It was a bit a coincidence that Zhou Mengchen and his group and his group arrived at Bianyifang.

It seems that the class is full.

Now it is the middle of the first month of the 26th year of Jiajing, and there are still a few days before the Lantern Festival. It seems that the money that the people of Beijing have saved for a year has been paid out. And Bianyifang is not a restaurant for those high-ranking officials. They focus on the middle and lower levels of food.

The common people gritted their teeth and could also order a duck from here.

It’s just that people who have real consumption power are also those little officials. However, during the Chinese New Year, it seems a bit special.

Zhou Mengchen took his family to eat at Bianyifang several times. Even if Zhou Mengchen had time to eat at home, he would ask the servants to order a duck takeout. So he was considered a regular customer.

When the store owner saw Zhou Mengchen coming, he said, "It's a coincidence that Lord Zhou has many customers today, why don't you put a table with other guests today?"

Zhou Mengchen had no airs and said, "It's easy to say, I'm just three of us, so I can't be too crowded."

The store owner immediately said enthusiastically: "I understand, of course I won't let Lord Zhou play the table with the unclean people."

Under the arrangement of the store, Zhou Mengchen and the other person in the corner were playing tables.

After Zhou Mengchen sat down, he looked at the person who was playing the table. He was about thirty years old, with a thin complexion, prominent joints and a gentle temperament. This made Zhou Mengchen a little strange. He seemed to be a scholar, but from his perspective, he had done a lot of physical work.

Zhou Mengchen and others nodded to the stranger. The other party nodded slightly, just as he said hello.

Zhou Mengchen started talking to Yin Zhengmao.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Brother Yin is also a juren, why is it to the present?"

The juren of the Ming Dynasty were already considered a privileged class.

The so-called poor scholar and rich scholar.

Once you become a juren, you will often not be short of money. Why are you swept out before the exam? Although that store has a bit of chameleon quality, it is the same. The more you believe it, it is definitely not the store that intentionally makes things difficult for Yin Zhengmao.

Yin Zhengmao sighed and said, "There is nothing else, the root of poverty is too deep, and it is difficult to get rid of it for a while."

Immediately, Yin Zhengmao told him everything.

The famous Hui merchants in the world are Yin Zhengmao's hometown. As Yin Zhengmao said, having a famous Hui merchant does not mean that the local area is rich. On the contrary, it means that the local area is generally poor, so that they have to go far away to make a living.

Yin Zhengmao's ancestors were Jia Sidao's generals. They followed Jia Sidao to participate in the key battle of the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. After the battle of Dingjiazhou, the ancestors of the Yin family fled to Huizhou to settle down. Now it has been more than ten generations and are once famous families. However, by this time Yin Zhengmao's family had already lost.

Yin Zhengmao's father was a small businessman who was traveling outside and didn't make much money. He gritted his teeth to support Yin Zhengmao's study. Yin Zhengmao was also a success and earned money from studying. After passing the imperial examination, he did not allow his father to travel outside. Yin Zhengmao had several younger brothers under him, and Yin Zhengmao was all working for his studies. He went to Beijing many times to take the exam, and the round-trip fees were a large amount.

The Yin family is living a tight life.

Yin Zhengmao had enough gold and silver, but he didn't expect that he would get sick on the way north and immediately had a big gap in the money in his hand. This made him have the current situation.

Yin Zhengmao was so excited that he gritted his teeth and slapped the table, saying, "A real man should not be rich for a day. I know today."

Zhou Mengchen has not seen whether Yin Zhengmao has talent. But one thing he can see is that, as Yin Zhengmao himself said, he is probably planting deep roots of poverty and cannot be fully exhausted for a while. Yin Zhengmao has a deep obsession with gold and silver.

However, this is nothing to Zhou Mengchen.

He was not very interested in silver. No matter how much money he had, he could not buy what Zhou Mengchen wanted. But after all, he was a person from later generations. I don’t know how many people were passionate about money and had no bottom line desire. Yin Zhengmao was where he arrived.

It even made Zhou Mengchen feel a little worried.

If everyone in the world could communicate with money, Zhou Mengchen felt that it would save more trouble and make more ways to make money. But the problem is that at the top of the Ming Dynasty, a considerable number of people could not buy it with money.

This is Zhou Mengchen's trouble.

Zhou Mengchen raised the teacup and said, "I wish Brother Yin to fulfill his wish."

Yin Zhengmao took a sip of tea and said, "I don't know what you two are?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "I, Zhou Mengchen, whose courtesy name is Feixiong, is from Wuchang. This is a good friend of the fellow villager. Zhang Juzheng, whose courtesy name is Shuda, is from Jingzhou."

The three of them have officially met.

Yin Zhengmao said: "Are you two juren?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "Brother Zhang is, I am not. I am ashamed. I am a student of the Imperial College."

"Hmph." Zhou Mengchen's words made the person at the deskmate a little unhappy. He said, "What's so shameful about this student of the Imperial College? He is generally ashamed of not being able to learn, not being able to do the Imperial College."

Zhou Mengchen was slightly stunned when he heard this and said, "I wonder if this brother, Daming, seems to be from the Imperial College?"

"I'm Yang Jisheng." He said: "It's the Imperial College student you are ashamed of. But why haven't I seen you in the Imperial College? Is it a tribute student, a yin student, or a donation student?"

Zhou Mengchen didn't know how to answer for a moment. He had hardly entered the Imperial College. If Yang Jisheng had seen him in the Imperial College, he would have been a ghost.

The tribute student is the formal selection mechanism of the Imperial College, and is an outstanding student from various local government schools. He was selected and sent to the Imperial College in the North and South China. In the early Ming Dynasty, students of the Imperial College could be directly appointed as officials. This identity is quite useful. However, now there are too many restrictions on entering the Imperial College as a student.

Therefore, this group of Imperial College students are not much different from ordinary juren.

Many people only place names in Imperial College and do not live in the Imperial College.

Of course, there are some people who live in the Imperial College campus. After all, it is a free dormitory and teacher guidance. This is also a very good educational resource for many poor students.

As for Yinsheng, it is the reward given to the high officials by the court, which is Yin Yizi, who is the student of the Imperial College. Donating a student is to pay for money.

These people are all rich young men and the source of the corruption of the Imperial College. Yang Jisheng naturally did not be very polite when speaking. He regarded Zhou Mengchen as such a person.

Zhou Mengchen said, "I am really ashamed, it is your Majesty's kindness and reward."

Yang Jisheng's face remained unchanged and said, "Since you know that you are ashamed, you should study hard. If you cannot bear the kindness of your father and grandfather, you will look down on the Imperial College. It is important to know that Xu Jijiu and Gaolei are all first-class talents. If you can get one, you will be able to get it this time. The teachers of the Imperial College are only worried about not knowing how to teach you and other wealthy students, but never ashamed of having students like you."

Zhou Mengchen couldn't stand it for a moment.

Today's affairs are indeed Zhou Mengchen's ignorance.

Although the Imperial College is not as good as before, it is not a person without real talent and knowledge. Not to mention anything else, you only need to know that the current Imperial College Priest is Xu Jie, and Gao Gong also serves in it, and you will know that the teaching staff of the Imperial College is definitely the first-class.

It is precisely because the quality of students is too poor, and the Imperial College students have no future and are not attractive to many scholars, which makes Imperial College worse and worse.

But no matter what, Zhou Mengchen was also a student of the Imperial College. He relied on the privilege of the Imperial College student and escaped the selection of scholars and juren. What others say about the Imperial College student is someone else's business. Zhou Mengchen could not raise his meal and put down his meal and curse.

It’s like no matter how bad my alma mater is, I can only scold myself in private, and I will never tell you how my school is in front of outsiders.

If you say this, you will suddenly meet a senior in the same school, which is Zhou Mengchen’s embarrassment today.

Yin Zhengmao was soft-handed and soft-hearted. Seeing Zhou Mengchen embarrassed, he hurriedly said, "Brother Yang, Brother Zhou is just a mistake. You just hold on like this. Isn't it a bit too much?"
Chapter completed!