Two hundred and forty-eighth section remove the old cloth new (11)
"It's really unbelievable, I can't believe it."
"Now I have to take the Australian test, and this is the test. Do you believe it or not? So what?"
"I have been studying the Four Books and Five Classics for so many years, but when the Australians came, it all came to nothing! If I want to take the examination for the new dynasty's honors, I have to become a Feng Fu again and start from scratch."
"So what if I passed the exam? Feng San, who lives next door to me, has been taking the boy's exam for more than 20 years. Every time he waited until the end of the exam, he went home clutching his butt. The family was so poor that his wife ran away - and now he is going to join the civil service
I passed the exam. Now I am working as a copywriter at the tax bureau. I am busy from morning to night. I have to go to various places to collect taxes. I argue with the peasants for a few pennies. Although I am an official, I am just a petty official!
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"You don't understand this. It is said that fierce generals are born in the army, and towers are born in states and counties. The Australians go one step further. They act as officials and officials, and all officials start from small officials..."
"I didn't expect Brother Wang to be so familiar with Kun Qing!"
"Don't dare, don't dare. It is said that those who know the current affairs are heroes. Brother Zhou Xian, don't be clinging to the old. This word "kun" is really insulting to the country. Brother Zhou, please don't say it again..."
Gao Lingda couldn't help but shook his head while listening to his classmates' discussion: "It's all nonsense!"
After the Australians entered the city, many scholars at first felt that their home country was deteriorating, and they yearned for the Ming Dynasty. Some people wrote poems and articles to denounce the ambitions of the thieves. However, as the Australians wiped out the Guangdong officers and soldiers, the overall situation was decided.
, more and more people are overwhelmed by fame and wealth. I heard that Australians have few educated people. I don’t know how many people have made up their minds. As long as the Australians recruit virtuous people, they will refuse a few times and "endure humiliation and sacrifice their lives to serve as thieves."
.Some people have already begun to camp around, looking for Australian connections. I don’t know when, Australian pseudo-study became popular among the scholars. Gao Lingda felt heartbroken and happy at the same time.
In the past, everyone was sanctimonious and looked down upon their own people, but within a few days, they had forgotten their integrity, their loyalty and filial piety, and the principles of king, king, minister, minister, father, father and son. They were eager to sell their goods, seek glory and wealth for their own family - this
They are all people who have been favored by the imperial court and have the honor of being a birth attendant or a birth supervisor!
Thinking of his current situation, Gao Lingda couldn't help but feel sad, and the table full of delicacies was bland.
After a hasty lunch, the boy packed his food box and left. Gao Lingda was not in the mood to study and wanted to go home, but thinking of the situation at home, he was too lazy to go back.
There is only one wife in his family who has been with him for less than two years. In terms of background, she can barely be regarded as a scholarly family - the daughter of a poor school teacher who has never been to school. Gao Tianshi's marriage to this family will naturally "whitewash" him.
The purpose of birth. However, although the other party was so poor that he had no place to stand, he still felt that he had been greatly wronged by marrying his daughter. Naturally, the daughter-in-law was unwilling to accept it. Although she abided by women's ethics on weekdays, when it came to conjugal love, it was completely out of the question.
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If classmates get married, they will remain inseparable at least for the first year of their marriage. Every time they have a break on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, they rush home early and are often teased.
It was a joke, and the person involved was happy with it. Compared with himself, Gao Lingda couldn't help but feel discouraged.
While I was feeling depressed, there was a sudden commotion outside. Then there was the sound of "Ping Ping Ping" and a sharp whistle. The scholars in the study were stunned. This was the sound of Australian gunshots!
After the Australians entered the city, gunfire like this could be heard from time to time both inside and outside Guangzhou in the early months. However, in recent months, as public security has gradually calmed down, gunfire like this has been rarely heard.
Now suddenly gunshots were fired, and the gunshots were so dense. From the sound, it seemed that it was not far away from here. Are the Australians "searching for gangsters" again, or are the officers and soldiers suddenly fighting back? The scholars who were talking loudly suddenly fell silent.
, no one spoke anymore, and there was dead silence in the study.
The gunfire outside gradually became sparse, but the commotion outside became louder and louder. The dense footsteps on the street could be heard clearly even in the study room in the inner courtyard. Everyone was anxious when they suddenly saw a servant coming in from the outer courtyard.
Someone quickly stopped him and asked for information.
"I don't even know what happened. The Australians suddenly sent out many troops. Soldiers were stationed at every street and pedestrians were prohibited from passing."
"Australians are stalking the whole city again?"
"I heard that it was. But I don't know who to arrest specifically. When I was at the door, I saw soldiers passing by on the street. Not only the police, but also the National Army...even the Japanese and Koreans came out..."
Everyone was talking about it. Such a city-wide manhunt had not happened for a long time - I wonder who could make the Australians use such great efforts to deal with it?
Although he was full of doubts, when Zhu Sheng heard that he was just searching the whole city, it was not the Ming Dynasty that was attacking again, and the expression on his face became much more relaxed - since ancient times, when fighting in the army, it was like being bandited, and the Australians were an anomaly! If the Ming Dynasty really came,
When the officers and soldiers fought back, it was too late to escape.
As soon as the atmosphere relaxed, the vast chatter began again in the study. Gao Lingda was bored, but he could only endure it, and finally waited until it was getting late, and the servants said that the blockade outside had been lifted, so he got up.
After tidying up a bit, I left the academy and returned to the Golden Flower Temple.
Although the blockade has been lifted, there are still a lot of police and Nationalist troops on the streets, and the roadblocks have not been removed. Everyone has a solemn expression. The policemen have batons and shields, and the Nationalist troops are loaded with live ammunition, and the guns are also equipped with sharp swords.
It looked very cold. As for the Japanese pirates who worked hard for the Australians, they had double swords in their waists and ferocious iron masks on their faces, which looked like evil spirits. Gao Lingda did not dare to look too much and walked against the wall with his schoolbag under his arm.
There were few pedestrians on the street, and Gao Lingda was walking in a hurry. There were Australian clerks in twos and threes on the street, with iron buckets and long-handled brooms. They seemed to be scribbling slogans and notices on the walls. This is not a rare thing in Guangzhou, Gao Lingda
Lingda had no intention of looking. He was walking with his head down when he suddenly heard a commotion on the street. He hurried to the side and saw a group of prisoners coming on the road: dozens of beggars in rags and knotted clothes, holding ropes
They were tied up in a bunch and escorted by soldiers with bayonets staggering past. Their faces were confused and shocked, as if they still didn't understand what was going on. Some of them had wounds on their bodies, wrapped randomly, with blood oozing out.
The policemen held sticks and kept driving them away.
What's going on? Gao Lingda was secretly surprised. Since the riot in the Chaozhou Guild Hall, Gao Tianshi has told all the Dou Kou to "be careful and don't touch the thief's back scale", so all the Dou Kou have restrained themselves.
He didn't dare to do the business he was accustomed to. After his eldest brother succeeded to the throne, he clamped his tail even tighter. Who are these people from, and what did they do to offend the Australians? Thinking of the sound of blunderbuss just now, he felt more and more uneasy.
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Gao Lingda was panicking when he suddenly saw that the Australians who were painting the wall with slogans in front of him had left, and the wall had been covered with white ash. When he looked up, he saw the word "beggar". He ate
Surprised, I quickly walked over and read it carefully.
Looking at it, it's as if someone poured a bucket of snow water on it in the past 39 days.
But I saw the title: Announcement on the forced admission of beggars and homeless people in Guangzhou Special City by Song Dynasty Australia
He just felt that his mind was buzzing, and he couldn't even make out a sentence of what was written below. Of course Gao Lingda knew what this notice meant - in the six months since he entered the city, the Australians had continued to squeeze the beggars'
"Living space", but due to the disparity in strength between the two sides, neither Gao Tianshi nor Gao Lingxiang dared to confront them head-on, but only dared to use some underhanded tactics secretly. Therefore, although there was a small amount of friction between the two sides, they were generally at peace with each other.
The Gao family and the big bones still have a glimmer of hope that they can survive like this for five or six years, and wait until the Ming Dynasty comes to regain Guangzhou before they make any plans.
And this announcement is the Kun Thief’s declaration of war against the people of Guandi Temple!
Gao Lingda felt cold all over and was stunned for a moment.
While he was in a daze, someone grabbed his arm. He was startled, and when he was about to question him, he saw that the person had already dragged him to a side alley.
Gao Lingda took a closer look and saw that he didn't recognize the person coming. Judging from his dress, he was also a Confucian scholar.
"Why are you still wandering on the street!"
"Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am," the visitor said urgently, "I've been looking for you for a long time!"
Now Gao Lingda was confused and muttered: "The student and the teacher have never met each other..."
"You don't know me, but I know you." The Confucian scholar said, "You are the fifth son of Gao Tianshi, the daughter of Qi Yiniang, Gao Lingda!"
Now Gao Lingda was surprised. The other person knew so clearly that he must have known him. He thought hard and couldn't remember who he was. He just nodded in surprise.
"The thieves have destroyed the Golden Flower Temple!"
Gao Lingda's mind went "bang". No matter how he felt about this home, the Golden Flower Temple was, after all, the home where he had lived for nineteen years. It was the home where he could shelter from wind and rain.
At this moment, he felt cold all over and couldn't even speak. The Australians were well-known for their vicious methods and decisive and cruel actions. When the Golden Flower Temple was wiped out, the Gao family must be destroyed together -
Although he was quite dissatisfied with his eldest brother, he was still his relative, not to mention there were several brothers and sisters in the family, as well as his own wife...
Thinking of this, his face turned pale and his body was already crumbling.
"Don't be afraid, your family members are fine!" The visitor probably knew what he was thinking, and said, "But you can't go back, you have to hide immediately - the thief Kun is arresting people by name, and none of the Gao family members have escaped.
Don’t fall off.”
Gao Lingda kept saying "yes" several times, but could not move his feet. He was frightened and desperate in his heart. He was hiding. Where was he hiding? He had been studying since he was a child, and he had never interfered with the family's "business".
His father also deliberately isolated him from the people of Guandi Temple. In the past nineteen years, the only place he has known to go is the Golden Flower Temple, or the home of his poor father-in-law. It is hard to say whether this father-in-law will fall out with him now!