Mingshi

Chapter 211 Lost
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Zhou Tingyu came back exhausted, and immediately served dinner.During the dinner, no one spoke, Zhou Tingyu was tired.Luo Xin and the other three were hungry, but they ate the meal quickly, they finished it in less than a quarter of an hour, and the four of them came to the study of Zhouzhi County.Zhou Yu was busy making a pot of tea, and then the three brothers looked at Zhou Tingyu.

"The scientific examination is coming soon. Let me tell you about the scientific examination for my father. Haode and I have never said these things before, because his accumulation is not enough, and it was within my expectation that he did not pass the examination last time."

Zhou Yu's face turned red, but Luo Xin knew in his heart that Zhou Tingyu must want to say the same thing as Lu Tingfang.But the two of them must have their own understanding of scientific research, so Luo Xin listened carefully.After the county magistrate finished speaking, although he and Lu Tingfang said the same thing, but it also benefited Luo Xin a lot, because there were subtle differences from Lu Tingfang.After Zhou Zhixian finished speaking, he looked at the three people and said:

"have you understood?"

The three brothers pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Understood."

Zhou Zhixian nodded, but then he let out a long sigh and said, "I don't know if it's right or wrong to let you enter the officialdom."

"Father... what do you mean?" Zhou Yu asked hesitantly.

"Alas..." Zhou Tingyu sighed again: "Nowadays, the atmosphere in the court is not right, it's just a pool of muddy water. If you rush into it rashly, don't know if it's a blessing or a disaster?"

Zhou Tingyu glanced over the three people in front of him and said, "You three really want to be officials?"

The three brothers exchanged glances, Zhou Yu smiled wryly and said, "What can you do if you don't become an official? Don't you just eat and die all day long?"

Zhang Xun said seriously: "My father's lifelong wish is that I can be an official in the court."

The eyes of the three people in the study focused on Luo Xin, and Luo Xin smiled wryly: "Ye-father also said that now the Ming court is full of smog and the atmosphere is not right. In this way, the lives of the common people will be even more miserable, and their lives will be even less dignified. Therefore, Even if you want to live with dignity, you have to be an official."

"That's right!" Zhou Tingyu's expression became very ugly: "Now the Ming Dynasty has been corrupted, not only the atmosphere in the court is not correct, the atmosphere is smoky, but the borders are also corrupted."

"No way?" The three brothers looked at Zhou Yu in surprise.

"You are not officials, so you don't know some news." Zhou Tingyu sighed: "Let's talk about our north first. Mongolia has not stopped for a year in these years, and they have invaded year after year. They are called Daqiugu. My million frontier troops in the Ming Dynasty are as in front of the Mongols. Like chickens and dogs, in the past ten years, the people of our Daming Border Pass have suffered countless deaths and injuries, and tens of thousands of people have been abducted by the Mongols."

Luo Xin remained silent, these things were recorded in later generations, so Luo Xin was very clear about it.But Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun looked at each other in shock.

"This is only the north, and the southeast coast is also full of disasters. You must have heard of the Japanese pirates, but you don't know how big the disaster of the Japanese pirates is."

"How old is it?" Zhou Yu couldn't help asking.

"Actually there are only a few Japanese pirates, and most of them are pirates who cause disasters along the coast. There are two biggest pirates, one is Wang Zhi and the other is Xu Hai. These two men have gathered a large number of pirates, and they also collaborate with Japanese pirates. As far as Fujian and other coastal areas fled, burned, killed, and looted, the Ming army actually fled, not daring to face the enemy directly, and let the coastal people suffer from the chaos of the Japanese pirates."

Zhou Yu said in shock: "That's my Daming's money bank and granary!"

"That's right!" Zhou Zhixian nodded and said, "It's a shame that those high officials in the court know about it, but they only know how to argue every day and allow the Japanese pirates to run rampant. Also, the barbarian chieftains in Yunnan and Shu have also rebelled several times. Today's Daming is corrupt inside and out, even if you are an official, how easy is it to live with dignity?"

Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun were in great shock, even Luo Xin was also full of shock.In later generations, he only looked at these things from a historical perspective.But now that he has been forced to participate, hearing what Zhou Tingyu said with his own ears, his feelings are completely different.

"Do you still want to be officials?" Zhou Tingyu looked at the three people seriously and said, "Maybe you will be sent to the above-mentioned places as officials in the future. You may die for your country at any time, just like the rogues who just experienced generally."

Looking at the three people who were lost in thought, Zhou Tingyu stood up, walked out of the study, and threw the three of them in the study.In fact, he was also very conflicted. He hoped that these three juniors could become officials, but he also worried that they would fail in their careers, and even lost their lives for no reason.So he can only tell them the actual situation of Daming today, as for their final choice, it is up to them to decide.

The door of the study was gently closed, and the room was silent.After a while, Zhang Xun said softly:
"How come we don't know these things?"

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "If my father didn't mention it today, I wouldn't know about it. It seems that the imperial court is blocking the news."

After a pause, Zhou Yu continued: "After these two years of hard study, I feel that let alone the rural examination, we have a great chance of passing the test. Then what we are facing is to be an official. If we don't want to be an official That’s all, if we decide to be officials, how do we become officials? What kind of officials do we want to be?”

"I want to be an official!" Zhang Xun said firmly, "This time, it's not to fulfill my father's wish, but I want to be an official myself. The corruption of the Ming Dynasty is now when I was brought out of chaos. What readers should do."

"That's right!" Zhou Yu also lifted his spirits, "This is the era we long for, otherwise we would lose interest in being an official."

Zhang Xun also brightened his eyes and said, "Big Brother, Brother Xin, we brothers will work together to eradicate the national traitor Yan Song and his son."

"That's right!" Zhou Yu jumped up, "The root of Daming's corruption lies in Yan Song and his son. These two national thieves confuse the Holy Majesty, bully his colleagues, monopolize bribes, and sell officials to form a clique. If we don't get rid of this father and son, Daming will have no future." .”

Luo Xin looked at Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun with envy. This is the high spirits of young talents, this is the determination of young talents to forge ahead, even if they fail in the future, they are still young!

And Luo Xin just doesn't have this kind of youthful enthusiasm, doesn't have this kind of high spirits, who let him have a soul in his thirties, even if he wants to be young, he can't get young.

Being a human being in two lifetimes has made him more mature. Although it can make him more sophisticated in his behavior, it also makes him feel that he has lost something.

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