The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

It has been three or four days since I came back to the Princess Mansion, and Guo Nuan's residence seemed very peaceful.

Pu Shangxuan is still studying hard in his study, it seems that since his uncle Park Hao went to Silla for the Northern Expedition, he has been engrossed in the world of imperial examination review.

Occasionally, Guo Nuan would also go to the study to give Pu Shangxuan some tonics during meals.Burning the lights and fighting at night, studying hard day and night, Guo Nuan was really afraid that Lao Pu's thin body would suddenly be unable to bear it and die.

Thinking back to when I was studying in my youth, Guo Nuan couldn't help sighing.Especially when it came to the critical juncture of the third year of high school review, at that time, the parents would go back and forth from the hometown county to the city three or four times a week, and kept sending rewards to his school, ginseng soup, brain tonic oral liquid, similar to that of Life No. [-]. kind.

What's more, once again, the mother who was originally a high-level intellectual was superstitious about folk remedies. In order to pray for her son to be admitted to a good university, she drove to a Taoist temple in a remote mountain to pray for a few blessings. They were burned to ashes, and Guo Nuan forced to pour two large ceramic bowls. As a result, the next day, Guo Nuan collapsed with diarrhea, like eggplant beaten by frost, listless.

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, and the urgency to hope that their children will become dragons can be understood by children.Now Guo Nuan seems to see the scene where Park Shangxuan was studying hard for the college entrance examination just like he was back then, and he can't help feeling deeply moved.

"Brother Pu, come here, this is the Shiquan Dabu soup that Big Brother Guo specially cooked for you, drink a bowl every day, and keep your imperial examinations for a month. .”

"Brother Guo, what kind of soup did you make for me this time?" Pu Shangxuan, who was extracting the sage's book at his desk, heard Guo Nuan's words, his hands trembled, and the brush fell to the floor.

"It's nothing, this time the eldest brother specially made it from the prescription that the imperial doctor in the princess' mansion begged for. This is a god soup that cost a lot of money. It costs a tael of silver to drink it." Nuan smiled, put the Dahai bowl on the desk, mysteriously reached into Pu Shangxuan's ear, and whispered.

"What's boiled in here?"

"Nothing, just a little Chinese medicine, including ginseng, cinnamon, Chuanxiong rehmannia, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, licorice, astragalus, Sichuan angelica, Baiyunling, Huaishengdi, Qinghuagui, Dachuanxiong..."

"anything else?"

"The leg bones of a strong calf on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, fresh and tender five-month-old chickens in Hexi, five-hundred-year-old giant turtles caught along the coast of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River... **, cough cough, I made a mistake, it's a sea turtle.

"There is also a thousand-year-old giant python in the tropical jungle that was urgently transported from Nanzhao for eight hundred miles... I heard from the shopkeeper of the Anqing Pharmacy in Chang'an that 130 men of the Qiang nationality were used to capture this python. It took a dozen people from the tribe to kill it, which can be said to be a huge cost, and the death rate is close to twelve to one."

In order to highlight the hard-earned medicine introduction, Guo Nuan vividly added gestures, gesturing the concept of ten to one.

"What does that have to do with making soup?" In view of Guo Nuan's enthusiastic push and push, Park Shangxuan couldn't refuse, so he had to take the bowl and pour it into his mouth one bite at a time. While panting, he asked vaguely.

Guo Nuan chuckled, and suddenly lowered her voice in a sinister way, "I heard that there is another interesting story, the people who participated in the capture of Mang back then, and the corpses of their companions, the patriarch counted the heads, guess what? "

"What's the matter?" Guo Nuan's mysterious tone quickly aroused Park Shangxuan's curiosity.

"The patriarch was very puzzled at the time. Why did he only come back with 110 and nine corpses when he clearly counted ten corpses? Why is one missing? Could it be that one person died, but where is the corpse?"

"Pfft—" Pu Shangxuan, who was holding a bowl of soup, suddenly sprayed out a mouthful of soup.

"Nonsense, apart from being eaten by a boa constrictor, where can the rest of the person hide!" Park Shangxuan turned his head quickly, and suddenly came to a conclusion.

"Drink slowly, don't choke." Guo Nuan stretched out a finger and shook it, expressing her negation: "No, brother Pu guessed wrong. Just as the patriarch thought that the remaining person was hidden in the python's belly. "

Guo Nuan smiled faintly: "Suddenly, the last clansman popped out from the bushes by the village, and he walked up to the patriarch slowly with his pants up."

"Stinky boy, where did you die just now? Everyone was so worried that they thought you were killed by a python." The patriarch was so angry that he immediately cursed.

The clansman scratched the back of his head, and said foolishly: "Patriarch, I managed to kill a big snake just now. It was really thrilling. I almost died several times to see my ancestors in advance. I was so scared that I almost pulled shit into my crotch... Just nestled in the grass and crouched."

After Guo Nuan's teasing, Park Shangxuan really couldn't laugh or cry.Fortunately, Guo Nuan is really good at cooking, and the Shiquan Dabu soup tastes really good, and Park Shangxuan drank the bowl to the bottom.

Pu Shangxuan and Guo Nuan both graduated from the Guozi Academy of Chang'an Guozijian, and they both have the qualifications for the imperial examination.

As a commoner, to become an official in the Tang Dynasty, it was nothing more than the two imperial examinations of the civil examination and the military examination. Looking at Pu Shangxuan's body as a frail scholar, of course he participated in the civil examination.

As for martial arts, for example Guo Ziyi, Guo Nuan's father.When Guo Ziyi was young, he met Li Bai by chance, and was appreciated by a great poet. Li Bai felt that Guo was an extraordinary man, and he would become a great weapon in the future. The prefect and Shuofang Jiedu right soldiers and horse envoys.

In addition, Wenju is divided into two types of examinations, one is a regular examination and the other is a compulsory examination. The former is a regular examination, similar to the modern civil servant national examination, and the latter is a special selection examination, hand-picked by the top leaders. Audience, face-to-face selection of questions, is an irregular exam.As for whether one can become an official, apart from the fact that the person summoned is indeed talented, the emperor's preference is also a major determining factor.

Generally speaking, scholars do not bother to take part in the system of examinations, which are temporarily held by the emperor's edict, which is called the system of subjects.

For the vast majority of people, they feel that only passing the official examination or the examination of subject selection from the regular examination is the right way.

Of course, people who can't eat grapes will always think that grapes are sour. In fact, there is no distinction between Zhike and Changke.Guo Nuan felt very disapproved when he heard others compare the two subjects, and immediately scoffed.

From Pu Shangxuan, Guo Nuan popularized the general knowledge of the Tang Dynasty liberal arts and imperial examinations. The general examinations are mainly divided into several subjects.

There were many imperial examination subjects in the Tang Dynasty, mainly Mingjing, Mingshu, Mingfa, Mingshu, and Jinshi. Among them, Jinshi was the most difficult to take, and the number of officially admitted people was the least, while other subjects were easier.

Mingjing is mainly about reciting Confucian classics silently, and many talented scholars apply for Jinshi.The most respected literary carrier in the Tang Dynasty was poetry, so Jinshi's scientific examination judgments, policy theory, and the most important poems.

Guo Nuan is good at writing calligraphy in Song style. This kind of calligraphy was absolutely groundbreaking in the Tang Dynasty.In addition, I can recite a few poems by post-Tang poets, such as Du Mu and Bai Juyi. As for the policy theory, it is nothing more than talking about the current people's livelihood and political affairs, and suggesting some ways to govern the country for the benefit of the world and the people.

Don’t forget what major Guo Nuan studied in university in his previous life, majoring in international trade. For the professional managers of multinational corporations, the theory of test strategy, if they randomly introduce a few macroeconomics, microeconomics, and Marx's capital theory to the examiner, wouldn't they be regarded as heavenly beings by others and admired.

Knowing the content of the Jinshi examination, a flash of light flashed in my mind, and I was obsessed with it for a while. Guo Nuan calmed down and stopped thinking about it.Maybe he didn't know that if he was so lucky, he might really be able to pass the Jinshi examination and become an official.