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Xu Jin wore a jade-colored shirt of a student, wore a square scarf, and walked calmly on the boulevard of Yuzhang Academy.

Today is June 15, and there are less than two months to participate in the township examination, Xu Jin got up early in the morning as usual, and first went to Wen Tianxiang Hall to worship Sun Sui and Xu Kui, and the tablets of the two were temporarily enshrined there, and then rushed to Yuzhang Academy to listen to the lectures.

It is said that since receiving Xu Tai and Zhang Zhong last month, Xu Jin has stayed behind the county government to concentrate on studying and preparing for the exam, and he doesn't care about all the affairs of the county government, and he goes to Yuzhang Academy on time every day to listen, and occasionally accompanies his wife and beautiful maid on a trip, and his life is solid and free.

The Four Books and the Five Classics are the content of the imperial examination, and the four books must be read through, and they must be the kind that are ripe, and the requirements for the Five Classics are not so strict, you only need to choose one of them to specialize, which is called this classic. Xu Jin chose the scripture of "Spring and Autumn", and it happened that the mountain chief of Yuzhang Academy also ruled "Spring and Autumn", with profound knowledge and a famous Confucian, and today Xu Jin came to listen to his lectures.

"Hey, isn't that Xu Sanyuan, today the mountain chief gave a lecture on "Spring and Autumn", I guess I came to audit."

"Heaven rewards hard work, and the ancients did not deceive me. No wonder Xu Ziqian can connect the three yuan of small and medium-sized schools, look at the diligence of others, and he still reads diligently as a county magistrate. ”

"Or what do you think?"

Xu Jin is now famous, and he has often visited Yuzhang Academy to listen to lectures in the past few months, so most of the scholars here know him, and they all greet him when they meet him.

At this time, Xu Jin passed by a pavilion, and a scholar who was reading in the pavilion saw him, immediately closed the book and greeted him, and bowed his hand and said, "Good morning, Brother Xu!" ”

Xu Jin smiled and saluted: "Good morning, Brother Li!" ”

The scholar in front of him is Li Zhe, the head of Yuzhang Academy, and it is said that in August last year, the scholars of Nanchang Mansion and Guangxin Mansion fought on the Tengwang Pavilion, and Li Zhe was the leader of the scholars in Nanchang Mansion, and the two sides were not very happy. However, after the college examination, the scholars of the two prefectures held a banquet in the restaurant to celebrate, everyone released their previous suspicions, and also discussed the wine and poetry, and finally compiled the recorded poems into a poetry collection.

During this time, Xu Jin was listening to Yuzhang Academy, and he was familiar with Li Zhe, the head of the academy.

Li Zhe is twenty years old, and he already has a show of talent, and he is also going to end the current science and township test, and his academic foundation is quite solid, and he happens to specialize in "Spring and Autumn".

Li Zhe said with a smile: "Brother Xu must have come to listen to the mountain chief's lecture today, so let's go together." ”

Xu Jin nodded, and the two walked together in the direction of the Hall of Knowledge, which is where the mountain chief usually lectures, and the name comes from a sentence in the Analects: Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is also knowing!

The two chatted while walking, and Li Zhe quipped: "Brother Xu has become the first person in the 150 years since the founding of our dynasty, and it will be even more terrible if he wins the township to try to solve the yuan this time." ”

Xu Jin smiled and said: "Our Jiangxi people are outstanding and talented, and there are countless talented and strong players, Brother Li's knowledge is far superior, how dare Xu Jin talk about Xie Yuan, he is fortunate to be able to pass the township test." ”

Although Xu Jin is confident in passing the township test, he is still self-aware, and it is purely shit luck to be able to take off the head of the case in the last hospital test, so he has never thought about it in this township test, in terms of knowledge, the senior brother Wei Yang alone is above him, and this Li Zhe in front of him is also more powerful than himself.

Moreover, in the past few months of auditing in Yuzhang Academy, Xu Jin has also participated in the monthly examination of this academy, and his results can only barely rank in the top 30, so he feels that he is like a cloud, and the pressure is great!

Li Xi laughed and said, "Brother Xu is too modest. By the way, Brother Xu is also the commander of Nanchang County, and if he goes down to participate in the township test, I am afraid that there will be no one before and no one in the future. ”

Although the county order is only a seven-grade county order, it has always been only a scholar who was born in Jinshi can hold it, and now Xu Jin is just a showman, but he sits in the county order position and tries to take the examination in the township, which is really an unprecedented spectacle!

Xu Jin smiled and said: "Lord Futai is estimated to be almost back in Nanchang, and before signing up for the township examination, he will resign from the post of county commander to Futai in the next meeting." ”

A flash of envy flashed in Li Zhe's eyes, everyone is a student, Xu Jin is nearly ten years younger than himself, look at who people are interacting with, either the elder or the governor, or the prefect or the envoy, if you are not convinced, you can't do it!

It can be expected that if Xu Jin can pass the imperial examination, take off the fame of Jinshi, and enter the court, he will definitely be on the rise, and if there is no accident, the probability of entering the cabinet to worship the prime minister in his lifetime is 100%.

However, can Xu Jin pass the township test this time?

Although Li Zhe complimented Xu Jin on the surface, he was not very optimistic in his heart, Xu Jin participated in the monthly examination of Yuzhang Academy before, and his results barely ranked in the top 30. You must know that in Jiangxi, there are three schools that can compete with Yuzhang Academy in strength, namely: Ehu Academy in Leadshan County, Bailudong Academy in Lushan, Jiujiang, and Bailuzhou Academy in Ji'an. However, there are only about fifty or sixty people in the township test, and as far as Xu Jin's level is concerned, it is a bit difficult to stabilize the township test.

Xu Jin and Li Zhe were walking outside the Hall of Knowledge, and they met a scholar walking by in despair, with disheveled clothes, fluffy hair, and a loveless face.

Li Zhe called twice in a row, but the scholar seemed to be deaf, his eyes walked straight past the two of them, and his steps staggered away.

Li Xi sighed and said, "It's a pity for He Zhimin, it's all Zhang Zhong's eunuch and Xu Tai's bastard!" ”

A touch of sympathy flashed in Xu Jin's eyes, he also knew that scholar, his name was He Zhimin, he was stupid, he was a famous talent in Yuzhang Academy, and he was famous for his talents.

It is said that since Zhang Zhong and Xu Tai came to Nanchang, they wantonly arrested King Ning's "comrades", tortured the prisoners, extorted money, and made the whole city miserable, everyone was in danger, and there were countless people who were wronged, and some gentry were even forced to hang their whole families to death, which was simply miserable!

Zhang Zhong and Xu Tai are even more fierce than those of King Ning during his reign, and the gentry and people in Nanchang City were tossed and miserable, and there were countless people who died in broken homes.

The father of the scholar He Zhimin was originally just a firearms craftsman of the Nanchang avant-garde, when King Ning rebelled, the Nanchang avant-garde surrendered to King Ning, but after Wang Shouren put down the rebellion, he promised to pardon all the soldiers of the Nanchang avant-garde, only the first evil!

However, as soon as Zhang Zhong and Xu Tai came, they immediately arrested the ordinary soldiers of the Nanchang avant-garde as traitors, and those who gave money were crossed off the list of traitors, and immediately released, and those who did not give money were imprisoned in the prison of Ning Wangfu and tortured.

The father of the scholar He Zhimin was also arrested in King Ning's mansion, and because he couldn't pay the ransom, he was beaten to death, and He Zhimin's mother heard that her husband was killed, so she ran outside King Ning's mansion and scolded Zhang Xu and the others, and then hit his head on the stone lion outside the door.

Despite this, Zhang Zhong refused to let go of the He family, and even sent troops to steal all the valuable goods of the He family, and two soldiers from the Beijing camp even raped He Zhimin's new wife, who committed suicide by throwing himself into the water after being humiliated.

was originally a happy family, a promising Xiucai was destroyed in this way, the family was ruined, how could it be a tragic word!

Afterwards, Wu Wending angrily beheaded the two traitorous soldiers of the Beijing camp, and the students of Yuzhang Academy ran to demonstrate outside King Ning's mansion in a crowd, and Zhang Zhong and Xu Taicai restrained a little.

Although Xu Jin is very sympathetic to He Zhimin, he can't help him, Wang Shouren is not in Nanchang now, and even Wu Wending can't suppress Zhang Xu and the others, what can Xu Jin do? These two can only be allowed to do evil in the city.

Now I can only hope that Lao Wang will come back soon and get rid of these two plague gods as soon as possible, otherwise the people of Nanchang will be miserable.