Because there was a sacrificial wine lord, Assistant Teacher Nayue had been inspecting the living beings with stern eyes, and the lecture hall of the Guangye Hall Renzi class was silent - Gu Qiyuan looked at Zhang Yuan's scriptures, history, strategies, and judgments, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, handed over the exam paper to Dr. Zhao, looked at Zhang Yuan who was standing on the side, and said lightly: "Beware of arrogance and rashness, and study diligently." ”

Zhang Yuan bowed and said, "Yes." ”

Gu Qiyuan signaled that Zhang Yuan could go, and when Zhang Yuan withdrew from the lecture hall, Fang said to Dr. Zhao and Assistant Teacher Yue: "With such a strategy and judgment, you can go to the Ministry of Officials to elect officials." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang set the rules of supervision, and the prisoners had to study for at least three and a half years in the Guozijian before they were allowed to elect officials, and Zhang Yuan was only in prison for eight days, Gu Qiyuan said that Zhang Yuan could go to the Ministry of Officials to elect officials, what a praise!

Of course, Zhang Yuanguo Zijian was not for the election of officials, in the Ming Dynasty, without a background in the first department, the official was not big, did not do it for a long time, and was despised - Dr. Zhao sycophantly said: "The old man presides over the southern prison, the atmosphere is new, all students are willing to learn, and Zhang Yuan is a model for all students." ”

Ruan Dacheng saw that Gu Xijiu had read Zhang Yuan's exam papers, and hurriedly came up to hand in the papers, hoping to get a word of praise from the Lord of the sacrificial wine, Wei Dazhong also handed in the papers, and the craftsmanship of the two of them was also outstanding, but it was a pity that Gu Saijiu first looked at Zhang Yuan's craftsmanship, just like Zhang Dai tasted Xizhang's food, and then tasted other food, which was just enough to satisfy hunger, so the impression of Ruan and Wei's craftsmanship to Gu Qiyuan was that Ruan Wenwen was frivolous and fancy, and Wei Yili was too stubborn to be reconciled, but Gu Qiyuan nodded, and still praised and encouraged the two of them. He didn't praise Zhang Yuan much in person.

…… According to the example, the second time of the ten examinations, those who are excellent in schoolwork can get a day off, Zhang Yuan, Zhang Dai, Wei Dazhong, Ruan Dacheng and other eight people are the top students of the ten examinations in the non-character class, June 29 This is not necessary to go to the school, but if you want to go out of prison, you still have to "go out of the respectful card", this card is only one piece, by the head of the Zhai Wei Dazhong in charge, this said Zhang Dai to Wei Dazhong received the "out of the respectful card" out of the prison to enjoy the food - in the morning, Zhang Yuan in the room in the small Kai "jasper thirteen lines Luo Shen Fu", Ruan Dacheng came in and said: "Brother Jiezi, Today is a rest, your temporary post is a violation, be careful of Mao Jian Cheng to correct you, haha, don't write, let's take a tour of this country, enter the prison for a long time, only in the lecture hall, the number room, the meeting hall three places come and go. ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Brother Ruan, wait a minute, I still have three lines, I'll go after I finish writing." ”

Ruan Dacheng stood behind Zhang Yuan and looked at Zhang Yuan's post, and said in his heart: "Zhang Jiezi's calligraphy is mediocre, not as good as me and Wei Dazhong." ”

Zhang Yuan finished copying the thirteen lines of Wang Xian's Luo Shenfu, soaked the brush in the pen wash, and then went out of the room with Ruan Dacheng, and called a Guozijian to serve and let the deacon lead the way, so that he would tell him which places he could go to and where he could not go to the deacon.

The deacon led the two of them through the west lecture hall, pointed to the three corridors, and said, "That's the pharmacy, and the prisoners can go there for treatment if they are sick." "While walking, I introduced, this is the drum room, there is a warehouse, a sauce and vinegar room, a vegetable garden, and on the edge of the vegetable garden is a shooting garden-"Shooting garden? ”

Zhang Yuan said: "What is the purpose of the shooting garden? ”

Before the deacon could answer, Ruan Dacheng said: "The six arts of the gentleman, etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, the early prison students of the country are to learn archery, and after Yongle moved the capital, the archery art of the southern prison was basically abandoned." ”

The deacon said: "Ruan Prison Sheng said very much, very few of my Ming prisoners learn archery, most of the people who go to the archery garden to learn archery are Siyi prison students, the children of Yunnan and Shu Tu officials, and the students sent by Jiaozhi and Ryukyu, those barbarians do not speak Sven and like archery. ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head, Confucius advocated the six arts of the gentleman, cultivating all-round development of talents, in later generations, as long as they can read and write, especially the eight shares of scholars, the creation of not a sage and a gentleman, but a man who seeks fame and fortune, closely linking learning with fame and fortune, regardless of virtue and hard work, as long as the eight shares are done well, there will be a golden house, Yan Ruyu, and a thousand Zhongsu...... Of course, the imperial examination is more hereditary than the aristocracy, and it is a great progress than the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, which makes the class hierarchy of the Ming Dynasty become vague and flowing, and the children of farmers, merchants, and military families can all rely on the imperial examination to enter the scholar class, and the low-level class has the opportunity to change their own destiny, so the whole society has a positive driving force, and it is relatively fair to use the Bagu Wen to train and select talents, but blindly worshipping literature and degrading the martial arts makes the entire scholar class weak and lacks blood surnames, and Guozijian even has abandoned the archery classes of students. The cultivated ones are a group of weak scholars who are powerless - Zhang Yuandao: "Take me to the shooting garden to see." Asked Ruan Dacheng: "Brother Ruan is going with you?" ”

Ruan Dacheng smiled: "What, Brother Jie Zi wants to learn archery?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I have been studying, my hands are stiff and my back hurts, and I should learn to ride and shoot to strengthen my body." ”

Ruan Dacheng looked at Zhang Yuan with interest, this young man with a deep city government always has a different idea, except for Zhang Yuan, Ruan Dacheng has never seen a show who gets up early in the morning and can practice boxing, jumping, and sweating profusely, and said, "Okay, let's go together." ”

The deacon led Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng through the vegetable garden, and arrived at the shooting garden, which was in the shape of a long text, three hundred steps long, two hundred and forty steps wide, and five feet in one step, that is, one hundred and fifty zhang wide from east to west, one hundred and twenty zhang from north to south, which was a very large location, but at this time, under the scorching sun at the end of June, this wide shooting garden was planted with a bunch of vegetables and melons adjacent to the vegetable garden in the south, and the other places were barren grass without knees, and several arrow targets at the north end were lonely and erected in the grass, which was particularly desolate - the deacon had won a lot of reward from Zhang Yuan, and said diligently: "Zhang GongziThere are two old soldiers guarding the archery warehouse over there, these dishes are all old soldiers, Zhang Gongzi wants to learn archery to ask the old army, there may be bows and arrows in the warehouse. ”

Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng followed the deacon to the warehouse at the north end of the shooting garden, and saw a gray-haired old soldier carrying a load of dung from the small door to prepare to water the vegetables, and the smell was far away, Ruan Dacheng quickly covered his nose and dodged, Zhang Yuan and the deacon stepped forward to ask, the old army put the dung bucket on the wall, pulled some weeds and spread it on the barrel surface, so that the smell of dung can cover up some - listening to the deacon's intention, the old army looked at Zhang Yuan, the old army has been in the Guozi Prison for more than 30 years, there are many people, and the prisoners come and go, The prisoners, who often have fresh and interesting pictures, will come here to ask him for a bow and arrow to test-fire, but he stopped playing for two days, and the old army refused: "There are no bows and arrows in the treasury for a long time, so the two prisoners should go back to study." ”

The dean looked at Zhang Yuan, and when he saw that Zhang Yuan refused to leave, he said to the old soldier again: "Old Zhou, don't hide it from us, I also saw those Yi people in Ryukyu shooting arrows here a few days ago." ”

The old soldier said, "That's their own bow and arrow." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Old man, I really want to learn archery, if you have a bow and arrow, borrow it from me." So saying, he took out a small piece of broken silver, about six or seven denarii, and gave it to the old soldier.

Silver is really a good thing, the old soldier's wrinkled old face suddenly smiled, and said: "Don't hide it, there are indeed some bows and arrows in this warehouse, but they are useless, the string is loose, and you have to start anew." ”

When the deacon saw that Zhang Yuan's reward was more than half a tael of silver, his eyes were extremely hot, and he said to Zhang Yuan: "There is a craftsman in this Nanjing city who makes bows and strings, and the villain is willing to repair the bow and string them on behalf of Zhang Gongzi." ”

The old soldier said, "If you say that, then come and pick a bow." ”

The old army opened the storehouse, there was dust and cobwebs everywhere, and there were more than ten bows hanging on the wall of the north panel, Zhang Yuan couldn't see whether the bows were good or bad, so he said to the old army: "Please choose two bows for the old man for me, and I will give you two taels of silver when I go back, and we will come to the shooting garden to learn to shoot in the future, and it is indispensable to disturb you." ”

Seeing that the young prisoner was humble in his words, and was not as domineering as the other prisoners, he said in a loud voice: "Thank you, thank you, thank you." So he picked up two bows on the wall, wiped the dust of the bow arm, and held the two ends of the bow arm for a while, and said: "One is a small bow and a hemp back bow, the bow arm is intact, you can change the string, if the son wants an arrow, here is it, come to the villain at any time." After all, this bow is the property of the Guozijian, and if you lend it, you also need a certificate - Zhang Yuan pulled it over and looked at it, and there were many people's names signed on it, and it seemed that there were also prisoners who borrowed bows and arrows from the old army before, and if you looked closely, these signatures were too strange, some signed "Yang Youji", some signed "Hou Yi", and some signed "Li Guang", and it was clear that the old army was bullied and illiterate, and signed indiscriminately to deal with it -- the old army found a bald pen from somewhere, and there was no ink, so he wet the tip of the pen in his mouth and handed it to Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan signed his name with a smile, thanked the old soldier, and took a bow out of the warehouse with the deacon, Ruan Dacheng walked over from the shade of the tree, and said with a smile: "There is really a bow." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "The strings are useless, we have to change the strings." Walking to the arrow target, he opened his bow and said: "Grab, grab, grab, the red heart in the arrow." After that, laughing, and Ruan Dacheng and the deacon went out of the shooting garden, came to the Guangye Hall room, walked through the west lecture hall, and met the Mao Jian Cheng with Huang Li's official uniform and purple sauce face and led two officials over, Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng avoided the side of the road, but the Mao Jian Cheng shouted: "Zhang Yuan, this official is about to look for you, so I will go to the rope hall with this official for trial." ”

Zhang Yuan bowed down and asked, "I don't know if Master Jian Cheng has anything to ask the student?" ”

Mao Jian Cheng sneered: "I'll ask you again when I get to the rope hall, now, shut up for me." "Drink the order left and right, and escort Zhang Yuan to the rope hall.

Zhang Yuan handed the bow in his hand to Ruan Dacheng and said in a low voice, "Please Brother Ruan quickly go to Dr. Zhao." ”

Ruan Dacheng took the bow, nodded, and left quickly, but heard Mao Jian Cheng shouting: "Wait, where did this bow come from?" ”

Zhang Yuan retrieved the bow from Ruan Dacheng's hand and said to Mao Jiancheng: "This is the bow that the student borrowed from the old army of the archery, and the student is going to learn archery." ”

Supervisor Mao said: "The bow of the shooting garden is not borrowed, you are stealing the utensils in the prison." ”

Zhang Yuan knew that this Mao Jian Cheng was trying to rectify him, and it was useless to distinguish between them, so he said: "The student is willing to go to the rope hall to report this matter to the Lord Prison in detail." As he spoke, he walked in the direction of the rope hall.

Supervisor Mao said in his heart: "This kid is obedient and obedient. He immediately snorted coldly and led the two prisoners to escort Zhang Yuan to the rope hall.

(To be continued)