Prime Minister

Chapter 145 Deadline
After walking out of Wu Mansion, Zhang Yue felt a little bored.

On the way back, I realized that it was already late at night, and I didn't have a carriage to go back.Fortunately, he learned that Zhang Heng lived next to the Taixue, so he took himself a ride along the way.

Although Zhang Heng was a little drunk along the way, he said: "If Sanlang has the heart to write poetry, he should be familiar with the rhyme."

Zhang Yue said: "Chief Zhai, I have already memorized the rhymes of Ji Yun."

Zhang Heng said: "It's still not enough to memorize. Your daily speech still has a slang accent. When I was studying ethnology, I heard that your speech was flat and inaccurate, and the entrance tones were often mispronounced as flat tones. To write poems, it is not enough to memorize rhymes, and it is not enough to learn poetry. When you read it out, follow the rhyme words."

The more the chapter understands, it's like "weeds and flowers by the Zhuque Bridge, and the setting sun is slanting at the entrance of the bird's clothing alley".The word "Xie" is pronounced as "Xia", and Zhang Yue's habit is to pronounce the entering tone as flat tone.

Only by reading the oblique character as Xia can it rhyme with the family character in the lower part of "the old swallow in front of Wang Xietang flew into the ordinary people's house".

Now his speech has long been replaced by Pucheng slang, which is flat and plain with elegant speech, and there is still a difference in the sound.Ouyang Xiu just spoke slang, and he had no money to buy rhyme books, which led to his defeat in several imperial examinations.

As for modern words, they have long since lost their voices, and they are even worse than Yayan.

In Taixue, Zhang Yue could compose poems according to the rhyme books, but he still talked and recited in the same way on weekdays.

Zhang Yue thought to himself that there is no need to change his daily speech. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, there was no voice, and the speech was different, but the imperial examination books should remember to use Pingshui rhyme.

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "When writing poems, check rhyme books, why bother to write poems? If they are not authentic, it will be difficult for the examiners to speak."

Zhang Yue said in his heart, Zhang Heng is too difficult, not only is he reciting poems on a daily basis, but even his speaking habits have to be changed according to the rhyme book.How can it be done at this time?
However, Zhang Heng is the No. [-] Scholar, so it is absolutely reasonable for him to say so.Anyway, practice more, just practice speaking according to the rhyme book in your dream.

"Master Zhai has been taught." Zhang Yue said very humbly.

Zhang Heng looked at Zhang Yue's expression and smiled.The two sat opposite each other in the carriage, and Zhang Yue felt a little depressed, so he picked up the curtain.

At this moment, the night wind is cool, and the avenue of Bianjing is still noisy and lively.

Zhang Yue looked out, but saw for a while, there were already several carriages and horses walking towards or passing by his own carriage.

From time to time, someone in the other party's carriage raised the curtain to look along the street.

There was a young woman on the carriage that Zhang Yuezheng was looking towards, and happened to lift the curtain.The other side looked a little gloomy, but just when they looked up, the two looked at each other.Then the other party gave a small smile, and then the carriage drove quickly, and the two looked back at each other before passing by.

The pleasant fragrance of the woman seemed to be carried in the wind, and Zhang Yuebu's heart fluttered because of the aftertaste in the car.Zhang Heng on the side smiled and said: "I entered Fengcheng in the evening chasing car, the east wind slanted to lift the embroidered curtain lightly, slowly returning to the charming eyes and smiling."

"If the news doesn't make sense, I have to pretend to be drunk and go with me. I vaguely heard that I was too crazy."

After Zhang Heng laughed, Zhang Yue knew that the other party was making fun of him, comparing it to this trip to the Wu Mansion.

This poem is about a man who saw a woman entering the city in a fragrant car, and it happened that the other party lifted the curtain and looked at him with a smile.

The man wanted to catch up and ask for a WeChat, so he pretended to be drunk and followed him, but he vaguely heard the other party say "crazy life".

Although it is a line of poetry, such an encounter makes Zhang Yue think of the woman he had just glimpsed just now.

Zhang Heng's words are very appropriate, but a little ironic.

Zhang Yue said: "Brother Ziping, it's wrong to recite Huanxi sand in this scene, but the partridge sky written by Mr. Song is the real one."

"Painted hubs, carved saddles, narrow roads, a broken heart and embroidered curtains. There is no colorful phoenix flying wings on the body, but the heart has a clear understanding. The gold is the house, the jade is the cage, and the car is like flowing water. Gepeng Mountain weighs tens of thousands."

Hearing this, Zhang Heng and Zhang Yue laughed out loud.

This poem was written by Song Qi, known as the "Hongxing Shangshu", and the poems were all copied from other people's poems.

At that time Song Qi was riding in a carriage, and happened to meet a carriage from the palace, the two carriages were traveling towards each other and bumped into one place.

The other party's car curtain was lifted, and a court lady saw Song Qi, and couldn't help exclaiming: "Isn't this Xiao Song?"

After the two cars left, Song Qi was fascinated by this woman, so he wrote this poem.

The last sentence is that Song Qi also knows that the other party is a court lady, and the chance of getting along with the other party is too slim, as if separated by tens of thousands of mountains.

but?
This poem was known by Song Renzong.

Song Renzong wondered how it would be for Xiao Song to fall in love with a court lady?
After Song Renzong found this court lady, he called Song Qi into the palace to talk about it.Song Qi was embarrassed, but Song Renzong was so beautiful as an adult, he gave this maid to Song Qi and said with a smile: "Pengshan is actually not far away."

Zhang Heng and Zhang Yue fought with each other.

Each said what they meant, and in the end both of them laughed in the car.

Zhang Heng said with a smile: "If you have wine, you should drink a few more glasses with Saburo."

Zhang Yue said: "I don't want to drink with the head of the fast either. I will give you back this bean."

"No need, I told you to give it to you," Zhang Heng said with a smile, "Although you don't have much chance with the Wu family, today is a good day, and I will tell you about marriage in the future."

"Then it must have the appearance of the court lady that Xiao Song has a crush on."

Zhang Heng looked at Zhang Yue, and said earnestly: "Sanlang, marry a wife and a virtuous man, not a woman."

Zhang Yue said: "Although I know that the head of the house is right, I don't!"

Zhang Heng laughed again: "What a Saburo."

Zhang Yue returned to Taixue.

The news of the banquet in the Wu residence on that day gradually spread in Taixue.

In addition to the words "all surnames in the world look up" was used for discussion, although this poem is good, it is not yet amazing.However, when talking about Zhang Yue among Tai students, they would not just say "he is Zhang Ziping's so-and-so, Zhang Zihou's so-and-so", but one more sentence about his poetic talent is also eye-catching.

Occasionally, a few people talked about Zhang Yue, and they said something that was not as good as Ziping, Zihou, but it seemed to be too much for fame and fame.

Zhang Yue didn't pay much attention to this, and recently devoted himself to composing poems.

People say Tang poetry and Song Ci.

The poem expresses the aspirations, and then it can be sung with music and text.

The words are different. The words have the name of the word board first, that is, the lyrics are filled in according to the tune on the name of the word board.Therefore, Song Ci is more like lyrics.

But the poems in the imperial examination are different.

Zhang Yue himself is still not very good at composing poetry, but poetry is required in the imperial examination.

However, the poems in this imperial examination are different from Tang poetry and Song Ci, but test post poems.

This test post poem is to draw up a topic first.

For example, the eight-legged essay in the Ming and Qing imperial examinations used a sentence from the Four Books and Five Classics as the title.However, the scope of test post poems is extremely wide, but all the sentences in the classics and history subsets can be used for the test.

It depends on the knowledge of the students.

For example, the examiner asked the candidates to write poems on the test post with the title of "Feng Fu got off the car with her arms".

Some examinees didn't know the source, and thought Feng Fu was a woman, so they wrote a sentence like "the jade hands are slender, and the golden lotus steps are walking".

In addition, there are also requirements for the format of the test post poems. Repeated words are not allowed, and the words must be dignified and graceful.

For example, "Ode to Feng Ya" in the Book of Songs must be written according to "Ode to Elegance", and there must also be a format of flat and flat.

There are also rules such as breaking the title for the first couplet and accepting the title for the second couplet.

Of course, the most important thing is that the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth lines must rhyme, so that the whole poem has a sense of looping.

All in all, under the limitation of the format, candidates are like dancing with shackles, and then write brilliant poems while moving around.

This is the test post poem.

In the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty, poetry and fu were the most important.

This is also something that must be considered in the Taixue private examination and public examination.

The private examination in Taixue is on the [-]th, and it is a fasting examination on weekdays.

But on the [-]th day at the end of the month, they will take a joint test in Chonghua Hall to determine the ranking.

Generally, poetry, fu or policy theory is tested every three days, and scriptures are tested every eight days.

Zhang Yue has been at the bottom of the Poetry and Fu private examination for three consecutive months, but for another three consecutive months, he was the first in the Taixue Jinshi Department in the private examination of Jingyi.

The contrast is so stark.

But this is of no use?The most important subjects of Jinshi are poetry and fu, followed by policy and theory, and finally the classics and meanings.

And if you want to copy a good poem from later generations, first of all, you must not lose the chain in the exams in Taixue on weekdays.

If it is said that the foreword is wrong, then the only one who gets slapped in the face can only be yourself, or others simply suspect that you copied it.

Now that the private test in September is coming soon, Zhang Yue feels overwhelmed again.Jinshi is really different from Jingyi, which made Zhang Yue feel that talent is very important again.

"Sanlang, Li Zhidao asked you to go there, so that you can take care of yourself!"

Liu Ji said to himself solemnly.

Looking at Liu Ji's expression, Zhang Yue thought to himself, what does Li Gou want from him?
Zhang Yue arrived at Li Gou's apartment, and saw him nervously.

Li Gou said: "Sanlang, have you been in Taixue for half a year?"

Zhang Yue said: "Report and speak directly, exactly half a year."

Li Gou said: "Now that you have been in the private examination for three months, you are the last of Jinshi every time. Don't you feel ashamed?"

Zhang Yuedao: "Speak frankly, students have only studied poetry and Fu for half a year, and the time is still short, please..."

Zhang Yuexin said, he almost learned from "zero foundation", and he was in a top1 school, so he can't blame me for ranking at the bottom.

"Don't need to say much, I have given you enough time," Li Gou said, "If you are at the bottom of the private test this month, you will be removed from your fasting allowance. If you are still the last in the public test, you will be expelled and sent Restoration."

Zhang Yue was a little annoyed, but he still said: "At the beginning, I meant to be straightforward. I was asked to enter the Jinshi department. Now that I am not successful in the Jinshi department, I should transfer to Zhuke or Mingjing. Is there any reason to expel me? Please tell the truth!"

Li Gou said: "Mingjing has already filled up all these subjects. Besides, I originally asked you to go to Jinshi with the intention of supporting me, but I don't know that you are so incompetent. Now I am in charge of Gou Taixue, and the rules are set by me. If you are not convinced, just go to the Guozijian and say it."

Zhang Yue thought, is this considered public revenge?
"Li Zhidao really deserves to be a famous Confucian in the country, the student bids farewell!" Zhang Yue turned and left.

Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue's back in a daze, and said to himself, "Am I being too strict with the students? As the saying goes, if the teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy! Don't have the heart of a woman!"

(End of this chapter)