Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 584
Bianjing, Chen's house.

Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi held their wine glasses high and kept urging a scholar in Tsing Yi opposite to drink.

Chen Wenxian looked as if he was enjoying himself, and shouted: "Brother Meng, it can be said that I am going to Cao Zijian to monopolize all the talents in the world."

Chen Wenyi also held his stinky feet at the side, and said, "Brother Meng will definitely go to high school for this imperial examination. My brother, congratulations in advance."

The scholar in Tsing Yi named Meng Qing, a native of Daming Mansion, a wealthy local family, quite talented, came to Beijing this time to take part in the imperial examination.

The two brothers Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi are from Xianyou County, Quanzhou, and the Chen family in Quanzhou. Their father was the nominal third in command of the Qingyuan Army in the past, and the second person in real power. He held the military and political power in the Qingyuan Army. Chen Hongjin, who has to be afraid of three points in his follow-up.

Back then, the Chen family was restless and planned to buy officials in Beijing to stay in the Qingyuan army.

Luo Youdu, as a descendant, has no reason not to attach importance to Quanzhou Port, so he arranged for his brother-in-law, Fu Zhaoxin, who had a "quarrel" with Fu Yanqing, to go to Quanzhou as the magistrate.

Fu Zhaoxin himself has good abilities, and a thousand-year-old fox advises him. Within three months of taking office, he seized the military power of the Chen family, controlled the military power of Quanzhou, and then monopolized the port of the Chen family.

Chen Hongqian, the Patriarch of the Chen family, showed extraordinary courage at this time. He knew that businessmen would not be able to defeat the imperial court no matter what, so he gave up his monopoly on the Quanzhou estuary and cooperated with Fu Zhaoxin to renovate Quanzhou Port.

Fu Zhaoxin originally wanted to wipe out the Chen family, but faced with the cooperation of the Chen family, he lost his excuse.

The Chen family withdrew from the sea trade business, but the monopoly of the Quanzhou port in the past ten years has already made a lot of money and has enough capital.

The two brothers Chen Hongqian and Chen Hongjin discussed together and decided to follow the old path.

One of the two brothers is in business, the other is in politics, and they support each other.

Chen Hongjin also moved his family to Bianjing, looking for opportunities.

However, since the establishment of the Luoyu court, it has conquered the north and conquered the north, destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, captured Lianglong, flattened the south of the Yangtze River, settled Bashu, overthrew Lingnan, seized Jiaozhi, and fought a battle with Dali to divide the border.

Which one of the Luo Yu court's military generals doesn't have a luxurious resume worth mentioning?
A person with no military exploits, who dared not speak loudly after drinking in the Wuchen Group, had no place for Chen Hongjin.

Chen Hongjin thought over and over again, and decided to abandon martial arts and follow literature.

With the improvement of the status of literati, becoming an official from the military has become a problem faced by many generals.

After all, this fight has earned him a fortune, and there are many people who can't bear to let future generations live a life of licking blood with knives.

Chen Hongjin's two sons, Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi, were spoiled and spoiled, let alone killing people, even killing chickens.

Still, the two brothers received the education of classics and history subsets since they were young, and both have a certain literary talent.

Chen Hongjin asked famous teachers to advise Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi in various ways, striving to win the imperial examination and enter the official career.

Facing the great trust of their father, the two brothers were able to live up to their expectations, and they both earned a bad reputation.

With the financial support of the Chen family, even if one of the two brothers wins the championship, they can have a beautiful resume.

Chen Wenxian said casually: "Brother Meng published the weekly newspaper three times in two months. I'm afraid only Li Yu, a layman in Bailian, can afford such treatment."

Chen Wenzhen immediately said: "Brother's words are wrong. I don't think Li Yu may be as good as Brother Meng. Li Yu was just lucky and won the first place. At the beginning of the newspaper, there were not many people who contributed articles, so he took advantage of it. Now the world's talented people are gathered The capital, every day, submits tens of thousands of articles. Brother Meng can win the prize three times on the cusp of the storm. How can Li Yu be able to compare?"

Chen Wenxian was enlightened, raised his glass quickly, and said: "Slips of the tongue, mistakes of the tongue, it's because of my brother's slip of the tongue, mere Li Yu, how can I compare with Brother Meng. Come, punish yourself with three cups!"

As he spoke, he drank three glasses in a row.

Meng Qing was elated, and said drunkenly, "Don't dare, and dare not compare with Layman Bailian. In fact, there is nothing difficult about getting into the newspaper, as long as you are willing to part with your belongings, getting into the newspaper is not an easy thing."

Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi looked at each other, and they both saw the shock and joy in each other's eyes.

They feel that there is a problem.

Meng Qing cannot be said to be lacking in talent. His articles and poems do have some taste, and are of an upper-middle level.But compared with the real masterpieces, it is just a little less charming, something that is eye-catching.

Between a good work and a good one, there is only a little bit of unclear key.

But there are thousands of people who can write good works in the world, but there are only a handful of people who can write good works.

Some people have written articles for a lifetime, and it is rare to get a good one. Some people can drink a pot of wine, or even join in the fun, and their names will go down in history.

The simplest and straightforward way to become famous in Chang'an is to publish in newspapers.

In particular, the Bianjing newspaper has become the most popular publication. Once a work is published in the newspaper, it will immediately receive a lot of attention.If you get into the eyes of Dou Yujun, Zhang Zhao, and Tian Min, you will be judged by them, and you will directly rise to the top.

It's just that because of Li Yu's existence, the Bianjing newspaper has a very high threshold for selection. In order not to make shoddy articles, poetry articles have been transferred from daily magazines to weekly magazines.

The purpose is to select truly excellent poetry articles from thousands of submissions.Occasionally, there are no good articles, and some wonderful poems and essays by "unpopular poets" will even be published.

Just like Zhang Ruoxu's "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night".

Zhang Ruoxu's talent is not small, but "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" was almost lost due to various reasons, and no one paid much attention to it. It was not really passed on to the world until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Therefore, the scarce quota in the Bianjing newspaper is even more precious.

Articles and poems have thousands of faces, and in the eyes of different people, they may feel different.

Both Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi have read Meng Qing's two newspaper articles and one poem.

The standards are not much different from theirs, but they were published in the newspaper three times within two months, which made Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi secretly dissatisfied and a little suspicious.

Chen Wenyi suppressed his shock and said, "Brother Meng, what do you mean by that?"

Meng Qing was dizzy, and with his tongue out, he said casually, "Song Bai, the editor of Jinzuo Academy, is my classmate!"

Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyi looked at each other again, with indescribable shock in their eyes.

Song Bai?

How could it be him?

Song Baizi Taisu, born in the Song family of Guangping, was famous for his literary talent at the age of 13. Some people even compared him with Wang Bo, the supernatural power.He was the second place in the first imperial examination of the Luoyu court. Before the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites, Song Bai was the number one seed.After the provincial test, Song Bai beat the champion Suo Xiang without any suspense, and ranked first.

But in the imperial examination, Song Bai, who was born in a good family, performed slightly worse than Suo Xiang, who was born in a poor family, in policy questions and current affairs because he was involved in people's livelihood.

Suo Xiang was also hand-picked by Luo Youdu as the number one scholar.

In terms of literary talent, Suo Xiang is far inferior to Song Bai's.

When the list was released, many people complained for Song Bai, feeling that Suo Xiang was not qualified to compare with Song Bai.

Facts have also proved that Suo Xiang, the number one scholar, was sent to Hehuang, while Song Bai started as Zuo Lang, relied on his extensive knowledge, and went all the way to the top, and entered Jinzuo Academy as an editor.

(End of this chapter)