Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this on the big day!"

"We haven't seen each other for five months, so it's time to catch up on old times."

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Chaopin is from Hengyang, Huguang.

He was originally a great Confucian scholar with a far-reaching reputation. He once went to Beijing to study at the Imperial College.

Wang Chaopin is very knowledgeable and has a great reputation.

However, he was asked for bribes by Dong Lin and Wen Tiren's gang members.

Chaopin was furious and scolded the party members who asked for bribes.

In this way, Wang Chaopin was forced to return to his hometown.

After returning to Hengyang, the dynasty hired Xin to teach his three sons, Wang Jiezhi, Wang Shenzhi and Wang Fuzhi.

The three sons of the Wang family are quite intelligent, and they all have the character of their father. Especially the third son, Wang Fuzhi, is a well-known child prodigy.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, 13-year-old Wang Fuzhi became a scholar and became famous for a while!

A 13-year-old scholar, this is a rare thing in the ages!

Some people say that being young is not necessarily better than being older.

Not to mention, there are so many famous prodigies in the Donglin circle, not to mention the 13-year-old scholar, there are others even younger!

However, the talent and talent of this scholar vary from region to region, and their gold content is also different.

Wang Fuzhi used himself to prove the gap between those touted prodigies and real prodigies!

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, 23-year-old Wang Fuzhi, together with his eldest brother Wang Jiezhi, passed the high school examination.

(This is equivalent to a Ph.D. from Z Law University, a few years earlier.)

Wang Fuzhi's reputation was unparalleled.

23-year-old Juren!

Since the beginning of the imperial examination, there have been only a handful of them!

The following year, the year before last, the two Wang brothers rushed to the capital to prepare for the imperial examination.

However, Li Zicheng's army captured Chengtian, and Zhang Xianzhong's army captured Qishui...

The road to the north was blocked, so Wang Fu's brothers had to return from Nanchang.

In October, Zhang Xianzhong's subordinate Ai Nengqi kidnapped Wang Chaopin.

The Wang family's position in Hunan is very prominent. Even if Chaopin does not surrender, Zhang Xianzhong can take over half of Hunan as long as he uses Chaopin's name.

At this critical moment, Wang Euzhi cut his arm and cheek resolutely, pretended to be a wounded soldier, infiltrated into the army, and rescued his father.

After this incident, Wang Fuzhi became more famous.

……

The emperor broke out of the siege of the capital, established a new capital at the junction of Xiangyang, Nanyang, and Yunyang, and opened Enke, which spread to Hunan.

Moreover, the emperor's deeds of forcing the city to pay wages also spread to Hunan.

The whole Wang family was overjoyed.

Chaopin immediately took his brother Wang Tingpin, as well as his three sons and nephews to the new capital to prepare for the imperial examination.

The Wang family is a wealthy family, so naturally they don't need to do two-way asceticism.

The group took three boats and headed straight to the new capital.

After arriving in Guanghua, I learned that there were no vacant houses in the city, so like other candidates, I found an inn in Laohekou and stayed there.

After all, the Zhaopin brothers were in their 70s and [-]s, and the long journey was too much for their bodies.

Therefore, the two brothers chose to live in peace and recuperate.

Most of the other scholars who were rushing to take the exam locked themselves in the inn and studied hard behind closed doors.

Those who have the means submit greeting cards everywhere in an attempt to become a "prophet."

Even if you can't get the test questions, it's still possible to figure out a general direction.

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The Wang family is full of great scholars, and every second generation of the Wang family can write poems.

The juniors of the Wang family naturally don't need the crooked tricks of others.

The group in Xindu was at the time when poetry was booming. On the second day after arriving in Xindu, everyone discussed going to collect poetry.

Wang Fuzhi had long been interested in the numerous waterwheels on the small islands in the Han River.

He suggested going to Wangfuzhou Island to have a look.

Everyone agreed.

Who knows, even after looking for several guides, no one dared to take them there.

After many inquiries, I found out that this is His Majesty's new workshop.

Moreover, I also learned that the place was listed as a restricted area by the emperor and was guarded by soldiers with armed guns everywhere.

Without the emperor's will, even officials could not enter.

Wang Fuzhi and others gave up this idea.

The guide learned of their purpose and asked them to go to Xindu to have a look.

Wang Euzhi frowned instantly when he heard that the emperor had dispatched millions of people to the capital city of Daxing.

The country is in ruins, this is not the time for major construction projects!

"Let's go to Xindu!"

Wang Fuzhi, the youngest, became the leader of the brothers.

Wang Fuzhi was unwilling to go to the new capital.

After all, it was at the feet of the emperor. Even though the people who were "captured" to work were miserable, in the end, the officials did not dare to go too far.

If you go to the capital, you will naturally not see the suffering of the people.

Wang Fuzhi decided to go to the moat to have a look.

After arriving in Guanghua, people everywhere were talking about the emperor's feat, saying that he wanted to dig a moat that was hundreds of miles long.

Wang Fuzhi wanted to see how the emperor harmed the people.

He has already made a decision in his mind:

If the people are really miserable, even if Enke does not participate this time, he must go to Emperor Shu and stop the atrocities!

People's livelihood is so difficult, we should give them a way out!

The young Wang Fuzhi's concern for the country and the people has not diminished at all.

He decided to conduct an on-the-spot investigation and then inform His Majesty of his decision.

The brothers hired a carriage and went straight to Danyang in Xichuan.

By the time Wang and his wife arrived, it was lunch time.

I saw ragged people everywhere on the vast construction site.

There are soldiers who are directing some people to go to the meal point to eat.

More people are still working.

Thin people with well-defined ribs carried handbags over their shoulders and poured baskets of soil onto handcarts. Then several peasants, shouting together, pushed the loess to the high ground.

In the huge dumping ground, some farmers were spreading straw on the soil. After mixing it well, some farmers picked up river water and poured it on top.

Hundreds of people jumped into the yellow mud with bare feet and kept trampling.

On the other side, there is a pile of yellow mud that has "awakened".

There are brick-making craftsmen working hard to make mud bricks.

The finished bricks are placed in the straw shed to dry.

Looking further into the distance, there are towering brick kilns.

Thick smoke was billowing, and even sweaty people were adding firewood inside.

There are some brick kilns, and the entrance is completely dark.

Obviously, these brick kilns fired coal.

Wang Shenzhi raised his eyebrows and said:

"Brothers, why is it that when it's dinner time, only a few people go to eat?"

Wang Jiezhi looked worried and said angrily:

"It's impossible - the emperor doesn't give food to the people, so the people who eat are just recruits, right?"

Recruiting men, that is, civilian husbands hired by the government with money, were different from conscripted civilian husbands in that they received some money.

The treatment is also better than that of the laborers, and they usually take care of two meals.

Recruitment and corvee labor are common methods used by the government when presiding over large-scale fortifications.