Daming talker

Chapter 280 The martial arts test is in progress (please vote for me!)

When he walked to the gate of Apparition Palace, Wang Shiwu said: "As long as you enter the court, you will either be ranked in the cabinet or be famous in history.

The Nu family knows what Lin Jun wants, but the brother’s wish rests with Lin Jun. "

Lin Tailai asked back: "You have so much confidence in me? Even Young Situ himself may not have this confidence."

Wang Shiwu replied: "Others say that Mr. Lin is quick-witted, well-calculated, and daring to take risks, so he has been successful many times, but the Nu family does not think so.

In the eyes of the slave family, the most powerful thing about Mr. Lin is that he can always discern opportunities, always grasp information earlier than others, and then make the best use of the situation. His main feature is that he knows himself and his enemy.

Since Mr. Lin dared to come to our Wang family this time, he must have obtained some information that he can then use. "

Lin Tailai was shocked. Possessing various "information gaps" was his biggest secret weapon, and Wang Shiwu, who had never met before, actually saw some clues.

This little girl is not simple. Is it too late to break off the engagement now?

Before boarding the carriage, Wang Shiwu said again: "The slave family made a mistake. I hope Mr. Lin doesn't mind. I just thought of getting married, so I couldn't help but be honest.

Mr. Lin must also work hard. How high the Nu family can fly in the future depends entirely on Mr. Lin. "

After completing his mission in the Apparition Palace, Lin Tailai escorted Wang Fifteen's wife to Wang's house.

At this time, the Wang family had already vacated several houses in accordance with the cooperation requirements.

So Lin Tailai went to Shen Mansion again, planning to move his luggage to Wang's house and live in Wang's house temporarily in the future.

Before Lin Tailai moved in, Wang Zhiyuan asked Wang Shiwu:

"You went to the Manifestation Palace with Lin Jieyuan today, and you were in direct contact with him. What do you think of this person?"

Wang Shiwu replied: "On the outside, it looks like Jinbu, but inside it is Mengde."

Wang Shao Situ was a little surprised and said: "Meng De? What are you talking about?"

Wang Shiwu made another comment: "Behaving uninhibitedly, not sticking to rules, and showing the style of Meng De."

Wang Zhiyuan and Wang Zhiyao are called brother and sister, but the age gap between them is larger than that between ordinary fathers and daughters.

He sighed and said: "Actually, I thought about it again. For you, holding it high should be more stable."

Judging from the current class status, level of knowledge, distance from the husband's family and other indicators, Gaozhi is indeed the safest choice.

But Wang Shiwu shook his head and said: "Although Mr. Gao is good, a life where you can see your head at a glance is a bit too boring."

Having said this, Wang Shao Situ stopped wavering and made up his mind.

When Senior Official Lin came over with his men and luggage, Wang Zhiyuan invited Senior Official Lin to the study.

Lin Tailai talked eloquently: "The Apparition Palace is one of the three main avenue palaces in the capital. There are many pilgrims, and there are also a lot of them today.

My sister and I appeared in the Apparition Palace together, which created quite a buzz and made the world associate me with the Wang family. This completed the preliminary layout. "

Wang Zhiyuan had nothing to say about this. Lin Tailai's way of creating heat is indeed unique.

No wonder you, Lin Tailai, can always use the fastest speed to trigger heated discussions among the public.

Lin Tailai then gave instructions: "First, Young Situ immediately goes to tell Yang Tianguan that candidates can be nominated as Minister of Household Affairs in the next two days. It can't be any later!
Second, if you are criticized, Young Situ should not fight back for the time being, nor should he find anyone to attack his opponent! "

Wang Zhiyuan had no objections. Since he had chosen to cooperate with Lin Tailai, he could only do so.

That night Wang Zhiyuan sneaked into the Tianguan Mansion through the back door and communicated with Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who was also from Shandong.

Yang Tianguan was quite pleased to see his junior Wang Zhiyuan suddenly become aggressive, until he heard the name Lin Tailai.

"I gave you many instructions before, asking you to find the chief assistant, but you found a retainer of the chief assistant?" Yang Tianguan thought for a time that Wang Shao Situ was obsessed with ghosts.

But when things got to this point, the arrow had to be fired.

The next day at the Ministry of Personnel, Yang Tianguan summoned the left and right ministers, the doctors of the Wenxuan Department, and the Yuanwailang for a meeting. This kind of meeting was called a ministry meeting.

At the ministry meeting, it was unanimously approved to nominate Song Hu and Wang Zhiyuan as candidates for Shangshu of the Ministry of Hubu. This is the power of the Ministry of Personnel on personnel issues.

Of course this is just a nomination and not a final decision.For a top official position like the Minister of Hubu, the final decision cannot be made by the Ministry of Personnel.

But the biggest significance of the nomination may be to create a scene for everyone to start fighting.

Then, as everyone expected, the next day, there were four memorials in one day attacking Wang Zhiyuan, the left minister of Hubu, from different angles.

There is a long list of all kinds of sins, such as stupidity and dereliction of duty, cliques for personal gains, shielding relatives, suspicious accounts, and attacks on dissidents.

What made Wang Shao Situ angry the most was that some people attacked him and said that since Wang Zhiyuan took charge of Taicang, the savings have been decreasing year after year, which is really a huge dereliction of duty.

Everyone in the officialdom knows very well that the surplus in Taicang was accumulated by all means during Zhang Juzheng's time!
After Zhang Juzheng's death, his descendants will cease to rule. No matter who takes charge of Taicang, the accumulation will only decrease rather than increase!
Ask yourself, Wang Zhiyuan tried his best to maintain Taicang's income and expenditure, and he has done a very good job, why should he still be scolded like this!
Although he was mentally prepared to "resist pressure", being scolded for "dereliction of duty" still made Wang Shao Situ very angry.

As usual, the impeached Wang Shao Situ stayed behind closed doors and sat in the hall sulking. Wang Zhiyou and Wang Xiangmeng had to accompany him.

Wang Xiangmeng advised: "The main reason why uncle is holding his breath is because you believed in Lin Tailai.

Nowadays, I can only be scolded but cannot retaliate. No wonder I feel unhappy. "

Wang Shao Situ scolded him: "Go down! Don't be an eyesore here!"

Wang Xiangmeng asked in confusion: "What's wrong with me?"

Wang Shao Situ waved his sleeves and shouted: "I will be angry when I see you who have been in Wanli for eight years!"

Among the censors who impeached Wang Shao Situ this time, three people were Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli.

The censor, who had a unique status in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, also had a unique selection system. Generally, it was impossible for someone to become a censor directly as soon as he won the Jinshi.

Most censors have two sources. One is that they were selected as Shujishi after winning the Jinshi. After the imperial examination, they did not stay in the Hanlin Academy and were selected as censors. This is the second best way out for Shujishi.

The second is to select county magistrates with outstanding political performance and age as censors, which is called "Xingqi" in jargon. Although they are both in the seventh rank from magistrates to censors, they are regarded as high promotions.

This selection system determines that among today's imperial censors, there are many Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli.

After the Jinshi of this year became the county magistrate, they served for three years until the 11th year of Wanli.It happened that the emperor was liquidating Zhang Juzheng's forces and there was a major change of leadership in the court, but the local magistrates were relatively less affected by the political turmoil.

As a result, in the eighth year of Wanli's reign, among the Jinshi who were county magistrates, a large number of them were recruited as censors because they were relatively young.

This is how Wang Xiangmeng sneaked into the Imperial Procuratorate and became the censor, and so did Gao Ju who vowed to marry a daughter of the Wang family.

Seeing that he was about to become the target of his anger, Wang Xiangmeng retreated decisively.

Wang Shao Situ asked Wang Zhiyou again: "What is Lin Tailai doing?"

Wang Zhiyou replied: "It seems that we are preparing for the martial arts test, and tomorrow will be the first one."

Wang Shao Situ said harshly: "Didn't he say before that no matter who criticizes me, he will knock on the door and convince them with virtue?"

Wang Zhiyou explained: "I also asked today, and Lin Tailai said that the time has not come yet."

Wang Shao Situ's current state is a bit like caring and chaos, and asked: "What time is he waiting for? The martial arts test is about to start, does he have extra energy to take care of it?"

Wang Zhiyou smiled bitterly and said: "It's no problem for Lin Tai, he can take the martial arts exam and take care of things at the same time.

He also told me, brother, that you must be patient and avoid haste, without any counterattack. "

Chinese people have a tradition of trying not to disturb candidates who are facing exams, so Wang Shao Situ restrained the idea of ​​arresting Lin Tailai.

The martial arts exam is modeled after the liberal arts exam in every aspect. There are also three exams, and even the exam times are set on the [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th.

On the ninth day of April, the martial arts examination for the 14th year of Wanli began.

The scale of the martial arts examination is much smaller than that of the liberal arts examination. There are generally only about a thousand candidates for the martial arts examination, with military attachés and military children accounting for 80.00%, and civilians such as Lin Tailai accounting for 15.00%. The final number of martial arts examination candidates is about a hundred.

The first session of the martial arts test was the literary field, which was held in Gongyuan, with one question each on theory and strategy.

In the early morning of the ninth day of April, Senior Official Lin brought the examination basket to the Dragon Gate of Dongcheng Gongyuan.

The cultural level of the candidates for the martial arts examination is generally not very good, but those who have some talent in reading will go to the literary and scholar examination.

So today's essay project made most of the candidates nervous, but Mr. Lin might be an anomaly.

Stopping outside the Longmen of Gongyuan, Lin Daguan's iconic appearance immediately attracted everyone's attention.

After all, Lin Daguan is the only person who has repeatedly openly stated that he will win the first place in the martial arts test. Who doesn't want to see what kind of person he is.

Besides, Lin Daguan is the most trouble-making among the candidates and the one with the loudest reputation recently. He beat up dozens of factory guards and police officers at the police school, which is really not something ordinary people can do.

It was also heard that this man was in a couple with the young girl from the household of the powerful Minister of Household Affairs, and they went to the Apparition Palace to offer incense together, which made martial arts candidates who were generally low in social status envious and jealous.

Feeling the eyes from all directions, Lin Daguan was not afraid. After looking around, he said loudly: "Are you all here to compete for second place?"

This sentence immediately caused an uproar in the crowd, but after waiting for a long time, no one rushed out.

This made Lin Daguan very disappointed. First, it did not trigger a war. If they were forced to defend and counterattack, it would have been better to knock down another group. This was a live display of bravery.

Second, Zheng Guotai, who signed up for the martial arts test, was not fished out. Thousands of people were standing here, and Lin Daguan didn't know which one was Zheng Guotai.

Lin Daguan, who did not meet his expectations, murmured in his heart, can Zheng Guotai be so bearable?

At this moment, the entrance inspection began, and Lin Daguan had no choice but to put aside his worries and concentrate on the exam.

There are two essay questions. The topic is about how to use firearms to guard the border, and the topic about managing the island and conquering pirates.

Seeing these two topics, Lin Daguan sighed, as long as he has been online for several years, he can write thousands of words.

So Lin Daguan kept writing until dark. He wrote more than 7000 words in total, which was a thousand words more than the Nanzhili Township Examination. It should be enough.

After all, in terms of cultural level, the military attache in Nanjing may be the highest among the military attachés in the world.Six thousand words is enough in Nanjing, and seven thousand words should be no problem in the joint examination.

The examiner in charge of anonymizing the name was dumbfounded. How could someone write so well in the martial arts exam?
I returned to the Wang family's residence and rested for two days. On April [-], it was time for the second martial arts test, which was held at the Tokyo Normal Martial Arts School in the city.

There are two events in the second session, archery and physical strength. Candidates can choose either one and choose whichever they are good at.

Of course, Lin Tailai still chose simple and clear physical strength. He had never trained in bow and arrow.

Under the horrified gazes of those around him, Lin Daguanren picked up the five-hundred-jin stone pier, feeling calm in his heart.

The results of each test are graded. Taking physical strength as an example, the three normal weight classes correspond to upper, middle and lower respectively.

The [-]-pound stone pier was basically just a decoration. After being picked up and played with by Lin Daguan, it was rated as superior to superior.

Just when Lin Daguan was looking around at a loss, feeling the invincible loneliness, explosive cheers suddenly came from the archery range.

Immediately, someone ran to the physical strength field and shouted excitedly: "There is a man named Zheng Guotai, who hit all six arrows on horseback. He is top-notch!"

Now even the people here exclaimed. All six arrows hit, which is very rare, no less than playing with a five hundred kilogram stone pier.

According to the examination regulations, candidates must shoot three arrows on horseback and three arrows on foot.

Those who hit two arrows each in mounted archery and infantry archery are considered to be superior; those who hit two arrows in one category and one arrow in the other are considered to be middle-to-upper-class; those who hit one arrow in each category are considered to be middle-to-lower; and the rest are all It's inferior.

Three arrows for each item and a total of six arrows hit the target. This result is beyond the top!
Therefore, it can only be ranked as the top grade just like Lin Daguan who played with the [-]-jin stone pier.

However, from a technical and ornamental point of view, archery is more attractive.

Official Lin couldn't help but snorted coldly. This was the first time since he took the martial arts examinations at all levels that someone competed with him for the limelight!
He has no idea of ​​respecting his opponents or being friends or enemies. He just wants to trample his opponents.

Especially this person who is vying for the limelight is also his biggest malicious competitor.

After quickly searching for Zheng Guotai's information in his mind, Lin Daguan immediately discovered a bright spot.

As a historical celebrity who was deeply involved in the political chaos of the Wanli Dynasty and created a lot of troubles, there are still many historical records about Zheng Guotai, unlike other relatives who are not taken seriously but only a few words that are unclear.

So the question is, if Zheng Guotai really had such superb shooting skills as "always hitting the target", why is it never mentioned in the detailed historical materials?
Lin Daguan thought about it carefully. There are many historical materials about Zheng Guotai, but there is indeed no mention of archery!
If Zheng Guotai in history had such superb shooting skills, it would not have been possible for him to have been serving only in name only. Emperor Wanli would not have used it for no reason and would not have taken the opportunity to reward Zheng Guotai!

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