In the era of Confucian supremacy, scholars have always been admired, and scholars usually hold some activities to compare high and low, and the situation of poetry clubs is very decent, because good poetry can cultivate people's hearts, even people who don't know much about poetry can be catchy, and can even become children's enlightenment readings and so on.

Therefore, in all dynasties, including the current Dayong Dynasty, there has always been a tradition of holding poetry meetings, or in some other activities, poetry meetings will also be interspersed with competitions, so that readers can have an opportunity to communicate and compete.

As for which big lady is ready to choose a good mate at the poetry meeting, at most it is just a gimmick, the ladies in the capital are generally hidden in the boudoir, not that others say that she is beautiful, maybe she is ugly, the kind that can't be married, you have to rely on a talented son, it also depends on who can match whom.

When people think about problems, they always think about the problem in a good way, and they think that the woman must be a beauty, and the story of a talented and beautiful woman will be very vivid, but real life is never as perfect as people think, and life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten.

He is still waiting for the next year's examination, hoping to go back to marry "Su Pujia" after passing the Jinshi examination, which can be said to be his responsibility for marriage, at this time, he can't tolerate other girls to snatch the most important position in his heart, whether it is Mi Zhirong, or Zhao Yuanxuan, or Nalan Blowing Snow, Liu Ruyi, etc., although these girls are good, they have not yet reached the judgment standard of Ji Ning's heart for a good couple, so these people can only be put aside.

Tang Xie and Han Yu are very keen on the poetry meeting, they have seen Ji Ning's poetry talent, and they know how high Ji Ning's level is, they feel that as long as Ji Ning is there, this Beijing poetry meeting should be eight or nine and ten, which will let Ji Ning win the championship, and Jiangnan students will have more face.

"Yongning, the first time you took the exam, you may not understand the dispute between the north and the south. Later, in order to limit the excellence of southerners in the examination, the Confucian Temple and the imperial court simply set the system of taking scholars from the north and the south, and each examination will be according to a certain proportion, and how many students from the north and south must be admitted. However, in recent years, there have been several famous figures among the students in the north, occupying most of the list of the three tripods, which makes the students in the north begin to feel that their knowledge must be better than that of us southerners. Tang Xie explained.

Ji Ning said: "The quality of reading should be in some regions, at most whether the literary style in some places is open, or whether students are more eager to learn. ”

"Yongning thinks so? It is no wonder that Yongning's ideas have always been more enlightened than ours, so to speak, in fact, the people in the south are generally higher than those in the north, which is also the consensus of many people, mainly in our southern land, the number of illiterate white Ding is not much, many households will send their children to study, so that the number of people who read has been high, and it is easy to select outstanding talents. The number of scholars in the north is far less than that in the south of the Yangtze River, and the base is small, of course, the quality of the students selected in the end is not good! Han Yu is also very enthusiastic about the dispute between the north and the south, and it seems that they all regard themselves as southerners, and they are a bit incompatible with the scholars in the north.

Tang explained: "What Brother Han said is not wrong at all, Yongning, although we southerners are higher than northerners in general talent, but in these sessions, the number of northerners is more than ours, so some people say that it is because the scholars of the northern faction in the imperial court and the Temple of Literature are secretly partial, because the content of the examination papers will not be made public, and no one knows what kind of articles these people make, so we might as well use the occasion of the poetry meeting to try the knowledge of these people. If the imperial court no longer cares about real talent and learning, and promotes some people who have no talent in the north, then our students in the south will not suffer! ”

Ji Ning felt a deep malice.

In order to prove that the scholars in the south are more educated, they will first prove that the talents of the students in the north are low, and then make trouble after the list is released.

Ji Ning thought to himself: "Now that the literary style is open, the court and the Temple of Literature are too indulgent to scholars, so there will be all kinds of things that make trouble in the court and cry in the Temple of Literature, but whenever there is a war and it becomes a militaristic system, no one will favor these scholars." When you are a reader, you should be restless, and there is no one left. ”

In this era, it is the reader who has the right to speak, and when the reader feels that his interests are being infringed upon, they will not condone the infringement of others on them, and they are very sharp in counterattacking.

"According to you, I have to play well in this poetry meeting?" Ji Ning said.

"Of course, in fact, the reason is the same, if you perform average in this poetry meeting, or even if the poetry is not recognized by most people, even if you are finally admitted to the Jinshi, or even ranked very high, you can go to the top of the second class or the top of the Dingjia, others will also attack you, saying that you are bribing the exam or carrying a cheat sheet, etc., Yongning does not want to be suspected after being admitted to the Jinshi, and in the end he will be snubbed in the court because of this, right?" Tang Xie asked.

Ji Ning smiled and said: "Could it be that a Xie Yuan of Jinling Township is not as good as writing a poem at a poetry meeting?" ”

Whether Ji Ning himself is Xie Yuan, or Xie Yuan of Jiangnan Township Test, others will regard him as a target, and even students from the north will come to visit him, trying to find the laws of his talent, study him, and finally defeat him. He felt that he was already the focus of attention, who knew that now Tang Xie and Han Yu thought that his talents were not enough, he had to be more thorough, and he performed very well at the Beijing Poetry Conference, so that everyone in the world knew that there was a character like Ji Ning.

"Yongning, we don't have a lot anymore, you play as well as you can, even if you don't try for the next year, but for your own face, right? If you can get the appreciation of some powerful people in the court or the Confucian Temple, maybe even if you don't have to be admitted to the Jinshi in Yongning, you can become a staff member of the palace or the general's mansion, and the future is limitless! Han Yu said.

Ji Ning still can't agree with this.

He thought to himself: "I didn't even accept Princess Wenren's wooing, would I care about going to some palace or general's mansion to be a staff member?" In this poetry meeting, I won't be a bird, just go and have a good time! ”