Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

After returning from Xie Ying's house, Cui Xie was very excited for several days.

Although there will be a lot of things in the palace next month, they can't date so much anymore, but after all, it's time to kiss, to hug, and a six-year appointment has been made. After graduating from Chinese Studies, they will be able to fall in love seriously!

But for six years...

Junior high school + high school are enough. By that time, his body should be 22. According to the marriage law of the tian dynasty, it is enough to get a marriage certificate... For the sake of their physical and mental health, it is better to study hard and get a Jinshi after three years!

Before he had time to taste the sweetness of love, Cui Xie plunged into his studies and continued to study the philosophy of the Book of Songs.

Confucian classics in the Han Dynasty emphasized exegesis, and Mao's "Shi" was regarded as the standard. The understanding of "Shi" was inseparable from what was written in "The Preface to Poems"; however, in the Song Dynasty, there gradually became doubts about the ancients, and Zhu Zi became a master. Zhu Xi's "Debate on Preface to Poetry" refutes Preface to Poetry, thinking that the small preface of the poem was written by Han Confucian scholars, and the preface of the big preface is also named by later generations, not the original work of Zi Xia, which is not enough to accept.

Because the scores of the scientific examinations all follow Zhu Xi's annotations, Mingru also paid more attention to justice and disregards exegesis when he administers The Poetry. The notes of predecessors who read "The Poems" no longer read the "Chunqiu" and dig out the historical facts. Instead, they compared "The Collection of Poems" with "Zhu Ziyu Lei" and "Zhu Wen Gong Collection", and more from the poem itself. Start with, discuss nature and human sentiments, and explain your own theory of nature and human sentiments.

Especially this love word.

"The Preface to the Anthology of Poetry" says: "I heard that the so-called wind in poems mostly comes from the works of lixiang ballads. The so-called male and female phases and chants, each has its own feelings."

The purpose of "The Poetry" is to "satisfy", and most of this "sentiment" is not the "chaste love" of Zhongzheng and peace or the "rich love" of Guangji in the world, but the uncontrolled and unnatural "love" ".

I also don’t know how persistent Zhu Xi is to "love", how many "beautiful concubine virtues" there are in "Mao Shi", and how many "stabbing and running" in "The Collection"-there are a total of more than 20 articles Refers to the poem of prostitution.

Pi like "Cai Ge": "He picks Ge Xi, not seeing one day, like March Xi."

Looks warm, gentle and fresh, isn't it? But when they read it, they can't be deceived by his elegant and graceful words. You must know that Zhu Zi stamped this poem. This is an obscene poem that "the one who runs for prostitution asks to do it".

"Those who are guilty of guilt and rushing will ask for their actions"... Such an ambiguous explanation, generally does not read "The Collected Biography", people who only explain poems in terms of poetry will certainly not think of it!

When I see Xie Ying next month, I will read this song "Cai Ge" to him first. If he can't get the meaning of GET, just treat it as the first poem about lovesickness, then he can enjoy the pleasure of molesting an innocent boy in silence; if he also understands this meaning, tusk tusk...

Cui Xie fell into the sofa holding the notes and rolled a few times, burying his face in the page, feeling that he was more motivated to learn.

He wanted to just continue to indulge in his studies, but unfortunately the Cui family still has so many practical problems waiting to be solved. Before August, Cui Liangdong knocked on the door and asked him how to give gifts on August 15th, and whether the clothes for autumn and winter should be cut out in advance. The second son will be back at some unknown time. Should he send someone to the Tongzhou Canal Wharf for some news...

For the usual festival ceremony, Cui Xie asked him to follow the arrangements of previous years. If the gifts in previous years were too thick and can't be given now, they should be reduced accordingly. It's just that there is a Mr. Song in the family, and he has to prepare the teacher's ceremony like Mr. Lu; and prepare a few more Zhongping festival gifts, so that they can give to the instructor of Guoxue and Zhang Zhai who introduced him to his sister.

Cui Liangdong replied and asked: "Our master was in the ministry, and every time the gifts given to the first and second assistants are not thin, now there are too few gifts, so what should I do if they are unhappy?"

What can I do if I'm not happy, can I ask Cui Senyi to do more in Yunnan? Anyway, foreign officials usually have to have to wait for nine years to return to Beijing, but only three years after the crown prince became the throne. When the first and second assistants of the new dynasty have returned home early, whether they are high or not happy?

Cui Xie smiled lightly and said: "We can't compare with the past now. Besides, when you are our master, you have no luck. Wouldn't you prepare generous gifts for the New Year? The master took a few hundred taels of silver on the road when he left. It’s very easy to get good Taihua tea, tobacco, panax notoginseng, baiyao, and camellia over there. We can send them less, as the old man should send them."

Cui Liangdong recalled the pain of his master taking out his family business and taking his aunt to Yunnan to take office. He couldn't help but clutch his chest and said: "The son said that you have only been in charge for a few months. It is a little unattentive, and the adults don't care about it."

The gift-giving is not thicker than the formal etiquette of previous years when you don't have to run official.

As for the two gentlemen, they both live in their own homes. They don't need to spend too much money. They just need to make clothes, prepare banquets, and add another month of bundle repairs. The new clothes for the holidays at home are also made according to the previous years. Although Cui Heng has not returned, he must be prepared for him, in case he comes back early and there is no change of clothes at home.

As for when he will be back, I don't need to sound like this early at home. He was escorted by Jin Yiwei. Jin Yiwei must have inside information, so he can just ask Xie Ying afterwards.

Cui Liangdong kept nodding, taking notes.

He made a summary report for the past few months, and learned to speak with a work plan, and he just drew a circle or hooked a pen on the paper he wrote, and jot down Cui Xie's instructions. After finishing talking about these matters, he asked again: "Before the festival, the villagers of Zhuangzi also had to take the birth to their homes. I saw that the villagers in Jiaxiangtun had replaced the family members brought by Mrs. Liu as the villagers. Do you want to see him?"

Cui Xie groaned for a while, and said, "Ask them to stay on both sides. I have something to tell them. How did the Liu family give the gift?"

Cui Liangdong said: "When Liu's family was still in Fucheng, the two families often had contact. After they changed their station to Yulinwei, they rarely heard from each other. When his wife passed away, only the Liu family's female relatives came here. Ding said that he couldn't come. The master blamed his poor courtesy. Later he married his wife, and he gradually became alienated..."

Cui Xie sighed slightly: "That's it. Let Liu's family bring a few more people into Beijing, I have to ask someone to visit Yulin to see how my grandfather's family is, and if we can help."

He took the body of Xiao Cui Xie and bought a good reputation with Madam Liu's dowry. It was these two people who should really pay back. Even if the Liu family becomes a high-ranking official, he does not need the Cui family to take care of him, he at least has to walk with the Liu family, and give some gifts in time to save face.

You can't illuminate the children of Ying Cui's concubine, but rather far away from Mrs. Liu's real relatives, right?

He sent Cui Liangdong back, and Cui Ting and Cui Jinzhi also took time to report to him.

Both of them were full of energy and red faces. One of them was holding a dozen reports and work plans, and they were full of writing. Saying "busy" in his mouth, panting, the smugness on his face can't be concealed. Compared with the cowering posture when he first came home, he seemed to be a few years younger.

Needless to say, the silk shop sold a lot of high-quality materials because the two sets he made for Xie Ying drew fire. Later, the straight body with waist was also called by the tailor and hung in the shop, because it resembles the clothes of a clerk, does not violate the system, and is more suitable for the body than the straight body and road robe that are actually made. It's just that pretty scholars want to buy, and many merchants, people, and even artisans and musicians are willing to pull a piece of cloth to make a suit.

These are not worthy of praise. The best-selling clothes are bright, women's favorites.

Since the Qixi Festival beauty pageant, the clothes of the Three Kingdoms and Five Beauty have first become popular among musicians and troupes. Because when the beauty pageant was held, the two stores of Cui’s store used cosmetics and clothing for them for free. At the meeting, they also won the famous names of Three Kingdoms and Five Beauty. After the conference, they still want to use this status to become popular. , Naturally also continue to dress like this.

This group of actors led the way and helped lift the reputation of the two Cui's stores, which naturally brought alive the market. In the age when jacket skirts were popular in Chenghua, the entertainment industry also emerged in the Wei-Jin period "Huayu Feiye", and the atmosphere gradually became stronger. As these actors, small singers, and prostitutes performed in big houses, they had to Infected the backyards of wealthy officials...

Most of the overstocked goods in the silk and satin shops were sold, and several shops were found in Tongzhou to buy them. The big red silk for three to five dollars and the oily silk for two and eight dollars are all sold out in whole piles...Unlike before, a ship of materials from the south is imported every year and some ordinary cloth from Gyeonggi is built. Can be sold for a whole year.

Cui Jinzhi was so overjoyed that he could not stand on the roof, and put on a look of hardship and embarrassment in front of the host’s house. He sighed and said, "Our fleet will not come back at any time. In vain, I asked others to take advantage of it, so I bought some slightly more expensive materials from Tongzhou. I hope the son is not too young."

Cui Xie looked at the prices of the new suppliers, looked at the accounts of several tens of taels of silver each day, and nodded at him: "You have worked hard. Ask Cui Liangdong to give you the monthly payment for the sales. Change places. It doesn’t matter if you buy the ingredients, but it must be of good quality and not ruin the reputation you just started-stare at it yourself, I will look for someone to check it out, and the reward will be calculated after the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Cui Jinzhi sat down with joy, and Cui Ting got up again to talk to him about the status of makeup sales.

The rouge shop in their house is the same as the silk shop, because it is famous for the beauty pageant and won many customers. However, the products in the powder shop are not as easy to buy as in the silk shop. There are many foreign imports and seaborne goods that are not easy to distribute in other stores.

While Cui Ting likes it, she also sincerely wants to sigh: "Since the Ju'anzhai meeting came out with a way to take the conch daisies and put on the eye rims, our best conch daisies and blue **** are all It’s sold out. The small ones have also asked everywhere. Other eyebrows are selling faster than usual, and they are not willing to give us the goods. Only the thrush stones are not good enough. Small ones have to come and ask. Ask the son, can the son ask the person in the study to also get colored paper and wrap the thrush stone to sell it more expensive?"

...What is the thrush?

Although he occasionally used eyebrow pencils when drawing pictures, the colors of "Indigo Naturalis" and "Luo Dai" that his family found were always a little greenish, not as good as charcoal, and he never used it again, let alone pay attention.

Cui Ting took out his bag, took out a black-gray stone similar to an ink stick, wrapped it in a handkerchief and handed it to Cui Xie.

Cui Xie stretched out his hand to take it, but he let it go and handed it over with a cloth bag. He lowered his head and explained: "This thrush oil is black and oily, easy to get dirty hands, and ordinary rich people are not willing to use it, that is, the poor. Only those who don’t care about it are needed. But we only need this in the capital, and it’s cheap as much as possible."

Cui Xie took it over and opened the handkerchief, and saw that the cloth was stained with black and gray, and the thrush was glowing with gray and shiny oil, and the luster was particularly familiar. His heart jumped slightly, and he immediately rubbed his hand, his thumb was stained, and he pulled Cui Ting's report and drew two strokes with the ink corner.

Soft, easy to stain dirty hands, dark and gray, glowing with oily brilliance under the light...this is graphite!

Because he didn't write in the chemistry book, he always thought that graphite, which was not available in ancient times, was by his side! Actually still the cheapest cosmetics!

I blame him for being too rich, and the artisans of his family for being so skilled in drawing, they don’t use eyebrow pencils to make drafts, or he has been exposed to this cheap eyebrow pencil...

Cui Xie was so excited that he was about to stand up, and he said with excitement, "You leave this stone...thrush stone first. I will ask someone to find a solution when I look back, but don't buy it first. I don't think this can be applied to my eyes. . You just sell other things first."

After dismissing the two shopkeepers, Cui Xie immediately went back to the room and took a dozen of cotton paper, wrapped in ink strips in the handkerchief, and lightly drew a row of short shadow lines.

The depth and thickness of the lines change with his strength, and they are easy to paint and soft, and with the brilliance of a pencil he is familiar with, they are more comfortable than the colors drawn by charcoal. After firing a real pencil, it will definitely work better.

He hid the manuscript paper underneath, and went out to call Komatsu smoke to find some clay for him. He took the medicine pestle and crushed the ink sticks and pressed them into the bottom of the copper mortar. He touched the clay with his hands and dripped water with copper. Pour in water to reconcile, and roll out several lead cores of different proportions like kneading dough.

He only remembered that the pencil lead was burnt from graphite and clay, but didn't remember the specific ratio. So he divided the clay into several portions, added graphite powder into it by spoonfuls, added water and rolled them into cores of the same thickness and different lengths. Then he remembered that the refill was to be baked, but he didn't know how much the furnace temperature should be. The kiln couldn't be burned this night, so he could only let Cui Liangdong find someone to get it tomorrow.

Even if he can't bake a modern pencil, he has graphite available! When the time comes, let the powder shop guys go to the supply people and ask them to make this inkstone-like thrush idea into thin strips, and then use the graphite to draw drafts and make notes. Isn't it better than charcoal?

Cui Xie stared at the lead cores he had rubbed out, and touched it for a while, and he couldn't bear to let it go. It wasn't until one of the lead cores was snapped off, and then he put his hands away in a jealousy, put the two broken pieces together, rolled them into a thin and straight lead core, and then ran to the kitchen and asked someone to take the scallops and bake them.

Bake it dry before touching it, it will not break easily.