open sea

Chapter 1440
This year, apart from the 20-year-old William Shakespeare, there was another 34-year-old who came to London across half the world.

He is a traditional Confucian scholar in the Ming Dynasty. His ancestors had literary names for four generations, and he is also full of knowledge. He was the most famous scholar in China in the fourth year of Wanli.

After Zhang Juzheng half-retired, it was often rumored that his failure was related to Shoufu, but he didn't think that was necessarily the case... In those few years, Zhang Juzheng's prestige had surpassed the need to say something in person before he could do it.

As long as Zhang Juzheng is offended, no one in the country dares to let him go to high school, even if he can win or not.

But there is always an examination. Scholars, how can you be worthy of yourself if you don’t get a Jinshi?

Wanli was defeated in the fifth year of Wanli. He traveled around to resolve his grievances. He also took a boat to Luzon in Nanyang to find a friend who was a county magistrate there. He read the administrative laws and customs there, especially for the Nanyang school heroes I am very interested in Zhi novels.

He even lived there for several months and composed a set of operas.

In the eighth year of Wanli, I took the national examination again, and failed again. In a fit of anger, I went from Beijing to Shandong with the Qinglong that the soldiers were unwilling to sit in and the cement bags stuffed into a car.

Qinglong has been carrying people since its trial operation in the eighth year of Wanli, but usually it can’t carry people except for the troops, and tickets are not easy to sell. These days, ordinary people don’t have so many requests for long-distance travel. Ten miles out of the village is considered a long-distance journey.

Usually it is the officials who need it, but if it is not necessary, the officials are not willing to sit on the blue dragon that can make people vomit several times a day.

There is a need for businessmen, but more merchants are more willing to pay Qinglong to deliver the goods, send nephews to watch and unload the goods, and drive on their own in a carriage.

And there is no other reason for this young man to take the Qinglong, it is cheap-you can buy a half-price ticket with your identity, and it only costs [-] yuan for this train from Tongzhou in North Zhili to Jinan Prefecture, and take a boat from Jinan Prefecture to South Zhili and then transfer The travel expenses back to my hometown can be settled in less than a tael of silver.

However, this time I didn’t stay for too long. The imperial court had been in Songjiang for only one year, and there were already marine merchants in Songjiang Prefecture to take care of the hungry and disaster victims and the refugees who couldn’t eat enough to go to the East.

I heard that the seaport in Dongyang is called Changsheng, Changsheng, a very meritorious name.

This 21-year-old jurengong, who is now fast forward to middle age and still has no ambitions, does not know when he had such thoughts.

He thought, the Marshal Dongyang once guided people to make those heroic ambitions in Nanyang, and the officials in the Nanyang military government are far more clear than those in China, why doesn't he go and have a look?
Once this idea was born in the stomach, it seemed to grow roots, and it couldn't go down no matter what. Finally, in the ninth year of Wanli, a Ming Juren embarked on the road to find the Dongyang Military Mansion.

The future is bound to be bright, but the road is bound to be bumpy.

He lived in a friend's house in Songjiang Mansion. In order to wait for the boat, he lived there for four months. He asked a friend to dissect the poems and essays of Li Mengyang, Li Panlong, and Wang Shizhen, and draw out the imitation and plagiarism of Han Dynasty and Tang poems in their poems and essays. Words, smeared, some derogatory.

This man, once his heart is relieved, he is not afraid of anything. He is going to go to sea, so why would he be afraid of offending others?

Waiting for four months is just waiting for the boat coming from Changsheng.

Finally the boat came, but the bow of the boat was called Liu Ruguo, and the price was ten taels.

He had already prepared the money, but the bad thing was that he really prepared ten taels of silver, but Liu Ruguo unreasonably kicked him out and scolded him instead.

It probably means that the poor people are counting on Lao Tzu's boat to go to the East to change their fate.
He is not convinced, why can't this Juren go to sea?
But who is Liu Ruguo?A man with a very green and heroic temperament, he was fed up with the harshness of the petty officials when he was walking in the rivers and lakes, and he didn't bother to tell him the truth of what he did.

"Go home and wait honestly, wait for some little official to make up for his cock, and then argue with your grandpa Liu, I will be kidnapped on a boat for you, leave the port and sail on the sea, tied up and thrown away Don't blame grandpa for hurting you!"

Jurengong is not a reasonable person, so he left obediently.

Later, I waited for another two months, waiting for a ship to go to Beiyang, and then I registered there and went out to sea with the baggage ship. After going to the autumn of the ninth year of Wanli, I finally got my wish to endure the cold of Majia Port.

It was so cold that he wanted to go back to China on the spot, but it was a pity that he didn't know at that time whether the ship was going east or not, and all the ships going west set sail from Changsheng.

At the turn of spring and summer in the tenth year of Wanli, when he arrived at Changsheng Port, once he saw the appearance of the officials there, he never wanted to go back.

In China, it is common to raise people all over the place, and it is a fart to raise people. In terms of the system, one can be awarded an official, as long as there is a vacancy.

But in fact, how many people are recruited every year, if they can be awarded official positions, it will not make the ancestral graves smoke, but make the ancestral graves catch fire.

No matter how talented and learned he is, he will be contented enough to retire as a seventh-rank magistrate, but under the rule of the Dongyang Military Mansion?

That is to say, his boat went straight to Changsheng, and did not stop at the county government of Jincheng and Jiexian. They sent someone to escort him to Mo County the next day.

Zou Yuanbiao had heard his name and knew his talent and learning, so he didn't say anything else, just one request: "Stay in Changsheng, Zou has already recommended the county magistrate to the military government for his brother, Changsheng county magistrate."

God knows how much Zou Yuanbiao is looking forward to his coming. Chang Sheng is going to be promoted to the mansion, but no one can take over Chang Sheng's county magistrate's class. He can't beat the report to the country. This is a juren who had the best chance to win the first prize. I sent myself here!
The appearance of the sheep entering the tiger's mouth really frightened people.

He never thought that he would be able to see Chen Mu on the fourth day of the Dongyang Military Mansion.

On the fifth day, his letter of appointment came down, and the examiner was eighth-rank Muye county magistrate for a period of one year. If there was no problem, he would be appointed magistrate immediately in the second year, and a suitable successor would be found to be directly promoted from fifth-rank magistrate.

Dashuai Chen expressed his opinion: This vast world is up to you to do what you want, if you don't get promoted to a fourth-rank magistrate after ten years of hard work, you are incapable of doing so!

What kind of thirst for talents is that.

In this way, Ju Rengong got on the thief ship of the Dongyang Military Mansion, and in the position of Muye County Prime Minister, he assisted Yang Zhaolong with rare enthusiasm in the world to set up iron factories, build railways, set up county schools, teach the common people, teach farmers and tobacco, and supervise and promote. , training county soldiers, repairing ports, setting up artillery defenses, patrolling coastal defenses, and hosting weddings and funerals.

In the autumn of the 11th year of Wanli, he received two new letters of appointment, the first for the prefect of Puzhou and the latter for the prefect of London. He came to England along with the recruits who continued to board the ship from Muye.

The previous letter of commission had been scrapped with the progress of the war, and he came to London with the latter letter of appointment and Chen Mu's handwritten letter alone.

Outside London, the 34-year-old man looked at the devastated streets and the strange smell rushing into his nose. He handed out a letter to General Ying Ming who got off his horse and bowed in return.

"I'm Linchuan Tang Xianzu, thank you General Ying Laodun for your welcome."

(End of this chapter)