After Yang Cong learned the general situation of the court, he acted more carefully, during the day, he basically nested in the rented courtyard and studied his homework with everyone, and at night he also hurriedly went to the restaurant outside to have a meal and came back, and even the tea shop rarely went.

To his surprise, he didn't want to provoke right and wrong, but he came to the door, and saw that it had been a few days since he left his hometown, and someone went to Da Bao'en Temple to find him.

On this morning, he had a discussion with Yu Dayou, Hu Zongxian and others, and was about to make a current policy, but the guards outside suddenly came to report, and the officials of the Ministry of Etiquette were waiting outside the door and asked to see him by name.

At this time, what did the officials of the Ministry of Rites come to him for?

He was really a little inexplicable, but he didn't dare not see it, after all, this township test was presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and it was not a good thing to offend the people of the Ministry of Rites.

The so-called "Hades is good-looking, but the little ghosts are difficult." If people don't give you a pair of small shoes, they will definitely make it difficult for you to move an inch.

He thought about it, and simply ordered someone to take a silver ingot of ten taels and kick it in his arms, and then sat in the reception hall and waited.

After a while, a middle-aged man with a five-short figure and a thief's eyebrows walked in quickly and said with a respectful hand: "The villain Zhang Ping sees Yang Gongzi." ”

Seeing this, Yang Cong nodded slightly, and then pretended to be curious: "You have worked tirelessly to come, what is the matter?" ”

He is polite enough, these officials in the yamen are actually not a good job in the eyes of ordinary people, because these people are not producing, and they like to find fault everywhere and make oil and water, which is very despicable.

Yang Cong's attitude really made Zhang Ping very useful, and he replied with a smile: "Young Master Yang, I won't tell you, the little one came to the township test this time, and I don't know if the young man wants to do it." ”

Convenient?

Does this mean that you are asking if you want to cheat in other places!

Of course, Yang Cong doesn't need to cheat, he is still confident in the township test, he has also read a lot of selected articles in the township test and the meeting test, and he is still a little bottom on his level.

This guy came over for no reason and asked himself if he wanted to cheat, there was definitely a problem, could it be that this guy was sent by He Qian to set up a trap to harm him?

This kind of little trick dared to play in front of him, he sneered in his heart, but on the surface, he asked quietly: "Oh? What's so convenient? ”

Zhang Ping said without scruples: "It's the convenience in the examination room." ”

Fainted to death, the wind of fraud in the pediatric examination has not reached this level at this time, this guy is like drinking porridge, and he is more and more suspicious that this guy is still sent by He Qian.

What should I do, just blow people away?

This seems a bit inappropriate, he is not the kind of person who just suffers losses and does not fight back, on the contrary, whoever dares to let him suffer losses, he must find a way to make his family suffer a bigger loss.

Perhaps, you can set up a set for He Qian in turn and teach this guy a profound lesson.

Thinking of this, Yang Cong pretended to be interested and asked, "Oh, what are the specific conveniences?" ”

Zhang Ping introduced it with a familiar road: "There are a lot of conveniences, for example, entering the field to search, the son may not know it, the general candidates should take off their essence when they enter the venue, check carefully, if the son does not want to be ugly in public, spend ten taels of silver, and the small one has its own way to let the son pass the test easily." ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

It turns out that the convenience that this guy said is not cheating, but some trivia in the exam room!

He really hadn't heard of this, not that he didn't know that candidates needed to be carefully checked when they entered the venue, but that he hadn't heard that this kind of thing could be accommodating.

It's the first time he's taking the township test, and it's normal for him to not know about this kind of thing.

However, when he thought about it, he realized that something was wrong.

Yu Dayou and Wang Xuan have participated in the township test, and they don't seem to have heard of this kind of thing.

What's going on here?

He cautiously probed: "Is it possible for every candidate to do this?" ”

Zhang Ping shook his head again and again and said: "Of course not, like those poor talents who borrow broken temples or private houses, we won't ask them if they want to make it convenient, they can't afford this price, only a noble person like Gongzi will make it convenient." ”

It turned out to be the case, Yang Cong heard this, and the worries in his heart suddenly decreased a lot, these years, there are indeed not many people who can casually take out ten taels of silver, it seems that what this guy said is convenient, it is really possible, he couldn't help but ask: "Is there any other convenience?" ”

This guy is really a rich man, Zhang Ping heard this, and couldn't help but say with his eyes: "Yes, as long as the son is willing to spend money, we can make it convenient for the son to do things in the examination room." ”

Really?

Yang Cong simply asked: "What are the specifics, you can tell me." ”

When Zhang Ping heard this, he said excitedly: "Young Master Yang, I won't tell you, as long as you are willing to spend money, we have a way to do things in the examination room." For example, eating, this township test is not allowed to bring food, the candidates' food is sent by us, but when to send it, what to send, it depends on us, after all, there are more than 10,000 people in the examination room, and we are not necessarily busy. Another example is drinking water, which we also give. There is also mosquito smoking at night, which is also in our care. Even, as long as the son is willing to spend money, you can go to the thatched house as much as you want. ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he was really taken aback.

These problems are what he is more worried about, such as eating and drinking water, it is rumored that due to too many people participating in the township examination and the hot weather, many candidates eat spoiled meals, and sometimes no one even comes to deliver water for a day, because it is strictly forbidden to make noise in the examination room, and you can't call someone to send water if you are thirsty, what about more than 10,000 candidates, who has nothing to do and always run to ask you if you drink water.

There are mosquitoes at night, on this hot day, the environment of the examination room is so poor, there are naturally many mosquitoes at night, if no one often smokes wormwood smoke, mosquitoes can bite you all over the bag overnight.

As for the thatched house, it is even more terrible, in order to prevent cheating, the candidates have people to watch the whole process on the thatched house, the whole process is quite troublesome, if you go to the thatched house, the examiner is annoyed, give you a note, this township test you are basically over.

Therefore, the average candidate did not dare to eat much or drink much water during the nine days of the township test, because he was afraid that he would annoy the examiner by going to the thatched house frequently.

He really didn't expect that these problems could be solved with money.

But think about it carefully, this thing is really not strange, each dynasty develops to a certain extent, many things will deteriorate, after more than a hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there are many absurd things, these officials in the yamen often do extortion, this kind of "regular" way to make money they will let it go.

Of course, these conveniences are necessary, and he said without hesitation: "How much silver are these?" ”

When Zhang Ping heard this, he was slightly excited and said: "As long as it is fifty taels, the custodian son will not suffer a little crime in the examination room." ”

Fifty taels is not cheap, it is equivalent to twenty or thirty thousand in later generations, and ordinary people really can't afford this convenience.