Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 1419 Gift of Silver

"Brother Xu, I hope that Brother Xu will not refuse these fifty taels of silver. I hope that Brother Xu can study hard for the exam, because the firewood, rice, oil and salt disturbed his mind and distracted his energy. In fact, Ping An should have given out more taels of silver, but Ping An is responsible for it." It costs a lot of money and food to prepare the army and lead the militia to fight against the Japanese, it is really powerless, I hope Brother Xu will not dislike it."

  After drinking and eating, Zhu Pingan took out a fifty-two silver note from his sleeve, handed it to Xu Wei with both hands, and said seriously.

   "How could it be, how could it be?" Xu Wei had no intention of refusing at all, and immediately stretched out his greasy claws to take the bank note from Zhu Ping'an's hand, his small eyes narrowed into slits with a smile.

   Seeing Xu Wei taking the bank notes without any politeness, Liu Dadao felt distressed. He knew that all the money on Zhu Ping'an's body had been invested in military expenses, and the fifty taels of silver was the only emergency money left.

   "Brother Xu, before parting, Ping An said one more word, and I hope Brother Xu will not blame you." Zhu Pingan cupped his hands.

   "As long as you don't want the fifty taels of silver back, you can say as many words as you want." Xu Wei stuffed the fifty taels of silver into the depths of his bosom, then waved his hands, and said with a generous smile on his fat face.

   "Ping'an is actually a repeater." Zhu Pingan said dumbfounded.

   "Hehe, then it's okay for you to talk." Xu Wei grinned.

"Brother Xu may not like to hear this sentence, but Ping An still has to say it. I hope Brother Xu pays attention to it." Zhu Pingan cupped his hands and reminded Xu Wei, "The most important thing in the imperial examination is stereotyped composition. Stereotyped composition , is to interpret the meaning of the scriptures, speak on behalf of the sages, and must not have views that are outside the holy teachings and the Four Books and Five Classics. Brother Xu's understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics is far beyond ordinary people, but in the imperial examination, he still needs to restrain himself. Don't disagree with the sage's point of view, contradict the sage's meaning."

   All in all, in short, Zhu Ping'an just wanted to remind Xu Wei not to bring personal goods with him during the imperial examination.

  The root cause of Xu Wei's failure in the imperial examination was that his thinking was too advanced, which contradicted the words of sages such as Confucius and Mencius.

  Maybe he didn’t notice it during the exam, or he noticed it but didn’t control his thoughts; or he noticed it and controlled it, but he couldn’t hide it between the lines. No matter what the reason is, if you carry private goods in the imperial examination, then no matter how well you write, you will get zero points for the composition.

  Since Xu Wei is now focused on taking the imperial examination, Zhu Pingan, as a friend, has the responsibility and obligation to remind Xu Wei, asking him to pay attention and pay attention, be careful and be careful, and not to make similar problems again.

   "Hehe, this is the most basic point of stereotyped writing, of course I know." Xu Wei couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, his face was filled with the expression of someone who had come, and he thought Zhu Pingan was going to say something, but he didn't expect it to be this.

   "I hope Brother Xu will remember." Zhu Ping'an told Xu Wei repeatedly before leaving.

   "Good, good, remember, remember."

  Behind Zhu Ping'an, Xu Wei waved his hand perfunctorily, not paying attention to Zhu Ping'an's words at all.

  Since taking the imperial examination, I still know this.

  How could I, Xu Wei, make such a simple mistake. I, Xu Wei, can't understand the meaning of a sage.

   In fact, when he came out of Xu Wei's house, Zhu Ping'an was already slightly drunk, after all, his alcohol capacity was not very good. Although the alcohol content of the rice wine was a little lower, after drinking five or six glasses of wine with Xu Wei, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help getting a little drunk.

  Walking on the street back, it was already dusk, the sun had already set at this time, only the afterglow was in the western sky, the breeze was blowing, full of coolness, and Zhu Ping'an's slightly hot face felt much more comfortable.

   "The Japanese pirates invaded Taizhou again. They traveled for several miles, attacked the city and captured the town, and killed and kidnapped the residents. The local people were devastated."

   "No, it's too miserable. I heard that a county town was attacked by Japanese pirates, and the county magistrate was killed."

  At this moment, people were coming and going on the street, and suddenly the voices of pedestrians passing by the roadside came to Zhu Ping'an's ears.

  The Japanese pirates re-offended Taizhou, and the county was broken

  After these keywords were introduced to Zhu Ping'an's ears, Zhu Ping'an broke out in a cold sweat immediately, and his alcoholism disappeared.

   "Brother, I'm sorry, may I know how the situation in Jingnan County is?"

  Zhu Ping'an was in a cold sweat, quickly catching up with the passers-by, and asked eagerly while apologizing.

  Zhu Ping'an just came from Jingnan to take up his post. He has been a county magistrate in Jingnan for so long.

   "Jingnan? Little brother, I'm sorry, I don't know about Jingnan's situation, and I've heard it too."

"do not know."

   Several passers-by shook their heads, not knowing about Jingnan's situation.

   "The county that was breached as you mentioned just now?" Zhu Ping'an asked again.

   "It seems to be Linhai, and it seems to be Taiping. I don't remember very clearly. We also heard it from hearsay. If you really want to know, I suggest that my little brother go to the teahouse in front and ask. We heard about it there."

  The pedestrian replied.

   "Thank you, thank you." Zhu Pingan cupped his hands to thank them.

People are somewhat selfish to a certain extent. Hearing pedestrians say that the county that was breached was Linhai County or Taiping County, Zhu Pingan felt sorry for the two counties, but also felt a little relieved. It wasn't Jingnan, but luckily it wasn't. Jingnan

  Thanking the pedestrian, Zhu Pingan took Liu Mu and Liu Dadao to the teahouse guided by the pedestrian—Yihuchun Teahouse.

  Zhu Ping'an entered the teahouse and found that there were still many people in the teahouse. In the middle of the table was the storyteller, who was talking about what happened in Taizhou. Zhu Pingan borrowed ten Wen from Liu Mu, ordered a pot of the cheapest tea, and the three of them sat there and listened to Mr. Shu.

  After listening for about a cup of tea, Zhu Ping'an almost heard the situation of the Japanese invasion in Taizhou.

The Japanese pirates who invaded Taizhou this time were Chen Dong, the chieftain under Wang Zhi’s command. He seduced and assembled nearly ten thousand Japanese pirates to invade eastern Zhejiang and landed from Xiangshan and Zhoushan in Zhejiang. Taizhou was not their only destination. After they landed, they divided up. The four-way bandits invaded Taizhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing. This time, the Japanese pirates were robbing and committing crimes, which belonged to the passing-through quick robbery. The attack surface was very wide and the impact was great, but they did not focus on attacking the city, and the attack was only a tentative attack. Linhai County was more unlucky. Under the tentative attack of the Japanese pirates, the county seat was captured and the county magistrate was killed.

  Zhu Pingan specifically asked the storyteller about the situation in Jingnan. The storyteller only knew that Jingnan was the county with the least casualties in Taizhou. As for the specific casualties, he didn't know.

  Although he didn't know the specific casualties in Jingnan, Zhu Ping'an was relieved to hear that Jingnan was the county with the least damage. Zhou Tai didn't let himself down.

  (end of this chapter)