War drums were rumbling on the roads of Shaanxi, and tens of thousands of soldiers were fighting to the death on two fronts.

There are turbulent undercurrents and dark clouds of war on the road to Hebei.

But in Bianliang, it is still a prosperous place full of flowers.

The annual national examination is finally over.

The reason why this year's examination is so eye-catching is that this year also happens to be the triennial Jinshi examination. And there are several people who are participating in the Bianliang examination this year who are of concern to everyone.

For example, take Xiao Cheng, the famous scholar in Bianliang.

Another example is Luo Gang, who claims that he will not marry unless he is a Jinshi.

Because of their special family backgrounds, these two people are naturally the central figures in this examination, and their every move attracts the attention of thousands of people.

The standards of the Juren Examination are naturally much lower than those of the Jinshi Examination. Although Bianliang is the center of the world, in terms of academic excellence, it may not be as good as Fujian, Jiangnan, Hebei and other places.

Therefore, the examination in Bianliang was presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and it only lasted one day.

In the morning, I wrote poems, songs, and interpretations of scriptures, and in the afternoon I wrote a policy essay. Three days later, the results will be announced to the world.

Of course, in order to show fairness, the top ten papers in the national examination will be posted for everyone to see. If anyone feels that his articles, poems and songs are better than these people, he can also post his own for everyone to compare.

, you can also go to the Rites Examination Yuan to apply for reconsideration.

Of course, the policy is such that no one has successfully reviewed it over the years.

Xiao Cheng didn't take this examination seriously at all, and even his tutor Cen Fuzi didn't bother to ask him, if he couldn't even win the examination, how could he compete with the next elites in the world for the poor three-year-old?

What about the 100 Jinshi quota?

In fact, everyone has a good idea of ​​whether they can win the National People's Government Examination.

After all, all those who have the title of scholar have exams every month. If they do well in the exam, they can get a national subsidy. The better the score, the higher the subsidy. Those who do not do well in the exam will be at the bottom of the pile.

He can't even keep his reputation as a scholar.

As long as a person like Xiao Cheng takes the exam, he will definitely be among the best. Even those supervisors in the Imperial College can only be inferior to his results. If such a person cannot even pass the examination,

, isn’t it a joke?

But just because Xiao Cheng doesn't care, it doesn't mean that no one cares.

The day after the exam, Luo Gang's wife, Mrs. Luo, brought Luo Gang for a visit.

Now that Mrs. Luo is here, the hostess of the Xiao Mansion will naturally receive her equally, and Xiao Cheng will naturally attend to accompany Luo Gang.

Just one look at Mrs. Luo's happy model kiss, Mrs. Han and Xiao Cheng knew what was going on.

"Sister, congratulations to my sister, Saburo's ranking should be good this time, right?" Xiao Han said with a genuine smile.

Although it will take more than a day for the rankings to be announced, who are they? As soon as the rankings come out, naturally there will be people rushing to congratulate them. They don’t dare to cheat on the exam results to help, and they are not allowed to go to give in advance.

Is it fair for Mr. Dongfu to send you a happy letter?

"Not bad. This time, the entire Kaifeng Mansion ranked 100th, and Sanlang ranked 53rd!" Fifty-third, which is a below-average result, but for Luo Gang, it is really an unprecedented result.

In the past, Luo Gang's performance in the county was always at the bottom of the pile. If it weren't for his father's sake, he might not even be able to retain his talent as a scholar. This time he not only won the exam but also improved to the 53rd place.

No wonder Mrs. Luo couldn't help being happy.

"Congratulations, madam, congratulations to Yuting!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile and cupped his hands in congratulations.

"Erlang is only ranked third. Those examiners must have avoided suspicion, otherwise Erlang would definitely be the leader. Madam, you should also know Erlang's ranking, right?" Mrs. Luo said with a smile. Someone sent a letter to her home, so naturally she

Someone sent a message to Mrs. Han.

"I know, it's not to avoid suspicion. There's nothing to say about Erlang's proficiency in classics, meanings, strategies, and theory. He was only drawn down in terms of poetry, poetry, and poetry. It's already an accident to be among the top three. At first, we just wanted to

It would be great to stay in the top ten." Mrs. Han said calmly and authentically.

This is very ordinary.

However, Mrs. Luo didn't care at all.

Compared with before, my son has changed his appearance. Especially this time he followed Xiao Cheng and his party to Hebei, and then to the Hengshan Mountains in the northwest. He suffered a lot, but his whole appearance was completely changed.

The previous flamboyance was gone at all, and he was extremely calm in his work and speech. Even Luo Song was full of praise and repeatedly said that he would like to express his gratitude to Xiao Cheng for his training along the way.

Mrs. Luo came here just for this matter.

As the Prime Minister of the Dongfu, Luo Song was naturally not allowed to visit the Third Secretary's house, but the women could come and go as they pleased. Mrs. Luo came first to thank Erlang of the Xiao family for training her poor horse into a good horse, and secondly, Mrs.

I also came here to meet the third wife of the Xiao family.

The daughter-in-law is becoming more and more happy now.

In the past, she only knew that the third lady of the Xiao family was exquisite in appearance and very knowledgeable, even better than her own son. She was quite worried. But this time when she came back from the trip, the third lady actually gave her a complete set of hand-knitted sweaters, woolen pants, hats and scarves. Obviously

The knitting girl's knitting skills are also very impressive.

Moreover, Luo Gang's hard work is probably mostly for this third lady.

With the supervision of this third lady, if Luo Gang can really win the imperial examination, Mrs. Luo feels that she can accept it even if this third lady tries to push her down when she enters the door.

After some pleasantries, Mrs. Han sent someone to call Xiao Yi to come and accompany Mrs. Luo. Xiao Cheng naturally took Luo Gang and the two of them to the study room in the front yard to talk.

"Hundreds of candidates from Kaifeng Prefecture have always passed at least thirty points in the Jinshi Examination. Chongwen, you ranked third this time, so you can definitely get a Jinshi quota." Although he was a little envious, he was not jealous at all.

Luo Gang is very self-aware when it comes to knowledge. He was overjoyed to get fifty-three points in the exam this time.

For him, the Jinshi Examination after the fall is just to see the world, and his goal is the one that will take place three years later.

He said that more than 30 people in Bianliang's 100-member ginseng examination were successful, which is also the imperial court's care for Kaifeng Mansion. After all, it is at the feet of the emperor. In fact, in the Jinshi examination that is held every three years, the number of places admitted is still very limited.

Most of the time, it’s not just talent and learning that matters, geography also has a great relationship.

In the allocation of quotas, some remote areas have already been taken care of. In terms of admissions, some places with really poor literary fortunes must also be favored. Otherwise, some places will not be able to get a Jinshi for many years, which will easily cause trouble.

ah.

You must know that the current Northern Liao Dynasty, like the Song Dynasty, also holds the Jinshi Examination every three years. Many Song people failed the exam here repeatedly, so they went to Northern Liao to take the exam. Over the years, such people

There are not a few anymore.

"Not necessarily. Mr. Cen said that in the next six months, he will help me improve my poetry and poetry." Xiao Cheng sighed: "It's really a headache."

Luo Gang was gloating: "Xiao Erlang is very good at reading, but his poetry and poetry have always been mediocre. Even I, a scumbag, can compare with him. Haha, this time, if it weren't for this score for you in this examination,

You must be the leader."

"I really don't understand. The Jinshi Examination is to select talents for the country to manage state affairs. What's the point of testing poetry and poetry?" Xiao Cheng said fiercely: "One day when I become a Taoist, I will definitely take this thing away from the Jinshi Examination. Poetry

Songs and poems only cultivate sentiments, what does it have to do with governing affairs?"

Seeing Xiao Cheng's furious look, Luo Gang was very happy.

"In the past, we only tested poems, songs, and verses with interpretations of scriptures. Now we mainly focus on policy theory. It was only after Wang Lao Xianggong advocated the change many years ago. If you want to remove all poems, lyrics, and songs, wait until you have Mr. Wang."

Let’s talk about Xianggong’s status and name! But I think this is very difficult. Wang Laoxiangong is recognized as a famous person through the ages.”

"Just wait and see!" Xiao Cheng knocked on the table: "I still have this extravagant hope."

"Then I'm just waiting to take advantage of it." Luo Gang said with a smile: "By the way, Chongwen, didn't you take in two people on the way back? How are these two people doing now?"

"What do you want to do?" Xiao Cheng asked strangely.

"I heard Brother Wei San said that both of them have the same skills. There are many talents in your house. Wei San and Hammer can all stand alone, but my family is much worse. If they are willing,

Can you give up your love and give them to me! Even if you want to show off in front of dad, I, Luo Sanlang, can also attract talents. The reward is easy to say, I will give you as much as you give!"

"Those two people, one has five hundred guan and the other has 300 guan." Xiao Cheng said with a smile.

Luo Gang was immediately dumbfounded: "Xiao Chongwen, are you kidding me?"

"I'm not kidding, because these two people don't do anything for me now. They were poached by Tianxiang Pavilion." Xiao Cheng spread his hands.

"Isn't Tianxiang Pavilion yours too?" Luo Gang was a little annoyed. "Are these two people worth so much money?"

"These two people are really capable. Now Jiang Yingxue is going to do business on Kuizhou Road." Xiao Cheng explained. "That's why we need such talents, so we offered such a high price."

"Kuizhou Road?" Luo Gang shuddered: "No wonder you pay so much money, you have to pay for your life! It's really hard to do business in that place, our Luo family's name is not easy to use, where is a caravan?"

He disappeared without a trace and didn’t even come back with his goods. Since then, my family has never set foot there again. You actually want to do business there? You have to be prepared to lose all your money.”

"Those local chieftains are powerful and fearful of power but have no morals. They have no credibility in doing business, stealing, buying and selling by force." Xiao Cheng sneered: "To deal with people like them, we can only respond with tooth for tooth and blood for blood."

Bloody, Taishan overwhelmed them in one fell swoop. In the past, I didn’t have anyone to defeat, but now that I have people, I naturally have to give it a try. Yuting, you have to understand that the more places like this, the higher the profits.

Ah. And there are places where there are a lot of good things, but those guys don’t know how to manage them at all, and they waste everything so much that it makes people heartbroken just thinking about it.”

"It looks like there is going to be a river of blood. How powerful are these two people?"

"They were all murderous characters in the Northwest Army in the past. If they offended someone, they could no longer stay in the army and had to flee." Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Such a person is not suitable to go to your home, right?"

"Really, if we really want to take them home, my father will definitely find out all the eighteen generations of their ancestors. If we do this, it will be difficult to handle. Forget it, the only person like this is you, Xiao Chongwen.

If you dare to use it, I'd better keep it at arm's length!" Luo Gang shook his head repeatedly.

Xiao Cheng chuckled, but took out a few beautifully packaged boxes and handed them to Luo Gang.

"what is this?"

"Tea!" Xiao Cheng said: "Jiang Yingxue bought several tea mountains in the south last year. This is the first tea of ​​this year. I have prepared a few boxes for you so that you can go back and honor your elders."

"It doesn't look cheap!" Luo Gang looked at the exquisite outer packaging and said, "How much does this box cost?"

"No more, no more, just three hundred guan per pound. This is the friendly price!"

Luo Gang trembled: "You are robbing money, tribute tea is not so expensive!"

"The tea produced by Tianxiang Pavilion is nothing but expensive!" Xiao Cheng chuckled. "Of course, the quality cannot be compared with others. Do you know how this tea is picked? It is the eldest daughter of Huanghua who has not left the pavilion.

Before leaving the mountain, I go up to the tea mountain, pick it up piece by piece with my mouth, and then warm it with body fragrance before making it. It only weighs thirty kilograms per year. This tea is not for ordinary people to drink."

"I understand, Jiang Yingxue has brought this business to the palace again, right?"

"I will pay you ten kilograms of tribute to the palace every year." Xiao Cheng spread his hands and said, "There is no income from these ten kilograms, so we have to make up for it from other places."

"How much are these boxes of mine worth?"

"Two taels packed, eight boxes in total!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile.

"I don't have any money to give you." Luo Gang said harshly.

"This is a friendly gift, but next time you will have to charge money." Xiao Cheng said: "Don't tell me you have no money. You have shares in Hengshan Trading. If you don't pay, I will have someone directly buy it from you."

Which side to buckle?"

"Are you really not going to tell your father about the shares?" Luo Gang was a little worried when it came to Hengshan Trading's shares.

"If you don't say it, Mr. Luo won't know. If you say it, Mr. Luo will be in trouble." Xiao Cheng said calmly: "Do you want to say it or not?"

Luo Gang nodded: "Forget it then."

"Anyway, Hengshan Trading will definitely not pay dividends in the past two years. The money earned will be used to expand production and expand operations. You don't have to worry about how to spend the money." Xiao Cheng said.

"It's true, I will study hard in the next two years and strive to marry the third lady back home in three years." Luo Gang chuckled.

Seeing the longing look on the other person's face, Xiao Cheng was about to make fun of him when he saw Xu Wuyan trotting towards the study outside the window. He couldn't help but stopped. Xu Wuyan was still running so fast at such an old age.
Chapter completed!