Song Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion February 2

In February, the second dragon raised its head, steamed New Year's Day sacrificial cakes, smoked bed pits, and smoked hundreds of insects in February.

The second day of February is the "Dragon Raising Day", also known as the "Spring Dragon Festival", which is the day when spring returns to the earth and all things grow, and it is the "Walking Green Festival".

February 2 is an important festival of the Song people, on the second day of February, the people of Kaifeng Mansion go out to enjoy the lanterns, endlessly, the curtain singing and wine, scattered in the neighborhood. Attracting dragons, sacrificing dragons, and sacrificing to the heavens, begging for a year of smooth weather and smooth weather.

On February 2, the day of February 2 in Kaifeng Mansion, Tokyo, the dragon did not raise his head, but Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty raised his head and raised his hand at the same time, setting the time for the introduction of this provincial test on February 2.

February 2 is the day when spring returns to the earth, all things grow, and a hundred flowers bloom, but before the Gongyuan in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, there is no spring at all, and the cold wind is still raging, and the goose-feather snow falls from the sky one after another, dyeing the earth into a white patch, and the white snowflakes condense on the branches of the thorny gray sky, freezing the earth, and the air seems to be frozen and solidified.

However, no matter how cold the weather is, it can't stop the enthusiasm of the lifters to participate in the provincial examination, and at this time, more than 2,000 lifters from Song Zhulu gathered in front of the Gongyuan and waited for the opening of the hospital.

So many people? Li Sanjian looked at the dense human head with the Confucian crown, and sighed secretly in his heart.

In fact, the number of tributes this time is not large. The number of people who can be lifted by the Song Dynasty is different, as many as 10,000 people when the number is large, and there are about 1,000 people when there are few times, which has a lot to do with the decision-making of the imperial court.

Since the Song Dynasty, the imperial court has adopted the policy of "advocating literature and suppressing martial arts". At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in order to envelop the scholars, the imperial court canceled the official examination and greatly increased the number of scholars per list, and at the same time relaxed a lot of conditions for participating in the tribute, so a large number of scholars who participated in the tribute were emerging, the number of references was more, and the corresponding amount of solution was also greatly increased, that is, the number of people who finally participated in the provincial examination was also greatly increased. It can be directly conferred on officials, thus causing a serious phenomenon of "redundant officials".

After the imperial court discovered the phenomenon of "redundant officials", it took some countermeasures, such as reducing the number of dismissals, reducing the number of provincial examinations, the number of scholars in the palace examination, and increasing the tribute period.

Before Emperor Yingzong of the Song Dynasty, the time of tribute was not fixed, and it was all arranged according to the emperor's preference.

After the Song court took some countermeasures to alleviate the phenomenon of "redundant officials", the number of people who finally participated in the provincial examination and the palace examination was greatly reduced each time, basically ranging from 1,000 to thousands of people.

However, although the number of famous scholars has decreased, but the number of people participating in the tribute has not decreased, with the increase of population, the number of students participating in the tribute is more and more, the number of tribute scholars is as many as tens of thousands to tens of thousands, for the poor family, this is the only chance to climb to the sky, how can the students of the world not flock to it?

Therefore, for Song Gongju, the most difficult thing is not the provincial test, the palace test, but the release test, basically dozens or hundreds of people to take one person, or even thousands of people to take one person, Song Zhulu Fuzhou Prefecture is different, such as Guangnan West Road is basically more than 30 people to take one person.

Thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge! If you have passed, you will be in heaven, and if you have not squeezed it out, you will basically be poor for the rest of your life.

Li Sanjian has actually passed the most difficult pass, but he just doesn't understand.

At this time, it was not yet the time for the opening of the test, and more than 2,000 people sat on the ground, looking at the morning light, thinking about their own thoughts, or gathered together in twos and threes to discuss in a low voice, guessing the topic of the provincial examination, and expressing their opinions and opening their mouths.

Li Sanjian silently sorted out the food box in his hand, bowed his head and said nothing.

The food box contains the Li family's three-color rice made by her mother Fu Erniang.

The three-color rice is a kind of food that the Qiongtai Li people must make in their traditional festival in March, meaning peace and happiness in the coming year, auspicious and happy, the three-color rice of the Li nationality is made of red, black and yellow, stirred together with Shanlan rice and three-color wild ginger juice, and then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed or boiled, the taste is extremely luscious and delicious.

It's just that Li Sanjian has to stay in the Rite Tribute Courtyard for a whole day, and when it's time to eat, the three-color rice will become a cold meal.

Li Sanjian thought of this, smiled bitterly and shook his head, if you want to eat hot rice, you can also eat hot rice, there are also special meals for the lifters in the Gongyuan, but they need to buy them with their own money, Li Sanjian also inquired, the price of the meal is not cheap.

Li Sanjian is currently eager to break a copper coin in half and spend it, so Li Sanjian is reluctant to waste the few belongings in his family here, the most important thing is that after entering the Tribute Academy, he will take the exam with one mind, how can he have time to enjoy delicious meals?

The provincial examination is the same as the liberation examination, which requires four days of examination, one test every day, and the lifters go in and out of the twilight, and will not rest in the tribute courtyard.

Although the test time of the provincial test is the same as that of the release test, the test questions between the two are not the same, the difference is that the provincial test policy is five, which is two more than the release test. 180

In addition to the current policy, the rest of the distinction is the scriptures, the policy theory, the scriptures for the scriptures, and the scriptures each ten ways, the lifters can choose at will to take the "poems", "books", "Yi", "Zhou Li", "Rites" in one of the classics, and also "Analects", "Mencius".

The most important of these is still the current policy, which is the key to victory.

"Brother Hanren." At this time, Zeng Gongming held a folding fan that he didn't know where he got it, shook it gently at him, and asked with a smile: "Brother Han Ren, can you guess the topic this time?" ”

At this point, Zeng Gongming didn't seem so nervous, maybe he had successfully obtained the amount and had a way out.

Li Sanjian glanced at Zeng Gongming, who was shaking the fan, and moved his body slightly, he was not afraid of the cold in the cold weather? Li Sanjian secretly said in his heart, when he first came to Kaifeng Mansion, he was so cold that he grabbed the sky...

Zeng Gongming pretended to be relaxed, but a trace of sweat on his sideburns betrayed him.

"I'm not a god." Li Sanjian glanced at Zeng Gongming and said, "Where do you know what topic?" ”

The scope of the provincial test is completely different from that of the solution test, after all, the scope of the solution test is narrower, and it is relatively easy to guess the questions, but the provincial test is a "national test", and Li Sanjian can't guess the test questions even if he is a god.

The ghost knows what kind of exam questions those officials will come up with, Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

Then again, if the provincial examination question is really guessed by Li Sanjian, then Li Sanjian may be deposed even if he can enter the department, and at the same time, it is very likely that he will be detained by the imperial court, and how the exam questions are leaked...

At this moment, the sound of bells and drums suddenly sounded, and then the gate of the Gongyuan opened, and first fifty soldiers walked out from the inside with their swords.

The fifty soldiers were all dressed in red silk armor, white liners, red cherry blossom fan yang felt hats, black boots, a bright red silk scarf around their necks, and half of their bodies covered with white shawls.

Fifty soldiers rushed out, divided into left and right sides, and stood according to their swords.

At this time, the air seemed to be condensed, and all the people outside the door stood solemnly under the stage at this time, not daring to speak loudly.

Sure enough, it is majestic and dignified, this is the first time Li Sanjian has seen the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, Li Sanjian can't help but sigh in his heart, these soldiers are completely different from the local army he has seen before, these soldiers are all majestic, standing upright, and none of them are ugly, not to mention handsome, but all of them have good facial features, and they are about the same, they look extremely powerful and eye-catching.

Li Sanjian guessed correctly, these soldiers are indeed the forbidden army, and they are the guards in the forbidden army. The selection of soldiers by the forbidden army is extremely strict, and the guard division as the imperial guard is even more demanding, not only requiring excellent martial arts, but also carefully selected appearance and figure.

Yousi announced that the tribute ceremony test was the beginning, and then twenty officials stood up, holding a long list, and called loudly according to the origin of the lifters, and the called lifters entered the tribute courtyard.

Sure enough, it was the Jingshi, and sure enough, it was the Jingshi Tribute Academy, Li Sanjian then also walked into the Tribute Academy, looking at the large-scale Rite Tribute Academy, and he sighed with emotion in his heart.

Sure enough, it is extraordinary, and it is completely different from the Guizhou Confucius Temple that temporarily serves as a tribute temple, although the Guizhou Confucius Temple is also excellent in feng shui, but after all, it is not a special place for students to take exams.

The Kaifeng Rite Tribute Courtyard is located outside the Suzaku Gate, the scale is relatively large, and it can accommodate thousands of people to take the test.

The Gongyuan is adjacent to the Shiwu storehouse, the car camp and the grassland of Kaifeng Mansion, there are three gates outside, among which the middle gate is extremely majestic and tall, so that people can't help but feel awe when they see it, and the small doors on both sides are for the lifters to enter.

More than 2,000 people entered the Gongyuan in an orderly manner.

From the gate of the Gongyuan to the middle gate of the Gongyuan, it is the area of the outer curtain house. On the east and west sides of the south wall of the Gongyuan Temple, there are tall buildings that resemble watchtowers. In this area, there are offices for receiving affairs, sealing offices, transcription offices, file submission offices, reading offices, prison gates and other buildings. There is also a hall and changing room on the west side of the courtyard, and a hall and a table house on the east side.

The test area is centered on the main hall of the foil, which is the dividing line between the inner and outer curtains. The main hall of the foil water is an I-shaped structure. On both sides of the main hall, there are examination rooms with a corridor structure, which is the main place for lifting people to take the exam. The examination hall is composed of several corridors, which are separated by pillars and divided into a number of pavilions, in which the bookcases for the examination of scholars are placed.

After Li Sanjian entered the Tribute Courtyard, he looked left and right like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and felt very novel.