It is winter now, and coupled with the influence of the small glacier climate, snowflakes are beginning to float in Jiangnan, which is about to wet.

The Muchun Garden, located in Changshu County, Zhili, Nanzhili, was also hidden in a vast snowy field.

The owner of Muchun Garden, Qian Qianyi, as the leader of the Donglin Party, pushed open his own small window and looked at the snowflakes in front of him and sighed.

When Qian Qianyi thought that it was the seventh year of Apocalypse, and it had been three years since he was dismissed from his post in the fourth year of Apocalypse, he felt particularly heavy.

Although he said in front of countless friends that he was willing to be a farmer and did not want to enter the temple again and work hard, how could he, who had always been greedy for power and fame, really don't care about black veils and beasts on his chest?

In addition, since August this year, especially after His Majesty suddenly recovered, countless old Donglin officials have recovered, such as Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Sun Chuanting, and many court officials who cannot tolerate the eunuch party have been restored to their posts or even promoted to another level. However, I, a talented man in the Donglin party who is the most famous and talented in Jiangnan, has been slow to get the news of his recovery.

Of course, he also went to the capital to handle the matter like Han Yu, and even Wang Chengen received his gifts. Even when Wei Zhongxian arrived in Jinling (the real place names will be alphabetized, so the place names will be replaced by other words in the future), Qian Qianyi had secretly visited him.

But even so, the court still had no intention of using him.

It was not until recently that countless Donglin Party officials were searched and Shanxi merchants were uprooted, and Qian Qianyi realized that His Majesty had never wanted to re-activate the Donglin Party in large quantities.

It turned out that he was just paralyzed. When he thought of this, he couldn't help but sulk. But when he learned that the Fan family, who had a deep relationship with him, was also investigated, he was very worried, worried that he would not be implicated.

"Master, this is the latest "Da Ming Daily". At this time, the butler in his mansion came up and handed over a newspaper.

Today's Ming Dynasty, especially in Jiangnan, "Da Ming Daily" has long been a must-read for everyone every day. Even the leader of Donglin Qianyi is also reading it. His pseudonym "Changshu Lao Ru" is his columnist and a powerful general who has engaged in a pen battle with the recently published so-called royalist party.

Seeing that the new "Da Ming Daily" has been delivered, Qian Qianyi temporarily took down the depression in his heart and ordered the maid to brew a cup of Longjing before the rain, and sat on a yellow flower wooden chair, reading the newspaper under the snow light outside the window.

By the way, let’s take a look at how those royalists responded to their twenty-eight questions yesterday.

Those were the twenty-eight questions that Qian Qianyi had come up with in three days. From Confucius' words to the Hongwu ancestral system, Qian Qianyi believed that the group of ignorant people in the royal party would never be able to refute him.

However, before this, Qian Qianyi would usually read the latest news published on the front page of the newspaper and the editorials written by the literati of the Daming Daily newspaper.

The content is naturally what Zhu Youxiao did and said, what policies the court issued, and what the surrounding relationships were.

These represent the latest trends of the imperial court and the recent updates of the imperial rulers. The activation and removal of some senior officials will also appear here, and Qian Qianyi has to read it.

But when he saw an old scholar who had been taking the exam for 48 years - testing the causes and consequences of the fraud case in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provincial examinations in the Xinyou year", he couldn't help but be stunned.

Qian Qianyi, the examiner of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang provincial examination in the first year of Tianqi, was Qian Qianyi. That time he did accept bribes from many merchants and admitted many merchants. But who knew that due to the imperfect work, he was discovered in the end. If it weren't for the Donglin Party's rule at that time, he wouldn't have been fined just because he had been the one who had been in charge of the government of the Donglin Party. He was probably already dead. However, it has been seven years since this matter was mentioned suddenly.

The strong wind rose at the end of Qingping. Could it be that this is a signal that the court wants to punish him?

But he no longer has any official position, and the court still wants to do anything to him.

Qian Qianyi read with confusion. His writing was simple and he pointed to the key points. He started by telling an inspirational story about a poor scholar who had even had a small and medium-sized three-yuan family at the age of twelve. Therefore, relatives and friends in the clan expected him to be tall, but who knew that he was wasted more than 40 years in the first pass of the provincial examination. In the Xinyou year, he jumped into the river and committed suicide because he failed again. That time, a fraud case occurred. After the re-select, he was selected to be the sixth place in the provincial examination, but he died.

Then, it is naturally discussed how much harm the examiner's fraud would have to a poor student, to a country's scholarship and long-term stability. The pen is very sharp and he is scolding without mercy. The climax of the article directly points out that the examiner that year was Qian Qianyi.

Even though he only saw the words, Qian Qianyi wanted to eat the man's flesh and drink the man's blood, and his face turned red.

But since the Daming Daily was run by the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the governor, it is said that it was instructed by His Majesty, he did not dare to demolish the newspaper.

He had no choice but to vent his anger on the newspaper and tore it to pieces: "It's nonsense!"

However, on the second day, the editorial topics published in this issue of the newspaper continued to ferment, and countless literati who failed the exam began to criticize Qian Qianyi.

The topics about Qian Qianyi and Xinyou's scientific research fraud cases were constantly appearing on the message board of the Daming Daily. Wei Zhongxian, who secretly supported him, did not stop him. He even personally invited Ma Shiying, who had just been promoted to governor of Fengyang, to publish his memorial to the court to punish Qian Qianyi heavily.

For a time, countless low-level literary people from poor backgrounds became more courageous, and some even came to Changshu directly, holding a banner and insulting Qian Qianyi as a hypocrite.

Qian Qianyi's inscriptions from temples everywhere were also smeared and smashed. In order not to inflict public anger, some temples also smashed the inscriptions left by Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi did not expect that a newspaper would put him in such a disadvantage. He also rushed to mobilize his disciples to write articles to publish them in the Daming Daily to fight back.

Wei Zhongxian did not prevent these Donglin Party literati from coming to Daming Daily to publish articles anonymously, but there is one premise, that is, the royalist Party not only does not charge a page fee for publishing articles, but also has an additional reward of 1,000 words of five cents of silver for manuscripts. However, the Donglin Party literati had to pay the bank, which was calculated based on the number of words, and paid a correction fee of two taels of silver for every thousand words.

There are many scholars from the Donglin Party in Jiangnan. In this way, the Daming Daily not only did not lose money due to deliberate political propaganda, but instead made a lot of money.

Less gossip. Although Qian Qianyi's students spent a lot of money and wrote a lot of words, they could not stop the anger of the poor family members who lost their promotion opportunities because of his fraud. Even with the fuel of the "Five-Qian Party", things became more and more intense.

Qian Qianyi had to go to visit Wei Zhongxian in person and asked him to stop letting the Daming Daily discuss the matter.

But Wei Zhongxian refused, because the reason was very simple. Wei Zhongxian said that His Majesty's original intention was to make the Daming Daily a verbal conversation among the people of the world. Not to mention scolding you Qian Qianyi, even scolding me Wei Zhongxian and the Emperor, he had to publish it for him without any modification.

For this reason, Wei Zhongxian also specially took out the article of the Donglin Party literati calling him a castrated person who was a thief who was thief-hearted and unscrupulous to Qian Qianyi, and the signature of this article happened to be an old scholar in Changshu.
Chapter completed!