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A children's song sung in modern day Si Chuan about how government troops, which weresupposed to fight off the bandits, actually gave the people more misery than the bandits did.




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Words said about how Ming's Emperor Shen gave the first place of the national service test to theson of his chief advisor, Zhang Ju Zheng, as a way of rewarding Zhang's good work in thegovernment. In fact, everyone knew that this was an unfair practice.




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Words said about the national civil service test during one year of the Wan Li era. This year,because of cheating, no one was listed as the winner of the first place of the test.




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Words said about the great famine that Hang Zhou was going through during one year of theCong Zhen era.