In Baofeng County, Henan Province, there was just a heavy rain a few days ago.

There was a lot of standing water in the low-lying areas, but the rain quickly dried up under the scorching sun. After the accumulation of water, the ground was wet and muddy, and when it was exposed to the scorching sun, it cracked and rolled up pieces of palm-sized crust.

The weather was too hot, except for some ignorant children who were full of interest, everyone else was lazy and couldn't lift their spirits.

In one courtyard, a tear-stained young woman washes her bloody clothes. The clothesline pulled in the courtyard was also hung with bloody cloth, and while he was doing his work, he saw the local tooth pedestrians come in with a few mighty men.

Fangya man bowed to the woman in the courtyard and said, "Lady of the Niu family, can you see the cow?" ”

At this question, the woman opposite burst into tears: "The blood is not shed, and it is also a loss to the doctor, and the money for this soup is still on credit." ”

"It doesn't matter, Niu family lady, it's not easy to save your life. It is said that if you don't die in a catastrophe, you will have a blessing in the future, no, you see that these officials are here to find your family leader, and there are good things! The tooth pedestrian said with a smile on his face and a little respect.

When the woman on the other side heard this, she was a little frightened and hurriedly said, "These masters are from the official family?" What is it about looking for me to be in charge? But where is the prefectural order? ”

However, several mighty men on the opposite side suddenly issued an official post, explaining word by word.

Probably means that the household department has shown that Niu Juren has been given a vacancy and can be an official, so he is hereby notified.

In an instant, the little lady was stunned, and then with a look of ecstasy, she rushed into the room. From time to time, a man's incredulous inquiry came from inside the room.

The characteristic of the imperial examination is that it can always create the myth of soaring overnight, especially the story of the poor family who developed after the examination, which is talked about by the people.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of a person was almost equivalent to that of an official, and he was considered to have entered the ruling class.

However, there is a premise for this, which is that you are not a person in the late Ming Dynasty.

Niu Jinxing, the word Juming, was born in Baofeng County, Henan Province at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In his twenties, he was a talent in the Apocalypse (1626). There is a field in the north of Pibei, and he sets up a museum to teach apprentices on weekdays, and lives a life of only enough food and clothing.

In 1640, that is, more than ten years later, he was introduced by Li Yan to Li Zicheng, and suggested that "less punishment and killing, relief of the hungry, and collection of people's hearts", and became Li Zicheng's military advisor. And the prime minister of the Dashun Dynasty!

However, now he is just an unlucky person, and he has a shortcoming that is not a shortcoming, he is studious and loves to drink and get drunk.

After getting drunk once last month, Niu Jinxing shook out the "ugliness of the boudoir" of his in-laws, Wang Shijun, a Jinshi in Xiangfu County.

This made Wang Shijun hold a grudge, and later Wang Shijun took advantage of Niu Jinxing to beat the county officials after drinking, and together with the Yi Order, he fabricated charges, and then reported it, and finally made Niu be stripped of his reputation, and he was imprisoned for a few days, and he was beaten after punishing all his family property.

A scholar finally became a lifter, but he fell back to his original form, and this life is over. The physical and spiritual pain and despair can be imagined as a big blow to Niu Venus.

However, now, just when he was desperate, someone suddenly came from the household department, saying that it was his turn to fill the vacancy for the lifter.

Obviously, the memorabilia in the prefectural order has not yet reached the household department, and this is a document that came down in advance.

Shangguan can suppress the official, as long as he takes office first, and then opens up the relationship, taking advantage of this trend, his fate will be completely different.

Thinking of this, it turned out that Niu Venus, who was injured in the body, was immediately excited and couldn't help himself.

The ups and downs of life are so exciting, don't laugh at Fan Jinzhong, who almost went crazy after the move, and now Niu Jinxing is also out of shape!

A few days later, the anxious Niu Jinxing, escorted by several brocade guards, insisted on the condition that his injuries were not healed. Hurry up and get into the carriage to the capital!

And on the other side at the same time!

Another important military and division-level figure for Li Zicheng in the future, Li Yan's entry into Beijing will be much more formal and harmonious after all.

Li Yan's original name was Li Xin, a native of Qi County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan, and a native of Ding Mao Nian of the Apocalypse. His father, Li Jingbai, is the governor of Shandong and the secretary of the military department, and can be said to be one of the trusted ministers of Zhu Zilong, the emperor of the cottage recently.

So it is half of his own people, and Zhu Zilong is the official official rules and regulations for summoning him into Beijing. And there is no murderous intent!

Compared with the literati on Zhu Zilong's special list, they are all now summoned to Beijing in an official form.

Some of the people on the list are not so easy to find and not so easy to use in a formal way.

For example, the very famous Comrade Zhang Xianzhong.

Because of the butterfly effect, there was a shortage of food in the year, and Wang Jiayin, together with Wu Yangui and others, organized a large number of local disaster victims, and competed to rise more than a year in advance. began to openly fight the rich and help the poor, and confronted the officers and soldiers, thus opening the prelude to the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Gao Yingxiang, Wang Ziyong and others led the people to take the initiative to follow Wang Jiayin's call and act together. The same is true for Zhang Xianzhong, who joined in advance.

The Jinyi guards who came to him looked at each other for a while, and only some of them had to be kept to observe in secret, and the others turned back to the Beijing Division, preparing to report the unexpected situation to Zhu Zilong.

And that's not even the worst of all.

The Jinyi guards who came to Li Zicheng felt the most cheating, because they were misleading.

There is more than one person surnamed Li in the small Mizhi County, and Li Zicheng is not called Li Zicheng at this time, his name is still Hongji except for the word. Because of the murder of his wife, he was just released from prison and used a fake name. There's no way to find it now!

A few Jinyi guards were misled by the locals at the beginning, and mistakenly arrested a person named Li Zicheng and a person named Li Hongji, what a pit!

It can be said that the leaders of the rebel army known to Zhu Zilong in history, except for most of the literati who can now be recruited to the capital with good reasons. The other leaders of the rebel army only caught a few minor leaders who had not yet participated in the uprising.

Basically 70% of the big fish miss the opportunity!

Of course, it's not that there are no achievements, but there are still some gains. Better than nothing!

A few days later, in the Ming Palace.

Looking at Luo Sigong, who was kneeling in front of him with some trepidation, Zhu Zilong looked at the brocade guards who had been sent back in a hurry for eight hundred miles. After reading it carefully word by word, he sat back on the dragon chair.

Playing with his finger on the table, he fell into thought.

When he was young, Zhu Zilong sighed.

"Si Gong, I know that Jinyiwei has done his best, and I won't blame you." Zhu Zilong put down the fold and said.

"Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live." Luo Sigong's clothes were wet with beads of sweat, and he finally heard a relieved sentence and spit it out of Zhu Zilong's mouth.

"The people above, I circled them in red, and in the future, I will find a reason to commit crimes with them and lay down in prison. After the green circle arrived in Beijing, they were all arranged to enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Guozijian, gave a few idle positions, and followed up with observation. The name of the black circle will be killed directly in the middle lane! ”

After mentioning the jade pen on the list and marking the three colors of red, green and black, Zhu Zilong explained to Luo Sigong again.

"The emperor can rest assured, the minister knows what to do." Carefully took the list, Luo Sigong replied with a serious face-

(To be continued.) )