Act 20 Whether or not to take the imperial examination

The second uncle was a magnanimous and cultivated person in the end, and realized that it was indeed quite inappropriate to yell at the door of people's homes on this festive day, so he dragged Guan Kunyu into the grove and crackled through torture. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Guan Kunyu had no choice but to bite the bullet and push all the sins on the unwarranted question for Xiucai, and it took a whole morning to let the second uncle vent his anger.

However, the second uncle's venting made Guan Kunyu understand a lot of things, for example, in fact, military households are not cheap at all, they are good registrations like civilian households, and the army filled by those who commit crimes and fill the army is not a military household in the general sense, and they are not at all compatible with these honest military households.

For example, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's original idea, military households not only have to farm to support themselves, but also have to pay imperial grain and serve in the military, and the burden is quite heavy, so they must be given preferential treatment in other aspects, otherwise they will not be able to pass. As I said before, "There are people under the military household, and they are full of people." It is a kind of preferential treatment, but it was later affected by the social atmosphere of lowly military households, and was misinterpreted intentionally or unintentionally.

There are many other misinterpretations and misinterpretations, such as "Zhengjun households are allowed to serve as officials if they are more than five dings, and people can be appointed as officials if they are more than two dings." According to the thinking of the people of the late Ming Dynasty, this is proper discrimination against military households! Although the official is not an official, he is a person in the yamen, what a good thing! A private household is qualified to serve as an official if it is full of two dings, and a military household must have a large family of more than five dings, which shows that even the imperial court bullies military households! Many of the modern materials that Guan Kunyu has seen also use this to prove the low social status of military households.

But in fact, on the contrary, this provision is indeed a preferential treatment for military households!

Because this rule was promulgated during the Hongwu period, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in a shoehorn face, hated the small officials who harmed the people. In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the laws and regulations were strictly checked, and the law of the rope officials was particularly severe, and the slightest carelessness may encounter a catastrophe. When the family heard the sound of illness at night, they looked at each other and were shocked, and when they saw the fire, they thought that the soldiers were coming, and the birds and beasts were scattered, and in order to avoid disaster, there were even those who cut off their fingers in order to avoid the officials. When this regulation was promulgated, it was a great burden to serve as officials, and this regulation was an umbrella for military households to avoid this burden!

It's just that after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the social situation has changed greatly, and the status of the officials has risen significantly, and being an official has even become a blessing, so this rule has naturally turned 180 degrees into a rule for mutilating military households. And because of the strong resistance to the irreversibility of the ancestral system and the sharp decline in the actual status of the military households, naturally no one in the imperial court would make great efforts to violate the ancestral system and revise these small regulations for the benefit of the military households.

Of course, knowing that these things are useless to Guan Kunyu, what makes him a little trance is that he is actually qualified to go to the scientific examination!

Guan Kunyu remembered that many of the novels he had read had the content that military households were not allowed to take the imperial examination, so he took it for granted that this was right, even if it was wrong, it was only a small mistake, and the general direction would not deviate.

But in fact, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that several categories of people who were not allowed to take the imperial examination were slaves, officials, prostitutes, and subordinates, and there was nothing to do with the military household.

Moreover, in order to facilitate the study of the children of military families in the Ming Dynasty, the same as the government school, the state school, and the county school, the health school was set up in many health centers, mainly recruiting military students, but also accepting nearby civilian students, and the Jinshanwei where the Guan family is located has its own Jinshan Weixue. Because of the special situation in Liaodong, there is no government, state, or county and there are capitals, guards, and institutes, so there is only health and learning.

"No wonder the family in the second room is so fascinated by the imperial examination, I originally thought they were just reading and playing, but I didn't expect it to be true."

Guan Kunyu looked at the second uncle who talked about the academic examination, and couldn't help but feel a little melancholy, he couldn't bear the hardships and greedy for enjoyment, he was not a seedling in the army, he was very clear about this, but what if he was allowed to take the imperial examination? He was still hesitant.

The imperial examination is eight-strand literature, and the knowledge that transcends the times is not used at all, and it is really not an advantage to compete with the ancients on the same stage, if you want to succeed in the imperial examination, you have to make great efforts!

It's just that in his previous life, he finally survived the tragic compulsory education and high school, and he already had a shadow on this kind of exam-taking learning in his heart, and now he has to study hard again.

Even just thinking about Guan Kunyu can't help but tremble all over - it's just a human life!

"Anyway, why do I have to take the imperial examination? The only purpose of the imperial examination is to become an official, and I have no ambition to save the common people and help the world, I just want to live a high-quality corrupt life. ”

Guan Kunyu quickly figured out that he was not greedy for power, and he had no lofty ambitions, and the only benefit that being an official could bring to himself was to wear an official uniform as an umbrella.

It's just for a protective umbrella, is it worth going crazy to reduce the quality of life and study hard for seven or eight years?

Guan Kunyu hesitated, hesitated, greedy for pleasure, had no ambitions, and his mind was full of how to play, so he retreated.

However, there are many ways to make money by yourself, and if it really develops in the future, it will inevitably cause others to covet it, and the identity of the old man's hundred households cannot cover such a large part of the industry.

What to do?

When Guan Kunyu's gaze swept over the second uncle in front of him, he suddenly thought that even if he didn't go to the imperial examination, just let the second uncle or Kunru be admitted! You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, the most basic social unit was not the family, but the family, as long as there was an official in the clan, he could provide protection for the whole family.

His own financial resources can pave the way for the second uncle's career, and the second uncle can use his own financial resources to rise to prominence, and with the character of the second uncle and Kunru, he must not treat himself badly.

But...... The idea is very good, but there is an unavoidable problem - the second aunt!

That's right, the second uncle and Kunru are indeed very good, but the second aunt has to conflict with herself from time to time, although her starting point has always been for the good of the second uncle and Kunru, and it is right to go to her own family, but she can't damage other houses to fatten her own house, right?

With the second aunt here, Guan Kunyu has to be scared, maybe her investment in the second room will make her lose all her money.

Besides, whether the ability of the second room can be supported or not, Guan Kunyu is also unsure in his heart, if they can't get any results in the exam after looking forward to it for a long time, wouldn't the whole plan be over?

"Ahhh Anyway, I can't study for the second uncle, if he can be admitted, that's the best, if he can't pass the exam, it's great to give some benefits to go out to find a backer, and the right to pay protection money! ”

"Alas...... It's not that I don't know the truth that it is better to ask for others than for myself, but let's take another purgatory for the college entrance examination...... It's really scary to think about, and then it's okay to discuss it. ”