Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

The results of the county examination will be released three days later, but the examination papers will be reviewed tonight, and then the rankings will be ranked.

Zhao Zhixian was originally a Jinshi, so he naturally carried a bookish air of a literati.The county examination was sloppy, and he didn't want to spend too much energy on it, so he simply called the master Gao from the ceremony room and asked him to take out the admission list that had been drawn up and pick out all the papers.If the article is done well, it will be accepted.

All he needs to do is to rank, one parent, the herdsman on behalf of the emperor, some small things can be settled by himself.

Master Gao quickly took out a list of six people, and said: "Master, this is the list of six outstanding children of gentry from Qingyuan County who participated in the county examination this year. As usual, ten children are admitted for each county examination, and the remaining four One place is reserved for the humble scholars."

It's not that the county magistrate took advantage of the six families. In fact, the Ming Dynasty government did not go down to the county, and the parents and officials of a county town needed the cooperation of the local wealthy families for both governance and jurisdiction. This is also a very helpless thing.

Zhao Zhixian nodded: "It's right to reserve four places for poor scholars, and I don't look at the list anymore. You put forward the papers of these six people, and then choose another four papers that are passable, and write down the list. gone."

Master Gao: "The six families in this issue are Huang, Yang, Lu, Su, Liu, and Ma. I have read the articles of the juniors in the newspapers of the six families, and they are okay. The other four have also been selected."

Zhao Zhixian suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Is that Su Mu's son Su Mu?"

Master Gao: "The one from the Su family is the one from the fourth house."

Zhaoxian County: "This is strange. The children of the Su family take the exam every year, and the county knows about it. There are not many talents among the children. Only Su Mu's poems are good, and the articles are also very sophisticated. Don't say that the boy tried it. In the future, it is also possible to be a scholar. If such a person is replaced by another family, he has to be carefully cared for and cultivated since childhood. This Su family is interesting, but it is really blind to recommend another person."

He was a little unworthy for Su Mu, he was curious for a moment, and ordered Master Gao to bring another member of the Su family's examination paper, and seeing that the examination paper was very ordinary, he felt slanderous in his heart.

Master Gao saw that the county magistrate looked uneasy, and said with a smile: "The magistrate probably doesn't know that this Su Mu is originally the younger brother of the Su family. His father passed away three years ago and he just finished his funeral. Now, all affairs of the Su family are handled by the third bedroom, The four houses dominate, and the big house is quite squeezed out."

Zhao Zhixian: "Is that so?"

Master Gao: "The county lord has already taken Su Mu, or else he might as well have taken this child of the Su family as well."

Zhao Zhixian was upset, Su Mu was also a child of the Su family, and he had already won one.There is one child from each of the six families. That is the tacit agreement that everyone has reached. Taking one more would not break the rules: "This county is for the country to promote virtuous people, and what I read is moral articles. There is nothing good about this paper. How can I accept it?" Get messed up."

After saying that, he threw it aside.

Gao Shiye understood: "The county lord is right, and the humble one will write the list. There is something else, please tell me, how do you decide the top three?"

"As usual, the top three have to choose two from poor families and one son of a nobleman, and Su Mu will be the first one."

"My lord didn't choose the person sent by the Su family newspaper, and let Su Mu be the first name. Is it a bit inappropriate? Why don't you just press it down and rank around seven or eight."

Zhao County Zhixian sneered: "Although Su Mu's article still has some problems in terms of words and sentences, it is the first one in this county. If he can't get the first place, how can he be convincing?"

He snorted coldly in his heart, Su Mu's poem is so good, and he is only under 20 years old, with his talent, he will definitely be able to occupy a place among the scholars in Beizhili in the future.

This kid was also confused by Xili, he didn't even bring a pen when he took the imperial examination.If it was replaced by someone else, he would have been kicked out of the examination room long ago.However, my lord, who knows real gold with his eyes, put him in, and sure enough, he got the first name in the exam.

It is an elegant thing to talk about if it is spread out.

Spicy next door, it's a good story about scholars, could it be ruined because of this bullshit reason?

This Master Gao is really incomprehensible.

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Su Mu took part in the county examination for no reason, and he had already inquired clearly earlier that the ranking would not be released until the day after tomorrow. As for the government examination, it would be in April, two months later.

He didn't think he could go far in the imperial examination, and he didn't care about it, even though he was sure that he could pass this test.

Answering the questions in the county examination room was so difficult that he suddenly felt a little afraid of the examination, and he was unwilling to suffer this torture, let alone study hard like other scholars and endure premature aging.

The family is already so poor, and with the name of the young master of the Su family, if they are still starving, they will be laughed to death if they spread the word.

The most important thing right now is to earn some money as soon as possible to improve the living environment of himself and Xiaodie.

But for a while, he still couldn't find a suitable path for him. First, he didn't think of a good idea, and second, he didn't have the capital.

So, after resting all night, he decided to go to the county school to meet Mr. Shao.This old man is a local cultural celebrity, with a proper superstructure, and building a good relationship with him will be of great benefit to his future development.If you don't go, you will offend him, and you will inevitably have a lot of trouble in the future.

According to Shao Tai, today is the day when he starts a class to examine students from the county, and he wants to hold a class and ask Su Mu to attend it.

Su Mu didn't want to go either. After breakfast, he dawdled for a long time before passing away happily.

The students in the county school all have the reputation of being a scholar, and they will receive a certain amount of rice subsidy from the county school every month, which can be regarded as a kind of welfare for scholars from poor families.According to the Ming system, students after entering school have six liters of rice per month.However, this number usually only stays on paper. From the central to the local, this poor lin rice has passed through countless hands and has been constantly drifting away.

At the beginning, a small amount of brown rice and gravel were added, but at the county level, the amount could not even match.

Especially in the economically underdeveloped counties in the north, the shortage of funds for county schools has always been severe.

The [-] acres of paddy fields that Su Mu sent to the county school, because he passed the examination in the government school, he didn't have to pay taxes, so he had a lot of savings every year, which was considered to have relieved Mr. Shao's urgent needs.

The students of the county school all have a reputation as a scholar, and they don't need to come here to study every day.But it is not so easy to eat the state's education subsidies for nothing. On the first and 15th of every month, I have to go to the county school to listen to a class and accept the teaching assessment, which is called the monthly exam.In addition to the monthly exam, one has to take the annual exam at the end of each year. If the grades fail, in addition to being punished, one has to be expelled from the county school.

Because of the county examination this month, the assessment of the county school was postponed until today.

When Su Mu came, the assessment had already ended, and when he walked into the lobby of the county school, he saw three scholars standing in front of Mr. Shao to be taught, with depressed faces, probably because they failed the assessment just now.

According to Su Mu's previous observation, Mr. Shao is an old-fashioned person, and he is also strict with himself. If these talents fall into his hands, how can they get better?

Unexpectedly, Mr. Shao sighed instead, and said with a pleasant face: "You three are also clear to me. You just entered school last year, and you came from a poor family. Because of this, you should work harder than others. It is not easy for you to obtain the honor of a scholar, and it is even more difficult to enter a school. If you are expelled from the county school because of poor grades in the annual examination, and run around for a living, what energy do you have to study and improve? You say, is this right? reason?"

The three scholars were grateful and ashamed at the same time, bowing again and again, bowing their heads to listen to the teaching.

"Go down, the class will start soon, be careful." Mr. Shao waved his sleeves, and let the three of them return to their positions.

Seeing this scene, Su Mu was stunned.When he signed up for the county office that day, Shaoxian gave him the impression of being a rigid and harsh person, but he didn't expect to be so kind to poor students.

From this point of view, Old Master Shao is a kind person.

Immediately, he had a good impression of Shaotai Dasheng in his heart, so he found a secluded seat and listened to the class.

Anyway, it's just a formality, stay up for an hour, and then go home.

But after listening to it, I heard something interesting.