There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 279

Fifteen people were invited, but more than 15 people came. Butler Lin Su hurriedly arranged manpower. He needed more pots and pans for cooking and stir-frying, as well as more teacups to make tea and serve snacks.

But here are all men, not a single woman!

Even the back chefs are all sisters-in-law from various families, almost all of whom are over 40 years old!

Who would look at such a woman?

Some people who came with other purposes felt that it was a loss at the time. There were no beautiful girls and maidservants to look at. They were talking about overseas crops or disgusting things about how to fertilize the fields. Before the banquet even started, several of them left!

Wu Youwei continued to talk with others without changing his face, but Wantong asked people to follow those who left to find out their details. Such people must not be reused!

What the emperor wants to use is a minister who can govern the world, not a useless scholar who only knows how to make love.

Such a person will never even think about passing the Jinshi examination and becoming an official in this life.

After leaving, the banquet was held, and the dishes served were indeed some overseas crops, pork ribs stewed potatoes, corn pastry, tomato scrambled eggs and so on.

When they were eating, everyone was amazed. I heard that overseas buildings and middle buildings don't sell food, but Wu Youwei has a lot of dishes that they don't necessarily have.

A few people started whispering, Wu Youwei saw it, everyone looked inquiring, then Wu Youwei pointed to the next door: "There are plenty of them!

The next door to Mo Ling Villa is Huangzhuang!

Everyone laughed and quickly changed the subject.

These people are more pragmatic and have already passed the exam. After that, they only need to enter the Imperial Academy to study politics for three years.

Not all people are able to send officials immediately after leaving the Imperial Academy. Some people stay in the Imperial Academy for a lifetime, and they are always an old Hanlin.

It's just that the Hanlin Academy also has the benefits of the Imperial Academy. No matter how many turmoil in the court, it will not affect the Imperial Academy.

It can be said to be a very safe place.

It is just that you can't have too much promise, at most you can be a Hanlin bachelor.

However, Hanlin is also known as "Chuxiang".

It's just that from ancient times to the present, there are so many Hanlins, but very few can really become prime ministers.

Everyone chatted and lived in the apricot grove until the evening, imitating the architecture of the Tang Dynasty. When you open the windows, you can see the apricot blossoms everywhere. Because there are no mosquitoes at this time, it is very pleasant.

Wu Youwei invited them to drink wine in high-grade translucent white porcelain cups, especially like luminous cups, and everyone became poetic again.

After breakfast the next day, everyone left one after another. They all felt that the gathering was perfect. The Meng family father and son went to Wujia Village and lived in the second room.

And Wu Youwei began to bring people to prepare for Wu Qiong's exam.

Wu Qiong is about to start his imperial examination career, and this first step is his Tongsheng Examination.

Anyone who has passed the examinations at all levels in the province and entered the prefecture, state, and county schools is commonly called a student, commonly known as a scholar.

The entrance examination to obtain student qualifications is called the children's test, also known as the quiz or quiz.

The Tongsheng Examination consists of three stages: the county examination, the government examination and the hospital examination.

The college examinations are presided over by the provincial Xuezheng, which is also called the admiral's college, so this level of examination is called the college examination.

Those who pass the college examination are called students, and then they are assigned to study in prefectural, state, and county schools.

The students are divided into three classes, including lin students, hyperplasia, and epiphysis.

Those who are provided with meals by the government are called Linshan students, referred to as Linsheng; those who are added beyond the quota are called Zengguangshengyuan, and the division is called Zengsheng; additional places are added to the end of Linsheng and Zengsheng, and they are attached to the end of all students, called attached students member, the branch is called epiphytic.

Admission to the student body is the starting point of fame.

On the one hand, the students from schools in various prefectures, prefectures, and counties are selected as tribute students, and they can directly enter the Imperial College to become supervising students.

On the one hand, there are two grades of examinations, the annual examination and the scientific examination, which are divided into six grades according to the results.Those who rank first or second in the scientific examination are eligible to participate in the provincial examination and are called imperial examination students.

Therefore, entering the school is the first rung of the imperial examination ladder.

And because Wu Qiong is from Zhili, he only needs to take the exam locally, but it also requires careful preparations, but Wu Qiong took the Tongsheng exam many years ago, so he can only send all his hopes to Butler Lin Su and ask him to make a copy. It's something you need for the entrance examination.

Because Meng Fanzhang also had to take the Tongsheng Examination, the Meng family father and son stayed for a day and then went back.

Before leaving, Meng Heyu talked to Wu Youwei once: "My Meng family prides itself on being the descendant of Mencius, farming and studying in the family, but my Meng family doesn't have that kind of official luck, so I have already made up my mind to enter the Hanlin Academy and become an official. In my free time, I try to copy more rare books in the library of the Hanlin Academy, and put them in my Meng family's academy, so that students can have a chance to read them.

There is a library building in the Hanlin Academy, which contains countless classics, among which there are many rare books, ancient books and so on.

Wu Youwei also coveted this state-owned library.

It is not only the library, but also the pride of the Han people. Unfortunately, after the Qing Dynasty, the library was repaired several times, and many things were lost due to the literary inquisition.

"Are you quite an imperial family?" Wu Youwei thought for a while, "That's okay, after you become an official in the future, you will be a noble family."

"Don't ask for anything expensive. My father is in good health. If the old man can no longer teach students, I will write a letter and become an official and go back to replace my father. My Meng family takes teaching and educating people as my duty. If the children have that kind of luck, Let them go for a walk!" When he said breakout, he meant the official career, not the outside world.

From then on, Wu Youwei knew that it was impossible for the Meng family to help him much in the officialdom, and it could only be regarded as the last way out.

After sending Meng Heyu away, Wu Youwei took Wu Qiong to the county government office.

In order to be a scholar, you have to pass three checkpoints: the county test, the government test, and the college test. In ancient times, it was not so easy to test for a scholar, and any one of the checkpoints may pass you down.

The general county examination is held in February, but in February, the examination will be held, so the county examination in Gyeonggi was moved to April.

Time is a little tight.

The county examination is presided over by the county magistrate. There are five general examinations, including stereotyped essays, poems, scriptures, rhymes, and policy theory.

The county examination requires the recommendation of four people from the village and one scholar before they can take the examination.

Wu Youwei completed the formalities for Wu Qiong, and took him to the county government office in Daxing County.

Wu Youwei was the one who separated the family from the Wu Mansion, and later divided the clan. The former Wu Mansion was under the name of Wannian County, and Wu Youwei's Moring Villa occupies an area within the scope of Daxing County. , so Wu Youwei's full name is the Wu family of Moling, Daxing County, North Zhili, Gyeonggi Province.

So they came to the examination room in Daxing County.

On the tenth day of April, the county examination starts.

Similarly, no matter what kind of exam it is, entry-level inspections are required, but it is not as strict as the general exam. The county exam is just officials checking the exam baskets of entry-level candidates and touching their bodies for books and other things. It will not be stripped and searched like it will be tried.

Everyone is male to each other, so no one will say anything. Soon, Wu Qiong went in. Wu Youwei was sitting in a teahouse outside the county government examination room drinking tea, waiting for his eldest nephew by the way.

This exam is only for one day, and the general exam is only for nine days.

Wu Qiong has a solid foundation, and he knows all the exam questions well, so he quickly started to write with a pen and ink.

But Wu Youwei was drinking tea and eating snacks, but he was thinking of Wu Qiong who was taking the exam inside. Unexpectedly, he would also have a day to accompany the exam.

When Wu Qiong's father died, he was still a white man with no fame, so Wu Youwei assigned Wu Qiong's family background as farming and studying.

When writing the population of the three generations on the test paper, it was written that Zu Yanyan was in command of Jin Yiwei;

I hope they can not pursue the social status of Wu's father and son with such a huge difference....

Wu Youwei was drinking tea here, and Wantong came over immediately. When he saw Wantong, Wu Youwei was taken aback: "Why are you here?"

"Didn't I tell you? You won't be allowed to go alone?" Wantong said angrily, "How dangerous!

"Where is this dangerous?" Wu Youwei couldn't stop laughing: "This is outside the county government of Daxing County. In broad daylight, who would dare to do anything to me, a Tanhualang?"

What's more, he didn't come alone, they were all there on the first day of junior high school, even Feng Qi and the others came with them as relatives.

"That's different." Wantong gave Feng Qi and the others a look, and these people stood guard downstairs.

They haven't acted together for many years, but they have their own tacit understanding with each other, which cannot be diluted by time.

"Okay, okay!" Wu Youwei didn't care anymore, it's better to be cared about than nobody cared about.

Wantong sat down, and Wu Youwei poured him a cup of hot tea: "You have to go to work today, oh, are you going to the Yamen?"

"Well, let's go to the yamen today." Wantong thought about it, and then told Wu Youwei: "Wan An, Minister of Rites, wants to have a relationship with our family, but my elder brother does not agree."

Wu Youwei was taken aback for a moment, thinking of the famous "Old Xiniaoge", who seemed to be in Chenghua five years, summer, May Xin Chou, Minister of Rites Wan An and a Bachelor of the Imperial Academy, entered the cabinet to prepare for maintenance.

Now it has been April of the fifth year of Chenghua, but the cabinet is full of ministers, Liu Dingzhi is not dead, he is still the chief assistant minister, old and strong; Shangluo is also in good health, and has not died of illness.

So Wan An could only honestly be his servant in the Ministry of Rites.

But he couldn't join the cabinet, and he didn't even join the Wan family.

Concubine Wan is now accompanied by two daughters, and she is not jealous at all; the empress is in the middle of the palace, and the future emperor without a son has to be polite to her; Concubine Bai, on the other hand, is more like that jealous poisonous woman.

.He... Why didn't Brother Wanxi join the sect? "Wu Youwei asked in puzzlement: "That's a servant of the Ministry of Rites. "

"I don't know, my eldest brother may think it's unnecessary." Wantong thought for a while: "It's not that no one came to Lianzong before, it's just that my eldest brother thinks that they are not the same clan, and insisting that they are one, far-fetched is not appropriate , they all refused.

The Wan family is living a good life now, with a lot of children, even Wanda's son is ten years old. Although he has no family, the eldest brother will not bother him in the future. incense.

His second nephew is already married, hehehe, now he has a nephew and wife, and he will be a grandfather directly in the future!

"That's good." Wu Youwei didn't want to get involved with Wan's family and Wan'an, who had no limit.

Wan An studied in Meishan when he was a teenager. It is said that he was very smart when he was young. Unfortunately, when he grew up, he used all his smarts on drilling.

In the 13th year of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty, Wan'an passed the Jinshi examination and was awarded the Shu Jishi.

Later, he became the chief assistant of the cabinet by ingratiating concubine Wan Guifei of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty. Some people even said that he became the chief assistant of the cabinet because he was favored by aphrodisiacs from Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, so he ridiculed him as "Xiangxiang Gong". ".Although Wan An had been in the high position of the chief assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty for ten years, he did nothing and was called "Long Live Pavilion Old" and "Paper Paste Pavilion Old".

However, Wan An was just a naughty villain, not a vicious villain. He also did one good thing when he was the chief assistant, which was to ask Xianzong to abolish Xichang according to the situation at the time.

For such a person, it is already a great kindness to be the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and he still needs to be old?

Wu Youwei intends to take good care of the current elders, at least the current four elders, their tempers are getting bigger and bigger, and Emperor Xianzong dare not call them names!

Moreover, the four elders are always dedicated to the public, especially Shang Ren and Liu Dingzhi. They can last for a thousand years, and when Li Dongyang grows up, they can take over the position of the elders.

He still remembers that in history, Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, relying on three court elders and some capable officials, revived the Ming Dynasty and left him with his son, Emperor Zhengde, a beautiful country. Daming is still alive and well.