Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

After the entrance exam, Xuezheng Zhu Wei asked Zaifu to distribute new books to the new students, and took a set of school uniforms for supervisors composed of square scarves, jade shirts and soft soap ribbons, and asked them to go back and put on them.

The new students all changed their clothes in the Waishe No. Room. Although Cui Xie didn't live in school, he also mixed into the gown and sat on someone else's bed and changed clothes generously.

He hasn't grown up yet, his shoulders are thin, and he is not old enough to hold up his clothes. Others wore the same size blouses, but they all wore them on the ground. He had to lift a piece and fold it around his waist, then wrap the robe tightly and tie it in a few circles with a soft tape.

The other prison students in Room No. couldn't help laughing at him: "A straight body that fits well. Ask a friend to wear it. It looks like a Wei Jin style."

Cui Xie walked two steps next to the bed. He first confirmed that his clothes would not fall apart and he would not stumble when he walked. Then he smiled faintly at the person, and chanted, "Only a hero can be true to his true colors, and he is a real celebrity."

He didn't remember who said this, anyway, it was a famous quote that shocked the new classmates. The middle-aged supervising student who took the lead in making fun of him sighed: "You are a good young man, I shouldn't judge people by appearance." So he asked him, "Dare to ask this friend up and down? Is it an official student, a good student, or a prisoner?"

Official students refer to the children of senior officials who enter the prison of the country according to the law; Ensheng refers to the children of the emperor who have been granted a special decree to enter the prison, often mainly the sons of the civil and military officers who died in the post; the prison will fail the examination The top three, but the Juren on the second list. Those who can be assigned to Chengxintang are all those who have passed the Scriptures. There are almost no regular students who have been admitted to prison, and those who have received tribute to the prison should be 30 up, or even 40 to 50.

Just looking at Cui Xie's age, no one thinks that he will be tributed in any state or county school.

Cui Xie said in a low-key voice: "Cui is a kind student, but not by his father's father, but by the emperor's special order..." The family is still alive, and the students don't have to mourn.

All the prison students have just entered the capital, and the news is not clear. Naturally, I don't know that he is a child prodigy who has won the emperor's blue eyes. He is just a happy event in the court, or a gift from his parents.

The Imperial College honored the children, and those who had served in the prison for killing thieves, but had been taken captive by the Tatars, but fled back with horses, and those who offered their horses and entered the prison...it is not new. Everyone didn't ask much, changed their clothes, exchanged names, and then went back to receive training.

Seeing that the freshmen are neatly dressed, not ugly, and have a sharp spirit, they nodded slightly and said, "This supervisor has strict regulations. It's not like you go when you want to go when you are studying in the county or government. Rest and rest. In the future, the main points will be communicated sooner or later, and you must sign the lectures and recitations of the day in the lecture book to prepare for the examination. Usually, you are only allowed to study in the school, and you are not allowed to go outside at will."

A group of students only responded below.

Zhu Xuezheng restrained a few more disciplinary issues. He asked Zhaifu to go out and call four old students in, and introduced to the new students: "These four are the heads of the fasts who are on duty today. Each of the six halls of Biyong has a head of the fast. Choosing the four-person rotation is to control you supervising students. From now on, your writing and reciting books will be supervised by the chief of the fast, and you must come in order, not overstepping and noisy. Anyone who has noisy school and poor fonts, recite If the explanation is incomplete, it will be punished by the chief chief."

The punishment of the Imperial College is not like that of the county and township school, where only the fourth grade in the second examination of the year test can be accepted, but a slight violation can be "ten times".

The freshmen shivered with fear by the punishment and the black face of Master Xuezheng. The four chief executives were already used to this scene, smiled comfortingly at them behind Xuezheng, and came to lead the newcomers from each hall to the East and West Second Hall.

The three halls of Frank, Sincere, and Chongzhi are in the east, and each has 11 study rooms. There are no freshmen who can directly enter the Shuxingtang. Most of them are in the two sessions of Sincerity and Chongzhi, a total of eleven people, and two chiefs lead the way; there are three or four who came up purely by age, and the scriptures are not complete. , It was sent to the west side three halls for remedial lessons.

Li Zhen, the director of Chengxintang, led six freshmen to the school, and pointed to the 11 classrooms of the school, and said, "In the future, you will go to the lecture hall on the days when you can speak, and study in the zhai after o'clock in the morning. You must have homework every day. There are more than two hundred words in the faculty, recite the "Four Books" and 100 words each of this sutra, and also study "Suo Yuan", "Law" and "Ling". Every month there will be an examination, and each of the meanings of "Sutra" and "Book" will be tested. , And then select two examinations from the edict, edict, judgment, table, policy, and theory."

The old students in the room were studying, and when they saw a newcomer coming, they all put their heads out and looked out. Li Zhen waved his hand towards the room, pointed to the empty study room and asked the freshmen to go in, and took out the class schedule to copy to them.

This day is April 13th, the day of endorsement, the 14th meeting tomorrow, and the 15th day after tomorrow is the day of rest. After returning, the students will recite the book for two days. The students will recite the content for one day, and then recite the content for another two days and then go to the instructor's meeting to recite, and then recite the book for another two days.

Calculated, I will talk for 6 days a month, count 8 days, and endorse 14 days, leaving two days off. The pace of learning is easier than that of modern college students.

Cui Xie copied the class schedule and breathed a sigh of relief: in the future, he will be able to endorse and write homework at school, and concentrate on drawing at home. The two old and new editions of "Three Kingdoms" are in eleven volumes, and if there is no new one, readers have to hit the door!

He thought he was sitting back and his movements were not obvious, so he walked boldly for a while. But he was not very tall, but he looked conspicuous. There was a 16-year-old Xiaonen Ensheng in a row of thirty or forty village tributes. Zhaichang saw him as soon as he hit the front.

Li Zhen is in her early 40s, and her nephew is about the same size as Cui Xie. Seeing him sighed joyfully, just like seeing his son worrying, I couldn’t help but comforted a few words: “Although there are a lot of homework in the Imperial College, we can do it with our heart. We are also your classmates, and we are not instructors. We have some mistakes and omissions. , I will not blame you easily."

Cui Xie was stunned before he realized that he had misunderstood that he had too much homework. He didn't dare to tell the truth, bowed his head honestly and replied: "Zhaichang is right, I will study hard in the future and live up to the grace."

Li Zhaichang nodded in relief, and went to another room to take the recitation book for the new students to sign.

The six new students signed the lecture book. Cui Xie swept his eyes and created a new PDF in his brain, engraving the names of nearly 100 students in Chengyitang.

He was the last to sign the lecture book and handed it back to the head of the fast. Li Zhen said: "You first came to the Imperial College, and there must be many things to settle. I won't check your lectures today. Let's go back and rest. You will get up tomorrow, and you will come to the lecture hall according to the five classics to listen to the doctor's lecture at the beginning of the day."

The six freshmen stood up to thank them and walked out in line. Li Zhen opened the recitation book to check their names, and saw the word "Cui Xie" at the end, suddenly raised her head to look at the team outside the door, and almost stood up from her seat——

Isn't that the case leader of the small three yuan of Yongping Mansion, the emperor personally pointed out the child prodigy who came in to study? !

He originally thought that these young people who became famous would be somewhat arrogant, but he didn't expect Cui Xie to be such a weak and lovely scholar. But I don't know how he learned, can it be compared with the 16-year-old Xie Yuan Fei Hong who was in prison last month?

Li Zhen is also from Beizhili, and she hopes that the talents from his hometown will be better than Jiangxi's difficult Yuan. However, the style of study in Beizhili and Jiangxi is very different. Although Cui Xie is the head of the small three yuan case, he is only a student in the end. It would be difficult for him to compare with Fei Hong, who was born in Juren.

He sighed secretly and went back to continue reading.

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The freshmen walked out of the gate of the Imperial College. All five of them were given their nicknames. Only Cui Xie was waiting outside the gate. He said goodbye to them outside the gate: "I'm a day student, I have to say goodbye to your friends."

The few people watched him walking down the street with their mouths stunned, and turned to discuss to themselves: "Isn't he in the same room with us? Why did he leave by himself?"

"I heard that someone with a family lives in another place. Xu brought his wife to school?"

"Isn't he a graceful student? Naturally, he is different from our tribute prisoners. Maybe it's a noble child whose mansion is nearby, and he will live in his house on weekdays?"

This group of people in their 30s and 40s, who have a family, a career, a son and a nephew, are still squeezing into a single dormitory. The teenagers actually have a family and a career, and they have gone home to stay!

Several people looked at Cui Xie jealously behind them, thinking that he was going back to "Hong Xiu Tian Xiang Ye to study". In fact, he didn’t have half of the red sleeves around him, and all the people he saw when he came home were middle-aged and elderly people: he went home and changed his clothes. After meeting his grandparents, Cui Liangdong, the chief steward, brought him Cui’s three stores in Beijing and the suburbs of Beijing. The accounts of Zhuangzi in Qian'an and Qian'an also brought the shopkeeper to wait for him to send out.

Lao Zhuangzi in Qian’an has four hectares of dry land, which grows wheat and corn, and earns four to five hundred taels a year. On the outskirts of Beijing, there are two hectares of paddy fields with rice and one hectare of cotton, which can produce seven to eight hundred taels per year. income. There is a rouge shop, a cloth shop, and a southern goods shop in the three shops. They were all bought by the Cui family after they entered Beijing. They were not a big shop at first, but they also served the Cui Mansion’s own food. A few hundred silver.

The shopkeepers of the three shops were used by Mrs. Xu after they were deposed. They were originally servants of the Cui family. They didn’t see the young master Cui Xie very much, and they cried when they met. The money is all told by the master, and the business turnover is not enough. I am afraid that I will not be able to make money in the house by the end of this year.

In order to obtain the position of the treasurer, the three of them did not miss Cui Liangdong and his family. Cui Liangdong specially defended them in front of Cui Xie: "In the past two years, the little prince has committed the crime. The days in Beijing have been uneasy. The adults above have fallen a lot, and our business has become weaker. These three companies The store’s previous stewardship was a bit poor in turnover. The master took away a lot of money two days ago. They had just taken office and had not completely taken over. It was even more difficult to operate. The son understands the difficulties underneath. Don’t blame them. Will operate."

Turning around, he said to the three shopkeepers: "It’s hard for you, and the life in the mansion is even more difficult. Now the mansion can’t afford to pay, depending on whether your business is light or not, the money spent in the mansion must be paid on a daily basis. Seeing that you are so diligent and sensible, you don’t care about any mistakes."

The three shopkeepers desperately claimed that they were diligent and innocent. Cui Que and Mrs. Xu took away any errors in the accounts, or the predecessor was not careful. They worked hard these days when they took office, and they were not greedy. It's just that this shop does not work well, and it may be difficult to see money within a few months, and it needs to be supported by funds from the government, not that they want to cheat the money from the government.

If Cui Xie didn't believe them and didn't give them money, they would be killed in this room.

Cui Xie made them quarrel with headaches, waved his hands and said: "I don't care about the master's affairs with you, I don't bother to look at this account..."

In the past two years, he has been in charge of the bookstore in Qian'an. In fact, he has already read the triangular account and the four-pillar account. However, he didn't have the patience to seriously check and manage the Cui's shops. He just wanted to know which one was profitable and which one was losing money, and replaced the unprofitable ones with his study. If it doesn't make a profit...he can't change it all, he should pay a little attention to the membership fee and leave a clear income channel for the Cui family.

He threw away the accounts, looked at the three stewards and said: "Just say how much you can earn this year and how much you can earn next year... Make a five-year plan."

The author has something to say: Only great heroes can be true to life

From Hong Yingming's "Cai Gen Tan" in Wanli Period of Ming Dynasty