The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

It is said that overnight political changes are like a major earthquake, which makes everyone in the court feel insecure.Of course, the Yuanzai bureaucracy can be tripped up, and Guo Nuan should be credited first.

After a busy night, Guo Nuan seemed to be full of energy, and when he returned to the Princess Mansion in the morning light, there was already a virtuous and beautiful woman holding a child at the gate of the mansion, leading a large number of servants to wait silently. his return.

I didn't sleep at night, but Guo Nuan was still full of energy. It's really a good day for happy events. I hit the Yuanzai Group, and today is a good day for Gongsheng to make a list.Guo Nuan hurriedly asked someone to prepare gifts, and he was going to visit Li Duan, a talented scholar.

After a hasty breakfast, Guo Nuan rushed to Li Duan's residence with a large amount of congratulatory gifts.

It is said that before entering Li Duan's humble little house, there are firecrackers crackling outside the door, red firecrackers scattered all over the paper clothes, decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the gongs and drums are playing and playing.It seems that after ten years of cold windows, no one asked, he became famous all over the world in one day.Guo Nuan remembered a line from a Tang poem, which just happened to fit the scene.The neighbors from the left and right houses came to celebrate.

With sharp eyes, he also saw that the door of the humble house was full of sedan chairs and no less than ten carriages. It seemed that a rich family had come to celebrate.Guo Nuan thought she was early, but these congratulators were even faster.

Just as Guo Nuan approached Li Duan's house, he saw a joyous Li Duan in a brand new red shirt clasping his fists at the farewell guests.

"Hey, Brother Guo!" It was not easy for Li Duan to send off the No.11 guests. This early in the morning, before he woke up, a group of guards of honor from the examination court officials came to celebrate. Even he was a little surprised to win the title of head of a club, and then he became very excited.

Fortunately, Li Duan is also a prudent person, he will not get carried away because he won the first name of Gongsheng. After he was happy, he immediately distributed rewards to everyone, and asked Shutong to go to the hotel next door to buy more than ten tables of wine and food, and treat him well Usually help his neighbors and friends.

Seeing Guo Nuan coming outside the door now, Li Duan was naturally very happy, he hurried forward and grabbed Guo Nuan's shoulder, and pulled him into the house.

"Congratulations, congratulations brother Li, you got the first place in the tribute student exam." Guo Nuan laughed, he knew that it was not easy for Li Duan, a tribute student, to get the prize. After several twists and turns, Qiao Yun almost stole it. .

Li Duan smiled and waved his hands humbly, he said leisurely: "Compared to Guo Consort Guo's number one scholar, I'm just a tribute student, how dare I be your compliment, haha."

It is said that Li Duan won the first place in the Gongsheng examination this time, and he is expected to take the palace examination next month. With his strength, even if he does not perform very well, he can still win the first-class Jinshi. , Anyone who explores flowers can look forward to it.

But passing the Huiyuan test means that the future is boundless.Look at the big families who received the news early in the morning, as well as the officials, rushed to Li Duan's humble courtyard to celebrate.He is now a piece of sweet pastry, and everyone is rushing to get it.

Li Duan brought Guo Nuan into the small courtyard, he was a little miserable, although it was a great joy to pass the Huiyuan exam, it was not in vain to study hard for ten years, and he was named on the gold list.However, there was an endless stream of rich families like chasing ducks. They all said that there were big ladies in their homes, young girls, Xiaobiyu, and wealthy ladies who were waiting to be married.

When Guo Nuan heard Li Duan narrate his difficulties in this way, he chuckled, this is of course normal.Now Li Duan is a potential stock. If he makes a move sooner or later, he will be snatched away by other people and become his son-in-law.

"Brother Li has no engagement yet?" Guo Nuan asked curiously, and Li Duan nodded in distress. Because of this, when many powerful and powerful families came to propose marriage, Li Duan was not easy to offend, so he had to laugh and laugh Sending him off, saying that he is preparing for the palace examination in the next month, and has no intention of marrying a wife for the time being.

But the method of delay can't be delayed any longer. Li Duan has never met another girl, right? sold.

"Uh, brother Guo, I want to ask you something." Sitting at the stone table, Li Duan politely brought a cup of tea to Guo Nuan, and he hesitated a bit.

Guo Nuan could see that Li Duan had something on his mind, so he said something and then asked, "Brother Li, please tell me."

"Last time in the Phoenix Tower, the mirror maid you brought, how is she doing recently?" Li Duan's cheeks flushed a little, saying that he hesitated for a long time before asking, Li Duan felt that it was a bit abrupt for him to ask. Yes.

"She is at the Princess Mansion. She is free every day. Sometimes she plays the piano with Shengping, and she lives a leisurely life. By the way, she asked me a few days ago when I would be free. After Brother Li finished the exam, Let's go on an outing together." Guo Nuan asked casually without doubting him.

"Oh." Li Duan's eyes flashed with joy.

"Hehe, so it is like this." Guo Nuan was just about to drink the tea, when he suddenly figured out something, put down the teacup and laughed.

Obviously, Li Duan met Jing'er at Xiaoyao's concert in Phoenix Tower last time, and he had a good impression of Jing'er at that time, so he specifically asked him a question now.

"Come on, it's not that Brother Li, the daughter of a rich family, doesn't like it. It turns out that Brother Li already has his own heart."

Guo Nuan felt that the ancients had very little experience in dating.Under the shackles of feudal etiquette, there is really no chance for love. Most of the matchmakers lead the red line. They look pleasing to the eye, they are pleasing to the eye, their family background is decent, and they are well-matched. A man and a woman get married.

Now Li Duan has a good impression of Jinger, the maid, and it seems that Jinger has a good impression of Li Duan.All in all, it is Jing'er's blessing to have a Li Dacai with Huiyuan fame and a court maid who is born in music and art.

Guo Nuan thought about it, and after returning to the mansion, he asked Jing'er's tone. If she was interested in Li Duan, Guo Nuan didn't mind to lead the red line for the two of them and make a match.There is nothing better than adult beauty.

Think about it, Li Duan didn't get married until he was in his 20s in order to gain fame. In the ancient Tang Dynasty, he was indeed an older youth.Generally, men start to marry and have children when they reach the age of seventeen or eighteen.As for the female side, some started thinking about getting married when they were fourteen or fifteen years old.

Li Duan has gained fame, but has no marriage contract yet. He is considered an older bachelor and aristocrat.A man with diamonds all over his body.

I heard that when the last imperial examination list was published, a large number of servants from wealthy families had long been standing by the wall of the official gate.Once a scholar has obtained a reputation, he is immediately snatched away, sent to a sedan chair, and carried home to meet his future father-in-law and mother-in-law.

What's even more funny is that after Guo Nuan said this, Li Duan remembered an example.

It is said that there is a 65-year-old old man surnamed Huang in the street next to his hometown. He is obsessed with obtaining fame. I admire him for his tenacity and persistence like an old cow, and he has been taking the exam for talents in his 12s.It was not until the age of 20 that he was admitted as a scholar.

At that time, he was admitted as a scholar in his 30s, so he was considered a very stupid person.It stands to reason that if most children fail to pass the exam three or four times, they will give up after four or five years.

Since there is no limit to the number of exams in the scientific examination, as long as you are willing to take the exam, even if you fail in the exam [-] times, you can still take the exam again. Guo Nuan lamented that this rule can be regarded as a very humane arrangement in ancient imperial examinations.

Of course, after the old man passed the examination as a scholar, everyone who knew him thought that he had obtained a scholar, and after all, he was also a scholar.With a junior high school diploma in hand, an intellectual can be a teacher in a private school in a small village. This is a teacher who teaches and educates people, and is an extremely respected profession.

Mr. Huang, who was over [-] years old at the time and hadn’t had the time to get married, had been single for many years. He said that even though his family had four walls, the shabby hut was raining all night, and there was no grain of rice in the rice tank, he was poor. Being a poor beggar has to continue to realize the long-cherished wish of a lifetime, and keep taking the exam until the day of old age and death, and finally enter the Golden Palace to become a Jinshi in the imperial examination.

It seems that Mr. Huang attaches too much importance to the fame and honor that symbolizes the glory of the ancestors.This is for the sake of the scientific examination and the fame of the examination. Everyone in the ten miles and eight villages knows that there is such a person.

Parents of countless families have used his example to educate their children as a role model for reading.In particular, the local county magistrate was also moved, and personally went to his dilapidated house to donate rice and money to help him continue his exams.

The 35-year-old scholar continued to embark on the road of juren scientific examination. After seven or eight failures in the examination room, he finally passed the examination, which is amazing.In a sudden transformation, the down-and-out scholar uncle has become a master of Juren, but his temples are graying, and he is already sixty years old.

"It's an old bone, so don't take the exam again, Master Huang, you should be content."

Every year, I saw the old man Huang who walked into the gate of the examination institute and leaned on crutches for reference. Even the officials in the examination room knew him.He has come here for four consecutive years, and the officials were moved to tears.

"It's an old bone. If you don't take the exam, it will be buried in the soil. There is no chance." The old man Huang replied with a smile, and then plunged into the exam room again.

Unexpectedly, in the fifth year, when he was in his 60s, the old man Huang finally passed the 120th and 80th place in the top three of the Gongsheng University. Congratulations.Although the talent is blunt, but the endurance is long-lasting, this gold content is equivalent to the rare master's degree in China in the [-]s.

Of course, I didn't expect that he would become a Jinshi after two years. Although he was also a top three, under the dumbfounded gaze of everyone, this 70-year-old man passed the "doctoral" academic qualification certification examination.

On the second day after he was awarded the title of Jinshi, the old man Huang had gray hair. He fulfilled his wish and passed away on the bed at home with a smile on his face.There was a line of several hundred meters outside the closed gate, all of whom were matchmakers invited by wealthy families to propose marriage.From the eighteenth-year-old girl in cardamom age to the sixtieth old woman, everyone wanted to marry him, but unfortunately it was already too late...

At this moment, after listening to the story told by Li Duan, Guo Nuan was really moved.