"The prefect has seen the eight-legged essay made by Mr. Bai, and said that you will definitely pass the high school exam this time. You can't even talk about the Huiyuan exam, but Mr. Bai, who is the master of economics in the Spring and Autumn Period, is probably certain."
On the way to the magistrate's residence, Butler Zhou flattered Bai Gui.
If you do well in eight-part essays, you will be ranked in the examination. After passing the examination, if there is no selection in the palace examination, then you will be at least a third-class Jinshi, and you will be given the same background as a Jinshi.
In addition to the Hui Yuan, the Wu Jing Kui will also be listed in the Hui Examination.
If he were a little higher, he might be able to join the Hanlin Academy as an editor. From now on, he would be a noble person and be able to join the cabinet.
No matter what, there is nothing wrong with making friends...
"Master Chen is too flattering."
"The student himself knows how much he weighs. It is a blessing to have Mr. Chen appreciate some of his articles."
Bai Gui's expression remained unchanged and he replied.
When he was at White Deer Academy, he had already memorized and memorized all the eight-part essays of the past dynasties. He also had experience in many scientific examinations. With his knowledge, it was just an ordinary thing to write a good eight-part essay.
This calmness fell into the eyes of Butler Zhou, and his evaluation of Bai Gui rose to a higher level.
The two of them walked and talked happily.
Butler Zhou didn't ask Bai Gui about Lu Yin and his fame. How could someone with such knowledge and articles be a gangster?
From time to time, we arrived at the back courtyard of the magistrate's residence.
Open space outside the house.
It was a private banquet with hundreds of flowers.
Magistrate Chen was dressed in regular clothes, and was accompanied by several famous local scribes. Under the scribes, there were scholars from Yunzhou Prefecture, and there were not many, more than a dozen.
Bai Gui enters the banquet.
This banquet is a divided meal system.
The dishes on the table are pretty good, including Bazhen duck, braised pork elbow with soy sauce, braised three delicacies, a few plates of crabs, and more than a dozen scattered dishes.
Several girls in thin shirts were also dancing in the field.
Beauty is like jade, if you want to hide it, you will be ashamed.
"tasty."
Bai Gui picked up the chopsticks and took a few bites, but didn't eat more.
Eating too much will inevitably make you look shabby.
After waiting for a while, Magistrate Chen talked with the scribes, each wrote a few words on the plain paper with a brush, and then asked the maid next to him to pass it on to the juniors at the banquet.
This is the exam school!
"With the theme of crab..."
Bai Gui opened the plain paper and when he saw the word crab, he understood what Magistrate Chen and others meant.
It is an elegant thing for them to use crab as the title to write poems, lyrics, articles, etc., as a kind of elegant thing to show their knowledge.
Who is the real one and who is the bad one can be revealed at a banquet.
If you don't have true knowledge, you will definitely be laughed at at the literati banquet.
"It's simple."
Bai Gui took the brush from the maid's hand, pondered for a moment, and then started writing a poem.
He served as a prime minister in the Xianjian Tang Dynasty and personally took charge of the imperial examinations for many years. He had long been tired of reading the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu. Needless to say, the quality of his poems went without saying. When he arrived in Qianyuan Cave, he had been taught by Li Qingzhao, a layman of Yi'an, since he was a child.
Although the poems he personally taught and wrote casually are not famous, they are still among the best.
"Take Bai Sheng's poems and let me have a look."
Magistrate Chen is taking the exam today, and the main person taking the exam is Bai Gui. The more than ten scholars and candidates under his rule have known the real rules for a long time, so they won't give him many surprises. Today, Bai Gui, who voted for assassination, showed him his hunting ambitions.
Hi, but he has never tested Bai Gui in person, so he doesn't know Bai Gui's true level.
So with the help of this literati and elegant thing, I can try Bai Gui's level.
As expected, Bai Gui had already composed a poem in a matter of seconds. His eagerness alone surpassed that of many others. Even if the poems he wrote were of average quality, they were still good. After all, poems written in a hurry cannot be as careful as those written in a hurry.
Poems should be written carefully and carefully.
"I will never forget the long battle with iron armor, and I will taste it first if I pile up the plates and look at the colors."
"The chelated seal is full of tender jade, and the shell is convex and the red fat is fragrant."
"If you are more fleshy, I will pity you even more. Who can help me?"
"To celebrate this festive season, the osmanthus brushes the breeze and the chrysanthemum carries the frost."
Magistrate Chen softly recited this "Crab Chant".
“What a poem!”
"This is a good poem. Talent is born in vain."
The famous people at the banquet praised him one after another.
Therefore, Magistrate Chen took this opportunity to express his elegance and invited Bai Gui to join them in front of the banquet.
There is also a difference between lifting people and lifting people.
Although most of the people at the bottom of the table are candidates, these candidates are all old candidates in their forties or fifties, with limited potential, and they may not be able to win Jinshi in their lifetime.
And if the famous assassination that Bai Gui voted for today is really of such a standard, even though Bai Gui can't say that he wants to get the imperial examination, as long as he takes the test a few more times, he will definitely have hope of winning.
Those who can win Jinshi will be colleagues in the future.
He was an official in the same dynasty.
This kind of treatment is normal.
Bai Gui put on his clothes and stood up. In the envious eyes of all the scholars and scholars, he sat down in front of the banquet elegantly and began to talk freely with Magistrate Chen and other local dignitaries from Yunzhou Prefecture.
His knowledge is astonishing, and he draws on the past to learn from the present.
Since there was no conflict of interests and Bai Gui was a junior, everyone who saw this scene appreciated him.
Soon, Bai Gui found County Magistrate Nie, Mr. Nie. (I made a mistake earlier, it was not Ning, it was Nie.)
After talking for a few words, the two gradually became happy.
"Master Nie used to be a member of the military department of the imperial court. He never thought of offending the Holy One and was demoted to Guobei County. It's a pity that Master Nie is loyal and patriotic, but the saint was deceived by evil..."
Bai Gui sighed.
Although he was scolding the imperial court and Wanli with these words, this has always been a common occurrence at literati banquets. Besides, Wanli has not been in court for twenty years. Even if a small party does big things, it is inevitable that he will have control over the court.
decline.
A word or two of dissatisfaction will not lead to anything serious.
These words touched Master Nie's heart, but he still pretended to be reserved, "There must be a reason for His Majesty to demote me. Thunder, rain and dew are all your kindness. How can I hold resentment for this matter?"
But that being said, Master Nie's closeness to Bai Gui is visible to the naked eye.
Firstly, it was because Bai Gui had a bright future, and secondly, Bai Gui's chat struck a chord with him.
This banquet ended at Hai hour.
Bai Gui was arranged by Magistrate Chen to live in a wing of the magistrate's back house.
The next day.
Bai Gui looks for Mr. Nie again.
The two talked about the Confucian classics and discussed each other's opinions on the content of the Confucian classics.
"Look at this sentence, 'If you don't know something but don't feel embarrassed, you are not a gentleman.'"
"This sentence means that if others don't understand me, but I am not angry, am I not also a morally cultivated person?"
"There is also the saying, 'A gentleman is not serious but not powerful.' When you hit someone, you must hit him hard, otherwise you will not be able to establish prestige."
"Getting rich and noble without justice is like a floating cloud to me."
"Illegitimate money is as numerous as floating clouds to me."
Bai Gui explains "The Analects of Confucius".
"Meihe..., you, you, are so funny."
Master Nie couldn't help but laugh a few times when he heard these words.
If it were an ordinary country fool who randomly interpreted the Confucian classics, he would definitely be furious. But Bai Gui's attainments in the Confucian classics are no longer inferior to him, and such explanations are just for fun.
Different people, different treatment.
At the same time, the relationship between the two also became much closer.
"This is my little girl, her name is Xiaoqian."
Mr. Nie introduced his daughter to Bai Gui and said.
"Make Alice beautiful."
Bai Gui glanced at Nie Xiaoqian and concluded in his heart that this was Bai Xiuzhu.
It's just that at this moment, Bai Xiuzhu hasn't figured out the mystery in the womb yet.
"Unfortunately……"
Mr. Nie stroked his beard under his chin and sighed: "My daughter has always been weak and sick. I was demoted to Guobei. I was supposed to rush to take up my post, but my daughter couldn't stand the bumps, so I had no choice but to stay in Yunzhou to recuperate temporarily."
"A letter will be sent to the Nine Heavens in the morning, and eight thousand people will be demoted to Chaozhou Road in the evening."
"Han Changli's youngest daughter died of illness on the way to be demoted... Yanjing is far away from Guobei, so it is obvious that I will stay in Yunzhou temporarily."
Bai Gui replied.
When Han Yu presented "On the Bone Table of Buddha", Tang Xianzong was furious, so he was demoted from Chang'an to Chaozhou. On the way, his twelve-year-old daughter was unable to withstand the bumps and fatigue along the way, and slept in the open air.
He couldn't get any treatment or care on the way, so he died of illness on the way.
"pity……"
"I got a letter from a friend yesterday. The party politics in North Korea and China are serious. I am afraid that someone will not let me stay in Yunzhou for a long time and will order me to go to Guobei to take up my post."