"That's okay. What kind of bow does the eldest brother-in-law use? I'll let them get the bow?"
Sheng Changbai has been practicing bow and arrow for several months. If he shoots at a fixed target, he can hit the target within 60 steps, and he can hit the target 90% of the time. He is ready to shoot.
Because of his sharp ears and excellent eyesight, Sheng Changbai is extremely talented in this area.
"Erlang, I am accustomed to using one stone and five bows."
Yuan Wenshao is also a man of some courage who is accustomed to using one stone and five bows.
The standard soldiers of the Forbidden Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty were able to use nine bows and were considered elite.
The Forbidden Army was the most elite army in the entire Zhou Dynasty.
Yuan Wenshao is a bit braver than the elite, and he can be considered worthy of his experience of being born into a general, having no worries about food and clothing, and practicing martial arts since he was a child.
If his bow and horse skills were good, Yuan Wenshao would have a chance to pass the martial arts exam without taking the Yin Feng exam. If he passed the martial arts exam, he could also become a low-level military attache.
The Great Zhou Dynasty lost the sixteen states of Yanyun and lost the horse breeding land in the north.
War horses were scarce and cavalry could not be developed, so they could only focus on developing archers. More than half of the Forbidden Army were crossbowmen. The most important thing in the Zhou Dynasty was archery.
Shooters are not just squishy people in games. Since ancient times, shooters have been the strongest and strongest elites in the army.
If you can't pull a hard bow, how can your bow and arrow have range and lethality?
The two of them competed in step shooting. Sheng Changbai scored eight out of ten, while Yuan Wenshao's score was not bad, and he was on par with Sheng Changbai.
Neither the rate of fire, nor the continuous arrows, but the accuracy alone, Sheng Changbai still had a slight advantage.
However, if one's main occupation is essay writing and the other's main occupation is martial arts, the same results can mean that Yuan Wenshao loses.
Yuan Wenshao, an adult in his twenties, is more shameful than Sheng Changbai, a twelve-year-old boy.
"It's a pity that our home is not a school ground, so we can't practice riding and shooting." Yuan Wenshao said regretfully and unwillingly.
"If there is a chance, we can go hunting together in the future and see who can catch more prey."
Riding and shooting is a bit difficult for Sheng Changbai now.
Infantry archery and mounted archery use different longbows, so they can be regarded as two events.
Sheng Changbai has not practiced riding and shooting, and has not advanced to this level. Of course, he is not comparable to Yuan Wenshao.
After the arrow contest, Sheng Changbai and Yuan Wenshao started chatting without doing anything extra.
In today's show of power, Sheng Changbai just hinted at Yuan Wenshao.
As my brother-in-law, I have the ability to beat him up. If I threaten him, I just need to understand it in my heart. It is not suitable to say it out loud.
After Hua Lan got married, the Sheng family lived a low-key life in Bianliang City.
The current situation in the court is very chaotic, because the emperor is old, in poor health, and his parents and children have died.
The noble ministers spent all day admonishing the emperor to adopt the clan and establish a heir apparent as soon as possible.
The old emperor had lost his biological son and was unhappy. He was not willing to pick up a cheap son. He argued endlessly with the ministers all day long.
The position of crown prince has always been pending and has been unable to be decided.
In the feudal dynasty, the country had no heir, which indeed caused panic among the people and turmoil in the country.
The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were no longer in the mood to deal with the official affairs of the country.
There is an undercurrent surging throughout the city of Tokyo. The noble ministers and even the harem are divided into two waves, with Prince Yong and Prince Yan as the most promising princes. They are fighting openly and secretly, and the undercurrent is surging.
As a cautious person like Sheng Hong, of course he would not be rash.
I don’t want to participate in seizing the direct descendants or striving for the merit of following the dragon.
A low-ranking official with no real power has little value to the two princes in actively wooing him.
Therefore, the Sheng family kept close to their own door and socialized less. Except for old ladies Sheng, Sheng Hong, and Wang Ruofu, they didn't interact much with others. The Sheng family lived peacefully in the capital for two years.
It was the golden autumn of another year, and Sheng Changbai was already fourteen. He felt that after more than two years of study, he had reached a certain level in classics, meanings, and articles, so he was ready to take the state examination.
Prepare for the first scientific examination, the state examination of the Zhou Dynasty, also called the Fajie examination, which is actually to obtain the qualification to participate in the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites.
There are so many people who want to take the Jinshi exam, so the state exam is just a screening process.
If you pass the exam, you will be promoted. The significance of this promotion is actually not very big.
Compared with the later generations of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the degree of benefits of the Zhou Dynasty's juren was much lower.
There is no preferential treatment such as exemption from land tax. Juren have no family background and only enjoy the privilege of being exempted from labor service and receiving a small amount of rice. Juren who have taken the provincial examination can be absolved of public crimes below the level of a disciple and private crimes below the level of a staff.
If you have passed the state examination many times and failed the provincial examination, you may be given the same background as the Jinshi by the court and have been a low-level official for one or two years. However, this is not a good future and there is no future.
The imperial court didn't offer much preferential treatment, but the people still recognized the value of being promoted.
Anyone who can pass the state examination can be said to have potential.
Can gain respect from some villagers.
"Being a farmer in the morning and ascending to the emperor's hall in the evening" refers to the scholars of the Zhou Dynasty.
Another point to note is that the states of the Great Zhou Dynasty took the exam and obtained only one-time provincial exam qualifications.
If you pass the national examination in August this year, you can only take the provincial examination next spring.
If Juzi does not take the exam or does not pass the Jinshi exam, if he wants to take the next provincial exam, he must continue to take the state exam first.
"Changbai, I heard from Mr. Zhuang that your classics and articles have made great progress in the past two years. If you want to give it a try, it's time. Even if you fail this subject, you have gained experience."
Wanting to take the state examination, Sheng Changbai approached Sheng Hong first.
As he was qualified to participate in the "Excellent Examination", Sheng Changbai did not have to compete with ordinary scholars for other people's places.
Sheng Hong is still an official, and of course Sheng Changbai's family is clean. His family is not a businessman, and he is a subordinate official. It can be said that Sheng Changbai's family background basically does not require political review.
Sheng Changbai had not committed any crime, was not in mourning period, and had no disability. Sheng Hong arranged for someone to be a guarantor for Sheng Changbai, and he successfully passed the exam.
Hold the admission ticket with your name, age, place of origin, and appearance.
With Wang Ruofu seeing him off, Sheng Changbai walked into the examination room.
To be honest, the Sheng family did not pay much attention to the state examination that Sheng Changbai participated in.
No one would think that Sheng Changbai, who has been studying for ten years and has a photographic memory, would fail the "special examination" with a probability of admission of more than one-third or even half.
After entering the examination room, when the examination time comes, you will see the examination questions hanging in the hall.
After candidates have written down the questions, they can return to their seats to take the exam.
It is also considered humane. If there are candidates who do not understand the question, they can even ask the examiner.
Of course, the question was not written in haste and was not that difficult to decipher. Sheng Changbai did not realize that he was in the examination room and someone did not understand the question.
After the reform of the imperial examination and the abolition of poetry and poetry, there were only three subjects left: classics and meaning, trial theory, and trial policy, that is, three examinations.
To put it simply, this exam requires candidates to write three short essays.
To test the meaning of the scriptures, the question maker excerpts a sentence from the Confucian classics and asks the candidates to explain the meaning behind it.
The trial essay is similar to the proposition essay, which requires candidates to comment on an allusion or historical figure recorded in classics and history.
The test policy is similar to the "application argument" in today's civil service examination. Generally, the examiner asks specific questions about current affairs and allows the candidates to express their opinions, so it is also called "policy question", and the candidates' answers are called "countermeasures."
Countermeasures are usually written in a thousand words, but there are also countermeasures written in tens of thousands of words.
Since policy and theory are both argumentative genres, they are both called "policy theory".
The ‘Bie Tou Test’ presented no difficulty to Sheng Changbai, and there were no surprises.
Sheng Changbai obtained the status of Juren and was qualified to take part in the provincial examination next year.
After passing the exam, Sheng Changbai's family status improved a bit.
Sheng Changbai has the qualifications to withdraw money from the accounting office outside his home.
Sheng Changbai could spend dozens or hundreds of taels of small money at will.
There is a system to sign in, there are monthly routines, and there is Wang Ruofu's subsidy.
Sheng Changbai is not that short of money, but having the right to freely handle money means that Sheng Changbai has begun to be regarded as an adult and has the right to speak.
The child is valued by the mother, and the mother is valued by the child. This is all mutual.
The more promising Sheng Changbai is, the more polite Sheng Hong needs to be to Wang Ruofu.
But Sheng Changbai did not change his schedule. He still spent money on some ancient books and occasionally went to major restaurants to eat and drink.
The most time is spent studying hard.
"Changbai, do you want to give it a try next spring?"
Once again, Sheng Hong was resting at home. After doing his daily homework, Sheng Hong asked.
"Father, our officials in the Zhou Dynasty, starting from Taizu, have always loved 'prodigy'. It would not be difficult for a child to become a high school scholar at a young age and make the family prosperous."
Sheng Hong does not have lofty ideals. The prosperity of the Sheng family is Sheng Hong's greatest pursuit.
"My father wanted you to be on a stable track. I'm going to wait for three years, improve my studies, and then give it a try, and strive to win the first prize in one fell swoop."
Even Sheng Changbai didn't expect that Sheng Hong had such great ambitions and wanted Sheng Changbai to become the number one scholar.
It was also based on the meaning of the scriptures and articles that Sheng Changbai had surpassed Sheng Hong's level, so Sheng Hong had this idea.
The rank of the Jinshi in the examination is also very important. Half of the future of the new Jinshi can be said to be doomed when the ranking is determined in the imperial examination.
With a good ranking, more resources will be invested in training.
The better the ranking, the higher the starting point for embarking on the official career, and the faster the promotion speed.
After all, there are still only a few people who can break the rules.
"But Bai'er, what you are thinking is not unreasonable. Next spring, my father agrees that you should take the test. If you fail, even in the next subject three years later, you will not be as good as the weak champion, and you will also be a junior Jinshi."
Sheng Hong finally expressed his support for Sheng Changbai.
Sheng Hong helped Sheng Changbai make the decision, and after attending the Spring Festival next year, the Sheng family became a little quieter.
Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu had a lot of experience in managing their homes, especially around Sheng Changbai's yard, where they had to keep quiet.
Recently, at home, there has been a lot of discipline on the maids, mothers-in-law, and boys who like to talk too much, make noises, eat wine, and play with money.
The atmosphere in the Sheng Family Courtyard has finally improved.
In the past, servants of the Sheng family really didn't have the same rules as servants of wealthy families.
Not just the servants, there are no rules in the Sheng family from wives and concubines to servants.
The Sheng family has only been prosperous for a few decades, and has fallen into disgrace once in a while. It is far from being called a noble.
It is also to create a good learning environment for Sheng Changbai, so that the home can be cleaner.
Although my home is quite quiet, Bianliang, Tokyo, is much more lively.
In nearby provinces and cities, people from all over the country all set off to Tokyo in advance.
Tens of thousands of candidates poured into the capital, making the huge Bianjing city lively.
When you come to Bianliang, the first thing you do is set up a stall to sell goods.
Sell the specialties you brought from your hometown and from various places along the way.
Only then can you have money to stay in inns and hotels.
Because there was no preferential treatment such as large tax exemptions during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the candidates in the Zhou Dynasty were generally relatively poor.
An ordinary middle-class farming and reading family has hundreds of acres of farmland, and it is not easy to support a scholar.
In ancient times, the cost of education investment was only higher than in modern times.
In a modern society where education is popularized, investment in education is a huge expense, so how can it be said to be ancient times.
An ordinary book of Analects and Mencius' annotations ranges from a few hundred to several thousand words.
If you want to understand it clearly, you need to study with Shu Xiu, and you don’t need to spend any money on pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Supporting a retired scholar is enough to make an upper-class family in the village return to poverty.
Although with papermaking and printing technology, education can be spread to ordinary people's homes.
But most well-to-do families have reached the financial limit of supporting a scholar.
After getting a certain score, the candidates go to the state to take the state examination, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation are an expense.
Fortunately, I was able to win, so I came to Bianliang to take the provincial examination, traveling thousands of miles all the way, which was a huge expense.
Candidates who are further away from Bianliang passed the state examination in the autumn.
We need to leave early and rush to the capital as soon as possible until the provincial examination ends in February next year.
In the first half of the year, I spent at least a hundred dollars a day on food, clothing, housing, transportation, and traveling. In half a year, I needed at least dozens of dollars.
These foreign students would basically be reminded by their teachers, so they all learned how to bring a batch of specialties from various places to Beijing.
If you can make a little money, you can survive in Bianjing.
With such a large influx of people, how could the prices of inns, inns, and hotels in Tokyo not go up?
Not to mention hotels, even brothel prices are much higher than usual.
The Zhou Dynasty also had some outstanding achievements. He went to Beijing many times to take the exam, but failed to pass the Jinshi exam.
But he took the trade route from his hometown to Bianliang and made a fortune by doing business.
After deciding where to live, we are not done with these out-of-town moves.
You should also actively look for connections and connections, and participate in some literary and poetry gatherings, hoping to make your literary name known.
Articles that are too long are difficult to circulate, but poems are usually short and easy to circulate.
Bringing a son from other places to Beijing is also a literary event where cultural exchanges from various places occur and excellent poems are frequently produced.
In addition, we also need to work hard to find out who the chief examiner and deputy examiner are for this Ministry of Rites Provincial Examination.
Who are the people who are qualified to serve as the examiners for this provincial examination? Understand the experience, opinions, and preferences of the examiners.