Prime Minister

Chapter 10
The next day, the brothers came to the county town early in the morning, and Zhang Shi went to prepare chicken and duck, wine and food as a gift, and visited the home of Wei Peng County.On the other hand, Zhang Yue planned to go to the bookstore in front of the school to find some 'reference books' and the like, and then meet Zhang Shi.

Zhang Yue arrived at the academy first.The school is located at the foot of Mount Huanghua, north of the county government office. Pucheng, a major county for imperial examinations, has a strong style of study, as does the county school. In the history of the Daguan period, there were more than 1000 students in the school, and it was praised by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty.

The Chessboard Street in front of the county school gate, known as the Huanghua Pavilion, has restaurants, tea houses, and ink studio paper shops. It is no less lively than the Cross Street in front of the county government.

Although the scholars of the Song Dynasty did not have the same treatment as the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, they were exempted from taxation, exempted from military service, or even limited by rice, but any family who could afford to read books was poor.

For example, Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan became high officials despite their poverty, and their stories of reading when they were young were talked about by readers.

However, their background is not low, Ouyang Xiu's father was a Mianzhou push official.Fan Zhongyan's biological father was also the secretary of Wuning Army Jiedu.

The impoverished family of the Song Dynasty refers to the concubine clan next to the big clan, and there were no prominent high-ranking officials in the family for a while.In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the poor class really achieved a class leap through reading.

Zhang Yue looked at him with admiration, and there were people on the street who were reading in blue cloth tuxedos.The book boy entourages left and right, while a few scholars walk and talk eloquently, pointing the country, and the eyebrows are full of high spirits.

My own family was once a middle-class family, but because of my second brother's trouble, he fell into the poor class.

The chances of the poor class in the Song Dynasty were almost zero. Whether it was studying literature or martial arts, it seemed that the second brother had such a talent for reading, but over the years, the family spent a hundred or eighty books.Now it was Zhang Yue's turn to come up with the only example of a counter-attack, that is, just like the Water Margin, he was a gangster and then waited for peace.

But this is even more unreliable.

Zhang Yue thought about it and went to the bookstore. The bookstore was at the corner of Qipan Street, just a facade.

Along the street facade of the bookstore is a back-shaped counter. An old man wearing a scarf and smiling is sitting behind the counter, and the bookshelves behind the old man are full of books.

"This store has a collection of classics and histories. I don't know which book Xiaolang-jun should read? Xiaolang-jun seems to be a little ignorant!"

Zhang Yue sighed in his heart that he really didn't like reading, and he had never even been to the bookstore.

Anyway, not afraid of embarrassment.

Zhang Yue said: "Dare to ask the shopkeeper, how many books do you need to read to get admitted to the Scholars?"

The old man smiled and said, "Xiao Langjun is going to be admitted to the jinshi department. He is really ambitious. The so-called [-] old Mingjing, [-] young jinshi, but the jinshi is not easy, difficult, one word is difficult."

I like it, what?

Zhang Yue saluted and said, "The old man is right."

The old man saw Zhang Yue like this, so he said in an old-fashioned manner: "If you don't have a complete grasp of it, you should take all the classics as the first, yes, the three disciplines are a way out. There are Zhou Li and the Book of Rites here, Xiaolang can buy them first. A reference."

Zhang Yue took the old man's words in his heart, took Zhou Li from the other party, and first read a few pages at a glance.

Under the aggressive gaze of the other party, Zhang Yue couldn't just sit on the floor in the bookstore and watch it all afternoon as he did in his previous life.

He asked, "Dare to ask how much the store will cost?"

"Two coins and five hundred coins!"

Zhang Yue took a deep breath. He remembered that a book of about 60 characters in the Ming Dynasty cost about two taels of silver, which was almost the income of ordinary people for two months.

Although the Song Dynasty also had woodblock printing, books were more expensive than the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Yue remembered that in the collection world, the books in the Song Dynasty were invaluable, not only later, but also in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the famous Song-style characters were not invented in the Song Dynasty, but in the Ming Dynasty.Song-style characters are square-shaped characters designed for the convenience of carving. They are called skin-shaped characters, that is, special printing.

However, the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty engraved books in regular script, which is very beautiful.And Jianben, also known as Jianyangben, is famous all over the world.

Scholars born in Jianzhou may be because the local books are sold cheaper than other places, but even so, this 6-word Mencius is worth more than two pennies.

This week's ceremony is the Jianben, and the characters are written in willow style, and the towel box book is used, that is, a pocket book.

Having said that, it seems that the imperial examination books of the Song and Ming dynasties liked to make small and pocket-sized characters. In addition to saving costs, it must be for the convenience of readers, not for cheating.

"Well, not too expensive."

Zhang Yue changed the Book of Rites and read several pages, and asked again, "How many dare to ask..."

The old man smiled and said, "I want money for Sanguan."

Counting the chapters, it will take more than five pens to buy two books for just one three rituals.In the Song Dynasty, an ordinary person received 75 to [-] renminbi a day, and his monthly income was about two to three times.

Don't talk about one copy of your own money, you can't even buy half of it.

This cost is like a parent buying a computer for a child for 7000 yuan to learn a computer.

Zhang Yue put down the book and said, "Dare to ask if you can buy two books together, which one is cheaper?"

Hearing this, the old man was refreshed and said, "This... Seeing that Xiao Langjun is so eye-catching, it can be regarded as an eight-pass!"

Zhang Yue nodded: "It's not expensive, it's not expensive, but I don't have that much cash at the moment. Come back tomorrow, and ask the store owner to keep it for me!"

The old man's smile has faded: "It's okay."

After Zhang Yue left the bookstore, he completely cut off his plans to buy books, and then went to the restaurant Zhang Shi.

Zhang Shi was ready at this moment, but he saw that Zhang Shi had prepared two large food boxes and carried them one after the other with a burden. Inside, they were full of sheep wine snacks, which were the best in Pucheng.

Zhang Yue also helped Zhang Shi carry a sack.

Such a gift to the door really made Zhang Yue feel a little ridiculous.

Peng County Wei came to Pucheng as an official for several years, and was ready to scatter the old bones here. A mansion was built in the city, not far from the county office.

The two knocked on the door and begged to be seen, and a military academy greeted them.

The military academy informed Peng County that there was a guest to accompany him, and asked the two to wait in the gatehouse first.

The two sat for a while, and a gentleman came forward and said: "Today, there are distinguished guests in the mansion of the county magistrate. You can follow me to the hall to speak."

Zhang Shi was taken aback and said, "How can this be eliminated?"

Gongren smiled and said: "Don't worry, Dalang-Jun, he is talking with the noble person. This noble person happens to know you Zhang Erlang. Don't worry, just say anything. Yes, these water gifts will be put aside and will be reported to the county later. Master Wei."

Zhang Shi saw that the water salute he prepared was not taken seriously and put it aside, and then listened to the other party's instructions, and he couldn't do it, so he had to agree.

The two brothers followed the gentleman and went back and forth several times to a church.

But I saw a man in his 30s, an old man and Pengxian Weiyi talking in the hall together.

The two first greeted Wei Peng, and Wei Peng smiled and said, "Does Dalang still know this Lord Wu Dalang?"

Zhang Shi was shocked when he saw it: "Mr. Wu Dalang! Disrespectful and disrespectful."

The man in his thirties got up from his chair and said with a faint smile, "Zhang Dalang, don't come here without any problems."

After the two enjoyed the ceremony, Zhang Shi said to Zhang Yue with a smile on his face: "This is the eldest son of the Wu family in Xiuli, please see you soon. He has the best relationship with the second brother on weekdays."

Zhang Yue saluted and wondered who this person was from his memory.

Zhang Yue finally remembered the origin of this person.There are four major families in Pucheng County, namely Zhang Wu, Yang Huang, and four families. Compared with the four families of Jinling in A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Shi, Wang Xue, and Jia Shi Wang Xue are not much.

The head of the Four Great Jia Clans is the Zhang family.Zhang Dexiang, the first prime minister of Fujian people in the Song Dynasty, came from the Zhang family in Pucheng.So far, only 15 children of the Zhang family in Pucheng have been listed on the gold list since Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty opened the system. It can be said that it is worthy of the name.

Having said that, is Brother Zhang Yue the Zhang clan in Pucheng?

Yes, but they are aliens.

How sparse is it?When Prime Minister Zhang Dexiang returned to his hometown, he built a Zhoujin Hall for the Zhang clan to study, and invited famous teachers to study for free for the children of the clan.

But both Zhang Xu and Zhang Yue were not related to Zhang clanology, so you can see how sparse they are.There is no way to do this. The Zhang clan in Pucheng does not have tens of thousands, but also thousands, and it is not so easy to climb relatives.

There is also a Yang family.

The famous official Yang Yi came from the Yang clan in Pucheng. At the same time, he was also Zhang Dexiang's father-in-law and a leader in his career.

Although the Yang clan is not as influential as the Zhang clan in the DPRK now, it is also a big clan in Pucheng.The mother of Zhang Shi and Zhang Yue was from the Yang family in Pucheng. At the same time, his aunt was also married to the Zhang family, and his uncle Zhang Yu was born in a jinshi. Currently, he is the head of Wu County, Suzhou.

But Zhang's father's road to the imperial examination has not been smooth, and the Yang family gradually looked down on Zhang Yue's family. After Zhang's mother died of illness, the two sides broke off contact.However, when the second elder brother was No.1 in the county school and was appreciated by Chen Xiang, the Yang family sent someone to come to recognize this relative. Zhang's father, Zhang Shi, had no objection, but the second elder brother was kicked out of the family, and will come humiliated...

If it weren't for this incident, when Zhang Shi and Zhang Yue were cornered by Zhao Yasi, he would have approached the Yang family to resolve the matter.

There is also a family of Huang, Huang Guan and Huang Xiaoxian, who are both famous ministers and famous literati.

The four major armies are married, and the Wu family in this show is also one of the four major armies.

Wu's father and son are five jinshi.His father, Wu Daiwen, served as a minister of the Ministry of Rites, and his four sons were also jinshi.The eldest son, Wu Yuguan, is the deputy prime minister. He is not the former, but the current prime minister.

The fourth son, Wu Chongnai, is a five-year jinshi of Jingyou and is currently the judge of the group pastor.

In front of him, Wu Dalang's name is Wu Anshi, the eldest son of Wu Chong. He did not go to Beijing with his father, but studied in his home county, and was a classmate with Zhang Yue's second brother.When Father Zhang was still alive, Wu Anshi came to see him with a ceremony during the Chinese New Year.

In this chapter, I can't help but sigh again that my second brother has unlimited benefits as a scholar, and even the second generation of true officials can make friends.

Zhang Yue greeted him respectfully.

Everyone sat down in a row, Zhang Shizhangyue sat down, and the two platoons served tea and fruit to Zhang Shizhangyue's brothers.

When Wu Anshi saw Zhang Yue, he smiled and said, "Erlang is handsome and handsome. He can be described as a handsome man. When I saw Sanlang today, he looked a bit like his brother. He really deserves to be a real brother."

Zhang Yue felt relieved for a while. A talented person like us likes to be praised by others for their merits other than their talents.

The old man on the side did not speak, and Wu Anshi did not introduce them to the two.Zhang Yue thought to himself that the two of his brothers were not worthy of knowing each other.

Peng Xianwei smiled and said: "Not only that, Zhang Saburo is also a classmate and friend with his little nephew."

Zhang Shi hurriedly said: "This time, we are grateful for the help of Peng Xianwei for Saburo's sake."

Wei Peng said with a smile: "It's a trivial matter, not worth mentioning."

Just at this moment, one person came to the hall and whispered a few words to Peng County Wei.

Peng Xianwei got up and said, "A little business, go back when you go, and don't accompany you."

Everyone got up to see each other, but the old man sat and nodded.

Zhang Yue and Zhang Shi didn't even know who the old man was, and they were secretly surprised when they saw him so caressing.

There were only four people left in the hall, and Wu Anshi smiled and said, "Just now, Shaofu and I were just chatting with brother Ling. Erlang and I were classmates for three years, and our friendship was like a close brother. I still remember that when Erlang first entered the county school, although he was the youngest, he talked about poetry. Give the article the meaning of the scriptures, and all of them make me like a window to be convinced!"

Zhang Shi accompanied him and said with a smile: "Mr. Dalang praised it, but my younger brother often said that he was often taken care of by Lord Wu Dalang when he was in the county school. Our whole family is very grateful."

Wu Anshi smiled and said: "Why come to take care of it or not, it's a matter of classmates. Although this Zhang Saburo met for the first time, but from my point of view, he has a splendid mind. Bar!"

After Wu Anshi finished speaking, the old man beside him also turned his attention to Zhang Yue and looked at it.

(End of this chapter)