Chen Oak slowly inspected the slaughter. Small pigments. Then he said embarrassedly to the painter who helped him: "Garcinia cambogia is not needed, change to something else." By the way, the rouge was also replaced with magenta. Ahem, blame me for not telling you clearly. It's a pity that so much paint was wasted in vain! The mural of the White Cloud Temple has finally begun to be built. After receiving the salary, Chen Ge immediately hired an experienced painter to help, drew sketches on paper, and began to work in a hurry.

This macro has fuel on his face and hands. It looks rather embarrassing. However, perhaps thanks to this project, the living expenses for the next year have been settled, and this scholar from the daimyo is in good spirits and has not slept for three consecutive days.

This craftsman was about fifty years old, and he still carried an eleven or twelve-year-old land. He has been in this business for more than 40 years, and he is very quick to get started. Hearing Chen Ge's words, the old craftsman said with some resentment: "Why can't you use rouge and garcinia cambogia, according to the old man, these two locally produced pigments are cheap." And, in the words of you readers. The two colors of yellow and red are distinct, bright but not cheesy, and the painting also has an aura, as if it is about to move. Mr. wanted to change it to magenta, although this color looks fresh, but it is too gaudy, not good, not good. When he said this, the old man kept shaking his head.

He added: "Moreover, pigments such as magenta are really difficult to grind, and they need to filter the impurities in them, which is really troublesome. The little apprentice with the old man was struggling to grind a pile of malachite in a mortar, so tired that his head was covered in hot sweat.

Chen Ju felt even more embarrassed, and said in an apologetic tone: "Uncle, you don't know that this mural painting has to use mineral pigments, so that it can be maintained for a hundred years, or even a thousand years." If you use the pigments extracted from plants and trees such as garcinia cambogia and cyanine, they will be old after decades of sun and wind. ”

The old painter said: "Xiucai, the salary is so much, you can save it." All mineral pigments. I'm afraid that I can't keep up with the construction period. ”

Seeing that the painter was unhappy, Chen Ge persuaded him again and again, and was careful with him, but the old painter just didn't comply.

Sun Dan looked funny next to him, this Chen Xiucai was so honest that he was shocked by the hired craftsmen, and he didn't have the consciousness of his employer at all.

He had been watching here for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say to the old painter: "Old man, you are not authentic, people spend money to disdain you, what paint do you want to use." You just do what you are told, what are you doing with so much nonsense? You said that stone blue and stone green are mineral pigments, and it is more laborious to grind, and I still believe it. To say that magenta is also a mineral pigment is a lie. ”

Hearing Sun Dan talk about paint, Chen Ge's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Brother Sun, what is this magenta?" ”

The so-called magenta is actually the general name of the ancient people's western red pigments. At this time, Westerners were already doing business in the south, and the pigments used by Westerners were also introduced.

Western pigments are bright and bright, and they are used to paint Chinese paintings. It is not vulgar, but it can be used to paint murals and New Year paintings, but it is very good. Lively, festive, and can be preserved for a long time.

The Chen family was originally a painter in the past dynasties, and they were no strangers to this magenta, but they just didn't understand what this kind of thing was and where it was produced.

Looking at Sun Dan's appearance, he seems to be very familiar with magenta. Chen Lou unconsciously asked, "Where did Brother Sun hear about it?" ”

Sun Dan said: "I once read a book that said that magenta is produced on the body of a kind of cochineal insect in the extreme south of the country, and it is not a mineral pigment. Just now the old man said that magenta is extracted from minerals, and he simply wanted to be lazy. He looked at the old man with a smile: "Old man, am I right?" ”

When the old painter heard Sun Dan say this, he knew that he had met a big connoisseur, so he arched his hand with a face of shame: "People say that Xiucai doesn't go out, but you can know that there is Mr. Sun in the world who even knows this kind of thing, and the old Hanfu is gone, so I'll buy it."

Looking at the old painter's ashamed expression, Chen Gou greatly admired: "Brother Sun is really knowledgeable and talented, and the younger brother admires it." But I don't know what the name of the book you read is and where you saw it? If you have a copy handy, you may want to lend it to me. When asked this, he looked expectant.

Sun Dan smiled bitterly in his heart, and said secretly: The book I read is called "Chinese Pigment Examination", published by the People's Fine Arts Publishing House in 1979, if you want to see it, I will also be able to take it!

In the future, he didn't let an honest and stubborn guy continue to ask, Sun Dan had to say: "I saw this book from Yang Shen, I forgot what the specific name is, and I will have the opportunity to help you check it in the future." ”

He immediately pulled the topic aside: "Brother Chen, it's about to be autumn, it's not appropriate for you to think about reading idle books." By the way, you are a famous scholar, Qiu Yu should take the exam of Zhili. Why did you run to Shuntianfu? ”

Chen Ge was a little embarrassed: "Brother Sun, you don't know, I heard that the exam questions here in Shuntianfu are much simpler than those in other provinces, and there are many places." I took the exam here and was a little more sure. Chen Jie was ashamed, when he participated in the boys' examination in the daimyo, he relied on it for four years in a row, and he fell to Sun Shan every time. Later, after being reminded, the household registration was transferred to Shuntianfu, and finally won the show last year. As he spoke, his face flushed. I wish there was a crack in the ground to get into.

"Ha, it turned out to be a college entrance examination immigrant, and it turned out that the ancients also hurt it

The level of education in various places in the Ming Dynasty was uneven, such as some remote counties in the northern provinces, and it was normal for more than ten years to have not produced a single person.

But in the kind of prosperous humanities in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Huiji, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jia, Su, Yang, and Chang, it is as simple as sending dozens or hundreds of people to drink water every time.

Therefore, the early Ming Dynasty, especially the Jinshike, was occupied by the southern scholars for a long time. Thereupon. That's why there is a north-south division system, in order to achieve a balance. In order to encourage northerners to read. The imperial examinations in the northern provinces of the imperial court were relatively simple, and there was a lot of care in the admission quota.

There are two policies and countermeasures, and Mao's southern scholars, who have some brains, moved their household registration to the north in order to increase the success rate.

In the Northern Imperial Examination, the largest number of admission places and the simplest examination questions should be pushed to Shuntianfu.

Shuntianfu is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the scholars who come to take the exam are the children of ministers and ministers, and it is also appropriate to take care of them, which is also the silence of the entire bureaucratic literati group.

However, it is precisely because of the large number of township examination places in Suncheonfu. Difficulty: The imperial court is extremely strict with the household registration card of Shuntian Mansion. The reason why Sun Dan was able to transfer his household registration to the capital was because he was stained with the light of the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang.

can look at the Chen Jia in front of him, the poverty has fallen to such a level, and it is estimated that his family has no power.

However, when Sun Dan thought about it, he immediately thought of the future Empress Chen, and he was relieved.

He deliberately teased Chen Jie: "Brother Chen, the Shuntian Mansion is extremely strict in its investigation of the foreign population, and you are afraid that it will be a little difficult for you to enter the yellow nationality in the capital, right?" ”

Chen Ju didn't realize that Sun Dan was tricking him, and his expression was even more cowardly; Xiaosheng is ashamed, he can enter the yellow nationality of the capital, relying on the favor of Xingwangfu. My distant cousin is the queen of King Xing, and I am the only scholar in the family, so I entered the capital because of her favor. cough, Chen Ge did this kind of thing, and he really felt like he couldn't raise his head. ”

Sun Dan deliberately pretended to be surprised: "It turns out that Brother Chen is the emperor's prince, I heard that King Xing has entered the succession to the throne." Your distant cousin is also the empress of the Ming Dynasty. In the future, I will have to ask Brother Chen to take care of me. ”

"No, no." Chen Oak waved his hand again and again: "The emperor's family also has a few poor relatives. I don't know how many generations of relatives I have, I have never met, but I am afraid that she may not know that there is such a person as me. At the beginning, I just wrote a letter and waited for half a year. Xingwangfu wrote me a note to take to Shuntianfu, and then I became a naturalized citizen. ”

"But too, in this world, there are more relatives of the emperor and the country. There is no 100,000, there is always 80,000. Sun Dan thought so.

The Ming Dynasty raised the prince and the children surnamed Zhu as pigs. Although these people have no ability, they are extremely fertile. As far as Sun Dan knows, there are tens of thousands of children surnamed Zhu up to now. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had swelled to an astonishing more than 100,000, making the national finances unable to bear it.

A so-called relative like Chen Rong is really nothing. Sometimes it's not even as good as a small landowner. No wonder this guy has fallen into the way he is now, hiding in the Baiyun Temple as an otaku all day long, looking forward to changing his personal fate by relying on the imperial examination.

Sun Dan didn't feel a little sympathetic to this Chen Groove. It is true that this person is a relative. It can be stipulated in the Ming Dynasty system. Relatives are not allowed to interfere in politics, and he is destined to not be a big official in his life. Moreover, he can't do it for a few years, and soon, Queen Chen will die in childbirth. With the reputation of his relatives on his back, but he didn't get any benefits, Chen Cha's life was really bad!

Chen Ge: "After painting these two murals, this year's living expenses can be regarded as earned, and I really have to thank Brother Sun for this." Although Chen Tie is stupid, he also knows that Brother Sun is helping me, so he is very gracious, please accept Chen Ge's worship. As he spoke, Chen Ge remembered his embarrassment some time ago, and felt in his heart that his eyes were red, and he wanted to bow down.

Sun Dan sighed in his heart, and hurriedly supported him: "They are all scholars, and gentlemen have the friendship of wealth." I was also born into a poor family in my early years, and I know the hardships of poor scholars. Brother Chen, after painting these two murals, study your homework well, and don't read other idle books. ”

Chen nodded again and again: "This is indeed the truth." However, Brother Sun, I see that you have been reading Taoism in the Tibetan Scripture Building all day long in the past two days, isn't that also an idle book? Sun Dan laughed: "Didn't I say the day before yesterday, if I want to be promoted, it will be easy for me to be a scholar." The eight-strand Shiwen is just a quick stepping stone, and if you use it, you will throw it away, but you don't need to pay much attention. I've been interested in Taoism lately, and I'd like to study it. ”

"Yes, yes, I forgot that Brother Sun is a friend of Xiao Yang, who is Xiao Yang, who is a genius who has not been born in the 150 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. It is naturally simple to be a middle jinshi, so naturally you don't have to think about it. Chen Rong looked respectful: "Wait for this matter, and ask Brother Sun for more guidance." "Chen Chagang has made a move.

"Well said, well said." Sun Dan nodded and accepted his salute calmly. If you talk about the understanding of Baguwen, he thinks that he should be able to rank in the top ten in the world, second only to the Yang family's father and son, Yang Yiqing and a few others.

However, Chen Dai mentioned the matter of reading the Taoist treasure. Sun Qi immediately felt a headache: That thing is too difficult!