Although it was only after the county test, it was a happy event to get the first case, and the sixth room of the Gao family still set up a banquet, and opened a flowing water banquet, inviting nearby villagers to the banquet to celebrate.

In terms of the county government, Gao Pragmatic also went to meet the county magistrate, talked with him about learning, and left ten taels of silver before leaving - this is the proper meaning of the question, not a bribe, because this money is used to thank the county magistrate for his comments, in a sense, it is similar to the silver pen.

After being busy for several days, the opening time of Kaifeng Mansion was also notified to Xinzheng, which is scheduled for the fifth day of April, and the news that there is also the time for the Taoist examination, which is scheduled for April 13.

It needs to be explained here that when Xinzheng County was in Longqing for three years, it was not directly under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, but belonged to the neighboring Yuzhou.

But in the fourth year of Longqing, the imperial court made some adjustments, and Xinzheng was assigned to Kaifeng Mansion, so this year's Gao Shi Fu and Dao tests were all in Kaifeng Mansion, and there was no need to rush between the two exams.

In this way, in order to take care of some candidates from poor families and let them not have to stay in Kaifeng Mansion for too long, the interval between the government examination and the road test is only eight days - this is to set aside the time for the government examination to mark the papers, post the list, etc., there is basically no margin, and it cannot be shortened.

Of course, the chief examiner of the government examination and the Taoist examination are still different, the government examination is presided over by the prefect of Kaifeng, and the Taoist examination is presided over by the grandmaster, that is, the admiral Henan Xuezheng.

Gao Pragmatic still took his two hundred horsemen on the road to Kaifeng Mansion, but when he entered the city, he only brought ten people, and the rest stayed outside the city, borrowing to live in a courtyard of Zhongmu Zhang's family - not Gao Pragmatic's mother's Zhang's family, that is Puzhou Zhang's, Zhongmu Zhang's is Gao Gong's wife, Mrs. Zhang's maiden family, Zhongmu is "next door" to Kaifeng Mansion, and it is common for her family to have a lot of industry in Kaifeng Mansion.

Except for the slightly higher level of the prefectural test and the county test, the other processes are basically the same, so there is no need to repeat it. Of course, there are differences, such as the time of entry into the examination room.

To participate in the government examination, you have to enter in the middle of the night, and some places have special strange-shaped tall lanterns to facilitate the search for people.

This is because the number of people in the government examination has increased by more than ten times or even dozens of times compared with the county examination, and there are many people in front of the examination shed. Strangely shaped tall lanterns were held high, and the diaspora could find the county team when they looked up.

The tall lanterns of the Xinzheng County candidate team are simply provided by the Gao family, and the style is very Xinzheng characteristics: a human head and a snake body.

The topic of this government examination is "The foolishness of the past is also straight, and the foolishness of the present is just deceitful", this question comes from the "Analects of Yang Goods", which is a typical sentence of "Zi said".

Gao pragmatic easily analyzed the intention of Fuzun's question: one of the three diseases of the ancients, the fool is straight and innocent, and the fool of today's people is more self-interested, so Confucius said that today's people are not as shallow as the ancients.

Gao pragmatic showed off a little this time, he did not write according to the most common format of Shiwen, but used a variant, the whole text is fourteen shares, of which the last two are large, and three shares each.

This kind of thing also depends on the situation, the government examination is not too difficult, and the impact is limited, and the candidates who are generally still participating in the government examination are actually relatively limited.

Of course, variants are more difficult to write than ontologies, that's for sure, so in the process of writing, Gao Pragmatic still spent a lot of thought, so he didn't submit the first paper, but ranked third.

The solution of his article is: Foolishness changes with the times, and it is also foolish.

The subject is very tight, but it is: the husband is sick and foolish, and the beginning is not divided into the present and the ancient.

From the whole article, he is pragmatic and knows that the real "test point" must be in the present and not in the past, so although he wrote "the foolishness of the ancients is also straight" and "the foolishness of the present is also deceitful", he also focuses on expounding "the foolishness of the present is also deceitful", tearing apart the hypocrisy of the "selfishness and recklessness" of today's people.

The last bundle of the text is "I am the original truth, and the foolishness of the ancients is also straight; For the sake of his name, it is just a fool to say that today's foolishness is just a deception. ”

Because the Dao test will be held in eight days, and the Dao test is not only in Kaifeng Mansion, but also does not even change the place of the examination shed - well, this examination shed was actually originally used by Kaifeng Mansion to rub the Dao test shed, not only the Dao test, but also the high-level pragmatic township test in the future will continue to come to this place - the speed of marking in Kaifeng Mansion has been greatly improved, and a few days later, the list was announced.

The list of the government exam is also a round list, but the name is not written, only the number is written, because it ...... I can't write it down (because the name has a duplicate name, I have to bring my place of origin, etc., and the number is only a number).

When the list was published, it must be crowded, and Gao Pragmatic thought to himself that with his small body, there was a great chance that he would not be able to squeeze in, even if he squeezed in, he was afraid that he would have to come out horizontally, so he had to let Gao Hengdai go to see the list by himself.

Gao Pragmatic's family members already knew the number of their young masters, not to mention Gao Jue, who brought two Mongolian horsemen to go, both of whom were young players who fled to Daming from the defeated tribes in the Mongolian Civil War......

Gao pragmatic is honest and honest in the inn and other news.

He made his fortune on soap, which is well known to the world, so he was not worried about being impeached for "a huge amount of property from unknown sources", and as soon as he arrived in Kaifeng, he directly chartered a clean and quiet small inn to live in. Although the government exam has been completed, ordinary people are still nervously waiting for the release of the list, but he continues to study without hurry, preparing for the next exam.

After a while, there was a faint sound of cannonballs and blows outside, coming from far and near, coming this way.

Gao Shishi's heart moved, and he said secretly: Is this coming to me? Did I get into the top 10?

I couldn't help but smile to myself, shook my head, and said to myself: "Don't be shocked by the humiliation, how difficult it is!" I have been a human being in two lives, and I have taken at least hundreds of exams, big and small, and I am not exempt from vulgarity. ”

As soon as he thought of this, Gao Jue rushed into the courtyard and shouted the good news: "Congratulations to the eldest young master, you have won!" Hit! The eldest young master took another Kaifeng Mansion case, and he won two yuan! ”

Gao pragmatic breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he still pretended to be calm on his face, stood up, forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, tried to stabilize his tone, and asked, "Okay, okay, don't scream, I heard it." Then he commanded, "Have you prepared the broken silver for the reward?" If you don't have one, go and change it. ”

Gao Juele said: "How can you not be prepared? Before coming to Kaifeng, Mrs. let people cut up the broken silver, not to mention the house test, the reward for the test is ready! ”

When Gao Shishi heard this, he couldn't help but want to laugh, but he could understand the thoughts of parents who wanted their son Jackie Chan - in his previous life, when he took the college entrance examination, his family was not wealthy, but his father still rented a car and a full-time driver in advance to transport him for the exam for two consecutive days, and spent half a month's salary for this.

It can be seen that throughout the ages, there has never been a difference between parents' feelings for their children, and Confucius said that the so-called filial piety is to be able to love parents as much as they love their children, which is really incisive.