Journey Through the Plane of the Lord God

The turmoil among officials in the DPRK and China, although related to Lin Pingzhi's future, has not yet actually affected our Kuzhu talents.

Because after the examination, what follows is the Emperor's Palace Examination, which is the most important and glorious for scholars in the Ming Empire in this time and space.

The Emperor's Palace Examination of the Ming Dynasty in this time and space is the same as the Ming Dynasty in Lin Pingzhi's memory of his previous life. It is an exam that the Emperor of the Zhu family personally sets the questions and personally inspects the exam. It is only because of changes in the universe and space that it has changed.

The questions are different, but the format is the same.

At the same time, this is also the day when most of the senior intellectuals of the Ming Empire in this time and space meet their monarch for the first time in their lives.

Therefore, after a short celebration, the candidates who passed the examination went back to their respective homes to prepare, striving to leave a good impression on the current emperor when they interview the emperor in the palace.

Of course, compared with the extremely tense atmosphere when they participated in the previous examinations, the current situation of these candidates who are about to become emperors is still a bit more relaxed.

After all, according to the rules, since the establishment of the imperial examination, there has been no such thing as failure. Even if the last person in the imperial examination is born in the third class of Jinshi, he can still get a candidate who has the same background as Jinshi. He can reach this point.

The biggest threshold for their future official career has been crossed by them. Since the establishment of the Imperial Examination, there has been no such thing as failure.

"Oh, sir, what a pity!"

On behalf of Lin Pingzhi, Sijiu, a scholar who was a low-level official from Donglin in the Ministry of Rites, had just been sent away. He said angrily to Lin Pingzhi who was sitting in the yard.

"The eunuchs control the government. When will there be a son and a way out for Donglin's righteous way?"

As Sijiu, a scholar who followed Donglin's junior Lin Pingzhi and studied for several years, he naturally sided with the Donglin Party.

As mentioned before, Donglin Juzi, who went to Beijing to take the exam this time, was not just one of Lin Ping, but he had the biggest reputation.

Because a certain high-ranking figure in Donglin in the capital had already finished his plan before it even started. Students from Donglin accounted for the vast majority of the students rushing to take the exam this time. They had been lurking for nearly a generation after the Eunuch Party gained power.

The secret is revealed at once.

However, except for Lin Ping, who was well-known and lost his future because of being implicated in the clan princess, almost all the Donglin candidates above the ninth level failed to pass the examination, which was controlled by senior eunuch party officials.

The momentum of the Lin Party was greatly affected.

In the days just after the examination, the Donglin Party officials in the imperial court in the capital kept sending their own people to appease these candidates. After all, these Donglin candidates who had the reputation of being civil servants were all local landlords and celebrities. They were Donglin candidates.

The true foundation of the power that controls the southeastern coast and spreads across the country, the top leaders of the Donglin Party dare not let these people go home in despair.

Although Lin Pingzhi won the election, in the eyes of Donglin's senior management, he was the one who suffered the most after the failure of their plan because he fell into the eunuch's rumor trap. Others can continue to refer to him later, but Lin Pingzhi can

No more chance.

In addition, Lin Pingzhi's teacher was Gu Dazhang, a veteran of the Donglin Party, so naturally there were people who came to personally comfort and encourage him.

Different from the resentment expressed by his own school boy, Lin Pingzhi in the courtyard of the Beijing Escort Bureau lowered his head, holding a volume of "The Doctrine of the Mean" and reading calmly. After hearing the complaints from his own school boy, he whispered calmly

.

"It's no shame, Sijiu!"

"The current Donglin Righteous Way can barely be regarded as the Righteous Way, but in a few years, it won't necessarily be the case!"

If other people had said that Dong Lin might not be on the right path in the future, Shutong Sijiu would have stepped forward and argued it himself, but Lin Pingzhi's words were different.

After following Lin Pingzhi for several years, what Shutong Sijiu admires the most is his young master’s talent and learning, because whether it is in reality or in theory, his young master Lin Pingzhi’s judgment of the current situation and conclusions have never failed to prove it.

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He quickly walked to his young master and asked in surprise.

"oh?"

"Young Master, is it possible that Confucianism in Donglin in the future will not be the right path?"

"Oh, there are already signs of getting out of control!"

Lin Ping sighed. After all, he is the incarnation of Hong Tiangui, the great savior of the people of the world, from later generations. He is familiar with the evaluation of the Donglin Party by countless historians in the later Taiping era. Naturally, he has the confidence and ability to stand up

Make remarks at a certain height.

"After the great righteousness of the Confucianism of the Dao and Song dynasties and the supreme treasure of literature and Taoism, Wenquxing, were destroyed by Kublai Khan, the supreme Khan of the Yuan Dynasty, our Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty have become worse than the previous generation!"

"Because of the sea ban imposed by the late emperors in previous generations, the Confucian Donglin Party members before my teacher Gu Dazhang's generation were mostly born from small landowners and farmers. They satirized the government and commented on officials. They demanded integrity and revitalization.

We should govern by officials, open up the channels of expression, eliminate the accumulated abuses of the government and the public, and oppose the corruption and perversion of the law by the powerful."

"Although their thoughts are full of idealism and their formal governance methods are relatively weak, in general terms, most of them can be regarded as good officials who are close to the people and love them!"

"However, after the emperor succeeded to the throne and the eunuchs took power, everything changed."

"That group of eunuchs dared to do anything to make money. They suppressed Zhongliang officials and made the sea ban enforced along the coast look like a waste. This led to a boom in maritime smuggling in many southeastern coastal provinces where Donglin's power is concentrated!"

"In order to protect the government and businessmen, a large number of merchants' children joined Donglin."

"Although this has brought a lot of financial and manpower support to the Donglin Party, Donglin's atmosphere has also been infected by the legitimate or improper atmosphere of those businessmen's children, and it is no longer so pure!"

In the history books of later generations, it is clearly recorded that in June of next year, in order to maintain his health after falling into the water and becoming seriously ill, Tianzi took an overdose of "Linglu Drink" and died suddenly.

The Donglin Party forces immediately launched the "eunuch removal plan", but the eunuchs fought back desperately. A large number of the older generation of Donglin elders and officials, including Lin Pingzhi's own teacher Gu Dazhang, died in batches, which directly led to the collapse of Donglin.

There is a breakdown in the party.

But after the Eunuch Party defeated the Donglin Party and achieved a tragic victory, Chongzhen, who had been gathering strength for a long time and ascended to the throne, seized the opportunity and eliminated it easily.

After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, those descendants of the prosperous maritime merchants united with some so-called descendants of Donglin to establish the "Fushe".

"Fushe" is known as the successor of Donglin. It stole Donglin's legal system and entered the court by relying on Donglin's reputation. At its peak, it was known as the most upright and prosperous court! However, it turned out that it had a reputation but no ability. In addition, this group of people intervened for profit.

The salt policy directly led to the salt merchants who were deeply rooted in the Ming Dynasty to collude with foreign enemies and govern a huge Chinese dynasty and once again destroyed the world...

Although Lin Pingzhi was well aware of these things that were about to happen in this time and space in normal history, he had never told anyone about them. Naturally, Shutong Sijiu also didn't know these core secrets.

However, Lin Pingzhi's suggestion that he was a businessman's son infected Donglin with exaggeration made Sijiu, a scholar who considers himself half a Donglin scholar, feel the same way.

During the days when he followed Lin Pingzhi to the capital to participate in the examination, Shu Tong Sijiu often heard that he came from a certain southeast maritime merchant family and was known to be from Donglin. He spent a lot of money and spent gold and silver wantonly. In the past, he

I just listened to it as an interesting gossip, but I didn’t expect that my young master thought so deeply!

In ancient times, business itself was a lowly profession.

There was a reason why feudal agricultural society devalued the status of merchants in ancient China. Of course, I won’t go into details here.

The Lin family, which has made the legitimate business escort agency so big and is also a member of the martial arts world, was occasionally burdened by this reputation before Lin Pingzhi's literary name was widely circulated, not to mention those who originally relied on gray smuggling.

Disciples of Shang.

Maybe a small amount is harmless, but if they enter the Donglin Party in large numbers, the atmosphere maintained by the older generation of Donglin will definitely be ruined.

"Okay, four-nine!"

"Don't think so much. The elders in Donglin, such as my teacher, have already noticed this trend. As long as these elders are still there, this trend will not last long!"

It's a pity that they will be gone soon!

Lin Pingzhi did not say the last sentence above, he just stood up and walked into the side room in the courtyard under the admiring gaze of the book boy Sijiu.

You should go to bed early today.

Tomorrow is the serious time to meet the emperor and take part in the imperial examination...