"Humph! Insulting Sven! ”

In the fishing alley on the bank of the Qinhuai River, a well-dressed examiner indignantly threw the Jiangnan Times in his hand out of the window, allowing the newspaper that had just left a slight ink trace on his hand to float among the sewage and garbage.

"Senior brother is elevating this generation! To describe this generation with the word Sven, the Holy Ancestor Jiuquan has knowledge, but I am afraid that he will also be angry with a gentleman! ”

What these people who rushed to take the exam were talking about was the behavior of those candidates who had seen the Ming Fa and Ming Arithmetic exams in Nanjing City in the past few days.

Although it is said that it is the imperial examination under the Great Tomorrow, the place where Emperor Hongguang can speak well at present is only from the Huai River to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Relying on the geographical convenience, these people who took the exam are naturally the most in the current Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. It is much more than that of Liangguang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces. There are more than 10,000 people in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces alone. In previous years, whether it was a girl on the Huai River or a temple on Qixia Mountain, the attitude of these people who were rushing to take the exam was respectful. This year, however, things have changed. It's because there are more exams in two subjects.

The number of people who took these exams was no less than that of those who took the Ming Jing Course, and if you count the number of repeaters, I am afraid that there are still a lot more. Although there are many people in poor families who plan to mix up their backgrounds by taking these two exams, there are also many people in the family who are really wealthy and just want to change their family's social status through this exam. For example, the Shaoxing master family mentioned earlier.

These people have money in their pockets, whether it is Qinhuai River, Confucius Temple, or the teahouse and wine shop are generous, so they naturally steal the limelight of these so-called Kejia righteous paths.

In previous years, those talented and beautiful people staged a moving legendary story on the Qinhuai River, originally the male pig's feet were ours, but now they were robbed of their lines and scenes by a few boys who came from outside the field to play lights, set scenes, and deliver box lunches, how can this be repaid? !

What was thrown out the window by the lift was a supplement, which was probably equivalent to the current news and entertainment page or gossip page. It is published that a girl in a certain courtyard and a certain student who came to take the Ming Law and Ming Arithmetic examination fell in love at first sight, so they went to Mei Xianglou to ask for Li Zhenli Miss Li, and asked Miss Li to raise her relatives to the man's parents on her behalf. The man and woman are now getting along as an engaged couple, and the girl has been delisted. It is rumored that in order to get rid of the girl's naturalization, Miss Li not only came forward to negotiate with the proprietress of the courtyard in person, but also paid a lot of money to redeem the girl to pay off her debts, which was a beautiful talk in Nanjing for a while.

"This pair of adulterers! Dog men and women! This trick of selling fame and reputation is endless! The lifter, who had sat on the side for a long time without speaking, raised the newspaper in his hand, his face full of disdain and contempt. Who is the adulterer **dog man and woman in his mouth, everyone here knows it, even the servants in the few courtyards who are waiting on the side also moved their eyebrows and eyes a few times. Who does Li Zhenli represent on the Qinhuai River, who is behind it, and whose woman is she, who in Nanjing City does not know? Not to mention these people who are begging for a living on both sides of the Qinhuai River, even the monks of Jiming Temple outside the city know very well!

A servant exchanged glances with his companion, quietly exited the room, turned and went out of the courtyard to look for a few Cao Gang brothers who had known each other in the past. That's a big deal! Someone is slandering and insulting Miss Li and Grandpa Guo behind their backs!

"Senior brother, please take a look!" The man who spoke pointed to a passage in the lower left corner of the front page, his face full of indignation. "This person is searching for Jiangnan people's fat and people's ointment, but at the same time, he is making a compassionate face here!"

That passage was published as an editor's note under the implementation of the new policy and the implementation of the new fiscal, tax, money, and grain system, and was written by Li Shouhan: "I mourn that this poor man cultivates hard, and his years are only enough to pay for tithes." This year is no longer looking back, and the ravines are filled with white bones. But when the rich are worried, who will pity the poor for hunger? Once the poor are driven by hunger, how can the rich be in peace? ”

"Exactly! This person is suffering the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the sky is three feet high! But he pretended to take out a star and a half to buy the hearts of the world! I am a scholar who naturally has the righteousness of heaven and earth, and I will not bend my waist for these five buckets of rice! ”

Several people were immediately touting each other, you said that I was Yan Huifenggu, and I said that you were Tao Qian's legacy, and they were all masters of poverty and happiness. As he spoke, footsteps sounded, and someone walked in from outside.

"Have you used it well?" But it was the servant of the courtyard, who was called the turtle slave and the official as the companion, who came in with a smile on his face, holding a tin jug full of hot wine in his hand in a white new cotton cloth. There are people who have taken many exams in Nanjing who know this way and know that they are here to ask for a tip.

"Wine and dinner money and small accounts are on the account. The money for wine and rice is outside, and the small account is five silver dollars! ”

These people come to this courtyard to eat and drink, in fact, it is also a long-standing imperial examination custom, called "eating dreams." This "dream-eating" is also one of the interesting facts of the imperial examination. Every time I appeared, in order to compensate for the hard work in the field, I chewed with my friends who went to the test, and after eating, I kept an account; When the list is revealed, the name of Sun Shan's white food; It is on the list to share the benefits. This is the last intention of the Tang Dynasty to "fight the dream", and the renaming of it to "eating dreams" is even more subtle and appropriate.

It is also because of this reason that the poor people dare to greet the wine and food with confidence. Anyway, if you win, it's just to share it with others, and if you don't win, it's a good meal for nothing. There is such a good opportunity to pretend to be an uncle, why not pretend?

I originally thought that I would hear a few nice sounds in my ears to satisfy everyone's fragile little hearts. However, the companion in front of him did not appreciate it, and still smiled all over his face: "Gentlemen, the small shop has a small profit, and it has always been creditless. Please also give you money. It is best to be a silver dollar, the small shop does not accept broken silver and ingots, and it is troublesome to exchange it! ”

It's worth it! When we went out, we were originally planning to have a big meal and hang it on the account! No one has ever gone out with any money! Now you sluts actually want to settle the bill with cash, and why do you only collect cash dollars?! At that moment, someone scolded the companion in a pretentious tone, and the gesture was about to start. It's just that the companion has been on the Qinhuai River for many years, so he has naturally seen the faces of all kinds of people. No matter how you have a seizure, he still looks like a spring breeze: "All the gentlemen are all nobles after a few days, so naturally they will not be as knowledgeable as our people." A little bit of silver is not in the eyes of gentlemen. However, if this matter is noisy and there is a lot of noise, the news on the Qinhuai River will spread the fastest. If it is said that a few gentlemen are repaying their debts in front of us miserable people, and they do not pay for the banquet, the word will reach the ears of the lord of the imperial history and the adults of the Ministry of Rites, which will be very detrimental to the reputation and future of several gentlemen. ”

There is a way to reach out and not hit the smiling person, not to mention that the words of this companion are neither soft nor hard, but there is a threat in and out of the words. A few of the lifters immediately withered most of their momentum. Oh, yes! For the sake of money for a meal of wine and food, he said that he ate in the bitch's den and didn't give money, and his reputation was not good, which hindered his future.

However, he obviously recognized it in his heart and coaxed it, but he couldn't lose the face of the scholar on his face, and he scolded the bastard king and the like in his mouth, but his feet quietly moved towards the door. As everyone knows, the companion is waiting for them to go out the door.

Look at the gate is about to arrive, and the companion and account room who have always been kind and pleasant, but suddenly changed color, and shouted in his mouth: "There is a person who eats white food and pays the bill, and he is going to run away!" Stop them ahead! ”

Before a few people who had already stepped out of the door with a pair of feet had yet to react, a series of shouts and curses sounded in their ears like thunder.

"Who dares to be so presumptuous?! Don't you know that this Nanjing is at the feet of Emperor Hongguang? This is a place where there is a size and a king's law! ”

With the scolding, dozens of men in short clothes and small clothes poured out of the alley, each carrying a stick and an iron ruler in his hand.

"Even if you eat white food, you still want to escape?" The man at the head looked at these scholars with a sly smile on his face, whose faces were whiter than paper.

"That's right! That's them! The companion who squeezed out of the courtyard saw his companion in the crowd, and he had already understood it, and he didn't say anything else at the moment, just pointed at these people and said that they were eating white food and running away from the rogue behavior.

"Go, go and report to the landlord. Ask him to come and fetch people. ”

Hearing that they were going to report to the official, several people suddenly put their hearts into their stomachs, as long as they saw the official, everyone reported their identity as soon as they reported it, and they could be fine immediately. This unwarranted catastrophe in front of us can be turned invisible.

However, the group of men in front of him thought that they had also been instructed by a master. I don't mention what your identity is, just insist on it, and ask these "guys who eat white food" to settle the money for the wine and rice in the yard before the land protection master comes, otherwise, I will not think about life after seeing the land protection master! It's like this group of old poles usually take the nearby land protection as a thing.

A few words are not right, and people are found by the other party to do it. With a whistle, dozens of men rushed up, fists and toes, sticks and iron rulers together. However, fortunately, these people are all good at street fighting, and there is a special scale and measure between them. Although it was this group of guys who couldn't lift their blue shoulders and couldn't carry the burden that they complained about and mourned for days, they just greeted vigorously in the rough skin and thick flesh, and after beating for a long time, there were not even a few places where they bleed.

In a matter of moments, a brawl was over. After the fight, the group of men left with a whistle. However, a few companions in the courtyard were still standing in place, sneering at the group of people with blue noses and swollen faces. It wasn't until they took off the jade pendant on their waists, the wrenches on their hands and other small objects to settle the account in embarrassment, that they let each other support each other and leave.

I have to say that the methods of this group of professional beaters of the Cao Gang are absolutely wonderful, Rao is beating these people limping and walking like little girls who have just been bound for a few days, and like little maids in the family who have just been picked by them Yuan Hong, but there are only bruises, bruises, blood and swelling everywhere on the body, and there are no external injuries.

When the people were limping towards the hall under the sneering eyes of the onlookers on the side of the road, several newsboys around them ran by like the wind, shouting as they ran: "Outside! Extra! Gangnam Times's extra! Comment on Lushan Baofeng's great victory! Kill tens of thousands of Qing troops! The Qing army chieftains Azig, Cao Zhenyan and others beheaded dozens of thieves to stabilize the defeated army! ”

"Lushan Baofeng's victory?" Although they don't know where this Lushan Baofeng is, but with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, once there is good news from the front line, it will stabilize the power of Liang Guogong and the general. So, today's fight, as well as the fame in the examination room, I am afraid that it will be affected! Not only is there no hope of revenge, but I am afraid that the examination room can only be tormented in vain for a few days!

Someone took out Tongbao and bought a copy of the number and began to read. Unlike those newspapers, today's Jiangnan Times will set up text similar to news links on the pages of the newspaper, and the relevant information will be like popular science for readers. This number is no exception, in addition to introducing the geographical location of Lushan Baofeng, it is also analyzed later, what impact this battle will have on the war between the Qing army, the Ming army, and the Shun army.

It's better not to watch it, but after watching it, it makes this group of people who already hate Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army even more annoyed and angry!

"It turns out that this so-called Lushan Baofeng victory was actually done by thieves!"

"That's it! Since ancient times, men and thieves have not been separated! The Jiangnan Times openly published such a text, touting and applauding the thieves, this kind of behavior is clearly true, clearly ,。。。。 He was speechless for a moment, and he couldn't find the right words to describe it.

On the side of the road, someone sincerely opposed them, and read aloud this article commenting on Lushan Baofeng's great victory, but fortunately, the article was written in an extremely simple manner, and it was simply a vulgar bullshit text by the standards of these people. However, such articles also have benefits, as long as anyone who knows the words can understand it.

"As we all know, not long ago, the army Dugu Hanjiang and Wang Fuchen's troops set up an ambush in Lushan Baofeng, defeated the Qing army, and achieved a brilliant victory. In this regard, there are two opinions in the market, one is that the Tartars are defeated, which is gratifying, and the other is that the thieves and the Tartars have killed and injured each other, and no matter who dies, it is gratifying. And what I want to say is that after deducting the word thief, Wang Fuchen and Dugu Hanjiang are first of all Han people, people who have the same clothes and clothes as us, and then they are Liukou, this victory is first of all the victory of our Chinese civilization against the Liao thieves, and then the victory completed by the thieves. ”

"And before we accuse them of being rogues, we have to think about who turned them into rogues, and were they rogues in the first place? Apparently not. The former emperor also once said that a thief is also a child, and he is forced by officials to become a thief. Where is the man who made them thieves? If we are willing to exclude any prejudices and look closely, it seems to be in the court of the Tartars. Jiashen State Change, more than 20 of the 3,000 officials died, so what about after Li Zicheng ran away, according to the information of the Shun case, the number of deaths was zero. Some people ran away with Li Zicheng, and most of the rest went to serve Dongyu. This time, Lushan Baofeng won a great victory, and it was not only the Tartars who died, but more of them, it was these sages and the people. According to intelligence alone, Lushan Baofeng killed more than 10 officials in Beijing, all of whom were lackeys who followed the Tartars to fight on the front line. Faced with this situation, I couldn't help but ponder, what happened to this country? Isn't it a systemic problem? ”

Fortunately, Wang Fuchen, Dugu Hanjiang, the two generals did not worry about this matter, they gave these people a happy time, firecrackers, cannons, and sent them to see the Buddha. In this way, our court does not need to argue about the life and death of these people, nor does it need to think hard about whether these people are in Cao Ying's heart and Han Dynasty. ”

"Was that how our country started out? It doesn't seem to be, when Emperor Taizu was there, it was nothing more than a decree to kill 3,000 people at a time, at most, counting their entire family, that is, tens of thousands of people. But I don't know when it started, my Ming officials became unkillable, and killing them would hurt the hearts of the people. Then, fewer and fewer people were killed, but the territory of the Ming Dynasty became less and less. In the past, I was cruising Mobei in the Ming Dynasty, and then retreated from Mobei to the Great Wall, and now, even the Central Plains can't hold it. So much so that if we want to kill a few rebels, we have to use the hands of thieves. And these thieves were originally the good people of the Ming Dynasty. If we look at it fairly, it is precisely because we have too many people who should be killed but not killed, and things that should not be done, that we finally forced our good people to rebel first, and then pick up the knife and shoot those who rebel. And, of course, by the way, also hit the Tartars. It's just that this by the way makes us lose face, the Ming Dynasty has been fighting for decades since Wanli, and it is not as good as fighting once, if it were not for Liang Guogong's outstanding military exploits, we would almost not be able to compare with the thieves. ”

"But what makes me feel even more shameful is that in the face of the achievements of the two generals Wang Fuchen and Dugu Hanjiang, instead of applauding them first, some people pretended to shout that they should be captured by Pingkou. What I want to ask is whether they want to pacify the Kou, or whether they want to surrender to the Tartars, or use the hands of the Tartars to slaughter the good people of the Ming Dynasty, and then hang up Liang Guogong and sell them by the way. In that case, they will be happy, but we will have to shave our hair and change our clothes, and we will not see our ancestors after death. ”

"Enough! Don't read it! ”

A few people didn't care about the pain in their bodies, and snatched the newspaper in the hands of the newspaper reader in a few steps, tore three and two handfuls to pieces, and still didn't understand their hatred, and even trampled on the broken pieces with their feet on the ground.

"Jiangnan Times dares to publish such a text, it is really a great rebellion without a king and a father! Gentlemen, who went with me to smash the Jiangnan Times!? ”

Someone raised his arms and exhaled.