The way back is quite close, but a little hard to walk.
It’s not that Gao Pragmatic has been so excited that his legs are weak, but that there are too many people reaching out to reward Xinzheng County Gao Pragmatic. These five words have become popular among private villages recently, so much so that even the idle people in Kaifeng Prefecture know him. What a character.
The so-called private village refers to the betting market offered by some casinos. The recent betting market is of course the provincial examination. Gao Pragmatic has long been known as Gao Longwen. He is also from the Gao family in Xinzheng and has also served as the prince's companion. Counting that, he is the current emperor. Wanli Ye’s classmate, if he wasn’t in high school, who would be in high school?
However, just because Gao Pragmatic has a strong voice, more people buy him and win the lottery. As a result, the money he can win is limited. These idle men are all shrewd and slippery people. They go to the place where the results are released one by one and wait. If they see Gao Pragmatic win, they will ask someone from Gao's government for a reward.
In fact, generally speaking, it is not necessary for Gao Pragmatic to go to the examination results in person. In order to avoid trouble, he has been living in seclusion in the small inn under the contract recently. He has not even come with the students from the county who came to take the examination. comminicate. But today, he chose to look at the list in person, which made the idle people even more booing.
Although the servants of the Gao family don't seem to be easy to mess with, the idle men know that on a big day like today, even if they go a little too far, as long as they keep saying congratulations, the servants of the Gao family will not really do anything to them. Gao Jieyuan is even less likely to vent his anger on them.
Since venting anger is not an option, we have no choice but to vent money. Fortunately, Gao Jue and others had gained experience this time and brought a lot of change with them. This time they did not throw away silver coins, but serious copper coins.
After finally squeezing out the way, Gao Jue grabbed Gao Pragmatic's arm and ran away. There was no way, there were only ten of them in total. If they walked slowly, no matter how much money they brought, they would not be able to defeat so many idlers.
While running, Gao Jue complained: "Young master, please don't look at the results in person for the exam next year. Otherwise, we have to push the cart out. If we pay ten carts, we may be able to go home reluctantly." The exam is in During the Capital Examination, Gao Jingqing had a house in the Capital, so naturally he would not live outside, so he called back home.
I finally ran back to the inn, but when I was still some distance away, I found that the door of the inn was full of people, as if they were talking to the innkeeper. The owner was bowing and bowing, and he didn't know what was going on. . Gao Pingshi took a closer look and saw that the people surrounding the innkeeper were not idlers. Judging from their clothes, they seemed to be human beings.
Gao Jue reacted quickly and said hurriedly: "Young Master, this may be what Madam said. People from the New Imperial Examination are here to meet Duke Yuan. They are here to congratulate you and discuss tomorrow's deer-minging banquet."
Gao Pangshi was a little confused after hearing this. He had been friends with officials in Beijing, and all of them had already been promoted. Which of them had a future, he could basically tell at a glance. But these are different from those who took the imperial examination. No matter how good his memory is, it is impossible for Gao Pragmatic to remember which of them will be successful in the Jinshi in the future, and even if they are successful, they may not have a chance of great use.
To be honest, he is a very "pragmatic" person. In his opinion, if these people just stop at being a judge for the rest of their lives, it will be meaningless no matter how good their friendships are now. In the future, he will do big things, and he will use a judge Not on!
To be honest, this is caused by two reasons. First, in the Ming Dynasty, only Jinshi was selected. Unless one had the clear name of Hai Rui and the literary name of Gui Youguang, there was no chance of great use. However, Gao Pragmatic Guang was given by Gao Gong. He has a lot of talented people left behind, not to mention that his teacher Guo Pu will probably leave a lot of talents for him in the future. He doesn't need these colleagues to form any mutual relationship with him. He only needs to take care of others!
Another thing is that although Henan has a large population, its writing style is average. At least in his impression, there should be no future big names in this subject. There is really no point in dating these people for the rest of his life.
There is data. In history, from the fourth year of Hongwu to the forty-fourth year of Wanli, a total of 245 years, there were a total of 244 people who were number one, second place, third flower, and Hui Yuan in each subject. Among them, 215 were scholars from the south, while those from the north were There are only 29 scholars, and the huge gap is evident.
This was also the reason why he had lived in seclusion before and didn't have much dealings with these people. Otherwise, if he was from a place like Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, or Jiangxi, he would definitely want to mingle well with his contemporaries. Who knows if there might be a few elders and ministers among them?
But since they were all here, Gao Pragmatic didn't want to be too aloof and self-reliant, so he used his skills as a secretary to chat with them and compliment each other.
On the second day, it was the Deer Ming Banquet. The establishment of the Deer Ming Banquet began in the Tang Dynasty. According to the Tang system, after the township examination, the chief officials would meet their staff with a local drinking ceremony, prepare beans, prepare orchestras, use a small prison for animals, and sing poems about Deer Ming for the banquet.
The Deer Ming Banquet of the Ming Dynasty was held in Minglun Hall. The chief examiner, deputy chief examiner, housing examiner, supervisor, promotion officer, inner and outer curtain officials, tixuedao, and new imperial examination candidates all attended, and it was presided over by the Chief Secretary.
Xinzheng Gao's carriage drove outside Minglun Hall. Gao Jingshi told Gao Jue and others to wait outside. He took out the bright red invitation and entered the hall under the admiring eyes of the trumpeters at the door.
When we arrived at the main hall, we saw lanterns, red and green lights everywhere. At this time, the examinees have basically arrived, and the officials seem to have arrived, especially the examiners, who are all surrounded by a large number of candidates, who are trying to get close to each other.
But when Gao Pragmatic came in, the room immediately became silent. Whether it was the examiner or the new imperial examination candidate, everyone turned their attention to him. It was so loud that everyone heard it. It was difficult for Gao Pragmatic to keep a low profile.
Gao Pingshi sighed inwardly, but he couldn't say hello to them, so as not to appear more arrogant, so he had to pretend that he didn't see them, follow what was written in the title list, and go to his room master to perform the master-disciple ceremony to express his gratitude for the recommendation.
Let the examiners and candidates get to know each other, which is also one of the purposes of this banquet. It's a coincidence that the room master of Yi Fang is an old man from Wei Hui Mansion. His surname is Wang. He met him in Huojia County when he returned to his hometown last year, but that time it was Mr. Wang who followed the master of the mansion. We all paid homage to him, and now it was his turn to pay homage to Mr. Wang.
However, the rules are the rules, and there is no room for sloppiness. Gao Pragmatic is not a person who puts on airs, so he walked over, saluted politely and said: "Students meet sir."
Although this old Mr. Wang is quite old, he has not lost weight with old age. On the contrary, he has grown rich. Hearing this, he laughed so hard that he almost couldn't see his eyesight. He nodded repeatedly and said: "Okay, okay, the best article in this undergraduate course is indeed what I ordered." .”
Gao pragmatically said politely: "Students don't dare to take it."
Wang Fangshi said with a face full of joy: "Your article is indeed good, and it is worthy of being a model of Xuan Weng's family biography. After reading it, I didn't even dare to comment more. I only wrote four words: elegant, clean and solemn, and recommended it. The deputy examiner looked at it and said: "Jie Yuan is here, Jie Yuan is here," and then he wrote a long review of nearly twenty words and forwarded it to the examiner. The examiner only read it once, and he selected you."
Gao pragmatically looked modest, smiled, bowed and said, "The student is lucky."
Before Wang Fangshi could say more, he suddenly heard a loud trumpet call at the door: "The Imperial Examiner of the Henan Provincial Examination, the Editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the Lecturer on the Sutra Banquet Day are here to be careful."
