The palace man immediately knelt on the ground and said: "Lu Duhu punished his clan brother for this matter, and his clan brother had a grudge in his heart, and when he was drinking outside, he revealed some rumors, because the lord of Lin County is your daughter, and the slave naturally wanted to check it when he heard it, and he knew about it." ”

The queen's face turned even colder, "Then why didn't you report it earlier?" ”

The palace man buried his head lower, and said in fear: "Because it coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Niangniang and Your Majesty are in a happy mood, and the slave really doesn't dare to report it at this time, so as not to disturb the interest of Niangniang and Your Majesty." ”

The queen's face softened slightly.

Although the palace man did not raise his head, he could feel the pressure on his body gradually lightening, and he immediately said: "What's more, it is rare for Her Royal Highness the princess to enter the palace to fulfill her filial piety, and it is not good to let the mother worry about foreign affairs at this time." ”

Thinking of her daughter, the queen restrained her anger and waved her hand: "Get up, and someone will check again." ”

The queen frowned displeasedly, "Then why does the Zhao family often target the county lord of Qingwan?" Then Zhao Jie is too stingy, what do you care about with a little girl? ”

The palace man responded in a low voice, hunched down and retreated to investigate carefully.

On the same day, he received some rewards from the queen, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he left the palace in a happy mood.

The word "henchman" didn't fall out of thin air, and it had to be managed, and there were many doorways here.

And Steward Lin's manpower quickly retreated, and no longer interfered in this matter, so as not to let the palace people notice that something was wrong.

Anyway, the Zhao family's targeting of the Lin family is a fact, almost a check, to be honest, Lin Qingwan is also very curious about the reason for the Zhao family's stalking, is it really because of the position of Jiangnan Observation Envoy?

That Zhao Jie is too narrow-minded.

Because Lu Zhen took action to clean up the clan brother in the sixth room, no one in the Lu family dared to stretch out his hand to the Lin family, and the other families were also a little constrained by the Lu family.

After all, I don't know if Lu Zhen is simply dissatisfied with his brother falling into the well, or if he is protecting the Lin family.

Regarding the relationship between Lu Zhen and Lin Jiang, the outside world has been speculating, and the vast majority of people are confused anyway.

In their impression, the two of them should not be enemies more than enemies. Although the teacher is out of the same school, but when he is studying, he competes with each other everywhere, and after leaving the office, Lin Jiang always presses Lu Zhen's head, and several times when he enters Beijing to face the saint, the two of them are either sneering or sneering, if it is not for the emperor's bullet pressure, the two can fight in the court.

Even if the emperor presses them, and they stay in the north and south for another day, the two often impeach each other.

Lin Jiang scolded Lu Zhenguang for taking money and not doing things, consuming so much grain and grass every year, but he couldn't even collect a piece of soil, he was a wreck.

Lu Zhen also ridiculed Lin Jiang's gentle township and did not know the hardships, he had been an official in Jiangnan for more than ten years, and he had lost all his backbone, and if he was put at the border, he was afraid that he would not survive for a day.

However, when Lin Jiang was seriously ill, Lu Zhen went to Yangzhou, although he was ordered to go, but the other party stuck the stay for the longest time, and helped the Lin family a lot during his stay in Yangzhou.

It is rumored that Lin Jiang also entrusted him to take care of his sister and daughter, although I don't know if it's true or not, but it's true that Lu Zhen has never targeted the Lin family since Lin Jiang's death.

In such a situation, everyone didn't dare to go too far, and the people who had already said that they were going to make a move with the Zhao and Chen families were a little hesitant.

It was the Zhao family and the Chen family who hesitated.

The foundation of the Chen family is still shallow, Chen Shangshu doesn't want to offend the Lu family, so he hesitates, but Zhao Sheng hesitates because his brother Zhao Jie is still pinching it under Lu Zhen's hands.

Seeing that the two families led by them hesitated, some other small families even retreated directly, and only the side branch of the Cui family was not afraid.

Cui Shi didn't look at Lu's face.

But Cui Panzhi was also very angry, he was pulled into the water by Zhao Sheng, but now he has to hesitate, is this playing him as a monkey?

They had an infighting, and the bookstore and bookstore had a chance to breathe, and Lin Qingwan began to straighten out the bookstore and bookstore with Steward Liu.

Lin Qingwan selected twenty books in the study and handed them to Steward Liu, "I have read the list of the bookstore, but there are no twenty books in the bookstore." ”

Steward Liu took it and said in a deep voice: "Not only do we not have it in our bookstore, but it is also difficult to find such books in other bookstores. ”

Among these 20 books, there is one agricultural book, two medical books, two military books, two books dedicated to water conservancy and the customs of the Yangtze River, three poetry collections, five anthologies, and the rest are miscellaneous notes.

Forget about poetry collections and anthologies, the audience of miscellaneous notes is very small, so they can rarely be circulated, but the first six books belong to the category of secret books, and most of them are collected by families and scholars, and they will not flow out easily.

Steward Liu asked with some hesitation, "Grandma wants to print these twenty books?" ”

"No, even if these books are printed, there will not be many people who buy them, and the cost of engraving is too high, and the gains outweigh the losses."

Steward Liu breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face, "What does that aunt mean?" ”

"Put it in the bookstore and let people copy it," Lin Qingwan said with the corners of her mouth curled slightly: "Didn't you say that there are a lot of poor students in the bookstore who are copying books?" Give it to them to transcribe. After checking that the copied books are correct, a set will be distributed to the other Han Mo Zhai, so that the poor students who copy books in their shop can copy a few more sets to sell, and this set will be taken back after use, and I will continue to collect it in the library cabinet. ”

Steward Liu hesitated and asked, "I'm afraid that such a book is difficult to sell, and it also involves some secrets, and the other families only collect and don't sell it, if my aunt and grandmother want to give grace to the poor students, it is better to give them some paper to get affordable, and let them copy the book for fear that they will not be able to understand the kindness of my aunt and grandmother." ”

Lin Qingwan glanced at him and said, "Do you think I want to give them more money for copying books?" ”

Lin Qingwan stroked the books, and said with bright eyes: "For readers, everything has a price, but there is one thing that is priceless. ”

"That's knowledge!" She patted the book under her hand and said: "The war destroyed a lot of books, but most of the surviving ones are in the families and scholars, most of the books sold in the bookstore are commonly used, and some bookstores can't even find "Zuo Chuan", and the poor students can only pass the imperial examination if they want to get ahead, do you think they can win the family, the scholars, the nobles or the gentry only with those books in the bookstore?" ”

Steward Liu was speechless.

"What is precious is the content of this book, send it, the wise will always understand my painstaking efforts, and those who can't even understand this point are not among us to fight."

The imperial examination system of the Great Liang was inherited from the Tang Dynasty and was not as perfect as the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, and there were many drawbacks in comparison, but it also had many advantages.

One of them is that it has more complete subjects, more detailed talents, and more knowledge points involved.

Now the imperial examination of Daliang is mostly a regular department, and there are more than 50 kinds of kinds, including Xiucai Branch, Ming Jing Branch, Jinshi Branch, Junshi Branch, Ming Law Branch, Ming Character Branch, Ming Calculation Branch, One History Branch, Three History Section, Daoju Branch, Tongzi Branch, etc.

In addition to the Ming Jing Department and the Jinshi Branch are often held, the other subjects are subject to the situation, the Tang Dynasty because the Ming Calculation Department and the History Department are often not held, and the later has been canceled, but now the talent is cut off, when the Liang was founded, Taizu in order to let the imperial court run on, the Ming Calculation Department also recruited the account room of the store.

Until now, the Ming Arithmetic Division, the History Division, and the Ming Law Division have also been held frequently.

And among so many regular subjects, the Jinshi and Mingjing are the most noble, and the Mingjing is the one who examines the scriptures and Moyi.

Moyi is easy to understand, and it is a simple explanation of the words of the scriptures.

The scriptures are to open any page of the scriptures, cover the left and right, only open a line in the middle, and then cover three words with a paper post for the candidates to fill.

The scope of the examination is selected from 11 scriptures, including "Zhou Yi", "Shangshu", "The Legend of the Ram", "The Biography of Gu Liang", "The Book of Songs", "Zhou Li", "Rites", "The Book of Rites", "The Book of Zuo", "The Book of Filial Piety" and "The Analects".

Not to mention those candidates who have studied for the imperial examination since childhood, even Sister Wan and Lin Yubin also have to learn these eleven books, if it weren't for the fact that the woman couldn't refer to it, Lin Yubin might be able to give her a Ming Jing exam back.

Therefore, the Ming Jing is very easy to test, and there is a saying of "thirty old Ming Jing".

In contrast, Jinshi is much more difficult, because its exam emphasizes poetry and policymaking, which is not just memorization and Moyi, but more emphasis on talent.

Jinshike's scriptures only come out of the "Book of Rites", "Zuo Chuan" and Lao Tzu, and there is one poem each, but the policy needs to be written five articles, which involve the country's current politics, economy, law, military, government affairs, Cao Yun, salt politics and so on.

It's not enough to just read exam books, but poor students have limited resources, and they are rarely able to compete with those with deep backgrounds.

Even if the Lin family has no men, Lin Qingwan can still receive the imperial court's report every month, and she is the first to know the direction of national policies, do those poor students know?

They can only gather together and learn from others that in order to be able to borrow more books and get more information, many of them are willing to be staff members.

And Lin Qingwan is now opening up some of the resources to them for free, and she believes that those who aspire to enter the Shike will definitely understand her hard work.

It's okay if she doesn't understand, she can guide them a little bit and let them understand.

In addition to books, she would give them the same gift.

Lin Qingwan looked through the window at the girls outside and chattered and said with a smile about Cao Jin and Meng Fu's troubles, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned and she thought, when straw paper is invented, the price of paper will definitely fall, and there will be more opportunities for poor children to learn.

Bai Feng entered the door with a tray, and when he saw that the girls were all talking together, he couldn't help but say with a straight face: "When I went out, I saw you talking, why are you still talking when you come back, didn't my aunt let the flowers in the garden be picked and dried?" If this side is finished, Ming'er will go back to the city, and the flowers of the big mansion are still waiting to be processed. ”

The girls stuck out their tongues, and one of the young ones said weakly: "Why have you picked all the good flowers?" ”

"What do you know?" Bai Feng snorted and said: "Those flowers are blooming, and they will be thanked in a few days, it is not a waste to fall on the ground, it is better to dry them, and they will be made into biscuits, balsam, medicinal herbs, and tea in the future." Go to work quickly, or let Mama Lin know, be careful of your skin. ”

The girls shook and scattered.

Steward Lin stood behind Lin Qingwan, his face darkened.

Lin Qingwan laughed and said, "Mama Lin is very prestigious, and the housekeeper is blessed." ”

Steward Liu couldn't help but glance at Steward Lin, and Steward Lin lowered his head and answered, the tips of his ears were a little red.