I have many teachers

Chapter 852 Bookishness (22) ([-]) ([-] words)
During this period of time, the breaking news in Tianjing City, day after day, almost never stopped, just like the torrential rain in autumn, coming and going, refusing to take a break.

In the taverns and teahouses of the entire Tianjing City, the stories that spread everywhere were told in a serious manner, and those who listened to them listened seriously, and at the end they had to scold the person in the news story to save face and say The person who tells the story feels comfortable on the face and heart.

The last batch of guests were sent away from Tianhe Building. It seemed that it was already past the meal time, and there were still some time before noon. There were not many visitors. Liu Hou, who is both a chef and a shopkeeper, occasionally had to serve dishes Finally got some free time, sat on the chair, took a long breath, didn't even bother to move.

But before he could rest enough, another guest came in.

At the moment, I can only cheer up, get up and greet the guests to come in. This look almost scared half of Liu Hou's three souls and seven souls. In winter, the chill is layered on top of each other, and it is cold to the bone. It's not that he is timid, but it is The people who came were a little weird.

The old man was born elegant, and although he was dressed simply, he could tell he was a learned man at a glance, but the young man who followed him made Liu Hou feel cold in his heart. Broad, with a handful of strength in his arms, but his face doesn't look like a human being.

I don't know what I have experienced, a face seems to be cut and rotted by someone back and forth.

The scar on it had already healed long ago, but it looked like it made people feel scalp numbness, and a chill ran through the back of Liu Hou's head. The old man was holding a faded umbrella in his hand, presumably to cover up Looking at the snow just now, the old man knocked the umbrella on the ground and said warmly:
"It surprised the store owner. My child was robbed when I was a child. It was finally rescued, but this face is a bit ruined. He has been bullied a lot since he was a child. In fact, he is very kind. Can't we, grandpa and grandson, rest here for a while and eat a bowl of noodles?"

Liu Hou was originally a simple and honest person, and he was afraid at first, but after hearing this, thinking about what the young man experienced when he was a child, he felt pity for no reason, and felt a little sorry for the grandpa and grandson, and said immediately:

"Look at what you said, old man. We who run a store have no reason to drive customers out? It happens to be free now. I'll cook for you what you two want to eat, and I'll give you a cold plate of side dishes. It’s best to eat this side with a red oil side dish.”

The old man touched the head of the young man next to him, and said, "Ping, why don't you thank the shopkeeper?"

Liu Hou hastily waved his hands and said with a smile:

"Oh, what's wrong with this, come in and sit, two guests, come in and sit."

The old man and the disfigured young man named A Ping entered the store together. The store is small and rarely clean, without the greasy feeling of ordinary stores. The old man sat near the stove and gently put the umbrella in his hand on the table , the palm falls aside.

There is no such thing as a back kitchen in this kind of small shop, so Liu Hou vacated a corner of the stove in the center of the shop, with an iron pot on it, which can save space, and secondly, it can also display the owner of the shop The craft of cooking attracts guests.

Because there is still an hour to arrive at the noon restaurant, and there is no one in the restaurant, Liu Hou said casually while cooking: "The old man looks at Mian Shan, and the accent is not from our side."

"Is this your first time in Tianjing City?"

The old man smiled and said, "It's not the first time I've come here. Let me think about it... I've been here four or five times."

"It's rare, though, to be this simple and easy."

"When I was young, I thought too much. I didn't have such a wild interest, and I didn't have a leisurely mind."

Liu Hou said with a smile: "Then old man, you have to go around more. Our Tianjing City is in a good location, prosperous, delicious, and delicious. It's a bit of a loss if you don't enjoy it."

The voice paused, and asked again: "Don't you know the old man's last name?"

The old man smiled and said, "Su, Su Daji's Su."

Liu Hou was taken aback by the old man's unusual metaphor, and then couldn't help laughing:
"Su, what a good surname. It's the old man's metaphor. It's a bit inappropriate. How can I use the surname of a temptress like Su Daji as a metaphor? Speaking of it, I think of it. When Daqin fought against the Six Kingdoms, there was a There is a scholar named Su Gu who conquered the six kingdoms by himself."

"That posture almost swallowed us Daqin."

"The old man will use Su Gu to describe his surname in the future, which is better than Su Daji."

The old man smiled, it was always strange to read his name like this, and said softly:

"Su Gu..."

Opposite A Ping poured hot water for the old man, the old man took a sip, and said: "I came to Tianjing City recently, and found that there seems to be a lot of things happening in this capital city. You are well-informed, shopkeeper, do you know anything interesting?"

Liu Hou was taken aback, then kneaded the dough again, and said:
"That's true, but it's not an interesting story. I'm afraid you will be angry when you hear it, old gentleman."

Su Gu said: "If I get angry when I listen to the story, it means I am not self-cultivated enough, but I am still very curious about your story. Could it be that someone bullies men and women?"

Liu Hou sighed heavily, and said, "Oh, although the old man is not right, he is not far behind."

"It's a corrupt official!"

Liu Hou's voice suddenly became heavier, he gritted his teeth, and continued: "It is said that his name is Jiang Shouyi, and he was invited back by the old master of the Taixue. We thought he was a good and knowledgeable master. , Attracted the world's number one corrupt official!"

The old man said: "Oh? What kind of corrupt law? He is not in the Ministry of Households, nor in the Ministry of Officials. Compared with the rich and noble yamen in the three provinces and six departments, this Taixue is clear and lacks water, without any oily smell."

Liu Hou responded with a grunt, and said:
"That's not true! We used to think so, who knows him, this Jiang Shouyi, he actually collects money from those who are not qualified to enter the Imperial Academy, and then sends those people to the Imperial Academy, tell me, old man, This is too learned, and he has an official status as soon as he comes out, how can this matter be child's play?"

"Someone has asked, but it really takes a lot of money to get in."

"There is a nobleman from the Liu family who is said to have taken a thousand taels of silver, that's a thousand taels!"

Liu Hou swallowed his saliva, and couldn't help but said: "1000 taels, that's how much a student can get. Just think about it, you can know how much money he has been greedy for these few years!"

"That's not counting, old man, do you know that? More than half a month ago, a big incident happened in Chaoshang."

"I don't know why, hundreds of high-ranking officials lost their seats all of a sudden, and then a group of officials below these officials took over, but after all, this is a lack of people. , and finally arrived at the bottom and vacated more than a hundred seats in one breath, do you know what happened next?"

Su Gu asked: "What happened?"

Liu Hou hammered heavily on the dough with his right hand, and said in a hateful voice:
"This Jiang Shouyi, he dares to betray his official position!"

"It is said that he said that he would select students from the Taixue to become officials in various ministries. Although they are not high-ranking, they are all officials. Who doesn't know that many people in this Taixue are able to go to school because they gave him money? This time Come out, everyone is scolding, but he still dares to accept someone to give him a gift!"

Liu Hou cursed for a while, and said, "In the end, His Majesty spoke up."

"It's okay to talk about it, but you must go through the assessment."

"This is not the same as in the past. It is the elders who set the question, and His Majesty personally checks the last one."

"Hey, at this moment, I'm afraid Jiang Shouyi is going to be finished. Those idiots, how can they have any skills? They are appointed to reveal their secrets. It's just that these small officials are so tired that His Majesty the Saint will show up. Alas, This Jiang Shouyi, a corrupt official is harming the country, he must be executed at the Meridian Gate!"

After talking for a while, the noodles were cooked and brought to the table for the two of them, noodles in clear soup, with a green rapeseed lying on it, finely chopped green onions, fried eggs, and finally poured a spoonful of them. The old soy sauce from Lao Chen's house at the entrance of the village has a taste.

The old man ate the noodles and praised him full of praise: "It's delicious."

Liu Hou presented a plate of side dishes and said with a smile:
"Old man, eat slowly. If you don't have enough, you can add noodles. Don't pay for the first time."

The old man nodded, ate a few chopsticks and noodles, and suddenly said: "The shopkeeper said that Jiang Shouyi, a corrupt official who misled the country, has seen him?" There was a look of contempt and disgust on the shopkeeper's face, and he said: "Of course I have seen him." , After what he did came out, we folks couldn't see it."

"Several elders from aristocratic families also took the lead in scolding and scolding."

"Let's think that the sage probably won't be able to see, whoever is more temperamental, throws rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves in the yard, and someone pours some filth on the wall, hey, call him Qinggui , greedy for money and pretending to be noble, damn it!"

Liu Hou's eyes were full of complacency, and he added:
"My kid also threw two rotten eggs over there."

"It's a kind."

"Now that Jiang Shouyi is completely stinky, we are not willing to sell things to him, even if we sell, the price will have to be increased ten times, can't he be greedy for money? Then greedy, hmph, greedy for money is To be greedy is to search and search, to pick the cheapest one when you buy every dish, and only sell half a dish, so there is no bargaining."

Su Gu said: "He is an official after all, are you so courageous?"

Liu Hou hesitated for a while, and said: "This...that scholar doesn't look very vicious, so we don't know how to be afraid of him, besides, don't we also have a few big figures from big families to help? We don’t have to be afraid to go forward.”

Su Gu smiled and said:
"There's one thing I don't quite understand."

He stirred the noodles with chopsticks, and said lightly:
"Students of Taixue, do they have anything to do with the store? The store's children may become students of Taixue? Will they become officials in the future?"

Liu Hou was stunned, he hesitated and said: "This, of course, has nothing to do with it, but, but..."

Su Gu said again: "If someone can let your child go to the school palace, how does the shopkeeper think?"

Although Liu Hou felt that this sentence was unreasonable, how could ordinary commoners be qualified to go to the school?But he still replied truthfully: "Then I will definitely thank you a thousand times, and I will definitely set up an inscription on longevity for that benefactor, and I will never forget his kindness from generation to generation."

The old man smiled, but did not speak.

The bowl of noodles was exhausted, and the snow stopped outside. The old man paid the bill and left holding the cloth umbrella. The young man followed closely, stepping on the snowdrifts with finely stitched soles, making a chi-chi sound. Ping said: "That Jiang Shouyi doesn't look like a corrupt official."

Su Gu said slowly: "Of course not."

The counselor who once caused chaos in the world looked up at the clear sky and said:
"He wants to re-establish the rules of the world. He is very generous and smart. In this matter, the aristocratic family is wrong. He vacated the position of hundreds of officials. After the official position was promoted, the position was vacated. He just proposed In order to let Taixue students replace the vacated positions of those sixth and seventh rank officials."

"But because of his previous reputation in the ruling and opposition parties, what do you think will happen?"

A Ping thought for a while, then said in a low voice, "Come together and attack them."

Su Gu nodded and said, "Not bad."

"However, there must be some people who feel that this matter can still be considered."

"Especially those who have children in Taixue, the power of the aristocratic family has been weakened by the blow, and they have not yet recovered. Such a strife, if the dynasty with an unstable foundation, will almost cause overthrow, but Daqin is especially stable in the world at this moment. This backlash can be tolerated."

"This is a great opportunity for those aristocratic families to enter the court and establish themselves as factions, but it is also necessary to prevent them from looking down on the gentry, especially the humble scholars and the heirs of wealthy merchants, so they must have a threshold, so they need to be assessed. Of course."

"The family always thinks highly of itself."

"At this time, the emperor proposed to let him have a final look at it."

"This matter is done. If the old man's prediction is correct, with Jiang Shouyi's eyesight, there are absolutely many scholars from the noble family, and even talented scholars from the poor family in the Imperial Academy. The results of the examination must be far behind Those from aristocratic families who don’t want to make progress and spend money to enter the Imperial Academy are even better.”

"They were originally only able to serve as knife and pen officials, but now they have the opportunity to enter the court."

"And this kind of assessment method will allow the emperor to have talented people who are not from aristocratic families. The current Emperor Qin is very powerful, no... read the history books, any emperor in the world would want to make this kind of assessment. It will last forever, and even extend to 72 counties in the whole world."

A Ping was a little stunned, and immediately frowned, saying:
"However, how can the poor family afford the 1000 taels of silver?"

Su Gu said: "This is a trick to deceive one's eyes. The children of the aristocratic family paid a thousand taels of silver to enter, but who said that the children of the poor family have to pay a thousand taels of silver? But just like the store just now, the family has surplus money, but even if the whole family Borrowing debts, scraping together a few hundred taels, and never wanting to enter the Imperial Academy."

"The poor family, after all, is also a noble family."

"After all, it's the civilians who are different."

His voice was flat, but Ah Ping heard the insurmountable divide and high wall, separating the gentry and the commoners.

Su Gufu sighed again.

"It's a pity, Jiang Shouyi."

A Ping said: "What a pity?"

Su Gu looked up at the sky and said calmly:

"Yes, this kind of assessment will definitely be a policy for building a country in the future, and there will inevitably be corruption and corruption."

"The only thing to tell the world is that anyone who is recruiting students, and even the final assessment of corrupt ink."

"Even those who put forward such a strategy for the national scholars will die."

"In this way, if this law is established, if there are greedy Mohists in future generations, they will be severely punished, so that real talents can emerge, enter the court, and be used by the world."

"Shang Jun died from Shang Jun's law, and Qin Law was established, so there is a strong Qin and a hegemony to rule the world."

"Jiang Shou already knew that he would die as soon as he entered the capital, and what he did will last forever."

Aping suddenly felt a chill.

The two had already walked outside the palace gate unknowingly, seeing someone posting the imperial list, Su Gu smiled and said: "Let's go, go and see who has passed the examination, it can be regarded as a gift for Jiang Shouyi."

The two walked outside the imperial list.

An invisible air force forced the others away, Su Gu raised his eyes to look at the imperial list, and suddenly froze.

There was a squeeze next to him, and when he looked up and wanted to curse, he saw A Ping, he was shocked, he muttered to avoid it, he looked up and scolded Jiang Shouyi with the people next to him, and looked at the imperial list enviously, he scanned Once again, seeing many unfamiliar surnames and first names, I scratched my head curiously, looked at the person next to me, and said:

"Strange, does Daqin have a family like Gongyang? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"It doesn't seem to be...not even the gentry."

The man was puzzled when suddenly a loud laugh sounded from beside him, startling him.

Turning his head, he saw that the old scholar dropped the umbrella in his hand.

Su Gu, the great strategist who used to unite the Seven Kingdoms with his own strength, could hardly straighten his back from laughing.

"Okay, okay, what a big lie!"

"He actually deceived the world!"

"How can you Jiang Shouyi not die this time?"

"It turns out that your dragon gate is not only given to the humble scholars, but also the commoners. You also want them to read and write, enter the palace, and enter the imperial hall? You want to create a world where the commoners are born out of high-ranking officials? What a boldness. How dare you do this, what a bold scholar?! How arrogant, how can a mere family with thousands of years of wealth compare to you?"

He laughed so hard that tears came out.

The people nearby were startled and retreated to the surroundings again and again, thinking that they saw someone suffering from hysteria.

The old man leaned down, grabbed the cloth umbrella, and murmured to himself:
"I suddenly felt that compared to those guys who have lived so long, it's a good thing to be able to die in this era, but it's a pity that they can't live any further."

He raised his head and swept the plum blossoms floating from nowhere on his shoulders.

"Everyone in the world slanders you, blames you, scolds you and hates you."

"I, Su Gu, respect you."

"Respect for your scholarly spirit!"

"Respect for your will to go your own way!"

"Respect to the world where the commoner governs the country!"

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