"Who said that if you have an official body, you can't be admitted to the Jinshi?" Wang Hou put down the wine bowl and asked Han Gang strangely, "The descendants of the Zai Zhi family have been shaded since they were seven or eight years old, but there are still those who come out to take the Jinshi exam." Lu Zhongcheng, the master of Mr. Hengqu, is the son of Lu Wenjing [Lu Yijian, the prime minister of the Renzong Dynasty, nicknamed Wenjing], and he has long been in the shade, but he has not yet taken the Jinshi exam. It is far more convenient for those who have official status to participate in the imperial examination than ordinary scholars, as long as they pass the locked hall examination, they can get a tribute student quota, which is much easier than participating in the state examination. ”

When Han Gang heard this, he hurriedly inquired, which was information that was not in the memories left by his predecessor. Wang Hou was very surprised that Han Gang didn't know what to do, but he still drank and explained to him in detail.

The so-called lock hall, as the name suggests, is to lock up the public hall, that is, the official hall is locked, put down the position in hand, and go to participate in the imperial examination.

There are millions of scholars in the world who want to participate in the imperial examination, and Tokyo City cannot accommodate so many. So it has to be selected locally. This selection is called the examination and is held in the state army the year before the year of the imperial examination. Qinzhou's test ended in August this year when Han Gang was lying on a hospital bed. The scholars who pass the test are called Gongsheng, and the first place is Xie Yuan. With the qualification of a tribute student, you can go to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination.

The Jinshi Imperial Examination in the capital is divided into two steps, the first step is the provincial examination, also known as the Ministry of Rites Examination, which will select about 300 qualified people from the tens of thousands of nearly 100,000 tribute students in the 400 military states in the world—sometimes 200 or 400—if they can become one of the 300 qualified members, basically the qualification of the Jinshi will be determined. Because now the second step of the palace examination will not dismiss the candidates, but only determine the ranking of the exam.

"Thank you Zhang Yuan for this!" Wang Hou said with a smile: "This Taishi Zhang of Western Xia was deposed from the palace examination, and he was the most angry and defected to the Western Thief. 'Han Qi is not surprised, Xia Zhu He has shrugged' [Note 1], the talents of the two prime ministers were beaten to shame by a fallen Gongsheng, and tens of thousands of soldiers died on the banks of the Haoshui River. Since then, no one has been dethroned in the palace examination, and even if he commits miscellaneous crimes, he will only be reduced to the lowest classmate to find out his background and give the official as well. There are also special performance celebrities, who are also specially promoted in order to appease the tribute students who have repeatedly failed the exam. ”

Therefore, there are only two difficulties in becoming a jinshi, the first is the solution test, and the second is the ritual test. And if Han Gang has an official and wants to be admitted to the Jinshi, he will also have to pass the exam. Just because of his official status, he can't take the exam in the state with ordinary scholars, but in the middle of the road to participate in the lock hall test specially held for officials-the road here is a transfer envoy, not a slight pacification envoy, that is, Han Gang is going to the Luzhi Jingzhao Mansion [Chang'an] on Shaanxi Road to participate, not Qinzhou on Qinfeng Road-

"Nominally, the lock hall test is placed in the middle of the road, in order not to compete with the local Han scholars, but in fact, the proportion of tribute students in the state is one out of a hundred, one out of two hundred, and one out of twenty or thirty in Shaanxi, but the lock hall test is one out of three or five people, and at most one out of seven is only one out of seven."

Wang Hou said dryly, filled himself with wine, and drank it in one gulp. Wiping his mouth with a silk scarf, he continued: "Not only the lock hall test participated by officials, but also the other head test participated by the children of official eunuchs, also in the name of not competing with Han Shi, but the actual admission ratio is also below ten to one. Think about Jia Yan, when he participated in the Jiangzhou test, nearly 3,000 people competed for 17 places! ”

"Three thousand men fighting for seventeen?" This is about the percentage of admission to the more popular positions in the civil service examination in later generations. With such a low percentage, the competition is indeed fierce enough. And Gongsheng has nothing to do with being an official, he is not a person in the Ming and Qing dynasties, even if he is admitted this time, if he can't get a jinshi. The next time I will fight back to the original form, I will have to fight with 3,000 people again.

"It's three thousand for seventeen." Wang Hou thought that Han Gang was shocked, so he said even more proudly, "This is quite little. You go to Fujian Road to see, especially Jianzhou and Fuzhou, where there are five or six thousand people competing for more than a dozen places! Which subject is not a bloody pestle and a mountain of corpses! ”

Wang Hou exaggerated, causing Han Gang to chuckle: "The Ministry of Rites test is the same, regardless of identity and family background, regardless of the place of origin, whether it is difficult to solve the test, it is easy or easy. When it came to the Ministry of Rites exam, it was all the same question. ”

"That's right." Wang Hou raised his head proudly: "The Gongsheng of Jiangxi and Fujian are all killed from the single-plank bridge, while the Gongsheng of Shaanxi is on the thoroughfare. But when it comes to the Ministry of Rites test, ten Jiangxi Gongsheng can produce one Jinshi, and one hundred Shaanxi Gongsheng can produce one. ”

Han Gang sighed with emotion: "So...... At the end of the year, most of the famous Jinshi are from Shaanxi. "The special performance of the famous jinshi, that is, the tribute students who are over forty years old and have repeatedly failed the examination, are submitted to the imperial court by the local statistical list, take a very simple examination, give them an official position, go to the state school, the county school to be a literature, assistant teacher, save them from defecting to the Western Xia, Liao. It is easy for Shaanxi to take the Gongsheng, but it is difficult to enter the school, so most of the people in the special performance are from Shaanxi.

Wang Hou knew why Han Gang sighed, he comforted and patted Han Gang on the shoulder, and raised the wine bowl: "Anyway, the name of the special performance has nothing to do with Yukun, come and drink, drink!" ”

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I don't know how long I drank a meal, but Han Gang drank a lot of wine and remained sober. But Wang Hou didn't have much alcohol and was already dizzy. But he still trembled and held the wine bowl and said to Han Gang: "Yukun, it's really gratifying!" Respected teacher Zhang Hengqu, on the ninth day of this month, he has already promoted the Chongwen Academy book, and it will definitely be of great use in the future! Come on, let's have another bowl! ”

"This is the third time you've said it. Those who should be congratulated are congratulated, and those who should be rejoiced are also rejoiced. Don't drink it! ”

"It's okay to drink a little more. Happy event...... When Mr. Hengqu rises in the middle of the court, there will be more and more people who will come to propose to you...... Ha Luha, Yu Kun is not inferior to the golden retriever in terms of appearance, but there is one less champion and the first, otherwise, the prime minister's family can also do it. ”

"Jinmao Rat ......" Han Gang was taken aback, "Bai Yutang? "Did the famous characters in the Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness really appear in the official history?!

"Who is Bai Yutang?" Wang Hou raised his drunken eyes and asked blankly.

"Ah...... I once heard that there was a robber in the rivers and lakes of the Central Plains, and the bandit was called the brocade rat. Han Gang casually explained two sentences, wondering in his heart, could it be that there was another brocade mouse in the Northern Song Dynasty?

Wang Hou was so drunk that he didn't distinguish the truth from the fake, Ha Luha smiled: "I didn't expect you to travel so widely in Yukun!" ”

"It's just a rumor. I can't remember whether I heard it at the temple or at the tea shop, or when I heard it. "Han Gang pushed one of the things off, and he couldn't afford to be charged with making friends with bandits.

"Brother Fool is talking about the first year of Huangyou [1049 AD] the one who is the third and first of the Jichou family, didn't he come to the Guanxi Zhijing Zhao Mansion a few years ago?"

Han Gang slapped his head with a snap, and gave Wang Hou such a mention, he finally remembered, "It's Feng Dangshi......"

Feng Jing, the word is in the world. In the first year of Huangyou, he was the champion of the Chou Branch, and the township test, the provincial test, and the palace test were all the first, and he was one of the few champions in history. Feng Jingcai has learned and has outstanding appearance, but I don't know if it is because of his background in a merchant family, he attaches great importance to money, and he has accumulated a lot in Jingzhao Mansion, and was secretly ridiculed by the Chang'an people as a 'golden retriever rat' - 'golden retriever' refers to his excellent appearance, and 'rat' is his accumulation trip.

"That's right, that's right, it's him!" Wang Hou smiled drunkenly, and his tongue grew big when he spoke, "At that time, after Feng Dangshi won the champion, several noble relatives were fighting for his son-in-law, and the dowry was tens of thousands of yuan...... If Yukun can find a good relative, maybe he will be a slaughter in the future...... Zai ......" with a bang, Wang Hou fell headlong on the table.

Han Gang looked at the drunk in his room a little helplessly, and in the middle of his words, he fainted drunk. Shaking his head with a wry smile, he put down the wine bowl. Maybe it was habit, Han Gang couldn't help but start to deduce what Zhang Zai could bring to himself as an official in Beijing this time.

Zhang Zai was recommended by Lu Gongshu to enter Beijing, and when Han Gang went home for the funeral half a year ago, Zhang Zai had already taken care of his bags and was preparing to go east. At that time, Lü Gongshu was still a bachelor of Hanlin, but now Lü Gongshu is already a Zhongcheng in the imperial history, holding the supervision power of the court.

And Zhang Zai's younger brother Zhang Jian, Han Gang has also seen it, the same Jinshi background, in the court as a subordinate of Lu Gongshu, appointed as the supervisor of the imperial history of the line - if the official who supervises the imperial history is not qualified, he must affix the word "line" to the end of the official name, which means trial - with the support of the lord and his brother in the court, Han Gang's teacher should be able to stay in Beijing for two more years.

However, Han Gang learned from Wang Hou that the promotion of Lü Gongshu to the position of Zhongcheng in the Imperial History was entirely because Wang Anshi wanted to drive the privy envoy Lü Gongbi out of Tokyo. Han Gang can fully understand this, one of the two brothers is the head of the military, and the other is the boss of the supervision system, which is a very taboo thing in any dynasty, Lu Gongbi will resign by himself if he is interested, if he is not interested, Yushi Taichung may not make Lu Gong's anti, and the two brothers were impeached together.

The current situation between the DPRK and China is so complicated that no one can see it clearly, and Han Gang is no different. Zhang Zai's backstage is not in agreement with Wang Anshi, but Zhang Zai himself helped Cai Ting improve the art of war, but he won the praise of Wang Xianggong, and I don't know what his own opinion is on the change. But Han Gang is very clear about his position, Wang Shao's biggest reliance in the court is Wang Anshi, and his current reliance is on Wang Shao, and he can only agree with the change of the law, not oppose it.

Wang Hou woke up again at some point, picked up the wine jar and shook it, listening to the sound of water inside. slapped the table and said angrily, "Why is there no wine?!" ”

"I've drunk it all for you......" Han Gang sighed helplessly, Wang Hou came to his side to drink, sometimes he brought his own wine and food, sometimes he just ate and drank, Han Gang was extravagant, and the little money in his hand was exhausted. When I went back today, I was embarrassed to take money from my family, but now my pocket is empty, "I don't have any money to add wine today, and I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

"Money? ......" Wang Hou raised his head with difficulty, "No problem, when the Qingmiao loan is officially implemented, we should have money here." ”

Note 1: After Zhang Yuan defected to Western Xia, he assisted Li Yuanhao to annihilate 30,000 Song troops in Haoshuichuan, and it was Xia Zhu and Han Qi who presided over the military administration of Guanxi at that time. After the Battle of Haoshuichuan, Zhang Yuan wrote a poem - 'Han Qi is not strange, Xia Zhu He has shrugged', venting his grievances for many years.

ps: There is only one rat among the five rats on the empty island, so I don't know if the name prototype of Bai Yutang, the golden hairy rat in the Dao Dao, is Feng Jing.

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