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Zhou Tingyu came back tired and started the meal immediately. During the meal, no one spoke, and Zhou Tingyu was tired. Luo Xin and the other three were hungry, and the meal was fast. It took less than two quarters of an hour to finish it. The four of them came to Zhou Zhixian's study. Zhou Yu was busy making a pot of tea, and the three brothers then looked at Zhou Tingyu.

"The science exam is about to be held. I will talk to you about the science exam for my father. I have never said these words before, because he did not accumulate enough, and it was within my expectations that he did not pass the imperial examination last time."

Zhou Yu's face turned red, but Luo Xin knew it in his heart that Zhou Tingyu must have wanted to say the same thing as Lu Tingfang. However, the two must have their own understanding of the scientific examination, so Luo Xin also cheered up and listened carefully. After Zhou Zhixian finished speaking, although he spoke similarly to Lu Tingfang, he also benefited Luo Xin a lot because there were subtle differences between him and Lu Tingfang. After Zhou Zhixian finished speaking, he looked at the three people and said:

"Did you understand?"

The three brothers pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "I understand."

Zhou Zhixian nodded, then sighed: "I don't know whether it's right or wrong to let you enter the officialdom now."

"Father...what does this mean?" Zhou Yu asked hesitantly.

"Oh..." Zhou Tingyu sighed again: "Now the weather is not right, it is a pool of muddy water. You guys are rashly entering, don't you know if it's a disaster or a blessing?"

Zhou Tingyu's eyes swept across the three people in front of him and said, "You three really want to be officials?"

The three brothers exchanged their gazes, and Zhou Yu smiled bitterly, "What can you do if you don't become an official? Do you want to eat all day long and wait for death?"

Zhang Xun said seriously: "My father's lifelong wish is that I can be an official in the court."

The eyes of the three people in the study gathered on Luo Xin, who smiled bitterly and said, "The adoptive father also said that the Ming Dynasty is now in chaos and unfair. In this way, the lives of the people will be even more difficult and they will gain even less dignity. Therefore, even if you want to live with dignity, you must become an official."

"Yes!" Zhou Tingyu's expression became very ugly: "Now the Ming Dynasty has become corrupt, not only the court is not righteous, but also the smoky atmosphere. Even the border areas are also in ruins."

"No way?" The three brothers couldn't help but look at Zhou Yu in surprise.

"You don't know any news if you are not an official." Zhou Tingyu sighed: "Let's talk about our north, Mongolia has not stopped in the past year and invaded year by year. They are called Daqiu Gu. My millions of border troops in the Ming Dynasty are like native chickens and tiles in front of the Mongols. Over the past decade, countless people in the border areas of my Ming Dynasty have been killed or injured, and hundreds of thousands of people have been kidnapped by the Mongols."

Luo Xin remained silent. These things were recorded in later generations, so Luo Xin knew very well. However, Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun looked at each other and were shocked.

"This is just the north, and the southeast coastal areas are also in chaos. I believe you have heard of the Japanese pirates, but you don't know how great the Japanese pirates are."

"How old?" Zhou Yu asked involuntarily.

"In fact, only a few Japanese pirates, most of them were pirates causing trouble for the coast. There were two largest pirates, one was Wang Zhi and the other was Xu Hai. These two men gathered a large number of pirates, and they colluded with Japanese pirates and fled along the coasts from Shandong to Fujian, burning, killing and looting. The Ming army actually fled in sight, and did not dare to face the enemy, so that the coastal people would suffer the rebellion of the Japanese pirates."

Zhou Yu was shocked and said, "It's my Ming Dynasty's money warehousing granary!"

"Not bad!" Zhou Zhixian nodded and said, "It's a pity that all the officials in the court know, but they only know how to argue every day and let the Japanese pirates run rampant. And the barbarian chieftains in Yunnan and Shu also had several rebellions. Now the Ming Dynasty is indecent inside and outside. Even if they are officials, how easy is it to live with dignity?"

Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun were in a huge shock, and even Luo Xin was filled with shock. In later generations, he only looked at these things from a perspective of studying history. But now he has been forced to participate. He heard what Zhou Tingyu said with his own ears and felt completely different.

"Do you still want to be officials?" Zhou Tingyu looked at the three people seriously and said, "Maybe you will be sent to the above-mentioned places to be officials in the future. You can have the possibility of dying for your country at any time, just like the bandits you just experienced."

Looking at the three people who were in deep thought, Zhou Tingyu stood up, walked out of the study room, and threw the three people into the study room. In fact, he was also very conflicted. He hoped that these three juniors could become officials, but also worried that they would fail in the career path and even lost their lives inexplicably. So he could only tell them the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty. As for their final choice, it was up to them to decide.

The door of the study room was gently closed, and the room was silent. After a while, Zhang Xun said softly:

"How come we don't know about these things?"

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "If my father hadn't mentioned it today, I wouldn't have known it. It seems that the court is blocking the news."

After pausing, Zhou Yu continued, "After these two years of hard study, I think not to mention the provincial examination, even the master examination, we have a great chance of passing the test. Then what we are facing is to be an official. It would be fine if we don't want to be an official, but if we decide to be an official, then how can we become an official? What kind of official do we become?"

"I want to be an official!" Zhang Xun said firmly: "This time it is not to fulfill my father's wish, but to be an official myself. The deterioration of the Ming Dynasty is so great that it is when I was corrected. This is what scholars should do."

"Not bad!" Zhou Yu was also energetic: "This era is the era that we long for, otherwise we will lose interest in becoming an official."

Zhang Xun also shone with his eyes and said, "Brother, Brother Xin, our brothers join forces to eradicate the traitor Yan Song and his son."

"Not bad!" Zhou Yu slapped the table and said, "The root of the Ming Dynasty's decay is Yan Song and his son. These two traitors confuse the emperor, oppress their colleagues, take bribes alone, and sell officials to form cliques. Without the exception of these father and son, the Ming Dynasty will have no future."

Luo Xin looked at Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun enviously. This is the young talent's spirit and the young talent's enterprising spirit. Even if he fails in the future, he will be young!

Luo Xin did not have such youthful passion and spirit. Whoever let his body hold a soul of over thirty years of age, even if he wanted to be young, he would not be young.

Two lifetimes make his mood more mature. Although this can make him more experienced in dealing with people, it also makes him feel that he has lost something.

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*(To be continued.)

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