Chapter three hundred and sixty-two years old in Bingchen
In the forty-fourth year of Wanli, at the age of Bingchen, on the first day of the first lunar month, just as the officials of the Ming Dynasty were congratulating the emperor, far to the northeast, four thousand miles away in Hetuala, the capital of Jianzhou where the Jurchens lived, there was a scene for Nurhaci.
The title-conferring ceremony is also going on——
In Nurhachi's political office, a group of Nurhaci's nephews Daishan, Amin, Mang Gurtai, Huang Taiji and other Beile led the Eight Banners Archer Masters, kneeling in four rows and eight corners. Nurhachi sat behind the big red table, and the Eight Banners ministers knelt to submit documents.
, Nalanbakshi, who created Manchu based on Mongolian, read out the document and called Nurhachi "the wise Khan who served the heaven to educate all the nations." The country was named Dajin, the reign was named Tianming, and the Jianzhou Jurchen who had always submitted to the Ming Dynasty began to make it public.
He broke with the Ming Dynasty and showed his unruly fangs. From the four words "nurturing the nations", we can see Nurhachi's ambition and arrogance. In this year, Nurhaci - year -
The news of the founding of the slave chiefdom did not reach Beijing so quickly. Everyone in Beijing, from officials to the people, was busy paying New Year greetings. The New Year greetings in the official circles of the capital were quite special. On the first day of the first lunar month, officials would not stay at home.
Instead, they go around to congratulate colleagues and township officials. They will place paper pads and pens and inkstones in the foyer of their homes. When congratulators arrive, they just sign on the paper pads, which is considered a New Year greeting. Of course, this only refers to casual acquaintances, good friendships, or those who need to make friends.
Of course, you have to prepare gifts and wait for congratulations in person. As the censor of Zuoqiandu who supervises all officials, Shang Zhouzuo still has many people to fawn over. Shang Zhouzuo ordered the concierge to turn away all congratulators who send gifts. If he is not upright, he will
How to monitor others?
Zhang Yuan was in the capital, except for Yang Lian, his master, his senior brother Xu Guangqi and his clan uncle Zhang Lianfang, who needed to congratulate him. The rest of Zhang Yuan's stay in Beijing was to gather with colleagues from the Han Society to give lectures. He originally planned to go with Qi Biaojia and Huang Ting to visit Mr. Liu Zongzhou and inquire about it.
Later, I learned that Mr. Qidong had been dismissed and returned to his hometown two months earlier. At this time, the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party, and the Chu Party were in power. People from the Donglin Party were often marginalized. Liu Zongzhou was not an official, but he was outspoken and outspoken.
He was scolded as Shaozhengmao of the Lu State, and wanted to ask Shang Fang to punish him quickly. Liu Zongzhou felt that the group was in power, and the party would be in trouble, so he resigned and returned to his hometown, and from then on he began his journey of gathering disciples and giving lectures——
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yuan went to Eunuch Zhong’s outer house in Shichahai. Eunuch Zhong was not there. Zhang Yuan left a greeting note and a gift and left. The next day, the chamberlain Gao Qiqian sent Eunuch Zhong’s reply note and gift.
, and said that I wanted to invite Zhang Yuan to have a drink, but considering that spring is approaching, I will not bother him for the time being, and will congratulate Zhang Yuan after Zhang Yuan is named on the gold list——
Under the Danqi Palace of the Qianqing Palace, firecrackers were fired starting from the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month to send the Stove King to heaven, and they continued until the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the firecrackers were fired all night long.
The lantern scene and the python's clothes, look at the "strange huā hot" produced by the gunpowder store of the Imperial Guard. The flowers include orchids, plums, chrysanthemums, osmanthus, narcissus and the like, smoke huā, fireworks, this is called smoke huā, the imperial city
The people outside looked eagerly at the bustling fireworks blooming over the palace city, feeling that our Ming Dynasty was still a peaceful and prosperous age——
On the Lantern Festival, Zhang Yuan, his eldest brother Zhang Dai, Huang Zunsu, and Qi Biaojia watched Bai Ling challenge Lin Fuqing at Dalongfu Temple. Zhang Lianfang's gambling lottery was one game a day, five games in a row, whoever wins first
Those who play three games will win one hundred taels of silver. Although the law of the Ming Dynasty strictly prohibits gambling in groups, the curfew is open during the New Year's Day. Gambling and winning is an elegant matter. Who will take care of it? Zhang Yuan has seen it. Lin Wuji
In the first game of chess, Lin Fuqing attacked fiercely and had an advantage in the middle game. However, in the second half of the game, the over-100-year-old's closing and official skills were too strong, and he regained the disadvantage in the middle game through the closing game.
, he won four pieces in the final game. Lin Fuqing, who looked arrogant before the game, now had a pale face——
It is the custom of people in the east city of the capital to go to Dalongfu Temple or Daci Yanfu Palace to pray for blessings during the Lantern Festival. One is a Buddhist temple and the other is a Taoist temple. The men and women of Dongcheng often worship the Third Buddha at Dalongfu Temple.
Just go to the Daci Yanfu Palace to worship the three officials of heaven, earth, and water, whether it is the Buddha or the gods, you will never go wrong if you worship them one by one——
In the afternoon of that day, Shang Zhouzuo and his wife and daughter also went to Dalongfu Temple for a walk. Sisters Jinglan and Jinghui couldn't move when they saw the match between the two national players in Xiangfeng Hall. It happened that Shang Zhouzuo met
When Qi Chengshun was talking on the side, the two little sisters were watching chess under the protection of Zhang Yuan and Qi Biaojia. Xiao Jinghui knew that Zhang Yuan was good at Go and asked Zhang Yuan in a low voice: "Brother Mr. Zhang, can you beat them?"
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Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "They gave me four pieces to play."
"Ah." Xiao Jinghui exclaimed in surprise: "It's so awesome. Mr. Zhang and his brother want to give me five sons, so don't they want to give me twenty!"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "If it's not superimposed like this, they would just give Xiao Hui nine sons."
Xiao Jinghui was happy, and suddenly remembered something. He looked around and asked, "Brother Mr. Zhang, where is that old monk who knows how to beat people?"
Zhang Yuandao: "I haven't seen him since he hit me that day."
Xiao Jinghui looked at Zhang Yuan's chest and said with a smile: "Is it because Mr. Zhang's chest is so hard that he broke the old monk's head?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and was about to speak when he saw his brother-in-law Shang Zhouzuo waving to him, so he walked over and bowed his hands to his brother-in-law and Qi Chengshun. Qi Chengshun said: "Master Zhang has great foresight. He wrote the "On the Founding of the State of Old Slave" years ago.
》As he said, a document was sent to the Ministry of War in an urgent manner yesterday, saying that Nurhachi had established a country and established a title. The slave chief was crazy and falsely claimed to have brought up the wise Khan of all countries. His disobedience was obvious. Wang Shoubei asked the Ministry of War.
Countermeasures——"
Zhang Yuan asked: "What countermeasures will the Ministry of War have?"
Qi Chengshun said: "In the next two days, we will discuss with our troops to see what countermeasures to take. In my opinion, it seems impossible to send troops for a conquest. Once the army moves, the military pay will easily reach hundreds of thousands of taels, and the Ministry of War will have no money or food."
Zhang Yuan also knew that the climate in Nurhachi had become such that the Eight Banners soldiers were powerful. Unless the Ming Dynasty used five times more troops to conquer the enemy, that is, more than 200,000 elite soldiers and generals, it would not be possible to win. But now from
When the emperor came to the cabinet, he had not yet felt the physical threat from Nurhachi, so it was impossible to mobilize the entire country's troops to conquer him. The soldiers were small and useless, so he would definitely not use troops. He should issue an edict to reprimand Nurhaci for his disobedience, which is the so-called
Severe condemnation——
Zhang Yuandao: "The border troops are short of pay and have not maintained their armaments. They cannot send out troops for conquest. At least they must reorganize their armaments and strengthen their defenses."
Qi Chengshun said: "Both the Hu and Gong departments have money to make ends meet. It depends on whether the Holy One can send money from the inner treasury to help the outside world."
Shang Zhouzuo on the side shook his head and said: "It's difficult, it's difficult. The emperor wants to spend money on the pretext of the wedding of King Hui and King Gui. How can he be willing to withdraw the money from the inner treasury." He also said: "This time for Shandong's disaster relief, the Ministry of Household Affairs has sincerely requested the emperor.
He allocated 200,000 taels of silver from the internal treasury, but the emperor refused, and ordered to borrow horses from Taipusi Temple to sell the silver, and try to provide relief by clearing the warehouse rice.
Ten thousand shi, 60,000 shi per square meter of rice. The supervisory censor left Beijing yesterday with the money and food, and rushed to Shandong. According to the 12 famine relief matters of Shandong Governor Qian Shiwan, the relief regulations were formulated and the relief area was wide.
Advocate the gentry to help, and the victims in Shandong should be able to get relief. However, the disaster in Henan is not light, so the emperor will not care about it——"
Zhang Yuan secretly shook his head. The officials in the late Ming Dynasty were also very funny. They had no other plan for financial management. They just stared at the emperor's inner treasury all day long and asked for the transfer of inner treasury money. Reasonably speaking, the whole world belongs to the emperor, so why should the emperor accumulate private wealth?
Well, but Emperor Wanli obviously didn't like this, and kept his wallet tightly——
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By the end of the first lunar month, almost all the candidates from Nanjing and thirteen provinces who went to Beijing to take part in the joint examination had arrived. On the twenty-sixth of the first lunar month, the number of candidates from the fifty candidates of the Han Society had reached 49, and the remaining one would never come.
Well, he died of illness halfway through the imperial examination. The tragic figure who fell on the way to the imperial examination was the Juren Quanquan City of Cixi County. Zhang Yuan, Zhang Dai and Huang Zunsu visited him in Cixi last September because of the Civil Information Bureau, but they did not see Quan Quan at that time.
What kind of illness did Wancheng have? He passed away just a few months ago, which is very sad.
On the first day of February, Hanshe colleagues held the last gathering before the Spring Festival at Dalongfu Temple to give lectures. After that, they each quietly prepared for the exam in their apartments. Before that, they had handed over their official certificates to the Ministry of Rites for verification, and the Ministry of Rites would submit the certificates.
Now that examination papers are being distributed and seats are reserved, the examination venue is in the Gongyuan of Shuntian Prefecture, which is only more than a mile away from the Lugong Temple on the bank of the Paozi River. Zhang Yuan and his eldest brother Zhang Dai once walked around the Gongyuan, which is larger than the Gongyuan in Hangzhou.
There are more than 10,000 dormitories, and there is a watchtower besides the writing hall, which is heavily guarded——
On the seventh day of February, a large picture was posted in front of the dragon gate of the Gongyuan of Shuntian Prefecture. It was a seat map of the examination room, indicating the number of east and west dormitories. Candidates should indicate which dormitory belongs to which province in advance, so as to avoid candidates making a mess in the huge Gongyuan.
Looking for seats everywhere, Zhang Yuan asked his eldest brother Zhang Dai to go see them together. The candidates from Zhejiang were concentrated in the forty rooms from "Dragon Master Fire Emperor" to "Cui Gong Pingzhang". Each room had twelve rooms, so look for it.
It's easy to find a seat when the time comes. The examiner has already confirmed that it is cabinet scholar Wu Daonan, Mr. Wu Ge, other promotion officers, supervisors and marking officers from the 20 rooms of the Five Classics. They entered the Gongyuan three days ago and sealed the inner and outer doors.
, no private entry or exit is allowed, commonly known as the locked courtyard, now we are waiting for the first exam on the ninth day of February——
The rules of the joint examination are basically the same as those of the provincial examination. It is also called roll call, inspection, and admission on the fourth day. So after dinner on the eighth day of February, Zhang Yuan took a nap for half an hour. After getting up, he wrote an article about craftsmanship, which should be read.
What I should learn was actually prepared before the provincial examination half a year ago. At this time, I was a little confused before the big examination. The waiting time was very difficult, so I sorted out the books related to the scientific examination one by one, and made two thick stacks.
, hearing the soft footsteps, Xiao Jinghui knocked on the door and came in. Seeing him sorting out the books, the girl pursed her lips and smiled——
Zhang Yuan asked: "Why is Xiao Hui smiling?"
Xiao Jinghui said: "Brother Zhang Gongzi is planning to shelve these books. After becoming a Jinshi, he will no longer read these books, right?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "That's right." I am really tired of doing the eight-part essay, and this kind of exam is really boring. I hope that I can complete my work this time and stay away from these historical books in the future. But I don't know why, I feel that this time
It was too calm on the eve of the exam. There were also twists and turns in the provincial exam. The calm situation at the moment made him feel vaguely uneasy. He was used to staying on the cusp of the storm, and he felt uncomfortable if nothing happened.
Zhang Yuan walked out of the bedroom and went to the courtyard. He saw that the night was clear and the crescent moon on the eighth night of the lunar month had already turned to the west. It was the time of the second drum.
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The exam begins! The exam begins! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)