The reputation of being the number one scholar sounds very great, but in fact the official position is not big, which is very different from what is said in the play.
In the play, being admitted to the top exam is equivalent to flying up a branch, either becoming a prince-in-law, or becoming a powerful official who can turn things around.
But in fact, if you pass the first prize, you can only get a sixth-rank official position - Hanlin Academy Editor.
However, it cannot be said that this small official has no future, because the Hanlin Academy is the reserve of Dasheng officials. According to statistics, 90% of the more than 100 prime ministers and assistants in the previous dynasty came from the Hanlin Academy.
Dasheng inherited the old system of the previous dynasty. Since its establishment, except for the group of veterans who followed the emperor to conquer the world, 80% of the remaining cabinet bachelors came from the Hanlin Academy.
Therefore, entering the Hanlin Academy is a promising future.
After the imperial edict was issued, Li Qiao went to the Hanlin Academy to report for employment and took leave to return to his hometown.
Li Qiao is in Yuanhe Province. According to the regulations of the court, he can take four months' leave.
After successfully receiving the leave approval slip, Li Qiao returned to the rented place. He and Tao Zhu began to pack their luggage and buy items.
Yes, they started shopping again.
He hired the Han family's caravan to accompany him back to his hometown. No matter how much he bought, the caravan could hold it.
However, while he was shopping, he had to wait for Zhuang Wen, Xu Ying, and Meng Yue.
The official positions of the top three candidates, the top pick, and the top pick were customized, and the official conferment edicts were issued the day after the Qionglin Banquet.
However, due to the large number of remaining Xinke Jinshi, the official award edict was slow to come out, and might even not be issued at all.
Fortunately, Xu Ying, Meng Yue, and Zhuang Wen were luckier. After waiting for five more days, their conferring edicts came down.
Zhuang Wen entered the Ministry of Industry, which had four subordinate departments, namely the Headquarters, the Yu Department, the Water Department, and the Farming Department.
Zhuang Wen joined the Yu Department. This department manufactured, sent and received official utensils, and was also responsible for minting money. It was a department that did not appear to be visible but was actually inseparable. Zhuang Wen was the head of the Yu Department. He was in the seventh rank, and his rank was the same as that of Xu Ying. Same.
Meng Yue entered the Prison Detention Hall of the Ministry of Punishment. The purpose of this Prison Detention Hall was to inspect prisoners in the Ministry of Punishment's prisons and to be in charge of the work of the jailers. Meng Yue was in charge of the seventh rank.
Xu Ying entered the household department.
There were twelve provinces in Dasheng, so the household department was divided into twelve departments, and each department was in charge of taxation, land, household registration and other matters in a province.
The Household Department is a popular department among the six departments. However, although Xu Ying entered the Household Department, the department he entered was outside the Twelve Departments and was called Fanyinchu.
This department manages the food expenses, administrative expenses and other affairs of various ministries and yamen in Shengjing. Xu Ying is the head of Zhengqipin.
Zhuang Wen, Meng Yue, and Xu Ying were all very happy to have official official positions. Especially Zhuang Wen. He did not do as well as Meng Yue and Xu Ying in the imperial examination, but his official position was the same as Xu Ying's, and he was one level higher than Meng Yue. , this is because the Ministry of Industry is not as popular as the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of Punishment, and the promotion potential is small. Now it is the seventh rank, and 99% of the time it will be the seventh rank in ten years.
But Zhuang Wen is very satisfied. Even if he is a seventh-level official in this life, he will be proud of his ancestors.
Zhuang Wen is also going back to his hometown, and he wants to bring his family with him.
But Xu Ying and Shen Hua had to work on fifty sets of clothes. The Holy Father gave a deadline to make fifty sets of clothes by the end of the month, so he and Shen Hua could not return to Hexi Mansion.
However, Shen Hua asked his maid Xiaoqiu to go back with Li Qiao and Taozhu to report the news to his family.
Meng Yue doesn’t plan to go back either.
He was a young official and seemed to have no hope of promotion, but since he had such an official position, he should work hard, so he planned to join the job early.
Moreover, if you join the job earlier, you can receive your salary earlier.
He is now in debt to Xu Ying. If he goes back, he will have to spend money on food and accommodation along the way. But if he joins the job earlier, he can receive his salary earlier. Not only does he not have to spend money, but he can also make money.
Although his official position was small, his salary was good, so he asked his eldest brother to go back with Li Qiao, while he and his younger brother stayed in Shengjing.
So, in mid-April, Li Qiao Taozhu took Li Ershan Li Xia, together with the banker and Brother Meng Yue, followed the Han family's caravan and embarked on the road back home.
Different from the nervousness and hard work when they arrived, on the way back home, the mood of the group of people besides being happy was only a touch of melancholy.
It is indeed good to be an official, but they are all officials in the capital. From now on, they will stay in the capital and stay away from their hometown.
Fortunately for Li Qiao, he is not a local and has no deep feelings for Sanliu Village.
But Zhuang Wen is different. He has stayed in Sanliu Village for fifty years. Now that he is getting old and half of his body is buried, he has to leave his hometown. Although he is not unable to survive in his hometown, he is indeed forced to leave. Township.
This is why he is not melancholy.
After a month and a half of melancholy, at the end of May, a group of people returned to Pingcheng.
Li Qiao was the top scholar in high school, and the imperial court had already sent officials to Sanliu Village to announce the good news. Therefore, everyone in Pingcheng had long known that Li Qiao had won the top prize.
Zhuang Wen, Meng Yue, Xu Ying and Li Qiao had a good relationship, and they were all from Pingcheng, so the official messengers reported the good news to Sanliu Village.
From the day they saw off their official duties, Zhuang Fengshou and Li Liang lived in the county town. They did nothing every day but waited at the city gate.
They were waiting, and so were the people in Pingcheng.
There were many pedestrians on the adobe brick road between Pingcheng and Fucheng. When approaching Pingcheng County, someone recognized Li Qiao and Tao Zhu who were sitting on the shaft of a carriage driving a carriage.
After recognizing Li Qiao and Taozhu, everyone followed their ox cart unless they had something important to do.
Hey, the top scholar, the living champion, the champion who can only be seen on the stage, now actually appears in front of them, why aren't they curious!
What's more, this person is the famous Li Qiao!
Li Qiao will definitely stay in Beijing. Unless he retires and returns to his hometown in the future, he will probably never return to Pingcheng again in his life.
This is really one look less than one look.
You must take a look at it more, and feel the joy of being the champion!
As a result, more and more people lined up behind the oxcart. By the time Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and others arrived at Pingcheng, hundreds of people were already following them.
At this time, hundreds of people gathered at the gate of Pingcheng, and there was a trend of more and more people.
Some people on horseback on the adobe road saw Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, and ran to Pingcheng early to report the news. The people in Pingcheng knew that Zhuangyuan Lang was back, and everyone who had nothing important to do also came to see Li Qiao.
Among them, Li Liang and Zhuang Fengshou rushed to the front. When they met, everyone except Li Qiao had tears in their eyes.
After being away for half a year, I’m finally back!
"Let's go, go home, everything is waiting for you." Li Liang smiled with tears in his eyes, grabbed Li Qiao's hand and pointed in the direction of Sanliu Village, his whole body trembling with excitement.
Zhuang Feng was in tears, and he grabbed Zhuang Wen's hand and shook it: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back."
Zhuang Wen looked at his old father, who was over seventy years old, and burst into tears, feeling even more melancholy in his heart.
Tao Zhu looked at this scene, his eyes were red, his eyes were full of water drops, and the water drops were teetering on the edge and might fall at any time.
The Tao family didn't come, but Pingcheng was also his hometown.
Before he left, he started to feel sad.
"Don't cry, I'm here."
Li Qiao took one hand out of Li Liang's hand, held his hand, and shook it gently a few times.
Tao Zhu turned to look at Li Qiao, taking in the tenderness on his face, he couldn't help but tighten his lips and let out a heavy hum.
Although he is reluctant to leave, he will be wherever Li Qiao is. As long as he is with Li Qiao, he is home everywhere!
After the crying subsided, Li Qiao said goodbye to Han Ning and the eldest brother of the Meng family. He asked Xiaoqiu to take the carriage containing Shen Hua's gifts to the Shen family. He said a few words to the many villagers at the city gate and then returned to the village.
Someone has already come to Sanliu Village to report the good news.
Everyone in Sanliu Village estimated the time and felt that Li Qiao would come back in the next few days, so even though it was the wheat harvest, they had not been in the fields for several days.
When the messenger came, everyone quickly gathered under the big tree at the entrance of the village.
Zhujia Village is not far from Sanliu Village. Village Chief Zhu specially sent people to stay in Sanliu Village to know the latest developments of Li Qiao.
So, when Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and his party came back, people from Zhujiacun were also there.
"Uncle, I miss you so much!" Li Dashan hugged Li Rui and, together with Zheng Qianqian, rushed over and shouted before Li Qiao's ox cart came under the tree.
Zheng Qianqian also shouted, her eyes red as she shouted: "Uncle Zhu and little uncle, you are finally back!"
Li Xiaorui, who was in Li Dashan's arms, waved his fleshy arms like lotus joints and shouted with a smile: "Uncle!"
Li Qiao saw Li Dashan's big white teeth from a distance and couldn't help but smile and waved.
Tao Zhu wiped his eyes, his nose was sore again, hey, it will be difficult to see Brother Qian in the future.
When they came under the big tree, they saw Wang Guihua, Li Shu, Li Gu, Li Chuntao, Li Dazhong Baiyou and others. Both of them were crying and laughing.
The Zhuang family members also laughed and cried at the same time, each telling how much they missed in the past six months.
After a while, when the family members' emotions had stabilized, Li Qiao stood on the shaft of the car and looked at the surrounding villagers.
Looking at the familiar smiling faces, thousands of emotions flooded into his heart. He smiled and said: "I'm going to trouble everyone again. The celebrations will begin the day after tomorrow, with a flowing banquet for seven days!"
This was what he and Zhuang Wen had agreed upon. Sanliu Village had a top scholar and a top three scholar. This was a great joy. The flowing banquet must be longer than the time when the candidate was selected for the exam!
After Li Qiao finished speaking, everyone responded loudly.
"No trouble! It should be right!"
"It's a great honor to host a banquet for the Number One Scholar!"
"That's right, it's great to be able to host a banquet for Li Qiao again."
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Not only Li Qiao expressed emotion, but also many fellow villagers.
Who would have thought that the top player who was tied with Tao Shu would become the top pick in just five years.
Moreover, even though he has the aura of being the top scholar, Li Qiao treats everyone as he always has.
He said trouble, hey, Li Qiao hasn't changed!
Many villagers felt at ease.
Before Li Qiao took off, everyone was worried, fearing that he would not look down on everyone after he soared into the sky.
Now they don't have to worry.
Next, many villagers began to prepare for the flowing feast. Whose pigs should be used, and whose chickens, ducks and geese should be used. These have been clearly divided and can be slaughtered directly now.
Li Qiao Taozhu, on the other hand, is going home.
Zhuang Wen also returned to the banker's house.
Nothing has changed at home, there is a plaque with the Holy Emperor's imperial writing on the door, and the yard is kept clean.
In several large kitchens, pots and stoves were burning.
Li Dashan, Li Chun Tao, Li Shu and others are still making snacks, and the familiar sweetness is floating in the air.
