Fan Zhijin didn't know that the woman he liked by his mother had made people sleep with a big belly, and he didn't think that Ximenqing's woman would get along with others - how could this be? Although Ximen Qing has been walking around outside, it is absolutely impossible to meet a man who is even better than him Fan Zhijin!

Even if there is such a man, he will definitely not look down on Ximenqing, a woman in the rivers and lakes, even if he does, Ximenqing can only be someone else's concubine.

Of course, Fan Zhijin, who is 27 years old this year, is not a handsome guy, not only is he not handsome, but he is also a little ugly, his skin is very dark, his eyes are small, his forehead is prominent, and his goatee is not very tidy, he is always messy. And because he has been studying behind closed doors, lacks exercise, and eats more, he is still a fat man.

In addition, this fat man does not have much money. The Fan family is indeed the largest landlord in Yanggu County, but that is the clan field and the school field, not Fan Zhijin's private property. But because he has been solved three times in a row and belongs to the key cultivation objects of the family, he can not participate in labor (farming), and he can still get a relatively large amount of household income, and he and his son and wife can also eat a big pot of rice openly (Yimen all eat big pot rice)...... By the way, he is still the master of the old lady and the young child.

Such an ugly, fat, and moneyless man, with an old lady and a young child, seems to have no job, and basically belongs to the category of scum in later generations. Go to the blind date show on the TV station must make people shush.

But in Yanggu County of the Song Dynasty, he was the top diamond king, and even a young and beautiful rich woman like Ximen Qing should marry him with a dowry of tens of thousands!

It's not that Fan Zhijin feels too good about himself, but that he really has this value, he is a reader! A real reader is not the kind of reader who can't even pass the exam after reading a few broken books. What kind of reader is it if you can't get past the solution?

Even a lowly businessman like Wu Dalang has read a lot of books, and he writes well with a brush, and he still leaves half a piece of good words to pass down! But except for Cai Jing, a traitor who always encouraged him to take the imperial examination, who should be a scholar?

And wasn't the Song Dynasty known as a paradise for scholars? Those who can go to heaven have to be a scholar like Fan Zhijin! He has taken the release test three times in a row, and as long as he passes it twice, he will be qualified for "exemption", that is, he can take the rite test every three years in the future! The qualification of this "lifter" is no longer a temporary qualification, but an identity.

When the court meeting was held, the "exempt" man was qualified to go to Kaifeng Mansion to participate, what an honor!

And once it is "exempted", it is a matter of time to become an official, as long as you can live to the age of forty or fifty, and fail to pass the examination of the Ministry of Rites more than ten times, you can go to ask for a special performance of the famous jinshi, and then get a small civil official from the ninth grade - immediately become a member of the glorious Song Dynasty civil officials and doctors.

Isn't such an excellent man worthy of Simon Woman, who is a businessman?

And Fan Zhijin didn't think that he would be so unlucky, and he couldn't pass the exam in his life. He felt that his article had done a great job, and it was time for Yuan Fu to roll up outside the Donghua Gate in three years! But when the time comes, Ximen Qing will not be able to climb him......

This is not that he is fainting, but the national conditions of the Great Song Dynasty. The title of the gold list, the son-in-law under the list...... If you don't have a dowry of 100,000 yuan, you still want to marry your daughter to a high school jinshi? Simon's family is not the prime minister's family!

Moreover, how many years has the Yanggu Ximen family not held back an official? Without an official, won't the family business of Simon's family be swallowed sooner or later?

Siemens' disciples can use it to deal with the thieves in Liangshan, and they dare to rebel if they really encounter a big thing?

So Fan Zhijin, who knows his worth, doesn't care about Ximenqing's reply at all now, but he just ignores what is going on outside the window, and only reads the sage book - Yunzhou's liberation test is about to start, although Fan Zhijin is completely sure, he is still preparing seriously.

In addition, the Ministry of Rites Examination for the next year also requires all-out preparation...... The imperial examination is not easy! The imperial examination is actually at the tip of the horns, but it is just a rough understanding of the scriptures, and it is probably not possible to know one, and it must be extremely proficient. According to the standards of later generations, you have to be a master of Chinese studies, no, you have to be a giant of Chinese studies.

A businessman like Wu Haogu, who is busy making money all day long to save the Great Song Dynasty, can't put enough energy into reading sage books, and the only way to want to go to high school is to cheat!

Therefore, in real history, the vast majority of Jinshi are obtained by hard work, and only a very few geniuses can be busy with other things while giving Jinshi to the middle.

Although Fan Zhijin is known as a "prodigy", he himself knows that his success mainly depends on hard work! A prodigy or something, it means people like Su Dongpo, Cai Jing, and Zhang Dan, he is not a god at all.

In his dilapidated study with an unpleasant musty smell, Fan Zhijin was lying in front of the desk and flying with his pen, doing a "policy question", which was about the gains and losses of the Later Zhou Shizu Chai Rong's Northern Expedition to Yanyun.

He is actually "guessing the topic", because the Great Song Dynasty has achieved a decisive victory in the battle against the Western Xia this year, and the entry of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang into the Western Xia Dynasty can basically be regarded as the overall situation in the northwest. Then the next official family is likely to turn their attention to the fourteen states of Yanyun in the north.

Therefore, the policy of the three-year big competition of Yuanfu is very likely to be related to the Northern Expedition. And the exam questions cannot directly seek the strategy of the Northern Expedition, which is too explicit. It will not let people analyze the two embarrassing Northern Expeditions of Song Taizong - the Great Song Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and it is impossible for people to talk about Emperor Taizong. Therefore, the one who can be used to talk nonsense is Chai Rong.

Wu Zhiwen, who has long been familiar with Jingyi, knows that his weakness is in the strategy, so he has to make a policy article every day these days, and the focus of the policy article is on military strategy.

The article is of course good, quoting scriptures and classics, and the head is the Tao, not only commenting on the gains and losses of Chai Rong's Northern Expedition with the truth of "The Art of War", but also discussing the political, economic, and people's livelihood issues in the Later Zhou Dynasty. In the end, it was concluded that the national strength of the Later Zhou was not enough to support the victory of the Northern Expedition.

Putting down the brush and looking at the article he had just done, Fan Zhijin was quite satisfied. If Dabi really has this policy problem this time, he Fan Zhijin should be called outside the Donghua Gate.

Closing his eyes, as if he saw the scene of his fame outside the Donghua Gate, Fan Zhijin showed a very proud smile.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and a black-faced old lady who looked a little similar to Fan Zhijin walked in with a plate of cooking cakes, and saw that her son was making a fuss, and immediately smiled kindly: "Okay, son, is your article ready?" ”

Fan Zhijin immediately got up and saluted the old lady, and then took the plate with both hands: "Mother, I'm bothering you again, the child really can't go." ”

"What's not to go? Isn't it just a stack of buns? The old lady smiled, "As long as you can marry the Qing'er girl of the Ximen family, and then win the Jinshi, you will be satisfied with your mother." ”

Fan Zhijin's wife Liu is not as ambitious as his son, and she wants to do a good thing to catch her son-in-law, so she will marry Ximen Woman first. Ximen Qingren is beautiful, can run a family, and can also bring at least tens of thousands of dowries, which can greatly improve the life of Fan Zhijin's family - although the Fan family is a big pot of rice inside, the dowry of the daughter-in-law who marries in is still independent. In the Song Dynasty, a woman's dowry was the private property of the woman herself, and she could be taken away if she was divorced or widowed.

If there is a housewife like Ximenqing, the life of the Fan family will be better.

"Ximen Qing?" Fan Zhijin said, "Why did my mother mention her?" Did the Simons agree? ”

"I haven't replied yet, but Ximen Qing has returned to Yanggu." Liu said with a smile, "Many people in the clan have seen it, riding a high-headed horse, and entering the east gate of Yanggu County with seven or eight good horses on horseback. ”

The Simon family is a family of both merchants and martial arts, and although they own a large amount of land, the children of the Simon family do not plant. So as early as a few generations ago, the people of the Ximen family moved from Zhuangzi in the countryside to Yanggu County. Needless to say, the Ximen family is a well-deserved richest man in Yanggu (more money does not equal high status), known as Ximen Bancheng. The industry in Yanggu County is counted by the number of streets!

For a wealthy man in Kaifeng like Wu Haogu, it doesn't matter how many streets the Ximen family has in Yanggu, but for the peasant intellectuals of the Fan family, Ximen Qing is the No. 1 Bai Fumei in Tianzi, how many people's dream lovers!

"A daughter's family shows up all day long," Fan Zhijin shook his head, "The woman of the merchant family just doesn't know etiquette." ”

Shinong industry and commerce! Fan Zhijin was already barely a sergeant, and he was also a noble scribe, three levels higher than the merchant woman Ximen Qing. Even if he can't win the famous Jinshi, and finally gets a special famous Jinshi, Ximen Qing will marry him.

However, Fan Zhijin does not dislike Ximenqing, as long as Ximenqing can abide by the women's way after passing the door.

In addition, Ximen Qing's bows, arrows, knives and guns are not allowed to be brought to Fan's house. The Fan family is a righteous family that cultivates and reads heirlooms, and they don't need those things. Moreover, his descendants of Fan Zhijin are not allowed to practice martial arts, so as not to delay the study of the imperial examination......

Liu looked at his son and seemed a little reluctant, and immediately put on a straight face and said: "Son, this Ximen Qing is a mother who likes it, what's wrong with the daughter of the merchant family?" Is a mother not a businessman's daughter? Didn't your father marry too? I don't know that etiquette can teach her slowly, this matter is decided for the mother, tomorrow I will ask the county seat Zhou matchmaker to say yes, how to do it after the release test, and then take Qing'er to Kaifeng Mansion together, with her to take care of her on the road, and the mother will be relieved. ”

Of course, Fan Zhijin is a filial son, and when he heard what the old lady said, he agreed with his mouth: "What my mother taught me is that the child is all up to his mother." ”

"Okay, that's a good boy." The old woman of the Liu family smiled and nodded, "Eat quickly, study hard after eating, and come back next year as a high school jinshi, my family will be prosperous." ”