The daily life of the crown prince of the Song Dynasty

Lanlin Hall.

Seeing that her daughter had been in a trance for the past few days, Chen Meiren asked with concern, "Yanyan, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Siyan came back to his senses, and looked at Chen Meiren in a daze: "Sister, what's the matter?" When he first entered the palace, Chen Siyan was not used to calling Chen Meiren "sister", but he has gotten used to it in the past few years.

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Meiren looked at her daughter worriedly, "What's wrong with you recently, you're always in a daze, did something happen?"

Chen Siyan shook his head lightly and said, "Nothing happened."

"You don't want to lie to me." Chen Meiren's face suddenly became serious, "Tell me honestly what happened, did those princesses bully you?" Chen Meiren has never seen her daughter in such a distraught state. Ning looked very worried.

"Sister, don't worry, I haven't been bullied by anyone." Chen Siyan smiled obediently at Chen Meiren, "Sister, I'm fine, I'm really fine."

"You don't want to tell your sister now that you have something on your mind." Chen Meiren showed a hurt look on her face, "Yanyan, are you going to have a quarrel with my sister?"

When Chen Siyan heard this, he quickly said, "Sister, how can I have a relationship with you, I'm really fine."

"Are you still lying to my sister?" Chen Meiren said with a straight face, "When have you been so restless? But you still haven't told the truth to my sister."

Chen Siyan bit his lip, and looked at Chen Meiren hesitantly: "Sister, I..."

"What are you?" Chen Meiren became more and more anxious when she saw her daughter's hesitant expression, "Quickly tell me, what's the matter?"

Seeing Chen Meiren's anxious and worried face, Chen Siyan hurriedly comforted him: "Sister, I'm really fine, but... I said it, I'm afraid you will get angry."

"Why am I angry?" After Chen Meiren finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something, and her expression became very serious in an instant, "Did you do something wrong?"

"I didn't do anything wrong." Chen Siyan looked up at Chen Meiren cautiously, "I'm just... just..."

"What is it?" Chen Meiren was about to be scared to death by her daughter.

"Sister, I told you, don't be angry."

"Sister promises you not to be angry."

Chen Siyan looked at Chen Meiren, bit his lower lip tightly, and said, "Sister, I...I..." At this point, Chen Siyan's fair face flushed, "I...sister, His Royal Highness ..."

Hearing the words "His Royal Highness", Chen Meiren instantly understood what was going on, and her face became very solemn in an instant.

"You like His Highness the Crown Prince?" Chen Meiren said what her daughter had just said.

Seeing that her sister had seen through her thoughts, Chen Siyan not only blushed, but her neck also turned red.

Seeing her daughter's shy appearance, Chen Meiren still didn't understand.

"Is it because I saw His Highness the Crown Prince that day?" Chen Meiren suddenly thought of seeing His Highness the Crown Prince some time ago, and it was from that time that her daughter began to feel restless.

Chen Siyan nodded lightly, and said weakly, "Yes."

Seeing her daughter's frightened and uneasy appearance, Chen Meiren couldn't bear it, and sighed slightly: "Oh, Yan Yan, you shouldn't like His Highness the Crown Prince."

"Sister, I know, but...His Royal Highness looks good." In the past few years, she has rarely seen His Highness, and she has long forgotten what His Highness looks like, but when she saw His Highness some time ago, she found that It looks better and better.She likes good-looking people.

Chen Meiren laughed angrily at her daughter's words, and poked her forehead with her hand: "You..."

"Sister, don't you think His Highness the Crown Prince looks good?"

"His Royal Highness is good-looking, but you can't like it." It is normal for a daughter to like His Highness, in Chen Meiren's eyes. After all, His Royal Highness is really good-looking. It is hard for a little girl not to like His Highness.

"Sister, why can't I like it?" Chen Siyan felt aggrieved, "I haven't done anything harmful to nature."

"I told you about this before." Chen Meiren's expression suddenly became very serious, and she looked at her daughter with serious eyes, "All women in the world can like His Highness the Crown Prince and become His Highness's concubine. Only you can't."

In fact, Chen Siyan knew it well, but she just wasn't convinced.

"Sister, we haven't tried it yet, so we know why it won't work."

"The government may allow you to be the side concubine of His Highness the Crown Prince, but the Empress will never allow it." Chen Meiren saw it clearly, "His Royal Highness is the queen's concubine, if you offend her Ni Lin, she Will never let us go."

"Sister, I don't think the Empress hates us." Chen Siyan often went to Kunning Palace with Chen Meiren to pay her respects to Empress Cao. She felt that Empress Cao was very gentle.

"That's because we didn't provoke her. If we provoke her, she will not show mercy to us." Chen Meiren said, "Yanyan, sister understands that you like His Royal Highness, but you can't. Once you let the empress know You like His Highness the Crown Prince, you and I are afraid that we will be kicked out of the palace."

"No way?" Chen Siyan had an unbelievable expression on his face, "The official family treats you so well, how could the empress drive us out?"

"The government is good to me, but once it involves His Royal Highness, the government will be ruthless to me." Chen Meiren said to her daughter earnestly, "His Royal Highness is also the reverse scale of the government, and no one can touch it. Our mother My daughter has been able to live well in the palace for the past few years, not because of the officials' love for me, but because I have not offended the empress or the empress. If I offend the empress, our mother and daughter will be kicked out of the palace It's still light, if it's serious, our mother and daughter are afraid..." At this point, Chen Meiren didn't say anything more, but the meaning behind her words was obvious.

Chen Siyan was frightened by her sister's words, her flushed face turned pale in an instant, and her cute and innocent eyes like a deer showed fear.

"Could it be that the empress will..."

Chen Meiren said very seriously: "She will!"

When Chen Siyan heard this, his eyes were full of horror.

"My sister is not scaring you, so you must not like His Royal Highness, let alone show it." Chen Meiren didn't want to scare her daughter, but if her daughter still likes His Royal Highness, it will be troublesome. "Yanyan, there are many good men in this world, and you will meet good men in the future."

Chen Siyan was startled by Chen Meiren's words just now, and nodded obediently with a pale face: "Sister, I understand."

Chen Meiren stretched out her hand to hold her daughter in her arms, and patted her on the back reassuringly.

"My sister only hopes that you will be safe and happy in this life, and don't expect anything else."

Chen Siyan buried her face in her sister's arms and nodded slightly.

Seeing that her daughter listened to her words, Chen Meiren breathed a sigh of relief.Fortunately, Yan Yan is sensible and well-behaved, if Yan Yan is disobedient and insists on liking His Highness the Crown Prince, I'm afraid it will be...

Not yet.

As the person involved, Zhao Yang had no idea that he had done nothing, so he teased a little girl.

During this period of time, he was busy with the exam questions.

Because the palace examination is related to the future of the students, Zhao Yang didn't care about asking questions casually, so he first studied all the palace examination questions from previous years, and then checked what happened in the past few years, and finally came up with a few palace examination questions.

Song Renzong looked at Zhao Yang's exam questions and praised him for his excellent and wonderful ones.

Zhao Yang also felt that he did well and would surprise the students.

A few days ago, the solution test started.

Before the exam started, Zhao Yang went to Taixue to find Su Shi and the others to cheer for them.

The solution test took a total of six days, and the test was a subset of classics and history and policy theory.In fact, the interpretation test, the provincial test, and the hall test all test a subset of classics and history and policy theory, but the difficulty of the tests is different.

If the difficulty of the solution test is six points, then the difficulty of the provincial test will be eight points, and the difficulty of the final palace test will be ten points.

Although the test is all subsets of classics and history, what is tested is the degree of understanding of the students on the subset of classics and history.For example, in the sentence "Threesomes must have my teacher", most people think that among the three people, there must be one who can be a teacher.However, if you take the imperial examination, then you have to dig deep into the meaning of this sentence, and even its derivative meaning.

Zhao Yang has solved the test questions before, and it is not difficult to tell the truth.However, if he took the test in his previous life, he would definitely fail the test.In this life, he had been taught by a famous teacher and had a different understanding of the classics and history collections, so he didn't think it was difficult.

When Su Shi and the others finished the test, Zhao Yang couldn't wait to visit them and ask them how they were doing.

Shen Kuo and the others felt that they did well in the exam and should be able to pass the exam.

Passing the test was not difficult for Su Zhe and the others.If they can't pass, then they have been studying in Taixue for nothing in the past few years.

Next is the provincial exam.

The provincial exam will be taken after the Duanyang Festival.

There are still more than two months before the provincial exam, which is enough for the students to prepare.

Results will be announced half a month after the test is completed.

Speaking of this year's imperial examination, Zhao Yang made a suggestion to reduce the number of admissions.At the same time, the number of Jinshi awarded under the Yinbu system will also be reduced.

Redundant officials have always been one of the stubborn "diseases" of the Song Dynasty.A few years ago, Fan Zhongyan and the others implemented the New Deal, one of which was to reduce the number of redundant officials, but they could only reduce the number of recruits.In fact, this is unfair to candidates who are serious about taking the imperial examination.

The shadow compensation system is the biggest bane of redundant officials, not the number of people admitted to the imperial examinations.Of course, the number of people admitted to the imperial examinations in the past was also quite large, but compared with the number under the subsidy system, it is much less.

Song Renzong also knew the biggest reason for redundant officials, so he agreed to implement the New Deal a few years ago.However, the New Deal was forced to stop because it violated the interests of the powerful.

This time Zhao Yang proposed to reduce the number of Jinshi, which will definitely be opposed by the ministers and dignitaries, but Song Renzong implemented this policy very strongly this time, and decreed that in the future, only officials of the third rank and above will be rewarded. And each of them can only recommend one person.

It is impossible to cancel the shade subsidy system all at once, but it can be done gradually.

Song Renzong paved a way for Zhao Yang, and when Zhao Yang ascended the throne, he would be able to completely abolish the yin compensation system.

Restricting the shade subsidy system is a good thing for students from common people.This is also a good opportunity for children from poor families to enter official careers.

Zhao Yang felt that the imperial court needed children from poor families. After he came to power, he would support the children from poor families and let them compete with the powerful ministers.