The cost of medicine requires ten copper plates, which is three times cheaper than the pharmacy in the market.

But for Yan Song, it is a lot of money.

took out a blue cloth bag from his waist, the size of a palm, and poured out twelve Hongzhi Tongbao, grateful: "The doctor put it away, dare to ask the doctor, why are there so few scholars in the capital?" ”

"In the library of Liangxiang."

Yan Song was overjoyed and got up to say goodbye.

Entering Beijing with the merchant convoy, I heard that there is a library building in Liangxiang, from the royal classics to the idle books in the market.

It is the book building with the largest collection of books in the market.

"There are many wealthy wise men to ask for, but I wonder if there is a place to stay?"

At the beginning of April of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, there were still more than four months left in the autumn season.

There are only two Hongzhi Tongbao left, and Yan Song plans to go to the Yaxing wing room in Liangxiang first and live on credit for a month.

Then you can sell Mobao and earn a monthly case.

On the busy official road, bustling, to the west of the official road, a towering building, standing in the suburbs.

That's the Liangxiang Library, right?

Yan Song found the lobby of the tooth store and felt shy: "Students want to live in your store on credit for a month, these two treasures are regarded as deposits, can the shopkeeper be accommodating?" ”

The inns and dental shops in the capital will provide free accommodation and food for some scholars.

When you get the title of the gold list, you can get into the official system.

Yaxing Xiaoer knew a famous scholar in the library building, and saw that Yan Song didn't seem to be able to be admitted: "The store is full, if you really have the ability, go to the library to sell poems, and then come to open a house after earning money." ”

Yan Song doesn't understand, why would anyone buy poetry?

After a trip to the library, he finally understood.

If you want to have books to read, you have to fight poems first, and if you win, you can borrow books.

The book is different from the books in the market, there are annotations written by the great Confucians in the palace, updated every month, and the imperial examination is approaching? It can be called a reader's exam preparation guide.

A scholar from a merchant family? He was even willing to pay five taels of silver to buy poetry.

"I wonder if I can make money?"

Yan Song took out a pen and paper from the bamboo basket and learned from other scholars? Spread out in front of the library.

In the year of the imperial examination? It was the most lively time in the library, and Zhu Houzhao came from the palace on horseback.

See a scholar? There was a poem on the ground, and it was not badly written.

"How much money do you write?"

"Quarters of silver." Yan Song gritted his teeth? Shamefully quoted sky-high prices.

How much do you earn a day? In addition to buying books and sheltering and food, there is also some surplus.

If you accumulate one point a day, you can also have three taels or six dollars a year, which can be taken home.

Zhu Houzhao felt that it was a good deal: "Give you two points of silver?" Half a song. ”

Yan Song was stunned? This person is a fool, forget it, half a song is half a song.

……

Li Fu,

Yan Chengjin came to see Li Qing'e.

Li Dongyang's face was fine at first.

But I heard that the fish-shaped jade pendant he gave Li Qing'e and her mother back then? In the hands of this kid, the heart is like being stabbed? Distressed.

In addition to being cautious, this kid's character and knowledge are quite eye-catching.

"Have you changed your cautious nature? Let the brocade guards outside the mansion be removed, and the official can consider it. ”

Li Qing'e standing aside? Cryptically? Can you understand that my father is talking about marriage? Nervous heart.

Yan Chengjin pondered for a moment.

changed his steady temperament, and removed the Jinyi guard to monitor, and could only sit in the same sedan chair every day, living the same life as other officials, which was extremely dangerous.

Li Dongyang glanced at him and continued coldly: "The old man wants Qing'e to live a normal life like other women. ”

"Xia Guan is a normal person."

"You're a normal fart!"

"......" Yan Chengjin.

Li Qing'e saw that her father was angry, and her face was red, for fear that the two would have another dispute.

Li Dongyang raised his hand and asked her not to speak: "If you don't change, the old man will never agree, and the old man can also repair a letter to your father and explain it to him." ”

How can he look anxious, if the master was here, he would have agreed for the young master a long time ago.

Yan Chengjin had a sad face, he couldn't imagine that Li Dongyang still cared so much.

……

Northwest, Yansui.

On the camp of the border city, the spies of Fengsui rode fast horses and delivered a letter.

At the beginning of spring, the Tatar army appeared in large numbers, and in the valley far outside the city, a campfire was found for the night.

The border army entered a wartime state, and people's hearts were like arrows on the string.

The housekeeper rushed into the camp tent and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Master, the young master has sent someone to deliver a letter." ”

Yan Kesong was wearing black light armor, his frowning Sichuan character frown gradually stretched, and he opened the letter and glanced at it a few times.

After a while, I couldn't believe it: "Cheng Jin is a second-grade master, this ...... That's too fast, right? ”

Keep your eyes open and read the letter carefully: Du Yushi is only one of the small nine kings, far inferior to the sixth......

The choice of words, so cautious, is my son Chengjin, yes.

When the house steward heard that the young master had been promoted to a second-class officer, he cried bitterly: "Master, when can we return to Beijing?" ”

"The Tatars and Duoyan jointly sent troops, and the news that the captives walked back to the people will definitely not be false, and the sparse performance of this official biography should go to the capital, and see how the imperial court handles it."

Walking back from captivity, it is a group of special people in the Ming Dynasty.

They were the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, but because the northwest was often at war with the Jurchens, the people on the border fled to the outside of the country to escape the war and lived in the land of the Tatars.

When the fighting subsided, he walked back from outside the fortress.

The back and forth is uncertain, so it is called a walk-back person.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Tatars, they like to use the people who go back to spy on each other's military intelligence.

Yan Kesong sighed: "It's okay to be on the border, but Chengjin is not married yet." ”

……

The capital, the military department.

Qin Hong came back from the Fengtian Temple, took off his official hat and put it aside.

The civil official reported in a hurry and said, "My lord, the sparse music sent back by Yansui was sent back from 800 miles." ”

Yansui?

Isn't that the place where Yan Kesong guarded?

In summer, the pasture is abundant, and the Tatars have to graze and feed the animals; In winter, the snow is heavy, and it is not suitable for war.

Every year at the beginning of spring or autumn, it is a season of frequent wars.

Qin Hong's face was as usual, quite calm: "Daming and Tatar have been fighting for nearly a hundred years, which day has there been no urgent report?" ”

Turning over the emergency report, I saw three lines, and suddenly my face changed greatly.

"Your Majesty and the Third Duke, are you still in the Fengtian Palace?"

Without waiting for the civil official to answer, Qin Hong picked up the official hat and buckled it on his head, strode out of the duty room, and went straight to the Fengtian Palace.

When he arrived at the gate of the Fengtian Palace, the throne of the main hall was empty, and he turned around and walked quickly to the Huagai Palace.

"Your Majesty, the urgency that Yan Sui sent back."

Xiao Jing hugged Yun Zhan and carefully presented it: "Yan Kesong sent it back." ”

Emperor Hongzhi opened it and looked at it a few times, and closed the sparse music: "The news from the captives who came back should not be false, Dayan Khan actually took a woman as a hostage and united with Duoyan, summon Jiuqing, I also want to attack Tatar!" ”

Qin Hong's body trembled.

Not long after, Yan Chengjin came to the Huagai Palace, and Li Dongyang and the three of them stood at the forefront, followed by the six.

Seeing His Majesty's solemn face, I don't know where he broke the sky again?

"Now that the Ming Dynasty is strong, I want to send troops to Tatar, what do you think?"

Hearing this news, Yan Chengjin was surprised.

In the middle of Hongzhi, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and none of the subsequent emperors could reproduce the prosperity, resulting in the decline of the late Ming Dynasty.

Now, it is not easy for the Ming Dynasty to develop upwards and devote its energy to war, which is really not a wise move.

The biggest role of winning the battle against Tatar is to demonstrate national strength, and it is not of much use to ask for the territory of the steppe.

"I don't think so."