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Chapter 23 I came from Jiangnan to Mobei (asking for tickets and investment)
The vultures were still circling in the sky.

Chen Sijiu took the horse for a few steps, turned around and saw Song Lian still following him, and said speechlessly, "Why are you following us?"

Song Lian grinned and said: "Master, Guanshan is difficult to cross, whoever is sad for those who have lost their way, meet by chance, are all guests from other lands, you and I meet once, why not go with us?"

Chen Sijiu grinned and shook his head, cursing with a smile: "You are so poorly educated, we are illiterate."

"We are vulgar people, so just say it, do you want to ask for our cooking cake?"

Song Lian swallowed his saliva and nodded: "Ahem, Daoist, how can it be begging for a scholar's business? I'm borrowing. I borrow a pancake today, and I will definitely return it in the future!"

Chen Sijiu scolded with a smile: "Damn you, why do you scholars take off your pants and fart like this, you just ask for dry food, and you even say that you meet by chance and go as a companion, what the hell, you have a habit of breaking your sleeves and sharing your peaches. Like to walk with a strong man like us?"

Song Lian scratched his head in embarrassment again.

Chen Sijiu gave Peng Yingyu a look and asked him to bring out some dry food and throw it to Song Lian.

Song Lian didn't pay much attention to it, and after taking the cake as a thank you, he started to gobble it up.

He couldn't eat more than two bites, he felt that the biscuits were astringent, his mouth was vague, he stared at the wine bag on Chen Sijiu's horse, and said with some embarrassment: "Master, can I have another drink?"

Chen Sijiu nodded to Peng Yingyu again.

Song Lian happily took the wine sac, and took a few gulps. Long Jiao filled Chen Sijiu with high-quality kumiss and white wine, and he was very full after drinking it, especially the kumiss in the wine sac, which was sour and appetizing. Cakes are a perfect match.

Chen Sijiu waited for him to finish eating, and said slowly: "It is said that cannibals have soft mouths but short hands. If you eat our cooking cakes and wine, we have to get some interest. You are a scholar, and scholars in today's world are very interested in Dayuan." What does the world think?"

As soon as he asked this question, Song Lian, who had eaten a good pancake, coughed suddenly and almost choked himself. He patted his chest, grinned awkwardly, and asked, "Master Dao, why do you have such a problem?" Ask?"

Chen Sijiu squinted his eyes and said meaningfully: "Look at the vastness of the world, you can't tell the east, west, north, south, and eat the fireworks in this world, you can't taste the bitterness, and you travel thousands of miles just to seek officials and riches. Your sage poems , can you read the true meaning of Confucianism?"

Song Lian pretended not to understand his sarcasm, and said with a chuckle: "Master Taoist, you have a brilliant literary talent, and you still say you can't read?"

But Chen Sijiu said: "In Dayuan, being able to read books is something worthy of praise?"

Song Lian was stunned and fell silent.

He has been famous since he was a child, and he has never neglected his studies. However, he has passed the exams and failed to get an official position. This year, he originally came to Dadu for reference, but failed to win the exam. He used his teacher's relationship to invite Jiangxi A native of Confucianism, Wei Suxiu, an assistant teacher of the Dayuan Guozijian, recommended him to go to the Shangdu Guozijian as a supervisor.

He has been begging for fame and fame for twenty years, but now he behaves like a beggar, and he doesn't know why he is like this.

In the Song Dynasty, scholars and bureaucrats shared the world, and outside the Donghua Gate they were named Haoerlang, but in the Yuan Dynasty, the status of scholars was only a little higher than that of beggars.

"I don't know, but I'm actually not bad. After all, I have the relationship between a mentor and a teacher, and I can get an official position by recommendation. Even if I get a Jinshi, there are many people who don't get an official position like me. Liu Ji Liu Bowen, a fellow from the south of the Yangtze River, is a 12-year-old scholar. He studied under Zheng Fuchu, a famous scholar in Chuzhou. He's luckier than me."

"How lucky?"

Chen Sijiu felt that a scholar like Song Lian was a bit inexplicable.

In the words of the second master, there is a hole in the brain.

The Mongols treat you like cattle and sheep, do you still feel lucky?To paraphrase the second master's famous saying, as long as I am worse than me, no one will be worse than me, right?

Song Lian said bitterly: "Although my family is poor, my teacher has a wide range of teaching. Most of the assistant teachers in the Imperial Academy of the Imperial College of the Yuan Dynasty are from my generation of Confucian scholars. I can recommend an official. Get a secret to walk, and there are scattered steps in your body."

Chen Sijiu's eyes flickered when he heard this, it was a good thing.

The master master, the second master, and even the third master who occasionally wakes up have said that scholars have great power.

Huang Chao didn’t lift up, Zhang Yuan ran westward, most of the scholars who have fallen since ancient times rebelled, Da Yuan now treats Han scholars as cattle, sheep, dogs and horses, treats them like dogs, but doesn’t give scholars high positions, sooner or later someone will follow Chen Sheng and Wu Gao story.

Chen Sijiu asked again: "Is there anyone named Li Shanchang in your Jinshi imperial examination this year?"

Song Lian asked suspiciously: "Li Shanchang?"

Chen Sijiu nodded.

According to what the second master said, from the Dayuan to the Shun year, that is, this year, there is a man named Li Shanchang who participated in the scientific examination in Dadu. You can pay attention to it. , or can be solicited please use.

As for Liu Bowen that Song Lian mentioned earlier, he also mentioned it, only saying that he has learned a lot from others and deserves attention.

Of course, it is worthy of attention. There is one subject in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, and it is still intermittent. From Kublai Khan to the present, the entire imperial examination has been held less than ten times. The Han people cross the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses. There are 1000 people in one department. Mongols and Semu people account for most of them. For the remaining places, the northern Han people and the southern Han people have to compete with each other. Deadly volume.

Most of the Han people who passed the examination in this way have real materials.

It's a pity that after they were admitted to the Jinshi of Dayuan, most of them didn't assign official positions, and let them Jinshi go to the Imperial College, serve tea and water to Mongolian masters, Semu masters, and foreign monks and lamas, raise horses and pour chamber pots...

Just like this, you have to break your head to squeeze in.

Most of the scholars who can't squeeze in are like Guan Hanqing and Ma Zhiyuan, who go to brothels, become green-hatted men, write green poems and peach songs, and become romantic flower pickers.

Song Lian thought for a while, then slowly shook his head and said: "I don't know this Li Shanchang. We have 1000 Jinshi in this list, Mongolian Juzi and Semu Juzi accounted for more than half, and there are about 19 Han Chinese Jinshi, and I didn't make it to the list. , How many talents fail the ranking? Liu Ji is rarely known as a child prodigy, and it is reasonable to be a Jinshi. Among the great talents who are well-known in the same discipline, there is Shi Naian, a Jiangnan talent. He was selected as a scholar at the age of 28. The examiner used money, and he won the Juren at the age of [-], and now he is thirty-six, and he just won the Jinshi, which is really rare..."

"Shi Naian..."

Chen Sijiu frowned and thought about it, this person's name was also a little familiar, as if he had heard the master mention it before.

Li Shanchang, Liu Ji, Shi Naian, Song Lian...

After writing down these names, Chen Sijiu asked him about the treatment of scholars in Dayuan today, as well as the situation of scholars in the local area.

According to Song Lian, most of the Han scholars in the Yuan Dynasty stayed in the local prefectures and prefectures to study, and most of the Han people who won the Jinshi were scattered officials in the localities, such as teaching assistants and instructors of the ninth and eighth ranks.

After the Mongols destroyed the Jin Dynasty, although there were more Confucian scholars who died in the Jin Dynasty than in the Southern Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan and the Confucian minister Yelu Chucai believed that Confucianism could be used, but it could not be used to great effect. From this point of view, it is basically difficult for Han Confucian officials to be Dalu Huachi (palm print officer), and most of them are assigned to Mongols and Semuhuihui as deputy.

"If there are any other Confucian scholars, you can talk about them."

Chen Sijiu said.

Song Lian pursed his lips, his eyes flickered, and hesitantly asked: "Master Dao, don't you want to recruit soldiers and buy horses, and prepare to..."

Chen Sijiu smiled and said: "Don't talk nonsense, what you said is very good, keep talking!"

He took out another piece of cooking cake and threw it to Song Lian, saying: "Talk about another piece of cooking cake, tell me about the rich merchants in Dayuan, what do you think of Dayuan now."

"Three pieces of cakes, three pieces of cooking cakes, I am also very familiar with the northern Confucian family, Daoist, whatever you want to hear, I can talk about it!"

"Two pieces of cake, no more, chatting about two pieces of cake, me and you two pieces of cake, like Liu Bowen, Shi Naian, Li Shanchang and other low-ranking talents, as long as you know, report them all. We like to make friends with failed scholars."

Song Lian's heart trembled when he heard this, and he looked Chen Sijiu up and down.

He swallowed his saliva, and said earnestly: "Master Daoist, I never expected you to have thick eyebrows and big eyes..."

"Don't you really have the habit of breaking your sleeves and dividing your peaches?"

"Da Yuan, such hobbies will be beheaded!"

Chen Sijiu scolded with a smile: "Fuck you, you think we are that Liyuan opera actor with a green hat and turtle, or a scholar-bureaucrat in the Song Dynasty. We don't have that hobby. After all, under the Yuan Dynasty, Confucian households even prostitutes It’s even worse, why do you, a Confucian scholar, always want to be a dog in the Imperial Prison of the Great Yuan Dynasty?”

Song Lian was laughing at first, but when he heard this, his body trembled.

His smile froze, and he murmured in a low voice: "Yes, even if I go to the Imperial College and get an official status, so what? Mobei is a porpoise."

"I come to Mobei from Jiangnan, I miss Jiangnan from Mobei..."

(End of this chapter)