I want to be emperor

Chapter 73 Don't Think About Getting Down

At the entrance of Songshan Village, several rows of wooden houses have been newly built recently. These rows of wooden houses are the offices of Baoxiang Ying.

Guo Quanshu was sitting in front of the wooden table that still exudes the smell of logs, writing with a brush.

Although the quality of the brush is not good, and the ink is even worse, his handwriting is still extremely beautiful.

Guo Quanshu has always worked very hard on his own calligraphy. He has practiced hard for many years. After all, he is a scholar who aspires to the imperial examination.

And if you want to pass the imperial examination, you can't do without a beautiful pavilion.

Candidates for the imperial examinations are all rushing to become an official, and being an official naturally requires writing memorials and official documents. You don’t need to use the standard pavilion style, but use other elegant fonts or even wild cursive. The ghost knows what you are writing...

If someone mistook your words for other words in the memorials and official documents, then the matter will be serious, ranging from misunderstanding to serious copying...

Therefore, for scholars who aspire to the imperial examination, regardless of other things first, the first-hand standard pavilion style is indispensable.

Guo Quanshu also worked hard on the pavilion style, and thought that one day he would use his beautiful pavilion style to sit in the court and write official documents.

However, no matter how imaginative he is, he would never have imagined that one day, he would write official documents for a group of rebels with his meticulously trained pavilion style...

This feels as awkward as it needs to be.

When he was asked to write an official document for the first time three days ago, it took him more than an hour to write a thousand-word official document, which shows the entanglement and resistance in his heart at that time.

But there is no way, if you don't write official documents, you will have nothing to eat...

After writing an official document, Guo Quan stopped writing, looked up at the sunlight outside the door, guessed that it was almost lunch time, and he hadn’t finished writing any official documents ordered by his superiors, so he immediately suppressed the many thoughts in his heart. With mixed thoughts, I picked up the brush and dipped the ink to continue writing.

The title of this official document is "First Edition of Grain Collection Rules".

Yesterday, the leader of the big rebels in Baoxiangying, that is, that general named Luo Zhixue, called a group of people to discuss the detailed rules for grain collection from each village, and said that they would finalize the detailed rules and make them public, so as to set various rules for the follow-up grain collection. A perfect rule.

It is no longer a free-wheeling collection as before.

Many details of the discussion were finalized yesterday, and Guo Quanshu also listened in and wrote down the main points.

Now it is necessary to organize it into a document and submit it.

Although writing this kind of thing made him feel a little awkward and even resisted, Guo Quanshu was also a talented person. He began to take part in the imperial examination at the age of 15. He passed the county examination and the government examination for the first time, and finally lost in the hospital examination. Can obtain fame.

But even so, he can be regarded as an official child student, which is different from other scholars who are not even child students.

When I took the imperial examination for the second time, I still lost in the imperial examination.

I was thinking of continuing to work hard, trying to win the third imperial examination, but I didn't have time to participate in the third imperial examination, but I was tied to Songshan Village by these rebels and forced to become a student. a so-called document.

As a child student who has passed the county and government examinations, there is no problem in writing an ordinary official document. You don't have to think about it, you can just pick up the pen and write it.

I quickly wrote out the grain requisition rules. According to the main points I wrote down yesterday, I wrote more than 20 items in total.

Although these more than 20 grain collection rules are still very simple, they can already provide a basic operation manual for the follow-up grain collection of Baoxiangying.

At least for the people below what to do.

After writing the grain requisition rules, Guo Quanshu's wrist felt a little sore. He put down his pen and moved his wrist, just in time to hear: "Brother Zhongchen? Are you done with your work?"

Guo Quanshu looked up and saw a young man like him, wearing a long robe and a square scarf, walking in.

Immediately got up quickly: "Brother Songhua, I just finished my work here."

He naturally recognized the person who came, not only him, but he basically knew all the dozen or so scholars who were arrested this time. After all, these people were all scholars from various villages in the south.

There are not many scholars in a small place, and if you don't look up and look down, you naturally know each other.

The person who came was Huang Chengxuan from the village next door to his home, whose name was Songhua. He was a boy of the same class as him, and his age was not much different. His home was also close, so he walked around a lot on weekdays.

Huang Chengxuan walked in, looked left and right, and when he saw no one, he showed a bitter expression and said, "Brother Zhongchen, you don't know, I wrote seven official documents this morning, and I didn't even write them when I took the college exam." I wrote it like this, alas, I didn’t know that they brought so many official documents for us to write, a group of rebels really regarded themselves as the government.”

After Guo Quanshu heard this, he said: "Brother Songhua, be careful with your words."

This is a den of anti-thieves. Although they have emerged from the prisoner-of-war camp and become a clerk, they have gained superficial freedom, but in fact those anti-thieves are not really at ease with them. There are guards standing guard, and if you leave without permission, it will not end well.

Under such circumstances, you can't talk nonsense, otherwise you will easily cause yourself trouble.

Those traitors made it very clear that if they wanted to do it, they would do it, and if they didn't want to do it, they would go back to the prisoner-of-war camp.

But once you do it, you have to do it well, otherwise if you make a mistake, it will not be as simple as returning to a prisoner-of-war camp as a coolie.

These are traitors and they will kill!

Seeing Guo Quanshu's caution, Huang Chengxuan waved his hand: "Don't worry, I've already checked when I came here, and there is no one around."

Guo Quanshu said: "It's better to be careful, not for yourself, but also for your family!"

Hearing this, Huang Chengxuan immediately sighed like a discouraged ball, "If it wasn't for the sake of the whole family, why would I give in, the worst thing is that I will die."

Guo Quanshu said: "Brother Songhua, you are too depressed. There will be a long time to come, and you will pass."

Guo Quanshu didn't say it clearly, but Huang Chengxuan understood that it was nothing more than a chance to escape in the future.

But how long after this?
What is the chance?
The more he thought about it, the more pessimistic Huang Chengxuan felt. How could he be so unlucky that he met a group of rebels who came to collect food at home.

It’s okay for these rebels to come to collect food. Although the Huang family had high walls and guards, and tried to resist, they still couldn’t stop hundreds of thieves, so they chose to surrender. chant……

Unexpectedly, those thieves not only want food, but also hostages, saying that they are afraid that their family will go to the government's Gaomi or something like that.

Conscience of heaven and earth, the Huang family and his son really didn't intend to do this, it's not that they don't want to, it's that the government is unreliable...

The Huang family knew that more than 1000 officers and soldiers were wiped out in Funiu Mountain last month. After more than a month, they did not see any other actions by the officers and soldiers. They knew that the government would not care about it for a while. Take care of these bandits from Funiu Mountain.

Therefore, it is useless to report to the government and inform the officials.

However, those damn thieves still forced their Huang family to take a hostage, and it had to be a son.

Faced with the threat of hundreds of thieves, the Huang family finally chose to give in.

So he, Huang Chengxuan, as the eldest son of the Huang family, became a hostage and was taken to Songshan Village.

For the safety of the whole family, Huang Chengxuan does not regret the choice he made, but he still inevitably laments the immediate fate and remains extremely pessimistic about the future.

Seeing Huang Chengxuan like this, Guo Quanshu also sighed and said: "Don't think so much, just take a step and take a step, the world is like this, why are you and me?"

Huang Cheng declared, "Oh, that's the only way to go."

Guo Quanshu said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. I heard from the cafeteria in the morning that there might be meat dishes at noon. I don't know if it is true or not."

Huang Cheng declared: "Food is the most important thing for the people, and now they are hungry, so hurry up."

Guo Quanshu said: "That's exactly what I mean!"

Immediately afterwards, the two of them started to leave, heading towards the canteen ahead.

It was already noon, and people from the other wooden houses on both sides came out one after another to go to the cafeteria. These rows of wooden houses are offices in various places. Individuals, but there are still quite a few people all over the place.

Seeing other people coming out one after another, Guo Quanshu and Huang Chengxuan exchanged glances, then speeded up their pace tacitly.

As for meat, they haven't eaten for many days.

After being captured as hostages, it was impossible for them to receive any good treatment on the road at first, and they were even tied with ropes to prevent them from escaping.

Later, when they arrived in Songshan Village, they were also thrown into the prisoner-of-war camp, which made them suffer for a few days. During these two periods, they couldn't even eat enough, let alone meat.

They didn't have enough food until they agreed to be clerks and came out of the prisoner-of-war camp, but they didn't eat any meat.

Meat is an important strategic material in the Baoxiang camp. Although the Baoxiang camp has started raising chickens and ducks internally to obtain meat as much as possible, the quantity is still not much.

And these small amounts of meat are given priority to the army. Even if the meat and poultry eggs in the supply army, most of them will not be eaten directly, but will be preserved as bacon and bacon , so that it can be eaten when marching and fighting.

Usually there is not much meat to eat in the army, let alone others.

The supply of meat this time was actually specially approved by Luo Zhixue, mainly because the business divisions had just been established and the staff there were fluctuating.

The staff everywhere are more responsible.

Some of them were selected from the village protection battalion, including a few old thieves. These people were basically illiterate, and they were not very suitable for the current tactics and tactics, and they themselves hoped that they would stop fighting.

There are also some half-hearted scholars who have been recruited from among the mountain people in the past few months, saying that the scholars are giving them face.

There are seven or eight people who were only selected by Dong Wen, who was literate among the Ming army prisoners of war.

The last group consisted of a dozen or so scholars who served as hostages.

The latter two groups are actually the people who can do things. As for those illiterate old thieves, they are actually used to suppress the place, and to put it bluntly, they are the people who stare at their work.

So Luo Zhixue thought, he couldn't just rely on all kinds of threats to the latter two groups of people, but also had to give them a little sweetness.

A big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other is the way to employ people.

At least in the early stage. As for the later stage, there is no need to worry about it. Maybe they are more active in rebellion than Luo Zhixue.

These people don't care whether they are sincere or not, but since they are on the thief ship of Baoxiangying, then don't expect to get off.

Later, the Ming army came calling, and if they were caught by the Ming army, Guo Quanshu told the Ming army that we were not rebels, we were forced, and the Ming army had to believe it.

(End of this chapter)