What is the foundation of a wealthy military family?
It’s military merit!
If the Zhao family has a daughter, she can marry into a wealthy military family, but it would be a bit difficult for his family to marry a daughter from a wealthy military family! Marrying a daughter from the Zhao family is the icing on the cake, but marrying a daughter to the Zhao family will lead to both prosperity and loss.
Got it!
The more military-rich a family is, the more it must avoid suspicion!
"The Zhao family's marriage..." Mrs. Deng pondered for a moment and said, "It's really difficult. At least we have to be well-matched, right?"
"So many of us are well-matched!" Li Jinglong closed his eyes again, then suddenly opened them again and said with a smile, "Don't you have a niece waiting to be married?"
Deng thought about it, "That's true, but my mother's family..." She frowned and said, "Can the Zhao family see...?"
"Don't like it? Humph!" Li Jinglong snorted, "After all, your father was posthumously granted the title of king, and the portrait is still displayed in the Temple of Meritorious Officers. How many days has it been since the Zhao family was in trouble? Besides, now that your eldest brother is back,
Your youngest brother is also an uncle, and he is still close to Long live the Lord. Who dares to look down on your family?"
Deng's eyes lit up and she said with a smile, "I have also seen the young Marquis of the Zhao family from a distance. The young man is quite bright, tall and well-educated!"
As he said that, he suddenly stood up and said, "Don't say it, the more I think about it, the more reliable it becomes!" Then he said angrily, "I'm going back to my parents' house!"
"Hey, remember... don't be empty-handed!" Li Jinglong shouted.
Deng stopped and cursed, "Don't go empty-handed, or don't come back empty-handed?"
"Hehe!" Li Jinglong laughed twice, "Of course don't go empty-handed!"
Then watching his wife walk away, Li Jinglong smiled and closed his eyes.
The Zhao family is related to the Deng family, which means they are even more closely related to Li Jinglong, and they are the kind of relatives who do not need to avoid suspicion but are extremely close to each other.
At this moment, the second housekeeper suddenly came over quietly and said in a low voice, "My lord, someone from the palace has called you!"
Li Jinglong immediately stood up and said, "Change!"
After changing clothes and walking to the front yard, the little eunuch who came to deliver the message was looking at the Li family's foyer with wide eyes.
Li Jinglong recognized this little eunuch. He was Li Buquan, the disciple of the Bastard Shame, who worked in front of the emperor.
"I'm sorry, I'll let you go for a run!" Li Jinglong said with a smile.
"Don't you dare!" Li Buquan bowed and saluted.
Li Jinglong flicked his sleeves, and a small bag of golden beans was stuffed into Li Buquan's hand, "Why do you want me to come here in person, little father-in-law?"
Li Buquan squeezed the pouch, smiled like a flower on his face, and lowered his voice, "I don't know what's going on, slave? But before I came, Master Long Live's face... tsk tsk, it's all covered with frost!"
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The earth dragon in the Qianqing Palace was burning hot, but Zhu Yunxi's face was as gloomy as an iceberg.
All the ministers in the court were also filled with anger.
But both Zhu Yunxi's gloominess and his ministers' anger were suppressed, like the silence before a volcano erupted.
"It's clear that I won't have a good New Year!" Zhu Yunxi put his hands in his sleeves with a sneer on his face, "They really know how to choose the right time!"
Li Jinglong, who was sitting in the front row, was quickly calculating the news he had just received.
Students from Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces collectively stopped taking exams!
This is fundamentally different from the Shandong province's boycott of exams. First of all, there is one province there, and there are three provinces here.
In Shandong, it is the provincial examination, but for students from these three provinces, it is the Spring Examination that will be held in February.
Those who have stopped taking exams are all candidates for the exam...the future Jinshi!
Moreover, the candidates from three provinces were the candidates from the place where the imperial examination style was most prosperous in the Ming Dynasty! You must know that these three provinces alone account for more than 60% of the number of candidates who pass the national imperial examination every year.
Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhu Yunxi's expression and said, "This Li Zhigang is so incompetent! Not only did he fail to restrain himself after making trouble once in Shandong, but this time in Jiangnan... three provinces collectively went on strike!"
"I asked you to reward me, and you continue to reward me!"
The damn fat man cursed in his heart, "If you don't reward him, the evil dog Li is holding back his energy to bite people! Now that you have even given him a reward, you still want to build an ancestral hall. Is it strange that he is not a mad dog?"
The reason behind the boycott of the exam was Li Zhigang. He was based in Hangzhou and cooperated with the imperial court to remove officials and gentry from the post of grain director and establish a rural office. Then he made another ruthless move.
The first thing that new village heads should do when they take office is to investigate the grain tax grievances of the officials and gentry over the years.
In fact, it doesn't matter if you conduct an inventory, and the officials and gentry can tolerate it.
At worst, everyone can pool their money and settle this matter.
But the bad thing is that Li Zhigang did not rub sand in his eyes and asked the heads of the townships to check the account books of the past years down to a grain of rice and punish them! In other words, no matter how much the officials and gentry ate, they would be punished.
Spit it out twice as much!
Forget it, just spit it out and spend money to avoid disaster!
However, Li Zhigang issued a document in the name of the imperial envoy to pursue accountability!
In other words, those officials and gentry will not only have to spit out twice as much as they have eaten in the past, but they will also be held accountable!
For a time, there was an uproar among scholars all over the Yangtze River!
An old Confucian scholar came to Li Zhigang to argue with him, but he directly stripped him of his reputation and sent him to jail!
Now, no one can bear it anymore! You, Li Zhigang, not only want to strip us of our rights, but also fine us money... In addition, you want us to be held accountable and punished?
The people from the three provinces directly united and refused to participate in this year's Spring Festival!
As for why they can unite?
Because from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, most of the high-ranking officials in the dynasty came from those places!
A private school teacher who looks inconspicuous may be the mentor of a series of Jinshi masters!
"Three provinces?" Zhang Xianzong, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, had his hands trembling and his lips turned white. "How long has it been since the North and South Examinations, and students from the three provinces are boycotting the exams again? If this continues, won't the imperial court lose all its support?"
There was silence in the palace, and the anger in the eyes of the ministers also contained deep worries.
"ha!"
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi, who was sitting on the dragon chair, sneered.
"Li Zhigang was a little impatient!" Zhu Yunxi said calmly, "But what he did is true. Officials and gentry are indeed full of misdeeds, shouldn't they be investigated and punished?"
As he said that, he looked at the memorial in his hand and continued to sneer, "Three provinces, such a big battle, so many people!"
"Your Majesty!" Cao Guogong Li Jinglong stood up after hearing this and looked around. "It is indeed appalling that the three provinces are going to ban people from taking exams! But their starting point is to fight against the New Deal, not what they say is Li Zhigang's perverse behavior!"
"They are all scholars, and they can go straight to Heaven to listen to anything that is reasonable and reasonable. Making such a fuss is provoking the imperial court and the emperor!"
"I think we can't tolerate it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the officials exclaimed.
Zhu Gaochi said, "What Mr. Cao Guochi said is true. Li Zhigang doesn't know how to do things, and their actions are even more ignorant! Stop taking the exam? It's a threat to the court, and it will not be tolerated!" He said with a sneer, "Otherwise, in the future, we will
In the Ming Dynasty, does the imperial court have the final say, or do they?"
Then he looked around again and said, "If we give in to them this time, then all our efforts on the New Deal will be in vain, and we will never think about any reforms in the future!"
Everyone understood that their words were actually the words of the emperor.
"Xie Jin!" Zhu Yunxi looked at Xie Jin, who kept his head lowered, "You are the examiner of this spring, please tell me!"
"minister....."
Xie Jin is from Jiangxi, and Jiangxi is the first country to bear the brunt of this strike.
Before this spring visit, he had discussed it with the emperor.
Because of the North-South Examination case that year, there was a rift between scholars from the North and the South. This imperial examination was the time to make amends.
And because the New Deal is coming, some comfort must be given to various places in Jiangnan.
Therefore, during this spring period, the number of Jinshi scholars from the Jiangnan generation will account for 70% of the country's total, to appease people's hearts.
But now it seems that with such a commotion in the three provinces, the emperor's painstaking efforts have all come to naught.
"No matter what, the imperial examination is a major matter for the country and must not be changed lightly!" Xie Jin said bitterly, "Whether they take the exam or not, it must be carried out as scheduled!"
As he said that, he looked at the emperor and said, "If they must stop taking the exam, then let them! But once they stop, it is not they who have the final say if they want to take the exam again, but the imperial court!"
"When a country selects scholars, they should be both good in character, learning, and moral! Without moral character, what's the use of being highly talented and knowledgeable?"
"hiss......"
Everyone took a breath of air and looked at Jie Jin as if they didn't recognize him.