On the 28th day of the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Wu Fanhui and his entourage arrived in Beijing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, he set off from Mizhi County, arrived in Beijing in 24 days, rested in Fenzhou for two days on the way, and really traveled for 22 days, 1,700 miles, and an average of about 80 miles a day.

Wu Fanhui didn't feel tired, he rode with Li Yong and others every day, and after passing Fenzhou, the road was very smooth, there was no abnormal situation, but after entering Beizhili, the depression along the way surprised Wu Fanhui, many villages on both sides of the official road, you can also see the traces after the fire, and the ruins of some places have not been repaired in time, which is of course the result of the Houjin Tartars.

It is recorded in the history books that the incursion of the Houjin Tartars robbed a large number of people in Beizhili, and the later invasions of the customs, the Houjin Tartars were mainly looting money and population, in order to make up for the dilemma of insufficient population and labor in Liaodong, and their brutal killings in Beizhili and other places caused irreparable heavy losses to the north.

At the time of Shen, Wu Fanhui and his entourage arrived at Yongding Gate.

Yongding Gate is the main gate of the outer city of the Beijing Division, the capital of the Ming Dynasty is divided into the inner city and the outer city, all the yamen of the imperial court are in the inner city, relatively speaking, most of the people in the capital also live in the inner city, close to the Temple of Heaven near the Yongding Gate, the mound and the Tai Sui Altar and other places, belong to the royal forbidden land, and there are even some desolations around.

Before entering the capital, Wu Fanhui stood outside the Yongding Gate for a while, and he carefully looked at the tall and heavy city walls, as well as the majestic Yongding Gate, which had long been invisible after a few hundred years.

finally came to the capital of Daming, and came to the heart of Daming.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many tragic and strange things happened in this city, and with the passage of history, the greatest city in the East will also suffer countless tribulations.

Hundreds of years later, countless people sighed for the end of the Ming Dynasty, and most of their attention was focused on this city.

Guarding the city gate are the sergeants of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, who look a little lazy, no wonder they, anyway, most of the people who come to the capital are going to enter the inner city, and the sergeants of the Five Cities Terracotta Division at the inner city gate also have to be checked.

The sergeant just looked at Wu Fanhui's guide, and immediately let him go, during this time, many people came to the capital to take the exam, to participate in the meeting examination and the palace examination, but the people are masters, and they are definitely not sergeants who can be offended.

Horseback riding is allowed in the outer city of the capital, but horseback riding is not allowed once you enter the inner city.

However, there are also rules for riding horses in the outer city of the capital, unless you have an urgent performance and can whip the horse quickly, otherwise you are not allowed to run a horse, and you are allowed to ride a horse in the outer city, but it is to exempt you from the hard work of walking.

Entering the Yongding Gate, it is a straight road, the left side of the road is the Tai Sui Altar and the Mountain and River Altar, the right side is the Temple of Heaven and the mound, etc., but they are all fenced, here is the royal forbidden land, ordinary people are not allowed to approach, not allowed to enter, and there are Jinyi guards outside the special handle, and there are eunuchs inside who are responsible for daily supervision and maintenance.

After the Temple of Heaven and the Tai Sui Temple, you can see some houses, it is still a straight avenue, this avenue is called Zhengyangmen Street, and the end of this avenue is the Zhengyangmen of the inner city.

Entering the inner city from Zhengyang Gate, not far away is the Daming Gate, the left and right of the Daming people, is the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Soldiers, the Ministry of Households, the Governor's Mansion, the Jinyi Guard, the Tai Hospital and the location of the Yamen of the Honglu Temple, and after the Daming Gate, it is the Forbidden City of the center of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Imperial City.

Wu Fanhui and his entourage will not go through the Zhengyang Gate, they will enter the inner city through the Chongwen Gate on the right side of the Zhengyang Gate.

They will go to Chongwenmen Street on the right at the intersection of Zhengyangmen Street and Xisanli River.

The Gongyuan was located in the east of the Forbidden City, close to the location of the East Gate of the Outer City, so Wu Fanhui would look for inn accommodation in the Qingfang to the west of the Gongyuan, Huanghuafang to the north, and Mingshifang to the south, so that he could take the examination at that time.

Guozijian is located in the north of the Forbidden City, near the Andingmen Gate in the inner city, in the same location as the Temple of Literature.

Gongyuan is in the easternmost part of the inner city of the capital, Guozijian is in the northernmost part of the capital, the two places are very far apart, enter the inner city from Chongwenmen, walk for about half an hour to reach the Gongyuan, but think of reaching Guozijian, walk for at least two hours or more, so after entering the inner city, no one will choose to walk to Guozijian, they are all by carriage.

Although Chen Minghui and Ye Kaiyi still have to take a carriage to enter the inner city, they are much more free and easy than Wu Fanhui, because they have completed all the tasks when they arrive at Guozijian.

Wu Fanhui is different, he came to the capital to participate in the examination, and he needs to find a place to stay, and they have a huge team, and the time to enter the capital is relatively late, and it is almost impossible to find an inn accommodation close to the Gongyuan.

In other words, entering Chongwenmen, Chen Minghui and Ye Kaiyi can go straight to the north along Chongwenmenli Street, but Wu Fanhui needs to look for inns along Clarification Fang, Huanghuafang and Mingshifang.

If you can't find an inn in these places, then, Wu Fanhui is afraid that he will have to leave the inner city and go to Chongbeifang or Zhengdongfang in the outer city to find an inn to stay.

The place where Wu Fanhui and Chen Minghui and Ye Kaiyi are separated is in Chongwenmen.

"Brother Qianjue, when the list will be released, Brother Changhong and I will definitely come to the Tribute Academy."

"Brother Qianjue, you will definitely be named on the gold list, and when the time comes, Brother Wen and I will congratulate you."

Although they are in the same capital, the management of Guozijian is still very strict, and they take five days off every month, and eat and live in Guozijian for the rest of the time, and they are not allowed to leave, which means that Wu Fanhui has few opportunities to meet them.

Wu Fanhui also clenched his fists and spoke.

"Brother Wen, Brother Changhong, when you are resting, I will go to Guozijian to gather with you."

The three of them hugged each other's fists and saluted, and after being together for such a long time, their relationship was extraordinary, although Wu Fanhui was the youngest, he had become the first of the three in terms of identity, knowledge and ability.

There is a carriage at the entrance of Chongwen Gate.

When they came to the capital, it was impossible for the three of them to eat together, there was not enough time, Chen Minghui and Ye Kaiyi reported to Guozijian for duty, there were still many things to prepare, and it was not until the end of February when they were resting that they could leave Guozijian to look around in the capital, but at that time, Wu Fanhui was already preparing to participate in the exam.

Seeing Chen Minghui and Ye Kaiyi enter Chongwenmen and get into the carriage, Wu Fanhui turned his head and spoke to Li Yong and the others.

"We don't enter the inner city, we find an inn to live in Chongbeifang, I think there is no inn in the inner city, we have a huge team, there are a lot of people, and it is not very suitable to enter the inner city inn to stay."

Li Yong looked at Ma Jigang and the others.

"The young master still stays in the inner city inn, it's okay to take a few people, and the subordinates and brothers stay in the outer city, if the young master lives in the outer city, it's very inconvenient."

"It's nothing, I was going to endure hardships when I took the exam, and it took only ten days, and it passed in a blink of an eye."

There are a lot of inns in Chongbeifang, looking at all the inns with the brands of Xie Yuan Lou and Yayuan Building, Wu Fanhui couldn't help but sigh, in Xi'an Fucheng, it would be very good to be able to hang such a brand, but there are such inns in the outer city of the capital, presumably the champion building in the inner city, Bangyan Building and Tanhua Building abound, in the end it is the capital, the momentum is different.

What Wu Fanhui didn't expect was that in Chongbeifang to stay, the place was not very easy to find, most of the rooms were not enough, could not accommodate more than 50 people, until the place close to Longan Temple, Wu Fanhui and others found an inn, which is close to Guangqumen, relatively speaking, it is a relatively remote place.

Long'an Temple is in the east of the outer city, Chongfu Temple is in the west of the outer city, the two temples are far away, from this aspect, Wu Fanhui chose to live near the Long'an Temple, it is still very safe, but it is indeed inconvenient for him to participate in the examination, and it is certain not to think about sleeping all night.

On the sign hung in this inn, there is also a banner of Yayuan Building, it seems that there was once a certain provincial township test Yayuan lived here, but I don't know how the inn knew, it is difficult for the candidates who participated in the examination to say it themselves.

The inn is not very big, and there are not many people staying in the accommodation, and the more critical point is that there are people who are rushing to take the exam, as if no one lives here, the shopkeeper of the inn learned that Wu Fanhui was to participate in the examination, and opened his mouth wide, he was very surprised, and he was afraid that he would not think that there would be people to live here.

More than fifty people entered, and the rooms in the inn were immediately full.

Of course, the shopkeeper of the inn was happy, and during the conversation, he also asked Wu Fanhui about the situation of the township test, but Wu Fanhui would not take the initiative to say that he was the Xie Yuan of the Shaanxi township test, which was a bit boring.

The shopkeeper saw that Wu Fanhui was too young, so he didn't ask much.

The price of inn accommodation is slightly higher than the price of Xi'an Fucheng, and it is not very expensive, after all, it is in the outer city, and the place is a little remote, and the price cannot be very high.

After settling down, Wu Fanhui went to Longan Temple to have a look.

Hundreds of years later, Long'an Temple, belongs to a relatively unpopular tourist attraction, there are not many people here, and during the Qing Dynasty, the incense of Long'an Temple was interrupted, and it was once reduced to a workshop for making Buddha incense and a storage place for the coffins of dignitaries, and the temple also became a place of mass burial.

Today's Longan Temple is not a particularly popular temple, similar to Chongfu Temple, and the temple with the most incense in the capital is still the Dalongshan Huguo Temple in the inner city and the Dabaoguo Ciren Temple in the outer city.