Bai Chongyan was chatting with Zhu Ming, and when he saw a female relative suddenly coming, he hurriedly got up to greet him, but he didn't know what the identity of the other party was.

I also had to help Zhu Ming introduce: "San Lang, this is Zheng Erlang's younger sister Zheng Youniang." ”

Bai Chongyan immediately bowed and saluted, and Zheng Yuanyi also bowed in return.

The girls are so down-to-earth and generous, Zhu Ming naturally couldn't twist it, and greeted with a smile: "Sister Zheng hasn't seen you for a long time, come and sit." ”

The girl sat on a low chair indecently, and Zhu Ming went into the house and hugged an embroidered pier and came out.

is so careful and proper, Zheng Yuanyi likes it even more: "Thank you brother for taking care of me." ”

Between men and women, there was nothing to talk about, so Bai Chongyan couldn't find a topic, so he just sat next to him, and took off the lantern cover to pick up the lantern and play.

Zhu Ming also had nothing to say: "Does my sister have a book?" ”

"I have always been studying," Zheng Yuanyi said, "and the Wang family has invited a female gentleman to teach women to read." Later, the Min family also invited a female gentleman to provide food without restraint. ”

"Interesting." Zhu Ming couldn't help laughing.

The Min family and the Wang family are both scholarly families, and it is estimated that there is no shortage of comparisons in ordinary times, and even women's private schools have to grab a source of life.

Zheng Yuanyi asked: "I made an extra sachet last time, did my brother receive it?" ”

Zhu Ming replied: "I received it, I wore it for a few days, and I didn't change it when the spice faded, so I kept it at home." ”

"That's good," Zheng Yuanyi was a little disappointed, because Zhu Ming didn't carry it with him, so he squeezed out a smile and added, "There is also a talisman in the sachet, which I begged for by burning incense in the temple, which can bless the title of the gold list of readers." ”

"Then I should have put it on." Zhu Ming said.

Bai Chongyan sat next to him and finally understood.

This Zheng family sister is interested in Zhu Dalang, not only gave a sachet, but also asked for a talisman.

Others are in love with concubines, what kind of light bulb should they be?

Bai Chongyan got up and said, "I still haven't read a book, so I'll go back to my room to study first." Leave! ”

Zheng Yuanyi hurriedly sent it off: "Brother Bai family go slowly." ”

Zhu Ming scratched his forehead and reminded: "Bring the chair." ”

Bai Chongyan bent down to pick up the chair and winked at Zhu Ming secretly, meaning to let him seize the opportunity.

When Bai Erlang left, Zheng Yuanyi became more cheerful, and her voice became a little louder: "Our female gentleman can respect my brother very much, and I have repeatedly explained my brother's eight poems. Mr. also said that his brother was broad-minded and ambitious, which was not comparable to ordinary scholars. ”

Zhu Ming was a little interested in the female gentleman: "Where is the Lingshi from?" ”

Zheng Yuanyi said: "Mr.'s name is Huang Shu, a daughter of the Huang family in Xingyuan Mansion, and she is in her forties this year. It's really a bad life, I married three times, my husband died early, and my husband simply became a sister-in-law. Later, the sister-in-law didn't do it, and taught women to read, and the Wang family invited her to come with eight salaries a month. ”

"It's a bad fate." Zhu Ming expressed sympathy.

Zheng Yuanyi said: "Mr. also said, it's a pity that the imperial examination doesn't test poetry, otherwise with my brother's talent, I will definitely be named on the gold list of teenagers." In our private school, many women admire their brother's talent. If I knew that I could talk to my brother, I was afraid that I would envy them to death. ”

Zhu Ming changed the topic and asked, "What do female private schools learn?" ”

"The "Female Ring" has to be learned, as well as "Analects", "Mencius", "Book of Rhyme", poetry, female workers, calligraphy, painting, music and rhythm, ......" Zheng Yuanyi said a lot of lessons, and suddenly took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, "I also wrote a poem two days ago, and I just took it with me, please Brother Yazheng." ”

"Don't dare to be."

Zhu Ming took a look, the rhyme and feet were very neat, and the writing was also a little interesting. But due to talent and vision, it is just an ordinary poem of a woman in the boudoir.

Considering the age of her junior high school students, she is already quite rare, and she will definitely be called a talented girl in later generations.

Zhu Ming nodded approvingly: "Excellent writing, keep working hard." ”

"Sir, too, boasted." Zheng Yuanyi was very happy.

After chatting for a while, not knowing what to say, Zheng Yuanyi asked, "Can my brother fight Shuanglu?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "I have never played. ”

"It's very simple, brother, wait a minute." Zheng Yuanyi immediately asked the maid to bring backgammon.

This thing was very popular in the Song Dynasty, especially in the tea shop, where you can play chess while drinking tea and gambling money, which can be called the chess and card room of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The backgammon was taken, Zheng Yuanyi put on the chess pieces and began to explain the rules to Zhu Ming.

Each side has fifteen pieces that are crossed and distributed on the board. The board also has squares, and the number of points of the two dice is used to determine how many moves can be made each time, and the opponent's pieces can be attacked halfway. The side that moves all the pieces off the board wins.

It's a bit of a confrontation between the two armies, and it also pays attention to strategy, and it depends on luck, so it's not complicated to play.

In the first game, Zhu Ming was not very familiar with the gameplay, and he lost very neatly.

Zheng Yuanyi was extremely happy to win, and also pointed out Zhu Ming's mistake, but unfortunately lost three games in a row.

In the fourth game, Zhu Ming planned to release the water to give the little girl a face.

Who knew that he didn't need to release the water, Zheng Yuanyi was unlucky, and he threw the key dice several times, all of which shook the points he wanted, and killed Zhu Ming without leaving a piece of armor.

It's quite interesting, the setting of rolling the dice can bring surprises similar to the game of Monopoly.

has been playing more than 20 games, and the maid reminded: "Little lady, the hour is not early, Zhu Jialangjun still has to rest." ”

Zheng Yuanyi hurriedly stood up: "Brother, rest early, don't delay the preparation for the exam, and wait until the exam is over to play." ”

Zhu Ming sent her out of the yard, Zheng Yuanyi walked briskly, and seemed to be able to fly off the ground when she walked. ran away and turned around and waved: "Brother don't send it, go back and rest." ”

returned to the porch and bumped into Bai Chongyan.

Bai Saburo stood there like a ghost and said with a smile: "This girl is very good, innocent, and a good match." ”

Zhu Ming yawned, took a bath and went to sleep.

Perhaps because he was afraid of delaying Zhu Ming's exam, in the next few days, Zheng Yuanyi did not bring backgammon, but only sent some handmade pastries every day.

After staying at Zheng's house for eight days, it was finally time for the exam.

In the middle of the night, Zhu Ming, Zheng Hong, and Bai Chongyan got up and went to Yangzhou Gongyuan with lanterns.

Zheng Yuanyi also didn't sleep, painted her makeup early, took the maids to see them off, and didn't leave until she saw them enter the tribute courtyard.

The search procedure is very lax, and in the Ming Dynasty, you have to take off your clothes and check when you enter the examination room. At this time, I just touched it casually, and it is very easy to bring a cheat sheet, and it is estimated that there are not a few cheaters.

If the chief examiner has something at home, he can leave the tribute courtyard halfway, and he can easily leak the questions (the central exam can also leak the questions, it all depends on the consciousness of the officials, and leaving halfway will be criticized).

There is also a transcription system, but the examiner can enter the transcription room, and it is easy to read the candidate's handwriting (the local examination is looser, and the central examination is stricter).

In the three counties of Yangzhou, there are not many candidates, and there are only a few hundred in total.

However, the acceptance rate is extremely low, and there are fewer than 10 students in Yangzhou.

Incumbent officials can also take the exam, but they must go to Xingyuan Mansion and take the exam with the children of officials like Li Hanzhang. After Wang Anshi's reform, the new Jinshi was not allowed to take the re-examination, and the previous Jinshi were too lazy to take the re-examination, and most of the officials who took the examination were local miscellaneous officials.

The examination shed is similar to that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, very simple, and you have to nail your own tarpaulin to prevent rain.

On the first day, the Great Sutra was examined, that is, the Analects and Mencius.

There are ten questions in total, with between 200 and 300 words per question.

Compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are too many exam questions, even if you cheat with a cheat sheet, you will win one or two at most. Harmless.

Zhu Ming finished writing early, and after repeated revisions, he copied it on the answer sheet, and then slept in the examination room.

It wasn't until the invigilator reminded him to close the paper that Zhu Ming yawned.

said that the paper must be handed in, and do not give candles to continue writing.

Zhu Ming only ate two pieces of bread at noon, and his stomach was a little hungry, and he met many acquaintances outside the Gongyuan.

Bai Chongyan said excitedly: "Of today's ten questions, I have practiced three of them!" ”

"Good luck." Zhu Ming smiled and encouraged.

Zheng Hong is a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and he has answered all ten questions, but he doesn't know what he writes.

The Zheng family made a big meal for them, Zheng Yuanyi cooked the pastries by himself, and even Bai Chongyan had a share.

On the second day, the test is also ten questions.

On the third day, there will be one question on the examination and three questions on the current policy of economics and history.

The content of the test questions is to let the candidates evaluate Li Linfu......

Seeing the title, Zhu Ming couldn't help laughing, obviously disgusting Cai Jing.

It is estimated that Wang Anshi was posthumously crowned King Shu last year, which caused confusion in the ranking of the Confucian Temple, and even Li Tongju couldn't help but be angry, and specially came up with a question for the candidates to scold and scold the adulterous appearance.

Argument and strategy are two different themes.

The content of the test essay is to ask candidates to evaluate a certain person or a certain historical event, such as Su Xun's "Treatise on the Six Kingdoms" belongs to this kind of genre.

In the past, they all wrote prose and fought neatly, but after Wang Anshi's reform, it changed. It is not required to be written in a flowery manner, nor is it required to write a prose, the more plain and simple the article, the better, mainly depending on what point of view is written.

This kind of test-taking question is important to cater to the examiner.

Zhu Ming knew that the examiner wanted to insinuate Cai Jing, but he didn't care about the results of the imperial examination, and only wrote articles according to his own heart.

Therefore, Zhu Ming did not scold the adulterer, but ...... Scold the emperor!

The title of the article is "On the Monarch and the Minister".

Roughly speaking, what kind of monarch there is, what kind of courtiers there are. Since ancient times, virtuous ministers have been similar, but traitorous ministers have their own characteristics. Whatever the emperor likes, the traitors will meet. The emperor was so happy that the traitorous ministers went to war; The emperor was greedy for pleasure, and the traitorous ministers wantonly looted it......

I almost didn't point at Song Huizong's nose and scold the faint king!

The remaining three policy questions, one is a historical policy, and two are current affairs.

In addition to understanding "Zhou Yi", you must also understand "Shangshu", and you must also understand the history books of the past dynasties. It's okay if you haven't read these two books, but it's inevitable that they won't be well written. But if you don't know history, you're just fooling.

The difficulty is so high, hang the Ming and Qing imperial examinations!

Even if Zhu Ming has a golden finger, he can only write articles. Fortunately, the history class of compulsory education provided him with an extraordinary historical vision, and he could avoid the "Book of Shang" and develop macro theories.

It is also difficult to have two current policies, one to discuss water conservancy in Yangzhou and the other to discuss business in Yangzhou.

It's okay to write blindly, but it's not easy to write well.

When he left the examination room after handing in the papers, Zhu Ming was immediately happy, and he looked at the candidates with sad faces.

"How?" Zhu Ming asked.

Bai Chongyan shook his head and sighed: "Today's Jing Shi Ce can be used to take the Jinshi exam, Li Tong's judgment is too ...... Random. ”

"It's just to go to Beijing in advance to take the exam," Zhu Ming said, "If you think it's difficult, it's also difficult for others." ”

Bai Chongyan nodded and said, "I can only think like this." ”

Zhu Ming felt that the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty was quite interesting, not as constrained as the Ming and Qing dynasties.

And it is very suitable for keyboard warriors, and the arguments and strategies can be left to the candidates to point out the disadvantages and guide the country. When they arrive in the capital, they will add two current policies, and candidates will be able to write nonsense articles.

After the reform of the imperial examination, the policy did not pay much attention to writing, but more to ideological views. Zhu Ming is very good at this, and he understands it too well, which is similar to writing copywriting in videos before.

(End of chapter)