The Huanghuang Donglin Party, such a huge force, was killed overnight. Not only was the core figure in the court, but even the temporarily dormant Lu Daqi and others did not run away and were all arrested.

The people from the Dongchang and Jinyiwei kept counting their property day and night. To be honest, the people of the Donglin Party were of varying quality. There were many honest and self-righteous people, and of course there were more despicable people. Moreover, their greed had no bottom line. They plucked their hair by geese, and they ate people without spitting bones.

There are those who love gold and silver, some who love cultural relics, some who like antiques, some who hoard fields, some who even like strange things in the West, and some who collect beauty to enjoy.

These things were not searched directly, but were put in boxes and displayed along the street. You can see clearly how much property someone has. These real things will not tell lies. You regard yourself as a loyal person, but you have been greedy for tens of thousands of dollars. Could it be that they are obtained by salary?

Everyone has an account in their hearts. When these things were announced, the people in Nanjing were infuriated. Everyone pointed at them and scolded the Donglin Party. Many gentry deprived of the Donglin Party united and wrote a letter to Ma Shiying, asking for severe punishment of the Donglin Party.

In short, a spark triggered a wave of public opinion in the city, and everyone was talking about it.

Just in a teahouse, three scholars sat in their seats against the window, sitting in their early twenties in the middle, with a person in their thirties on the right and a person in their thirties and a person in their 17 or 18 years old on the left.

The scholar sitting in the middle had a beautiful face and a smiling face. He looked happy. He grabbed a few peanuts and rubbed off his skin. He threw them into his mouth one by one, chewing them crunching.

"Brother Wu, why are you still so leisurely? The Donglin Party members have been arrested. What should we do?"

"Brother Zhu, it's okay, why are you worried about the Grand Secretary? They arrested them. What should we do?"

"Brother Zhu" in his early thirties had his eyebrows twisted together and he sighed, "We only arrived at Donglin Academy half a year ago. We originally wanted to be influenced. It would be better if we could get into a juren. Isn't that waste of effort?"

"Hahaha, Brother Zhu, since Li Chuang entered Beijing, I have extinguished the idea of ​​imperial examinations. This is a chaotic world. No matter how good the eight-legged essay is, it is useless."

"It's useless, but it's always a way out. Now I don't even have a way out. I'm done, and I'll jump out in a while!"

The youngest person couldn't help but laugh and said, "Brother Zhu, you have such a good water quality. Not to mention jumping into the Yangtze River, you can't die even if you jump into the sea!"

While talking, the sound of footsteps outside the teahouse walked into several young scholars. After searching for a while, there was no empty seat, the eyes fell on the table beside the window. They knew each other, and the three people sitting were all Fujian scholars, Wu Kaijie in the middle, and his cousin on the left was his cousin named Wu Huanju, and the oldest was Zhu Chenghai.

"Brother Wu, what a coincidence, you are having tea here too."

"It turns out it's Brother Qin. I haven't seen your masterpiece for a long time. It's so delicious that I'm not eating anymore!"

"Hahaha, Brother Wu is so polite. Your knowledge is truly the first-class." They exchanged a few greetings and sat down with each other.

The "Brother Qin" said first: "I think I, Qin Shixiao, studied in Donglin Academy for two years and was cared for by the teachers. Now Donglin Academy has been enfeoffed and loyal ministers have been wronged and imprisoned. This is really heartbreaking! Several brothers are from Donglin. I wonder if they are willing to write to the court with us to protect the gentlemen in Donglin?"

Wu Huanju didn't like to listen, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Qin, all the senior officials in Donglin, their property has been announced, ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 taels to hundreds of thousands of taels. If you want to count the fields, you have a huge corrupt number of millions of taels. What kind of loyalty is this?"

"This is wrong. Being rich does not necessarily mean corruption. Many seniors are all prestigious families. What is a bit of money? Besides, is it possible that it is a false accusation? In short, I don't believe that Donglin's gentleman will be a person with different opinions."

Wu Kaijie suddenly smiled and said, "Brother Qin's words are reasonable, but we are just slight words. If we get angry, we will lose our heads. Let's have a tea, don't talk about state affairs, don't talk about state affairs!"

At this moment, two soldiers walked in from outside. Wu Huanju hurriedly patted Qin Shixiao, "Look, the one who caught you is here!"

"Where?" Qin Shixiao was so scared that he almost fell to the ground. At this time, the two soldiers had posted a notice on the pillars of the teahouse, and then turned around and left.

"You dare to play tricks on me, I will fight you!"

"Brother Qin, don't get angry, first look at what is written on it." Zhu Chenghai said, then walked to the front of the pillar, stretched his neck, and looked inside.

At first glance, Zhu Chenghai didn't feel anything, but the more he looked at his eyes, the bigger he opened, and gradually his breathing became rapid. At the end, he even clenched his fists and jumped up.

"Brother Zhu, what are you doing? Is it as for reading the notice of a few words for so long?" Qin Shixiao said impatiently.

At this time, Zhu Chenghai finally came back to his senses, hurriedly ran to the front of the table, bowed to Wu Kaijie, and said, "Brother Wu, let's talk again when we have time. I want to go to read the book first."

"Welcome to the book?" Wu Kaijie smiled and said, "It's still early for the imperial examination and the academy is in charge. Why are you in a hurry?"

"You can't be in a hurry, the exam is about to begin?"

"What exam? Is the imperial examination? Is the emperor going to get a tribute?" Qin Shixiao couldn't help asking.

"No, the notice said, it is a temporary special department, mainly recruiting talents for the world and financial resources to be responsible for the military farming in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and other places."

"What kind of exam is this?" Wu Kaijie was also shocked and couldn't help asking.

"I don't know either, but it's said above that if you can pass the exam, you will be given a ninth-rank official position."

"It's only a ninth grade, what's that?" Qin Shixiao couldn't help but curl his lips.

Zhu Chenghai smiled and said, "Brother Qin, you are well-educated, I can't compare with you. Since you passed the scholar at the age of 18, you have been taking the exam for more than ten years, and you have not changed at all. Not to mention getting a Jinshi in this life, you can't even pass the exam for Juren. If you can get this exam and change to a ninth-rank position, you will be considered an official at least. You can save some money for your family."

"Brother Zhu, if you want to say that this ninth rank is not small anymore. You are from the third grade and Jinshi, so many people have been stuffed into the Sixth and Eighth rank censors. Don't mention that you are too hard-working. This ninth rank official is still in charge of the military farm, and at least there is some oil and water to be reaped!"

"It's still Brother Wu who said that. Taking this exam will not delay the imperial examination. As long as you have been in three years, you can still take the imperial examination."

Qin Shixiao couldn't help but curl his lips: "Brother Zhu, it's quite cost-effective to say that. I'm afraid the exam will not be too easy, right?"

"It shouldn't be too difficult. It's written above. In principle, 3,000 people should be recruited. If you have excellent grades, you can also expand your enrollment, which is more than ten times more than the imperial examination!"

When Qin Shixiao heard this, he immediately choked on the tea.

"How many, three thousand people? Isn't it a joke?"

"Whoever is joking? If you don't believe me, go and check it out yourself. Anyway, I don't want to waste my time. If you have the chance, try it!"

Zhu Chenghai said goodbye, and Qin Shixiao became interested immediately. He hurriedly got up and rushed towards the crowded crowd. The tea lovers had already squeezed in front of the notice and looked at it, pointing fingers.

"Did you see that you have to recruit thousands of people just to clean up the Donglin Party's property? I really don't know how much money these people are greedy?"

"Who said it was no? I often heard them pointing out the country and saying that wise men came to the court and the country was ruled. Now, when I see, they came to the court and their pockets were round!"

"Stop talking about this, let's take a look at this military farmer. It will recruit more than 3,000 yuan. If there are students at home, go and try it. Although the ninth rank is not big, it is as thin as the lord, and it is smaller than the county magistrate and the county magistrate, which is not bad!"

"Isn't it? Our neighbor has been taking the exam all his life, but he hasn't even made a scholar, so he's so shameless!"

Qin Shixiao tried a lot and squeezed in and looked carefully at the notice. He immediately became excited. He squeezed out of the crowd and couldn't help but feel extremely excited.

"I have a chance, I can become an official!"

He shouted like a madman, and all the tea guests around him looked at each other, but Qin Shixiao didn't care about this and took a few steps to Wu Kaijie's table.

"Brother Wu, it is written that if you do well in the Tuntian Village, you can be promoted to county magistrate directly. The future evaluation and promotion will be the same as those from the imperial examination. This is really a shortcut to Zhongnan!"

Wu Kaijie suddenly smiled and said, "The shortcut in Zhongnan is true, but whose fields are stored in this military farm? But can you manage the fields of those gentlemen in Donglin?"

Wu Huanju also smiled and said, "That's right, someone just said that he wanted to write a petition for Donglin's gentleman. Is that the petition that is the petition?"

Qin Shixiao's face turned red, and he could only argue: "One time and another time, the Prime Minister can introduce such good policies, which shows that he is caring for scholars all over the world. Compared with scholars all over the world, what is Donglin worth? I have been with you too, so I will also go to review the books!"

Qin Shixiao and a few friends quickly left the teahouse, fearing that they would be one step too late.

"Brother, this is called having milk, isn't it?"

Wu Kaijie smiled and said, "It's not a mistake at all. Why did he pull someone to write a letter? It's just to win a wealthy person. If the Donglin Party can make a comeback, no matter whether it is useful or not, it will be rewarded for the benefactor who is difficult to reach. However, this kind of thing that can get a thief from the fire is risky after all. If he can honestly pass the exam for a ninth-rank official and climb up in the future, why take that risk?"

"Brother, you have seen through people's hearts. Should we take this exam as well?"

Wu Kaijie smiled and waved his hand: "This idea is so clever. If you destroy the Donglin Party, then open the door of good deeds and win over scholars all over the world, it is equivalent to digging the ancestral grave of the Donglin Party. This method is not something that Ma Shiying can use. In my opinion, it is probably the work of the Duke of Ji Guo, Gu Zhenhua."

"That's right, Duke Ji is indeed a hero. He is not only the first-class training and fighting, but also has extraordinary skills. If you can quickly open up the situation in Henan, you can see how extraordinary this person is!"

"Hahaha, since we know who did it, why should we get to be a friend of mine? Just rely on Duke Ji directly. With my ability, Gu Zhenhua's eyes will be lit!"

After the notice was posted, the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang were shocked. The young scholars were ready to speak out for the Donglin Party, so it can be said that public opinion was on the verge of the outbreak.

But at this moment, the news of the exam came, and instantly changed the sight of scholars. It was low in difficulty, many admissions, and could become an official directly without delaying the future. Such good things are hard to come by.

Even those deadly and hard-working elements in Donglin wanted to cause any storm, no one played with them and went to review books. And some people also heard that they had to test some common sense about agriculture and workers. In an instant, miscellaneous books that were originally ignored were also popular. All the bookstores were stolen, and there were not enough printings. Some people simply copied books directly.

At this time, many collections of booklets appeared on the market, including exam collections, which are not bad at all compared to the college entrance examinations in later generations. These young scholars were all studying hard.

Gu Zhenhua also wanted to know whether his prescription was useful, so he went to various registration points to check it out. As soon as he arrived at the scene, he was shocked. The long queue lined up for several miles, and the lively level was beyond imagination.

Gu Zhenhua saw a scholar in his thirties at a glance and couldn't help but ask with a smile: "Brother, in the future, the special sciences will reduce the weight of the Four Books and Five Classics, and take more astronomy, geography and agricultural technology. What do you think?"

"What else can I do? Read more books, but those old boys who have lost their fortunes will suffer."

After hearing this, Gu Zhenhua couldn't help laughing in his heart: The adaptability of Chinese people is indeed top-notch! (To be continued...)
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