After the New Year, Song Youliang is going to study in Da Songwei's Weixue again. The Ming Dynasty used literature to control martial arts, and if he could get a reputation or something, it would be much easier to act in the future. The Ming Dynasty established many guards in the surrounding areas and sent troops to station, which managed both military and civil affairs. However, the economy and culture of the border areas are underdeveloped, and the children of military ministers have lived in the border areas for a long time, and there is no opportunity to enroll in school to study and study rituals. For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, issued an edict in the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384) to set up a guard school in Liaodong and other guards. Since then, other health centers along the border have also set up health schools. The establishment of the Ming Dynasty health school is more complicated, there is a Wei set up a health school, there is a second Wei set up a health school, and there are three Wei and four Wei set up a health school.

In fact, Da Songwei's Weixue has been abandoned for a long time, and it is completely a place for some military attachés' children to mess around. The teacher in it has no way to take such a military attaché's children, just take a monthly salary and make a fool of himself. Song Youliang used to think that military households could not participate in the imperial examination, but in fact, the truth was just the opposite. According to the statistics of the "Index of Inscriptions and Inscriptions of Jinshi in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", it can be found that in the thirteenth year of Yongle, there were 47 military candidates, accounting for 13.4% of the total, which is consistent with the background that most military households have not yet turned over economically. By the 15th year of Hongzhi, the number of military jinshi had reached 88, accounting for 22.2% of the total. If 14 officers and military officers are added, they account for 25.7% of the total. Since then, the proportion of military candidates in the list has remained roughly at about 25%. For example, in the 44th year of Wanli, there were 87 Jinshi (including official status), accounting for 25.3%. In the first year of Chongzhen, there were 84, accounting for 23.8%, considering that the number of military households in the middle and late Ming Dynasty continued to decline, the military Jinshi has far exceeded the proportion of military households in the Ming Dynasty to all households, indicating that military households have a stronger desire to seek political protection than other households, and the efforts are greater, but the average poor military household is unable to support their children and grandchildren to study.

Song Youliang walked into the Weixue Academy, only to see that the yard was overgrown with weeds, and the trees were overgrown, obviously no one had cleaned and pruned for a long time. There were seven or eight young people of the same age as themselves in the garden, giggling back and forth, and when they saw Song Youliang coming in, they didn't care.

Song Youliang walked in front, Xu Erduo followed closely with a package on his back, the master and servant walked to a study, and looked up to see the word "etiquette" written on a plaque with peeling paint, and an old Confucian wearing a blue cloth shirt and a Yangming scarf was looking down to read a book. According to the memories of his previous life, Song Youliang remembered that it was Lu Wenzhou, the teacher of Weixue, and he was also a failed talent

Song Youliang hurriedly coughed lightly and saluted: "Student Song Youliang of Haiyang Institute, meet Mr.~"

The old Confucian raised his head, put down the book in his hand, frowned lightly and said: "If Song Gongzi just wants to take the martial arts exam, then it can be the same as them~~ It is useless to come again" Lu Wenzhou pointed to the group of hip-hop brothers outside

Song Youliang remembered that he was also a stubborn person in the past, and he was giggling when he was studying, but at this moment Song Youliang said seriously: "In the past, the student had no form and failed to live up to the hard work of Mr., but now he has changed his past mistakes and is determined to study seriously."

Lu Wenzhou paused, and seemed to have noticed that Song Youliang was different from before, and said: "It's just that I see that Song Gongzi is quite aura, but it still needs to be carved." Kong said to be benevolent, Meng said to take righteousness, only its righteousness is exhausted, so benevolence is to the end. What have we learned from the books of the sages? It is nothing more than to report to the king, and report to the people. Now that the Son of Heaven is in power, our generation is the time to do a lot! If Song Gongzi has the heart to study, the old man is willing to teach him~" Lu Wenzhou hasn't taught students for a long time

Song Youliang hurriedly bowed to Lu Wenzhou: "Please teach me~~"

Lu Wenzhou hurriedly helped Song Youliang up and said: "Song Gongzi doesn't have to be polite, since Song Gongzi is thirsty for learning, then the old man should teach him ~~ Refer to a shortcut to you"

"A shortcut? Didn't you say that there is a road in Book Mountain? Song Youliang was a little puzzled

"Hmph~~ You only know one thing but you don't know the other~~ Listen to the old man~" Lu Wenzhou said with a smile

It turned out that before the Ming Dynasty, the school was only one of the ways to send candidates for the imperial examination. In the Ming Dynasty, entering the school became the only way to take the imperial examination. Those who entered the country in the Ming Dynasty to study were commonly known as prisoners. There are generally four types of prisoners: those who are imprisoned to study, those who are imprisoned are called tribute prisons, those who are imprisoned by bureaucrats are called shadow prisons, those who are put into prisons are called eunuchs, and those who donate money to prisons are called routine prisons. Prisoners can be officials directly. Especially in the early Ming Dynasty, there were many people who served as prison guards and served as central and local officials. After the Ming Dynasty became an ancestor, there were fewer and fewer opportunities for inmates to directly become officials, but they could directly participate in the township examination and become officials through the imperial examination.

Under Song Youliang's conditions, you don't need to go to school at all, and then take the children's exam, so step by step. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a system called "Nasu in prison". Candidates can also participate in the township examination without passing the children's examination and scientific examination. In fact, "Nasu into prison" is to donate money to a prisoner to obtain the qualification for the township examination. If we look at it from a modern point of view, this kind of inmates bought with money is similar to the self-financed students of universities before the expansion of enrollment. However, those who take this path are often looked down upon, just like the famous universities that took the back door in later generations. However, there are always exceptions, for example, Luo Gui in the Ming Dynasty failed to pass the children's examination seven times, but after donating to prison, he won the first place in the township examination and the general examination.

Lu Wenzhou took out a booklet from the drawer, with the words "Heroes Spectrum" written on it, this is not a martial arts novel, but a variety of poems and eight-strand texts that Lu Wenzhou has collected for decades, and then extracted the essence of it and wrote it in a book. In addition, you also need to know that in addition to the good article, the most important thing is to get the examiner's heart. If you want to win the examiner's heart, two things are the most important. The first is whether your handwriting is good-looking, and a beautiful handwriting can add many impression points to your exam. The second is whether the method of discourse is preferred by the examiner. These are the key points of success or failure.

This is Lu Wenzhou's so-called shortcut

"Song Gongzi, if you can read the old man's "Heroes Spectrum" well and thoroughly, plus a little luck, there is still a chance to be on the list~" Lu Wenzhou nodded solemnly

Song Youliang was excited for a while, and he couldn't wait to pick up "The Heroes Spectrum" and read it

So the Song family pooled a sum of money to donate the prisoners to Song Youliang, and then Song Youliang went through several months of assault and intensive training, and Song Youliang really stood in the township examination room in Shandong in August of the tenth year of Chongzhen. The township test was held in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, and the largest city Xu Erduo and Zhang Shi had ever seen before was Laiyang County. Lu Wenzhou also came to Jinan once a long time ago, although there is also a feeling of countrymen entering the city, but they jump up and down more than Xu Erduo. Only Song Youliang disagreed, and Lu Wenzhou also said that Song Youliang was calm and relaxed, and his ambitions were in all directions.

As soon as you enter Jinan City, the first thing you see is the magnificent Dewang Mansion, tomorrow Shun first year, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen re-established the eldest son Zhu Jianshen as the prince, and on the same day sealed the remaining four sons as the four kings of De, Xiu, Chong and Ji. Zhu Jianyan, the king of Dezhou, was the second son of Yingzong, the first name was Qing, because of his love for the victory of Jinan Lake and mountain springs, he asked to rebuild the palace in Jinan on the grounds that Dezhou was barren and the wind and sand were too big, but this request was not approved by Ming Yingzong. It was not until the first year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Jianshen inherited the throne of the Ming Xianzong that he approved King De to change his residence to Jinan. In the third year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianyan came to Jinan to take place. After being allowed to relocate to Jinan, the first major thing Zhu Jianyan did was to build a large number of buildings with Pearl Spring as the center and build the Dewang Mansion. The Dewang Mansion is expanded on the site of the former Jinan Gong Zhang Rong's mansion, the most prosperous area in Jinan City. Dewang Mansion is also known as "Defan Forbidden City", it is said that Dewang Mansion covers a vast area, one-third of the land in Jinan City is included, and it is the largest building complex in Jinan City in the Ming Dynasty. It extends to the county west lane in the east, Furong Street in the west, Quancheng Road in the south, and Houzaimun Street in the north.