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Chapter 1029 Wang Yan wins the election
The imperial examination is undoubtedly an important matter. This is true for individuals, and it is also true for the court.

For me personally, it means that I have achieved success after studying for many years and am one step closer to becoming an official. For the imperial court, it was to stabilize the literati group, ensure people's stability, continuously select qualified officials, maintain the healthy operation of the bureaucracy, and test the organizational strength of local and central governments.

The prices of inns in Yangzhou City have started to increase very early.

As the capital city of Huainan East Road and an important node city for water and land transportation, Yangzhou City alone has a floating population of 200,000 people. Counting the lower counties, another 200,000 yuan will be spent. There are more than three million people living on Huainan East Road, one-eighth of which is occupied by Yangzhou alone.

The venue for the Yangzhou Prefectural Examination must be in Yangzhou. Those who failed the exam in previous years and those who failed the exam for the first time this year, a total of thousands of people, all flocked to Yangzhou City, and all ordered three-month long-term contracts, because they had to rush here in advance and wait here for the announcement of the results. Results, and whether you have money or not, you always have to make friends.

In fact, as long as you are willing to save face, you don't need to spend much money on the most important social activities for scholars. It doesn’t matter how talented you are, as long as you are not at the bottom of the list and you are willing to flatter others and put yourself on a pedestal, scholars from wealthy families are generally very welcome. Not to mention eating and drinking for free, you can even get money from those who visit brothels. .

It's just that they are vain and have no money to pretend to be big, which adds to a lot of burdens for nothing. But whether it is pretending or licking, it is looked down upon by others. It is mainly a matter of self-satisfaction.

You spend your own money, you are awesome, you feel sorry for yourself, and your parents, wife and children have to eat chaffy vegetables at home. To lick a rich scholar, you have to sacrifice your dignity and some of your dignity, but you really don't feel good about yourself.

But when you come out to hang out, you have to have one thing, either you have ability or you have money, you don't have either, so you have to give up some face no matter what.

Wang Yan, for example, is a player without a lot of money. With his wealth, it is impossible for him to support the consumption of scholar's travels and play every day. But he is considered capable. He participates in all high-end social activities in Yangzhou. He doesn't have to pay for it, and he is still the protagonist who people are vying to get close to.

"Brother Ziyan."

"Zi Yan."

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This is a sunny day in August. Of course, August here falls on the lunar calendar. If we change to the Western calendar, there will probably be a few days of August 15th and the National Day holiday, but the hard-working workers are working six or seven days in a row. when.

Wang Yan walked slowly with his hands behind his back, followed by Xiao Dongliang, who was struggling to carry a big box.

The scholars gathered outside the examination room all took the initiative to say hello to Wang Yan. This was the reputation Wang Yan had accumulated in the past six months. Many people have never seen him, but as long as they have some brains, they will know who he is without any introduction.

Talent is talent. Nowadays, although Wang Yan's name is getting more and more popular, although if he fails to win the election this time, he will be humiliated, but it does not affect people's recognition of him. Just one sentence that spread throughout the Song Dynasty and even went to Liao, Xixia, and Dali, "What you learn on paper is shallow, but you know that you have to do it in detail." It was enough for him to eat and drink around for a lifetime.

After all, this is the most intuitive judgment. There is still controversy about a certain battle fought by a general. If he fights this way or that, others think he is good. When we get to Wang Yan's place, just put that line of poetry there. Whoever is better will write an equally good line first, and then laugh at Wang Yan for not living up to his reputation.

"Good senior brother!"

"Brother Wang!"

While Wang Yan was joking and chatting with others, two different calls came from him. He turned his head and looked over, and saw Ouyang Fa and Sheng Changbai, followed by Sheng Hualan, several serving girls, and strong bodyguards.

Wang Yan said a few words to the others and went to the outskirts with Ouyang Fa and others. There are thousands of people gathered here, all of them are scholars who talk loudly. Some people are really arrogant, some people are relieving tension, and some people are really natural. It's so noisy that the dialogue depends on shouting.

"Why is Hua Lan here too?" Wang Yan asked with a smile.

Hua Lan's makeup is exquisite, and it looks like she got up early and put it away carefully.

She stretched out her hand and handed out a purse, blinking her big eyes: "I'm here to cheer you on, this is for you."

Wang Yan took the purse and looked at the stitches on it: "The stitches are fine, and you can see that they were carefully crafted. Thank you for your hard work."

"As long as you like it." Hua Lan smiled and narrowed her eyes, happy~
"I think I'm afraid that my good senior brother won't pass the exam and Uncle Sheng's family won't agree to the marriage." Little Fatty said with a bad mouth.

"Go." Hua Lan glared at the unlucky child angrily.

"Good junior brother, I think your skin is itchy." Wang Yan pulled the little chubby boy's face.

"I'm a child, good senior brother, you won't be angry with me, right?"

Wang Yan smiled. The little fat man got to know him well, and he took care of him from time to time. His original appearance as a young adult was completely broken. Instead, he was very sinister and used the spirit of moral kidnapping. Ripe.

He rubbed the little fat man's head and patted Sheng Changbai's arm, but he only looked at Hua Lan and said: "It's time to enter the examination room. There are many people here and it's not very safe. You all should go back. It only lasts three days." , Don’t worry, I will definitely win.”

Not much was said, everyone was familiar with each other, and there was no need for so much nonsense at this time.

Wang Yan lifted up the large box with several floors and asked Xiao Dongliang to go back with them. He turned around and joined the flow of people, lining up to enter the examination room.

It was a coincidence that Liu Yun was standing next to him.

"Brother Ziyan."

"Brother Jingshu has everything in his mind. Standing here, he looks calm and relaxed." Wang Yan complimented casually.

"Don't look at Brother Wei's jokes." Liu Yun shook his head, "I have already said that Brother Wei has taken too many exams, so he feels at ease."

"Brother, do you know how many of you I have?"

Wang Yan and Liu Yun looked over along the sound, and saw not far away to the side, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. He was thin and lacked a sense of strength. His hair was tied up casually, with a mixture of black and white. , eyes full of exhaustion.

"It's definitely not as good as it is, disrespectful and disrespectful." Liu Yun quickly put down what he was carrying and bowed his hands in a serious manner.

The man shook his head and murmured: "If I can't win again this time, that's it, that's it~"

As soon as these words were spoken, the scholars who were buzzing around them all fell silent. The silence gradually spread outwards, and after a while, there was complete silence.

The people on the periphery don't know why they are quiet, they just follow it out of habit. But in the circle of Wang Yan and others, negative emotions such as vicissitudes of life, sadness, desolation, etc. have already overflowed.

Just as everyone was sighing sadly, Wang Yan suddenly shouted loudly.

"The flowers are not in full bloom, but the fun of being independent and sparse is not exhausted. I would rather die with the fragrance in the branches than to be blown away by the north wind! I am a scholar who is about to sail against the current. I am brave and diligent, not afraid of rain and wind. We are waiting for you. The ideal of a scholar is to establish his mind for the heaven and the earth, to establish his destiny for the people, to carry forward his unique knowledge for the saints, and to create peace for all generations!"

At this time, it is necessary to install it. A poem to boost morale, and four lines about "Hengqu", everyone's blood will be full, and Wang Yan's persuasion will be in place.

Zhang Zai has not yet said these words at this time, because Zhang Zai, who is twenty-eight years old, has not yet enlightened. Only after understanding the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism can I summarize four sentences. His theory would not be complete until later because he did not join Wang Anshi in reforming the law. He knew that Wang Anshi wanted to attack him and knew that he could not do it, so he wisely resigned and returned to Hengqu to study knowledge and open an academy to lecture.

This kind of famous saying has become the highest ideal of literati since it was proposed. Wang Yan must say it. Whoever says it first belongs to whom...

After Wang Yan shouted out a poem or a famous saying using his vocal skills, a deeper silence fell outside the examination room. But the next moment, someone shouted 'ok'.

Immediately afterwards, there was a fierce uproar, all of them admired Wang Yan's poem and famous saying, and the blood rushed to their heads.

It doesn’t matter whether you are an official for the sake of the people of the world, because that is what you have to consider after you become an official. Now, at this moment, they think Wang Yan understands them and expresses what everyone is thinking. Yes, that's what they think...

Sheng Hualan, Sheng Changbai and Ouyang Fa who were standing in the distance were all stunned, with their mouths slightly open in disbelief.

They all understand things. This new poem written by Wang Yan is very good, but those four sentences are so awesome, they are as shocking as a bolt from the blue. This is already the attainment of enlightenment.

But Sheng Hualan was relatively simple. She looked at Wang Yan, who was surrounded by people and had a large open space. He was walking in circles and talking loudly in the open space, with little stars in her eyes. This is her future husband, he will shine~
Sheng Changbai thought that he would be as awesome as his eldest brother-in-law in the future.

Little Fatty is simple, damn, why am I not so awesome... This is destined to be a great moment that will shock the past and the present. When a state examination is about to start, thousands of scholars are in front of them, and Wang Yan speaks out The supreme ideal of literati is destined to be recorded in history.

In August of the eighth year of Qingli, the emperor responded to the Yangzhou examination. At that time, some villagers failed to pass the test many times and told the emperor that they would not succeed this year and that it would be over. After finishing speaking, everyone was silent. The emperor was not happy and shouted...

The bustle didn't last long before the invigilator stopped the examination and called in a sergeant to maintain order. It resumed the way it had been before queuing into the examination room, buzzing with people. It's just that everyone is looking in Wang Yan's direction. There's nothing they can do about it. He's so awesome. He has all the demeanor of a scholar they imagined.

They couldn't help but be envious and jealous, but they couldn't help but want to follow him and get closer.

That’s what reputation does…

At this time, the imperial examination had already begun to lock the courtyard, that is, the door of the examination room was closed, and the students were trapped inside and not allowed to come out. When entering the examination room, there were several passages, and in each of them stood officials and several soldiers and sergeants. They have to check everything brought by the candidates and go through it carefully, including clothes, shoes, etc., in order to prevent cheating.

Wang Yan let the sergeants check it over and left a handful of dried meat for them. Then he carried the things to the room where he was taking the exam.

The examination room at this time was actually similar to the well-known Jiangnan Gongyuan that survived. No matter how rich the Song Dynasty was, it was not enough to build a small house for each examinee. The construction cost was on the one hand, and the cost of invigilation was on the other.

So this place is far from comfortable, but it just provides shelter from the wind and rain. Many people carry large and small bags, blankets and the like, and are very well equipped. However, when checking at the passage, no one escaped the fate of being cut by a knife.

Wang Yan didn't take that much because he thought it was troublesome. He likes to be comfortable, but he is not intolerable to a little pain. Besides, no matter how dilapidated the examination room is, it will always be much better than the battlefield.

He wiped the table with a rag, fiddled with the large box with several layers, took out the pen, ink and inkstone, took out the tea set and small stove, lit the charcoal, fetched water and came back, directly heating it up. water……

The reform of the content of the imperial examination has been ongoing.

The Song Dynasty inherited the system of the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning, poetry and poetry were emphasized, poetry and poetry came first, and policy theory was followed. Poetry and poetry were used to decide whether to stay or leave. That is, after the first poetry and prose test, a large number of marking officers began to review the papers. If you fail the exam, you don’t need to read the policy review and just leave.

This naturally has disadvantages, so in the fifth year of Renzong Tiansheng's reign, the first reform of the Song Dynasty imperial examination was carried out, focusing on policy theory.

In the third year of Qingli, Ouyang Xiu wrote "Notes on Changes in Tributary Examination Events", proposing to divide the exam into three exams: the first exam was about policy, the second exam was about theory, and the final exam was about poems and verses. With the failure of the Qingli New Deal, this imperial examination reform could not be sustained.

It was not until the second year of Jiayou, when Ouyang Xiu presided over the provincial examination, that the previously proposed reforms were finally implemented. And this year, it was hailed by later generations as the most awesome imperial examination, because those who won the Jinshi were all awesome people. Su Shi, Su Che, and Zeng Gong are three of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Cheng Gu, this is the leader of Luoxue, where Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism originated. Zhang Zai, needless to say, Wang Yancai used other people's words to establish the Tao to show off.

It's a shame that Zhang Zai didn't know and would only think that Wang Yan was his confidant. Otherwise, he might have hunted down the shameless Wang Yan and would have killed him...

Therefore, the imperial examination that Wang Yan has experienced now focuses on strategy. But even if the focus is on policy and theory, it will be in vain if the poems and poems are not good.

But for him, Wang, it's all child's play, and he's very good at it.

Three days passed like this. Wang Yan, who had handed in his papers, allowed the soldiers to check his small cubicle, packed up his things, and walked out of the examination room with a smile and nod to the scholars who were still thinking hard.

Finally able to speak, Liu Yun, who happened to come out with Wang Yan, lamented: "Zi Yan is extremely talented in writing. I thought he would definitely win the prize, but my brother failed again this time. Who would have thought, who would have thought that he would be awarded the prize?" What a stinky number..."

Liu Yun looked up to the sky and sighed in grief and anger...

The stinking number is the location next to the hut. Although it is autumn, Yangzhou is located in the south. It is still cool in the morning and evening, but it is still very hot during the day. The hotter it gets, the stronger the smell of the latrine becomes, and the stench becomes very unpleasant.

Otherwise, why would Wang Yan be one step away from Liu Yun? It's so delicious.

Liu Yun, who had noticed Wang Yan's actions a long time ago, was naturally in tears and became even more sad and angry.

Wang Yan waved to Xiao Dongliang, Sheng Hualan, Sheng Changbai, and Ouyang Fa who were jumping over from a distance.

"Brother Jingshu, I'll go first." He decided not to talk to Liu Yunduo because the smell was really strong.

Liu Yun's eyes were full of resentment. Watching Wang Yan leave, and then seeing his bookboy approaching, he subconsciously took a step back. Anger arose in his heart, and he gave the bookboy a kick that was neither light nor hard...

"He didn't do well in the exam, Master?" Xiao Dongliang took the big box and looked at the depressed Liu Yun.

Ouyang Fa answered first: "Is it necessary? If you do well in the exam, can you take it out on the book boy?"

"My young master won't be upset if he doesn't do well in the exam."

"Hey, you're talking back to me."

Xiao Dongliang was not afraid at all and walked aside with a smile.

Wang Yan patted Ouyang Fa's fat head and said with a smile: "He has been given a bad name."

Ouyang Fa, Sheng Changbai, and Hua Lan, who came two steps behind, all looked disgusted.

Hualan asked: "How did Lang Jun do in the exam?"

"Peace of mind, no worries about passing the exam." Wang Yan waved his hand, "Let's go, go back and take a shower so that you can eat and drink."

"Brother Wang, you are already tired, so there is no need to run around. Food and wine have been prepared at home. Let's stay at home today."

"That's fine. My dear junior brother, are you going with me?"

"go."

Ouyang found that he was now familiar with the Sheng family and could come and go freely. Although they are five years apart, he and Chang Bai play very well and they can talk together. They are all precocious children. Even though children are bound to have thoughts, in terms of depth of thought, they are by no means comparable to ordinary people.

As for Ouyang Fa's changes, Ouyang Xiu and his old wife both saw it, but they didn't say much as they were happy to see the results. Ouyang Xiu is a casual and casual person. He actually doesn't like the rigidity and lack of energy like children and adults. It's just that he doesn't want to say more, as long as the child doesn't grow crooked.

It was also good to get in touch with Wang Yan. Ouyang Xiu knew that Wang Yan was a perseverant person who also had skills and wisdom. He always believed that Wang Yan would rise to the top once he became an official. Even thinking about the previous conversation, he was still a little disturbed. He always felt that Wang Yan was really going to start a massacre in the local area...

In this way, a group of people got on the carriage and came to Sheng Mansion.

Because of the imperial examination, Sheng Hong has been very busy recently and is not at home. It was Mrs. Wang who came out to receive her. She only said a few polite words and then took the reluctant Hua Lan away. She was here to take Hualan away.

Without Sheng Hong here, Changbai, the face of the family, could not control Hua Lan. The only way was Wang. Otherwise, it would be bad if word spread, and it would appear that the Sheng family had no rules.

"Brother Wang, now that you've won the exam, it's time to accept it and ask for your name. My sister is looking forward to it hard." Changbai doesn't drink, and only serves his future brother-in-law.

"It won't be too late after the list is published, why bother with those few days? The matchmakers have already found them, and the geese have all been fat."

Ouyang Fa next to him was holding a chicken leg and chewing it happily. He muttered and asked, "Good senior brother, please tell me what's going on in the examination room."

There were just three people eating and drinking together, and two contestants who had never passed the exam were concerned about the progress of the imperial examination. For example, what questions were tested, how Wang Yan solved the questions, and how he felt.

Wang Yan ate and drank a lot, took a bath and went to sleep in Sheng Mansion.

Half a month later, the state examination list was announced, and Wang Yan came first...

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