When the drought lasts for a long time, the old acquaintance is met in another country, the candle night is spent in the cave room, and the title of the gold list is the four great joys of life.

From a certain point of view, it is not easy to know the old people in a foreign country.

The world is huge, the population is more than 10 million, the area is wide, the sky is north, the road is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.

At this time, Li Sanjian and Zeng Gongming had just arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, and they met the old people, wouldn't they feel overjoyed?

So Li Sanjian, with the assistance of Ran Yunbiao, hurriedly found a dwelling, and after settling Fu Erniang and others, he and Ran Yunbiao and Zeng Gongming came to a wine shop in the south of Kaifeng City, where they drank and reminisced.

Zhaixinju is not big, can accommodate forty or fifty people, the decoration is very general, but Zhaixinju is close to the day, and the business is better than a day, the reason is that the location of Zhaixinju is close to the palace, so it can find out some news of the court in time. The most important thing is that Zhai Xinju is a person with a heart, he knows that it is the time when the world's scholars gather in Beijing, so he specially prepared some cheap wine and food, and found some celebrity calligraphy and painting, bamboo, lacquerware, gold and stone, etc., placed in the wine shop, and arranged Zhai Xinju to be extremely quiet and elegant.

The wine shop boys, idlers, wine ladies and others who have already received the orders of the owner's ears have met every guest official who comes to the door, regardless of whether they are high or low, they are warmly received, and they try their best to make every guest official feel at home. This matter is not a joke, you must know that among these scholars from all over the world, there must be people who will be nominated for the imperial examination and the gold list, maybe among them there are champions, lists, tanhua, etc., and even some people will be crowned marquis and worship the prime minister in the future.

If this is the case, then it will bring unpredictable fame and benefits to Zhai Xinju, and it will be honorable, fortunate and even had!

There are two floors in Zhaixinju, downstairs is generally a person who has something to do, eat some wine and food in a hurry, but upstairs there is a larger rooftop, as long as you are not afraid of the cold, warm wine on the rooftop, talk about it, it is a unique flavor.

Li Sanjian, Ran Yunbiao, and Zeng Gongming were in a corner above the rooftop, drinking and laughing, and discussing the past.

The corner where Li Sanjian and the other three were located was surrounded by vines, and there was a table of wine guests not far away, which seemed to be scholars who went to Beijing to catch the exam.

The roof is leaking, the north wind is cold, but the hot wine is down, Li Sanjian and the others feel not very cold, and it is still a little warm.

"Second brother, I really know people, I understand Yuan in one fell swoop, I deserve to be Mr. Dongpo's disciple, I have already heard about this when I was in Lingnan, I am really happy for you, come, second brother, third brother drink this cup." Ran Yunbiao picked up a glass of hot wine and said with a smile.

Ran Yunbiao is the oldest, he is seventeen years old, almost eighteen years old, so he is the eldest among the three brothers, Li Sanjian is the second, and Zeng Gongming is the third.

A young scholar in his early twenties at a nearby table heard this, and glanced back at Li Sanjian, who was immersed in eating and drinking, and did not pay attention.

What the hell is not to open and mention which pot, Li Sanjian muttered secretly in his heart, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said the sore spot in his heart, did he really not know about being swept out of the house by Su Shi?

Li Sanjian's face couldn't help but become a little difficult to look at...

"Eat wine, eat wine, I just eat wine, what do you do with these things?" Ran Yunbiao didn't know, but Zeng Gongming knew very well, so he poked Ran Yunbiao with his elbow and said.

What did I mention? Is it a matter of Xie Yuan? This is a glorious thing, why do they look discouraged?

Ran Yunbiao looked at Zeng Gongming and then at Li Sanjian, and was puzzled in his heart.

"Don't hide it from my brother, my brother has been... By Mr. Him... He's out of school... Li Sanjian drank all the wine in the cup, and his heart was extremely sad.

The young scholar at the next table showed a hint of imperceptible surprise on his face when he heard this.

"What? Expulsion? Why is that? Ran Yunbiao was even more puzzled when he heard this, he was able to get the middle solution yuan, maybe he could be on the list in the future, according to Li Sanjian's talent, this possibility is very big, so, it is every master's dream, why was he expelled from the master by Su Shi?

"Hey, it's hard to say anything about this, so don't mention it." Li Sanjian smiled bitterly and said to Ran Yunbiao: "Is my brother also here to take the exam?" ”

Ran Yunbiao glanced at Li Sanjian, nodded and said, "I did come to Beijing this time to take the Ministry of Etiquette test, but it was not a literary examination, but a martial art." ”

"Wuju? What is it? Li Sanjian asked in confusion.

As early as when he was in Lingshan County, Qinzhou, Li Sanjian heard Ran Yunbiao say that he wanted to abandon literature and practice martial arts and do martial arts, but until now, Li Sanjian still doesn't understand what martial arts are?

Is it that the selection of lieutenant generals is based on martial arts? Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

"Martial arts is also one of the subjects of the imperial examination, but the martial arts examination is after the liberal arts... Ran Yunbiao said after thinking about it.

Ran Yunbiao talked about the martial arts for a long time, which made Li Sanjian dizzy, but he also roughly sorted out the context of the martial arts.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination had Jinshi Branch, Zhuke Branch, and Wuju Department, and in addition to the regular selection, there were also system departments and children's departments.

The content of the Song imperial examination has been in constant change, until the current abolition of all subjects, only the Jinshi department, martial arts, the Nine Classics, the Five Classics, the opening ceremony, the three histories, the three rites, the three transmissions, the Ming Law and so on, to the scriptures and righteousness.

The Jinshi Department is based on scriptures and righteousness, while the martial arts are based on strategy, military writing, and martial arts skills.

Decide to stay with strategy, and set the height with bow and horse!

Cheng Wen includes the general righteousness of the strategy and the book of soldiers, and the martial arts are mainly archery, including mounted archery, foot shooting, crossbows, piercing, and the other is the five items of weapons, warping, weight, appearance, and answers.

Martial arts are generally arranged after the Jinshi department, that is, after the selection of Wen Jinshi, the selection of Wujinshi.

Martial arts are also decomposition tests, provincial examinations and palace examinations, accompanied by martial arts and their martial arts schools.

Although Song has martial arts, the scale is not half a star worse than that of Jinshike. The Jinshi Department generally has more than 100 people per subject, or even hundreds of people, while the Wuju Department generally ranges from a few to more than a dozen people per subject, and generally does not exceed 20 people at most.

However, although the number of martial arts scholars is small, the number of people who wish to take the martial arts examination is also relatively rare, ranging from dozens to hundreds of people in each subject.

And it is relatively easy to enter the military department, and the military department does not necessarily have to be a military attache or a general, and it can also be transferred to a civilian position, but if the person who passes the martial arts wants to go further, or to embark on the road to power, it is more difficult than ascending to the sky, and there is almost no possibility.

Even if a military attache or military general has made meritorious contributions to Kuang Fu Sheji, you can be crowned an official and a marquis, or even a prince and a king, but there is almost no possibility of sitting on the position of slaughter and execution, not only the position of slaughter and execution, but even the official position with real power is not easy to obtain.

Di Qing, a famous general of the Song Dynasty, has made countless military exploits, and his military achievements are impressive, and he only won the position of privy deputy envoy. Not long after Di Qing sat on the position of privy deputy envoy, his ass was driven down before he could sit hot, degraded again and again, and finally died of depression.

The purpose of Li Sanjian's imperial examination is to get rid of the poverty of his family and get rid of the situation of being blinded, so it is also a shortcut for Li Sanjian to enter the government through martial arts.

The military attache is also an official, no matter how inferior he is, he is also an official of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Sanjian secretly said in his heart, if it wasn't that Li Sanjian couldn't even kill a chicken, Li Sanjian would want to take the martial arts test.

Isn't it just memorizing a few military books? Li Sanjian secretly thought, where is there such a strong competition in Jinshike in Wuju? It's completely life-and-death, the rhythm of seeing the blood in the white blade.

"My brother is both civil and military, and he will definitely be able to successfully enter the department." After Li Sanjian figured out what martial arts were, he smiled and complimented.

"It must be so, I will be able to be an official." Zeng Gongming also nodded.

Ran Yunbiao shook his head when he heard this: "It's not easy to talk about, you may not know much about the things in the imperial court." ”

Li Sanjian nodded when he heard this, although Li Sanjian didn't know much about the affairs of the imperial court, he also understood that sometimes the path of the imperial examination was not completely based on real talent, but there were various possibilities, such as family relationships and so on.

The three of them fell silent when they heard this, and drank their heads.

After a long time, Zeng Gongming spoke: "Don't talk about these dull things, Brother Mingshi, you come to Kaifeng for a few days, and tell me what strange things are happening in Kaifeng?" ”

"I've never heard of it." Ran Yunbiao poured a glass of wine and said: "There are a lot of strange things, at the turn of December, the new day is hard, the sun is eclipsed, the white air runs through a hundred miles on the second day, the stars fall like rain in the night, and the city wall in the west of the city has collapsed for several miles inexplicably. ”

When Li Sanjian and Zeng Gongming heard the stars falling like rain in the night, they both glanced at each other.

Zeng Gongming couldn't help but feel a little funny, when he was in the passenger boat, wasn't the meteor shower recruited by Li Sanjian? At this time, there was also a meteorite rain in Kaifeng, could it be that Li Sanjian arrived in Kaifeng, and the sky sent this vision again?

Li Sanjian scolded his mother angrily, and when the heavens were angry, meteorite rain fell...

"When did this happen?" Zeng Gongming held back a smile and asked.

"It happened just a few days before you came to Kaifeng Mansion." Ran Yunbiao replied: "I heard that this matter has alarmed Jinshang, and it is rumored that due to a vision from heaven, even the imperial examination may be postponed or even canceled." ”

"What?" Li Sanjian and Zeng Gongming were all taken aback.

If this provincial test is postponed or cancelled, won't Li Sanjian and others run in vain?

You must know that Li Sanjian and others worked hard to come to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo from Lingnan.

If the imperial court really cancels or postpones the provincial test, Li Sanjian and others will be helpless at all, and this matter is not without precedent.

"This is the power of the court, and the loyal and upright ministers are wronged, it is not my fault, why should the provincial test be canceled?" At this moment, the young scholar sitting next to him stood up and said loudly to Li Sanjian and the others.

Li Sanjian and the others were stunned when they heard this, and looked at this person blankly.