Section 5: Impostor to take the exam tomorrow, I believe that you can be a good official and realize your dreams.

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info——Jiang Aniu 616 AD is the year of Bingzi in the lunar calendar, the year of the rat in the Chinese lunar calendar, and the twelfth year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty.

Ren Rail is already a sturdy young man of sixteen years old.

On this day, Ren Rail went to Bianzhou City to sell some bamboo baskets and straw sandals, and bought books by the way.

On the street, I saw a farmer who was busy carrying firewood and accidentally bumped into a rich man, and the rich man began to beat the farmer.

Ren Liang hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the rich man away.

"Bastard, do you know who Lao Tzu is, I am the son of the county master of Fengqiu County, are you looking for death?"

The rich man shouted at Ren Liang.

"Dad is an official, is my son great? Everyone is watching, don't embarrass your father as the county magistrate. ”

"Hmph, stinky boy, what's your name?"

"If you don't change your name, you can't change your surname to Liu Renliang, the words are regular."

"Look at you like that, you're not a fart person, but you dare to provoke the uncle, it's really boring."

The servant beside the rich man whispered to the rich man: "Childe, this is not Fengqiu County, bear with it, there are more and more onlookers around, and it's not good for things to get bigger." ”

The rich man reluctantly said: "Okay, untouchable, you have a kind, and the uncle remembers you." ”

After saying that, he walked away.

Ren Rail went to the post station and received a letter from Zhixin, Zhixin was studying in Taixue in Luoyang, and when he entered Taixue, Zhixin found that his former self was like a frog at the bottom of a well, and there were many things to learn.

Zhixin also hopes to meet and study together in Taixue.

"Too learned?"

Ren Rail sighed.

The dragon boat fleet of the Great Sui Emperor's southern tour passed through Bianzhou, and its honor guard was extremely luxurious, with more than 36,000 people in the Huanglu honor guard alone.

In order to make luxurious honor guards, the imperial court levied feathers from the states and counties.

In order to hunt birds and beasts, the people covered the water and land with nets, and almost all the birds and beasts that can be used as feather decorations are caught in a net.

Legend has it that there was a tree in Wucheng County (now Huzhou City, Zhejiang) that was more than 100 feet tall, and there was a crane nest on the top of the tree.

Someone wants to go up to the tree to catch cranes, and there are no branches around the tree to cling to, so they are ready to cut down the tree.

The crane was afraid of hurting its cubs, so it plucked off its feathers and threw them on the ground.

So there are sycophants who call it an auspicious omen: "The Son of Heaven makes feathers, and birds and beasts offer their own feathers." ”

The imperial drive of the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang has arrived at the Luoyang Palace.

When it was time for dinner, Lao Yang was about to eat.

I saw him command: "Pass the meal!" ”

The little eunuch in front of him said to the eunuch guarding the Taihe Hall in the same way: "Pass the meal!" ”

This way passed down one by one, and without waiting for the echo to disappear, a team composed of dozens of neatly dressed eunuchs, carrying nine dining tables of all sizes and holding eighty-one vermilion lacquer boxes painted with golden dragons, went straight to the Taihe Palace.

Entering the Ming Palace, he was taken over by a little eunuch with white sleeves and placed in the East Pavilion.

There are three tables of dishes on weekdays, another table of hot pot in winter, and a variety of dim sum, three tables of rice and porridge, and one table of pickles.

The tableware is painted with dragon patterns and written "Long life without borders"

Bright yellow porcelain with lettering, and silver in winter.

Each dish or bowl has a silver medal, which is set up to guard against poisoning, and for the same reason, the dish must be tasted by a eunuch before it is served, called a tasting eunuch.

After all these things had been arranged, before the emperor took his seat, a eunuch shouted: "Hit the lid of the bowl"

, the rest of the little eunuchs took down the silver plaque, and the emperor began to eat.

Yu Shiji, the emperor's internal history servant, stood in advance and came to Bianzhou Taishou Mansion.

Bianzhou Taishou Wei Xiong hurriedly came to greet Yu Shiji and said, "Lord Shilang, you have worked hard along the way. ”

"You can't make any mistakes in serving Your Majesty, Wei Taishou, your career depends on your performance this time."

"Lord Squire, rest assured, all the supplies I serve you will only be second only to Your Majesty."

"Ha, the emperor toured south all the way, and opened Enke all the way to take the test, and Enke's exam can't make any mistakes."

"Yes."

This is Yang Guang's third and last southern tour.

At this time, although the Great Sui Dynasty suppressed the rebellion of Liu Yuanjin and Yang Xuangan, there was still smoke everywhere: Zhai Rang, under Li Mi's suggestion, broke through the fortress Jindi Pass (northeast of Xingyang, Henan) and conquered Xingyang counties; Dou Jiande led the Hebei peasant army to fight all over Hebei and occupied most of Jizhou; Du Fuwei and Fu Gongqi raised troops in Qi County (present-day Shandong) in the Jianghuai region, and then occupied the southern Jianghuai region.

EVEN SO, THE GREAT SUI DYNASTY IS STILL A SKINNY CAMEL BIGGER THAN A HORSE, AND IT IS STILL ZHONGYANG ZHENGFU.

Therefore, Ren Liang was also very enthusiastic about the imperial examination of the Sui Dynasty and wanted to take the exam.

However, the imperial examination in the last years of the Sui Dynasty did not mean that it could be taken for free, perhaps because the building was about to collapse, and the emperor was extravagant and wasteful.

Therefore, if you want to participate in the imperial examination, you have to pay a hundred Kaihuang money.

However, as long as you can be promoted, you can also have 1,500 yuan per year for granting the lowest official position from the seventh rank.

And the lack of information is really harmful.

Half a month ago, Bianzhou posted a notice that Enke would be held, but the people in the village didn't know about it.

One hundred dollars is not a small amount for Renliang's family, but it is much simpler for Jinghan's family.

But the exam will start in two days, and it will take three and a half days to travel from Bianzhou to Xiaoyang Village, and Ren Rail has no time to go back to Xiaoyang Village to borrow money from Jing Han.

What to do?

And there is another problem, although the tempering of life has made Renliang mature a lot, and it is not like the age of sixteen, but the court system stipulates that you are not allowed to participate in scientific examinations until you are seventeen years old.

What about the age gap of this year?

Li Jiang, the county magistrate of Fengqiu County in Bianzhou, taught his son Li Tian a lesson in the Bianzhou Inn.

Li Tian is a rich man who has a dispute with Renliang in the city of Bianzhou.

"I don't want to be motivated, why don't I study well in the inn, prepare for the scientific examination, and run out and fight with people again?"

"It was the hillbilly who hit me first."

"You say, this is the first time you have participated in scientific expeditions? It's the seventh time, it's the seventh time, you useless thing, you can't pass the exam anymore, my father is old, and my connections in the court can't be used, you're really hopeless. ”

Jiang Aniu came to Bianzhou with Renliang, but he didn't want to participate in the scientific expedition, and he didn't have much money with him.

He said to Ren Track: "The imperial court is already so corrupt, and it is about to rot wood, do you still want to take the test?" Do you want to be an official of the imperial court? ”

"If I am an official, let me work for the welfare of the people."

"But can an incorruptible official change the entire corrupt court?"

"Alas, let me change as much as I can, at least let the people under my rule live and work in peace and contentment. If something is broken, it should be repaired, this is a hundred times stronger than complaining about the heavens and living in vain, a real husband will try to live according to his own principles and beliefs, what is the point of living without faith? ”

In fact, Liu Renliang has another purpose: to be admitted to the official position, even if he gets the lowest annual salary of 1,500 yuan, it can also be of great help to the family's economy and make the life of his mother and younger brother better.

Another day passed, and Ren Liang sat down in front of the Chenghuang Temple in Bianzhou City, and it seemed that he could not participate in the scientific examination.

I'll take the exam tomorrow, forget it, let's go home.

Jiang Aniu hurriedly came and handed a document to Ren Orbit: "Zhengzhi, what a chance, come, you can see what it is." ”

"At first glance, it is actually a document participating in the scientific examination, but the name on it is Li Jinge, and the household registration is from Bianzhou City."

"What's going on?"

It turned out that Li Jinge, a distant relative of Jiang Aniu in Bianzhou City, had signed up for the scientific expedition, but Xiao Li suddenly got typhoid fever and couldn't get out of bed.

But once you sign up, you won't refund the money, and Jiang Aniu, who learned the news, bought this "admission ticket" with thirty dollars

, let Ren Rail impostor to take the exam.

Ah Niu said: "To be a good official who is honest and upright, you must first experience the hunger and suffering of ordinary people, and you must go to the exam tomorrow, I believe that you can be a good official and realize your dreams." In the future, when you become an official, you must also maintain the upright heart like the one who stood up for the poor people on the streets of Bianzhou City, and maintain the heart of sacrificing yourself to take care of your relatives. ”