It's August in the blink of an eye, and the weather in Jiehe Merchant City is gradually getting cooler, and at the same time, it is also ushering in the best season of the year.

The streets became bustling, and the water surface of the boundary river outside the city was even more joint, and there were many sails. The goods on the wharves on both sides of the strait are piled up, and the coolies who carry the goods do not let go of the easiest time of the year to make money, and they are very busy.

It has been more than a month since Wu Haogu returned to the Jiehe Lair from Haizhou, and the official business that he was waiting for him to deal with has finally been completed, and he can be busy for a while.

Wearing a loose robe, he lay on a soft couch in the octagonal pavilion in his back garden, leisurely looking at the recent newspapers and newspapers. Newspapers include "Wenqu Xingxun Bao", "Shilin", "Qingliu", "Jiehe Business Daily", "Jingdong Business Daily", "Yuntai Academic Journal" and so on. After several years of development, newspapers, a way of disseminating news and propaganda agitation, appeared in the metropolis of the Song Dynasty in advance.

The hottest topic in the newspapers lately, of course, revolves around the triennial imperial examination. This autumn, all state governments and armies will hold a liberation test, and next spring it will be a rite examination and a palace examination. For the thousands of scholars in the Great Song Dynasty, especially the poor scholars who account for the majority of the readers, the next few months will undoubtedly be exciting and exciting.

Whether they jump over the dragon gate or continue to stumble depends on their performance in the examination room.

However, this time in the leap of the dragon gate, there was a situation that made the scholars of the poor sect in the world very uneasy - on the side of the dragon gate, a big back door was opened!

This back door is the right list of Jinshike!

Although the tentative quota is only 200, which is equivalent to 400 people on the left list of Jinshi - this is only a tentative quota, and there will be increases and decreases in general, but the situation of the right list crowding out the left list is already very obvious.

You must know that in the section that was established in the third year of the founding of the Yasukuni Dynasty, there were 538 people who ascended to the rank of Jinshidi, and the number of people in this section has been reduced to about 400. The number of Wu Jinshi, who is regarded as the predecessor of the Right List Jinshi, was only about 20 in the previous section, but now it has increased to about 200, almost tenfold!

And what makes the poor scholars even more chilling is that the left and right list Jinshi will be treated exactly the same! It is no longer a difference between civil and military, although most of the right list of jinshi will still hold military positions, but in terms of the status of jinshi recognized by the imperial court, the left and right lists are completely equal.

In other words, with his real skills, the left list jinshi who took a hard test from among the millions of readers one by one is actually equal to the right list jinshi who went through the back door - this is really unbearable!

In addition, due to the restructuring of Taixue, the disappearance of the metal route of "county school-state (government) school-Taixue" has been caused.

The original Taixue Shangshesheng can be directly awarded officials, although the Shangshe background is not as good as the Jinshi background, but it is still a little stronger than the shadow supplement, let alone compared with the military attaché.

Therefore, behind the mere 100 Taixue students are more than 100,000 officers and students in the country's 400 state armies, as well as a large number of officials who are responsible for managing the official schools.

Although the local government school has not been abolished now, as soon as the central government's Taixue is reorganized, it will cut off the way for the local government school to advance to the Taixue, which is equivalent to moving the cheese of the official school all over the world. To put it bluntly, the basis of their existence is the quota of the 100 Taixue students.

Since you have moved other people's cheese, then you have to withstand the mouth cannon attack of the world's soldiers!

Therefore, these days, the three Shilin newspapers "Wenqu Xingxunbao", "Shilin" and "Qingliu", almost one-sidedly are criticizing the right list of Jinshi and the positivist school.

What curses and curses have come out, and the call of "please abolish the right list of Jinshi" is still relatively mild, shouting and shouting and killing, and the calls for "punishing the martial arts and good ancients to calm the anger of the world's scholars" and "punishing the martial arts and the ancients to comfort Confucius and Mencius under the Nine Plains" have all come out.

There are even people who openly call for "the world's scholars to kill them with swords (Wu Haogu)" in the newspapers...... Fortunately, the serious readers in the world are all "others have swords, and I have a pen like a knife", but the scholars of the Wuhao Gu Empirical School are all swords, so Wu Haogu's life is still safe for the time being.

But he still reduced the number of public appearances, and tried not to appear in public as much as possible, so as not to be stabbed with a "knife pen".

Pan Qiaolian walked into the gazebo, with a big belly, carefully supported by a maid. Seeing her, Wu Haogu hurriedly put down the newspaper, stepped forward to take Pan Qiaolian's hand, and asked her to sit beside him.

"Eighteen, how's it going?" Wu Haogu smiled and pressed his palm on Pan Qiaolian's belly, feeling a slight fetal movement, "It's much more active than the first two children, most of them are boys, right?" ”

"I hope so," Pan Qiaolian's pretty face was full of melancholy, and she glanced at the newspaper placed on a low table, "Da Lang, people are fierce and quite terrifying!" ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "In the upheaval that has not been seen in a thousand years, what are you afraid of?" Eighteen, you don't have to worry about this, your husband has his own way to deal with it, and let Cai Yuanchang go to Haizhou for the elderly. ”

Pan Qiaolian smiled, naturally worried, but she couldn't say anything more, she just said: "By the way, someone from the Zhao Mansion just now said that Brother Zhong came back and brought the two sons of Ah Guta." an eleven-year-old named Kouben, the eldest son of Akuta; One was only eight years old, named Si, and was the fourth son of Aguta. ”

"The four sons of Akuda sob...... Vultures? "Wu Haogu was stunned, isn't this the Fourth Prince's Golden Vulture Technique? Why did Brother Zhao Zhong bring him? You can't let him develop in the military, turn around and accept him as an apprentice, cultivate his interest in the art of painting, and in the future, he will become a famous painter in the Jin Kingdom......

"Good!" Wu Haogu stood up and said to Pan Qiaolian, "Eighteen, go to the Zhao Mansion for your husband, take the two children of Ah Guda to our house, and let them go to school with Yiyong and Brother Tie in the future." ”

"It's fine." Pan Qiaolian said with a smile, "Anyway, the house at home is also big, and there are still many empty houses, so it will be more lively to live a few more people." ”

"That's good," Wu Hao Gu said, "Weifu will call Zhang Zhiping again, he has read the military books of the Knight Academy these days, and has read a lot of battlefield logs, and he admires Brother Zhong'er, and he wants to make friends." ”

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Zhao Zhongge's house is located in Zhaojiafang in Jiehe Commercial City, and it is also a large mansion, with a deep mansion and a forest of bearing.

In addition to Zhao Zhongge's family, there are also partners who were thieves with Zhao Zhongge in the early years. There were sixteen of them, and now they all have families and karma. There are a few who work as teachers in the Yuntai Academy and the Knight Academy, two of them are the head of the Wuhao Ancient Fake Knights, and one is an official in the police patrol station of Jiehe Shang City, and one is working in the Jiehe Hippodrome Farm, and the rest are Zhao Zhongge's retainers - Zhao Zhongge still retains the old customs of Yanyun Haoqiang, and has raised a group of retainers, except for the few closest to Zhao Zhongge who live in the Zhao family's mansion, the rest are scattered in Zhaojiafang or live in the manor outside the city.

By the way, the sphere of influence of Jiehe Shang City has now expanded from Beicang Prefecture to Wuqing County, which is subordinate to Nanjing Province in the Liao State.

Many Liao dignitaries who were exiled to Jiehe Shang City also brought some retainers and guests, and they could not settle in Jiehe Shang City, so they purchased manors in Wuqing County of Liao State through their connections for resettlement. In addition, Ma Zhi and Zhang Jue are also working hard to expand their strength. They also learned the ancient methods of martial arts, and secretly raised a large number of samurai in Wuqing County. At the same time, a group of children were sent to the Knight Academy under the Yuntai Academy to systematically study military affairs.

As for the economic radiation circle of Jiehe Commercial City, it is even bigger, and it has almost replaced Xijin Mansion and become the real economic center of Yanyun area.

It can be said that the original intention of Wu Haogu to propose the establishment of Jiehe Commercial Market in the past has been completely achieved. It's just that there are also some "unexpected" places where the city becomes very special. Although it was co-organized by Song and Liao, the imperial power of Song and Liao was very weak in the city.

And Zhang Yuan, who went to Zhao Zhongge's mansion with Wu Haogu, had already discovered something strange - no one in the city seemed to care about the imperial examination that was about to start, but the annual entrance examination for Sikai Academy and Yuntai Academy entrance examination were even more eye-catching.

In addition, the "Battle of Anxi", which almost no one cared about in other parts of the Great Song Dynasty, was a hot topic in Jiehe Commercial Market.

Because the city, in addition to being a city of merchants, a city of academies, and a city of artisans, is also a city of mercenaries.

This is a place where the kings of Song and Liao can't reach, and naturally it has become a place where all kinds of murderers and bad people refuge. At the same time, it became the meeting point of the land and maritime Silk Road, and many maritime merchants and merchants set off from here, and of course, they hired bodyguards here, so it became a "mercenary market". Since there is a market, it must be managed, so the mercenary guild also appeared in the Jiehe Trading City.

Moreover, when Wu Haogu went to the northwest before, he also recruited a lot of mercenaries in Jiehe Shang City, and some of them also made a fortune and became officials. Therefore, as soon as the news of the Great Song Dynasty's crusade against the Black Khan Uighurs came out, it caused a sensation among the mercenary groups in Jiehe Shang City.

The leaders of these mercenary groups want to make a big deal in the war that is about to begin! So I started to move around early in the morning, trying to find a way to fight in the northwest.

However, Wu Haogu and Murong Wangwu are out of reach, and Murong Parrot is always nowhere to be seen (he is in charge of the false knight), so he can only find Ximen Anguo, Zhao Zhongge, and Lin Chong. And Brother Zhao Zhong is undoubtedly the one with the most right to speak, so after many people saw Brother Zhao Zhong enter the city this morning, there are now many mercenary leaders who have rushed to visit Zhao Mansion before Wu Haogu and Zhang Yuan.

So when Wu Haogu and Zhang Yuan and his party arrived, the Zhao family's mansion was crowded with Wufu......