I rested in Chengshan for a night, entered Luxian County the next day, and then continued on the road. After two days, I finally arrived in Tongzhou.

As a provincial capital, Tongzhou is naturally much larger than Linhai County and the city is full of prosperous scenes and people come and go. Ningjiang did not rush to report to Tangyu Academy, but took his sister to visit various scenic spots in Tongzhou first.

The dream of seeing this big city for the first time is naturally novel everywhere. I just think it’s new to see this and that one.

Ning Jiang said funnyly that a provincial capital made her so excited that she would do this in the future if she went to the capital city?

Of course, he said that he had never seen what the capital was like during the prosperous period. Although he had been to the capital several times in his life before his rebirth, the capital at that time had been looted by the barbarians for countless times. The "warriors" among the barbarians enjoyed killing people in the capital, with nine out of ten houses empty and corpses everywhere. When Ningjiang entered the capital, the crows looked at the corpse, and the bones blocked the river.

Realizing that if they continue to kill, the barbarians who were about to break out of the plague besieged thousands of "two-legged sheep" and left the capital, leaving behind the once glorious Haojing.

The so-called two-legged sheep are all women captured by the barbarians. The older ones are called "not envious of sheep", and the underage little girl is called "Hebiao Rot", which means that even the bones can be cooked when they are cooked.

It is precisely because of this that Haojing in Ningjiang's memory is a broken and tragic scene that is almost like hell.

Xiao Meng naturally didn't know this. When she heard her brother say "What should I do if I go to the capital?", she was happy. This was not just because of ordinary people's yearning for the capital, but also because of her brother's confidence. Her brother is a scholar, and scholars go to Beijing, so of course it is to take the top scorer.

Those who can get to the top scorer in Beijing will at least be a juren.

Her eyes were smiling.

While traveling around, Ningjiang was also inquiring about the current situation and learned that riots were occurring in the Longyan Lake area near Xiling. Many people who could not survive rose up. The leader of the riot was called Zhong Xiang. The court had sent a Confucian general who had won the Tanhua family and brought several Jinshi and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to suppress them.

Such rebellions always happen from time to time in the southwest. Now, when land annexation is extremely serious, a severe drought is enough to make countless people lose their money because they cannot pay various miscellaneous taxes. The gentry who controls a large amount of land is exempted from paying taxes for various reasons.

On the one hand, the government cannot collect taxes from these literati and officials, and can only pass the burden on ordinary people. On the other hand, once the people go bankrupt, they can only sell their land. Therefore, more land is annexed by those "country geniuses" and "country gentry". Then they are exempted from paying taxes because of their own fame or official positions, and are trapped in a vicious cycle that everyone knows but cannot change.

The riots caused by this have almost never stopped in the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but they were suppressed without exception. When emperors and scholars ruled the world together, almost every Jinshi was a "enemies of ten thousand people". Ordinary peasant uprisings could not cause any trouble.

However, Ning Jiang had some impression of this riot in Longyan Lake.

In his previous life, although the peasant army of Longyan Lake was forcibly suppressed, the subsequent collapse of Confucianism and Taoism made Longyan Lake, which had almost become dead, fallen into wars in the southwest with sparks, and after the fall of the north, the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had hoped to establish the Southern Dynasty regime south of the Long River, further collapsed.

Although the Longyan Lake riot became a heavy stone that weighed on the Great Zhou Dynasty, Ningjiang did not intend to do anything about it.

Those ordinary people who were just ordinary people either did nothing and starved to death, or struggled to make a fortune and were killed by the officers and soldiers ruled by the literati and officials.

If Ning Jiang were them, there would be no doubt that he would make a second choice.

The riot and rebellion far southwest, except for some people in the martial arts world, have almost no attention for ordinary people.

In the Tongzhou area, land annexation is also serious, but because it is located in the lower reaches of the Long River, it is a land of fish and rice, which is naturally much better than those places where people need to rely on the weather for their meals. Moreover, the roads are not very smooth. Officials and gentry are almost the southwest of the local emperor. It is not difficult for the gentry in this area to see the unscrupulousness of the gentry, and the people at the bottom can barely survive.

However, when it comes to Longyan Lake, Ning Jiang remembers a name he once heard from people in his previous life.

And that person, at this moment, should still be just a student from Tongzhou?

Tangyu Academy is located in the north of the provincial capital, surrounded by a Hubo, called Luopei Lake. According to legend, there was once a celestial girl Luopei pendant with this place, which became this lake.

On the east side of Tangyu Academy, there is a famous mountain called Kongshan. Every autumn, the maple leaves all over the mountain embellish the Kongshan like the bright red Flame Mountain. It is the favorite place for poets and poets in this city to visit. Of course, it is only summer now, and the midsummer is not yet here, and it is still a bit far from the season when autumn maples are all over the mountain.

In order to resettle his sister, Ning Jiang rented a small courtyard by Luopei Lake and lived in with his sister. Then, the next day, he went to Tangyu Academy to report.

Although it is a provincial school, the institution of the Great Zhou Dynasty was more of a symbolic meaning. Students from various counties in the state lived here, while studying, waiting for the arrival of the autumn examination. The institution will arrange lecturers to teach, explain the meaning of the scriptures, and teach strategies.

Just like the universities in another world known to Ningjiang, for students who are studying in the state, they can choose which courses to take and whose courses they take, which is very free and casual.

In fact, for rich scholars at home, there is no use for county school, county school, or state school. However, it is of great significance for poor students who cannot afford to hire teachers or books at home. Only in the school can they get real guidance.

After signing up, Ning Jiang asked someone about the sutra master in front of him.

The Master of Sutra sat behind the table and looked up at him: "Baizi Jin? There should be no such student in our Tangyu Academy."

Ning Jiang knew that Tangyu Academy belonged to the provincial school, and this class of students can be admitted for free, and the number of students and appendix students can actually be included, but it only costs money. Although Bai Zijin, although he didn't know much about this person, he should be from Tongzhou and a scholar in this class.

However, since he has not enrolled here, either he is just a student or an associate student, or although he is a student, he chose to study hard at home.

Despite this, he continued to inquire about other students, but unlike his prestigious reputation in China more than ten years later in his previous life, it seems that no one has ever heard of this name. He asked more than a dozen people in succession, and all of them shook their heads.
Chapter completed!