The weather was groggy along the way, and the team arrived in Anqing in the evening. Although the weather was sultry and hot along the way, luckily it didn't rain, and we bought a lot of time for the family's autumn.
Because it was already evening when we arrived in Anqing City, Zhu Ping'an stayed in Anqing for one night and prepared to go to the riverside the next morning to look for a passenger ship to Yingtian.
The next morning, Zhu Pingan left the room and left the inn with his luggage on his back. It was already raining lightly outside. Zhu Pingan covered his luggage with a linoleum and walked to the riverside with a bamboo umbrella.
He found a small shop by the river and drank a bowl of old duck soup with the fried cakes made by his mother Chen. People along the Yangtze River love to eat duck. According to locals, duck is cool to warm and is best cooked. After breakfast, Zhu Pingan went straight to the Yangtze River. There were people coming and going at the Yangtze River pier and there were many masts.
The shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the pinnacle of the feudal period. Even though the voyages of the Sanbao eunuchs to the Western Ocean have become history, the ships anchored in the Yangtze River at this time are still amazing. It is difficult to imagine that such large ships are the product of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Ping'an inquired about the price of three boat operators on the riverside, settled on a passenger ship, paid more than 300 yuan in shipping fees, and boarded the passenger ship. This is a large, streamlined ship with a long hull, spacious and neat superstructure, fast speed, and comfortable accommodation.
The cabin Zhu Pingan paid belonged to the third-tier seats. The cabin he stayed in had four beds, but it was clean and tidy, with good air circulation, tables, chairs and beds in order, and meals were provided. Of course, this required additional money. It was my first time to take a long-distance boat ride, which was quite refreshing. After boarding the ship, Zhu Pingan put his luggage on the berth and opened the bay window, where he could sit or lie down, holding on to the edge of the window and enjoying the river breeze, which was very comfortable.
When the ship set off, no one had come up to the room where Zhu Ping'an was. The price of a third-class seat was not bad for a first-class seat. In Daming, there are many baiji dolphins in the Yangtze River. From time to time, baiji dolphins will follow the passenger ships outside the window, jumping up and down, like a dolphin show in an aquarium, which is very beautiful.
The White Emperor's farewell speech is among the colorful clouds. A thousand miles of rivers and mountains are returned in one day.
The wind and water were smooth and the ship was very fast. The ship set off in the morning and arrived at the dock outside Yingtian City at noon the next day. When we arrived at Yingtian, the original pier had been submerged due to heavy water. A temporary pier was built with bamboo rafts and floating barrels. The owner of the passenger ship kept shouting that both feet should be on the same board and pay attention to safety.
Carrying his luggage and standing outside Yingtian City, Zhu Pingan suddenly felt like I, Hu Hansan, was back.
"Hey, hey, hey, the one in front, you have to move. If you don't want to move, don't block the way..."
The rough voice of a man behind him wiped away Zhu Ping'an's high-spirited feeling.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Zhu Pingan turned his hand over in embarrassment and got out of the way.
"Oh, it's Mr. Xiucai, I'm disrespectful." The man was also well-informed. When he saw Zhu Pingan's student uniform, he couldn't help but tone a lot more respectfully, and stopped to let Zhu Pingan go first.
"Wherever, please." Zhu Ping'an cupped his hands and motioned for the other party to go first.
"You go first, I'm not in a hurry." The man shook his head.
Uh, okay, Zhu Pingan took the lead to Yingtian City with his luggage and umbrella on his back. After entering Yingtian, Zhu Pingan walked straight to the inn where he stayed last time.
The familiar Qinhuai River case, the familiar Jiangnan Gongyuan, the familiar Confucius Temple, and soon we arrived at the inn where we stayed last time. Because we only spent less than two days on the road this time, and there were still about seventeen days before the scientific examination, there were not many people in the inn at this time.
Zhu Ping'an just entered the inn. The shopkeeper immediately recognized the head of the hospital examination who walked out of the inn. He warmly welcomed Zhu Ping'an into the inn, and asked the waiter to get dry towels and the waiter to pour ginger soup. Yes, it really feels like home.
"Mr. Zhu wants to stay in a hotel. Your room was reserved for you last time."
Perhaps because Zhu Pingan's last case brought a lot of business to the store, the shopkeeper directly arranged Zhu Pingan to the upper room where he stayed last time. When paying, the shopkeeper refused to accept the payment many times, but only accepted the money at Zhu Ping'an's insistence, but the price was one hundred cents less than the last time the attic paid.
The autumn rain outside the window refused to stop, like silver-gray sticky spider silk, weaving into a soft net, covering the entire sky.
Sure enough, it was an autumn rain and a cold, only for two days. It was still very hot when I left home, but now I can feel the coolness.
Zhu Ping'an packed up his things, took a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, then sat at the table, spread out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote a letter of peace, including the address, recipient and other information, and a small sum of money. Yinzi asked the clerk at the shop downstairs to take time to deliver it to the nearby Civil Information Bureau. Zhu Ping'an only knew that there was a People's Credit Bureau at this time, but he didn't know how much the fee was. He gave the shop clerk a piece of silver, and he would refund the extra money and use the extra money as his meal money.
The Civil Information Bureau is a professional civil postal agency that appeared among the people during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty - the Civil Information Bureau. The emergence of the Civil Information Bureau is the inevitable result of the increasing development of private trade and non-governmental exchanges. Of course, Zhu Ping'an didn't care what the reason for his appearance was, as long as he could send the news that he was safe to his parents.
In the evening, the store clerk brought dinner, gave Zhu Pingan a receipt note with a private seal, and informed Zhu Pingan that the letter had been sent to the Civil Information Bureau and that he had twenty coins left.
After thanking the waiter and having dinner, Zhu Pingan sat in front of the window, lit an oil lamp, and practiced writing strategies.
After passing the Boy's Examination, policy discussions such as the Provincial Examination, the General Examination, the Imperial Examination, etc. play a large role. In addition, in ancient times, the evaluation of a person's talent was roughly divided into three parts: one is poetry, the other is classics debate, and the third is policy and argumentation, among which the proportion of policy and argumentation is no less than that of poetry. For example, Su Xun, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was Su Shi's father. Have you heard of any of his poems? No, he became famous for his policy treatise "Six Kingdoms". His comments on the Northern Song Dynasty army and his operational ideas were circulated among scholars and the court, making Su Xun one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. name.
Although the Eight-part essay occupies the entire scientific examination of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has always focused on "policy" when selecting scholars, and the Ming Dynasty is no exception. The Eight-part essay is just a style, and those with outstanding literary talent are better, but your unique insights and talents It's the best choice. Especially during the palace examination, strategy and discussion took center stage. The emperor asked questions about current affairs, farming, folk customs and other issues at that time, and the candidates answered them. This was the strategy. For example: The emperor asks you how to control Japanese pirates along the coast, and you come up with your own ideas, opinions and opinions.
Well, at this time, Zhu Pingan was trying to write a policy paper on countering Japanese invasion on the topic of coastal Japanese invasion.
"Everything a Japanese slave needs is produced in our vast country, like a mat in the house, which was woven in Chang'an in Hangzhou; women must have powdered powder, and all the work on the fans and fans must be gold and silver foil, made in the Wulin; he is like Rao's porcelain. The silk and cotton of the lake, the gauze and silk of the Zhang, and the cotton of the pines are especially valued by that country.
The rituals and music of the Japanese country have collapsed, the thieves and chiefs are fighting, and the people cannot be civilized. They are also greedy for the prosperity of China, and they are also seeking to make a living. The Japanese slaves plundered many coastal counties and counties in Shandong, Zhili, eastern Zhejiang, and Fujian. The bandits became more and more fierce.
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The reason why the Japanese invaders are Binhai patients is not that the Japanese invaders dare to invade China, but that China itself is a bandit. The government usually has no way to educate and care for people. Forced by hunger and cold, they drive them away and become thieves, but they can't find a way to disperse them or recruit them. When the envoys came, Bi Zhiyang was in a strong position, and they joined the boats to form a stronghold, and captured the officers and soldiers and burned the Han ships.
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After finishing writing, Zhu Pingan read it once, then suddenly crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the trash can. After thinking for a while, he picked it up again and burned it close to the oil lamp.
Now is the time when Jiajing was refining elixirs and Yan Song was in power. There were a lot of problems such as government corruption, lack of armaments and so on... Now the emperor opened the Enke because of the frequent occurrence of peace and prosperity. He reported this himself. There are a lot of questions. Isn't this a slap in the emperor's face? Does he mean to report Yan Song? Yan Song has many minions. With my small body now, if Yan Song's minions move their little fingers, I will be waiting to be sent to Jinyiwei or Dongchang Prison. Bar.
Yan Song is a traitor, but now is not the time to face him head-on.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan took out another piece of rice paper, lit an oil lamp, and wrote another article with a different idea. (To be continued.)
