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Chapter 36 Don't think too much about the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how high the reward, they just want to make up for the knife

Chongzhen revised the original edict of guilt for the destruction of the Fengyang ancestral mausoleum, and also issued a new reward.

This move made the Xinke Scholars in the capital feel very excited, as if they had a big melon that "someone will make great contributions and become a marquis and worship minister".

The common people, and even the thieves from all walks of life, reacted almost excitedly, and began to gossip one after another, "How long can Zhang Xianzhong live?"

It is said that when the news spread to other provinces and reached the Shangluo mountainous area on the border between Shaanxi and Henan, even Li Zicheng, who was still hiding in the Shangluo mountainous area to gather troops to fight guerrillas, was envious and even had an idea:
"Damn! Why is Zhang Xianzhong's head so valuable? Then if we chop him up, can we also make him a marquis and a general, and clean up his past crimes?"

Don't think it's strange for Li Zicheng to think this way. In history, Li Zicheng didn't have much foresight in terms of conquering the city, and he didn't think about building a base area.

In the end, after breaking out of Shanxi and defeating Zhou Yuji at Ningwu Pass, Li Zicheng was still begging Chongzhen to whitewash his canonization.
It's completely like "I have already occupied a province, do you recognize my separatist regime in Chongzhen? If you don't recognize me, fight another province. Show your muscles and you will recognize it. If you don't recognize it, fight another province", and finally met Chongzhen. He would rather die than submit, and hit the capital abruptly.

(Note: There is no meaning of black Chongzhen on this point. Chongzhen made many mistakes, but it is right not to surrender to the death. The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ming Dynasty cannot be surrendered)
Anyone's ambitions are gradually expanding. When they first started, they wanted to earn a small goal first, or being a general who conquered the West was enough.

Of course, today's Li Zicheng is obsessed with obscenity, so he doesn't want to do it right away.He also has a city government and knows how to wait and see the situation.

I want to see if the people of the world will really attack Zhang Xianzhong after the announcement of the emperor's new alliance oath.If Zhang Xianzhong's life is really difficult, it is not impossible for Li Zicheng to go down the mountain to pick peaches and grab the head.If Zhang Xianzhong has not yet reached a desperate situation, then let others go first.

Except for Li Zicheng, others such as Luo Rucai, the Junzhou battalions, and the fifth Gezuo battalion still think so for the time being, and they all want to wait for the officers and soldiers to make a move first and see which direction the wind blows.

As a result, after a round of commotion, the most active and excited people were the newly promoted officials and Jinshi.These people have no experience in officialdom, and feel that there must be brave men under heavy rewards, and their underestimation of the enemy is beyond words.

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Here in the capital, the tenth day of March is also a week after the announcement of the palace examination.

The appointment of [-] new Scholars to official positions has finally been completed for less than half.The top sixty first-class and second-class personnel, except for very few special cases, were all excluded——

And Shen Shuren, the second-tier crane tail, "offended" the emperor, which obviously fell into the category of "special circumstances".

The remaining 240 top-ranked Jinshi scholars are too large, and there are not so many shortages in the official department. For the time being, there is only one beginning.

The same year students who were nervous about studying before the exam took advantage of their spare time waiting for job vacancies, and they also gathered in the Qinlou and Chu Pavilions in various places in the capital, gathering and drinking literary clubs every day, listening to music and dating girls.

In this environment, the topic of everyone's chatting, naturally three sentences cannot be separated from the future.

Every day, I heard that this person entered the Imperial Academy as an editor in the same year, or that he was released to a place in the same year, and went to a wealthy place in the south, and some were sent to Henan, Huguang, and Anlu. Many officials were killed by thieves. , where the shortage is serious.

If it was in previous years, I heard that they were assigned to the area ravaged by thieves in the same year, most of the others would feel that the death of the rabbit and the fox are sad, and that things hurt their kind.

But this year's situation is completely different. Many of the officials who were assigned to the areas where Zhang Xianzhong was ravaged were quite confident and felt that this was a good opportunity to gain credit.

Fang Yizhi, who was a brother and sister with Shen Shuren, was assigned back to his hometown and served as the magistrate of Tongcheng in South Zhili Province.

This kind of situation is hard to imagine in the Taiping era. Although the Ming Dynasty did not strictly enforce the "appointment of officials in different places", they generally staggered as much as possible.

Nowadays, the situation of thieves is too serious. The emperor and the officials feel that it is easier for local officials to defend their hometown, and it is unlikely that they will sell their fathers and fellow villagers to cooperate with thieves.

On this day, it was the day for Fang Yizhi to practice. Shen Shuren chose the most famous brothel in the capital to set up a few tables, and a dozen second-class Jinshi who had just gotten to know each other in recent days also came to drink and listen to music.

After the announcement of the palace examination, the top two Jinshi were naturally divided into three small groups according to their political opinions.

The largest group, led by Wei Zaode, Gao Eryan and others, accounted for more than half of them, with thirty or forty members.They were all the high-profile advocates of moral kidnapping when asked by the imperial court that day.

The next two groups, each with only a dozen or so members, accounted for about [-]% each.One faction is Shen Shuren who advocates that admonishing the emperor to be pragmatic and not to make a name for himself.There is another faction that is harmonious and muddy, and has no claims.

In the Pragmatic School, Shen Shuren, Fang Yizhi, and Chuanlu Ge Shizhen are the leaders, and the other seven or eight are followers.

Ge Shizhen doesn't like to talk about moral education, he does things with a simple style, likes quantitative calculations, and considers costs. He is a pragmatic talent.He was supposed to be in the second place, but now he is downgraded to Chuanlu due to the butterfly effect, and his ranking is still enough to win the respect of this group of people.

Shen Shuren was at the bottom of the list, but he was still respected and favored by others, because he dared to offend his face.Civil officials in the Ming Dynasty had a kind of admiration for their colleagues who had received the imperial scepter, but Shen Shuren had not received the imperial scepter, but the effect was similar.

Among this group of people, Cai Gongming from Quanzhou, Ma Minglu from Hanzhong, Yanhun from Anqing, Sun Yimai from Linyi, Song Mingke, Yao Xuzhi from Huzhou, and Ren Hongzhen from Wuchang.

Although it is impossible for Shen Shuren to write in too much detail in the history books he read before traveling, he probably didn't know these people at first.

But in fact, this group of officials has been more virtuous in history.

Among these people, Cai Gongming should have died in the battle of Zhang Xianzhong's attack on Sichuan in the future; Ma Minglu followed Shi Kefa to defend the city and died at the hands of Yangzhou Shiri Duoduo;
Yan Hun, Sun Yimai, Song Mingke, Yao Xuzhi, and Ren Hongzhen were either sent out to local officials or worked in the Six Ministries of Nanjing.In history, at least it has been possible to refuse to become an official after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, or die of worry and anger, or die of hunger strike.

The worst among them should be Song Mingke, who died in the defense of Denglai when Duduo went south.But he left some of Qiu Qing's literary works, which were quoted and revised by Lu Liuliang of the Qing Dynasty many years later, which caused a literary inquisition during the Yongzheng period.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty didn't let go of his hatred after chopping up Lu Liuliang's coffin and slaughtering his body, so he also dug out the literati of the previous dynasty who Lu Liuliang had quoted.Song Mingke had been dead for more than 80 years at that time, and the body was too rotten to kill the corpse, so the Qing emperor ordered to destroy the bones and ashes instead.

In contrast, Wei Zaode's faction is powerful now, but in the future there will be first-class and third-class traitors, and many of them will voluntarily surrender to the Qing Dynasty to seek official positions.

Of course, those who sing high-profile people cannot all be traitors, and there are a few who really believe in moral cleanliness.

For example, Chen Chunde of Yongzhou was the one who chanted the slogan of moral cleanliness the loudest in this session of Jinshi, so he was appointed as the official censor to stay in Beijing and was responsible for spraying people.

But he is really tough. In history, when Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, he heard that after Chongzhen hanged himself, he also hanged himself to die for his country, which is worthy of the emperor.

It's a pity that people like Chen Chunde only account for [-] to [-]% of the moral model faction, and the rest are all hypocrites shouting slogans.

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Even though Shen Shuren didn't know too many historical details, he had a good eye for people.Whether a person has a backbone can be seen from the daily behavior and style.

For this group of like-minded people, he will definitely donate money, make friends and win over, and in the future, he will have more friends to help.

At the practice banquet given today, Cai Gongming, Ma Minglu, Sun Yimai, and Song Mingke, who were also sent out, toasted Fang Yizhi to congratulate him, wishing him that he would be assigned to fight against Zhang Xianzhong's thieves frontier.

"Brother Fang Xian, you are still in high school when you are young, and you can still go to Tongcheng to fight with Lin Chengcheng, you will have a bright future in the future, not something we old people can compare to.

Your Majesty is so magnanimous, maybe when he arrives in Tongcheng, Lin Chengcheng and Liu Xiyao will turn his back on his armor, surrender with courtesy, lead the way for the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court, and turn his back to kill Zhang Xianzhong. "

The place where these four people were released was either Sichuan or Shandong, and they were not as close to the theater as Fang Yizhi.

They were still a little fanatical when they first entered the official career, and they all felt that Zhang Xianzhong would soon be finished, and that anyone could take credit for it.

Among them, Sun Yimai and Song Mingke are both in their forties, and their beards are a little gray. They took four or five times to pass the exam, but they also have no political experience like the young people, and their attitudes are relatively light on the enemy.

Fang Yizhi has a lot of contact with Shen Shuren, and his hometown is on the front line, and he also knows the fighting power of the thieves, so he doesn't dare to underestimate the enemy. After drinking, he only responded cautiously:
"Brothers are too famous. Zhang Xianzhong has been repeating himself for many years, and his majesty can deal with it with an oath of alliance. I have gone through this life, and there is still a long way to go. Let's encourage each other and do our best for the country."

Fang Yizhi's words that poured cold water made the other people feel a little bit unhappy, and they thought Fang Yizhi was so modest that it was almost hypocritical.

Ma Minglu, who was assigned to be the county magistrate in Yangzhou, heard the words, and pulled Shen Shuren beside him, asking him to say something fair:
"Brother Shen Xian, we Ming people don't speak dark words, here are all our own people, I know that His Majesty's Taimiao oath is actually your idea. Tell me, how long will it take for Zhang Xianzhong to be crowned head?
With your talent, although His Majesty deposes you as the bottom of the second class, you will definitely be released to other places for reuse.Before you could try it, you were a Genuine Seventh Grade, so this time it will be more popular than Brother Fang Xian.Don't you want to get an errand to fight Zhang Xianzhong too? "

Shen Shuren didn't expect the topic to turn to him, but just shook his head indifferently: "The official department has not appointed me so far, there may be some variables, who made me the bottom of the second class.

As for Zhang Xianzhong, he was not so easy to deal with.I'm sure that most of the people who feel that this thief is about to die are ordinary people, new government officials, or leaders of other factions among the rogues.

But most of the veterans and veterans in the court would not be so optimistic - only they know how much the courtiers evade His Majesty's will.It is true that killing Zhang Xianzhong can make you a Marquis, but who will be the first bird?
From my point of view, apart from Mr. Yang Ge who has no choice but to take charge of the overall plan and has to use his life, I don't know how many of the others want to avoid hard bones and only pick soft meat.After a few months, the limelight recedes, maybe it's Lao Fang's post again. "

Shen Shuren's tone was icy cold, which made the other fellows quite depressed.

Indeed, in terms of understanding the atmosphere of the officialdom, these people who have just passed the exam are indeed far inferior to Shen Shuren who has been an official for more than half a year.

No matter how high the reward for killing an enemy is, with the current decadence of the Ming Dynasty, no one wants to be the first to deal damage, and they are all waiting for the last hit.

The atmosphere of the wine bureau suddenly became a little dull.

Just when everyone wanted to find some other good news to comfort, a guest suddenly came in at the gate of Goulan, asked the old bustard to find the place, and went straight to the flower hall where Shen Shuren and others gathered.

Everyone took a closer look, and found that this person was also the same year as the top two in this department, Master Huang Yun of Jiujiang.This person was relatively silent before, and he didn't speak much when the Emperor Chongzhen asked the right questions, so he was considered a centrist.

Master Huang Yun walked up to Shen Shuren, cupped his hands and told him a message: "Xiang Shen, the Ministry of Officials has also allocated the last batch of second-class candidates to be appointed today, and you and I are in this batch.

I'm here to report a letter to you. You have been temporarily transferred to the Imperial Academy to edit and write.I don't know why it ended up like this.However, the Ministry of Officials revealed some information, saying that your revision should not be long, and will be released soon, so please be patient. "

When the people around heard this, they couldn't help being very surprised, some were happy for Shen Shuren, and some were not worth it for him.

It's not worth it for him, because now the circle has been formed, and they all think that Wei Zaodegaur is a follower of power, and they don't want to be with those people.Even if Shen Shuren went, he would probably be excluded.

What is happy for Shen Shuren is that he feels that Hanlin Xiuzhuan is a first-class treatment after all, and Shen Shuren enjoys a high standard at this time.

Only Shen Shuren knows that when facing friends of the same age who are making troubles, whether it is congratulations or not worth it, he tells everyone to be calm:

"You don't need to worry, and you don't need to congratulate. I know what's going on. Since the Ministry of Officials said that I've been writing this work for a while, it should be that His Majesty is waiting for the results of the water transport reforms in various places to report back.

I came to Beijing this time to escort the military rations transported to Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, and to rush for the exam along the way.Now the canals and the Bohai Sea have been completely thawed, and March and April were the peak season for grain collection and transportation to the north last winter.Your Majesty is staying in Beijing to observe me. It depends on the merits and demerits of the water transport reform to save money before finally deciding on my official post. "

Hearing what he said, Ma Mingjue, Song Mingke and others congratulated him one after another: "So that's the case, then I wish you a smooth pass, and then you will directly find someone who can show his strength in the matter of besieging Zhang Xianzhong."

"That's right, even if those old men and women are clearly protecting themselves, I believe that a loyal person like my virtuous brother will definitely go all out as long as he has the opportunity. My virtuous brother also just happens to set an example for the loyal people in the world!"

Faced with these compliments, Shen Shuren also smiled wryly. These people still think it is so easy to deal with Zhang Xianzhong, and they have never experienced beatings in officialdom and battlefield.

(End of this chapter)