This New Year, the lock of the Ministry of Rites is much earlier than in previous years, and it is the third day of the first lunar month.

Cai Jing, the examiner of this year's Zhigongju, as well as the officials of the various ministries and Taiwanese officials of the Tongzhi Gongju, plus the officials who supervised the examination, arranged the test papers, sealed the officials, transcribed the officials, and inspected the shop officials, all of them were assembled and counted by the inner servants appointed by the Son of Heaven, dressed solemnly, rode horses and cars, came to the outside of the tribute courtyard, burned incense and worshiped the sage Confucius, and then entered the tribute courtyard set up in Taixue.

Since then, the Gongyuan has been closed and guarded by the forbidden army led by the chamberlain. Officials at all levels drew up test questions, arranged seats, and discussed examination affairs, etc., but the outside world did not know.

This is the difference between the Song Dynasty tribute examination and the Tang Dynasty imperial examination.

In the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, the names of the candidates were revealed in the examination papers, and the candidates could even bring their own poems and writings to visit the dignitaries and dignitaries for "submission" before going to the examination, so as to increase their popularity. In the Song Dynasty, it was not only stipulated that the examination papers should be copied separately by the scribe, and the papers should also be named, but several examiners were locked in the hospital before the decision and the questions were collectively issued after admission, all in order to avoid the examiner from admitting familiar candidates, or the examiner leaking questions to the candidates.

In the early spring of February, when a little warmth seeped out from the wind during the day, the college examination finally began.

The incense in the purple hall is warm and light, and the vast court is clear and dawning. There is no uproar in the rank of warrior, and the next pen is spring to eat away at the sound of leaves.

A day passed in a hurry, and the Song Dynasty scientific examination was not allowed to answer the questions, so when it came to the unitary time, the last few candidates also stepped out of the field one after another.

"Wang Jinggong (referring to Wang Anshi) entered the official family back then, abolished the poems, and changed the scholars from the scriptures and righteous policies, and was really the minister of the society. The article should be about the righteousness and etiquette, not the boy's exaggerated work, so that he can help the world. ”

"What Brother Tai said is reasonable. Like the bachelor of Nasu, although he can write brilliantly, and the poems he writes are literary, mysterious, and reasonable, but if he uses this standard to select talents for the imperial court, I am afraid that all the nerds who are young and poor will be selected. ”

"Hey, I don't agree with that. You don't see, Wang Linchuan (or referring to Wang Anshi) in the name of restructuring, advocating his own new learning, and respecting his own compilation of "Three Classics and New Meanings" as a manifest learning, this is not a word, what is it? ”

Yu also seconded this statement. Poetry increases self-cultivation, and strategy is used to test actual combat, but what is it to focus on the scriptures and righteousness? I heard that Wang Linchuan is in his old age? I have a lot of regret for what I did back then. ”

"Huh? So according to you, is it a big mistake to talk about the New Deal now? ”

"Huh? You haven't made it to the gold list yet, so you have a big hat. Are we all readers? Self-cultivation and family rule the country and level the world, if you can't speak freely? How do you govern the country and level the world? ”

In the twilight quadrangle, the cold hits? Candidates are still difficult to calm down from the excitement of hard writing? Still gathered in the outer courtyard of Taixue, even if his stomach was already growling with hunger, he was still scolding Fang Yu in full swing.

When Zeng Wei passed by them, it was as if he had not heard their argument like a war drum at all.

He pondered two mixed things.

The first pile? Is it hi? He is quite sure of his answer today.

When he recently contacted Zhang Shangyi about the inner court on behalf of his father, although Zhang Shangyi didn't know who the examiner was, he told him with certainty that he must be a minister who adheres to the will of the official family? The question should also be related to the opening of the weather, let him go back to ponder the new policy measures such as the conscription law? It is enough to attach it to the meeting when examining the scriptures.

This second case is worry-the chief examiner is Cai Jing.

After the official family is in power? Cai Jing, who was transferred back to the court as a member of Wang An's Shimen and the backbone of the New Party, is also the brother of Shangshu Zuocheng Cai Bian? Soon became Zhang's right-hand man? There is a lot of decisive momentum in the household department? At the end of the old year, he was promoted to the rank of Hanlin Bachelor, and he was the most important position around the Son of Heaven.

The helpers of political opponents are also political enemies.

In the past two years, even if he didn't have the experience of contacting Zhang Shangyi for his father, he didn't have to be ordered by his eldest brother Zeng Ti'er, Zeng Wei already knew that Cai Jing was a person that his father Zeng Bu hated and was wary of.

The father seems to be gentle and elegant, and when he takes advantage of the cardinal's ability to play on his own, he is also unambiguous.

When his father learned that the official family wanted to prepare Cai Bian for the Privy Council, there was no objection. But when the official family wanted to promote Cai Jing, his father bluntly said: "It's better to use Beijing than to use Bian, Cai Bian still has the bones of a gentleman." ”

Father's words were spread in the court at the beginning of the first month when Cai Jing had just entered the Tribute Academy.

To be honest, Zeng Wei was a little annoyed at the time.

Can't my father put up with it? This Cai Jing has just been appointed as the chief examiner, and his father said so. Locking the courtyard is not really blocking the news of the DPRK and China, if Cai Jing knows about it in the Gongyuan, can he still be soft on Zeng Wei?

Even if the test paper is vague, and the marking and dismantling of the paper are also during the lockdown of the hospital, the deputy of Tongzhi Gongju, those imperial histories, are not all from the new party, how can they not listen to the examiner Bachelor Cai? What is the difficulty of deposing him after he is unsealed?

I don't want to do it today, after Zeng Wei sat down, he looked up and saw Cai Jing looking over with a smile on the examiner's seat.

When Zeng Wei went to hand in the papers, as soon as the invigilator folded the papers, Cai Jing came slowly, and said to Zeng Wei and Yan Yuese: "I heard that Shiro writes well, handsome and beautiful, quite Mi Yuanzhang (Mi Fu) style." It's a pity that the volume of the tribute has to be copied separately, and the old man can't feast his eyes. ”

Zeng Wei looked courteous and said goodbye.

After all, it is inevitable that the heart will be worried.

This Bachelor Cai, no matter how you look at it, is a smiling tiger.

What does "the old man can't feast his eyes on"?

Is it a provocation?

Is it a prediction that he will be nameless on the list this time?

Although he once Shiro can enter the office by virtue of the shade of the door, he is not a jinshi, and he thinks highly of himself, how can he be willing?

Zeng Wei frowned and walked out, anxiously about to take the carriage back to the house, and talk to his father Zeng Bu about today's situation.

I don't want him to just cross the threshold, but hear someone shouting behind him.

"Zeng Gongzi."

Zeng Wei turned around, but it was Shao Qing.

I saw this kid carrying a medicine box in his hand, Zeng Wei said secretly, yes, didn't he pass the liberation test, why didn't he enter the Tribute Academy?

Today in the science field, eighty percent of his mind is on the test questions, and twenty percent of his mind is on Cai Jing, Zeng Wei only remembered this stubble at this moment.

Shao Qing knew his doubts and said calmly: "At the beginning of the next year, in response to the new policy of the Ministry of Rites, I have entered the medical department of the national sub-supervisor. ”

"Huh?"

What is the number of ways this person? Will you abandon literature to practice medicine?

Although Zeng Wei also heard that around the time of the lunar month, the Ministry of Rites had been ordered by the official family to add a medical department under the supervision of the country, and those who entered the upper house and were among the best could be directly awarded the position of Hanlin Medical Bureau or Taiyi Bureau. But according to Zeng Wei's understanding, this is just to give those children of the medical family who do not participate in the imperial examination a chance to become officials.

It is unbelievable that a candidate like Shao Qing who has passed the government examination will give up the examination of the Ministry of Rites and take this path instead.

Or is it not because of his strength that he passed the government exam, but because he was looking for someone to take the exam? The examination of the Ministry of Rites is very strict, and the substitute examination is even more difficult, and it happened to meet the new policy of the imperial court.

Zeng Wei replied coldly: "It turns out that Mr. Shao and Mr. Shao have been regarded as classmates of the country, why haven't I seen you?" ”

Shao Qingdao: "As soon as I entered the school, the imperial court ordered the seniors of the Hanlin Medical Bureau to lead us to all parts of the forbidden army barracks to make rounds of pulse diagnosis. After all, spring has not yet arrived, and the places where the sergeants live also suffer from typhoid fever. ”

Before he could finish speaking, a carriage stopped beside the two of them.

The one who walked down with the medicine box was the imperial doctor of the Hanlin Medical Bureau, Miao Lingsu.

"Imperial Physician Miao is here to exchange for Imperial Physician Xu?" Shao Qingdao.

Miao Lingsu didn't expect that it was Shao Qing who came to help Guozi in medicine today, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he thought of his acquaintance with that Yao Niangzi.