Chapter 113: House Examination (Part 1)

If you want to say that the most sensitive to changes in the current situation, merchants are definitely one of them. This sensitivity is quickly reflected in the prices - in just two days, the rice price in Shaoxing City doubled, and the salt price soared, from three cents to eight cents.

The soaring prices immediately caused panic among the people. All the grain and salt shops were crowded with people buying, but merchants closed the stores on the grounds of "out of stock", and the intention of hoarding goods was obvious.

The people were unable to knock on the store for a long time, and the people were very excited. Some green-skinned scoundrels took the opportunity to break open the door of a grain store and entered the store to rob. When the people saw someone taking the lead, they rushed up to snatch rice and white flour.

Now no matter how much the prefect is afraid of trouble, the county magistrate is no longer slacking off. Otherwise, once individual looting spreads into a large-scale riot, it will be easier for several adults to dismiss the office and go home. Fortunately, there are three teams in Shaoxing City, and there are many more yamen runners than elsewhere. At the order of the prefect, three yamen runners flocked out and quickly suppressed the situation.

The two counties opened charity warehouses again to calm the price of grain. The Yin family also called on shops to open their doors and prevent hoarding, so as not to cause confrontation among the people. The frightened merchants responded one after another, and finally suppressed the rise in prices and temporarily stopped the panic.

Against this backdrop of internal and external disturbances, the last game of the Kuaiji County Examination began... This game is also called "Titang". It is mainly because the county exam is not very strict, so the county magistrate needs to conduct another interview with the middle school entrance examination candidates, and eliminate those who are just trying to fill in the numbers to choose the government exam.

For Tong Sheng, who entered the "Titang" exam with his real talent and knowledge, it is better to say that this is a formality and then eat the good meal of the county magistrate, which is a small celebration, so most people are relaxed... But there are always exceptions, such as Tao Yuchen, who is holding on!

I miss him, Tao Yuchen, who started studying at the age of three, received the "Great Learning" at the age of six, recited more than a thousand words a day, and completed articles at the age of nine, and then published the chapters. The gentleman and gentleman were known as the "Purple Tree and Spiritual Pearl" and Liu Yan and Yang Xiu's comparison. This is a common understanding and knowledge, and it is not his own praise. At the age of thirteen, he was recommended by the prefect to go to Yuelu Academy. After studying hard for five years with his head hanging on his beam, he dared not say that he was as talented as Guan Zhong and Leyi, but he did not feel that he was much worse than Huang Guan Shanglu.

Who is Huang Guan Shang Lu? People call Huang Liushou and Shang Sanyuan, and they are the only two two who have won the "Xieyuan, Huiyuan, and Top Principal" in the Ming Dynasty. The former even includes the little three-yuan in the scholar's exam. Tao Dalin compared these two, and his ambitions were self-evident.

Although the idea is beautiful, the reality is cruel. Dalin, who is ambitious to be Tao Liushou, could never imagine that he was pressed under his butt by the man named Shen Mo. How could this be called Tao?

These days, he was just waiting for a fight, and he had to show his best performance and asked the county master to order himself as the head of the case and fight back this tone!

So when he met Shen Mo in front of the county government office, sparks could appear in his eyes. Shen Mo was so shocked that he said to himself: "Can't he be a rabbit?"

When the 110 children selected for the county examination lined up into the county government office, they immediately felt the tension that was different from the past. They found that the sloppy officials who were leisurely all day long were holding thick documents and trotting; the lazy officials were all standing in the county government office with swords and armor, and all of this told everyone that the peaceful and comfortable days are gone forever!

As the first two in the first three games, Chen Mo and Tao Yuchen walked in the front row. Both of them looked serious, but they were very different in their hearts... Tao Yuchen was thinking about how to defeat this enemy, but Chen Mo did not consider this exam at all. Yesterday, he made a special visit to Mr. Shen and asked him about the current situation.

Mr. Shen was silent for a while before taking out a piece of paper and handing it to Chen Si, "This is what your teacher used to copy it to me by taking advantage of his position." It is naturally not difficult for Chen Lian to transfer all the texts in charge of the Jinyiwei, and sending a copy of the memorials to various government offices.

Wen Shu took the excellent paper copy and saw that it was a memorial at the beginning of this month, Wang Guozhen, Censor Zhu Ruiden and others approached Nanjing with the rampant Japanese pirates, and submitted a memorial to the 'Appointment of the Governor-General' to supervise the military affairs of six provinces including Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian, etc., so that they could mobilize troops and raise funds and get cheaper'.

After reading this copy word by word, his silent expression was already a little pale. He put down the letter paper weighing more than a thousand pounds and said in disbelief: "Is the situation... already there?"

Mr. Shen nodded heavily and said, "A few years ago, the Japanese pirates stopped, and the officials in the court thought that they had collapsed. Unexpectedly, when they made a comeback, there were tens of thousands of people." He slapped his hair and said, "What's even more hateful is that there are some pirates and hooligans in our country, jailbreakers, prisoners, wearing Japanese uniforms, hanging Japanese flags, and killing and looting everywhere. He was arrogant and three or four times that of the real Japanese!"

He sighed again and said helplessly: "Originally, the Japanese pirates were just robbing the coastal areas, but after contacting our coastal guards, they found that the Ming generals did not know the soldiers and their military equipment was loose; the officers and soldiers were afraid of death, and their combat power was vulnerable. They were even more unscrupulous, as if they had entered a no-man's land, and even dared to harass them in Nanjing..."

That day, the old and the young sat against each other for a long time, and said a lot, but couldn't come up with any solution. In the end, Mr. Shen could only comfort him, "You are so kind, just be admitted to the Jinshi with your heart. Only by becoming an official can you do something for the people and the Ming Dynasty." He said with a smile: "My Ming Dynasty has always governed military affairs with civility. Maybe you will have the opportunity to command the generals and generals in the future and kill the Japanese pirates quickly!"

Chen Si didn't say anything at that time, but he knew it was impossible in his heart because he found that he was slightly dizzy... This was a problem that he only had in his life. He had repeatedly verified that as long as he saw a pool of blood, whether it was human blood or chicken blood, his hands and feet would become weak and dizzy, and it would take a while before he could return to normal.
Chapter completed!