It was approaching Mid-Autumn Festival, and according to the habits of Shilin for thousands of years, people in Shilin held various gatherings, and new poems and works were emerging one after another. Although traditional Shilin was declining, in the past ten years, a new Shilin appeared in the Ming Dynasty. In order to inherit, the old Shilin not only accepted the "bachelor's" from academies and universities, but even took the initiative to realize the so-called confluence of civil and military affairs through marriage and other means.

The nobles who were once despised by the Shilin, also took the initiative to study articles. Of course, they did not abandon "martial arts". It was in this process that a Shilin spirit that advocated loyalty to the emperor, trustworthiness, integrity, shame, martial arts, and reputation replaced the old Shilin spirit.

In this process, it is better to say that the traditional scholars changed the imperial scholars than to the times, and that the traditional scholars changed the traditional scholars, turning them from scholars who had no power to those who could sacrifice their lives for justice at any time with swords. The traditional scholar values ​​during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period once again appeared on this land.

In this process, the "mouth cannon" that used to be sensible for a while disappeared, and this disappearance was due to the habit of warriors - when facing his verbal insult to personal honor, they would directly choose to use duels to solve the problem.

Duel for honor, spare no effort!

This is the biggest difference between the new sage forest and the old sage forest. It is also because of this that the whispering guns that used the word "the courage of ordinary men" to contempt others and swear their words at will completely disappear in just two or three years. The rage of ordinary men bleed five steps. The whispers ushered in their doomsday in the face of the new view of honor.

Sometimes things that seem backward can often play unexpected roles.

However, traditional sailing still has their own influence. For example, when scholars gather, literati and poets drink and talk and give each other poems, they are the habits of the old sailing. Now the sailings of the Ming Dynasty still follow all this and do not change any changes because they have a sword on their waists.

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be countless poetry gatherings in the park and the house. Even the ministers and scholars who are usually proud of wearing military uniforms will take off their military uniforms and put on group collars, chanting the wind and the moon like ordinary scholars.

"It's another boring party, why do scholars always like to do this kind of thing?"

When he held his drunken friend climbing into the carriage, looking at the bright moon in the sky, the young man sighed secretly, while constantly smiling and saying "goodbye" to the half-drunk scholars who were walking by. Unlike others, this young man was wearing a group collar shirt, his every move was unique to the soldiers.

"Practical learning, poetry and calligraphy, martial arts... literature and martial arts play..."

Perhaps he was drunk, he was sitting in the car and thinking about it. The scholars he met these days only made him feel confused. The newspapers and books he read said that the current scholar-official integrity is far greater than that of any era in the past, and even literati were very strong.

"Didn't it mean that even scholars are mighty and unyielding, and ordinary men cannot take away their will? Why do I see a scene of a peaceful and serene arts playing with my own culture?"

While looking at his friend who was sleeping soundly beside him, he whispered to the coachman.

"Go slowly."

Obviously, the young man seems not very satisfied with everything he sees. In recent times, he has made friends with scholars and many other scholars, but he feels a little disappointed.

Although the literati wore swords and the scholars wore Confucian clothes, the two seemed to be integrated together, he still felt that both sides seemed too deliberate, and that deliberateness even made him feel the illusion of being peaceful and peaceful.

Wu and Wen were combined in the Ming Dynasty, which was seventeen years old, in a special way, blended with each other and merged with each other. In this process, there were naturally abrupt parts, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Just then, the young man heard his friend's drunken murmur.

"…a scholar, Wanhuhou."

It is obvious that even in his dream, he is still yearning for the scenery of the Wanhuhou.

No title will be granted unless you have military merits!

The Ming Dynasty emphasized military merits, practical learning, and neglected civil governance. This is well-known in the world.

"Will the Ming Dynasty's civil and military achievements be so inappropriate in the future?"

Shaking his head in disappointment, the young man muttered to himself again. Finally, his eyes looked into the distance and murmured softly.

"What do those nobles look like like this?"

The young man naturally thought of the nobles who were known as the "Pillar of the Empire". Unlike any era in the past, Xinggan Dynasty attached great importance to and praised the nobles. Many nobles in the army held important positions. Although most nobles were military positions, many nobles who had retired for more than ten years served in the local area and had a good reputation. However, for young people, because they had no channels to contact the nobles, they naturally did not understand those people. He was even more worried that those nobles who had transformed into "marquis of military merits" with their military merits from that time would be useful as the nobles in history books, but their descendants were addicted to the military merits of their ancestors, and most of them were playboys. If this was the case, what should we do in the future of the Ming Dynasty?

Thinking of this, young people naturally think of the Ming Dynasty before Emperor Lie. The current Ming Dynasty, like in the past, was served with honorary ministers to serve as senior military positions in order to protect the royal family. However, under the protection of the hereditary system, the cultivation of honorary ministers had little effect, and in the end they were often just playboys. The appointment of honorary ministers not only failed to perform their due functions, but also aggravated the abolition and corruption of military and political affairs.

Is this a blessing for the Ming Dynasty?

It is precisely because of his youth that he has his own concerns. Perhaps, in his memory, he has never experienced the painful lesson of shaving his hair and changing clothes, and even his memory of all that is vague, but the bloody past he sees in the book makes him unable to let go of it.

"We should go to Zhongdu, go there to see it, maybe, we can also contact some nobles there..."

In the Ming Dynasty, the places with the most commendations were Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Fujian. The reason was that most of the generals and officials led by the King of Min in the Northern Expedition were Fujianese, and His Majesty raised an army in Jiangyin and laid the foundation in Jiangbei. Naturally, most of the generals under his command were from Nanzhili, while Zhang Huangyan took Jiangxi as the foundation, and naturally, Jiangxi people were from his command.

In the first year of Xingqian, the newly ascended emperor rewarded merits, the Zhongyi Army, Zheng Family Army, and the generals of the Ming army, mainly Zhang Huangyan, were mostly awarded the title of Gongbohou, and many officers were awarded the title of honor. The subsequent layoffs of the Ming army led thousands of officials in the army to retire and return home. They turned into local celebrities, as social classes between the government and the people, connecting the government with society. They cooperated with the government and jointly managed the society.

As the marquis of Pingxiang, Zhang Yi, like many of the most commendable ministers who did not have public office, returned to his hometown after the military was removed more than ten years ago and rebuilt the Zhang family mansion in his hometown. When Zhang Huangyan entered Jiangxi, he led more than a thousand fellow villagers to join him, and in the end most of them became successful and famous - even if they were laid off, they got the right land of honor, even though they had to move to Sichuan and other places. But even so, he had a very special status in his hometown and Pingxiang. This status was not because his wealth was ranked first in Jiangxi. But because he obtained a lot of benefits for his hometown children.

As a Marquis of Pingxiang, Zhang Yi earned huge income without doing anything. He had tens of thousands of acres of land in Jiangxi and Hubei - that was his honorary land, but the land could not make much money. Even if his honorary land was free of taxes, it only had a few thousand taels of income every year. What really made him a rich man was the coal hidden underground in Pingxiang. By investing in coal mines, he became very rich.

With the annual income of hundreds of thousands of taels of taels of coal mine, Zhang Yi became the richest man in Jiangxi, but he felt that he still had something missing.

His father, the place he was in the reign of Emperor Lie, was a completely different kind of person. When the Qing army entered the pass and the soldiers invaded Jiangxi, he raised an army with his friends and committed suicide after being defeated. It was the old servant who carried his body home. Later, Zhang Cangshui led his troops into Jiangxi. The twenty-six-year-old Zhang Yi led the villagers to join him, with 1,200 fellow villagers, and only 600 more.

While half of them succeeded and became famous, the other half died.

It is precisely because of this that in the past few years, Zhang Yi has spent tens of thousands of taels of silver every year to support the children of the Jiangxi tribe, although they actually don’t need it - they all inherited the merits that their fathers exchanged for their lives.

But Zhang Yi still hopes to do something himself.

"Maybe, I can do more..."

Looking at the grayness of the temples in the mirror, Zhang Yi said to himself.

"Maybe something should be done for ordinary people, should we mention it in the Consultative House?"

The Consultative House was a consultative body built by the emperor's special order in the 12th year of Xingqian. Although for thousands of years, gentry, as a social class between the official and the civilian, connected the government and society, cooperated with the government and jointly managed the society. However, in fact, their participation was not legal.

In the tenth year of Xingqian, when His Majesty was reading history books at night, he saw that the three elders of the towns and counties could reflect the achievements of local officials to the court and supervise the allusions of local officials for the court. When he thought of the cooperation between gentry and government, he wanted to incorporate public opinion into the system through institutionalized, legalized, and representative methods. Then he discussed with the cabinet ministers how to establish a similar system in the Ming Dynasty. After two years of research, the Ming Dynasty established a consultative house and a consultative bureau in various places, and the consultative members chose fair and gentry.

It was also from that time that Zhang Yi was a member of the Provincial Advisory House. As a nobleman, he could directly enter the Provincial Advisory House as a counselor without going through elections from the Government Advisory House. It was also in the Consultative House that Zhang Yi found the value of existence. He could discuss the affairs of the province in the House - budget, final accounts, public debts, projects, etc., and could also supervise the political achievements and losses of local officials. If passed, he could directly write to the cabinet in the name of the Consultative House to suggest disposal of officials.

The current popularity of the counselors is no less than that of the three elders in history books. Unfortunately, unless the provincial governor convenes the congressman specifically, the provincial counselors will only hold three meetings a year.

Most of the time, Zhang Yi's life was dull.

However, he also has some things to be proud of. When the train rushes through the valley here, he will be proud of it - the railway was created by him. Although the original intention was for coal, the railway linked Pingxiang to the entire Ming Dynasty. Over the past years, the railway has long changed the lives of people here and become a part of people's lives.

"It's better to wear military uniforms!"

Looking at himself in the mirror, after thinking for a long time, Zhang Yi chose to put on his military uniform. Two weeks ago, he received a telegram from His Majesty. His Majesty will summon him and hope that he will bring his second son to Beijing, expressing his hope to understand the young people's ideas. Now, he is preparing to go to Zhongdu, and he must make all preparations for this imperial examination.

However, he didn't need to take his second son, because his second son was studying in the academy in Zhongdu. As for the eldest son, he was far away in the Cape of Good Hope. As the eldest son of a naval officer, he was the farthest person in the Zhang family.

Looking out of the car window, Zhang Yi could see that people's lifestyles were undergoing earth-shaking changes.

Just as Zhang Yi boarded the train, two young men also boarded the train to Wuchang from the crowded station platform in Changsha, Hunan.

"Oh, I feel a little more comfortable!"

After entering the second-class carriage, Chu Ming, who was sweating in the previous crowd, looked at the carriage with curiosity. Compared with the crowded third-class carriage, there were not many people in the second-class carriage. The passengers in the carriage could also be seen from their clothes. They were mostly gentry. After all, the ticket price of the second-class carriage is twice that of the third-class carriage, and most people would not choose such expensive second-class carriages.

"Oh, Mingchang, do you think after we arrive in Wuchang, should we take a steamship or a train? In fact, if we weren't curious about what this train looks like, we could actually take a steamship to Zhongdu..."

Chu Ming turned his head to look at his friend, but saw his friend's eyes staring out the car window, just doing nothing.

"Light, clear and constant?"

Zuo Ziming, who was distracted, listened to his friend calling him and looked back at his friend.

"Yansheng, is there anything wrong?"

"You..."

Seeing Zuo Ziming's confused look, Chu Ming smiled.

"Why are you always so easy to get distracted recently? If I hadn't known that you were the number one talented man in Xiangyin, I would have thought that you were lost in your mind."

"Don't mention the number one talented man in Xiangyin. The most unwanted person in the world is the talented man."

Seeing that his friend mentioned the jokes about the teacher in the county school, Zuo Ziming said unhappily.

"oh?"

Looking at his friend in surprise, Chu Ming asked back.

"Why did Mingchang say that?"

"The change of Jiashen Heaven, how many talented men in the world are, but what are they?"

Zuo Ziming stared into the distance, his tone seemed a little heavy.
Chapter completed!