"Brother Rulin!" Lin Qingcai looked at Su Ze in surprise.
Su Ze also quickly greeted him. Lin Qingcai was indeed good. He did not alienate Su Ze and Chen Chaoyuan because he failed to pass the exam, but instead learned from them calmly.
After Chen Chaoyuan attended the county school, Lin Qingcai even took up the job of "Surprise" newspaper, which made Su Ze very fond of this classmate.
"I heard from Haijiao that Brother Rulin is giving us the lecture this time?"
Lin Qingcai's words were full of surprise. He knew Su Ze's abilities and felt that this was a good learning opportunity.
Su Ze nodded and asked Lin Qingcai: "What are the origins of the students recruited by Haijiaoyu this time?"
Teaching naturally requires teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. Su Ze asked Lin Qingcai about the origins of these students in order to teach them better.
Lin Qingcai said: "This time Haijiaoyu has accepted eight new disciples, all of whom are from poor families in Nanping County."
Su Ze felt more and more that the concept of Han Clan was empty. In the earliest times, Han Clan was also a family. During the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Han Clan also had prime ministers like Zhang Hua. Even the "Han" were large landowners with huge family properties, but they were not as good as the Gao Clan. A rich family has knowledge passed down from family, or it may be that their ancestors have never shown it before.
However, in the Ming Dynasty, the term "poor family" was almost the same as that of later generations, that is, the children of middle and low-level military officers like Su Ze, small landowners and farmers, or the descendants of the citizen class who made a living in the county.
Su Ze suddenly had an idea. Since he was going to rebel, he must understand the demands of various classes in Nanping County and grasp the class tendencies of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Isn't this just a field survey?
Su Ze secretly reflected on himself. Recently, he had been in contact with the upper class like Fang Zhifu a lot, and he was somewhat divorced from the masses mentally.
Although there are upper-class elites like Magistrate Fang who want to do things, rebellion still requires support from the bottom, especially the support of the general public.
The common people are a basket, the refugees who are too hungry to survive are common people, the homesteaders outside Nanping City are also common people, and the small urban bourgeoisie are also common people.
This is not just a simple summary of the haves and have-nots, but groups with their own interests and demands.
Teaching in Hai Rui's school is a good opportunity to analyze the current situation of the lower intellectual class in Nanping County.
Lin Qingcai said: "In recent years, the clan's social studies have declined, and even wealthy families do not hire private tutors. I am able to study in the county school, thanks to the Haijiaoyu."
Su Ze asked: "Why is social science so weak?"
Lin Qingcai sighed and said: "Nowadays, the social studies run by ordinary clans may not be able to produce a scholar for more than ten years. Except for the social studies of our clan, our marquis Lin family has stopped running social studies of other branches."
Sociology is a school run by the clan. A big family like the Lin family will hire private tutors to teach the children of the right age to study.
The Lin family in Houguan County is a large family that has produced Jinshi, and is a well-known scholarly family in Fujian. Unfortunately, Lin Qingcai's branch is a branch that moved to Nanping County and has not even produced a single Jinshi.
Su Ze took a pen and began to write down: "Brother Lin, there are more and more scholars taking part in the imperial examination. Where do these come from?"
Lin Qingcai said: "Big families hire famous teachers, private schools for officials, big families in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, and even Jinshi who have become official to give lectures, how can they compare."
"Brother Su, have you seen that most of the candidates who have won the exam in recent years are from Fuzhou Prefecture and Quanzhou Prefecture, followed by Xinghua Prefecture, and Xie Yuan is from Fuzhou Prefecture every year."
Lin Qingcai sighed and said: "Actually, for those of us from a small family, it would be a blessing to be selected as a scholar. We may have to study hard for a few years to take the exam, but we don't even dare to think about becoming a Jinshi."
"So over the years, those small families have gradually given up the idea of taking the imperial examination, and the children in the family have gradually stopped studying."
Su Ze recorded these things. If he wanted to do a rural survey, this would be a good starting point.
Children from wealthy families enter school early and have abundant educational resources, so they are naturally more likely to pass the imperial examination.
After passing the exam, you will have more resources, which will in turn support the family, thus forming a large imperial examination family like the Marquis Lin family.
The South also had an economic advantage, but the imperial examinations in the North were simply monopolized by some big families, and there was a legend that several imperial examinations were produced in one subject. This was all due to the influence of class consolidation.
Su Ze asked: "These poor people don't study, what do they do for a living?"
Lin Qingcai was very familiar with this. His family was a small landowner. He immediately said:
"Help the family take care of the property and land. If there is an industry in the city, they will go to the city to take care of the property. However, in recent years, fewer and fewer people have come to the city."
"Why?"
Lin Qingcai smiled and said, "It's not that I'm afraid that the gold-selling den in the city will turn people bad. Many children from small families got addicted to brothels and gambling houses after entering the city, and lost their family's property. Now these people's Most of the disciples stayed at home and took care of their property."
Su Ze recorded, “The small landowners who have lost their dreams of class promotion are gradually degenerating.”
Lin Qingcai added: "But nowadays, more and more businessmen's children in Nanping City are studying. Others who make a living in the county, such as lawyers, mathematicians, and doctors such as Shaw Medical School, are also studying more and more. , and there are many promising children who have been admitted as scholars."
Su Ze thought about it and understood the reason.
The original Hanmen of the Ming Dynasty were small landowners or some homesteaders with relatively large amounts of land.
According to the standards of the Han and Tang Dynasties, this was the "good family", the cornerstone of the empire, the most stable source of soldiers, and the class from which most grassroots officials came.
In the south, where commercial culture is relatively developed, these small landowners, or the land rentier class, are gradually losing their ambition and becoming corrupted very quickly.
The merchant class and the citizen class gradually took their place.
For example, among Su Ze's current classmates, there are those whose families are lawyers, some who are considered talents, and even some Yin-Yang students who are good at Feng Shui.
These people themselves have changed their own destiny through knowledge. They do not have ancestral land. If they want their children to maintain the status of the previous generation, they must study.
The same is true for the children of businessmen. Although businessmen are rich, their social status is relatively low, so they want their children and grandchildren to study and change their social status by spending money.
Businessmen could spend no money on the imperial examinations. Some wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River invited scholars to educate their children.
Those who are educated and literate are naturally the progressive class. Nowadays, some of the children of small landowners are completely illiterate, and they have access to food, drink, prostitution and gambling, so they are the most ruthless in exploiting the people.
Sure enough, we still need to investigate. Su Ze reflected on himself again. If he wants to rebel, then these small landowners who are doing evil in the countryside and exploiting the people are the targets to attack.
Those urban petty workers who are eager to improve their class and those progressive small businessmen who are willing to study can be united.
As for those big families that are really attached to the big tree of Ming Dynasty, or to the feudal imperial power, except for a few elites who can betray their own class, most of them are the most stubborn and reactionary.
Su Ze felt that he benefited a lot from this conversation with Lin Qingcai. Immediately afterwards, all the children from poor families who came to the county school to attend classes arrived.
Indeed, as Lin Qingcai said, among the eight new students recruited by Hai Rui this time, not many of them came from small families like Lin Qingcai. On the contrary, people from Nanping County paid more attention to the education of their children.
For example, among the eight students this time, there is a pair of brothers who are children of Shaw Medical Clinic.
Shaw's Medical Clinic is the private medical clinic that Huang Tiju of Huimin Pharmacy mentioned.
The Shao family found a way to get out of medical school and accumulated a lot of money by treating people.
The Shao brothers are named Shao Xianxue and Shao Xianxian. From their names, you can tell that the family has high hopes.
Both of them were educated by private tutors at home, and they just turned sixteen this year.
After the Shao family heard that Hai Rui was running a school, they didn't dare to send their children over.
After outstanding "graduates" like Su Ze and Chen Chaoyuan emerged, the Shao family immediately sent the two brothers to study.
[Lecture at County School, "Lecture" skill experience +9, Lv3, 108/300]
Su Ze was naturally very happy when he saw the increasing "lecture" skills and experience. What made him even more delighted was that after finishing a class, Su Ze also increased his "imperial examination" skills and experience.
Su Ze's class was quite satisfactory, and he didn't show any of his personal items.
Looking at these young faces, Su Ze gave them another copy of "Guanwen Guanzhi" and let them borrow it and copy it at the county school.
The anti-Japanese situation in Zhejiang was still unclear. Yu Dayou, who had lost contact for some time, once again sent a letter to Changning Wei. Lin Mojun asked Lin Xianyang, who had returned from visiting relatives, to bring the letter to Su Ze.
The last time he suffered another defeat, the imperial court issued an edict to rebuke Zhang Jing for being "fearful of war", which was only enough to reprimand Zhang Jing for being self-respecting.
After receiving the order, Zhang Jing knew that if he did not win another battle, his position as governor would be over.
The imperial court promoted Hu Zongxian to be the censor of Youqiandu and to patrol Zhejiang. Hu Zongxian immediately recommended Qi Jiguang, who was fighting against the Japanese in Qingzhou, as a general and transferred him to Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese.
The imperial court immediately approved Hu Zongxian's memorial. Yu Dayou was worried in his letter, thinking that Hu Zongxian was competing with Zhang Jing for the leadership of the anti-Japanese war, and he was afraid that the struggle between Jiangsu and Zhejiang high-level officials would affect the anti-Japanese war.
Hu Zongxian is difficult to evaluate in the history of the Ming Dynasty. He was attached to Yan Song, and according to the timeline before Su Ze traveled through time, he framed and killed Zhang Jing in order to compete for the leadership in the anti-Japanese war.
However, Hu Zongxian did lead troops to quell the Japanese rebellion. He reused Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, supported Xu Wei, Wen Zhengming and other Jiangnan celebrities, and formulated strategies to pacify the maritime areas.
Later, after Yan Song was overthrown, Hu Zongxian was liquidated and died in prison.
Now that Zhejiang has lost its father-in-law, Fang Wanghai, it is expected that Zhejiang will be completely in chaos.
The imperial court's focus was on Zhejiang, and the two major Japanese pirate leaders Wang Zhi and Xu Feng were also competing in Zhejiang. This was also the best time for Su Ze to survive and develop.
On May 20, despite the long-awaited calls from Fujian scholars, Wang Daokun, the Fujian inspector in charge of the provincial examination, finally arrived in Fuzhou Prefecture.
It is said that this inspector was very strict. After inspecting the Fuzhou government schools, he asked the students to take the exam on the spot. He reprimanded two students who did not answer the questions well. He also dismissed a scholar who was cheating and had the Fujian academic administration cancel him. student qualifications.
Next, the superintendent will inspect the counties, which scares all the students in Fujian half to death, especially those candidates who passed the boy examination through crooked ways. They are even more frightened and dare not go to the brothels anymore. They pick up books and study at home. read.
In a shabby pavilion outside Nanping City, Yanping Prefecture official Zhang Sijing was drinking tea and chatting with several students from the Prefecture.
Huang Shixing lit the small charcoal stove, poured the black tea into the pot, and then waited until the water in the small pot boiled, poured it from a small cup, and distributed it to everyone in the pavilion.
Zhang Sijing took a sip. He couldn't stand the strong aroma of Lapsang Souchong, so he put down the tea cup and said:
"The fragrance is far away and the fragrance is clear. This is the tea of a gentleman, but this is the tea of a villain!"
Hearing what Zhang Tuiguan said, Huang Shixing immediately smashed the teapot and said:
"This is a black tea that suddenly became popular in Nanping County. It is said that it was rainy this year during the Qingming Festival, and the teahouse did not have sunlight to dry the tea. This tea was made by mistake. I thought the tea soup was bright, but when Master Zhang explained the confusion, I realized that it was a villain. It’s okay if you don’t drink the tea!”
Everyone also smashed the tea cups one after another, showing their position of being a gentleman and far from being a villain.
Zhang Sijing nodded, and it was only thanks to the singing of Huang Shixing and others that he recovered from the pain of being demoted.
Zhang Sijing naturally knew why Huang Shixing was so flattering. He said:
"When I was in the capital, I had some friendship with Inspector Wang. I have already written a comment on your article and sent it to Inspector Wang."
Everyone was overjoyed immediately. Isn't it just for today that they followed Zhang Sijing?
After finishing speaking, Zhang Sijing said again:
"The academic style in Nanping County is not correct. The county professor ordered Hai Rui to set up a private school for non-students to enroll. There was also the scholar Su Ze who ran a newspaper to confuse the public and openly published obscene lyrics and songs. When Inspector Wang learns, I will do the same. Speak up and speak up, never allow such a guy to take part in the provincial examination!"
Zhang Sijing can be said to have a "clear distinction between love and hate, and he hates the house as much as the bird." After Fang Wanghai was promoted, he became very angry.
However, the imperial court had just activated Fang Wanghai to implement the banknote customs law. Zhang Sijing calmed down and knew that Fang Wanghai could not be impeached now.
Now he had Su Ze's idea. He knew that Wang Daokun also favored Qingliu and detained Fang Wanghai's son-in-law as a member of the strict party. If Su Ze could be expelled, it would make Zhang Sijing feel better.
Huang Shixing was overjoyed and flattered Zhang Sijing again, which made Zhang Sijing feel much better.
On the carriage leaving Fuzhou City, Wang Daokun was looking through a pirated book.
Wang Daokun loves to read, and he loves to read all kinds of books.
This is a pirated book that his book boy bought at a Fuzhou bookstore.
Wang Daokun refused to accept anyone who came, but he was attracted as soon as he saw it.
But after reading it, it turned out to be only half a book. He called the book boy: "Why is this book only half a book?"
The book boy immediately said: "To tell you what I'm saying, this is a drama series that was serialized on Pai Chen Surprise, and it hasn't been serialized yet."
Serialized?
Surprised?
After Wang Daokun arrived in Fuzhou City, he heard that there was a private newspaper in Nanping County, which was published every half month. It was very popular among scholars in Fujian and could be sold at a high price in Fuzhou Prefecture.
Wang Daokun said: "Go to Yanping Mansion first!"
(End of chapter)
