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On February 27, the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen, a light rain had just fallen near the county seat of Neiqiu County, and it was wet everywhere. Because the road is slippery, there are not many people going out at this time, and there are only passers-by on the road who have folded paper umbrellas.

However, the entrance of the county seat is crowded.

Dozens of people in round-necked spring shirts huddled under the huge "notice", looking at what was written on it with red eyes. From time to time, someone opens their mouth wide in despair, as if they have seen the bad news that they are going to die.

The officials on both sides of the county government also looked discouraged. They drooped and propped themselves up on the rods of fire and water, as if without the rod they would be lying on the ground weakly.

Around the periphery of the reader was a group of ordinary people watching the excitement, and those people obviously knew the contents of the notice, pointing to the reader below the notice and pointing.

"It's changed, it's really changed!"

"Now the readers are all finished!"

Xiucai Huang Guiji stood in the middle of the group of scholars, and he read the notice in black and red again.

"The county will hold a civil service examination on April 27, with the main examination of public morality and the secondary examination of mathematics and literature. Those with excellent grades will be eligible to join the government as officials. Those with outstanding results can participate in the provincial examination, and those who pass the provincial examination can become officials! ”

If the imperial examination, which had been suspended for a year by the Son of Heaven before, was just a signal that the imperial examination was about to be replaced, then the determination of the date of the public morality examination this time should be regarded as a true proof that the imperial examination was completely finished.

The imperial examination is supposed to be held once every few years, and stopping for a year does not mean anything. The game between Li Zhi and the Son of Heaven is treacherous, and no one knows what will happen in a year. If Li Zhi loses power at that time, it is very likely that the Son of Heaven will regain control of the situation. But now that the public morality examination has officially begun, it means that the situation in the world has been settled all of a sudden.

The public morality examination will officially replace the imperial examination as the standard for selecting officials and scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

The full-bodied economy of talents, lifters, and jinshi will become completely useless, and even become a piece of black history.

Huang Guiji staggered back and bumped into a child behind him.

He suddenly couldn't contain his grief, and began to weep under the notice.

"Sven sweeps the floor! Where are the sages? Under the dry day, Sven swept the floor! ”

He wept and wept, tears flowed down his face, and he became more and more grieved. At last he bent down weakly and fell to the ground. He sobbed on the ground, and his tears continued to fall on the bluestone slab in front of the county yamen like water droplets, mixing with the rain in the cracks of the stones.

Huang Guiji's bitter cry caused a huge resonance.

The other talents and children all sighed and cried together. The death of this imperial examination is really more tragic than the death of the country.

If the death of the Ming Dynasty is the death of the country, then the cancellation of the imperial examination is the death of the world.

The country is dead, but Confucianism is still there, no matter who comes to be the emperor, he still has to govern the country with the Confucianism of "monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, fathers, sons". In the original history, the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not change the tax-free privileges of the gentry, nor did it abolish the special status of meritorious figures. The gentry are still masters, and the Confucian scholars are still well-dressed.

But if the world dies, all the people who read in the world will be finished.

In the future, scholars with meritorious names will no longer be respected, and Confucians who can write articles can no longer become officials through the imperial examination. Scholars will be transformed from well-dressed figures to useless scholars.

The more the readers cried under the notice, the more sad they became, and dozens of people howled and shouted together, as if they were a group of people crying.

Especially a person surnamed Liu in the crowd, it was extremely sad, his eyes were blood-red, and he seemed to be about to collapse and go crazy at any time.

Ma Kuai Zhou Wendeng stood on the periphery of the scholar and sighed.

Although he is just a fast horse, he has been working in the yamen for a long time, and he has also taught himself some words and can understand the notices.

Seeing the words of taking officials with public morality, Zhou Wendeng sighed again.

Come on, after that, his position as a horse is over, and he will definitely be replaced by someone who has passed the public morality exam.

Zhou Wendeng put his hands in his sleeves, glanced at the children, Xiucai and lifters kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help but sneer.

No matter how miserable he is Zhou Wendeng, he still has saved a lot of money obtained by extorting merchants over the years, and he can also be a rich man. If these scholars lose their fame, they lose everything, and the losses are far more heavy than that of Zhou Wendeng.

Zhou Wendeng was there fifty steps and a hundred steps laughing, but suddenly saw an old man with a flat shoulder walking over.

The old man was a vegetable seller in the vegetable market, and he had always been a loner. Zhou Wendeng bullied him for being lonely, and once extorted fifteen taels of silver from him. At this time, Zhou Wendeng was about to lose his position in the yamen, and his power was all over, and the old man began to attack Zhou Wendeng.

"Zhou Wendeng, you go to the court with me to beat the drum, I will sue you for extortion and blackmail, and defraud the old man of fifteen taels of silver!"

Zhou Wendeng's eyes widened, and he looked this old man up and down!

Zhou Wendeng didn't remember the fifteen taels anymore. There are not two hundred but one hundred people in this Neiqiu City who have been blackmailed by Zhou Wendeng, how can he be remembered by everyone? If it had been before, Zhou Wendeng could have commanded the archers to beat up this troublesome old man at any time, or even arrest him.

But now it's different, as soon as this notice came out, everyone in the county knew that Zhou Wendeng was about to lose power. Where did those archers still listen to Zhou Wendeng's dispatch? If you follow Zhou Wendeng to do evil again, sooner or later you will have to suffer a lawsuit and lose your life in the future!

Zhou Wendeng was staring there, but suddenly heard a middle-aged man next to him shouting angrily: "Zhou Wendeng, you took away two horses of Hangsi in my cloth village and never gave silver!" You won't come back today! I'll go to court tomorrow to sue you! ”

Zhou Wendeng was scolded by the middle-aged man and stupid.

Is this a posture to collectively liquidate itself?

It's a game-changer.

A middle-aged woman next to her suddenly rushed up, grabbed Zhou Wendeng's sleeve and shouted loudly: "Zhou Wendeng, you extorted two letters of silver from my family, and you still don't come back!" ”

Zhou Wendeng was woken up by this woman's pulling.

I can't stay in Neiqiu County anymore. I've done so many blackmail things before, I don't know how many people I've offended. Now that he has lost power, I am afraid that he will be skinned by these enemies.

The judges of those courts, encouraged by this notice, are likely to bring themselves to justice altogether.

Zhou Wendeng pushed the woman in front of him away with a sharp push, and fled to his home.

The middle-aged businessman standing next to him shouted: "Zhou Wendeng, don't run!" He flicked his sleeves and chased after him.

Huang Guiji was crying, but when he saw Zhou Wendeng's embarrassed escape, he stopped crying.

It's been a change! The former glory and arrogance will become a crime in the future. Those ordinary people who have been trampled under their feet do not know how to take revenge on themselves in the future!

Huang Guiji suddenly felt a sense of fear and looked at the people around him in a panic.

In the middle of the crowd, the blood-red man surnamed Liu raised his teeth and said, "This day can't fall!" We can't sit idly by and watch Li Zhi force the Son of Heaven to abolish the thousand-year-old Sage Dao!"

The words of the lifting man attracted the attention of the others, and the readers all looked at this lifting person.

"Everyone knows that if the imperial examination is over, our silver and our family property will not be saved! Our former enemies will jump out and skin us! ”

Juren glanced at the surrounding scholars, and said loudly: "The reason why the Son of Heaven was forced by Li Zhi and abolished the imperial examination against his will is nothing more than that there are no soldiers!" For example, if the son has been training a new army in the capital today, all he lacks is silver. At this time, you can't just look at the present! Everyone donated money to support the Son of Heaven in training the new army. ”

"The day when the new army is formed is the time when Li Zhi falls and the imperial examination is revived!"

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