Rise From the Humble

The weather was groggy along the way, and the team arrived in Anqing in the evening. Although the weather was sultry and hot all the way, luckily it didn't rain. It bought a lot of time for the family to grab the autumn, and I thought it would be no problem this time.

Because it was already evening when we arrived in Anqing City, Zhu Ping'an stayed in Anqing for one night and prepared to go to the riverside the next morning to look for a passenger ship to Yingtian.

The next morning, Zhu Pingan left the room and left the inn with his luggage on his back. It was already raining lightly outside. Zhu Pingan covered his luggage with a linoleum and walked to the riverside with a bamboo umbrella.

He found a small shop by the river and drank a bowl of old duck soup with the fried cakes made by his mother Chen. People along the Yangtze River love to eat duck. According to locals, duck is cool to warm and is best cooked. After a hurried breakfast, Zhu Pingan took his luggage to the dock on the Yangtze River. The dock was very busy with people coming and going, and the ships on the river were as densely packed as ants.

Unexpectedly, the Yangtze River water transport was so developed in the Ming Dynasty. There were cargo ships, passenger ships, and cruise ships on the dock, which was very lively.

Zhu Ping'an inquired about the price of three boat operators on the riverside, settled on a passenger ship, paid more than 300 yuan in shipping fees, and boarded the passenger ship. This is a large, streamlined ship with a long hull and a spacious and neat superstructure. I heard boatmen say that their boats are fast and comfortable to live in.

The cabin Zhu Pingan paid belonged to the third-tier seats. The cabin he stayed in had four beds, but it was clean and tidy, with good air circulation, tables, chairs and beds in order, and meals were provided. Of course, this required additional money. It was my first time to take a long-distance boat ride, which was quite refreshing. After boarding the ship, Zhu Pingan put his luggage on the berth and opened the bay window, where he could sit or lie down, holding on to the edge of the window. The river breeze is blowing, which is very pleasant.

When the ship sets off. No one has come up to the room where Zhu Ping'an is, so the price of a third-class seat means the enjoyment of a first-class seat. good. In Daming, there are many baiji dolphins in the Yangtze River. From time to time, baiji dolphins will follow the passenger ships outside the window, jumping up and down, like a dolphin show in an aquarium, which is very beautiful.

The White Emperor's farewell speech is among the colorful clouds. A thousand miles of rivers and mountains are returned in one day.

The wind was smooth and the boat was moving very fast. In the morning, the boat set off. At noon the next day, we arrived at the dock outside Yingtian City. When we arrived at Yingtian, due to the recent heavy rains in the Yangtze River, the original dock on the Yangtze River had been submerged by the Yangtze River water. A new simple dock was built on the riverside. Several small boats were parked side by side, tied with ropes, and covered with a layer of water. The wooden board is wobbly and not very stable.

When getting off the boat, the boatman and the waiters stood at one end and the other at the other end, shouting loudly and directing the passengers to get off the boat. Zhu Ping'an carried his luggage, stepped on the wooden board and got off the boat smoothly, and successfully crossed to the other side.

Carrying his luggage and standing outside Yingtian City, Zhu Pingan suddenly felt like I, Hu Hansan, was back.

"Hey, hey, hey. The one in front, you have to move. If you don't want to move, don't block the way."

The rough voice of a man behind him. Zhu Ping'an's high-spirited feeling disappeared with just one voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Zhu Pingan turned his hand over in embarrassment and got out of the way.

"Oh. It's the scholar. I'm disrespectful." That man was also well-informed. Seeing Zhu Pingan's student uniform, he couldn't help but tone a lot more respectfully. He paused and let Zhu Pingan go first.

"Wherever, please." Zhu Ping'an cupped his hands and motioned for the other party to go first.

"You go first, I'm not in a hurry." The man shook his head.

Uh, okay, Zhu Pingan took the lead to Yingtian City with his luggage and umbrella on his back. After entering Yingtian, Zhu Pingan walked straight to the inn where he stayed last time.

The familiar Qinhuai River case, the familiar Jiangnan Gongyuan, the familiar Confucius Temple, and soon we arrived at the inn where we stayed last time. Because we only spent less than two days on the road this time, and there were still about seventeen days before the scientific examination, there were not many people in the inn at this time.

Zhu Ping'an just entered the inn. The shopkeeper immediately recognized the head of the hospital examination who walked out of the inn. He warmly welcomed Zhu Ping'an into the inn, and asked the waiter to get dry towels and the waiter to pour ginger soup. Yes, it really feels like home.

"Mr. Zhu wants to stay in a hotel. Your room was reserved for you last time."

Perhaps because Zhu Pingan's last case brought a lot of business to the store, the shopkeeper directly arranged Zhu Pingan to the upper room where he stayed last time. When paying, the shopkeeper refused to accept the payment many times, but only accepted the money at Zhu Ping'an's insistence, but the price was one hundred cents less than the last time the attic paid.

It has been raining for a long time, and it still has no intention of stopping. The rain pattered outside the window and pounded intensively.

It only lasted two days, one autumn rain and one cold. It was still very hot when I left home, but now I can feel the coolness.

Zhu Ping'an packed up his things, took a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, then sat at the table, spread out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote a letter of peace, including the address, recipient and other information, and a small sum of money. Yinzi asked the clerk at the shop downstairs to take time to deliver it to the nearby Civil Information Bureau. Zhu Ping'an only knew that there was a People's Credit Bureau at this time, but he didn't know how much the fee was. He gave the shop clerk a piece of silver, and he would refund the extra money and use the extra money as his meal money.

The Civil Information Bureau is similar to our post office today. This is a private institution that appeared during the period of Emperor Zhu Di. It is responsible for the delivery of letters, small parcels and even money. It mainly emerged along the southeastern coast and has now spread almost all over the country. . However, the speed of mail delivery is far from what it is today. Of course, Zhu Ping'an didn't care what the reason for his appearance was, as long as he could send the news that he was safe to his parents.

In the evening, the store clerk brought dinner, gave Zhu Pingan a receipt note with a private seal, and informed Zhu Pingan that the letter had been sent to the Civil Information Bureau and that he had twenty coins left.

After thanking the waiter and having dinner, Zhu Pingan sat in front of the window, lit an oil lamp, and practiced writing strategies.

After passing the Boy's Examination, policy theory plays a large role in the Provincial Examination, General Examination, Palace Examination, etc., so policy theory must be mastered proficiently. In ancient times, poetry and poetry were one aspect of evaluating a person's intelligence, but strategy was also a very important evaluation factor. For example, Su Xun, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was Su Shi's father. Have you heard of any of his poems? No, he rose to fame with his policy essay "On the Six Kingdoms". His argument about the Six Kingdoms was spread throughout the country at that time, and he suddenly became one of the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

"The six kingdoms were destroyed, and the only disadvantage was the army. The war was not good, and the disadvantage was bribing Qin." I believe everyone has learned such a text. This was the answer sheet of Su Xun in the imperial examination at that time.

Although eight-part essays occupied a large part of the entire Ming Dynasty imperial examination, the imperial court still focused on policy theory in selecting talents. For example, the most important imperial examination in the imperial examination only tested one policy theory. The emperor asked questions about major national affairs, civil and economic issues at that time, and the candidates answered them. This was the strategy for the imperial examination. For example: The emperor asks you how to control Japanese pirates along the coast, and you come up with your own ideas, opinions and opinions. In addition to the palace examination, the provincial examination will also test policy theory.

Well, at this time, Zhu Ping'an tried to write a policy paper on countering Japanese pirates on the topic of coastal Japanese pirates, drawing on comments on Japanese pirates that he had read in modern times.

"Everything that a Japanese slave needs is produced in China, woven like a step, made in either Hangzhou or Suzhou; the makeup for women's beauty is made in the Central Plains; it is also like the gorgeous porcelain, the dense rice paper, and the yarn of the lake. Silk, Guangzhi silk, is indispensable for the Japanese country.

The Japanese were in chaos and attacked each other. In the barbaric land, every village and town claimed to be a lord and attacked each other. No one was killed or injured, and the homeless were displaced. They were blatantly thieves and coveted China's prosperity. They were greedy and greedy. Snakes swallowed elephants and sailed out to sea as pirates. In our coastal towns, the invaders were in Shandong, Zhili, eastern Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, and the war continued.

The reason why the Japanese pirates brazenly invaded the border was not because of their boldness, but because of the self-respect of our country's support of the Japanese pirates. The government did not care about the people's livelihood, and there was no harm in educating them. When the people were hungry and cold, they became bandits, and they banded together and became thieves. Come, lead them to invade our coast. This family bandit colludes with the Japanese pirates, burns my warships, and causes my people to disrupt our city.

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After finishing writing, Zhu Pingan read it once, then suddenly crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the trash can. After thinking for a while, he picked it up again and burned it close to the oil lamp.

Now is the time when Jiajing was refining elixirs and Yan Song was in power. If he talks about a lot of problems such as corruption, inadequate armaments, etc., he is just asking for trouble. Now the emperor opened Enke because of the peaceful and prosperous times. He reported a lot of problems. Isn't this a slap in the emperor's face? Does he mean to report Yan Song? Yan Song has many minions and he is so small now. , the minions of Yan Song's minions moved their little fingers, and they were waiting to be sent to Jinyiwei or Dongchang Prison.

Yan Song is a traitor, but now is not the time to face him head-on.

Therefore, Zhu Pingan took out another piece of rice paper, lit an oil lamp, and wrote another article with a different idea.