My life skills in Daming Liver

When Hai Rui arrived, Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan immediately put away their plays and concentrated on listening to Hai Rui's lecture.

Looking at the four of them, Hai Rui cleared his throat and said:

"You have studied hard these days, and you have mastered the classics of the Four Books quite well."

"Reciting scripture notes is only the first step in taking the imperial examination. From today onwards, I will assign an imperial examination exercise in every class, and let you go back and answer it. You will submit it to the class next time, and I will review it for you on the spot."

Except for Su Ze, the other three looked at Hai Rui excitedly.

Whether there is a good teacher who knows about the imperial examination is also very important.

Some Jinshi families are able to continue to leave Jinshi, not only because of family genes and family traditions, but also has a lot to do with the famous teachers hired by the family.

Writing stereotyped essays can be written by ordinary scholars as long as they have read books for a few years and read some stereotyped systems.

But writing it out is one thing, and writing it well is another.

At this time, the importance of correction is reflected.

The stereotyped essays written by myself naturally don't see any problems. Only when a famous teacher corrects and points out the problems can there be improvement next time. This is the importance of "exercise".

But how can ordinary children from poor families have the money to hire famous teachers to help them correct, so the three of them have been taking part in the imperial examinations all the time, but they don't know the reason why they failed in the imperial examinations.

With Hai Rui correcting their homework and knowing where they did not write well, this is the guidance the three of them need most.

A word of true teaching, and the so-called true teaching is to be able to pull you back to the right path when you make a detour.

Next, Hai Rui began to give lectures. This time, Hai Rui also increased the difficulty of the content of the class. He was no longer limited to a certain sentence, but expanded the content of the entire Four Books and Five Classics.

The sentences of the scriptures are not independent, and some content needs to be "connected with the context" to appreciate it.

Sure enough, after the difficulty was increased, Xiong Yue, who was not very solid in basic skills, could no longer understand.

Chen Chaoyuan and Lin Qingcai also reluctantly followed Hai Rui's lectures.

Among the four, only Su Ze had followed Hai Rui's lessons completely.

Su Ze's imperial examination skills have been upgraded to Lv5. After listening to Hai Rui's lectures at this level, Su Ze has a new understanding.

Su Ze has a deeper understanding of some problems that were not noticed before, and some understanding of the scriptures.

Is this what upgrading feels like?

After arriving at Lv5, Su Ze could already fully hear Hai Rui's lectures, and could draw inferences from his lectures to understand more by analogy.

Moreover, after the intelligence attribute was improved, Su Ze had a deeper understanding of those parts of the scriptures that needed to be discriminated and analyzed, and his learning speed was naturally faster.

[Classroom listening, imperial examination skill experience +22, Lv5, 23/1000]

In an hour, 22 points of experience were raised!

Su Ze looked at the Encyclopedia of Four Books and Five Classics in front of him. Hai Rui's lecture speed this time was much faster than before. He almost covered the content of the previous two lectures. No wonder his experience has more than doubled.

The remaining 2 points of experience should be the bonus provided by the intelligence attribute.

After exploring, Su Ze discovered the way to increase the experience of the imperial examination, that is, the addition of course content and intelligence attributes.

Thinking about it this way, it will be faster than expected to upgrade the imperial examination skills to Lv10!

In the next class, Hai Rui took out one of his own imperial examination essays, and began to explain his thinking on solving the questions and answering the questions, and analyzed the article from beginning to end.

Hai Rui was able to win the candidates, so the essays he wrote were naturally much better than those of the four. After hearing Hai Rui's understanding of stereotyped essays, Su Ze also felt a sense of enlightenment. So stereotyped essays should be written like this!

[Classroom listening, imperial examination skill experience +22, Lv5, 45/1000]

Increased experience by 44 points in one day!

It's a pity that he only came to the county to study for four days a month, otherwise Su Ze would be able to improve his imperial examination skills to Lv6 soon.

After the course was over, Su Ze walked out of the county school and invited the two small bannermen who escorted him to Changningwei as agreed.

These Changning guards had never eaten in a restaurant in the county. After a meal, Su Ze asked Lin Xianda about going to the county government to receive the reward today.

Lin Xianda said: "This time, the Heishan bandits robbed the villages of many nobles in the county, and even slaughtered the Zhuangzi of Sun Dian's historian in the house of ceremonies. The elder is furious."

"When we presented Xue Gao's head, everyone in the county government was shocked!"

Lin Xianda laughed out loud, Changningwei had never shown his face like this in Nanping County!

He still remembers the surprised eyes of Baizhi County and the surprised eyes of many hall officials.

He just got the news that the bandits were raging, and then he was pacified by Changning Wei in the blink of an eye?

Xue Gao was a bandit of the rebels who had been in Nanping County for many years. Many people in the county government knew him, and there were evidence from the bandit members escorted here. The magistrate of Baizhi County soon confirmed that the Black Bandit had really been wiped out!

Lin Xianda continued: "The magistrate gave the bounty on the spot, and then asked us to go back and inform the hundred households, saying that we were allowed to replace one official and two yamen servants in the Changning Guard."

The reward this time is really rich!

Xue Gao's bounty was fifty taels of silver, and Baizhi County made up another ten taels of silver, and Changning Wei's battle this time was just a waste of some gunpowder and lead bullets, which can be said to be a bargain.

Sure enough, mercenaries are the most profitable!

As for one clerk and two yamen servants, this is the biggest reward given by Baizhi County.

There is a limit to the number of officials in the county government. Although it is not as strict as Dianshi, which needs to be registered with the official department, there are stereotypes about the number of people in each house, and it is impossible for the county government to recruit unlimited people. Swell down.

It is almost impossible for ordinary people to enter the county government as officials.

Most of the positions of official officials are controlled by these aristocratic families of knife and pen officials, and they are only passed on within these families.

There are also those like Lin Qingcai's cousin, or Chen Qingchao, a scholar with some background, who can't pass the county examination and entrusted the county government to enter the county government.

Thinking about the difficulty of examinations for later generations, we must know that the number of officials in the county government today is not as large as that in a department in later generations. In most systems in ancient times, even the officials were not even counted as servants, so we know the value of officials.

It is naturally impossible for Su Ze to be an official in the county government, but Changningwei also has many clean and bright people. The clan recommended one person to be an official in the county government. In the future, there will be people in Changningwei in the county government!

The same is true for the supplementary yamen servants. Didn’t the Beishan Chen family have three yamen servants, known as the three dogs of the Chen family, walking sideways near Changningwei. Now Changningwei can also let two children come to Nanping County to work as errands. What will happen in the county in the future? Changningwei will not be ignorant anymore.

Lin Xianda also showed an envious expression. He is a soldier in the army and guards, so it is naturally impossible for him to serve as an official in the county government.

Although his small flag in the guard house also manages ten soldiers, he is still incomparable with the officials.

At this moment, there was a noise from downstairs in the restaurant.

"Mr. Changning Weisu is upstairs?"

Lin Xianda immediately stood up and wanted to go down to inquire, only to hear the sound of going upstairs, and then three familiar people appeared upstairs.

The three dogs of the Chen family, that is, the three brothers of the Chen family who work in the county government.

The three of them were excited, and they knelt down with a plop when they saw Su Ze.

"Sir, thank you for saving me from the Chen family regardless of past suspicions!"

After speaking, the three of them kowtowed to Su Ze, and Su Ze had to ask Lin Xianda to pull them up.

As soon as the news of the Black Bandit's rebellion came out, the three brothers were ready to go back to their hometown to fight against the bandits, but before they left the city, they heard the news that the Changning Guard had taken action and wiped out the Black Bandit.

Then news came from the Beishan Chen family, saying that it was this time that they relied on Su Ze to persuade Changning Weilin Baihu to take action and rescued Beishan Village.

Although the Three Dogs of the Chen family are people who flatter their superiors and bully their inferiors, they are not ungrateful.

Su Ze saved Beishan Village, he was their benefactor, and he kowtowed sincerely.

It was still the boss Chen Bofei who said: "Sir, if you have any orders, use our brothers as soon as possible!"

Su Ze looked at the three of them and said, "The county magistrate has given us two positions as guards in Changning Guard. We Changning Guards have never served as guards. We will ask the three of you to take care of them."

The three were overjoyed and said: "Such trivial matters are naturally due!"

After finishing speaking, Chen Bofei rushed to check out again, and respectfully sent Su Ze and his party to leave.

Fang Zhifu had just finished socializing, and just as he took off his official uniform, there was a knock on the door, only to see his daughter pushing the door in with a bowl of herbal tea.

Seeing herbal tea, Fang Zhifu loves and hates it at the same time.

What I love is that this thing is really effective, not only cured his toothache, but also the acclimatization problem of Fujian, the prefect's subordinate Ren, has disappeared a lot.

What he hates is that this thing is so bad, every time his daughter has to watch him drink it, Fang Zhifu deeply suspects that his daughter made him tea just to see his painful expression when drinking herbal tea.

It's just that Fang Zhifu has no evidence.

Watching her father drink the herbal tea with a smile, Fang Ruolan stretched out her hand and said:

"Father, have you finished reading the lonely Song Dynasty copy of Liu Tong's judgment a few days ago?"

Fang Zhifu immediately said: "Lan'er, let me watch it for a few days for my father, and I will give it to you after I finish reading it!"

Fang Ruolan immediately said: "My daughter bought this book with herbal tea! If so, tomorrow's herbal tea won't be boiled!"

At this moment, Fang Zhifu immediately surrendered, raised his hands in surrender and said, "I will deliver it to your room tomorrow!"

Fang Ruolan looked like a victorious little fox, and said in a rare and charming tone:

"Father, you gave so many favors with your daughter's herbal tea, do you want to make up for it?"

Ordinary people don't buy herbal tea, but for dignitaries like Fang Zhifu, this thing is really easy to use!

It is normal for these officials to have banquets every day, get angry and have toothaches. Drinking a herbal tea can clear away heat and detoxify, and the effect can be said to be immediate!

Although getting angry and toothache are not serious problems, it is still very painful to fall ill. After the news spread that Fang Zhifu gave tea to the magistrate's office, he quickly won the hearts of the government.

The reputation of "prefect herbal tea" spread like wildfire, and Fang Zhifu did not expect that after he became a magistrate, the most commendable achievement would be to give herbal tea to the magistrate's office.

The herbal tea doesn't cost a lot of money, and it also gives Fang Zhifu a good reputation of being considerate to his subordinates. This deal is really a bargain.

Hearing that his daughter was going to lay down the burden, Fang Zhifu immediately said: "Give me the money, Lan'er, how much do you want?"

Fang Ruolan raised a finger, Fang Zhifu asked, "Ten taels of silver?"

"One hundred taels!"

Fang Zhifu was taken aback and said, "Why do you want so much money!"

Fang Ruolan said: "Isn't Mr. Tuohu soliciting operas in Yanping Mansion? My daughter also wants to set up a poetry society for her family, and publish the poems and essays in the poetry society."

"Poetry club?"

The daughters of wealthy families in the Jiangnan area like to run poetry clubs the most.

Poetry clubs, appraisal clubs, and quyi clubs of this kind are, to put it bluntly, the wives clubs of powerful local officials.

The etiquette of the Ming Dynasty was strict, and it was also divided into eras and regions.

During the Jiajing period, the etiquette was not as strict as that in the late Ming Dynasty, and the folk customs in the southeast coastal areas were influenced by the commercial atmosphere, and they were more open than the inland areas.

Moreover, in ancient society, the husband and wife were one, and the wives of officials also had quite a lot of social activities. This kind of wife meeting was not only a place for local wives to chat with each other, but also a place for public opinion in the prefecture and county.

Fang Zhifu frowned and said: "It's not good for your daughter's family to come forward in this matter, it's better to do it in your mother's name."

Fang Ruolan just wanted to roll her eyes. With her mother's appearance, it's not bad if you ask her to set up a horse crane association. Something like a poetry club is incompatible with her temperament!

However, Mrs. Li is the wife of the magistrate, and she is indeed the head of the local women. This kind of thing can only be done in her name in order to attract enough people.

Fang Zhifu naturally supports this kind of cultural activities with money.

The wives and ladies of these officials and gentry have huge influence in the local area.

There was no such activity in Yanping Mansion before, because the previous prefects did not stay in office for a long time.

Since it was a serious matter, Fang Zhifu was not stingy with the one hundred taels of silver, but he still said: "Lan'er, you are not yet married, and some things are still handled in your mother's name."

When Fang Ruolan returned to her room, it was the first time she felt the importance of getting married.

But many things really need to be married and become the head of the house, so that it is convenient to take care of them.

Let's do it in the name of my mother first, Fang Ruolan also compromised with the reality, first organize the poetry meeting and the poetry magazine.

Prepare more herbal tea and sour plum soup. The rock sugar I bought from Su Ze last time was good. The sour plum soup is sweet and sour without any bitterness. This kind of good sour plum soup can be used as a special drink for the poetry club.

The image of Su Ze appeared in Fang Ruolan's mind, she quickly dispelled the image of Su Ze, gathered her mind and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, Hai Rui was still answering questions. This time, Su Ze asked more questions in one breath, and Hai Rui also accelerated the speed of explanation.

Hai Rui was also very surprised. Su Ze's understanding of the Four Books had completely surpassed the other three.

For some of the questions he raised, Hai Rui, a juvenile, had to think for a while before answering them.

Hai Rui was amazed at Su Ze's comprehension and reading ability, but it's a pity that he only started studying the Five Classics this year. Otherwise, with Su Ze's four books level, he would definitely pass the county examination next year.

Su Ze gained 44 points of imperial examination experience again. After class, Su Ze hurriedly filled his stomach, and it was the agreed thing.

Su Ze walked to the gate of the county school, and sure enough, the number one angel investor, Second Young Master Yu, was already waiting in front of the gate of Lingxing County School.

Seeing Su Ze leaving school, Yu Zongyuan immediately greeted him:

"Brother Su, which one shall we go to first?"

"Let's go to the bookstore first."

"Okay! We must let these cunning old slaves know how powerful their new master is!"