Zhang Hao, whose courtesy name is Guozhong, was from the Nanhai family.

For Daxia, the Northland and the South China Sea are both places outside the "Jiuzhou". To participate in the imperial examination, students in these two places must go to Jiuzhou.

Although they can also participate in the imperial examination and become officials through the imperial examination, there is a bad trend of discriminating against these "outsiders" in both the literary world and the court.

Among the two, the northern region is vast and sparsely populated, and there are very few brave warriors. Like Pan Long's father Pan Lei, who participated in the imperial examination and achieved success. The northern region does not care about this. For them, it is what men should do to develop good martial arts, go to the Jincheng defense line to fight with deserted people and beasts, and achieve success.

Studying? Imperial Examination?

My mother, what are you kidding!

During the years when the official school started, wasn’t it enough to memorize the letter?

The South China Sea has a large population and relatively developed economy, so its literary style is relatively prosperous. There have been many people participating in the imperial examinations over the years, and naturally many people have achieved results.

However, due to discrimination, it is not difficult for people from Nanhai to take the exam for scholars and juren, but it is obviously much more difficult to get the exam for Jinshi. As for the top scholar... Since the imperial court opened up the South China Sea, over the past few hundred years, the top scholar from Nanhai who came from Nanhai can count with one hand.

Moreover, even if this hand is a little broken, for example, if you chop off a little finger because you are drinking and you are not affected.

Under such circumstances, as a native of the South China Sea, Zhang Hao was able to take the lead in the imperial examinations throughout the Daxia and finally won the top scorer. This was indeed extraordinary.

However, the top scholar's career was not satisfactory. He wasted more than ten years in the Hanlin Academy and is still only a Hanlin bachelor.

It is a matter of face to be a bachelor's degree for a few years. It is not a good thing to be a bachelor's degree for a few years.

Therefore, this old bachelor is usually cautious in his words and deeds, and his posture is very low, so he engraved the word "low-key" on his face.

Especially recently, he has been appreciated by the Prince Emperor Hedong and is often summoned by Emperor Hedong to ask for advice. It seems that he has the meaning of ending his suffering.

If the incident happened ten years ago, he might have been full of energy. But now... he already knows the importance of hiding his shortcomings and being low-key. Unless he is in front of Di Hedong, he will usually be more harmless, and he will be like an assassin with "blindness".

The more you see hope, the more you need to be careful, because hope... is mostly living with despair.

If you are not careful, hope will turn into despair.

He has seen too many similar things.

However, as the saying goes, "When people are in the world, they cannot help themselves." Although Zhang Hao and Zhang Guozhong have worked hard to keep a low profile, when things come to the door, no matter how much he wants to keep a low profile, no matter how much he wants to reduce his presence, it is useless.

For example, today, several colleagues who were at most "acquaintances" in the Hanlin Academy suddenly dragged him to drink with him after get off work.

He knew at the time that the situation was not good, but he knew how to do martial arts. He was dragged by a group of people. He had no time to think of any solution in a hurry... After getting on the carriage, he could not find any solution, but it was too late.

At this moment, facing the persuasion of his colleagues, he looked helpless: "Everyone, national affairs have never been accomplished overnight. A little problem is not a big deal. Why are you anxious now?"

Several other Hanlin bachelors said in a verbal manner: "Brother Zhang, the situation is already very urgent now, are you still so relaxed?"

"Yes! Whenever those patrol envoys go, they are like jackals. Even the tribe fields and ancestral halls that other people worship their ancestors have to investigate. It's so unreasonable!"

"This is to lose the people's hearts!"

"The second prince cannot succeed to the throne anyway, so of course he doesn't care. But His Royal Highness will inherit the throne in the future. If there is a conflict between the court and the people due to the reform, wouldn't this cause him trouble!"

Zhang Guozhong frowned and said, "Everyone is from the Hanlin Academy and has the power to report the memorial. If you think the patrol envoys are not doing well, just report the memorial directly. Why do you have to come forward with me?"

"Oh! We have nothing to do, you don't know the situation of the court. Just submit memorials? I'm afraid that even the memorials will not reach the emperor's desk. They involve reform. Maybe we will submit memorials today. Tomorrow we will review the memorials Cang Yuan, who confuses the second prince with beauty..."

"You are different from us. You can go directly to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and make comments in person."

"Brother Guozhong, Your Highness is very fond of you. If you come forward and make a comment, Your Highness will care more about it."

"Yes! Brother Guozhong, this is a major event that concerns the national fortune. We literati have the responsibility to do so. Don't refuse!"

Everyone talked, as if this matter was related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Gradually, they even said that if Zhang Guozhong refused to cooperate, he would be expelled from the scholars and the world, and be enemies of the people and the people...

Pan Long frowned secretly when he heard this. He knew that there was a conflict between the reformists and the conservatives, and also knew that during this period, the patrol envoys had indeed entered many high-ranking players and investigated their assets under the name of "tracing the remnants of a hundred schools of thought". Therefore, the conflicts that broke out had to argue every time Cang Yuan and his staff discussed.

But unexpectedly, the conservatives did not come forward, but forced a neutral person to come forward!

(What a group of ghosts!)

He was angry and was about to speak, but Zhang Guozhong sighed, as if he had made up his mind and his expression became firm.

He smiled and said, "Everyone, Zhang still has something to do, so I'll say goodbye first."

"Brother Guozhong, what can you do bigger than this?" A young Hanlin scholar asked loudly.

"Yes, this is a major event for all the people in the world. How can there be anything bigger than this!" Another Hanlin scholar criticized with a very harsh attitude.

If Zhang Guozhong was criticized like this in the past, he would probably have panic.

But at this moment, he didn't care at all, but instead showed a somewhat sarcastic smile: "I'm going to study. "The National Change" just happened to be in Chapter 22, and I'm still missing the last few paragraphs to finish."

After saying that, he hurriedly left. A group of colleagues left wonderingly to look at me, and I looked at you, but I didn't understand what he meant.

A moment later, a Hanlin bachelor suddenly reacted and said angrily: "Zhang Hao is really ungrateful! We invited him to come forward to make a promise to give him a chance to become a success. He is actually ungrateful and mocking us in turn. He is really not a son of humanity!"

After he said this, other Hanlin scholars also reacted and cursed.

Pan Long was a little puzzled and didn't understand what they were scolding. He thought about it, checked out and went out. He found a bookstore and asked, "Boss, do you have the book "National Change" here?"

"What the guest is talking about Wen Chaogong's "National Changes"? If you ask this, our store will have stock. This book is very popular now and everyone loves to read it."

As he said that, the boss found a book from the bookshelf and handed it to Pan Long.

Pan Long opened the book and turned directly to the end of Chapter 22. After browsing it briefly, he understood what Zhang Guozhong meant.

The background of the book "National Change" is probably the famous Reform Movement in the history of previous lives. By the 22nd chapter, the reform has failed. The reform players either fled, were arrested, or committed suicide, and looked like they were scattered with money falling from a tree.

At the beginning of this chapter, Tan Fusheng, the highest-ranking official of the reform school, shook his head and said, "I read historical books from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. No reform can be successful without bleeding. If the reform in our country also requires someone to bleed, please start with Tan Fusheng."

So he still worked as usual and was eventually arrested.

At the end of this chapter, Kang Guangsha, the leader of the reformist literary world, fled in a hurry. On the way, a student asked him about his views on the future of reform. He said: "I read historical books from ancient and modern times, both China and abroad. No reform can be successful without bleeding. If the reform in our country also requires someone to bleed, please start from Tan Fusheng."

This passage should come from a famous online joke in my previous life, which is very ironic.
Chapter completed!