"Why are you so weak?!"
"It's no wonder that the traitors in the DPRK are hard to get rid of and etiquette is hard to maintain!"
Shen Tao cursed bitterly, then turned around and left. Because he was in a depressed mood, when he saw his servant squatting down to get on Ma Shi, he kicked him directly in the abdomen: "I told you to stand and squat down! How stupid." s things."
"Why are you talking like that? Anyone who doesn't observe etiquette is a traitor. What does it have to do with us? They are just a quarrel?!"
"That's right! If you have the ability, you can directly raise an army to clear the emperor's side. You just dare to stop taking the exam, but you are talking about us here."
"There are so many servants. It seems that they are the children of officials. Naturally, he would dare to stop taking the exam. If he is like us, he will not be able to honor his ancestors if he doesn't get the first place. Let's see if he dares to stop taking the exam."
Shen Tao's scolding made many scholars who originally supported Wu Zhongxing feel dissatisfied and criticized Shen Tao one after another.
"Enough!"
However, at this time, Wu Zhengzhi, a radical scholar, saw this and couldn't help shouting at these scholars, and then asked these scholars:
"Isn't he right? Aren't we cowardly?!"
Wu Zhengzhi said and also led his servants to chase Shen Tao:
"My friend, please stay. I am willing to stop the exam with you!"
At this time, several scholars also followed.
"Do you want to stop taking the exam?"
Li Tingji asked Ye Xianggao at this time.
Ye Xiang looked intently at Wu Zhongxing who was being escorted away in front of him: "Why do you want to stop taking the exam? Is it because the court no longer favors scholars? How is this different from a profit-seeking businessman?"
Li Tingji smiled faintly: "Aren't you also quite dissatisfied with the current political affairs?"
"To be precise, it's not dissatisfaction, but worry!"
Ye Xianggao replied.
After hearing this, Li Tingji asked: "So you plan to continue taking the exam."
"Not only do we need to take exams, but we also need to give advice!"
"Actually, quitting the exam is not a sign of cowardice."
Ye Xianggao said and left here.
Li Tingji followed: "How do you remonstrate? What if the remonstrance fails and only makes your parents sad?"
"A heart of ice is in a jade pot."
…
"If your family members ask, tell them this poem by Uncle Wang."
In the end, Shen Tao did not decide to go south, but stayed in the capital temporarily. He only sent one servant back, and went to the capital with Tan Hongzhi and others.
They planned to gather scholars to imitate the custom in Suzhou of crying to the founder Kong Shengsheng at the Confucian Temple in the capital when something was wronged by the government. Xiaoju mobilized the scholars to complain to the superior government and organized a boycott movement.
Because Shen Tao and Qin Hongzhi still wanted to instigate more students to stop taking the exam, because it would be meaningless for only a few dozen of them to stop taking the exam, and it would still affect their family's social status among the local wealthy families, so they decided to try their best to use the crying temple incident Instigated more scholars to stop taking exams, especially those from Nanzhi.
"On December 21, the tenth year of Wanli, Xiaolian in Jiangnan captured Wu Fu'an for Tiqi. He was audacious and domineering. He blatantly violated the ancestor's rules of favoring and supporting scholars. He ignored the benevolent government of the Holy Dynasty and was willing to be a pawn of the traitorous party, intimidating and humiliating. Famous Confucians. The crimes are overwhelming and the people are full of resentment. People who read can eat the country's evil spirit, but they can't get rid of the traitors and traitors. They are ashamed of the late emperor's intention to entrust the great scholars to guard the system and support the ancestral temple and the country, but they dare not criticize the government even though they are afraid of involving the king and father. , but he could only express his intention to stop taking the exam and end his official career, so he went to the Confucian Temple to cry..."
Under the gloomy sky, inside the Confucian Temple filled with smoke and dust.
Qin Hongzhi was kneeling in front of the statue of Confucius, reciting the poem Weeping in the Temple.
Many scholars knelt down behind him, and many even knelt down in the court.
Shen Tao on the side was already crying.
"Stop taking the exam!"
At this time, Zhao Bifan, a scholar from Suzhou, was inspired by this. He immediately stood up, clenched his fists, looked at the scholars present with blue veins popping out, and said:
"Until the harsh regime is eradicated and the traitorous party is eliminated, I will never become an official!"
"That's right! If you don't abolish the harsh government, get rid of the traitors, and release Mr. Fu'an, you will never start a career again!"
Zuo Jinxian, a scholar from Changzhou in the south, also joined in.
"Puzhou is incompetent and allows the powerful eunuchs and traitors from outside the court to deceive the emperor's father. It even allows the Tiqi to roam around and treats the scholar-bureaucrats as stupid dogs! We are incompetent and dare not go to the bus to write. How can we not dare to go back to our hometown to study in order to correct the chaos? Will you show up at that time?!"
Tan Hongzhi also shed tears and spoke at this time.
"Stop taking the exam!"
"Stop taking the exam!"
"Stop taking the exam!"
…
For a while.
Many scholars who came to the Confucian Temple began to raise their arms and shout that they wanted to stop taking the exam.
The scholars who interacted with Shen Tao, Qin Hongzhi and other big bureaucrats and big landowners were naturally of the same class, and they were most disgusted with the current government that suppressed powerful mergers and acquisitions.
Secondly, they also have relatives and friends who are officials in the DPRK, and they also know that the current situation in the DPRK is that being an official is not easy to make a living. Not only is it difficult to make money, but it is also very tiring, and there is no point in becoming an official at this time.
Thirdly, most of them are Nanzhi scholars, and in recent years the Nanzhi officials and gentry have been the most oppressed. Many of them are from the same hometown as Tan Hongzhi and Shen Tao, so it is easier for them to join forces. Many of them are even Wu themselves. Relatives and friends of Bank of China, Zhao Yongxian, etc.
Therefore, the effect of Shen Tao waiting in the Confucian Temple to cry was quite good, and he immediately instigated hundreds of scholars to stop taking exams.
And most of the Nanzhi scholars.
What I have to admit is that because Jiangnan has been a gathering place for humanities since the early Ming Dynasty, with many middle-class families and many scholars, the average quality of the exams that can be obtained in Nanzhi is indeed higher than that of other places. For example, if you are more familiar with industry and commerce, Management, being more familiar with how to operate money, grain and national taxes, and knowing how to build water conservancy projects is equivalent to knowing more advanced management experience and advanced industries.
Although the disadvantage is that these people from Jiangnan can easily take this opportunity to form gangs and manipulate the government's finances, so the Ming Dynasty has always had regulations that the Ministry of Household Affairs does not allow people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to join the job.
But I have to admit that if these people are sent to relatively remote places, they are indeed very good at driving the local economy.
For example, Zuo Guangdou, a cadre of the Donglin Party, used the new paddy field technology in the south in the Gyeonggi Province in history, which greatly increased the grain output in the Gyeonggi Province. Pan Jixun, as a Huzhou native, has also made great achievements in water conservancy construction.
Therefore, once most of these Nanzhi scholars stopped taking exams, it would undoubtedly be very detrimental to the Ming Dynasty, which needed to promote Jiangnan's advanced production and management experience to the whole country.
…
"Stop taking the exam?!"
"When did this happen?!"
"how many people?"
Everyone in the court was focused on arguing about which minister should be listed in the Wenyuan Pavilion, and there was a heated debate over whether virtue should be the highest standard or merit should be the highest standard, and they had forgotten about the success of the cabinet examination. This allowed Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers to concentrate on passing the exams and purge the officials.
But soon, Shen Shixing learned about the boycott of the exam from Wang Xijue, faster than even Jin Yiwei knew, because he and Wang Xijue were both from Nanzhi.
"Quinzi said there are probably hundreds of people, and most of them are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
Wang Xijue said to Shen Shixing: "Mr. Ge, this matter is no small matter!"
"One is not good for the world. Jiangnan controls most of the world's wealth, and is the place where all the world's technologies are monopolized. Often what Jiangsu and Zhejiang rises will be followed by other places. Whatever Jiangsu and Zhejiang despise, other places will despise. Once Jiang and Zhejiang If you stop taking the exam, other places will follow suit, and at the same time, the bureaucrats in the DPRK are afraid that the number of officials who know how to manage water conservancy, money and food will be greatly reduced!"
"The second is not good for us and other countrymen! If this continues, the people of Chu, Qi, and Jin will be the main ones in the court!"
"You're right, sir, this matter is no small matter!"
"You must quickly face the Holy Emperor and let the Emperor know!"
Shen Shixing stood up immediately, cupped his hands to Wang Xijue and said, "Please go and persuade me."
Wang Xijue nodded: "I will try my best, but it is estimated to be difficult. Nowadays, the right and wrong of the temple will be countered by the world; and the right and wrong of the world are not what the temple means!"
(End of chapter)
