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"Not going to take the exam?"

Song Shaoyuan was stunned for a moment, and the students sitting around were also a little surprised.

The young students who can be ranked in the upper middle level in the state school all have the dream of getting into the top ten in the provincial examination and going to Chang'an to participate in the preliminary examination of the school.

As long as you can stand out in the fiercely competitive entrance examination and enter the academy, it means that you will leap into the dragon's gate, and even Zeji's family, so that the whole family can prosper in the next few decades.

In order to continue the family fortune, certain wealthy families who try to become a thousand-year-old family spare no effort to invest in education. They not only teach the children in the family, but also spend money to find children who are naturally intelligent, and move their parents and their families here. Educated in the family school.

On the other hand, one or several houses will be specially allocated to the family and relocated to the border prefecture of Yu State, where the education level is relatively backward, so as to increase the chances of the family's children passing the provincial examination and entering the palace.

This kind of behavior also caused some small rich families to imitate and move their families ten years in advance. Furthermore, in some frontier state capitals, regional hostility between the northerners and the southerners, and the westerners and the easterners was born.

For this illusory chance of promotion, the whole world knows how many students broke through the classics, and how many parents exhausted their efforts.

"Why didn't you take the exam?"

Song Shaoyuan said with concern: "Is it lack of confidence, or is it too busy recently? If it is to save the five notarization fees for the exam, I have it here."

A person next to him said with a smile: "Brother Shao Yuan, who doesn't know that Baoan Tang has been making a big splash in Weizhou City these days. I heard that there are rich businessmen from other places who want to come to Weizhou to seek Risheng's medical treatment. How can I not pay the notarization fee of only five passes.

I think that being a doctor is too much money, so there is no need to read the classics of Confucius and Mencius. "

"Yeah, after all, no matter how much you learn, it's for Brother Kong Fang in the end. Why not take advantage of your reputation and get it done in one step. Just like the doctor in that position."

A group of classmates burst into laughter, the atmosphere of scholarly society is like this, except for scholars, they don't look down on any profession or profession.

Seeing this, Li Ang frowned slightly, feeling a little displeased with their frivolous tone and comparing himself with Yu Miaoshui.

Yu Miaoshui also deserves it?

"Don't talk nonsense."

Song Shaoyuan frowned, and said unceremoniously to his friends who usually travel together: "Isn't it better for a doctor to save people's lives than to just study hard and talk empty-handed when encountering things?

Moreover, I have seen Risheng's bone injury skills with my own eyes, which is by no means comparable to Yu Miaoshui and other deceitful people. "

He turned his head and said to Li Ang seriously: "Risheng, don't rush to make a decision on this matter. When my mother and I come to the security hall at night, we can discuss it together."

"Everyone has his own ambition, brother Shaoyuan, you are just too warm-hearted."

Not far away, another rising star of state studies, Zhai Yiming, heard the movement and came over, ignoring Li Ang and others, and bowed his hands to Song Shaoyuan in a graceful manner: "Brother Shaoyuan, I have an invitation for an acquaintance banquet in my hand. After six days, I have invited several other classmates and fellow scholars from other places, I wonder if you are free?"

The country of Yu has an open atmosphere, and various public and private banquets are popular, and banquets can be held for big and small things.

The so-called acquaintance banquet is an elegant banquet held by scholars to build relationships and spread fame in the future.

Zhai Yiming was born in a wealthy local family in Weizhou. He had been to Chang'an last year, and the ones he favored must be those who he thought were most likely to pass the Weizhou Provincial Examination and be classmates with him in the academy.

Song Shaoyuan cupped his hands, his expression still indifferent, but he heard Zhai Yiming say leisurely: "It's not me who is hosting the banquet, but the son of the eunuch's family."

As soon as Zhai Yiming said this, the courtyard fell silent instantly.

Yu inherited the Sui system, and the governor of a prefecture was the prefect. What Zhai Yiming said could only be Ji Chi, the prefect of Weizhou.

The son of the prefect of Weizhou is undoubtedly the biggest yamen.

"The acquaintance banquet of the prefect's son"

A partner next to Song Shaoyuan stared, with his hands hanging by his side, he murmured: "This, this"

The other person was also shocked and said: "But, I remember that the eldest son of the prefect's family has reached the crown last year, and he didn't go to the academy. Could it be the second son? That's not right. I heard that the second son is only eleven years old this year." "

Zhai Yiming glanced at him, and said calmly: "The daughter of the prefect's family has received a letter of recommendation from the academy a few days ago, and will go to the academy this year."

The courtyard became inexplicably quiet again, and many thoughtful people immediately understood when they rolled their eyes.

Compared with the former Sui Dynasty and the Zhou State in the south, the status of women in Yu State is much higher. Women are not the appendages of men, and they can voluntarily dissolve the relationship between husband and wife. .

On the one hand, this is a new phenomenon brought about by the academy—the ratio of spiritual talent between men and women is basically the same, and there are quite a few female monks, who occupy high positions in the academy, and some even have been mountain chiefs, which greatly promotes the equality of men and women. social atmosphere.

On the other hand, it is because a hundred years ago in Yu State, a holy queen surnamed Wu was born.

The prefect's son hosted a banquet, no doubt to help the younger sister who is about to go to Chang'an, and get to know more elites from her hometown.

And these state scholars, if they can leave a good impression on the son and daughter of the prefect's family at the acquaintance banquet, even if they fail to enter the academy, they can still find a job as an official in the prefect's mansion.

It is even possible to go further.

Zhai Yiming looked at these classmates who were full of imagination, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

I don't even think about how delicate and high-class the son and daughter of the prefect's family are. This group of mediocre people who don't show their literary talent and struggle to compose a poem are not even qualified to go to a banquet, so they want to show their faces?

"Young Master Taishou handed over the invitation to me,

After much deliberation, I still feel that you are the only one who is most qualified, Brother Shao Yuan. "

Zhai Yiming slowly took out a red invitation card from his bosom, handed it to Song Shaoyuan, and saw the envious and jealous expressions on other people's faces with satisfaction.

Oh, that's right.

Zhai Yiming smiled, and wanted to say a few more words, when he suddenly heard noisy noises coming from outside the state school.

"Please inform me that Mi Xing and Zheng Jialiang are asking to see me."

"Taiyi line Lu Zishi."

"Zou Wenbo of Zhengping Bank"

Um?

The sound outside the state school made Zhai Yiming and others frown.

Zhai Yiming, who considered himself the leader of the state school, walked to the door, and was about to scold who was making loud noises outside the state school, but stopped suddenly.

I saw twenty or thirty luxury carriages parked at the gate of Zhouxue, and wealthy businessmen in luxurious clothes kept getting out of the carriages, each holding greeting cards in their hands.

The president of the rice guild, the president of the commoner guild, and the treasurer of the bank

Any one of them is an important figure that the Zhai family needs to receive well on weekdays.

"How is this going?"

Zhai Yiming calmed down instantly, pulled a servant at the door, and asked in a low voice, "What's going on? Who are these people looking for?"

The boy scratched his head, and said uncertainly: "They said, looking for Mr. Li's family?"