Jinan Gongyuan was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the scale of the Gongyuan was relatively large, starting from Xiaobu Zhengsi Street in the south, and reaching the south bank of Daming Lake in the north. Jinan Gongyuan is the place where the Ming and Qing dynasties carried out the "township test". The main building in the Gongyuan is the "No. House". The so-called "number house" is the place where the talents take the exam. Different from the current examination room, at that time, all the candidates who took the examination lived alone in a "number room", and there were guards outside the door of the "number room" to conduct a fully enclosed examination.

Before entering the "number house", candidates must also go through a strict body search. The security of the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties was very strict, and the requirements reached the level that "no piece of paper or word was allowed to be brought into the examination room". In addition to being carefully searched by the guards before entering the venue, strict regulations were also made on the clothing of candidates during the Qianlong period: whether it is a hat, a shirt, a robe, or a gown, it must be a single layer. Leather and felt jackets should be removed, socks should be single-layered, and shoes should be thin-soled; Secondly, the bag used by the candidates to hold the examination tools must not have a lining, the inkstone should not be too thick, the barrel of the brush must be hollow, the charcoal must only be two inches long, the pillar of the candlestick must be hollow and the bottom must be cut and checked. The basket of the candidate's supplies should be woven into a delicate grid for easy search. When being inspected, the candidate's underwear and underwear must be untied.

The "Bungalow" is very small enough to barely accommodate one person, and there are several wooden planks that can be moved and shelved. During the day, the planks are separated, with tables on the upper floor and benches on the lower floor. At night, the planks are put together to form a couch again. The exams were held all day, and eating, drinking, and lazing were all in it, and the taste was no less than that of being in prison. In addition to the necessary stationery, candidates also need to bring daily necessities: baskets, food boxes, food, rice bowls, candles, and even toilets, bedding, charcoal for heating, etc. Shandong has always been a major province in education, and when Jinan Gongyuan was the largest, there were about 15,000 houses.

When Song Youliang arrived at the Gongyuan, he found that the people who took the exam with him were all middle-aged people in their thirties, and there were even half-old men with black and white hair. Lu Wenzhou whispered to Song Youliang: "Apprentice, have you memorized those articles that the teacher copied for you?" ”

Song Youliang nodded and did not speak

Lu Wenzhou said: "I have inquired for the teacher, this time the examiner likes to write gorgeously, if your article can be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and do not hesitate to die to serve the country and other words as the basis, it will be on the list, and the opportunity is not small~"

Song Youliang said with a smile: "There are a lot of people here, it is inconvenient to give a big gift, if the student really gets the middle of the list, he will definitely repay the teacher~"

Lu Wenzhou stroked his beard lightly and said with a smile: "Since the teacher taught you, I naturally hope that you will be blue~~"

Candidates entered the venue one after another, first Xuezheng read out the discipline of the examination room that was said to be inscribed by the emperor himself, probably not allowed to cheat or anything, the article was very long, the candidates stood in the hot sun and were exposed, each sweating, but everyone's expression was excited. After finally reading the holy teachings, all the candidates and examiners shouted long live together, and closed the gate of the Tribute Academy

After Lu Wenzhou sent Song Youliang into the examination room, he took a rest with Xu Erduo and all the family members in an inn on Wallgen Street in the nearby Gongyuan.

Three days later, it was not easy for Song Youliang to come out of the examination room and come to the inn to meet Lu Wenzhou and the others.

"How's it going?" Lu Wenzhou asked hurriedly, his nervous and excited expression overflowing

"Thank you for mentioning the point, the excerpted article is somewhat related to the exam questions~~" Song Youliang also wiped the sweat on his forehead, "But~~" Song Youliang stopped talking

Lu Wenzhou still nodded with satisfaction, he looked at Song Youliang's expression, and said with a smile: "Others are ten years old, with your diligence in the past few months, even if you can't pass the exam, you will be worthy of your heart." As a teacher, I won't blame you, and you don't have to blame yourself~~"

Song Youliang, who had completed the government examination, returned to the Haiyang Institute, and Lu Wenzhou, a lecturer in health studies, also resigned from his position as a lecturer in health studies, and was hired by Song Youliang with 20 stone of grain per year to open a school in the Haiyang Institute, which was specially designed to teach the children of military families.

When Song Youliang and his entourage arrived at the outskirts of Haiyang, they saw black smoke rising from the fields, and a large area of wheat that had not yet had time to be harvested was burned to ashes. There were dried blood clots everywhere on the ground. Some of the walls of the buntonn houses were filled with arrowheads, and some were full of pockmarked pits, apparently chiseled with hoes or something. In the distance, you can also see the hired workers of the Haiyang Institute throwing corpses into the fire for cremation

"What's going on?" Song Youliang hurriedly rode his horse and galloped

"Youliang, you're back, everyone is waiting for you to make an idea~~" Song Qianjin's right arm was covered with gauze, and the terrifying red could still be seen, and everyone had already regarded Song Youliang as the backbone in their minds.

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and it turns out that there is a sentry of horse thieves who have discovered that Haiyang has opened up a large area of wasteland and is about to get a bumper harvest. So Haiyang became a piece of fat in the eyes of horse thieves, and during the time when Song Youliang went to Jinan Township to try, a group of horse thieves in Dengzhou attacked Haiyang, and their leader called Bantianyun. The people in Haiyang were caught off guard, although Song Qianjin led everyone to resist, there were still nearly 300 dead and wounded.

"Damn ~~" Song Youliang slapped the table, and the waist knife on the square table jumped, and scolded: "The bully has come to my head~ Am I so easy to bully?" Half a day cloud? Hmph~~"

Xu Erduo clasped his fists and saluted: "Childe, let me take the brothers to destroy this and what cloud~"

"Don't worry~~" Song Youliang was angry, but he didn't mess up, "Dad, how many people were killed or injured by that group of horse thieves this time?" ”

"Not to mention, there are one or two hundred people~~" Song Qianjin nodded seriously

Song Youliang thought for a while and said: "This time they killed and injured one or two hundred people but didn't succeed, they will definitely not be reconciled, I expect them to come again~~"

"Again?" Someone exclaimed

"I'm afraid of a bird~~ People are dying in the sky, and Lao Tzu is not afraid of that cloud~" Xu Erduo scolded

Song Youliang grabbed the waist knife and said, "Dad, I'm in a hurry, everyone, I have something to say~"

Suddenly, the small school field of Haiyang Institute, the people of Haiyang Institute and the hundreds of households of various tun houses all came, and the small school field was full.

"The fathers and villagers of Haiyang~~ For more than a year, we have been facing the loess with our backs to the sky, working hard to farm the land, and collecting grain~~ These grains are our sweat and blood~~" Song Youliang said sensationally: "These grains, just like the babies we gave birth, belong to us, right~~~"

"Yes~Yes~~" everyone shouted in response

"Now that there are natural disasters year after year, we can only survive with food, and these foods are our lifeblood, right~~"

"Yes~~Yes~~" Everyone shouted again

"Now there is a king named Bantianyun who wants to rob our food, that is, to rob our baby, to cut off our life~~ Everyone said okay?"

"No~~No~~~"

"What do you say?" Song Youliang saw that the heat was almost over, and asked loudly

"Slaughtered him~~" Xu Erduo was the first to raise his arms and shout

"Yes~~ That's right, whoever robs us of our grain, whose life we want~~" Song Youliang pulled out his waist knife with a snort and shouted: "The old and young masters of Haiyang, fighting with the Mongolian Tartars, we have never been afraid, and the horse thieves are desperate, we are not a bad breed~~~"

"Desperate~~desperate~~~"

"Slaughter those thieves~~" The soldiers of Haiyang Institute in the school field shouted feverishly

Song Youliang saw that some of the newly attached fort people were still a little hesitant, so he said: "New brothers, you were forced to flee to Haiyang, if you can't stay here, where else can you go?" Flee to the edge of the sky? ”

Fan Shunbao also replied loudly: "Gongzi is righteous, take us in, so Haiyang is also our home, who wants to make us unable to live and cut off our way of life, my surname Fan is the first to fight with him." As he spoke, he shouted to a few Hebei villagers: "Do we Hebei people have any seeds?" ”

"No~~No~~" was instigated by Fan Shunbao, and the Hebei hired workers also shouted excitedly

It was the head of the Henan homeless people, and he also led a group of fellow villagers to shout: "We Henan people are not bad breeds, if the horse thief dares to come, let's tell him to come in standing and lie down and go out~~~"

"Okay~~" Song Youliang raised his waist knife high, "Brothers, go to the ordnance station to get the guys, and then go to the small school field to practice~~ Prepare to kill the horse thief and protect the homeland~~~"

"Kill the horse thief, protect the homeland~~".

"Kill the horse thief, protect the homeland~~"

"Kill the horse thief, protect the homeland~~"