high official

Chapter 549 Compensation
Not long after Yinling's carriage left, the washed-up disciples came out of the bathroom one after another dressed in new clothes.In order to clean the dust for them, Wang Xian specially booked the entire bathhouse, and he also carefully prepared brand-new clothes, shoes and hats according to each person's size.

There is a saying that Buddha relies on gold clothes, and people rely on clothes. After taking a bath and putting on clothes, the Juren finally got rid of the bad luck when they were just released from prison, and regained a bit of their old style. However, their gratitude to Wang Xian Love, but it didn't decrease but increased, and I respected him more and more.It's not difficult to understand, it's better to add icing on the cake than to give charcoal in the snow, now they are in trouble, although others will not avoid them, but like Wang Xian undressing me and pushing me to eat, few people are willing to do it.What's more, with Wang Xian's current status, there is absolutely no need to please them. On the contrary, they should try to please him.

The Juren and Wang Xian talked for a long time in front of the bathhouse, and when Yu Qian who entered last also came out, Wang Xian said with a smile, "Get in the carriage and go back to the guild hall." Still looking around, Wang Xian made fun of him and said, "Don't look, I've already gone back."

"Then I'm relieved." Yu Qian then smiled and got into the carriage.

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The Zhejiang Guild Hall is located on the banks of the Qinhuai River. It was originally a barracks in the Yuan Dynasty. It was abandoned after the founding of the Ming Dynasty and was bought by Zhejiang merchants. It was rebuilt into the Zhejiang Guild Hall for businessmen who came to Beijing to do business and exam candidates.There are a lot of Zhejiang merchants in Beijing, so this guild hall is naturally large and decent. Usually, when Zhejiang merchants come to Beijing, or Zhejiang officials are waiting for vacancies in Beijing, they all live here, and only need to pay a small amount of rent. .But every time there is a competition, the merchants who live in the guild hall will move out voluntarily, and make room for the students who come to Beijing to catch the exam.

The carriage drove straight into the guild hall and stopped in the courtyard. When the curtain of the carriage was lifted, the disciples found that the courtyard was full of people.They were all waiting there to greet them, except Lin Rongxing, Li Yu and others who had just returned from the Gongyuan in the same year, as well as the staff of the guild hall, businessmen from Zhejiang, and officials from Zhejiang... Although there are no relatives at the level of Shangshu Shilang. However, the arrival of Wu Xuansi Lang Zhongchaiche and others has given enough face to these frustrated people.However, the candidates also had self-knowledge, knowing that they actually came here for Wang Xian's sake.

As soon as the disciples got off the carriage, the crowd surrounded them, expressed their condolences to them with affectionate words, surrounded them with affectionate gestures, and entered the hall of the guild hall.A row of ten big Eight Immortals tables have been set up in the hall, and the tables are full of fruits and vegetables, delicious wine and delicacies, but the hot dishes haven't been served yet.

Wang Xian and Chai Che invited a group of people to sit in the main hall. In front of senior officials from the same village, they put on a very low posture. They pressed on the seats, and the lifters sat down with some trepidation.

Waiting for everyone to sit down, all fellow countrymen will be divided into primary and secondary seats. High-ranking officials like Wang Xian and Chai Che will naturally sit at the main table. Originally, Wang Xian, the Fusi governor of Beizhen from the fourth rank, was the respected here, but he insisted. He refused to surpass Chai Che, a senior who had been kind to him, so he pushed Chai Che to the throne.The chaiche was not good enough to chat with Wang Xian anymore, so he reluctantly sat in the chief seat, but he just picked up the wine glass and said a few words of comfort, and then gave up the right to speak to Wang Xian.

Wang Xian did not pick up the wine glass, but left the table and walked into the hall, and bowed deeply to all the judges, who were so surprised that they stood up quickly, and turned sideways, not daring to accept his big gift, saying repeatedly, "I can't do it, I can't do it." , I can't afford the big gift from adults. '

"You can afford it." Wang Xian said with a guilty expression on his face, "Because you all suffered such an innocent disaster, you even missed the exam. In fact, you were implicated by me." He bowed deeply and said: "Although I can't apologize anymore I will make up for all of you, but I still want to sincerely apologize to you, I am so sorry to all of you!"

"..." The hall suddenly became quiet. Everyone is not blind and deaf. Wang Xian and Ji Gang had confronted each other before. Although the conflict had not been made public, everyone had heard about it. Naturally, it is not difficult to imagine that this time Zhejiang Juzi was punished. , It was caused by Wang Xian and the fish in the pond.But Wang Xian didn't mention this, and no one would say it in front of him. After all, no one wanted to offend this "noble fellow".

Generally speaking, this kind of thing will not be mentioned again. After all, people are concerned about face, and the bigger the official, the better the face. At most, the big man will remember this kind of favor in his heart, and try to make up for it in the future.Before, Wang Xian worked hard for them, picked them up in front of the criminal department, arranged for them to take a bath, and held such a grand banquet in the guild hall to welcome them. Even though everyone still had some resentment in their hearts, their affection for him increased greatly.

But Wang Xian is different from others. Not only did he take the initiative to mention it, but he also apologized to them in front of all his fellow villagers in public. , hastened to help Wang Xian up, and said with tears: "My lord, why do you have to do this? There is a wrong and a debt, and we hate Ji Gang as well. How can we not blame you?"

"Don't comfort me." Wang Xian also said with tears in his eyes, "If it wasn't because of my hometown, how could you be missed by Ji Gang? Whether you blame me or not, I owe you this time!"

"Okay, okay, today is a day of great joy, so don't act like a child." At this time, the role of the chaiche was manifested. He pulled Wang Xian up, and asked all the people to sit down: "Zhongde has Take responsibility, and don’t want to shirk responsibility like some people. Xiaoqian and the others value friendship and don’t want to burden Zhongde. This kind of friendship is really a blessing for our fellow villagers in Zhejiang!”

Everyone also echoed: "Yes, yes, this is the original intention of the predecessors to establish this guild hall, so that our fellow villagers can love each other and work together in this capital!" The relationship with the countryside seems to have warmed up a lot because of this.

After pushing and changing glasses for a long time, Wang Xiancai said again: "Everyone doesn't care about me, it's because you adults have a lot, but if I don't try my best to compensate you, I really won't be a son of man." He waved his hand and let everyone Juzi listened to him first.The hall fell silent, only to hear Wang Xian throwing the floor and saying:
"In any case, if you miss this subject, you will have to wait another three years. If you intend to stay in the capital to study, I can find a way to let you study in the Imperial College, and regularly invite famous teachers for you and hold literary meetings to benefit you. knowledge!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the judges immediately exclaimed. Even though they were frogs at the bottom of the well, after this trip to the capital, they all knew that the cultural center of the Ming Dynasty was in Jinling, and those ministers and scholars gathered in the capital. Poetry will emerge in endlessly.Only by staying in this circle can you constantly experience the latest policies and policies of the imperial court and the latest thoughts and writing style of scholars. The perfect place to follow trends.

If you can study abroad in the capital for two years, it will inevitably bring about qualitative improvement, which cannot be achieved by working behind closed doors at the local level.However, rice is expensive in Kyoto, and it is not easy to live for a long time. Even if they are the masters of Juren now, if they live for a long time, it will be very difficult... But if they can enter the Imperial College to study, they will be regarded as Zengguang students. Not spending money, can greatly save their expenses.This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that when you study in prison, you can always get advice from famous teachers, and you have the opportunity to make friends with the children of high-ranking officials... If you want to study, you can enter the prison with grace. , For example, the Hu species is the supervisor.If you can take the opportunity to make friends with several high-ranking officials' children, it will be of great benefit to their future official careers.

However, the Guozijian only opened the door to the children of noble and high-ranking officials. At this time, the integrity of the Ming Dynasty has not been lost, and there is no opening for donating prisons. This is an easy task, and you must be recommended by the school administration in each province to be eligible.However, Xuezheng can't randomly recommend so many people to be imprisoned. How many old-fashioned guys in those prefectural and county schools are waiting in line to be imprisoned?
So Wang Xian's proposal was so tempting that when he proposed it, most people were tempted. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for Mr. Wang if people rushed forward?

Therefore, people looked at each other and wanted to answer, but they were afraid that people would feel too selfish, so no one spoke for a while.

"Why, are you not interested in studying in prison?" Chai Che said with a smile: "You should know how beneficial it is to study in prison, right? It is the best place for those who will fail the exam."

All the people laughed sarcastically, and there was one outspoken one who expressed their concerns: "It's because everyone wants to go that they are embarrassed to speak up."

"Hahaha, so that's the reason." Chai Che laughed loudly and said, "I still put my heart in my stomach. Since Zhongde dares to say such a thing, he is sure to get you all in."

"Really?" Everyone was overjoyed at once, although they all knew that as Chai Langzhong, they would definitely not lie to them.But you still have to hear Wang Xian's personal confirmation to be completely at ease.

"Of course we want to go together." Wang Xian finally smiled and said, "If you want to go, tell me later, and then just go to prison and leave the rest to me."

Wang Xian's words are simple, but everyone knows that in order to achieve this, he still doesn't know how much he paid and how much favor he owed?And he didn't need to do that...

"Thank you, sir." All the people stood up and saluted together. Although some people still wanted to go back to Hangzhou, it did not affect them to express their gratitude to Wang Xian.

(End of this chapter)