According to the rules of the Ministry of Rites, those who participate in the provincial examination of Ming Arithmetic must take three posts of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Five Classics of Arithmetic", "Five Cao Sutras", "Xiahou Yang Sutras", "Zhang Qiujian Sutras", "Zhou Ji Sutras", "Island Sutras", "Sun Tzu Sutras", etc., six posts of "Fixes", four posts of "Ancient Sutras", and ask about righteousness. Those who make art and distinguish the principles of art are passed, and those who are all through are the first.

Li Zhongyi deliberately found these scriptures, and after reading them one by one, he was a little relieved. Li Zhongyi, who has passed the "Advanced Mathematics I" exam, as long as he understands the connotation of various arithmetic, the exam is simply easy.

As for the test questions of the Ming Law Department, Li Zhongyi took a lot of brains, after all, he was short when he ascended the throne, whether it was civil law or criminal law, it still continued the "Great Zhou Law".

The chief examiner of the miscellaneous examination is Wang Dahu, the same examiner of the Ming Law Department is Yang Tingyun, the secretary of Dali Temple, and the same examiner of the Ming Mathematics Department is actually Li Zhongyi.

As for the Ming Book, Ming Jing and other subjects, Li Zhongyi did not attach much importance to it, and the same examiners were all Hanlin of Hanlin Academy.

According to the performance of the Ministry of Rites, more than 3,000 people participated in the provincial examinations of Jinshi and miscellaneous subjects.

Today, these more than 3,000 people, except for a small number of well-off families who live in inns outside, the vast majority of poor candidates live in military camps with free food and lodging.

On a whim, Li Zhongyi changed into a Confucian shirt, led Kong Daiyao, Zhang Sanzheng and Gao Qiang, and secretly went to the East Teaching Field where the candidates gathered.

Outside the Eastern Church, the guards are tight, and no matter who comes out or enters, they must verify their identities.

Before the candidates come to the capital to take the provincial examination, they will be issued a certificate to prove their identity in the state office of their hometown. On the body, not only the three generations of the examinee's ancestors and their guarantors are indicated, but also the examinee's appearance is recorded, for example, the face is white and beardless, the skin is dark, and so on.

Li Zhongyi is naturally very familiar with the East Sect, because he often comes here to check the food in the room and the training of the soldiers.

After Zhang Sanzheng clarified his identity for Li Zhongyi, the head of the gatekeeper actually knew Li Zhongyi. He took a closer look and found that it was indeed Li Zhongyi himself, so he consciously closed his mouth and let him go directly.

When he walked past Du Tou, Li Zhongyi deliberately stopped and reminded Du Tou seriously: "Don't leak the news that I'm coming, it's a violation of military law, understand?" ”

"Whoa!" Nadu Tou is also an understanding person, Li Zhongyi changed into a Confucian shirt, and came quietly, obviously to observe the situation again.

Li Zhongyi, as usual, went to the room of the church first, the so-called people take food as the sky, if they don't eat or drink well, how can they fight? How to take the exam?

In the room, more than a dozen cauldrons were lined up, and the pot was filled with a strong smell of meat. Li Zhongyi leaned over to take a closer look, he dared to stew braised pork, he couldn't help nodding secretly, that's right!

Because Li Zhongyi often comes to the room, all the guys here already know him, and they all shrank to the stove one by one, not daring to talk nonsense.

Li Zhongyi unceremoniously took the frying spoon in the hand of the captain, scooped up a piece of meat from the pot, brought it to his mouth, and took a bite gently.

Well, the taste is not bad, fat but not greasy, fragrant lips and teeth, full of meat, Li Zhongyi stuffed the frying spoon back into the hand of the captain, and praised: "It's delicious, it's delicious." ”

Coming out of the room, Li Zhongyi led Kong Daiyao, who was a makeup clerk, and Zhang Sanzheng and Gao Qiang, who were disguised as domestic servants, and walked straight towards the candidates' dormitory.

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Who would have thought that as soon as he walked halfway, he heard someone call him: "This brother, it is really a blessing that the scholar is so handsome!" ”

Li Zhongyi understood as soon as he heard that it must be Kong Daiyao's makeup that was seen by others, he stopped, turned his head to look, but saw a scholar with a slightly dark face, and there was also a scholar and two domestic servants standing next to the scholar.

After seeing the scholar's appearance clearly, Li Zhongyi immediately realized that it was no wonder that Kong Daiyao would show her stuffing, this scholar's scholar was also a beautiful woman.

"This benevolent brother, Song Yunchang in Xia Chenzhou, is polite!"

"In the ...... of Li Jia in Xiaqingzhou" Li Zhongyi made up his place of origin and name at will, and greeted Song Yun with a long salute.

"Brother Li, this scholar of yours doesn't look like a scholar, he's too handsome!" Song Yunchang kept staring at Kong Daiyao's face.

Li Zhongyi saw that Song Yunchang had no evil intentions, and he also smiled and said, "Brother Song, you and I are each other!" ”

When Song Yunchang's scholar heard this, he glared at Li Zhongyi with angry eyebrows, as if he shouldn't see through her details.

Li Zhongyi was so happy that he deliberately teased the scholar, and said with a smile: "I don't know how tall the scholar brother is?" ”

"Hehe, she only knows a few words."

It is likely that because of the strict family education, the beautiful scholar did not answer Li Zhongyi's question, but Song Yunfei answered it on his behalf.

"Brother Li is also taking the Jinshi exam, right?" Song Yunfei looked Li Zhongyi up and down and asked him casually.

Li Zhongyi shook his head and sighed: "The Four Books and Five Classics are too difficult to read, so the younger brother had to go to the left side of the door and choose the Ming Arithmetic Subject." ”

"Oh, my little brother just knows a little bit about arithmetic, why don't you find a place to have a few drinks?" Song Yunfei did not deliberately snub Li Zhongyi because he was admitted to the Ming Arithmetic Subject.

This immediately won Li Zhongyi's favor!

In the era when the imperial examination was prevalent, the Ming arithmetic subject, like the Ming Law and the Ming calligraphy, was a new specialized regular examination subject in the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, and it was a subject specially set up for scholars who practiced arithmetic.

"Tang Liudian" volume 2 "Shang Shu Ministry" cloud: "Books, calculations, from the nine products under the arrangement." ”

That is to say, the Ming Book and the Ming Calculation and the first, the narrative rank from the ninth grade, is the lowest grade of the Brown Official.

Although in the Tang Dynasty, Ming arithmetic and Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Ming Law, Ming Shu and other subjects were the most important ways to enter the office, but the Ming arithmetic subject was the least valued subject in the regular subjects, and its status in the various colors was very low.

Of course, it does not mean that there were no people who were born in arithmetic in the Tang Dynasty, but the status of the Ming arithmetic background was low at that time, and there was no opportunity to be promoted to an official, so the influence in history was minimal, and there was no historical imprint.

Contrary to the monarchs in history, Li Zhongyi believes that the scholars who are clear and the first are the serious talents needed by the imperial court.

Whether you are a local official or a Beijing official, you are always inseparable from calculating the tax revenue of the field and the output of the acres of land.

Under normal circumstances, whether it is a Beijing official or a local official, basically does not calculate these useful figures, but can only rely on subordinate officials.

To put it bluntly, that is, the numbers calculated by the officials, whether they are right or wrong, the officials actually can't understand them, and they need the assistance of the staff to know the approximate numbers.

However, what Li Zhongyi needs is to start the first industrial revolution as soon as possible, so the requirements for officials are naturally fundamentally different from tradition.

As long as the civil officials from the traditional Jinshi Department do not stand in the wrong line, even if they only rely on their qualifications, they can survive to above the sixth grade.

The Industrial Revolution was the first to build a steam engine, and then a steam spinning machine. The amount of yarn and thread spun in large quantities through mechanized mass production is astronomical compared with the traditional small-scale peasant economy, and it must be closely related to numbers.

Therefore, in the new era, officials who do not understand numbers can only be far behind the requirements of the times!

All in all, the relationship between the industrial revolution and digital is absolutely inseparable!

Song Yun flew into Beijing to take the exam, with a beautiful scholar and two domestic servants by his side, it is conceivable that his family background should be very good.

However, such a person with a very good family background actually appeared in a teaching field with relatively difficult conditions, and the connotation is quite worth pondering.

Li Zhongyi arranged the poor people in the teaching ground of the military camp, and in terms of eating and drinking, it was only possible to have meat and vegetables for a meal, and to sleep in a large bunk, and it was absolutely impossible for each person to come to a single room.

"Brother Li, you don't live here, do you?"

Song Yunfei shook the folding fan lightly and pointed at the handsome Kong Daiyao, his meaning was obvious, how could Li Zhongyi with such a beautiful maid squeeze the Chase shop with the poor people?

"Hehe, each other." Li Zhongyi snorted and slid over lightly.

"Don't hide it from Brother Li, my cousin lives here, I have free today, and I came to look for him." Song Yunfei explained his intentions openly and honestly.

Li Zhongyi followed Song Yunfei's meaning and said with a smile: "I came here to see if there are any fellow villagers!" ”

Kong Daiyao has been secretly observing Song Yunfei, this person's eyes are always circling her, although she can't see the slightest evil intention, but it is also rude.

Since Song Yunfei has seen through that she is a daughter, why do you keep staring at her?

Others may not know very well, but Kong Daiyao, who is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, understands that Song Yunfei, who participated in the Jinshi exam, actually got involved with Li Jia, who has no future in the Ming Arithmetic Course, which is strange in itself.

The right door is the main theme of this era!

To put it bluntly, Jinshike's moves should be piled together. And the move of the Ming Arithmetic Department, even if he passes the first, he can only be a low-level petty official for life, and he has no future at all, at most he is just eating in the officialdom.

Since they met by chance, Li Zhongyi and Song Yunfei walked forward side by side, chatting as they walked.

Zhang Sanzheng and Gao Qiang kept an eye on Song Yunfei's two entourage servants to prevent the two of them from hurting people.

The reason is actually very simple, mainly because these two domestic servants actually have a soft sword tied around their waists to act as a belt.

In these years, the people who have the ability to equip their servants with soft swords are either super rich people or big family lords.

When Song Yunfei found his cousin, Li Zhongyi, who had been watching coldly, suddenly realized that this cousin of his was actually the famous Lu Duan in the history of the Song Dynasty!

Zhuge is only cautious in his life, and Lu Duan is not confused about major matters!