Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 500 The Banquet of the Luming (Part 4) Part [-]

The way back is pretty close, but I can't walk.

It's not that Gao Shishi has been so excited that his legs are weak, but that there are too many people who have reached out to reward them--Gao Shishi in Xinzheng County, these five words are so popular among private estates recently that even the idlers in Kaifeng Prefecture Know what kind of character he is.

The so-called private village refers to the gambles offered by some casinos. The recent gamble is of course the provincial examination. Gao Yushi has long been known as Gao Longwen, and he was born in the Xinzheng Gao family. Master Wanli's classmate, who would go to high school if he wasn't in high school?
However, just because Gao Pragmatic's voice is high, so many people buy his Zhongju, so the money won is limited.These idlers are shrewd and slippery people, one by one they ran to the place where the rankings were released and waited, and if they saw that Gao Pragmatic got it, they would ask people from the Gao Mansion for a tip.

In fact, generally speaking, Gao Yushi does not need to go to the list in person, and even in order to avoid trouble, he has been staying in a small inn under his contract recently, and there are very few students from the county who came to the exam with him. communicate with.But today, he chose to go to see the list in person, which made those idlers want to boo even more.

Although the Gao Family Ding seems not easy to mess with, the idlers know that on a big day like today, even if they go too far, as long as they keep saying congratulations, the Gao Family Ding will not really treat them. It was even more impossible for Gao Jieyuan to vent his anger on them.

Since it's not enough to vent your anger, you have to throw money.Fortunately, this time Gao Yu and others have also gained experience, and they brought a lot of small change with them-this time they did not throw silver coins, but serious copper coins.

After finally squeezing out of the way, Gao Yu grabbed Gao Yushi's arm and ran away.There was no way, there were only ten of them in total, and if they walked slowly, no amount of money would be able to get rid of these many idlers.

While running, Gao Yu complained: "Young master, don't read the list yourself in the test next year, or we will have to push the car out, push the car for ten cars, and maybe be able to barely return home."—— Will try It was taking the exam in the capital, and Gao Yu had a house in the capital, so naturally he would not live outside, so he called back to his residence.

After finally running back to the small inn, and still some distance away, I found that the entrance of the inn was full of people, as if they were talking to the owner of the inn, but the owner was bowing and bowing, not knowing what was going on .Gao Wushi took a closer look, and found that the people surrounding the owner of the inn were not idlers, they seemed to be scholars by their attire.

It was Gao Yu who reacted quickly and hurriedly said: "Young master, this may be what Madam said, the people from the new imperial examinations came to see Yuan Gong. They came to congratulate and discuss the matter of tomorrow's Lu Ming Banquet."

Gao Wushi felt a little overwhelmed when he heard it. He had made friends with all the officials in the middle of the capital, and each of them had already been promoted. You can basically tell which ones are promising at a glance.But these are different from the imperial examinations. No matter how good your practical memory is, it is impossible to remember which of them will be successful in the future.

To tell the truth, he is really "practical". In his opinion, if these people stop at juren for the rest of their lives, no matter how good his friendship with them is now, it will be meaningless-he will do big things in the future, and a juren will be his own. It's useless again!

To put it bluntly, there are two reasons for this. One is that in the Ming Dynasty, only Jinshi was selected. Unless a person from a family background has the Qing name of Hai Rui and the literary name of Gui Youguang, there is no chance of great use at all. There are a lot of talents left by him, not to mention that his teacher Guo Pu will probably have to leave some for him in the future. He doesn't need these fellow examiners to take care of him-only he takes care of others!
Another thing is that although Henan has a large population, the style of writing is average. At least in his impression, there should be no future big shots in this subject of the provincial examination. It's really meaningless for him to associate with these people for the rest of his life.

There are data. In history, from the fourth year of Hongwu to the 44th year of Wanli, a total of 245 years, there were 244 champions, second places, Tanhua and Huiyuan in each subject. Among them, there were as many as 215 scholars from the south, and 29 scholars from the north. Only accounted for [-], the gap is evident.

This is also the reason why he lived in seclusion before and didn't have much dealings with these people.Otherwise, if he was born in places like Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, he would definitely want to get along well with his contemporaries. Who knows if there will be a few elders and ministers among them?
But now that they are all here, Gao Yushi can't be too self-confident. He used the skills he had when he was a secretary to chat with them and flatter each other.

On the second day, it was the Luming Banquet.The Luming Banquet was established in the Tang Dynasty. According to the Tang system, after the rural examination, the chief officials would drink wine from the village to meet their subordinates, present Zudou, prepare the orchestra, use the young prison for livestock, and sing the poem "Luming" as a feast.

The Luming Banquet of the Ming Dynasty was held in Minglun Hall. Examiners, deputy examiners, housing examinations, supervisors, promotions, inner and outer curtain officials, Ti Xuedao, and new imperial examinations all participated, and the chief secretary presided over it.

Xinzheng Gao's carriage drove outside Minglun Hall, Gao Yushi ordered Gao Yu and others to wait outside, took out the red invitation card, and entered the hall with his head held high under the admiring eyes of the horned soldiers at the gate.

When we arrived at the main hall, we saw lanterns and festoons everywhere, dressed in red and green.At this time, the candidates had basically arrived, and the officials seemed to have arrived as well, especially the examiners, who were surrounded by a group of candidates, trying to get close.

But when Gao Yushi came in, the room immediately fell silent, no matter whether it was the examiner or the new imperial examination student, all of them turned their attention to him—it was really a thunderous surprise for everyone, it was hard for Gao Yushi to keep a low profile.

Gao Yushi sighed in his heart, and it was not easy to greet them, so as not to make it more publicized, so he pretended not to see it, and went to his house teacher to perform the mentoring ceremony according to the title list, and thanked him 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 master of the "Yi" house is the teacher of the Weihui Mansion. His surname is Wang. He is an old man. He met him in Huojia County when he returned to his hometown last year. The Lord respected him together, but now it is his turn to meet Mr. Wang.

But the rules are the rules, you can't be sloppy, and Gao Yushi is not a person who puts on airs, so he walked over and saluted politely: "Students greet you, sir."

Although this old Mr. Wang is quite old, he is not as thin as he was old, but he was born rich. Hearing this, he laughed so hard that he almost couldn't see his eyes. .”

Gao Wushi said politely, "I dare not be a student."

Wang Fangshi said with satisfaction on his face: "Your article is really good. It is worthy of being a literary model handed down by Xuanweng's family. After I read it, I didn't even dare to comment. I only wrote four words 'Elegant, Clean, Duansu', a special recommendation. Going up, the deputy chief examiner looked at it and said: 'Jie Yuan is here, Xie Yuan is here', and then wrote a long comment of nearly [-] characters and forwarded it to the chief examiner.

Gao Wushi looked humble, bowed with a smile and said: "The student is lucky."

Wang Fangshi was still waiting to say more, when suddenly he heard the trumpeter at the door shouting loudly: "The imperial envoy, the chief examiner of the Henan Provincial Examination, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the lecturer on the feast day, Yu Gongtao, came carefully—"

(End of this chapter)