Bookseller Yu smiled after returning from the counter: "How did you all enjoy your chat?"
Seeing this, Yu Yunruo stood up and said, "Since my uncle is here, Yunruo will take his leave."
The other party immediately retreated.
Seeing this scene, Bookshang Yu looked at the faces of the three of them and said with a smile: "I have packed up the place where you guys are staying. Please come here."
"Thank you."
Immediately, Bookseller Yu led several people to the backyard room.
In front of Bookseller Yu's residence is a shop, with an attic built above, where the shop assistants live.
Behind the shop is a small courtyard, separated by a hanging flower door. The main house in the courtyard is a large house with three bays facing south, and there is a wing room on the east side.
The wing room was packed up for Zhang Yue and the three of them to live in.
In the evening, Bookseller Yu set up a banquet in the house to entertain everyone. He Qiyan had friends in Jianyang, but did not attend the banquet. In the evening Bookseller Yu brought his wife, two sons, and an infant daughter to the banquet.
Bring it out to meet guests.
Except for the men, the women all went to another room to eat.
Yu Shushang said to Zhang Yue and Guo Lin: "My place is very cramped, so please bear with me."
Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Yu can give me a place to stay. I am very grateful to you."
Bookseller Yu said with some deep meaning: "Actually, when guests came in the past, they could all leave the side room and the back room. But now the back room is occupied by my niece, so the yard is not very spacious."
"It's not that I'm mean to my niece. My brother was very kind to me when he was alive. It's just that my wife is a little displeased and treats my niece badly, which makes me feel uneasy at home now."
"Yun Ruo has now reached the age of marriageable age, and I don't dare to find her a husband casually. She said she wanted to find a scholar as her husband, so I would rather use all the money as a dowry, hoping that she will get married soon.
What a good husband!"
Zhang Yue glanced at Guo Lin and said with a smile: "Brother Guo is a good man, and he will definitely be a good match for your niece."
After hearing Zhang Yue's words, Guo Lin almost choked to death on the food he was given, and hurriedly said: "I can't do it, I can't do it."
Boss Yu was a little embarrassed when he saw this and said: "Eat the food, eat the food."
After the two of them finished eating, they returned to the house. At this time, He Qi also came back.
But he said that He Qi had a place to seek refuge in Jianyang, but he didn't go there. He thought that Zhang Yue and Guo Lin would have connections in Jianyang, and he had planned to borrow some money from them. Now that they met, they just stayed with a businessman.
At home, I suddenly lost interest.
He Qifang just went to an acquaintance to ask about his future, and was told that he would be sent to Bianjing this time. The Jinshi Scholarship at Nanjing Imperial College had already been decided, and He Qi's future was bleak.
Although He Qi repeatedly asked for help, the other party still shook his head, and he couldn't help but feel disappointed when he heard this.
Now He Qi came back and saw Zhang Yue, Guo and Lin laughing in the room: "Did shopkeeper Yu just ask you two to marry his niece?"
Guo Lin was stunned and said: "Brother He is really good at predicting things."
He Qi smiled slightly and said: "As expected, Sanlang, I just saw that the woman seems to be interested in you. This is exactly the choice of Pingque."
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Brother He, don't make fun of me. I just recommended you to Shopkeeper Yu."
"Me?" He Qi sneered, "That woman will never pick on me."
"Why?" Guo Lin said.
He Qi smiled but said nothing.
The next day, the three of them dressed up and hired a donkey cart to go to the state school.
Came to the state to study.
But apart from Zhang Yue and several others, there were also many students from various prefectures and counties standing there.
Such as Shaowujun, Ouning County, Jianyang County, and Chongwu County. Of course, the largest number of students are from Jian'an County. The prefecture school was also established in Jian'an County, but in the second year of Zhiping, the prefecture school was burned down, so it was moved to Jianyang.
In the Jinshi list for the second year of Jiayou's reign, Jian'an County produced a total of nine Jinshis, and there were nearly twenty Jinshis in Jianzhou as a whole. Many of them came from the Imperial College Supervisory Examination or changed their registration from Kaifeng Prefecture.
Therefore, is it difficult to become a Jinshi?
Not difficult at all.
The proportion of Jinshi from the north to the south in the Song Dynasty had become seriously unbalanced by the Renzong Dynasty.
The imbalance is so great that after passing the examination in each subject, more than 90% of the candidates are from the south. But what is very interesting is that when selecting the prime ministers, the Song Dynasty still followed the ancestral teachings of Song Taizu and followed the story of "Southerners cannot be prime ministers" , it was not until Zhang Dexiang and Wang Qinruo that he made an exception, but in general the chief ministers were still from the north.
Therefore, it is understandable why Wu Yu and Wu Chong actively entered into marriage alliances with prominent families in the north.
At this moment, the students were divided into their own circles, half of whom were students from the state school. The places to go to the Imperial College were selected by the state school, so the scholars from the state school had a unique advantage in this regard.
This time, among the nine Jianyang-born Jinshi, three were students of the Imperial College. Of the three to four hundred Jinshi quotas for each subject, the imperial court would always allocate eighty to the Imperial College.
Everyone chatted separately. Zhang Yue didn't want to continue chatting with Guo Lin and He Qi, so he turned around and wandered for a while, admiring the aura of the top student, getting to know a few people, and expanding his network.
"Brother, I am from Jinshizhai, a state school, right? I am Zhang Yue, a Confucian classics student from Pucheng County."
The other party said with a cold and arrogant face: "Journalists? Does the Imperial College recruit economics students?"
Zhang Yue......
"This brother has an extraordinary temperament. I am studying Zhangyue from Pucheng County."
"I met my brother, who studied under Yang Dangfeng in Xiazhou."
"Dangfeng, what a good name!"
"That's true, but Brother Zhang's name is a bit ordinary."
Zhang Yue...
"This brother, I learned it in Xia Pucheng County."
"Well? Pucheng County School?"
"Exactly."
"I only heard that there is Nanfeng Academy in Pucheng, where Zhang Ziping, the number one scholar in modern science, came from. Only people like this are worthy of being friends with me."
Zhang Yue......
"This brother..."
"I don't have time to chat with you, and I don't have time to know your name. I entered the Imperial College when I came here. As for who you are and what your name is, it's all the same to me."
Zhang Yue walked around and came back and couldn't help but sigh, what kind of academic master are these!
Each one of them is crazier than his second brother!
Just as I was sighing alone, an academic officer came down and said: "Give me all three of your policy papers. I will come up to the hall as soon as your names are read out."
Zhang Yue and others all handed in the papers recording historical policies.
Soon, names began to be called in the Master Hall. Three people entered the Master Hall one after another. After entering, they left after more than a quarter of an hour.
From morning to noon, Zhang Yue, who was used to eating snacks, was so hungry that his chest pressed against his back.
Guo Lin gave the cooking cakes he brought to Zhang Yue and He Qi to eat.
After everyone chewed a few mouthfuls, they heard the academic officer shout: "Pucheng County Academician Zhang Yue, Guo Lin, why bother!"
The three of them were in a hurry, swallowing the cooking cakes while cleaning up, and then walked into the Master Hall together.
After that, I saw several long desks on the table, with Xuezheng from Zhouxue, Assistant Professor, and Zhizhi sitting respectively. The one sitting in the middle must be Li Xuezheng from Xuexue, and Assistant Professor Sun was also present.
Everyone looked at the three people discussing their strategies.
Someone on the side said: "If you go to the Imperial College in the imperial examination, you will have to leave your hometown and live in the capital forever. How can you bear the pain of leaving your hometown and saying goodbye to your family? You don't need to answer me immediately. You can think about it yourself."
After a while, the person asked: "Have you thought about it?"
The three of them said together: "In order to study and understand the holy way, I dare not give up hardship."
The man nodded and said: "The hard work is one, and the road is hard is two. From Jianzhou to Bianjing, Nanjing is a long way, and the road is not peaceful, and there are groups of thieves from time to time. If you are not careful, you will lose your life. If you arrive
In Bianjing or Nanjing, if you fail to pass the imperial examination, you will have to return to Jianzhou. Not only will your efforts be in vain, but you will also have to suffer from this displacement."
"You can think carefully about this, and don't rush to answer me."
Public security in the Song Dynasty was indeed not very good.
The courtiers have said that since Xibi (Western Xia Dynasty) started to use troops, they have been poor in material resources and resentful, and the court cannot appease them. As a result, swarms of thieves have sprung up and robbed the cities of three or four states. The thieves are divided into small ones and big ones.
The power of a giant thief.
Thieves dare to openly rob even a heavily fortified state city, what else would they not dare to do, let alone pedestrians on the road.
Rich and powerful families who hire servants to protect them dare not speak comprehensively, let alone scholars like them who are powerless.
No wonder Zhang Heng practiced archery desperately. It turned out that it was not to exercise his body, but to save his life on the road.
The distance from Bianjing to Pucheng is thousands of miles. If you fail the exam, you have to go back again.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue was indeed a little worried.
"Would you like to go?"
"I'm willing to go!" Zhang Yue replied unanimously.
It seems that everyone's thoughts are average. Even though the chance is slim, they still have to give it a try.
Seeing the answers of the three people, Li Xuezheng in the hall smiled and said: "Don't ask, you have traveled thousands of miles with a sword. This is a scholar of the Han and Tang Dynasties. How can he be inferior to the ancients now?"
He Qi's expression suddenly changed and he said: "What Xuezheng said is absolutely true. As the saying goes, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Studying abroad means reading ten thousand books and traveling thousands of miles. Students have this ambition."
Zhang Yue thought, of course, He Qi showing such urgency can attract the attention of the examiner, but it also has disadvantages. If you encounter an examiner who likes rules, this will be bad.
But right now, no one is taking responsibility.
Li Xuezheng nodded and said: "Well said." Then he looked at Guo Lin. Guo Lin said: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, my master led his disciples to travel to the fourteen countries in the west and traveled thousands of miles. Although the horses were tired and the chariots were tired, they made great achievements after returning home.
The Six Classics will shine through the ages."
Zhang Yue said: "Li Taibai went abroad with his sword. He was poor in the south and crossed the sea of underworld in the east; Ban Dingyuan was far away, and he turned to the end of the world and was a minister thousands of miles away. Li and Ban are both role models for scholars of our generation."
"
Li Xuezheng all stroked their beards and nodded, then said: "Not bad."
Then Li Xuezheng said again: "Even if the state does not recommend you to go to the Imperial College, it can still recommend you to at least study in the state. Are you going to go back to the county to study? Or go to the state to study?"
It's a problem now.
But He Qi was the first to say again: "Students have long admired the demeanor of the upright elders. If there is such an opportunity, of course they are willing to go to the state to study!"
This answer has advantages and disadvantages.
Zhang Yue and Guo Lin both agreed to go back to the county to study.
Li Xuezheng stopped talking here, and several other academic officials asked the three of them several questions about Shi Ce.
Finally, Li Xuezheng said: "I will review your strategy in detail later. You go down first and you will know tomorrow."
The three of them bowed and left together, which took exactly a quarter of an hour.
