Ma Shaoji's case was solved, and he took pity on this son, his behavior could not be said to be romantic, contrary to morality, and his luck was very bad, so bad that he even lost his life.

However, fortunately, Ma Shaoji has a good grandfather, a good father, and a good uncle, and he has encountered a good history, although others are dead, his reputation is not stinky, and he is worthy of the ancestors of the Ma family, and he has not disgraced the family!

Of course, all of the above, if you don't meet Li Rizhi, then it's all in vain, not only did Ma Shaoji die unclearly, but it almost made people mistakenly think that he eloped with the wind and dust woman, it is estimated that if the news reaches Chang'an, it is estimated that he will either be angry with his grandfather or his father!

For Li Rizhi's help, Ma Wenshang is very clear, the people of the family pay the most attention to courtesy, Li Rizhi helped the Ma family, then the Ma family must have something in return, and will never owe Li Rizhi a favor in vain!

When Cui Dongsheng finished the trial and returned to the study, Ma Wenshang's face could not hide his tiredness, and he said: "Cui Tingshi, Li Rizhi has done my Ma family a great favor, my Ma family should be rewarded, I plan to recommend him to my father and brother, isn't he going to participate in the scientific examination, after my father and brother receive my letter, he will definitely help him!" ”

Cui Dongsheng also said: "This son must have a great deal, and I also plan to exempt him from the exam, and directly guarantee him to go to Chang'an to participate in the scientific examination, well, what he wants to take is the Jinshi department!" ”

Ma Wenshang said: "There are only more than 20 people selected for each subject, and sometimes even 20 people can't be selected, and it is a little difficult to pass the exam, even with the prestige of my father and brother in Chang'an, he can only make a name for him, but it can't be said that he can win a place for Jinshi!" ”

The number of Jinshi places is too small, and the difficulty of the examination is so great that it is the most difficult of all subjects, even if it is a real power figure like the Ministry of Officials, there is no way to guarantee that Li Rizhi can pass the examination, to put it bluntly, Li Rizhi still has to rely on his own ability, and he can't rely on others.

Cui Dongsheng said: "Although our ability is limited, we also try to help him as much as possible, at least after he arrives in Chang'an, he will not be black-eyed, and someone can give him guidance, which is not only beneficial to his scientific research, but also very helpful for entering the career in the future!" ”

Ma Wenshang smiled and said, "Yes, why don't we call him in and write a letter to him?" ”

What he means is that he wants to write a letter to his father and brother, the Ma family is very powerful in the ministry, and Li Rizhi will not be able to pass the Jinshi exam, if he passes the exam, then the Ma family's help to him will not be a little bit.

Cui Dongsheng promised with a smile that he had no influence in Chang'an, but it was very humane to raise Li Rizhi to the point where he could take the exam directly, and I hope that Li Rizhi can repay him in the future, or repay the Cui family.

In the flower hall, Li Rizhi and Fu Guibao sat in the hall, waiting for Cui Dongsheng to call him, Li Rizhi understood that this matter could be ended today, Cui Dongsheng should fulfill his promise, this should be no problem, and how Ma Wenshang would thank him, I can't imagine it, maybe it should be his help after the exam!

Fu Guibao sat next to Li Rizhi, he drank tea, and said: "Big brother, this time you are beautiful, I think it is much more beautiful than other students, Cui Tingshi Bao, you go to the Jinshi examination, and once you are about to pass the examination, and there are officials from the Ministry to help you, your future is bright!" ”

Chen Yingying also said: "If it is too difficult to take the entrance examination, then it is better for you to take other subjects, such as law, anyway, as long as you pass the examination, as long as you have the qualifications to be an official, then you have a servant of the Ministry of Officials to be your backer, don't you want to be an official, just be an official!" ”

Cheng Zizi was also quite excited, he said, "Senior brother, can you directly be the county commander?" ”

Li Rizhi shook his head and said: "That's not easy, it's almost impossible, the first thing to do is to observe the government, that is, to learn how to be an official, if the relationship is tougher, you can directly send out to be a county official, or a county lieutenant, but the county order is almost impossible to respect a county, unless there are some special circumstances." ”

Chen Yingying said: "What special circumstances? ”

"It's too remote a county, no one wants to go, so the seat of the county order may be given to the Jinshi in the new examination, and I don't know much about the other situations!" Li Rizhi shook his head and said.

When Fu Guibao and Chen Yingying heard this, they said in unison: "Even if it is a remote place, as long as you can become a county magistrate, you have to go!" ”

Both of them are from rich and noble families, and they will see some things more clearly, don't care if the county order is good or not, first of all, you must take the county order as the county order, and raise the grade to the corresponding position, this is a glamorous resume, and then think about going to a good place to be an official, so that the promotion is fast, and if you find a good place to be an official first, then you will fall into the fierce competition, people stumble with each other before, but it is not easy to be promoted, and even easy to be unlucky!

Cheng Zizi patted his chest and said, "Senior brother, even if you go, no matter what kind of poor mountains and bad waters, junior brother, I will protect you!" ”

Fu Guibao nodded solemnly and said, "Go, let's go together!" ”

Chen Yingying also said very solemnly: "Yes, let's go, don't worry about the travel expenses!" ”

Li Rizhi patted his thigh and said, "It's decided, go!" Uh, though, where to go? ”

"Go to a remote place!" Cheng Zizi took a step back.

"Go and be a county magistrate!" Fu Guibao took another step back.

"You've been admitted to Jinshi!" Chen Yingying took another step back.

"I haven't participated in the scientific expedition yet, and I haven't even been to Chang'an!" Li Ri knows.

Then, all four of them were silent, everyone fell asleep just now, dreamed, and fortunately, now they are awake!

After only sitting for a while, a servant came to report, saying that Cui Dongsheng invited Li Rizhi to the study, and everyone became nervous again, Li Rizhi's long scientific expedition road, this is about to take the second step, the first step is to get out of Xingyang, and now I am waiting to get out of Zhengzhou.

Li Rizhi straightened his clothes and followed the servant to the study. As soon as he entered the study, Cui Dongsheng and Ma Wenshang smiled at him together, the difference between the two smiles is that Cui Dongsheng is appreciative smile, while Ma Wenshang is forced to squeeze out a smile, no way, who let his family just suffer, if he doesn't have to squeeze now, he really can't laugh.

Cui Dongsheng said: "Li Xian's nephew, if you want to go to Chang'an, it's not a good time to go on the road, because the state exam has not been held yet, you don't need to take the test, but other students in the state still have to take the test." ”

Li Rizhi showed a happy expression on his face, saluted Cui Dongsheng, and said, "Nephew, thank you Cui Shibo for protecting it!" ”

Cui Dongsheng touched his beard and said with a smile: "The old man will write an official letter and send someone to send it to Shangshu Province in Chang'an, so that when you arrive in Chang'an, you can take the exam directly, but you had better go on the road with other classmates, so that you can take care of each other." Of course, according to the old man, it should be you who take care of them! ”

Ma Wenshang said: "It's good for Li Xian's nephew to take care of his fellow villagers, and your classmates will be your help in the future." Also, I will write you a letter, when you arrive in Chang'an, don't go to the guest house, just live in the Shilang Mansion, my father and brother will take care of you, and you can also have the opportunity to meet the people of the three provinces and six departments in advance. ”

Li Rizhi hurriedly thanked him again, Cui Dongsheng and Ma Wenshang are still very interesting as elders, and they should help all the helpers, and they will not be discounted at all.

In front of Li Rizhi, Cui Dongsheng and Ma Wenshang each wrote a letter, Ma Wenshang wrote it to his father and brother at home, and Cui Dongsheng wrote it to Shangshu Province.

Ma Wenshang said that he was very tired, it can be said that he was physically and mentally exhausted, he said goodbye and went home, and Cui Dongsheng and Li Rizhi personally sent him out of the house.

After sending Ma Wenshang away, Cui Dongsheng said again: "The old man plans to hold an exam in a few days, and for those who pass the exam, you have to be as close as possible to them, and then go to Chang'an together!" ”

Li Rizhi naturally agreed, he went to the flower hall to call Fu Guibao and them, bid farewell to Cui Dongsheng, left the Assassin's Mansion, and returned to the Xinzheng Inn.

On the way, when I passed by the dim sum shop, I saw that the door of the shop was closed, and I didn't know what happened to Zhao Qingluo, she was a poor person, but as long as there was craftsmanship, as long as no one bullied her, she would be able to live.

Li Ri knew: "Yingying, her shop is close to your inn, you can ask people to help her more in the future." ”

Chen Yingying hummed and said, "I think she is a good person, affectionate and righteous, but her luck is too bad!" ”

Everyone returned to the inn, and Li Rizhi wrote two letters home, asking Chen Yingying to arrange for someone to send them back to Xingyang, informing his parents and uncle that he had achieved his goal in Zhengzhou and obtained the qualification to directly participate in the scientific examination.

Now the investment bank paper is popular, and there is also the era of the imperial examination that is not vague, and the exemption from the examination represents excellent knowledge, which is a kind of qualification in itself, plus there will be a servant of the Ministry of Officials to make a name for him, for Li Rizhi, the way to enter the office, so far, is still very smooth.

After a few days, the city of Zhengzhou was calm, Li Rizhi was in the inn to review his homework, but nothing happened, until the seventh day, the state held an examination, which was held in the Assassin's Mansion, presided over by Cui Dongsheng himself, and students from all counties in Zhengzhou came to the examination, in order to obtain the qualification to enter Beijing to catch the examination.

In this era, the examination is still in the embryonic form of the scientific examination, and the local examination has no fixed model, basically what is the content of the imperial examination, and what is also tested in the local examination, and it is even more so for the Jinshi examination.

For example, for the topic of the current policy, if there is a war between the Turks this year, then the magistrates will think that this year's strategy is almost related to the Turks, and then this kind of question has been produced, from different angles, but they are all related to the Turks.

The person who came up with the question was too tricky, and he didn't even have the idea of embarrassing the students, and as a result, the students answered the questions at a super high level, and all of them played at a super level!

But what if the topic isn't tricky? In this era, there are two most critical points in the admission of Jinshi, either the level of this candidate is super strong, or the backer is super hard, and both can be the same!

Because the exam is not vague, anyone's paper examiner can see that it is impossible to eliminate the papers with a super high level, and they have the ability to answer well, and the officials of Datang are still very ethical in this regard, and they will not deliberately give up the papers with a high level, but how many papers can there be with a super high level? What to do with the rest of the places, it depends on whose backer is hard!

For example, there is still a Jinshi quota left, and a grandfather of the country came and said that he should admit a certain A, and his line paper was submitted to me, and I saw that his articles and poems were good, so I would take him; Then another county king came and said that he would admit a certain B, he was my son-in-law, and then who would the examiner admit, then he would definitely admit the son-in-law of the county king, and the grandfather of the country would not be resentful if he lost, with his strength, this subject is not good, the next subject is not good, maybe the next subject of the grandfather and the lord of the country will grab a place, then the grandfather of the country will not be able to win!

It is precisely because this situation is getting more and more serious that in the era of Wu Zetian, the name of the exam is confused, and the examiner is not allowed to know whose exam paper it is, and he is not afraid that the student will cheat, but he is afraid that the examiner will cheat!

On this day, before dawn, Li Rizhi got up early in the morning, he didn't have to take the exam, but Fu Guibao and Cheng Zizi had to try, they didn't get the guarantee, it was impossible to be exempted from the exam, but there was no problem in entering the examination room to take the exam and mix up experience, anyway, no one would laugh if they were unqualified, so why not go, even Chen Yingying wanted to get in!