On the first floor of the "High School" inn, Zhang Tie was interrupted by Luo Long before he finished speaking.

"Brother Zhang! Be quiet. ”

Zhang Tie nodded hurriedly and said in a low voice: "The princess was assassinated, and she was almost killed by the assassin, I said Brother Luo, this matter is not a joke." ”

Luo Long said: "I don't dare to joke about this, my brother in the battalion told me, and he was still there at the time." ”

"I'll tell you......"

The matter was told by Luo Long during the meal, which was similar to what Zhang Tie had experienced, the only thing that was more was that the cavalry leader Zhang Jin killed a person, which Zhang Tie didn't know.

Zhang Tie said secretly in his heart: "If I knew this, I should have shot a few more people, but it was already a little difficult to kill the last person this time, and it was time to use up the skill points." ”

After everyone finished eating, a group of 8 people came out of the "High School" inn under the leadership of Luo Long, and came to the street, at this time, some fast catchers or city guards could be seen on the street from time to time, patrolling the streets, this assassination incident made the entire North City enter a special period.

Naturally, the first thing for everyone is to visit the examination room, memorize the route, and visit other places.

The suburbs of the city where the township examination room in the north city is placed, you have to go north from the street, and when you reach the inner city, you can walk a few hundred meters to the left, and there is a military camp near the examination room, which is the camp of the palace guards, so from time to time you can see the guards in armor walking on the road.

Along the way, everyone said little and looked less, and there were not Xiucai wearing long shirts on the road, and after a while, they came to the door of the examination room, and there were more Xiucai at the door, and there were not a few people who wanted to fight the same.

There are soldiers at the entrance of the examination room every day, and irrelevant people are not allowed to enter, and no one is allowed to come out, because the person who came out of the test paper is brought inside, and only when the examination starts, the person who produces the paper can get out of the examination room.

Although you can't enter the examination room, the drawings and introductions of the examination room style are posted on a bulletin board outside the door for people to watch, and after the results of the township examination come out, they are also posted on it.

The examination room looks like a super large courtyard, which is divided into many small courtyards arranged in an orderly manner, and each row of small courtyards is separated from the examination room with a depth of 4 feet and a width of 3 feet, which is called the "number house", and each room is divided into one candidate. There are as many as 20,644 Gongyuan houses in Yanzhou Beicheng, which means that 20,644 candidates can be admitted to take the exam at the same time

Each row of numbers has a door, and the door is hung with a pink plate on the forehead, and the book number is on it. The font size comes from the words in the "Thousand Character Text", but the names of saints such as "Heaven", "Xuan", "Emperor" and "Emperor" are not used, and the number words and fierce words such as "Waste" and "Hanging" are not used.

The dormitory is not only a place to answer questions for the exam, but also a place for candidates to stay at night. Each house has two wooden planks 4 feet long, and the walls on both sides of the house have brick brackets, two up and down.

During the daytime exam, two wooden planks are placed on the upper and lower brackets to build a simple table and stool; At night, the upper deck is removed and the lower deck is flattened to form a simple bed.

Because the space is too small, candidates have to lie on their knees at night, which is called "pigeon cage" in folk jokes. During the exam, the candidates spend time in such a pigeon cage, eating, drinking, and lazing in between. There are no sanitary conditions in the examination room, and a dung bucket is placed at the back of the laneway of the house for candidates to urinate.

Under the high temperature, the smell is unpleasant, mosquitoes and flies are flying, and the candidates in the nearby number house are like going to prison, not to mention the exam, even the smell is enough for the candidates.

The number house near the dung bucket is called "stinky number", and the number house near the cooking place is called "fire number", which is not popular with candidates. In the Jiangnan Gongyuan Township Examination that year, there was a candidate with outstanding results, because he sat in the "smelly" for the exam, he was smoked by the smell and played abnormally, not only failed the exam, but also fell seriously ill after returning home.

Therefore, candidates want to choose the middle house, such as near the dung bucket, it will be miserable. Therefore, when looking at the examination room, you should "grab the number", grab a good number house, and feel comfortable for the exam.

As soon as the dragon door of the examination room is opened, the candidates who have prepared in advance will quickly rush in and put the empty test basket that occupies the seat on the table in the number room, which belongs to their own examination room.

Eight people carefully check the drawings, the examination room is still quite large, you can let thousands of people take the exam at the same time, the only drawback is estimated to be in hygiene, fortunately it hasn't been very hot recently, otherwise I really want to say that, play snake snake.

After reading the introduction, Liu Yi shook his head and said with emotion: "No wonder I often hear seniors say that luck is also part of strength, which is true!" ”

The others nodded in agreement, Zhang Tie touched his chin and glanced at Zhang Shun, he really couldn't imagine what kind of scene it would be if Zhang Shun was in the 'stinky', a handsome young man, sitting in the 'stinky' number for the exam, just thinking about it felt a little twisted.

Zhang Tie looked around at everyone and said to Luo Long: "Since you have finished reading here, let's go to other places to take a look, what do you think, Brother Luo, the next thing is to lead the way." ”

Everyone has no opinion, everything that should be seen has been seen, and if you can't see it, you can't see it yet, Liu Yi and the four people have already said on the road that they want to visit the capital of Yan with Zhang Tie and experience the beautiful scenery of the northern city.

The most famous place in Beicheng, that is, the Ayutthaya Canal, was dug by hand in the previous dynasty of the Yan Kingdom, and the Ayutthaya Canal should be the longest canal in the world. From Hangzhou (land of Zhao Kingdom) in the south, to Beicheng in the north, it flows through Qingzhou, Pingzhou, Tongzhou, Qingzhou and Suzhou, and communicates the three major water systems of Haihe, Huaihe and Yellow River, with a total length of 9,297 kilometers.

The previous dynasty of the Yan Kingdom was because of the uncontrolled use of artificial coolies and the desperate digging of the Dacheng Canal, which led to the loss of young labor in many people's homes, and the elderly could not grow too much food at home, which eventually led to a vicious circle, and the people were miserable.

At that time, I wanted to make use of this river, one was to dredge the waterway, but to form a river that could develop the economy, but I didn't think that the country would die in a few years, and the Ayutthaya Canal became someone else's wedding dress.

Now the economy generated by the Ayutthaya Canal every day is also sky-high, and it has also given birth to other things, water thieves, since there are water thieves, then naturally they need to escort the dart master - water darts.

Different from Zhang Tie's dart game, these water darts are directly on the water, and they are all proficient in water, a big city canal, so that many people have jobs, and directly drive the development of the entire Yan country.

The pier of the north city is connected to the moat, but there are too many large boats to pass, and only small boats can pass through, and there is a specially built official road on the side of the pier, which leads to the south gate of the north city.

The wharf in Beicheng is full of merchant ships coming and going every day, and a small street has been built on both sides of the official road, all of which sell food and drink, all for the guests on board and the coolies at the wharf.

The place where Zhang Tie and the others are going now is there, look at the big ship, and increase their knowledge.