Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 17 God Helps Me Too
Seeing that Shi Zhongkui could memorize everything after listening to it, Yu Honggao was overjoyed. He was No.5 in the second class, that is, he was ranked eighth out of 300 people, which is quite a good result.

If Shi Zhongkui were also awarded Jinshi next year, or four years later, the master and apprentice would not only be famous among scholars, but also become the envy of scholars.

The status in the teacher's sect will also be much higher.

Shi Zhongkui heard from Yu Honggao that Pang Shitong once had five Jinshi scholars in one school and sat outside the Juren hall.

Can't help but realize that his master Taishan Pang Shitong, whom he has never heard of, seems to be really awesome.

Juren can only sit outside the living room. Not only are there many disciples, but they must also have great influence in the local area.

But this also made Shi Zhongkui feel at ease.

The reason is very simple, probably because he has just been apprenticed to a teacher and has no feelings.

So he only wants to profit from the master, and doesn't want to be implicated by the master.

After worshiping Yu Honggao as his teacher, apart from Yu Honggao, among the scholars, only Pang Shitong can really restrain himself.

The help of a good teacher is indeed great, but at the same time, he has to bear the calamity of the master.

Yu Honggao is a man of talent and learning, and knows how to make money. Once he found that the ancient fans in his hand were masterpieces of famous masters, he was willing to spend the capital.

The means are also biased towards strategy and people's speculation, rather than coercion and open robbery. This kind of person is very suitable to be an official.

And the more talents Pang Shitong cultivated, the less likely he would return to court.

At Pang Shitong's age, he must be from the time of the old emperor.

The new emperor fought with the old emperor, and if the old emperor didn't like it, the new emperor might prefer it even though he didn't say anything on the surface.

But in feudal society, after all, in the era when filial piety ruled the country, the emperor generally would not, and would not dare to deny his father's decision.

Not to mention when the old emperor was still alive.

But people have a rebellious mentality, and at the same time, the more senior brothers Yu Hong was suppressed by the old emperor's family, the new emperor would remember these people instead.

Thinking of this, Shi Zhongkui couldn't help smiling.

But he didn't see Yu Honggao also laughed. Those words just now were intentional.

This is actually quite normal.

When I first came into contact with him, I only wanted to get the ancient fan in Shi Zhongkui's hand, but after looking around, I found that the new disciple was not only proficient in human affairs, but also a seed of reading.

This kind of disciple would be a fool if he didn't grasp it and cultivate it in his hands.

It's a pity that I didn't have a good impression at the beginning, so I can only play the emotional card while using my strength to scare and frighten Shi Zhongkui.

At the same time, it also told him the benefits of being a teacher, improving centripetal force and sense of belonging.

So far it seems that the result is not bad.

Of course, this is Yu Honggao's own thought, maybe Shi Zhongkui will really regard him as a teacher in the future.

But returning home now is a bit of nonsense.

But he also understands that if one wants to do things as an official in the court, it is not so difficult without three or five buddies and a group of like-minded people.

In the next one and a half months, Shi Zhongkui completely became a test-taking machine, and the five stereotyped essays he wrote every day made him feel like he was going back to the third year of high school.

In the early morning of the next day, Yu's family's servants would inevitably deliver the articles that Yu Honggao had corrected overnight, not to mention, and make him memorize a large number of policies and theories from the Water Resources Department of the Ministry of Industry over the years.

After mid-March, he was even asked to memorize articles on dredging river channels, and Yu Honggao himself wrote several articles on this topic for his reference.

Shi Zhongkui knew in his heart that his cheap teacher had definitely guessed what the government examiner was thinking.

At the beginning of April, after three consecutive days of government examinations, Shi Zhongkui walked out of the Gongyuan in a very happy mood.

But he only had time to go home to wash and change his clothes before he was invited by Yu Honggao's housekeeper to the Daxing County Government Office.

The Great Zhou Mansion Examination is similar to the rules of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but stricter.

For three consecutive exams, the candidates were not allowed to bring anything.

Pens, ink, paper, etc. are all provided by the examination room, and the food is only enough to satisfy the hunger, and the quilts handed out are even more smelly.

What's more, the sky didn't fulfill the wishes of people, and it actually rained for two consecutive days.

It can be said that this government test is not only about knowledge, but also perseverance and luck.

As long as a drop of rainwater sticks to the test paper, the official who copied the test paper may throw it away on the grounds of "leaving a special mark, suspected of cheating to bribe the examiner".

And if the answer sheet gets wet, no one will give you a new one.

In the first two days, Shi Zhongkui heard the candidates crying more than once, no one had to guess that the rainwater had entered the cell, and it was hard for anyone to accept that three years of hard work would go to waste.

But this is more beneficial to Shi Zhongkui, all food and drink are provided by the food in the space.

He also simply put the test paper and pen and ink into the space, and wrote with his mind. Not only was the paper clean and tidy, but the handwriting was three points better than handwriting.

"Bo Qian, quickly write down your writing silently."

Shi Zhongkui sighed in his heart, he is really competent as a cheap teacher.

He obediently wrote down all the articles he had made in three days. Yu Honggao only read it for a while, and then burst out laughing.

"I know that Liu Zhongkun will definitely come up with a strategy for dredging the river."

From the perspective of Shi Zhongkui's future generations, there are still many areas for improvement in the theories that Yu Honggao asked himself to write before the government examination.

But when I think about it carefully, I am not really a river ambassador, or an imperial envoy to dredge the river, so there is no need to write about some alternative methods in the eyes of the officials of this era.

On the contrary, although this kind of article is not brilliant, it will never go wrong.

Whether he can be the top of the case again depends on God's will.

Seeing Shi Zhongkui looking at him, Yu Honggao put away his smile and stroked his beard with a smile, "Okay, Boqian must be tired after taking the exam for three days. Go home earlier to rest for a few days, and then come to my place to study in peace."

Shi Zhongkui was taken aback, came to the county government office to study?
"Why are you still in a daze, go home quickly, and offer incense to your first parents to inform you of this matter."

Shi Zhongkui walked out of the study with some puzzled salute, since he is a cheap teacher so he doesn't worry about being criticized.

I am the head of the county examination that he won, so is it really appropriate to come to his house to study?

Immediately he understood that Yu Honggao was guaranteeing that he would pass the exam.

If he can pass the government test, it means that he is not in vain, and the higher he goes, the less people will doubt Yu Honggao.

On the contrary, many people would envy him for being able to accept him as a good disciple after the county examination.

Shi Zhongkui chuckled, and didn't take this matter to heart.

When you come to study with the teacher, you can not only ask for advice every day, but also don't have to do chores such as food and laundry by yourself.

And if you pass the government test, you will be born as a child.

After passing the hospital examination, you will be a scholar, and those with the best grades will be called "lin students", and they will be eligible to receive state government subsidies, so they won't starve to death.

But if you want to support your family, you still have to keep working hard.

Even in places like Fucheng and Jingshi, many neighbors don't care about someone being selected as a scholar, because it doesn't do them any good.

"Master Boqian, if you still have preserved peaches and persimmons, you can send some over."

When he was about to get into the carriage, he heard Uncle Fu, the housekeeper, call him young master, Shi Zhongkui's first reaction was that his teacher's wife wanted to win him over.

(End of this chapter)