At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the country was initially decided, there was a shortage of talents, and a large number of official positions were vacant and there were no suitable officials. Therefore, at that time, the Guozi prisoner was still relatively valuable, and often after being released from prison, he was given a background, and after six years, he was soon able to be appointed as an official, and the position he held was generally very important. In this way, a group of scholars who want to be officials are naturally eager to become officials.

At that time, the management system of Guozijian was also quite strict. For example, the Rope Hall in charge of the supervisor is similar to the Academic Affairs Office known to Yan Hong in his previous life, but its authority is far greater than that of the Academic Affairs Office. The prisoner has the right to inflict punishments on the students, from beating them with bamboo grates to being distributed to the army, and the most tragic prisoners will even lose their heads.

But even so, people are still vying to enter the country. Because this is a fast track to enter officialdom, in order to be an official, what is it to take a few butt hits! At that time, Guozijian was indeed the first school worthy of the name of the Ming Dynasty, and even foreigners at that time, there were many people studying in Guozijian.

But now, Guozijian is far from being as majestic as it was back then. The main reason is that the imperial examination system is flourishing at present. Relatively speaking, the entry threshold of the imperial examination system is low, and students from all over the country can participate; And the assessment is relatively fair, and everyone's files are sealed together and waiting for screening. This unified talent selection method, no matter how the eight shares themselves were criticized by later generations, at least provided a relatively reasonable path for the cross-class flow of talents in feudal society.

Therefore, with the continuous development of the imperial examination, a large number of officials were produced by the imperial examination. The so-called unspoken rule that non-Jinshi is not allowed to elect Hanlin, and non-Hanlin is not allowed to enter the cabinet, has also begun to prevail. The prisoners of Guozijian generally have to participate in the imperial examination to obtain official positions. Of course, there are also inmates who rely on their special backgrounds to get direct awards. For example, Yan Hong's cheap father Yan Shifan is like this. But in the end, it is rare, and few are pitiful.

Under the elimination of the other's strengths, the identity of the prisoner of this country has gradually been looked down upon. Of course, being able to enter the country is still a status symbol in itself, but this is at most a plus on the cake. How much position you can really seek in the imperial court is, in the final analysis, based on the results of the imperial examination.

Later, when the imperial court needed money and food, it opened a routine prison. As long as you donate money and donate money, food and horses, you may get the status of a national prisoner. In this way, the identity of the prisoner of the country is becoming more and more superficial. As it becomes more and more "money", it becomes less and less "valuable". It has become the norm for a large number of wealthy children in their families to buy the title of prisoner with money. This makes the group of scholars who should be admitted to the imperial examination with real skills, how can they afford these signboards bought with money?

In such a context, even if one or two people want to rectify the style of study and recreate the glorious years of Guozijian, they are still lacking. Today's Guozijian, the rope hall that punishes bad students and regulates school rules and discipline has long been an ornament. Most of the serious and talented scholars are enrolled in counties, prefectures, and prefectures in various places, waiting for the examination of people and scholars. Although the facilities of those grassroots schools are not as good as those of Guozijian, the style of study may be better, and the cost of living in the local area is still cheaper.

Most of the remaining people who stay in the Guozijian are either rich sons and brothers in the family, or high-ranking officials like Yan Hong, who are enrolled in the school, and some are those martial arts nobles who have received the emperor's grace, the father is dead, and the eldest son is waiting to attack the lord, according to the imperial court system, you also need to go to the Guozijian to mix up the background first, so that you can attack the lord according to the law, which is also a matter of going through the motions.

As for foreign students, don't think about it at all, no idiot foreigner will still be in the country at this time. was originally a supervisor (equivalent to the chief instructor) who was the defender of the style of study, so who else could he manage? They are all rich second-generation officials and second-generation, happy to open one eye and close one eye, as long as you don't make too much trouble, everyone just spends their days together.

Like Feng Xiaoxian's diligent and hard-working sling, he is already a strange thing in the country, and it is more precious than the giant panda. It is not difficult to understand that he would not hesitate to pull down the shelf for what kind of high arch and go to Jinyiwei to intercede for him.

Yan Hong's understanding of Guozijian is certainly not so specific. So when I walked through the door, I was still a little in awe. It is said that the students of Guozijian need to go to the Ministry of Rites to go through the registration procedures. It's just that Yan Hong, a prison student with grace, has big roots behind him, but someone has already completed the formalities for him, but he doesn't have to do it himself.

After entering the prison, he visited the priest and the priest according to the rules, that is, the vice president. When he entered the official office, when he looked up, the sacrificial wine sitting in the middle was the high arch that was rumored to be not very satisfied with him. And the Si Ye sitting on the side is also an acquaintance, that is, the handsome and stylish Zhang Juzheng.

This time, Yan Hong was really surprised and delighted. Surprised, I didn't expect that I had entered the country and established a teacher-student relationship with these two cattle people at the same time, but I didn't know how ridiculous and contemptible these two people were. Happily, after all, he has a vague understanding of future history, and on Mrs. Ouyang's birthday that day, Zhang Juzheng seemed to have a good relationship with Yan Fu. He was in Guozijian, and he was originally a little apprehensive about Gao Gong, but now with the addition of Zhang Juzheng, maybe he can dilute the depressing atmosphere a little.

At that moment, Yan Hong knelt on the ground and respectfully kowtowed to his master. Kowtow to these two big bulls, that's worth a thousand dollars.

After kowtowing, logically speaking, Yan Hong was already a student of Gao and Zhang. Although their relationship is slightly different from the relationship between the teacher, the master, the house master and the disciple student in the traditional sense of the Ming Dynasty, it is not so close. But they have formed some kind of political alliance with each other.

Gao Gong has a big beard, but this time his face is kind. Without waiting for Yan Hong to kneel down, he picked him up and said, "Master Yan is polite." Meng Gongzi was in Jinyiwei a few days ago, broke the Andingmen murder case, and cleared Feng Sheng's grievances. Gao Mou is a lowly official, and he can only do this, which can be regarded as a little revenge for the rescue of his son. This master-apprentice statement, but don't mention it, Gao really can't afford it. He is a strict son, and his future is limitless, how can Gao dare to call himself the teacher of his son? ”

Although the words are polite, it actually means that this is a deal between us. Cash in stock, money and goods are clear, in the future, you will mix in the officialdom, not to mention that I am my student, we can't afford to lose that person with you.

Yan Hong is not stupid either, and completely understands the other party's thoughts. He had to say a few vague words of "don't dare", but he was so happy that he looked at himself unpleasantly, and kicked himself out of the country early, and everyone was happy with each other.

It was Zhang Juzheng who calmly accepted Yan Hong's salute, and then said: "Zhang has to include his son in the door wall, which is also a great blessing." Starting today, Yan Dagongzi will be regarded as a person in my country's prison, I hope you will study the scriptures and history diligently, and don't live up to the grace of heaven. ”

It is said that Yan Hong, who has just arrived, should be assigned to the classrooms of the junior inmates of Justice, Chongzhi, and Guangye, and follow the rules and step by step. Gao Gong said: "The family history of the eldest prince Yan is not idle. With Yan Ge's old professor, I am afraid that it is much stronger than the doctors and scholars in our prison. If it is divided into the junior high school and secondary school, it will be too wasteful of talents. In my opinion, it's better to go directly to the Frank Hall. ”

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "The lower officials also think the same way. Yan Hongzheng was so happy, it was best to go to school today and drive himself away tomorrow, and hurriedly said: "Everything is under the orders of Elder Gao." ”

It is said that in the Guozi Prison, there are 32 classes. However, now that there is a serious loss of students, students from other places are allowed to return to their hometowns to study according to their relatives (similar to today's correspondence system), and when the time comes, they will be released from prison and given their birth. Therefore, in fact, there are not enough students in 32 classes in the prison, and it is very rare to be able to make up 10 classes.

Yan Hong entered the hall of spontaneous nature, first led by a doctor, this person has the same surname as the late mother, known as Hu Fuzi, full of poetry and books, and is very knowledgeable. Hu Fuzi led Yan Hong to the Frank Hall. It was called one hall, but there were eleven rooms. When the two entered one of the rooms, they saw a dozen students sitting staggeringly in the room, although there were also two or three flipping books, most of them without any rules. Look at the age, the size is there, but just look at the appearance, you can know that there are a group of floating waves in the Beijing Division.

Seeing Yan Hong coming in, suddenly a person shouted softly: "Yan Dashao!" I saw that the dozen or so people blew up the camp in an instant, and they all exchanged heads. Even the two or three who were originally reading the book threw down their books and looked at them in horror.

There was a burst of chatter, and it sounded in an instant:

"What's the matter, he's the little Yama?"

"It's not bad, our family has a good business, and he took away thirty percent of the dry shares, and I know his bones after peeling the skin."

"Be quiet, don't let him hear it, this master is ruthless, Zheng Guoqi, you know what to do, the young master of Zheng Dutang's family, just because he was fighting with him for a jade girl in the teaching department, he was put in the edict prison, Xisi was directly clicked, I watched it cut."

"Hey, what you say, at first glance, is hearsay, gossip! I go to the workshop more than a dozen times a month, and I am very familiar, how can there be any jade girl. This is all made up by the little Hades. Let me tell you, that's actually the case, the third lady of Yin Fucheng is not a clean person. married Feng Shan first, and later hooked up with this little Hades. Later, he thought that King Xiaoyan could not be civil or martial, and he fell in love with Zheng Guoqi. I don't know why in the future, that Zheng Guoqi actually killed Miss Yin San. This annoyed the little king of Yama, and he wanted to avenge his concubine, so he set up a bureau in the eight places of Xishan and took out the head of Zheng Xiaoxianggong. ”

"Oh my God, this little Hades is really ruthless. Is it worth it for a clean-up Miss Yin San? ”

"Hey, that's what you haven't seen Miss Yin San, it's really smart. It's a pity that people can't look at us......"