Soon, Mrs. You Lao entered the guest room. Looking at her unexcited expression, Shen Bai's heart sank slightly, and he felt something was wrong.

"Madam, how about it?" Shen Jundao asked anxiously.

Mrs. You sat down, Ting drank tea, and said slowly: "There are disappointments in things, but there is also hope. What do you want to listen to first?"

"Tell me about disappointment first!" Shen Bai said a little uneasy.

"The disappointment is that Zhang Liangdi refuses to see the head of the family. I can see that she is unwilling to forgive the Shen family..."

Shen Bai and Shen Jundao looked at each other, and both of them showed disappointed expressions on their faces. Shen Bai couldn't hide the depression in his heart. He regretted the past. He never thought that the stubborn one twenty years ago.

Xiao Niang, today she became the concubine of the King of Chu, and perhaps she would become the imperial concubine in the future. He paid the heavy price today for the little profits of the past.

Shen Jundao asked again, "What is hope?"

"I hope that I also met the King of Chu, who was very interested in the Shen family."

Shen Bai was excited, and he suddenly realized that he had made a childish mistake. Zhang Liangdi might be upset about the past, but Yang Yuanqing would not. If Yang Yuanqing wanted to take Jiangnan in the future, then the Shen family would be his.

With a big help, Zhang Liangdi's attitude is not important in this case. The Shen family is not an isolated family. The Shen family has great value. How could Yang Yuanqing give up the Shen family easily?

Thinking of this, Shen Bai was excited again and asked quickly: "What else did the King of Chu say?"

"I didn't say anything later, and I left afterwards, but I told the head of the family that it should be that the King of Chu would definitely meet the head of the family in these few days."

Shen Bai's heart was completely open, and the frustration in his heart was swept away at this moment. He stood up and bowed deeply, "I thank you for your brother and sister-in-law today. Shen Bai is very grateful."

Shen Jundao smiled and waved his hand, "This is for the Shen family to do their best for the family. This is what I should do. The head of the family should not be polite."

Taiyuan Imperial College is located in the south of the city. It is an institution covering an area of ​​about 200 acres. There are more than 3,000 scholars studying in this army. It is also the highest institution of the Northern Sui Dynasty. It is the three university institutions that are as famous as Pei Xue and Wang Xue in Hedong.

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Because the Imperial College implements a recommendation system, poor children have almost no hope of studying in Imperial College. Most of the students are officials and the children of prominent families in Hedong counties, allowing children of prominent families to enjoy the innate educational advantages.

This is also a powerful inertia manifestation of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system. Although the rulers of the Sui and Tang dynasties wanted to use the imperial examination to break the selection of officials monopolized by the clans, the Linju system of the Sui and Tang dynasties did not shake the foundation of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system.

The monopoly of aristocratic families over educational resources.

In fact, most of the scholars who passed the imperial examination were still children of famous families and outstanding families, but they slightly opened a crack for poor families.

But even this open door crack also encountered strong opposition from the clans.

As noon approaches, the morning class of IUC has ended, and more than a dozen students are sitting together and chatting. In this autumn examination, nearly 30% of the students in IUC will participate, and these more than a dozen students are also participants.

Some of the dozen people are children of officials, and some are children of prominent families from various counties, namely famous families, which are not as good as those of Pei, Wang and other counties, but they are also considered large families in their hometowns and counties.

"I heard that more than 20,000 people participated in the autumn examination but only 200 people were admitted, and only 100 people were selected. Is there any hope for these of us?" a tall and fat student complained.

Another student from Shangdang County also sighed: "In order to study in the Imperial College, our master tried his best to find the relationship with the prefect and got two places. He thought that he could become a steadfast official by entering the Imperial College.

But in the end, I took the exam like those country bumpkins holding hoes. So what's the point of studying in this Imperial College?"

"In fact, the Imperial College in the Sui Dynasty could also be recommended to be an official. Like Du Ruhui, he just studied at Imperial College and was recommended to enter the Ministry of Personnel. But now, it's good, one-size-fits-all, all of which will be taken to the imperial examinations and study.

This Imperial College is really meaningless.”

"You can't say that. Can those rural blokes with hoes listen to the lectures of great scholars like you? Could their understanding of the meaning of the classics be correct? Even if they have been working hard for ten years and have no way to do so, will they fail the exam in the end?"

"Just just laugh at a hundred steps!"

The students from Shangdang County sneered and said, "There are only two hundred places in total. How many students do you think Imperial College can get? Pei Xue and Wang Xue alone have 2,000 students, and they are not enough.

What are we? What is the difference between us and those poor children? I heard that this time the chief examiner was Wang Tong, and with him the final review of the paper, I guess half of the admitted students were Wang's children."

"Impossible! Didn't it mean that the examiner was not decided? Yang Yuanqing just came back this morning, so how could he decide the examiner so quickly? Besides, the Pei family would not agree to let Wang Tong be the examiner."

"This is just a rumor. The examiner has not decided. Okay, let's not talk about it anymore. Everyone will gather to go to the Jinshi Building to have a drink.

More than a dozen scholars were in high spirits, each of whom collected some money and headed towards the Jinshi Restaurant.

Jinshi Restaurant has been famous in Taiyuan and is the favorite place for scholars to eat and drink. For a while, it is a name for itself. Secondly, you can get some news from it. Therefore, the Northern Sui Dynasty announced that it would hold the imperial examination for nearly two months, and every day, there are many customers here.

Door, business is booming.

The Jinshi Restaurant is not far from the Imperial College, and it takes a few hundred steps to get out of the gate, but it is closer to the Wang family school. It is noon, and the restaurant is filled with scholars coming to eat and drink, almost half of which are

They are all children of the Wang family, the rest are students of the Imperial College, and there are also famous families from all over the country, and even more than a dozen children from poor families. It can be seen from their clothes, wearing cloth clothes and scarves on their heads.

The food and drinks ordered were also the cheapest. They hid in a corner and occupied two tables. While drinking, they were listening to the talk of Wang’s children. Indeed, they took the exam in three days. Can they get some test questions?

News is very important to them.

More than a dozen students from the Imperial College walked into the restaurant. They searched around and finally found an empty seat in a corner of the second floor. More than a dozen people sat down one after another and called the guy to come forward to order wine and order food.

The restaurant is particularly lively, with some whispering, while others are making noise. Among the scholars from Hedong and Hebei, the students of the Wang Family School in Taiyuan were the most active, and Wang Xuezidi was not all Wang’s disciples.

Most of them are not surnamed Wang. They just study in the Wang family school and are marked as Wang family school. This will be of great benefit to their career or business career in the future. Many officials in Hedong County came from Wang family school school.

They will take care of the younger generations of the Wang family, and this phenomenon is the same in the Pei family.

However, the imperial examination was held in Taiyuan, the students of Wang Family Studies also had some psychological advantages.

"I can tell you an insider news. Among all the admitted candidates this time, Wang Xue is definitely the number one in number, accounting for at least half of them. It is impossible to achieve fair admission."

A student Wang's voice was particularly loud, attracting the attention of the scholars on the second floor. Perhaps because the topic was too sensitive, the entire second floor was silent all of a sudden. At this time, a Pei family was sitting in front of the window.

The child sneered, and sneered. His name was Pei Qingsong, who was Pei Shiqing's nephew, and he was also a passionate young man. He didn't want to be too much, but when he heard Wang's children talked more and more arrogant, he actually called Wang's admission number.

Accounting for more than half, he finally couldn't help but say, "Even if you can't get a fair admission, it's not Wang Xue's turn."

The winery was very quiet. His words were not loud, but everyone could hear them clearly. His words were like poking a hornet's nest. Most of the people on the second floor glared at him and said it just now.

The crazy talker Wang's son couldn't help but walked up and down to him, looked him up and down, and asked coldly: "Where is this guy with his noble surname?"

"I dare not take it. I am the next surname Pei, Wenxiren." Pei Qingsong said proudly.

The winery suddenly exclaimed, it turned out to be a child of Wenxi Pei family. No wonder he dared to refute the Wang family. The student Wang who spoke wildly just now sneered, "It turned out to be Brother Pei, I'm disrespectful. In the lower Wang Jizhong, my father is Jingzhao.

Lord Yin Wang.”

Pei Qingsong couldn't help but tilt the corner of his mouth. It turned out to be Wang Su's son. No wonder he was so arrogant. He also bowed and smiled: "It turned out to be Wang Jingzhao's son, I'm disrespectful."

Many people laughed out loud in the restaurant. Generally, scholars are reserved and humble, and rarely show off their family background. The children of aristocratic families are even more low-key and self-disciplined. For example, Wang Jizhong actually showed his father, such a famous child.

It is indeed rare, and even many students of Wang feel embarrassed.

In fact, Wang Jizhong's original intention was not to pull his father out to be a tiger skin. He just wanted to prove that he had internal news and prove that his argument was correct, but unexpectedly, he was not careful and attracted the contempt of countless people, even Pei in front of him.

The ridicule in the tone of the children of the family was revealed without any concealment.

Wang Jizhong was a little angry and said viciously, "It's not Wang's first place, is it still your Pei family's first place?"

Pei Qingsong sneered, "I just think Brother Wang is a bit too naive. I can tell you that the Wang family can't get first, and the Pei family can't get first. Yang Yuanqing's next goal is to win Hebei, so Hebei famous families

Aristocratic families are the focus of this imperial examination.”

More than a dozen students and disciples of the Imperial College were sitting behind Pei Qingsong. They looked at each other. The scholar from Shangdang County couldn't help asking: "Brother Pei, according to your statement, this imperial examination cannot be fair. Most of them

Are people just foiling?"

Pei Qingsong shook his head, "There is no fair in the prosperous times, let alone in the troubled times, this world is still the world of aristocratic families. If Yang Yuanqing wants to compete for the world, he must rely on the support of aristocratic families. For example, the Pei family and the Wang family have already favored him.

It is impossible to make the two families show their popularity. It would be great if the Pei family and Wang family can pass ten of their exams together, so I said that the famous families in Hebei are the focus of this imperial examination."

"But the imperial examination in Fengzhou is very fair. Most of the admitted students are from poor families. So what do you say?" Some of the students and disciples of the Imperial College were still dissatisfied.

Pei Qingsong smiled disdainfully, "That's because there are no famous families in Fengzhou imperial examinations at all. Don't you think about it, isn't the number one place the Jingzhao Wei family? Is it really fair? Besides, the background of Fengzhou imperial examinations

Fengzhou urgently needs talents, and the background of this Taiyuan imperial examination was on the eve of Yang Yuanqing's launch of the Hebei offensive. He urgently needed support from the Hebei gentry, one time, another time!"
Chapter completed!