Chapter 226
The sky is getting darker.
When Wu Haogu, Mi Youren and Jin Ping'er came out of Duan Palace together, it was almost dusk.
According to the time of later generations, it was almost six o'clock in the evening. If it were earlier, the sky would have been completely dark at this time. However, it is already early February, and the daytime is extending, so there are still some groggy bright colors.
A bright moon has appeared in the sky, curved and hazy, revealing a hint of coldness.
The wind blew over, but it was still very cold, and it was the coldest spring.
Wu Haogu tightened his clothes, turned over his horse, and headed towards Mi Youren's mansion.
The Duan Prince’s Mansion, the Mi Mansion and the Wu family’s new house are all in the west wing of Kaifeng Mansion, not far away. The streets are very lively at this time. Dusk is actually the beginning of nightlife for Kaifeng Mansion. The mansions in the west wing of the city are also in the luxury residential area of Kaifeng Mansion. Those who live here are either rich or noble. They are busy working as officials to make money during the day. When the moonlight begins, they naturally start to enjoy life.
Walking on the street and looking around, you will see the bustle.
In brothels and restaurants, business is booming, and there are endless carriages, horses and pedestrians.
The Jinshui River has thawed, and from time to time, there are pleasure boats passing by. The sounds of silk and bamboo singing and dancing come from the boat, melodious and melodious, looming.
After parting with Mi Youren outside the Mi Mansion, Wu Haogu continued to ride his horse to the south, while Jin Ping'er followed his master on a small donkey and walked on the street.
For some reason, Wu Haogu suddenly felt reluctant to leave.
It is February now, and it is very close to the time to set out for Liao.
Just when the Liao envoy received the decree issued by Yelu Hongji, the delegation should set off.
As for the possibility of a break between the Song and Liao dynasties, it seems impossible for Wu Haogu to exist... The two countries have not broken up in history!
Now I will not cause a war between Song and Liao because of my small butterfly effect, right?
If there was no Song-Liao War, then the elderly Liao emperor would have to watch the Song Dynasty swallow all the fruits of victory in the Battle of Hengshan.
In this way, I have to temporarily put aside my career that I just started on track and the prosperous Kaifeng Prefecture, as well as my fiancée Pan Qiaolian, Mo Niangzi, Du Wenyu, Pan Yinger and other beauties, and embark on a journey north.
Fortunately, Ximen is with him. Moreover, Jin Ping'er will not follow him north... By the way, it is really inconvenient for this little girl to follow him! Not only can't further contact Ximen Qing, but even the female apprentice Du Wenyu cannot be called to the house to serve him. The master and apprentice can only meet in Christie's, and also under the eyes of Pan Qiaolian and Jin Ping'er!
It's really not convenient to convey your feelings to others...
...
When I got home, it was already past Xu.
He suddenly found that there were lights and decorations in front of the huge Wu family house. Teacher Lin, who lived in the Wu family, was lighting firecrackers with Wu Haogu's apprentice Zhang Zeduan. Seeing Wu Haogu coming on a horse, Teacher Lin quickly stepped on the line of firecrackers to prevent the firecrackers from shocking Wu Dalang's mount.
"Teacher Lao Lin," Wu Haogu turned over and got off the horse, "What's going on? Is there a happy event in the house?"
Teacher Lao Lin was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed and said, "Dongweng is so noble that he forgets so much. Today is the day when the Imperial College trial will be released!"
Oh, it’s really a noble person who forgot about it!
Wu Haogu has been busy all these days and has completely forgotten that there is a nerd brother in the family.
"Are you there?"
Wu Haogu asked.
This is nothing nonsense!
If you are about to fail the exam, you will still be careless and have a light and decorate?
"I won, I won... I ranked 28th on the list, it's a high school!"
Teacher Lao Lin reported the good news to Wu Haogu with envy, "Erlangjun is such a talented man. It seems that it will be a matter of time before the show will be held outside Donghua Gate."
"Can be ranked twenty-eighth?" Wu Haogu was slightly surprised.
The Imperial College Outlet House in the Northern Song Dynasty held the entrance examination at the end of January and early February every year. Because the enrollment quota is as high as 2,000 people, the difficulty of the entrance examination is not too high. It is about two or three people to win one person. With the knowledge of martial arts and literature, it is natural to pass the exam. However, it is not easy to rank 28th among the two thousand people!
Wu Haogu vaguely remembers that Ji Yi was admitted to the Imperial Academy exam and got 31st in the Imperial Academy exam. Now Wu Haowen is actually three places higher than him.
Is the Wu family going to have two Jinshi (and one is himself)? Wu Haogu thought shamelessly: If there are two Jinshi in one school, the Wu family will really be prosperous!
"Teacher," Zhang Zeduan also studied, and said with envy, "The Imperial Academy Inner House exam is 150 out of two thousand (the Imperial Academy Inner House exam is 300, and the academic system is 2 years, so one hundred and fifty people are recruited a year), and the exam will be taken one year later. With the knowledge of the uncle, if he passes the test in seven or eight years, it will be much easier for the uncle to pass the imperial examination by then."
The school system for sacrificing students in the Imperial Academy is two years. After passing the exam for two years, even if you do not get the qualification to be promoted to the upper class, you can be exempted from the Ministry of Rites and directly participate in the imperial examination. Although the treatment you enjoy is different from the court examination that you exempt from the Ministry of Rites and the court examination that you pass the Ministry of Rites and may be depressed, the proportion of passing is much higher than that you have participated in the Ministry of Rites. Therefore, entering the Imperial Academy Shangshu is equivalent to getting half a Jinshi. However, the Jinshi who came from the Imperial Academy and the Jinshi who came from the Ministry of Rites and the Jinshi who came from the Ministry of Rites and the Jinshi who were both granted the same Jinshi and are still regarded as being from the Imperial Academy in the officialdom.
Therefore, students like Ji Yi will choose to be promoted to the Shangshe. After obtaining an official position, they will go to the hall and the Ministry of Rites to get the Jinshi status. This will lead to the Imperial Academy and the Jinshi origin, which will have a very high value and will be very successful in the future.
If Wu Haowen is ambitious, he will most likely take this route. He may also go to the Ministry of Rites Examination in February next year and be eligible for sacrificing students in the Ministry of Rites. He can directly participate in the Ministry of Rites Examination. If he is in high school, he does not have to take the inner room exam. However, not every Tai student can take this route. He must enter the Taixue one year before the Ministry of Rites Examination. Otherwise, he will be admitted to the Taixue Examination or will be eliminated before he can wait for the Ministry of Rites Examination.
In other words, as soon as next year, Wu Haowen may become a hero who sings and sells outside Donghuamen!
Wu Haogu handed the reins to Lin Wancheng, and then brought Xiao Ping'er into the house. The lights were decorated with colors inside the house, and the servants entering and leaving were all happy.
Xiao Pinger, who was following Wu Haogu, also kept praising Wu Haowen, "It's still my second brother who is capable. He is so young that he is too student. He will definitely be able to pass the Jinshi in the future and become the lintel of the Wu family."
Wu Haogu turned his head and looked at Xiao Ping'er. This little girl looked obsessed. She shouldn't she fall in love with that nerd Wu Haowen?
"Well," Wu Haogu responded and said to Xiao Ping'er, "Ping'er, then how about I'll give you to my second brother as a concubine?"
"Ah?" The little girl was shocked and hurriedly ran to Wu Haogu, looked at Wu Haogu with her little face raised and said, "Master, I am the Eighteenth Sister, I will follow Eighteenth Sister for the rest of my life!"
Why is it still Pan Qiaolian’s person? Hasn’t it been given to herself? Wu Haogu frowned and asked again: “The eighteenth sister is going to marry me, what should you do?”
"I will follow you too." The little girl said seriously, "Eighteenth sister follows you wherever you go!"
So loyal! But are you still getting married? Will you be your concubine in the future?
Wu Haogu thought: The slaves raised by one's own family are different... This time I go to Liao Kingdom, you must see if there is a place to buy small slaves, buy hundreds of raising and training since childhood, so that they can turn them into their own Mamruk in the future!
When he was thinking that he had to build his own "Mamruk", Wu Haogu had already brought Xiao Ping'er to the hall of the main courtyard. The banquet had already been set up in the hall, and Wu Chengzhi, Wu Haowen, his distant brother Wu Chengchang, and those good-name brothers from the Wu family in Luoyang had already entered the table.
Seeing Wu Haogu come in, Wu Haowen gets up from the chair and faces Wu Haogu, with a gentle and smug smile on his face, "Brother, you are back."
Today, he is the Wu family in Kaifeng, no, he should be the pride of the entire Wu clan! Although his brother Wu Haogu makes money as fast as water, it is strange that he is the Wu family who can truly shine on the Wu family. The ancestors of the Wu family have produced a queen and many princes, and can a defeated Jinshi be called a glorious ancestor?
However, the Song people had only high school thinking and thoughts in their studies, and this is how the values in society were.
In addition, Tai students can barely be ranked as a literati! Tai students can write a letter to the palace, and whenever they encounter a ceremony, they can attend the interview with officials, and there are also a small amount of subsidies to get. In Kaifeng Prefecture, even the prime minister has a headache.
In terms of social level, Tai students are already a taxi among the four civil servants, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and the business end of Wu Haogu is indeed a higher level.
"Congratulations to the second brother." Wu Haogu was honest and envious of himself as a nerdy brother... The student has already obtained it, and the Jinshi is about not far away, and it is not from the back door!
I just don’t know if he has become an official, and there is still a possibility of having a celebrity in history! That Prince Duan, at least, knows that there is such a talented man in the martial arts family.
If you become an official in the future, you may be promoted well...
"Happy together, happy together." Wu Haowen smiled, "If I hadn't supported my elder brother, I could not study hard, so naturally there wouldn't be too students today." As he spoke, Wu Haowen bowed and said, "I thanked me."
But my brothers are friendly and respectful! I don’t know if I can form a loyal party when I am an official in the same dynasty in the future? If I can really work together and do my best for the people of the world.
Chapter completed!