When Ouyang Xiu was sitting in Xu Ping's living room, thinking about how to spend it once he had five hundred guan, the little guy came in and said that the subordinates of the Regulation Editing Office had already arrived. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xu Ping hurriedly ordered to come in and said to Ouyang Xiu: "I have a grange in Zhongmu, although it is a little vulgar, but it is a little wild. Recently, the editorial office has been busy, and I have finally had a little free time in the past two days, so I want to go there to relax. If you have nothing to do, you might as well come with us. ”

Ouyang Xiu asked, "I don't know if Wang Junzhen is going or not?" ”

"If you don't come to me, he should have invited you."

Hearing that Wang Gongchen was going, Ouyang Xiu hurriedly said: "So it will disturb the county marquis." ”

Although Wang Gongchen took away the champion that Ouyang Xiu regarded as the thing in his pocket during the Heavenly Sage's eighth year hall test, the relationship between the two was still good. In fact, Ouyang Xiu's ranking is relatively low, and the top three have no chance with him.

At this moment, the courtyard was bustling, and many people walked in.

As soon as Wang Gongchen entered the living room, he saw Ouyang Xiu sitting here, and couldn't help but say, "It turns out that Uncle Yong has already passed by, no wonder I can't see anyone at your residence." It just so happened that we went to the deputy envoy Zhongmu Manor together and had fun for a few days. ”

Ouyang Xiu hurriedly got up and met everyone.

Wang Gongchen led two people over and introduced them to Xu Ping. One is Fu Bi in the ninth year of the Heavenly Sage, the other is Yin Zhu, a jinshi in the second year of the Heavenly Sage, and Mei Yaochen, who is an official.

Mei Yaochen also participated in the imperial examination, but unfortunately fell into the first place, so he had to use his uncle Mei Xun's relationship to make up for the official. Mei Xun used to be a bachelor of Hanlin and now goes out as an official. In addition to learning, Mei Xun is most famous for being exquisite, and he smokes himself fragrant every day, and many people go to see him in order to smell his body. In contrast to another raunchy bachelor Dou Yuanbin, it is known as "Meixiang Dou Stink", but this Meixiang is not the meaning of the later Yahuan.

The readers of this era are very individual, in addition to the pair of "plum fragrance sinus smell", there is also a pair of "fat and thin" a little earlier. Sheng Fei refers to Sheng Du who is extremely fat, and thin naturally refers to Ding Wei being as thin as a monkey, but this pair refers to their body shape, and they are not as individual as the previous pair.

Mei Yaochen has long had a famous poem, and he has the poetry style of the Song Dynasty, if he talks about his status in the poetry arena alone, it is much more important than Shi Yannian. is because although he was not born as a Jinshi, among these young literati, no one looked down on him.

However, the frustration of the imperial examination was a big blow to Mei Yaochen, making his personality more extreme, and even a little eccentric, sometimes to the point of unreasonableness. This is also something that can't be helped, people who engage in literature and art are always more sensitive.

Yin Zhu Zhong was an early jinshi, and he became famous early, and the characters who opened a generation of literary styles, at least in this era, have a higher status than other young people. Ouyang Xiu and several people are also teachers and friends with him, and their literary style is influenced by him and is slowly maturing.

Needless to say, Xu Ping knew his name in his previous life, and his political achievements were the highest. In the eighth year of Tiansheng, Fu Bi did not participate in the imperial examination, and Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan, who appreciated him, let him participate in the second year of the system. With the difficulty of the system, Fu Bi can be called a genius.

It is precisely this kind of character that Yan Shu will marry his daughter to him before he embarks on his official career.

Although Xu Ping himself was also a first-class jinshi, he has been in charge of money and food since he became an official, or he is fighting wars, and he is lackluster in literature, and no young student has come to his door to submit papers. This is the first time, my family is full of literati and bachelors, although I don't pay much attention to these things, I am still a little excited.

It was past noon and the sun was beginning to set in the west. Zhongmu didn't leave the capital, so in order to get to the place before dark, he was busy packing up and preparing to go.

When everyone arrived in the courtyard, Xu Ping said to Li Ji on the side: "You also go, and you are not in a hurry to review at this time." There are a lot of literary scholars who went to Zhongmu this time, and you just happened to ask for advice. Writing poems and writing articles is not my forte, but it is what this group of people study day and night, and a few words of random advice are enough for you to use for a lifetime. ”

Li Jing bowed and saluted: "Obey Mr.'s teachings." ”

When you take the palace exam, you have to be a jinshi, and the literary style is not the most important, but if you want to get a good ranking, the literary talent is indispensable. If there are a few sentences in the article that make people admire, the ranking can rise a lot, which is not a trivial matter.

Jinshi is different from Jinshi, the first few are not very good, it is not difficult to be a high-ranking official above the fifth grade, or even a waiter above the waiting system. Later, as long as there is no big mistake, it is almost impossible to run to Zhizhou within ten years, and there is a chance to enter the court and hold important positions. It's hard to say later, when it comes to the last two grades, when you step into the official career, it's just a selection of people, although it's easier than the general selection of people to be promoted to Beijing officials, but there is no big opportunity, and it's difficult to have a career in a lifetime.

Xu Ping himself is a first-class jinshi, and he has realized this more and more. Don't talk about others, when he was farming in Zhongmu, Guo Jian was the master of Zhongmu, which is equivalent to the magistrate of other large counties. Later, Xu Ping became the deputy envoy of salt and iron, and Guo Jian was still the magistrate of the county. Of course, there are other factors, but the different influences of Jinshi Kejia still play an important role.

Those who fall into the first place look forward to being good as long as they are in the Jinshi, and those who are in the Jinshi want to be a little higher in the ranking, which is really the case, and the ranking has too much impact on the future career. Not to mention anything else, you can serve as a museum after a term in the first class of Jinshi, and you don't need the recommendation of the minister, how can other first-class people have this treatment? Like Ouyang Xiu, these people are not coincidental, they went to Luoyang to serve as a first-time official, and when they met big people to appreciate them, how could they have a museum job for them.

Luoyang is Xijing in the end, and the people who sit there are generally important ministers in the court, the first three Qian Weiyan, Wang Shu and Wang Zeng, which is not with an envoy. As long as they have blue eyes, a word will have a bright future.

If you are like Xu Ping, you kick to the south of the Sichuan Gorge Lingnan, meet the Wuchen Zhizhou, and no matter how brilliant you are, no one will recommend you, so you can only endure hardship. Whether you can survive or not, you have to resign yourself to fate.

At this time, it is customary for Gaodi to take the cold door, this is the reason, these Gaodi Jinshi are the emperor's own people, and they don't need to look at the minister's face when they are promoted all the way. If there is no one to recommend them, then the system will ensure the speed of their promotion.

Li Ji has been here in Xu Ping for some days, and he has seen a lot of the doorways in these officialdoms, so he naturally understands the truth. After Xu Ping's order, he hurriedly went back to his room to clean up, and brought a few proud articles written by himself, so that he could meet someone for advice. (To be continued.) )