Secondly, it is the preparation for the imperial examination.

After the second uncle was stripped of his financial power, he began to take charge of this part. Yan Ling deeply understood the importance of education, so the Yan family set up a huge school, and allocated a considerable amount of funds to maintain it, all children must be educated from the age of five until the age of ten, and then pass the examination to decide whether to go back to farming, or continue to study, and prepare for the imperial examination.

But in the past few years since Fang Guozhen occupied eastern Zhejiang, this system was in a state of suspension, so that a large number of children have been delayed over the years. Fortunately, just last month, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to "set up two departments of civil and military affairs to take scholars", requiring scholars from all over the country to start preparations. And Yan Ling, who knows history, knows that in the third year of Hongwu, they will usher in the first "college entrance examination" of the Ming Dynasty.

Yan Ling specially instructed the teachers in the lecture hall to imitate the scriptures and meanings of the Song Dynasty when teaching young people to write essays, imitate the tone of the ancients, and use a lot of puppets in style, which can achieve a great advantage in the examination.

After all, King Wu had just agreed with Liu Ji to use the "eight shares" method to take the soldiers.

Not only that, but he also ordered all the Yan family teenagers to add two additional lessons: horseback riding and archery.

Because in the imperial examination in the early Ming Dynasty, after three examinations, the re-examination had to examine these two things.

It is very different from the complete Confucianism that followed.

However, all kinds of arrangements quickly became secondary to Yan Ling.

The first thing he has to face now is his upcoming marriage.

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In the fifteenth year of Zheng, Jiqing City.

Time back to the day when the three armies were rewarded after the city was broken, the scene of the huge night banquet, Yan Ling had been irritated to lose his mind, he led the singing, and the inaccurate but heroic and desolate singing echoed in the night sky.

What he didn't know was that in addition to him, there were also many soldiers who were drunk at this time.

Feng Guosheng's elder brother Feng Guoyong is one of them.

As a general, of course, he had personal soldiers, and they lifted Feng Guoyong, who had fallen asleep, and prepared to send him home.

However, as they walked towards his residence with Feng Guoyong on their backs, they ran into two unexpected people.

But it was his wife and his daughter, who had just turned twelve.

After conquering Dacheng Jiqing, Zhu Yuanzhang took over the families of a group of soldiers from Taiping, and after that, this is his base camp.

The Yuan Dynasty did not have the somewhat deformed restrictions on women in the Song Dynasty, and it was now a war year, so the so-called defense of men and women could not be said to be absent, but it was really relaxed.

Mrs. Feng Guoyong knew what kind of virtue her husband was, although she was not a good drinker, but when she was happy, she didn't count how many catties and taels she had, so she couldn't rest assured, so she wanted to go to the banquet site to have a look. And his daughter, who has read history books since she was a child and is used to seeing the troubled times in the books, is also clamoring to come.

Mrs. Feng thought that it was too peaceful at this time, so she also agreed.

As a result, he bumped into this group of pro-soldiers who gave people halfway.

Mrs. Feng looked at the plain and elegant Feng Guoyong (Feng Guoyong was a strategist at the beginning, and later led the troops, and belonged to the Confucian generals) at this time, and couldn't help but shake her head helplessly:

"Drink like this...... I don't know how to take care of my body at all. ”

She commanded the soldiers to walk home, and after a while, she felt that something seemed to be missing beside her, and when she turned around, she found that her daughter Feng Shuzhen was still in place.

"Shuzhen, don't go quickly, what are you looking at."

Feng Shuzhen has already been attracted to attention. She looked blankly at the man who was singing loudly, he was the well-deserved protagonist in the banquet at this time, and even Zhu Yuanzhang cheered for him with a smile.

Under the moonlight, Yan Ling's bun was a little scattered, strands of black hair hung down on his face, and wine fell from his lips. (In fact, as the son of a landlord, it is normal to be handsome, after all, he is rich and powerful, and his wife will not be bad no matter how she looks, and she has been genetically improved from generation to generation).

Feng Shuzhen clearly felt her heartbeat, a feeling that her heart seemed to be caught, although the world was big at this time, there was only that person in her eyes.

It wasn't until Madame Feng walked up behind her and patted her on the shoulder that she came back to her senses.

"Mother, who is that?" She asked softly.

As the wife of Feng Guoyong, a high-ranking member of the Righteous Army, Mrs. Feng has a close relationship with Ma Xiuying. Ma Xiuying ran to encourage the soldiers when Zhu Yuanzhang went on the expedition, comforted his dependents, stabilized the rear, and had indispensable dealings with Yan Ling, and Mrs. Feng also got to know the important minister in charge of the military aircraft beside Zhu Yuanzhang.

"He is a strict vice-president, strict Ling, and extremely talented. Wen Neng governs the place, stabilizes the people, Wu can lead the troops to fight, the previous quarrying to break the barbarian Hague, and capture Jiqing, all have his great merits, your father has praised him to me several times. Madame Feng replied, and gave her daughter a strange look:

"What's wrong?"

"It's fine." Feng Shuzhen replied in a low voice.

Can you be literate and martial, is it the same as your father? After taking a few steps, she couldn't help but glance back at the young man who was singing, and a seed was planted in her heart.

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On April 15, the 19th year of Zheng, Feng Guoyong led his troops to attack Shaoxing, and died violently in the army, Chinese New Year's Eve six.

Zhu Yuanzhang cried with grief and built an altar on Jilong Mountain to sacrifice.

The family was plunged into deep grief.

The concubine served her father for three years.

Feng Shuzhen, who was born in the third year of Zhizheng, had already reached the marriageable age, but because of the unexpected death of his father, it was naturally impossible to marry again, so he delayed it.

No one expected that this delay would be eight years.

Until the day when Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Feng Guoyong's eldest son Feng Cheng.

In fact, he has always cared about the children of his old man, and he has also taken care of them over the years, although Feng Guoyong died, but the supply of gold and silver has not been missing them, and now he plans to entrust Feng Cheng with an official position.

Before the official appointment, as an elder, he inquired about the recent situation of Feng Cheng's family, but he didn't expect this question to know a surprising news.

"Your sister is not married yet?" He asked, glaring.

"My little sister has a strong temperament since she was a child, and she vowed to marry a hero. My family tried to match her several times, but she refused. Father is also spoiled, so let her be. At the time of his death, he happened to meet his father's death, so he never married, and now he is twenty-four out, and he is afraid that he will not be able to get married. Feng Cheng smiled bitterly.

Women in this era generally marry relatively early, and they should get married when they are fifteen years old, like Ma Xiuying married Zhu Yuanzhang at the age of twenty, it is already too late, and twenty-four are already old girls.

As an elder and a matchmaker lover, Zhu Yuanzhang took on the role of the old man.

I saw that his eyes rolled, and a figure had already appeared in his mind.

"We have a family affair to talk to you, that person is also a rare talent in the world, let's make your sister satisfied." He smiled, and there was a sly glint in his eyes.

"Huh?" Feng Cheng raised his head in a daze, he didn't know the temper of this King Wu, and he didn't react to this sentence for a while.

Why did you enter the palace once and pick up a brother-in-law?