In December, winter has arrived.

No matter how stern the world of the outer palace looks, as soon as you enter Kaifeng Prefecture, even if there are ice and snow around you, you can feel a different kind of prosperity. Especially the three-year imperial examination competition, which is in the spring of the following year.

On the official roads in Kaifeng Prefecture, there were endless test-taking candidates from all over the world. The wealthy candidates rode in chariots and horses, took their followers, and went to Beijing to take the exam in a vast way. The underachieving scholars were three or five fellow disciples, riding donkeys and carrying bags, talking loudly along the way, and they were as bold as ever.

On the road to heaven, no matter what wealth or poor you are, even if you are penniless, as long as your moral article is good enough, you can still enter the Hall of the Son of Heaven. Even if you look down on the old scholar, no one dares to underestimate the sages on the way to Kaifeng Prefecture, who is a saint who reads thoroughly, will not put the face of the poor and the rich, which is too uncultured.

Besides, the imperial examination is really not sure. No one stipulates that he is old, and the sloppy and sloppy poor student cannot go to high school? Wu Zhongyi, the 561st Jinshi in the third year of Yuanfu, is an inspirational story in the imperial examination. He was 65 years old and married a beautiful family after high school, and became a father again... He is so old and stronger!

The imperial examination is so magical! It is precisely because of its magic and relative fairness that it completely captured the hearts of Chinese landlord intellectuals, and for more than a thousand years, he was crazy about it.

But why is the examination system that makes scholars all over the world crazy and fascinated by the test now facing an unprecedented crisis!

With the successive opening of the Five University Palaces and the first right-list imperial examination to be held soon, everyone who has not had high school on the "Tongtian Road" has chills on their backs.

Regardless of whether the imperial examinations would be cancelled or not, it would be changed to the academy to recruit scholars. In the era when Wang Anshi presided over the reform, the idea of ​​abolishing the imperial examinations and using the Taixue to recruit scholars was the establishment of the five university palaces and the emergence of the corresponding right-list Jinshi exams, which already shows that the officials were not very satisfied with those scholars who were taken out using Confucian classics.

The ladder to heaven for millions of scholars in the Song Dynasty is already shaking...

Tang Xiaoyao, a scholar from Shu, had already seen the red city walls of Kaifeng Prefecture's Xicheng, and under the winter sun, a vibrant aura was revealed.

Unlike the last time he went to Beijing to take the exam, Tang Xiaoyao just led a donkey and walked from Tangjiabao step by step from the Tangjiabao to Kaifeng Mansion under the emperor's feet.

The reason why he came to Kaifeng Mansion without his followers was not that Tang Xiaoyao was honing his will and exercising his body. It was that he had no evil money in his pocket!

That’s right, Tangmen in Shuzhong is a century-old store, and the Tang family’s old store, one of the 72 main stores in Kaifeng Prefecture, belongs to theirs.

However, the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is not a Yimen that eats big pot rice. Ci does not control the army, and Yi does not control the wealth. Yimen cannot do business well, so the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is a family of officials and businessmen that cannot take the Yimen that has big pot rice.

Although there are two benefits of "clan field" and "clan school" in the Tang clan, which are the benefits of family gathering. Moreover, the down-and-out children of the Tang family can also be given priority to enter the Tang family's old store (there are more than one Tang family's old store, which are all opened by the Tang clan members, but they are not chain stores and do not belong to the family). It is also easy to be cultivated by the elders in the clan. However, the big pot rice still does not exist!

Therefore, after Tang Xiaoyao's old Tang family store opened by his father went bankrupt, his identity improved leap. He was no longer a child of an inequality businessman, but a noble landlord intellectual. There were hundreds of acres of land in Shuzhou next to Chengdu Prefecture, so he could be regarded as a medium-sized landlord.

However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the income from merchants to purchase land investment was very meager. Buying land was just a means to store wealth, not a means to obtain wealth, unless they were as good as Wu Chengchang to manage land.

However, Tang Xiaoyao's father did not know how to farm, so he could only rely on a few rents to maintain the daily life of a family. He did not have much spare time to support the talented man in Tang to go to Beijing to take the exam with a grand ceremony...

What made Tang Xiaoyao even more helpless was that his father, who opened a hotel until he went bankrupt, did not learn any lessons and wanted to follow his footsteps. So he did not agree with him for continuing the exam, but asked him to change careers and learn to open a hotel. He started with being a chef and planned to teach him the cooking secrets he passed down from his ancestors!

This is too ridiculous! How can a talented scholar who has passed the exam twice as an exam become a cook? Although Tang Xiaoyao is already a good dish, he is probably the best one in the talented people's world.

But that is interest, not a means of making a living!

Looking at the tall and majestic Kaifeng Prefecture walls, Tang Xiaoyao, who was already dissatisfied with tears in his eyes.

If you fail the exam today, you have to accompany the wok and kitchen knife... From now on, life is a sad husband!

Yu Wen Huangzhong, a classmate from Chengdu Prefecture School who was walking side by side with him, looked excited at the red wall.

In the previous subject, his brother Yu Wencui won a Tanhualang. He should show his skills in this subject. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t. His Tanhua brother is now the right-hand man of Zhao Mingcheng, Siye of Qingcheng Academy, and will find a student in Qingcheng Academy...

Behind this Qingcheng Academy is the official family! Entering the Qingcheng Academy is like a disciple of the official family!

"Yuanzhong, do you have a place to go in Kaifeng Prefecture? If there is no arrangement, why not go to Qingcheng Academy together to stay."

Yuwen Xuzhong's words brought Tang Xiaoyao back to reality.

The last time he went to Beijing to take the exam, he lived in the Tang family's mansion in Kaifeng Prefecture. The Tang family's old store, one of the seventy-two main stores in Kaifeng Prefecture, belongs to their family. Now Tang Xiaoyao also brought his father to the manager of the Tang family's old store in Kaifeng Prefecture. Uh, it was recommended that he go to the student's wish! If he fails the exam, he has to give up his dream...

"Okay! Let's go to Qingcheng Academy."

Tang Xiaoyao really didn't want to go to the Tang family in Kaifeng Prefecture, and he was in a bad mood when he thought about them. If he really wanted to move in, it would be certain that he would fail the exam today!

Qingcheng Academy is located in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture, and it occupied the original Qingcheng Palace's houses, which were quite spacious. The little manpower of Qingcheng Academy, which is still in preparation, is not available at all. Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng and Liang Shicheng, who are in charge of this Academy, were kindly taken out the extra houses of the Academy and lived for the students who went to Beijing to take the exam. They also provided free food, which attracted a group of candidates who failed the exam to apply for the Qingcheng Academy.

It is different from the North and South Yuntai and Gezhi Academy (now it is also a school), and the Biyong Academy, which does not charge tuition but has a high threshold. Qingcheng Academy does not charge fees, and the second is not to compete with fathers. Everything depends on personal talent.

However, this talent is not moral articles, but calligraphy, painting, music, and medicine. This is a school where the goal of cultivating craftsmen is to cultivate craftsmen.

Because of free accommodation and food, when Tang Xiaoyao and Yuwen Xuzhong arrived at Qingcheng Academy, countless scholars who came to take the exam gathered here, and a long queue was lined up in front of the Academy gate to wait for the check-in procedures. The queue was very long and the procedures were handled very slowly.

Yuwen Huangzhong didn't know where to find his brother Yuwen Cuizhong to open the back door, so he lined up with Tang Xiaoyao. Just as the team spread along the red wall slowly moved, Tang Xiaoyao suddenly found that the red wall beside him was covered with "Notices".

"Shutong, you see that there are signs on the wall..."

Yuwen Huangzhong also discovered that there were a large number of "Notices" and almost covered a whole wall. He picked up a "Notice" closest to him and read it: "The Commentary on Jinshi's Secretariats' Certificate" by begging not to open the right list. I heard that scholars are the pillars of the country; business and commerce are the last of the four people. Today, the county is vast, and the scholars and officials are at the forefront of the country to help the country and the people to safeguard the people. However, the thieves are still inadequate, rich and noble, and have no talent to be well-versed in the imperial examinations. Therefore, they use false studies to deceive the world, disturb the holy listening, and want to abolish the classics and techniques to gain a path of miscellaneous learning and knowledge, which is the hope of the scholars in the world..."

"Okay! What a great article!"

Yuwen Huangzhong was halfway through reading, and someone had already cheered.

And more than one person praised.

"This is a good article that is deafening!"

"It's a pity that the emperor was blinded by the treacherous ministers and could not see such a heroic article!"

"If you abolish the classics and techniques, use the right path and use the empirical and mixed learning, and if you continue to do so, the country will not be in power..."

"How can we scholars sit down and see the great land and be ruined by treacherous people!"

"That's right, since the Central Construction, traitors have been rampant and the masses have been suppressed. Someone is just standing up!"

"Stand up? Do you have to use a sword to protect the way and kill the traitor?"

As we were talking, we didn't know who it was, we shouted and said we wanted to "protect the way with our swords", and suddenly everyone disappeared.

"Protecting the Way with a Sword" seems to be the slogan of the Yuntai Academy Doctorate... This doctoral group is obviously not a good person, and they are clamoring for "protecting the Way with a Sword", "achieving the righteousness of the people", "educating the four barbarians", and "killing the traitors" all day long.

I heard that scholars from Yuntai Academy wanted to "stay away from their swords and convince people with reason." This is strange. Since you are convinced by reason, what is the purpose of "stay away from your swords and killing people? If you can't reason, kill people?

"The traitor is just a businessman, and our literati and officials are like killing a dog."

I don’t know which Confucian scholar has spoken again, and everyone turned their admiration to him. Is he going to Jiehe Shang City to kill Wu Haogu? What a strong hero? But what everyone saw was a white-faced scholar in his early twenties and gentle manner. He didn’t look like he could kill Wu Haogu with a sword.
Chapter completed!