On the 18th day of the first lunar month of the fifth year of Tiansheng, the first day of entering the 99th day of the Ministry of Rites was also the day for the Jinshi exam of the Ministry of Rites. All subjects had to be completed before they were completed. Lin Wensi specially sent Xu Ping to the gate of the Gongyuan and told him: "Don't think about everything, just answer the questions seriously, and make use of your daily learning. Don't worry about whether you are a master or not!"

After these days, Xu Ping has recovered, in good spirits and responded with all his mouth. He has had many exams such as college entrance examinations in his previous life, and he has long since disappeared from the examination room and has adjusted his mentality very well.

Sang Yi, who was on the other side, was a little worried about gains and losses. He had already participated in the Ministry of Rites Examination. Last time he was in a panic and lost his composure in the examination room, and he failed in a clean and neat way. This time he just prayed not to repeat the same mistakes.

There have been an edict in this provincial examination. The official title of the Ministry of Rites is limited to 500 people, and Xu Ping is still confident. In this era, there were about 6,000 candidates participating in the Ministry of Rites exam, and one out of a dozen people was selected. Judging from Xu Pingfa's scores in the examination, there are still quite great hope. It is important to know that the juren of each state are allocated quotas according to the state, and the state army with underdeveloped education is purely here to make up the numbers and have no competitiveness at all. In other words, the Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan and Shu prefectures have the strength to compete with Kaifeng Prefecture, and in fact they are still a little worse. The imperial examination is not only for talent examinations, but also for whether the candidates are suitable for this examination format. There is no place to compare with Kaifeng Prefecture. It is precisely because of this that so many people from other places come to Kaifeng to take the exam.

On the third day, after several exams, Xu Ping came out of the tribute school and felt refreshed.

This year, there was a special imperial edict that the only way to determine the stay and leave is not allowed to be based on poetry and prose, but should be comprehensively evaluated in combination with strategy theory. The content of the Jinshi exam includes one poem, fu, theory, five strategies, ten posts of "The Analects of Confucius", and ten posts of "The Spring and Autumn Annals" and ten articles of "The Book of Rites". It seems that there are many contents for the test, but because it is not a comprehensive evaluation of the candidate's rankings in the entire content, but a venue to determine the rankings from poetry and prose to determine the stay and prose, the poetry and prose have roughly determined whether they can be a Jinshi. The content behind it is only fine-tuning the rankings, and the posts and prose are basically a few things to make up for. Although Xu Ping carried out intensive training on poetry and prose, it is not a subject that he is good at, and it is very beneficial to him to combine the comprehensive evaluation of strategy and prose. The strategy theory is somewhat similar to the political examinations in his previous life, and it is the most skilled subject. I think he should be a little sure.

The content of the Jinshi exam did not change particularly greatly from generation to generation. The big one was the order of the exam. The admission method of each phase set the order to infinitely large, which made the focus of the Jinshi exam very different. At this time, the Mo Yi was placed at the end, which was irrelevant. After decades, the Mo Yi changed to Da Yi and became the first, and the knowledge structure of the Jinshi became very different. Da Yi finally evolved into the eight-legged essay, and became the most important first in the Ming and Qing imperial examinations. At that time, the knowledge structure of the Jinshi and the Tang and Song dynasties was already apart.

I stretched out of the Gongyuan and relaxed my muscles before I saw Sang Yi coming out of the inside, with a gloomy face, and seemed to have failed the exam again.

After seeing the li, Sang Yi sighed: "Yun Xing is relaxed, it seems that he has been doing well in the exam. Brother Wei has been in vain this time. He doesn't have to wait until the results are released, and he will be ready to go back tomorrow!"

Xu Ping was surprised: "Why do you say that? Who knows how you did the exam without waiting for the list to be released?"

Sang Yi shook his head: "My fu has many rhymes. I understand that there is no reason to be successful. I just hope that it will not be too outrageous and I will punish me for several consecutive years."

When Xu Ping heard that he was talking so seriously, he couldn't say anything else.

At this time, the juren was much more miserable than in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Not only was the status one-time, but there were also punishments for poor exams. From the first game, the results of the exam were measured. How many sessions were not allowed to be punished? How many sessions were not allowed? How many sessions were punished according to the number of sessions and the number of sessions. If it was outrageous that many sessions were not allowed, it would also implicate the examiner who gave the exam and was punished together.

In order to represent the number of sessions of this penalty, Sun Shi presided over the course of this session. Because in theory, the exam is held every year, but in fact it is not, the definition of the session is vague. From this session, it is particularly stipulated that if the exam is fined less than two sessions, the exam is calculated based on the actual number of sessions. If there are more than two sessions, it will be counted as one session a year after two sessions. For example, a certain student is fined four sessions, and the next two sessions will be tested every three years, and then he will be fined not to take the imperial examination within eight years, which is quite harsh.

Seeing that Sang Yi was depressed, Xu Ping changed the topic: "Anyway, the exam has been completed, why bother to think about it again! We will find a restaurant in a while and have a good time to drink, just drink it today!"

At this moment, a young man with a slightly dark face started to come out of the tribute courtyard, with a calm face and just lowered his head to rush forward.

Xu Ping's eyes lit up when he saw this and said to Sang Yi: "I look good at that person. Why not invite him to have a drink in the restaurant? It is also fate that I will accept the same year."

Sang Yi was in a mood and had no answer.

Xu Ping caught up with the black-faced young man and bowed: "Brother, I'm Xu Ping, a native of Kaifeng Prefecture. In this Ministry of Rites exam, we were sitting next to each other, a rare fate. Now that the exam has been completed, it's better to go to a restaurant to drink a glass of wine."

The young man looked up at Xu Ping, and was not enthusiastic, and bowed and said, "I am Bao Zheng, who is the disciple of Luzhou. Thank you for your kindness, but I still have something to do. I have so much inconvenience. I have a kindness to accept it."

After saying that, he left in a hurry, leaving Xu Ping alone standing on the road in front of the tribute courtyard in a daze.

There were signs in the examination room, and each student wrote the hometown name. It was precisely when he saw that the black-faced man beside him was Bao Zheng, and Xu Ping was waiting here to get close to him.

Xu Ping has no preference for chasing stars. The reason why he took the initiative to invite Bao Zheng was because he solved his long-standing doubts and determined the era he lived in.

Bao Zheng was definitely not the most outstanding person in this era, nor was he the one who was the most important. Xu Ping knew this even if he was not familiar with history. There was also a person who learned the name in history class in history class, Wen Yanbo, and Han Qi was a little far away from Wen Yanbo. Another scholar not far from Xu Ping's right hand was also famous in later generations, Ouyang Xiu. Whether in terms of official positions or talent studies, Bao Zheng was really not the best in this class, and he could only be considered a middle-aged and upper-middle-level person.

But the most widely known man in later generations was this black-faced man. As soon as he saw him, Xu Ping determined his era. The current little emperor was originally Renzong in history textbooks, and later the one who was spit on his face by Lao Bao. According to the emperor's temperament, he had a good life after being a Jinshi.

To be honest, Xu Ping was shocked to see so many celebrities in the exam room. He didn't meet a few in two or three years, and he saw so many of his competitors at once. In fact, from this class to the next ten classes, it was the time when the entire Song Dynasty had the most celebrities. The stars were brilliant and unique in the history of the Chinese imperial examination.

Xu Ping, who was so many later senior officials, didn't say hello, but waited for Bao Zheng just to thank him for letting him know the era he was in. Unexpectedly, Lao Bao was so disrespectful.

Actually, it’s normal. After just finishing the exam, no one knows how good they are. Is it because I was a high school student or I was punished for decades and I can’t come back again. My psychological pressure is quite high, so how can I be as nervous as Xu Ping?

After walking around the place twice, he saw Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu coming out of the tribute courtyard. Xu Ping had no intention of saying hello, so he turned around and took Sang Yi to find a restaurant to drink.

Not long after walking far, I arrived at the Bian River, where Qingfeng Tower, one of the seventy-two main stores. Speaking of the Xu family's "Qingfeng" is still a copycat. The most densely populated hotel in Tokyo is outside the Donghuamen of the Imperial City. The largest restaurants, such as the Alum Tower, Rendian, Yang Tower, etc., are all concentrated there. The officials went down to court and were there to celebrate. Although the palace examinations were also important commercial areas, the prosperity and luxury were much worse, and the most were various small foot shops.

Qingfeng Tower is close to Kaifeng Prefecture, and the scale is also reasonable.

At this time, the lively Lantern Festival has not yet passed. Colorful buildings are formed outside the Qingfeng Tower, and red lights are hanging high on both sides of the Bian River, and there are many pedestrians on the street.

Walking through the Cailou, there were slut prostitutes with heavy makeup sitting there, posing in various styles, waiting for the drinkers to greet them to accompany them. These prostitutes have all kinds of identities, but there is no private prostitute who is actually engaged in flesh-and-skin business. They just need to accompany them to eat, drink and play. They need other services to discuss privately and go to other places. This scene is actually similar to the entertainment venues in Xu Pingqian. These prostitutes are also called "ladies". The cycle of history always makes people feel familiar.

Xu Ping had become accustomed to passing through the human lane formed by these female prostitutes and directly entering the restaurant.

The Song Dynasty did not legally allow women to do flesh-and-hearted business. Even if more than three adulterers from good families were included in miscellaneous households such as prostitutes, they were all underground businesses. Strictly speaking, these prostitutes were just practitioners in the service industry, but there were many people. Obviously, legal business was not enough to support their families, so many people worked part-time jobs. If they stayed in a bigger hotel, single male guests would be knocked by women in the middle of the night. When it was lively, they could knock from dark to dawn, and one went to another. Xu Ping encountered this first time in a hotel, which was really funny and hilarious. This scene seemed familiar in his previous life, but it was no longer popular at that time, but it was changed to phone harassment.

When I entered the restaurant, I was about to find a pavilion. A young man in his twenties who was snuggling with a 17 or 18-year-old prostitute in the hall suddenly stood up, walked to Xu Ping and the others, bowed and said, "In Xia Cheng Jun, whose courtesy name is Zhizhi, is a Juzi in Meizhou. I have met two people in the tribute court. Since they were the same year, why not drink a drink?"

Xu Ping was shocked. After Bao Zheng's incident, he thought that after the exam, everyone would go back to the hotel early and stay honestly. Unexpectedly, there were even more nervous people who came here to drink and play with women. Anyway, it was better to join in the fun, so one more person would be better, of course they would not refuse.

The three of them gave a speech and found a small pavilion to sit down.

Seeing that Xu Ping and Sang Yi did not bring their female companions, Cheng Jun thought they were reluctant to spend money, so he waved his hand boldly and asked the servant to call two from outside, each of Xu Ping and Sang Yi.

This is the atmosphere of this era, and Xu Ping and Sang Yi were not easy to refuse, so they only let two female prostitutes sit beside them and drink wine and serve them to eat and drink.

After drinking three glasses of wine, Cheng Jun began to blow up. How rich and powerful his family is in Meizhou? The only regret is that no one has won a Jinshi, which is not considered a wealthy family. This time he will definitely go back to glorify his family.

After saying that, I felt a little embarrassed, so I yelled at my relatives. I married my younger sister this year, so I won’t talk about my brother-in-law’s future. My brother-in-law’s brother just passed the Jinshi in the second year of Tiansheng and was in Baoji County as the chief clerk.

The one who passed the Jinshi was named Su Huan, and his brother-in-law's name was Su Xun.

When Xu Ping heard this, he didn't spit out a sip of wine. This playboy-like figure turned out to be Su Dongpo's uncle? According to his opinion, the Cheng family was so rich that they were drowned by money in Meizhou. The Su family was actually not very good. They had already declined. It was entirely due to Su Huan's success in the Jinshi, and the two families became kin.

In fact, the grudges between the Cheng and Su families started this year. Later, Su Xiaomei died unjustly at the hands of this uncle, and her close relatives turned into enemies.
Chapter completed!