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Chapter 27
The paper that Jia Daquan got back was indeed the test paper for Bai Tang'a, and he got it from Lao Zheng in the archives through the way of Lao Zhao.

It is not cheap to say that it is cheap, 18 taels a piece.

But if it is expensive, it is not considered expensive. After all, compared with his son's future, 18 taels must be a good deal to buy a paper.If this is an imperial examination paper, let alone 18 taels, someone might grab 10,000 taels.

In fact, the scroll is not printed now, but an old scroll from the 22nd year of Qianlong's reign.

Why is it an old volume?

It's too late.

According to regulations, the Baitanga examinations of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia are held in a centralized manner, and the national language (Manchu) must be tested. Therefore, the students of the sixteen banners of Manchuria and Mongolia must concentrate on the classics.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army do not need to take the national language test, and each banner will organize the classic test by itself.The riding and archery test is held in the big school field of Deshengmen like the Manchu Eight Banners.

It seems that the classic exams of the Eight Banners of the Han Army are particularly loose and free, but it is actually a difference in the degree of emphasis.

After all, ninety-five percent of the first-class Baitang A came from the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia, and half of them would be assigned to the key yamen of the palace, so strict checks must be imposed on the class.

With a figure like Wu Dalang, with the kind of twisted buttocks when walking, who can't write in big characters, can he appear in front of the emperor?

There are too many factors involved in this preparation for worshiping Tang A, the most important thing is the grace of the Empress Dowager Wanshou, so the matter must be implemented before the Empress Dowager Wanshou.

The day before yesterday, the Military Aircraft Department issued a decree to issue the 24 Banners to the yamen. At that time, it was five days at the latest to report the final results to the military aircraft department's big library, and then distribute them.

In five days, there are classics exams, riding and archery exams to be organized, and grades to be given, etc., can the government offices of all banners have time to carefully prepare the papers?
Moreover, the Baitanga examination is not as strict as the imperial examination. As long as you have the qualifications for the examination, there is no problem of failing to pass the examination, so you can cope with it.

In addition, the classic part only accounts for [-]% of the total test score, most of which are riding and shooting.

In this way, the leakage of test papers is not a problem at all.

Even Jia Daquan was not the first to buy papers, there were more than ten papers handed out by Lao Zheng before him.

The preparation for the Tang'a exam once every few years or even more than ten years is the "big event" that the archives office looks forward to the most.

Without it, there is too much oil and water.

Jia Liu certainly doesn't know much about the way of the exam, but through what Lao Zhao said and hints, he also knows that the exam for Bai Tang'a is just a formality.

How many grades can be determined, in fact, still has the final say on money.

Of course, superficial skills must be sufficient.

Therefore, Jia Liu hurriedly asked Yang Zhi to take his tongue-tied old man back to his room to sleep, and started grading papers under the oil lamp.

Why read instead of answer?

Because, no.

Is the paper difficult?

Not difficult!

Many of the most basic things in the Four Books and Five Classics are similar to filling in the blanks. For example, the first half of the sentence spoken by the sage is listed there, and the examinee is asked to write the second half of the sentence.

The first question is "A friend comes from afar", and the following question is left blank for the examinee to answer.

There are about forty questions from top to bottom, and the difficulty is similar to that of the children's examination in the imperial examination.

As far as this paper is concerned, it is obvious that the author of the question has fully considered the virtues of the Eight Banners.

However, Jia Liu still couldn't answer such a simple question, because the knowledge he studied was quite different from what was taught in the Four Books and Five Classics, and he couldn't understand it, so he had to read it first.

Looking at the past one by one, Jia Liu could only answer three questions correctly.He didn't want to find a pile of textbooks and pick them up one by one (read from right to left vertically, it's really a god), so he had to go to the elder sister's house overnight with the papers.

The eldest sister, Jia Juan, lives in the Xizhimen area where the Han army is stationed at Zhenghongqi, seven or eight miles away from Chongwenmen, where Jialiu's family lives.

At this time, it was getting dark early, but the streets and alleys were brightly lit.

Along the way, people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Shuntian Mansion, as well as the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry are busy everywhere.For the Empress Dowager's 800,000 birthday, the entire imperial court mobilized. I heard that on the day of the official birthday celebration, there were hundreds of floats presented by other provinces and vassal states.

Dozens of horses could not move the largest float.

Jia Liu, who was walking in the whitewashed and flourishing scene, walked firmly without hesitation.

When I arrived at the elder sister's house, the elder sister and the eldest brother-in-law had already fallen asleep.

Hearing the knock on the door and the voice of her younger brother, Jia Juan hurriedly got up and lit the lamp to open the door.When her younger brother said that she could make love to Tang A, Jia Juan dragged her husband out of the bed without saying a word.

"Bai Tang Ah's test paper?"

Wearing a padded jacket, Wang Zhian took the exam paper from his brother-in-law, scanned it up and down, and asked in disbelief, "You don't even know how to write papers made by this kind of doll?"

"I"

Jia Liu was quite embarrassed.

"If he knows how to answer, what does he want your brother-in-law to do? What are you doing standing there, go and give the six sons the answer sheet." Jia Juan asked her husband to give the answer sheet quickly, and she deliberately took a blanket to cover her husband's lap in case he was cold.

The eldest sister’s house is not big, and they were separated when they got married. There are two and a half rooms including the kitchen, so the living room cannot be vacated. The couple sleeps in the east room, and the two sons sleep in the west room.

"Both Dabao and Erbao are asleep?"

Jia Liu glanced at Westinghouse, and saw that his two nephews were sleeping soundly under the covers.

These two nephews are eight years old and the other seven years old, they are the age at which even dogs hate them, and they are usually the uncles who love to cling to dogs and hate them the most.If he knew that his uncle was coming, he would definitely make a fuss and refuse to sleep.

Jia Juan asked her brother if she had eaten, and when she found out that her brother hadn't eaten, she went to the kitchen and ordered a bowl of noodles.As soon as the noodles were ready and served, the eldest brother-in-law Wang Zhian had already finished answering the paper.

"It's really overkill for me to answer this kind of paper." Wang Zhian looked helpless.

Jia Juan choked on her husband: "As long as you can, why didn't you pass the exam for so many years?"

"What do you know, my talent is underappreciated, the pearl is covered with dust, and the examiner has no eyes." Wang Zhian muttered unconvinced.

Jia Liu hurriedly said, "The eldest brother-in-law is the most knowledgeable in our family. If I don't ask you, I will look for someone."

"Hey, that's true."

Wang Zhian laughed and asked his brother-in-law to eat noodles quickly.

Jia Liu didn't have the heart to eat noodles, so he carefully read the paper written by his eldest brother-in-law from top to bottom, and carefully put it in his arms after the ink was dry.He still had to memorize the answer back home, so he couldn't hand in this paper directly.

After eating the noodles, Jia Liu got up and patted his belly: "Sister, brother-in-law, I'll go back first. Dad drank too much, I have to go back and take care of him."

As he said that, he was about to turn around and go out.

"wait a moment."

Jia Juan called her younger brother to stop, took out two bank notes from a purse under the pillow, and handed them to her younger brother.

These two banknotes, one for 20 taels and the other for 30 taels, were obtained from Jia Juan's sale of dowry jewelry the day before yesterday.

"Sister, there's no need. It won't cost much to make up for Tang A. Dad said he can do it." Although he was short of money, Jia Liu definitely couldn't ask for it.

But Jia Juan couldn't help but stuffed it into her younger brother's arms. She looked at her brother with some distress and said, "It doesn't cost much to worship Tang, but how much money does Dad have? You take this bank note first, and make up for it when you pay your respects." Empress Tang has a lot of places to spend her money. When you are successful and rich, you can just return it to your sister."

"This"

Jia Liu subconsciously looked at his elder brother-in-law Wang Zhian. He knew that although the eldest sister was in charge of the family, the elder brother-in-law had to agree to use money to supplement her mother's family.

"What do you think I'm doing? This money is your sister's dowry, and I didn't give it to you. You just take it."

Wang Zhian glanced at his brother-in-law who suddenly knew how to learn and make progress, nodded lightly and said: "When you make up Baitang, no matter where you are, you have to work hard. Don't be too ambitious, and don't fish for three days and spend two days. Those who share the net, let alone hang out with your cronies like before. In the future, you must know how to save money, and ask your sister to talk about marriage next year, and you will be considered promising in the future."

On Jia Liu's way back, the eldest brother-in-law's nagging sounds seemed to be in his ears.

This eldest brother-in-law is a bit pedantic, but he has a good heart. Jia Liu thought that if he can make a fortune in the future, he will definitely support this unsuccessful eldest brother-in-law.

But the test paper is solved, what about riding and archery?
Jia Liu knew how to ride a horse. Although he was not very skilled, he would definitely be able to run around the school field twice.

This gets the riding points for riding and archery.

But Jia Liu can't shoot. He has never even touched a bow since he was born.

So, the real shortcoming is here.

First-class Baitang Ajaliu didn't want to, he didn't have his share at all, but he was not interested in going to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do odd jobs for Aixinjueluo's family.

As for going to the border area to get a sixth or seventh grade military job, I am not very happy. First, it is too far away from the center of power, and second, the prospects for promotion are limited. Unless you are lucky, the room for advancement is basically zero.

Otherwise, why would the banner classify going to the border area as a fourth class?

Therefore, he had to fight for a second class for himself.

It doesn't matter whether it's running errands under the yamen of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army, or spreading it all over the city, because what Jia Liu needs is not an errand, but Baitang'a, who can buy an official at a discount.

In this way, he must actively strive for the riding and archery that takes up the most points.

I just don’t know how Qianlong was obsessed with riding and shooting. The military equipment of the Ming, Ming and Qing armies was mainly guns. Whether it was the Ministry of Expropriation, the Ministry of Hui, or the battles with Burma, the guns of the Qing army played their part. had a huge effect.

Moreover, the enemies of the Qing army in Junggar, Burma, and Annan, including the Fanbing in Jinchuan, are also equipped with a large number of foreign guns and cannons. It can be said that today's wars are fought with guns. Can not meet the needs of the battlefield under the new situation.

However, Qianlong knew that the guns were powerful, and many years ago, he had reported through the sticks and the front-line generals that there were a large number of Western gunners serving as mercenaries for countries that were hostile to the Qing Dynasty, such as the Swedish mercenaries in the Junggar army, and the Burmese mercenaries. British and French mercenaries in the army.

Therefore, Qianlong should conform to the trend of the times, actively promote the reform of guns and guns, so that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army will continue to improve, instead of doing the opposite. They all have to test riding and shooting. Isn't this turning history back?
Jia Liu thought about it and couldn't figure out what Qianlong was thinking.

The strength of the Qing army can also play a role in defending against the Han, so why bother to curb the development of guns.

But he is the emperor, Jia Liu can only recognize it.

Just take the test, it doesn't matter whether you can shoot or not, the important thing is that you can shoot.

Early the next morning, Jia Liu found his sober father and asked for a bow to practice archery.

　Thanks to zhinian5, Zhuifeng D Xiaoy, Hanzu Wang Maidong, Eternal Depth, and the third-level small comrades for their active donations to this book.

　　
　
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