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Chapter 29

The next day, before Dongfang turned pale, Yang Zhi made breakfast and woke up the young master.

Jia Daquan, who rarely got up early, also got up early to help his son prepare the pen and ink for the exam, as well as the equipment needed for riding and archery.

The pen and ink are secondary, the saddle used for riding and shooting should be taken care of, otherwise you will be injured if something happens.

Hearing the movement outside, Jia Liu hurriedly got up and got dressed.After some scrubbing, sit down and have breakfast.

Jia Daquan didn't eat, but focused on reading the "Shi Xian Shu" with a magnifying glass.

"Shixianshu" is the imperial calendar, which is said to be the calendar (lunar calendar) compiled by the foreign monk Tang Ruowang for the Qing Dynasty 100 years ago.To avoid the taboo of Qianlong's name in this dynasty, it was renamed "Shi Xianshu".

At first, the "Shi Xian Shu" used the calendar to arrange the year, month, day and solar terms for the reference of the court and the people to guide farming.However, after a hundred years of development and evolution, it has become the only standard for the folks to choose auspicious days.

It can be said that there are a lot of fortune-tellers on the street.

"It's a good day and a good sign to make an appointment and get a lottery!"

Jia Daquan put down the almanac very happily, sat down and drank porridge and asked his son with concern if there was anything he hadn't prepared.

In short, it's quite nagging, those who don't take the exam are more nervous than those who take the exam.

They look very similar to Jia Liu's parents who sent their children to the college entrance examination in the previous life
"Father, everything that needs to be prepared is ready, don't worry."

Jia Liu smiled and filled another bowl of porridge for his father.

The classic exams for the Eight Banners of the Han Army were taken at the Dutong Yamen of this banner, and everything was arranged at the Yamen. Jia Daquan did not intend to send his son to the Dutong Yamen for the exam, but asked Yang Zhi to invite two aunts to come, saying yes. In the evening, we have to arrange a table of sumptuous food and wine to celebrate our son's admission to Beitang.

He himself was planning to go to the other two houses of Jia's house to inform them. Those two houses might not know that Jia's house didn't need to send flags, so they might be in a hurry.

No matter how bad the relationship is, it is always passed down by an old man.

The second son, Dazhong, is also going there. Last time I heard from my son that the second uncle wanted to go out with the flag. Although everyone has their own ambitions, if they can't go out with the flag, they won't go out!

Therefore, Jia Daquan had to persuade Dazhong, lest the younger brother was out of his mind and insisted on going out.

If the second brother's family really came out of the banner, in the future, one of the brothers will be a bannerman and the other will be a Han Chinese, how awkward it is.

The specific time for the classic exam is after three quarters of the hour (around nine o'clock), which is still early.

After eating, Jia Liu looked at the utensils his father and Shuan Zhu had prepared for him, and then sat in the courtyard to read the papers given by his elder brother-in-law.

The sage said: Learn the new by reviewing the old.

I wanted to draw two more bows, but my arm was really sore. In order not to perform abnormally in the riding and archery test in the afternoon and not be able to bluff people, I had to stop thinking about both civil and military skills.

It would be good for Jia Liu to go directly after the exam, but Yang Zhi should accompany him in the afternoon, because the riding and archery exam requires the children of each family to bring their own horses, but bows and arrows are not needed.

When it was almost time, under the expectant eyes of his father and Shuan Zhu, Jia Liu set off.

"Six sons,"

Jia Daquan wanted to confess a few words to his son at the end, but there was really nothing to confess, so he clenched his right fist and smashed it hard in the void.

Probably meant to work hard.

"Master, let nature take its course, don't make things difficult for yourself."

Shuan Zhu's words touched Jia Liu's heart, and he really wanted to kick him.

A neighbor in the alley who heard the sound of Bei Bu worshiping Tang Ah looked at Jia Liu coming out, leaned against the door and said with a smile, "Liu Zi, you will pass the entrance exam, don't embarrass us in Xiliu Hutong."

"Come on, third master, don't worry!"

"Fourth Master, you are auspicious!"

"Fifth Aunt, please slow down!"

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The alley was full of Jia Liu's humility and politeness. Many neighbors were smiling, and they turned their heads and asked curiously why the Jia family's brat had changed.

Many neighbors who were about to set off the flag looked enviously at Jia Daquan who was standing at the gate of the yard: "It's really a pie in the sky, you don't need to set off the flag, let alone make up for Beitang, what a deal!"

Didn't he say that the old man of the Jia family had been appointed by the emperor as a second minister, why would he still have this blessing after the second minister?

If you want to be a traitor, his old man is a traitor, but isn't my old man a traitor?

They are all descendants of traitors, so they should be divided into three, six, and nine classes!

The court is unfair.

Like the outer city, the whole city is full of street life, people come and go on the streets, and the streets and alleys have been newly decorated because of the Queen Mother Wanshou.

However, Jia Liu couldn't bear to take another look.

When I arrived at the Dutong Yamen, I saw more than a dozen people chatting beside the stone lions. They were all around [-] years old. Needless to say, they must be the students of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army who came to take the classic exam.

To Jia Liu's astonishment, two of them were holding birdcages, as if they were not here for the exam but to play.

This time Beibu Baitang A was originally limited to those officials who were appointed as second ministers in the early days of the country, but after the decree reached the Military Aircraft Department, it was suggested to expand the scope, the current sixth rank and above in the banner and the fifth rank and above Children of officials who meet the conditions can make up for it.

As a result, there were only a dozen people in the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army who were eligible to join the team, but now it has doubled to 34 people.

"Dongge, you're here."

A young man in the crowd who was talking to people around him saw Jia Liu and waved his hand in greeting.

This person is Chang Bingzhong, who went to banner school with Jia Liu when he was a child, and later went on to fool around together.

Chang Bingzhong's great-grandfather, Chang Jingong, was originally a lieutenant general in the Ming Dynasty. He once accompanied Belle Boluo in the Zhejiang campaign, and successively served as the admiral of Zhejiang, the commander of the navy, and the admiral of the Guangdong navy.

During his term of office, Chang Jingong defeated the Zheng army of Taiwan many times, entrusted him to carry the Zhenglan Banner of the Han army, and won the title of "Captain of Riding and a Captain of Cloud Riding".

For the title rewards of meritorious officials outside the clan, the Qing court used Yunqiwei as the basis, which was called half a future.

If you get two Yunqi Captains, you can be promoted to a fourth-rank Cavalry Captain.

The captain of Qi and another captain of Yunqi will be called "Captain of Qi and a captain of Yunqi", and if he gets another captain of Yunqi, he can be promoted to the third rank of the third-class captain of light vehicles.

By analogy, there are 27 classes in total, until the first class.

The first-class public is also the highest award that can be obtained by officials of the Qing court other than the clan, and it can be called an extremely human minister.

He Shen is a first-class public.

Chang Bingzhong's father is still alive, and his family's Spokesman and future have not yet rested on his head, so this kid, like Jia Liu, belongs to the "subsidized nobleman" who has no errands and no Speech.

"What are you doing now, why don't you come to play with me?"

Chang Bingzhong was two years older than Jia Liu, and he dragged Jia Liu, who was only 14 years old, to the Qianmen Hutong at the beginning, which caused Jia Liuyi to stumble and become eternally hated.

After finding an excuse to deal with it, Jia Liu looked around. Some people he knew, some people didn't know, or they didn't overlap with his former circle of friends.After that, more than a dozen people came one after another, all of them were children of Bannermen around 20 years old.

People gather in kind, and things are divided into groups.

More than [-] people who were acquainted with each of the Beibu students quickly formed a few circles talking and laughing loudly there, without the tense atmosphere that should have existed before the exam.

After a while, the two little birds brought up by the owner became the most eye-catching presence in the crowd, laughing and joking.

Chang Bingzhong, who also went to tease the birds, suddenly thought of something, hurriedly came out of the crowd, pulled Jia Liu aside secretly, and asked him in a low voice: "Has your father checked? If you don't have any papers, I have them, so you can take a look." .”

In the end, it was the friends who had deep feelings for each other. Jia Liuda appreciated it and told the other party that he already had the papers, and asked someone to prepare the answers.

"That's good, this time you and my brother have to pass the second-class exam, otherwise my father's ten taels of silver will be lost."

"Twelve?"

"how?"

"It's nothing."

Jia Liu was speechless, selling him for 18 taels, and selling him for [-] taels, which is almost double the price difference.

It seemed that his father, Jia Daquan, was not doing very well in the banner, and that old Zhao was also treacherous when he looked kind and honest.

When he was scolding Lao Zhao for being unreasonable, a boy yelled: "Why don't you take the exam, sir, I still have dinner at noon!"

"What's the noise!"

Several officials with rhinoceros and seahorse patches embroidered on their chests walked out of the yamen, and one of them was Zhao Guodong.

A few officials came out and immediately shocked a group of beneficiaries. The boy who had shouted that he didn't take the exam also shut up obediently. It seemed that he still knew what was going on.

"Is everyone here? If it's all here, let's start." It was Zheng Sanli, the leader of the archives who spoke.

"it is good."

Zhao Guodong, who was in charge of the household registration room, took the roster and took a few steps forward, looked at the group of beneficiaries below, and began to call them one by one, and nodded slightly at Jia Liu when he was called.

After the roll call, Jia Liu and the others were asked to enter the Dutong Yamen, and then were taken to a courtyard in the middle, which was probably the examination room.

While waiting at the door, Jia Liu thought that people might be divided into different examination rooms, and there would be special invigilators.Unexpectedly, the thirty people including him were taken directly to a large room.

There are no partitions in the room, just like a big classroom, two people share a table and a stool.

Except for the two pens for distributing the papers, there was only one examiner, Chang Bingzhong said that it was Ma Zhangjing from the printing room.

Jia Liu was really uncomfortable with the strong gap between the exam scene in his impression and his eyes.

But he quickly adjusted his status, and immediately looked at the questions nervously after getting the paper. He was worried that his father Jia Daquan would not spend money to buy a waste paper or a fake paper. .

Fortunately, Lao Zhao and the others didn't have dark hearts.

Paper, it's true!

Heaving a sigh of relief, Jia Liu quickly rubbed the ink, picked up a brush and wrote his name from top to bottom on the far right side of the blank paper, which banner he was attached to, which leader and which assistant leader, and the names of his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father. name.

There must be no mistakes in these, and there must be no taboos on the names of emperors of the Qing Dynasty. If you dare to write the Honghe calendar, no matter how good the answer is, you will fail.

After the check was correct, Jia Liu was about to pick up a pen to write the answers one by one, and make sure that the handwriting was neat and there should be no ink dots on the scroll, but he was surprised to find that Chang Bingzhong, who was sitting in front, had got up and asked the invigilator Ma Zhangjing Said to submit papers.

Jia Liu was stunned, this kid is so stupid, the exam has just started!

However, he was the one who was dumbfounded. The old horse actually accepted Chang Bingzhong's paper, glanced at it, and then nodded: "Good answer, grade A."

"Thank you sir!"

Chang Bingzhong hurriedly bowed to thank him, and was led out with a pen.

Jia Liu's face twitched. On the empty table in front of him, there was still a blank paper and unopened pen and ink.

(End of this chapter)