Lian Erye's Road to Imperial Examination

After Fuling Temple came back from burning incense, Mrs. Wang and the others were busy preparing for Jia Yuanchun's entry into the palace for the draft, and they had no time or thought for any small tricks.In order for Jia Yuanchun to shine in the draft, Mrs. Wang also spent a lot of money to invite a nanny who had just left the palace to teach Jia Yuanchun the etiquette and rules in the palace.

Jia's mother also attached great importance to Jia Yuanchun's upcoming draft in the palace, so she gave the nanny a lot of money and asked her to tell Jia Yuanchun some things about the harem, so that it would be much more convenient for Jia Yuanchun to enter the palace in the future.

This nanny is an old man in the palace, not only understands various etiquettes and rules in the palace, but also knows a lot of things in the harem, some things are too private to say, but other things can be said.

With the science popularization of this nanny, Jia Yuanchun knew a lot of things about the harem before entering the palace, and also knew who should not be messed with.

Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang gave a lot of money and a lot of jewellery, so the nanny took the opportunity to sell her popularity and told Jia Yuanchun some of her good sisters in the palace. If she encounters difficulties in the future, You can go to her good sisters for help.

The people in the second room were busy preparing for Jia Yuanchun's entry into the palace, while the people in the first room were busy preparing for Jia Lian's entrance examination in April.

After the county test, candidates who pass the county test are eligible to take the government test.There is basically no difference between the prefectural examination and the county examination. The number of sessions and content of the registration and guarantee are similar to the exam, but there is one more student to guarantee the guarantee.After passing the government test, you can take the hospital test.

The content of the government test is a little different from the county test. The government test does not test poetry and lyrics, but it will test things related to poetry.For example, give you a poem or a sentence, and then write an article of about [-] words through your own understanding.

Another difference is that the last question in the last government examination is a couplet. If you are given the first couplet, you have to match the second couplet.If I give you the lower couplet, you have to match the upper couplet, and of course you have to add the horizontal couplet after you have done the matching.Finally, I will give you a word, or a word, and let you write a pair of couplets.

I heard that couplets were not included in the imperial examinations in the previous dynasty, and the couplets were added by Emperor Taizu of the Dalong Dynasty.It is said that Emperor Taizu liked to pair couplets with others very much. He felt that couplets were also one of the important knowledge and should not be neglected, so he added couplets to the exam.It was decided to add it to the exam, and it was discussed for a long time, and finally decided to add it to the government exam.

In the imperial examinations of the Dalong Dynasty, the county examinations would test poetry and lyrics, and the government examinations would test couplets. The courtyard examinations stopped poetry and couplets, and began to test arithmetic and law.

Jia Lian can't take care of the hospital exam for the time being, and now he's focused on the government exam.Hearing that the couplets are going to be tested in the government examination, there is only one word that can accurately describe his mood, and that is the day of the dog.Fortunately, couplets are simpler than poems. He should be able to match them by reading and memorizing them more.

"If you can write an absolute in the government examination, then you have a high chance of being the top case."

Jia Lian: "..." This is the same as writing good poems and good words in the county test, which is very much the first case in the test.

"Nowadays, the Holy Majesty also likes couplets, and every time he plays a game of matching couplets at important banquets, if some ministers can make a good couplet at the banquet, they will not only be rewarded generously by the emperor, but may also be promoted."

Jia Lian opened his mouth wide in shock: "Is this all right?" Fuck me, this promotion is not too casual.

"The current emperor worships Emperor Taizu very much, and everything is in line with Emperor Taizu." Li Daoqing stroked his beard and said, "When Taizu was in power, he often promoted those ministers who could make absolute decisions."

Jia Lian instantly understood that now the emperor is a fan who worships his ancestors, and he likes to do what his ancestors did again.The emperor didn't think he could create a peaceful and prosperous world by doing everything according to his ancestors' practices, right?

Speaking of which, when he came to this world, he devoted all his attention to reading, kept his ears to the outside world, and knew nothing about other things.However, I read a miscellaneous note related to history before. The Taizu led troops to resist the Liao and Jin, and won many victories, so that the Liao and Jin did not invade for a long time.

When Taizu was in power, he learned from the Song Dynasty's lesson of emphasizing culture over military affairs, and attached great importance to military affairs.A lot of money is spent every year to support the army to protect the border defense, which ensures that the Dalong Dynasty will not be harassed by foreign enemies for a long time.However, during the period of Emperor Longwen, a huge corruption and bribery case broke out in the army, which angered Emperor Longwen, killed many generals, and reduced the silver taels allocated to the army's border defense every year, resulting in a sharp decline in the status of soldiers and the weakening of border defense forces. , Let Liao Jin have another chance to commit crimes.

During the period of Emperor Longwen, Liao and Jin joined forces to attack. Although Dalong won in the end, the losses were very serious. It can be said that the treasury was empty and the people were in dire straits.

After the war ended, we began to rest and recuperate until Emperor Longjing, who is the father of the current emperor and is also the current Supreme Emperor, the Dalong Dynasty slowly recovered, the treasury was rich, and the common people could have enough to eat, but it was still far from the prosperous age. Far.

The current Emperor Longwu is very ambitious and hopes that during his reign, he can create a prosperous world and establish a rich and powerful country.

After Emperor Longwen ascended the throne, he recruited talents widely.This talent includes both civil and military aspects.He knew in his heart that civility should not be valued over martial arts, and civil and martial arts should be considered equal.In a prosperous age, not only the country must be rich, but also the army must be strong, so that foreign enemies will not dare to invade.

There are many talents in literature, and it is easy to recruit, but in martial arts, it is not so easy and simple.In order to make everyone pay more attention to "martial arts", there are also martial arts exams every year, which is the so-called martial arts champion assessment.

In order to recruit talents similar to military advisers, Emperor Longwen also added the art of war to the imperial examination.From the beginning of the township examination, there has been a special examination of the art of war.If you fail the provincial examination, but you do very well in the art of war, then you will be assigned to the army.If you have made military achievements in the army, then it is not a problem to become an official.

If the system hadn't forced him to take the No. [-] Scholar Examination, he would definitely join the army if he wanted to be an official in the court.Compared with being an official and playing intrigue, he prefers to go out and kill the enemy to defend the country.

Li Daoqing saw his student's fuzzy look, took a book and tapped on his head lightly: "What are you thinking?"

Jia Lian recovered from his fantasy, and smiled at Li Daoqing: "I didn't think about it." He didn't dare to tell his husband that he wanted to be a soldier.Although the Dalong Dynasty has always emphasized the importance of warriors, literati still look down on warriors with well-developed limbs, simple minds, and unbearable rudeness.There is no way, this point of view has penetrated into the bones of literati for more than 1000 years, and it cannot be reversed for a while.

"If you want to take the top spot in the Central Government Examination, you should put more effort into the couplets during this time." The difficulty of the Four Books and Five Classics in the government examination is only a little harder than that of the county examination. Li Daoqing believes that his students can handle it .

Jia Lian nodded understandingly: "Don't worry, sir, I will work harder on the couplets."

Li Daoqing is not very good at couplets, his level is average, he can't teach Jia Lian anything, he can only let Jia Lian read and memorize and ponder.

"As a teacher, I believe that with your intelligence, couplets should not be a problem for you." My students are very talented in poetry, so they should not be bad in couplets.

Seeing that Li Daoqing believed in him so much, Jia Lian immediately felt a lot of pressure, so he could only say with a dry smile: "Students must work hard!"

After taking lessons with Li Daoqing, Jia Lian went to learn painting with Wei Jiashen.

Wei Jiashen originally stipulated that Jia Lian would study with him for two hours a day, but Jia Lian was going to take the next month's government examination and take the examination of the chief of the desk, so Li Daoqing consulted with him and asked him to change Jia Lian's painting learning time to one hour. After Jia Lian finished the government examination, he changed the painting time back to two hours.

Jia Lian was very talented in painting, and Wei Jiashen not only understood what he taught him quickly, but also drew inferences from one instance, so he was very satisfied with him as a student.

After studying with Wei Jiashen for an hour, Jia Lian returned to Rongguo Mansion.He didn't go back until around eight o'clock every night, so he ate dinner at Li Daoqing's, and then went to Wei Jiashen's to learn painting.

After returning from Wei Jiashen, I studied by myself for two or three hours, and went to bed around 11:30. The schedule was very tight.

Jia's mother learned that Jia Lian had been studying very hard during this time, and asked the kitchen to cook some tonic for him every day, waiting for him to eat when he came back at night.

Jia Lian was a little uncertain about what Jia Mu was thinking. He originally thought that after Jia Mu pretended to care about him for a while, she would return to her original state.Unexpectedly, Jia's mother cared for him constantly and often gave him something.

He wouldn't feel that Mother Jia's conscience had discovered that she began to like his grandson.In order to prevent him and his father from reporting to the police and making things worse, they treated him hypocritically.What is it for this time, to continue to pretend to be nice to him?

"The old lady is more and more interested in the young master." Zhao Mama saw that Jia's mother cared about Jia Lian very much during this time, and was very happy, thinking that Jia's mother had changed her mind and fell in love with Jia Lian's grandson. "If you get any good things, you will give a copy to the young master."

"The old lady finally knows about the young master." What Jia's mother did to Jia Lian during this time, everyone in the Rongguo Mansion saw it.The servants in the Rongguo Mansion acted based on their eyes. Seeing that Mother Jia was so kind to Jia Lian, the servants of the Second Household had restrained themselves a lot recently, and they did not dare to sneer at the people in the First Household.

Jia Lian felt that Jia's mother must have some purpose in doing this.He is a child, what can the old lady achieve.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Jia Lian's mind. Jia Lian thought that when he went to Fuling Temple to burn incense, the monk who released the lottery said that he was destined to be rich and powerful, and he would definitely do something in the future. At that time, the old lady's expression was a little strange.

It seems that the old lady believed the words of the monk who released the lottery and changed her opinion of him.Rather than saying that the old lady is caring about him, it is better to say that the old lady is buying him.

If he will do something in the future, it will be a good thing for Rongguo Mansion.The old lady treats him well at this time and restores the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. He will definitely listen to her in the future.

The old lady hopes that Jia Zhu will have a future, but she can't stop him from having a future.Instead of suppressing him now, it is better to take advantage of this to buy him.When he is promising in the future, he can still help Jia Zhu.

This old lady is so cunning and cunning that she won't treat him nicely for no reason.He was sure that if he failed the government examination in April, the old lady would immediately stop caring for him and return to her previous attitude of not caring about him.

Seeing Jia Lian's sullen and unhappy look, Zhao Mama asked with concern, "Is there something wrong, young master?"

Jia Lian shook his head lightly: "It's nothing, you can accept whatever the old lady gives, but don't get too complacent." He won't tell Mother Zhao and them the old lady's real purpose, just let them be happy for a while , Nagging in his ear every day.

"What the young master said is true, the old slave will tell them." Their first wife has been oppressed by the second room all these years, and has suffered a lot of anger. Finally feel elated.

Jia Lian waved his hand and told Mother Zhao and the others to retreat, he was going to review his homework.

He has two rivals in this exam, both of which are his biggest competitors.

When he took the county test before, he won the first case, the No.2 was Yan Jingyun, and the No.3 was Ming Wanju.

Yan Jingyun is not young, he is the empress's nephew and Grandmaster Yan's grandson.Ming Wanju's life background is not simple, he is the grandson of the Diange University scholar.

These two people not only have different backgrounds, but also have extraordinary knowledge and talents.When taking the county test, both of them lost to Jia Lian in poetry, but they were no worse than Jia Lian in other aspects.

It is said that both Yan Jingyun and Ming Wanju are very good at couplets, and they have made admirable couplets. It is very likely that they will be the first in this government examination.

Some gambling shops in the capital also bet on who Jia Lian, Yan Jingyun, and Ming Wanju can pass the government examination.There were a lot of people who charged Yan Jingyun and Ming Wanju for the Zhongfu examination, and they were evenly matched, but not many people who charged Jia Lian.

Many people in the capital thought that Jia Lian's case in the county examination was just lucky, and he could write poetry.However, the government test does not test poetry, but couplets. I think it is unlikely that he will pass the test.

Jia Amnesty, in order to encourage his son to pass the Zhongfu Examination, went to the gambling shop to bet 1000 taels of silver on Jia Lian's ability to pass the Zhongfu Examination.

When Jia Lian learned that Jia Amnesty went to the gambling shop to bet on him for being able to pass the national examination, he despised him for being too stingy, so he only bet 1000 taels of silver.If you really think he can win the first case, you should press 5000 taels of silver.

After Jia Amnesty heard this, he rolled his eyes at Jia Lian: "If you fail the test, I will pay you to die." This time he pressed five to one.If Jia Lian passed the exam, he would win 5000 taels of silver, and if he failed the exam, he would pay 5000 taels of silver.

"Don't you believe that I can win the first case, why are you afraid of losing money?"

"I pressed 1000 taels of silver to encourage you to study hard, not to believe that you will pass the exam." Jia She said very confidently.

Jia Lian: "..." His cheap father is too unreliable.

"If you fail the first case, I will pay you 5000 taels of silver, which is not a small amount." It's embarrassing to say that he doesn't have much money.If his son did not win the first case, he would have to pay 5000 taels of silver, and he would have little money left after the compensation.

Jia Lian suddenly thought of a way to make money, so he stopped talking nonsense with Jia She, and ran back to his house, took out 50 taels of gold from his private house and handed it to Xinger, who asked Xinger to go to five gambling houses, and each of them bought a lot of money. He can win the first case, the ratio is ten to one.

Xing'er was frightened by Jia Lian's aggressive behavior: "Master, this is too much. If you lose, you will have to pay 50 taels of gold."

Jia Lian gave Xing'er a hard look: "Crow's mouth, how could I lose, you have to trust your young master that I can win the test."

"But...you don't have to gamble with 50 taels of gold..." Xing'er felt that his young master was too busy, what if he didn't pass the exam.

"Your young master, I am very confident that you will win the test, so you can bet on it." If he fails to win the test, his life will be gone, and the 50 taels of gold he got at the poetry meeting before will not be distributed. It's useful, so it's better to use it to make a bet now.If he wins the test, he can make a lot of money.

Seeing his young master's confident expression, Xing'er couldn't say anything more. He took the gold and prepared to go to the gambling house, but when he was about to leave, he was stopped by Mother Zhao and Feng'er, who also took out some silver to suppress Although Jia Lian won the first case, although he didn't have much money, he could at least support the young master.

Not only Jia Lian wanted to make a fortune through gambling, but Mrs. Wang and Jia Zheng also thought of this idea.

During this period of time, Mrs. Wang spent a lot of money to prepare for Jia Yuanchun's entry into the palace, and she didn't have much money at hand, and she didn't want to touch her dowry, so she came up with this idea.

Mrs. Wang took out 500 taels of silver and asked Lai to go to the five gambling houses to bet 500 taels each. Of course, it was not to pressure Jia Lian to win the top case, but to bet on Yan Jingyun and Ming Wanju.

Jia Zheng took out 1000 taels of silver to press Yan Jingyun's case for the Central Government Examination, the ratio was ten to one.

Both Mrs. Wang and Jia Zheng believed that Jia Lian failed the test, and they both felt that they could make a lot of money this time.

Because many people went to the casino to place bets, this government test has received unprecedented attention.

The bet won't be revealed until the government test is over, so after Jia Lian told Xing'er to bet on it, he didn't pay attention anymore.

Baiju is too late, and it will be the end of March in a blink of an eye.

At the end of the month, when Jia Zhu came back from vacation, she cared about Jia Lian's study situation in a brotherly way, and told Jia Lian a lot about the state examination and his own experience in taking the examination.This look of caring for his younger brother made Jia Lian vigilant.

This time when Jia Zhu came back, one reason was to meet Jia Yuanchun before entering the palace.Jia Yuanchun is very likely to be selected this time, and he will never see her again, at least not for many years.The second is for the rural examination in August.

In August of this year, the township examination started, and Jia Zhu wanted to take it.If you don't take the exam this time, you have to wait another three years.Three years is too long, and Jia Zhu doesn't want to wait.

"Brother Zhu, you just went to Qingshan Academy to study, and you have to take the provincial examination. Are you in a hurry?" Mother Jia felt that Jia Zhu was too anxious to take the provincial examination in August this year. What if she failed the examination?

"Grandma, I want to try and see my level. If I fail the exam this time, I will take the exam again in three years."

Jia Zheng nodded slightly: "Pearl can try the waters. If you fail the exam this time, you will have experience in the next exam."

"Mother supports you to take the exam, you will definitely pass the exam!" Mrs. Wang is also confident in her son, thinking that if her son goes to the provincial exam, he will definitely pass the exam.

Jia Yuanchun nodded approvingly: "Brother will definitely pass the exam!"

Mother Jia didn't object after hearing this: "Since you want to take the exam, then go for it."

Jia Zhu's husband at Qingshan Academy disapproved of him taking the provincial exam. After all, Jia Zhu had only come to Qingshan Academy not long ago, but Jia Zhu insisted on taking the exam, so he came back to discuss with the elders at home.

Jia Lian didn't feel much when he heard that Jia Zhu was going to take the provincial exam this year, since it had nothing to do with him.

At present, the township examination is still far away for him, after all, he has not even taken the government examination.After he has passed the government examination, he will go to the hospital examination.After passing the college examination, you are eligible to take the provincial examination.

Jia Zhu came back and stayed for two days before leaving. Before leaving, she took Jia Lian's hand and told him to study hard and try to pass the government examination.Jia Lian got goosebumps from his appearance.

Within two days, Jia Yuanchun entered the palace to participate in the draft.It takes seven days before and after the draft, and these seven days are a torment for Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang.Seven days later, the draft ended. Jia Yuanchun did not come back, but stayed in the palace and became a female historian.

Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang thought that Jia Yuanchun's looks and talent would make him a concubine because of his looks and talent.This result was too different from what they expected, which made them unacceptable for a while.

"In the past few days, the people in the second room think that the eldest lady is going to become a concubine, and their tails are soaring to the sky. They are very arrogant and sneer at the people in our first room. I didn't expect that the eldest lady just became a female history. , It’s not some empress, the faces of the people in the second room suddenly changed, and they dare not show off their power anymore.” Zhao Momo said gloatingly.

"The people in the second room can no longer be arrogant."

"The old lady and the second wife wanted to send the eldest lady into the palace to be a concubine, but they didn't expect the eldest lady to become a female official. Although the female official is not a court lady, she still has to serve the nobles in the palace, and she has to act according to her face. Dear young lady Improper, going to the palace to serve people, I wonder if the old lady and the second wife will regret it later?"

"So what if you regret it." Everyone stayed in the palace, no matter how regretful they were, they couldn't go to the palace to get them back.

"Young master, is it true that the second wife steals chickens and loses money?" Feng'er asked, "Is the servant girl right?"

"No, you're right." In the original book, Jia Yuanchun was conferred the title of Concubine Virtue, which made the Rongguo Mansion very prosperous for a while, but it also became a reminder for the Jia family.

Nanny Zhao shook her head, with a look of pity for Jia Yuanchun: "Young lady enters the palace to be a women's historian, how can she feel comfortable at home."

In the original book, it seems that Jia Yuanchun was conferred the title of concubine virtuously very late. She had just entered the palace, and at least she had to work hard in the palace for more than ten years before she could become a concubine.Before becoming a concubine, life in the palace must have been difficult, and Jia Lian felt a little sympathetic to Jia Yuanchun.

After the draft, the government test will begin.

The author has something to say:

The test couplets were added by the stupid author himself, and they are definitely different from the historical government tests.

Come, come, come and place your bet, can Ya Zhu succeed in the provincial examination?