People in the Song Dynasty were lawless

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The next day.

The sound of gongs and drums sounded again in the early morning.

Today is a test of scripture meaning.

After the test paper was handed out, it contained the scriptures and ink meanings of the "Book of Filial Piety".

This is why there are separate examination rooms. You can choose one of seven in the Juren Examination, but you have to memorize all seven classics in the Jinshi Examination. Therefore, the test papers can only be unified in the Jinshi Examination, and naturally you can only take separate examinations in the Juren Examination.

Zhao Jun glanced at the questions. This was probably the most difficult one. Everyone around him had no hesitation. If he couldn't even memorize the "Book of Filial Piety", then don't take the imperial examination.

Not long after, in just over two hours, most of the candidates had finished answering, but Zhao Jun was stuck in one place.

He suddenly forgot how to write a certain word.

Although it is outrageous, it is indeed true. He was able to finish writing the policy papers before because he had something to copy directly. But now when he started dictating real ancient prose, he felt a little embarrassed.

After all, before time travel, even when I was in college, I didn’t write much with a pen. Many students and even teachers often used mobile phones or computers.

Moreover, some words in ancient times were different from those in later generations. Even after more than a month of intensive training, there were still big problems.

In other words.

The most difficult things for others are the easiest for him, and the things that are easiest for others are the hardest for him.

feeling bad.

But Zhao Jun had no choice. After writing on the papyrus paper for a long time, he couldn't figure it out, so he had to continue writing other scripture meanings silently.

After much stumbling and stumbling, I finally finished writing the ten Tie Jing and ten Mo Yi.

Unfortunately, there are six typos in it. According to the grading rules at the time, it would have to be erased six times, and it would only be a mid-to-low level. If it was erased nine times, it would be a failure.

After handing in the test paper, Zhao Jun didn't bother to think so much. If he didn't do well in the exam, he didn't do well in the exam. Anyway, he didn't need to rely on the imperial examination to become an official now.

The only problem is that the first two days were fine, but the closer to the third day, the worse the smell in the examination room became.

The scholars ate, drank, and had sex inside, and over time, the wooden house inevitably stank, and the smell spread everywhere, making it disgusting.

Fortunately, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and a lot of sweet-scented osmanthus is planted in Taichang Temple. The strong scent of sweet-scented osmanthus is everywhere in the temple, which neutralizes the smell a bit.

A large number of scholars spent another second day in this kind of physical and mental torture, and finally came the last exam on the third day.

In the early morning, the deadly sound of gongs and drums resounded throughout Taichang Temple.

All kinds of noisy sounds suddenly sounded.

There are rules in the examination room and you are not allowed to leave the cabin to communicate with others, but if you whisper to yourself, usually no one will care, so the rustling sounds are endless.

Zhao Jun got up early in the morning and started grinding. It was a cloudy day today and it might rain during the day. He checked the time and found that it was already seven o'clock in the morning. The sky was not completely bright yet, but it was just gray. The autumn wind was bleak and the temperature had dropped. many.

"Calculating the time, it should be almost there."

"Although these days have exposed a lot of moths within the Imperial City Department, there are also many people who are temporarily attracted by my power and dare not take any action. If these people continue to be in the Imperial City Department, they are all hidden dangers."

"So I must uproot them and deal with them all according to the department's regulations. After that, I will recruit a new group of reliable personnel to officially expand the size of the Imperial City Department."

"Now that I have left the Imperial City Division and disappeared for two days, those people below will probably be unable to restrain themselves and take action."

"This will attract the snake out of its hole, and then seek to take the initiative. I hope it will work."

Zhao Jun was grinding and thinking.

He has seen and understood a lot of things in recent days, and has grown a lot under Fan Zhongyan's advice.

Since they have to sit in the Imperial City Division and produce results, being reckless is definitely not enough. Once the other party sets a trap and makes them pick the wrong person and handle the wrong case, it will immediately lead to a crazy siege from the government and the public.

At that time, if the opponent stands on the highest moral level and can arouse public and official anger, I am afraid that Zhao Zhen will not be able to resist it, and Zhao Jun will have no choice but to run away and become a bandit and rebel on his own.

Therefore, you must think of clever ways to do things. This time, start inside and then outside. This was the idea that Fan Zhongyan helped come up with. After all, this guy has been working in Kaifeng Mansion for so long, and he still has certain achievements and has mastered many things.

But he didn't have the energy to bring down the people behind the scenes, so he handed over all the things he investigated to Zhao Jun, hoping that Zhao Jun would do it.

With Fan Zhongyan's help, we got twice the result with half the effort.

While I was thinking about it, the test papers have been handed out. Today is a test on poetry, lyrics and poetry. Generally speaking, it is a test of one poem and one song.However, Yan Shu guessed that there would be a vocabulary test in this exam, so Zhao Jun lowered his head to read the test questions.

"Use the oblique rhyme to begin with the rhyme and make a five-character quatrain."

When Zhao Jun saw this topic, he scratched his head, thinking that Old Man Yan had tricked him. He thought it was a test of lyrics for the past two days, so he kept recalling the lyrics he had learned before, but it turned out to be a test of poetry.

Fortunately, it is a five-character quatrain, with only four lines. As long as the meter and rhyme are correct, there is no problem. If it is a five-character poem, it will be more troublesome.

Zhao Jun didn't know much about meter and rhyme before. He only knew that poetry needed rhyme. However, in fact, from the poetry style formed in the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, there was no fixed meter. Many Tang poems did not follow the 28-meter formula at all. , not even rhyming well.

The reason for this is that the meter was not unified in the past, and there is a difference between ancient phonology and modern phonology.For example, for the word "Shang", the modern pronunciation is the fourth tone, which is oblique according to the meter, but the ancient pronunciation is the second tone, and the meter is flat.

After the Song Dynasty, meter gradually became unified. For example, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Yuan wrote "Pingshui Yun", which perfected all meter and rhyme formulas.

Over the past few days, several top academic masters such as Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, Cai Qi, Song Shou, Sheng Du, and Yan Shu have been carefully teaching him. Zhao Jun has figured out the rhythm and rhyme, and also knows how to write poetry.

For example, flat rhyme is the first two tones of a tone, and oblique rhyme is the last two tones of a tone.

According to the rhyme and rhythm of this question, it is 廄廄廄平平, 平平仄廄平.Flat, flat, flat, flat.

But the poems written by Zhao Jun are probably no different from limericks, so they still have to be copied.

He looked at the rules for doing the questions, thought for a moment, and then wrote, "The evening is moving and I am thinking about it. I still haven't returned home from last year. The people in the garrison are already cold, and their eyes are broken and they are looking forward to collecting clothes."

This poem was written by Fan Zhongyan after he returned from the war with Xixia in the northwest. It has not been written yet, but it just fits the rhythm.

It's a pity that his poem "The Fishermen on the River" was written by Fan in Yingtian in his early years. Moreover, this guy was not good enough at the time and had a few words that were wrong in rhyme, otherwise he would have copied his most famous poem.

As for songs.

Zhao Jun thought for a while and copied "Ode to the Later Red Cliff" for him. Although "Ode to the Former Red Cliff" could barely be recited, firstly, it had a lot of words, and secondly, it involved a lot of time, place, and people, so he was afraid that it would not be right for him. If it doesn’t come up, I won’t copy it.

Fortunately, these things are taught in Chinese language courses in junior high and high schools. Zhao Jun is a liberal arts student, plus he majors in history. He can't say that it is more than enough to copy poems and songs, so he can become a great writer.

It's just that poems are all trivial, and he doesn't have the idea to forcefully copy them everywhere to become famous. The matter at hand is more important.

After writing the poem, I quietly waited for it to be rolled up.

The hospital will be open in the afternoon.

Time passed slowly, and at noon, the gongs and drums sounded again, and there was a wailing all around.

It's easy for Zhao Jun to make these things directly on-site, but they can't do it and have to think on the spur of the moment.

A poem with a fixed form requires not only perfect rhythm and rhyme, but also artistic conception and content. It is no less difficult than building a dojo inside a snail shell. It is quite difficult.

Therefore, most of the examples are very difficult to do, either do not meet the standards, or the content is not good enough.

Even many Jinshi poems are written in a general way. For example, when Ouyang Xiuzhong was a Jinshi, his poems were full of flattery to the examiner.There are even more miserable talents. For example, one year when the Jinshi Examination was a test of words, a candidate wrote "The Case of Green Jade: Spikes Break the Road of Xiangfu", which made him, the candidates, quite miserable.

As for people who can write excellent poetry, there are very few.

Zhao Jun handed in the paper calmly, then rolled up his bed and started packing his luggage.

When he walked out of the wooden house, Zhou Xin had already come over and whispered to him: "Chisi, something happened."

"what's up?"

"A clan daughter outside Xuande Gate was abducted. There is news that the clan daughter is in Potai Temple, and Commander Liu has already taken her there."

"How were you kidnapped?"

"The clan lived at the east end of the street outside Xuandemen, and their daughter was called Zhenshu. There was a relative of his at the west end of the street, who sent a servant to invite the young lady to play. Zhenshu's mother agreed, so the servant went back to look for a sedan. Soon a sedan came. He stopped at the door and carried the young lady away. A moment later, another sedan came to pick up the young lady, and then the family knew that their daughter had been deceived."

"As soon as I heard this method, I knew that there must be an insider to make it work. Otherwise, how could the sedan arrive in such a timely manner? Is there any news below about who did it?"

"Yes, it's usually done by Gui Fanlou. Those people like to send people to various wealthy mansions to work as slaves to find out information. When they learn that the wealthy family members are going on a trip or visiting relatives, they kidnap them and either demand a ransom or take them away. Sell ​​it, but they will basically not take action against high-ranking officials, dignitaries and clans."

"Did the servant catch him?"

"No."

"Ah."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "I can guess what's going on. The daughter of the clan should be fine. Just let the people below prepare to attack Li Dewen."

Behind Guifan Tower are the people from Kaifeng Mansion, and because Li Dewen is stingy, he is only willing to buy a piece of information. The spies who came later were either turned away by him, or he was so annoyed that he even sent someone to beat them. He went out, so that some spies had a grudge and collected evidence of his crime and handed it over.

In fact, Fan Zhongyan had already given him the evidence of Li Dewen's crime. The reason for delaying taking action was to let the spies below reveal his true identity. Now that it was almost done, another case of the abduction of the clan daughter came out, so Zhao Jun had decided to operate on Li Dewen first. .

Under the protection of everyone, he left the backyard of Taichang Temple. At this moment, many candidates had gathered in the front yard, and the test papers had been collected. The door could not be opened until all the test papers were delivered to the Etiquette Department.

After about half an hour, the door finally opened, and countless scholars rushed outside. At this moment, relatives outside the temple had been waiting eagerly, and there was a huge crowd of people.

Zhao Jun didn't pay attention to the various situations in the place. After following the crowd out, he was preparing to send the things back first and then deal with the affairs of the Imperial City Department.

As a result, Di Qing and others who were waiting outside had just arrived when they heard someone shouting: "Brother Hanlong, Brother Hanlong!"

Zhao Jun turned around and saw that Song Cai and several other scholars had just come out of Taichang Temple.

Seeing Zhao Jun stop, Song Cai thought she was waiting for him. Although Zhao Jun didn't seem to care about the imperial examination, he had a noble status and it was a good thing to be attached to him, so he hurried over to greet him and said: "Brother Hanlong, after the examination What are your plans, brother?"

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "Get ready to go to Lao Yaxiang."

"Old Crow Alley?"

Song Cai thought for a while and said: "The Qingfeng Tower over there is good. I eat coarse cakes every day in Taichang Temple and I almost vomit. Why don't I hold a banquet and invite my brother to join me?"

"Alright."

Zhao Jun nodded, handed the quilt to Shi Yu, asked him to send it back, and then said, "Let's go together."

With that said, he headed southwest of the city.

Potai Temple is in the southeast of the outer city, next to Chenzhou Gate, but Zhao Jun did not go there because he knew that there was no so-called clan daughter there, and it would be in vain if he went there. He might as well do something serious.

On the way, Song Cai and his companions, some in high spirits and some with sad faces, were all talking about the imperial examination.

Because the poem test had just been completed today, Song Cai asked Zhao Jun: "The difficulty of the poem test this year is similar to previous years. Unfortunately, I prepared a plain rhyme poem. I didn't expect it to be oblique rhyme this year. I don't know how well Brother Zhao can perform this time." how?"

"Okay."

Zhao Jun asked with a smile: "How did you do?"

Song Cai said proudly: "A group of geese at the bottom of the mountain rushed into the river with boos. I jumped into the river and caught the doctor hungry. What do you think, brother?"

"Brilliant."

Zhao Jun gave a thumbs up silently.

Although the content is a bit outrageous, it actually fits this year's formula and can be considered a talent.

But he also knew that if there wasn't something to copy, if he had done it himself, the thing he would have made would probably not be much better than Song Cai, so there was nothing to despise.

If we really follow the formal rules, at least half of the Tang poetry and Song poetry are unqualified. If you want to be outstanding, but you also have to complete it within the specified time, it is difficult to have the best of both worlds.

The group came to Qingfeng Tower chatting and laughing.

Ordered a table of dishes.

While he was talking, there were already dense sounds of footsteps coming downstairs.

Everyone hurriedly looked for the sound and saw rows of Royal City Imperial Guards running towards them downstairs. They were all fully armed and even carried Imperial Guard crossbows.

"How is this going?"

"What are the Imperial City Division going to do? They just guarded the examination room."

"Could it be that someone engaged in malpractice for personal gain and committed a major crime?"

Several people were surprised.

Since the imperial examination, fraud cases have emerged one after another. Now, just after the imperial examination, the Imperial City Division has arrested people, possibly because of fraud cases.

But what they didn't expect was that the people from the Imperial City Division did not go to catch the candidates who had just finished the exam on the street, but came all the way to the residence of Li Dewen, a member of the judicial army in Kaifeng Prefecture.

Qingfeng Tower is in the east of Laoya Lane, and Li Dewen's mansion is near the entrance of the west side of the lane. They are far away, and everyone turns their heads to look out.

I saw a large number of soldiers from the Imperial City Division using ladders to enter Li Dewen's mansion. Then the door opened and countless soldiers rushed in, followed by various screaming sounds.

Countless people from Bianliang were watching below, and many people clapped their hands and applauded. Just because Li Dewen was arrogant and domineering, and always bullied good people, people in the whole street had a bad impression of him, so they ransacked this person's house. , it is really applauding.

After a while, a large number of Kaifeng government officials came running over.Immediately afterwards, the commander of the Imperial City Division who led the team ordered to raise his crossbow and shouted: "Li Dewen has committed corruption and violated the law. He was arrested under the orders of the officials and the magistrate. If he disobeys, it is the same as treason and he will be killed without mercy!" "

Many Kaifeng government officials looked at each other, and someone shouted: "The Imperial City Secretary took a chicken feather as a command arrow. This is not an official order at all. Kill him and save him to join the army!"

"Kill!"

There were a few fools who were fooled into rushing forward.

In an instant, all bows and crossbows fired, killing several people.

Only then did everyone realize that the Imperial City Secretary was serious about it, and they quickly dispersed.

For a time, the capital was shaken, and the government and the public were in turmoil.

(End of this chapter)