It can be said that Fang Xiaozhen at this time can be considered proud of his life.
Because he won Jieyuan, Fang Datong's expectations for his son were raised, and because the next year was the national examination.
You need to go to the capital city of Qinglong Kingdom to take the examination. Since the distance between Donglin County and the capital city is more than two thousand miles, you need to go there in advance.
After all, with the current traffic conditions, even if the Fang family had money, it would still take more than a month to take the fastest waterway to the coast and then transfer to Beijing.
What's more, after arriving in the capital, you also need to allow some time to adapt and learn.
In this case, you need to go at least three months in advance.
In this case, Fang Xiaozhen's marriage can only be postponed.
However, Inspector Lin was considered reasonable, and he saw that Ruyi's son-in-law was about to flourish.
If he can pass the imperial examination and pass the palace examination, then at least he is from the same background as a Jinshi!
Those who were born as Jinshi can take the imperial examination, and if they pass the imperial examination, they can enter the Hanlin Academy for further study.
Even if you fail the imperial examination, you can still stay in the Six Ministries as an official!
The last option is to serve as a local magistrate!
But even if he is sent out to serve as a local county magistrate, he is still an unparalleled seventh-level official in Inspector Lin!
After serving as a county magistrate for several years, if you perform well, it is not impossible to be promoted to a fifth-rank magistrate.
Of course, as for a higher official position, Inspector Lin did not dare to think about it.
If you think about it any more, his young daughter will not be worthy of this Fang Jieyuan!
The results of this trip to Beijing to take the exam did not disappoint Father Fang.
Fang Xiaozhen was very lucky and won seventh place in the general examination. During the palace examination, because he was the youngest among all the tributes present, and he was also the most handsome.
Praised by the emperor: gentle and elegant, a gentleman like jade.
Thereby winning the throne of flower exploration.
At this time, Fang Town could be said to have reached its peak in the eyes of others.
But then the surprise came.
When the good news spread all the way to Donglin County, Fang Datong learned that his son had passed the entrance examination. He was so excited that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died suddenly.
No wonder Fang Datong was so excited.
If you are admitted to the top tier, you will be recommended to the Hanlin Academy for the post of editor (seventh grade) of the Hanlin Academy!
There is an unwritten unspoken rule here.
The six ministers must have been born in the Hanlin Academy!
In other words, if you want to be a minister of the six departments in the future, if you were not from the Hanlin Academy, you will have no chance at all. At most, you can only serve as a minister.
But in fact, most of those Jinshi who failed to enter the Hanlin Academy would only be able to be a doctor of the sixth rank in the Sixth Department throughout their lives, and they were considered lucky.
Therefore, in Fang Datong's eyes, the Fang family has transformed from a businessman into an official family, and the children of the family can also be called officials' children.
Moreover, officials protect each other, and with Fang Xiaozhen leading the way, it will naturally be much easier for the children of the Fang family behind to enter the officialdom.
It's a pity that he was rich all his life. He ate well and wore good clothes when he was young, and he didn't like to exercise much. As he got older, he inevitably suffered from cardiovascular diseases, etc., so he became over-excited and died suddenly.
As a result, when the news of his father's death reached the capital, Fang Xiaoyue had just entered the Hanlin Academy, and the bad news about his old father came.
In the Qinglong Kingdom, the emperors of all dynasties governed the country with filial piety. Therefore, whenever an official's parents passed away, the official had to return home and stay for three years!
To put it bluntly, it means taking a leave of absence for three years and returning home to observe filial piety.
After three years, you can apply for re-employment.
In fact, for many officials, Ding You's return to his hometown to maintain the system was a blow to his official career.
After all, when you come back three years later and the Ministry of Civil Affairs offers you a position again, your original position must have been replaced by someone else, and you will have to appoint other positions.
Fang Xiaozhen resigned from his job and returned to his hometown to observe mourning for three years. For him, the death of his father made him extremely sad, but after calming down, he found that he was slightly happy in his heart.
Because Fang Datong has restrained him since he was a child, telling him not to think about anything about cultivating immortals and to study hard.
In this way, the greater the suppression, the greater the rebound will be when this constraint disappears.
So after returning home and becoming the helmsman of the Fang family, Fang Xiaozhen was pleasantly surprised to find that no one would take care of whatever he wanted to do!
This is not surprising, although the Fang family has now developed into a large family in Donglin County.
In his father's generation alone, there are five brothers and more than twenty cousins.
There are also many cousins in his generation, and he himself has a married sister.
But the status of these uncles in the Fang family is not as high as that in Fang Town.
Before Ding You, Fang Xiaozhen was ranked among the top three in the Imperial Examination, and was awarded the rank of Jinshi and the post of Editor (Seventh Grade) of the Hanlin Academy!
In Donglin County, Fang Town is known as the Wenqu Star.
There are more than 200 people in the Fang family, and apart from him, no one is an official.
In addition, Fangzhen Town is the eldest son of the eldest son and takes over as the head of the Fang family. Naturally, these uncles and uncles do not dare to say anything about the affairs of Fangzhen Town.
As a result, Fang Xiaozhen's mind was revived, and he began to have people search for things or rumors related to cultivating immortals for him.
After more than a year, I collected dozens of so-called secrets of cultivating immortals, and even went to nearby counties to visit famous monks and Taoist priests to seek the true method of cultivating immortals.
But this plane was originally a strict technological plane. There was no way there could be so-called immortals, let alone any true method of cultivating immortals.
But just by collecting these secrets of cultivating immortals in Fang Town, each book easily costs ten taels or twenty taels of silver!
At this time, money is still very valuable.
In the countryside, an acre of good irrigated land costs only eight taels of silver, and an acre of land with a view to the sky only costs five taels of silver.
A strong cow only costs nine taels of silver.
To put it simply, the average family of three in Donglin County can only spend 300 yuan a month on food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Pork belly costs 30-50 yuan per pound.
A breakfast of soy milk and steamed buns only costs five cents.
You must know that the official servants in the county government only earn 1.5 taels of silver a month.
This shows that the value of silver at this time was still very high.
When visiting famous monks and Taoist priests, you must prepare four-color snacks, incense candles, yellow paper, good rice, white noodles, and merit incense money.
After this year, Fang Xiaozhen learned nothing and spent a lot in vain.
At this point, someone couldn't stand it anymore and came to persuade me.
Not his uncles, but his uncles.
However, before his uncles retired, they could only be shopkeepers of a silk shop, or they could be small landowners with dozens of acres of land in the countryside.
Standing in front of Fang Xiaoyue, a literary star, he flinched a little before he could speak.
So one can imagine how effective this persuasion is.