Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 255 New Scholars
Newspapers praised the prince for supervising the country and recuperating the people, just like the reports on the restoration of national power in the early Han Dynasty. Most of them were contributed by unknown literati. In order to reflect the great harmony of society and the growth of public opinion, newspapers and periodicals also simply sent.

It's just that the public just feels that there is no more war. The bullies in the village and the thieves and bandits in the mountains have been cleaned up.Or people with a little foresight and connections started to go out to do business. Craftsmen who don't like farming or are not good at farming, some went to the city to become workers, and some even claimed to be "people in the government". The government hired them and got them a job.

Everyone feels that this is recuperating. At least the law and order has improved. There are cooperatives in rural villages. If anyone dares to bully, everyone can twist into a rope, and the government can deal with it.Coupled with the increase in production due to new agricultural technology, there are more miscellaneous commodities on the market, and the prices are not expensive. People naturally feel that life is easier.

The people are grateful to the imperial court and the Prince Jianguo, and the scholars also recognize that the Prince Jianguo is a virtuous and virtuous monarch.

But in fact, while the masses of the people think that they are recuperating and engaged in production and life, in fact, Ming’s war machine has been running all the time. It’s just that the new system and new methods make people feel less burdened by the war. .The imperial court has sufficient financial support, there is no need to squeeze the people, and there is no need to expropriate people's power.There is a special military logistics system in operation, and all workers, whether soldiers or ordinary logistics support workers, have their own wages to get.

This is also something that many scholars and scholars find miraculous. The country survived the war and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The Nanming ruled area had a great order.According to the old Confucian logic, this cannot be explained at all, so many more active scholars have begun to get in touch with new learning and learn new nutrition from the master Ma En.

The young scholar Zhou Congwen is such a person.

"Xiao Zhou, you're reading again! Haha, you young man has earned a lot of money. You come to work in our library, but you read books every day." A middle-aged man with big-rimmed glasses looked at Zhou Congwen. Lying behind the table holding a book and studying hard, he made a friendly joke.

"Director." Zhou Congwen was caught by his boss and was quite embarrassed.This is not the first time. Since Zhou Congwen found this job in the Shanghai Library three months ago, the kind curator told him that he can read books by himself when he has nothing to do, but he should not delay his work. .

Zhou Congwen never dreamed that he would become a librarian of a library with a collection of 20 books. He felt that this might be a job that any scholar would dream of.Although his income is meager compared to other jobs in Shanghai, his monthly salary is four Mingliang.However, compared to the previous life where there was almost no food to eat, Zhou Congwen's current monthly salary of 4 taels, a bachelor's life can be regarded as very comfortable.

Like most public institutions, the library has its own cafeteria, and Zhou Congwen has a meal ticket in the cafeteria for free.Except for a few expenses, most of his monthly salary can be saved.In the past three months, he has saved 10 taels of silver, and the money he spent was mainly used for things like stationery.

The curator waved his hand and explained to Zhou Congwen: "Okay, it's a good thing to read and learn when it's time to read and study. By the way, let me explain to you that our library needs to update the library to prevent those who steal and tear books privately. Let’s talk about the regulations, everyone will work together, think of some means, you should also consider it, let’s discuss it together at the regular meeting on Tuesday.”

After speaking, the middle-aged curator strolled away.

Hearing what the curator said, Zhou Congwen was also annoyed: "The library opens the door of convenience, so that poor people can read books, and if they don't bring them out, they can read freely in the library. To do such a thing is really low, and it is a disgrace to the gentleman!"

It can be said that he suffered a lot in order to study.Zhou Congwen was from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His family background was not good. His father was a well-known evil gentry in the area. He was nicknamed Zhou Papi, and forcibly annexed the properties of many ordinary people.Zhou Congwen's mother was the daughter of a farmer's family whom Zhou Papi took a fancy to, and she was a servant in Zhou's mansion.Zhou Congwen was bullied by the Zhou family when he was young, and even his mother had no money to treat her serious illness.The Zhou family has family studies that allow their children to study, but Zhou Congwen does not have such privileges.

So Zhou Congwen secretly hid outside the clan school and listened, begging his cousins ​​to lend him books, and even ran errands for them, even doing things for them, because his dead mother told him that to be a scholar, he must study hard. .His mother didn't know a single word, and didn't even have a name, just Zhang. However, the Chinese people's simple concept of reverence for knowledge was passed down to Zhou Congwen through her.

Zhou Congwen was older, because he could write and count, he began to work in Zhou's family.But later, because he sympathized with ordinary villagers and helped them conceal their rent, Zhou's family found out and beat him severely.

It was at this time that the prince's ship landed from Ningbo.The Ming Dynasty’s Restoration Army was turbulent all the way. Later, Guo Xing Ye launched a purge in the south of the Yangtze River. A group of soldiers entered the village. Under the identification of the people, Zhou Bapi accepted the people’s public trial and was finally sentenced to be sent to Java for 15 years. Year.And Zhou Congwen was excluded from the Zhou family because he often helped the tenants.The local agricultural cooperative was established, and Zhou Congwen was elected as their vice president. However, because Zhou Congwen came into contact with the ideological and study materials brought by the soldiers of the Restoration Army, he took a booklet presented by the instructor and left the blind date alone. Came to Shanghai.

Shanghai is a very unusual place. Zhou Congwen worked as a laborer in Shanghai for a month at the beginning, picking up newspapers for a month.Newspapers are his favorite thing. There are words, various news and speeches on them, which he absorbs hungrily.

　In this chapter, there is a dragon suit created by the book friend [Takiya Moe] classmate Zhou Congwen.

　　
　
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