Along the way the weather is dreary, the caravan in the evening to Anqing, all the way though the weather is hot and sultry but fortunately no rain, the family robbed autumn and bought a lot of time.
Because it was already evening in Anqing City, Zhu Pingan stayed in Anqing for one night, ready to go to the river the next morning to look for the passenger boat to Yingtian.
The next morning, Zhu Pingan checked out of his room and carried his travelling bag out of the inn, at this time, it was already drizzling outside, Zhu Pingan covered his travelling bag with a linoleum and walked towards the river with a bamboo umbrella.
In the riverside to find a small shop, Zhu Pingan on the mother of Chen’s oil cake to drink a bowl of old duck soup. People along the Yangtze River love to eat duck, and according to the locals, duck is cool and warm, and is best cooked. After breakfast, Zhu Pingan went straight to the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River dock people, masts.
Daming shipbuilding technology can be said to be the pinnacle of the feudal period, even if the three treasures eunuchs to the West has become history, but at this time the Yangtze River moored ships still let a person breathtaking, it is difficult to imagine that this kind of big boat is the product of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Pingan inquired about the price of three boatmen at the riverside, finalised a passenger boat, paid more than 300 Wen boat fee, and boarded the passenger boat. It was a large streamlined ship with a long hull, spacious and neat superstructure, fast and comfortable to live in.
Zhu Pingan paid money belongs to the third class seats, live in this cabin is four beds, but clean and tidy, air circulation, tables, chairs and beds well organised, but also supply meals, of course this need to spend extra money to buy again. The first time to take a boat at a distance, quite fresh. After boarding the boat, Zhu Pingan put the luggage into the berth to open the window, you can sit or lie down, holding the window edge, blowing the river wind, very comfortable.
When the ship pulls out, Zhu Pingan is in this room has not been up, the money of the third class seat first class seat enjoyment, good. In Daming, there are many white dolphins in the Yangtze River, and from time to time there will be white dolphins outside the window along with the passenger ship. A jump, like the Oceanarium dolphin show, very nice.
The white dolphin is a very good-looking dolphin show.
The wind and the water are smooth. Boat speed is very fast, the morning of the big boat to pull out, to the next day at noon to the pier outside the city of Yingtian. When we arrived at Yingtian, the original docking pier was already flooded because of the heavy water. The temporary dock was built with bamboo rafts and floating barrels, and the passenger boat owner’s mate kept shouting to pay attention to the fact that both feet should step on the same board, and to pay attention to safety.
Carrying a travelling bag and standing outside Yingtian City, Zhu Pingan immediately had a feeling that I, Hu Han San, was back again.
“Hey, hey, hey, the one in front, to walk, not walk let, don’t block the way.”
The rough voice of a certain man behind him. With a single voice, Zhu Pingan’s spirited feeling went up in smoke.
“Ohhh, sorry.” Zhu Pingan somewhat awkwardly turned his hand and arched his hand, getting out of the way.
“Oh, it’s Master Xiu Cai, ah, disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful disrespectful.” That man was also well-informed, seeing the student uniform on Zhu Pingan, he couldn’t help but speak in a much more respectful tone, pausing to let Zhu Pingan go first.
“Where where, you please.” Zhu Pingan arched his hand and gestured for the other party to go first.
“You first, I am not in a hurry.” The Han shook his head.
Er. Well, Zhu Pingan took the lead towards Yingtian City with his backpack and umbrella. After entering Yingtian, Zhu Pingan went straight to the inn where he stayed last time.
The familiar Qinhuai River case. The familiar Jiangnan Tribute Academy, the familiar Fuzi Temple, and soon arrived at the inn where he stayed last time. Because it only took less than two days on the road this time, and there were still about seventeen days left before the imperial examination, there were not many people in the inn at this time.
When Zhu Pingan entered the inn, the innkeeper instantly recognised the head of the examination who had come out of the inn. He warmly welcomed Zhu Pingan to the inn, and asked the shop assistant to fetch a dry towel and asked the shop boy to pour ginger soup, it was really a home away from home.
“Mr Zhu is staying at the inn, right, last time your room is still reserved for you.”
Perhaps Zhu Pingan’s last case brought a lot of business to the shop, the shopkeeper directly arranged for Zhu Pingan to stay in the same upper room he stayed in last time. When paying the money, the shopkeeper repeatedly pushed back and refused to accept the money, but it was only at Zhu Pingan’s insistence that he accepted the money, but the price was still a hundred less than the money charged for the attic last time.
Outside the window, the autumn rain refused to stop, like silvery grey sticky and wet spider silk, weaving into a gentle web, netting the entire Yingtian.
It really is a cold autumn rain, but only two days, when I left home it was still hot and dry, now I can feel the coolness.
Zhu Pingan will things packed up, took a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, then sat at the table to spread out the ink and paper and ink stone, wrote a letter of peace, write the address of the recipient of the letter and other information, and a penny of broken silver to the downstairs shopkeeper to take the time to send to the nearby Bureau of Civilian Information. Zhu Pingan only know this time there is a civil letter bureau, but do not know how much the cost is, gave the shopkeeper a penny silver, more than a small amount of money, the extra money as their own meal money.
Minxin Bureau, is the Ming Dynasty Yongle years in the civil society appeared in the professional civil mail institutions – Minxin Bureau. The emergence of the Civil Mail Bureau is the inevitable result of the increasing development of civil trade and civil interaction. Of course, Zhu Pingan didn’t care what the reason for his appearance was, in any case, he could just send the news of his safety to his parents.
In the evening, the shop boy delivered dinner and gave Zhu Pingan another receipt note with a private seal, and informed him that he had already delivered the letter to the Min Xin Bureau, with twenty pieces of money left over.
After thanking the shopkeeper, Zhu Pingan had his dinner and sat in front of the window to light up an oil lamp and practise writing up his Catechism.
After taking the child exam, the essay for the township exam, the assembly exam, and the temple exam would be a large part of the exam. In addition, in ancient times, the evaluation of a person’s talent, roughly divided into three parts, one is poetry, the second is the debate, the third is the essay, in which the essay accounted for the weight of not at all less than the poetry. For example, Su Xun, one of the eight greats of the Tang and Song dynasties, that is, his father Su Shi, have you heard of his poetry? No it, he is with a strategy theory “six countries” famous for a while, his comments on the Northern Song Dynasty army and combat vision, in the scholarly and court circulated, creating Su Xun one of the eight great Tang and Song Dynasty reputation.
Although the eight-legged essay occupies the entire Daming’s examination, however, the court opened the section to select soldiers, has always been to ‘策论’作为主攻, Daming is no exception, the eight-legged is just the style of writing, literary elegance and flyaway is better, but your insights are unique, it is the top of the selection. Especially in the temple examination, it is the theory of strategy occupies the core, the emperor on the then current affairs, agricultural affairs, people’s customs and other issues out of the question, by the candidates to answer, which is the countermeasures. For example, if the emperor asks you how to control the coastal Japanese invasion, you will present your own ideas, insights, and opinions.
Well, at this time, Zhu Pingan was using the coastal Japanese plague as the topic to try to make a policy essay on the policy of calming the Japanese.
“The Japanese must, are produced from my great China, such as the room must be cloth mat, Hang’s Chang’an weaving also; women must be powder, fan lacquer all workers must be gold and silver foil, Sydney Wulin made also; other such as Rao’s porcelain, the lake’s silk, Zhang’s yarn and silk, the cotton of the Pine, especially for his country is heavy.
Japan’s rites and music, thieves chiefs fighting, thieves people are not enlightened, but also greedy for my great Chinese prosperity, but also for the livelihood of the trend. Several Japanese plundered the sea, Shandong, Zhili, Zhedong, Fujian coastal counties, the more blazing the bandits.
The pirates of the coastal patients, non-Japanese barbarians dare to commit crimes in China, but China since the Kou also, the government usually do not educate the word of the formula, forced by hunger and cold, driven to steal, and can not manage to disperse the make to go, recruiting the make to come, than to raise the pain potential into a joint boat and fortresses, the captive officers and soldiers burned Han ship.
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After writing it, Zhu Pingan read it once, and suddenly crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the rubbish bin. After thinking about it, he picked it up again and approached the oil lamp to burn it.
Now it is Jiajing alchemy, Yan Song when power, said officials corruption, armaments are not neat and so on a whole lot of problems now but the emperor because of the peace and prosperity of the auspicious frequent only open Enke it, they reported this a whole lot of problems, it is not playing the emperor’s face, but also the meaning of the report Yan Song, Yan Song henchmen and more, their own small body now, Yan Song henchmen henchmen move their little finger, they are waiting for under the Jin Yiwei or the East Factory Jail it.
Yan Song is a treacherous minister, but now is not the time to just positive.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan re-took out a piece of rice paper, with the oil lamp, a new way of thinking to write a new.
