Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

After the mercury in the clepsydra was gone, Zhigongju Liu Yun came out from behind the curtain and announced with a loud voice that the second round of the provincial examination was over.

When the invigilator collected the papers one by one, there were several candidates who were deeply desperate because they had not finished their strategies. last word.

Not to mention whether the other party really only made up one word, once this unlawful precedent is made, how can it be paid off in the future?

Among other things, there are still countless people staring at the side.

The ruthless supervisor only sneered, and sternly scolded the other party, ordering him to let go immediately.

In front of this tearful, wailing, expression filled with resignation, he forcibly tore away the rolled paper, which could be seen to be smeared in many places even if it was only a cursory glance.

There are also those who don't know how to live or die, who are ignorant and stalking, he is even more rude, and let the eye-catching shop inspector drag them out, and then take away the test paper.

However, some people took advantage of the commotion, used their bodies as cover, and hurriedly filled in a few words with a pen, but all of them were reported by other people sitting beside them.

The fate of these is even worse: all the papers are collected, but no matter what the rating is, they are considered invalid, and it is not yet known whether they will be punished for bronze.

Such severe punishment has the effect of killing chickens and monkeys.

Zhi Rang was still lucky, and the crowd who were ready to move saw the chief's intolerable attitude, and they all stopped.

Lu Ci had a panoramic view of the reactions of these people, his face was calm, but his heart was rare and at a loss.

Are these people doing... really the same policy topic as his?

In all fairness, the difficulty of current affairs policy can be regarded as medium at best, especially the four proposals made by the chief secretary this time, all of which have caused a wave of great events in the court.

Even those who study hard will have heard a little bit.

What's more, if you study literature, you will be a future official. If you want to plan for the well-being of the country and the people, how can you be indifferent to political affairs?

Knowing that policy discussions may focus on current affairs, it is even more wrong to turn a blind eye to foreign affairs.

Back then, when Zhu said he only had a little money, he spontaneously bought tabloids to read.

Compared with Jing Yizi Shi Ce, Shi Wu Ce is simple to solve the problem, and has a very wide space for development, so that Shi Zheng Shi is not as rigorous as the rigid Jing Shi Zi Ji Ce.

Even if using the past events of the current dynasty as an example, it is not prohibited, as long as it is well-founded, clear and clear, and does not violate the taboos of citing incorrect evidence, using unofficial history, and miscellaneous stories.

This kind of topic with high degree of freedom and wide coverage should be easier to guide individuals to develop without being too restricted.

Lu Ci did it very comfortably.

Due to the abundance of time, he directly wrote nearly [-] words in the last article eloquently. Although there was still a bit of meaning left, he still put away the pen in time for the sake of caution, and specially set aside a cup of tea for review.

When it was his turn to collect Lu Ci's test paper, the supervisor, who had been stern-faced, became extremely impatient with some attempts to fish in troubled waters.

At first, he was a little sympathetic to these actions, and even lacked one or two strategies before answering them in time, and inevitably lost control of his emotions. After seeing more of their ugly rogue-like behaviors, he just wanted to push them all back, and reread them for a few years before talking about them. .

Let's say it's like this in the test field, if it behaves like this in the official arena, is it okay?

When he walked to Lu Ci's desk, he saw that this young and handsome young man had already tidied up his study room. The table was spotlessly wiped, and the test papers were neatly folded and put away. in the closest position to him.

Hearing the footsteps gradually approaching, Lu Ci, who had been quietly closing his eyes and resting his mind, not participating in the little commotion before, opened his eyes, slightly curved his lips, and nodded gracefully to him.

The proctor was speechless for a moment.

After he put the test papers in the test basket, he remembered the routine questioning, and asked dryly: "...I checked everything, didn't I miss anything?"

When he asked this question, he felt that it was a bit unnecessary.

Just looking at the calmness with which the young man has organized everything cleanly and orderly, it is impossible for him to be careless.

Sure enough, Lu Ci shook his head: "It's all here. Thank you."

The inspector nodded in satisfaction.

Naturally, there are many more people who can keep quiet and let him take away the papers than foolish ones, but I have never seen someone as self-conscious and polite as this little man.

After the supervisor had collected all the test papers, Liu Yun asked the inspector to open the gate of the Gongyuan that was locked at Chenshi, and let the noisy candidates go back.

Although there is the last test tomorrow, most of those who can get to the provincial test have been tempered by the understanding test.

Unless you are careless on the spot and make more mistakes, you will rarely be stumped by Tie Jing and Mo Yi who can pass the level by rote memorization.

Just because the remaining rounds are not too difficult, the suspense about the rating, like solving the test, all falls in the first two rounds.

The entrance of the examination hall where Lu Ci was located was undoubtedly the first batch to come out.

He was not in a hurry to leave, just outside the gate of the Gongyuan, patiently waiting for Zhu Shuo Liu Qi and the others to come out.

But most of the people walked with mournful faces, or were so exhausted that they looked like wandering spirits, and some even hugged the pillars and cried loudly regardless of their appearance, causing the ordinary passers-by outside the gate of the Gongyuan to look sideways.

Lu Ci was a little shocked at first, but later it became commonplace, but he didn't know how to react.

The ones who came out earlier than Zhu said were Pang Ji and Cai Qi who were seated next to Lu Ci but packed their things a little later than Lu Ci.

Lu Ci saw them slowly stepping down the steps from a distance, couldn't help smiling, and waved to them.

Unexpectedly, when the two people who were talking with serious faces noticed him, their first reaction was not to return a salute, but their expressions suddenly changed.

They took a step back without hesitation as if they encountered some evil spirits.

Lu Ci couldn't help being taken aback: What's the situation?

As a result, when they retreated suddenly, they bumped into a few despondents behind them.

The other party was frustrated in his heart, pregnant with a belly full of evil fire and had no place to vent, and was suddenly hit by a pain in his chest. He just took advantage of this, and together with a few friends who also failed the exam, grabbed them both, yelling stand up.

Cai Jingsheng was tall and big, and he was not easy to provoke, so they grabbed the persimmons and aggressively targeted Pang Ji.

Fortunately, after a while, the shop inspector, who had already taken precautions against such troubles, rushed over and took away those people who provoked trouble.

Lu Ci raised his eyebrows thoughtfully.

Although I don't know why those two people reacted like this when they saw him, but it's a bit inconvenient right now, so let's think about the formula when we meet tomorrow.

The first person Lu Ci waited for was none other than Liu Qi.

Liu Qi has sharp eyes, and he has already seen Lu Ci from a long distance away.

He walked vainly like a wandering soul, and after floating to Lu Ci, he sighed long, and unceremoniously pressed his head on the shoulder of Lu Ci, who was about the same height as him, and said weakly: "Brother Yu, rely on me." .”

When Liu Qi did this, he thought that Lu Ci would push him away unceremoniously, and then he could use this as an excuse to tease the other party, and then deliberately delay for a while.

"Yeah." Unexpectedly, Lu Ci let him go without saying good-temperedly, and patted him on the back, comforting him without sincerity: "It's hard work."

Liu Qi: "..."

Why is it that Lu Ci's nice voice makes him feel a bit creepy like a thorn in his back?

He hesitated for a while, but decided to listen to his premonition, no longer intentionally sticking to Lu Ci's body as if he had no bones, but quickly stood up straight: "Hey, how can you be so embarrassing?"

Lu Ci raised his eyebrows: "I think you are very embarrassed."

Liu Qi snorted lightly.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Ci watched Liu Qi "snap" and spread out the folding fan that had been in his sleeve for a long time, and fanned it gracefully, with a handsome and suave appearance.

Liu Qi habitually put on the most glamorous posture, but as soon as she was bathed in Lu Ci's interested eyes, she didn't last a while, then silently put it away, and asked: "Brother Yu Yu wants to go tonight. Where can I eat?"

"Listen to that," Lu Ci smiled unexpectedly, and teased, "It seems Brother Liu is ready to pay the bill?"

Liu Qi smiled happily, and said sincerely: "Brother Yu Yu has taken care of you for such a long time, not to mention just paying attention to Fanlou, even if you are paying attention to Fanlou all the time, it should be done."

Just as he never kept his secrets when teaching Lu Ci and Zhu Shuo some of his poetry and fu, Lu Ci, who is especially good at strategy, has always been generous in helping them.

It's just that Liu Qi also learned through this that the reason why Lu Ci is so good at writing policy theory is not only his unique vision and thinking, but also his hard work.

When Lu Ci taught them his experience, he directly took out the reference book he named "A Brief Introduction to Arguments".

He has seen all kinds of tutoring books for exam preparation and study in later generations, but here can only collect scattered anthologies, and some notes of his own experience have to be put together. It is extremely inconvenient to go back and forth. I simply edited one myself.

It not only includes more than 300 tribute examination questions that have been well received in previous years, but also explains in detail how to solve the three types of questions. How to finish the project can avoid problems such as top-heavy and anticlimactic.

In the end, many mistakes that are easy to make and often made are summarized and analyzed in detail one by one.

At that time Liu Qi was actually just asking Lu Ci casually to amuse him.

He didn't want to get the other party's promise immediately, put a heavy book on the table, turned it over, and saw all the painstaking efforts of Lu Ci's painstaking efforts to sort it out, he was suddenly stunned.

From that time on, Liu Qi had a faint admiration for Lu Ci, who always held a serious attitude in his studies.

Moreover, after memorizing that book backwards, he has indeed benefited a lot, and he is far more calm in answering the exam this time than last time.

Even if this time I was faced with a proposition that the examiner put a lot of emphasis on current affairs, I quickly found the clue, and in the midst of other people's helplessness, I wrote on my own.

After hearing Liu Qi's uncommonly serious and generous words, Lu Ci blinked, and suddenly moved closer, lowered his voice, and couldn't help but say, "If brother Liu is referring to those tube tops, you should really thank me. Thanks."

If there is no thick tube top to keep warm, Liu Qi, who is rather thinly dressed, is not frozen into popsicles or wrapped into rice dumplings like everyone else at this time. How can she pretend to be fanning in this cold weather?

Liu Qi: "..."

He should think about it clearly, he can't speak nicely to this little glutton who is full of bad things and tramples on his sore spots!

Lu Ci smiled and said, "I was thinking that Fanlou's asking price is too expensive, Rendian is enough. Since brother Liu is so rich and powerful, I don't want to let you down, so let's book in Fanlou .”

The corners of Liu Qi's mouth twitched, and he simply gave up and bowed to him: "Listen to Yu Yu."

While the two were talking, Zhu said that several people had also arrived.

Zhu said that his face was calm and calm, but when he saw Lu Ci, he unconsciously put on a happy smile on his face.

Both Yi Shu and Zhong Yuan were as wilted as frost-beaten eggplants, and they couldn't help sighing.

To Lu Ci's surprise, even Teng Zongliang, who was very optimistic yesterday, was not spared.

He was frowning, unable to smile at all, looking at Lu Ci, he hesitated to speak: "Brother Yu Yu, alas!"

As Lu Ci said, don't discuss the content of the day's test before the end of the three-day provincial test, so as not to affect the next day's test... At this time, the three people who are most worried at this time should not talk about this discussion .

But in fact, there is no need to ask too much, just by looking at the spirit of each person, you can guess how much they are.

Even Liu Qi and Zhu Shuo didn't look relaxed at all, but looked full of exhaustion and solemnity.

Seeing that everyone was like this, Lu Ci didn't want to torment them anymore, so he simply ordered hot food to be delivered, and asked them to rest early.

Looking at their backs, Lu Ci frowned indistinctly.

Could it be that not everyone thinks the proposition is easy, but only himself?

... It's better not to talk yet.

The author has something to say: Notes:

1. The first policy theory reference book was published in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The book "Lunxue Shengchi" edited by Wei Tianying, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, included 350 and six articles on Songren's theory, and there is also a volume of "Lunjue", which explains how to solve the problem.The original topic, lecture topic, proof and conclusion, etc., are exclusively for the reference of candidates. ("General History of China's Imperial Examination System Song Dynasty Volume 430") p[-]

2. Seeing the previous chapter, some people wonder why there is sound when writing with a brush.

The answer is yes.

"The brave warrior with the title of brave, writes the spring to eat away at the sound of leaves." It depicts the movement of candidates in the examination room when they take the exam, from Ouyang Xiu's "Ministry of Rites Tribute to the Jinshi Examination"

3. During the Song Dynasty, the clepsydra, as a timing instrument, underwent many improvements.

In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo (979), Zhang Sixun used mercury as the power in the armillary sphere he developed, that is, the clepsydra he used used mercury instead of water to overcome the situation of "the water is astringent in winter and the water in summer is conserving".

In the eighth year of Renzong Tiansheng (1030), Yan Su, a famous machine maker, invented the exquisite "lotus leak", which made the accuracy of time measurement of the clepsydra reach an unprecedented level.

Since then, Shen Kuo has improved again, and it is called "Fu Leu".

("Cultural History of the Song Dynasty")