New Shun 1730

"How strict are those Rakshasa people?"

I've been stuck at home for a few days and I don't know about some changes, so I just want to ask today.

A person at the table next to him laughed and said: "How can it be lax? It's just that the people are worried that when they don't see Westerners, they just go to watch the monkeys. There are children's soldiers watching, but for you and me, does that still call someone to watch? Watch. They are all brothers and friends from each family.”

Tian Ping also answered: "If Brother Shouchang wants to show his power as the winner, he needs to bring more people with him. Otherwise, I'm afraid they will be angry and start a fight."

Everyone also took the opportunity to persuade the wine and said: "Yes, yes, brother Shouchang has established his authority in this battle. How can those Rakshasa people not hate you? It's just that the more the enemy hates you, the happier the winner will feel. Come on, come on, One more toast to Brother Chang. One is for his contribution to the border expansion, and the other is that Brother Chang is the first among his classmates to be awarded the honor."

Everyone stood up to toast, and Liu Yu also stood up. After finishing his drink, he said, "I have made a great contribution, don't you brothers want to give it a try?"

Like cold water poured into a pan of oil, everyone at the table had different expressions.

Tian Ping was hosting a banquet today, and most of the people followed Liu Yu in making hot air balloon jokes and kneeling across the Jinshui Bridge together.

This matter has passed. Liu Yu has been away for nearly two years and has made great achievements. He is a popular candidate for the Wude Palace Shangshe. How can everyone not know that Liu Yu is going to become famous?

Speaking of which, among all the people, Liu Yu was the only one who was granted the title of honorary guard, and most of the others were second sons.

Although he was the second son and was born into a wealthy family, he could not endure too much hardship. He only wanted to be a freerider in the future. If there is a chance in the future, it would be a great honor to go to Southwest Toast to plate it with gold.

As for the Northwest War, everyone knows that they can do meritorious service, but most of these people don't want to go. The northwest is cold and bitter. Dashun has suffered several defeats in the northwest before, which sounds very dangerous.

Those who are not from noble backgrounds tend to have mediocre results.

If the non-honored disciples in the Wude Palace are very good at studying, they will be arrogant and unwilling to get too close to the noble disciples. If you walk too close, you probably won't get a chance to get into the upper house.

If you can't get into a good job and don't have a noble family background, you will most likely be sent to the army to become a moderate officer.

If you are not at the level of "strategizing and calculating," you will have to kill people in a hail of bullets, or you may be thrown into ghost places like Dongning, Yungui, Songhua River, and Mongolia to become a border army officer.

Two years ago, we were classmates who had fun and made noise together, but now they have different futures, which can't help but be frustrating.

Tian Ping also smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Shouchang, if I am not willing to fight, you also know my business. You can't hear the sound of gunshots, and you can't ride a strong horse. There is no chance of going to the palace, let alone the battlefield, and it is definitely not as good as taking the imperial examination. It’s really embarrassing for those people to be neither up nor down.”

"In a few days, there will be the summer exam for the inner dormitory. I definitely have no chance of getting into the upper chamber. If there is an opportunity in the future, I can go to the study room and become a middle school student, that would be great."

"Brother Shouchang, you need to be prepared. The summer exam is coming soon. Only by entering the upper house can you be on the right track."

The promotion from the inner house to the upper house depends not only on the performance of the daily examinations, but also on the passing of the summer examinations.

After recalling the contents of the Nei She Xia Kao, Liu Yu was not worried.

Geometry, surveying calculations similar to word problems, arithmetic, equestrianism, and shooting with a choice of bow or musket.

Write down a paragraph from Sun Tzu, Wu Zi, Wei Liao, Sima and other seven classics; make a small policy discussion and talk about some strategies in the book of war.

Fill in the blanks to complete some excerpts from The Analects and Mencius.

That's about it. The difficulty of the book is not the same as that of the imperial examination.

Different from the autumn examination held every three years in Shangshe Middle School, there is no historical strategy theory and policy theory, and the military strategy is just a simple test.

Entering the Shangshe is almost a certainty, but the autumn examination after entering the Shangshe determines the upper limit in the future - similar to the difference between the number one scholar in the imperial examination, the second place, the third flower, the Jinshi, and the same background as the Jinshi.

The top three in the Wude Palace Autumn Examination will be directly awarded the Dragon Ban.

Unlike the Xunwei who follow the fifth-grade rule, Longjing is a third-grade one. For one thing, most honorary guards are awarded to the duke’s direct eldest son who will ascend the throne in the future. The fifth rank is just to get acquainted with him before ascending the throne. However, there are almost no duke’s eldest son in the third class of the Wude Palace, and they can be formed by directly conferring higher ranks. The balance between nobles, disciples of Emperor Wu De and civil servants.

As usual, Tianyou Hall has one noble who has obtained military power, one is from Wude Palace Shangshe, and four are from the imperial examination. This is roughly the proportion of the entire officialdom. There should not be too much sand outside the imperial examination to prevent the tail from being too big; but it should not be too little, just enough to control it.

Although there is no clear rule that to enter the Tianyou Palace, you must be the leader of the Wude Palace and the top scorer in the imperial examination, but in fact they are basically the same.

Ordinarily, even if you enroll in a dormitory, you have to study enough residential classes, but when the Wude Palace was founded, it was during the war, and when there was an urgent need for talents, people inside were needed to go to the battlefield to fill the gap. Therefore, there was customization before, and the time spent playing in battles was also counted as grinding time.

Therefore, if Liu Yu passed the summer exam and entered Shangshe, he would be directly eligible to participate in the autumn exam of Shangshe which is held every three years.

It was impossible for the emperor to make an exception for Liu Yu alone, but he knew how to exploit loopholes.

Liu Yu himself boasts a very high level of Western learning. He is familiar with all the martial arts books, has real experience on the battlefield, and his equestrian marksmanship is also good. As long as he passes the policy theory, there will be no problem.

He was 80% sure of the "imperial order" in his mind, and he had already completed the most difficult journey from being a military meritorious official to becoming a captain of a light chariot earlier than these classmates, but he didn't dare to have the slightest bit of arrogance.

No matter where these people go in the future, they are all connected by human connections, and it is important to make good friends at this time.

Hearing that everyone was a little depressed, he stopped mentioning the future.

I also know in my heart that the second sons in the duke's mansion are really in a difficult situation due to lack of hard work, so most of them will just spend their lives as independent knights and live dependent on their family in the future.

But if there are one or two who are really willing to find a way out, these second sons of the princes are talents who can be used. It depends on whether the court knows how to use them.

It was inconvenient to talk about this at this time, so I took advantage of the opportunity of everyone to celebrate or congratulate him in advance for entering the Shangshe, and asked a few more people who were not willing to live their lives as scattered knights, and secretly remembered their names.

When he was half drunk, Liu Yu took the opportunity to talk about the teacher who knew Japanese, and also said that he hoped that all the students would use some connections to inquire about the merchant ships from Fujian to Nagasaki.

One asked about the number of ships, and the other asked about the cargo.

After excluding those whose families are not princes, although the remaining people are not legitimate sons, their family's network and circle are destined to make it easier for them to get any information they want than others.

Tian Ping thought about the relationship at home for a while, his drunkenness welled up, and he patted his chest and said: "Brother Shouchang, don't worry, I don't know what you want to do, and I don't want to know. But since you are useful, I will try my best to find out about it for you."

"Teachers who understand the Japanese language are really rare. We have little contact with Japanese people in our country. Westerners are common in Xuanwumen, but Japanese people cannot be seen. Maybe there are some in Fujian? As long as there are, you can definitely find them."

Liu Yu thought for a while and then said: "It is best to be a good family man. Someone with an innocent background, or someone who runs a boat. I don't want someone with an innocent background. If he is a Japanese spy, he will cause a lot of trouble in the future." ”

"Don't worry about that. I know the importance of it. Since he is willing to give money and has a decent background, it is easy to find him as a public servant." Tian Ping was half drunk, but he still understood the trouble in this.

The rest of the people at the table also said that they could ask their families to help, contact various connections in Guangdong, Macau, and Zhejiang, and help Liu Yu make inquiries to find a reliable person.

As for what Liu Yu wanted to do, these people were very knowledgeable and didn't ask a single question.

Liu Yu himself was an outlier in the circle of distinguished disciples. He had studied Latin and Western learning since he was a child.

In their view, maybe Latin and Japanese are like the relationship between poetry and song? Most people who are good at poetry like poetry? But I don’t know what the fun is.

Just treat it as a child, not a fish, and know how happy it is to be a fish.

Seeing that the meal had reached Shen Shi, and everyone was almost drunk, Liu Yu took the opportunity to talk about borrowing money before.

I just said that I have been spending a lot of money recently and am not very generous. I hope brothers can be more lenient.

He had borrowed two thousand taels at the beginning, but he had borrowed them all from the prince's descendants, so if they were divided equally among each of them, the amount would be less than a hundred taels.

When these words were said at this time, everyone said that they could only congratulate Brother Shou Chang on his award.

Liu Yu took advantage of the situation and said that when he does something in the future, the money will only be treated as everyone's equity and will be distributed as dividends when the time comes.

If there is a chance to make money in the future, the more people involved, the better. Money is the top glue for relationships, and Liu Yu hopes to use the gap opened by this incident to bring in more distinguished families in the future.

The people who drank together didn't take it seriously. Firstly, the money was not much, and secondly, they just talked about it now. They would not talk about anything else until they saw the dividends in the future.

What Liu Yu was thinking was that if there was really a chance to do some trading, the first dividend would definitely be more tempting to seduce these people, and use the excuse to get them to invest more money.

The two thousand taels should be regarded as the bait set out two years ago to catch bigger fish in the future.

After all the commotion, there is no such thing as a feast that lasts forever. Liu Yu finished what he wanted to do, and Tian Ping also drank too much.

It may not be that you really drank too much if you vomited, and you may not really drink too much if you talk nonsense, but the words Tian Ping said definitely mean that you really drank too much.

"Brother Shouchang, you can get a hot air balloon in a few days. Since my sister saw us flying in the sky that day, she has always been asking me what it looks like when looking down from the sky."

"In a few days, you can get another one. I will secretly take my sister with me, and we will go out to the city to have a look. You two met when you were young, but not since you grew up. She is still the third brother of the Liu family, and the third brother of the Liu family calls you. She is also naughty, and the back garden can’t contain her. She is always yelling and suffocating to death..."

These words are not something that can be said in front of outsiders. When he talks about this, he is obviously drunk.

Liu Yu was also dizzy, recalling the girl he had played with when he was a child, and had long forgotten what she looked like.

My tongue is also big, and I just cry out that I have no money to make another one. The previous one was taken away by His Majesty and he didn’t return it. He gave me a purse and it was not enough to buy two feet of cloth...

The commotion continued for a while, and more and more people were vomiting, so it was time to break up the party. The Duke of Qi's mansion sent cars or servants to take these people home.

Wude Palace will take a break for two days, and school will start again the day after tomorrow. Liu Yu also plans to go to Wude Palace the day after tomorrow.

The next day I sobered up, went to my small courtyard, and ordered the steamed buns over.

"How did you feel yesterday?"

"It is extremely mysterious to be a servant. It seems that the food is much more delicious than before. Zi Ming will never forget the kindness of my husband."

Listening to these half-literate words, Liu Yuxian was happy.

"Okay, my identity has really changed from Steamed Bun to Mi Ziming, and my words have also changed."

The steamed bun also laughed and said: "I'm not afraid of Mr.'s jokes. I also studied with Mr. and worked as a book boy. In fact, I can say these words. It's just like the color of clothes, whether I can afford it, and whether I have it or not. Being qualified to wear clothes is not the same thing. Yesterday we went to the Duke of Qi's mansion, and I almost knelt down several times, but since my knees endured yesterday, my mouth also learned to speak human words. "

Liu Yu patted Steamed Bun on the shoulder and encouraged him: "This is a good thing. Get used to this tongue slowly. Don't call me Third Master in the future, and I will try not to call you Steamed Bun. Now that you have become a disciple, I have to teach you something." "Is there anything you want to learn?"

"I will learn whatever my husband teaches me. I also know that my only future future is to follow my husband, so what he teaches me will definitely be useful to him in the future."

These words made Liu Yu sigh, shook his head and said: "Don't think too simply. It may not be useful. Maybe after a few years of learning, he actually learned the dragon slaying technique. He has no skills but nowhere to use them. It's also unknown."

Mantou sighed together with Liu Yu: "What you want to teach me must be about Nanyang affairs. If you are really useless in the future, Ziming is willing to drive a small boat and accompany him on the sea. How can you say it is useless?"

He had followed Liu Yu for a long time, and he had witnessed many things, and he could probably guess some of Liu Yu's thoughts. When I said this, I also thought that if that day comes, I will be on the sea, it would be best if the girl is there. Sir, it would be best if he has a mistress who understands the meaning of his Yao Qin's broken strings. That would be perfect.

However, after saying this, Liu Yu laughed and said: "Riding a small boat on the sea? I don't want to hide from the world like this. When the day comes, riding a small boat and becoming a pirate will be better than crying and singing a few lines of 'My Way' You must be strong. But you are right, I want to teach you knowledge related to Nanyang affairs."

Then he teased: "I know you are thinking about Du Feng's girl, but she is a head that has been cut off and wants to be an official. But he should take my words to heart - just like Mr. Yangming's mind study in the past, Those who really want to learn from his knowledge are always less than those who want to imitate his enlightenment and become a saint. I don’t dare to compare with Mr. Yangming, but the meaning is still the same. Du Feng sees that I have achieved great success, and he is sure of my words. Listen. If he really gets admitted to the Wude Palace, he will definitely find a way to learn some maritime knowledge."

After saying that, he smiled and said: "I captured Bering, Cherikov and others. They know navigation. I only have a superficial understanding. If I really want to learn, I have to learn from them. But Du Feng wants to learn, although He has a foundation in geometric arithmetic, but there’s a big problem. He doesn’t understand Latin, Bering, or Chinese...and you, after studying with me for a few years, you understand a little bit."

"I wonder if he will stick to you and please you in the future. This is also an opportunity for you. What do you think of the arrangements I have made for you, husband?"

Steamed Bun was in a good mood, bowed and said with a smile: "Sir, the arrangement is clear. Zi Ming admires it."

"Okay, then it's settled. I'll go to the Wude Palace tomorrow, and you should go to the old cabin. Don't talk about studying with your hair tied up, but it's almost enough. I will take time every day to teach you Latin, geometry, and arithmetic. . As for you, try your best to learn it as soon as possible, and I can arrange for you to go to Bering and learn from it. "

"I talk a little bit every day and leave some more topics. Whether it's for the girl, for finding a career in the future, or even to repay my kindness..."

"I just want to tell you: You only have this chance in life, so seize it. If you don't seize it, you won't get everything you want in your dreams. If others use ten points of effort, you have to use twenty points of effort. strength."

Mantou didn't know that everything Liu Yu said was true, so he thought to himself, Third Master, don't worry, I will try my best. Yesterday I sat at the table to eat, it was because of your kindness. One day in the future, I hope that by virtue of my status, I can sit down and talk and laugh with those people on an equal footing.

He didn't say a word of what was in his heart, he just saluted Liu Yu heavily and said nothing.