In the Tang Dynasty, there were fifty young jinshi and thirty old Ming Jing sayings.

This does not mean that it is easy to take the examination, but it is difficult to take the examination. Because whether it is the Ming Jing or the Jinshi subject, it is not easy to take the exam.

In the Tang Dynasty, no more than 20 people were hired at a time, and there were only 100 people in the Ming Classics.

What this means is that if you are over 30 years old, if you can't pass the Ming Jing course, don't try again, and you won't be able to pass the exam in the future, but if you fail to enter the science department at the age of 50, you can try again next year.

The poetry and policy theory of Jinshi mainly looks at the talent and ambition of the candidates, and there is no unified standard for grading.

As for the Ming Jing Branch, there is no other second trick except rote memorization.

In the examination room, one hundred and twenty posts of book questions, sixty Moyi questions were answered correctly, and the imperial court immediately awarded you an official, and gave you the Nine Classics and the First, and the treatment was equivalent to that of Jinshi Ke A.

For students from poor backgrounds, can they really spend 50 years taking a Jinshi exam? Even if your family is willing to cultivate you, you can't afford to cultivate it.

Unlike the Ming Classics, people's memory is the best before the age of thirty, and it gradually declines after the age of thirty. Therefore, when I was young, I studied for more than ten years in one breath, and then went to tribute, and if I didn't get into it after the age of 30, I changed to other livelihoods and never took the exam again.

Of course, this was during the Tang Dynasty, and there were other changes in the Song Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, only a dozen people were admitted to the Jinshi examination.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there were very few scholars in the Jinshi department, which were basically all subjects, but in recent years, the proportion of Jinshi admission has been increasing, and finally the Jinshi department has accounted for the majority in the palace examination.

How so?

Or lies in the peace of the world and the celebration of the calendar.

The world was peaceful, and the development of printing, reading became easier, and when Qingli Xingxue, under the auspices of Fan Zhongyan, the prefecture and county vigorously set up schools, and the number of folk readers increased.

There are many readers, and the exams that originally only relied on rote memorization of various subjects made the involution serious. Therefore, talented people are more willing to go to Jinshike.

In fact, the Song Dynasty was founded for a hundred years, and the mergers were allowed, and the passage between the rich and the poor was almost closed, and Zhuke was regarded as the last channel left for the children of the poor family.

The second brother Zhang Xu chose Jinshike that year, first of all, he was recognized as a talent who overwhelmed a county or even a state, and there were great Confucians like Chen Xiang to extend his reputation. If there are no such resources, most of the scholars from poor backgrounds like Zhang Yue choose various subjects.

But the scenery of Jinshike, the champion of each list is looking at the flowers, that is the person the world looks up to.

I read the three-yuan novel at the beginning, what is it called?

And the Nine Classics, although rote memorization is particularly suitable for their own talent, but I always feel that it is not enough scenery?

"Have you figured out which subject to take? Maybe you think about it again and reply in a few days? Guo Xue said.

"Nine Classics!"

Hearing Zhang Yue say this, Guo Xuexue breathed a sigh of relief, if Zhang Yue wanted to choose to enter the Shike, he wouldn't teach!

Guo Xuezhu said happily: "Very good, very good, the Nine Classics and the first and the middle Jinshi A people were born together, and they were all awarded as prisoners, Dali judges, and judged all states, except for a little scenery, there is no other." ”

"If you have made up your mind, let it be a scribe. In addition to governing the Nine Classics, the scribes were also required to study the "Book of Filial Piety" and the "Analects". ”

Although the Book of Filial Piety and the Analects are not included in the Nine Classics, they are also included in the examination scope of the Nine Classics.

Although Jinshike mainly looks at poetry and policy, it is the same as sticking to the scriptures and ink meanings. In history, Su Shili took the first place in the Ministry of Rites and Examinations because of the "Spring and Autumn" posting scriptures and Moyi, and his ranking was raised to the first class.

Anyway, the Nine Classics are studied first, and the Jinshi has to see if there is a chance.

Zhang Yue asked: "Sir, in addition to the Nine Classics, there is also the "Book of Filial Piety" and the "Analects", so there are a total of eleven classics. I don't know which scripture does the gentleman want me to learn first? ”

Seeing that Zhang Yue immediately entered the role, Guo Xuexuan was very pleased, this student was becoming more and more sensible.

Guo Xueyu said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, I haven't borrowed the book for the teacher yet." ”

What does it mean that a book has not been borrowed? Could it be that which book to borrow and which to read? Zhang Yue was really a little powerless to vomit.

In fact, this is also the truth, in history, Song Zhenzong in order to promote learning, gave each county school a copy of the Nine Classics. That is to say, in many county schools, there is not even a complete set of the Nine Classics. Dignitaries and sages, they don't usually take books and children from poor families to read.

It is not easy for Song Renzong to reign now, and borrowing books to read is a matter that requires an exchange of favors.

"Today and tomorrow, you will read the Book of Filial Piety and the Analects more proficiently."

Guo Xuezhi told Zhang Yue to lay a good foundation, and explained that he should not be self-contained and smart, and he was greedy for reading.

In the afternoon, Zhang Yue went to bed and swam, and in the morning, when it was cool, he studied with Guo Lin and Miao Sanniang.

As far as Zhang Yue is concerned, Miao Sanniang has a good foundation and is proficient in scripture and poetry, but she has repeatedly hit a wall in arithmetic.

Miao Sanniang and Guo Lin are somewhat familiar with each other, and every day they have to ask Guo Lin, who is the elder brother and the younger brother, one or two questions, although Guo Lin may not be able to answer them, he will still do his best.

Occasionally, the two can talk for a while.

Two monks carried water to drink, and three monks had no water to drink. Zhang Yue and Guo Lin were all good when they were two, but the three of them became a crowd, and the relationship was a little delicate.

When Zhang Yue saw the two chatting, he couldn't help but hang his pen in the air for half a second, why did Guo Lin be so wooden that he could have female classmates chatting? Do you think I'm going to be jealous like this?

At this moment, Zhang Yue put aside his pen, and just wanted to indulge and paralyze himself by touching fish.

At this time, Miao Sanniang seemed to hesitate for a long time, and said softly on the side: "...... Senior Brother Zhang! ”

Miao Sanniang was also in a very tangled mood at the moment. She thinks that Zhang Yue is not good at reading, and she only knows how to be smart. In addition, when I answered the question, I waited for the superiority that others could not do and the appearance of no one in my eyes. Miao Sanniang had a very bad impression of Zhang Yue.

She had consulted Senior Brother yesterday on this topic, but she didn't solve it, and she didn't have a clue after thinking about it all night last night.

Today, I was still puzzled, so I had to put down my face and ask Zhang Yue.

Miao Sanniang lowered her head and held her hands, and Guo Lin on the side also glanced at him and asked him to help.

Zhang Yue thought to himself, in the past few days, Guo Lin has turned into a licking dog, but he can see it clearly. Miao Sanniang, a woman, has the means, praising her senior brother for being upright and polite, and she doesn't care that he is covered by his clothes and suffers from heat stroke on a hot day.

Zhang Yue wanted to say why didn't you ask your senior brother to help you, but when it came to his mouth, he became: "Try it!" Maybe I'm in a quandary. ”

"Thank you, Senior Brother Zhang!"

The three girls smiled and took the initiative to present the manuscript paper.

Zhang Yue saw that it was 'surplus insufficient', and the title was 'Today, there are a total of cattle purchased, and seven families have a total of 190, less than 330; Nine families have a total of 270 and a surplus of 30. Q: What is the number of families and cattle prices? Answer: One hundred and twenty-six. The price of cattle is three thousand seven hundred and fifty.

Isn't this a simple binary equation? Elementary school students will!

But I saw Miao Sanniang hanging her head and said: "The book is the difference between the families, so I think it's true." The rate of placement is divided by the number of households, and each gets the rate of one family. I really don't know how, I counted a day and a night, but I can't calculate it right! Am I too... It's useless. ”

After speaking, Miao Sanniang lowered her head, looking like she wanted to cry.

Zhang Yue glanced at her, picked up a brush, and wrote down the solution ideas on the manuscript paper.

The price of cattle is divided by seven by seven times the number of families plus three hundred and thirty.

The price of cattle is divided by nine by nine, and the number of families is reduced by thirty.

Therefore, one hundred and ninety divided by seven times the number of families plus three hundred and thirty, etc., two hundred and seven divided by nine times the number of families minus thirty.

Zhang Yue wrote here and yawned for a long time, and Miao Sanniang held up her calculation plan and asked, "Senior Brother Zhang..."

"No, you don't."

Zhang Yue refused to write on the manuscript: "One hundred and twenty-six." The price of cattle is three thousand seven hundred and fifty. ”

Miao Sanniang looked at the book in a daze, the answer was the same, and she couldn't help but say, Senior Brother Zhang, it was solved without even using the calculation......

Miao Sanniang watched the answering process repeatedly, why did Senior Brother Zhang not take a while to solve the question that he had been thinking about for a day, why was the question that he couldn't figure out so simple in his hands.

"Senior Brother Zhang, you just need to take a look?"

"Do you want to look at it twice?" Zhang Yue replied calmly.

"No, Senior Brother Zhang, haven't you really solved it before?"

"For the first time!" Zhang Yue said lightly, but in his heart he said seriously, Lao Tzu was a very noble science monk in his last life!

Miao Sanniang sighed convincingly: "Senior Brother Zhang." I don't know how to thank you. ”

Zhang Yue waved his hand and said, "It's a gesture." Senior Sister Ke Miao ......"

Just when Zhang Yue wanted to 'educate' a few words like last time, he saw Miao Sanniang pick up a bamboo tube and hold it in front of him and said: "Senior Brother Zhang, this is the osmanthus tea I brewed in the morning, please appreciate your face!" ”

Zhang Yue nodded and said in his heart, I won't educate you this time.

"Senior brother, try it first."

Guo Lin was a little lost and said: "This is the heart of the senior sister." ”

All right.

Zhang Yue also poured the tea into the bowl and took a sip, and suddenly the fragrance of osmanthus overflowed the whole mouth: "Good tea!" ”

Miao Sanniang was very happy to see Zhang Yue's praise, and took out a handkerchief from her bag and opened it: "There are two boiled eggs here in the morning, please give the two senior brothers a face." ”

Egg!

Zhang Yue sighed that when he came to this poor and remote place, not to mention the eggs, he didn't even see a few chickens.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but think long, it would be better if there was a roast chicken.

Just when Guo Lin hesitated, he was entangled in whether to prevaricate or accept. Zhang Yue had already taken the egg and smashed it open and peeled it.

It was another day when he hadn't seen any meat for days, and a boiled egg was really precious to him. Zhang Yue almost refused to let go of the film. After eating, it was as if I didn't eat, and I sighed again that it would be nice if I had a raw soy sauce to dip in.

But how do you feel the fragrance of a girl on the eggshell, is it that you have been a single dog for too long?

"Senior Brother Zhang, can I often ask you for advice on arithmetic in the future?"

After Zhang Yue finished eating the eggs, Miao Sanniang asked tentatively.

Miao Sanniang once looked at Zhang Yue's clothes, and then looked at the vegetable porridge he ate every day, and the stinginess on the pen, ink and paper, it seemed that this young man was living a very ...... life Poor money.

"Huh?" Zhang Yue said in his heart, you want to buy me with today's eggs and osmanthus tea?