Be a master through ancient times

Butler Xu left a bunch of things behind, got into the carriage and left, leaving Zhong Liyu here alone.

Zhong Liyu didn't cry or make trouble, as if nothing happened, and urged Chu Xiaoyuan to take him to play after lunch.

"Well, Yu'er, did Grandpa Xu say when he would pick you up?" Chu Ci asked tentatively.

"Grandpa Xu said, I can play as long as I want. He sends someone to bring things over once every three days, and when he wants to go back, he will get on the carriage. I have brought a change of clothes and toys, as well as my homework. Uncle, don't worry." Zhong Liyu replied very sensiblely.

Chu Ci didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he also understood that Zhong Liyu must have come here because he was arguing at home.If it weren't for the fact that his family couldn't accommodate anyone, housekeeper Xu probably would have stayed here as well.

"Okay then, you'll sleep with Uncle Chu at night."

"No! Uncle, I want to sleep with you too." Chu Xiaoyuan cried out, he has always slept with grandma, but now that Zhong Liyu wants to sleep with uncle, then he wants to sleep with uncle too!

"Xiaoyuan." Shen Xiuniang called softly, and Chu Xiaoyuan immediately shut up.

Although he died down, he was in a bad mood. When he walked out with Zhong Liyu, his pace quickened a lot, as if he didn't want to wait for him to be with him.

Zhong Liyu chased after him with a smirk, not caring about brother Xiaoyuan's aloofness at all.

Chu Ci shook his head and returned to his room with a smile.He opened the package that Steward Xu had given him, and found a few books and some gadgets inside.These books are Ancheng Fengwuzhi, Ancheng Travel Notes and Joking about Ancheng. Probably Chu Ci was very curious about the Ancheng he mentioned last time, so Kou Jing gave him these books.

Chu Ci opened Ancheng Fengwuzhi and slowly read it...

In the evening, following the voices of the women standing at the door saying "go home for dinner", the children from the village head and village rushed away, leaving only Chu Xiaoyuan and Zhong Liyu in the middle.

They played mud balls with other children today, and Chu Xiaoyuan finally discovered one of Zhong Liyu's advantages, that is, his ingenuity, the mud balls he rubbed out are smooth and round, and they won't break easily when they hit the ground. I won a lot when playing mud balls against others.

"Give these to you." Chu Xiaoyuan looked at a bag of mud pills, counted out half of them and gave them to Zhong Liyu.

"I don't want it, I put it with you, brother Xiaoyuan, and you can play it for me when you want to play."

Well, Chu Xiaoyuan took it back quickly, and decided to start treating Zhong Liyu as his younger brother, and the position should be ranked behind Da Zhuang first.

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Chu Ci made a daily plan for himself.

Get up at 05:30 in the morning and play Wuqinxi for about 15 minutes to strengthen your body and prepare for the devilish nine days of the rural examination in August.

After playing Wu Qin Xi, wash for 5 minutes, sit quietly for 10 minutes to settle your mood and organize your thoughts.

Then start to have breakfast. Healthy meals should be chewed slowly, and the time should be set at 15 minutes.

After sitting still for a while, start reading.In the morning, I first read the Four Books and one Annotation written by the Great Confucianism to deeply understand the connotation, and then took out one of the big questions assigned by the Master to start answering.

Take a short nap after lunch, pay attention, it is a nap, not a nap!Then I started to recite the Five Classics.The original owner spent most of his time memorizing the Book of Songs and Annotations of the Book of Songs, so before he decided which one to study, he would memorize one Shangshu and Chunqiu every day, and then draft a topic and write a question.

After dinner, go to visit the two children, go around the village and return, and start writing a poem every day, limited to different rhymes.Then read two history books and write one or two hundred words of reflections.Finally wash and sleep.

After the plan was formulated, Chu Ci began to implement it.From a certain point of view, Chu Ci is actually a person who can restrain himself.

Time passed by in a flash, and when he got up one morning and saw Mother Chu take off the white cloth from the courtyard door and the room door, and untie the hemp rope from the sleeves of his clothes, he realized that today is March [-]th. .

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The [-]th national funeral has passed, and the new emperor is indeed the second prince.He ascended the throne as emperor on March [-] and changed his reign name to Tianhe.The new emperor ascended the throne and amnesty the world, and except for capital crimes, which cannot be forgiven lightly, all other crimes will be reduced by one degree.At the same time, the news of Jiakai Enke spread quickly to various provincial capitals along with the post station, so that local officials would immediately post a list and spread the word, so as not to delay the students from taking the provincial examination.

This news reassured those who had already begun preparations.Although it is generally said that the new emperor will open Enke when he ascends the throne, there are no exceptions.Emperor Liang died suddenly in the previous dynasty, and after his youngest son was forced to ascend the throne, he did not open Enke.Of course, then the previous dynasty perished.

This year's township examination will be more intense than ever, because the gold content of the exams this year is different from previous years, so more people will participate.However, those who passed the examination this year will be eligible to participate in the examination next year.

In the past, the emperor would only invigilate the palace examination, and often only those who took part in the palace examination could be called disciples of the Son of Heaven.However, when the new emperor ascended the throne for the first time, he would usually be called the chief examiner of this session of the examination.

Therefore, as long as the candidates are selected this year, regardless of their performance in the examination, they can be called the disciples of the Son of Heaven.If the applicants in previous years take part in the next year's examination, although they can be said to be disciples of the emperor, the gold content will be discounted.

With this name, in the future, no matter whether it is an external release or a supplementary official, it can be half a level higher than the same level of officials. Who would refuse this?

However, within a province, [-] scholars take [-] candidates.This acceptance rate can be said to be very low.In the general examination, three thousand applicants will be selected for three hundred Jinshi.It's strange that everyone is going to say "Gold Juren and Silver Scholars".

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On March [-]th, Chu Ci took the two young children to Mengtong Hall to sell their holidays, and then rushed to the county school's Xianxian Hall to attend the opening ceremony.

This time it was many days later than in previous years. The combination of the county examination and the national funeral resulted in the opening ceremony of the imperial examination class being held only now.

The imperial examination classes are divided into three categories, namely, the township examination class, the county examination class, and the children's class.

The rural examination classes are basically not too old, and all of them are famous scholars, while the provincial examination class A is even better, generally ranking in the top [-] of each class.

The age of the county examination class is slightly older, but there are no more than 30 years old. These people are only one step away from the scholar, and generally speaking, they have passed the county examination or the government examination.

The children's class is also called the juvenile class. Their average age is the youngest, and they are basically those who have passed the boy's test at the Mengtong Hall.All of them have not yet taken the county test or failed after taking the test.

County schools have monthly exams every month, and teachers will adjust classes according to their rankings in the monthly exams.If there is no progress or cannot keep pace for three consecutive times, you will be dismissed by the county school.

When Chu Ci stepped into the hall of sages, almost all the people in the rural examination class had arrived, and there were a lot of people inside.He was a little dazed and didn't know where to stand for a moment.

"Brother Chu, here!" A person in the distance waved to him, Chu Ci took a closer look, wasn't it Chen Zifang that day?

"Brother Zhongxing! I haven't seen you for a few days, and my spirit is getting better." Chuci said with cupped hands.

"Haha, so is Brother Chu, his demeanor is even more noble." Chen Zifang replied.

The two were standing aside talking, and suddenly they heard a lot of silence around them, only to realize that the head of the mountain was leading more than ten masters and more than 20 teachers from the county school to the door of the hall of sages.

The students present clasped their hands and saluted, and said in unison: "Hello, Mr. Shan, hello to all the masters, hello to all the teachers, and the students are polite."

The voice resounded throughout the hall, and Shan Chang looked at the respectful students with a smile in his eyes, and said with great anger, "You don't need to be polite."

"Xie Shanchang." Everyone bent down again, then got up and stood still.

The head of the mountain first said a lot of scene words, and then came to the most exciting item - class division.This class is divided according to the results of last year's graduation exam. The head of the mountain gave a signal, and then a teacher surnamed Jiang stood up with a list.

"Country Examination Class A, those who read their names stand out. Qi Xu, Jianghuai... Zhang Ding...these 28 people are students of Township Examination Class A." People should be promoted from Class B or Class C.

"Next is Class B. Those who read their names stand out. Luo Yingshu, He Jin..."

"Next is Class C. Those who read their names stand out. Zhu Xiang, Zhu Jie...Chu Ci, the 42 people come out."

Chu Ci is embarrassing, he didn't take the final exam last year, so his grade was naturally zero, no wonder he was placed at the bottom of Class C, tsk tsk, it seems a bit embarrassing.

However, there were 120 students enrolled last year. Why did only 110 students read their names? In addition to the full number of students in Class B, there are two fewer students in Class A and eight fewer students in Class C.It seems that ten people were persuaded to leave this year.

"Teacher, the student is ranked first in Class B, why can't he be promoted to Class A?" Someone came out to ask.

Teacher Jiang replied: "There has always been a rule in the school. If the first person in this year's college test registers, he can be exempted from entering Class A. The first person in this year's case, Jin Yang, came to sign up the day before yesterday, so Class A needs to reserve a place for him."

"There is only one person at the head of the case, isn't there another position?" The resources of Class A and Class B are quite different.

"There is also a rule in the county school. Students transferred from the prefectural school can also be exempted from entering Class A. This year, Chen Zifang, a student who originally studied at the prefectural school, came to sign up a few days ago, so we have to reserve a place for him. "Teacher Jiang said again.

The student had no choice but to back down. Chen Zifang, who was standing behind Chu Ci, was a little embarrassed, feeling that he had taken someone else's place. If he knew this rule early, he might as well enter Class C with Brother Chu. Anyway, he would be in Class C after a month. Can also be promoted to Class A.

Chu Ci was happy for these two friends, but when Fang Jinyang came later, he must say a few words about this kid, and he was still mysterious?He obviously only met yesterday, so he didn't tell him such good news!

By the way, there is also this kid Zhang Wenhai, he should be going to study with him from Class C.

Sure enough, in the following time, Teacher Jiang read out the eight people who had entered Class C, and Zhang Wenhai's name was among them.

After the reading, the students were divided into two sides, leaving a lane in the middle to welcome the new students.

Chen Zifang, who was originally standing with Chu Ci, had slipped out through the side door at this time. He didn't know that there was still this ceremony, so he came in before.

Under the leadership of the teacher, the new students walked in with their heads held high.All of them had high spirits on their faces, and it was clear that the title of rookie talent brought them great honor.

When Fang Jinyang met Chu Ci's eyes, he smiled wryly.Chu Ci understood, and cast his sinister eyes on Zhang Wenhai's face again.

Zhang Wenhai was laughing at first, and he was hurriedly clasping hands with other students. When he met Chu Ci's eyes, his laughter stopped abruptly, like a screaming chicken with its throat choked.

It's over, Brother Chu is angry again!