"Would you like to go to our Tiandi firm's new product launch party in the evening?" Wei Bao asked.

Like Hyundai, Daming's store at this time has new products on the market, and it is also called this way, which Wei Bao did not expect before. The longer he stayed in Daming, the more Wei Bao found that Daming's language and living habits did not seem to be too different from modern times.

"I want to go, but my father will definitely not let me." Sister Fang smiled, "However, I congratulate Wei Gongzi in advance, Wei Gongzi's new product is excellent and will definitely be successful." Why didn't the two of them come in? Also changed into men's clothes? Does Wei Gongzi like to see women wear men's clothes now?"

While Wei Bao and Sister Fang were talking, Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui had been waiting outside the store, and in order to show their respect for Sister Fang, they all got out of the carriage. But in order not to delay Sister Fang and Wei Gongzi from talking, they all chose not to follow up.

"I don't know, maybe you think we need to say something close?" Wei Bao said with a thick smile. The only person he spoke boldly to women was Sister Fang. Wei Bao generally does not flirt with Fan Xiaolin, Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui, and mostly starts directly. is not the case with Sister Fang, who mainly flirts and has fun in the play, but she doesn't dare to mess around with small actions. One is that he feels disrespectful, the second is that he doesn't know how he feels about Sister Fang, and the third is that he doesn't know how Sister Fang feels about him.

If Wei Bao knew that Sister Fang was interesting to him, he would definitely dare to go further, whether he really wanted to accept Sister Fang or not, anyway, Sister Fang was a woman with a good heart, a beautiful person, a well-informed, well-informed, well-seen woman, and a good personality, there would not be too many men.

"Who's going to say something close to you?" Sister Fang'er's face turned red, and she walked out of the counter as she spoke: "I'll call them in for some tea, and when I come here, if I don't even have tea, I'll be rude." ”

Wei Bao smiled slightly.

When Sister Fang arrived outside the door, she warmly came over to greet Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya, and took the hands of the two women: "If you come, you won't come in, do you think our store is small and vulgar?" ”

Wang Qiuya was very shy in front of unfamiliar people, and said no with a red face.

"Sister Fang, where do we think so?" Xu Rui was very social, and with a natural smile, the distance between them was shortened at once.

Sister Fang liked the women around Wei Bao very much, smiled and pulled the two girls in, and asked the guy to open the best private room, serve Wei Bao, Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya to drink tea and serve the best refreshments.

This is also the Shanhailou, the most high-grade teahouse restaurant in Yongping Mansion, the general small restaurant, in this kind of catastrophic year, there is no tea this kind of east, that is, there are a few essential wine dishes, plus staple food, it is good.

"Thank you, Sister Fang." Wei Bao was also polite, and followed Sister Fang directly.

Sister Fang smiled as she walked: "Is Wei Gongzi coming to Shanhaiguan this time mainly for business?" Now Wei Gongzi's business has become very big, and everyone in the entire Yongping Mansion knows about it. ”

"It's not just for business, it's mainly for the imperial examination." Wei Bao smiled: "How about it, you have to try to get a show first, right?" Otherwise, in the Year of the Monkey, Ma Yue will have the opportunity to dream of lifting people? ”

Sister Fang heard Wei Bao say the word lifting, her pink face turned red again, it seemed that when she was with Wei Bao, she would always blush unconsciously. Lifting people is a sensitive word between her and Wei Bao, and as soon as Sister Fang heard Wei Bao say the word "lifting people", she immediately thought of her father's request for Wei Bao, although she did not explicitly mention it to Wei Bao.

But Uncle Sun Jiu said that a daughter must marry a man, which is the basic model.

"Wei Gongzi is so smart, he must be able to do it." Sister Fang smiled and responded softly.

Wei Bao entered the private room and looked at the beautiful scenery outside the window, Shanhaiguan, the scenery of the north, for him, a southerner, he did not feel desolate at all, green mountains and green waters, endless plains, the sea and the sky meet, it seems that the beautiful scenery that can be thought of can be found here, and the Jiangnan water town in the south is a different mood, and there is often a feeling of beauty.

"It's not so easy, in the entire Ming Dynasty, among the people who are on the top list of the imperial examinations, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi can account for more than seventy percent of the total number of people!" Wei Bao smiled: "I heard that Yongping Mansion has not had a show for many years. ”

It is not a simple matter to get a talent in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty is still quite excellent, there is almost no water, and the fraud cases in the scientific field are very strict! Once discovered, the people involved will not only die by themselves, but may also make a fuss and behead the ancestors, humiliating the ancestors, and becoming the biggest shame in the local area! So easily no one dares to touch it.

A family like the Wu family has no way to give much help to their children and grandchildren in the imperial examination. Wu Xiangwen can't do martial arts, so he can only get a martial arts person, and then enter the officialdom of western Liaoning, the local powerful faction is basically such a routine!

If you want to be admitted to the Jinshi and enter the regular officialdom sequence of the Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to have real kung fu in the imperial examination, the regular Jinshi, the worst is also the county order, mix a few years of seniority, as long as you don't commit a crime, you can go to the governor, the prefect's road to rise, but if the children of the poor want to go to the next level, to the prefect, to enter the provincial government, or even into the central high-level, it is very difficult, that needs to have a certain traditional relationship, generally have a father who has been a member for many years, or a grandfather, so that it is more possible. After all, the children of the Dayuan family have also been immersed in the mountains and books since they were children, and most of them can make achievements on the road to the imperial examination.

This is the same as military households, peasant households, and artisan households, the children of military households, no matter how poor they are, will do some kung fu, and the children of peasant families are born to farm, fish, and hunt, and if the children of artisan households do not even know how to make iron and fire, they will be laughed to death.

There is no such title as an official household, and the children of the official's family must still have to socialize with the officialdom anyway.

Life is like a river, and all people are born in the waters. Everyone can get on what boat, can not choose by themselves, but what height can be reached in the end, there is really no need to be pessimistic, no matter how decadent the society, there is always a chance of more than one in a thousand, there will be a poor man.

"This has nothing to do with Wei Gongzi, as long as Wei Gongzi's articles are recognized, he can still be admitted to Xiucai, and even go to Shuntianfu to take the exam." Sister Fang smiled: "I'm very optimistic about Wei Gongzi High School." Besides, there are many students in Jiangnan, and that's because they also have a lot of them. Jiangxi Lin'an is the hometown of talents, famous all over the world. Due to the waterways, Nanzhili has a developed economy and drives cultural development. ”

Wei Bao nodded, indeed, isn't the Donglin Party mainly based on Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangxi? This small piece on the edge of the Yangtze River is indeed a place where outstanding people are very good at risking talents. However, it also has a great relationship with the proportion of population, Jiangxi has declined in the economic ranking of later generations, and in the feudal era, it has always been the highlight of the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

In Daming, the prefect governor of Jiangxi is even higher than the prefect governor of Zhejiang, not to mention the surrounding Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, and Anhui. Before the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, Fujian and Guangdong, which were major economic provinces in later generations, were very ordinary. Guangdong is slightly better, because since the arrival of foreigners in Guangzhou, the economy has developed relatively rapidly, and the circulation of goods is relatively strong, but it is only a small area, and the rest of the whole province is still very poor.

"Did Wei Gongzi figure out where to study?" Sister Fang asked: "Here in Shanhaiguan, Liao Fuzi's reputation is relatively big. ”

Wei Bao said: "Well, I still know Liao Fuzi, and most of them have been learned from him." Anyway, there are few big private schools in Shanhaiguan. ”

Liao Fuzi is the master who Wu Shien came to do a play and asked Wei Bao to get four taels of silver through a calligraphy competition, and he knows Wei Bao.

"That's good." Sister Fang said reassuringly, "I originally asked someone to ask, if Wei Gongzi has no choice, I can help." Now, it seems, there is no need. ”

Wei Bao heard Sister Fang say this, and his heart was warm, "Sister Fang, you are so good, you think about me everywhere." ”

"Where? It's all a matter of mouth, we have people coming and going here every day, there are three religions and nine streams, and there are more people who know them. Sister Fang said modestly.

"Then I thank you too, why doesn't anyone else care so much about me?" Wei Bao laughed.

Sister Fang saw that Wei Bao was faintly begging for her cheapness, and gave Wei Bao a good-looking white eye, which made Wei Bao happy.

Sister Fang didn't delay much time here, and Wei Bao left with Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya.

After meeting Sister Fang, Wei Bao was more determined to take the imperial examination, and if he couldn't get through the regular career of this era, it would make him feel very regretful!

Wei Bao rejected the rebellion line from his heart, and the practice of the peasant rebel army, of course, can achieve results, become a king or defeat a villain, and no matter how history is written, it is beautiful.

But it takes the whole country to suffer sharply and undergo earth-shaking changes, which will definitely be more painful and less sweet for the people at present.

This is something that Wei Bao does not like, and moreover, the reincarnation rate is high. Things with a high reincarnation rate are usually not considered by Wei Gongzi.

Wei Bao is now focusing on the imperial examination and making money, these two things, in the near future, especially the imperial examination as the first priority, after all, as long as the heaven and earth business can operate normally.

Such a large commercial organization is still in its embryonic stage, and if it can operate normally, Wei Bao can already accept it.

The imperial examination is divided into township examination, general examination and palace examination.

Those who participate in the township examination, in addition to the prison students, also the imperial examination students.

The entrance examination to obtain the qualification of students is called the children's examination, also called the children's examination, the small examination, and the small examination.

Some people have exhausted their lives in the children's exam, such as Zhou Jin in "The Outer History of Confucianism", so there are often jokes about old children's students in the past.

The children's examination consists of three stages: the county examination, the prefectural examination and the hospital examination.

The county test in the Ming Dynasty was relatively arbitrary, and the specific test was basically the final word.

In the Qing Dynasty, the county examination was held in February every year, and there were five consecutive examinations; The provincial examination is held in April every year, and there are three consecutive examinations; The hospital examination is held twice every three years.

The academy examination is the name of the Qing Dynasty, because from the Yongzheng Dynasty, the academic and political officials are also known as the Admiral College.

The name of the Ming Dynasty is the Taoist test, because the provinces are all according to the deputy envoy of the inspection department (four products) or the affairs (five products), which is basically equivalent to the inspection of the road according to the judges, called the Taoist road, the two direct subordinate systems are the same, but by the supervision of the imperial history (seven products) as the superintendent.

Township tests were held in provincial capitals, with the first session on the 9th of August, the second session on the 12th, and the third session on the 15th.

The examination style is prescribed to use eight strands.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were no poems, and the first test was three of the righteousness of the book, each of which was limited to more than 200 words, and four of which were of the scriptures, each of which was limited to more than 300 words; The second trial is one discussion, limited to more than 300 words, one edict, one edict, one table, and five judgments; The third test of scripture, history, and current affairs is five, each of which is limited to more than 300 words, depending on the ability, and those who can't bear it can be reduced by two as appropriate.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, with the Ming system, but in the 22nd year of Qianlong, the old man who printed and printed the ancient and modern poems felt that he could not show his talent by only writing articles, so he decided to add a poem of five words and eight rhymes in the township examination and the meeting examination.

Since then, the college examination, the township examination, and the general examination have to be tested as poems, which are called trial poems. Thirty years later, the old man found that most of the candidates were only focusing on one scripture for the sake of taking the exam, and even knew nothing about other scriptures, thinking that "it was not the way to worship practical learning", so he ordered that from the following year, the township and the association examination would be tested once a year, and the five years would be a round, with a random cycle. So the first test was set to take four books and three essays, and one poem with five words and eight rhymes; In the second session, there are five verses, and the title content is the Pentateuch; The third session asked five questions, including economic history, current affairs, and politics. It is permanent.

Since it is a propositional composition, there is a limit to the number of natural words, in the second year of Shunzhi in the early Qing Dynasty, the initial text should not exceed 550 words per article, the second and third time tables should not exceed 1000 words, and the arguments should not exceed 2000 words.

Because the text is too short, the meaning of the words is difficult to describe. During the Kangxi period, the first text was graced to 650 words. In the 40th year of Qianlong, it was set at a rate of 700 words for each article, and violators were not admitted.

In the Ming Dynasty, the chief examiner of the examination was mostly played by Hanlin officials, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was mostly served as a cabinet scholar. In the Qing Dynasty, the chief examiner was called the president, and the cabinet scholar or the six scholars served as the chief examiner.

In order to prevent cheating, the newly admitted tributes in the Qing Dynasty had to take a re-examination before the palace examination, which was called the court examination, and the Ming Dynasty did not have such a toss.

The first name of the court examination is Chaoyuan. The champions of the palace examination, the list eye, and the tanhua can be awarded to the Hanlin Academy for revision and editing immediately after the examination, and there is no need to participate in the court examination.

The first place in the second class of the palace examination and the first place in the court examination Chaoyuan generally serve in the Hanlin Academy as usual.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was also a re-examination system for the township examination, and it was stipulated that those who had not passed the re-examination were not allowed to participate in the general examination. In the Qing Dynasty, for the elderly who participated in the examination and failed, they would sometimes reward the Guozijian Siye or the Hanlin Academy to edit and review.

In the spring of the sixth year of Daoguang, among the many people who participated in the examination in Beijing, there was an old man named Lu Yuncong from Sanshui County, Guangzhou Prefecture, who was 103 years old. The examiner was very surprised when he found this gray-haired candidate, and immediately played the emperor.

Emperor Daoguang happily thought that this was "Renrui", and immediately gave the old man the official title of Guozijian Siye.

However, the Qing Dynasty imperial examination implemented a policy of ethnic discrimination. Manchu people enjoy all kinds of privileges, in front of Yongzheng divided into two lists of Manchu and Han, banner people enjoy special advantages in the township examination, the examination of the examination, only one translation, called the translation department.

After the Opium War, new subjects began to be set up in the imperial examinations. In the thirteenth year of Guangxu, arithmetic was included in the examination subjects. In the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu, there was a college of economics. In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, Cixi issued an edict stipulating that the answer sheet was not allowed to use eight strands. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu, the imperial examination system was abolished.

The martial arts of the Ming and Qing dynasties were also the four examinations of Tong, Township, Hui and Palace, and the main content of the examination was the theory of horse foot archery and strategy. The judging criteria are the same, the results of the policy are overwhelming, and the emphasis on literature and light on military force is deep in the bone marrow.

During the Wanli period, some ministers proposed that the military should add the examination links of on-site arranging troops to command gunpowder and weapon operations, as well as adding the content of astronomy, geography and military science to the policy theory, but it was not adopted.

The difficulty of the martial arts exam in the Qing Dynasty has been comprehensively upgraded, but it is useless, and it should be beaten or suffered.

In general, Wei Bao still feels that the imperial examination is constantly developing, and obviously, it seems to be easier to 'do some tricks' in the Ming Dynasty than in the Qing Dynasty. Because there are more loopholes. This loophole mainly refers to the loophole in the process, and it is difficult for the examiner to find opportunities.

But in the Qing Dynasty, the process was more scientific and there were fewer loopholes. But it's easier to start with the examiner. In addition, there is an element of national suppression, and in general, Wei Bao likes the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty even more.

Wei Bao has never thought about how to work hard, at least, he has no way in terms of time, there are still a few days before the scientific examination, and now he is to use all his strength to eat, and he does not sleep every day, does not eat or drink to study, and these few days of hard work are not enough.

Besides, Wei Bao is tired of books in modern times, is it possible to run to Daming to be a nerd? Learn to be a mouthful?

If you don't put effort into hard work, you can only work cheating, Wei Bao has thought of a lot of strategies, and when he is at home, he is busy with these things. The mobile phone is full of all scientific research-related materials, and all TXT formatted for easy cheating and indexing, which is all prepared for the upcoming scientific expedition.

"Sister Fang seems to care about her son. Even about her son finding a private school to learn, she thought of it for her son. Wang Qiuya said.

Wei Bao smiled slightly: "There is no way, people are handsome." ”

When Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui heard this, they both sneered, and the two girls covered their mouths, and the flowers and branches of laughter trembled, but they didn't expect the son to feel so good about himself.

Wei Bao smiled: "Just say a joke, you two are so happy, this joke is really low." ”

Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui knew the boiling point and melting point because they had been by their son's side for a long time, but it was the first time they had heard of laughter, but they could understand it immediately, and they felt even more funny.

"Sister Fang seems to be interested in her son." Xu Rui joked: "Isn't it time to congratulate the son, there is another confidante?" ”

Wei Bao smiled and shook his head, "Don't say if it's interesting, her father is looking for a son-in-law." Do you think I can be lifted? Wei Bao then told Sister Fang and her father, Uncle Sun Jiu.

"Her family is just a merchant who opens a restaurant, and the requirements are high?" Xu Rui was a little resentful, "I'm afraid that Sister Fang's finding a son-in-law is troublesome." ”

"You don't have so much faith in me?" Wei Bao smiled: "It seems that you never think I can be lifted?" ”

When Xu Rui heard this, she hurriedly defended: "No, no, don't be careful." ”

Wei Bao smiled: "What's the hurry? You are my woman, I won't be angry at anything, speak normally, don't be so restrained. Actually, I don't have much confidence, and I don't even have a drum in my heart when I take the exam. ”

He knew that after a long period of contact, Xu Rui would naturally have an understanding of his talents. In terms of scientific and technological knowledge, Wei Bao's insight naturally exploded the people of this era, modern ordinary people, by 1624, as long as they have the knowledge of junior high school and high school, and they are not too much water when they are studying, most of them can completely explode the people of this era, which has nothing to be proud of.

However, Wei Bao felt very discouraged that Xu Ruicai had only studied in the Qinglou for two or three years, and that his poetry was not very orthodox, and he had surpassed his talent in the liberal arts of this era.

You must know that in this era, students who go to participate in the scientific examination for children are at least students who have studied hard for more than five years.

Xu Rui's natural attitude made Wei Bao very clear that if he didn't cheat, there would be no hope at all in the scientific examination!

"I really don't think that Childe can't lift people in the exam." Xu Rui defended uneasily: "I just think Sister Fang's father is too demanding, so it seems that the son wants to marry Sister Fang?" ”

Xu Rui deliberately diverted the topic.

Xu Rui said this, and Wang Qiuya also paid attention, because they all knew that Wei Bao had already said that if she wanted to marry Zhao Jinfeng, could it be that even Sister Fang wanted to marry?

Wei Bao smiled: "Tell you something, don't tell others." Zhao Jinfeng's father wants to marry Zhao Jinfeng to a family from a Jinshi background. ”

Yes?

When Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya heard this, they were both surprised, and they invariably covered their mouths with their slender jade hands, they didn't expect Zhao Lizheng and Zhao Kehu's heart to be so high? A township is just right, looking for a jinshi to be a son-in-law?

Xu Rui said: "Could it be that Shopkeeper Sun and Zhao Lizheng are deliberately motivating their sons?" Just talking? ”

Wei Bao smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry about this, just do the things in front of you." Whether it was an incentive or not, they didn't explicitly say that they wanted to recruit me as a son-in-law, and I didn't explicitly propose marriage. ”

When Wang Qiuya heard this, her heart darkened, knowing that after her refusal to marry in disguise, Wei Bao was more cautious when dealing with marriage matters, and when she was not very sure, she would not easily propose to others.

When he arrived at the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, his subordinates had already come out to greet him, and a group of entourages stood beside Wei Bao, very imposing.

A group of 'directors' who were busy heard that Wei Gongzi was coming, and under the leadership of Zhao Kehu, the 'vice chairman', they also went out of the store of Tiandi Firm to greet them.

Wei Bao smiled and said: "Directors, everyone has worked hard, how are the preparations for the launch of the new product?" ”

"Almost." Zhao Kehu smiled and asked: "Xiaobao, why is the goods you got this time different from the goods you showed us before?" ”

When Wei Bao heard this, his face darkened slightly, and he secretly wondered: Can there be no difference? I took it out to show you before, it was all modern finished products, and now for you, they are all recently imitated, and the process is not very mature!

"What's the problem?" Wei Bao asked with some weakness.