Tomorrow will be the second round of the exam.

The master father took a volume of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" that he had borrowed from a friend, and read and studied it word by word.

It was so hot that after reading the book for a while, the master had to go to the middle of the house, pick up a ladle of water, and pour a spoonful of water on himself to cool off.

"There's not much money...... "The master father took out the dozens of copper coins left in his pocket, and sighed helplessly.

When he set off in Jicheng, he still had more than 3,000 yuan in savings.

However, in just ten days in Chang'an, the more than 3,000 dollars were almost spent!

Thankfully, it's worth the money!

Even if you can't pass the exam, as long as you can pass the second round, with this qualification, the road ahead will be much more spacious.

In the past few days, the master father has heard that several scholars from Hedong County have obtained their family letters, and the family elders of these scholars are asking them to pass the second round of the examination in the letter, and the Hedong County Guard has already spoken, all the scholars from Hedong, as long as they can pass the second round, if they are not hired in the end, they can be recommended directly after returning to Hedong!

That's a signal!

So far, though, only Hedong County plans to do so.

But as long as the IQ is normal, you can think that soon, the counties and even the vassal states of the country will follow suit!

The reason can also be guessed by the master father.

During the reign of the first emperor, in order to add more fresh blood to the imperial court, he once issued an edict to the local counties and counties to impose a mandatory number of recommended people, and if the county and county officials who do not meet the standards will affect the evaluation of their political performance - every October, the local counties and counties must report to the central government that the population, the number of households, acres of land, thieves, punishments, and tax revenues in the past year are reported to the imperial court, which is called the upper calculation, and the highest merit is called the palace, and the lower merit is the palace, and it is rated as the 'most' to add officials to the knighthood, and take one' The temple's will not only be punished, but may even lose the black gauze hat.

It's about the black yarn hat, who dares to relax?

In particular, the Son of Heaven of the Han family attached great importance to the assessment of officials, and it was often presided over by the Son of Heaven himself, assisted by the prime minister, and jointly deliberated by the nine kings and hundreds of officials.

However, the matter of recommending talents is not something that the magistrate can just find a cat or a dog to make up the numbers.

At this time, the recommender must first have a great reputation in the local area, at least the prestige of the whole county, and secondly, he must be an intellectual himself......

How many such people can come out of a county?

Those who meet the conditions have already been recommended, and those who are not eligible are desperately brushing up their reputation.

In this way, I don't know how many county guards, originally according to the political performance, properly mixed with the 'most', but because of the recommendation on the loss of points, so fell to the next first-class, and the addition of the official into the jue goodbye, there are some unlucky eggs, the performance should have been qualified, but because the recommendation is not strong, the result was demoted to the 'palace', and then was called by the bosses at all levels to scold a bloody dog, bad luck, directly lost the black yarn hat, rushed back to the hometown to farm.

It's the end of May, it's close to June, and the New Year is just four months away.

Obviously, it's time for the counties to prepare for the plan.

However, it is also clear that many counties are destined to fail in the prescribed referral task.

At this time, the examination appeared in the sight of magistrates everywhere like a life-saving straw.

Even better, for local governments, it is not wrong to keep up with the changes in central policies, no matter what!

Master Father Yan knew that Hedong County was only close to Chang'an, so he was the first to react, and when the matter of the examination continued to spread, in the next two months, as long as the magistrate was not too dull, he would follow up.

Therefore, after thinking about this clearly, almost all the scholars in Chang'an were boiling!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity......

God knows if there will be another exam?

And even if there is, who knows when the next one will be?

Moreover, the phenomenon of seniority in officialdom is very common, and being recommended two years earlier is better than being recommended a few years later!

Therefore, after feeling a little cool, the master father Yan immediately sat down in front of the desk again, holding the book, and continued to study.

"Is Mr. Master at home?" As soon as I sat down, an unfamiliar voice came from outside the door.

The master father hurriedly put on the clothes he had taken off, tidied up his clothes, and said, "Wait a while, and a certain person will come to open the door immediately!" ”

When he opened the door, he saw several familiar faces.

The master thought about it, and it seemed that a few days ago, these people came to his door to congratulate him on the first round of the pass, but he was so happy for a while that he even threw a reward of more than 200 yuan, which caused him not to even dare to eat meat for the past two days......

Thinking of this, the face of the master father twitched slightly, but fortunately, his cultivation was okay, and he asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"I'm waiting for the order of His Royal Highness Liu De to send some things to Mr. to cool off......" A man in the lead had a smile on his face, and asked the two subordinates to put a bag of about a few catties of things at the feet of the master father, and arched his hand: "Please also count it, Mr. count, this is five catties of mung bean ......"

Before the master father could react, the man took a bamboo slip and handed it to the master father Yan, saying, "If it is correct, please write the name on this bamboo slip, so that it is convenient for us to wait for the errand!" ”

I have to admit that at this time, the rangers may kill people and break the law, bully the weak and do things like better than their juniors Crazy Boys, but there is one thing, the later generations of Crazy Boys can't catch up with their ranger predecessors - keep promises!

Most of the rangers in the world regard oath as more important than life, and reputation as more valuable than money.

The master father stupidly took a pen and signed his name on the bamboo slips.

After the man saw it, he arched his hand and said, "The weather in Chang'an has been hot recently, and I hope that Mr. will take care of himself and pay attention to cooling down...... If there is anything, you can come to Dongshi to find me, and report my name to Zhaozhuang......"

In Zhao Zhuang's eyes, these scholars in Chang'an are now his food and clothing parents, where do they not do their best?

What's more, as a ranger, he actually still admires the thoughts of literati.

Another is to make a fortune and become an official, and now he is with a good boss, seeing the opportunity to wash his name, it is not impossible to even become a court eagle dog in the future, naturally, he subconsciously began to maintain his personal image.

Zhao Zhuang took the bamboo slips handed over by the master's father, and then arched his hand and said: "I have done the work, so I will not disturb Mr. to study and study, and I would like to wish Mr. a successful victory in the examination tomorrow and marry a noble lady!" ”

Now in Chang'an City, there are already rumors about Neihou and even Chehou, and those who can finally be admitted will be recruited as sons-in-law.

This is tantamount to a strong stimulus, which makes almost all the poor scholars, including the master father, excited.

Who wouldn't want to marry a delicate aristocratic lady?

Not to mention anything else, when the time comes, the dowry alone will be enough to turn an originally destitute family into a wealthy family at once!

Looking at Zhao Zhuang's distant back, holding the small bag of mung beans, the master's father felt warm in his heart.

"I don't care about anything else, but I can think of the unbearable heat of our scholars, just this benevolence is enough to prove that His Royal Highness Liu De is the master!" The lord father Yan thought in his heart that in today's world, the literati most admired two kinds of lords.

One is to give them officials to do and let them display their ambitions, and the other is to value them and be able to condescend to them and bend down for them.

The latter was more highly regarded by the literati than the former.

Uncle Tian was not an official of Zhao back then, but he was willing to accompany Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, to prison together: Zhang Ao valued him......

On this day, countless poor scholars living in Chang'an City felt Liu De's warmth, and many even decided to be loyal to Liu De and swore to the death.

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10.1 It's on the shelves, and saving more manuscripts is the king~ But I can't save it, tragedy~~~