This is the angry roar made by the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy for the first time in recent times.
Not long ago, a copy of "Donglin Party" written by the well-known writer "Cong Sanshao" suddenly appeared in restaurants and teahouses in the capital, and the entire Hanlin Academy was in a strange whirlpool of public opinion.
Ordinarily, it is just a story. How could it have an impact on the real Hanlin Academy?
The problem is that some of the plots described in the article are specious. If it is true, it is the fault of the Hanlin Academy, and it is still a big fault.
This is what makes the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy very unhappy, but he can't directly target this book, otherwise he will take the initiative to take the seat?
It’s frustrating, quite frustrating!
A dignified bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a veritable prime minister of the cabinet, he was helpless against a book that was popular in the market.
If anyone outside knew about it, they would definitely be shocked.
However, if there are sharp-minded people in the officialdom who have heard the story of "Donglin Party", they will know why the dignified bachelor of the Hanlin Academy was so angry!
The pig's foot in this book is surnamed Mei, and he is a poor scholar from Jiangnan.
In this way, pig's trotters are actually universal characters for talented people and beautiful ladies. Whether it is Peach Blossom Fan or Peony Pavilion, aren't they all pig's trotters like this?
The key point is that the pig's trotters with the surname Mei in it are not ordinary dirty and despicable.
He was so pedantic that he could hardly afford to eat, and his entire family suffered from poverty. Finally, he was supported by local wealthy people, and then he had the opportunity to enter the imperial examination and become an official.
During this period, in order to get into the lap of the rich man, or to get a long-term meal ticket, he did not hesitate to sell his young child and arrange a baby marriage with the rich man's newly born daughter, so that he could receive financial support from the local rich man with peace of mind.
Does it look familiar?
Yes, the protagonist is the reference Mei Hanlin. This unlucky guy has been transferred to the northwest as a county magistrate not long ago. If there is no help from the big boss, I am afraid he will be stuck there in the future.
The key point is that the psychological activities and various shady thoughts of the pig trotter named Mei in the story are described a little too much.
For example, in order to get a long-term meal ticket from a local rich man, the conversation between this man and his wife was so obvious and so simple that it made people feel sick.
The wife of a pedantic scholar named Mei has quite a bit of a "comfort in poverty and happiness in life" attitude. Although her life is hard, she doesn't care too much about it.
On the contrary, he was very puzzled by the rich man who was eager to support his husband, especially the behavior of exchanging his child's marriage for a long-term meal ticket, and he was even quite angry.
At this time, Mei's surnamed Pig's Feet's face had been completely exposed, saying, "This is just a temporary measure, otherwise where would the money be to supply him with the imperial examination?"
"If you successfully pass the imperial examination and become an official, you will no longer have to contact the wealthy people who support you. As for the so-called 'baby relatives', we can just ignore them from now on!"
"Even a businessman wouldn't dare to make too big a fuss. We have received benefits and benefits, so let's just do this for now!"
It can be said that the scholar pig's trotters with such an attitude have set a precedent and caused extremely serious damage to the reputation of the scholar community.
This is not the key yet!
Anyway, the era of the story is an "illusory" Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to care too much about it.
However, a series of actions after Mei's surname Pig's Foot, as well as what he saw and heard, are the main reasons why the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy was so shocked.
The scholar surnamed Mei, who had not yet passed the examination, received guidance from a certain companion and introduced him to the famous 'Donglin Academy' in the south of the Yangtze River.
According to the companion who introduced him to the academy, if you want to increase your chances of winning the exam, joining the academy is the best way!
As for the reason, it is also a certain secret rule in the imperial examination, and the ugly veil is slowly unraveled by Pig's Feet with the surname Mei.
It turns out that the main reason why "Donglin Academy" is famous is that the academy has indeed trained many talents, and many of them still hold high positions in the court. The main reason is that it monopolizes some of the imperial examination resources in several provinces in Jiangnan.
What kind of monopoly law?
Pig's Feet surnamed Mei quickly figured out the mystery: it turned out that from the beginning of the Tongsheng Examination, the examiners from Donglin Academy began to tamper with the students.
It's not really cheating in the exam, but based on some secret marks, it is known that certain candidates are academy students, and under the same conditions, academy students will naturally be given priority.
This is true for the Tongsheng Examination, and it is also true for the Juren Examination that is expanded to include academic administration in a province...
With this method, through little accumulation, the students of Donglin Academy were slowly allowed to pass the imperial examination and become officials, forming a larger political group.
Is such a method available in reality?
there must be!
In well-known academies, in addition to the extremely high teaching quality, there are also the hidden benefits brought by being a student of the academy.
The key is whether the behavior of these well-known academies is as exaggerated as that of Donglin Academy.
It can be said that "Three Young Master Cong" has offended academies everywhere, and his good fruits will inevitably be eaten in the future.
But now, with the spread of the epidemic, the officials and people in the capital are surprised, and it is not that there are some failed scholars who suspect that similar things happened in the imperial examinations they participated in before.
Some academies are so secretive that they are not afraid of investigation at all!
But what some academies do is a bit blatant and cannot withstand investigation at all!
As for the Hanlin Academy, it is controlled by students from these famous academies. Even the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy are basically students from these famous academies.
This means that at this time, the bachelor in charge of the Hanlin Academy felt the strong malice and the possible bad situation, which caused great worry.
Once such covert methods of well-known academies in various places are made public, the consequences can be huge or small.
In fact, based on the foundation and teaching quality of these famous academies, even without such tactics, the success rate of students in the academies is still much higher than that of students from ordinary academies and students from private schools.
But again, the greed of an established interest group will never end...
In this case, why not let Mingming Academy, which has an absolute advantage, occupy more places for candidates?
If strict rectification is carried out now, and if academic administrators and invigilators are dispatched to preside over the provincial examinations in the future, and they have no connection with the major local academies, we may lose a lot of places for new candidates.
If today's investigations were more stringent, there might still be frightening or some major problems.
Fraud in the imperial examination has never been eliminated since the birth of the imperial examination.
Pig's Feet, surnamed Mei, directly revealed to all readers and book fans the cheating methods used in certain imperial examinations based on what he saw and heard. It was simply astonishing and seriously shaken the foundation of ordinary people's respect for scholars.
This is what worries the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy the most and makes him the most angry!
"Cong Sanshao"'s new "Donglin Party" can be said to be a naked satire, which completely exposes to the public the unsavory inside stories of many imperial examinations and the most ugly faces of scholars.
This is going to destroy the reputation of scholars...
Just being angry is angry, seeing the problem does not mean being able to solve the problem!
The key is that if Gua Tianli Xia takes the initiative to jump out, it is very likely that readers who are aroused will take the position and be unlucky.
What worries the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy even more is that Mei Zhujiao has exposed so many secrets just by taking part in the imperial examination. If he takes part in the imperial examination, he doesn't know how much shocking information he will reveal.
Don't think that the Jinshi Department is clean and there are many places where you can do tricks!
The key is, I don’t know how much inside information that ‘Third Young Master Cong’ knows!
The chief bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a group of civil servants who felt threatened felt quite heavy and anxious.
Once some things are exposed, the blow to the civil service group and themselves will be huge.
What is hateful is that the true identity of "San Shao Cong" is that he is an out-and-out noble son, and he does not care whether the scholar community will be affected by the plot.
What makes them even more depressed is that this boy also has a top scholar as his father-in-law, and he may know a lot of inside stories about the imperial examination and the dirty things that scholars have done. Once exposed, it will not be a joke.
But they didn't dare to send the message through Lin Ruhai. They had just cheated Lin Ruhai so hard and sent this guy to Xishan as the governor. Do you really think he has no temper at all?
But no one expected that the truly exciting content was yet to come...
After successfully winning the election, Mei, whose surname was Pig's Foot, was born in Donglin Academy, so he successfully joined the Donglin Party, which was very famous in the court and in the south.
Then, I participated in a series of things that were both frightening and enjoyable!
For example, they criticize the government unscrupulously, without any respect for the cabinet bosses, and crazily criticize according to their own wishes, or the wishes of the Donglin Party, without caring whether the other party is good or bad, whether their ability is outstanding or really mediocre.
In addition, he acted as a vanguard against taxation, organized so-called "enthusiastic" people, and fought with the tax officials sent by the imperial court. He used all kinds of despicable methods. He even dared to organize scholars to attack the government offices, which was known as "study".
Seeds' fight against chaos.
But privately, Pigfoot followed a group of Donglin Party bosses and indulged themselves in debauchery, constantly mocking the incompetence of the court and even the emperor. He had no way to deal with what they did, and was even led around by the nose.
The wanton and arrogant face, as well as the arrogance of being raised more and more boldly, and in the end not even paying attention to the court and the emperor, and the overbearing plot of regarding the interests of the south as his own and not even allowing the court and the emperor to get involved, are all very impressive.
It shocked all book fans and readers, as well as the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy who had been paying attention to the development of the plot.
This veritable Prime Minister of the Cabinet was frightened by some of the plots described...