Every year of the scientific examination, the examination will be held on August 15, and the examination will be held for three consecutive days. The lifting of the examination in the examination, also known as the lifting of people, is concentrated in the capital in winter, and the following year participates in the scientific examination sponsored by the Ministry of Rites, also known as the provincial examination. Those who pass the provincial examination can enter the final decisive battle, and the palace examination will determine the final top three, Jinshi and Zhuke.

This acceptance rate is even lower. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, dozens of Jinshi and more than 100 subjects were generally admitted, which was much more than the number in the Tang Dynasty. But there are a lot more readers. There are not only new lifters, but also a larger number of old lifters. Unless there are special circumstances, such as the sixth year of Kaibao, Zhigongju Li Fang was a personal matter, and Song Taizu re-examined, and recorded 26 Jinshi and 101 subjects, which is a relatively high admission rate. In general, the acceptance rate is only a few percent, and sometimes it can only reach 1.5 percent.

Therefore, some of them can take the test for more than ten sessions, have experienced a hundred battles, have rich experience, and have a calm mood, which is far from being matched by new lifters. At the age of seventeen, there is the provincial examination, yes, every session, but there are only a few people, looking at the Song Dynasty, how many people are studying and testing for fame?

His own officials did not do it until he was twenty-eight years old, and after four examinations, he took the provincial examination and won the Jinshi. The in-laws in front of him also took the exam for three times, and at the age of twenty-six, he was admitted together with his own officials. This has already caused a sensation in the township, and more people are only admitted in their thirties. Others are in their forties and fifties.

Of course, the treatment will be completely different from that of passing the provincial test.

If a person is exempted from his own military service, exempted from paying taxes on his body, money, and rice, and commits a private crime under the cane, he is allowed to be redeemed. But as soon as you ascend to the provincial department, you can enter the official department, especially the Jinshi department, which is impressively noble. Being a civil official in the early Northern Song Dynasty makes people drool when they think about it.

Zheng Lang finally fell silent.

I have a small library in my mind, but I need a time to absorb it, but books are always the same in my brain and in the library, so I said that I passed the exam in seven years. Provincial test ...... Even if you put another library in, you may not be sure.

After thinking for a long time, he said, "Ten, years." ”

"Okay, it's up to you for ten years, but within seven years you must pass the exam."

"Whoa."

Cui Youjie left, several women were furious, and the eldest mother said: "Lang'er, that's a provincial department." You are lucky to be able to pass the exam in your life, and in ten years, how old will you be? ”

Erniang said: "Lang'er, the eldest mother is right, your promise today is too Menglang." With your words, the Cui family will be able to regret their relatives if they want to regret their relatives in the future. ”

"Yes, Lang'er, where are you fooled, if you can really take the exam at the age of seventeen and take the provincial exam at the age of twenty, what kind of woman in the world can't marry? Even the princess can marry our Zheng family. Liu Niang said.

"Sixth Sister Ping, the princess can't be married, and she can't become a big official if she marries." Qi Niang said.

"Don't make any noise, what else are you going to do...... Wu Niang covered her ears.

The biological mother, Yun Siniang, didn't say a word, just looked at her son worriedly.

Be...... It's very noisy, but in Zheng Lang's ears, it is like a spring breeze that is intoxicating, a sweet spring. The mind is not mature, it is easy to be lost by the love of these women, for Zheng Lang, what he feels is only warmth, which is valuable family affection.

Said: "Niangniang, I, I don't want to, you, loss, hope." ”

Several women were all quiet, and then Qi Niang frantically pounced on him, rubbing his hair: "Lang Lang, you are finally sensible, Qi Niang, I, I am very happy." ”

Several other women burst into tears when he said this. The weak lady suddenly said: "Lang'er, don't worry, if you can't pass the test, you won't be able to pass the test, with our family background, can't we find a good lady for you?" ”

"Yes, yes, read."

"Yes, yes, yes." The son's sudden sensibility made several women faint with joy, and they were almost helpless.

……

In fact, Cui Youjie is really not what several women think.

After leaving the Zheng family, he kept taking out the short note and looking at it, and after thinking about it, he asked his subordinates to bring the juniper back to Mengzhou first, but he quietly went to Yingtianfu.

At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, Bianliang was set as the eastern capital and Luoyang as the western capital, which was the Song Taizu wanted to transfer the capital to Luoyang and Chang'an step by step, taking advantage of the danger of mountains and rivers to make the national fortune of the Song Dynasty more long-lasting. However, Song Taizong's suggestion led to the Song Dynasty capital not being moved in the end. In the seventh year of Xiangfu, Song Zhenzong set Yingtianfu as Nanjing, and more than ten years later, Song Renzong set the Daimyo Mansion as Yanjing. As a companion to the capital.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty also liked to do one thing, for some senior officials with different political views or little mistakes, it was too degraded and it was not appropriate to put them in the court, so they put them together in several escorts to recuperate. It was this person he was going to visit, the prodigy Yan Shu.

The country has been in turmoil in recent years, after the death of Zhenzong, Zhao Zhen was young, Liu E was in charge, Ding Wei and Cao Yu wanted to monopolize power in the court, and the officials discussed and were helpless. Yan Shu put forward the suggestion of listening to the government, which was supported by the minister and moved to the position of deputy privy councilor.

But at this time, he made a mistake and opposed Zhang Qi's promotion to the rank of privy councillor. He also knew the reason for his promotion, and in the past, Song Zhenzong heard that Sichuan women were beautiful, and they were very smart and capable, and they spent money to buy a Sichuan woman, that is, Liu E came back, and he was very favored. As a result, Song Taizong knew about it and expelled her. Song Zhenzong was reluctant and quietly put her in the house of his close courtier Zhang Qi for adoption. Liu E is in charge, and he will return his favor.

However, Yan Shu believed that he was not talented enough to assume the position of privy councillor, and forcibly fought for it. Then he made another mistake, from going to Yuqing Palace, a guard was late, Yan Shu committed an evil and hit this guard in the face with a tooth wat. The civil officials of the Song Dynasty were high, and the military attachés were not human. The guards didn't dare to fight back, he was the deputy minister of the country, the tooth wat he used was of good quality, made of authentic ivory, and he was hit very hard and powerfully, "pop", only a few times, and the guard's teeth were knocked out by him.

But it's not surprising that Kou Zhun once paraded the streets in an imperial dragon robe, Song Zhenzong just smiled when he heard it, this old boy has made his father spoiled, just wear it, don't push me to the front line again. But the two crimes were one, and he was degraded to Xuanzhou. Soon after, he was changed to Ying Tianfu.

In ancient times, local officials were not allowed to leave the administrative center easily, and they were beheaded at worst, beaten with large boards, and hated with black yarn. The Song Dynasty was very tolerant of civil officials, that's it, before Cui Youjie came, he found a reason to ask for leave, disguised all the way, and made it look like a spy in a movie, and came to Zhengzhou very strangely. This difficulty is not high, from his territory, across the Yellow River is Zhengzhou, the Zheng family is outside the city, not in the city, it is easier to hide.

Besides, the son-in-law has this incident, and his mood is understandable. From Zhengzhou to Yingtianfu, it is a difficult matter.

With this, Cui Youjie is also attentive.

He visited Yan Shu because he took a fancy to Yan Shu's Suiyang Academy, which was strongly supported by Tianfu. It was not opened by Yan Shu, but by Yang Wei, a merchant in the Later Jin Dynasty, after Yan Shu learned about Ying Tianfu, he vigorously developed Suiyang Academy, and also invited Fan Zhongyan to come to the academy to give lectures. It turns out that the academy is very famous, and there are many people who are among the first, and after the vigorous development of Yan Shu, it is famous far and wide, and there is an endless stream of students who come to study.

Cui Youjie saw that his son-in-law seemed to have a little bit of a prodigal son's return to the gold and did not change it, and he had some personal relations with Yan Shu, to see if he could trust his relationship and stuff Zheng Lang to Suiyang Academy for formal study.

Sneakily came to Yingtianfu, Yan Shu frightened him and asked, "Cui Zhizhou, why did you come to Yingtian?" ”

Cui Youjie shook his head, bitter, and said, "You look at one thing first." ”

Took out the note.

Yan Shu didn't care, and said casually: "What an ugly word." ”

"The person who wrote it was young, and he was nervous at first, and the words that followed were about his real level."

Yan Shu looked at the handwriting on the back. Zheng Lang's ability is very limited, and he has not written a single decimeter character. Otherwise, Yan Shu can be scared.

After decades of recuperation in the Northern Song Dynasty, the literary style flourished, and many literati were thinking about the matter of characters and writing, and tried to change their surnames. This is a subconscious feeling that it is not okay, like the TV station, this year's Condor Shooting, Shanghai Beach, next year's revised Condor Shooting, Shanghai Beach, and the year after next year, there will be a B version of the revised Condor Shooting, Shanghai Beach. How many people go to TV at the end?

The same is true of calligraphy, either the two kings of the Jin Dynasty, or the Ou Chu Yanliu of the Tang Dynasty, and the others are temporary works, which have no new ideas. In the end, the art of calligraphy is likely to be annihilated in the long river of history like Han Fu and Tang poetry, and reduced to a tool for writing. Yan Shu knows a few very good juniors, such as Ouyang Xiu, who are also trying to find a new way of calligraphy from ancient characters.

The most successful ones were not Cai Xiang and Ouyang Xiu, but later Su Mihuang.

didn't write it out, Yan Shu was negligent.

Even if the words in the back will not enter Yan Shu's eyes, so I read the article. After reading it, he said, "If it was written by a young man, it is okay." Who wrote it? ”

"It's my young girl......" Cui Youjie couldn't speak.

"Your son-in-law," Yan Shu's tone was very playful, and the expression on his face was very vivid.

"Yan Xianggong, have you heard about it too?" Cui Youjie had fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

ps: This is a common scientific examination, and there are some other forms of imperial examinations, and there are even shameless officials who directly ask for official positions for their children, and some will be mentioned in the text later.

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