Song Yingsheng never thought that his younger brother would have the idea of ​​giving up the imperial examination.

Could it be that I was caught in an evil way after going out?

Song Yingxing grabbed his brother Song Yingsheng, who was about to go to find the doctor, and said, "Brother, don't worry, I'm not sick."

Song Yingsheng opened Song Yingxing and held his hand and said angrily: "I'm not sick yet! I think you are very sick! I have been so tired after more than ten years of hard work, and I gave up just by saying that I gave up? Didn't I say that Enko will fight again this year?"

Song Yingxing stared at Song Yingsheng with a serious face and said, "Brother, I only understood a truth today.

If you really want to do something for the country and the people, you don’t have to be an official in the imperial examination. Even if you don’t serve as an official, your younger brother can still study something that you like but can benefit the country and the people.”

Seeing that Song Yingsheng was still full of anger, Song Yingxing continued, "What our brothers learned at the beginning was based on the knowledge of the classics and practiced ethics and education, so why do you have to be an official in the imperial examination?"

Song Yingsheng was extremely angry and scolded: "Even so, why is it not the imperial examination? What conflict does the imperial examination have with you fiddling with those messy things? Are you really planning to stop studying and specialize in studying those strange techniques?"

Song Yingxing said: "What my brother said is wrong. How come he is just a skill? Without the skills of all craftsmanship, where does the clothes on you and me come from?

The books we brothers read were also printed? If it weren’t for the printing technique created by Mr. Bisheng of Song, relying solely on carvings, can you and my brother afford it?”

Song Yingsheng was stunned for a moment.

The woodblock printing mentioned by Song Yingxing is to paste a neatly copied manuscript on a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness. The engraving worker used a carving knife to cut off the part without the text on the page, which became a protruding positive text with a font. He applied ink on the raised font, and then covered the paper on it, gently brushed the back of the paper, and the handwriting was left on the paper.

This kind of printing technique is basically a rigid one on a page. Once a word is engraved incorrectly, the entire engraving will be declared scrapped, which means that the cost of woodblock printing is extremely high.

The cost is high, and the price of the books sold is expensive. This is why poor scholars in the past like to borrow books to copy.

However, this book is not something you can borrow as long as you want. Unless the relationship is really good, who would risk the book being damaged?

Moreover, the high cost means that the threshold for studying is raised. Many students who want to study often interrupt their study because they cannot afford to buy or borrow books.

After the movable type printing technique studied by Bi Sheng appeared, this situation became much better.

If a word can be used repeatedly, even if it is broken, it is just a word model. Just make another word.

As the cost of printing books decreases, the price of books also decreases accordingly. Similarly, more and more people can afford to buy books.

From the perspective of the Hengqu School, which emphasizes the application of classics and practices etiquette, this is a good thing that benefits the present and the future.

Song Yingsheng can't say anything about movable type printing is a weird trick.

When Song Yingxing saw that his brother was refuted, he felt a little disgusted.

When Song Yingxing was young, he studied in a private school run by his uncle Song Heqing with his brother Yingsheng. In the 43rd year of Wanli, Song Yingxing and his brother went to Nanchang, the provincial capital to participate in the Yimao examination.

Among more than 10,000 candidates, the 29-year-old Song Yingxing was the third juren in the province, and the chief of Shi ranked sixth.

Among the Fengxin students, only two brothers passed the imperial examination, so they were also called "Fengxin Two Songs".

However, my brothers were not lucky, and later they failed the imperial examinations many times and never won the Jinshi.

Originally, Enke, who was originally planned to be the last time in the first year of Chongzhen, would win if he could win, and if he couldn't win, he would return home.

I just didn’t expect that Enke had not started yet, and there were rumors that Chongzhen would continue to hold Enke again in the second year.

Sure enough, the two of them lost their reputation again.

Because the left and right are still in the capital, and the remarks of Emperor Chongzhen's anger at the school during the palace examination made the brothers feel that the emperor is beginning to pay attention to the learning of the classics and applied, so he decided to try again, and this is the delay until this year.

Now that Enko is about to come, he doesn’t plan to take the exam, but wants to give up. What will his brother think? Can he feel at ease?

Song Yingxing, who felt guilty, bowed and said, "Brother, don't be upset. Is it okay if I'm willing to try again?"

Song Yingsheng sighed and said, "You, stop taking the Jinshi exam, just go to the exam and study the subject."

Song Yingxing said curiously: "Why? Didn't my elder brother always oppose me to take the exam and study the subject?"

Song Yingsheng sighed: "Maybe my brother thought badly before, so the subject of the study of the judging and the subject of the Jinshi may not be lower than that of the subject of the Jinshi.

From the Song Dynasty to the present, there are countless scholars, and even more so many officials. However, who can surpass Mr. Bi Sheng if he truly keeps his name in history?

Furthermore, what I value today is the knowledge that is practical and practical. This subject of studying things is loved by you and valued by the emperor. Isn’t it a matter of the best of both worlds?

Forget it, you go to take the exam and study the subject."

After thinking about it, Song Yingsheng continued, "Brother Wei has also figured out something in the past few days."

Song Yingxing asked curiously: "I wonder what the elder brother has figured out?"

Song Yingsheng thought carefully and said, "You and I have always thought that the emperor valued the place where the scriptures are understood and applied, but in fact, you and I have thought it was not bad. I thought that my brother thought about it today, the learning of practical and practical.

It is better to use the classics and to use the world. The difference between the two is a thousand miles apart. This year, the Enke trial will be just a failure again. It is better to participate in the Interview and Research Department with a good life, which is also a way out."

When Song Yingxing heard this, he fell into deep thought.

From now on, the Royal Academy was established first after ascending the throne, the elder brother's judgment was correct.

But more than ten years of hard study have been wasted?

It’s okay for me to say that after all, I met with Lord Xu Guangqi, the head of the Royal Academy, and it was a bit of friendship, but what about my elder brother?

Go back to farm here?

Thinking of this, Song Yingxing felt ache and said, "Brother? Why don't you and I take the exam together to study the physics department?"

Song Yingsheng smiled and said, "Okay, you should prepare well for your subject of studying things. You don't know more about those things than you. I probably can't take the exam.

I plan to take the Jinshi exam first. If I fail the Jinshi exam, I will go to the Minglu exam again. Isn’t there any hope of success?”

Song Yingsheng's words finally gave Song Yingxing a little comfort, and once again ignited his heart, intending to prepare for the exam.

Emperor Chongzhen, who returned to the palace, also began to work hard.

Wen Tiren and Shi Fenglai and other ministers who could be called lackeys of the Imperial Party and military bosses from the Five Army Protectorate Office, plus the spy chiefs of the two factories and one guard, were summoned into the palace again.

After glanced at everyone in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen coughed his throat and said, "I'll call everyone into the palace today to discuss the matter of Ryukyu."

When Wen Tiren heard Emperor Chongzhen mention the word Ryukyu, Nao Ren'er began to feel a little painful.

Ryukyu has been enthroned by the Celestial Empire since ancient times, and it is also a vassal state of the Celestial Empire. This is the case wherever it goes.

Now that Ryukyu is bullied by Japan, I must not just let it go, otherwise what would be the face of the Celestial Kingdom?

To put it directly, if the Ming Dynasty could not even protect a vassal state that regarded itself as a father, but was bullied by a group of short-lived sons, what would other foreign countries in the world view the Ming Dynasty?

Why should everyone follow him if you are a big boss who cannot protect his younger brother?

The foreign country is full of ambition, so where can there be a scene of four barbarians serving the people and coming from all directions? In the historical books of later generations, I and the princes in the court were sinners of the Ming Dynasty!

Especially myself, I am the unforgivable villain.

Even for this, Wen Tiren felt that Emperor Chongzhen’s proposal of Ryukyu was right, and the Ming Dynasty should make the decision for Ryukyu.

Otherwise, wouldn’t the Ming Dynasty fought against Japan for the sake of the Lee family of Korea during the Wanli period become a joke throughout the ages?

But no matter how much I agree with it, Emperor Chongzhen felt that this could not be viewed like this.

Daming still has a lot of shit not wiped clean!

Not to mention it, Jiannu from Liaodong has not yet figured it out, so he is thinking about confronting Japan?

Are you planning to learn from the First Emperor Ying Zheng and the Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang? Do everything yourself?

This is not done like this.

After considering it, Wen Tiren bowed and said, "I am calling your Majesty. I think it is best to slow down the matter in Ryukyu. It is better to wait until the Jiannu of Liaodong is completely pacified before discussing it. Now I will issue an order to reprimand it."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, but said nothing.

Although I didn't think of any good idea when I was wandering outside the palace, I suddenly thought that I could do something Japanese first when I returned to the palace.

How could the Ming Dynasty be a vassal king? Isn’t there anyone who wants to transfer the seal? At worst, I can get one over?

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen rejected this idea again.

Who can guarantee that the vassal kings will always be devoted to the Ming Dynasty? What if the vassal kings in Japan want to make something evil, wouldn’t they be the ones who are upset?

But what Wen Tiren said now is not good either.

Is there any use to issue an order to reprimand? Will people listen to you?

Besides, Japan and the Ming Dynasty have a fart tribute system now?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen also had a headache.

Japan was originally one of the foreign countries of the Ming Dynasty, so there was no problem with this.

Originally, after Lao Zhu confronted the Mongolian Yuan, he wanted to restore Japan's tribute relations.

But at that time, the Japanese had no idea what was wrong with their heads. They always felt that the Ming Dynasty was not the Song Dynasty. In other words, you were not the country of the Celestial Empire. If you confronted the Mongolian Yuan, I also confronted you. Why did I have to pay tribute to you?

After all, the short men simply killed the envoys sent by Lao Zhu.

After Lao Zhu was slapped in the face, he originally wanted to send soldiers to criticize these short lie and teach them how to behave.

But in the end, I don’t know what Lao Zhu thought. Anyway, my final decision was to never deal with him and use this as a ancestral teaching to warn future generations.

But everyone is next to each other. If you want to say that there is no connection between such a close distance, it is purely nonsense.

In the fourth year of Jianwen, Ashikaga Yoshiman felt that he had to hold the thighs of the Celestial Kingdom. After thinking about it, he wrote a letter to Emperor Jianwen, hoping to restore his tribute relationship.

Emperor Jianwen saw that this matter was OK. Doesn’t this mean that I was wise and powerful, and I was here to pay the shamelessness of the fourth uncle. After this, Jianwen agreed.

In the same year, after the fourth brother took over his nephew's throne and sat down, he continued the Japanese tribute, and the two sides also signed the "Kanhe Trade Treaty".
To be continued...