"In the bell and drum tower, the bells are constantly ringing all night."

"In the Jinke field, today's gold list is inscribed."

"That's right, Sheng Zhong Jiyan!"

At the family banquet, You Shixiong and Seed Master Dao praised each other, and they were quite interested.

As classmates studying under Zhang Zaimen, after Huang Shang returned to Kaifeng, he naturally invited them.

After meeting, the two couldn't help but complain about saying goodbye last time, but Huang Shang selectively told them about his adventures.

This is also to show strength in the future and lay the groundwork.

In this era, civil officials came and went on horseback, and there were many people who knew martial arts.

What they suppressed was the power of the generals, not the force itself, so the two didn't care, and they were eager to try, quite a bit of a competition.

Huang Shang didn't mean to show off in front of his classmates, smiled and bypassed the topic, and began to inquire about the characters in the same department.

Seed Master Dao was still young and did not participate in this imperial examination, but You Shixiong had passed the examination and was about to participate in the provincial examination.

Therefore, Huang Shang just needs to understand what competitors are worth paying attention to this time.

Champion means first.

Since ancient times, there is no first, there is no second, you can imagine how attractive the champion is.

In the Song Dynasty, where there were many bigwigs, sometimes whether you can be a high school champion is not only talent, but also time and luck.

In some subjects, the competitors are weaker, and the difficulty of dominating the top is relatively low.

And some subjects, that's really going to heaven.

For example, in 1057, six years ago, Zhang Zaizhong's first subject of Jinshi was known as the first place in the millennium imperial examination.

The chief examiner is Ouyang Xiu, and the Zhongjinshi include the aforementioned Su Shi Suxun, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, one of the two Cheng, Wang Shao, who later expanded the territory, and Zeng Gong, who was also a member of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Crazy!

The most exaggerated thing is that there are a full nine people who later became prime ministers in this section.

It is indeed well-deserved to be praised as the first in the millennium.

But the champion is not the celebrity above.

Among them, during the provincial test, Su Shi had the opportunity to overwhelm everyone and become the provincial yuan, but he missed it for a very funny reason.

Since the test paper had to go through two procedures of transcribing the paper by name, when the examiner Ouyang Xiu changed the examination paper, he mistook Su Shi's paper for his student Zeng Gong, and changed him to second place in order to avoid suspicion.

Su shi:???

Sometimes people are unlucky, that's it, they can't be reasonable.

It can be seen that the champion also needs luck.

If Huang Shang only seeks an official position, one Jinshi and the first rank are actually enough.

But the champion is related to the cultivation of literary qi.

A champion may be worth ten years, or even more of his hard work, but he has to fight.

Huang Shang knows that he has knowledge, but no matter how high his reading talent is, if he talks about talent, he can't compare with Su Shi.

Even a big guy like Su Shi passed by the champion for ridiculous reasons, and he wanted to ensure that it was correct, but he could only be more prepared.

Fortunately, it is now only two rounds away from the star-studded subject.

Generally speaking, after a major outbreak, weakness is inevitable, and now is the period of weakness.

Seeing Huang Shang's ambition, the seed master said with a smile: "Sheng Zhong knows Qiantang Shen Cunzhong? ”

Huang Shang thought about it and nodded slightly.

I forgot that there is such a fellow student.

Shen Kuo, the word is in storage.

Erudite and well-written, he was a great scientist of the Song Dynasty, who made achievements in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, water conservancy, and even medicine, music, calligraphy and painting, and was the most outstanding figure in the entire history of Chinese science.

However, I remember the evaluation of him by later generations, he was a man of inferior character, a man who drilled the camp, and when he saw the wind making the rudder, Wang Anshi did not want to see Shen Kuo.

Huang Shang recalled this, and he didn't care much about Shen Kuo.

Learning has nothing to do with character, and it is not because Shen Kuo is not the champion in history, but because a person is too distracted and inevitably loses one or the other.

The exam is not just about showing his knowledge, there are many tricks, and Shen Kuo obviously doesn't pay attention to those, so he is not a competitor to the champion.

You Shixiong also said a few names, including the champion of this section in history, Xu Jiang.

Although this person is not famous, he is very powerful, he won the champion at the age of twenty-seven, both civil and military, and later became the prime minister.

Huang Shang didn't know General Xu, but he wrote down the names of these people one by one, preparing to study them and make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

You Shixiong is looking forward to Huang Shang becoming the champion, so he knows everything and says everything.

Seed Master Dao hesitated a little, and finally said: "There is a person, Sheng Zhong, you may have to pay attention to it, he is from the Xiangzhou Han clan. ”

Xiangzhou Han's!

Family!

As we all know, the family arose in the Eastern Han Dynasty and reached its peak in the Jin Dynasty, and the Sui and Tang dynasties began to decline.

With the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the family basically withdrew from the historical stage.

But there are still exists, such as the Yang family general, which is actually a branch of the Hongnong Yang family.

Xiangzhou Han is naturally far inferior to Hongnong Yang's, its ancestors can only be traced back to the Middle Tang Dynasty, and there have been officials for several generations, and the heritage is accumulated.

In this generation, it has finally reached its peak.

Han Qi.

Prime Minister Han Qi!

Looking at the jealous expression of the seed master, Huang Shang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Please speak clearly, it will enter my ears, and it will never be passed on." ”

Seed Master Dao glanced at Murong Fu, the scholar who was standing behind, met Huang Shang's gaze, and nodded slowly: "Han Zhongyan, the word master Pu, is the eldest son of Han Xianggong, with his father Yin as the general as the supervisor, and now he wants to reinstate the Jinshi, which is okay, he once commented on your arrogance and arrogance, and he was quite dissatisfied......"

Father's shadow is to get an official position because of the official title of his father's generation.

However, the Great Song Dynasty attaches too much importance to the position of Jinshi, and if these second-generation officials have a little knowledge, they will still take the Jinshi examination by themselves as the capital for future promotion.

As the eldest son of the prime minister of the dynasty, Han Zhongyan is indispensable for the sake of his father's face and his own future.

Historically, Han Zhongyan was also the prime minister.

He was the first prime minister after Song Huizong succeeded to the throne.

At that time, a minister commented that the four prime ministers of Song Huizong can be summed up in four words:

Cowardice, filth, stupidity, domineering.

Among them, Han Zhongyan corresponds to cowardice, and Cai Jing is domineering.

Song Huizong's prime minister, Huang Shang knew Cai Jing, there was no way, it was too notorious, and he didn't think of Han Zhongyan at all.

But he knew that the solemn warning of the seed master showed that Han Zhongyan did have a lot of opinions about him.

It's strange, the two can't get together at all, where does this grudge come from?

……

……

Meanwhile.

In the wing room of the Huixian Building.

Xu Feng strode in: "Sister, according to your method, I found out that Chen Sheng's death has something to do with Han Zhongyan, the eldest son of the current Prime Minister Han Qi!" ”

Xu Yue felt strange: "The disparity in status between these two people, what is going on?" ”

Xu Feng said: "Han Zhongyan is surrounded by a group of scholars who stammered with him, among them there is a famous person, his name is Cai Jing, I guess he is the black hand of this dog!" ”

Xu Yue pondered: "It's interesting, it involves the three prime ministers before and after......

Xu Feng clenched his fists: "I just like this kind of stimulation, for the sake of Huang Shang, get them!" ”