The next day, Guangzhou.

"It's not in vain that I'm going to take the sea road to return home."

At the window of a restaurant, Li Jues, the juren who had just returned, held a wine glass and looked excited.

The street below the window was crowded with people, and tens of thousands of poor people with patches were blocked in front of the government office, waving their fists and shouting angrily. There were even many poor scholars among them, holding Confucius' tablets with a righteous face and spitting saliva.

In front of them was a suffocating prefect.

However, the faint voice of the Guangzhou magistrate Cheng Guangyang was completely drowned in the angry roars of the people.

Suddenly, the rice price surged by 40%, and a storm quickly set off in this city that had been promoted to one of the largest industrial and commercial bases in the world. The Ming Dynasty citizens who had long been accustomed to calling out their dissatisfaction did not hesitate to choose the method they had been accustomed to. There were factories, shops, docks, and poor people who could almost be said to have no overnight food, led by some people, blocked the government office and asked the prefect to come out and explain...

This is the second day.

Yesterday was a little smaller, but today, with more citizens joining, it can be described as a huge momentum.

OK, that's not an exaggeration!

The Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of suppressing the citizens by force.

This city does not have the swords and guns of the Guangzhou General and the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the prefect Cheng, who was beaten by the citizens two years later due to the same problem, had to face the anger of the citizens in advance.

Fortunately, no one hit him yet.

In the 44th year of Wanli, the prefect Cheng, a Jinshi from Jinjiang, Fujian, could only wipe the sweat from his face and persuade him...

"My fellow villagers, you have a wrongdoing and a debt. You can't afford to buy food because Yang Xin and the rice was sold to the ghost guy by this treacherous minister!"

Li Jues yelled.

The poor people below raised their heads one after another, and then cursed Yang Xin in an instant.

"happy!"

The defeated son Li Jues raised his glass and drank it all.

Then he threw the wine glass out and turned around, as if the cup had already landed on Yang Xin's face and smashed the treacherous minister's face to the fullest.

"Northerns can be satisfied now!"

An old scholar in the same room looked at the mansion in his hand and said with a sneer.

The palace examination is over.

The top scorer in this subject is Zhang Tianxi, a native of the ancient city of Northern Zhili.

As for the second place, Fang Fengnian, a native of Sui'an County, Zhejiang Province, but Tanhua is Qin Shizhen from Mengyin, Shandong Province. It can be said that two first-class players appeared in the north for the first time. Just when the gentry in the north celebrated, it was the anger of the gentry in the south. Because the top three in the imperial examination were Wen Zhenmeng, Fu Guan and Chen Renxi, but the three of them were blocked by the Six Arts Assessment and did not even get the qualification for the palace examination. However, Lu Xiangsheng, who had previously ranked first in the cavalry, ranked tenth in the second-class players, but if calculated based on the imperial examination results, he could only rank outside the 30th.

The Southern Juzi was defeated!

The culprit is Yang Xin and his Six Arts Assessment.

If it weren't for the Sixth Arts Assessment, the top scorer in this subject could almost be confirmed by Wen Zhenmeng. Similarly, all the first and first grades in this subject are southerners, and even more than half of the second grades are southerners.

But now, the number of people from the Second South is less than half.

A large number of northerners who were originally ranked low in the imperial examination were able to enter the second grade in the palace examination because they failed the Six Arts of the Southern Juzi in the front. Also, because the top ten riding and shooting and arithmetic assessments were automatically entered the third grade, the number of northern Jinshi was more than a dozen more than the previous subject, and three Jinshis appeared in Liaodong for the first time.

This is all made by Yang Xin.

"I am irreconcilable to this traitor. If it weren't for the Six Arts Assessment, why would I not even be able to have the imperial examination!"

Li Jues said angrily.

He actually failed the imperial examination, but he thought it was a Six Arts assessment, which ultimately affected his poor performance on the spot.

"Donald Yu Yu, will you continue to lie dormant and watch these treacherous ministers act recklessly?"

Liang Shiji, the son who also returned home in failure, said.

"The treacherous and slandered in the court, and I am ashamed to be with you."

The old scholar said.

This is the former crown prince Xima Huang Shijun who resigned last year.

He had a close relationship with Zuo Guangdou and others. After Zuo Guangdou was imprisoned, the Donglin Party and the eunuch Party continued to fight fiercely. As a Guangdong native, he was not the core of the Donglin Party, but because his personal relationship with Zuo Guangdou was entangled, he could only follow the Donglin Party again and again. But later, the more he looked at the situation, the worse it was. The Donglin Party obviously couldn't hold on, but if he didn't follow it, it would affect his feelings, or it could also affect interests. So he chose to be arrogant and resigned from his position on the pretext of disdaining to be listed with treacherous ministers as an excuse...

Anyway, he is just a prince.

Although he had the possibility of joining the cabinet, he probably had no chance of being in his fifties.

Since this is the case, it would be better to avoid it. In history, he also escaped at the critical moment of the battle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party with the Minister of Rites in front of the battle, but he gained a reputation as a loyal minister, and immediately recalled it when Chongzhen came to power. Then he played this move so well that he ran away immediately when the court struggle was fierce. Finally, the party struggles in the Ming Dynasty became fierce for more than 20 years. This old guy avoided it in this way and lived until he was over 80 years old to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Even maintain a good reputation.

Poor Chongzhen thought he was honest and worried that he had no money to go home, so he repaid the travel expenses when he resigned!

I don’t know if there is any underground Chongzhen, and if he also has Qinghui Garden, one of the four famous gardens in Guangdong, whether His Majesty the Emperor has the urge to lift the coffin board.

"Mr. Yu Yu is really a role model for the younger generation!"

Li Jues said expressionlessly.

Originally, he was the next Jinshi in his studies.

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, he became the Minister of Justice, defended Chuzhou to block Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong. Guangzhou fell into Zhang Jiayu and raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He cried outside his house for three days to borrow food from him, but he was unmoved at all. Later, the angry rebel army simply confiscated his house regardless of Zhang Jiayu's obstruction.

He dug up Zhang Jiayu's ancestral tomb to destroy his family temple in revenge.

Even when the Qing army found Zhang Jiayu's body, he would go to verify his true body.

Huang Shijun's expression was fluctuating when holding the wine glass. Although he actually heard Li Jues' dissatisfaction, people like him all have good tempers.

However, at this moment, it seemed like waves hitting a rock, and a more violent noise came from outside. Li Jues hurriedly poked his head out again...

"Fighting, fighting!"

He shouted excitedly.

Now even Huang Shijun couldn't sit still and hurriedly got up and poked his head out.

The angry people outside finally lost control. They rushed away the yamen runners' interception and directly hit the prefect Cheng. The frightened prefect Cheng fled into the gate in horror. The people behind them rushed forward and chased. One of them grabbed the Confucius tablet in the hand of a poor scholar, smashed it according to the prefect Cheng and hit him in the head.

Cheng Guangyang's official hat fell down immediately.

However, at this time, the prefect Cheng rushed into the gate with his head covered. The yamen runners quickly retreated and closed the door in chaos amidst rocks. Finally, they closed the government office before the people arrived. However, tens of thousands of angry people outside were still blocked outside, and some people threw stones directly inside. But for some reason, no one from the Sansi and the Censorate came out to interfere. Instead, a large number of guards blocked the gates of these yamen, and even set up deer antlers to block the people's harassment.

"This doesn't work. It's easy to be used by Yang Xin. I have to find Wu Fangbo to stop it."

Li Jues said.

He had heard too many Yang Xin's routines in the capital. After saying that, he was about to go out, but Huang Shijun directly grabbed him.

Li Jues looked at him in confusion.

"What do you think of the harvest last year?"

Huang Shijun said mysteriously.

"I heard it's OK."

Li Jues said.

"Will there ever been such chaos in this past?"

Huang Shijun said.

"Didn't it mean that Yang Zhe brought people to Macau to reduce the rice originally shipped to Guangzhou?"

Li Jues said.

"He has a total of 10,000 people. Recently, he has been fishing ships there. Yesterday, there are ships back to sell them with the fish paste produced there. Do you think it will cause a shortage of food in Guangzhou? Some people want to drive him away, but they dare not fight him openly, so they have to let the people be cannon fodder. But if they want to let the people be cannon fodder, the first thing they have to do is make the people hate him. Let's make trouble, it is to make these people make trouble."

Huang Shijun said with a smile.

Li Jues rushed to the window again without hesitation.

"My fellow villagers, what's the use of blocking here? It's Yang Xin who has harmed you. Yang Xin snatched away all your food. If you don't go to find him, what's the use of blocking the government office here? Yang Xin is in Haojing. He snatched all the food transported to Guangzhou. He makes you hungry. What are you waiting for? Go out and take a boat to Haojing, drive them out of Guangdong, and let them go back to the north! Let's go, don't let these people from other provinces bully us Guangdong!"

He shouted.

People below looked at him one after another.

"Yes, go to Haojing to drive these people from other provinces out!"

Someone shouted in the crowd.

"Let's go, scout the guy out of the city and drive the treacherous minister out of Guangdong!"

Another voice shouted.

"Go!"

"Search the guy!"

...

More and more voices join in and form turbulent waves again.

Then it turned into the roar of everyone, and at the same time, the crowds blocked in front of the government office began to turn, and the surging torrent began to surge again.

"Look, this is the unruly people. What do they know by the way? Just a group of idiots. Let's call them a few words and believe it. This is the public opinion. We can manipulate it as much as we want. By the way, Yang thief is accustomed to playing this trick in the north, driving the unruly people to deal with the gentry again and again. Now I want to see what he can do. Let's use unruly people to deal with him now!"

Li Jues opened the folding fan proudly and said.

Suddenly, there was a harsh roar in the sky. He turned his head with solidified pride and watched a trace of smoke crossing the blue sky in astonishment. Then it exploded over Guangzhou. The red smoke was particularly eye-catching in the blue. The next moment, the explosion in the sky came, and with the explosion in the sky, the sound of cannon fire also reached their ears...

"Dadong Gate is the Dadong Gate!"
Chapter completed!