Chapter 54: Before the Imperial Examination in the Third Year of the Republic
Dean Dai quickly handled the letter of grain purchase approved by Kaifeng Mansion and brought it back to Osmanthus Village, Guo Yong, Cheng Jiameng and others were very happy, and praised him for his ability.
Sending Dean Dai away to rest in the village, Cheng Jiameng asked Guo Yong curiously: "How to take the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty?" β
Guo Yong smiled and said, "Do you want to take this exam?" I have studied the rules of the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty. β
"Tell me about it"
Guo Yong said: "Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had many new changes in the imperial examination. The first is the establishment of the name obfuscation system, that is, all the information and information filled in by the candidates, such as their names and places of origin, that may be cheating, so that the examiner and the marking officer cannot know who each paper is. In the year when Su Shi participated in the Ministry of Rites examination, the chief examiner was Ouyang Xiu. At that time, Ouyang Xiu was most optimistic about Zeng Gong, and when he got Su Shi's exam paper, his eyebrows danced, and he decided that it must be Zeng Gong's answer sheet, and it was determined to be the head. When I opened the name, it turned out to be Su Shi. Regardless of whether Ouyang Xiu is out of business or private, in short, when he is the main exam, it is difficult to give a high score to his protΓ©gΓ©. β
Without further ado, a month later, a branch venue for the exam was held in Beihu, a suburb of Kaifeng, and all the Liangshan leaders of Beihu participated in the meeting.
Outside the Liangshan examination room, *, solemn, and the red sun is rising, like a refreshing and dense landscape painting, with green trees and distant fields, like an endless brocade. Dense layers of cottage wildflowers, all over the mountains and wilderness, there are steep walls, grasslands, but more bizarre is the wave of light and thinking of the North Lake. The lake is blue to the bottom, and the reflection of distant mountains floats on the surface of the lake.
Looking at these, Guo Yong simply forgot that this was the examination room, as if he was in a garden.
He seems to have returned to his long-lost student days in the 21st century.
There are four kinds of examination halls in the Liangshan examination room; Guo Yong took the exam in the Han Examination Palace, and there were many bachelors for reference.
The chiefs, like gamblers who are betting on gambling games, rushed into the examination hall to find their respective exam positions. Suddenly, Team Guo found a familiar face, it was Li Kui! He was also sweating profusely and writing something, It turned out that he was unwilling to be a royal brocade protector, and wanted to make a name for himself with his own ability.
There were a total of 6 exams, and the invigilator turned out to be Guo Inspector, whose carefully carved face was always smiling. This smile seems to make the sunlight suddenly break through the clouds and shine in at once, gentle and free. He was dressed in a proper Song Dynasty examiner's dress, and a black and gold shining seal on his hand showed extraordinary luxury.
Sometimes, a gust of wind blows into the examination room, and the examination papers make a rustling sound.
The first test is the theory of hundred officials, that is, "political thought", which is translated into modern language---- as a court official, how to establish a good environment for honesty and diligence with practical actions?
The last question is to write a fu for the first middle hall of the Great Song Dynasty, praising the hard-working bachelors there, Guo Yong thought for a moment, he read a "Yi Zhong Fu" in the 21st century, so he wrote:
One in the endowment
"Jingdong Ancient Town, Fengnan Old House. The position is Jintangsai, and the ground is fragrant with rice. The coal river with tributaries, control the fertile land and look at the Yandu. The treasure of the world, the talent of the seven buckets shines in the annals of history; Outstanding people, sighing that students from all over the world are all over Kyushu. Hongchen misunderstood, male and female scholars, vast and dreamy, and met in Pingshui. Write new poems in the old style, imitating Wang Bo as the preface to King Teng's Pavilion. Ordinary people play the guests of fame and fortune, and the girl lover talks about the snow and the moon.
Shi Wei Renshen, the age is impermanent. The classmates are far away and the grass is dry, and the youth is far away. Frost sideburns and on the road, visit the relics in the rice field, the dragon and phoenix have danced and the Zhuang people go, the school wall is still there and the old people are sparse. When I recalled that when I was studying literature, I was a strange man, with a clear style and mellow love, a clear and mellow style, a scholarly and a proud valley, and a good and leisurely model. As for the relocation of the school to the new site, the building is carved and jade, the vertical perimeter is wide, the door is wide and the plaque is large, and the traffic is busy. Even if we don't know each other, let alone the twilight and dusk rain?
Alack! Fate is uneven, life is a drama; The scholar is old, and the red face is easy to go; relied on self-entertainment and music, pen and ink for sending, just repeated drama through the ages; Fortunately, when you help each other, you are grateful to Dai Yi, and when you see each other, you should ask for sins and thorns; And now I give the old scene, and the descendants give me and so on, the so-called country, personnel replacement, since ancient times, why wanton, I hope that people and coincide with the wind and rain, knowing the fate and love the school also have a bright moon heart. β
Guo Yong handed in his "One Zhongfu" in confusion, and when the list was released, he actually found that he was ranked fourth on the second list; Then, the examination will be held at the Ministry of Rites; On the seventh day of the first month, the Hanlin National History Institute held a palace examination, Guo Yongdu successfully passed, ranked second, and was awarded the deputy staff of Kaifeng Mansion to act as an agent for government affairs.
Coincidentally, Li Kui was eliminated in the initial examination, but in order to care about his face as the head of the Jin Protector, Su Yi privately sent a Shang Dynasty bronze bottle to Guo Inspector, and the chief examiner made him up for him to the Kaifeng Mansion.
As soon as Guo Yong took office, he found that Li Kui had also come to work and had become his colleague.
Li Kui saw that Guo Yong had become a deputy ginseng, and happily shouted as if he had suddenly grasped a life-saving straw: "It's good now, you have become a deputy ginseng, I won't have to worry about writing in the future, I am not good at pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." β
Hearing this, Guo Yong smiled awkwardly and said, "That's nature." β
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After Guo Yong took office, he clarified the rule of officials, strictly rectified the social thieves, and in only five months, Kaifeng was revitalized, the people's customs were corrected, the public order was greatly improved, and the people were greatly praised.
On that day, Guo Yong and Li Kui led the officials to rush into the Happy Forest Hotel and quickly controlled all the exits. Before the thieves could react, they were contained at the scene. Subsequently, the second floor was also taken over one after another. In one of the rooms, there were gang members gambling with silver, and half of the silver bars on the table were thrown away, and there was a small amount of gold on the table.
After Guo Yong took office as deputy counselor, he asked all the officials to hang various banners on the doors -- "After a tour of the former virtuous country and family, success is due to diligence and thrift, and defeat is due to luxury", "Born in sorrow, die in peace", "Wealth and sex are in people, and people are reluctant, such as the blade has honey, and the villain licks it, there is the danger of cutting the tongue", and such admonitions are heard endlessly at the door of the officials.
On this day, it was dawn after Guo Yong finished his official duties, and he was about to go back to the back house to rest.
Suddenly, there was a report that the big bell of the nine-story Chaotian Pavilion in Guliu Village, in the western suburbs of Kaifeng, was lost!
Guo Yong hurriedly returned to the hall and hurriedly sent a cadre of men and horses to Guliu Village to search. Half an hour later, the messenger brought Yu Xuecun, an artist from the Kaifeng City Commentary Hall who was drunk in the nine-story Chaotian Pavilion, to the hall. The official took a basin of cold water and poured it on his head. Yu Xuecun suddenly woke up and shouted, "I didn't steal the big bell. β
Guo Yong couldn't help but say happily: "I haven't asked you yet, you are drunk again, how can you know that the big bell is lost as soon as you open your mouth?" β
Yu Xuecun said: "My lord, in fact, I woke up on the way to the lobby, and I heard the messenger say that the bell was lost, but I was the only one sleeping there in the entire nine-story Chaotian Pavilion, which is really indisputable!" β
Guo Yong asked: "You don't sleep at home, why do you sleep there?" β
Yu Xuecun said: "Last night, I made a bet with Jing Xiaojing outside the Xinghua Village Restaurant that if I dared to carry down the big bell of the nine-story Chaotian Pavilion, he would lose me fifty taels of silver, so I climbed up the nine-story Chaotian Pavilion overnight, but as soon as I reached the top of the building, I suddenly remembered that the big bell was at least 200 catties, and I couldn't move it with my thin body, so I had to go downstairs, and when I went down to the third floor, the wine was overflowing, and I couldn't support it, so I fell asleep. β
"Oh, it's Jing Xiaojing's bet with you." Guo Yong said, "Quickly spread Jing Xiaojing to Ya." β
Su Yi next to him said: "My lord, this, this Jing Xiaojing is the younger brother of Shangshu Jing Dajing!" Kyo Dajing is a member of the four great families."
Guo Yongxin said: Do you want to put pressure on me, bend the law for personal gain, and let me be sentenced to a gourd case?
So he said, "Let's introduce the situation of the Jing Xiaojing family first!" β
Su Yi said: "Let me tell you about the four major families of the imperial court, in the future, you will be mixed up in the officialdom of the imperial court, these four families are called 'Liujin Suiyue', and the liu---- refers to Liu Zhongtang, the deputy prime minister of the imperial court, and Jin ---- refers to the official department Shangshujing Dajing, Sui - refers to the nine-thousand-year-old Zhang Hanfu, and Yue ----- refers to Yue Guilan, the chief soldier of salt and iron. β
Guo Yongdao: "I see, you tell me in detail." β
Su Yi said: "Liu Zhongtang is one of the patriarchal families of the imperial court. Because of his meritorious service in expelling foreign thieves, he was given the middle hall. At the emperor's enthronement ceremony, Liu Zhongtang was half-jokingly asked Liu Zhongtang to sit on the dragon chair with him, and there were more than 10 people in the Liu family and the royal family. Among them, there are 5 people who have become first-class officials.
Jing Da Jing -- The Ministry of Officials Shangshu Jing Da Jing, he started late, but the development was very fast. Jing Dajing is the most prominent figure of the Jing clan in the imperial court, after the emperor ascended the throne, the world is mostly called "Yujing", Jing Dajing's elder brother Jing Yu, younger brother Jing Jingliang are local officials, Jing Xiaojing is the youngest brother of Jing Dajing, is our Kaifeng business boss.
Nine-thousand-year-old Zhang Hanfu, originally served as a cavalry lieutenant under Liu Zhongtang, and was awarded the title of general when he was the first emperor, and was appreciated by Zhu Guifei and was named a general.
General Yue Guilan is the brother-in-law of Jing Dajing, who controls the most important salt and iron and military affairs in the imperial court.
After hearing this, Guo Yong took a deep breath and said: "No matter what, you have to act according to the laws of the imperial court, I will write down the situation you said, and I will send the right person to pass him over, I will think about it for a few days." β
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In the past few days, Cheng Jiameng has suffered from some cold, and Guo Yong just took this opportunity to accompany her in the back office.
"You're very busy trying cases now, you don't come every day, I can do it alone." Cheng Jiameng looked at him solemnly.
"I'm your captain, it's only natural to accompany you, okay, don't think about it." Guo Yong made a joke, said with a smile, and wrapped Cheng Jiameng with a Song Dynasty mountain fruit.
"What's the matter, what are you pondering? In the past two days, you have always been like this, as if you were thoughtful," Guo Yong said with a smile.
"Nope." Cheng Jiameng didn't want to admit it, but the expression on her face betrayed her, of course, she wasn't thinking nonsense, but worried about when she would be able to return to the 21st century, where the chief and deputy captains of the security team of Xi'an International Medical College were not there, but it wasn't a thing, would the principal Gao Nan look for them all over the street?
Guo Yong sat on the edge of the bed and said, "Don't think about it, or I'll tell you a joke, I'm sure you'll be happy when you hear it." β
Cheng Jiameng's eyes flickered, with a little curiosity.
Guo Yong said, I remember when I was in medical school, I always liked to watch the crossing in the guardhouse was very boring, I changed your name to three particularly obscure words---- 橦θζΉ§, I searched at random, I didn't even know myself, the principal was serious and serious, he asked me meticulously, why didn't you come to work, I said at the time, you crossed over! The name has also been changed!
Cheng Jiameng smiled, "Let you watch the crossing all day long"!
Looking at Guo Yong's embarrassment, Cheng Jiameng couldn't help but smile again, this smile made Guo Yong look at Cheng Jiameng's beautiful face infatuatedly, and he was reluctant to look away.
"Humph! What to see. β
"You should smile more, you look so good when you smile." Guo Yong smirked.
Cheng Jiameng's cheeks instantly flushed again, and he looked at Guo Yong's eyes a little dodgy, and he didn't speak for a while.
After a long time, he didn't hear Guo Yong speak, let alone hear the sound, Cheng Jiameng quietly turned his head and found that he had fallen asleep sitting on the chair with his head propped up, and his heart became complicated again.
"Guo ---" Cheng Jiameng called softly, but he didn't call out.
After struggling in her heart for a long time, she finally mustered up her courage and stretched out her hand to gently shake Guo Yong, "Guo Yong! β
Guo Yong opened his misty eyes, yawned, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" β
"I mean, why don't you go back to the back office and go to sleep, don't snore here, this is the Song Dynasty, how bad others hear it." Cheng Jiameng suddenly blushed and said.
Guo Yong smiled, turned over and got up
"Yes!"
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