According to official statistics in Wanli year, there are more than 90,000 households in Fuzhou and more than 250,000 mouths, but counting a large proportion of the hidden population, the real population hovers around 450,000.

Among them, the population of Fuzhou is estimated at least more than 200,000, which is only the local population, if you count the mobile population such as foreign gentry, official gentry's family, merchants, and merchants' family, it is roughly hovering around 300,000.

This is only Lin Yanchao's conservative estimate, in fact, the Spaniards from the late Ming Dynasty to Fuzhou are estimated to have more than 150,000 households, which of course includes the prosperous commercial area in the south of the city.

Lin Yanchao started early in the morning, freshened up, and walked out of the door and out of the alley.

Lin Yanchao had just walked out of Dengyingfang Lane and walked onto the street of the water department, when the gate of the water department had just opened, and businessmen and villagers poured into the city.

Near the water department, there is the Rouyuan Station, which is the residence of the Ryukyu national tribute envoy, and the wharf outside the city of Shuiguan Zhicheng, where the mouth of the river can be directly connected to the sea boats, docks, and canonized Ryukyu boats were built here, so a large number of officials, craftsmen, and ordinary people gathered.

In the midst of the crowd, Lin Yanchao walked to the river and rented a boat to walk. The boats pass under the trees along the bridge, and the wooden and stone bridges between the rivers are built as high as the streets, but they do not prevent the passage of boats under the bridges as usual.

Lin Yanchao lay on the bow of the boat freely, the boatman on the side slowly rocked the oar, the windows of the people by the river were propped up, and the breeze came, and the woman took a mallet to beat the laundry by the water.

Wait for the boat to go to the land of smoke willows, but see the green building next to each other, the steps are near the water, and the weeping willows hang at the water's edge, which is the scenery of the willow color of Zhangtai. The girl on the green floor got up late, taking pictures by the water, and grooming the thrush. When he was about to comb and sweep, he saw the boats coming and going, behaved generously, and smiled.

Lin Yanchao lay on the boat, feeling the leisurely life of the prostitutes in the water alley. He listened to the chat of the same boat in the academy, and also heard that prostitutes were divided into four classes, the first and second classes, and they were only regular customers, and they were not allowed to enter without someone to guide them. But I'm too young, when will I see it?

After staying at the Houguan County Office, Lin Yanchao got off the boat and went from the east of the city to the west of the city.

The alleys in the west of the city, several market squares, a few alleys, and a radius of hundreds of acres of land, but they are the places where dignitaries and dignitaries gather. Literati buying real estate is an elegant thing, such as Wang Anshi's Mid-Levels Garden, Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, Yuan Mei's Sui Garden, Li Yu's Mustard Seed Garden, and the houses entrust the feelings of the literati.

Who said that asking for land is a very vulgar thing?

The same is true for Fujian scholars, who usually move their township houses to live in the west alleys of the city after they are selected to lift the Jinshi.

Lin Yanchao remembered the Ming Dynasty ritual system, below the prince, the house must not use heavy arch caisson wells, and the hall built by the Shu people shall not exceed three rooms and five frames. But Lin Yanchao looked at it, the houses in this alley, not to mention the heavy arch caissons, even had seven and nine frames.

For example, the Wenrufang where Lin Tingji lived was the residence of Zheng Mu, the priest of the country, and the people in it were becoming more and more popular, so it was renamed Wenrufang. In addition to Wenru Fang, there are also Yijin Fang, Guanglu Fang, Zhu Zifang nearby, just listening to the name, I feel that the luxury is coming.

In front of the thoroughfare avenue in front of the square, there is a stone prayer building, the stone slab is paved on the avenue, the Lin family's mansion is next to the morning title lane, and the gate is open to the avenue.

Alas, people are better than people, and Lin Yanchao's own door can't even open to the alley.

After Lin Yanchao was informed, he entered the Lin Mansion, and the state of his courtyard was not much to say, and the subordinates led Lin Yanchao to a study.

Lin Yanchao saw Lin Yan and immediately took the disciple salute and said, "Disciple to meet Mr." ”

Lin Hydrone wears a brown silk scarf, wearing a wide-sleeved regular clothes, speaking of the net scarf, popular in the early Ming Dynasty, rich and poor can be worn, take is the Central Plains of the Law Bundle, the color head of the Quartet Pingding, and the Quartet Pingding scarf, the six-in-one hat are the most common scarves for scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing Lin Yanchao's respectful attitude, Lin Yan said with a smile: "You used to salute Mr. very casually, but today after knowing the identity of the teacher, is this a compliment?" ”

Lin Yanchao maintained a long posture and said: "No, the disciple is respectful and respectful, and Mr. is a gentleman. ”

"Oh? Why? Lin Yan asked with a smile.

Lin Yanchao said: "The disciple respects the gentleman, he does not flatter his mother, but pleases his mother, and does not disagree with the disciple, as the saying goes." If a scholar can not be flattered and not deceive, can he not be called a gentleman? ”

"Good," Lin Yan smiled gently and beckoned, "Come in and talk." ”

At that moment, the master and apprentice sat across the bookcase.

Lin Yan said: "At the beginning, I accepted you as a disciple for my teacher, half of it was entrusted by my father, and I returned your favor to the Lin family, and half of it was to listen to Shibi, and my two nephews praised you in my ear, so I wanted to see your talents." I heard a few days ago that the etiquette you wrote to the prefect should go first, not to mention the future, these eight characters are very wonderful, not only helped the government, but also saved the career of General Yu, but there is something I don't understand for the teacher. ”

Lin Yanchao hurriedly asked, "Sir, what's the confusion?" ”

Lin Yan pinched his beard and said: "Let me ask you first, why did you worship as a teacher and govern the scriptures?" ”

Lin Yanchao thought for a while and said: "One seeks art, and the other seeks knowledge." ”

Lin Yan nodded and said: "Yes, since you are studying for the sake of art and learning, why are you distracted by the world of punishment and the world, and specialize in some things other than the Four Books and the Five Classics, which is useless for learning?" ”

Lin Yanchao said: "Mr. Hui's words, the disciple studies to seek officials, and the officials are to be a good official, to be a good official, not only to wash away the grievances of the people, but also not to be confused by the officials. If you can be proficient in the world of punishment, let your officials slip like a fish, and I can hang the mirror high. ”

"What else?" Lin Yan continued to ask.

"Mr. said that learning is useless, and the disciples do not agree, as the so-called world is full of knowledge, and human feelings are also articles. I don't understand the world, just reading, but I'm just a nerd, it's just reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, and it's better to read countless people than to read thousands of miles! ”

The green shirt in Lin Yan's right hand trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but say: "The world is insightful and knowledgeable, and the practice of human feelings is also an article, this is insightful." There are clouds on the left, too high morality, followed by meritorious service, and again to make words, although it has not been abandoned for a long time, these three are immortal. But since the Song Dynasty, in order to seek immortality, scholars have only emphasized virtue and speech, and abandoned meritorious service, but meritorious service cannot establish virtue. ”

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he almost burst into the middle two of the two and wanted to say, what Mr. said was very true, the disciple thought that since the Holy Ancestor, except for Wang Yangming, who can really be three immortals, the scholars cannot be called the word Confucian.

But when the words came to his mouth, Lin Yanchao thought that these words were too shocking, where did he put Cheng Zhu? Besides, I respect Wang Shouren so much, I don't know if it will be marked by Wang Xuemen, not to mention that several of my teachers are all advocating science, let's still firmly follow behind the army of science.

Lin Yan asked: "Yanchao, morality, meritorious service, and speech, which step do you want to achieve?" Judging from your ambition, is it to make meritorious contributions? ”

Lin Yanchao's excited emotions have been suppressed, it is not good to indiscriminately amplify the cannon in front of the teacher, and he can't talk too much. When Confucius asked his disciples about their aspirations, Zi Lu, Ran Youdao, and Gong Xihua were 'slammed by the master', but Zengzi's father said something about drinking, dancing and singing home, so that Confucius praised 'I and Dian'.

Lin Yanchao thought for a while and said, "The disciple also knows whether he has the ability to catch it, does Mr. think the disciple can give it a try?" ”

Lin Yan didn't say anything when he heard this, just stood up and sighed: "Are you okay or not?" If you are not a teacher, you can assert that you will first come up with a four-book essay to test you. Let's take the name of a gentleman who is not worthy of the world, let's take it as the topic! ”

This question was very well taken by Confucius, to the effect that the gentleman was worried that his name would not be praised after death. Therefore, only scholars must do the three immortal things of words, virtue, and meritorious service.

Lin Yanchao read through the general idea, and immediately understood that the gentleman was sick and unworthy of his name, and the meaning of this topic was to encourage himself.

Lin Yan used this topic to tell himself, go, do something immortal, so that his reputation can be left in the praise of future generations, and he will not die in the world.

Lin Yanchao was a little excited, his pen trembled, and his mind suddenly moved, and his thoughts were surging, and he picked up the pen and wrote a stable eight-strand essay at the moment, and showed it to Lin Yan at the moment.

In this article, Lin Yanchao played on the spot, and he no longer did anything to steal other people's models.

Lin Yan picked up Lin Yanchao's article, read it again, looked at Lin Yanchao again, lowered his head and read it again, and finally said in a thoughtful tone: "It seems that you are still a little behind, a little far!" ”

A basin of cold water was poured on his head, Lin Yanchao suddenly burst into tears, Teacher Xindao didn't bring such a shock.