Prime Minister

Chapter 114 Taixue Baozi
Just as Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi were entering the Imperial College holding a collection of family certificates each bought with 20 yuan, they saw a student in his early [-]s walking towards him.

This person has an extraordinary appearance, so Zhang Yue couldn't help but take a few more glances.

This person was also walking by himself, seeing Zhang Yue looking at him, he couldn't help but look at him, and then looked at Huang Haoyi who was beside Zhang Yue.

When the three of them passed each other, the other party suddenly stopped and turned around and said, "Dare you two come from Fujian?"

Both Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi turned their heads.Zhang Yue said: "Exactly, Zhang Yue in Xiapu City, this Huang Haoyi, a person from Jianyang."

The person laughed loudly, "There is nothing wrong with that."

Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi couldn't help but look confused.The other party walked up to Huang Haoyi and said, "Your elder brother is Huang Jidao!"

Huang Haoyi smiled and said, "That's right, is it possible that Xiongtai is familiar with my brother?"

The other party smiled and said, "Of course, didn't Brother Ling tell you to find someone named Cai Chizheng after arriving at the Taixue?"

Huang Haoyi was pleasantly surprised when he heard the words: "Because of this, could it be that your brother is here?"

The other party nodded with a smile and said, "Of course. If it weren't for the similarities between you and Dao brothers, Brother Ren, I almost missed it."

Huang Haoyi said a few words to the other party with a look of surprise, and then said to Zhang Yue: "Sanlang, let me introduce you to this brother's fellow from the same town. His surname is Cai and his name is correct, and his name is correct."

"Cai Que? Which Que?" Zhang Yue looked in disbelief.

"It does indeed work."

When Zhang Yue heard this, he was almost dumbfounded.

He was even more surprised than when he heard that his second brother was Zhang Dun.

Who is this person in front of me?

The top of the list of traitors in Song history!In terms of the ranking of traitors, he also defeated his second brother and Cai Jing.

But how did Huang Haoyi's elder brother meet him.

"Why didn't the two of you come to me first? Could it be that I, Cai, is not worthy of your brother's (Huang Haoqian) entrustment?" Cai Que looked unhappy.

Huang Haoyi hurriedly said: "I originally wanted to visit brother Chizheng after I surrendered my ultimatum."

"Oh? Ultimatum? Where did you do it?" Cai Quewen asked.

Huang Haoyi pointed to the gate of the Guozijian: "It was held at the Jiujia Bookstore, and we were asked to do a family collection. One person received two thousand dollars."

Cai Que shook his head and said, "You guys! I'm not familiar with the place when I came to Bianjing, and I don't know how to find help from my classmates. Zhang Sanlang is lucky to say that you have a brother who confessed, but you are still so embarrassing. Give me the family certificate, and then Come with me."

Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi handed over the collection of family documents to Cai Que.Cai Que walked ahead alone with his sleeves fluttering to the front of the bookstore and said, "You two are waiting outside the door."

After finishing speaking, Cai Que walked into the bookstore alone.

Zhang Yue hurriedly asked Huang Haoyi: "How did your brother know this brother Cai?"

Huang Haoyi said: "Isn't my elder brother studying in Chenzhou all the time? This Cai Chizheng is also living in Chenzhou."

"Living in Chenzhou?"

"Exactly, Brother Chizheng's father was from Quanzhou, Fujian Province. He joined the army for Chenzhou. He was dismissed because he offended Chen Situ (Chen Zhizhong). The family returned to the hometown because they had no money, so the whole family was exiled in Chenzhou. There are ups and downs in a paragraph."

Zhang Yue sighed, "It's so miserable!"

Huang Haoyi said: "Yes, my elder brother met this Cai Chizheng when he was studying in Chenzhou. Because we are all from Fujian and live in a foreign land, we often help him. This Cai Chizheng is really talented, no matter how talented he is in writing. Well, several fortune-tellers once said that he looked quite similar to Li Deyu, a famous prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, and also said that he would support his elder brother when he made a fortune in the future."

"But last year's spring test, my brother was nominated for the gold list, but he failed for being correct. Fortunately, he was admitted to the Taixue. After you and I enter the Taixue, we will entrust him to take care of it."

Zhang Yue said in his heart, mother, why do we stay unclear with treacherous ministers all day long.

The two hadn't had enough time to talk for a cup of tea, Cai Que strode forward, threw a thousand coins to Zhang Yue, Huang Haoyi, and scolded: "Don't waste money indiscriminately in the future! Where is this Bianjing? Jingchengju It’s not easy. Mountains of gold and silver can be sold overnight, so it’s not worth your money.”

Zhang Yue, Huang Haoyi and others had no choice but to be taught.

Zhang Yue himself really took it for granted, he was still stuck in the thinking that he could use money to settle things but not favors, and that he would not find someone if he could not find someone.

That is modern times, but in ancient times, why should relatives, fellow countrymen, and the same race be advocated? This is how mutual troubles come out of feelings.

"I'll take you to submit an ultimatum first, and then go to Taixue later." Cai Zhenyan said.

The two returned to the Guozijian, and Zhang Yue and Cai Que talked about the attitude of the bookstore clerk.

Cai Que smiled and said: "Of course, I tell you that the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the prosperity of the world is for profit. The reason why the guys look bad is because you have no money."

"Do you think that the biggest job of the bookstore is to write your family statement for you, and verify the writing since birth? Wrong, the biggest job of the bookstore is to fake books for scholars, entrain text and ask people to write for you."

Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi were surprised when they heard this.

That's right, there are two classes of bookstores in the Song Dynasty, the first class is for normal bookstores, and the second class is just like that, and the way is so wild.

But Zhang Yue still couldn't help asking: "Won't the yamen investigate the public fraud?"

Cai Que said: "Everyone who runs a bookstore is not only a person who is familiar with treachery, but whoever is behind it is either a rich family or a wealthy family. How can the Yamen dare to investigate? Take the case of fake nationality as an example. Wen and Taixue Guan students."

"A lot of lucky people went to the capital to buy the certificate of supervision privately, tried to change their name, or pretended to be a family member in Jinei, in order to make progress. Have there been fewer such people over the years?"

Zhang Yue understood that the Guozijian examinations and the Kaifeng government examinations not only had a lot of quotas, but also a lot of Jinshi places given by the imperial court.

Therefore, many scholars either pretended to be students of Taixue, Guangwen Museum, or pretended to be from Kaifeng Prefecture, and obtained the qualifications to participate in the Imperial College Examination and Kaifeng Prefecture Examination.

But it is not the government that is responsible for verifying the qualifications of the exam, but the bookstore.

how so?

Because the government could not guarantee the results of the inspection, it was handed over to private bookstores.

And the bookstore was not a notary institution from the beginning. It was indeed a copy of the book at the beginning, replacing the common people and writing the pleadings in the government's format.

After that, the power of the bookstore gradually expanded, until it endorsed the authenticity of the candidates for the provincial examination, and replaced the government to check the real identity of the candidates, such as whether they had fake registrations.

After being approved by the bookstore, it will be handed over to the government for review.

If there is no such process as a bookstore, in the event of false registration of candidates in the future, the responsibility will be entirely on the government.With a bookstore, the government can completely shirk to the bookstore if there are counterfeit books.

So the book shop came to this place, and those who could pass the upper and lower levels simply marked the price clearly to apply for the fake registration for the candidates, and if the money was more, they could help to take the exam.

"How much is it if you obtain a counterfeit identity?" Zhang Yue couldn't help asking.

"It used to be six or seven thousand dollars, but now it costs ten thousand!"

Zhang Yue thought for a while and said: "It's not expensive! Also, if you are a child of an aristocratic family, you don't need to fake your identity at all. Only those from the Han family can do this deceitful way."

Cai Que glanced sideways at Zhang Yue, then smiled and said: "That's right, San Lang is very quick to see things. You are born in a righteous way, and the bookstore has no money, so I don't care about it."

"Haha," Zhang Yue laughed, "It's really better to listen to Brother Chizheng's words than to read ten years of books."

Cai Que said: "Don't dare to be. Sanlang has the demeanor of the son of a famous family. I don't know if he is familiar with Zhang Ziping, the number one scholar in this discipline?"

Zhang Yue said: "It's just a one-sided acquaintance."

Cai Que smiled slightly, and Huang Haoyi couldn't help but said: "Brother Chizheng, his second brother is Zhang Zihou."

"Oh? Is it Zihou? No wonder, no wonder."

Zhang Yue feigned embarrassment on the surface, but said in his heart, no wonder, no wonder, no wonder the two treacherous ministers from the new party fell in love with each other so early?
Zhang Yue thought about it again, but with Huang Haoyi's big mouth, he couldn't hide his whereabouts when he came to Beijing.

The three met the scribe.Seeing the seal of the bookstore, the clerk stamped the two without even looking at it, and returned it to Tang Jiu. Ma Wu delivered the official document and told them to take the Taixue exam ten days later to decide whether to be hired by the Taixue .

Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi were very happy to see that with the help of Cai Que, the matter was settled so easily.

Zhang Yue said: "If it weren't for Brother Chizheng, I really don't know how troublesome it would be today. Why not, let me be the host, please Brother Chizheng, how about Shiro having wine and tea?"

Cai Que smiled noncommittally when he heard the words: "Let's go to Taixue first and then talk about it!"

Cai Que immediately took Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi to visit Taixue together.

Taixue was originally only Xiqingyuan, and later expanded with the deepening of Fan Zhongyan's reform, and was merged into Yuhou Gongyu, the capital of Ma Jun, and Taixue was expanded in Wuchengwang Temple.

Even the West Veranda of Chaojiyuan, where the local representatives returned to the palace to annotate officials full-time, was changed into a law school.

Now Taixue has thirty fasts, with 30 people in each fasting, a total of [-] Taixue students.

After visiting Taixue, Zhang Yue invited the two of them to have a drink.

Cai Que said with a smile at this moment: "A little busyness is nothing to worry about, Sanlang, I tell you, it's not easy to go out, and it's not easy to be in the capital, so keep more money on your body, and there are plenty of places that can be used in the future."

"Today, I'm here to show my kindness as a landlord, and invite you two to eat steamed buns from Taixue."

Zhang Yue almost forgot Taixue Mantou, which is very famous.

When Wang Anshi reformed in the later generations, Song Shenzong inspected Taixue to see what the students were eating, and took a piece of steamed buns to eat.Song Shenzong was very satisfied after eating, and happily said to the left and right: "You can be worthy of supporting scholars with this!"

Even the steamed stuffed buns are praised by the officials. What else can I say, the taste must be top-notch.

Since then, Taixue Mantou has become a famous delicacy in Bianjing.

Cai Que went to the food hall to get six freshly baked steamed buns, and the three of them shared the food under the pavilion.The steamed buns in the Song Dynasty are steamed buns, Zhang Yue bites down, heh, full of meat fillings, full of sincerity, without cutting corners at all, fragrant and attractive and full of juice, it is almost full of oil in the mouth.

Not to mention, although there is no bonus of Song Shenzong's name right now, the taste is really delicious.

Taixue steamed stuffed bun is well-deserved, and I tasted it on the first day I came to Bianjing.

At this moment, the chapter is more like traveling in the future, and it feels like punching in food.

Zhang Yue made up his mind silently, so he will go to Baozi here and work hard to be admitted to Taixue.

(End of this chapter)