This camp outside the city was the barracks of some of the previous triumphal troops, for them to stay temporarily during the ceremony. But now, with the disbandment of the field legion, most of the soldiers have gone home to prepare for the holiday, and the rest have gone to the city to carry out their missions.

Because of the fire in the turmoil, many people were homeless, so under the coordination of Tuhuan and others, Zhu Wenkui took a large group of refugees out of the city and lived here. They enlarged the barracks and built a new shack on the higher ground next to it.

Although it is only a temporary camp, the camp itself is still meticulously organized by the previous legionnaires. Even though they had only stayed outside the walls of the capital for a few days, they carefully leveled the land, dug trenches, and piled up the excavated earth into piers, and erected wooden stakes on top of them to form a wall. The barracks and roads were also neatly organized.

When they left, they took away the ordnance and the tents of the team, but these civil engineering buildings were all left, which made it a lot more convenient for Zhu Wenkui and the others.

They demolished the wooden walls that served as defences, pooled the materials, and built several large wooden houses for the wounded to live in. Others gathered all kinds of materials and built a shack out of the mess they could find.

"This camp looks chaotic at first, but if you take a closer look, it's quite orderly." Tuhuan commented: "Look, this road and the ditch are all neat and tidy. Who arranged it? ”

"They." Zhu Wenkui pointed at Captain Jeska and Tang Sai'er: "They both know how to set up camp." The layout of the camp is what they preside over. ”

In comparison, the perimeter of the camp is a little more chaotic, but if you look closely, although the shacks are strange and different in height, almost all of them are arranged in an orderly manner in a fixed area. Furrows were dug at the outermost part of the camp to keep out wild beasts, and several ditches that drained outwards extended.

The outer camp was not as square as the circle left by the legion inside, and the roads in the camp were wide and narrow, but all the roads were straight, and you could see the circle of mounds inside and the small square next to it at a glance.

"It's amazing to be able to manage these people like this." Tuohuan nodded and praised.

They talked all the way, walked into the camp, and saw Jeanne hurrying over to greet everyone.

"Coming back so soon?" She asked, "Have you eaten?" ”

"I didn't eat it, so I'll go back to the city and eat it." Zhu Wenkui said: "I originally thought that the tombstone needed to be repaired, but they said that there was no problem with the shape and inscription, and now it will be fine." Therefore, it saves a lot of time in consultation and design, and there is no need to replace it. ”

"I'll tell you, don't make such a fuss." Lady Jeanna shook her head: "Everyone is not crazy about religion, how can there be such an exaggeration, you have to pick out these details." ”

"Then I have to show my sincerity. People died for me. Zhu Wenkui explained: "After all, they came from other places and have their own customs. We as a sect don't care about that, but we can't assume that others don't care. ”

"Everyone is working hard for you, but you care about this, it's your fault." Jeanne disagreed: "Etiquette and rituals are all for the purpose of expressing one's heart, and when one's mind is expressed, it will not pursue trivial things." You pay too much attention to these, but you are putting on a show and alienating others. ”

"The prince is really too worried, our sect still hates too cumbersome etiquette." Captain Jeska also advised: "The Roman Church has always demanded too complicated and strict etiquette, which is not for the sake of faith at all, but simply for the purpose of forcibly dividing the dignity and inferiority among the brothers, and artificially creating thresholds. This is not something to learn from at all, but should be discarded. ”

"If someone is particularly obsessed with this, it only means that they don't approve of you. Respect for religious precepts and customs is only a reason. Maybe you go to church with your left foot, and it's an insult to him. He shrugged: "Don't pay attention to this kind of person." ”

Zhu Wenkui thought about it, felt that it made sense, and nodded in response.

"How's it going?" Tuohuan asked Jeanne, "Have you found the princess?" ”

"Nope." Jeanne shook her head.

"Strange, it's really blown up?" Tuhuan was very confused: "There must be some traces, right?" ”

"I asked a lot of French people, but they didn't know either." Jeanne said: "Some people say that the last time she appeared was in the house, and she should have been burned to death; Some people also said that she did not go in at that time because she was shot in the body, could not stand up, and had been dragged away; Others said something even more outrageous, claiming that they had seen her later, that she was dressed as a nun, mixed in with the refugee crowd, and fled out of the city. ”

"Anyway, everyone has everything they say, and they often contradict each other. I actually don't think it's reliable, but I don't know who to believe. She spread her hands: "I can only continue to look for it." ”

"Then keep looking." There was nothing she could do, so she had to say: "She herself escaped from France, and she can't go back." If you go to other places, you won't have much influence, and there won't be much of a threat. Where else can this go? It's not going all the way to the east, let's go to Daming. ”

"It's okay, we've already told Jinyiwei about it. They were willing to do their best to help us find it. Zhu Wenkui said.

"I know a lot of people in Egypt, and she is not afraid even if she goes to sea." Jeanne said too.

Guo Kang thinks that this is not easy to say. After all, their family is very good at dressing up as religious people and escaping from the sea of fire, and the daughter-in-law married by King Wu can disappear like this...... I don't know what's going on. However, it was inconvenient for him to say this, so he could only complain in his heart.

Soon they were in the small square. In the middle of the clearing, there was a tall machine, covered with an oilcloth. In front of the machine, a group of schoolchildren were reading with Mr.

"This didn't delay the school, it's really good." Dehuan praised again.

"Oh, it's not a big deal, it's just this time, I have more money." Zhu Wenkui was a little embarrassed: "Some time ago, we took turns to go into battle, looking for the wealthy families in the city every day. Therefore, whether it is materials or manpower, it is actually quite substantial. ”

"Everyone was working overtime and rebuilding, and the children were not being cared for, so I thought it would be better to gather and go to class. This Mr. Wu was also temporarily found from the city, and he was very conscientious, so he just asked the idle people to help him watch the children on weekdays. ”

Over there, Mr. Teach, too, saw them, and beckoned the children to get up and come and welcome them. Next to him, Li Li, who had seen him a few times before, was squatting next to a pile of wood, sharpening a wooden stick with a sword. Seeing someone coming, he hurriedly put down his things and rushed over.

"Huh? Is it your turn today? Zhu Wenkui asked, "What are you ......?"

"Today was supposed to be Lao Li, but he went to the city to have something to do, so he changed shifts with me." Li Li replied, "I'll sharpen the pen for everyone." Go back and make some pens to use. ”

"It's a good job. Work harder, so that you can do it yourself. Zhu Wenkui encouraged.

"Don't look at him like this, he is the most literate in our group." Tang Sai'er told everyone: "Although he is from a remote place, his family is actually an ancestral cultural person, unlike me, who has studied Mengxue." ”

"Where, the third lady has won the prize." Li Li said modestly: "In my life, I have no chance to take the imperial examination, and I have always been a little unwilling in my heart. Therefore, I also want children to read more. In the future, there will always be a chance to use it. ”

"Then you can just test us." Tuohuan immediately began to solicit: "We don't pick people on our side." If you know Chinese characters, you can take the test. ”

"Oops! Thank you Taiji! Li Li's eyes lit up, and the whole person became energetic: "Dayuan and Daming don't take me, but there is a place where I can take the exam." By the way, your country - uh, our Great Qin State, what are the contents of the imperial examination? is also the same as Yuan Ming, is it subject to Zhu Ziji's note? ”

"It's much better on our side." Tuhuan told him: "When the local exam is held, it is to find random examples from the official document format and ask everyone to write a 500-word essay. If you can write it, even if you are a showman, you can go to the county-level government on an errand; After that, you can also take the imperial court exam, and you have to dictate the passages in the specified scriptures according to the requirements of the year. If you can write it three times, even if you win the promotion, you can take up all positions. ”

"Isn't that too easy?" Li Li was a little skeptical: "What about the top Jinshi?" ”

"Jinshi hasn't recruited people for several years." Tuohuan told him: "That is too demanding, and it is actually an honorary title for a writer." We don't really need people of this level to participate in administrative work. So if it's empty, it's empty. ”

"Then why don't you recruit it?" Li Li was puzzled.

"We have a connection with Yuan Ming, and we also know that the Xiucai and Juren here are actually borrowing a name. The examination itself is intended to check whether they are educated enough to participate in the civil service. Tuhuan explained: "But at that time, the imperial court felt that we still had to deal with the eastern countries, and the people were all at this level, what should we do if we were ridiculed." ”

"Therefore, when we were electing Jinshi, we directly copied the two of them, and asked everyone to write a strategy on the spot. However, this difficulty is indeed too high, and candidates often force it to make up, often writing in a scattered manner, and the allusions are incorrect. So often for a long time, there is no one who can pass. ”

"That's right...... However, if you don't want to relax the standards yet, that's acceptable. Li Li nodded and said: "After all, these people are used for foreign exchanges, and it is enough to have so many scholars to support the scene." ”

"yes."

"How often is this exam?" Li Li continued to ask.

"Not this year, it shouldn't be able to open." Tuhuan thought for a while and said.

"The level of candidates is limited, and if you can't take the exam, you can't take the exam, but the exam itself still has to be held, right?" Li Li was curious: "Could it be that there are too few people who meet the standards to do it?" ”

"It's still going to be done." Tuhuan scratched his head and said, "When Mr. Qi Tai was here before, we all invited him to mark the papers. He is the Xie Yuan of the Ming Dynasty, and he has passed the Jinshi, and we think that he is still authoritative enough. But in the past two years, he has also followed King Wu out, and the other old gentlemen we can find are not available, so it is more troublesome. ”

"Before Mr. Qi Tai said goodbye, we left a few questions for him to use in the next few years. But later I found out that the Ming style imperial examination, that question, it was too difficult, and our examiners couldn't write it themselves......" He said with some embarrassment: "So now, even if you have the ability, it is estimated that you will have to wait." Because now that no one is marking the papers, the exam will naturally not be able to be done......"

"Huh?" Li Li was dumbfounded: "What should I do then?" ”

"It stands to reason that only one Jinshi can inspect other Jinshi, so now, we really can't help it." Tuhuan said: "But the Ministry of Rites said that it really can't work, and next year's exam, Mrs. Huang will be invited to preside over it." Her cultural level should not be inferior to Yuan Ming's bachelor. In this regard, authority should also be sufficient. ”

"Then, this lady ......" Li Li was a little puzzled: "It's not that I question her knowledge, it's just that this exam is not the imperial examination of the Yuan Ming, but the rules of Zhuzi on the Central Plains?" Can a woman participate? ”

"At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty did not allow women to take the imperial examination, and it was not that they were not allowed to take the examination for others." Tuohuan said wittily: "So Zhu Zi is not against this, right." ”

“…… Yes? ”

Although he still didn't quite understand, Li Li still thanked him politely. Immediately afterward, he and Mr. Wu brought a schoolchild out of the crowd and prepared to show it to Tuhuan and his group.

"On our side, there are more than 80 children." Mr. Wu said, "Most of them come from poor backgrounds and have never been exposed to Chinese characters at all, so I am now teaching them from scratch. However, this boy had been enlightened before, and he knew some basic classics. In the past two days, he has also helped us educate other children. I've been teaching for all these years, and he's got the best foundation. ”

"It's all the children of poor families. That's not easy. Tuhuan nodded and asked, "Where did you get your enlightenment education?" ”

"Report to Taiji, my dad works as a carpenter in a theater troupe." The little boy replied crisply: "There's a big sister over there, and when it's okay, she will teach us some." ”

"Very good, learn more from your husband in the future." After complimenting him, he said to Mr. Wu, "Then he is also learning things alone?" ”

"Yes, I arranged some famous passages for him to memorize first." Mr. Wu said and instructed: "Yang Wenli, you memorize the "Ai Lian Said" that you taught a few days ago. ”

"Yes, sir." The little boy was visibly nervous, but he still tried to recite it: "The flowers of land, water, grass and trees are very lovely. Foreign...... Uh, since, this ...... Datang, Datang people love peony......"

"Leaked, leaked." Mr. Wu hurriedly said, "There was another sentence before." ”

"Uh......" The little boy didn't seem to remember.

"This one, I told you at the time, how many kinds of flowers are there?" Seeing that no one objected, the gentleman prompted.

"There are lotuses, peonies, and chrysanthemums." The little boy knew this time.

"yes, look at who's missing." Mr. said.

"Oh, Chrysanthemum forgot." The little boy was embarrassed: "That's, uh...... The flowers of water, land, grass and trees are very lovely. Uh......"

"Who likes chrysanthemums the most?" Sir reminds again.

"Oh, Tang Huangchao loves chrysanthemums alone, but others love peonies very much......" the little boy tried to force his back.

Mr. Wu had a broken expression on his face, and he didn't know what to say for a while. Guo Kang, Zhu Wenkui and others couldn't help laughing, and Tang Sai'er hurriedly asked curiously, "What's wrong?" I think it rhymes, huh? Isn't that right? ”

"No, no. That's right...... he said," Guo Kang couldn't help but smile.

"How did you think of the Yellow Nest?" Zhu Wenkui said with a smile.

"I know Huang Chao's poems!" As if to remedy the failure, the little boy also hurriedly said: "Wait until September 8 in autumn, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom." The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor - I will do this! ”

"That's right, that's right." Guo Kang nodded: "Do you like Tang poems?" ”

"That article is too long, I like Tang poems very much." The boy explained, "I taught my younger brothers yesterday! ”

"And which poet do you like?" Guo Kang asked.

"Our favorite, the great poet Huang - Nest ——!" The schoolchildren replied happily.

"Okay, okay, this level of culture is very good on the outside." Zhu Wenkui said to Tuhuan and the others again and again: "I think we should ask the next one." ”

(End of chapter)

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