Hundreds of households in Liaodong, covering the light with one hand

Chapter 349 Military Service Escape
  On June 7, the third year of the Ming Dynasty, there are still three days before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Council.
  The news that Wang Yangming's disciple, the grandson of Wang Gen, the master of mind science, abandoned his Jinshi background and joined the Science Society spread back to Jiangsu from Beijing!
  As soon as this news came out, it immediately detonated the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom, or the entire scholars in the two capitals and thirteen provinces who were interested in the imperial examination.

Taizhou, Jiangsu, the inheritance place of the Xinxue School, was shaken by this news. Almost everyone thought that Wang Shou was crazy. He gave up his background as a Jinshi for a few mere scientific societies? That is a dream that many people cannot achieve in their lifetime, but it was abandoned by Wang Shou
  Such behavior certainly aroused public outrage, especially those old scholars who had devoted their lives to studying the Four Books and Five Classics. They couldn't sleep all night long. They couldn't understand why this happened?

Of course, some people have begun to think about the significance of Wang Shou's move, or can the Science Society really run parallel to the imperial examination one day?
  Can the common people and scholars in the world who are aspiring to the country really have a new path to promotion?

While the scholars of the Taizhou School were quarreling over Wang Shou's act of giving up his status as a Jinshi, more than five hundred miles north of Taizhou, Pei County was still peaceful.

Yes, it is Pei County, the hometown of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, which now belongs to Xuzhou Prefecture.

As a police officer in the county, Liu Dasheng has always felt that he has a heavy responsibility. He has been working hard for decades, patrolling, catching thieves, maintaining public order, and regulating the neighborhood. He is quite popular in the county.

The weather has been gloomy for the past two days, so when the street patrol ended tonight, Liu Dasheng declined his companion's invitation to have a drink, saying that he was tired and wanted to go home and take a nap.

In fact, Liu Dasheng was really upset these days. He turned into the alley and stopped in front of his house for a long time. Then Liu Dasheng sighed, opened the door of his yard with a creak, and stepped into the yard.

Smoke was rising from the kitchen on the west side of the yard, and from time to time, the sound of my mother-in-law's coughing could be heard.

In the east wing, my son didn't know what he was tinkering with. He didn't like to read poetry and books all day long. Instead, he often went to the fields to dig soil and study some sweet potato and corn seeds introduced from the West.

"I have been in private school for more than ten years, but I can't even get into the exam!" Liu Dasheng murmured and complained. He didn't know what he thought of. He shook his head and walked into the main room. After a while, he turned back and sat on the threshold.

Liu Dasheng took off his pipe from his waist, knocked it on the ground, and then took out the flint.

呲!
  When the stone lights up the fire, the sparks ignite the tobacco.

At the moment when sparks appeared from the tobacco, Liu Dasheng first inhaled sharply, and then slowly exhaled. At the moment when the smoke just left the tip of his nose, he inhaled again, and the smoke seemed to be alive again, and suddenly penetrated into the tobacco at the tip of his nose at a very fast speed. Burning at a fast speed, the cycle went back and forth three or four times before the smoke erupted from the end of the nose. The smoke lingered and then slowly rose into the sky, and finally disappeared.

"Master, come and have dinner," my mother-in-law's voice sounded, and then she went to call her son: "Brother Ding."

On the table in the main room, the bowls and chopsticks were ready, a plate of fried vegetables, a plate of fried bacon, two full bowls of steaming multigrain rice, and a plate of black-faced hard cakes was placed on the mother-in-law's side.

Wang Dasheng and his son didn't communicate much in the past, and it was still the same at the dinner table today.

The two of them each ate the rice in front of them, stretching out their chopsticks from time to time to add a piece of green vegetables or bacon.

At the dinner table, the atmosphere was a bit dull.

The wife looked at her husband and son, as if she had remembered something sad. Her tears were like broken pearls, falling on the table.

"Have you packed it up?" Liu Dasheng still didn't put down the dishes and chopsticks. "Well," Liu Ding nodded, his voice dull, and hesitantly said after a while: "I will go to Jiming Mountain with my neighbor's brothers tomorrow, and I will come back in the evening."

"Jiming Mountain?" When Liu Dasheng heard this, he frowned and said, "The day after tomorrow is when the imperial court assigns military service. What are you doing at Jiming Mountain at this time?"

Because of Qi Guogong's coup in Beijing in April, the situation between the north and the south became increasingly tense. In order to gather troops for the king, the Nanjing court issued an order to allocate military service to the Jiangnan provinces.

Liu Ding, the only son in Liu Dasheng's family, happened to accept this corvee.

The melancholy in the family these days is all caused by this.

Speaking of which, the imperial court's allocation was conditional. As long as he had meritorious service, he would be exempted from military service. However, Liu Ding had been in the imperial examination for ten years and was not even a scholar now.

It's not that Liu Ding is stupid, it's that his ambition is not that. He didn't like reading when he was a child, but he liked studying various crops in the fields.
  "I", Liu Ding, couldn't make up a sentence for a long time.

"Huh?" Liu Dasheng squinted his eyes and examined the dishes as he was putting down the dishes: "Do you want to escape from the corvee?"

"Father, my child, my child heard that Duke Qi established a scientific society in Beijing. If he passes the exam, he can get the same fame as the imperial examination." After being silent for a long time, Liu Ding seemed to have mustered up his courage before replying: "So, my child wants to go to Beijing. , try to pass the Science Society”

Liu Dasheng put down his bowls and chopsticks and looked at his son. The atmosphere in the air became more solemn.

"If you escape from the corvee, do you know what the crime is?" Liu Dasheng said, his tone seemed to be discussing with his son.

"The "Da Ming Code - Household Code" strictly prohibits the omission of household registration in order to reduce or reduce the number of servants. Anyone who commits fraud to join a household, conceal one's age, increase or decrease one's age, age, child, disability, etc. will not only be punished according to the law, but also the head of the village. The officials in charge of the county also investigated the crime according to how much they blurted out. Among them, those who knew the crime were equally guilty as the criminals, and those who received the money were severely punished for perverting the law," Liu Ding lowered his head and replied.

"Most of the soldiers in Nanjing were gathered by scholars like you. When they went to the battlefield, compared with those soldiers who fought in hundreds of battles in Liaodong under Qi Guogong, it was no different from dying." Liu Dasheng chuckled, not sure whether he was mocking himself or mocking the soldiers of the Nanjing court. Master.

"You can go to the north with peace of mind," Liu Dasheng looked at his son. He had placed high hopes on him since he was born. He wanted him to study and gain fame and not waste his whole life in this small world. But now it seems that maybe his son's own choice , is correct.

Go to Beijing. Maybe a great talent like the Duke of Qi can really open up the world and give everyone an equal opportunity to advance to the official career, not just the imperial examination!
  "If the child leaves, where will you and your mother go to take refuge?" Liu Ding's struggle these days is that he cannot bear to cause his parents to suffer because of his running away.

"My father still has some reputation in Peixian County. In this world, the county magistrate will not make it difficult for me. At most, I will give up some of my belongings." Liu Dasheng waved his hand: "Go and clean it up yourself. Let your mother pack some for you. I’ll give you two taels of silver and leave tonight, so as not to have a long night with too many dreams.”

After sending Liu Ding back to the house, Liu Dasheng turned to his mother-in-law and said, "After Ding'er leaves, pack up your house and go into the mountains overnight."

(End of this chapter)