In terms of level, this poem is not an eternal masterpiece, it is just above average.
But this poem is very suitable for the occasion and suits His Majesty the Emperor's taste.
That's why His Majesty the Emperor was so happy. He was so excited that he gave his beloved Wan Fang Inkstone to him.
You know, this Wanfang Inkstone is not an ordinary inkstone.
It is produced in Yantai Mountain in the south of Daze Country.
As the name suggests, this Inkstone Mountain is a mountain range that specializes in producing inkstones.
The stones from Inkstone Mountain are particularly suitable for making inkstones.
Most of the inkstones used in the mansions of dignitaries in Daze were produced in Inkstone Mountain.
And this Wanfang Inkstone is the best quality produced in Yantai Mountain.
Come to think of it, the inkstone used by His Majesty the Emperor must be made of the best materials and carefully crafted.
An inkstone like this can be produced at most 1-3 out of 10,000 square meters of stone.
Therefore, it also has the reputation of Wanfang Inkstone!
Of course, there are thousands of square inkstones, there are thousands of square inkstones, hundred square inkstones, ten square inkstones, and one-square inkstones.
The price of one of the inkstones in the capital was 1 tael of silver.
Ten square inkstones cost seven taels of silver.
The Baifang Inkstone and Qianfang Inkstone cost fifty taels and three hundred taels of silver respectively.
As for Wanfang Inkstone, it has no price and is only used by the emperor.
But it can also be seen that the value of this ten thousand square inkstone is probably not less than a thousand taels of silver. Coupled with the title of the emperor, the value is even higher.
Of course, its actual cost is not that high, but that’s the way goods are. The price sold in the market can never be the cost price, whether it is the workers who dig the stones, the craftsmen who carve the inkstones, or the merchants who transport them to the capital to sell them. , they all have to make money, eat, and live.
In short, the emperor's reward to Fang Xiaoyue instantly aroused the enthusiasm of the scholars to write poems.
Since the emperor did not continue to call the names, the second-place, top-ranked, and second-grade scholars all took the initiative to stand up and recite their own poems.
However, His Majesty the Emperor is quite generous. As long as he has better poems, he will give them rewards...well, rewards.
However, the subsequent rewards were not as high as Fang Xiaoyue's.
There are Thousand Square Inkstones, Hundred Square Inkstones, royal writing brushes, ink ingots, etc.
Of course, there are also those who are not rewarded.
After all, it is very difficult to write a poem like this that needs to fit the theme on the spot and do it well.
Many Jinshi's poetry writing skills were not high, so they did not receive rewards.
Time passed bit by bit, and before half an hour was up, the emperor seemed a little tired.
As an emperor, he naturally would not care about the emotions of those Jinshi. He stood up immediately, encouraged the Jinshi with a few words, and then left.
As before, the chief assistant led all the officials and all the Jinshi to kneel and see the emperor off.
However, once the emperor left, the first assistant did not stay long. After giving a few words of instruction to the Jinshi with a kind face, he left early.
As soon as the chief assistant left, the remaining pavilion elders and many officials all stood up and left.
But once these officials left, the Jinshi felt more relaxed.
No matter who you are, sitting and drinking with your boss must be very uncomfortable.
But as soon as the officials left, Fang Xiaoyue became the focus of many Jinshi toasts. ….
Some Jinshi really want to make friends with Fang Xiaoyue, after all, they will be considered to be of the same age from now on.
As mentioned before, in the officialdom, there has been a saying in the past dynasties that officials protect each other.
The most critical point for officials to protect each other is to be able to communicate, cooperate, etc. with each other.
In short, everyone can see that this person has a bright future, and it will not be a loss to befriend this person.
Fang Xiaoyue is very different from others.
After some eating and drinking, the Qionglin Banquet finally came to an end.
Under the leadership of the eunuch, all the Jinshi left Liu Linhai with reddish faces.
in the next few days
During this period, Fang Xiaoyue attended two more cultural gatherings and wrote two poems respectively.
Compared with the previous poems, the two current poems are more inclined to love, love, and eternal vows.
This also made Fang Xiaoyue's reputation skyrocket among the circles of girls and wives in the capital.
However, Fang Xiaoyue did not stay in the capital for long. Instead, he asked for leave from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and returned home.
Before becoming an official, a new Jinshi can take three months off to go home and deal with housework.
After all, no matter whether you are serving as an official in the capital or going to another place, you will be there for several years, and you will never have the chance to go home to deal with household chores.
Especially for some Jinshi who have mothers and wives at home, if they don't go home for a few years, they may not know what will happen.
Therefore, out of sympathy for the new scholars, there is such a rule.
After receiving the three-month holiday, Fang Xiaoyue took Zhang Yuanming to the car dealership to rent a carriage.
That’s not to say you can’t go back by boat.
But the boat going back always travels against the current, and many times it needs to be towed by trackers on the shore.
Under such circumstances, the ship speed is very slow.
When we came here, the boat sailed down the river and arrived in the capital in ten days, while the boat back took a month.
Fang Xiaoyue's vacation is only three months, not even one day short of it. Considering that she will go back this time, she still has a lot of things to do.
Therefore, instead of slowly going back by boat, it is better to take a carriage back from the land.
In this case, you can get home in half a month at most.
Of course, carriages in the capital were not cheap, and Fang Xiaoyue's trip back was a one-way trip, so the carriage dealer offered a high price of one hundred taels of silver.
You know, it only costs 30 taels to go back by boat.
But Fang Xiaoyue still paid for it honestly.
Because if he moves any slower, the carriage will be rented out.
There are not many people returning to the capital. There are as many as 5,000 people coming to take the exam this time. You can imagine how good the business of the car dealers in the capital will be.
The only thing that made him feel gratified was that, perhaps due to the reputation of the Number One Scholar, the coachman assigned to his carriage by the car dealership was said to have thirty years of driving experience.
Since leaving the capital, the carriage has moved very steadily, allowing Fang Xiaoyue to lie down in the carriage and sleep, which reduced a lot of fatigue on the road.
The driver is a square-faced man in his forties with half a century of hair. He is very respectful to Fang Xiaoyue.
In fact, the vast majority of people in Daze Country are very respectful to officials.
The reason is simple. If you offend your neighbors, maybe the two parties will have a fight at most.
But if you offend an official, you may be in trouble at some point. ….
In the feudal dynasty, the people were like mud and could be trampled on at will.
On the way back, Fang Xiaoyue stopped practicing calligraphy and other skills because the carriage was still somewhat bumpy despite being smooth.
Every day when the carriage arrived in the town and stopped to rest, Zhang Yuanming would find a deserted place to practice the Sky-shattering Sword Technique.
Due to long-term and unremitting practice, Zhang Yuanming's Sky-shattering Blade Technique has entered a period of rapid improvement.
In Fang Xiaoyue's eyes, Zhang Yuanming's body, energy, and spirit would change every day.
If this rate continues, in another week at most, Zhang Yuanming's Sky-shattering Sword Technique will truly enter the stage of completion.
And Fang Xiaoyue herself has not given up practicing Wuqu Zhuang and Wuqu Jianjue.
On the fourth day of his return journey, his Wuqu Zhuang was raised to level 10, and his Wuqu Sword Technique was raised to level 11.
To put it simply, in this world, raising a skill to level 10 is almost a major stage of improvement.
Every night when Fang Xiaoyue sits in a deserted place and absorbs Wuqu's star power, the boiling level of the star power in her body is more than half higher than before.
But having said that, the Wuqu Zhuang and Wuqu Sword Techniques have been upgraded to such a level. He wants to have a real battle to see what his current strength is.
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, Zhang Yuanming also felt this way, and it was much stronger than Fang Xiaoyue.
After all, Zhang Yuanming had a dream of being a chivalrous man before. However, when he was eight years old, while playing a hero game with the children of his family, he accidentally stabbed the child with a wooden stick. After being beaten violently by his father, that The heroic heart sank.
But after Fang Xiaoyue taught him the Sky-shattering Sword Technique, he finally realized that there was such a magical technique in this world.
But after practicing swordsmanship for so long, how good he is is still a mystery in his mind.
He wished that on his way back, he would accidentally bump into a few robbers who were blocking the road, so that he could try out how powerful the Sky-shattering Sword Technique was.
Unfortunately, apart from some small battles caused by occasional friction between the northwest frontier army and the barbarian tribes, only the two southern provinces caused some unrest from time to time due to various reasons.
As for other provinces, occasional floods, droughts, etc., even if some refugees rebel, are just superficial, and the county soldiers of the local inspection department can easily suppress them.
Therefore, it has been a whole week since I went back. Not to mention the thieves who blocked the road and robbed me, I didn't even encounter a single black shop in Zhang Yuanming's imagination.
When it was getting dark that day, the carriage entered a small town under the skillful control of the driver.
The town is called Jixian Town.
When Fang Xiaoyue learned the name of this town from the waiter at the inn, her expression was quite strange.
Fang Xiaoyue never treated the driver badly on the road.
Even when he checked into this inn, he was given a room for the coachman. Of course, this room was just the most ordinary herringbone room.
But the coachman disagreed. In his own words, he said: Master, don't waste your money. I will just rest on the carriage for one night.
But Fang Xiaoyue was determined not to do so and insisted on opening a room for the coachman.
Of course, this was definitely not because Fang Xiaoyue was worried that the driver would sleep in the carriage and the lice on his body would crawl into the car and then onto himself. ….
This is entirely due to the worry that the coachman will not have a good rest at night and will not be able to catch the coach during the day.
In short, Fang Xiaoyue gave herself and Zhang Yuanming a room with a Tianzi number on the second floor, and opened a room with a Herringbone number for the coachman, and then stayed in the inn.
This is not because he is extravagant, but because the prices of inns in this town are not high to begin with.
The upper room in Tianzihao is less than one-fifth that of the Jingcheng Inn.
In this case, why not enjoy it.
If it weren't for the coachman's insistence, Fang Xiaoyue would have wanted to open three Tianzihao apartments.
After all, the price of a room in Tianzihao for one night is less than 500 yuan.
Moreover, the inn also provides door-to-door hot water service. As for the hot water for Dizihao and Herringbone rooms, you can only go to the kitchen to get it yourself.
After asking the waiter to deliver hot water to the guest room, Fang Xiaoyue took a comfortable bath and washed away the dust that had fallen along the way. Then she took Zhang Yuanming down to the lobby on the first floor, ready to taste the food here.
As for the coachman, there is no need to mention it. He refused to come down to eat even if he was asked to do so. He hid in the guest room and ate the wheat cakes he brought.
When the waiter saw the two guests coming down, he hurriedly greeted them attentively: "Two guests, what would you like to eat?"
"What's your signature dish here? Tell me."
Fang Xiaoyue will not tell you to serve all your dishes as soon as they are served.
I won’t say whether that’s a fool’s errand, but at least it’s too wasteful and unnecessary.
"The chef of our Xinfeng Inn was specially invited from Jiangnan. His signature dishes include: braised crab meat and lion's head, large boiled dried shreds, three sets of duck, soft pocket long fish, crystal meat, squirrel mandarin fish, and Liangxi crispy eel. ..."
Good guy, the waiter in this restaurant announced the names of the dishes as if he was talking, and he named more than thirty dishes in one breath.
After Fang Xiaoyue asked Zhang Yuanming, she immediately ordered four dishes: braised lion head with crab meat, squirrel mandarin fish, crispy Liangxi eel, and three-letter agar with chicken sauce.
In terms of the plane or world where Fang Xiaoyue came, the food culture in this world can be regarded as one of the top ones.
From the names of the dishes reported by the waiter, you can tell that the level of food in this world is very high.
You must know that this world is still in the era of feudal dynasties, and it is rare and valuable for people to have such a high level of food.
Especially after the waiter brought the dishes, Fang Xiaoyue tasted them and felt that the chef's cooking level was indeed not low. Although it was not as high as level 10 cooking, it was at least level 5.
If there is a chef of this caliber in an inn in a small town, one can imagine the standard of food in the world.
After Zhang Yuanming practiced the Sky-shattering Sword Technique, his appetite increased greatly, and he even ate faster than Fang Xiaoyue.
Because Fang Xiaoyue practices Wuqu Zhuang and draws Wuqu star power into her body, her need for food is not high yet.
Just as Zhang Yuanming was working hard, the rumble of a carriage came from outside.
The waiter hurriedly greeted us: "How many guests are there? Are you staying in a hotel or working as a receptionist?"
"We're staying in a hotel."
Just listening to the voices, a group of men, some old and some young, came in from outside with swords hanging on their waists.
"He's an escort!"
Seeing this group of strong men coming in, Zhang Yuan was obviously a little excited and whispered to Fang Xiaoyue.
After these escorts came in, they asked the waiter to serve the food, and each of them looked around with cold eyes, as if they were worried about something.
Fang Xiaoyue did not continue reading, and went upstairs after eating with Zhang Yuanming.
However, from the guest room, he could see several escort carriages parked in the inn yard.
These carriages are completely different from the carriages Fang Xiaoyue rented. They can be called freight carriages. The carriages are loaded with wooden boxes. I don’t know what they are, but they are not heavy, and the wheels are not too deep into the soil.
There are some small flags in different colors on the carriage, and some of the small flags have words on them: Xiongwei Escort Agency.
Not all the bodyguards had gone in to eat. There were four bodyguards standing guard near the carriage. Anyone who approached would be greeted with cold looks from them. .
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