The next day, before the east turned white, Yang Zhi made breakfast and told the young master to get up.

Jia Daquan, who rarely gets up early, also got up early to help prepare his son for the exam, as well as the tools needed for riding and archery.

Pen and ink are secondary, and the saddle for riding and archery can be cared for, otherwise you will be injured if something happens.

Hearing the movement outside, Jia Liu hurriedly got up and dressed. After some washing, sit down to breakfast.

Jia Daquan didn't eat, but took a magnifying glass and looked at the "Book of the Times" intently.

The Book of Time is the imperial calendar, which is said to be the almanac (lunar calendar) compiled by the foreign monk John Tang to the Qing Dynasty a hundred years ago. Because of the avoidance of the name of Qianlong in this dynasty, it was renamed "Shixian Book".

At first, the "Book of the Times" used a calendar to arrange the years, months, days and festivals for the reference of the court and the common people to guide agricultural affairs. However, after a hundred years of development and evolution, it has now become the only criterion for the people to choose the auspicious day of the zodiac.

The fortune teller on the street can be described as a book for each person.

"It's good to start a business, it's a good day, and it's a good sign!"

Jia Daquan put down the almanac very happily, sat down and drank porridge while asking his son if there was anything else he hadn't prepared, if he said he was going to do it immediately, otherwise it would be too late.

In short, it's quite chattering, and those who don't take the exam are more nervous than those who take the exam.

looks very much like Jia Liu's parents who sent their children to the college entrance examination in his previous life

"Dad, everything that should be prepared is ready, you can rest assured."

Jia Liu smiled and served his father another bowl of porridge.

Jia Daquan did not plan to send his son to the Yamen examination in the capital, but asked Yang Zhi to invite the two aunts and grandmothers to come, saying that he had to arrange a table of sumptuous wine and food in the evening to celebrate his son's examination to prepare for Tang A.

He himself is going to go to the other two rooms of the Jia family to inform them, and the two rooms may not know that the Jia family does not need to issue flags, so he may be in a hurry.

No matter how bad the relationship is, it's always handed down by an old lady.

The second eldest is also going there, last time I heard my son say that the second uncle wants to go out of the flag, although everyone has their own ambitions, but if they can not go out of the flag, they will not go out of the flag!

Therefore, Jia Daquan had to persuade Dazhong, lest this younger brother have to go out of the flag without opening his mind.

If the second family really comes out of the flag, one of the brothers will be a flag man and the other will be a Han in the future, how awkward it is.

The specific time of the classic exam is after three quarters of the hour (around nine o'clock), which is still early.

After eating, Jia Liu looked at the utensils that his father had prepared for him, and sat in the courtyard to look at the answer sheet given by his eldest brother-in-law.

The sage said: Review the old and learn the new.

I wanted to pull two more bows, but my arm was really a little sore, in order to avoid the abnormal performance of the afternoon riding and archery test, I couldn't bluff people, so I had to rest the mind of both civil and military.

It would be good for Jia Liu to go directly to the exam, but in the afternoon, he asked Yang Zhi to accompany him, because the riding and archery exam requires the children of each family to bring their own horses, and bows and arrows are not needed.

When it was almost time, under the eager expectant gaze of his father and Zhuzhu, Jia Liu set off.

"Six sons,"

Jia Daquan wanted to explain a few words to his son at the end, but he really had nothing to explain, so he had to clench his right fist and smash it in the void.

It probably means to work hard.

"Young master, let it be, don't embarrass yourself too much."

Jia Liu's words moved Jia Liu's heart, and he wanted to kick him.

In the alley, a neighbor who heard the rumor of the preparation of the Tang Ah worship looked at Jia Liu, leaned against the door and said with a smile: "Sixth son, you can get a good student to take the exam, don't embarrass our Xiliu Hutong." ”

"Come on, don't worry, the third master!"

"Fourth master, you are auspicious!"

"Fifth aunt, slow down!"

“......”

The alley was full of Jia Liu's humility and politeness, and many neighbors were smiling in front of them, and they turned their heads curiously and asked the people next to them how the muddy boy of the Jia family had changed.

There are many neighbors who are about to release the flag and look at Jia Daquan standing at the gate of the courtyard with great envy: It's really pie in the sky, you don't need to go out of the flag, you can make up for it, what is it!

Didn't he say that the old lady of the Jia family called the emperor to be a second minister, how could there be this blessing after the second minister?

If you want to say that you are a traitor, his old lady is a traitor, isn't my old lady a traitor!

They are all descendants of traitors, so why should they be divided into three, six, nine and so on!

Imperial court, injustice.

.......

The city is full of market atmosphere like the outer city, people come and go on the streets, and the streets and alleys are newly decorated because of the Queen Mother's longevity, it is really pleasing to the eye at a glance, and it is very lively.

However, Jia Liu was reluctant to even take a second look.

When I arrived at the Dutong Yamen, I saw more than a dozen people chatting beside the stone lion on the side, looking at their ages of about twenty, needless to say, they were the children of the Han Army Zhenglan Banner who came to take the classic exam.

To Jia Liu's astonishment, two of them were still carrying birdcages in their hands, as if they were not here for the exam but to play.

This time, the replacement of Bai Tang'a was originally limited to those officials who were appointed as second ministers at the beginning of the country, but after the decree arrived at the Military Aircraft Department, it was suggested that the scope be expanded, and the children of officials above the sixth rank and above in the fifth rank of the current banner can be substituted if they meet the conditions.

As a result, there were only more than 10 people who were qualified to make up for the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner, but now it has doubled to 34 people.

"Dongge, you're here."

A young man in the crowd who was talking to the people around him saw Jia Liu and hurriedly waved his hand to say hello.

This person is Chang Bingzhong, who went to flag school with Jia Liu when he was a child, and later went to a foolish life together.

Chang Bingzhong's great-grandfather Chang Jingong turned out to be a deputy general of the Ming Dynasty, who once accompanied Belle Bolo to Zhejiang, and successively served as the governor of Zhejiang, the chief soldier of the naval division, and the commander of the Guangdong naval division.

During his tenure, Chang Jingong defeated Taiwan's Zheng Jun many times, and was awarded the Blue Banner of the Han Army, and he also won the title of "Riding Captain and a Cloud Cavalry Captain".

For the titles and rewards of meritorious officials outside the clan, the Qing court based on the cloud cavalry captain, called half a future.

If you get two cloud cavalry captains, you can be promoted to the cavalry captain of the fourth grade.

If you add a cloud cavalry lieutenant, it will be called "a cavalry lieutenant and a cloud cavalry captain", and if you get a cloud cavalry lieutenant, you can be promoted to a third-class light car lieutenant of the third grade.

And so on, a total of twenty-seven ranks, up to the first class.

The first-class duke is also the highest reward that a Qing court official can receive except for the clan, and he can be called a supreme minister.

He Shen is a first-class duke.

Chang Bingzhong's father is still here, and his family's lord and future have not yet fallen on him, so this kid is the same as Jia Liu, who belongs to the "marquis noble" who has no errands and no lords.

"What are you doing this time, why didn't you come to play with me?"

Chang Bingzhong is two years older than Jia Liuliu, and it was he who dragged Jia Liu, who was only fourteen years old, to the Qianmen Hutong, which made Jia Liuyi stumble into a thousand years of hatred.

After casually finding an excuse to deal with the past, Jia Liusi looked around, some people he knew, some people didn't, or there was no intersection with his former circle of friends. Since then, more than a dozen people have come one after another, all of whom are the children of the flag man in their twenties.

People gather by like, and things by groups.

More than 30 people who knew each other quickly formed several circles and laughed loudly, and there was no tension that should be there before the exam.

After a while, the two birds that were brought over by the owner became the most eye-catching existence of the crowd, and they were so lively.

Chang Bingzhong, who also went to tease the bird, suddenly thought of something, hurriedly came out of the crowd and secretly pulled Jia Liu aside, and asked him quietly, "Has your father done anything?" If you don't have a roll, I have it, you can take a look. ”

In the end, it is the deep affection of fox friends and dog friends, Jia Liuda appreciated it, and told the other party that he already had a volume, and the answer was also done.

"That's good, why do you and my brother have to take the second-class exam this time, otherwise you will be blind to my father's ten taels of silver."

"Ten taels?"

"How?"

"Nothing."

Jia Liu was speechless, selling ten taels of others, and selling his Jia family cost eighteen taels, which was nearly double the difference.

It seems that his father Jia Daquan is really not very good in the flag, and Lao Zhao is also treacherous when he looks at the kindness, he really knows people and faces.

When he was scolding Lao Zhao for not being authentic, a kid shouted: "Why don't you take the test, I still have dinner at noon!" ”

"What's the noise!"

Several officials with rhinoceros and seahorse patches embroidered on their chests walked out of the yamen, and one of them was Zhao Guodong.

When a few officials came out, they immediately shocked a group of reserve children, and the kid who shouted before that he didn't take the exam also obediently shut up, and it seemed that he still knew what was wrong.

"Everyone is here, right? Let's start if it's all together. It was Zheng Sanli, the leader of the archives, who spoke.

"Okay."

Zhao Guodong, who was in charge of the household registration room, took a few steps forward with the roster, looked at the group of supplementary children below, and began to call his names one by one, and when he called Jia Liu, he deliberately nodded at him slightly.

After the roll call, Jia Liu and the others were asked to enter the Dutong Yamen, and then they were taken to a courtyard in the inner middle school, which was probably the examination room.

While waiting at the door, Jia Liu thought that people might be divided into different examination rooms, and there would be special invigilators. Unexpectedly, about 30 people, including him, were taken directly to a large room.

There is no partition in the room, just like a large classroom, two people with a table and a stool.

In addition to the two pen-paste styles for issuing rolls, the examiner was alone, and Chang Bingzhong said that it was Ma Zhangjing from the printing room.

The strong sense of disparity between the impression of the exam scene and the contrast in front of him made Jia Liu really uncomfortable.

But he quickly adjusted his state, and immediately after getting the paper, he was nervous to read the question, he was worried that his father Jia Daquan would not spend money to buy a waste volume or a fake volume, then he would really be dumb and eat Huanglian - he couldn't say what he was suffering about.

Fortunately, Lao Zhao's heart is not dark.

Rolls, it's true!

Jia Liu, who was secretly relieved, hurriedly sharpened the ink, picked up a brush and wrote his name on the far right side of the blank scroll, from top to bottom, as well as which flag and which leader he was affiliated with, as well as the names of his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father.

There must be no mistakes in these, and there can be no names of the emperors of the Qing court, who dare to write out the Honghe calendar, and no matter how good the answer is, they will be judged to fail.

After checking that it was correct, Jia Liu was about to pick up the pen and write down the answers one by one, and ensure that the handwriting was neat, and there could be no ink spots on the paper, but he was stunned to find that Chang Bingzhong, who was sitting in front, had already gotten up and said to Ma Zhangjing, who was invigilating, that he wanted to hand in the paper.

Jia Liuyi was stunned, this kid is stupid, this has just started the exam!

However, it was he who was dumbfounded, the old horse really accepted Chang Bingzhong's volume, and after glancing at it, he couldn't help nodding: "That's a good answer, judge first-class." ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Chang Bingzhong hurriedly bowed down to thank him, and then was led out by the pen sticker.

Jia Liu's face twitched, and on the empty table in front of him, there was a blank scroll, and pen and ink that had not even been opened.