These days, Han Gang has been studying hard, but occasionally he still communicates with the children and guests of the Wang family.

Wang Shao has many children, so many that Han Gang is amazed. His wife, Yang, has been married for fifteen years and has seven children, plus two born to concubines, six of the nine have survived to this day. After Yang's death, Xu, who was succeeded by Zhiping in the second year, gave birth to two sons in two years before Wang Shao went to Qinzhou. In addition, Wang Shao's two concubines in Qinzhou also gave birth to a son and two daughters. The ranking of sons alone has reached tenth.

Moreover, such a large family living in Wang Shao's mansion is not only the dozen or so people of Wang Shao's wives and concubines, but also Wang Shao's parents and brothers, relatives and friends who came to Wang Shao from Dejiang Township, plus seven or eight Qing guests, a group of domestic prostitutes, more than a dozen family members who were easily used in Xihe Road, dozens of servants and maids, and almost one hundred and thirty or forty people. This does not include the two teams of soldiers sent by the imperial court to the ruling door to listen to the call.

In addition to the Qingke and the box soldiers, in terms of household registration, this is a family. With so many mouths, Wang Shao can't afford to spend the money he gets every month. If it weren't for the continuous delivery of money from the Wang family firm on the other side of the Xihe River, and Wang Shao still had some industries in his hometown, the family would have been stretched thin.

Basically, the official eunuchs of the Great Song Dynasty are like this. The fact that one person attains the Tao and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven is very normal in this era. Once you rise to a high position, there will be an endless stream of relatives and friends who come to join you. More than one important minister sighed that when they were state and county officials, they could often drink wine and eat meat every day, but after they were promoted to the servant system, they could only eat meat once every three or five days.

Han Gang also came to Wang Shao's house to eat and drink for nothing, and in order to settle Han Gang, Wang Shao even dropped four male servants in one go, and four maidservants came to serve. There were more servants and maids waiting for him than Wang Shao's eldest son, Wang Kuo.

Han Gang lived as usual, just a few more thanks. The people of the Wang family will not think that he is rude because of this, Han Gang's identity and relationship are enough to deserve such hospitality.

Among all the visitors who disturbed Han Gang's reading and writing, Wang Hou came more frequently. However, unlike other guests, who wanted to get closer to Han Gang, Wang Hou thought more about Han Gang.

"Yukun, you have arrived in the capital. Did Wang Xianggong's family inform me? On this day, Wang Hou came to see Han Gang and asked about it. He was a little worried that Han Gang would go too far, "Although it is inconvenient to go and visit, it is better to explain the reason, so that it can be justified by the prince Wang." ”

Wang Hou's mention made Han Gang feel a little warm, nodded and smiled: "Thank you Brother Dao for reminding me, but today the junior brother has already sent someone to deliver the letter." Wang Xianggong and the second government of the Wang family both wrote to them. I have said everything that needs to be said, and I hope they will understand. ”

Wang Hou laughed twice: "Yukun, you are still so thoughtful, but the foolish brother has said more." ”

"There are times when people don't think about it. If there was no helper from Brother Dao, not to mention anything else, how could the transfer that supported the front line in Hezhou not succeed. ”

Wang Hou chatted with Han Gang for a few more words, and then said goodbye and left. In the evening, there was an echo from Wang Anshi's side. The servant of the Prime Minister's Mansion sent an invitation to Han Gang. But the owner of the invitation is not the second child of the Wang family, but Wang Dayane - Wang Yan. As for the location, it is in the Qingfeng Building, which is very close to Wang Anshi's mansion. Among the seventy-two main stores, only the old Tang family store is closer to Xiangfu than Qingfeng Building, but relatively speaking, Qingfeng Building is a little quieter.

This invitation, Han Gang is not good, it is not good not to go, hesitating again and again, but still decided to take it.

When people are clear, there are no friends, and when the water is clear, there are no fish. The rejection is too great, but it seems to be a look. Since Han Gang entered Beijing, he has not seen the Son of Heaven or the Prime Minister, and he has already done his part, and when he sees Wang Anshi's eldest son, no one can gossip.

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Wang Yan made an appointment in the afternoon, it was already past lunch time, and it was about time to taste tea - when he entered the hotel, he didn't have to eat and drink. You can have tea, chat, play chess, and even do some special entertainment. This is the same in ancient and modern times.

Han Gang arrived at Qingfeng Tower two quarters of an hour earlier than the agreed time. Although he is a guest, it is better to show a little sincerity, he does not want to be too estranged from Wang Anshi's family, although it has not yet been determined, he has a seventy or eighty percent chance of marrying the daughter of the Wang family.

Sure enough, it was not out of Han Gang's expectations, as the son of the prime minister's family, even if he was a treat, he would not arrive too early, but he just sent someone to set a place in Qingfeng Tower. After Han Gang entered the door, he only reported the name of the Wang family's big office, and was immediately welcomed into a side room on the third floor.

It can be seen that the decoration and furnishings of the wing room booked by Wang Yan are not the best one in the Qingfeng Building, but the shopkeeper of the Qingfeng Building, who personally brought him up, said to Han Gang, "The officials don't know, when Wang Yan sent someone to book the room, he said that he wanted the cleanest one." Although the scenery is not very good, it is very clean. ”

Before the shopkeeper's words fell, he listened to a burst of laughter next door, and the laughter was unbridled and wild, without paying any attention to the guests in the surrounding private rooms. The flattering smile of the shopkeeper of Qingfeng Mansion froze suddenly. He said very embarrassedly, "Official, next door happens to be the Gongsheng who came to Beijing to catch the exam this time, and he came after booking a room in Wang Yanei, and he also wants a clean box......"

Han Gang understood that the purest had already been decided for Wang Yan, and the guests who came to the clean box were arranged in the next room, which was also clean under normal circumstances.

Seeing that Han Gang seemed to be dissatisfied, the shopkeeper proposed: "It's better for the official to change his position......

Han Gang shook his head: "The position set by the host of the treat, I, the guest in a hurry, arrived first, but I don't have the right to overstep my bounds." He waved his hand and motioned for the shopkeeper to leave, "I'll just wait here." ”

The shopkeeper retreated in fear, and the voice from the private room next door became clearer and clearer.

“…… The examiner of this subject should be decided soon, I don't know if the main exam is Lu Jifu or Zeng Zixuan? ”

A steady voice said: "No matter who is in charge of the exam, what to say and what not to say, take a look at Ye Zuqia, who is the top student in the past, and you should know the way." ”

"With the talent of the righteous brother, he should be the first person, and as for the problem of the examiner, it is better to leave it to the younger brother."

"It's over, Yu Zhongshi doesn't dare to take it."

Another hoarse voice said, "Actually, there is another one that you don't need to worry about the examiner." ”

"Who?" Several people asked in unison.

"Han Gang!"

Everyone suddenly said: "It turned out to be the little boy who irrigated the garden, what talent did he have, and I didn't know what poetry and writing he had handed down." ”

"He's a court official, and he's still here to take the Jinshi exam...... Isn't it that knowing the martial arts of the Tao is not enough, and learning is the first. ”

"Speaking of the kindergarten children, the little brother remembered one thing." The voice that spoke first came, "In the early years of the founding of the dynasty, there was a nobleman who was born as a butcher when he was a teenager. Later, asking someone to write a line is very tricky. Hu Dan, the most eunuch of the Houhou Hu, he helped write a sentence - 'When I was a teenager, I had the ambition to dominate the world', when this is very appropriate! Now that the irrigation garden child has come to take the Jinshi exam this time, what do you think of it? ”

"How?"

"Clarify the will of the world!"

A witty remark that made fun of Han Gang popped up, and seven or eight mouths laughed loudly. One person laughed breathlessly: "I have the ambition to clarify the world." I don't know how to clarify the law of the world when the garden uses the things of grain reincarnation? ”

"Don't say that!" It should be the scholar who claimed to be in Yu Zhong who was stopping: "How Han Gang is, it has nothing to do with us." And don't talk nonsense. ”

Han Gang sneered: "Do you clarify the ambition of the world...... That's not bad. ”

Maybe the scholar next door is really taller than himself, and Han Gang doesn't think that his knowledge in scripture can really be unique and see the small mountains at a glance. The gap in his own writing, Han Gang saw it very clearly. If you can write poems well, your literary level is not comparable to Han Gang, and what you can compete with is your own depth and breadth of thinking and reading about the scriptures and the questions.

Zeng Bu was recently promoted to a bachelor of Hanlin, and Lu Huiqing was a knowledgeable and concurrently sentenced to the national eunuch, speaking of which the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites exam was, he could guess with his toes. If you can ask them to find out which one is their own volume, I think they will not be stingy to circle the volume head.

However, the marking of the Ministry of Rites examination is not so simple. Compared with the lock hall test that Han Gang participated in Qinzhou, it was hundreds of times more complicated. The number of people alone is a world away, there are more than a dozen people in the hall test, and there are more than 5,100 tributes from the 400 military states in the world. His own scroll may be able to be seen by Zeng Bu and Lu Huiqing, but if they can find out that it is Han Yukun's, the possibility is almost zero.

Not only the imperial examination, but Han Gang also took other important exams that were related to fate. Although it is said that if the candidates on both sides are asked to test each other's papers, it is basically certain that they will be wiped out. However, the principle is the same when taking the exam.

The essay must be special, whether it is the text or the argument, at least one of them should be eye-catching. In this way, the examiners who have become dizzy about marking the test paper can pay attention to this paper. Of the more than 5,100 test papers, 300 people had to be selected from them, and in addition to the 20 or 30 people at the front, the more than 200 people at the back could not be very far behind most of the more than 4,000 people who were deposed.

The reason why the chosen ones will be chosen and the reason why the fallen ones will be dethroned may be just a sentence or two sentences, a word and two words. But this difference determines who can stand in the city and who is excluded from the moat.

Perhaps every student who has participated in the final outcome of the 12-year study career has been reminded of this by their Chinese teacher. When composing, clichés are the most taboo, and the same essay may be able to get a score that is not lost in the exam, but in the etiquette exam, there is only one result, and that is to fall.

Han Gang's advantage is also here, the first time he participated in the imperial examination, he summed up the principles of taking the examination, how many people can be among the tribute students? He has no intention of challenging the qualifications of the top few, he just wants to be on the yellow list, even if it is a fellow jinshi opposite Mrs. Ru. Because in the sue body, the most advanced Jinshi and the first, and the last Tongjinshi are only registered as simple two words - Jinshi.

Jinshi is Jinshi.

Han Gang was thinking about it, the door was knocked a few times, and then it was pushed open, and the shopkeeper of Qingfeng Building led the three of them in.

When the young man who came first had sparse eyebrows and a long body, even if he didn't have Han Gang's familiar Wang side behind him, he could still recognize his identity.

"Han Yukun?"

"It's Han Gang!"

Han Gang smiled and nodded. And his gaze went from the king who followed Wang Yan to the last person, and his smile converged in an instant.

'What are you kidding?!' ’