Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 839, Contempt chain
Beijing.

As the day of the scientific examination in the [-]th year of Hongzhi and the year of Renxu drew nearer, the whole capital city began to become lively again. Scholars from the south, the sea and the north gathered together, and naturally there was a lot of competition with each other.

At the same time, as in previous years, brothels, restaurants, teahouses, inns, hotels, etc. in the capital also held various literati events in a timely manner.

You must know that Wangyuelou, the most famous restaurant in the capital, quickly became famous in Ming Dynasty by holding such poetry meetings, and became the most famous restaurant in the capital.

The prosperity of the capital city and the germination and development of capitalism have also led to the prosperity of the entire capital's business. Naturally, more and more businesses are holding various poetry fairs to attract these scholars to come to compete with each other. If you can The appearance of one or two masterpieces that have been passed down through the ages can also make one's own industry famous.

The Wangyue Tower in the capital city is of course the leader. The boss is willing to spend money, and the reputation of Wangyue Tower is here. There are also a lot of scholars who come to Wangyue Tower. Almost every day, there are people here to drink, talk, and write. words and so on.

As for the well-known brothels and Chu halls in the capital, like the most famous Jinjin Cave in the capital, Huamanlou, they also spend a lot of money to hold various poetry gatherings every night.

While holding the poetry meeting, the oiran competition is also held at this time. The selected oirans are specially used to hang these scholars who come to the capital to take the exam. The meaning is in it, and it also makes many shy scholars very excited, almost every day is full, attracting a lot of popularity,

As for the other large and small merchants in the capital, if they are rich and powerful and want to enhance their reputation, they will naturally have to spend a lot of money to attract scholars to drink tea, drink wine, and write poems and lyrics here. of.

Merchants with little strength dare not be lonely. Many inns, hotels and the like also need to spend money to ask for an upper line, and then let people come to match the lower line. For the upper and lower line, board and lodging are free during the imperial examination class discounts.

There are also some merchants that have launched some crossword puzzles, as long as they guess the crossword puzzles, there will be rewards, discounts on purchases, and so on.

The whole capital was immersed in the festiveness and excitement of the imperial examinations. Everywhere, groups of scholars entered and exited the bustling and lively places in the capital with their heads held high.

In Daming, a scholar is a symbol of identity and status.

If there are still poor scholars, those who can be admitted to Juren, and those who come to the capital to take the imperial examination, are all real status and status.

Even if these juren lords fail the exam this time, they still have official jobs, and no matter how bad they are, they can still enjoy the preferential policies for scholars. Their lives are far from what ordinary people can compare.

If he can go to high school, he might be able to flourish in the future.

Therefore, the young and old in the capital are already accustomed to the appearance of these scholars with their nostrils upturned, and the status of scholars is indeed not comparable to that of ordinary people.

Because of the arrival of these scholars, it became even more lively and noisy, and various news spread out every day.

Why did a certain master leave a masterpiece today? After reading it carefully, everyone immediately praised it and praised it.

What is it that tomorrow a young lady from a certain mansion meets a certain poor scholar, and they are bound to each other for the rest of their lives, and the poor scholar promises to propose marriage immediately after high school this time.

Why, the day after tomorrow, someone came across the second link of a certain merchant asking for a lot of money, and immediately won a bounty of several thousand taels of silver, which made people unable to help being envious.

What the day after tomorrow, the rich man set up a ring here at the door of his house. As long as scholars who are not married and under [-] years old can fight in the ring, as long as they can beat his daughter, he will marry his daughter to the other party, and return Donate Wanguan's wealth together.

In short, there are so many different things that the Ming Morning Post is not popular for a while, and the sales are declining, because everyone is too busy, busy watching the excitement in various places, Busy chatting with people about anecdotes that happened yesterday.

On this day, another grand poetry meeting was held here at Wangyue Tower in the capital. All scholars who participated in the imperial examination in the year of Renxu can go to Wangyue Tower to participate in the poetry meeting.

Well, in order to attract everyone to attend the poetry meeting, Wangyue Tower provides free food and wine, eat and make whatever you want, as long as you go.

This naturally attracted many scholars to come to participate in the poetry meeting. There are free food and wine, and it is the best Moon Tower in the capital. Idiots would not go there.

The entire Wangyue Building also turned down all business, and specially organized this poetry meeting.

The six-storey Wangyue Building, the first and second floors of the ground floor, everyone can watch the poetry meeting, and the competition on the top will pass the news down at any time, which also attracts a large number of guests.

As for the third floor and above, it is an area exclusively for scholars. As long as the third floor is a scholar who takes the exam in this subject, you can go up, but if you are on the fourth floor, you need to match an extremely difficult pair to get to the fourth floor. This is also called Mochizuki A little test here.

The higher you go, the more you need to be talented, talented, and incompetent, and you can't even match the match, so let's honestly eat and drink here on the third floor.

The same is true here on the fifth floor. Not only do you have to match a pair, but you also have to compose a poem on the spot. Only in this way can you go to the fifth floor and participate in the poetry meeting here on the fifth floor.

As for the sixth floor, which is packed full of grids, it's not something that just anyone can go up to. Not only do they have a very difficult pair to match, but they also have to write a decent poem on the spot.

This operation of Wangyue Tower naturally attracted a large number of scholars. After all, Wen Wu is the first and Wu Wu is the second. No one will think that they are inferior to others, and they all want to come to Wangyue Tower to try it out. , but also to see how many literary talents there are in the same period.

Kang Hai and Li Tingxiang also came to Wangyue Tower on an appointment. Both of them were well-known talents. One was born in Shaanxi and the other was from Henan. They met on the way to the capital to take the exam. together.

"Brother Li, the Wangyue Building is quite shrouded. It seems that it is not easy to go to the sixth floor."

The two came to Wangyue Tower. At this time, the entire Wangyue Tower was surrounded by scholars. Scholars from all over the world gathered together in small groups. When they met acquaintances, they wanted to chat with each other again. Introduce your friends to each other, so although the poetry meeting has already started, everyone is basically still on the first and second floors, and has not yet started to climb the stairs.

Because it takes time for everyone to get to know each other, in the entire Wangyue Tower, Brother Li, Brother Liu, Brother Wang, Brother Zhang, etc., call each other non-stop.

"Kang Hai from Shaanxi and Li Tingxiang from Henan are here. These two are the most popular candidates for the number one prize this time."

Someone saw the two coming and said with a smile.

Both Kang Hai and Li Tingxiang are well-known talents, well-known in their respective state capitals, and they were both generous and glorious in the autumn exam last year.

"If you want to talk about the number one scholar, this year it must be the turn of our southern talents. The number one scholar in the [-]th year of Hongzhi was Liu Jin from Beizhili, and the number one scholar in the ninth year of Hongzhi was Zhu Xizhou from Yangzhou Prefecture. One is from the south and the other is from the north. It should be our turn in the south, too."

"I heard that this time, Sun Qing from Yuyao, Zhejiang Province is full of talent and knowledge, and he is very likely to be the champion this time."

A talented scholar from the south of the Yangtze River shook his head slightly and said.

The Imperial Examinations of the Ming Dynasty have always been divided into two rankings, the North and the South. The talented scholars in the South have always looked down on the talented scholars in the North, and there is an imagination that the South despises the North.

The comparison is divided into north and south rankings. If they are taken together for the exam, it is estimated that the talented people in the south will beat the talented people in the north.

"Maybe that's not the case. Isn't there another Dongbang this time? Maybe it's the talents from the Dongbang who took the championship. I heard that North Korea and Wa also sent some talented people here. "

"The four provinces of Nanyang, together with the three provinces of Liaodong, Grassland, and Western Regions, count the number of talents in the East List. Maybe someone will be able to win the first prize."

Someone looked at the talented scholars from North Korea, Japan and other regions gathered here in Wangyue Tower and said.

"Are you trying to laugh my big teeth off?"

"As long as they can win the championship, I write the word king backwards."

"Brother Wang, the character Wang written backwards is still the character Wang..."

"Then I'll write horizontally. Anyway, they are absolutely impossible to win the championship. You don't have to look at who they are. I heard that when I was in Nanyang last year, because there were no scholars, as long as they can I can read and write a few words to take the test.”

"A lot of people used to be accountants, crew members, etc., and some were old scholars who couldn't pass the exam no matter how hard we took the exam in the Ming Dynasty. What's more, there were some people from other races who read the Four Books and Five Classics. I don’t even know how to memorize it, and I’ve passed the Juren exam.”

"There are also talented people from North Korea and Japan. Although I heard that some of them are really talented, how can they compare with the talented people from the two capitals and thirteen provinces of my native Ming Dynasty?"

"So, if one of them can win the championship, I will write the word king backwards."

"Brother Wang, if you write the character Wang upside down, it's still the character Wang~"

"I'll write sideways~"

"Look, there are hundreds of talented people gathered here in front of you, and most of them will only be able to compete on the first, second and third floors who know more words."

"Those who can go up to the fourth floor or above must be talents from the two capitals and thirteen provinces of our local Ming Dynasty!"

　Cough cough cough, ask for some recommendation tickets~
　　


(End of this chapter)