The Ming and Qing dynasties have reached a crazy level of heavy imperial examinations, which is much crazier than the heavy college entrance examination in later generations.

Today's top students in the college entrance examination are not to say that they will become officials immediately, and it is not easy to find a satisfactory job after graduation. If the champion of the Ming and Qing dynasties does not die young, he can basically become a cabinet scholar, that is, the prime minister, and if he is lucky, he can even become an emperor and enjoy a higher level of glory and favor.

Even if the Jinshi is not an official, he is a noble person everywhere, and he is a guest at any time when he goes to a yamen in other provinces, so there are some people who don't like to be an official, and after being admitted to the Jinshi, they specialize in being a celebrity, and the weight of this kind of celebrity is much heavier than that of a celebrity who has no merit.

As for the champion, it is even more amazing, as long as he wins the championship, the imperial court will build a memorial arch for him in his hometown, not only to glorify the ancestors, but also to follow the city and a township with a bright face.

So when Pomegranate heard that Wenbin was going to end, she also had a faint melancholy in her heart, she already felt that she was not interested in the imperial examination at all, and she was still clamoring to be promoted, but now she didn't even mention this.

Although it is now among the ranks of celebrities and scholars, and it is not worrying about money by practicing medicine, but in the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, which frantically attached importance to the imperial examination, pomegranates were not exempt from vulgarity.

Chen Musa has never been an official, but he has also won the Jinshi, and he is the top three in the list, the idea of pomegranate is that he can be no less than Chen Musa in the Jinshi exam, and he will be satisfied, if he wins a subject, it will naturally be better.

Behind the procession, there were also several carriages following, and the people sitting in the cars were neither welcoming nor sending relatives, but a group of students.

In the first carriage, a dark-skinned, medium-sized courgette stared at the line ahead.

"I said Boyong, what are you always staring at along the way, and you don't have clairvoyance, can you see the bride through the carriage?"

There was a person sitting opposite Hugua face, and if you could recognize it here, it was Xu Ziyu, a student of Nanjing Guozijian.

"I'm not interested in the bride, but in Zhengjun's daughter, can I see her today?"

"What do you want to do, don't mess around, people are engaged to the situation, and they will be married in a month. Xu Ziyu hurriedly reminded him.

He knew that this senior brother looked like a middle-aged person, but he was bold, and he was even more daring.

"You are looking down on people, of course I won't mess around, and if I really want to come, I will come according to etiquette. ”

The smelter smiled meaningfully.

This person's surname is Zheng, his name is Boyong, he is a native of Fuzhou, and his family is also considered first-class in Fuzhou.

In the Taizu era, people in Fuzhou and Lingnan were not allowed to be big officials in the imperial court, which was Zhu Yuanzhang's will.

This is not because Zhu Yuanzhang engaged in regional discrimination like discriminating against Suzhou people, but because there was once a Fuzhou official who served as a close attendant, but Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't understand Fuzhou dialect, and felt like a bird's language, so he sent this official to a local post. Later, there were orders that people from Fuzhou and Lingnan were not allowed to serve as close servants and high-ranking officials.

When some big families in Fuzhou learned of this situation, they were ashamed, and their disciples were sent to Nanjing and Beijing as soon as possible to train, in order to let them learn the official dialect. By the time of Yingzong, Zhu Yuanzhang's ban was slowly relaxed, and during the reign of Wuzong Zhengde and Sejong Jiajing, the proportion of Fuzhou people serving in the imperial court increased significantly.

The Ming Dynasty had several well-known policies towards officials, one was that people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were not allowed to serve as the head of the household department and the left and right attendants, because the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions were not only the main grain-producing areas, but also accounted for half of the world's rents.

Suzhou and Hangzhou were the first grain-producing areas in the Ming Dynasty, and were known as the famous ones in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi also stared at the weather and the growth of grain crops in Suzhou and Hangzhou every day, once the grain production in these two places was reduced, it meant that the national granary was insufficient, and Cao Yin, a weaver in the south of the Yangtze River, lived in Nanjing, and the main task was not to make dragon robes for the imperial court, but to stare at the climate change and rice harvest in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the second was to supervise local officials.

As for the rule that officials are not allowed to serve as local officials in their hometowns, not only in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but also in most dynasties, it is called the system of officials serving in different places, which is also to prevent them from being officials in their hometowns, or from interfering in politics by their families, relatives, and friends.

Xu Ziyu looked at Zheng Boyong opposite, and was already a little uneasy in his heart, but he couldn't say why.

Besides, although the foundation is still shallow now, Chen Musa is the number one person in Jiangnan, not to mention that he is too a student, even the court officials do not want to offend him.

Although Xu Ziyu was not worried that Zheng Boyong would mess up, and he didn't dare to be presumptuous, Xu Ziyu still felt unsafe in his heart, and had a premonition that something might happen at any time.

A few of their classmates who had seen each other in Suzhou were going to go to Tang Bohu's new house to congratulate them, but one of them shouted to see the bride, because Qiu Xiang has always been known as the first beauty in Suzhou, and this time she is even more in line with Tang Bohu's routine of talented and beautiful women, and all the emotions of these students are mobilized at once.

There are many literati and bachelors, and they know that they can't see the bride at all, but they still come to the Zhou family's mansion in Nanjing, hoping to see the bride.

Of course, they didn't. Wen Bin entertained them in the hall of the outer house, which was considered to be enough face, because Wen Bin was about to enter the Guozijian, and everyone was also considered a senior brother.

They didn't see Akika, but they unexpectedly saw a pomegranate.

When the pomegranate was sent by the male and female guards of the Zhongshan Palace, it happened to pass outside this hall. She wasn't afraid of outsiders, so she didn't go through the back door of the inner house.

It's also time for something, Zheng Boyong was depressed because he didn't have eyes, but he saw the pomegranate walking through the courtyard at a glance, and immediately the whole person was struck by lightning, and he sat there, his eyes couldn't move.

Xu Ziyu also saw the pomegranate and immediately understood that there was a big "earthquake" on Zheng Boyong.

This is not surprising, when they went to Suzhou to cheer, they also had this feeling of being struck by lightning to varying degrees, and after they came back, they also quarreled about who was the first beauty in Suzhou with pomegranate and autumn fragrance.

Later, after some older students of Guozijian found out, they told them that Pomegranate was originally the first beauty in the south of the Yangtze River, and Qiuxiang was only the first in Suzhou Yahuan, not the first in Suzhou ladies.

These students are about to go crazy with jealousy, it is not enough to have a good teacher who is hard to find in the world, but also won the heart of the first beauty in Jiangnan, and it is too unfair to treat people all the time.

When Zheng Boyong heard their discussion, he didn't care, thinking that they were just shallow and didn't know how to write the word beauty. At that time, he was frantically pursuing Yiyan in Qin Huai Shiyan, and was about to spend a lot of money to put this famous prostitute in the house, so he disdained the so-called beauties other than Qin Huai Shiyan.

When he saw the pomegranate and reminisced about it for a long time, the feeling of lightning struck slowly subsided, and then he realized that Qin Huai Shiyan was just beautiful, and he couldn't be called a beauty at all.

"How about it, Bo Yong, you know what a real beauty looks like. Xu Ziyu laughed at him at the time.

Zheng Boyong just nodded blankly, but he couldn't speak, if he didn't know that etiquette didn't allow, he would have chased the pomegranate all the way into the inner house.

Then he began to inquire about the various situations of the pomegranate, especially the relationship between the pomegranate and the Zhongshan Palace, because in the early years, the Zhongshan Palace had asked the Chen family for marriage and was refused, but everyone said that the palace would not stop there, because the little prince has a deep love for the pomegranate, and the plot remains to be seen. It wasn't until Pomegranate got engaged that everyone understood that Pomegranate marrying into the Zhongshan Mansion was completely out of play.

Zheng Boyong inquired about these things, as well as pomegranates' preferences, Chen Zhengjun's status in Jiangnan, and so on.

Xu Ziyu tried his best to explain to him at first, but in the end he was annoyed, because he didn't know much, and he had a good relationship with him, and he felt that talking about his fiancée behind his back like this was inevitably unelegant and not authentic. In addition, he was also frightened by the crazy flames burning in Zheng Bo's eyes.

Whenever Zheng Boyong talked about the famous prostitute of Qin Huai he was pursuing, it was this crazy flame burning in his eyes.

"Senior Brother Zheng, you don't think about it too much, that's the daughter of Old Master Chen, and the fiancée. The other student returned to normal after the lightning strike subsided, and when he saw Zheng Boyong's demeanor, he couldn't help but laugh.

"What's the matter? It's not bad to talk about the first son, at least it's much better than that. Zheng Boyong was not convinced.

As a first-class family in Fuzhou, he is also the key training object in the family, he is full of confidence when he says this, although it is still slightly insufficient compared with these big clans in Jiangnan, if it is compared with those who have no foundation, it is indeed much stronger, and he feels that he has the capital to look down.

"Besides, although the junior brother is not from a big family, he is also a Jiangnan genius who ranks first with Tang Bohu, Boyong, you can't compare. Another student laughed.

"A bullshit talent, but a showman, it's amazing to make a poem. Zheng Boyong was even more unconvinced.

It was not a personal prejudice for him to say this, and many people in the Nanjing Guozi Prison were not convinced by the fame, mainly because they were jealous. Like Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming, even the students who are above the top are also convinced, and after all, they don't have a rich background, and they are famous in that poem.

There is another reason for the people in the Nanjing Guozi Prison, that is, this guy who does not know the height of the sky actually wants to go to the Guozi Prison to overturn the case for Su Dongpo, this is simply Tai Sui's head breaking ground, the main taboo of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty is that the article must not have the atmosphere of Su Wen, otherwise it is not negotiable to be deposed.

Dongpo was respected in all dynasties, but suffered discrimination in the Ming Dynasty, and even became a public enemy of Shilin, the reasons are also very complicated, the most important point is that Su Wen Wang Yang is unbridled, great Zhuangzi essence, his talent is high and very Sima Qian's style. In the Song Dynasty, Dongpo was once regarded as the first choice to write history, but unfortunately due to various reasons, he was not able to write a history book, which is also a great regret of history.

However, Dongpo's style of writing did not work in the popular imperial examination of Baguwen, which was most important in the rules and regulations, in line with the so-called law, and could not go beyond the fence, otherwise it would be difficult to judge the merits when judging the papers. At first, it was only the judges of the imperial examination who warned their children not to learn Su Wen, but slowly this became a trend, and not reading Dongpo articles became the consensus of the Ming Dynasty scholars.