Chapter 2117 Flower Struggle (Twenty-five)

Georgiana remembered that she had seen the scene in Nick Flamel's crystal ball and knew that the whole of Europe would be in turmoil in the near future, so she took this "travel".

Now she looked at the book in her hand, "Nick" was also facing the coming chaos...

"Don't want to see it?" asked Bonaparte.

She didn't answer.

"Is this a difficult question to answer?"

"Are you not busy this afternoon?"

He was silent.

Georgiana went to pour two glasses of wine, handed one to Bonaparte, then sat at the table and took a sip.

"I have something to tell you." She said after hesitating for a while.

"About what?" he asked stiffly.

When the words came to her lips, she didn't know whether she should tell him the prophecy Cassandra said.

About 14 years from now, a catastrophe may come.

"I once told you that when I wish to hear advice from others, I will listen." Bonaparte took out his snuff bottle. "Now, continue reading."

"Don't you feel annoyed?" she asked.

"Compared to what I saw in the shipyard just now?" He said with a teasing smile, "I just thought I was watching a show."

"Watching this show is not pleasant at all."

"Tragedy is the classroom of great men."

So she put down the wine glass in her hand, treated it as an intermission, and continued reading.

Soldiers in the Qing Dynasty had a word on their chests on their uniforms, which were divided into Bing, Yong, Ding, and Pawn.

"Soldiers" are standing armies. They are divided into the Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp Army. The Eight Banners Army is further divided into the Han Eight Banners and the Manchu Eight Banners. The soldiers commanded by the admiral are mainly the Green Camp Army.

"Yong" are troops recruited in local villages when the Eight Banners Army is not available enough. They gather during the war, and when the war is over, they reunite with their families and do their own work.

"Ding" refers to logistics personnel. This branch of the army is generally considered to be a poor job because they are mainly responsible for logistics supply.

Most of the "prisoners" guard prisoners. This profession does not have any skills, but it is still a fat job, because in order to make the prisoner's life easier in prison, the family members of the prisoner often "manage" them, so that they can get a salary.

extra income.

It is impossible for a remote area like Guangzhou to have an honor guard like the city of BJ, but those soldiers with the word "bing" on their chests still try to arrange the honor guard as grandly and neatly as possible, while some officers without the word "brave" on their chests lead the guards.

Maintain order around the crowd of onlookers, who also come to offer incense. Judging from their appearance alone, you can't tell whether they are ordinary residents or rebels.

The supervisory censor "Zhiyuan" did not participate in the sacrificial activities. He was also watching the crowd watching the excitement.

In the thirty-third year of Qianlong's reign, there was a rebellion in Hubei. At that time, there was a monk named Sun Dayou who became a monk because of his poverty since he was a child. His situation was similar to that of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. Shortly after the soul-calling case,

Or maybe he suddenly had an inspiration and thought it was a good time to start a rebellion. While wandering around asking for alms, he claimed to be a descendant of the Emperor of Heaven, whose real name was Zhu Tongshao. He gathered a crowd at Jingmen to rebel, and made weapons and flags to fight the Qing soldiers.

The governor of Hubei at that time was Xilinjueluo Ebao. If Ening petitioned Qianlong to withdraw his troops and not continue to attack Burma because of the tragic war situation and to avoid the Manchu Qing investing too much and damaging the country, then Ebao's suppression of the rebellion was complete.

Since his ability was not enough, Qianlong sent two censors to replace him to suppress the rebellion and arrest the chief culprit Sun Dayou.

No one wants to be called an "incompetent waste", but Asghar is thick-skinned enough. Even when Qianlong called him a "stupid" idiot, he was able to admit in a memorial that he was an idiot.

This is also the "way of being an official". Ashar responded in this way without losing his official position, and could continue to arrest the Haiyin monk. It was the provincial examination at that time, and Ashar, a Manchu official who passed the Manchu imperial examination, served as an examiner for Han students.

, just like this, he is still not concentrating. He is still holding pen and ink in his arms, ready to report the soul case at any time.

E Bao and the supervisory censor who took over his command were not as lucky as him. They could sit in the examination shed to escape the hot summer.

They wanted to arrest the accomplices of "Zhu Tongshao" and the demon gang responsible for the soul-calling case. They were very busy. At that time, almost the entire province was under martial law, and it was said that even flies could not escape with their wings.

However, on August 24, when the magistrate of Fuyang County, Zhejiang Province was inspecting a restaurant, he discovered a suspicious person. The guest had a fan and wrote a letter: "My servant has a priceless treasure. He must have great blessings and great connections."

"Can't bear it".

This is a common trick used by fortune tellers. No matter how much ability he has, he must first put on the air of being a "worldly expert". On weekdays, there may be one or two people who want to try their luck to see if they have any luck.

That "blessing" was not at that moment. The pianist caught the "master" and searched his luggage.

Is he a charlatan? Who would use his real name? This fortune teller claimed to be surnamed Yu, but his ticket was written as "Sun Ke". The pianist immediately became suspicious. Could it be that he was so lucky that he bumped into "Big Brother"?

Is there a son tomorrow, Sun Da?

Then the code official found another book, and one of the poems said, "Break the reins, take off the locks, and enter the boat, and the travelers will be found guilty and released." It seems to be a lyrical sentence for a fugitive. The code officer asked again, "Sun Ke

"Where is the person? Answer Jingmen, and then "liu Bowen alive" was invited to the magistrate's prison.

Before he could go to court, the "master" confessed that his surname was neither Yu nor Sun, nor did he have anything to do with Sun Da. His surname was Wang, and he was a scholar. He had such a great reputation.

People cannot be tortured!

Under the coercion of the pian, Wang Xiucai wrote a confession himself.

He said that he himself was implicated in Sun Dayou's treason case nearby, so he escaped. After reading Wang Xiucai's confession, the Fuyang County magistrate was sure that this person was most likely Sun Dayou, the imperial convict.

The county magistrate threatened to torture him, but Wang Xiucai said that his surname was Sun, that Sun Dayou was his nephew, and that he had committed treason. He also used the name of "the emperor of heaven" to punish the nine tribes, and then he ran away.

After reading the files, the magistrate found that Wang, Sun, and Yu suspects wanted in Hubei were between 16 and 30 years old, and the person in the hall was 60 years old - if he was not that old and had no white beard to show off his "immortal style"

" looked like one. After interrogating him for a long time, the county magistrate and the foreman could not understand the reason for the matter. In the end, they had no choice but to send the "half-immortal" to the provincial capital for processing.

It just so happened that the then governor of Zhejiang, Aixinjueluo Yongde, had made elixirs before. Taoism, which pursued immortality, was very popular among the Eight Banners nobles. He found the "Tao Te Ching" and "Yin Fu" in the luggage of the "half-immortal"

"Sutra", "Zhu Zhen Lu" and other Taoist works, as well as some books about auspicious days in the zodiac, are not banned books. There is only one poem manuscript of "Khan Youyoucao", even though there is no text about "revolting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty" in it,

There are also many complaints.

There is no rule in Literary Prison that "no scholar-officials can be punished". It was just a show, clamping the stick on the ankle of the "half-immortal", and he confessed.

The real name of "Banxian" was Wang Daoding. He was a scholar in the 16th year of Yongzheng's reign. He was good at observing geography, Feng Shui, and practicing medicine and divination. He came from a poor family and wanted to go out for food. He originally wanted to go to Henan to visit friends, but when he arrived in Fancheng, the river was dry, so he

He turned around and went to Anqing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, and finally arrived in Fuyang. Because he was poor and poor, he finally made a living by selling divination. He was afraid of being laughed at, so he hid his real name.

Because I love to read Taoist works and talk about cultivation methods, I wanted to get some money to make a living, so I wrote the words "Puyou's priceless treasure" on the fan. Unexpectedly, the pian in Fuyang regarded him as a royal official.

It was a serious crime, but in fact he had nothing to do with Sun Dayou.

Aixinjueluo Yongde passed the imperial examination, what if he turned out to be a worldly expert?

However, Wang Xiucai said a lot of useless things, or things that the prostitutes thought were useful, which made Aixinjueluo Yongde dumbfounded.

In the end, it was found that Wang Daoding had nothing to do with the case of Sun Dayou, and had nothing to do with the soul-calling case. However, his collection of poems "Khan Wandering Grass" was firmly in literary prison, and he used his alchemy cultivation skills to harm others. Wang was sentenced to

After one hundred punishments with the rod, it traveled another three hundred miles.

The famous painter Huang Gongwang of the Yuan Dynasty once made a painting called "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", which depicts the scenery of the Fuchun River flowing through Fuyang.

Although he was a governor, it was a bit "overkill" for Aixinjueluo to be the governor, but it was a good place.

If other Jinshi are sent abroad, they will basically go to some remote areas, and good positions are basically not available to Han people.

Everyone knows that the daughter of a bachelor is beautiful. There is an unwritten rule in the imperial examination system. The top three in the imperial examination are divided into number one, top three, and second place. The top prize is definitely a good fortune, but there is a rule that the top prize may not be the best in literary talent.

Okay, but he is the most handsome in the three brothers. Even if he is "Yi Zhi", he is still very proud.

In the autumn of the 14th year of Shunzhi, Shuntian Prefecture held a major imperial examination. The examiner was Cao Benrong, a student at the Hanlin Academy and a lecturer on Song Zhisheng.

There were 206 Jinshi candidates in this subject, and there were 4,000 "Eight Scholars" who participated in the imperial examination, and there were more than 1,700 Bagong, Suigong, official students, and civilian prisons. In order to pass the examination, many people

Do everything possible to clear the "joints".

At that time, Li Zhenye, the deputy examiner, was a judge for the Zuo of Dali Temple. He was young and frivolous and took money from others. However, there were too many instructions and the number of places was limited, so he and his accomplices "weighed the choices" in private, but the basis for the choice was not literary talent and talent.

Instead, those with high titles will be recorded, and those with low titles will be recorded as "Yizhi"; those with more wealth will be recorded, and those with less wealth will be recorded as "Yizhi".

On the day when the list was published, there was an uproar. Some students who knew the inside story of the fraud or failed reported it to the government, and the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Personnel came out to accept the case.

Li Zhenye and his accomplices were sentenced to beheading, their property was confiscated, and his wife and others were exiled. The examiners Cao Benrong and Song Zhisheng were also implicated.

Cao Benrong was a native of Huanggang, Hubei Province. He was a scholar in the sixth year of Shunzhi. He was diligent and studious since childhood, proficient in classics and history, and learned from Wang Yangming.

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The imperial examination case did not cause Cao Benrong's official career to suffer much setbacks. He was demoted five ranks that year and was reinstated the following year.

However, he was frail and sickly, and died at the age of only forty-four, leaving nothing behind except books.

At that time, some people compared him with Jizi in the Shang and Zhou dynasties and Xu Heng in the Song and Yuan dynasties. They also believed that he surpassed Wang Yangming and became Cao Zi, or Mr. Wenjing. Because he was too poor, he was even buried

He didn't have any money, and of course he didn't get married or have children. However, he adopted a son named Tan Fengzhen from Hanyang. He regarded this child as his own. When the child grew up, he gave birth to two sons, one named Tan and the other

His surname is Cao, and this baby boy named Cao is Cao Xi’s grandfather.

Even if his son is not truly related by blood to Cao Benrong, he still inherited Cao Benrong's frailty. When Cao Xi's generation came, they simply stopped learning "Yi Xue". As a result, he became handsome, tall, and healthy.

This civil servant did not participate in the sacrifice, and he was not seen scanning the crowd like the supervisory censor. Nick had no idea where he was.

Fortunately, the sacrificial ceremony ended smoothly and there was no trouble in the end.

Maybe it was just a false alarm, because the other party already knew that the government was aware of it, so they didn't dare to make a sneak attack.
Chapter completed!