The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 176 Wei Rentu’s biological father?

A fast horse quickly passed by an official road, throwing up a cloud of dust and smoke. About an hour after the fast horse left and passed this official road, a carriage slowly passed by this official road.

In the depth of field, a boy about sixteen years old is sitting in a carriage and reading a book tirelessly. There is a little book boy next to the depth of field. Outside the carriage, there are two guards and a driver.

This depth of field is Cui Mian's cousin's eldest son, and he is a young man who can endure hardships.

Cui Mian's cousin was not from the Cui family, so she married the Jing family of Luzhou. Originally, the Jing family was also a wealthy family with a certain degree of power in Luzhou. However, things didn't work out as expected. The Jing family fell directly from the wealthy family due to a pirate attack. For a poor family.

The only way to get the Jing family back on its feet was through the imperial examination.

But what needs to be explained here is that although the Tang Dynasty already had imperial examinations, the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were not perfect. There were almost no civilians who could be promoted, and only poor families had some opportunities.

Not many people say that the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were good news for all students. That is definitely not the case.

First of all, although the imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty experienced the Sui Dynasty, it was still a trial system. A trial system was bound to make mistakes. Especially in the Tang Dynasty, there were heavy remnants of the recommendation system, and public recommendation was included in admissions. , Tongbang and many other ordinary students have no privileges at all.

Moreover, the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty did not anonymize names. The anonymity only began in the hands of Wu Zetian.

In the case of not ambiguous names, the general list has become a convenience for some powers, relatives, children, etc. to intervene in the imperial examination, so that most of the people admitted are their own people, which loses the meaning of fair imperial examination.

If a student wants to win the imperial examination, in addition to being talented and knowledgeable, he must also be praised and appreciated by dignitaries. If you do not get the support of those dignitaries, then even if you are full of talent, you will not be able to pass the exam. .

Without a family background, if you, a civilian student, want to win the imperial examination, it will be as if you can reach the sky. Someone will definitely say, hey, isn't that Ma Zhou the representative of civilian students, and he later became the prime minister.

First of all, Ma Zhou was indeed a civilian student. He lost his parents when he was young. He came from a poor family but loved to study. He was especially proficient in the "Book of Songs" and "Zuo Zhuan". When he grew up, he was not respected by his villagers because of his bohemian behavior.

During the Wude period, Ma Zhou was appointed as an assistant teacher in Bozhou, but he drank every day and did not take teaching seriously.Da Xishu, the governor of Bozhou, criticized him many times, so Ma Zhou left and wandered between Caozhou and Bianzhou. He was insulted by Junyi's order Cui Xianshou, so he rushed to Chang'an in anger.

However, he did not rely on the imperial examination, he relied on the recommendation. Ma Zhou was lucky. After arriving in Chang'an, he stayed at the home of Zhonglang General Chang He.

In the fifth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin ordered all the officials to write a letter to discuss the gains and losses of the government, including generals. At that time, a group of generals in Chang'an City scratched their heads about this matter every day.

The same goes for Chang He. He was a military commander and did not dabble in classics. Fortunately, Ma Zhou, out of gratitude for Chang He's hospitality, wrote a memorial for Chang He stating more than 20 suggestions that would benefit the country, and asked him to submit the memorial. Of course, among them He must have wanted to show off his ambitions, but Ma Zhou didn't dare to have much extravagant hopes.

Who knew that all of Ma Zhou's more than 20 suggestions would be in line with Li Shimin's wishes.

Li Shimin was not a sieve, so he knew that this must not be Chang He's handwriting, so he asked Chang He, but Chang He did not hide it and told Li Shimin directly: "I don't have this ability, it was written by my guest Ma Zhou.

Every time he talks to his ministers, he always takes loyalty and filial piety as his purpose. "

Li Shimin summoned Ma Zhou that day. Before Ma Zhou arrived, Li Shimin sent people to urge him four times.When Ma Zhou arrived, Li Shimin had a pleasant discussion with him and asked him to serve in the Menxia Province.

With this set in place, first of all, Ma Zhou must learn to be amazing, secondly, Ma Zhou must have a chance to reach heaven, and Ma Zhou's chance is definitely one in a million, and finally, Ma Zhou must be lucky enough to meet the Ming Lord.

Add all of this up, and there is only one conclusion: Ma Zhou's path cannot be copied.

Even a common student can produce such a person, and it is basically impossible for others to copy it. Shen Jing entered Chang'an in advance this time just to use his cousin's connections to get to know dignitaries and improve his reputation.

For this reason, Jing Shen is willing to adopt and become Cui Mian's adopted son, because Jing Shen knows very well that if he doesn't do this, then he will study for the rest of his life, and it will be difficult for him to win the exam, let alone help the Jing family make a comeback. It's a pity. Datang's imperial examination system is really not that fair.

Students from poor families are really not ordinary students. Poor people and common people cannot be equated. Everyone thinks that they are from a poor family. That is wrong. You are not from a poor family. You cannot call yourself a family.

You are a common people. The better ones are called commoners, the worse ones are called untouchables. That's it.But this Depth of Field would never have imagined that this visit to Chang'an would be the end of his life.

"Did you find out?" In the woods, a bearded man looked at another man dressed in shorts.

"There are only five people, two guards, a driver, a book boy, plus the target of this mission." The man answered.

"Then tell the second brother and the others to go ahead and kill him and then burn him. How old is that scholar?" asked the bearded man.

"Boss!" The man dressed in shorts was speechless: "This is Chang'an City. We have other things to do. Let's just forget about the bookboy and kill him directly. It will be troublesome to keep him around. Moreover, they are rushing over there. We Just don’t add extraneous ramifications.”

"Yeah!" The bearded man nodded slightly, then smiled and said: "It works this time, and we can be happy for a while!"

"We all listen to you." The man dressed as a bunt smiled slightly.

About half an hour later, when Jing Shen's carriage was about thirty miles away from Chang'an City, an accident happened. Just when Jing Shen knew that Chang'an City was about to arrive, in order to make a good impression on his cousin, he took a nap. when.

Suddenly there was a scream outside.

"Ah!" The guard following outside shouted in fear: "There are gangsters, Lang Jun, be careful." Then Depth of Field heard the sound of a knife being unsheathed, and the book boy was frightened and quickly leaned towards Depth of Field and asked: "Lang Jun. This is Chang'an City, how can there be bandits!"

At this time, Depth of Field was also very scared. He couldn't figure out why there were gangsters around Chang'an. Just as the two of them were hugging each other, the sound of weapons fighting could be heard outside. It was less than a tea time, Depth of Field He Shutong heard the screams of his guards.

Just when Depth of Field wanted to open the curtain of the carriage to see what was going on outside, before the curtain of the carriage could be lifted, a long sword pierced straight in. There was only a "pop" sound, and a mouthful of blood spurted from Depth of Field's mouth. When the sword came out, the book boy screamed, and then the second sword was thrust out, and the book boy was also stabbed to death with one sword.

Lifting the curtain of the carriage, the bearded man's face was revealed. Looking at the tragic death of Depth of Field and his book boy inside, the bearded man chuckled: "Robbing my son, this is how you will die."

Following a total of ten gangsters, they cleaned up the road. The corpses and carriages were burned directly. After the burning, the ashes were scattered into the river not far away. After everything was done, the ten gangsters rode on their respective The horses rushed towards the dusty city of Chang'an.

In Lijia Village, Li An watched Wei Wangning's recent symptoms written to him at home. The more Li An read it, the more Li An felt that Wei Wangning's illness was not tuberculosis, but pneumonia. This pneumonia and tuberculosis are really similar. , are easily misdiagnosed.

The early symptoms of this pneumonia are coughing and sputum production, and because the initial symptom of pneumonia is an irritating dry cough, followed by coughing up white mucus sputum or blood-streaked sputum, after 1 to 2 days, bloody mucus sputum or rust-colored sputum can be coughed up. Next is chest pain and high fever.

Medical treatment in ancient times is different from modern times. In ancient times, there were no modern instruments. If we want to distinguish between pneumonia and tuberculosis in modern times, we can tell them by taking a film. But in ancient times, it was a bit difficult. Pneumonia can be cured by itself. Now Wei Wangning is watching She is still sick, which is probably caused by being incarcerated recently, accumulated fatigue, worry, and not eating well.

It is very possible that this tuberculosis is a big mistake.

Of course, even though Li An knew that it might be a big mistake, Li An still planned to go back to modern times to show the doctor whether there was a high chance that Wei Wangning had tuberculosis, and to prescribe some medicine and bring it back. You also need to buy some watches. In addition, Ang Lee also needs to prepare some other things when preparing for the auction. You can't just prepare some watches for one auction.

Li An is going to buy some glass products to cheat money, um, there are also wine, clocks and other practical but cheap things.

Especially wine. Now Wuliangye has developed a good reputation. The credit for this is all due to Cheng Yaojin. Cheng Yaojin is really bad. When he gets good things, he will squander them. After he took the wine from Li An, he started to go around. Everyone knows that the aroma of Wuliangye is very strong, and you can smell it clearly as long as you open it, but Cheng Yaojin lets others smell it but does not drink it.

Everyone was so greedy that they were salivating, so under such circumstances, Wuliangye's name had become a myth among the aristocrats of Chang'an. Li Shimin was pissed to death. Obviously, these should all be his. Why was it taken away by Cheng Yaojin?

Of course, Cheng Yaojin also drank a little for his own people, such as Yu Chigong, Niu Jinda, and some people who were close to Cheng Yaojin. Each person only had a small cup, which was stingy, but after one cup, everyone drank. , Ye was shocked, and wanted to have another drink, but Cheng Yaojin refused to give him life or death. Do you think it is irritating or not?
Just when Li An was thinking about going back to modern times, Liu Yiyi walked into Li An's room and bowed: "Mr. Liu Dong is here. I have something to report to you."

As soon as Li An heard that Liu Dong was coming, he knew that soap could make money.

(End of this chapter)