The True Winner of the Red Chamber

Chapter 19

On the third day of February, Kang He appeared in the academy again.

Zhen Yingjia heaved a sigh of relief, and greeted her with a smile. Although registration is possible before February [-], is it really going to be the last day?

Kang He rested for a day, and early the next morning, the two went to the county government to register together.

Speaking of which, the cumbersomeness of reporting names in this subject is comparable to the draft.

There are three materials to be prepared in total, first is your own resume, and you have to briefly write about the resumes of the three generations of parents.Zhen Yingjia's own job is easy to handle, but he is curious about how Kang He plans to write.

Father: Emperor Jianyuan

Grandfather: Emperor Shengming

Thinking about it makes me scared to death.

What comes down is the mutual insurance policy for five children. Five people who take the exam together will guarantee each other. If one person cheats, the rest will all sit together.

There is no need to worry too much about this, except for Kang He, the rest of Zhen Yingjia's share are all from Qingsong Academy.You must know that the county examination is only the first level of the examination. Basically, you can pass with literacy, clear handwriting, and a little bit of literary talent.

Qingsong Academy, as the most famous academy in the south of the Yangtze River, only accepts scholars who have already established a foundation. In other words, as long as you don’t offend the examiners, or encounter any natural or man-made disasters, such as the death of an elder in the family, you can probably pass [-]% of them. I passed the township examination, so there is no need to be afraid of the county examination.

For example, if you can enter Qingsong Academy, you must be at least at the high school level. If high school students are asked to take the entrance examination for elementary school, who would cheat?

The last one is a letter of guarantee from different people, one of which must be born in the county, and the other must be a local squire.

Lin students are scholars who have passed the college examination, and the best of them are subsidized by the county government every month, called Lin students.There is no need to worry about this in Qingsong Academy, after all, Lin students also want to come to the academy to study.

If someone came from a small private school, it would cost a little money to ask a janitor to be a guarantor, but Zhen Yingjia has always had a good relationship with her classmates, so it was easy to find a guarantor.

As for the other local squire as surety, there are not many choices.

After politely rejecting the prefect and Zuo Buzheng who offered to come to invite Yingying, and writing to Lin Ruhai to express that he did not need help, Zhen Yingjia strictly followed the meaning of a squire, and invited Li Daji, the head of the Qingsong Academy and his late wife's grandfather, Li Daji, as the director. Save.

"I don't want to be a guarantor easily," Li Daji said silently after looking at Zhen Yingjia for a while.

It's just that Zhen Yingjia has lived in the academy for more than half a year, and has already had a deeper understanding of Li Daji. In the impression left by the original owner, Li Daji is a stubborn and rigid old man, but according to Zhen Yingjia's excavations in the past six months...

This is actually a proud old man~

Before Zhen Yingjia could speak, Li Daji found a step for himself and came down again, "I am the guarantor, at least I have gone to the Golden Luan Hall to take part in the imperial examination!" Turning your head away with your hands behind your back, "If you don't have a title on the gold list, don't say you came from Qingsong Academy!"

Then there was another sentence in a softer voice, "Anyway, you came to study anonymously."

Zhen Yingjia recalled this passage, and laughed very happily, but after laughing, she couldn't help looking at Kang and the materials in her hand.

I don't know who he was looking for.

But Kang He didn't satisfy his curiosity at all, and kept walking forward with a serious expression.

The two arrived at the county office and followed the signs to the county hall. Although Zhen Yingjia thought it was too late to sign up at first, there were still quite a few people in the room.

Zhen Yingjia and Kang He stood at the back, talking softly while waiting for the team to move forward.

"I've heard that there are a lot of people who take the county and government exams during the year of the township exam, and now I see that's really the case." Zhen Yingjia looked at the person in front of them with all white hair, and couldn't help sighing.

Kang He also saw this man, his face remained expressionless, he shook his head and said, "At his age... the imperial court stipulates that he should be 70 years old, so he still has—"

Although the last two words were not uttered, Zhen Yingjia could guess what he said, "There are still a few years left."

Although Zhen Yingjia understood his concerns, but... "Did you encounter anything in Beijing?"

Kang He glanced at Zhen Yingjia, "The prince is getting worse."

Zhen Yingjia had already heard this news from his daughter once, and now it came from Kang He... Could it be that he was afraid that he would be snatched away in the capital when he was not in the capital?

But when the emperor abolishes the prince, it is better to avoid the center of the storm.

Zhen Yingjia comforted: "Wouldn't this be very beneficial to you? Avoid these days, and go back when the Holy Majesty calms down." Besides, he also knew that the crown prince was later named Prince Yizhong, which proved that although he did not return to the political arena, he did not. The fall out of favor is too serious, if you accidentally step on him at this time, or don't step on him to death, what will you do if you get tripped in the future.

Kang He nodded, "It is indeed beneficial..." The crown prince's favorite is Kang Quan, the son of Zhao's side concubine. If the crown prince succeeds...it may be even more difficult for him to want the throne.

Because of the need to check the information on the three materials one by one, the county government office sent additional staff, so it was Zhen Yingjia's turn soon.

The clerk looked at the words "white face without need" and other words on the two resumes, and then focused on the two letters of guarantee, and found no problem, so he gave each of them a brand.

This is the ancient admit card.

Although Zhen Yingjia had heard about it a long time ago, it was still a bit novel to hold the thing in her hand. The time and place of the exam, the exam number and so on were written on the sign.

The number he got was 450, "Jiangnan is indeed a province of imperial examinations, and there are so many people in a single county."

Kang He smiled, "Are you worried that you won't pass the exam?"

How can it be!

The two left the county office with a smile.

But when they went out, the two little officials behind them looked at each other, and one of the young ones picked up Zhen Yingjia's resume and said, "Look at this, another person whose ancestors have been officials for three generations, but it's better than that official just now." Much more."

The elder just glanced at it, then immediately became serious, and said: "What do you know, where is Tirenyuan? That is today's palace, and this one is Lord Zhen."

Hearing Mr. Zhen's three words, the little official couldn't help but hesitate, he frowned and said: "Isn't he already an official? He can take the exam again."

"Well, there are so many of them, someone came in again, work hard." The elder changed the subject, but not long after, he found a reason to go to the inner court to find the county magistrate.

"My lord, Zhen Yingjia, the president of the Institute of Physical Education, has also come to take the test."

"It's not easy to do."

"Then you see..." The little official tentatively said, "In my humble opinion, it's better to record the young master of Mr. Wang's family as the head of the case. After all, the uncle of the young master is Wang Ziteng, and this Mr. Zhen... is the only one in the family. He is the only one left. And the three generations of the Zhen family are all officials authorized by the Holy Majesty, and no scholar has ever been born."

"You do not understand."

The little official originally thought that the magistrate was going to praise him, but who knew that the magistrate put down the teacup and reprimanded him instead.

"My lord Wang is a big official, but he is a military officer... Although the Zhen family has no scholars, they were in charge of the Holy Majesty's palace earlier..."

"Then your lord wants Zhen Yingjia to be the head of the case?"

Unexpectedly, the county magistrate shook his head again, "I have to think about it carefully. The chief of the case is ordered by me, so I have to make good use of this opportunity. You go out first, keep an eye on it, and see who else signs up."

The county magistrate will expire next year, so whether he can go to a good place when he is transferred depends on this year's activities.However, a county magistrate like a county magistrate is really not enough to see in a place like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the south of the Yangtze River.

He couldn't even curry favor with Shangguan, the only way he could find an opportunity was to take advantage of the imperial examination to make friends with a few people who could help.

You must know that No. 1 in the county test is determined by the county magistrate.And this No. 1 also has a lot of advantages, for example, you can get granary rice from the county government. Of course, even the county magistrate doesn't like this granary rice, let alone the Zhen family and the Wang family.

But other than that, the chief of the case has another advantage, as long as he doesn't commit suicide or violate taboos, the subsequent government and hospital examinations will be easily captured.

Let's put it this way, as long as the county gets the first place in the test, it means that the status of a scholar has been reserved in advance.

Although it was only the first step on the way to the imperial examination, the imperial court revised the yellow book only last year. There are more than 7000 million people in the whole country, of which there are only a little over 50 scholars, and only one scholar can be born out of 120 people. Handy.

It's just a question of who to choose as the leader of the case.

Prince Wang's uncle is already an official, so he can talk immediately, but Zhen Yingjia is still a few years away from being an official, but the county magistrate has inquired again in the past two days: Although Zhen Yingjia has resigned, the Holy Majesty still allows him The above memorials are sparse.

The magistrate was tangled.

After Zhen Yingjia and Kang He signed up, they went back to the academy and were "specially trained" by Li Daji. During his repeated complaints, "I have never taught anyone who has no fame in my life", it finally came to February [-]th. Four.

The two went to bed early, and just after midnight, they were woken up by the servants. After washing up, they arrived at the scientific research site in the county under the hazy starlight.

Zhen Yingjia sighed, it was much worse than on TV.

Jiangnan is obviously the most affluent place in the whole world, why the examination room is still built like a cowshed.

Just sighing, Zhen Yingjia went into the examination room with her belongings after being searched politely by the petty official, and Kang He was in the room next to him.

The test papers of the county test are not difficult at all, and the test is all about the most basic things.

For example, the Four Books and Five Classics, these contents have to be taken from the county examination to the general examination, but the degree is different.During the county examination, the examination questions were written silently, but when it came to the general examination, you had to make new ideas according to the format of the stereotyped essay.

There are also poems, which are tested in the county examination, all of which are basic rhythms, such as evening photos against the clear sky and so on.

Another example is the examination of hadith, that is, what the emperor said. Zhen Yingjia called this a famous saying.

While Zhen Yingjia was answering the questions, she still had time to distract herself.He is not without vanity, and he wants such a "vain name" as a small Sanyuan and a big Sanyuan.

Before the county examination, he thought about whether to visit the magistrate, but in the end he felt a little guilty about visiting the examiner since the county examination, so he gave up, but now that he read the examination questions, how could he not be the first in this kind of examination!

In less than half a day, Zhen Yingjia finished answering the paper.

In fact, it is not difficult, so why did Jia Baoyu not take the imperial examination?

Zhen Yingjia stood up and handed in the test paper, and she couldn't help but admire: this kind of test where the test paper is directly handed over to the examiner is too easy to cheat!