my brother-in-law is the prince

Chapter 101 Top of the List
Hearing the sudden voice, several Jiangxi candidates looked sideways.

But I saw a young boy with a dull look, also holding the test blue, and grinning at them.

Everyone showed a weird look.

That's how readers are.

In general, good grades will say that I did not do well in the exam.

Those with poor grades say that I know how to do this question, it's so easy.

Seeing that someone came up to say such words, Zeng Chi was slightly taken aback, then bowed to the young man and said, "Dare to ask my friend Gao's name."

The young man said: "Guo Xing Zu, Justice Hall of the Imperial College!"

After all, he bounced and ran away with Kaolan in his hands.

Zeng Qi was stunned.

Guozijian... Serious juren, those who are capable, who wants to go to Guozijian, that is the place where the second generation ancestors go.

Justice Hall... Isn't that the elementary class in the Imperial College?
Who is Gu Xingzu...unheard of.

At this time, Zhou Shu suddenly said: "I heard that there was a strange incident in the Imperial College recently. The emperor actually appointed a relative as a doctor. This person is very vulgar. It is... Zhang Anshi... Oh, yes, yes , what he coaches is Justice Hall.”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone burst into laughter.

Zeng Chi smiled, and said with a Jishui County accent: "No, no, when I go back, I want to talk to my fellow villagers, it's so funny."

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"How was the test?"

As soon as Gu Xingzu returned to Guozixue, he was immediately surrounded by Zhang Anshi and his friends.

Gu Xingzu said: "The question is very easy. I thought of seven solutions. I originally wanted to use the method of relying on notes to control the question. Use the method of pros and cons to solve the problem."

Zhang Anshi raised his thumb: "Good job, this method of relying on annotations to control the questions is indeed stable, but it is just a lot of quotations from Zhu Xi's annotations. But this method of pros and cons is different, and it is guaranteed to shock everyone."

Zhang Anshi is not bragging, because the stereotyped essay on the law of obedience and rebellion only began to appear in the late Jiajing period.

The great thing about this style of writing is that when writing, the first four parts should be written from the order of the questions to the end of the question, and the next four parts should be written in reverse order from the end of the question to the beginning of the question. Therefore, this style of writing can be done neatly. Orderly, layered, undulating.

Such a brand-new stereotyped writing is already a remarkable leap forward, which means that you have already used a large truck when others are still using mules to pull carts.

Zhang Anshi was very pleased when he arrived, Gu Xingzu was promising and dared to use such a difficult formula directly.

Gu Xingzu said: "Teacher, I'm going to solve the problem. I haven't solved the problem that was assigned at the beginning."

After Zhang Anshi heard this, he flew into a rage: "Fuck your mother! I've finished all the exams, and I still have to solve some stupid questions."

"Ah..." Gu Xingzu opened his mouth wide: "But...but..."

Zhang Anshi said: "The stereotyped essay is the most useless thing, you can get it after the exam, don't read those bad books in the future, just hang out with us in the future, we will take you to fry fish."

"what……"

Qiu Song thief smiled and took out a big guy from his arms.

Gu Xingzu said aggrievedly: "But I still want to solve the problem..."

It's just that he can't help it now.

Zhu Yong and Zhang Fu fought him and ran away.

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The next day, Zhang Anshi was called to the East Palace.

When the Crown Princess Zhang saw him, her eyes turned red: "Brother-in-law Ni was dizzy and fell ill early this morning, and I don't know what you are doing outside all day..."

Zhang Anshi became anxious, and immediately said anxiously: "I'll go and have a look."

When he arrived at the sick bed, he saw Zhu Gaochi looked very weak.

Zhu Zhanji squatted in the corner of the hall, still squatting like a minion.

Zhang Anshi went up and probably looked at it, only to realize that Zhu Gaochi was caused by excessive fatigue, and his health was not good.

Zhang Anshi looked back at Zhang Shi: "Sister, did you report to the palace?"

Mrs. Zhang gave Zhang Anshi a meaningful look: "Your Majesty can't worry about such a minor illness."

Zhang Anshi immediately felt the depth of his sister's mind.

If the prince is weak and sick, it is not fun. If he has a headache and heat, he will report it. The emperor loves his son dearly, so he will be worried.

But on the other hand, wouldn't there be other ideas?

This child's constitution is so weak, and his grandson is still young, if there is any good or bad, what will happen to this country in the future?
Once such an idea is born, then the two brothers of the prince, whether it is Zhu Gaoxu or Zhu Gaosui who is already in feudal clan, will have an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Zhang Anshi nodded, and said to his brother-in-law with concern: "Brother-in-law, you should pay more attention to your health."

"It's not about the imperial examination. The examination room, the deployment of personnel, the supply of food, and many other things can't go wrong." Zhu Gaochi sighed: "The exam is finally over now, but... I’m afraid this is just the beginning, and I don’t know what will happen in the future.”

Zhang Anshi quickly comforted him: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."

Zhu Gaochi was still worried: "Not to mention the end of Tang Dynasty to the beginning of Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Dynasty were at odds with each other. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty established the Southern Imperial Examination and the Han Imperial Examination, and divided the Han people into the North and the South..."

The phenomenon Zhu Gaochi mentioned is actually that after the Mongols entered the Central Plains, they only recognized the Han people in the north as Han people, and set up a special exam for them to take the imperial examination, while the Han people in the south took the exam for the Southern People List.

Since then, the division between the North and the South has intensified under the instigation of people with ulterior motives.

"Emperor Taizu Gao ordered the tripod to rule the world. He originally wanted to bridge the north and the south, and make our Ming Dynasty a unified one. There is no distinction between the north and the south. But who would have thought that this imperial examination would become an excuse to breed dissatisfaction."

Zhu Gaochi let out a long breath, and said again: "You must think that this palace is because I am afraid of my father's punishment, so I am thinking so hard. Hey, An Shi, what I worry about is Daming's country!"

"It took only a few decades for our Ming Dynasty to restore Zhengshuo of the Great Han Dynasty. We must not chill the hearts of the southerners, nor the hearts of the northern scholars. This is the foundation of the country and cannot be shaken."

Zhang Anshi comforted: "Brother-in-law, don't think about these things, just take a good rest these few days."

After a pause, Zhang Anshi couldn't help but said again: "If my brother-in-law makes a mistake, what can you tell sister, Zhanji and me to do?"

Zhu Gaochi nodded.

Zhang Anshi left the dormitory, and Zhu Zhanji chased after him.

Zhang Anshi said with a rare sense of awe: "Your father is sick, and you are still hiding in the corner. Do you still have a conscience? If you treat your father like this today, can you still be filial to your uncle in the future?"

Zhu Zhanji drooped his head, with a sad expression on his face: "I'm also afraid of something happening to my father, but I'm just used to standing there. My uncle taught me to look around and listen to all directions. Except for my own family, everyone else should Be careful."

Zhang Anshi's face softened, he patted his head, and said patiently: "Good boy, well, your father is fine, just rest for a few days and he will be fine. Don't look so worried."

Zhu Zhanji said: "In addition to worrying about my father's illness, I also... also... Grandpa Huang suddenly sent a few people to teach me to read and teach me to recite four books every day...I...I... "

Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "Now is the time for you to learn knowledge. Study hard, what's the matter. Look at your uncle, the reason why you can achieve such achievements today is because you are eager to learn and tireless? You have to learn from uncle .”

Zhu Zhanji said with a bitter face: "But...Uncle..."

Zhang Anshi put away his smile, and said angrily: "Okay, don't talk about the rest."

Zhu Zhanji tilted his head and thought for a while: "After learning the Analects of Confucius, can I really rule the world?"

Zhang Anshi said directly: "No."

"But why do they say that you can learn it?"

"Don't always believe what those people say."

"Then I won't study."

Zhang Anshi gritted his teeth and said, "Come on, Uncle will teach you a truth. Sit down."

So Zhu Zhanji sat on the steps in front of the hall.

Zhang Anshi said: "Do you know that there is a kind of grave robber in this world?"

Zhu Zhanji said in amazement: "Is there such a person?"

Zhang Anshi said: "The first thing this tomb robber has to learn is the art of Fengshui. Do you know why?"

Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhang Anshi ignorantly and said, "I don't understand."

Zhang Anshidao: "Learning the art of Fengshui is not because the tomb robbers have learned these, and can find luxurious tombs based on Fengshui alone. It is because those noble and wealthy people deeply believe in those Fengshui masters, and they choose their own. When the tomb is buried, it is often selected in a good tomb location according to the advice of the feng shui magician. In this way, those who rob the tomb only need to follow the feng shui magician to learn which places are auspicious for feng shui. The tomb must be found. Do you understand what I mean?"

"You are asked to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, not to govern the world by relying on the Four Books and Five Classics. These things are useless, but after you have learned these things, you can understand the minds of officials and scholars. Master them You can control them and make them work for you, which is the same as grave robbers."

After hearing this, Zhu Zhanji's eyes lit up: "Understood."

"But you must not really believe what they say. Once you believe it, you will lose."

Zhu Zhanji nodded desperately.

Then he said, "Then who do I trust?"

Zhang Anshi conjured up an inverted horoscope, and then put his head under his chin: "Guess."

Zhu Zhanji said: "It can't be Uncle?"

Zhang Anshi said: "We are a family. If the family cannot be trusted in the world, then who else in the world can be trusted?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded suspiciously, and said: "But... I was studying yesterday, and I heard from the masters that Emperor Han Wen killed his uncle Bo Zhao."

Zhang Anshi was furious, his eyes widened and he said: "Damn it, these Confucian scholars are alienating our uncle and nephew, we must take more precautions in the future."

Seeing that Zhang Anshi was angry, Zhu Zhanji didn't dare to speak.

Zhang Anshi lowered his voice and said, "From now on, I will secretly teach you real knowledge, don't tell other people..."

Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhang Anshi suspiciously.

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Nanjing Gongyuan.

This place is adjacent to the Confucius Temple.

Here, the four examiners, Xie Jin, had already sat upright.

In the next few days, they need to review thousands of papers.

More than 400 people were selected from the gold list.

This is definitely a high-intensity job. After all, countless candidates' lives are tied to this small test paper.

Although it may seem ridiculous to future generations, the elites of the world regard stereotyped essays as everything, and have worked hard all their lives just to write a good article that can soar into the sky.

But for scholars in this era, especially for Xie Jin and others, this is nothing more sacred.

Review papers for two consecutive days.

Almost everyone is exhausted.

From the freshness at the beginning, to now, it is only boring.

In fact, the vast majority of people's test papers can't even do a few questions, so it can be said that they are not popular.

Reading such articles too much will only make people tired.

After a long time, someone suddenly said: "Huh..."

In the Minglun Hall of the Gongyuan, which was originally extremely quiet, a voice broke the silence.

It was Hu Yan who made the sound.

As one of the four examiners, Hu Yan's face was solemn at this time.

Then he got up and walked up to Xie Jin, the chief examiner.

"Xie Gong, this article... is a bit different."

When Xie Jin heard that it was different, his first reaction was disgust, and he subconsciously said: "Some scholars, sensationalists, such articles... are really not popular, such crazy students, it would be good if they are not punished!"

This is also the truth. Occasionally, the marking officer will encounter a few lunatics.

And the word alternative is by no means a good word, it also means deviant, which is what people like Xie Jin hate the most.

Hu Yan shook his head with a wry smile and said, "No, no, Xie Gong, just look at the style of this article."

Xie Jin had no choice but to endure his disgust, mainly because he also had a bad impression of Hu Yan now. Hu Yan was submissive on the surface, but in fact...dishonest.

But having said that, Xie Jin still picked up the test paper and looked at it, but his face became serious after seeing it.

There is nothing wrong with this style of stereotyped writing, there is no excess of a single word, and there is no shortage of a single word. It belongs to the most serious stereotype.

No matter breaking the topic, accepting the topic, starting the stock, middle stock, or late stock, there is absolutely nothing to be picky about.

Breaking the topic is quite satisfactory, but when it comes to accepting the topic, the meaning is getting deeper and deeper, and it begins to explain the sage's point of view layer by layer.

But this kind of wave-like situation, one wave higher than the other, is something Xie Jin has never seen before.

Compared with other stereotypes... this article is eye-catching, but it is by no means deviant.

"It turns out that stereotyped writing can still be written like this?" Xie Jin was shocked: "I really don't know which talented person wrote it."

It's a pity that the test paper is vague.

Xie Jin didn't know the answer either.

It was all at once, but Hu Guang and Yang Rong were also attracted, especially Hu Guang. Hu Guang was also the number one scholar. For us Jiangxi people."

When everyone heard it, they couldn't help laughing, and Xie Jin said, "How do you see it?"

Hu Guangdao: "Does it need to be said? You read this article, it is very sophisticated, and only our talented scholars in Jiangxi can achieve such sophistication! There is also such a style of writing, which is really a precedent. I have read countless articles, and I have never Seeing someone push the old and bring forth the new like this, in my humble opinion, he must be a talented person from Jiangxi."

Xie Jin couldn't help laughing and said: "It must be a talented person from Jishui County. I heard that Jishui County has produced several talented people in the past two years. Could it be one of them?"

Among the four people, most of them are from Jishui County, only Hu Yan is more miserable. He is from Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. He stroked his beard and said, "But is that Zeng Jie?"

Yang Rong coughed, and said: "Masters, we are examiners, and it is inappropriate to guess candidates' names."

After listening to it, everyone seemed to understand it, so they sat down again.

Xie Jin took the test paper, pondered for a moment, picked up a pen, and wrote the verdict on the paper.

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In the Mansion of the Governor of the Five Armies.

Several governors are sitting together.

At this time, Qiu Fu said: "I heard that the juren in the capital have been restless recently, and the list will be announced soon, and I don't know what will happen."

Speaking of this, Zhu Neng got excited and said with a smile: "You don't know, I heard... Gu Cheng's grandson really went for the exam."

"Oh?" Wei Guogong Xu Huizu said: "We people don't have any descendants to take the exam, it's ashamed to say."

Zhu Neng said happily: "It's better if you didn't take the exam. You don't know. Gu Chengcheng cried. He drank with me and cried very sadly. He said that his grandson had to take the exam. The day before the exam , That night, his grandson was crying."

"Crying? Why are you crying?"

"He said he can't do the questions." Zhu Neng said happily, "Think about it, you can't even do this question, what is he taking the test for? Hey... It's over, it's over, it's embarrassing, poor Gu Chengyi's famous name , was defeated by this grandson, if you hand in a blank paper, you will be ridiculous."

Qiu Fu scolded with a smile: "Thank you for being able to laugh. On the day when the list was released, we picked up the old wine and went to see him. He was not easy. He is just such a grandson. Besides, our son is still Where's the teaching assistant?"

Zhu Neng held back his face: "Hey, I actually forgot this, haha...haha... My son has been tricked for so long, and now he is proud to be able to trick others. Glory to his ancestors!"

Zhu Neng laughed like a slaughtered pig.

For several days in a row, it rained in the capital.

Zhang Anshi took four of them to enjoy frying fish at Qixia Ferry. Here, it was his world and no one could control him, so he was extremely happy and extremely happy.

The ferry also began to become orderly, and it became a transfer station for countless ferries and merchant ships.

Zhang Anshi even plans to set up the headquarters of Brother Ship Industry here.

But at this time, the time to release the list has finally arrived.

Although he had relaxed for a few days, Zhang Anshi was still quite nervous.

In fact, he didn't know if this method would work or not.

But Zhang Anshi got up early in the morning and first called Zhang San.

Zhang Sandui smiled and said, "My lord, did you get up so early today?"

Zhang Anshi said: "Did you print the book I taught you to print last time?"

"Printing started a few months ago." Zhang Sandao: "In the past few months, I have searched for several printing workshops, but the young master wants to print [-] copies... I have searched all the workshops in the whole city, even the small ones. Today, only [-] copies have been printed."

Zhang Anshi scolded: "If it's not enough, you can find booksellers in Zhenjiang and Suzhou to print, you bastard..."

Zhang San just had a bitter face and stopped talking.

Zhang Anshi said: "Go get the sample booklet."

Zhang San fled away as if he had been pardoned, and came back panting after a while, and handed a sample booklet to Zhang Anshi.

But on the cover of such a book, there are seven characters written: "Zhang Anshi Stereotyped Writing Talk".

Zhang Anshi said: "Distribute to booksellers everywhere, and tell them that a book sells for three taels of silver, and you can't lose a penny."

Zhang San seemed to be shocked, and said in shock: "The sale is so expensive, and the other books only sell for one or two hundred Wen, young master, do you still understand stereotypes? Cough... What I mean is that booksellers may not Willing to read this book."

Zhang Anshi said: "Then put out the name of my brother Yang Shiqi. It's really not possible. You can recommend it to my mentor Hu Yan. In short, hurry up and write a book, don't be verbose. This bookseller sells a copy, and we will give them five dollars." Just ten pennies as a rebate."

"Oh." This time, Zhang San didn't talk too much, nodded and went to work, but he was still a little disappointed, after all...he would inevitably be laughed at.

Zhang Anshi immediately felt better.

This printing also cost him more than 1 taels of silver.

Whether it is a loss or a gain depends on Gu Xingzu.

Let's hope it doesn't go down the drain.

Then, Zhang Anshi joined up with the three murderers in the capital, then found Gu Xingzu, and rushed all the way to the Gongyuan.

Outside the Gongyuan, there are already a sea of ​​people, not only tens of thousands of scholars who came to see the list, but also many good people.

There are also some scholars who, although not qualified to take the exam, hope to increase their knowledge.

In addition, there are some people who count on the good news to get happy money.

Quite a few shopkeepers, seeing this opportunity, picked up all kinds of food and shuttled among the crowd, which was very lively.

At this time, there was a lot of voices.

Relying on his tall stature, Zhu Yong opened the way ahead and squeezed away many weak scholars. Soon, Zhang Anshi and others appeared at the bottom of the list.

Of course, the list has not yet started to be released, so everyone just waits in front of the blank wall.

After that, many people were discussing and gossiping, speculating about the results this time.

Of course... southerners and northerners have a lot of hatred for each other.

There are already many northern scholars who have begun to complain: "The examiners are all from the south, and they are all from Jiangxi. They must look down on our northern scholars."

"When Emperor Hongwu was here, they would rather confront Emperor Hongwu than admit us."

Naturally, some scholars in the south provoked: "This imperial examination is naturally compared to whose essays are better. If you are willing to bet and admit defeat, they are all scholars. How can there be someone who is inferior to others and refuses to admit it?"

"What did you say? What did you say?"

The crowd suddenly became commotion.

Fortunately, a lot of Lieutenant Ma Si of the Wucheng Army in plain clothes had already been placed here, busy separating the people.

After a short time, many scholars voluntarily left a path.

Immediately, several scholars appeared under the list.

These people were wearing Confucian shirts, but they were all in high spirits, and looked extraordinary.

Obviously, many scholars recognized them, so they heard people whispering: "These are all talented people in Jishui. I have the chance to read their articles, and I am really amazed."

"That one is Zeng Qi, another is Zhou Shu, and the other is Zhou Mengqi...these three people...have the best articles."

"This time they should be sure to win, but I don't know if they will be able to hit the top list."

Many people looked at Zeng Dian and the others with expressions of envy.

Sometimes, you really have to be convinced when you meet some people, they can do better than your articles lying down.

Zeng Chi didn't seem to care about these things, he just smiled, and saw Gu Xingzu with a glance, and couldn't help saying: "Isn't this virtuous brother the same Gu Tongnian we met last time?"

Gu Xingzu looked at Zeng Di, then looked up at Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi said: "Fool, say hello to someone."

Gu Xingzu went up and said, "We meet again."

Seeing this, Zeng Chi said, "Last time you said you did well in the exam..."

The voice of these words was not too loud. Although it was noisy here, everyone nearby could hear it.

Those who heard this all looked at Gu Xingzu strangely.

This is very new, and some people say that they did well in the exam.

This man will not be a...

Someone muttered: "I know him, he is the grandson of Lord Hou, and he learned from Zhang Anshi."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

I don't know who it was, and laughed out loud.

All of a sudden, the people watching the ranking became happy.

Even Zeng Qi couldn't help laughing, but said: "Gu Tongnian, they are just joking, don't mind."

On the contrary, Zhang Anshi was furious, and said in a cold voice: "Can a joke be made like this? Why don't you mind? Damn it, it's also fortunate that my fourth brother didn't bring gunpowder. If not, none of you would even try to run away."

When everyone heard it, they were shocked.

Zeng Di was also dumbfounded, and Zhou Mengqi on the other side tugged at Zeng Di's sleeve, signaling Zeng Di to stop worrying about it, the ranking is the most important thing.

Immediately, Zhang Anshi ignored them.

At this moment, the gong finally sounded, ready to release the list.

All of a sudden, the crowd stirred.

No one cared about Zhang Anshi's astonishing words just now.

Everyone raised their heads, waiting for the guards to post a list on the high wall.

The crowd also gradually quieted down.

Only very occasionally, someone suddenly shouted: "Haha, I hit it, I hit it."

More people... just extra nervous.

Zhang Anshi didn't see Gu Xingzu's name.

However, seeing that the few people surnamed Zeng hadn't left, I understood in my heart that there should be a list later.

So continue to wait patiently.

It was the first time that Gu Xingzu felt such a heart-scratching feeling. He watched it again and again, and was disappointed again and again.

Later, I couldn't help but feel a little lost.

I have been working on this question for so long... Hey...

At this moment, someone shouted: "Here comes the heavenly list, here comes the heavenly list."

Immediately, a piece of red paper was pasted on the wall.

The vast majority of people are used to looking ahead from the back of the list.

Zhang Anshi was not immune either, when he saw No.10, he was already a little anxious.

Maybe... Gu Xingzu is considered a discount, it doesn't matter, just go back and beat him up, but it's a pity... I lost so much money.

When they saw the third and fourth, they saw the names of Zhou Meng Qi and Zhou Shu.

At this time, some people have already begun to comment: "Damn it, why are they all from Jiangxi, and they are all from Najishui County... It's not fair... It's not fair..."

No.2... is Zeng Qi.

Zhang Anshi glanced at Zeng Qi in surprise, never expecting that this guy is so powerful.

But Zeng Di showed a look of disappointment on his face.

It's like a bad exam, embarrassing.

Zhang Anshi continued to look up, and suddenly, a name appeared in Zhang Anshi's eyes: "Gu Xingzu."

Zhang Anshi was stunned.

He felt that with Gu Xingzu's level, it would be good to be on the list.

How could it be... ranked first?

Behind him, there was a commotion, shouting and cursing everywhere.

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