My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 183 Nanping Rural Investigation—Part 1

"Brother Rulin!" Lin Qingcai looked at Su Ze in surprise.

Su Ze also hurriedly greeted him. Lin Qingcai was really good, and he didn't alienate Su Ze and Chen Chaoyuan just because he failed the exam. Instead, he calmly learned from them.

Since Chen Chaoyuan went to the county school, Lin Qingcai even took on the job of the "Surprise" newspaper, which made Su Ze very fond of this classmate.

"I heard from Hai Jiaoyu that Brother Ru Lin is giving us the lecture this time?"

There was surprise in Lin Qingcai's words. He knew Su Ze's ability and felt that this was a good learning opportunity.

Su Ze nodded, and he asked Lin Qingcai, "What is the origin of the students recruited by Hai Jiaoyu this time?"

Naturally, teaching should pay attention to teaching students according to their aptitude. Su Ze asked Lin Qingcai about the background of these students in order to give them better lectures.

Lin Qingcai said: "This time Hai Jiao Yu has recruited eight new disciples, all of whom are from poor families in Nanping County."

Su Ze felt more and more that the concept of a poor family was vague. In the earliest days, a poor family was also a family. During the Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the poor family had a prime minister like Zhang Hua. Even the "Han" is a class of big landlords with a huge family property, but it is not as good as the high family. The rich family has family knowledge, or the ancestors have not been outstanding.

But in the Ming Dynasty, talking about poor families was almost the same as that of later generations, that is, the children of middle and low-level military officers in the guards like Su Ze, small landlords and self-cultivating farmers, or the descendants of the citizen class who made a living in the county.

Su Ze suddenly had an idea. Since he wanted to rebel, he must figure out the appeals of all classes in Nanping County and grasp the class tendencies of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Isn't this just fieldwork?

Su Ze secretly reflected on himself. Recently, he has been in contact with the upper class like Fang Zhifu a lot, and he is a little divorced from the masses in thought.

Although there are upper-level elites like Fang Zhifu who want to do things, they still cannot do without the support of the bottom, especially the support of the general public.

And the common people are a basket, the refugees who are too hungry to survive are the common people, the self-cultivating farmers outside Nanping city are also the common people, and the small bourgeoisie in the city are also the common people.

This is not just a simple generalization of property and property, but groups with their own interests.

Teaching Hai Rui's school was just a good opportunity to analyze the current situation of the bottom intellectual class in Nanping County.

Lin Qingcai said: "In recent years, the social studies of the sects have declined. Even wealthy families don't hire tutors very much. They can study in the county school, thanks to Hai Jiaoyu."

Su Ze asked, "Why is sociology less popular?"

Lin Qingcai sighed and said, "Nowadays, the sociology run by ordinary clans may not produce a single scholar for more than ten years. Our Houguan Lin's sociology except the clan's sociology, and the rest of the branch's sociology have ceased to operate."

Sociology is the school run by the clan. A big family like the Lin family will hire tutors to let the children of the right age in the clan start their studies.

The Lin family in Houguan County is a big family that has been a Jinshi. It is a well-known scholarly family in Fujian. It is a pity that Lin Qingcai is a branch branch that moved to Nanping County. Up to now, there has not even been a single person.

Su Ze took a pen and began to record: "Brother Lin, there are more and more scholars taking part in the imperial examination. Where did these come from?"

Lin Qingcai said: "The big families invited famous teachers, the private schools of officials and eunuchs, the big families in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, and even invited Jinshi to give lectures. How can it be compared?"

"Brother Su, have you checked? Over the years, Fuzhou and Quanzhou prefectures have been the majority of the candidates, and the next one is Xinghua prefecture, and Xie Yuannian is all from Fuzhou prefecture."

Lin Qingcai sighed and said: "Actually, for the children of us small families, it is thankful to be a scholar. Maybe they will study hard for a few years and take the exam. Jinshi is completely unthinkable."

"So over the years, those small families have gradually lost the idea of ​​imperial examinations, and the children of the clan have gradually stopped studying."

Su Ze recorded these, and this is a good starting point for field research.

The children of rich families start school early and have abundant educational resources, so it is easier for them to pass the imperial examination.

And after being admitted, they can have more resources, which in turn feed back the family, thus forming a powerful imperial examination family like the Houguan Lin family.

The south still has an economic advantage, while the imperial examinations in the north are simply monopolized by some big families, and there is a myth of imperial examinations with a few Jinshi. Behind this is the influence of class solidification.

Su Ze asked: "These poor children don't study, what do they do for a living?"

Lin Qingcai is very familiar with this, his family is that kind of small landlord, he immediately said:

"Help the family take care of the land. If there are properties in the city, they will go to the city to take care of the property. However, the number of people going to the city has been decreasing over the years."

"Why?"

Lin Qingcai smiled and said: "It's not because I'm afraid that this gold-selling cave in the city will make people learn badly. Many children from small families have become addicted to brothels and gambling houses after entering the city, and lost their family's property. Most of the disciples stay at home to take care of the property."

Su Ze recorded, "The class of small landlords who have lost their dreams of class promotion is degrading day by day."

Lin Qingcai continued: "However, more and more businessmen's children in Nanping City are now studying, and those who make a living in the county, such as lawyers, scholars, and doctors' children like Shaw's Medical Center, are also studying more and more. , there are many children who are promising to be admitted to the scholar."

Su Ze thought for a while and understood the reason.

The original poor families of the Ming Dynasty were small landlords, or some self-cultivating farmers with relatively large land.

According to the standards of the Han and Tang Dynasties, this is the "good family son", the cornerstone of the empire, the most stable source of soldiers, and the class where most grassroots officials came from.

In the south where the commercial culture is relatively developed, these small landlords, or the land rentier class, gradually lose their motivation and become degenerate very quickly.

The merchant class and the citizen class gradually took their place.

For example, among Su Ze's current classmates, some are lawyers at home, some are scholars, and there are even yin and yang students who read Fengshui.

These people themselves have changed their own destiny through knowledge. They have no family inheritance. If they want their children to maintain the status of the previous generation, they must study.

The same is true for the children of merchants. Although merchants are rich, their social status is relatively low, so they want their children and grandchildren to study and spend money to change their social status.

Merchants can spend nothing on the imperial examinations, and some wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have invited scholars to educate their children.

Literacy is naturally a progressive class. Nowadays, some children of small landlords are completely illiterate, and they have everything to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, so it is the most ruthless to oppress the people.

Sure enough, we still need to investigate. Su Ze reflected on himself again. If he wanted to rebel, then these small landlords who did evil in the countryside and exploited the people could be targeted.

Those urban petty bourgeois who are eager to elevate their class, and those progressive small businessmen who are willing to study, can unite.

And those big families that really attached to the big tree of Ming Dynasty, or attached to the feudal imperial power, except for a few elites who could betray their own class, most of them were the most stubborn and reactionary.

Su Ze felt that the conversation with Lin Qingcai benefited a lot, and then 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, there are not many from a small family like Lin Qingcai's. On the contrary, the people in Nanping County pay more attention to the education of their children.

For example, among the eight students this time, there is a pair of brothers who are the children of Shaw Medical Center.

Shaw's Medical Clinic is the private medical clinic mentioned by Huang Tiju of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau.

The Shao family found a way to get rid of their medical status, and accumulated a lot of money relying on medical treatment for others.

The brothers of the Shao family are named Shao Xianxue and Shao Jinjin, and they know the high hopes placed by the family from their names.

Both of them have hired a private school teacher Kai Meng at home, and they have just turned sixteen this year.

When the Shao family heard about Hai Rui's school, the first batch did not dare to send their children here.

After outstanding "graduates" like Su Ze and Chen Chaoyuan came out, the Shao family immediately sent the two brothers over to study.

[Lecture in the county school, "Lecture" skill experience +9, Lv3, 108/300]

Su Ze looked at the increasing "teaching" skill experience, and was naturally very happy in his heart. What made him even more happy was that after finishing a class, Su Ze also gained "imperial examination" skill experience.

Su Ze's class was quite satisfactory, and he didn't bring out his own set of private goods.

Looking at these young faces, Su Ze gave them another copy of "Guwen Guanzhi" and let them borrow and copy it at the county school.

The anti-corruption situation in Zhejiang is still unclear. Yu Dayou, who had been out of contact for a while, sent another letter to Changningwei. Lin Mojun asked Lin Xianyang, who came back from visiting relatives, to bring the letter to Su Ze.

The last time he suffered another defeat, the imperial court issued an order to reprimand Zhang Jing for "fear of war", and he almost reprimanded Zhang Jing for supporting the bandits.

After receiving the decree, Zhang Jing knew that if he didn't win another battle, then his governorship would be over.

The imperial court promoted Hu Zongxian as the censor of the capital of Youqin and the governor of 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 the letter, thinking that Hu Zongxian was competing with Zhang Jing for the dominance of the fight against the Japanese, for fear that the struggle of the high-level officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang would affect the fight against the Japanese.

Hu Zongxian is difficult to evaluate in the history of the Ming Dynasty. He was attached to Yan Song. According to the timeline before Su Ze crossed, he falsely killed Zhang Jing in order to fight for the dominance of the anti-Japanese war.

However, Hu Zongxian did lead troops to quell the Japanese insurrection. He reused Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, supported Xu Wei, Wen Zhengming and other famous scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, and made strategies to pacify the sea.

Later, after Yan Song fell from power, Hu Zongxian was liquidated and died in prison.

Now that Zhejiang has gone to its old father-in-law, Fang Wanghai, it is estimated that it will be completely messed up.

The imperial court's key tasks are in Zhejiang, and the two pirate leaders Wang Zhi and Xu Feng are also wrestling in Zhejiang. This is also the best time for Su Ze to grow up.

On May 20th, amidst the long-awaited calls of Fujian scholars, Wang Daokun, the Fujian inspector in charge of the provincial examination, finally arrived in Fuzhou.

It is said that the school inspector was very strict. After inspecting Fuzhou prefectural schools, he gave out questions to test prefectural students on the spot, reprimanded two students who did not answer well, and even dismissed a scholar who was pretending to be a fake, so that the Fujian school administration canceled him. student qualifications.

Next, the school inspector is going to inspect the counties, which scared all the students in Fujian to death, especially those candidates who passed the boy's test with crooked methods, and they were so scared that they didn't dare to go to the brothel again, and they took their books and sat at home. read.

In the shabby pavilion outside Nanping City, Zhang Sijing, the promotion official of Yanping Prefecture, was drinking tea and chatting with several students of the Prefecture.

Huang Shixing lit the small charcoal stove, poured black tea into the pot, waited until the small pot boiled, poured it out with a small cup, and distributed it to the people in the pavilion.

Zhang Sijing took a sip, and couldn't bear the strong tea aroma of Lapsang Souchong, so he put down the tea cup and said:

"The fragrance is far and clear, and this is the tea of ​​a gentleman, and 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 is suddenly popular in Nanping County. It is said that because of the rainy Qingming Festival this year, the tea house does not have sunlight to dry the tea. It is a mistake to make this kind of tea. I thought the tea soup was bright, but after hearing Mr. Zhang's explanation, I realized that it was a villain. You don't need to drink the tea!"

Everyone also smashed the teacups one after another, expressing their position that they are close to gentlemen and far from villains.

Zhang Sijing nodded, and it was only because of Huang Shixing and others' singing that he recovered from the pain of relegation.

Zhang Sijing naturally knew why Huang Shixing was flattering him so much, he said:

"When I was in the capital, I also 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, they followed Zhang Sijing, wasn't it just for today?

After finishing speaking, Zhang Sijing said again:

"The style of study in Nanping County is not right. The school teacher in that county ordered Hai Rui to set up a private school to allow non-students to enroll. What's more, the scholar Su Ze ran a newspaper to confuse the public and openly published obscene lyrics. When Director Wang learns it, I will also Strictly speaking, such a guy must not be allowed to participate in the provincial examination!"

Zhang Sijing can also be regarded as "distinguished between love and hate, and hates the house and black". After Fang Wanghai was promoted, he became very angry.

However, the imperial court had just activated Fang Wanghai to implement the bill-off law, and Zhang Sijing calmed down, knowing that Fang Wanghai would not be impeached now.

Now that he has Su Ze's idea in mind, he knows that Wang Daokun is also inclined to Qingliu, and he has detained Fang Wanghai Weng's son-in-law as a strict party. If Su Ze's reputation can be dismissed, it will also make Zhang Sijing feel better.

Huang Shixing was overjoyed, and flattered him again, which made Zhang Sijing feel a lot better.

On the carriage out of Fuzhou City, Wang Daokun was flipping through a pirated book.

Wang Daokun loves to read, and he loves to read all kinds of books.

This is a pirated book bought by his bookboy at the Fuzhou Bookstore.

Wang Daokun never refused anyone, but he was attracted just by looking at it.

But after reading it, it turned out to be only half a book, so he called the book boy, "Why is this book only half a book?"

The book boy immediately said: "Returning to the master, this is a drama that was serialized on Pai An Jing Qi, and the serialization has not yet been completed."

serialized?

Surprised?

After Wang Daokun arrived in Fuzhou City, he heard that there was a private newspaper in Nanping County, which was published every two weeks. It was very popular among Fujian scholars and sold at a high price in Fuzhou.

Wang Daokun said: "Go to Yanping Mansion first!"