The Chinese New Year is about to be held in more than ten days, and a large number of candidates who took the exam flocked to Beijing. For them, the biggest and most important problem they need to solve is accommodation.

Although each province has a guild hall, it cannot accommodate so many people. Besides, everyone is a juren, so who doesn’t bring a few followers? The book boy comes.

In early December, all the guild halls were already overcrowded, and the remaining people either went to inns or rented private houses.

You know how many inn owners are looking forward to this day. Once every three years, they have already sharpened their knife and are ready to go, and even the firewood room is freed up.

Renting a private house is the most cost-effective. Three or four fellow juren renting a private house together, plus the entourage and the book boy, although it is a bit crowded, it has a very cost-effective performance.

The second is high consumption. There are still two months before the test. Prices in Beijing are already high. At the end of the year, there has been a wave of price increase. When it comes to the test, there has been another wave increase.

Many juren pinched their fingers and had to figure out where to do odd jobs. Of course, they went to borrow some money to spend money with fellow townsmen.

If Zhang Juzheng was already complaining in front of Qian Yuan, he would lead his wife and son to the door to have a meal and hide.

However, among the scholars who entered Beijing, there was a special group of people, that is, the Southeastern scholars. This time, among the scholars who entered Beijing two months in advance, the Southeastern scholars had the most.

Qian Yuan once asked about this at a party with Chen Younian, Zhu Dashou and others, and the answer he got was...

The people in southern China are afraid of the cold and need to go to Beijing in advance to adapt to the environment... This is nonsense. Guangdong and Hainanese are even more afraid of the cold.

In fact, the southeast is rich, and most of the scholars who went to Beijing to take the exam are from wealthy families. They are often mixed in Beijing and have arranged accommodation long ago.

Chen Younian's father was a Jinshi during the Zhengde period, and his uncle was a Jinshi in the 11th year of Jiajing. Zhu Dashou's father and grandparents also served in the officialdom, so naturally he could find a residence in the capital.

The most important thing is that although the end of the year is approaching, they are all afraid that the Japanese pirates will cause trouble after the New Year, and block the road or even cut off the canal at that time, which will be a big trouble.

"The large number of Japanese pirates have rarely come ashore, and they are all small number of Japanese pirates fleeing." Zhu Dashou shook his head and said, "Just half a month ago, a Japanese pirates hid in Taihu Lake, raided Changzhou, entered the Yangtze River to peek at Zhenjiang, and almost cut off the canal."

Qian Yuan was also helpless. Although the overall situation was gradually improving... Of course, behind this improvement was that Wang Zhi and Xu Hai were fighting on the sea in full swing, but it was inevitable that a small group of Japanese pirates would invade, and civil and military officials from all over the country could not focus all their energy on this.

"Fortunately, the new Admiral Caojiang has led his troops to attack and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop." Chen Younian said worriedly: "Mr. Liangqing wrote to him that Chief Wen has set off to Beijing, and he might just happen to meet him."

"A good person doesn't live long and has a disaster for thousands of years." Qian Yuan smiled, "Wenchang is not so easy to die!"

Everyone stared at Qian Yuan with a smile. How could you have the attitude to say this? I almost scolded Xu Wei to death a few months ago.

Qian Yuan laughed dryly, "Come more?"

"Zhan Cai is now a rich man, and it's useless to not eat it." Sun Ying, who finally came to join in the fun today, shouted at Yang Wen beside him, "Give some more beef slices, and then some egg-skin dumplings."

Sun Jian smiled helplessly and said angrily: "I'm not afraid of holding on."

"Not afraid, no fear!"

A few days ago, Chen Younian, Zhu Dashou entered Beijing and held a banquet at the Zhejiang Guild Hall to invite fellow villagers in Shaoxing to have a banquet. He also brought Qian Yuan, who had been studying hard since Qian Zheng entered Beijing.

Today, Qian Yuan set up a big hot pot in his yard to invite him back. In addition to Chen Younian and Zhu Dashou, he also invited Sun Yan and Sun Ying, and everyone on the table were all Juren, but they did not talk about the eight-legged essays, but talked about the battle situation in the southeast.

Qian Yuan thought in his mind that the invasion of small groups of Japanese pirates was really inevitable. Li Mo wrote a letter a few days ago to impeach Hu Zongxian and suppress the Japanese pirates. However, yesterday, the war report came. Hu Zongxian defeated the Japanese pirates in Kuaiji, Shaoxing, beheaded 500, and burned dozens of ships. Only then did Emperor Jiajing turn anger into joy.

"Shaoxing victory, this is true." Chen Younian nodded and said, "But it was very dangerous. If the Governor had not personally led the troops to help, and the clerk Wu Chengqi defended the city, I was afraid that Kuaiji County would be massacred by Japanese pirates."

Qian Yuan raised his glass and said with a smile: "Hu Ruzhen was in danger personally. Fortunately, he won the victory in Shaoxing. Although many Japanese pirates in the southeast were attacked by Japanese pirates, the situation is gradually improving. I hope you will be able to do your best to your hometown in one go."

Everyone raised their glasses and drank them all, but Sun Ting put down his glass and shook his head and said, "As the governor of the six provinces, he was in danger personally, which is not a wise move."

As soon as these words were said, everyone turned to Qian Yuan. They all knew themselves and were difficult to compare with Qian Yuan in this regard.

"It is a forced person to take risks in person." Qian Yuan explained in detail: "Although there are famous generals such as Yu Dayou, Lu Tong, and Tang Kekuan, the troops in the Southeast Guard are really useless. The transferred guest soldiers are not suitable for the local conditions and even fight each other for food and salary, so Yang Yi was imprisoned."

"Although Tianzhou wolf soldiers are brave and good at fighting, they are not strong enough. This year, the recruitment system is officially implemented in the Southeast. However, new recruits cannot go to the battlefield immediately. They will need at least one year of training."

The impatient Sun Ying blurted out, "When will we have to wait?"

Qian Yuan lowered his eyes slightly, "That depends on how much money Hu Ruzhen has in his hands."

Everyone was speechless. They also knew that recruiting soldiers and training soldiers required money, but if Xu Wei was there, he would definitely be able to hear what Qian Yuan said... It depends on how much money Hu Ruzhen has in his hands, but in fact it depends on when Hu Ruzhen will implement the drafting method to various provinces.

Qian Yuan didn't want to talk about this anymore. He said in depth that he had to talk about not only the editorial method, but also the tax reform. There were too many sensitive areas. He smiled and pointed at the side room, "Do you want another game?"

"It happens that five people and four of them will go into battle. Whoever loses will come down."

"I still need to prepare for the exam."

"Brother, I have been studying hard for so many years. What's the point of cramming for the moment?"

"Let's do it like this, just four circles, not many!"

Everyone responded in a hurry, and everyone was ready to go. Sun Jian, who had always been steady, was teaching his younger brother a lesson, and he was losing his ambition... So brother comes first, brother, please wait.

Qian Yuan regretted it a little. He brought the mahjong to the Zhejiang Association that day... After talking about it, he had to play two rounds and then exchanged Shi Wen, but after playing ten rounds, the Zhejiang Association is almost becoming a mahjong hall!

But when he was on the table, Qian Yuan ignored it, focused and tried his best!

"Touch yourself, Thirteen is not reliable!"

"Zhancai, can you do this kind of card?"

"Yes, I've been confused now, and I'm still guessing which one you want?"

A series of complaints made Qian Yuan not notice... Uncle Qian Zheng appeared quietly at the door.

After a while, Sun Ying, who was facing the door, suddenly stood up and kicked Qian Yuan beside him with a dry smile.

"Uncle..." Qian Yuan wanted to smile, but he didn't dare to laugh, and his face was distorted.

Qian Zheng did not scold his nephew in front of outsiders, but just pulled his face away, and a young eunuch walked into the house.

"Your Majesty summoned him and immediately enter the West Garden."

The room was so quiet that it could be heard even a needle landing. Sun Yan and Sun Ying were not too surprised. Everyone in the capital knew that Qian Yuanjian was in the heart of the emperor, while Zhu Dashou and Chen Younian looked at the eunuch whose hat was still stained with snow.

"Mr. Qian, please." The young eunuch had a good attitude. He looked at the table with a smile and said, "This is mahjong, it's all circulating in the palace."
Chapter completed!