The carriage was not parked directly at the main gate of Shangshu Province, because it was directly opposite the carriage that was not allowed to be parked. So the coachman drove the carriage into the left door of the pavilion, where there was a large open space with dozens of carriages parked, all of whom were supposed to come to the pavilion to do business.

Yin Shen, who got out of the car, saw that the building in front of him was composed of more than a dozen pavilions of different heights but equally grand. The most striking thing in this complex are the four corners of the towering pavilions, with the cornices and corners, a total of four. At the bottom of each of the symmetrical towers is a square platform, surrounded by slightly lower buildings. The four towers are connected by a curved flybridge, leading to the lobby in the center.

Gu Yuan beckoned Yin Shen, who was looking at the pavilion with his neck tilted: "Yin Juren, let's go in quickly." ”

Yin Shen came back to his senses at this time, and then pointed to the carriage and said, "What about our luggage?" ”

"It's okay, it's safe to put in the car. It's all some daily luggage, and I'm not afraid that the driver will run away. Gu Yuan said jokingly.

"Yin Juren, don't listen to Brother Gu's nonsense. The coachmen are all transferred to Cao Bei in Chang'an County, and they are all local household registrations. If he dares to run away with his luggage, a sea fishing document can make him eat a lawsuit. Rest assured, he won't go to jail for a little bit of everyday luggage that doesn't know how much it's worth. Fei Lang then explained.

Yin Shen was relieved and walked towards the pavilion behind the four of them. Gu Yuan pointed to the south and said, "There is Santai Square, which has now been renamed Victory Square." The building complex on the south side of the square facing Xiantai is Dali Temple. Further south beyond the Golden Aqueduct is the Grand Arena, which has been repaired for less than two years. Every two years, the Dibuk Province Athletic Contest is held there. The inside is spacious, with a large open space in the middle, surrounded by seats, which can seat tens of thousands of people. Usually the most lively time is when the polo tournament is held, and it is really crowded. To the left of the Colosseum is the archery hall, and to the right is the racecourse. ”

"What about the Great Temple?" Yin Shen asked cautiously.

"The Great Temple is on the east side of the inner city, and it is also east of Longshouyuan, so you can't see it here."

As he spoke. The five approached the side door. There stood several veterans in red coats. I'm on duty there. Yin Shen learned from Gu Yuan and the others, took out his stickers and body photos, lined up honestly, and handed them over to the sergeants for inspection.

Trained ground guard sergeants can easily distinguish between genuine and fake documents, so the inspection process is very fast. Yin Shen quickly walked into the pavilion with Gu Yuan and the others.

The attic is more like a huge courtyard than a city, and the people in it come and go in a hurry. Gu Yuan told Yin Shen where the yamen of the school was, and then made an appointment where to wait. Then he and Fei Lang and the others went straight to the ministry.

Yin Shen was ignorant and walked to the yamen of the school department with the flow of people, and on the way he actually met a few people from the state, and everyone was happy and walked together, and soon arrived at the school department.

The officials of the school department politely entertained these people and led them to the National Education Bureau. A clerk and several officials quickly approved their documents and identities, and issued each of them a license as a receipt for registration and filing, as well as a certificate for participating in the joint entrance examination in the future. When you're almost done. Lang Zhong, the director of the National Education Bureau, rushed to hear the news. I met with these lifters in the side hall, invited them to drink a few drinks, and encouraged them. And then it dispersed.

Yin Shen asked the residences of several people from the state, and then said goodbye to them, and sat in the waiting hall of the pavilion by himself, and waited for Gu Yuan and the others after more than an hour.

Gu Yuan and the others sent Yin Shen to the Liangzhou Fellow Townsmen Pavilion in Nancheng, and then made an appointment with the place and time to meet tomorrow, and then hurried to Dongcheng, either to join relatives and friends, or to live in a post house.

Yin Shen, who had settled in, began to get busy. On the second day, Yin Shen first went to Beicheng to meet with Yao Chen, who lived in Yao Jin's mansion, and then went to the gatehouses of Xie Aixie's Mansion and Pu's Mansion to cast his name together. These two people are important ministers of the military state in Beifu, and there are too many people waiting to see them every day, so they don't submit their names early, and they don't know when they will be scheduled.

In the evening, Yin Shen took Yao Chen to meet the few people in Bingzhou, and then killed Changle Fang, one of the six major teaching workshops in Dongcheng, met with Gu Yuan and others, and then found a "high-end restaurant" and played a good night.

On the third day, Yin Shen had a good rest.

On the fourth day, Yin Shen met Yao Chen and those people from the state, went out of Hanzhangmen in Dongcheng, and sent Gu Yuan and others who went to the east with him, and by the way, he met dozens of officials from various ministries and departments in Chang'an who came to send them together, and they were all relatives, friends and classmates of Gu Yuan and others.

In the rest of the time, Yin Shen and Yao Chen began to be busy with their own affairs while waiting for Park and Xie Ai to meet.

Yao Chen began to visit the Qiang generals and officials one by one, and the Qiang people followed Zeng Hua for many years, and most of them occupied a place in Beifu with their military exploits. As the first batch of "new generation" of the Qiang people who grew up with knowledge, Yao Chen naturally attracted the attention of the backbone of these Qiang people, that is, even Jiang Nan, Ye Lixun, Yao Jin and others who were far away in Hezhou, Xizhou, and Pingzhou also sent people to send back letters as early as possible, so that relatives, friends and colleagues could take care of the first batch of Qiang people.

Yin Shen was busy visiting around Xicheng. According to the "customs" inherited by the students of Beifu, the students who have taken the state school examination like to go on a study tour for a period of time. For example, Yongzhou, Liangzhou, Qinzhou, Yizhou and other people close to Chang'an, they are not in a hurry to come to Chang'an, but go around to visit the state school and visit celebrities, and study abroad. Of course, these states are all old bases in Beifu, with a solid academic foundation, and they don't worry about recommendations and joint entrance examinations, so they are in the mood to travel around.

In the semi-attached places such as Bingzhou, Qiangzhou, Shuozhou, and Liangzhou, the academic foundation is not as solid as the old four states, but it has a lot of connections and ties with Chang'an, so it is more practical to come to Chang'an as soon as possible to walk around and get a letter of recommendation. Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, Xizhou, Shazhou and other newly attached places, or the academic foundation is not solid, the joint entrance examination is estimated to be at the bottom

It has little to do with Chang'an, so I have to learn it with real talent. So it's better to travel all the way to learn freely.

After figuring out this situation, Yin Shen finally knew why he encountered either the Qiangzhou region or the merger state.

During this time, Yin Shen and those junzhou juzi visited one university after another in Xicheng. It's not long before the spring semester begins. Yin Shen and his entourage audited in Xicheng University as a lifter, and felt the atmosphere of Chang'an Sinology in advance. According to the newly improved school system of Beifu, the students of the states who go to Chang'an to take the joint entrance examination, as long as they do not "hand in the blank papers", will generally be admitted to the Chinese culture, but the admission of the Chinese culture is different, and if the test is good, they can naturally enter Chang'an University and Yongzhou University, and they will be assigned to various countries. Of course, it also depends on the volunteering of the place where the child fills in.

During the audit. Yin Shen not only felt that the life of Chinese culture was different from that of the county school. I finally figured out what is the difference between the professor of Chinese culture and the teacher of county and county studies. According to the improved Beifu school system, teachers in beginners, county schools, and county schools are called teachers. At present, novice teachers must be after graduating from the county school to be eligible for the appointment of the county school and the county school, and the county school teachers must be at or above the county school level to be eligible for the appointment of the county school inspector and the yamen, and the teachers of the county school must be at or above the state school level before they are eligible for the appointment of the state school and the government yamen.

Teachers above the state level are called professors, and they are divided into four levels: doctorate, direct bachelor, bachelor, and bachelor of Hanlin Academy, and are directly hired by the department. And starting with the doctor. Teachers are no longer divided into six arts, but by subject, such as a doctor of arithmetic, a bachelor of law, and so on. Most of these people are literati and celebrities from all over the country, and most of them are from poor families and shabby families in Jiangyou. After they gathered in Chang'an, they studied in-depth according to their respective hobbies and interests, and soon became a big man. There are also many people who follow these students of Jiyuan Chinese Studies, and after graduation, they stay in various countries to study, while continuing to study. While becoming a professor.

Yin Shen wandered around Xicheng for about a month. Except for Chang'an University, he visited all the universities, and even accompanied Yao Chen to Bacheng. I visited the Chang'an Army Military Academy, which I have admired for a long time. In Yin Shen's heart, he has always secretly hoped that he would enter Chang'an University as a regular student, instead of a study tour student and an auditor.

In the past month or so, Yin Shen has deeply felt the life of the Chinese students, and feels that Chang'an is really a holy place for studying, such as a cloud of famous teachers and bachelors, an open learning atmosphere, and a truth-seeking philosophy. However, the only thing Yin Shen found inconvenient was that there were too few professors and students in these universities.

More than a dozen universities occupy the entire Xicheng, plus the main area of Chang'an University and Chang'an Theological Seminary in the inner city, the total number of teachers and students is less than 20,000, and the average is only more than 1,000. For example, Yongzhou University has nearly 3,000 students, and there are fewer than 500 people in Zhangheng College. In addition, there will be no more than 30,000 students and celebrities from all over the country who come to study and audit, and the total number of other people is only 60,000, which is too small compared to the 500,000 people in Dongcheng. It is no wonder that the professors of these universities are so enthusiastic about their actions that they are eager to "fill in the volunteers" and apply for their colleges immediately.

On this day, Yin Shen was still unsatisfied with listening to the "open class" of Luo You, a new student, at Yongzhou University, and reluctantly left Xicheng to return to the Nancheng Fellow Townsman Pavilion, and found that Yao Chen was in a hurry there. Seeing Yin Shen come back, he immediately pulled his throat and said, "Brother Yin, there is a reply from the lord's house, and he will meet us in the evening of the day after tomorrow." ”

Yin Shen is happy, isn't this day waiting for you? Immediately invited Yao Chen to the restaurant for a delicious meal, and discussed the matters to be paid attention to during the meeting at the banquet.

Just after the third day, Yin Shen was neatly dressed, carrying a book bag, and hired a carriage to go straight to Beicheng. Before he arrived at the house, he saw Yao Jin waiting at the door.

Under the surveillance of the two guards, the gatekeeper Yin Shen and Yao Chen searched carefully, and found no forbidden items, so they asked the two of them to wait in the living room.

After the unitary time, it should be the time for the officials of Beifu to go home "from work", and the two became more and more nervous, and sat there a little restless. But there was no movement in the porter.

Finally, when I arrived, there was a sound of carriages and horses at the gate of the house, and it should be that Pu had returned to the house. After waiting for another quarter of an hour, a servant came to the living room, picked up Yin Shen and Yao Chen, and led them directly into the backyard.

"I've seen my lord!" As soon as Yin Shen and Yao Chen saw Park, they immediately bowed and bowed.

"Get up, get up. The Yao family and I have a good family, Yin Shen is a son of Liangzhou, and they can be regarded as my nephews in my later life, so you don't have to be polite, just like your own family. "Say it. Park ushered the two to the dining room, where a table of food had already been set up.

Yin Shen and Yao Chen were honestly afraid, this meal was a little awkward, and Park also knew that the two of them were not here, so they didn't say anything. The three of them quickly finished their dinner, washed up briefly, and went to the study.

After gossiping, Yin Shen offered his own strategy and asked Park to correct.

||.。 The title is "Please Relocate the People and Set Up Towns to Settle the Border Policy". In the text. Yin Shen first discussed the management and development of the western and northern frontiers by the former Qin and former Han dynasties. It is pointed out that the armed development of the former Qin and the former Han is only a temporary measure, and the poverty of the people is exchanged for a temporary tranquility in the frontier, which is a symptom but not a root cause. During this period, the soft policies such as harmony and internal relocation were too weak, and even led wolves into the house, which caused great harm.

In the article, Yin Shen proposed two means of Anbian, one is to relocate people. The people of other places will live together in the border areas, change the balance of local forces, weaken the power of the border tribes, and then cherish the people from afar, strengthen ties, and contain them.

The second is to set up border towns and station troops. Carry out reclamation. On the basis of the bond and tenderness in front of him, he was intimidated by soldiers

Then, the system of governing politics and civil land was gradually implemented, and the border land was incorporated into the Beifu Prefecture

Yin Shen cited plans for the governance of He, Xi, and Sha prefectures. Euphemistically proposed that there is no need to rush to set up states and counties, but to divide and detain them well. It also mentions the method of dealing with many "infidels" in the Western Regions, such as Buddhist believers, and proposes to levy a certain percentage of the human tax, so that these "infidels" can gradually convert to the Holy Religion by means of money and taxes.

After reading it, Park did not evaluate the correctness and error of the strategy and method in Yin Shen's article, but greatly praised Yin Shen's attitude of caring about state affairs and participating in political science.

After praising him, Pu Yang held the article in his hand, squinted his eyes and asked, "Shoucheng, do you believe in Buddhism?" ”

Yin Shen couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and replied after a moment of silence: "Lord Hui, exactly!" ”

||The strength of Beifu is precisely because the sea is tolerant of all rivers, and there is tolerance. However, I am afraid that this method of honesty is also a selfish one. ”

Yin Shenyi gritted his teeth and said: "That's right, Yin heard in Liangzhou that the general was ready to use iron-fisted means to force the people to convert to the Holy Religion. ”

||: Faith is in words. It takes tens or hundreds of years to convert Christianity, and now that the Holy Religion has become the general trend, if it is done too hastily, it will be counterproductive. The generals know this, and we all know it. ”

After saying that, Park waved his hand, stopped Yin Shen's explanation, and continued: "Shoucheng don't worry, I am willing to write a letter of recommendation for you, and I will definitely send it to the school department in the near future." ”

When Yin Shen heard this, he was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly thanked him.

||Officials are selecting talents for the Northern Government, so we dare not act for personal gain. Honesty is a great talent, and it is my great luck to be able to recommend you. ”

After that, Park held Yin Shen's hand and said meaningfully: "Shoucheng, you have to cherish this opportunity!" ”

"Thank you, sir!"

After half an hour, Yin Shen and Yao Jin got up to say goodbye, and Park personally sent them to the front yard. When he went out of the door, Yin Shen couldn't help but feel very lucky when he saw several other people who looked like they were being led in. Park is in a high position in the governor's political affairs, and he can recommend a son every year, which is a lot more opportunities than other officials, but there are still only two places every year, which is also rare, and he is fortunate to get a chance, and there is only one left, I don't know who will be so lucky?

A few days later, Yin Shen accompanied Yao Chen to meet Xie Ai. Xie Ai was too punctual in Liangjiuquan before taking office, and he knew Yin Shen's uncle, so he was able to climb the relationship.

Xie Ai's personality is different from Park's, and he especially likes to get together with young people. After Yin Shen and Yao Chen entered the mansion, they found that the hall was full of young people and a banquet was being held.

Soon, Yin Yao and the two integrated into it, and Yao Chen, as the protagonist, also began to fully show his "talent", arguing with a Shuozhou magistrate next to him about how to take military action against "Tianzhu". Yao Chen's thinking is very clear, emphasizing that in the Tianzhu enemy territory, do not be confined to one place and one city, give full play to the mobility of the Beifu cavalry, exhaust the enemy and disturb the people, economically destroy the whole country of Tianzhu, and then divide and disintegrate, and break each one, these words caused Xie Ai to nod his head in approval.

Yin Shen was not very interested in military affairs, so he talked with the two young men next to him.

"In Xialiangzhou, Yin Shen is a son, and the word is sincere."

"My name is Zeng Min, the word is Wenxu, and now I am studying in Chang'an Beixue, and I am here to be a guest of Xie Junjia today." A boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old bared his snow-white teeth and replied with a smile, and the sunshine on his face made people feel very close.

"My name is Murong Ling, and I am now a student of the Chang'an Army Military Academy." A man in his twenties replied calmly, looking very steady and old.

Yin Shen didn't think much about it, so he talked with the two, and the more the three of them talked, the more speculative they became, and they soon became irreversible.

After Yin Shen obtained the letter of recommendation in Pufu, he teamed up with Yao Chen, who also obtained the letter of recommendation from Xie Ai, and went east out of Tongguan to tour the Yanzhou area of Heluo, and finally rushed back to Chang'an to participate in the joint entrance examination.

In autumn and September, the joint examination was held as scheduled, and none of the 729 students from all states were absent. First of all, these scholars visited the Confucian Temple at Chang'an University with the officials of the department and the scholars of the admission council to pay homage to the sages of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi and other ancestors.

The JAE is conducted according to the six arts. On the first day, more than 700 people were divided into two groups to take turns to conduct archery and equestrian examinations in the archery hall and racecourse. These two items are relatively simple, and all the lifters who have been practicing since childhood have passed.

On the second day, there was the Lile exam, which was more complicated. More than 700 students were divided into 70 groups, and each group was examined by three bachelors. The lifters entered the arena alone, performed a salute, and then played a song. After the play, there is a half-quarter of an hour to ask questions, and the examiners ask some allusions, examination evidence, etc., and finally score on the spot according to the manners, music theory, and the quality of the answers. School officials are only making rounds and inspections.

On the third day, the last two exams are exams, and they are paper-based exams. The topics of the morning exam involve arithmetic, history books, the Six Classics of Confucianism, Zhuang Lao Famous Classics, etc., in addition to the familiarity of the students with these books, but also to test their understanding of these books. The afternoon exam is the highlight, accounting for the highest proportion of the total score of the joint entrance examination.

In the afternoon, there is only one exam, strategy. That is, according to their own interests and strengths, the students will formulate their own questions, comment on current affairs, laws, political strategies, etc., and the scholars of the Senate will judge these papers in collegial deliberation and finally give a score. Because the policy theory is related to which Chinese culture and which subject the lifters can be admitted to, it is the most important for the lifters.

Five days later, the results came out, Yin Shen was admitted to the School of Economics of Chang'an University as he wished, and Yao Chen was also admitted to the Cavalry Department of the Chang'an Army Military Academy.