The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Not long after, all this spread in the court. All the officials in the court thought that Su Jin was quite capable. After learning about all this, only four words popped out of their minds: "Wise and close to the demon!"

These words naturally reached Zhao Zhen's ears, and Zhao Zhen was greatly admired. In connection with Su Jinping's daily behavior, Zhao Zhen half-jokingly gave Su Jin a few words in private: number one scholar, heroic courage, a man with thick walls face.

Although it was a private discussion, these words of the test spread like wildfire, and soon became the most popular joke circulating in Beijing; It's easy to say, a face with a thick city wall doesn't sound like a good word, why does the emperor say that about Su Jin?

Others didn't understand, but in the eyes of those around Su Jin, this evaluation was extremely appropriate, or it could be called a tailor-made test language for Su Jin; He didn't make a special statement, because he really didn't have time to deal with these things, and Su Jin was going crazy.

The Ministry of Rites has already announced to the world that the seventh and third day of March was set as the day of the make-up exam for last year's autumn, and all the disturbing things dispersed. Su Jin realized that there was not much time left for her to study. Su Jin had had enough. These old bastards use the imperial examination for everything. No matter how great they are, no matter how great they are, if they don't have the official imperial examination status, they will never be able to become a big official for the rest of their lives.

It's not that Su Jin wants to be a high official, the key point is that he can't swallow his breath. Look at Fu Bi, the emperor begged him to be a privy envoy after finishing an errand. This guy is still pretending to be noble, If you can't give up, this virtue is just pulling shit out.

What Su Jin dislikes even more is the complacent look of Du Yan's gang, who gloats about other people's unhappiness, and makes fun of others' unhappiness. Only the imperial examination can be eaten.

Sitting up in shock while dying, Su Jin was no longer in the mood to breathe a sigh of relief because he had an exam in more than ten days.

Fortunately, Yan Biyun settled a facade in the bustling area of ​​Yingtian Mansion, raised another 200 million yuan and just returned; the renovation of the shop on Bianhe Street in Bianliang City is also coming to an end, and Yan Biyun came back just to help Su Jin take care of it.

Su Jin used two days to arrange for Wang Chao, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others to bring the fees back to their respective divisions to ask for help. Yan Biyun was too busy alone, so he arranged for Rou Niang and Huan Niang to follow Yan Biyun to listen, and then ordered Yang Xiaosi to rush to Ying Biyun. God presides over the decoration work of Tianfu Yinzhuang, and this basically implements the preparatory work to the people.

Su Jin has never felt so tired. It turns out that opening a shop is so cumbersome. When I was in Luzhou, I used to talk about it. Old shopkeeper Zhang and the others opened the semicolon as if they were just playing around. The sky was completed, and when it was in my hands, I actually found it so difficult; I really complied with the saying that people eat tofu and have quick teeth.

There is also the most important thing, that is the specific operation training of Yinzhuang. This thing can only be done by oneself, and the manpower brought is all Su Ji's buddies, although all of them are meticulous. The selected staff, but Yinzhuang is still unfamiliar to these guys. Many business details are very different from traditional business. Fortunately, there are not so many financial risks in this era, and the operation of Yinzhuang is relatively simple, so Su Jin concluded that the risk is not great.

The training can only be done after the exam is solved. There is still time before the opening of Yinzhuang, and there is still time. When everything is arranged properly, Su Jin can finally sit in the study and spread out those dizzying pictures. It was already late February when the collection of Confucian classics and history was collected in the evening, and the time left for Su Jin was already numbered.

Su Jin is not a person who likes to read, but he is indeed a person who is good at reading. When he was in Ying Tianfu, he created his own card reading method. All the cards hanging in the study room are all the cards with excerpts. Wang Anshi in his study was amazed.

But this time, Su Jin didn't have time to do that. He chose to analyze the imperial examination questions of the Song Dynasty listed in the books Fang Zimo gave him over the years. After concluding his comments, Su Jin seemed to have vaguely guessed the pulse of the exam questions.

As early as when he was in Luzhou, Su Jin asked Li Chong about some things about the imperial examination. The imperial examination in the Song Dynasty, whether it was an examination or a provincial examination, was nothing more than a trial strategy, a trial theory, a test of poetry, a test of posting scriptures, and Mo Yi. Fu, pasting scriptures, and Mo Yi are fine, they are all dead, knowing what you know and what you don’t know are ignorance, there is no opportunistic tricks; besides, there are not a lot of these things in Su Jin’s stomach, and the young man living in this body is also I used to study hard for many years with my head covered, and I could cope with it by cramming and reading more before the exam; but Su Jin knew that the most important thing was the level of strategy and discussion.

Trial strategies and theory are combined together. The questions give the arguments of the past dynasties or poetry books. Students should discuss, explain their own views, and state their own reasons. There are things, and it is more important to speak realistically; the difficulty lies in the last point, to be realistic, but not to be regarded as slander and shadowing the government, the degree in the middle is extremely difficult to grasp; The most important thing is that the court wants talents who can see the key points, and don't exaggerate and talk too much.

After thinking about this point, Su Jin's heart suddenly became much brighter. After earnestly studying the problems of solving test strategies over the years, making analogies and illustrating them with diagrams, Su Jin suddenly made an astonishing discovery, which made him jump. Got up, knocked over the ink and books on the desk, making a mess.

But Su Jin had no time to tidy up, and hurriedly verified his major discovery. He found that from the Zhenzong Dynasty to the present Dynasty, a total of [-] subjects were taken from the scholars, and there were five types of topics in the examination, one was finance and taxation, the other was military administration, and the third was government officials. [-], [-] for foreign affairs, and [-] for punishment; what is interesting is that these five categories of questions are interleaved, and each of the five subjects is repeated. I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, whether it is a coincidence or necessity.

For example, in the first year of the Tiansheng Dynasty, the topic of the solution to the policy theory was: The Balance of Corruption and Taxation; The "tea and salt theory" involving monopoly; other categories are also as shown in the above rules, and every five subjects must repeatedly enter the same category. Since the five subjects are separated by ten to fifteen or sixteen years, even if this is The rules, absolutely no one can notice.

Su Jin was so excited that he gasped a little. It was like playing a charade. There was a sudden flash of lightning in the chaos, and he found the answer all at once. It turned out to be that simple.

Su Jin hurriedly verified the provincial examination questions. This time it was a bit complicated, but Su Jin still found the pattern. After solving the test, the same type of questions would definitely not appear in the provincial examination; The categories of the two subjects must be different, so there are only two categories left.

According to this law, Su Jin quickly deduced that the scope of the strategy for solving the test must be in the category of punishment, and thus deduced that the strategy for the provincial test should be a choice between official administration and foreign affairs. The extremely excited Su Jin sat in the study Danced and danced, Xiao Sui'er, who brought in the tea, thought that the young master had lost his mind and went crazy after reading, so he hurried up to pinch Su Jin's people.

Su Jin picked up Xiao Sui'er and spun several times in the air, laughing, "Sui'er, is the young master the smartest person in the world?"

Xiao Sui'er was flustered and ashamed, the young master has never been like this before, I heard that a madman can't disobey him, otherwise he won't be able to come back, so he hurriedly said: "Yes, the young master is the smartest person in the world." Man, please put me down, drink a cup of tea and let the air flow."

Su Jin turned a deaf ear to Xiao Sui'er, stared at Xiao Sui'er for a long while, and suddenly said, "No, what if it's just a coincidence, what should I do?" After saying that, she put down Xiao Sui'er and buried herself in the pile of old papers, writing and drawing to herself .

Xiao Sui'er was so frightened that she quickly ordered the other maidservants to look at Su Jin, and ran to find Yan Biyun in a hurry; the young master lost his mind and went crazy, this is a serious matter.