The conversation was divided into two parts. While Li Su was trusting and taking office, he also entered the hottest stage as the "Imperial Examination Mathematics Textbook Outline" he released in full swing in Chang'an City.

Especially Maocai, who is related to mathematics, and the atmosphere between scholars suddenly became tense after two subjects of Ming Cun.

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On the night when I bought "Nine Chapters Collection of Notes", I had just obtained the book and Sun Zi was still in a state of ecstasy in a dream. Jia Kui was already awake before him. As soon as he left the place where the people were queuing up, he immediately pulled Sun Zi to run wildly to the toad temple where they were staying.

"What are you doing in such a hurry?" Sun Zi's physique is not as good as Jia Kui. He will easily get angry after running for a long time, so he couldn't help asking.

Jia Kui shook his finger and hated the ironclad: "My brother, you are too experienced. What are your identities? Because they have a little reputation among the sergeants in the county, but others think that we are not good at studying, so they accidentally got the opportunity to accompany the exam. Now we have the opportunity to get a secret self-study study. Will the master who spent a lot of money be wary of us being motivated?

I even suspected that if we took these books and went straight to the lower place, maybe we would meet people from the master's family to block the door and search for us in a while. I saw that before we went back, we would just temporarily hide the books in a place, buy two cans of wine, and pretended that we had met an old friend in a foreign land to drink, and we only came back now, and we didn't know anything."

Sun Zi thought for a while and realized it completely. He felt it made sense and did not dare to save money at the moment. For the sake of security, he spent nearly a hundred dollars to buy two pots of the cheapest sour wine and drank it back with Jia Kui.

Jia Kui invited him to eat dog meat before, and Jia Kui was richer than him, so Sun Zi would not buy wine to return gifts. However, he really realized that no matter how knowledgeable Jia Kui was, his scheming experience was obviously stronger than him. Fortunately, the two did not have a competitive relationship and they had to help each other. Therefore, seeing that Jia Kui gave advice twice, he decided to endure the pain and invite him to drink.

Sure enough, when the two of them returned to the Toad Mausoleum and stayed in the dilapidated temple like drunkenly, they saw fighting and scolding at the entrance of the dilapidated temple.

Before they could watch the fun, they came to their doors for trouble.

Jia Kui was stopped by several big men, and a weak scholar with a blue face turned around the corner of the street behind him. He bowed to Jia Kui with a smile:

"Fourth brother, I asked you to take the exam together this time, but I didn't provide you with a place to entangle you. It's not Brother Yu. So today I want to come and see you. Until before the exam, Brother Yu asked you to live in a good house in the north of the city, so you can also study with peace of mind."

It turned out that this person was a distant brother of Jia Kui, named Jia Zheng, who was the eldest in the clan. He was the supporter of the Jia family this year to "study with the prince".

As mentioned earlier, the Jia family in Hedong where Jia Kui is located is actually barely considered a noble family. However, his father, who was born in Jia Kui, died early, so Uncle Topi became poorer.

When I was looking for someone to accompany me for the imperial examination, I was not a single cat or dog. You have to make sure that the scholar is indeed a little famous in the local area. Everyone knows that everyone is good and has studied.

It is precisely because everyone still needs some shame and cannot directly seek illiterate and mentally retarded accompanying him, so it is possible to be intercepted by a dark horse.

Correspondingly, the aristocratic families have reviewed the situation many times in terms of how to prevent these low-probability occurrences. They have made various efforts. If they appear, they will be stifled. Things involving officials must not be careless.

Jia Kui pretended to be drunk and responded politely: "Thank you, brother for your kindness. I am used to playing with these poor and humble friends. I am afraid that it will embarrass my brother and his friends..."

Seeing this, Jia Zheng was not good at tearing his face directly, but asked indirectly: "Where is this going back today? Could it be that he heard that "Nine Chapters Collection" is on sale, so..."

Jia Kui burped: "What? Today I met this virtuous brother from Bingzhou, who is not far from our family. He was a foreigner and heard the kindness of his hometown. He made an appointment to drink with him for a while, but I have never heard of anything else."

Sun Zi also quickly cooperated with his acting skills and greeted Jia Zheng in the accent of Hedong and Shangdang. The other party heard that his accent was indeed true, so he asked him about his origin and learned that he was from Bingzhou. During his reign, Wang Yun came to Chang'an to serve the imperial court and entered the Imperial Academy. Later, he was turbulent and wandered in Fufeng. Everything was reasonable, so he did not break up any doubts.

The servants brought by Jia Zheng just took advantage of the two of them drunk and pretended to help them and searched randomly. They didn't find the books they had collected. So they gave the owner a look and helped them in the door.

After the arrangement was made, Jia Zheng whispered and privately ordered his subordinates: "These days, the four people in the same county and department have been watching each other. If they don't have any eyes and are ungrateful, go to the Zhen family store to buy books, and give them the color to see if they should."

After saying that, the people who were watching outside the temple gate were left, and the rest left.

Shortly after Jia Zheng left, the entourage of the powerful Fufeng County family who sent Sun Zi to come over to talk about the news, but Jia Kui and Sun Zi were calm and did not rush to read that night, so there was no flaw.

After nightfall, they noticed that there were two injured or damaged scholars in the same dilapidated temple, wailing there. They took advantage of the late night and no one was following the crowd, and then went to inquire about the situation.

Several uninjured scholars in the same temple should have been taking the filial piety and integrity subjects, and they all said to explain: "I heard that they had taken the money and settled the family, but they still did the task of betraying the Lord and asking for honor. They were caught. They had agreed to come to accompany the exam, but they actually wanted to buy secret books and work hard on their own, but the book was also taken away and burned."

When Sun Zi heard this, he secretly gasped in his heart: "Does Jingzhao Yin ignore this matter at the foot of the emperor?"

The scholars of the Xiaolian Department: "Who said he didn't care? Before you came back, the yamen runners from Jingzhao Prefecture came to ask, but it was indeed the gangsters in the Beijing that heard that these people were unrighteous and teased them, and they couldn't bear it and had a conflict.

It’s not a big deal. Those gangsters also paid for the medicine. The rest were so poor that they could not afford to pay for the money for books. They should go to the prison for a few days and wait for a few days. Those gangsters didn’t care. Anyway, there was no mastermind behind them."

Only then did Jia Kui and Sun Zi realize the problem: What scholars are most afraid of is that the other party is looking for people who are worthless in life and have no future and no value to bother you. Even if you don’t seriously hurt someone, it is too easy for you to delay your peace for a month.

And the key is that the social atmosphere at the end of the Han Dynasty was originally like this. Many people also think that these scholars who want to turn over are "unfaithless and unrighteous".

After all, being able to come to fame is a quota that others have acquisitioned. If the competition is really relaxed, maybe the five people in every county will come to take the exam now.

Many people who come to surround the country now are not the best people in the county to learn the best, but they just happen to be "the stupid son of a powerful family". They just won over those people's words, and according to the rules of official business, you shouldn't be doing this official.

On the other hand, these cases of being beaten are not solid enough. Sometimes they even collect money from the owner before leaving, which is suspected of "betraying the owner" in the eyes of the world.

Jia Kui and Sun Zi are pretty good. Sun Zi is just a foreign visitor who is self-cultivated, and Jia Kui does not take the money or money from the direct descendants of the same clan, and his nature is slightly better.

Therefore, based on the current social situation of the first imperial examination, at least 80% of them are surrounded by powerful families and those who are unexpectedly intercepted by dark horses, at most no more than 10% or 20%.

The reason why Li Su wanted to stir up this muddy water with temporary measures from the upper level was not to fundamentally change anything. He just didn't want the first imperial examination to be said to be a complete exchange of interests.

He also wanted to tear a little hole in the thick black fog, even if it only accounts for one or two percent, it could at least make scholars all over the world believe that "the emperor and Sikong are good, the executive level has no experience for the time being, and are surrounded by those despicable families."

If there is no dark horse to intercept the Hu, and if there is no "justice" at the court level, the administrative efficiency of the court will be embarrassing.

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With Li Su's IQ, of course, he had expected what kind of reaction the public would have after the launch of "Nine Chapters Collection of Notes".

Even a guy with an intellectual 80-year-old can infer the twists and turns of the situation based on social experience, for Li Su, it is easier than eating and drinking water.

Therefore, while asking Zhen’s family, a wealthy businessman, to sell books, he had secretly considered how to deploy and monitor the official position.

The next morning, because of Li Sikong's personal inquiries, Jingzhao Yin, Zhi Jinwu, the city gate lieutenant and other yamen sent people to strengthen the order and public order in the Chang'an market.

At the same time, while focusing on cracking down on Chang'an idle staff who caused trouble and disturbed scholars, the Zhen family continued to sell books, and could also buy books for real-name scholars who bought books by real-name. If the teaching aid is accidentally damaged, they can be exchanged at a discount.

In fact, the reason why Li Su asked merchants to sell books as a civilian identity at the beginning, rather than the government directly posted books, was to lure the snake out of the hole and to give those noisy guys courage. Otherwise, Li Su would have been too close to the public from the beginning, and many people would not dare to show their heads.

It’s true. After a little strict investigation, I found hundreds of cases of "studying with someone to buy books secretly and get troubled by others". On the surface, all loyal people in society don’t like these people who sell their owners and seek honor, and "spontaneously chivalrously" beat up candidates.

However, with Li Sikong's personal inquiries, these evil deeds were naturally dealt with quickly and strictly. A few days later, at a five-day dynasty meeting in late August, Li Sikong also talked about the recent issues in Chang'an City in front of the emperor.

The emperor was naturally furious and criticized Jingzhao Yin Wu Yi and Tingwei Zheng Fa Zheng in the court, saying that they were not good at doing things well and did not escort the first talent ceremony.

Wu Yi and Fa Zheng naturally apologized for reprimanding at the court meeting, and this matter was considered to have passed.

Of course, after going to court, Liu Bei privately invited Wu Yi and Fa Zheng to the palace, gave him a banquet to have a meal together, and comforted them with embarrassment in public at the court meeting, which outsiders did not know.

As time entered the ninth month of the lunar calendar, in short, the thousands of scholars gathered in Chang'an City fully realized that the saints and wise ministers worked hard to protect everyone's future, and the street talks and discussions on the court and the country were completely turned to the rhythm that Li Su wanted.
Chapter completed!