According to the regulations, the county test is generally held in February every year, but Xiong Xiu fell ill some time ago due to the county order of Fenyi County.

Moreover, Yang Yiqing, the school official, is not an idle master, because Yan Zhun took the opportunity to inspect the students and faculty officials in Fenyi County.

As a result, the county test time was delayed, and the county test time was delayed to the fifth day of the next month, that is, the fifth day of the third month.

However, this is not a hindrance, the county government will issue a notice before the county test a month, and it will be nothing if some places in the counties across the country delay it.

It's just that the time to prepare for the government exam is shorter.

Xiong Xiuzai, the magistrate of Fenyi County, was in the old merchant of the Fenyi County, Wang Shu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and Yang Yiqing, the envoy of the school, all paid attention to Yan Heng's special department, so they specially sent people to inform Yan Heng to participate in the county examination.

For Xiong Xiu, let Yan Heng participate in the county examination as soon as possible, Xiong Xiu, the county official, can become Yan Heng's teacher as soon as possible, and Yan Heng can be regarded as the first step into the circle of their group of civil officials.

Wan'an's people are naturally one step late.

Xiong Xiu didn't think that Yan Heng, who was only twelve years old, would not even be able to pass the county test, after all, Yan Heng was a genius who could teach his younger brother to memorize the Book of Filial Piety.

However, at this time, it was not only Xiong Xiu who was paying attention to Yan Heng.

Emperor Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty in the capital also looked at the secret report about Yan Heng that was delivered by Dongchang at this time, but in front of Emperor Chenghua there was also a resignation from Wang Shu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.

Emperor Chenghua, who had low self-esteem because of his stuttering, was not a dumb person, but the misfortunes of his childhood made his character sensitive and suspicious, but he himself was full of feelings, otherwise he would not be unswerving to Wan Guifei, who was many years older than him.

Therefore, when he saw the content of Yan Heng, a country boy, speaking for him, Emperor Chenghua was happy in his heart, but when he thought of this guy's words, he was a little angry when he took the initiative to ask Zhishi, and he couldn't help but say:

"What an ignorant arrogant boy, at a young age, he dared to talk about the ministers of the court, and he also said that he was not inferior, and told Liang Fang to pass on a decree to this son!"

The so-called central decree is nothing more than a decree that does not go through the cabinet and the secretary of general affairs, and most of them do not involve actual government affairs.

Of course, at this time, Yan Heng didn't know that he would soon receive the holy decree, and he would soon be in the emperor's heart, and he was now worried about earning two hundred taels of silver in a month.

Yan Heng didn't even have time to think about why Xiong Xiu, the county magistrate of Fenyi County, specially ordered him to participate in the county exam.

If you want to participate in the county exam, he is a little sure, after all, he can be regarded as opening Su Hui now, how many eight-strand texts in the Ming and Qing dynasties are in his mind, plus he is originally a graduate student of ancient literature, and he is no stranger to the creation of this kind of literature.

It's just that Yan Heng knows that his calligraphy is not good-looking, and even Xiao Yan Song despises his ugly words.

And Yan Heng knows that in this era, just like writing essays in the college entrance examination, the quality of words is ranked first.

Therefore, Yan Heng knows that he needs to practice his calligraphy well now, and it is best to ask a famous tutor to teach him, in addition, he should focus on making money.

After all, if he earns less than two hundred taels of silver, he will become a slave of the Ouyang family.

I offended Ouyang Jin and Ouyang Xue, the two masters of Ouyang Mansion, if I entered Ouyang's house, I would definitely not be treated well.

Therefore, Yan Heng is not worried about whether he can pass the county examination now, but only whether he can earn two hundred taels of silver.

Two hundred taels of silver is not a small amount, according to the current price, it must be equivalent to more than 100,000 in the future, so that a twelve-year-old boy can earn 120,000 yuan a month, unless he buys a lottery ticket and wins the jackpot.

Yan Zhun only saw the old Shang Pavilion hugging Xiao Yan Song that day, thinking that the son they praised was Xiao Yan Song, and he never thought that his eldest son Yan Heng had already become the food on the plate of the big guys.

Therefore, he didn't understand why the county's parents, Xiong County Order, specially let his son Yan Heng participate in the county examination, could it be that he saw that the great master intended to cultivate his younger son, and the county lord was not to be left behind, so he would accept his eldest son as a protégé.

But Yan Zhun knows what kind of character his son Yan Heng is, and he can't memorize the three-character scripture completely, what can he do when he participates in the county exam.

However, Yan Zhun also knew that this was an opportunity for his son to go to the road of career and gain the favor of the county lord, so he thought of raiding his eldest son Yan Heng to make up for his homework.

Regarding the debt of two hundred taels of silver, Yan Zhun, as a father, also promised to borrow from his classmates everywhere.

It's a pity that Yan Zhun is usually not good at making friends, only Ouyang Jin has a friend, and now he is just an old talent who has fallen several times, and no one is willing to lend him a huge amount of money.

Therefore, for two days, no one lent Yan Zhun money.

So, Yan Zhun had no choice but to cry and say to Yan Heng: "I'm sorry for you for my father, my son." ”

"It's okay, it's natural for a son to repay his father's debts", Yan Heng was also quite moved when he saw that his father was going to plead and borrow money in order for him to be able to pull down his face, and when he saw that he was now lonely, he persuaded him.

Yan Zhun still asked with some guilt: "Then this county test?" ”

"Then it's indiscriminate, if you can't hit it when the time comes, your son will say that thanks to the county's respect and love, your son will just be fine if he doesn't learn and don't know how to do it, anyway, there will be a chance in the future!"

As soon as Yan Heng said this, Yan Zhun had no choice but to nod: "You have always been stupid, and you have no talent in your studies, and now you can't even memorize the three-character scripture, instead of grinding a gun to deceive the county respect, it is really not good, it is better to be honest directly, but your father should have been more strict with you at the beginning, otherwise you will not miss the opportunity to be valued by the county in vain." ”

"Human life cannot be strong, and the son is created like this", Yan Heng comforted and said:

"However, father, can you write a dozen eight-strand essays now, regardless of the topic, I will memorize it now, and when the time comes, I will write the last one casually when I take the county exam, although it is possible that the essay is not right, but it is not better than not answering, after all, handing in the blank paper will make the county chairman think that he is despising him and pretending to be high."

Yan Zhun nodded in agreement, and said, "I'll write it." ”

Yan Heng smiled and nodded, he asked Yan Zhun to write so many eight-strand articles not to memorize them to prepare for the county exam, but because he thought that the only valuable thing in his family now was nothing else, only knowledge remained.

And now the most directly monetized knowledge is that my father can write articles, especially for county exams.

After wandering around the county seat of Fenyi County these days, he found that the entire Fenyi County may be because Jiangxi is a prosperous place for the imperial examination, such as Ji'an, where the legend says that Chinese people are doubled, so there are many Confucian students in the county town of Fenyi.

Not only are there many Confucian students, but the sound of reading aloud can be heard everywhere in the entire county.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has attached great importance to education and advocated learning orthodox principles to eliminate the dross of the Hu people, so it is not surprising that education has developed in the Chenghua years.

It's just that what doesn't match the developed education is that the commercial economy has not yet fully developed, and the education industry that matches the examination-oriented education has not yet appeared.

In the entire county seat of Fenyi County, there are few simple bookstores, and they only sell some almanac legend scripts and the like.

Compared with the grand occasion of the late Ming Dynasty, the entire industry of buying and selling eight shares of literature and materials for the imperial examinations at all levels has almost formed an industrial chain.

Therefore, Yan Heng decided that he would first open a bookstore in the Ming Dynasty.