Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1918 Annunciation
After the interview, Yuan Shuzhi and Zeng Juan began to wait endlessly.This time was different from the last time. The first time was a written test, and I had no idea. I had no confidence at all. On the contrary, I was not too concerned about whether I could pass the test.Now I feel good about myself, but I am overwhelmed and worry about gains and losses.

Yuan Shuzhi didn't even feel like reading novels in the past few days. Except for playing with Ming girls, he would either sleep with his head covered or hold a book in a daze.Zeng Juan was similar, but he hid in the house and couldn't come out.

A week later, there was a faint sound of blowing, blowing, and beating coming from the entrance of the alley in the distance. The sound gradually became louder. When they arrived near Zeng Juan's house, there was overwhelming firecrackers. The neighbors had already gathered together. Yuan Shuzhi and Zeng Juan Juan's heart was scratching his throat, and only one person reported loudly: "Report!!! Congratulations to Zeng Juan from the Zeng residence, the civil servant admission notice has arrived!"

Originally, the Senate did not have this set of announcements, and those who reported the news were mostly the work of some small officials from the Xuezheng, Fuxue, and Gongyuan colluding with the unemployed and vagrants, taking this opportunity to ask for rewards.Imperial high school is a happy event, and those who come to announce the good news will naturally not complain, but this good news has the first, second, and third reports, and rewards are given every time, and wine and dinner are entertained. Naturally, it doesn’t matter to big families, and small families often suffer from it ——But this is a happy event after all, even if you borrow money from your neighbors to buy wine and meat, you have to deal with it.

Since the Guandi Temple was purged, no one dared to do the act of announcing the good news.This time the announcement of the good news was not the work of the newspaper, but Liu Xiang's instruction, and it was done by the newly established Guangzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau.The purpose is nothing more than to create momentum.

At this time, the whole alley erupted naturally. The neighbors congratulated Zeng Juan's parents. A stone fell from Zeng Juan's heart. He wept with joy, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times in the direction of the Lingao Senate, shouting: "Long live the Emperor of the Song Dynasty! Long live the Senate, and a thousand years for the elders!" Then he turned around and kowtowed to his parents a few times to thank them for their kindness in nurturing.

After Zeng Juan had done enough of this, he got up and took the bright red civil servant admission notice, and looked at it happily.It was nothing more than an ordinary large red kraft paper envelope, with a line written in Gong Kai in the middle of the seal, and a large seal was stamped on the seam of the seal.It was extremely ordinary to say it, but he held it like a treasure.

Zeng Juan's parents hurriedly gave the applicant one silver dollar as an annunciation money, but the applicant refused:
"We are staff members of the Guangzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau. This is part of our job. Money is absolutely unacceptable." The "announcement team" who came to deliver the notice was wearing a dark green jacket and a canvas bag slung across his shoulders.

"Then please rest for a while, wait for me to prepare a little wine and entertain a few."

"We still have other notices to send, you just celebrate at home." The person at the end was very polite.

At this time, everyone didn't pay attention to Yuan Shuzhi in the corner. He was alone there, very disappointed. Sometimes nothing is more sad than a good friend who becomes famous, but he couldn't show it. He could only silently stand in the corner. He felt that the whole sky was gray.

Just when Yuan Shuzhi was almost in despair, the employee who announced the good news asked again: "This is Zeng Zhai, is there anyone named Yuan?"

Father Zeng Juan was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Yes! Yes! Wan Shenglu's accountant, Yuan Shuzhi, lives in this house..."

Before he finished speaking, several drummers started playing again, and the postman took out a big red envelope from the canvas bag, raised his throat and said loudly: "Report!!!!!! Congratulations to Yuan Shuzhi from Zeng's residence! , civil servant admission notice Arrived!
"Coax!" The whole alley was blown up again and it was blown up even more thoroughly. Zeng Juan's family's Feng Shui is too good, and the family has two Australian Song officials!Terrible!Some people even use their brains to borrow Feng Shui...

Yuan Shuzhi took the notice tremblingly, and it was clearly written in black Song typeface on the red paper: The admission notice for civil servants in Guangzhou Special City of the Great Song Dynasty was signed with the official seal of the Cadres Office of the Senior Council of the Great Song Dynasty.

Holding the notice in his hand, he read it again and again, filled with sorrow and joy.Although I already knew that my high school is a nine out of ten thing after I got the first place in the written test, but at this moment holding this notice, it feels like I am in a dream.He couldn't speak, and even the postman called him "stamp" in a dull manner, like a marionette.

"Old Yuan! Congratulations!" Zeng Juan patted him on the shoulder, which instantly woke Yuan Shuzhi up.He couldn't help laughing up to the sky, and said: "Unexpectedly, I, Yuan Shuzhi, still have today!"

Zeng Juanniang hurriedly said: "Old Yuan, today is your good day! Don't be sad..."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Yuan Shuzhi quickly wiped the corners of his eyes, carefully hid the admission notice, and said, "Let's go, let's greet the guests."

Zeng Juan's family was very happy, and Zeng Juan's father took out money to take care of people to book a few tables of banquets, and entertain neighbors, relatives and friends for dinner.While holding this simple notice and looking left and right, tears flowed down my face.

"Son, you are finally promising, and our family finally has a day to turn around!"

"Father, this is not an official appointment, you have to go through training before you can take up the post." Zeng Juan said so, but his face was already smiling, and the hard study for the past few months was not in vain.The pass rate this time is about [-]%.The admission rate is very high, but many old literati can't make a turn in their thinking, and write the application as stereotyped essays.There are also those who praise the emperor of the Song Dynasty for his sageness in the article, and these people will naturally be screened out in the first batch.

He still wanted to say something, but he couldn't escape from the continuous stream of congratulators.Most of the people, including his parents, thought that the Guangzhou government examination was at least equivalent to one's fame, and that it was the right way of the imperial examination, which was more than a step ahead of a policeman like Li Ziyu before.Everyone agrees that the Zeng family is about to prosper!
While entertaining and visiting guests, the family sent people around to announce the good news to their relatives and friends. In the evening, they held a large banquet to entertain the guests.It was a joy beyond words.

Zeng Juan and Yuan Shuzhi didn't open the admission notice until the guests were delivered and the dishes were collected. They saw that there were only three pages in it: one page was the admission notice, which stated the month and date to report to the Lingao Cadre Management School , the location is the Gongyuan.The other one was a medical examination notice, and the last was a political review form, with several pages of content, some of which he found inexplicable, so detailed that Zeng Juan gave him a headache after reading it.Some titles in it were even more incomprehensible, and he didn't dare to write on them rashly, for fear of writing something wrong.

"Forget it, let's talk about it later." He looked at the halfway and said.

An unexpected congratulatory guest came the next day, but it was Wu Ni—it turned out that he also passed the interview.After congratulating each other, Wu Bi expressed his intention.

"A Juan, several students from the prefectural school have also passed the exam. They will meet up in a few days to visit the teacher. I don't know whether I should go or not, so I came to discuss with you."

"Senior, there have never been any scholars in my younger brother's family. What's the matter with meeting the teacher?"

"This has been the practice in the imperial examinations since the Tang Dynasty. If the chief examiner takes your paper, it is suitable for mentoring. If you study politics and love talents, you will be recognized as a master and apprentice. It will be a great help in the officialdom in the future!" Wu Bi explained .

"But we still have to go through training before we can be awarded officials..."

"How can they listen to this? They think this is the imperial examination, and the training is just a formality."

This is not wrong.

Zeng Juan listened to Moran, he had zero experience in the examination field, so he really couldn't come up with an idea whether he should go to a teacher or not.

If you want to be in the past, it is natural to ask for a teacher, not only that, but also a room teacher.He had heard people say that the relationship between teachers and students, the friendship of the same subject, and the unity of voice are a huge force, and they are the biggest support of people in the officialdom.

However, now it is the rules of the Great Song Dynasty Senate, is it the same as that of Daming?After all, most of the rules and regulations of the Senate are different from those of Ming Dynasty.

He thought for a while, and said: "I think it's okay to go to worship. Firstly, this is an old rule in the examination hall, and the Senate has no express prohibition; coming here to respect the teacher is a great virtue, and it is reasonable to go to see the teacher. "

"Unexpectedly, my little brother has a lot of knowledge." Wu Ni nodded and said, "Brother Yu also thinks so, but..."

"Just what?"

"Well..." Wu Bi said with a little hesitation: "According to the usual practice, the examiner is a province's academic administration, who is the master. Students need to show a thank you gift when they come to the door, hand in a student post, call themselves a student, and call the master a teacher. The seat owner is old, so he can be called Master!"

Zeng Juan listened in a daze, thinking that there is nothing wrong with it, what is the point?
Seeing that he was not enlightened, Wu Ni said helplessly, "This time the chief examiner is Mr. Zhang Yuan!"

Zeng Juan understood that Zhang Yuanlao was the defense lawyer in the Wu beetle case, a girl who looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, how decent it was to ask her to be her teacher.I am afraid that since the imperial examination, there has never been a female teacher, and she is still so young.

"Then, don't those students mind?" Zeng Juan asked
"They said that there are no seniors in learning, and those who have achieved first come first. All the elders of the Song Dynasty in Australia have talents in the world, and they are enough to be our teachers. Zhang Yuan is a young man who is worthy of studying politics in a province, and his future is limitless." Wu As he spoke, he rolled his eyes. "Besides, men and women are equal in Song Dynasty, so what about women? Chief Du said that women can hold up half the sky."

Zeng Juan laughed: "They learn rather quickly."

However, for the sake of fame and wealth, he went to bow down to a girl and even called him "teacher". If his skin was not as thick as the city wall, he probably wouldn't be able to do it. Zeng Juan secretly despised those who were going to pay homage to teachers.
"So Brother Yu felt embarrassed. Go to worship, I can't do such a cheeky thing; if I don't go, if I offend this female veteran, it will be a big mistake when I go to training and get angry at the right time."

Zeng Juan thought it was true, and while hesitating, Yuan Shuzhi said: "Brother Wu is pedantic. Even if you bend your waist for five buckets of rice, you still have to take care of these things! In my opinion, if you are willing to worship, people will pay you back." I don't want to accept your worship!"

This sentence is like a word that awakens the dreamer.

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Volume 22 - Guangdong and Guangxi Raiders Chapter [-] will be updated tomorrow

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