My life skills in Daming Liver

The so-called "receiving millet into prison", as the name suggests, is to donate millet (money and grain) to the imperial court to obtain the qualification for supervising students.

Jiansheng is the student of Guozijian. The Ming Dynasty set up Guozijian in the north and south Zhili.

Du Shiniang was so angry that Li Jia, the male protagonist in the treasure chest, was a prison student who took millet into prison, so Li Jia, a scholar, immediately hesitated when he heard that his family did not allow him to take Du Shiniang back. A is a kid from a rich family who relied on his family to buy a diploma. After his family threatened to cut off his confession, he naturally gave up his love.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, supervisors were very valuable. After completing their studies in the Imperial College, they could be appointed officials directly. At that time, many famous ministers were supervisors.

But in this day and age, if Jinshi and the degree are not high, he can only be a magistrate, and the status of supervisor has dropped a lot. Even if he has graduated, he can at most be awarded to an academic officer like Hai Rui.

However, there is another advantage of supervising students, as long as they enter the prison, they can automatically obtain the qualifications of the township examination, and there is no need to take the boy's examination.

To put it bluntly, this is to donate the fame of a scholar.

The entry of millet into the prison in the Ming Dynasty began in the Jingtai Dynasty. In order to "study abroad" in Wala, the Ming Baozong began to collect millet into the prison to raise military expenses.

Later, when Wanli was aiding the court to fight against the Japanese, Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty also re-introduced millet into prison. By the time of Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty, let alone accepting millet into prison, as long as you donate money to the court, you can directly Become an official.

Su Ze said solemnly: "Thank you for the news, brother Lin, but taking millet into prison is not the right way for the imperial examination, and I will not do it."

Lin Qingyuan looked at Su Ze enviously. Only a scholar like Su Ze could say this sentence. Those who have become officials like him can no longer take the imperial examination.

Of course, Su Ze would not go to the prison for accepting millet. First of all, he would go to "be in prison" when accepting millet. That is, he would go to the Guozijian in Zhili in the north and south to study.

Then sit in prison in North and South Zhili, then you have to take the imperial examination in North and South Zhili.

If the provincial examination in Fujian is the difficulty of the king of papers, then the provincial examinations in the north and south Zhili are the difficulty of the king of papers.

Nanzhili is the largest examination area in the country, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places where the imperial examinations are held.

Moreover, Su Ze was planning to rebel, so there was no reason for someone to go to Zhili in the north and south to prepare for rebellion.

However, the imperial court allowed millet to be imprisoned, which shows that the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty have become serious again.

After saying goodbye to Lin Qingyuan, Su Ze led Ma Xian to the editorial department of "Surprise".

Sure enough, Chen Chaoyuan and Lin Qingcai were there. The two of them were sitting behind a table, painfully dismantling the contributions from Nanping County.

Su Ze opened the door and came in, Chen Chaoyuan and Lin Qingcai immediately poured out their bitterness.

"Brother Su, do you have the latest article? Let the two of us wash our eyes?"

Su Ze smiled slightly, and looked at the baskets full of submissions. Sure enough, "Surprise" attracted all the scholars in Nanping County to submit contributions.

Su Ze quickly said to the two: "You two have worked hard! School is over today, I invite you to go to Yaoyuelou to relax!"

Chen Chaoyuan took out a bookcase, handed it to Su Ze and said, "This is a readable article that the two of us have finally picked out. Brother Su, please read it."

Su Ze opened the bookcase, and there were three articles in total.

Two of them are ghost stories written in imitation of Su Ze's "Liaozhai".

Another article aroused Su Ze's interest. It was a story about a woman who disguised herself as a man to take the imperial examination and was the number one scholar in high school.

Isn't this "The Female Champion"? Su Ze continued to read, and the ending was different from the ending of Xu Wenchang's "The Female Champion". The identity of the female champion was found out, and the emperor wanted to punish her. die.

interesting.

Su Ze saw that the handwriting of this submission was beautiful, but there was no signature.

"Why are there still unsigned articles?"

Lin Qingcai said: "There are many articles like this. They may be famous people in the city. They are afraid of being rejected and feel embarrassed, so they are anonymous."

Su Ze thought for a while and said: ""Surprise" can't publish all ghost stories, just this "Female Champion", and save another ghost story for the next issue."

After Su Ze selected the article, the three of them walked to the county school together.

While walking, Chen Chaoyuan said: "Brother Su, this time we need to print more. In the past few days, except for those who came to the editorial department to submit articles, they just requested to be reprinted. Last time, the 300 copies of "Surprise" were all sold out in less than half a day. , Even Brother Lin and I couldn’t buy it.”

Su Ze asked suspiciously, "Are there so many scholars in the city?"

Chen Chaoyuan said: "As long as you can read the story of "Surprise", you can understand it. Not only scholars, but ordinary people will chip in to buy a copy and read it. In addition, I heard that "Surprise" has also been heard in several surrounding counties. There are also big households who send people to Nanping County to buy newspapers, and businessmen who sell newspapers to other counties.”

Su Ze didn't expect that "Surprise" would have such a great influence, but this is good news for him.

After Su Ze's research, he has roughly understood the liver method of the literature skill.

The dissemination of an article, from "small literary fame", to "rising fame", and then to "big fame", each dissemination stage can get corresponding experience rewards.

In other words, the wider the spread of Su Ze's "Surprise" and the more people praise the above article, the faster Su Ze can gain experience.

Su Ze secretly had a new idea. Since there are businessmen who are willing to sell Pai An Surprise to other counties, Su Ze can directly discuss cooperation with them, print more newspapers and sell them to them, and let them sell newspapers in other counties directly. .

I have to talk to Lin Xianliang from the bookstore. Su Ze remembered this and stepped into the county school with Chen Lin.

After passing Lingxing Gate, Lin Qingcai said in a low voice: "Brother Su, have you heard? The imperial court is going to send millet into prison."

Su Ze nodded and said, "When I entered the city, I met brother Lin's family brother, and he had already told me about it."

Chen Chaoyuan was a little moved. He is an old boy who has passed the exam for many years. He is obsessed with the fame of a scholar, so accepting millet and going to prison is a way out.

Lin Qingcai sighed and said, "I still advise Brother Su not to go this way. Although the county examination is not required for accepting millet to be imprisoned, it is even more difficult in Nanzhili Township. Brother Su's talent can be selected as a Jinshi, but it is not necessary. Take this shortcut."

Su Ze smiled and said, "There are so many things going on in the guard, it's impossible for me to go to the Imperial College to study."

While talking, the three came to the dormitory, this time Xiong Yue hadn't come to school yet.

The three of them were a little worried, only to see Hai Rui push the door in and said:

"Xiong Yue's mother is sick, and he takes care of her at home."

Su Ze quickly asked, "Teacher, is Xiong Yue's mother seriously ill?"

Hai Rui shook his head and said, "Xiong Yue just sent his fellow villager to the county to take leave of absence from school, and didn't specifically mention his mother's condition."

Everyone sighed again. Xiong Yue was originally from the best family among the four. His family had a tea garden at the foot of Mount Wuyi, and there were many hired tea farmers in his family. He was considered a class of rich peasants and small landlords.

But the world is unpredictable. First, the imperial court wanted to increase the amount of tea offerings, and then the imperial court changed the tribute and discounted silver, and his family was divided into more discounted silver. Now his mother was ill again, and he fell from the rich peasant class all of a sudden.

The self-cultivating peasants in the Ming Dynasty were wiped out in this way. A grain of ash from the imperial court fell on these rich peasants, which was the result of bankruptcy. After the Jiajing period, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued. Even near the capital, there were victims of disasters. the point.

Hai Rui sighed and said, "Let's continue with the class."

In class, Hai Rui also talked about Nasu's imprisonment, and he said seriously:

"It's not the right way to take the imperial examination. It's not difficult for you to study well and become a scholar at your level. There is no need to take such a crooked way."

As a scholar, Hai Rui hated Na Su to be imprisoned very much.

This not only violated the rights of scholars, but also made Guozijian even more chaotic.

Originally, Guozijian was also a proper way to become an official, but now serious scholars are no longer willing to study in prison, and Guozijian has become a gathering place for dudes.

Moreover, taking millet into the prison also violated the interests of poor scholars. After the Guozijian expanded its enrollment, more people took part in the rural examination. In recent years, scandals of cheating in the rural examination have frequently broke out.

Any system is implemented by people, as long as the human link is retained, the system will always have loopholes.

Hai Rui just hoped that the court would send an upright minister to preside over the provincial examination in Nanzhili this year, but he must not make any more fools.

However, Hai Rui quickly calmed down and began to give lectures to the three of them.

[Classroom listening, imperial examination skill experience +24, Lv5, 112/1000]

[Classroom listening, imperial examination skill experience +23, Lv5, 135/1000]

Nowadays, Su Ze studies at home on weekdays, and can gain 12-15 points in imperial examination skills a day.

Studying in the county school can increase nearly 50 points of imperial examination skills in one day.

Then you can earn more than 400 points in imperial examination skills in a month.

However, upgrading from Lv5 to Lv10 requires 15,000 experience points, which would take three years if converted.

The speed is still too slow. Next year is the year of the provincial examination. Do we have to wait for the next rural examination?

Still have to think of a way.

Now Su Ze has only two ways, one is to increase the intelligence attribute points and improve the efficiency of liver imperial examination skills.

If you can have twice the intelligence attribute, it will only take one and a half years to upgrade your imperial examination skills to Lv10.

The other is to participate in activities related to the imperial examination. For example, the last time the magistrate of Bai County came up with questions in the county school by himself, Su Ze gained a lot of experience in the imperial examination.

Complete activities related to the imperial examination, read books related to the imperial examination, and gain additional experience in imperial examination skills.

Feeling that there is not enough time again, Su Ze decided to go to Yu's bookstore to see if there are any good reference books for the imperial examination, and think about ways to gain extra experience.

The next day was still an exercise. Hai Rui corrected the stereotyped essay written by the three of them at home, and once again used Su Ze's essay as a model essay, explaining the idea of ​​solving the problem and the format requirements of the stereotyped essay.

After class, Su Ze had to attend the birthday of Young Master Yu's mother on July 16th, so he continued to stay at the county school for another day.

"Father, I want to go too!"

Fang Ruolan protested to Fang Zhifu dissatisfied, and was so frightened that the herbal tea in Fang Zhifu's hand was almost spilled.

"Nonsense! It's the commander's wife's birthday, why are you going to join in the fun!"

Fang Zhifu couldn't say anything about his daughter, but Mrs. Li had the ability to suppress blood, so she refuted her daughter when she came up.

Fang Ruolan immediately said: "I can disguise myself as a man!"

Mrs. Li scolded: "When you get married, you can go anywhere!"

Fang Ruolan's aura was exhausted, the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty was very strict for women who had not left the cabinet, and a lady from an official family like her should pay more attention to her name.

But for married women, they can participate in various activities, and there are not a few women in Fujian who show their faces and do business.

Fang Zhifu saw his daughter was deflated, and couldn't bear to get up again, he said: "I haven't seen you clamoring to go out on weekdays, why do you have to go this time?"

Fang Ruolan told the truth: "Daughter heard that the conductor's wife's birthday, Yu's troupe will perform a new play."

I see.

Fang Zhifu suddenly understood that Yu Zongyuan has been promoting in the county these days, his own troupe has rehearsed a new play, which is a hundred times more exciting than Mr. Tuohu's troupe, which has whetted the appetite of the people in the county.

Originally, the Yu family's reputation was rotten, and many officials in the county were not going to celebrate their birthdays in person, as long as they gave birthday gifts, it would be considered courteous.

But when they heard about the new plays of Yu's troupe, many wives were ready to move. There were only a few entertainment activities these days, and they had heard the new plays of Mr. Tuohu's troupe several times.

Fang Zhifu stroked his beard and said, "I heard that Changning Wei Su Ze personally rehearsed the play of Yu's troupe, and he should have written the script of this new play."

Mrs. Li had also heard about Su Ze's reputation, and she asked, "It's the Su Ze who wrote "Du Shiniang"."

Fang Zhifu nodded, and Mrs. Li said: "It's a pity that he doesn't have any fame, but he is always a juror."

After speaking, Mrs. Li glanced at her daughter.

When she raised her younger brother to grow up, her family was also very poor, but she didn't have much requirements for her son-in-law's family background.

On the contrary, Mrs. Li was also influenced by her younger brother, thinking that those big families were mostly fake morals with strict rules, and her daughter would suffer if she really married into a big family.

However, it is impossible for the daughter of a magistrate's family to marry a poor scholar without fame.

Fang Zhifu felt his blood pressure was high again: "Juren? Can Su Ze win the Juren at this age? If he can win the Juren in the rural examination next year, he will definitely be able to win the Jinshi in the future! Then those who seek marriage with him in the city can go to Fuzhou City!"

It used to be said that "fifty young Jinshi", no matter what era it is, if you can pass the examination before the age of thirty, you are considered young and promising.

(Except for Zhang Juzheng, a pervert who is a Jinshi at the age of 23)

According to the household registration that Changningwei reported to Su Ze, he is now 22 years old, and next year he will be 23 years old. If he wins the exam at the age of 23, he will definitely be snatched by the dignitaries of Yanping Mansion to get married.

Hearing that her daughter was here to listen to the play, Madam Li's tone softened, and she said: "You pretend to be my maid, and don't do anything outrageous when you arrive at Yu's house!"

Fang Ruolan knew that her old father had no right to speak at home, Madam Li's words were finalized, and she immediately said, "Thank you, mother!"

forgot the title...

The title is Nasu in Jail, sorry