Chapter 138: Martial Arts Public Examination
In fact, the close servant Huang is very conflicted in his heart, if he can really make a lot of money when he goes to sea, he will be more able to win the favor of the official family, and he will have a greater grasp of it, if he can't make money and mess up the matter of returning to Yi, then his status will plummet, and in the year or two when he leaves the palace and is not by the side of the official family, he doesn't know if there will be villains who slander him and take his position.
But the official family has decided to hand over the return to him, which costs a huge amount of three million, which is undoubtedly a great trust in him, if it is not done well, he really has no face to return to the palace, if it is done, he will have a great chance to go further, and it is not impossible to rise to the capital in the future.
The matter has come to this point, and I can only think about how to do a good job of Nanyang's return to Yi.
He didn't know anything about going to sea, as for going to sea, although he had been adrift at sea with the official family for a period of time in his early years, it was in the near sea, and he landed in a day and a half, and he really hadn't been to the far sea. Although he can't return to the ocean at all, this does not mean that he can't do a good job, he can stand out from thousands of internal servants, and be promoted to the provincial governor of the inner servants, relying on his brains and being able to be a man.
Lying on the bed, he was thinking, three million yuan of return, how to do it, he had no clue, since he couldn't do it, he didn't want to bother with it, just find someone who could do it, he just needed to check the checks, spend the money where it should be spent, it was enough for the merchant ship to go to sea, and the rest of the things, naturally someone else would do it, and he would wait for the money to be reconciled.
The first thing that jumped into his mind was the two boys in martial arts, they proposed the matter of ocean return, one of them knew a lot about return, then the people he knew, there must be someone who knew about return, and the other was quite familiar with national geography, the South Seas and the extreme west were very clear, the ocean was vast, and such people were needed very much.
How to pull them into Huiyi's team is a problem that needs to be considered, but it is not difficult for him to solve this problem, because what he is good at is figuring out people's hearts and doing what they like.
Entering martial arts, the purpose is nothing more than two, one is just to seek an official and a half-position, multiple titles, the vast majority of them are like this, and the other is to want to get ahead, establish meritorious deeds, and change their status. At present, it seems that Yang Congyi and Tang Xun should be the latter, they are not the children of official eunuchs, they work hard, not to get ahead, why else? Let's start with the two of them.
When the waiter Huang thought of this, he suddenly felt much more relaxed, and soon fell asleep peacefully.
In the seventeenth year of Shaoxing, the twenty-sixth month of Layue.
Today is the last class of martial arts students before the year, and after that, they will have to review freely for a few days, and they will take an exam before the Spring Festival, which is considered a monthly exam.
This class still taught "Li Jing Asks Right", but after only one hour of teaching, Huang Chen was called out.
When I came back, it was already half an hour later.
After returning to the stone room, Huang Chen directly announced to the martial arts students that the teaching of the year would end here, and the monthly examination would be held today, and three days later, that is, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the first public examination of martial arts would be held, and the imperial court would preside over the examination.
The martial arts students were a little stunned when they heard the news, why did they suddenly have to take the exam, the monthly exam was okay, the public exam hosted by the imperial court was presiding, how could it be enough to review for only three days?
Huang Chen didn't give the students a chance to ask, and immediately started the exam.
The monthly test is very simple, come out with the previous sentence, follow the next sentence, or directly recite a classic content learned this month.
These are naturally not a problem for Yang Congyi and Tang Xun, and other martial arts students can barely answer, so in this monthly exam, the martial arts students in the stone room are all excellent and superior, and those who don't come are all inferior.
After the exam, Huang Chen told everyone that three days later, at two o'clock, the annual public examination will be held in the lecture hall, please be prepared.
There's nothing to complain about, let's review it well, the public exam will be the public exam, it's in such a hurry, and there's no way to do it if you don't take the test.
Yang Congyi attaches great importance to this exam, after all, it is the first public exam, which is equivalent to the unified examination, and he dare not be sloppy.
In order to take the exam, I don't practice martial arts anymore, and all the time, except for eating and sleeping, I use it to read books and review, hoping to get good results in the public examination.
In fact, not only Yang Congyi, but other martial arts students also attach great importance to it, after studying for a year and a half, the imperial court finally sent someone to check the teaching results, Taixue freshmen, at the latest a year will be a public examination, martial arts is not welcomed, except for themselves, no one cares about how martial arts students are, it seems to be redundant.
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the public test that was promised came as scheduled.
In the lecture hall, there are only two examiners, one is Zhao Min, the supervisor of Guozi, and the other is wearing civilian clothes, with a slightly rich figure, a white face, warm eyes, and a friendly and amiable look.
Supervisor Zhao Min announced the exam discipline on the spot, mainly because of the exam time and no cheating.
After a few martial arts students sat down, the supervisor Zhao Min personally distributed the exam papers.
Yang Congyi took a look at the topic, and it felt very simple, fill in the blanks with ten classic sentences, explain five classic sentences, and discuss the last question.
Half an hour later, Yang Congyi handed in the papers, and Tang Xun also handed in the test papers soon after.
Yang Congyi sat for another half an hour, and the supervisor Zhao Min announced the end of the first exam, and immediately accepted the test papers that had not been answered.
After a quarter of an hour's rest, the second exam begins.
Another examiner announced that the question of the second test was: What is the best way to do it, and the government treasury is not abundant?
Yang Congyi was overjoyed when he heard this topic, and he had just debated it two months ago, and after a little thought, he began to write, first made a draft, revised it, and then transcribed it, which took nearly an hour.
At the end of the exam time, the martial arts students have finished answering the questions.
The examiner sealed the test paper, didn't say anything, and just left.
When will the results be released? The examiner didn't say it, and they didn't dare to ask, just wait, there will be news from the National Supervisor, and they all think so.
Yang Congyi is not worried, he played very well in both exams, the first one is rote memorization, and he should not lose points, and the second exam question has been debated before, so naturally there is no problem.
After the exam, Tang Xun also looked relaxed, obviously he didn't have any problems.
The next Spring Festival will be over, and the two will begin to discuss how to spend it. I didn't buy "Mengxi Pen Talk" before, and I definitely wanted to go to it while I was resting on vacation, but I don't know if Zhenjiang is the same as Lin'an, and the shops don't rest on holidays.
Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin'an City is very lively, Tang Xun originally wanted to ask Yang Congyi to go out at night to see the excitement, but when he thought that he was not interested in these, even if it was, today's exam is quite tired, or have a good rest.
After the exam, it was still early, and everyone else naturally went out to find fun. Yang Congyi doesn't have a few dollars, all his net worth is only a few hundred, go to a few restaurants and it's gone, Lin'an is a place like this, once you get used to consumption and enjoyment, no matter how much money you have, you can spend it all the time, just a few hundred dollars of money, go to a high-end restaurant, consumption is not enough, and the taverns in the streets and alleys can drink a few more times.
Tang Xun is rich, Yang Congyi knows, his family has hundreds of acres of fertile land, has been in the medicinal materials business for generations, and his family must have a lot of money, every time he goes out, he has to pay, and he doesn't want to go, he has no money to pay, and he doesn't have a good impression of Lin'an, so he simply doesn't go out, and it's good to stay in martial arts.
"Brother Yang, where are you going tomorrow?" Tang Xun asked.
Yang Congyi held the book in his hand, did not raise his head, and replied: "Tomorrow Chinese New Year's Eve, don't go anywhere, let's talk about it after Chinese New Year's Eve." ”
Tang Xun said with a smile: "Stay in martial arts all day, you don't feel bored, or let's go listen to the music." ”
Yang Congyi said: "When I go out to listen to music, I spend money, and the weather is cold, so I am not looking for guilt." ”
Tang Xun said: "It's not a way to stay every day, it's so boring, I'm going crazy." ”
Yang Congyi said: "Have a good rest for two days, and the day after tomorrow we will go to Zhenjiang and Jiankang to have a look, the road over there is not close." ”
Tang Xun lay on the bed and said weakly: "Okay." ”
In the days of reading and practicing martial arts in martial arts, for Yang Congyi, it is still very fulfilling, in the past year and a half, in addition to studying, I also have a lot of understanding of the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the court can survive until now, and the support of the people is inseparable.
Before the Jingkang Rebellion, Song Huizong greatly revitalized the garden, and the Huashi Gang was levied all over the country, I don't know how many popular uprisings were provoked, the imperial court crossed to the south, and the countless money accumulated in Bianjing for a hundred years were all looted by the Jin, and the Southern Song Dynasty fought for more than ten years, and the money and grain spent were all collected immediately, and the taxes were several times higher than those in the Northern Song Dynasty, but there was no big popular uprising, a slightly larger uprising and rebellion, and the court was gone. Of the 100,000 elites under Yue Fei, 50,000 or 60,000 people came from Zhao'an, and the same was true for several other generals, and there were many people recruiting An.
Why is there such a change? Having studied history in junior high school and high school, Yang Congyi certainly understands that the flood of peasant uprisings is the intensification of class contradictions, the contradictions between the peasant class and the feudal landlord class are irreconcilable, and they will definitely break out at a certain stage. Kill those who ride on their heads and take back the power to distribute the land.
Before the Jingkang Rebellion, the main social contradiction was the contradiction between the peasant class and the landlord ruling class, and after the Jingkang Rebellion, the main social contradiction became the national contradiction between the Chinese nation and the Jin invaders in the north.
The changes in social contradictions show that the people of the Great Song Dynasty already have some national consciousness. National consciousness is commendable, and if it is awakened once it is awakened, with the huge population base of the Great Song Dynasty, it is not impossible to defeat the Jin State in the future. But except for Yang Congyi, no one will understand this, and he is just a martial arts student, he can't affect anyone, if you want to do something, you must ascend to a high position, speak with weight, in order to do great things, this is the way Yang Congyi wants to go, the current goal is to get an official position, and then climb up.
As long as the people's hearts are available, it is possible to achieve as much merit as possible. Anyway, the Song Dynasty will not perish in the short term, and there will be no big problem no matter how much it is tossed, but in fifty years, the Mongolian tribes will be unified, and by that time, the Jin State will be destroyed, and the Song Dynasty will also be destroyed.
No matter how much you think about it, it's useless, now how to get an official and a half-job first and gain a foothold in the Song Dynasty is the top priority.
The martial arts course will be completed soon, so you should think about it.