The Song Dynasty had the imperial examination, and the Liao also had the imperial examination, and the Song imperial examination was divided into the solution examination, the provincial examination, and the palace examination, and the three-level system was implemented. The early imperial examination of Liao is also a three-level system, which is the township examination, the government examination and the provincial examination, and there are occasional palace examinations in Liao, but the Liao palace examination is not called the palace examination, but is called the "imperial examination".

In the fifth year of the reign of Liao Xingzong, in order to show that the Liao imperial examination was superior to the Song imperial examination, under the suggestion of Zhang Jian, the Han official Zhongshu Ling, the "imperial examination" was customized, and the Liao imperial examination was divided into four levels: township examination, government examination, provincial examination, and imperial examination.

Liao is a big country in the Central Plains, a country in the middle, of course, the imperial examination is one level more than the Southern Song Dynasty...

The purpose of the "different systems of the Han and the Han" is the national policy of Liao, so the Liao imperial examination is limited to the participation of the Han people, mainly referring to the Han people in the sixteen states of Yanyun and the Bohai Sea, and the Khitan people are not allowed to be raised, the purpose is to prevent the Khitan people from becoming sinicized, and maintain the warrior habits of the Khitan people who are brave and good at fighting, so as to be able to grasp the military power for a long time so that the Han people cannot interfere in military affairs, and it is also to appease the Han people in Liao.

To put it bluntly, the Liao imperial examination is set up for the Han people in the jurisdiction, reward you with three melons and two dates, so that they can keep their own peace, so after the Han people of Liao ascended to the rank of Jinshi, they have a background, and they can also get an official and a half-job, but almost all of them are low-end petty officials, and the road to official career is far different from that of Song Jinshi.

After Shi's father was seriously injured and died, Shi remembered his father's last words, and couldn't help but start thinking about his future, "World Selection" is impossible for Shi, and it is difficult to get an official and a half-position by getting military merit in the army, not to mention that there is no major war in Khitan at present, even if the Khitan war clouds suddenly rise, you are a seventeen-year-old boy who fights in battle, and it is estimated that he has not touched the edge of military merit, and he will be chopped into flesh.

At this time, the only road left of the stone was the road of the imperial examination.

Although the imperial examination of Liao was set up for the Han people, and the Khitans were not allowed to take the imperial examination, but with the permission of His Majesty the Emperor, the Khitans could still make a special exception to the imperial examination of Liao. It's just that the vast majority of Khitan people think from their hearts that it is extremely humiliating for the Khitan people to take the imperial examination, and if they lose the face of their ancestors, they will be driven out of the family.

At this time, even if Shi ignored people's words and received the emperor's favor to participate in the imperial examination, could Shi Shi be on the list just because he knew a little about Sinology? The answer is no.

Therefore, the stone reorganized the family business, glorified the ancestors, and the path of following the father's legacy was completely blocked.

The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, so he grabbed a pair of bows and arrows, walked to the door of the felt tent, and shot with his bow.

The arrow went into the meteor, and with a "snap" sound, it was nailed to a tethered horse post at the door, and the feather arrow entered the wood for three points, with great power, and it was inserted into the tethered horse post to make a buzzing sound.

The tethered post was about eighty paces from the door of the felt tent, and a seventeen-year-old boy had this shooting power, which could be regarded as a good shot.

"Good, good, good archery!" The stone shot an arrow, but it startled several men who wanted to enter the felt tent of the stone house.

"What are you doing here?" Shi Shi saw that several men were not good, so he frowned and asked.

"What for?" A sturdy man replied, "I'm waiting to collect debts for Da Tinggan?" ”

"Debt collection? What debt to collect? Stone asked.

"Your damned daddy is an alcoholic, don't you know? Of course, I'm here to beg for money. Another man laughed.

For the grassland herdsmen, wine is a more precious item, ordinary people can not afford to drink, sometimes a sheep may not be able to exchange two pots of wine, the stone father is addicted to alcohol, so he owes a lot of wine money.

"Wine money? What are the credentials? Stone asked, snorting.

"You little lamb, you know a lot, you actually know the credentials?" When a man heard this, he had no choice but to take out a greasy sheepskin from his bosom, point to the sheepskin and say, "Now, this is the wine money that your dead ghost father owes, and there is a deposit drawn by him himself." ”

There are only a few black finger prints on the sheepskin, and it is impossible to know whether they were painted by the father of the stone.

"What do you want?" Stone asked after a moment's silence.

When the men heard this, they looked at the dilapidated felt tent in the stone house, and they all shook their heads secretly.

In addition to a dilapidated felt tent, there are several cattle and sheep, not even horses, and two of the fat sheep are rewarded by the emperor after the stone father was unfortunately hit by an arrow.

"All the cattle and sheep were taken away." A man said after looking around again.

"Big brother, the cattle and sheep are taken away, this is not enough, it is still far away." Another Khitan man said.

"Oh, that's it." When the man heard this, his eyes turned around in the felt tent of the stone house again, and his eyes fell on the stone mother, who had already shrunk aside in fright.

"This lady still has a bit of a look, drag it away to get the wine money." The man then looked at the stone mother and smiled.

"Yes, yes, what the eldest brother said is, how is it worth three sheep."

The two men answered, stepped forward and dragged the stone mother out.

"Stone, stone!" Mother Stone cried out to the stone

Such is the fate of the prairie woman, who can be dumped as cargo at will, measured by the number of livestock.

"Stop!" Seeing this, Shi couldn't bear it anymore, so he stopped in front of several men and shouted angrily: "Daddy's bones are not cold, don't deceive people too much!" ”

As soon as my father died, these people came to collect debts, and they actually wanted to snatch their mother, and Shi was extremely angry in his heart.

"Corpses... What cold? What to bully ... Yes? A Khitan man was confused when he heard it, and he didn't understand what the stone meant for a while...

"Stupid, he said Han'er's words, of course you don't understand." Another Khitan man had some insight, so he said.

"Little brute, get out of here!" A sturdy Khitan man slammed the stone to the ground, pointed at the stone and scolded: "Lao Tzu doesn't understand Chinese, but Lao Tzu understands the truth of debt repayment, your dead ghost father owes money for wine, so you should use your mother to pay off the debt, are you not convinced?" Unconvinced, go to Da Thorngan and talk to him. ”

After the Khitan men said that, they couldn't help but drag Shishi's mother out of the felt tent, and before leaving, they didn't forget to take away the only few cattle and sheep left in Shishi's family.

"Stones..." Gun'er, who had been trembling and hiding on the side, finally dared to show his head at this time and picked up the stone that had fallen to the ground.

I don't know if it's because I'm scared or what's the reason, Gun'er is in tears at this time.

"Don't cry, Daddy said, the descendants of Tian Khan only shed blood, not tears." The stone touched the unusually painful arm that had been hit, and gritted his teeth.

I am not a descendant of your Yelu family, and when Gun'er looked at the empty felt tent, she became even more sad and wept even more.

Stone's father died of his injuries, and then the debt collector came to the door and robbed Stone's mother and the last little possessions left in the family, which can be said to be worse, and only two teenagers were left, and Gon'er did not know how to survive in the future.

"Gon'er, don't cry anymore... The stone was upset by Gun'er's crying, but he still comforted Gun'er.

Gon'er is a little younger than Stone, and Stone usually thinks of himself as a big brother.

"Stones, everything in the house has been robbed, in the future... How will you live in the future? Gon sobbed at the stone.

"Whoever robs us of something, we will snatch it back, and we will double the snatch back, this is the words left by my Khitan ancestors!" Hearing this, the stone replied lightly.

"Rob... Grab it back? Gun'er looked at the stone when she heard this, and said in a daze.

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Da Tinggan, the Khitan language means the military attache who commands the soldiers and horses, is an official position, is the military attache in Huludo, owns many pastures, cattle, sheep and horses, slaves, etc., and has a lot of wealth and power.

It is almost the same as the Han people's rich people.

The felt tent of Da Thorngan, who snatched the mother of the stone, was not far from the felt tent of the stone house, only about two miles.

Of course, the felt tent in which Da Hangan lived was not the same as the dilapidated felt tent in the stone house, which was spacious and comfortable, and was made of a special wooden frame made of "hana" and wrapped in two or three layers of wool felt. It is then tied with a rope twisted from horsehair or camel hair, and the top of it is supported by "unai" and covered with "bless" to give it the shape of a canopy. Its round spire has a skylight "Tao Brain", which is covered with a four-square wool felt "Wu Ri He".

There were many horses outside the large felt tent of Dathorngan, and in the middle of the night, several oil lamps or candles were hung inside and outside the felt tent.

Whether it is an oil lamp or a candle, it is relatively expensive, and ordinary grassland herders cannot afford it.

It was late at night, and some oil lamps were lit inside and outside the Dathorn felt tent, which reflected the stars in the sky.

At the same time, there was a sound of yin in the felt tent, and the people around him had long been accustomed to it, this was something that their darthorn gan did every day, and he would not sleep without tossing and exhausting.

After two hours, the tent was finally quiet, and then there was a snoring, and then the people who had reached the thorn were able to rest, and they all fell asleep, and the man in charge of the guard was also holding his sword, leaning against the felt tent, and was also napping.

The long period of safety and security made the guards of Da Thorn gan slack and paralyzed, so that no one noticed that two black shadows appeared behind the tent at this time.

After the black shadow emerged from the night, he quickly dodged the guards near the tent of the thorns, and when he reached the tent, a black shadow then took out a sharp knife from his bosom, and the sharp blade of the knife shone in the moonlight, like a clear spring.

"Gon'er, look around." One of the black shadows was the Khitan stone, and the other black shadow was Gun'er, who took out a sharp knife and cut a hole in the felt tent and whispered to Gun'er.

Hearing this, Gon Er nodded, although it was late at night, he could still see the frightened expression on Gon Er's face in the bright moonlight.