Nanjing, which has just been regained, opened the imperial examination, and on the day of the list, Zhang Ying High School, a scholar from Tongcheng, ranked first. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Ying was originally the person who took the township examination in the second year of Kangxi, and according to the original history, he would enter Beijing two years ago to take the exam and be admitted to the Jinshi. Because of the war, Zhang Ying failed to go to Beijing to catch the exam in two years, but chose to wait and see. After all, the reputation of the Qing court in Jiangnan is too bad, and judging from the current situation, the Qing court is already in danger, and he went to the north to be admitted to the Jinshi and became an official.

So Zhang Ying chose to wait, and sure enough, last year, the Ming army recovered Anqing, and Tongcheng, where Zhang Ying was located, was naturally recovered by the Ming army.

However, after the Ming Dynasty recovered Nanjing, a new imperial examination was never opened. It wasn't until after the fall of this year that the course opened. When the officials issued a court announcement in the county, Zhang Ying and a group of Anqing scholars came to Nanjing to participate in the examination. In the examination, Zhang Ying scored fifth in high school.

Zhang Huangyan's original intention was to wait for the return of Yongli to open a department in Nanjing, so that those who passed the examination could directly participate in the palace examination and obtain the qualification of Jinshi. Who knew that Yongli was taken away by Wu Sangui, and Nanjing, as the southern capital, had no Son of Heaven to sit down.

In order to give the world's scholars a chance, Zhang Huangyan submitted a recital to Yongli, and even after being allowed to open the course, the Ming court held the imperial examination without the Son of Heaven sitting in the capital, first the examination was held, and then a group of Jiangnan Confucians such as Guo Zhiqi, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, and Wang Fuzhi served as examiners.

Because there was no prison country, the original prison country was King Lu, and later Zheng Chenggong served as the prison state, after Zheng Chenggong's death, there was no more prison state, in fact, Wang Yu became the actual prison state.

In this imperial examination, Wang Yu exercised the important responsibility of supervising the country, was responsible for selecting talents, and finally completed the Jinshi examination.

Zhang Ying won the first place in the Jinshi examination, in fact, he was already the champion, just waiting to send the results of the imperial examination to Hanzhong, and submit it to the Yongli Son of Heaven for approval, you can officially obtain the title of champion, and the Son of Heaven will give the Jinshi and the first.

"Congratulations to Zhuangyuanlang!" Seeing the list issued, all the students congratulated Zhang Ying one after another.

After winning the Jinshi, he first entered the Hanlin Academy to study for a few years, and at the same time obtained the status of an official from the sixth grade. Although it took a month for the Holy Decree to go back and forth, Zhang Ying was already able to enter the Hanlin Academy.

Jang Young, who is from high school, has moved into Hallym Courtyard, where he will live temporarily. As soon as he moved in, a petty official came to visit him and gave him a bag of silver, which was an advance to Zhang Ying.

After the man left, Zhang Ying opened the bag and saw that there was a golden coin inside, with the words "ten silver dollars" written on it, as well as five white coins and dozens of copper-yellow coins, there are two kinds of white coins, the big one has the words "one silver dollar" written on it, and the small one has the words "one hundred copper dollars", there are four kinds of copper coins, one is ten copper dollars, one is five copper dollars, and there are two copper dollars and one copper yuan.

"When did the silver we use become this kind of silver?" Zhang Ying turned around and asked his scholar.

The scholar replied: "Young master, don't you know, you have been studying hard these days, and it is all villains who take out and purchase goods, and now many people are using this kind of silver in the market in Nanjing." ”

After saying that, the scholar opened the package, took out the money bag from it and handed it over.

Zhang Ying took the money bag and looked at it, only to see that in addition to the broken silver, silver ingots and copper plates that he brought out from home, there were also some silver dollars and copper dollars, and there were two copper dollars in it that he had never seen before.

Looking at the gold coin sent by the official just now, the gold coin weighed about one or two, the gold coin was beautifully made, shining with a golden light, and it said ten silver dollars, which was equivalent to ten silver dollars. Although Zhang Ying didn't know what the concept of a silver dollar was, he weighed the white silver coin of the next dollar, and felt that it was about one or two weights.

The scholar said, "Young master, this silver coin is the same as one or two pieces of silver on the outside, and this is real silver." The small silver coin said 100 copper dollars, about a penny. ”

Zhang Ying looked at the copper coin of ten copper yuan again, and saw that the copper coin was exquisitely made, most of the entire copper coin was bright copper yellow, shining light, and the center of the copper coin was inlaid with a white image, it seemed that the copper coin of ten copper yuan contained a little silver, which was worth equivalent to ten copper yuan. The five copper dollars also have a little silver, as for the copper coins of two copper dollars and one copper yuan, they are all made of pure copper, and the weight is from heavy to light, and one copper yuan is about the same weight as the original copper plate.

"Will these coins work? Outside the store receiving? Zhang Ying asked.

The scholar replied, "Master Hui, the shop likes these coins very much!" It's much more convenient than before! In the past, when buying goods, I took out a piece of broken silver, weighed it, cut it, and the merchant took how much silver it was, and found the rest. Now there is no need for it, take out a silver dollar, and the merchant only needs to calculate it and get back the small money. There are also small copper plates in the corners and two corners, which are also very useful, and some things are less than a penny, or some are a little more than a penny, and now they can be found. Moreover, the merchant has also found someone to identify it, and the gold, silver and copper coins are all sufficient. ”

At present, the Nanyang Bank has just issued coins, and they can only be minted with a sufficient amount of precious metals, and when these coins are approved by everyone, the precious metal content in them will gradually be reduced, and eventually the coins will become symbolic.

After high school, Zhang Ying was in a good mood, and since she came to Nanjing, in addition to living in a hotel and studying hard, she was in the examination room. Even after the exam, on the day before the list was released, he didn't dare to leave a single step, and he was uneasy. Now that he has won the top prize in high school, he has obtained a good fortune, so he invited the scholars who won the Jinshi together.

Zhang Ying's own family is also considered to have some money, and now that he is a high school jinshi, he is naturally generous, so he invited everyone to go to the Qinhuai River to have fun.

Once in the hands of the Qing court, the scholars were forced to shave their hair and change clothes, and the Qinhuai River, which had been in a period of sluggish business, has now restored its prosperity. If it was during the reign of the Apocalypse Chongzhen, Wufu would enter and leave the Qinhuai River, and he would be ridiculed and vulgar by scholars. Now that the status of the warriors has been greatly improved, no one dares to say anything about the soldiers.

Under Wang Xinyu's efforts, putting on a military uniform has become a matter of honoring the ancestors, and today's military status is even more than that of scholars.

Zhang Ying found that there were retired soldiers wearing old military uniforms in the Meixiang Building, and saw that the retired soldier took out a stack of papers from his money bag to pay for expenses.

"Treasure money?" Zhang Yingleng paused.