Chapter 205: Busy and Busy
Li Yuntian, Zhang Kedi and others were arranged to sit at the wine table in the middle of the first row, and the people at the same table were all children of the nobles of the capital, talking and laughing there, pushing glasses and changing lamps. The fastest and most stable update is to see the latest chapter of Perfect World. Read the website
Unlike the guests at other tables, Li Yuntian's wine table was full of men, and he didn't let the girls from Zuiyue Lou come to accompany the wine, because the purpose of everyone coming this time was to enjoy the performance of Lianxiang, where would they have the leisure to drink flower wine.
"Second brother, why haven't I seen you come to Zuiyue Tower recently, is there anything else to do?" While talking and laughing, an older man remembered something and asked Zhang Kedi with a smile.
"When the capital was moved, various matters were busy, and the younger brother lived in the barracks these days." Hearing this, Zhang Kedi showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and explained to the man with a smile.
Li Yuntian couldn't help but glance at Zhang Kedi in surprise when he heard this, he didn't know that Zhang Kedi didn't come to Zuiyue Tower, and after listening to his justification just now, he immediately realized that there was a hidden secret.
Although the relocation of the capital is busy, it is not the turn of Zhang Kedi, the little grandfather, to do the work, and the people below will handle things well.
However, since Zhang Kedi was perfunctory, there was no need for him to find out, so he pretended not to know and continued to drink and laugh with everyone.
After a while, the noisy hall fell silent with the festive gongs and drums of the bands on one side of the high platform, and people looked at the stage and waited with great interest for the performance to begin.
Under the suspicious gaze of the people, some subordinates carried props to the high platform in an orderly manner, and after a while, the high platform was arranged into a back garden.
This makes everyone very surprised, the previous miscellaneous dramas were very simple, where there are so many and exquisite props, whispering in private, and talking about it.
In the expectation of the people, the music class played, and in the sound of the music, Lianxiang and a handsome student climbed onto the high platform.
The sharp-eyed guest immediately discovered that the handsome little student was played by Xiyu, another top brand of Zuiyue Building, no wonder he was a little more heroic.
Not only cherishing jade, but all the characters in the play are played by the women of Zuiyue Tower, full of charm and softness.
Lian Xiang naturally plays Feng Suzhen, and Xiyu is Li Zhaoting, judging from the costumes and hair accessories, the roles played by the two are not very old, admiring the moon in the garden, talking and singing, looking like childhood sweethearts, and the two have no guesses.
The two sang sweetly, their posture was outstanding, giving people a refreshing novelty, everyone in the audience was quickly attracted by the plot and performance, the scene was silent, everyone looked straight at the stage, has been integrated into the plot, as if immersive, the look on the face changes from time to time with the development of the plot, sometimes happy, sometimes lamenting, sometimes nervous, sometimes relaxed.
Li Yuntian drank the water from the teacup in his hand slowly, and from the reaction of the audience, he already knew that the performance was a complete success, and after tonight, Lian Xiang would become the first famous actor in the Ming theater world. The update is the fastest and most stable
When the plot played to Li Zhaoting was caught by Feng Suzhen's stepmother and took people, bribed the county officials to frame Li Zhaoting for theft, and then was thrown into prison, Lian Xiang and others ended the performance and came to the stage for a curtain call.
This made the guests feel very sorry, and they inquired about the next performance time, and after learning that the performance would continue tomorrow, they all said that they would continue to make reservations in the hall.
Subsequently, the guests began to have fun accompanied by the girls of the Drunken Moon Building, after all, the Drunken Moon Building is **, not a theater, and it is necessary to rely on the guests to make fun to make money.
Li Yuntian is well versed in marketing, such a good performance naturally can't end all at once, and he needs to constantly create topics in the capital to attract more people's attention, so that he can be considered successful.
After removing her makeup, she accompanied Li Yuntian and Zhang Kedi and others to toast, and the discerning person could see at a glance that Zhang Kedi had changed his previous courtesy to Lianxiang, and both of them looked a little cramped.
Li Yuntian has already told Lian Xiang that when his trading house in the south of the city is built, he will invite Lian Xiang and others to perform in the theater inside, where there is a perfect stage system, which will create a more realistic and appropriate scene.
For Li Yuntian's description, Lian Xiang couldn't help but look forward to it, to be honest, she likes the relaxed and comfortable feeling of performing on the stage very much, maybe she is a natural artist who can control the stage accurately.
In the following days, Zuiyuelou continuously staged the scenes behind "The Female Concubine", which became an instant hit and caused a sensation in the capital under the untimely promotion of "Ming Xin Bao".
More and more guests rushed to Zuiyue Building to see the excitement after hearing the news, the hall was crowded, the black pressure was overwhelming, and even the corridors and windows were full of people watching the excitement.
This not only indirectly led to the boom of the business of Zuiyue Lou and became the signboard of Zuiyue Lou, but also laid a solid foundation for Lian Xiang to come to the newly opened theater to perform.
One morning not long after, many young people who looked like scholars came to the Mingxin Pavilion, gathering in groups to talk and laugh, and guessing with great interest whether the Mingxin monks would come to ask questions.
Time flies by in a flash, and unconsciously it is the January period agreed between the Ming Xin monks and those scholars who came to seek advice, these scholars have already been familiar with Arabic numerals and addition and subtraction algorithms after a month of careful preparation, and they are full of ambition to pass the test today.
When the appointed time came, Qi Fu ordered his subordinates to close the door of the Mingyue Pavilion and took the scholars to a courtyard, where the various rooms had been arranged as examination rooms, and each examination room was a single person with a single table.
When the scholars sat down at the table, someone presented pen, ink, paper, inkstone and test papers, a total of 20 questions of addition and subtraction, each question was worth five points, a total of 100 points.
The scholars answer the questions within the prescribed hour, and those who get 60 points are qualified, they will be able to see the Ming Xin Jushi and obtain the ** of the Ming Xin Jushi.
After the examination began, the scholars buried their heads in answering questions, and the staff of Mingxin Bao patrolled the various examinations to prevent anyone from cheating, and the scene was a strict scene.
One hour is two hours, and two hours to do twenty questions, that is, ten questions per hour, seems to be a very loose time, but for these first-time students who are new to Arabic numerals and addition and subtraction algorithms, it is simply not enough, just like a first-grade student doing a fifth-grade problem.
At the same time, Li Yuntian and several imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate swiped the files at the yamen of the Criminal Department, that is, they checked the case files of the Criminal Department to see if there were any improprieties in the cases handled by the Criminal Department.
Brushing up on the archives in the two capitals is an important task of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise the imperial history, and the files of the major yamen in Nanjing and Beijing should be consulted by the supervising imperial history.
The various divisions of the Criminal Department were very nervous about this, and waited cautiously on the sidelines, saying something unpleasant, where would there be a perfect place in the world's cases, if the superintendent of the imperial history was deliberately looking for faults and wanted to pick stones from the eggs, then he would always find out the unreasonable points from some case files, and then make things difficult.
The supervising imperial history who came to brush the scroll this time came from three camps, among which two of the imperial historians in the cabinet camp came, one was Li Yuntian, and the other was Xie Heng, the imperial historian of Zhejiang Province.
Xie Heng is also a jinshi of Xin Chouke, the same family as Li Yuntian, he is sleek and sophisticated, and he is Li Yuntian's best friend.
The supervising imperial historians drew lots to determine the case files of the various divisions they were responsible for, Li Yuntian drew the Shanxi Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department, and Xie Heng drew the Yunnan Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department.
Compared with the Yunnan Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department, Lang Zhong of the Shanxi Qing Officials Division was the most unlucky among the chief officials of the Criminal Department, and he actually fell into the hands of Li Yuntian.
Lang Zhong of the Yunnan Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department is Yang Rong's disciple, so Xie Heng will definitely show mercy when he brushes the scrolls, and Lang Zhong of the Shanxi Qing Officials Division is the person of Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so he is naturally worried, everyone knows that Li Yuntian is the most difficult one to mess with in the supervision of the imperial history.
Sure enough, in the morning's work, Li Yuntian found obvious suspiciousities from several case files one after another, and pointed them out to Lang Zhong of the Shanxi Qing Officials Division one by one, making his forehead full of sweat and sweating profusely.
Near noon, the inspectors sealed the case files in their hands, went back to lunch, and prepared to continue to consult the files in the afternoon.
It takes three days to brush the files in the criminal department, and on the last day, the inspectors have to cross-select the files that have been reviewed and then review them, so as to avoid omissions.
Why are the people of the major yamen in the capital reluctant to provoke the supervision of the criminal department, it can be seen that it is easy for the supervision of the imperial history to find trouble.
Out of the yamen of the Criminal Department, Li Yuntian said goodbye to Xie Heng and the others, got into the carriage parked in front of the door and left, went straight to the back door of the Mingyue Pavilion, and entered the hall through the back door.
Qi Fu waited for Li Yuntian in a wing room in the backyard, and reported to him the situation of the morning exam, a total of 176 scholars came to take the exam, and 30 of them received more than 60 points.
The scholars who have not passed the guò exam have been arranged by Qi Fu to have lunch in a restaurant, and they are welcome to come back next time, while the thirty qualified people will stay in the Mingyue Pavilion, and Li Yuntian will personally feast them, and those who pass the guò exam are undoubtedly the elite of the scholars who came this time.
In one of the halls of the Meixin Building, 30 scholars who had passed the examination sat around three large round tables and talked to each other, excited about the entrance examination.
While everyone was chatting, a burly man wearing a mask that covered all parts of his mouth walked in surrounded by Qi Fu and others.
Seeing this, the hall suddenly fell silent, and all the scholars looked at the masked man with great interest, looking him up and down.
"Congratulations to you for passing the test, I am very happy to be able to learn from you in the future." The man wearing the mask was Li Yuntian, and he smiled and arched his hand to the soldiers at the scene.
"Sir!" When the scholars heard this, they all got up and bowed to Li Yuntian.
"If you have any questions, just ask, this layman knows everything." After taking a seat at the table, Li Yuntian glanced around at the scholars who were looking at him, and said with a smile, he knew that everyone must have many questions.
"Sir, may I ask if your algorithm is fast, or is the abacus fast?" As soon as the words fell, an elegant and handsome gentleman stood up and asked quietly.
"Hearing is false, seeing is believing, which of the two is faster and which is slow, and it is natural to know when compared." Li Yuntian laughed when he heard this, and clearly felt that this elegant scholar was challenging him, and the implication was obvious, if the algorithm of the abacus was faster, then wouldn't his addition and subtraction algorithm be chicken ribs?
"How?" Hearing this, Ru Yashizi frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice, he felt that Li Yuntian was in his chest, and he was not afraid of his challenge at all.
"For the sake of fairness, each of you will come up with a number, add up the numbers, and the one who gets the correct result the fastest wins." Li Yuntian smiled, looked at the scholar at the scene and said.
"It's a very good law." Ru Ya Shizi nodded, Li Yuntian's suggestion was reasonable, and he didn't have the slightest reason to refute it.
Seeing this situation, the scholars in the room couldn't help but get excited, and waited with great interest for the contest between Li Yuntian and Ru Ya Shizi, they knew that Ru Ya Shi Zi was a master of arithmetic in the Guozi Prison, and his abacus was even more superb, although Li Yuntian was a Jinshi in the two lists, but he specialized in the art industry, and he was not necessarily the opponent of Ru Ya Shizi. One