Act 437 tragicomedy

As the social status decreases, so do the benefits.

During the fourth generation, because his nominal father had served as the prefect of Jiaozhi Longbianfu, Wei Dongsheng automatically obtained the qualification of a shadow supervisor. In the sixth generation, if Wei Dongsheng wanted to go to Wu Guoguo's supervision to study, he had to take the fiercely competitive supervision exam.

Speaking of the proctoring examination, here is a brief introduction to the scientific examination system of Wu State.

With the development of the times, one country can no longer meet the needs of the entire vassal state. Similar to the time when the Yue Kingdom continued to set up Guozijian branches, other vassal states, including the Wu State, also followed suit and continued to build new supervision schools. In this way, it has evolved slowly for more than 100 years, and these branches are no longer called Yashan Guozijian, Xin'an Guozijian, etc., but are downgraded to superintendents, such as Dongwu Superintendent, Nantang Superintendent, Ningbo Superintendent, Wenzhou Superintendent, etc.

Within the scope of Wu State, the Guozi Supervision Institute naturally ranks first. Especially for those students who intend to climb the peak, if he lacks the education of Guozijian, the road to the official palace will be at least three or five times more difficult. If you want to be an official, go to the national prison, this is the best shortcut for civilians to break the shackles of the class.

The superintendent of Soochow and the superintendent of Nantang are in the second grade. The strength of these two schools is weak as a whole, but they have certain characteristics. For example, if you want to join the military in the future, two schools are good choices: the Dongwu School has the country's leading maritime department, which continuously sends grassroots officers to the Wu Navy; Nantang School Supervision has the country's leading army sub-department, and a steady stream of grassroots officers is sent to the army.

Especially Nantang Supervisor, its founder is also famous in the real world, and it is shocking that it is Qi Jiguang, the author of "Ji Xiao's New Book".

Qi Jiguang in this time and space regretted losing the merits of the famous anti-Japanese generals. Because the naval strength of the Yue, Wei, Wu, and Lu kingdoms far exceeded that of the Zhu Ming Dynasty in the real world, the anti-smuggling patrols frequently patrolled the maritime frontiers, and some Japanese pirates had no chance to wreak havoc on the coast.

However, Qi Jiguang did not die in obscurity.

In this time and space, Qi Jiguang was born in the family of the military aristocracy of the Lu State, and inherited the title of Marquis of Ting at the age of 16 and went to study in the son of the Lu State. After the outbreak of the Vietnam-Wu War, Qi Jiguang reinforced the Wu State as a member of the Lu State, and won many awards during the war. After that, the vassal king of Wu attached great importance to Qi Jiguang's military talents, and warmly invited Qi Jiguang to immigrate to Wu, just like the three kingdoms of Shilu, Wei and Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. As an aside, Qi Jiguang's nickname in this time and space is "Wu Qi in the world". After several years of consideration, Qi Jiguang agreed to the invitation of the vassal king of Wu and became a general of Wu State.

At present, the so-called phalanx of Wu Wushu is the result of Qi Jiguang's military reform.

In 1567, Qi Jiguang was promoted to the prime minister of Wu State, and was called Qi Xiang at the time.

The disturbances during the Vietnam-Wu War greatly weakened the prestige of the royal family, and the cabinet gradually became the de facto control of the Wu state. After Qi Jiguang ascended the throne as the prime minister of Wu State, he immediately became the real controller of Wu State, and his authority was even greater than that of Huo Guang and Zhou Gong. Unless Qi Jiguang dares to depose the vassal king of Wu and cause international disputes, his power in Wu will be unbreakable, and praising him as "under one person, above ten thousand" underestimates the cabinet's containment of the royal family.

Qi Jiguang was named Nantang, and he supervised the construction of the superintendent, so he was named Nantang Superintendent.

Whether it is Dongwu Supervisor and Nantang Supervisor, or Ningbo Supervisor and Wenzhou Supervisor, they all inherit the traditional examination strategy of Guozijian, and there are only three admission methods: Yin Supervisor, Gong Supervisor, and Ju Supervisor. In recent years, the passage of tribute and supervision has become more and more tight, taking Wu Guoguo's sub-eunuch as an example, there are only a handful of tribute prisoners and prisoners every year, which is almost negligible. Compared with the prison, the shadow prison needs to have a good father and mother to protect it, although the threshold for the national prison in various countries is high and low, and the father must be at least a prefect, how can the common people expect it?

A grass man like Wei Dongsheng in the sixth generation can only walk through the prison passage to break the shackles of the class.

As an aside, as early as the fourth generation, the annual examination of the Jiaozhi Domain's Guozijian drove the education market, and there were more and more private educational institutions and training institutions. Compared with the Cochin Domain a hundred years ago, the Wu Guoju examination education system is more mature. Public opinion abolished nondescript statements such as government learning, and collectively referred to the educational institutions before the prison as juxue, which means the learning that should be raised; When children reach the stage of accumulating knowledge that they should be raised, it is collectively referred to as Mengxue, which means enlightenment.

Although Wu's education system cannot be compared with the real world in 2016, it has simply formed a mature education system of Mongolian learning→ → supervision. Just like the wealthy people in the Zhu Ming Dynasty in the real world who desperately conducted scientific examinations, the wealthy people and small landlords of Wu State also sent their children to Mongolia and school, hoping that the children could be successfully admitted to the prison and even the Guozi Prison, and finally the carp jumped the dragon gate or inherited the family business perfectly.

The small background of Wei Dongsheng's sixth advent is a student who has just finished the annual invigilation.

Can I get in?

The answer, of course, is that it is regrettable to fall off the list.

It is not because Wei Dongsheng is not capable of being admitted to the Wu Guoguo Zijian examiner, but because he is also part of the background of the sixth generation.

The news of the failure spread, some people comforted Wei Dongsheng to come back next year, and some people secretly gloated.

The next day, he went to the Xiao Wei family firm to check the accounts, and as soon as Wei Dongsheng walked to the door, he heard someone using him as a stepping stone: "Old Qian, you have to admit that your vision is not as good as your daughter." As the saying goes, a hundred acres of land is easy to obtain, but a prison student is hard to find. Your son-in-law is ten times more powerful than our little boss (Wei Dongsheng). ”

Someone else praised the old money: "After entering the Nantang superintendent, Fang Xiaozi is Qi Xiang's protégé." Old money, old money, you have to thank me, if it wasn't for my grandfather who planted a grave tree in your ancestral grave, how could your family have cultivated such a marriage. ”

Someone else sighed and said: "Old Qian, your ancestral grave is smoking." Old Qian, this 'Gou Fugui, don't forget', when your son-in-law gets an official and a half-job, be sure to find an errand for me. Although Lao Song and I are stupid and stupid, I can still do the work of serving tea and pouring water and watching the gate. ”

Wei Dongsheng knew what they were talking about.

Lao Qian's full name is Qian Faqun, and his daughter's name is Qian Xiaoxiao. Nowadays, social customs are precocious, and young boys and girls often talk about marriage at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and Su Xiaoxiao, who is already nineteen years old, naturally sends love to a good match. How can Nai Su's little lover Fang Chengtai, whose family is poor and has a difficult old mother, is not liked by Qian Faqun.

Qian Faqun hated Fang Chengtai, and while prohibiting Qian Xiaoxiao from meeting Fang Chengtai privately, he tried to find other good matches for Qian Xiaoxiao. However, with the steady improvement of productivity and the gradual prosperity of the commercial economy, the binding force of the value concept of "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker" on boys and girls is getting weaker and weaker. Fang Chengtai ignored Qian Faqun's warning, and Qian Xiaoxiao also resisted Qian Faqun's ban, and the two tried every means to be together, which is quite like a story of pursuing a free marriage. Fang Chengtai and Qian Xiaoxiao have always been disconnected, and the local good family naturally refuses to marry Qian Xiaoxiao, who has a green hat. Qian Faqun couldn't find another good match for a while, and he was unwilling to demote his daughter to a bad family, so he was delayed until now.

In this year's invigilation, Fang Chengtai was suddenly lucky to be admitted to Nantang Supervisor, and was promoted from the son of a farmer to a supervisor with unlimited prospects.

Overnight, Fang Chengtai's social status has changed dramatically.

Fang Chengtai, who was worthless a few years ago, has now become a young talent; Qian Xiaoxiao, who was ridiculed by everyone a few years ago, has now become a discerning hero; A few years ago, everyone ridiculed the unfortunate Qian Fa group, but now it has become the ancestral tomb that everyone envies.

This is the charm of Nantang Supervision.

Realistically speaking, Nantang Supervisor enrolls more than 350 people every year in the territory of Wu State, and its status is far inferior to that of the Zhu Ming Dynasty admitting hundreds of Jinshi in four years across the country. Comparing the two horizontally, the jinshi can become the magistrate when he comes out, and the prisoners, especially those from the common people, can slowly climb the officialdom from the small officials after four years of study in the prison school. The prison students are 108,000 miles away, and they are even far inferior to the people raised under the imperial examination system of the Zhu Ming Dynasty.

However, a prisoner is a prisoner after all.

In the current social environment, prisoners are the only way for civilians to break the shackles of class.

With the inmate's degree, no matter how bad Fang Chengtai is in the future, he will not have to worry about food and clothing; If you are a little lucky, it is not impossible to serve as a magistrate such as a county governor or a prefect. Qian Faqun has a small net worth, and he will not envy the well-off life of the lower limit of the prisoner, but the life of a rich and noble bureaucrat with the upper limit of the prisoner is destined to be his unattainable dream. Even if Fang Chengtai earns 1,000 silver dollars a year, he has no hope of breaking the shackles of class and becoming a county magistrate and a prefect.

The preciousness of the prisoner is that it shattered the shackles of the class, and Fang Chengtai has hoped to join the circle of the powerful from now on.

It's a social status that money can't buy.

In the face of Fang Chengtai's success, Qian Faqun was both angry and happy, angry Fang Chengtai actually carped and jumped over the dragon gate, happy that his daughter Qian Xiaoxiao had a good future. After listening to the flattery, envy, jealousy and hatred of his colleagues, Qian Faqun became less and less angry with Fang Chengtai, and gradually began to identify with Fang Chengtai and stand in the position of his father-in-law to be proud of him. When Wei Dongsheng stepped into the door, Qian Faqun was already happy to indirectly praise Fang Chengtai: "It's just a fluke." If you can get the appreciation of your relatives, then it is truly remarkable. ”

Immediately, someone praised and said: "Supervision is as difficult as climbing to the sky, especially for our poor children, we must have great wisdom and perseverance to change our fate." Everyone in the world knows that Qi Xiang loves each other and goes to Nantang to supervise the school to promote the junior, and when he sees Lao Qian's son-in-law, he will definitely reuse him. ”

Qian Faqunle smiled and said: "If you can be reused by relatives, it will be a blessing from eight lifetimes of cultivation." ”

While speaking, Qian Faqun saw Wei Dongsheng who walked in through the door.

Qian Faqun stopped showing off, and hurriedly greeted Wei Dongsheng: "Young Dong, you are here, let's continue to check the accounts today?" ”

Wei Dongsheng nodded: "Go on." ”

When the other people in the room saw Wei Dongsheng's figure, they immediately dispersed in a hurry, pretending to be busy.

Invigilation is an annual event, everyone knows that Fang Chengtai was admitted to Nantang Supervisor at the same time, and they also know that Wei Dongsheng regrets falling off the list, and then praising Fang Chengtai at this moment, isn't it Wei Dongsheng who is slapping the face and falling off the list? Although Wei Dongsheng has no real power to manage, he is the nominal owner of the Xiao Wei family firm after all, how can he have good fruits to eat if he annoys the owner?