The method of water flushing and sand flushing is to tighten the river channel, use the impulse of water, and impact the sediment at the bottom of the riverbed, so as to achieve the purpose of dredging and flood control, which was proposed by Pan Jitao, a water conservancy expert in the Ming Dynasty during the Zhang Juzheng period, but Pan Jitao was faint at the moment, and Zhao Yan took it out with a cheeky face.

"Master Pan, don't be surprised, although it is shameful for me to plagiarize your patent, it can save countless people along the Yellow River in advance, please forgive me." Zhao Yan muttered a few words silently in his heart, and then put the test paper into the wooden box on the table.

On August 13, he took a break and re-entered on the afternoon of August 14, which was the last of the township examination.

In the Ming Dynasty, the palace test policy question, usually first talk about the history of the scriptures, and then the current affairs, the integration of the history of the current affairs, so it is called the 'history of the current affairs policy', mainly to examine the knowledge and ability of the examinee, but there is a difference between the policy of the township test or the meeting test and the strategy of the palace test.

In short, the policy questions during the township examination or the meeting examination are questions and answers, there are scriptures, history, and current affairs, and the palace examination policy question is to write three articles about current affairs, of course, this also needs to quote scriptures and classics, and integrate the history and current affairs into one.

These five scriptures and history of the current policy, Zhao Yan's answer is decent, barely passable, his energy is mainly focused on the brush words, the third exam content in the entire township test accounts for a very low proportion, so as long as it is passable, but although the content is not important, but it can not be perfunctory, at least the writing should be good-looking, which can also give the marking officer a good impression, slightly improve the score in his heart.

On the afternoon of August 16, Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan walked out of the Gongyuan together, the third exam was far less demanding than the first exam, and the time was relatively generous, so the candidates who walked out of the Gongyuan at this time looked relatively relaxed.

Township examination papers need to be completed before the end of August, the release time is generally selected at the end of August or early September, after the release of the list, the local officials will feast on the list of people, called the 'deer feast', its main purpose is to get the solution of the lift, inspirational.

On August 17th, after a night's rest, Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan got up early in the morning, although there will be good news sent to the candidate's place of origin after winning the list, but how can they see their own intuitive and interesting results, so the two of them decided to stay in Beijing after discussing the list, if the list can also participate in the Luming banquet, make friends with new people from all over the country.

After breakfast, because Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan were not familiar with the path of Jingshi, they planned to let Wang Lin lead the way and go to a lively place for a turn, and it would not be in vain for them to come to Jingshi.

Just as he was about to go out, a brocade guard wearing a flying fish suit and embroidered spring knives on his waist and crotch suddenly led several captains wearing armor to enter from outside the door, and there were originally several tables of guests in the lobby who were talking, but at this moment they all stopped their voices, and looked at the brocade guard who walked in in with horror.

Flying fish costume is a kind of trolling, embroidered flying fish, made of makeup flower Luo, makeup yarn, makeup silk in the cloud brocade, the color is quite bright, it is also very imposing to wear, there is a unicorn costume on top of the flying fish suit, generally only the senior officials of the Jinyi Guard and the Jinyi Guard near the emperor have the opportunity to wear the unicorn suit.

Li Xun glanced around the lobby, and then said to Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan: "Brother Zhao Xian, Brother Zhang Xian, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come unharmed." ”

"Brother Li?" Zhang Wenyuan looked at the leading Jinyiwei in surprise, he didn't know much about Li Xun, when he participated in the government examination together, Li Xun suddenly disappeared, but he didn't expect to say goodbye for many years, but when he met again, he was in the capital, and Li Xun changed into a Jinyiwei who made people hear and change.

Zhao Yan had been mentally prepared for Li Xun's visit, but he didn't expect Li Xun to be so fanfare, he looked left and right, and the needles in the lobby could be heard, Zhao Yan reluctantly said: "Brother Li, we might as well come to my room to talk." ”

"It's fine." Li Xun turned his head and ordered several lieutenants behind him to wait at the door, and only took Yuan Bin, the lieutenant who had a relationship with Zhao Yan, into Zhao Yan's room.

There was a table of eight immortals in Zhao Yan's room, after a few people came to the room and sat down, but no one spoke first, Li Xun's appearance did not change, but there was some indescribable pressing momentum on his body, he looked at Zhao Yan and the two with a smile, but there was a trace of worry hidden between his eyebrows.

Zhao Yan also looked at Li Xun, he intuitively thought that Li Xun was going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and he must have something to talk about with himself and Zhang Wenyuan, so after a moment of silence, Zhao Yan turned his head and said to Wang Lin: "Senior brother, you go outside with Li Er and Brother Zhang first, Brother Zhang and I are going to accompany Brother Li to catch up today." ”

Wang Lin couldn't understand Zhao Yan's hints, he wanted to say that he was tired of shopping on the street for a long time, but Li Er and Zhang Shun, who were standing at the door, understood it, and the two of them came over and grabbed Wang Lin and pushed him outside.

After Wang Lin and the three left, Li Xun smiled at Zhang Wenyuan and said: "Brother Fool knows that Brother Xian has doubts in his heart, but I can't help myself now, but I can't stay here longer, if I have the opportunity to talk to Brother Xian in the future." ”

Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan glanced at each other, then looked at Li Xun and asked, "Why did Brother Li come here today?" ”

Li Xun was silent for a moment and then said softly: "Since the two virtuous brothers have participated in the Autumn Festival, they might as well go back to Shenzhou as soon as possible, and there may be a disaster if they are late." ”

"What does Brother Li mean by this?" Zhang Wenyuan asked puzzled.

"Huh." Li Xun suddenly smiled and said, "I know that if you don't make it clear to the two virtuous brothers, I'm afraid you won't easily listen to what I just said." It's just that I'm for the good of the two virtuous brothers, and the foolish brother is in his position, but some words can't be said too thoroughly, I can only say that there may be changes in the autumn in a few days, maybe someone will be imprisoned, maybe not, I don't want you to get involved in this matter, so the foolish brother hopes that you can go back as soon as possible. ”

"Brother Li......" Zhang Wenyuan still wanted to ask in detail, but Li Xun suddenly got up.

"Two virtuous brothers, the foolish brother is busy with official business, and he is about to leave. Here, I hope you can all be high school laurels, and the next time the foolish brother returns to his hometown to visit relatives, we will not get drunk and not return. After Li Xun finished speaking, he turned around and walked out without looking back.

Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan stood up in amazement to see each other, but Yuan Bin, the captain of Jinyi, stopped the two and said softly: "Haven't the two sons heard of it?" Before the township examination, there were people who sold exam questions, and there were as many as two or three hundred people who bought the questions. The emperor handed over this matter to me Jinyiwei to deal with, and if there is a mistake, I will not let go, and the reputation of Jinyiwei must be familiar to the two sons. In the next words, Deputy Li Qianhu couldn't help himself, this trip was supposed to deal with official business, but halfway to remind the two sons has made an exception, I hope the two sons will understand. ”

Li Xun left in a hurry, Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan returned to the room and looked at each other, they had never stepped out of the threshold of the inn almost once before the township test, and the location of this Yuelai inn was a little remote, and there were only about a dozen test takers living in total, and most of them were children of poor families, so they were blind to the fact that someone was selling exam questions before the township test, and they didn't know at all.

After a while, Zhang Wenyuan said in a bitter voice: "Brother Zhao, are the words of Brother Li and that Jinyi lieutenant a little alarmist?" The autumn festival is a move for the country's electors, and the precautions are extremely strict, how can the exam questions be leaked? ”

Zhao Yan looked at Zhang Wenyuan, and immediately decided: "Brother Zhang, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, some people in this world can do anything for the sake of money and interests, and this also involves officialdom, and the complexity is far beyond what you and I can speculate." I believe that Brother Li will not make a trick to harm us, we have already participated in the Autumn Festival, it is not profitable for him to do this at all, and the captain Yuan also said that Jinyiwei has made a mistake this time, and the scholars of various prefectures who are still stranded in Beijing are afraid that they will be unlucky, and some of them may suffer unwarranted disasters, but it is not for you and me to rescue. If the gentleman doesn't stand under the dangerous wall, you and I will pack our luggage, and then wait for Li Er and them to come back and contact the carriage and horse shop, and strive to get on the road in the afternoon. ”

"This ......" Zhang Wenyuan hesitated: "In case you and I make the list, won't you participate in the Luming Banquet after that?" ”

Zhao Yan smiled and comforted Zhang Wenyuan and said, "Brother Zhang, the Luming Banquet is just a formality. Regardless of whether you participate in the Luming Banquet or not, as long as this autumn festival is not invalidated, as long as you and I are on the list, we will inevitably become lifters, will the court still not recognize it? ”

Zhang Wenyuan is not a pedantic person, and nodded when he heard this: "That's right, but I don't see it as thoroughly as Brother Zhao." Brother Zhao said well, if a gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall, then you and I will pack my luggage. ”

The price of Jingshi is higher than that small place in Shenzhou, when from Shenzhou to Jingshi, hiring a carriage and a coachman only costs three taels of silver, or for Zhao Yan and others to get better care, Zhao Xincai generously gave the coachman an additional two taels of silver, and now from Jingshi to Shenzhou, the carriage and horse shop directly offered a carriage five taels of silver, and the coachman two taels of silver, Li Er ran two carriages and horses in a row at this price, and finally had to grit his teeth and agree.

On the road in the afternoon, after arriving outside the city, Wang Lin rode his jujube red horse and ran back and forth a few laps, and then suddenly said to Zhao Yan in the carriage: "Senior brother, I remember that at the end of every month, there are ox carts and horse-drawn carts from Beijing to the workshop to pull goods, and this month should not be pulled, why don't we take those ox carts and horse-drawn carts to pull goods back?" ”

Zhao Yan's face darkened, if it wasn't for Wang Lin's reminder, he didn't expect this stubble at all, Wang Lin's father Wang Dahu seemed to have partnered with someone in Beijing to open a shop specializing in soap and soap in the first two months, although the shop didn't have its own share, but the second son of the Wang family was here, why couldn't he and others take a ride? For no reason, he was earned seven taels of silver by the carriage and horse shop of the Beijing Division, which was converted into the soft sister coins of later generations, which is more than 10,000 yuan, even if it is shared equally with Zhang Wenyuan, it is a few thousand yuan!

Although Zhao Yan and his son can get a few hundred taels of silver from the workshop bonus every month, he has not yet realized that he is a rich son at this time.