"Royal? It sounds like a warrior!"

Wu Haowen learned that he was an uncle on the afternoon of the 30th day of the first lunar month of the third year of Yuanfu, but he was very surprised by his nephew's name.

The Baibo Wu family is a scholarly family. How could he name his son "Yiyong". He sounds like a martial artist. He doesn't look like a song outside Donghua Gate. How could he have "the top scholar, Wu Yiyong"? He is also a top scholar in martial arts!

"Second brother, your brother is a military officer now," Wu Chengzhi, who had just become a grandfather, said to his son happily, "And his two daughters-in-law are also daughters of the family, so they naturally have a strong martial artist when they give birth to their son."

"That's right." Wu Haowen nodded and thought to himself: The Wu family has to rely on himself to glorify his ancestors! But this subject has increased the variables suddenly. I don't know if "Wang Xue" is considered authentic Confucianism?

Thinking of this, Wu Haowen's brows frowned. What he could learn were all the classics of Wang Anshi's version, which were different from the old version. If the standards changed, his Jinshi would be a bit dangerous.

Wu Chengzhi knew his son’s thoughts and smiled and said, “Don’t just study hard anymore. These days, I have been studying all day and never going out. I’m much more haggard. Why don’t you go to the Lihua Villa with your father and your mother to see your nephew and relax by the way.”

"Okay." Wu Haowen took a breath. He knew that his article was good, but his understanding of the meaning of the scriptures was based on "Wang Xue", and he might make mistakes when answering questions. However, now it is less than 10 days away, so it is too late to cram the Buddha at the moment. Why not just follow "Wang Xue" to take the exam. With good articles, the probability of high school is still very high.

In addition, the direction of the question of Ce Questioning must be discussed with my brother. After all, the new party has not yet fallen. Most of the meaning of the "Wang Xue" is still used, but the direction of Ce Questioning is likely to change drastically. If you are not well grasped, there may still be some failures in the exam.

Although Wu Haogu’s articles are not good (actually, they are not as good as a Jinshi), their grasp of policies is quite accurate... He is the official confidant!

Thinking about the imperial examination topic, Wu Haowen had already felt the Lihua Villa with his parents. Because Wu Haogu was a father, the villa was filled with joy. However, there was no lights and firecrackers. Now it was a national demise! Song Huizong was so happy, and he pretended to be frowning.

After giving Wu Hao Ancient Road a happy wedding and hugging a boy who was over seven pounds, Wu Haowen pulled his brother into the study before the meal started. He knew that his brother was a little greedy, so don't get drunk and don't know anything. So please ask clearly before the dinner.

"Cai asked?" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "I will definitely not ask about war anymore... Even if the emperor of Daxing does not die, he will not have such a question. Because Song and Liao are now brotherly countries."

"Brother's Country?" Wu Haowen was stunned, "Is it true or false?"

"Of course it's true," Wu Haogu smiled, "Will Brother Yu still lie to you?"

"So the court will not attack Yanyun in the north?" Wu Haowen asked again.

"Yan Yun was not blown by his mouth when he was expeditioning the Northern Expedition," Wu Haogu waved his hand, "The imperial examination will not test questions like that... This year's strategy should be the harmonious business of the Song and Liao dynasties, or the harmony between the old and new courts."

"How do you write about trade in Song and Liao dynasties?" Wu Haowen asked.

He knew the harmony between the old and the new, but it was not difficult for him to have a good pen, but the problem of harmony between business in Song and Liao was difficult to solve, and he could not do business.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "I don't know how to write it."

I only know that Liao is a big cage that focuses on tigers and wolves, but now its country is unstable and has signs of falling apart. The tigers and wolves that were originally paid attention to by the cage will sooner or later rush out and hurt people. Our dynasty regards Liao as a friendly country, one to delay the collapse of this cage; the other is to join forces with the Khitans and the Han people of Liao when the cage collapses, and build a high wall in Yanyun that can protect tigers and wolves."

"Brother, do you mean that the Liao Kingdom will surely collapse?"

"Yes," Wu Haogu smiled, "There is not only a Khitan tiger in the country of tigers and wolves. Originally, Khitan was the most ferocious tiger, the king of beasts, and it could shock the beasts. However, the peace and peace of the past hundred years have made the Khitan tiger lose its ferociousness. Other beasts in the beasts will naturally jump out to challenge the beast king. It is only a matter of time before the fall of the Khitan king of beasts. Once the Liao Kingdom is taken by ferocious beasts, our dynasty will have no peaceful life."

"Then our dynasty cannot help the Khitan so that it can maintain the Liao Kingdom's territory?"

Wu Haogu asked back: "How to help?"

"Give more annual monies?"

"Do you think the Khitans are weak because they have no money?" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "or do you think the country of Nuzhi is richer than the Khitans?"

"Only a country is rich can a strong army?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "If this were the case, there would be no Liao Kingdom, and there would be no Western Xia! The wealth of our Song Dynasty is at least ten times that of Liao and a hundred times that of Xia. Why has the Liao Kingdom and Xixia not perished so far?

By the same token, the Khitan is ten times richer, a hundred times more rich than the Shubu and Nuzhi, but the Khitan is now unable to suppress these two countries."

Wu Haowen frowned deeply, and didn't know how to refute his brother. But he already knew how to write Jinxiu articles! If the question in this competition really involved the harmony between Song and Liao, then he would probably make a big splash.

Thinking of this, Wu Haowen stood up and saluted his brother respectfully, "Thank you, brother, for your advice."

...

Time flies very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the day on the tenth day of the second month of the third year of Yuanfu was already here.

This is the day when the Ministry of Rites of the Imperial Examination begins, also known as the day of introductory examination. Unlike the rule that divided the Imperial Examination into three days in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ministry of Rites of the Song Dynasty ended in one day. Within one day, four exams were required, namely one classic (also known as the Great Classic), both classics, theories and current affairs.

Four tests a day are definitely a test of the physical strength of the examiner, but physical strength is also necessary. After all, being an official is quite tiring. If you really can’t even take the exam for the seventies and eighties, you’d better go home and rest and don’t come to the subject field to make trouble.

Because the exam time is very tight, the Ministry of Rites started very early. In order not to delay the start of the exam, the four Wu family members from Baibo, Luoyang moved into the Wu family mansion located in Xichengxiang, Kaifeng Prefecture on the ninth day of the second month.

After the third update of the next day (middle morning), I got up, washed up, and then used breakfast with the Wu family and his son, and went out together, and went to the imperial examination room for a long time.

Wu Haogu also entered the city the afternoon before. Although he did not take the imperial examination, he still came with his father to cheer for his younger brother. By the way, he became familiar with the environment. If he didn't take the civil examination, he still had to take the next examination. Even if he didn't take the civil examination, he would still have to get a Wu Jinshi.

Wu Jinshi is also a Jinshi! Only with the title of Jinshi can his Six Arts Academy become louder.

Because Wu Haogu joined, the team of Wu's disciples taking the exam became larger. Wu Haogu is now a hot official confidant! Naturally, there should be more followers when entering and leaving. Today, Lin Chong led the way with four eleven or two-year-old slave soldiers. Lin Chong rode a tall horse, and the four little slaves each lit up a lantern to light the carriages and horses following behind.

Wu Haogu also rode a horse behind Lin Chong. His horsemanship has made great progress and he can now gallop. Wu Haowen, Wu Chengzhi and the other four juren from the Wu family rushed to the examination room in carriages. They were not able to ride horses. Don’t fall off the horse’s back and can’t enter the examination room. This is a joke.

"Yeah, yah, yah, yah..."

At this time, Fan Zhijin had already arrived outside the Imperial College Gate in the south wing of Kaifeng Prefecture. Because the weather was very cold, he sucked the cold wind again, his throat was itchy, and he started coughing loudly.

"Brother Jinzhi, are you okay?" Huang Qianshan, who got up early like Fan Zhijin, asked with concern. There were several other juren who also lived in Daxiangguo Temple, who also looked at him with concern.

After changing the official family, Fan Zhijin's popularity continued and it was still rising.

He is now a native of Daming Prefecture! He is a fellow villager with Empress Dowager Xiang and the next Prime Minister Han Zhongyan personally sent someone to the Daming Prefecture Jieyuan in Kaifeng Prefecture!

There are two relationships in that as long as he can pass the Ministry of Rites test, his ranking in the palace examination will not be bad.

Moreover... he can also regard himself as Han Zhongyan's disciple as the chief examiner of Daming Mansion, and at the same time he has expressed kindness to him. Therefore, as long as Fan Zhijin can go to high school, he will be a student of the Han family in the future!

When Fan Zhijin thought about how he could use Han Zhongyan's power to cure Wu Haogu in the future (he didn't know whether Wu Haogu was the official confidant or Han Zhongyan's son-in-law's brother), he immediately became much more energetic and smiled at Huang Qianshan and said, "It's okay, today is the day when you and I have learned, how can there be any trouble?"

When Fan Zhijin was speaking, not far away, a pair of angry eyes stared at him. The person who saw him was Fan Zhiwen from the Fan family of Yanggu, a talented man of the same generation as Fan Zhijin.

Fan Zhijin resented Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing, but Fan Zhiwen hated his cousin who caused trouble and even defected to Liangshan.

If Fan Zhijin hadn't caused trouble, Yanggu Yimen Fan would be fine now!

Fan Zhijin, who was following the thief, actually came to Kaifeng Prefecture to take the exam for the Ministry of Rites under his name... Fan Zhiwen gritted his teeth and looked at Fan Zhijin, who was surrounded by stars in the middle, and was not very angry. He didn't know how to go to the yamen to explain the matter of the thief clearly!

However, he will not expose Fan Zhijin now. He is also here to take the imperial examination. Only by passing the imperial examination can he save the decline of the Fan family in Yanggu.
Chapter completed!