Han Chengxuan and Fu Ruwei were enjoying themselves while Jiangxi Superintendent Wu Bing was working seriously.
How does it work?
To be an academic official, of course, you make money by presiding over exams!
In April, Nanchang Prefecture road test.
The night before the Taoist examination, Wu Bing, as the chief examiner, was inspecting the work at the largest brothel in Fucheng.
This gentleman is a dramatist, and visiting a brothel is naturally an elegant act. He comes to the room of the famous celebrity in the evening, and his words and deeds are quite regular, matching the lyrics and songs of the famous celebrity.
Gradually, with the wine in his ears and his ears warm, Wu Bing and the number one man sat closer and closer.
The two hugged each other, fed each other small drinks, and read the illustrated version of "The Records of Female Generals of Datong" together.
"I heard that Pan Saisai of MSI was singing at the farmers' association outside Nanchang County that day?" Wu Bing asked suddenly.
The top one was named Li Ruo'an. Looking at the deeds of many Datong female generals, he felt infinite yearning and envy in his heart. But he could only apologize and said with a smile: "I am a brothel girl, how can I know the whereabouts of the Datong female generals? If Sir, you are interested, you can go to the countryside to look for Pan.
Girl, go."
Wu Bing sighed: "I would like to go, but I am afraid that the unruly people will kill the officials and rebel."
Li Ruo'an smiled and said: "Sir, if you don't mess with them, how can the unruly people kill officials?"
"Right."
Wu Bing's heart suddenly became hot, and he planned to meet Mrs. Pan from MSI that day after he returned from presiding over examinations in various prefectures. He must have been able to please Mrs. Pan with his talent and generosity, and he might even be able to break away from the rebels and be captured.
I am living in my own house as a concubine.
No, it can’t be brought into the room!
If she breaks away from the rebels and becomes a concubine, Mrs. Pan will no longer be Tianweixing, so what is the fun of dating her?
Wu Bing not only likes to recite poems and songs, but also loves to read martial arts novels.
"Green Peony" tells the love story between Luo Hongxun, the son of a general, and Hua Bilian, a knight-errant during the period of Wu Zetian. This novel has been transformed into a drama by Wu Bing.
There is also "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" which is popular in Jiangnan. Wu Bing is also adapting it. He especially likes the chivalrous heroine Huang Rong. Not only is she a chivalrous heroine, she is also an intelligent and talented woman. She is simply a white lotus in the minds of scholars.
When Wu Bing came to Jiangxi to take office at the beginning of the year, when she read the book "Records of Female Generals of Datong", her first reaction was that she felt like she had found a treasure.
He has a wish, that is, during his tenure in Jiangxi, he will visit 108 Datong female generals and make good friends with those "heroines".
"History of the Ming Dynasty" compiled by the Qing Dynasty and "Records of the Officials Who Martyred the Victorious Dynasty" compiled by the Qing Dynasty indicate that Wu Bing committed suicide and died for the country by going on a hunger strike for seven days.
However, according to the history books compiled by the survivors in the late Ming Dynasty, Wu Bing surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He died of dysentery shortly after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, Qu Gongmei, a close relative of Wu Bing's friend, also accurately recorded his surrender in the "Records of Huo Huo".
clear.
Which statement is more reliable can be understood by everyone.
After feeling refreshed, Wu Bing walked out of the brothel and took a sedan chair to Gongyuan in the middle of the night. He was drunk, with a copy of "Datong Female Generals" stuck in his waist, and when he walked to the street where Gongyuan was located, he felt something was particularly wrong.
Under normal circumstances, at least thousands of students take part in the road test in Nanchang Prefecture, and the test must be conducted on a county-by-county basis.
But why are there only a few hundred candidates in this alley?
Yawning, Wu Bing quietly entered through the small door, not daring to be discovered by the candidates. Because according to the rules, not only did he have to move into the examination room in advance, but also the accompanying scribes had to move in to avoid messing around before the examination.
After sneaking into the examination room, Wu Bing, smelling of alcohol, called the clerk of the government office: "How many candidates are there in Nanchang Prefecture this year?"
"Eight hundred and twenty-seven people." The scribe replied.
Wu Bing was surprised and said: "Why just this little?"
"well!"
The scribe sighed and was too lazy to answer this question.
If students take the Taoist test, they must first register with the county magistrate, and then the county school teacher will organize the test.
Nowadays, the magistrates all over Nanchang Prefecture are dawdling, and the imperial edicts appointed by the imperial court are also dawdling. If it is to take the examination, it will be fine. After all, there is a chance to pass the Jinshi exam and leave Jiangxi. But what is the point of testing the scholar in the Taoist examination? Even if you can be admitted to the scholar examination , before they could win the election, Jiangxi had already changed its course.
If you take the exam, it will be in vain. It is better to study on your own from the elementary school textbooks distributed by Zhao Han.
Nowadays, all the reformed primary and secondary school textbooks have been printed. They have quickly caused a rush among scholars. They are embarrassed to go to primary school, but it is still good to buy books and study at home.
Anyway, self-study is not difficult, just add some mathematical content and Datong Thought, and they have already mastered the rest of the knowledge.
Wu Bing sat inside the curtain and sighed. The students didn't want to take the exam, so how could he make money?
The sky was getting brighter, and the exam questions were handed out.
But I saw those candidates walking out of the examination booth en masse, running to the outside of the curtain and kneeling together.
A candidate representative shouted: "Inspector Rong Zhen, the Zhao thieves in Luling do not follow the sages and promote what kind of mathematics in each county. This mathematics is not the arithmetic of the Ming Dynasty, but the writing of the barbarians. It is really a matter of forgetting the ancestors and replacing Xia with barbarians." We, the scholars from Nanchang, have jointly signed a letter and asked the inspector to forward it to the imperial court for the sage's hearing."
"Please ask the inspector to make the decision!" More than eight hundred scholars kowtowed in unison.
Wu Bing said: "Send me the memorial, and you can go back and take the exam."
"Thank you, Inspector."
Seeing Wu Bing collecting the memorial, the candidates finally returned to the examination booth.
After throwing away the memorial, Wu Bing lay down to sleep. He had worked hard most of the night and was very sleepy after being drunk. He could sleep slowly during the exam.
As for the memorial to the emperor?
You said that if you jointly apply for the scholarship, you might be able to create a little stir. But these eight hundred scholars in front of you have not even passed the scholar examination. They are here to take the scholar examination today.
"Inspector, Inspector!"
I don’t know how long he had slept, but the clerk quietly woke Wu Bing up: “There are candidates who have submitted their papers, will they be interviewed?”
The Taoist examination in the Ming Dynasty only took one test, which was more relaxed than the government examination in the Qing Dynasty. If the examiner was in a good mood, he could interview and admit candidates on the spot.
Wu Bing yawned and sat up straight. He still felt like sleeping, so he said: "After the exam, everyone goes home. Don't disturb me in my quiet meditation."
With Jiangxi being like this, Wu Bing has already broken the pot.
If the Zhao thief dares to send troops to occupy Nanchang City one day, he Wu Bing will dare to join the thief immediately, and he will happily be colleagues with the female generals of Datong from now on.
Of course, it would be better to leave Jiangxi as soon as possible, and Xiong Wencan will be impeached then!
Wu Bing and Xiong Wencan had a personal feud. Xiong Wencan was defeated in the campaign against Liu Xiang, so he wanted to confiscate the property of foreign merchants (including the Netherlands, Portugal, Japan and other countries) to make up for the losses. He told Wu Bing to forge the charges against the merchants. At that time, Wu Bing was the prefect of Fuzhou. , immediately came back and said: "I can't bear to kill people and flatter them."
It sounds awe-inspiring, but in fact it is driven by interests. Wu Bing still has to rely on those foreign businessmen to make money!
Because of this incident, Wu Bing has been suppressed by Xiong Wencan, and was forced to report illness and return home, where he devoted himself to opera creation.
He became an official again this year. Thanks to Chongzhen's restoration of the recommendation system, Wu Bing was recommended to return.
In the following days, Wu Bing waited for someone to send money. He received more than 200 taels one after another. Seeing that he could not get more, he could only lament that the world was declining and Jiangxi candidates were not even active in paying bribes and cheating.
After reading the papers and releasing the results, Wu Bing encouraged himself and decided to go to Jiujiang, Nankang, Raozhou, Guangxin and other prefectures first. Those places are not the territory of Zhao Thief, and he can definitely make more money. At this time, he must not give up on himself.
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Come on, Wu Bing, you can do it!
Taking a sedan from the mansion, Wu Bing wanted to go to Nankang Mansion first, but was stopped as soon as he turned around a street.
Wu Bing opened the sedan curtain and saw countless people holding sticks. He was so frightened that he shouted: "Get off the sedan, get off the sedan, the rebels are coming!"
The bearer of the sedan chair was initially confused about what was going on, but when he heard Wu Bing shouting like this, he immediately threw down the sedan chair and ran away.
Wu Bing was beaten to pieces, and he climbed out of the official sedan in a state of embarrassment. He was considering whether to run away or become a thief, but he found that the "anti-thieves" did not rush over at all.
Wu Bing hid far away, bravely watching, and soon breathed his last.
It was the residence of the eunuch who was guarding Jiangxi Province, and it was surrounded by countless small citizens. They all worked together to smash the door, and after a lot of hard work, they finally broke it open.
"Kill the dog eunuch!"
"Surround the walls and don't let the eunuchs escape over the walls!"
"Kill!"
"..."
Not long after, Wang Yongzhong, the eunuch guarding Jiangxi Province, was captured by these ordinary citizens.
Wang Yongzhong was so frightened that he peed his pants and cried with tears streaming down his face: "Hero, spare your life, hero, spare your life!"
A merchant grabbed the eunuch's clothes and asked, "Do you still dare to collect taxes arbitrarily?"
Wang Yongzhong was paralyzed and promised again and again: "I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore. You heroes, please spare me. I will definitely not dare to accept you again in the future."
"Don't believe this guy's lies. If you let him go today, you will definitely take revenge in the future."
"If you kill the eunuch, the government will not dare to do anything."
"That's right, this Nanchang belongs to Mr. Zhao. The eunuchs sent by the Dog Emperor will be killed if they want!"
"kill him!"
"kill him!"
"..."
With the crowd agitated and angry, the people on the outside pushed in hard, and the people on the inside subconsciously started fighting.
I don’t know how long the fight lasted, but they came here on official mission from the Chasi and Nanchang Prefecture.
But in the face of such a situation, the officials did not dare to stop them, for fear that the unruly people would turn around and beat them. They could only stand in the distance and shout: "Don't beat them, don't beat them. If you kill someone, you will beheaded!"
The people did not pay any attention to the official duties, only a few timid ones sneaked away in fear.
"The eunuch is dead, please leave now."
"Oh, don't worry, someone stepped on my hand!"
"..."
I don’t know how long it took, but the people finally dispersed, leaving only an unrecognizable corpse on the street.
Wu Bingzhuang plucked up the courage to go over to check. He immediately covered his face and turned his head. The eunuch's death was so tragic. Wu Bing's legs became weak and his mind went blank. He ran back to his residence and finally regained consciousness.
Either the money should be transferred away as soon as possible, or he would become a foolish official in Jiangxi. Wu Bing could no longer think of the second thought.
Xiong Wencan, Jiangxi Third Division, and Nanchang Magistrate rushed to the scene one after another. They were speechless when they saw the eunuch's body.
Wu Shiliang, who was in his eighties, was promoted from the right to the left in Jiangxi Province. The old man sighed and said: "The guarding eunuch Wang Yongzhong exploited excessively, provoked a civil uprising, and was beaten to death by merchants and traffickers. Whatever.
Kill a few culprits and report them to the court."
"That's right." Xiong Wencan nodded.
None of the officials dared to object and collectively reported "truthfully". As for the culprit who beat and killed the eunuch, just a few death row inmates in the prison were killed.