As early as before the Tang Dynasty, the promotion of officials by virtue of the recommendation of local gentry and the promotion of officials: this way of appointing officials is particularly old-fashioned, and there are serious loopholes in favoritism, which leads to the fact that the way to enter the official is almost monopolized by the big gate valves. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIt was not until the advent of the imperial examination in the Sui Dynasty that the scholars of the Han family were given a space for promotion, so that more talented people could show their ambitions.

However, after the death of the second Sui Dynasty, there were many loopholes in the imperial examination system and it was not perfect. Especially at that time, there were many scholars, and the imperial examination system did not achieve much effect. Until the development of the Tang Dynasty was perfected, the court also opened the door to facilitate the collection of poor talents, and the status of the imperial examination became more and more important.

In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was held almost every year, and there were three steps: the decomposition examination, the provincial examination, and the re-examination of the officials, of which the examination was the first step, and only by obtaining the qualification for the examination could you enter Chang'an to participate in the next examination.

The time of the test varies from state to state, but Youzhou is set for October 1st!

October 1 of the first year of Xiantian is the day when the exam begins.

It is rare that Pei Min did not go to bed late and get up early, but went to bed early and woke up naturally, and greeted today's exam in the best condition.

Old housekeeper Yuan prepared lotus root noodles for them early in the morning, wishing them all good results.

Pei Min ate the fragrant lotus root noodles and said, "With Yuan Lao's high promotion noodles, I will definitely come back first in the exam." ”

Old Butler Yuan said with a smile: "Pei Gongzi has this confidence, and he wants to come to Gongshi to be nine out of ten." ”

Yan Gaoqing also praised it, "I can't imagine that Yuan Lao's noodle making skills are so good...... It's just that Brother Pei, you didn't take me and Brother Yuan in your eyes. ”

"How so?" Pei Min said: "We are friends, how can I not know your skills." Anyway, the first three are just the three of us, whoever is whom, each according to his ability, everyone else stands aside. ”

Yan Gaoqing praised: "This is a great good! ”

Yuan Luqian suddenly remembered something and said, "Alas, it's a pity that the quota between me and Brother Xin is not counted." Otherwise, today, we can help Brother Pei teach Pei Yu a good lesson. ”

Pei Yu?

Pei Min didn't remember this person's name for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized: Before he left Yanyun Academy, because he didn't know that he had broken off the relationship with the Pei family, he was jealous that he had robbed him of the opportunity to study at Jishan Academy, and he couldn't help but wonder if he had beaten the villain who had beaten him: "What's wrong with him?" Didn't go to Chengjishan Shoku? ”

Yuan Luqian shook his head and said: "Not only did he succeed, but he also got rid of the Pei family." Seeing that Pei Min was confused, he said with a smile: "Speaking of which, it is also because of Brother Pei, the qualification of Jishan School was originally a competition between the two of you, and Brother Pei left the Pei family, and he was the best choice." But he was a villain in vain, thinking that Brother Pei had robbed him of his qualifications and intended to force Brother Pei to give up by means. As a result, Brother Pei publicly saw through his intentions, and humiliated him, which was despised by the academy. Pei Yu and Brother Pei are not in the same vein, but everyone in the world knows that there is no one in the world, in terms of generation. He is still your cousin, the Pei family has a strict family education, and he uses despicable means to deal with the people in the clan in front of outsiders, and the Pei family is resolutely resistant. Pei Yu was also disqualified and severely punished. Now the Pei family has given up Pei Yu and chose someone else. This time, Pei Yu is also among them, and he should be like Brother Pei, who chose to enter the military by taking the imperial examination. ”

Pei Min listened to it and thought in his heart, the Pei family can be passed down for thousands of years, there have been dozens of prime ministers, nearly 100 senior officials of more than three grades, and countless local officials, and they are really strict in terms of family style and family discipline.

Thinking of Yuan Luqian's previous words, Pei Min also had some regrets: the imperial examination is not an unrestricted random selection, and each state has a limited number of tributes: three people per year in Shangzhou, two in Zhongzhou, and one in Xiazhou. As one of the ancient Kyushu, Youzhou naturally belongs to Shangzhou and has three places. Of course, there is an additional provision in the law that "there is no limit to the number of talented people", which means that as long as there is real talent, there is no limit to the number. However, if it is determined that it is a grandstander, the recommending officials will be implicated, and for this reason, each state will be subject to a limited number of places every year, and there will be almost no extra places.

And Yan Gaoqing and Yuan Luqian already have a place to go, even if they get good results in the exam and get the name of Gongshi, they will not go to Chang'an to take the next exam. The two places they occupy will be postponed downward.

If it weren't for the three places in Youzhou, one of them would be one for each of them, and everyone else would have to drink the northwest wind.

One of them said a word, and it seemed that the tribute had already been captured.

Not pride, but confidence.

Pei Min smiled and said: "It's okay, jumping clown, if Brother Yuan doesn't mention it, I will forget him." He looked at the time and said, "There is still some distance to the examination room, and we can go." ”

The three of them prepared their pen and ink and walked together in the direction of Youzhou Mansion.

When they arrived at the gate of the government, more than 80 students who participated in the imperial examination had gathered in front of the door. Some of them looked nervous, folded their hands, and seemed to ask for the blessing of the Nine Heavens God and Buddha; Some are full of confidence and talk and laugh, while others are even sneaky and seem to be doing some small things......

There are thousands of strange situations, all at the door of the government.

Pei Min and Yan Gaoqing, Yuan Luqian all belong to this kind of self-confidence, they are not only for this test, prepared for many days, their biggest advantage is that they have laid a good foundation since childhood, from the time of ignorance of children, they began to read and write, and they grew up with books throughout the enlightenment period. The test is the knowledge and understanding of the scriptures and history, and they have accumulated too many advantages over the real poor students in this regard. This kind of advantage is not easy to catch up.

In the crowd, Pei Min unexpectedly saw a person...... Pei Yu.

At this moment, Pei Yu was like two people who were in high spirits at the beginning, he shrugged his head and stayed quietly in an inconspicuous place, just like a poor scholar.

Pei Min couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and suddenly his opinion of him changed a little: this person may not be a clown who jumps off the beam, after the difference between people and lovers, he seems to have grown a lot.

As the saying goes, a dog that can bark doesn't bite, and a dog that can't bark has to be on guard.

This country is easy to change and difficult to change, Pei Yu is cold and jealous, his heart is small, and his future is uncertain, how can there be any reason not to hold a grudge.

Yuan Luqian's personality is upright, and he doesn't despise Pei Yu as a person, so he snorted: "You deserve it!" ”

"Beware of him!" Yan Gaoqing also saw Pei Yu, he knew what happened from Yuan Luqian, and he also saw one or two.

Pei Min smiled lightly and nodded, "I know!" ”

After getting along for many days, Yan Gaoqing also knew that although Pei Min was a square person, he was tactful, knew how to advance and retreat, and had the wisdom of the city government in the officialdom, so he didn't say more.