Ask Sword

  Chapter 24 Looking for someone

   "Don't plan to take the exam?"

  Song Shaoyuan was stunned for a moment, and the students sitting around were also a little surprised.

  Young students who can be ranked in the upper middle level in the state school all have the dream of getting into the top ten in the provincial examination and going to Chang'an to participate in the preliminary examination of the school.

  As long as you can stand out in the fiercely competitive entrance examination and enter the academy, it means that you will leap into the dragon's gate, and even the family, so that the whole family can prosper in the next few decades.

In order to continue the family fortune, certain wealthy families who try to become a thousand-year-old family spare no effort to invest in education. They not only teach the children in the family, but also spend money to find children who are naturally intelligent, and move their parents and their families here. Educated in the family school.

  On the other hand, one or several houses will be specially allocated to the family and relocated to the border prefecture of Yu State, where the education level is relatively backward, so as to increase the chances of the family's children passing the provincial examination and entering the palace.

  This kind of behavior also caused some small rich families to imitate and move their families ten years in advance. Furthermore, in some frontier state capitals, regional hostility between the northerners and the southerners, and the westerners and the easterners was born.

  For this illusory promotion opportunity, the whole world does not know how many students have overturned the classics, and how many parents have exhausted their efforts.

   "Why didn't you take the exam?"

  Song Shaoyuan said with concern: "Is it lack of confidence, or is it too busy recently? If it is to save the five-pass notarization fee for the exam, I have it here."

A person next to him said with a smile: "Brother Shao Yuan, who doesn't know that Baoan Tang has been making a big splash in Weizhou City these days. I heard that there are rich businessmen from other places who want to come to Weizhou to seek Risheng's medical treatment. How can I not pay the notarization fee of only five passes.

  I think that being a doctor is too much money, so there is no need to read the classics of Confucius and Mencius. "

   "Yeah, after all, no matter how much you study, it's for Brother Kong Fang in the end, why not take advantage of your reputation and get it done in one step. It's just like that doctor."

  A group of classmates burst into laughter, the atmosphere of scholars is like this, except for scholars, they don't look down on any profession or profession.

  Seeing this, Li Ang frowned slightly, feeling a little displeased with their frivolous tone and comparing himself with Yu Miaoshui.

  Yu Miaoshui is also matched?

   "Don't talk nonsense."

  Song Shaoyuan frowned, and unceremoniously said to his friends who usually travel together: "Isn't it better for a doctor to hang a pot to help the world and save lives than to just study hard and talk empty-handed when encountering things?

  And I have seen Risheng's bone injury skills with my own eyes, which is by no means comparable to that of Yu Miaoshui and other deceitful people. "

  He turned his head and said to Li Ang seriously: "Risheng, don't rush to make a decision on this matter, and discuss it with my mother when I come to the security hall at night."

   "Everyone has his own ambition, brother Shaoyuan, you are just too warm-hearted."

Not far away, another rising star of state studies, Zhai Yiming, heard the movement and came over, ignoring Li Ang and others, and bowed his hands to Song Shaoyuan in a graceful manner: "Brother Shaoyuan, I have an invitation for an acquaintance banquet in my hand. After six days, I have invited several other classmates and fellow scholars from other places, I wonder if you are free?"

  In Yu State, the atmosphere is open, and various public and private banquets are popular, and banquets can be held for big and small things.

  The so-called acquaintance banquet is an elegant banquet held by scholars to build relationships and spread fame in the future.

  Zhai Yiming was born in the Zhai family, a wealthy local family in Weizhou. He had been to Chang'an last year, and the ones who caught his eye were the talents he felt most likely to pass the Weizhou provincial examination and be his classmates in the academy.

  Song Shaoyuan cupped his hands, his expression still indifferent, but he heard Zhai Yiming say leisurely: "I am not the one holding the banquet, but the eunuch's son."

  As soon as Zhai Yiming said this, the courtyard fell silent instantly.

  Yu inherited the system of the Sui Dynasty, and the governor of a state was the prefect. What Zhai Yiming said could only be Ji Chi, the prefect of Weizhou.

  The son of the prefect of Weizhou is undoubtedly the biggest yamen.

   "The acquaintance banquet of the prefect's son"

  A partner next to Song Shaoyuan stared, with his hands hanging by his side, he murmured: "This, this"

The other person was also shocked and said: "But, I remember that the eldest son of the prefect's family has reached the crown last year, and he didn't go to the academy. Could it be the second son? That's not right. I heard that the second son is only eleven years old this year." "

  Zhai Yiming glanced at him, and said indifferently: "The daughter of the prefect's family has received a letter of recommendation from the academy tour a few days ago, and she will go to the academy this year."

  The courtyard became inexplicably quiet again, and many thoughtful people immediately understood when they rolled their eyes.

Compared with the former Sui Dynasty and the Zhou State in the south, the status of women in Yu State is much higher. Women are not the appendages of men, and they can voluntarily dissolve the relationship between husband and wife. .

On the one hand, this is a new phenomenon brought about by the academy—the ratio of spiritual talents between men and women is basically the same, and the number of female monks is quite large. They occupy high positions in the academy, and some even have been mountain chiefs, which greatly promotes a society of equality between men and women. atmosphere.

   On the other hand, it is because a hundred years ago in Yu State, a holy queen surnamed Wu was born

  The prince of the prefect hosted the banquet, no doubt to help the younger sister who is about to go to Chang'an, and get to know more elites from her hometown.

  As for these state scholars, if they can leave a good impression on the son and daughter of the prefect's family at the acquaintance banquet, even if they fail to enter the academy, they can still find a job as an official in the prefect's mansion.

   It is even possible to go further.

  Zhai Yiming looked at the imaginative classmates in front of him, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised.

   I don’t even think about it, how delicate and high-class the son and daughter of the prefect’s family are, this group of mediocre people who have no literary talent and struggle to compose a poem, are not even qualified to go to a banquet, and want to show their faces?

   "The prefect handed over the invitation to me,

   After much deliberation, I still think that you are the only one who is most qualified, Brother Shao Yuan. "

  Zhai Yiming slowly took out a red invitation card from his arms, handed it to Song Shaoyuan, and saw the envious and jealous expressions on other people's faces with satisfaction.

   Oh, that's right.

  Zhai Yiming smiled, and wanted to say a few more words, when he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from outside the state school.

   "Please inform me that Mi Xingzheng Jialiang is asking to see you."

   "Taiyi Xing Lu Zishi."

   "Zou Wenbai, Zhengping Bank"

Um?

  The sound outside the state school made Zhai Yiming and others frown.

  Zhai Yiming, who considered himself the leader of the state school, walked to the door, just about to scold who was making a loud noise outside the state school, but stopped suddenly.

  I saw twenty or thirty luxury carriages parked at the gate of Zhouxue, rich merchants in luxurious clothes kept getting out of the carriages, each holding greeting cards in their hands.

  President of the rice guild, president of the commoner guild, big treasurer of the bank

  Any one is a big person who needs to be well received by the Zhai family on weekdays.

"How is this going?"

  Zhai Yiming calmed down instantly, pulled a servant at the door, and asked in a low voice: "What's going on? Who are these people looking for?"

  The boy scratched his head, and said uncertainly: "They said, looking for Dalang Li?"

  (end of this chapter)