Prime Minister

Chapter 32
When it was almost time for Shen Shi, Zhang Yue put on new clothes and new socks and went to Zhoujintang. Along the way, he was a little longing, a little excited, and a little worried.

Zhang Yue didn't go in first before arriving at Zhoujintang.

The rules of the Nanfeng Academy are like this. The professor will teach from Chen Shi, and he has to read until noon.

After noon, the bells of the Nanfeng Temple next door were heard, and the students dispersed for lunch.

After lunch, according to the scholar-official saying that sitting for a long time hurts qi and blood, all the students would go to the tour to throw pots and shoot arrows, and few of them returned to the classroom to continue their studies.

And the professor will also go back to the room to take a nap. After all, the old man is out of energy, and sleeping in the daytime is only for young scholars.After the application time, the professor will go to the Zhoujin Hall. At this time, he will answer the students' questions and solve their doubts. Many scholars come here to visit and ask for advice.

Zhang Yue is also qualified to visit and ask for advice, not a formal teaching.

Zhang Yue stood beside Zhou Jin Hall and waited, but seeing that the students of ethnic studies had arrived in twos and threes, watching them pass by in front of him.

At this time, Zhang Heng was chatting, laughing and chatting with several clan students and a scholar dressed in white.

Zhang Heng walked side by side with the white-clothed scholar, and the rest were like followers.

Seeing this, Zhang Yue first avoided to the side of the road.

Zhang Heng didn't see Zhang Yue at first, but when he got close, he didn't speak.

After the group passed by, Zhang Heng stopped and turned around and said to Zhang Yue, "What are you waiting for outside? Come in!"

This person actually took the initiative to greet him inside.

Zhang Yue didn't know which Zhang Heng sang.

Zhang Heng then said again: "There is a distinguished guest today, you can't be rude, remember."

Zhang Yue said neither humble nor arrogant: "I know it, and I dare not ask for a reminder."

Zhang Heng smiled and turned away.

Zhang Yue waited for a while before coming to the steps to take off his shoes. The shoes on the ground in front of the steps were neatly placed, most of them were clogs.

This scene reminded Zhang Yue of seeing the messy shoes placed at the entrance of the computer room when he was reading.

"As expected of a nobleman." Zhang Yue couldn't help but praise.

Zhang Yue placed his shoes at the farthest point, and then walked across the steps into the hall.

When entering the Zhoujintang, Zhang Yue stood at the end.But seeing the professor, Zhang Heng and the white-clothed scholar were all standing in front of the lecture.

But Zhang Heng said to Professor: "Sir, this is Jinke Jie Yuanlang!"

The white-clothed scholar sang loudly, "After studying Fuqing, Lin Xi met Mr. Boyi."

The professor smiled and said, "How dare you be Duke Yuan."

Lin Xidao: "I have long admired Mr. Boyi's name, and today I rely on Lai Ziping's recommendation to come here to seek advice."

Speaking of this, the disciples were already in an uproar.

Zhang Yue heard the two disciples whispering there.

"Unexpectedly, it was Jinke's solution."

"I wonder who he or Ziping has a better literary talent?"

"Ziping is the third in the solution test, but he is the top of the Cao test. Outsiders often say that the Cao test is not as good as the state test, so he takes the first state test as the solution. But in my opinion, the water test is more difficult to solve. , Zi Ping may not be under this Lin Xi."

"I also see that this popularity is not as good as Ziping."

"How did you meet?"

"Look at the arrogance of Jie Yuanlang when he just entered the door, but Ziping is dignified and easy-going."

"That's right, Ziping won the top of the Cao test list before, but I never heard him mention it. Later, I waited to find out from brother Jianfu."

"In today's theory of talent and liberal arts, no one is more than Ziping."

The Song Dynasty issued the test, and there was a state military test, and most of the test refers to this.Such as Fujian, Zhejiang and other southeast prefectures take one out of a hundred people for the military examination. Generally, two or three thousand children from poor families take the exam along the way, and two or 30 people are taken.

The Cao test also belongs to the solution test, and it is the children of the official family like Zhang Heng who participate in the test.

During the reign of Emperor Renzong Jingyou, the ratio of recruiting candidates for the Cao test was three out of ten.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations were said to be 'only meritocracy'. In fact, the purpose was to break the monopoly of the clans and gentry over the officialdom, and to take back the power to employ people.

But even so, the officials selected by the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were still mostly clansmen, and these people were still not very obedient.

So the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty began to consciously select scholars from the poor.

Because the Song Dynasty really achieved a relatively fair examination, only the Rites Exam and the Palace Exam, but there was no way to solve the local exam.

Therefore, the purpose of the court's establishment of the Caozhi was to place all the children of dignitaries and dignitaries here.Use this method to prevent these people from taking up the space for advancement of the poor by means of fraud and bribery.

However, such a serious imbalance in the ratio made the officials and ministers very dissatisfied. After Song Qi and other ministers in the court went up and down, the admission ratio of the Caokao finally dropped. For the quota, 15 people will be taken from [-] people'.

Having said that, which is more difficult, the Cao test or the state military test?

Readers have been arguing about this.

Those who passed the Cao test were indeed outstanding. In the Ministry of Rites test, their performance was not inferior at all, and even better than the underprivileged children who passed the state military test. That waits, and I will be admitted to the joint after seeing it.

It is said that a single mouse feces ruins a pot of porridge, because these people with joint joints have made the original bad reputation worse, so the testers mostly avoid talking about themselves and theirs.

After talking too much, people think that you are really good, so you can't wait to show it off. Therefore, a truly talented scholar should go to the Ministry of Rites to see the true chapter.

Through the discussion between the two, Zhang Yue understood that Zhang Heng was the latter.

Listen to the chat between these two.

Zhang Yue probably had an impression of Zhang Heng.Zhang Yue used to read those third-rate novels, and the author would not transition the plot, so every time the protagonist went to a place, he had to arrange a few passers-by to talk to introduce the background. I didn't expect it to exist in reality. It is really art that comes from life.

"Sho Saburo."

Zhang Yue heard someone calling him, but when he turned his head, he looked at Zhang Cai.

"You sit next to my case." Zhang Cai pointed to Zhang Yue with a smile.

Zhang Yuexi looked at Zhang Cai's sitting posture and asked, "You need to sit up straight."

"Of course."

Zhang took a brocade mattress, and Zhang Yue knelt on the brocade mattress as Zhang sampled.

"I heard that you had a conflict with Zhai Changsheng again yesterday?" Zhang Cai asked.

Looking at Zhang Heng in the hall, Zhang Yue nodded and said, "Yes."

Zhang Cai smiled and said, "Don't blame Ziping, Ziping is the person I admire the most, and the person who works hard the most."

"He had to light up the lights every night to read at night, and he had to read until the third watch, so that the top of his mosquito net was smoked dark by candles. Although he read until the third watch every night, Zi Ping still got up early to read before the fifth watch."

"Zi usually learns poetry and verses, classics, and books. Everyday people are afraid that they will be complacent and reluctant to work hard. But he is never self-sufficient, and he studies diligently every day."

When Zhang Yue heard this, he felt that this was similar to what Guo Lin said about himself.

Zhang Cai continued: "This county is a large county in Gongju. Talents can be called crucian carp across the river, not to mention all the way. Ziping is the first in the Cao test, not only for his talent, but also for ten years of hard work."

Zhang Yue remembered what Zhang Heng had been brooding about since he lost to his brother before: "Zhai Chang seems to be a man who refuses to admit defeat."

Zhang Cai said with a smile: "Ziping seems to be calm on the surface, but he is more determined in his heart. In addition to his homework, he is not weaker than others, and even the two skills of throwing pots and archery are also the same. They are all leaders in my generation. Handle all the big and small affairs for the head of the house. A few months before he went to Luli for the exam, the husband asked him if he had resigned from the post of head of the house and concentrated on preparing for the exam, but Ziping refused. But he studied hard day and night. In the end, he was the first in the water test and the third in the solution test. Only extraordinary people can do extraordinary things. Even if Ziping’s talent is released in our clan, it will only come out once in 50 years. I am admired by everyone. , you’ll know it after you’ve been with him for a long time.”

"But over the years, only Brother Ling can be on par with him. After all, Brother Ling's academic diligence should be no less than that of Ziping."

Hearing what Zhang Cai said, Zhang Yue tried his best to recall Zhang Xu's deeds for a long time, and then said, "It doesn't seem to be as good as Zhai Chang."

"Oh?"

Zhang Yue said: "It's not that I put money on my family's face. Ever since I can remember, my brother has also studied, but he has never been so diligent. It seems that someone has asked my brother, and he said, my academic articles are all important!"

Zhang Cai was stunned for a long time when he heard the words, and then he said, "In this way, Ziping doesn't seem to be as good."

"However, I have deliberately watched the ranking of the township test. Brother Ru is not listed, which is really confusing."

Zhang Yue thought to himself, Zhao Yasi was looking for his second brother, and he might be arrested as soon as he appeared in the examination room.

Zhang Yue thought about it again, saying that his second brother is really a dragon and a phoenix, but as far as he knew in his previous life, there was no one in the Song Dynasty with the same name as his second brother. Maybe it was because of escape from marriage, and it disappeared from the public.Or maybe the second brother has been cut off by Zhao Yasi at this moment, but Zhao Yasi deliberately did not say anything, but took the opportunity to squeeze himself...

Zhang Yueshi didn't dare to think further.

That's right, a middle jinshi can leave a mark in the history books, but if you don't get a jinshi, whatever your talent is, it will be buried in the end.

Zhang Cai turned and said: "I knew that the ministry took your family certificate from me a few days ago, and he was suspicious of your identity. But you don't need to think too much, the gentleman has accepted you by letting you sit in. For thousands of years This kind of opinion can't be resolved in a moment, they can give you a place here. A man who is established in the world should carry a three-footed sword to make the world's achievements, and what is the honor and disgrace of a mere moment, if it comes Anzhi."

Zhang Yue said, "I really don't know how to be grateful for Xuelu's guidance."

Xuelu smiled bitterly and said, "Or share the same fate. I'm also a concubine, but luck is better than yours. I don't have the longest knowledge, so I have to practice some things to gain the appreciation of the clan. "

"For example, Ziping never looked down on me and became friends with me. He only made friends with people like Lin Xi. In the school, most people knew my elder brother, and they respected me less because of the elder brother's face. superior."

This heart-to-heart conversation quickly pulled the distance between the two.People like Zhang Heng and his second brother, after all, are a minority, and most of them just look up to them like themselves and Xuelu.

At most they will be developed in the future, and they can boast that I have been classmates with them.

(End of this chapter)