Idle courtiers

Chapter 69 Unspoken rules of the examination room (recommendation ticket requested)
Zhou Nan was taken aback, she didn't expect Yuanwai Mei's actions to be so fast.

A person who has been fighting in the arena for many years, naturally has good martial arts and great strength.

I can be regarded as a person with some strength, but if I really challenge him one-on-one, I am afraid that I will die if it is a lighting.

In fact, Zhou Nan didn't even think about fighting back. Gentlemen fight wits but not strength.

In the blink of an eye, instead of retreating, Zhou Nan threw away the dagger in his hand, raised his head and smiled, "Mei Pu's fame."

"What?" These four words fixed Mei Kang's iron whip in the air like a spell.

Zhou Nan: "Mr. Mei has good ears and eyes, can't he understand/"

Mei Kang shouted: "Thief, you have made it clear."

Zhou Nan waved his hand: "Keep your voice down, the law is not passed on to everyone, don't let others listen to it."

As he spoke, he put his mouth close to Mei Kang's ear, and said in a low voice: "I have a way to protect the third son of Mei as a scholar, do you want it? If you want it, let the others go out and put down their weapons, otherwise they will be regarded as me." That was not said."

"What?" Yuanwai Mei started calling again, but this time the voice was much softer.

"Daddy, take this little thief down quickly."

"Master, catch a thief!"

Both Mei Chi and Xiao Hong were shouting.

Suddenly, an unexpected scene happened, and member Mei suddenly took the whip from his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Chier, Xiaohong, you go out, don't let anyone in."

"Daddy..."

"master……"

"Let's go!"

When the second daughter went out, Mei Kang looked at Zhou Nan coldly: "Surname Zhou, you are so bold, there is a way to heaven, you don't go, there is no way to hell, come in, tell me, let's see what kind of ivory you can spit out today!" Come."

"You don't go if there is a way to heaven, and there is no way to hell. Last time, my master came to your mansion and escaped unscathed." Zhou Nan smiled lightly: "Let's stop talking nonsense, I have a deal I need to discuss it with Yuanwai. I wanted to visit my house, but with the relationship between you and me, I am afraid that Yuanwai would not want to see me. I had to make such a bad plan, and I had to offend."

"What deal?" Maycomb asked.

Zhou Nan whispered: "Didn't you have been doing activities to get your third son to be a scholar? Okay, I will give Meipu a reputation. I have two conditions. One, I owed your family 300 taels before." Yinzi's long-term account was canceled; two, I was framed by the governor of Yandao Yamen for stealing Shi's house, and you helped me solve it. After I come down, I will invite Shi Qianshi to dinner, drink to settle the suspicion, and you will be the middleman. Don't tell me that you have nothing to do with Shi Qianshi, I'm not a fool, how could I not know that you set up this trap. You need someone to tie the bell to untie it, so it can only fall on you."

Mei Kang sneered and said, "You surnamed Zhou, do you think I'm stupid? What are you, just a dog leg in the yamen. Also, you are the confidant of the county magistrate, maybe you can let my son pass the county exam. One pass. But in the next government examination, do you really have the ability to get away from the magistrate and the governor of the province, and still stay in Anton as a lowly subordinate?"

The sneer was full of sarcasm: "It's no wonder that people believe in empty words."

Zhou Nan had a look of disdain: "Meikang, you really don't know anything. That's right, you are a local tyrant, and what do you know about scholars. Come here with my ears, and teach you to be good."

He said sternly: "What if I can guarantee your third son to win the first place in this year's county test?"

"What's the first name, it doesn't matter, it just sounds nicer."

"Hey, I don't know how to tell you. Let's put it this way, as long as you get the first place in this year's county examination, your son's reputation as a scholar will be guaranteed." Zhou Nan whispered about the unspoken rules of the imperial examination. Member Mei said it again.

It turned out that the boy's examination in the Ming Dynasty was not as strict as the rural examination, general examination and palace examination later.During the exam, not only must the candidate’s name be covered with paper, but in order to prevent the examiner from cheating, the candidate’s paper must be transcribed by a special person, so as to be as fair, open and impartial as possible.

In the boy's test, there is not so much attention, there is no need to confuse the name, and the examiner alone has the final say on who to take.

For example, if you can buy three people, the county, the magistrate, and the province's Xuezheng, you can easily get the title of a scholar.However, no one with this ability has ever been born.

There is another unspoken rule here: when the head of the county examination in each county goes to the prefectural court for two examinations, the examiners will admit them as usual.Because, generally speaking, the first place in the county examination is either a related family of the magistrate, or a child prodigy and an elite among scholars who are expected by the local people.In order to take care of the face of the magistrate and the scholars of the county, he had to let it go no matter what.Otherwise, the county head won't even be on the list. Isn't that a slap in the face of the magistrate, and he doesn't know how to be an official.

The rule that the head of the county examination gets the fame of a scholar is equivalent to the recommendation of the college entrance examination in later generations, which is reasonable and legal.

"Ah, there is still such a theory?" Mei Yuanwai was dumbfounded, but also greatly moved.

If things were really as Zhou Nan said, he would be the number one in Baomei Pude County's test, which would be equivalent to being a scholar.

The one surnamed Zhou is very popular in the county magistrate. The last year's examination and the subsequent reform of the land to mulberry were all done by him.It can be said that the future of Shizhi County is preserved by this subordinate official. If he says it, the county official will naturally agree.

For more than ten years, Mei Kang has been thinking about his son's success in the exams, and the glory of the Mei family.As long as he has fame, he can see officials without kneeling, and he can hold his head up in front of the gentry.

Not to mention, with the status of a scholar, it is convenient for the Mei family to do things outside.I can also attend many scenes, and the people I make friends with are naturally different.

He couldn't refuse the fruit of this temptation, and he had to swallow it.

However, the enmity between the two families was too deep, so Member Mei sneered, "Your surname is Zhou, do you think we still have room for negotiation?"

"Not before, not in the future, but now." Zhou Nan said bluntly: "On these two conditions, I don't expect the enmity between you and me to be resolved. Let me tell you the truth, what happened to Shi Qianshi and you It made the county magistrate very angry, and I also hated the county magistrate because of this, so that the appointed post of ceremonial official was almost wiped out. As long as you agree to my conditions and help me through this difficult time, I will guarantee your son to be a scholar. As for you and me We will calculate the grievances between you and your son when your son becomes a scholar. How tall you are as a member of the plum, how tall I am. I work in the yamen, and you are a gangster, so we don’t have to talk so much. Turn around, be refreshing, do you want to do it?"

"Do it! Just as you said, we will get closer after my son's boy test this year. But if you deceive me, even if I risk my life, this old man will beat you to death." , With a cry, the iron whip in his hand was whipped on the coffee table.

"Dang" pulled a small hardwood table to pieces.

Hearing a loud noise in the cabin, the audience on the shore shouted: "It's fighting, it's fighting!"

"It's dead, it's dead!"

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, Guixian Cheng is here!" There was a burst of shouting, but a few yamen servants rushed over, raised the sticks in their hands and opened a passage.

Behind the passage is Guixian Cheng in official uniform and a group of scholars headed by Weng Chun, coming in mighty force.

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