, there is also the Changshu Sang family, who is proficient in criminal names in his family, and he also takes the route of the criminal department when he comes out to be an official, and is particularly familiar with the Daming Law.

There are also calligraphy and painting heirlooms, and the Yun family is one of them, but it has not yet begun. The beginning of the Yun family's calligraphy and painting heirloom is the beginning of Yun Benchu, and now it is only Yun Benchu who likes to paint, he can not know that his painting has become the Yun family style.

There are also some medical Confucian heirlooms, that is, the kind of advance is the phase, and the retreat is the doctor, what is the family, the Chu family, the Dou family, and so on.

This is still a talent who has anything to do with the imperial examination.

If you don't care about the imperial examination, Su is like a world, and there are many skilled craftsmen behind it. Among them, there are many people who have left their names in history because of their superb skills, such as Lu Zigang. I don't know how many.

This can be said to be the biggest heritage of Jiangnan.