Wanli Xinming

Chapter 169 Information
In the spring of the fifth year of Wanli, the capital's neck was extremely short, and in late March, there was still some strong north wind, and in mid-April, it was too hot to wear cotton robes.

Li Chaodou, who is less than 40 years old but has been devastated by life like an old man, is holding a leather robe that has just been redeemed from a pawnshop, looking at the black plaster on it, and smiling wryly.Even though the weather is too hot to wear this robe, because he only has this leather item, he has some money to redeem it quickly.Otherwise, the words "moth-eaten rats tore through a leather jacket" written on the ticket will inevitably become true.

When he walked quickly back to the rented house, he saw clusters of green grass emerging from the cracks in the roof tiles, and he couldn't help but have a headache.Because he jumped into the river from poverty at the end of last year, Xinmin Daily published several issues of surveys on the living conditions of Beijing officials. The emperor gave each Beijing official a reward of [-] taels of silver, which made the Li Chaodou family celebrate the New Year.Despite having fifty taels of silver, his living conditions have not improved in the slightest.

In April of this year, with the end of the Great Court Meeting, the court has announced to the world that the reform of the Ming Dynasty is about to begin, and the fifth year of Wanli is the first year of reform.Li Chaodou heard that a minister had already submitted a proposal, suggesting that the emperor should change the Yuan next year, but he didn't know what the regulations were.

The reform edict has not yet been released. According to the Jingshi Daily, the emperor has set up a "reform special class". The prime minister of the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng, also serves as the reform prime minister. The emperor has issued an edict to solicit opinions on the drafting of the reform edict throughout the country. .

Although the edict is still being drafted, some small places have begun to change.It made Li Chaodou feel very good - problems that had been discussed for a long time in the court before but were not resolved, as long as they were included in the special reform class, they would be solved very quickly.

For example, the policy of increasing salaries for Beijing officials was discussed for a long time years ago, and I heard that the imperial court discussed it several times a year later.However, less than five days after the reform items were included, Li Chaodou had already received Baihuahua's silver—reissued from January of the fifth year of Wanli, four taels per month, a total of one or sixteen taels.Because the reissues are all in cash, for Li Chaodou, his salary is almost doubled.

With this 16 taels, plus the 50 taels that Lu Shangshu personally gave him before he left the capital, Li Chaodou finally repaid the usury principal and interest, and escaped from the inescapable nightmare.

With a relaxed mood, he threw the leather robe to his wife who was recovering from a serious illness, but he stood at the door and watched.His wife said at home, "If you have nothing to do, just go out and buy some meat. I haven't seen any meat and fish in the house for half a month." After passing a string of copper coins, Li Chaodou took it but didn't leave, still looking around.

Li Chaodou's wife was puzzled, and asked, "What are you doing there?" Li Chaodou said, "You don't understand, I want to make some money today." The old lady laughed angrily and said, "You have nothing but the salary. , what else can hair grow, not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue!"

Li Chaodou said with a smile: "Have you never heard of the saying 'If you are poor, you want to change'? My business is successful, and I can earn at least 50 taels." His wife listened to his bragging and looked at him with a smile, as if she was a high-spirited man after being awarded a Jinshi. The husband is back in general.

Li Chaodou ignored her, still staring at the door.After a long time, seeing the shadows flickering at the entrance of the alley, Li Chaodou coughed softly and closed the door to go out.

As soon as he went out, he saw Dianju living in this alley, and Shen Maoxue, a son of Xuancheng, who was participating in the Ding Chou Ke exam, approached him.

Seeing that Shen Mao was learning to walk with the wind, Li Chaodou smiled and said, "Shen Xianggong, has the court set a date for the test?"

Seeing Li Chaodou greet him, Shen Maoxue hastily saluted and said, "I met Mr. Li. Yes, I finally posted the announcement—it will be on the 25th of this month, less than ten days away."

Li Chaodou listened with a smile and said, "Although it is two months late, the imperial court honored the gentlemen, and the living allowances for each of you are [-] taels, which is worth it."

Shen Maoxue listened and smiled and said, "Yes, I didn't know why the imperial court postponed the meeting before, but now I finally know, it seems that it is to select talents for this 'reform'. As for these [-] taels of silver, it is not enough to buy manuscripts - this In a few days, Wang Jiefu's collection of works has been hard to find."

When Li Chaodou heard it, he smiled when he saw that he was empty-handed: "Well, it's fate that you and I are neighbors. When I have nothing to do in the ministry these days, I also copied some previous articles by Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng, as well as Wang Anshi's articles. --Do you want it?"

When Shen Maoxue heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "Master Li isn't joking with me?"

Li Chaodou pretended to be annoyed and said, "I have nothing to do for you? You wait." After speaking, he pretended to return home, took out a thick stack of manuscripts, and handed it to Shen Maoxue.

Shen Maoxue took it over and flipped through it. Zhang Juzheng's previous memorials and instructions accounted for the majority. There could be dozens of copies. The other ten copies were all articles by Wang Anshi. .If it was sold to the book printing house, 50 taels could be sold, but in that case, Li Chaodou's copying of official documents would inevitably be exposed, because more than half of these materials may not have been published in the residence newspaper.

Shen Mao was quite wealthy among scholars. Seeing Li Chaodou smilingly looking at him, he knew what was going on.He bowed to the tunnel and said, "Thank you, Lord Li, for your blue eyes. If you get the undergraduate degree, this kind of grace will be unforgettable! Please wait here for a while, I will come when I go."

After speaking, he ran back to his room in three steps at a time, took out the 100 taels of silver in his bag, pulled a piece of furoshiki on it, and ran out quickly.As expected, Li Chaodou was still standing there waiting.

Shen Maoxue bowed again and said, "Master Li is also working hard to copy these things - just run your pen, just in case you have a heart, please don't refuse!" After speaking, he handed the small burden over.

Li Chaodou grabbed the small burden tightly with his big hand, but handed it over and said, "I promised to give it to Xianggong Shen, how can I ask for this money? Don't be ashamed to kill me!"

Shen Maoxue said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Before, Mrs.-in-law was seriously ill, and I always wanted to visit him. Because of my tight schoolwork, I was disrespectful. , I'll burn that manuscript! Don't quit!"

Li Chaodou's face flushed at first, then turned to cyan, his expression was complicated and incomprehensible, his eyes suddenly turned red, he took the silver and turned away, chanting in his mouth: "Follow Yanghu Yan's money for financial affairs, and copying books is also for Daoliang! Copy! Books - also for - Daoliang seeks!" As if singing and crying, he staggered and walked home.

Shen Maoxue did not know that Li Chaodou had been serving as a Beijing official since he became a jinshi. Due to the poverty of his family, all the tax-free allowances were used by relatives in his hometown - that's all, he needed to help him from time to time.

And there are so many powerful and powerful people in the capital. He, a small capital official, doesn't even have a shop to take refuge in and support him. For these years, he has only lived on his salary. Last year, his old wife and mother fell ill one after another, which really drove Li Chaodou to a dead end.

The copying of Zhang Juzheng's memorial this time shattered the lofty self-rewarding that Li Chaodou had been proud of for many years. As he walked, there were two lines of clear tears on his face.Shen Maoxue watched his back, and sighed in his heart: "Though these two poems are translated from Du Gongbu's poems, they are of extraordinary quality. It can be seen that this Master Li is a person who is underappreciated for his talents - alas, the same is true in ancient and modern times!"

Not to mention that after Li Chaodou returned home, his wife thought he had gone out to rob the Tao, and was scared to death by the 100 taels of silver.At this time, in the south of the empire, Tong Chizhong, who was walking on the mountain road, was tortured half to death by the dense subtropical forest in front of him.

Tong Chizhong, who had been on the sea boat for more than ten days and spit out all the gallbladder water, had been on the river boat for more than ten days before he was repaired for seven days.When Jiangchuan entered Poyang Lake, Tong Chizhong thought he had re-entered the sea - he almost wiped his neck with a knife.

When he finally got off the boat, for several days in a row, Tong Chizhong, like his comrades-in-arms, kept shaking while walking. He knew it was flat, but his eyes were shaking so badly that he walked with a deep foot and a shallow foot.

The coach Liu Xian saw that the army's heart was weakened, so he camped not far from the Yuanjiang River, and it took about ten days to repair the new army's physical strength and morale.After that, Liu Xian was about to go straight to Yunnan through the deep mountains and forests of Guizhou under the leadership of the guide. However, the Ministry of War sent a new edict from the emperor. Ling Yunyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, asked the army to encircle and destroy Luo Pangyao. The army went to wish him a helping hand.

The decree made it clear that before the fight against Toungoo, the new army had been prepared to train in the south for half a year, gradually getting used to the soil and water, and also learning mountain warfare.This time, Ling Yunyi will conscript 15 soldiers from Guangdong and Guangxi, divided into ten sentries, encircling the Yao people with an iron wall, and the main force will be mainly soldiers who are familiar with mountain warfare. This is just for the new army to learn the skills of mountain warfare-strength The advantage is huge, and there is no possibility of failure. Where can I find such an opportunity for military training?

After Liu Xian received the decree, he secretly slandered in his heart, thinking that without such a method of military use, the center was completely fooling around - in fact, this was really the fault of the imperial court.

Since the tenth year of Jiajing, the Yao people in Guangdong and Guangxi have had large-scale uprisings and riots, which have become a chronic disease in Guangdong and Guangxi.In the 12th year of Jiajing, Chaozhou garrison Zhang You broke through more than 130 Yao villages, killing people without counting, and only maintained peace for decades.

During Muzong's time, the Yao people in Luobei of Takishui flourished again, and the imperial court lost control in the entire Takishui area of ​​Guangdong.The Yao people say that "officers have ten thousand soldiers, and I have ten thousand mountains", and their arrogance is very arrogant.Yin Zhengmao, the then governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, even moved the governor's mansion from Wuzhou, Guangxi to Zhaoqing, Guangzhou in order to prevent Yao.

Martial arts was established, and during Yin Zhengmao's transfer to the capital, he was obsessed with not completing Pingyao's work during his tenure.Therefore, combined with the martial arts staff, the "Guangguang Pingyao Policy" was formulated and reported to Zhu Yijun.

Because Zhu Yijun wanted to fight the Dongyu Dynasty, his request to Ling Yunyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was not to let the Yao change expand. However, on February [-], the fifth year of Wanli, Luo Pang Yao gathered [-] troops and actually broke the Gaoyao county. Killed the county magistrate and looted the county granary and silver vault.

The face was beaten too hard, Ling Yunyi did not dare to hide it, and urgently reported to the capital.Because it was too far away from the capital, Liu Xian had already led the new army to Songjiang House when the report arrived.

　I finally reached [-] words today - keep asking for your support.Thanks!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)