Zhang Zhou entered the tribute hospital.

With Wang Mingshan, Liu Gui and a cook, there were actually not many people, and the emperor specially asked Jinyiwei and a few people to go in with him, in order to protect Zhang Zhou's safety.

In Daming, although there was no "horse banquet" before the township exam, the examiners still had to meet each other before the exam, and they should be courteous, because the examiners in the examination room of Shuntianfu had long known that one of the main exams this time was the famous Zhang Zhou, so almost everyone was waiting for him Zhang Zhou to arrive alone.

It also includes Yang Tinghe, who entered the tribute court two hours in advance.

Zhang Zhou came relatively late, but as long as he entered the venue before dark, no one would say anything.

Among the examiners, there are mainly officials from Shuntianfu, all of whom are officials such as supervisors and promotions, and now there is no examination, so there is no distinction between internal curtain officials and external curtain officials, and when they meet, it is like a party, and everyone comes to greet Zhang Zhou.

"You're polite, I'm also the first time to take the township exam, if there is anything I don't understand, I hope you will give me more advice."

Zhang Zhou smiled.

Entering the inner curtain, he settled down first, and then Yang Tinghe came to visit him alone.

Yang Tinghe is over forty years old, and his stature is not tall, but he looks very stable, and the goatee on his face gives people a sense of not being angry and arrogant, but he looks very humble and cautious in front of Zhang Zhou.

When saluting, Yang Tinghe also thanked Zhang Zhou for telling him about his old mother's illness before.

Zhang Zhoudao: "It's just that there may be a big event in Yang Hanlin's house, and I'm not sure what it is, so I mentioned it to Your Majesty, Your Majesty specially asked you to go back to Shuzhong, if you can serve the old lady for the last time, it is also Your Majesty's compassion for the courtiers." ”

Yang Tinghe said: "Your Majesty Longen, you should remember it. ”

Zhang Zhou asked with a smile: "I don't know if Yang Hanlin has thought about it, what is the topic?" ”

Yang Tinghe was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand something, looked around, and after making sure that the partition wall had no ears, he said: "I entered the palace yesterday and met Your Majesty, Your Majesty has a word, everything can be based on Cai Guogong, and Cai Guogong can make his own decisions." ”

"Really? You should still ask Yang Hanlin to help more. Zhang Zhou did not immediately agree.

If the emperor asks you to listen to me, you will listen?

Your Yang Tinghe's reputation in history, that can also be regarded as "iron-clad Zhengzheng", although your shining point is not in the Hongzhi Dynasty, but how to say that your reputation as a Zhengchen is not fake, right?

"The topic can be used as a reference below, if there is something wrong, Cai Guogong can also point out." Yang Tinghe didn't fight at all.

Zhang Zhoudao: "It's also very good, if it is one person, the news will be publicized, it will inevitably make people feel that this topic is a little biased, or should we learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, tonight each proposed a few topics, we will discuss again, from which to select a few four books and five scriptures of the exam questions, what do you think?" ”

"Good." Yang Tinghe nodded.

Writing questions together, summarizing them together, and then selecting topics from them is also a serious process.

The emperor asked Zhang Zhou to listen, and Yang Tinghe was also afraid that something would go wrong, and now Zhang Zhou had to follow the rules, so he didn't have a problem.

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There was a banquet for Zhang Zhou that night, nominally not a horse banquet, but more like a banquet for him by his colleagues, but Zhang Zhou refused.

I brought the cook in, naturally I want to eat what I like to eat, Zhang Zhou has been "losing weight" recently, although he has been running around since coming to Daming, but after all, his body is still a little blessed, and Zhang Zhou is also determined to go to the tribute courtyard to suffer a little.

Zhang Zhou formulated a few questions.

The titles of the Four Books and the Five Classics are all interceptions of a passage from the Four Books and Five Classics, even if you are a layman, as long as you can memorize the Four Books and Five Classics, you can also come up with questions.

However, it is also a science to make the topic profound, especially to pay attention to current affairs.

Liu Gui set up a shelf outside before dark, and the shelf was used to dry clothes, because Zhang Zhou also brought his own clothes to the inner curtain, and there was a separate courtyard, which was also a small world for Zhang Zhou, and then there was another arrangement, mainly to make up for some security omissions.

"Let him stop being busy, there are people on the inside and outside of the three floors here, and there are still people who want to stab me?" Zhang Zhou asked Wang Mingshan to go out to inform Liu Gui and tell Liu Gui not to toss.

By the end of the night, Zhang Zhoudu was already preparing to go to bed, and Liu Gui was shouting outside to report, saying that Yang Tinghe was visiting.

Zhang Zhou met Yang Tinghe in the small courtyard where he lived.

After holding the lamp, Yang Tinghe sat down, and when he saw that there was a separate courtyard on Zhang Zhou's side, and there was a special person waiting, Yang Tinghe inevitably showed some envious eyes.

The powerful people in the DPRK and China even came to be the main examiner of the township examination, and their treatment was different from others.

"The topic has been drafted, and I'm afraid that there will be something inappropriate, so I'll discuss it with you in advance." Yang Tinghe did not regard himself as a senior of the Hanlin Academy at all.

It was also Yang Tinghe who knew that since he had not been in the Hanlin Academy for several years, the pattern in the Hanlin Academy had changed a lot, and Yang Tinghe needed to rely on Zhang Zhou's strength to support it.

Even if he doesn't devote himself to the Zhang Party, at least he must have a stable relationship with Zhang Zhou, and this time the emperor asked him to cooperate with Zhang Zhou's selection, which invisibly gave him such an opportunity to establish a good relationship with Zhang Zhou.

Zhang Zhoudao: "I also have a question here, so don't come to Japan, the candidates will enter tomorrow night, and the exam will start early the day after tomorrow, and the matter of printing the questions will also be stepped up, and it cannot be delayed." ”

The rules of the township examination must also be before the exam, not in advance.

And the only transportation on the way is to send it directly from the inner curtain to the examination room and hand it over to the candidates on the morning of the test, and the questions are not distributed on the spot, but have long been printed on the paper.

This requires getting things done in advance.

Yang Tinghe asked: "I don't know if this time I want to select a talent who is upright or a talent who keeps his business?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Zhou looked at Yang Tinghe.

This Yang Tinghe, the way of questioning is different from others.

Zhang Zhou pondered a little, the so-called Zhongzheng talent, it should be said that to be able to be a Zhongzheng official in the future, it is the kind of impartial and decisive decision-making, which is relatively more radical.

The officials who keep their jobs are more cautious, and they must fulfill their duties and do their errands well.

One is more radical and the other is conservative.

Zhang Zhoudao: "The article is based on talent, or don't set the tone first, as long as you are knowledgeable, what kind of talent is indispensable." ”

In fact, Zhang Zhou didn't think of what kind of person he would choose to help him.

Besides, who can you really choose for your own use in a township test?

This time to preside over the township test, it is more to pave the way for the future to preside over the examination, and also to tell the whole world that he Zhang Zhou can exist as the chief examiner, and let the scholars of the world weigh whether they will "commit" Zhang Zhou in the future before scolding Zhang Zhou.

If you take the township examination or the general examination in the future, and Zhang Zhou happens to be the main exam, do you guess it will affect your imperial examination road?

"Then it should be more about benevolence and filial piety." After Yang Tinghe finished speaking, he added, "Thinking about it, this is also His Majesty's wish. ”

Zhang Zhoudao: "On the topic, as long as it is decent, it doesn't matter what the topic is." When choosing articles, you don't have to choose those who are too pandering, Yang Hanlin should know what I have in my studies, right? ”

Yang Tinghe nodded, he had obviously heard about Zhang Zhou's promotion of Xinxue.

If the candidates of the Shuntianfu Township Examination this time knew that Zhang Zhou was a master of mental learning, it seemed inevitable that they would deliberately add more mental content to cater to Zhang Zhou in the exam.

In Zhang Zhou's meaning, he should be overly catered to, this kind of person belongs to the villain who is good at greeting, don't choose him.

Of course, if this group of candidates still knows what I have in mind, or what bias I have in my studies, they can cater to me...... That's also your ability, but in the general direction that everyone knows, if you come to cater to it, you are looking for a loser.

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Zhang Zhou and Yang Tinghe discussed the exam questions until midnight, and then they separated.

The topics of the Four Books and Five Classics are set first, followed by the application questions and policy questions of officialdom, etc., and the questions of the second or third exams can be appropriately postponed, but the questions of one exam need to be good first.

That night.

Sun Shangqi took the Caihuang family to the edict prison and asked the Caihuang family to visit the head of the Huang family, Huang Yibei.

"Be cautious when you go in, there will be people listening to you, and if something is inappropriate, they will drive you away at any time." Sun Shangqi is an old fritter in Jinyiwei, and he is still relatively experienced in dealing with the edict and prison.

Cai Huang hurriedly took out the silver from the basket he was carrying.

Sun Shangqi said: "What kind of place do you think this is?" Think it's the yamen of the state capital? ”

Cai Huang said with a restrained face: "I should still give a few masters wine and tea." ”

"Excuse me."

Sun Shangqi will not accept this bit of silver.

Although the silver ingot looked like it was at least ten taels, his grandson didn't look down on this bit of silver.

Cai Huang made a fuss, afraid of being angry by Jinyi Wei, followed by Sun Shangqi, and didn't even dare to breathe, and finally arrived in front of Huang Yibei's prison door, after Cai Huang walked over, he immediately put down the basket and wanted to walk to the old father.

"Official, if you want to ask, the old man will answer."

At night, Jinyiwei suddenly came, Huang Yibei thought it was Jinyiwei's night trial, and he was almost scared to the point of urine.

"Father." Cai Huang walked over and saw the old father's unkempt appearance, so he couldn't help but hide his face and cry.

Only then did Huang Yibei see that his daughter was in front of him.

Cai Huang is already forty years old, Huang Yibei is over sixty years old, and it is inevitable that father and daughter will cry when they see each other.

In the end, the Caihuang clan was calmer, and hurriedly said: "This official is Sun Qianhu of Jinyiwei, and he was ordered by Cai Guogong to let his son come to visit you." Is my father okay in prison lately? ”

"This ......"

Even if Huang Yibei can say it badly, he doesn't dare to say it.

"Don't gossip, talk openly, and get things done." Sun Shangqi urged.

Huang Yibei said: "You ...... How did it come? ”

Cai Huang said: "It's my sister-in-law, and her distant relative is ...... Cai Guogong, I don't know where my sister-in-law is now? ”

"Probably guarded." Huang Yibei said with a regretful face, "The family is in trouble here, and after you go out, don't mention it again." Girl, our family...... Can you still get out? ”

"Cai Guogong said that as long as our family and the Zhao family get rid of their relationship, they can go out." Cai Huang glanced at Sun Shangqi and found that the Jinyi guard in the prison was giving Sun Shangqi courtesy, so she leaned over and said, "We must rely on the people of the Zhao family, only in this way can we get out of trouble." ”

"But...... That's not good either. ”

Huang Yibei seems to have a bit of a literati backbone.

The patriarchs of these big families, after all, have also read books and know some etiquette, righteousness and shame.

Cai Huang asked, "Does my father want the family to disappear like this, or does he want to maintain the status quo?" ”

"Alas!"

Huang Yibei could only sigh, and then said, "Have you seen your second uncle?" Go meet him, he has an idea. ”

"I can't take care of it." Cai Huang said, "I finally met Cai Guogong himself, and Cai Guogong gave this opportunity, but if you can really get the family out of trouble, you can't give a gift." It's hard to thank you for your kindness. ”

Huang Yibei asked, "Then Wu'er, what can be done?" ”

Cai Huang said: "My son is also thinking of a way, I still want to visit my brother and them, but I don't give this opportunity, I also hope that my father can focus on the family business, but he can't be stubborn anymore." ”

"Hmm." Huang Yibei nodded.

"There is some food here, as well as some broken silver and clothes, all of which were sent to my father, so that he can take care of his work in prison." Cai Huang said, "Father can rest assured, these are all approved by the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and they asked me to bring them here." ”

"Commander of the Jinyi Guard? Son, you...... How did you get involved with these big shots? ”

Huang Yibei couldn't understand that his daughter was just a woman and a child, Cai Guogong, and the commander of Jinyiwei, as if she could reach the sky.

"Father doesn't have to ask, just ask his father, is it saying that for the sake of the family, the family can pay any price, and don't care, right?" Cai Huang also showed a little bit of the attitude of being a woman in charge of the family.

Now that the men surnamed Huang are in prison cells, and only a married daughter can come out to do so, do you listen to me or not?

Huang Yibei said: "This is nature. ”

"Then I want my father to write a handwritten letter, and I will really get out of trouble in the future, but don't blame me for today's events."

Cai Huang is not a vegetarian either.

Now running for the family's affairs, spending money is a trivial matter, if it is really out of trouble, the family thinks that the sacrifice is too big now, saying that this is all the Caihuang family making waves, and then they will be angry with the Caihuang family, and even the husband and children of the Caihuang family, etc., Caihuang is asking for trouble.

"Son, I can really get out of trouble, and I will ...... after the family Anyway, you have a share. ”

The daughter did not have any inheritance rights.

But now Huang Yibei has agreed to give this married daughter a family property.

"Whoever the father wants to give it to, that's the father's business, and now the son wants the father's handwriting, so that the daughter can represent the Huang family with full authority, and all the connections and goods that the Huang family wants to use, including the father, must also be allowed, only in this way, can the son have the confidence to come forward to mediate. This is the last chance for our Huang family, if my father does not allow it...... Most of the time it can only be resigned to fate. ”

Who wants that bit of property?

I want to be a parent!

In the future, even if I am a member of the Cai family, I will have to take care of the affairs of the Huang family.

"You...... Good! Father, I'll write it for you. ”

Even if Huang Yibei knew his daughter's thoughts, but in this case, only his daughter could see those big shots, and he had to do it.

It is a rush to the doctor. (End of chapter)