Zhang Yue glanced at Huang Haoyi, but saw that he seemed completely in the dark and had no idea what the woman beside him was like.
Zhang Yue thought to himself, watching Water Margin, Wang Po taught Ximen Qing ten steps to chase Pan Jinlian. The last step was to use the chopsticks to fall under the table and then pinch the opponent's feet.
Although women in the Song Dynasty did not regard their feet as their fate as much as those in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the practice of foot binding had long existed.
For example, when an official such as Qiang Yuanming took office in Chang'an and went to Cai Jing to say goodbye, Cai Jing joked that you would have cold tea there.
It means that the prostitutes in Chang'an have their feet bound, so they are slow to serve tea, and the tea is cold when it is served.
But it was like this as soon as Yu Lian came up, which was too "straight to the point".
Zhang Yue used to browse Bilibili a lot, and when he saw the girl group dance, he would stare at the girl without blinking. But in real life, Zhang Yue still likes cute and cute girls like Wang Bingbing.
Although he had never been attracted to such a girl before, he couldn't accept Yulian's behavior.
The most important thing is that your friends’ wives should not be bullied!
Zhang Yue coughed lightly, raised his glass and said calmly: "Thank you, Miss."
Hearing Zhang Yue address him like this, Huang Haoyi felt a little embarrassed.
Yu Lian was not annoyed at all after hearing what Zhang Yue said. She raised her glass and drank it. Then, the rouge lip prints were clearly visible on the wall of the white porcelain cup.
Zhang Yue suddenly remembered Jia Baoyu's joke about eating lipstick. However, in Zhang Yue's time, it was considered impolite to leave lipstick on a wine glass.
Zhang Yue could not help but use modern thinking and resisted the temptation again.
But Zhang Yue also admired the other party's charming manners and charm. No wonder there is a saying that goes, "Looking from the head to the feet, the wind flows downwards; seeing the feet from the head, the wind flows upwards."
In the Song Dynasty, there were so many scholar-bureaucrats who did not like their wives and concubines who were polite and dignified and went out to eat wine and wine.
This is their cost of eating!
The more Zhang thought about this, he felt that he could not stay any longer. He immediately stood up and said, "I'm a little drunk. Let's go back to the room to rest."
"Is Sanlang drunk now?" Huang Haoyi held out a bag of money and said, "Sanlang, I got this from my sister-in-law's house today. I'll give it back to you first."
Zhang Yue took the money and said, "That's fine."
Huang Haoyi wanted to say something again, but Yulian stopped him. Zhang Yue was too lazy to ask more questions and went straight back to his room to rest.
The next day, Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi came to Taixue to go through the naturalization procedures.
Out of the ten scholars recommended by various states and counties, a total of seven people were admitted. As expected, Zhang Youzhi, Hu Xuezheng and others told Zhang Yue that the Taixue exam was not difficult, and it was mainly just a formality.
Even if the three people who failed the exam are not able to make up the imperial examination for the time being, they can still be made up as students of Guangwen Hall and participate in the imperial examination. There is even a way to change their studies to calligraphy and legal studies.
These days, Zhang Yue heard a lot of news in the inn. For example, Wu Zhongfu, who had succeeded Hu Yuan and was in charge of the Imperial Academy, reported to the court that under the old system, every time he met in the examination room, he would re-examine the supervisors of Guangwen Hall.
A make-up examination is required the year before. Rather than going to the examination hall, most people buy prison certificates privately from the capital, change their names and take the examination, and even move to the provincial capital in order to make progress.
The general idea is that many people pretended to be the Imperial College, and Guangwen College students took part in the Imperial College Interpretation Examination, so that many scholars who came to the capital and had no powerful background failed to pass the exam.
Therefore, Wu Zhongfu requested that the original 450 salary quotas for the Imperial College remain unchanged (the imperial court planned to reduce the salary quotas for various departments).
As for the solution to such a problem, it is also very Song Renzong. The officials said, didn't you mean that many candidates who came to Bianjing from far away did not pass the exam? It is very simple. The original 450 answers in the Imperial College Examination were not only insufficient.
It would be nice to increase the number to 600 people.
Today, when Zhang Yue went to the Imperial College, he heard another piece of news that had been rumored for a long time but was now confirmed. This news was very exciting, but it was not good news for him.
Song Renzong submitted a petition to the Gongyuan of the Ministry of Rites.
'For Jinshi from all over the world, the quota for each subject will be reduced by half. The Ming Dynasty special examination is based on the name of each subject, and there is no one from each subject. There are 210 Jinshi in Kaifeng Prefecture, and 160 people from each subject; Guozijian
There are 100 Jinshi, and 15 in each subject, and 10 in Mingjing each, and this is a fixed quota. The Ministry of Rites reports that there are 200 Jinshi, and the number of Jinshi in each subject, Mingjing, and Mingjing cannot exceed the number.'
What does this memorial mean?
The scholars in the world, the dedication of the deities is halved, that is, so many people do not come to Beijing to take the exam (except for the Guozi Monitoring Test).
In addition, in the past, there were more than 300 Jinshi in the first batch. For example, in the second year of Jiayou, there were more than 390 Jinshi in one subject. Now the number has been expanded to 510.
How to distribute the quota among the 510 Jinshi: 210 from Kaifeng Prefecture, 100 from Guozijian, and 200 from the Ministry of Rites (prefectures and counties).
In particular, there are one hundred Jinshi in Guozijian, twenty-six in various subjects, Ming Jing, and six hundred in Jie'an.
But the bad news is that it was originally thought that Ming Jing Ke would have another quota, but now Ming Jing Ke has taken up the quota of other subjects. And even without the Ming Jing Ke quota, the quota of various subjects has been greatly reduced compared with previous years.
For example, there are only twenty-six people in Mingjing in various departments of Guozijian, which is far inferior to the dozens of people last year.
Therefore, among the three people who failed to be selected for Taixue this time, two were from Zhuke and Mingjing.
Anyway, after hearing the news, Huang Haoyi suddenly became proud.
The Imperial College quota was increased from 450 to 600, and the number of Jinshi students was increased to 100, which meant that his worth as a student of the Jinshi Department had skyrocketed.
Just as Zhang Yue was about to leave, a scholar said: "Li Zhi asked you to go there, come with me."
“May I ask who Li Zhijiao is?”
“That’s Mr. Xu Jiang.”
Zhang Yue's expression changed when he heard this. Isn't this Li Gou? The one who was quarreling with his teacher.
“Can you not go?”
The academic looked at Zhang Yue up and down and said: "I told you that you didn't go, so you know that he will be the official official in the university in the future? If you don't go to see him, will you still stay in the university?"
What? Li Gou Guan Gou Taixue, isn't this just hitting the muzzle of the gun?
Zhang Yue had no choice but to follow the student to a teacher's room.
The academic gave Zhang Yue a "take care of yourself" look and left. Zhang Yue knocked on the door helplessly.
"Come in!"
Zhang Yue entered and saw an old man in his late fifties writing large characters with a pen.
“Zhang Yue, a new Confucian scholar in Taixue, met Li Zhisao!”
The old man glanced at Zhang Yue and said, "I heard that your seal writing is very good. How about taking a look at my calligraphy?"
Zhang Yue got closer and saw that the other person was also writing a piece of seal script. It was the famous "Kuaiji Stone Carving".
The old man looked at Zhang Yue and said, "Why don't you say anything? Since you are good at seal writing, you can comment on it!"
Zhang Yue read it and said: "Students dare not comment on the teacher's words easily."
"Hey, you are Mr. Boyi's disciple. You must have insights on seal script! Don't be modest." Li Gou put down his pen.
Zhang Yue said: “Students don’t dare.”
"Humph! I don't even dare to measure you!" Li Gou said with a flick of his sleeves, "No matter how you were before, when you get to Taixue, you will be my student, and you have to obey my orders. But don't worry, even though I am your husband
I have my faults, but if I bully you, I will be bullying the younger, and I will never be ashamed of it."
"I have come to see you today to tell you something. You used to study various subjects to enter Taixue, but now the imperial court has decreed that Taixue will focus on Jinshi subjects, so the students who studied various subjects before can be changed to
Jinshi Department."
“I think your three essays on great meanings are quite impressive, and I think you can also write essays and poems. If you can’t do it for a while, you can ask your teacher to study hard and practice hard after you enter the Jinshi Department of Taixue.”
Zhang Yue couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this. When he was in Pucheng, he was studying in the state school, and the teaching assistant advised him to have the opportunity to change to Jinshi after entering Taixue. Now Li Gou actually mentioned it on his own initiative?
This is not impossible.
There is also plenty of time. After Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal, it was stipulated that students who entered Taixue could take the exam for 500 days before they could take the exam. Students from Zhuzhou and County had to spend 300 days.
Zhang Yue will be unable to make it if he wants to take part in this year's Imperial College Examination.
It is true that Zhang Yue is somewhat confident if he takes the Nine Classics exam now, even if the number of places for passing this subject and other subjects is greatly reduced.
But I am not sure about the Jinshi subject at all. The Jinshi subject cannot be memorized by rote.
Jinshi subjects are required to examine poems, poems, strategies and theories, as well as the meaning of classics and ink.
In addition to pasting the meanings of classics and ink, Zhang Yue was completely incompetent in poetry, prose, policy and theory. What if it failed? The effort of the Nine Classics would have been wasted, so nothing would have been accomplished.
Zhang Yue asked Li Gou: "Can you allow the student to think about it?"
Li Gou didn't think so: "When will you give me an answer?"
Zhang Yue said: “The day after tomorrow.”
Li Gou said: "Promise you! Come to the Imperial College the day after tomorrow to separate the fasts. Once the decision is made, it cannot be changed."
“Thank you, student, for speaking directly.”
After hearing this, Li Gou waved his hand to signal Zhang to go out, as if he didn't want to say more.
Zhang Yue left Shizhai and thought to himself that there might be some twists and turns in the future in Taixue. But if he wants to improve his studies, he can go to Ouyang Xiu's house tomorrow to ask for advice and then make a decision.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue felt relieved.
At this moment, Huang Haoyi had already assigned a living room, and immediately asked: "How is Sanlang? Have you decided on a living room?"
Zhang Yue shook his head and said: "Zhi said that he wants me to improve the scholars. If he improves the scholars, I will go to the Shizhai. I told him to think about it and I will reply to him the day after tomorrow. Zhi said that he will give me a special meal the day after tomorrow.
I would like to hear Shiro's opinion on this matter."
Huang Haoyi said without hesitation: "Of course it is Jinshizhai! There are one hundred Jinshi in the Imperial College now, but only fifteen are in various subjects, and only eleven are in Mingjing. If you can have a Jinshi background, why go to Zhuke."
Zhang Yuedao: "But I have no success in poetry, composition and policy theory."
Huang Haoyi smiled and said: "No one is born like this. A humble person like me can be admitted to the imperial examination, let alone you, Sanlang?"
Zhang Yue glanced at Huang Haoyi and thought, here we go again.
“I’ll think it over again, let’s go back to the inn first!”
Huang Haoyi said: "Yes, I will move into Taixue today. How about leaving Yulian alone? Sanlang, can you please help me take care of it these two days?"
"What?"
Zhang Yue looked at Huang Haoyi.
“Sanlang, after all our friendship, you are not even willing to help me with these small things?” Huang Haoyi said aggrievedly.
Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "Silang, I can help you with anything, but I can't be trusted with anything except my wives."
Huang Haoyi looked confused and said: "Sanlang, why is this?"