The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 651 Sima Xiangru who failed the ranking

When the Huainan Kingdom was in turmoil, Li Yunze was looking through the examination papers of the imperial examination in Chang'an City.

He just glanced through the test papers of those candidates who accepted the recommendation from the first list.

As long as it can barely pass, it will be counted and drawn according to the ratio.

These people are doomed to not have any great prospects, and it is considered the peak to be the county magistrate of Wanhu.

After all, before the imperial examination started, Li Yunze arranged for Gongsun Hong, Yan Yi and others to privately blow the wind to many candidates who came to participate in the imperial examination, and those who accepted the honorary recommendation to enter the top list were born to be inferior.

Under such circumstances, those who were willing to accept Xungui's recommendation to take the A-Ban examination were either lacking in ability or having a problem with their character. Naturally, Li Yunze would not give them a chance.

What he really paid attention to were the candidates from the second list.

In the early Han Dynasty, knowledge was almost monopolized.

Basically, they are concentrated in the hands of big families and many schools of thought.

Even if it is a middle-class family, if they want their children to go to school, they must either join a certain school or spend a lot of money to hire teachers.

The real children of ordinary people, unless they are lucky enough to be favored by a certain school, can get the opportunity to learn.

Or just like Wei Qing, stealing lessons at Xungui's house and listening in.

Although Confucianism has such and such things, their belief that there is no discrimination in teaching has indeed given many people from poor backgrounds a chance to get ahead.

Otherwise, the poor family's children would have to be rich from their ancestors and leave Yu Ze behind.

Ordinary people still have to rely on enlisting in the army to gain military merits if they want to get ahead.

Li Yunze flipped through many test papers, among which there were two that attracted his attention the most.

One is a candidate from Yanci County, Pingyuan County, named Dongfang Shuo.

There is also a candidate from Chengdu, Shu County, named Sima Xiangru.

He knew Dongfang Shuo, who was known as the bankrupt beggar's master father Yan.

The ability is there, but compared with Zhu Fuyan, there is a big gap.

Here, Li Yunze naturally wouldn't kill his capable ministers at will, so for Dongfang Shuo, who was a disciple of the Eastern Prince of the Yin-Yang School of Taoism, after he was admitted, he decided to arrange him as a secretary by his side as a Langguan.

Basically can be regarded as a secretary.

As for Sima Xiangru
"Hmph." Li Yunze raised his pen, and drew an X on Sima Xiangru's eloquent and beautifully written paper.

"Bah, scumbag!"

In history, Sima Xiangru married Zhuo Wenjun as his wife, but Zhuo Wenjun was Li Yunze's queen at this time.

As a gentleman, Li Yunze naturally looked down on scumbags who played with emotions, so no matter how beautiful the poems written by Sima Xiangru were, he would not give him a chance to harm others.

Having cut off the scumbag's upward path, Li Yunze was in a great mood.

Putting down the pen, he told the Lang Guan beside him, "Go and tell the queen, I will go to her place to rest tonight."

"Here~~~"

Not all eunuchs were in the imperial palace in the Han Dynasty, and even many of the eunuchs were not without chicken talk. There were many officials around the emperor.

On the day when the imperial examinations were released, countless long drifters gathered outside the palace, eagerly looking for their names in the lists posted on the wooden boards.

Sima Xiangru, who was very confident in himself, carefully read the list from top to bottom, from left to right several times, but he did not see the name of Sima Xiangru in Chengdu, Shu County.

Unwillingly, he read it several times, thinking that it was his original name.

This kid's previous name was not Sima Xiangru, but Sima Quanzi.

That's right, it's called a dog.

Later, he thought the name was ugly, so he said that he admired the name Xianglin Xiangru in the Warring States Period, so he changed his name to Sima Xiangru after that.

It's a pity that no matter how you look at it, there is no one, not even one whose surname is Sima.

What can I do at this time, I can only do nothing.

"Shouldn't be."

The distraught Sima Xiangru came to the restaurant, ordered a jug of turbid wine and drank it himself, "A certain talent is so outstanding, why does your majesty not like it?"

He naturally would not have thought that Li Yunze looked down on him because of his poor character.

If he knew, he would have sighed and said, 'Why are you a scumbag. Ahhh! '

In the wine shop, there are a few of the two Jinshi whose names have been selected, who are cheering and celebrating with friends and friends.

"Brothers, I heard that Your Majesty said that Jinshi was selected for the imperial examination. I don't know where this Jinshi came from?"

"You don't understand this. This is from "Etiquette", one of the thirteen classics of Confucianism. Shou Jue Lu also.'”

"Nonsense!" As soon as this remark came out, someone immediately stood up and retorted, "This is from the first chapter of "Mozi", "The Relatives". Just say it clearly, you can be called a Jinshi by offering talents!"

"Don't talk nonsense, Mohists, these are the words of Confucius!"

"You can talk about it, it's Mozi who said it!"

The two sides shouted and cursed at each other, and when they got angry, they immediately started fighting.

Wine glasses, dinner plates, table cushions are flying all over the sky.

There are quite a few students from various factions in the restaurant, but only the Confucian scholars of the Guliang School fought against the Mohists.

People from other schools of thought, even those from the Guliang School of Confucianism, stood on the sidelines and watched the excitement.

While watching the excitement, they were laughing and chatting, "The so-called Jinshi in the two rankings, of course, refers to the talents who have passed the examinations in the first and second rankings."

"How dare you say that those on the second list are indeed great talents. But those on the first list, how can He De be called a great talent?"

"It's true, but it's just an incompetent person who takes shelter of the honorable royal family."

People in this era value reputation and face. After the students of various factions know the emperor's views on Jiabang, few people will really ask the honorable emperors to come forward to make arrangements and recommendations.

The dark-faced Sima Xiangru was drinking, but someone came to him and asked with a smile, "Is your honor a student of the imperial examination?"

Sima Xiangru turned his head to look at the uninvited middle-aged man beside him, frowning slightly, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, don't be alarmed."

The man's smile remained the same, "A certain person is the steward of the Marquis of Tangyi, and his name is Chen Qian."

Sima Xiangru's heart moved slightly, and he immediately put on a smiling face, "I don't know what Chen Guanshi is looking for?"

"Dare to ask your honor." Chen Qian asked with a constant smile, "But you failed the imperial examination?"

This question touched Sima Xiangru's sadness, and he sighed, "Time is also fate."

Sima Xiangru was really heartbroken for his failure this time.

Here Chen Qian smiles even more, "My lord, don't worry, as long as you are willing to become a disciple of the Marquis of Tangyi, you can be recommended by the Marquis to take part in the next imperial examination. Presumably your honor knows that this time the reference for the first list is only [-]." There are more than a hundred people hired.

Isn't it much better than the second list? "

There are more than 200 candidates in the first list, and more than 90 people have passed the exam.

There are more than a thousand candidates in the second list, but there are only less than a hundred people who passed the exam.

If it is purely from the perspective of the pursuit of passing the exam, getting the top ranking will definitely greatly increase the chance of hitting.

Sima Xiangru's literary talent is very good, but his calculations are not bad, so he is naturally aware of the comparison.

But he also knows that although the acceptance rate of the first list is very high, the future is extremely bleak.

The gossip in the long drift has already spread all over the place, and those who made it to the top list are nothing more than a county magistrate.

And only the second list is the bright road.

Seeing that Sima Xiangru was silent, Chen Qian was a little anxious, "Your Excellency, my Tangyi Marquis Mansion is well treated, not to mention lodging and food, and a monthly salary. Talented people can be rewarded by the Marquis, gold coins and silk." There are all the beautiful houses of the silk maidservant."

The royal relatives are not stupid, knowing that the recommended talents can be used by themselves, this is the extension of power, so they spare no effort to recruit talents from all sides.

It's just that the talents have the same thoughts.

In the past, there was no way to be recommended without the approval of the royal relatives. They could only swallow their anger and be squeezed like the 996 in the company.

But now that the imperial court has opened the door to them, naturally there will be no more restricted procedures.

Sima Xiangru thought about it for a while, and finally rejected the invitation from Tangyihou's Mansion.

He felt that he was still young, so it didn't matter if he made a careless miss this time, and he just had to take the exam again later.

Facing Sima Xiangru's refusal, Chen Qian was very regretful.

The once majestic and unscrupulous Tangyihou Mansion in Chang'an City has now fallen.

With the departure of Empress Dowager Dou and Liu Qi, and Princess Guantao paying the due price for her actions, Tangyihou's Mansion not only lost its glory in the past, but was even ridiculed and even suppressed by everyone.

That's because Li Yunze personally promised that they could continue to pass on the inheritance, otherwise, people would have been looking for excuses and looking for opportunities to mess with it.

In order to strengthen the strength of the Marquis of Tangyi, Chen Xu, who successfully defeated his younger brother and inherited the title of Marquis of Tangyi from Chen Wu, arranged a lot of people to recruit talents.

It's a pity that not only those students who passed the exam looked down on Tangyihoufu, but even those who failed the exam like Sima Xiangru didn't want to talk to them.

This is really a tiger falling into Pingyang and being bullied by a dog. The phoenix that landed is not as good as a chicken.

When it was Princess Guantao who was full of power and prestige, this group of people was down and out and wanted to come to Tangyihou's mansion, but they couldn't even get in the door!

Ignoring Chen Qian's loss, and not caring about the screams of the Confucian scholars of the Guliang School who were beaten up by the Mohist disciples, the depressed Sima Xiangru settled the account and left the restaurant.

As soon as we left the wine shop here, we saw a large group of people from Shaofu shouting along the street beating gongs and drums.

"A Jinshi in the second rank of the new department, paraded through the streets by the emperor's order to praise, everyone come and have a look~~~"

Sima Xiangru stood by the side of the street, staring blankly at those top-ranked Jinshi riding tall horses and wearing big red flowers, passing in front of him proudly amidst the cheers and blessings of the crowd, he just felt stuffy , The uncomfortable headache is about to split.

However, this is not over yet, Sima Xiangru watched helplessly as a large group of stewards from various noble residences, chasing the second-ranked Jinshi all the way, shouting, "My master has daughters and granddaughters with a generous dowry as long as the dowry is generous." Your Majesty agrees, it will be done tonight

dear~~~'

Living in Chang'an is not easy.

Sima Xiangru, who was struggling, felt as if his heart was on fire when he saw that after high school, those second-ranked Jinshi had all the money, tickets, cars, houses and girls.

His heart was as uncomfortable as a fire, and in the end he could only let out a long sigh, turn around and go straight to Zhangtai Street.

I don't have much money, so I can only go to Zhangtai Street to write poems for the girls and make a living.

On the way forward, Sima Xiangru secretly made up his mind.

"Be sure to pass the exam next time! The emperor will help me~~~"

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