Prime Minister

Chapter 99

Several people continued to chat.

Bookseller Yu returned from the counter with a smile: "How are you guys chatting?"

Seeing this, Yu Yunruo got up and said, "Since my uncle is here, Yunruo will leave."

Immediately the other side withdrew.

Seeing this scene, Yu Shushang looked at the faces of the three of them and said with a smile: "I have already packed up the places where you are staying. Please come here."

"Thank you."

Immediately, Bookseller Yu brought a few people to the backyard room.

There is a shop in front of Yu Shushang's residence, and a loft is built above it, where the shop assistant lives.

Behind the shop is a small courtyard separated by a hanging flower door.The main house in the courtyard is a three-bay south-facing large house, and there is a wing room in the east.

The wing room was packed out for Zhang Yue and the three of them to live in.

In the evening, Yu Shushang set up a table in the house to entertain the crowd. He Qiyan himself had friends in Jianyang, but he did not attend the banquet.In the evening, Yu Shushang brought his family, two sons, and a baby daughter out to meet the guests.

Except for the men, the women all went to another room for dinner.

Yu Shushang said to Zhang Yue and Guo Lin, "I am very cramped here, please bear with me."

Zhang Yue said with a smile, "It's a great honor for Mr. Yu to give me a place to live."

Yu Shushang said with a little deep meaning: "Actually, when guests came, they could all leave the wing and cover the room. But now the back room is for my niece, so the yard is not very spacious."

"It's not that my niece is mean. My brother was very kind to me when he was alive, but it's just that my family is a little unpleasant. It's not good for my niece, which makes my house uneasy now."

"Yun Ruo is now at the age of marriage, and I don't dare to find her a husband casually. She said that she wants to find a talented husband, so I would rather convert the money into some dowry, hoping that she will soon be Find a good husband!"

Zhang Yue glanced at Guo Lin and said with a smile, "Brother Guo is a good man, and he must be a good match with Ling's niece."

Hearing Zhang Yue's words, Guo Lin was almost choked to death by the meal, and hurriedly said, "I can't, I can't."

Seeing this, Boss Yu was a little embarrassed and said, "Eat vegetables, eat vegetables."

The two returned to the house after eating, and He Qi also came back at this time.

He said that He Qi had a place to seek refuge in Jianyang, but he did not go.He thought that Zhang Yue and Guo Lin would have a career in Jianyang, and he also planned to borrow some money, but now that he was just staying at a merchant's house, he immediately lost interest.

He Qi just went to the person he knew to ask about his future, and was told that he was sent to Bianjing this time, and the Jinshi Kexiu Cai of Nanjing Guozijian had already been set, and He Qi had a slim future.

Although He Qi asked for it again and again, the other party still shook his head, and he couldn't help but feel lost when he heard this.

Now that He Qi came back and saw Zhang Yue, Guo Lin and the two laughed in the room and said, "Does the shopkeeper Yu just let you two marry his niece?"

Guo Lin was startled and said, "Brother He is really predictable."

He Qi smiled slightly and said, "It was really expected by me, Saburo just saw that the woman seems to be interested in you. This is exactly the choice of the bird."

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Brother He, don't make fun of me, I just recommended you to Shopkeeper Yu."

"Me?" He Qi sneered, "That woman will never pick me."

"Why?" Guo Lin said.

He Qi smiled and said nothing.

The next day, the three dressed up and hired a donkey cart to go to the state school.

Come to state school.

However, in addition to Zhang Yue and others, there were also many students from prefectures and counties.

Such as Shaowujun, Ouning County, Jianyang County, Chongwu County, of course the most students are from Jian'an County.The state school was also built in Jian'an County, but the state school caught fire in the second year of Zhiping, so it was relocated to Jianyang.

In the second year of Jiayou's Jinshi list, there were nine Jinshi in Jian'an County, and nearly [-] Jinshi in the whole Jianzhou.Many of them were on the list from the National Academy of Supervision or changed their nationality to Kaifeng.

Therefore, is it difficult to become a jinshi?

Not difficult.

The ratio of Jinshi to the north and south of the Song Dynasty reached a serious imbalance in the Renzong Dynasty.

The imbalance is so great that in each subject, more than [-]% of the Jinshi from the South account for it.But what is very interesting is that in the selection of Zaizhi, the Song Dynasty still followed Song Taizu's ancestral teaching and followed the story of "Southern people cannot be prime ministers". It was not until Zhang Dexiang and Wang Qinruo that made an exception, but in general Zaizhi was still a northerner. .

Therefore, it is conceivable why Wu Yu and Wu Chong actively married with prominent families in the north.

At this moment, the students are divided into their own circles, and half of them are state students.The places to go to Guozijian are selected by the state school, so the scholars of the state school have a unique advantage in this regard.

And this time, out of the nine Jianyang Jinshi, three were students of the Imperial College.And out of the three or four hundred Jinshi places in each department, the imperial court always allocated [-] to the Imperial College.

Everyone chatted, Zhang Yue didn't want to chat with Guo Lin and He Qi any longer, he turned around and wandered for a while, admiring the atmosphere of Xueba, getting to know some people, and expanding his network.

"Xiongtai is from the state and Jinshizhai! The next one is Zhang Yue, a student of Pucheng County."

The other party said with a cold and arrogant face: "Jingsheng? Does Guozijian recruit Jingsheng?"

Zhang Yue...

"This brother has an extraordinary temperament and is studying Zhangyue in Pucheng County, Xia Nai."

"I have seen Xiongtai and learned from Yang Dangfeng in Xiazhou."

"Dangfeng, good name!"

"It's true, but Brother Zhang's name is a bit common."

Zhang Yue...

"This brother-in-law studied in Xiapucheng County."

"En? Pucheng County School?"

"Exactly."

"I only heard that there is a Nanfeng Academy in Pucheng, and Zhang Ziping, the top scholar in the current division, came from here. Only such people are worthy of making friends with me."

Zhang Yue...

"This brother..."

"I don't have time to chat with you, and I don't have time to know your name. I came here to enter the Imperial College. As for who you are and what your name is, it's the same for me."

Zhang Yue turned around and came back and couldn't help but sigh, what kind of scholar is this!

Each one is crazier than his second brother!
Just as he was alone with emotion, an academic officer came down and said, "Give me all your three strategies and theories, and I'll go to court when I read your name."

Zhang Yue and others handed in the papers that recorded Shi Ce.

Not long after, in the teacher's hall, the names began to be called in turn.The three of them entered the Master's Hall one after another, and after a quarter of an hour, they left.

From morning to noon, Zhang Yue, who was accustomed to eating snacks, was a little hungry at this moment.

Guo Lin distributed the pancakes he brought to Zhang Yue and He Qi to eat.

Everyone chewed a few mouthfuls, and then heard the academic officer shout: "Pucheng County Xue Zhangyue, Guo Lin, why do you do it!"

The three of them were in a hurry for a while, swallowing the cakes while cleaning up, and then walked into the Master's Hall together.

From then on, there are several long cases in the top of the table, each sitting is the state study, the teaching assistant, and the straight talk.Sitting in the middle must be Li Xuezhen from the state school, and Assistant Professor Sun was also present.

Everyone looked at the three people's strategy.

Someone on the side said: "If Zhou Xueju goes to Guozijian, he will leave his hometown and live in the capital forever. Can you bear the pain of leaving your hometown and saying goodbye to your family? You don't have to answer me right away, think about it for yourself."

After a while, the person asked, "Have you thought about it?"

The three of them said together, "In order to study the Holy Way, I dare not say goodbye to suffering."

The man nodded and said: "The hardship is one, the road is hard, the distance from Jianzhou to Bianjing, Nanjing is thousands of miles, and the road is not stable, there are thieves from time to time, and you will lose your life if you are not careful. In Bianjing and Nanjing, if you do not pass the National Children's Prison, you will have to return to Jianzhou, which will not only be a waste of effort, but will also have to be displaced."

"You can think about it carefully, don't worry about answering me."

The law and order of Song Dynasty is really not very good.

There are clouds in the courtiers. Since Xibi (Xixia) used the army, the material resources were poor, the people were resentful, and the court could not appease, so that a group of thieves swarmed into the state city to loot, three or four states.Thieves are small and big, so that they become giant thieves.

The thieves dared to openly rob even the heavily guarded state city, what else would they dare not, not to mention the pedestrians on the road.

Wealthy and powerful people have not dared to speak out when they hired guards, not to mention these unwieldy scholars.

No wonder Zhang Heng practiced archery hard, it turned out not to be physical exercise, but to save his life on the road.

From Bianjing to Pucheng, the distance is thousands of miles. If you fail the test, you have to go back.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue was indeed a little worried.

"Would you like to go?"

"Wish to go!" Zhang Yue answered in unison.

It seems that everyone's mind is average. Although the chances are slim, they still have to fight.

Seeing the three people answering like this, Li Xuezheng in the hall smiled and said: "Don't ask, you can travel thousands of miles with swords, this is a scholar of the Han and Tang Dynasties, how can it be inferior to the ancients now."

He Qi's expression changed and he said, "Xuezheng is very true, as the saying goes, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles, and studying abroad means reading ten thousand books and traveling ten thousand miles, and students have this ambition."

Zhang Yue thought to himself that He Qi's expression of such urgency could certainly attract the examiner's attention, but it also had disadvantages.If you meet an examiner who likes the rules, it will not be good.

Zhang Yue frowned when he saw that there were really two school administrators.

Li Xuezheng nodded and said, "Well said." Then he looked at Guo Lin again.Guo Lindao: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, the master and his disciples traveled westward to fourteen countries and traveled thousands of miles. Although they were exhausted, they wrote six scriptures after returning home, which will be reflected in the ages."

Zhang Yue said: "Li Taibai, who went abroad by sword, was poor in the south, and the sea of ​​​​underworld in the east; Ban Dingyuan, who turned to the side of the world, was the prime minister of ten thousand miles. Li and the two of them are all role models for scholars of my generation. "

Li Xuezheng stroked his beard and nodded and said, "Not bad."

Then Li Xuezheng said again: "Even if the state does not recommend you to go to Guozijian, you can still recommend you to go to the state school. Are you going back to the county school? Or go to the state school?"

It's a problem now.

But He Qi was the first to say again: "Students have long admired the demeanor of Xuezheng's elders. If they have this opportunity, of course they would like to go to the state to study!"

There are pros and cons to this answer.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin both answered that they wanted to go back to the county school.

Li Xuezheng stopped talking here, and the other academic officials asked Shi Ce a few questions.

In the end, Li Xuezheng said: "I'll take a closer look at your strategy and theory. You go down first, and you'll know it tomorrow."

The three of them saluted and left together, which took just a quarter of an hour.

(End of this chapter)