By the time we reached the corner, the originally spacious official residence of the Public Transport Department was now overcrowded.
One or two thousand scholars from all over the country, speaking with different accents, filled the interior and exterior of this official residence.
Because I haven’t seen Uncle Tian, the protagonist of today’s lecture, nor have I seen anyone from the royal family.
Therefore, the scholars are now very open-minded, gathering together in groups of twos and threes to talk and discuss today's lectures based on their place of origin, school of thought and even origin.
I don't know since when, in places where the crowd is slightly denser, one or two strange voices began to appear.
"Gentlemen..." Lin Jing worked hard and finally gathered a group of people mainly based on the children of Guandong merchants. He found an opportunity to get the right to speak. He summoned these scholars and used
He asked in a very sad tone: "I feel that this examination is just a feast for the powerful... Please see, gentlemen, the princes' children over there are all smiling. Obviously, let alone this time.
I'm waiting for the children of merchants... even the children of famous local families in Chang'an will probably have nothing to do!"
As soon as his words came out, they immediately aroused strong resonance among the children of these businessmen.
The emperor of the Han Dynasty valued agriculture and suppressed business, and regarded businessmen as a lowly group.
The cultural and ideological circles have never been divided into factions or schools of thought, and they all fight against businessmen.
Among hundreds of schools of thought, not a single school of thought has a favorable impression of businessmen as a group!
After hundreds of years of brainwashing, not only everyone in the world thinks that merchants are a lowly group, but also the children of merchants, after they have learned and understood, they will inevitably have an inferiority complex, and even they themselves look down on their own merchant background.
Therefore, after the news of this examination spread, the largest number of scholars in Chang'an were the disciples of merchants from Guandong and Guanzhong.
At the same time, this group is also the most enthusiastic and enthusiastic about the examination.
Because they know very well that without this examination, it is basically impossible for them to want to be officials!
But after coming to Chang'an, they found that the reality was different from what most of them imagined.
There are only about ten places for this examination, but the total number of scholars in Chang'an is thousands.
Thousands of people compete for a dozen or so spots, and only one lucky person will appear among hundreds of people, and their competitors even include the descendants of Sanfu, the founder of the Han Dynasty, and from prominent families.
As soon as most people saw this situation, they already shrank inwardly, and some even planned to give up and only regard this trip to Chang'an as a trip in their lives.
Now, Lin Jing's words can be regarded as saying the true words that most of the merchant disciples had hidden in their hearts. They immediately aroused the resonance of many people. For a while, the merchant disciples started talking one after another.
"Yes, yes, I already knew it. This exam has nothing to do with us..." Someone immediately jumped out to agree.
"How can we win over those young masters of the Chehou family? The nephews of the Xungui family?" Someone immediately added fuel to the fire: "I see, the quota for this examination has probably been divided among those nobles and ministers.
Everything is gone! The so-called examination is just a formality! This Han family is treating us and other scholars like monkeys!"
"Silence! Silence! If someone listens to these words, be careful of getting into trouble..." Someone with 'kindness' reminded me beside me.
"What are you afraid of!" The man retorted with great justice: "During the time of the late emperor, the crimes of 'defamation', 'cursing' and so on were already abolished. In today's Han code, there are no regulations on punishing crimes based on speech. You and I are here."
Haven't you seen it in the countryside? Ordinary farmers are not happy at work, have been wronged, and open their mouths to complain about the emperor, but even if there are officials around, no one will arrest them? "
Lin Jing listened to these words and nodded with satisfaction. Those who said these words were naturally the people he had bought with money or other benefits in the past two days.
These words were specially arranged after he had discussed them with his master.
Through the mouths of these people, most businessmen should now know that the Han Code no longer includes crimes such as 'slander', 'curse', 'criticism', etc. In this way, the emotions of these people can be stimulated and they will not
No more scruples.
Of course, Lin Jing is not a Legalist, nor has he studied Han law. It is not clear whether the Han law really does not punish crimes based on speech. However, during the reign of the late emperor, there were many edicts to abolish slander, evil words, and curses.
Everyone has heard of it.
It was precisely because Lin Jing knew this that he was as unscrupulous and even fearless as he is now.
In his mind, even if something happened, someone would punish him for his sin, but what law would be used to punish him?
Today’s Tingwei is Zhang Ou!
Zhang Tingwei is a well-known iron-clad minister in the world. Since he became Tingwei, he has repeatedly refuted the emperor's unreasonable edicts and insisted on using Han law as the basis for punishment!
With such a court lieutenant in the court, Lin Jing felt that if things got serious, he could escape unscathed.
Thinking of this, Lin Jing said again: "What this brother said is absolutely correct! Today's Han law advocates speaking freely, and the subjects of the world can discuss the government affairs. Although we, the merchants' children, are from humble backgrounds, we are still studying.
It is our duty as a sensible person to worry about the world and discuss government affairs. Some people have done certain things. Shouldn't we still be afraid of others' accusations? In my opinion, if we wait until the examination results come out, if we find injustice
, let’s go to the palace and bring the case to the Holy Emperor. If the Holy Emperor doesn’t care, we’ll go to Changling! Go to Baling! Go and cry for souls!”
As soon as these radical and irritating words came out, many passionate young people immediately became excited and their chests swelled even more.
yes!
Since the world is unfair, why should we be cowards?
Are we, the children of businessmen, born to be bullied, oppressed, and humiliated by others?
Are we not as good as those children of wealthy families and nephews of nobles?
No! No!
"We want justice, we want justice!" Someone shouted, and suddenly, countless arms were raised: "Justice, justice!"
At the same time, the same thing happened to other groups, but the wording was slightly changed.
For example, among the scholars born in the small landlord class, some people use the excuse that "the quota has long been occupied by the nobles' children" to stimulate the emotions of the scholars. And among the nobles, those people use the descendants of the down-and-out nobles to attack those
The jealousy of the noble aristocracy still remains.
All in all, their goals are the same, which is to try their best to make the scholars feel that the places for the examination have been divided up by others and that they have been teased. Therefore, they must take revenge and make those who teased them pay the price.
Some people even shouted the slogan, "The hatred of nine generations can be restored, let alone the hatred of the past?"
Immediately, many people began to agree with it.
In today's world, thanks to Dong Zhongshu and Hu Wusheng's tireless propaganda, basically, the theory of great revenge has quietly become popular among the people. What is emphasized is that revenge is polite and virtuous. Whoever touches my finger, I will chop off his whole family!
Gradually, the atmosphere in the bus station began to become strange.
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Sorry for updating so late~~~~~~~~
Um, the weather here in Nanning changed suddenly today~ Some things were left out in the shop my wife and I opened,~ Well, I cleaned them up for a long time and didn’t come back until eight or nine o’clock in the evening~~~~~~~So I was delayed in typing~Please forgive me
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Well~~~~My wife has already approved my leave~~~Anyway, it is the off-season after the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I have been given permission not to go to the store to help before October 1st, and can just write at home with peace of mind~~~~~~
Starting from tomorrow, I will have half a month of full-time coding time~Spread flowers~
