The Red Mansion Is Like a Jade Gentleman

After waiting for Xiao Baozi's full moon wine, the Lin family also returned to its previous cleanliness.

But this is only relative to some people. For Lin Hai, since he was taken to the study by Master Lin a few days ago, and a close father and son came to talk, he will live in dire straits for the next year. day.

Why do you say?

It's not the Six Arts Academy's fault.

Master Lin thought that Lin Hai would be ten years old in one year, and he made up his mind to let Lin Hai sign up for reference when he was ten years old, so he thought it was time to tell Lin Hai to study hard.

Six Arts Academy, this is the first time Lin Hai has heard such a term, and only after Master Lin explained his confusion did he understand the status of this academy.

The Six Arts Academy is the first of the four major academies in the Feng Dynasty. It is located in the capital city. All the mountain heads in the past have been descendants of the Confucian family. It is an elite line.The implementation of strict small class education has always been adhering to the concept of preferring to be short, even if a new student cannot be recruited that year, the conditions will not be relaxed.

You can apply for the exam at the age of 20 to [-]. After entering, there will be a total of five years of teaching. It is said that there is also a book library in it, which houses a lot of unique books.

The talents who have come out of the Six Arts Academy in the past, not to mention all of them will last forever, but they will have something to do in the future, either in the court with long sleeves and dancing skills to become a generation of famous officials, or in the battlefield to become a generation of famous generals, or for Parental officials benefit the common people...

In short, as long as you can enter the Six Arts Academy and successfully survive the five years of education in it, you will already have a huge network of contacts in the officialdom before your official career begins!

In addition, together with the Six Arts Academy, the four major academies of the Feng Dynasty are: Yuelu Academy in Tanzhou, Hunan, Junbi Academy in Suzhou, Jiangnan, and Qunying Academy in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

These three academies also have their own characteristics. Among them, the Junbi Academy in Suzhou, Jiangnan, is said to have the Lin family behind it.

Hearing that the Six Arts Academy is so awesome, Lin Hai also intends to take the test, try his own water, and see if he can be called a genius in ancient times.

This year's Six Arts Academy's enrollment has passed. I heard that only ten people have been admitted successfully, which can be regarded as the most admitted class in recent years. Don't think it's nothing special, this is in the capital!

Where is the capital city?

Hundreds of officials gather, meritorious deeds are everywhere, aristocratic families get together, talents are lined up, where royal relatives and relatives smash each other, and scholars are everywhere. Have these people ever touched a book?Even if there are a lot of useless talents, it can't stand the big base!The probability of a genius is also much higher than other places!

It's nothing to enter the Imperial Academy run by the imperial court in this kind of place. If you have money and power, you can open the back door to enter, but it's nothing to enter the Six Arts Academy!

Afterwards, Lin Hai found out why Master Lin was in such a hurry. Apart from fulfilling one of his own childhood wishes, a large part of the reason was because the second son of the Chen family applied for the Six Arts Academy this year. Master Lin was unhappy because the Lin family and the Chen family were feuds, and this was the enmity formed when Feng Tianzu fought against the country.

It is said that back then, the ancestors of the Lin family and the Chen family were both Feng Tianzu's staff. In fact, it was only a trivial matter at first, and it was because of the attack on Jinling that the two had a disagreement.Originally, there were differences of opinion on the method of fighting, which was a common occurrence, but later because Feng Tianzu felt that the method of the ancestors of the Chen family caused too many casualties, so he adopted the method of the ancestors of the Lin family.

Then, after Feng Tianzu conquered Jinling and ascended the throne, he became a great meritorious official. The ancestor of the Lin family was made a marquis, while the ancestor of the Chen family was only a first-class general, and his title was lowered by two ranks.The ancestors of the Chen family felt in their hearts that the ancestors of the Lin family had robbed him of the position of marquis, so they secretly hated the ancestors of the Lin family. After that, they attacked the Lin family several times.Especially when Master Lin's father died young, the Chen family did not hesitate to take advantage of the situation and rob.

It is said that enemies should be solved rather than tied, but there is also a saying that retribution for grievances has never been resolved, and although the two families are both civil servants, the Lin family is on the side of the royalist pure ministers, and although the Chen family is a founding hero, there is no such thing as the Lin family. With such foresight, some of them are confused with the four kings and eight princes who were granted by Feng Taizu when the country was founded!

Different positions have different interests, and naturally there will be conflicts.So this enmity became deeper and deeper, and now it has reached the point where either you die or I die.

Master Lin saw that Lin Hai was smart, and wanted him to be admitted to the Six Arts Academy, so that he would be given a lot of help in the officialdom in the future.

The current Patriarch of the Chen family, Chen Ziran, had the same idea. His eldest grandson was poisoned when he was a child because of a fight in the inner courtyard. Although he didn't lose his life, his aptitude was restricted!Fortunately, the second-in-law's aptitude is good, so he was cultivated attentively, with the whole thought of getting him admitted to the Six Arts Academy.

After Master Lin heard the news, he was naturally unhappy in various ways, and wanted Lin Hai to be admitted to the Six Arts Academy first, but he didn't want to put too much pressure on Lin Hai, so he didn't tell him.

Lin Hai didn't know all kinds of anxiety in Master Lin's heart. Right now, he was studying the exam questions from Six Arts Academy!

In general, it is divided into several large parts, which seems very simple, but it is to test the adaptability of the candidates, but this adaptability can explain some problems, which is related to whether you can get along well in the officialdom The problem.

For example, that prudish Jia Zheng, relying on the name of the four princes and eight princes, spent his whole life as a concubine in Yuanchun at the last moment, before he was promoted to a level and became a fifth-rank Xuezheng.

This explains the problem very well. Jia Zheng is just a goose in the officialdom, and he can't get away with it. The Six Arts Academy will definitely not accept such a student.

Looking at the system of the Six Arts Academy, it is comparable to the current private middle school. After entering the school, food, housing and clothing are included, and the tuition fee for one person is only ten taels of silver for a year.Think about the grandma Liu in the original book who went to Jia's mansion to play the autumn wind, and Wang Xifeng gave her 20 taels of silver.

It can be seen that for rich people, ten taels of silver is really nothing, plus how many students are admitted to the Six Arts Academy every year, if this money is used for tuition fees, the salaries of the famous masters in the academy are not enough. Not to mention letting the students eat, shelter and wear!

Therefore, the Six Arts Academy or the Kong family must have paid money to enter.

No one would do business at a loss, not to mention the Confucius family that has experienced almost all the history of the entire Chinese nation since the Warring States Period. official.

Therefore, Lin Hai felt that the Six Arts Academy was used by the Confucian family to buy people's hearts and win connections, otherwise there would not be such strict admission requirements.

However, this is also a good thing for him, isn't it?