Zhang E, the censor of Hokkaido, was sitting on a chair in the guest room of the inn, playing with the 20,000 taels of silver note given by He Zixiang. His brother was quite generous! I had only heard that in three years of Qing Dynasty, the magistrate received 100,000 snowflakes of silver.
, but I didn’t expect that the Taoist official who was always poor in my impression could be so rich!
He glanced at the memorial that was going to be sent to Emperor Guangwu, and after thinking for a long time, he murmured to himself: "It seems that this memorial cannot be sent out immediately!"
"Sir, our luggage is ready. When will we return to Beijing?" Butler Zhang Cai walked in and bowed to ask for instructions.
"Go back to Beijing?"
Zhang E smiled intriguingly, "No, we won't leave in the next few days."
He looked at Zhang Cai and ordered: "You go hire some carriages, and then go around Beihai City to purchase local specialties. Buy as much as you can until the carriages can't fit. Remember, the momentum must be big, so that the entire Beihai City can be moved.
Johto knows!"
"Yes", although he felt surprised, Zhang Cai was a good slave. He knew very well that he didn't ask questions that he shouldn't ask, and he bowed and went out as he should.
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In the Beihai Governor's Yamen, the Governor Guan Siqiu and the Chief Envoy Zhang Dai are discussing matters.
"Fuyuan, don't you think there are too many people who passed the examination in Beihai this time? If we look into it carefully, it might be an opportunity." Zhang Dai smiled faintly. He is a senior scholar. He is already seventy this year, but he has an official heart.
Still prosperous and unwilling to retire.
Although Guan Siqiu is twenty years younger than Zhang Dai, he is also an old official, so he naturally understands what Zhang Dai means.
Both of them were the first assistant to Guan Shouzhen, but the Beihai Inspector Wan Sitong was the second assistant to Sun Jinding. In the past few years, Guan Shouzhen and Sun Jinding were not on good terms, and they worked together sincerely to squeeze Wan Sitong out.
Wan Sitong wanted to make some money, move up and down, and change his position as an official, which had a lot to do with them. Now the results of the Beihai Township Examination are problematic at first glance. The admiral Xuedao is also the assistant officer of the inspector. Once something happens,
Wan Sitong is bound to be involved. This is really a good opportunity to bring down political opponents!
"Don't you know what Mr. Zhang said? It's just that the climate in Beijing and the microclimate outside Beijing have changed the direction of the wind! Mr. Guan Ge specifically told us not to take the initiative to provoke Mr. Sun Ge's people. Therefore, this lid cannot be opened.
"He replied to Zhang Dai with a pity look on his face.
The wind in the court has indeed changed. As the power of the Prince Ji's party continues to grow, the number one enemy of Guan Shouzhen, the leader of the princeling party, has changed from Sun Jinding to Prince Ji. In any case, Sun Jinding can be regarded as one of the teachers of the crown prince.
Although he remains neutral between the prince and the king of Ji, in Guan Shouzhen's eyes, he is a force that can be fought for.
Since Chen Bangyan entered the cabinet, Guan Shouzhen has relaxed his attitude and often visited Sun's house with gifts. He also told everyone he met that Sun Jinding was the most outstanding contributor to Conglong, and his contribution was much greater than his own. He reminded him many times.
The backbone of the party, whether in the central or local areas, should not easily provoke Sun Party members.
It was against this background that Guan Siqiu said that the wind in the DPRK had changed.
Zhang Dai pondered for a moment and smiled bitterly, "The chief assistant wants to unite Sun Jinding to deal with King Ji, but I'm afraid it is wishful thinking. If Sun is as cunning as a fox and as slippery as a loach, how can he be willing to express his position between the prince and King Ji?
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"Hey, His Highness the Crown Prince is in a worrying situation now. Even if we can't get Mr. Sun Ge to help us, we can't push him to King Ji's side," Guan Siqiu sighed.
"Well, what Fuyuan said is that we cannot do this evil thing." Zhang Dai's old eyes suddenly shone, "But what if it is someone from King Ji who exposes him? Isn't it killing two birds with one stone, killing someone with a borrowed knife?"
"Did King Ji's people expose the Beihai impersonation incident?"
Guan Siqiu shuddered, ginger is still hot as ever! If King Ji's men can expose the dental fraud of Sun Jinding's minions, they will definitely sow the relationship between King Ji and Sun Jinding, making them fight with each other, and the princelings will be fishermen.
Profit.
But after thinking for a while, he sighed quietly, "Although Duke Zhang has a good idea, how can he be willing to do this if all the officials under King Ji are cunning?"
"Officials under King Ji will naturally not be so stupid, but not all King Ji's party are officials. Don't you see Li Yindu from Fuping?" Zhang Dai smiled sinisterly, like a vicious old poisonous snake.
"Li Yindu?"
Guan Siqiu's eyes lit up. Li Yindu was a Shilin leader who had always supported King Ji. He often praised King Ji's benevolence in democratic newspapers and could be like Yao and Shun. He also wrote a clear-cut statement against the eldest son inheritance system.
, advocates establishing a virtuous prince, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that the virtuous one he refers to is King Ji.
What's even better is that this man hates evil so much that he can't tolerate sand in his eyes. After the Kuliping tragedy, the treasury was empty, and Emperor Guangwu didn't want to go to war, so he decided to write the "Commemoration to the People of Kuliping" to commemorate those who died tragically at the hands of the Rakshasa people.
The common people created public opinion, forcing the emperor to go to war; the emperor wanted to set up a press censorship department to suppress democratic speech, but no one else dared to speak, but he dared to publish in "Fushe Daily", "Yunjian Jishe Daily", "Nanshe Wen"
"Newspaper", "Fengshe Wenjian" and other democratic newspapers wrote articles criticizing the emperor, saying "this case will immediately become Jie and Zhou", which incited the world's public opinion and disrupted the establishment of the press censorship department.
Many times, the old emperor wanted to kill him, and he also prepared a coffin at home. In the end, the old emperor did not dare to kill him. It is said that he was afraid of killing him. Instead, he became an example for the scholars to follow. If
Scholars all over the world are trying to imitate Li Yindu, but this will cause trouble!
"Wonderful! Mr. Zhang's plan is very good! Li Yindu is famous for criticizing government affairs. If he learns about Beihai's fake citizenship, he will definitely attack him in major newspapers. He has always advocated the establishment of virtuous princes.
He is regarded as a party of the King of Ji. If he comes forward to attack Wan Sitong and others, it can easily be misunderstood by Sun Jinding as being ordered by the King of Ji. He is really killing two birds with one stone!"
Guan Siqiu laughed loudly and ordered his men and two horses to gallop to Li Yindu's house in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province, and send an anonymous letter to the Shilin leader.
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Fuping County, Shaanxi Province is located in the central part of Shaanxi Province, meaning "wealth and peace".
"Alas! My bones are not as big as before!"
Li Yindu, a great scholar of the generation, came back from a trip to Mingyue Mountain with his friends. After playing for several days, he felt that his body was weak and exhausted, so he pretended to sigh like this.
"Husband, you are back? I will prepare fragrant soup for you to bathe in." When his wife, Mrs. Gu, saw him returning home, she hurriedly greeted him.
"Well, thank you, madam." Li Yindu nodded. As a celebrity, he loved cleanliness. After taking a bath, he felt refreshed and asked Mr. Gu with a smile: "I have been traveling for a few days. Is there anything going on at home?"
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"It's not a big deal, it's just that someone sent a letter to my husband."
"Believe? Who believes?"
"The person who came here refused to give his name. He just claimed to be 'Beihai Xiaoxiaosheng'".
"Beihai Xiaoxiaosheng?"
Li Yindu burst into laughter. This must have been done by the young scholars who admired him. Because he dared to criticize the government in public and cheered for the world, he gained countless admirers, and scholars often wrote to him anonymously.
, express respect.
When I opened the letter and looked at it, I couldn't help but feel livid and smokey. The four provinces in northern Xinjiang all have similar educational levels. Why is it that the number of successful candidates in Beihai province is far higher than that of the other three provinces combined? It must be fake citizenship! Opening a subject to get a scholar is a matter of national dynasty.
Fundamentally, cheating in the imperial examinations will shake the foundation of the country! If this can be faked, how can we be worthy of the most holy teacher? How can we be worthy of the countless students who are bright and poor?
Filled with righteous indignation, he immediately picked up the pen and wrote an article: "It's strange that Beihai, the literary style is at its peak, or Brother Kong Fang is rampant".
A person's name, the shadow of a tree, and a celebrity's Xiaoyao pen are murderous knives. Soon, this article was published in major newspapers and spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.