Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 185 Pingwa strategy

  The weather was gloomy along the way. The convoy arrived in Anqing in the evening. Although the weather was sweltering along the way, luckily it didn’t rain. The family’s fight for autumn bought a lot of time. I think it should be no problem this time.

  Because it was already evening in Anqing City, Zhu Pingan stayed in Anqing for one night, and planned to go to the riverside to look for a passenger ship to Yingtian the next morning.

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

  Finding a small shop by the river, Zhu Pingan drank a bowl of old duck soup with pancakes made by his mother Chen. People along the Yangtze River love to eat duck. According to the local people, duck is cool and warm, and it is best cooked. After a hasty breakfast, Zhu Ping'an was taken to the pier by the Yangtze River with his luggage. The pier was very busy with people coming and going, and the boats on the river were as densely packed as ants.

   Unexpectedly, the Yangtze River water transport is so developed in Daming. There are cargo ships, passenger ships, and cruise ships on the wharf, which is very lively.

  Zhu Ping'an inquired about the prices of three boat operators on the riverside, settled on a passenger ship, paid more than 300 cash for the ship, and boarded the passenger ship. This is a streamlined ship with a long hull and a spacious and tidy superstructure. I heard from the boatman that his boat is fast and comfortable to live in.

  The money Zhu Pingan paid belongs to the third class of seats. The cabin he lives in has four beds, but it is clean and tidy, the air is ventilated, the tables, chairs and beds are in order, and meals are provided. It's the first time to take a long-distance boat, which is quite new. After boarding the boat, Zhu Pingan put the luggage in the bunk and opened the bay window, so he could sit or lie down, leaning on the edge of the window. Blowing the river wind, very comfortable.

  When the big ship sets out. No one came up to the room where Zhu Pingan was in, and the third-class seats were for the first-class seats. good. In Daming, there are many baiji dolphins in the Yangtze River. From time to time, baiji dolphins will follow the passenger ship outside the window, jumping and jumping, like the dolphin show in the aquarium, which is very beautiful.

  Declaration to the White Emperor among the colorful clouds, thousands of miles of rivers and tombs returned in one day.

  The wind is smooth and the boat is fast. The big boat sets off in the morning. At noon the next day, they arrived at the wharf outside Yingtian City. When we arrived in Yingtian, due to the recent heavy rain in the Yangtze River, the original pier along the Yangtze River had been submerged by the Yangtze River, and a new simple pier was built on the riverside. Several small boats were parked side by side and tied with ropes. The wooden planks are wobbly and not very stable.

  When disembarking, the boatman and his crew stood one at the other and shouted loudly to direct the passengers on board to disembark. With his luggage on his back, Zhu Ping'an got out of the boat unsteadily stepping on the plank, and walked across the other side smoothly.

  Standing outside Yingtian City with his luggage on his back, Zhu Pingan suddenly had the feeling that I, Hu Hansan, had returned.

   "Hey, hey, the one in front, you have to walk, don't give way, don't get in the way."

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

   "Oh, I'm sorry." Zhu Ping'an turned his hands in embarrassment and moved out of the way.

   "Oh. It's Master Xiucai, sorry for your disrespect." That man is also well-informed. Seeing the student uniform on Zhu Ping'an's body, he couldn't help but express a lot of respect. He stopped and let Zhu Pingan go first.

   "Where is it, please." Zhu Pingan cupped his hands to signal the other party to go first.

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

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

  The familiar Qinhuai River case, the familiar Jiangnan Gongyuan, the familiar Confucius Temple, and soon arrived at the inn where I stayed last time. Because it only took less than two days on the road this time, and there are still about 17 days before the scientific research, so there are not many people in the inn at this time.

Zhu Ping'an had just entered the inn, and the shopkeeper immediately recognized the court examiner who had walked out of the inn, and welcomed Zhu Pingan into the inn warmly, and asked the waiter to fetch dry towels and the waiter to pour **** soup Yes, it really feels like home.

   "Young Master Zhu is going to stay in the hotel. Your room was reserved for you last time."

  Perhaps it was Zhu Ping'an who brought a lot of business to the store last time. The shopkeeper directly arranged Zhu Pingan to the upper room where he lived last time. When paying the money, the shopkeeper refused to accept it repeatedly, and it was only at Zhu Ping'an's insistence that he took the money, but the price was 100 cash less than the last time the attic charged.

   This shower of rain has been falling for a long time, and it has not stopped until now. The sound of crackling rain outside the window is hitting the window intensively.

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

Zhu Pingan packed up his things, took a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, sat at the table and spread out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote a letter of safety, wrote down the address, recipient and other information, and broke it with a penny. The staff at the shop downstairs took the time to deliver the silver to the nearby Civil Letters Bureau. Zhu Pingan only knew that there was a Civil Credit Bureau at this time, but he didn't know how much it cost. He gave the shop assistant a small amount of silver, and refunded the excess, and used the extra money as his own meal expenses.

The Minxin Bureau is similar to our post office today. It is a non-governmental organization 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 in the southeast coastal area, and now it has almost spread to the whole country. . However, the delivery speed of letters and the like is far from what it is today. Of course, Zhu Pingan didn't care what the reason for his appearance was, as long as he could send the news of his safety to his parents.

  In the evening, the clerk delivered the dinner, and gave Zhu Pingan a receipt note with a private seal on it, and told Zhu Pingan that the letter had been sent to the Civil Letters Bureau, and there was 20 Wen left.

  Thanks to the store clerk, Zhu Pingan sat in front of the window after dinner, lit the oil lamp, and practiced writing policy theory.

  After passing the Boys’ Examination, the township examination, general examination, palace examination and other policy theory account for a considerable proportion, so the policy theory must also be mastered proficiently. In ancient times, poetry and poetry were one aspect of evaluating a person's intelligence, but policy theory was also a very important element of evaluation. For example, Su Xun, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, is also Su Shi’s father. Have you heard of any of his poems? No, he became famous for his policy theory "On the Six Kingdoms". His argument on the Six Kingdoms was circulated throughout the country at that time, and he suddenly became one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

   "The destruction of the six kingdoms, the disadvantage is not due to soldiers, the war is not good, and the disadvantage lies in bribing Qin." I believe everyone has learned such a text. This is the answer sheet of Su Xun's imperial examination at that time.

  Although stereotyped essays occupied a large part of the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, the selection of talents by the imperial court was still based on policy theory. The emperor asked questions about state affairs, civil and economic issues at that time, and candidates answered them. This is the policy of the palace examination. For example: the emperor asks you how to deal with the Japanese pirates along the coast, and you come to put forward 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 Pingan took the coastal pirates as the topic and tried to write a policy paper on the suppression of Japanese pirates, drawing on the comments on Japanese pirates that he had seen in modern times.

"The needs of husbands and slaves are all produced in the great China. They are like weaving, and they are made in either Hangzhou or Suzhou; the cosmetics for women's beauty are also made in the Central Plains; they are also like gorgeous porcelain, dense rice paper, and lake yarn. Silk, the silk of Guangxi, is indispensable in the country of Japan.

There is great chaos in Japan, and they attack each other. In the barren land, a village and a town are called lords, and they attack each other. There are no casualties, homeless people are displaced, and they are blatantly greedy. In our coastal towns, Shandong, Zhili, eastern Zhejiang, Fujian and other places were invaded, and the flames of war were raging.

The reason why the Japanese pirates blatantly violated the border is not because they are bold and bold, but because our country supports the pirates with self-esteem. The daily government is not reasonable for the people's livelihood, and education is no problem. Under the hunger and cold, the people become bandits. Come, lead the leader to invade our coast, this family of thieves colluded with Japanese pirates, burned my warships and caused my people to mess up my city.

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

   Now is the time when Jiajing is making alchemy and Yan Song is in power. He said that there are a lot of problems such as corruption in government, poor military equipment, etc., and he is not looking for money. Now, the emperor only opened Enke because of the frequent auspiciousness in the peaceful and prosperous age. He reported a lot of problems by himself. Isn't this a slap in the face of the emperor and the meaning of reporting Yan Song? Yan Song has many minions, and he is now a small body , the minions of Yan Song's minions move their little fingers, and they are waiting to be sent to Jinyiwei or Dongchang Prison.

   Yan Song is a traitor, but now is not the time to be positive.

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

  (end of this chapter)