The imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty was not only a grand event for scholars, but also a grand event for merchants, commoners, and even infiltrated all classes.

Not to mention, Guan Pu is an entertainment event between businessmen and civilians. Bet on who will win the yuan, bet on the ranking, and bet on which seeded player will fall off the list. Anyway, all kinds of strange and gambling games came out for a while. As the first place in the five Yizhou local selection exams, that is, the county exams, Li Kui is also one of the five seeded players.

But his ranking doesn't seem to be too high, and the name of the little hero who fights the tiger has no extra points in the imperial examination.

A few days ago, he looked at the list once, and this time he ranked around seven or eight in the odds of Xie Yuan. It can be seen that in the Yizhou test, at least seven or eight people have a higher voice than him.

On the second day of the exam, Li Yun rushed back to Liu's Mansion from the street, took a Guan Po ticket made out by the owner of the butcher shop and showed it off in front of Li Kui, and said to Li Kui happily: "Second brother, the odds of my winning solution are 19 out of 19." ”

"What do you mean?"

Can Li Kui not know what Guan Pu means?

The gambling house went out of the customs and pounced, and the shops also played, each sitting in the village, and flying happily. It can be said that the triennial test has completely become a conference for businesses to show their strength. And Li Yun's odds are only 19 in 19, in Li Kui's opinion, this guy is not optimistic.

After all, Li Yun ranked second in the county test in Yishui County.

There are only four red counties in Yizhou, and one county directly under the county, so his odds should be in one in ten, which is in line with his identity as the second in Yishui County.

The county test of the Great Song Dynasty did not have the theory of the case after the county order was read and the case was filed, so naturally there was no statement of the head of the case. The county examination and the government examination are actually the rules of the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Great Song Dynasty did not say this at all. After all, in the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties, after passing the county examination and passing the government examination, even if he was a child, if he made persistent efforts and passed the academy examination in the next one, he would be a meritorious talent. For a little money, you can go to pay tribute and enter the Guozijian, and it is not impossible to wait a few years to participate in the provincial examination.

However, in the Great Song Dynasty, the difficulty of entering Taixue was in the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty, and even exceeded the probability of passing the test.

And even if there is a recommendation from a high-ranking official, if you want to enter Taixue, you have to take an exam.

It can be seen that the first place in the Dasong County test is very worthless, almost the same as the thirtieth place in the county test. It's just a false name that makes people happy. It's useless to solve the test ranking, unless you can pass the provincial palace test one after another and become a jinshi. Because the Great Song Dynasty did not have the fame of lifting people, only the saying of lifting people. If there is no high school in the provincial examination of the following year, the next time the exam is held, you still have to start from scratch. There is no gold content at all. Not to mention being an official, it's even more of a fool's dream.

Li Kui is ranked first, but it is only in Yishui County, and it is not ranked at all in Yizhou, Yishui County, which is backward in education.

As the exam approaches, the odds of each family will also be adjusted. He guessed that his odds of winning Xie Yuan should be in one in five, or even worse. There's no way, who made Yishui County not even have a sense of existence in Yizhou?

The only identity he has to make a difficult move is the identity of a Sumen student. But who knows whether he deliberately suppressed his odds, or he was not optimistic, anyway, his odds were very worrying.

It's just that he can't figure out what he says, neither of them is favored, what is Li Yun's happiness about?

On the contrary, it was Li Yun, who carefully put away the betting coupons, and said cheaply: "I voted twenty times, if I win, the butcher of the butcher shop will have to hang himself." He has a daughter, with white skin and tender skin, and a pair of charming eyes containing spring water, which makes people want to stop, and is known as the first meat dried Shih Tzu in Yizhou. Second brother, you said that if this guy can't afford to lose money and pay off his daughter's debts, do I promise him or refuse? ”

"Don't worry, you don't have that chance at all." Li Kui didn't mind pouring cold water on the head of Li Yun, who was overly excited, to make this guy calm and calm.

"Second brother, you underestimate me again. You're only a sixth, so you're a little taller than me. As Li Yun spoke, he took out a lot of betting coupons from his pocket, including gambling houses, butcher shops, restaurants, and even chambers of commerce.

Li Kui picked up these betting coupons curiously, and it seemed that Li Yun had bought a lot of them, basically all the betting coupons about him and Li Kui that could be bought on the market.

Li Kui's has several copies, but Li Yun's only has one.

Picking up the Guan Po coupon that Li Yun regarded as a treasure, Li Kui said curiously: "Why did you only buy a ticket for your own Zhongjieyuan?"

"I want to buy something else, too! But other merchants have no vision, they don't take them seriously at all, they don't even have odds, they can't buy if they want to, I'm angry! Li Yun is also aggrieved, other merchants don't treat Li Yun as a competitor of Xie Yuan at all, and they don't even give the opportunity to bet, they don't take the scumbags seriously.

"Huh!"

Li Kui's laughter was tinged with harsh ridicule, Li Yun was not happy, and swore that this time he would be able to solve the test easily. Then he looked at Li Kui provocatively, but when Li Kui's face suddenly turned cold, and the murderous aura like a wind sweeping the earth rushed towards him, Li Yun had no choice but to swallow a mouthful of saliva, feeling that he would temporarily let Li Kui be arrogant for a few days, and only after the list was released, he would hit him hard.

There is a lot of preparation for the exam, after all, the exam takes a whole day.

Eat, drink, and even prepare for the toilet.

It's not like in Linyi County, where Li Quan's daughter-in-law Xu Chunli helped prepare, and in Yizhou, Li Kui and Li Yun had to prepare by themselves, and the process was a little irritable.

Sauce meat, wraps, sauce...... Sauce forgot.

The bookbox for other candidates preparing for the exam usually starts with the pen and ink in the study, but Li Kui is different, he first ensures that his stomach is not indebted. As a result, Li Kui and Li Yun were a little scrambling.

In some large counties of the scientific examination, the hometown of Jinshi, because of the limited number of places, the local examination is extremely intense, whether it is a scholar or an examiner, they all attach great importance to it, and the rules are also rigid, and there are too many.

However, most of the northern regions are quite foolish, mainly because there are more than 280 states in the Great Song Dynasty, and every time there is a imperial examination, each state must produce a solution yuan, and more than a dozen people who pass the examination can participate in the provincial examination held by the Provincial Ministry of Officials and Shangshu Province. There are more than 280 Xie Yuan in various places, and if there are many people, Xie Yuan's identity is not valuable.

Not only is the Great Song Dynasty's Xie Yuan useless, but the status of the Great Song Dynasty's son is also useless at all, neither can he be an official, nor can he be exempt from taxes, and he can't even be exempted from forced labor, so that Xie Yuan is an ordinary commodity on the rotten street in the Great Song Dynasty. The scholars of the Great Song Dynasty, if they want to enjoy the privileges of scholars, there is only one way to go before they are admitted to the Jinshi.

Entering the college.

Enter a government-run college.

Enter a top government-run college.

Of course, the first and second to none is naturally Taixue. But it is too difficult to learn too much, after all, the students who are too learned, as long as they have excellent results in the annual examination, they can be directly awarded officials. This is also another way for the Great Song Dynasty to become a civil official. In addition, it can only be the most famous academies of the Great Song Dynasty. Yingtianfu Academy has the largest number of students, and Shigu Academy, Bailu Cave, Yuelu, and Culai are much smaller in scale, but as long as you enter these academies, you can also enjoy the hospitality of the imperial court. For example, you can receive money and rice every month, which is a way for the Song Dynasty to prepare for the children of the poor family.

Many famous ministers relied on the Lu rice of the academy to achieve a great counterattack in life, for example: Fan Zhongyan is like this.

Of these more than 280 Xie Yuan, at least ninety percent will be drowned in the mighty imperial examination army of the provincial examination and become frustrated students.

During the Renzong period, or even earlier in the Zhenzong period, the northern people raised their sons to participate in the provincial palace examination, except for the Tai students, there was a disgraceful record of the entire imperial examination in the north being wiped out, which led to a debate in the court, whether the north and the south were separated?

However, both Kou Zhun and Fan Zhongyan resolutely oppose this practice, and they cannot deprive northern students of their opportunities because of their bad grades. Scumbags also need self-esteem.

As a result, there are all kinds of strange candidates in the Northern Imperial Examination of the Great Song Dynasty, and Li Kui at least doesn't have to worry that his general preparation for an outing will make people laugh.

On the contrary, it was Li Yun, before going out, he thought vigorously: "High school, high school, high school!" ”

He thought that he had received the advice of the old man Fan Chunren, and after a few days of hard work, he revised an article that he thought he was satisfied with, and his confidence suddenly increased greatly.

However, the confidence on Li Yun's face was quickly frustrated by Li Kui ruthlessly: "Fool! ”

"Second brother, Uncle Fan is a good person with credit!"

Li Yun resolutely supports Fan Chunren's reputation, but he has invested all his hopes on the old man's credit, if he is really deceived, he will not be able to bear such a blow in his heart.

"He is an official, and he is a very good official, I firmly believe that what the official said, it means that you are one step away from being saved." For officials, Li Kui has always had an incomprehensible vigilance.

"Second brother, how can you speak ill of the elders behind your back?" Li Yun swore to defend Old Man Fan's discipline to the death.

But Li Kui didn't care, and mocked: "You are protecting him now, and when you enter the examination room, you will scold him for being an old and immortal thief!" ”

"We're different." Li Yun stubbornly thought that Li Kui was jealous, raised his head and went out, and arrogantly stepped on the way to the examination room.

Liu's mansion was very close to the examination room, and in less than a moment, it was transferred to the vicinity of the examination room.

The state school is the location of the Yizhou solution examination room.

The candidates walked into the vicinity of the gate of the state school one after another, but the flow of people was like frozen lard, cut by a burning knife, and separated on the street.

It turned out that there were two fierce and vicious reckless men standing near the examination room, one holding a purple gold hammer in his hand, and a big iron gun in the other, like a door god, not angry but mighty, staring straight at the end of the street. Don't get me wrong, they are also scholars from Yizhou and one of the candidates. It's just that the maverick makes people can't help but be afraid.

Produced by Mengshan Academy, it will be weird, and the two of them are Xie Qian and Xie Wan brothers.

They are natives of Yizhou, studying in Mengshan Academy, which is not a famous local academy in Yizhou and is known as the cradle of martial artists. For the frightened eyes around them, the two brothers were always in the same mind, and silently thought in their hearts: "Weak chickens, a group of weak chickens." ”

Turning a blind eye to the students' discussions.

"I heard that the imperial court opened a martial arts campaign this year, and these killing embryos of Mengshan Academy have been released again."

"Be careful what you say, don't let people listen to you and get a beating."

……

Among the scholars, a few martial artists suddenly appeared, and in this case, the students' chicken-like mental attributes were suddenly stimulated, and the chatter was so lively. But these words fell on the ears of the Montessori brothers, and they didn't care at all. In their opinion, these guys around them all think that they are the seeds of study, but they can't stand out in the provincial and palace examinations in the imperial examinations, and they can't earn an official body in the end.

Where is like them, as long as the martial arts play normally, they are the identity of the imperial court officials.

The achievements in the future are even different, one is a commoner who can only rely on copying and writing to make a living, and the other is an official of the imperial court, and he makes judgments from above. As far as Yizhou's solution test is concerned, there have been no Chinese scholars for many years, and in their opinion, all the soldiers who participated in the test are unlucky people who came to accompany them. There were two big characters tattooed on his face - bad luck.

As for the civilian military attaché?

At least you have to be an official before you are qualified to comment on good or bad, right?

The reason why the two brothers stand in the street and attract attention is because they are waiting for someone.

Waiting for their biggest opponent on the road to martial arts - Li Kui.

Other students, the Xie brothers can be dismissive, but Li Kui, the hero of the tiger fight, they can't ignore anything. After all, Li Kui's rumors are a bit marginal, and even under false rumors, they are almost mythical.

What killed a tiger with his bare hands, how could a tiger be easily killed, and how could it become a scourge in the world?

The Xie brothers decided that Li Kui was just a fake appearance using rumors, and they wanted to debunk all the disguises on Li Kui's body so that everyone would know that they had been deceived.

It's a pity that the invitation to fight is very unpopular in the circle of readers, and most of them will not succeed, and they will be ridiculed. The Xie brothers are good at fighting, but scolding the street is not their forte, the reader scolds, does not carry dirty words, and is too buried.

What makes them even more nervous is that sometimes they are scolded and they don't understand.

As a result, the solution became the best opportunity for the brothers to become famous.

Of course, as long as they trample Li Kui under their feet, their reputation will naturally spread all over Yizhou.

Early in the morning, before dawn, the Xie brothers were waiting for Li Kui on the street.

But what they were angry about was that it wasn't until the exam was about to start that Li Kui was late, and Li Kui, who was carrying the exam box, couldn't see the heroism of fighting tigers, but the ordinary couldn't be more ordinary. Except for being a little taller, there are no other strengths.

This made the Xie brothers very angry, and a kind of anger that had been ignored began to burn from the bottom of their hearts.

Li Kui was walking in front of him, and suddenly found that he was stopped by two people on the street, only to find out that it was the Xie brothers who had met a few days ago, but they didn't speculate.

Li Kui didn't speak, but Xie Qian said angrily: "Li Kui, the battlefield between you and me is not here, but the school field in the suburbs." ”

Li Kui, who has a bad temper, is not going to get mad anytime and anywhere, this is the first time he has participated in the exam, and he doesn't want to be deprived of his qualification for the exam because of pickled things such as disrupting the exam room and fighting. Besides, Xie Qian's words, the clouds and mountains covered him with fog made him scratch his head. After a long time, Li Kui asked puzzledly: "Do you want to give up the exam?" ”

Xie Qian was stunned, but Xie Wan jumped up and shouted: "Who said that you want to give up the exam, don't take the literary exam, the martial arts exam will be canceled, you don't know the rules!" ”

Only then did Li Kui understand that the purpose of the two of them stopping him was to treat him as the strongest opponent. It's just that he wondered, he didn't plan to participate in the martial arts test, the other party was so enthusiastic, didn't he snub the hearts of his fellow villagers?

Why don't you fight?