Poor Family 1

  Chapter 223 Horse Bow Competition (1)

  Li Yanqing never went to find Liang Shicheng again. Since Liang Shicheng had already paid the full amount of money to his father, it showed that he had fulfilled his promise, and the deal between them was considered over.

  Obviously, Liang Shicheng was as sensitive to Yang Jian's death as he was. At this critical moment, Liang Shicheng must be very cautious and would not want to come to him by himself.

  Li Yanqing also put all his energy into the preparations for the horse bow competition.

  The three-year archery competition originated from the reform of the Baojia Law implemented by Wang Anshi. At that time, in order to test the effect of the Baojia Law, the imperial court ordered each state to select outstanding Baoding to come to the capital to hold a competition focusing on archery.

After Wang Anshi’s reform failed, the martial arts competition was also canceled. After Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Wang Anshi’s new law was revived again. At this time, bow and arrow clubs in the north were flourishing. The bow and arrow competition was held six times in a row, but it was finally canceled because of too much cost.

  Until three years ago, under Tong Guan's initiative, the bow and arrow competition was revived again, but it has been transformed into a bow and horse competition within the army, held every three years.

Participants are limited to the military system, plus Taixue and Guozixue, including the forbidden army, local Xiangjun, township soldiers, state martial arts, supreme martial arts, Taixue and Guozixue. Items, each take the top ten.

In the first session three years ago, Taixue and Guozixue only participated in the step bow competition. They couldn't select any scholars who could mount and shoot. It may be compared with the Forbidden Army and martial arts.

However, this year Taixue has selected 13 Taixue students to participate in the Bow and Horse Competition, including ten foot archers and three mounted archers. Except for Li Yanqing, the other twelve Taixues are currently training in martial arts. Taixue's shooting garden is only 50 steps away, and the minimum distance of the bow and horse competition is 80 steps. Taixue does not have this condition for training for the time being.

Early the next morning, Li Yanqing came to Taixue Qinsiyuan. Qinsiyuan is the administrative center of Taixue. All academic officials including Xuezheng work here. The first thing Li Yanqing has to do when returning to Taixue The thing is to sell holidays.

  As soon as Li Yanqing walked to the door, he met Xuelu Sun Li. Xuezheng was usually held by an official of the Imperial Academy and not in charge of specific affairs, while the specific affairs of Taixue were in charge of two Xuelu.

Xuelu is equivalent to the vice-principal, there are two people in total, one is in charge of teaching, the other is in charge of daily affairs, Sun Li is the Xuelu who is in charge of affairs, Li Yanqing got the quota of Tong Guan to enter the upper house of Taixue is Sun Li's arrange.

Of course, Sun Li knew that Li Yanqing had Tong Guan as his backer, so he paid special attention to Li Yanqing and cared about Li Yanqing. He turned a blind eye to many things about Li Yanqing. But it's not so laissez-faire, they also have a set of rules and regulations.

For example, Li Yanqing went to Jiangnan for a few months as an excuse to go to Yingtian Academy for a one-month study tour. This kind of study tour must first have a quota or an invitation letter from the other party, and then apply for it. Only then can I return to Taixue and cancel this study tour.

But Li Yanqing didn't have any invitation letter, so he wrote a written application to Sun Li, and Sun Li immediately signed and agreed, and he didn't have any study tour certificate from Yingtian Academy after he came back. Cheng Bie, an ordinary student, has long been severely punished by the school, but in front of the school students with background, the rules and regulations of the school have no binding force, and Sun Li is only a low-level official. Maybe confront Li Yanqing's background?

  Besides, when Li Yanqing went to Jiangnan, King Jia sent someone to greet Sun Li. After Li Yanqing came back, how dare Sun Li ask more questions?

   "Yanqing is back?" Sun Li laughed.

  Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed and saluted, "I'm not here for half a month, so I'm causing trouble to Xuelu."

  Sun Li waved his hand, "It's okay! It's okay! You go to Qufu to worship saints!"

Li Yanqing's excuse for going to Yunzhou this time is to go to Qufu to pay homage to the saints. This is something that every Taixue must do, and it is usually something that students in the foreign hall should do. Taixue encourages Taixue students to go to Qufu to worship the saints. , but if you really don’t have the financial conditions, you can do it in the Confucian Temple in the capital. Li Yanqing jumped directly into the Taixue Shangshe, he lacked this link.

His reasons this time are very good, but just like last time, he didn't have any receipt, so he couldn't prove whether he went to Qufu, and Sun Li obviously didn't want to ask him for any receipt, so he brought Li Yanqing into the official room, smiling. After stamping Li Yanqing's application form and filling in the date of returning to Taixue, the Qufu application was considered cancelled.

   "How about it, did you feel deeply about going to Qufu?" Sun Lixiao asked.

   "I really feel deeply. I have decided to take the imperial examination in the next year. I wonder if my conditions are met?"

Sun Li stroked his beard and said with a smile: "I've thought about it for you a long time ago. Your conditions are completely in line. If you don't say it, I will also suggest you to take the imperial examination in the next year. The difficulty of the "Three Classics and New Meanings" is the same as that of the provincial examination , but the amount of the provincial test is doubled, and there is no time to prepare drafts for you, so this part must be very proficient. The provincial test is mainly due to the extremely high requirements for policy theory. , luck alone is not enough.”

Although this Sun Li is smooth and not very principled in doing things, it is undeniable that he has a good vision. Li Yanqing's biggest weakness at present is that he has not accumulated enough theory. This has a lot to do with the maturity of the students' outlook on life.

   "Thank you Xuelu for your teaching!"

  Although Li Yanqing has a deep background, he is still very respectful and courteous, which makes Sun Li very satisfied, unlike the big fat Zheng Rongtai who actually sent a servant to ask for leave, which really made Sun Li dare not speak out.

Sun Li laughed again and said: "Ten days will be the bow and horse competition. I hope you will hurry up and prepare well in these ten days. I heard that your riding and archery is good, which is very rare among Tai students. Perhaps this time the hope of Tai Xue rests on you." body."

   "The student record has won the award. The student has only learned a little bit of riding and archery. It is far from the real master of riding and archery in the imperial army, but the student will definitely do his best."

"Tai Xue didn't have too high expectations for this kind of competition itself. Originally, we were just a foil. We suppressed Wu Xue in other things. It didn't matter if Wu Xue suppressed us once. You just do your best. .”

  Li Yanqing dismissed his leave, got up and left

On the martial arts training ground, dozens of martial arts scholars and Taixue scholars are intensely conducting infantry training. The instructor hired by Wuxue is Xu Ning, the chief instructor of the Golden Spear Class of the Forbidden Army. Archery is also extremely brilliant, second only to Zhou Tong among the many instructors of the Forbidden Army.

In the last Bow and Horse Contest, martial arts achieved impressive results. Some people entered the top ten in both infantry and horseback archery, breaking the monopoly of the imperial army. Of course, this is also due to the proper strategy of martial arts. A few months ago, the martial arts in each state began to be selected, in order to pick out the best representatives for the competition.

  Li Yanqing came to the martial arts training ground, and happened to see Niu Gao sitting on the grass, Li Yanqing walked over quickly, sat down beside him with a smile, "How is it?"

  Niu Gao smiled wryly and said: "I chose infantry, but not cavalry."

This was also within Li Yanqing's expectation. Niu Gao learned riding and archery too late, and it took half a month to barely hit the target at fifty paces. Even if he made rapid progress in the next ten days, it would be too late. Finish.

Niu Gao sighed, "The trials for martial arts ended ten days ago. Out of hundreds of people, 20 infantry and cavalry were selected. My infantry broke through, but cavalry was eliminated in the first round. , look at the two cavaliers and archers selected by your Taixue, how can you not be as good as me?"

   "Stop talking nonsense, how about Wang Gui?"

"He is also selected for foot shooting, but I am very surprised. This kid usually shoots arrows normally. How come he can perform well at the critical moment, and he shoots better one after another. In the end, he actually won the third place, and I won the first place." Fifteen."

"You don't know about this. This kid is born to perform well on the spot. The more tense and stressful the situation, the better he will perform. He has never scored more than five out of ten shots at home, but during the county exam he He can hit nine out of ten shots, what can you do with him?"

   "Speaking of it this way, maybe Wang Gui will be upset again in this horse bow competition."

  Li Yanqing nodded, in fact, he also thought so.

  (end of this chapter)