"Human hearts, human hearts, alas!"

Under the rule of the entire People's Army, I don't know how many people shook their heads and sighed because they knew that many intellectuals participated in the People's Army's imperial examinations.

These people who shook their heads and sighed may not be so loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but they were very moved by the transformation of intellectuals under the rule of the People's Army. The lower-class people can be bought by the "small favors" of the People's Army. How could these literati and scholars who have read the books of sages for so many years betrayed the Ming Dynasty?

The People's Army's first imperial examination has ended. Candidates from all over the country sent special personnel to escort the examination papers to Guangzhou City, review and score together in Guangzhou City, and finally listed a ranking and hired according to the scores.

When the scores were announced, almost a month later, the candidates were waiting anxiously.

Time passed quickly, and it was still some time before the date of the People's Army's imperial examination scores was announced. The People's Army's imperial examinations had been spread to the capital, the political center of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Yijun learned that the People's Army held the imperial examination and there were still thousands of people participating, his angry eyes seemed to be about to spit out a fire.

The imperial examination is a very important thing for a dynasty. Literary scholars from all over the country studied hard books of sages and finally entered the court through the imperial examination. This is the way for literati scholars to enter the court. It should have belonged to the Ming Dynasty alone. Now, the rebel of the People's Army held the imperial examination, and there are thousands of people participating. This is digging the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

You don’t need to guess that the thousands of people who participated in the imperial examination were scholars. Scholars should have been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but now they participated in the imperial examination of the People’s Army and wanted to join the People’s Army. As the ruler of the Ming Dynasty, how could Zhu Yijun not be angry?

Zhu Yijun is more familiar with the affairs of the people under the rule of the People's Army. Zhu Yijun knew that the People's Army had already bribed the people by distributing land to the people under the lower level. Zhu Yijun didn't care much about this. He must be just a fool. There were thousands of fools under the Ming Dynasty. It didn't matter if he killed all the fools under the rule of the People's Army after the People's Army was wiped out.

But now there are a large number of literati and scholars who should have been loyal to the Ming Dynasty turned to the People's Army. Zhu Yijun really couldn't understand why these literati and scholars turned to the People's Army. The Ming Dynasty never treated literati and scholars unfairly.

Not only was Zhu Yijun angry, but the ministers in the court were also very angry about the large number of scholars in Guangdong surrendering to the enemy. The surrender of scholars surrendering to rebels often happened, but it was never so serious this time. The ministers even worried that the emperor would reject them and other civil officials because of this incident.

One minister after another took the initiative to advise Zhu Yijun, asking Zhu Yijun to kill the nine clans after the imperial army wiped out the People's Army.

Zhu Yijun agreed. Not only did Zhu Yijun agree to the ministers to kill the nine clans of these literati scholars, but he also planned to clean up the people on the entire Guangdong land after the People's Army was wiped out.

In Zhu Yijun's view, even if they were fools, they had betrayed the Ming Dynasty and were all guilty people. The Ming Dynasty would not accept them, and their ending was only a dead end.

The Ming Dynasty had a population of hundreds of millions, while Guangdong had a population of less than 10 million. If it was killed, it would not have much impact on the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty now has no shortage of population, but what it lacks is land. People can occupy Guangdong's land by simply moving some people from other places.

Of course, Zhu Yijun would not say such a thing in person. As an emperor, he must remain "kind". As long as he hints at his ministers, some ministers will soon get the matter done.

During the entire Ming Dynasty, the criticism of the People's Army holding the imperial examinations and thousands of people participating in the imperial examinations gradually shifted from the court to the court, and many literati and scholars began to criticize it.

The People's Army, which has occupied most of Guangdong and defeated the Ming army many times, has had a very high influence under the Ming Dynasty. Many times, literati and scholars regard the People's Army as a topic of discussion, discussing when the court can wipe out the People's Army, whether the people's army will be hungry under the rule of the People's Army, whether the People's Army will eat/people/meat...

Without going to the battlefield in person, these literati scholars naturally found it difficult to understand the strength of the People's Army and believed that the Ming Dynasty would eventually wipe out the People's Army, so these literati scholars still had time to chat.

"How dare the mere thief hold the imperial examination? It's a joke!"

"Those people in Guangdong are really a shame for us. They actually surrendered to the enemy, which is ridiculous."

"A small rebel will definitely wipe out a small rebel."

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However, there are also literati and scholars with deep backgrounds and wide information channels that are very cautious about the People's Army. The court sent hundreds of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army, but they were all defeated. The People's Army is not an ordinary thief. The thief even started to hold imperial examinations, and thousands of people participated. Once the People's Army had more talents, the Ming Dynasty would be in danger.

In a teahouse in Nanchang City, Wu Xinji listened to others criticizing the People's Army for holding the imperial examination, and an idea came to his mind, he wanted to go to Guangdong to join the People's Army.

Although Wu Xinji is wearing ordinary clothes now and looks like an ordinary Confucian scholar, ten years ago, Wu Xinji was the son of a big landlord and he has no worries about food and clothing.

Unfortunately, the Wu family fell into a series of conspiracies, and his father died of illness, and most of his family's wealth was taken away by the mastermind. The orphan and widowed mother survived with a little care from his father and a friend. However, because of his father's death, his mother soon died of depression in grief.

Wu Xinji wanted to take revenge, but for him who had become an ordinary person, there was only one way to take revenge, which was to become an official through the imperial examination.

But Wu Xinji's journey to the imperial examination was very difficult, not because his talents were not enough. Wu Xinji felt that someone behind him was attacking him and always caused unexpected events. Some people even warned Wu Xinji, asking Wu Xinji to either live as an ordinary person or die.

Killing is a relatively troublesome thing. Even if he attacked the Wu family back then, he did not kill people directly. Wu Xinji's father died of illness.

Faced with the warning from his enemies, Wu Xinji's mind was full of anger, but he was helpless. He was just an ordinary person who could not pass the imperial examination and became an official. How could he be the opponent of those enemies? Now even the road to the imperial examination is blocked by his enemies.

In Nanchang City, Jiangxi, Wu Xinji naturally knows a little about what happened in Guangdong. However, unlike the people in the border areas, Wu Xinji cannot personally contact the People's Army, and just learn about the People's Army from other people's talk.

The government's statement to the People's Army is naturally the case, and most people in Nanchang City also think that the People's Army is very vicious. In this case, Wu Xinji has no idea about the People's Army.

But as the People's Army continued to defeat the People's Army, there were rumors that the People's Army was very good to the people, and Wu Xinji's impression of the People's Army gradually changed. Now the People's Army reported the imperial examination, which made Wu Xinji have the idea of ​​joining the People's Army.

However, Wu Xinji, who is still in a state of trouble, doesn't know when he will be able to make up his mind.
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