The upward space is always very difficult to find, in the era of the end of the Ming Dynasty, basically the bottom wants to get the opportunity to advance, the imperial examination has become an absolutely slim thing, completely by Zhang Pu like the generation of gentry in the gradual infiltration, relying on the Donglin Party, the Restoration Society, perfect control, people have played the imperial examination to the point that you can arrange the ranking before the exam, it can be described as powerful.

Similarly, for the Qian brothers, the original trajectory of their lives was to take over from their father as a petty official at the bottom of Jinyiwei, and then start from the bottom of the street patrol, accumulate some money and collect the meager filial piety of those merchants, and use it to honor the boss in the future, strive for a good position, or go to the house of a fallen high-ranking official to make a fortune, the boss can think of you, remember to call you, and get a share of oil and water by the way, of course, the big head still has to be handed over.

Maybe if they continue to do this, after they are dozens of years old, maybe they can still settle down with a hundred households and try the role of a hundred households, but if they want to change the fate of the low-level Jinyiwei, they basically need a big chance, such as saving the emperor of Weifu private visits, and other great credits, you can imagine the difficulty.

However, now, the two brothers have got a satisfactory job, although they don't know what useful official positions are waiting for them in the future, and for Wu Ming, they don't bother to use official positions such as commanders of thousands of households as bait to boost morale.

He has money.

But said that the Qian brothers, with a stack of notices and manuscripts, all the way out of the imperial capital, went to the south, Baoding, Cangzhou all the way, to Dezhou, well, that is, the Texas that sells Texas grilled chicken, their target is Jinan, Dongchang, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, that is, the various prefectures of Shandong Province, their first stop, naturally is Jinan this spring city, the two of them are dressed in an ordinary cyan official mansion, barefoot, riding horses, along the canal south, they remember what their father once said, car and boat shop feet, In fact, as long as the people who have lived in the imperial capital, they all know the arrogance of the four tyrants, dung tyrants, water tyrants, rice tyrants, and car tyrants know some of them even in the palace, and they can open a store on the side of the road along the way, and usher in those who are sent to, even if they are not black shops, they must give enough filial piety to the black shops, otherwise your shop still wants to open?

Jinan, Shandong, at this time, because many cities are looking at the direction of the wind, Li Zicheng of the imperial capital at the beginning, so on the surface it is still maintaining the quiet of the ground, here is not like other places in the north, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, is directly beaten by Li Zicheng's army, but quite ambiguous state, basically belongs to the "three regardless" state, but because more than ten years ago here by Kong Youde, the "King of Sanshun", a trouble, after the death of hundreds of thousands of people, is slowly returning to the state of blood, no one likes to toss, but also quieter.

Qian Jiale jumped off the horse and slowly walked to the gate of Jinan Mansion, although there were many poor or rich people in front of him who were still queuing, but he still slowly straightened up and shouted, "Who is the team leader, this official is from the imperial capital to come here to give orders, please come out." ”

At this time, it was afternoon, the weather was hot, there was no official at the door, only a half-hidden yamen, and from time to time a disheveled official came out and called the next one to come in, and the lord received him.

The official heard the words of the imperial capital, or was attracted out, and saw that in front of him, it was two young people, wearing a half-new official uniform, as the saying goes, there is no hair on the side of the mouth, the work is not firm, the staff officer does not take the commander, and the fart is not loud, this official is also in the city to run an errand, naturally it can be seen at a glance that these two foreign young men have no grade, they are two idle people, of course, he knows the word imperial capital, otherwise, he will run out immediately if he does not return.

"Where did you come from, the imperial capital, there is no emperor in the imperial capital, which family's order are you transmitting, someone is coming."

Several officials, all of whom were disheveled, were drinking tea at the concierge to cool off the heat, and they all ran out of the house, surrounding the two brothers, and the others saw the situation and ran away, for fear of causing trouble, but they all muttered, "The emperor is gone, and I don't know which family's order it is." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, didn't you say that Lao Xi'er in Kansai entered Beijing and became the emperor."

"How did I hear that the gods in the sky descended to earth, and directly caught all the tartars and thieves to the eighteenth layer of hell, and they will never be reborn, and now they are saints, and the world will be peaceful soon."

"It's a shame that you're still an old household in Jinan Mansion, isn't this the White Lotus Sect's thing, the White Lotus Sect that has suffered from the plague, this is going to come out to fish in troubled waters again."

"Shut up, don't talk about state affairs, don't talk about state affairs, beware of letting those masters do things at night and hook your souls."

In these trivial voices, the Qian brothers felt a burst of malice and pressure, but thinking of the group of short-haired immortals behind him, Qian Xiaohao's waist rose instead, waved his hand at this time, and said, "Fathers, please listen to me." ”

He waited until everyone else stopped making a sound, and ignored the officials, so he said loudly: "We are from the imperial capital, we used to be on an errand in Jinyiwei, and now the new imperial court, next year the new imperial court will open Enke to take scholars, and they will inform their own children to come to the door of the prefect's yamen to see the new syllabus. ”

"What?"

"Nko."

When the official saw it, he seemed to know that the person who came was not good, and in these years, no matter how good the liar was, he didn't dare to pretend to be the emperor, so he made a look, and a government official immediately went into the back hall, and one seemed to be the leader, the fattest official of the body, at this time straightened his collar, and said: "The contemptible person is the head of the Jinan Mansion, and he has not yet asked the two virtuous brothers to respect their surnames and names, what is the evidence." ”

"Oh, it's here."

Qian Jiale took out a bag from the horse lanyard, and after opening it, he wrapped an oiled paper bag in brocade, which was naturally a stack of notices, took out one, held it in his hand, erected it for the man to see, and said: "My surname is Qian, my name is Jiale, this is my brother, the word ...... Xiao Hao. ”

What Qian Xiaohao was holding over there were the two copies of "Selected Examples of New Dynasty Enkeshen in the New Dynasty of the New Yin Yiyou Year" and "Selected Examples of Common Sense in the New Dynasty of the New Yin Yiyounian" given by Wu Ming, which can be said to be more important than the proclamation, and Qian Xiaohao also knew that this was equivalent to the future of many scholars in Shandong Province.

Moreover, according to Lord Wu's instructions, it must be spread everywhere, and those prefects and yamen cannot be allowed to control everything, only in this way can as many scholars as possible run to the imperial capital to take the exam.