Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 226 Who is in charge of the world, hard work and riches

The corpses beside the door were all breathless, their entire faces were blue-purple, their eyes were tightly closed, but their posture showed a desire for life.

All of them didn't want to die, they just kept begging to the people outside, but it was this door that cut off the way of life for all of them.

Rescuers at the scene poured water on the inside several times. Although the flames were temporarily extinguished, thick smoke kept pouring out from inside, making it difficult for anyone to get close.

"Quick, everyone spread out around the house, and we must stop the fire from spreading!"

The magistrate of Huarong knew that it was impossible to extinguish the fire in Liu's mansion, so he organized manpower to control the surroundings of Liu's mansion, so as to prevent the fire from spreading from Liu's mansion.

For fear of "flying fire", some personnel were arranged to go to the nearby roof.

"Mother?"

"Miss?"

"The third one?"

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Liu Daxia had already pushed aside the shackles of others, and came to a distance of more than ten feet from the door. When he saw clearly the identity of the pile of corpses, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

He was originally the founder of the most glorious family of the Liu family for hundreds of years. Although the four sons are all worthless, it does not prevent their Liu family from becoming the "king" of Huarong County.

It's just that today was originally the Mid-Autumn Festival for family reunion, but just a fire turned him into a lonely family, and he was experiencing the greatest tragedy in his life.

When Liu Daxia saw the corpses of his old mother, wife and children clearly, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, then collapsed on the ground, and burst into tears.

The fire had spread to the door, and the silk and satin on the Liu family was very flammable, and many corpses were set on fire.

Liu Zhong looked at the rescuers who were trying to stop the fire from spreading, turned his head to look at Liu Daxia who was crying sadly, but shook his head gently.

It's not that he wants to sympathize with Liu Daxia, he just regrets that Liu's family was buried in the sea of ​​fire, but Liu Daxia is entirely to blame for this situation.

Just now Liu Daxia's wife and children were calling for help from behind the door, and even Liu Daxia's old mother begged, but Liu Daxia refused to let go.

In fact, he knew that Liu Daxia was thinking of luck, but he hoped to solve the problem by doing nothing.

If the people in Liu's house managed to extinguish the fire, or if he, the governor of Huguang, stood up and ordered to open the door to save people, then Liu Daxia would not need to be threatened by Wang Zhi.

It's just that Liu Daxia seems to have forgotten that the bargaining chip Wang Zhi used to threaten was the lives of his whole family.Although he chose to tell the truth at the last moment, it was too late.

"Wang Zhi, you are doomed, you are doomed! The old man and his family died tragically at your hands. The world can no longer tolerate such a wicked person like you. All the scholars will definitely eat your flesh and blood!" After Liu Daxia's grief, , then pointed at Wang Zhi and loudly condemned him.

At this moment, deep hatred surged in his heart.

He knew that the death of his family members was irretrievable, but what Wang Zhi did just now was death. All the officials in the world would use this to attack Wang Zhi until Wang Zhi went to hell.

Wang Zhi is actually a cold-blooded person. Even though Liu Daxia's family members died tragically in front of him, there was no great disturbance in his heart, and he even continued to sit leisurely in a chair and watch the play.

Facing Liu Daxia's accusation, he said without the slightest fear on his face: "What are the world's scholars, and the miscellaneous people only have His Majesty in their hearts!"

"You locked my house and caused the old man's family to be buried in flames. Scholars all over the world must be indignant, and His Majesty can't protect you!" Liu Daxia pointed out bitterly when Wang Zhi didn't know that the emperor wanted to "conform to public opinion" fact.

Liu Zhong knew that once the news here spread, those scholars might fabricate another truth. Not only would Wang Zhi get into big trouble, but he would also be affected, so he felt a little worried in his heart.

In fact, it is not that Liu Daxia is exaggerating, but that the reading community in this era is indeed very strong.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not advocate "governing the world with scholar-officials", once the scholars could find a strong reason to attack, they would cooperate with the important officials in the court, forming a force that even the emperor feared.

Just like a certain literary website, although the writers are the targets of the website, if the group of writers really unite as one rope, then the website will have to make certain concessions.

Liu Daxia became famous all over the world when he burned Zheng He's archives, and he was promoted as a model scholar.

It is a fact that Wang Zhi closed the door and threatened Liu Daxia with the lives of the Liu family. It is also a fact that the Liu family was burned to death collectively. In addition, there are many officials in Ming Dynasty who hate Wang Zhi. This matter is bound to cause an uproar.

"Is the miscellaneous family guilty or not? Your Majesty only counts on what you say! But you, you can save people earlier by confessing earlier, but in the end you just pretended not to hear your wife and children calling for help. Shouldn't you review yourself?" Wang Wang He believed in the Son of Heaven all the time, but complained in reverse.

Although Li Wei knew that Wang Zhi was deliberately teasing Liu Daxia, he turned his head to look at Liu Daxia. Just now Liu Daxia did have to bear certain responsibilities.

The outsiders like myself couldn't distinguish the voices of the people calling for help inside, but Liu Daxia should know that it was the old lady, his wife and children, but he didn't respond the whole time.

Rather than saying that Wang Zhi is cold-blooded, it is better to say that Liu Daxia is far from superficially filial, and even actually a hypocrite.

This time there was still a chance to open the door to save people, but Liu Daxia refused to let go, resulting in missing the best opportunity, and Liu Daxia will undoubtedly bear a certain responsibility.

"This old man is here to save millions of people in the southwest from the flames of war, and to usher in the rejuvenation of the Ming Dynasty!" Liu Daxia responded righteously, and then bowed mournfully to the corpse at the door: "Mother, the child is not filial!"

"What a good one for the people of the Southwest! Not to mention whether your point of view is right or not, why did you recruit again in the end? Do you think you have failed the millions of people in the Southwest?" Wang Zhi didn't think that people like Liu Daxia could To really pretend to be ordinary people is to deliberately pick pricks.

Liu Zhong and the others nodded lightly, because they felt that what Wang Zhi said made some sense.

Leaving aside the fact that the Annan archives originally belonged to the imperial court, Liu Daxia chose to let go in the end, and his so-called righteousness has also been lost.

"The old man was coerced by you, and the emperor's order must not be violated!" Liu Daxia argued with concern, with most of the tears in his eyes gone.

The corners of Wang Zhi's mouth rose slightly, appearing to be murderous, and he said: "The emperor's order cannot be violated, but you violated it! As for coercing you, I knew that you were afraid of being coerced by others. The miscellaneous family should torture you instead of using your whole family's power. Your life is threatening you! After all, you are the real culprit who killed your whole family!"

"Wang Zhi, don't mess around here! You killed dozens of members of my Liu family. The world can prove that I, Liu Daxia, are not in the same breath as you. Every scholar in the world must be killed by everyone!" Liu Daxia looked Gritting his teeth, he looked at Wang Zhi and cursed.

Wang Zhi knew that the group of scholars would definitely make a fuss about this, so he patted his buttocks and stood up and said: "There are no scholars in the eyes of the miscellaneous family, and I advise you not to use chicken feathers as tokens, you should take care of yourself first now! If you still can't find the Southwest archives, you, Liu Daxia, will definitely die, or even be tortured by Ling Chi!"

The matter is not over yet, not to mention whether Liu Daxia lied just now, and the hidden files may not be there anymore.

That's the case, the most important thing now is to pass the information of Liu Daxia's confession back to the palace, and His Majesty will search for the Annan file hidden by Liu Daxia, so as to formulate a more reasonable battle route.

The next day, Wang Zhi led the Shenji Battalion directly to Lianzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, while Liu Zhong sent people to escort the prisoner Liu Daxia to the capital, where the court will determine his life and death.

In the capital, at the gate of Shuntian Gongyuan.

"Our policy topic this time is very tricky!"

"Isn't it? Geometry problems have come out!"

"Fortunately, I have been paying attention to the book of troublesome people, otherwise I really don't know how to answer it!"

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After nine days and six nights of hard work, more than 3000 examinees left the gate of the Gongyuan one after another, ending their current Enke Township Examination, but one after another found their emotions.

The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty have been held for a hundred years, and those seniors who have painstakingly pursued fame have dismantled the Four Books and Five Classics paragraph by sentence, and have already found out a series of excellent essays, such as "Wenfu Big Title" and "Wenfu Small Title" All key exam questions have been covered.

The current stereotyped essay questions are actually just a test of the candidates' memory. They only need to memorize the standard answers for each sentence in the Four Books, and then write them silently.

The small questions of stereotyped essays can be broken down in ever-changing ways. Since you can choose half a sentence, you can also cut it out, but the final result is that candidates have to memorize more essays.

The four-book questions of this year's township examination seem quite satisfactory, but the difficulty lies in the later policy theory, and the five-course policy theory topics are beyond the scope of the past.

"I'm not discussing with you! This dynasty has started to focus on practical affairs, so there is no need for empty articles, and His Majesty has kindly allowed the review to be postponed for another seven days, so we have plenty of time to review the files, and we can slowly review the files. Clear up the policy papers for the third session!" Song Cheng, who was wearing a third-rank official uniform, sat in the Jukui Hall and instructed the other five examiners.

At the moment, the deputy chief examiner, Hanlin Xiuzhuan, Lin Han is the only official of the Hanlin. Facing such a strong Song Cheng, he is finally forced to behave in a well-behaved manner.

After the new king ascended the throne, their respected Hanlin officials became the biggest losers instead.

There are more and more Ci officials who can't make it to the top, but now the chief examiner of the rural examination that originally belonged to them has fallen to this Shuntian Fu Yin who was not born in the Imperial Academy.

Even more desperate is that this arrangement will be made to order.

Song Cheng knew that he was an experimenter of reform, but now countless eyes were on him, but he ignored the thoughts of Lin Han and others, and continued to devote himself to his review work.

In late August, candidates in the capital ended their exams, but many people became even busier.

In the north of the city, in a private house near the city wall, the yard was kept clean, and there were two chickens beside it, one hen and the other a rooster.

Liu Ying went out with a white cotton cloth in her arms, and said to her eldest daughter who was playing: "Big girl, take care of your younger brother at home, mother has exchanged cotton cloth for money, and will bring you candy when you come back!"

Da Ya swallowed her saliva and nodded in agreement when she heard that there was candy to eat.

It used to take more than ten days to weave a piece of cotton cloth, but since the appearance of this magical machine, the project has been shortened to five days, and she only spent two and a half days this time.

Liu Ying came to the entrance of the Royal Cloth Store with a piece of cotton cloth in her arms, and followed the sign at the door to the cloth inspection area on the left, feeling a little uneasy.

Things have to start before the Mid-Autumn Festival, when we openly look for weavers who know how to weave in the whole city.

After a few days of training for their group of female weavers in the courtyard behind the shop, the shop provided them with a shuttle loom, and the cloth they wove was exchanged for money.

Although there has been no expenditure, and there are even free meals during the training period, the cotton cloth in my hand is the result of two and a half days of hard work.

Because of this, she was still worried that this was an elaborate lie.

"Liu Ying of Jintai Square in the north of the city?" There is an elderly shopkeeper here who is in charge of cloth inspection, raising his eyes to verify his identity very seriously.

Liu Ying was so nervous that her palms were sweating, she immediately nodded seriously: "It's my slave!"

"If there is any problem with the shuttle loom, you can just notify our people, and we will send people to repair it! But remember, you can't dismantle the loom without authorization!" Shopkeeper Sun carefully inspected the cotton cloth, while earnestly exhorting.

Liu Ying is a well-behaved person, and this request is very reasonable, so she nodded heavily: "My family, please remember!"

"The piece of cotton cloth you wove has passed the inspection and acceptance! You will deduct [-] cents of silver from the [-] catties of cotton yarn earlier, and [-] cents of silver will be deducted once for the use of the shuttle loom, so I will give you three cents now, and you take it!" Shopkeeper Sun After clearing the accounts, he handed over a three-coin silver.

Liu Ying took the three-coin silver that fell into her palm with both hands, feeling the weight of the three-coin silver, she couldn't believe her eyes and said, "Thank you!"

"You're welcome, this is what you deserve! Eunuch Wei has already explained that we have a long-term cooperation, so you should pay attention to your health!" Shopkeeper Sun has worked for decades, and now he likes his current position very much.

While talking, a middle-aged eunuch walked in from the outside. His face was white and beardless, his facial features were regular, and his eyes seemed to be shining with wisdom.

"Eunuch Wei!" Shopkeeper Sun hurried forward when he saw Wei Juan appearing.

Wei Juan waved his hand to signal shopkeeper Sun not to be too polite, and asked with concern: "Shopkeeper Sun, our cotton cloth is sold to North Korea or Mongolia, as long as it meets the standard, don't make faults for miscellaneous shopkeepers!"

He was originally an eunuch who was promoted by Guangdong Province, and he was favored by Emperor Chenghua. However, in the new dynasty, he was impeached by civil officials for crimes such as invading the treasures brought by Ali of Tianfang Kingdom.

Fortunately, Xinjun did not listen to those civil servants, but he called himself back.It turned out that he was on business in Qianqing Palace, but not long ago, Tan Gui actually filled his own pockets and took over Tan Gui's position by himself.

Wei Juan knows that His Majesty is not pursuing profit, but wants to advance the production capacity of the capital to meet the needs of Mongolia and North Korea, so as to obtain more vassal materials through cotton cloth trade.

"Eunuch Wei, how dare a villain do such an unconscionable thing. I just received a weaver that is better than the weavers in our cloth factory!" Shopkeeper Sun showed the cotton cloth he had just received, his face full of pride. .

Wei Juan noticed the plain-looking woman next to her, and after asking her name, she also said kindly: "Do it well! You are already a member of our royal cloth shop! If you are in Beijing, who would dare to bully you?" , you tell the miscellaneous family, and the miscellaneous family will stand up for you!"

"Thank you, Eunuch Wei!" Shopkeeper Sun reminded immediately.

"Thank you, Eunuch Wei!" Liu Ying faintly felt that this Eunuch Wei looked very powerful, so she said gratefully.

Wei Juan raised his hand to let Liu Ying leave, but his face was not overly excited.

This was his first important task when he returned to the capital. Whether it was for loyalty to the emperor or for his own status, he needed to go all out.

Three coins?
Liu Ying's hands were still tightly clutching the silver taels she had just bought through weaving, and she felt a long-lost joy in her heart.

Hard work and getting rich seems to be possible.

At this moment, she is extremely at ease in her heart. If she can exchange money through weaving for a long time, she will definitely be able to get rid of her previous life of starvation.

The most important thing is that although Bu's life is boring and busy, he can support his children through his own hard work, which is like a dream.

When Liu Ying was leaving, Zhao Laosi's eldest son and daughter-in-law walked in with cloth tickets.

(End of this chapter)