After getting off the boat and leaving the pier, after declining the invitations from Huang Zhongyuan and other eldest young men to stay, Jian Jian and his classmates rented a room in an inn, an independent courtyard specially prepared for reliable candidates coming to Beijing.

After the rooms were assigned, the students took action individually.

Jian Jian did not bring many things with her to Beijing this time. Apart from clothes and some personal belongings, they were the specialties of Jinyang County that were used as gifts.

So it only took Jian Jian a short half-day to tidy up the room.

After tidying up the room, before the weather got dark, Jian Jian took Si Mo out for shopping.

Jian Jian has not seen the capital of this world yet. As for the original plan to sell the house, there is no need to rush, because with Jian Jian's current status, he really can't get any good houses.

Jian Jian is still just one of thousands of people. He is fine in other areas. Jieyuan is nothing in the capital. If you want to get good land and a good yard with this status, it is just a dream, unless you use a lot of money.

Spend a lot of money, otherwise you can only buy it near the civilian areas in the South District.

Jieyuan sounds very high-end and classy, ​​but if you carefully calculate and dig carefully, how many Jieyuan and how many number one scholars have been produced during the more than two hundred years since the Liang Dynasty?

Not to mention other places, you will know it just by taking a look at the Hanlin Academy.

Not everyone who can stay in the Hanlin Academy is a top scholar, but at least half of them are.

Those who are not in the top three of the first class, who have basically stayed in the Hanlin Academy for one or three years, will be sent out to serve as local officials after passing the shujishi exam.

Those who stay in the Hanlin Academy, unless there is someone to protect and support them, will have no choice but to stay in the Qingshui Yamen of the Hanlin Academy for the rest of their lives.

Why did he become the number one scholar? In the eyes of the great masters in the capital, he was really not a big shot.

And without the simplicity of passing the Jinshi examination, in the eyes of the government intermediaries, they are not a big deal. After all, there were more than 2,000 people participating in the Spring Festival Ceremony this time, and among them, Mr. Jie Yuan said there were about ten or twenty

Multiple.

It can be seen from this that at this time, a simple outsider can buy a good house.

Jian Yi took Si Mo to the most famous teahouse in the capital - Zhuangyuan Tower in a low-key manner.

I heard that the plaque on the Zhuangyuan Building was personally given by the founding emperor of the People's Republic of China. Every year, countless celebrities receive the good news of becoming the first emperor of China from here.

Because of this good name and good intentions, those students who have nothing to do like to come here to chat with their classmates and watch others display their talents.

For students like Jian Yi who have just entered Beijing, this is also the place where they can quickly see the level of other students.

It is said that after getting to know the students who are often active here, you can basically estimate your own level in this class and roughly what ranking you can get.

Although Jian Jian did not fully agree with this statement, he could estimate the cultural level of his opponents. Just like the student in the audience who composed a good poem and was surrounded by people praising and complimenting him, Jian Jian felt that his literary talent was superior to that of others.

Not bad, not inferior to Huang Zhongyuan.

After roughly understanding the situation, Jian Yi took Si Mo back.

The next day, Jian Yi and his classmates went to visit Mr. Chen who went to Jinyang County to be the examiner of the provincial examination a few months ago.

After all, Jian Jian and the others were his successors, and Mr. Chen was their master. Now that he was in Beijing, after packing up his belongings, he naturally wanted to pay a good visit.

After visiting Mr. Chen, Jian Jian started thinking about buying a property.

When I was in Fucheng, Jinyang County, Jian Jian thought that I would stay in the academy for a short time and go to Beijing in three years at most. If I bought a house in Fucheng, it would take time to take care of it, so I didn't buy it.

Now, Jian Jian thought that he would probably live here for decades, so he should buy property and other things. Otherwise, after the exam is over and he becomes an official, he will not have time to take care of these things.

The business of earning money is different from that of living in a house. As long as you have money, it is not a problem to buy a few shops or a small village.

So in the next few days, Jian Yan often took Simo around the city and outside the city. Finally, he bought three shops in Xicheng, where wealthy officials and wealthy people lived, and a village on the outskirts of the city.

Jian Jian, who had the experience of being the treasurer of a small treasury for emperors and empresses in ancient times, handled these matters very smoothly. No, it only took three or four days to finalize these matters in the capital city.

There are three shops, one large and two small. One of the two small ones sells cloth, and the other sells gold and silver jewelry; the larger one is simply used as a study.

The village on the outskirts of the city is not big, with just over an acre of land for growing food.

Jian Jian went to Zhuangzi for an on-the-spot investigation, and then had a large lotus pond built in front of the river embankment to grow flowers, lotus roots, and fish. Jian Jian did not waste the land by the river, and it was developed to grow flowers that love water.

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On the other side of the fertile land, we simply prepared a ground dragon to grow off-season vegetables.

The weather here in the capital gets cold very quickly and lasts for a relatively long time. When winter comes, every household has meat, cabbage, potatoes, etc. on the table. Therefore, it is easy to think that growing off-season vegetables can make money faster than other livelihoods.

Then Jian Jian went to the talent market and bought some people. After cleaning all the people on the original shop and Zhuangzi, Si Mo started to formally implement his plan, while Jian Jian himself stayed in the room and started preparing for the final

Will try to prepare.

Not long after the New Year, Spring Festival begins.

It was still dark that day, so Jian Yan went to Gongyuan with her classmates.

After a series of unspeakable inspections, Jian Yi was finally able to enter his own number.

Looking at the somewhat shabby desks; looking at the wall in the front row; looking at the blue sky, even though I have experienced ups and downs, my mood is not calm.

After using a cleaning technique to clean the room, Jian Yan put out everything in the test box one by one, and then prepared some food for himself. After eating, Jian Yan lay down and fell asleep.

There are still nine days of fighting ahead, and the most important thing now is to recharge our batteries.

Early the next morning, Jian Jian was awakened by the sound of an official beating a gong.

Because Hao'er was a small single room built with adobe bricks on the left, right, behind, and above the head. There was no door to block the front, and there were guards with knives standing guard, so Jian Yi had no choice but to freeze time and flash back to the bathroom of the villa.

After simply washing myself and eating breakfast, I came out.

It didn't take long for the test papers to be handed out. After briefly scanning the test questions, Jian Yi could finally understand why those students who could pass the National Examination and get the Jinshi were all in their decades and had a lot of beards.

Old men, and those young ones, don’t have the reason why they have difficulty passing the exam two or three times.

Because these Mo Yi questions and Tie Jing questions, even though they are simple, I feel that they are really wrong. If you have not read a lot of books and have not accumulated decades of experience, it will be difficult to answer them in one word.

The whole paper is easier to answer than the poetry question. As long as you have talent, imagination, higher aesthetic ability, and the poems you create are more aesthetic, you can pass this question steadily.

After all, looking at the entire history of the imperial examination, how many students can produce masterpieces that have been passed down through the ages during the imperial examination?

What candidates can do is to do whatever they have to do, write more poems on various themes, and accumulate them. What if this is the theme during the exam?


Chapter completed!