“Brother Xu, I hope that this fifty taels of silver will not be excused. I hope that you can concentrate on your preparation for the exams, and don’t let your mind be distracted by the firewood, rice, oil and salt. In fact, Pingan should have taken out more silver, but Pingan is responsible for the preparation of the army and leading the militia to fight against the Japanese, which costs countless amounts of money and food, so I really can’t afford it, and I hope that brother Xu won’t mind it.”
After drinking and eating, Zhu Pingan took out a fifty taels silver ticket from his sleeve and handed it to Xu Wei with both hands, saying with a serious face.
“How could I, how could I ……”Xu Wei didn’t have the slightest intention of refusing, the first time he stretched out his greasy claws to draw the silver ticket from Zhu Pingan’s hands, a pair of small eyes squinted into a slit with a smile.
Seeing Xu Wei take away the silver ticket without any politeness at all, Liu Dazhou’s heart ached, but he knew that all the money on Zhu Ping An had been invested in military expenses, and this fifty taels of silver was the only silver left for emergencies.
“Brother Xu, on the occasion of parting, Ping An spoke one more time, I hope Brother Xu will not be offended.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and said.
“As long as you are not asking for this fifty taels of silver back, it is fine for you to say as many sentences as you want.”Xu Wei stuffed the fifty taels of silver into the depths of his arms, then waved his hand, a fat face mixed with a smile and said.
“Ping An is actually repeated generation.”Zhu Pingan said with tears and laughter.
“Oh, then you but speak without harm.”Xu Wei grinned.
“This sentence Xu brother may not like to hear, but Ping An still say, I hope that Xu brother pay attention to one or two ……”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and opened his mouth to remind Xu Wei, “In the imperial examinations, the most important thing is the eight-legged essay. The eight-legged essay is about interpreting the meaning of the scriptures, speaking on behalf of the saints, and must not have any viewpoints outside of the holy language and the four books and five sutras. Brother Xu’s understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics is far superior to that of ordinary people, but in the imperial examinations, you still need to restrain yourself a little, so as not to contradict the views of the saints, and to contradict the saints’ intentions.”
In a nutshell, in short, Zhu Pingan was trying to remind Xu Wei not to bring in his personal personal goods during the imperial examinations.
The root cause of Xu Wei’s failure in the imperial examination is that he is too forward thinking, contradicting the words of Confucius and Mencius and other sages.
Perhaps he did not notice the exam himself, or he noticed, but did not control the thought; or he noticed, but also control, but the word between the lines to hide. No matter which reason it is, if you are in the imperial examination with private goods, then you write the best is also zero points essay.
Since Xu Wei had his heart set on the path of the imperial examinations at the moment, Zhu Pingan as a friend had the responsibility and obligation to remind Xu Wei to pay attention and pay attention again, be careful and careful again, and not to commit similar problems again.
“Hehe, this is the most basic point of the eight stocks, I naturally know.”When Xu Wei heard this, he couldn’t help but smile, his face was full of the expression of a man who had been there before, he thought that Zhu Pingan was going to say something, but he didn’t expect it to be this.
“I hope brother Xu remembers.”Zhu Pingan repeated his instructions before bidding farewell to Xu Wei and leaving.
“Fine, fine, remember, remember.”
Behind Zhu Pingan, Xu Wei waved his hand perfunctorily, not taking Zhu Pingan’s words to heart at all.
Both going for the imperial examinations, this is something I still know.
Such a simple mistake, how would I, Xu Wei, make it. The meaning of the saint, I Xu Wei is more than clear. ……
In fact, when he came out of Xu Wei’s home, Zhu Pingan was already slightly drunk, after all, his alcohol consumption has never been good. Although the degree of yellow wine was a little lower, but after accompanying Xu Wei to drink five or six cups of wine, Zhu Pingan could not help but be slightly drunk.
Walking back in the street, already dusk, the sun has set, only the afterglow in the western sky, the breeze blowing, cool, blowing Zhu Pingan’s slightly hot face feel much more comfortable.
“The Japanese invaders reoffended Taizhou, even boat miles, attacked the town, killing and capturing residents, the local area is a living soul coated with charcoal …….”
“Yes, it’s too bad, I heard that a county was also broken by the Japanese, the county magistrate was killed.”
At this moment, people are coming and going on the street, and suddenly the voices of the passers-by on the roadside have reached Zhu Pingan’s ears.
The Japanese invaded Taizhou again, and the county was overrun ……
After these few keywords entered Zhu Pingan’s ears, Zhu Pingan immediately broke out in a cold sweat and his drunkenness disappeared.
“Brother, excuse me, may I ask if you know how the situation is in Jingnan County?”
With a head full of cold sweat, Zhu Pingan quickly caught up with the pedestrians walking by and apologised while asking eagerly.
Zhu Pingan had only come over from Jingnan to take up his appointment, having been a governor in Jingnan for so long, his feelings for Jingnan were not generally deep, nor were his feelings for the common people of Jingnan, so he could not help but be concerned.
“Jingnan? Little brother, I’m sorry, I’m not sure about the situation in Jingnan, I’ve only heard about it from hearsay.”
“I don’t know.”
A few pedestrians shook their heads, not sure about the situation in Jingnan.
“Then the county that the few people said was breached is?”Zhu Pingan followed up with another question.
“It seems to be Linhai, it also seems to be Taiping, I don’t remember it very well, we also heard it from hearsay. If you really want to know, we suggest that little brother go to the teahouse in front and ask, that’s where we heard about it.”
The pedestrian returned.
“Many thanks, many thanks.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked them.
People are all a bit selfish to some extent, right? Hearing the pedestrian say that the county that was breached was either Linhai County or Taiping County, while Zhu Pingan’s heart deplored the two counties, his heart was also slightly relieved that it wasn’t Jingnan, luckily it wasn’t Jingnan ……
After thanking the pedestrians, Zhu Pingan took Liu Mu and Liu Dazhou both to the teahouse that the pedestrians had guided them to – One Pot Spring Teahouse.
Zhu Pingan entered the teahouse and found that there were still quite a few people in the teahouse, and in the middle of the stage was the storyteller, who was talking about what happened in Taizhou. Zhu Pingan borrowed ten yuan from Liu Mu, ordered a pot of the cheapest tea, the three sat there and listened to the storyteller.
After listening to the story for about a tea time, Zhu Pingan heard about the situation of the Japanese invasion in Taizhou.
This time the Japanese invasion of Taizhou is Wang Zhi under the banner of the big head of Chen Dong, its seduced, gathered nearly 10,000 Japanese invaders to invade East Zhejiang, from Zhejiang Xiangshan, Zhoushan landing, Taizhou is not their only destination, they logged in after the troops divided into four ways of the invasion of Taizhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing four capitals. This time the Japanese is a roving robberies to do the case, belongs to the passing type of fast robbing, the attack is very wide, the impact is very big, but did not focus on attacking the city, the attack is also just a test nature of the attack. Linhai County is more unlucky, in the Japanese tentative attack, the county was taken, the magistrate was killed.
Zhu Pingan deliberately asked Mr Storyteller how the situation in Jingnan was, Mr Storyteller only knew that Jingnan was the county with the least casualty damage in Taizhou, but as for the specific casualty situation, he was unaware of it.
Although he is not clear about the specific casualties in Jingnan, but hearing that Jingnan is the least damaged county, Zhu Pingan is still greatly relieved.
