In addition to studying and studying articles, Zhang Yue occasionally learned the skills of throwing pots and archery.
There is no way around this. There is so much time on weekdays that you can learn too many things.
The daily schedule in Taixue is like this. The first tom will be played a moment after the fifth drum. At this time, most of the students had already gotten up and were washing and dressing in their studios. At the second drumming time, they go to the kitchen to get food, and then they eat in their fasting rooms.
Because Zhang Yue has the habit of taking a nap during the day, he usually doesn’t get up until the second drum beat. While he was washing himself, his companions in the studio helped him bring back food.
After breakfast, if there are private exams or lectures, everyone will go to Chonghua Hall. If not, they will study by themselves in the furnace pavilion.
The school spirit of Taixue has always been that after every public and private examination, Hu Yuan and Zhang Yi would gather with all the students in Chonghua Hall to perform music and songs until late at night.
This has always been the rule of Taixue. It can be regarded as relaxation after school, and it is also a combination of work and rest.
In the afternoon, Zhang Yue would take a nap unshakably. Everyone in the same studio looked at him with admiration. Anyone else would have been criticized angrily by the teacher. Moreover, Zhang Yue did not take a nap. He slept for at least an hour and at most two hours.
In the evening, unless Taixue's chef has extra meals, Zhang Yue will usually have dinner in the studio.
I have to say that life at Taixue was indeed hard. But Zhang Yue was still bearable.
However, many of the Imperial Academy students were descendants of officials or people from well-to-do families, how could they endure such hardships.
So they would find an excuse to sneak out at night. However, the Imperial Academy was not allowed to stay away from home without any reason. In addition to arranging for a doctor to fast every night, there was also a direct lecture room where a direct lecturer was on duty to register the Imperial Academy's comings and goings.
However, after Hu Yuan left, the atmosphere of Taixue relaxed somewhat. In order to ask for leave and stay overnight, students often signed the word "feeling the wind" on their books.
Later, a famous Tai student entered the pavilion, and the pavilion also had rules for school officials to live directly there.
According to regulations, every night in the secret pavilion of the three halls, one of the school officials will stay overnight. If there is any reason not to stay overnight, the night will be wasted, which is called an exempt stay. According to the rules, the stay should not exceed four days, and on the fifth day, one must enter the hotel to stay overnight, which gave many officials an opportunity. Whenever it is necessary to stay overnight, the Guange officials will write the words "uneasy, no need to stay" under the name of the person on duty in the duty book as a rule. Therefore, the duty book of Guange overnight stay is known as "Guange Night Stay". It is "harmful to the belly".
This official, who was a former Imperial College student, also repeatedly signed exemptions. Perhaps he was remembering his own experience of signing the word "Gan Feng" when he was in Imperial College. So the two things were put together and jokingly called "harming belly history", which can be compared to "sensing wind book".
This is also a joke from Taixue, and everyone often mentions it.
For example, Huang Haoyi's health has not been good since he entered the Imperial College. He was often a frequent visitor to the Imperial College, which made the Imperial College of Zhisu very puzzled. How could this child be like this?
One day during the holiday, Huang Haoyi brought Yulian dressed in men's clothing into Taixue.
The rule of Taixue is that students are not allowed to see guests on weekdays, but they are allowed to see guests in the studio on holidays. But Huang Haoyi openly brought in a prostitute. If he was found out, he would be expelled from school, and even Zhang Yue would be implicated.
Zhang Yue scolded Huang Haoyi and drove them out of the house.
Fortunately, Huang Meiyi didn't get to the bottom of it yet. After hearing Zhang Yue's reprimand, he immediately left Taixue with Yulian.
Except for Huang Haoyi, there are quite a few Taixue students in Zhaishe. Some of them have families in Bianjing and cannot bear the boring life in Taixue.
There are also some Tai students who are frequent visitors to brothels.
It is well known that Taixue students are popular with prostitutes, and the largest 'red light district' in the Song Dynasty is right next to Taixue.
It is already a romantic thing for an official to openly engage in prostitution, let alone these young imperial students.
There is a joke in Taixue.
There was a student who stayed in a brothel all day long. One day he came home with pain in his legs. His mother pressed his legs and said, "My son is studying well. He often studies late at night. There is a lack of fuel in school, so he must be freezing."
The student was immediately ashamed after hearing this and made up his mind never to go to a brothel again.
Stories like this are often used by old students to warn those imperial students who love to go to brothels, and to persuade them to turn back as prodigal sons.
However, Zhang Yue had nowhere to go. Occasionally when he was tired from studying, he would go shopping at night, sometimes visiting the Zhouqiao Night Market. I also bought a lot of Shoushan stones from there.
Zhang Yue bought a lot of them because they were cheap.
When I get tired of studying, I carve a few seals.
Anyway, Zhang Yue had a lot of time, and he still had six hours to waste after going to bed.
He learned something about everything. In addition to writing and calligraphy, he also learned archery, pot throwing, and seal carving.
Anyway, with so much time every day, just studying is hard enough. It would also be nice to have some extracurricular hobbies. To learn other skills, just use all the skill points.
"Sanlang, are you carving seals again?"
Zhang Yue raised his head and saw Liu Ji, the chief of the stall. He stood up and said, "Yes, what does the chief of the stall have to do?"
Zhang Yue would carve a seal every two or three days, and now he had more than a dozen seals in his hands without even realizing it. As the chief of the chariot, Liu Ji naturally knew about Zhang Yue's engraving of the seal.
Liu Ji smiled and said: "Sanlang, I think you are very good at carving seals."
"I don't believe what the chief said."
Liu Jidao: "It's not an exaggeration. Although the seals carved in this workshop are good, they have a craftsmanship and are extremely dull in every horizontal and stroke. On the other hand, Sanlang, you are not only excellent in seal writing, but you also incorporate calligraphy into the carved seals."
"If the chief has anything to say, you might as well say it directly..." Zhang Yue said with a smile.
Liu Ji smiled and said: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from Sanlang. That's the case. Yang Zhijiao, who knows calligraphy and learning, must know! He likes your seals..."
"Yang Zhizhi?"
Who does Zhang Yue know? The other party's name is Yang Nanzhong, and he now teaches calligraphy at the Imperial Academy.
Some people say that among the famous Xiaozhuan masters today, the only ones in the world are Shao Buyi, Yang Nanzhong and Zhang Youzhi.
At the beginning, Renzong of the Song Dynasty invited Zhang Youzhi and Yang Nanzhong to carve the two-body stone scripture. It can be seen that the calligraphy of both of them is first-class in the world. And this stone scripture is now placed in Taixue.
Logically speaking, Zhang Youzhi and Yang Nanzhong should have a good relationship. But in fact, Zhang Yue had followed Zhang Youzhi for many years but never heard a word of Yang Nanzhong's name from him.
Seeing Zhang Yue's hesitation, Liu Ji couldn't help but ask, "Is there any difficulty?"
Zhang Yue thought for a while and said: "It's not a problem. If Yang Zhi wants to engrave a seal, I happen to have one here and give it to the chief of the prison. The chief of the prison can handle it himself, but if in front of Yang Zhi, don't say it was from me. ."
Liu Jilue thought for a while and then he understood: "Don't worry, Sanlang, I will definitely not tell anyone about it as a gift from you."
Zhang Yue took a chapter and gave it to Liu Ji.
"Sanlang, you are such a good friend."
Zhang Yue smiled. He slept during the day and couldn't get up when he heard the drums. Liu Ji covered it for him. Although the two seals took a lot of effort, they were not worth much money.
Liu Ji took out a bag of money and said, "Sanlang, please accept your kindness."
Zhang Yue declined and said, "What are you talking about among classmates? I won't accept it."
Liu Ji saw Zhang Yue resolutely refused and did not send him again.
The next day, Liu Ji came to the house again and gave Zhang Yue a new robe. He smiled and said, "Sanlang, this robe is a bit too short for me, and I am too lazy to change it. I saw that Sanlang's robe is old, so I just gave it to you." ."
Seeing how sincere Liu Ji was, Zhang Yue first asked, "What did Yang Zhi think of the seal yesterday?"
Liu Ji laughed and said, "Yang Zhidao liked it very much. He said that such exquisite things are really rare."
Zhang Yue said with a smile: "It's easy to say. If Yang Zhiyao asks you again, the chief of the village will just give the order and I will come in three or five days."
Liu Ji smiled and said: "Thank you very much Sanlang."
Zhang Yue then accepted his robe and said, "I don't dare to take it seriously. The Imperial Examination is about to begin, so I would like to congratulate the chief of the prison in advance."
Liu Ji laughed when he heard this and said confidently: "I'm borrowing Saburo's good words."
After a few days, the Imperial College Examination and the Kaifeng Prefecture Examination were held.
Today's officials can be said to be benevolent and generous.
Fan Zhongyan's reform has always talked about the disadvantages of "redundant officials", but in recent years, the officialdom has been the disadvantage of the Great Kaifeng officialdom.
Not only are there countless Yin officials, but there are also tribute examinations held every two years. This subject has increased the number of Jinshi from more than 390 people to more than 500 people.
Regardless of the burden on the court, the scholars are quite happy anyway.
After Liu Ji changed his name, as expected, he got second place in the Imperial College Interpretation Examination.
Zhang Yue was calm about this, but the following news made him extremely uneasy.
Because the first place in Kaifeng Mansion's examination was... Zhang Dun.
Fuyuan!
You must know that the first place in each examination is called Jieyuan, but the first place in Kaifeng Prefecture's examination is called Fuyuan.
What does Kaifeng Fuyuan mean?
Next year's Jinshi quotas will be distributed in this way: there will be 210 Jinshis from Kaifeng Prefecture, 100 Jinshis from Guozijian, and 200 Jinshis from the Ministry of Rites.
I haven’t heard of anyone from Kaifeng Prefecture who failed the provincial examination, and Fu Yuan is a frequent recipient of Jinshi’s first crown.
When Zhang Yue heard that Zhang Dun had won the Kaifeng Prefecture, he had mixed feelings.
In the days after entering Taixue, he had almost forgotten this brother. Even among his classmates, no one mentioned the names of Zhang Dun and Zhang Heng in front of him.
But after Zhang Dun won the title of Kaifeng Mansion, everyone thought of Zhang Yue again.
"Sanlang, you Zhang family are really amazing. Last year the number one scholar was Zhang Ziping, and this year the top scholar in Kaifeng Prefecture is Zhang Zihou. It's true that every year the glory is taken up by your Zhang family."
"Zhang Zihou is really great. I even laughed at him for abandoning the examination last year. Now it seems that I am really short-sighted. For a person like him, getting into the Jinshi examination is like picking something out of a bag."
"Sanlang, do you know Ziping Zihou? At least you can introduce him to us."
Zhang Yue thought to himself, it's obvious that I won the Fu Yuan, why are you here to congratulate me?
Zhang Yue didn't have much to say. He smiled and passed by without mentioning his relationship with the two of them. Everyone just said it.
On this day, Wu Anchi also said: "Congratulations, Sanlang. Your Zhang family is about to add another Jinshi."
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Thank you Erlangjun. To be honest, this matter is beyond my expectation."
Wu Anchi said with a smile: "If there are any surprises, don't be surprised. The day after tomorrow, when I have a banquet at the Wu Mansion, my brother will also invite Ziping Zihou to the door. Then everyone can sit down and talk."
Wu Anzhi was mostly polite to him at first, but now he is more enthusiastic after hearing that Zhang Dun won the Jinshi.
It's just that Zhang Yue is smiling on his face, but deep down he's thinking, will he go to the Wu Mansion the day after tomorrow? Or are you just mumbling?
