Tibet

Chapter 81 Entrance Exam
"How many grandchildren are there?" Li Ye asked again.

At this time, two bowls of noodles arrived, and Li Xun poured some soy sauce for Li Ye while answering his question, "There are twelve grandchildren, and the rest are all grandsons!"

"Are the grandchildren also ranked by concubine?"

Li Xun shook his head, "It would be too messy to rank the grandchildren according to the concubines, but it's not that accurate. For example, there are 66 grandchildren in total, and you jump in line to rank 48th. What about the previous 48th?"

"Yeah! I'm a little confused too."

"The original 48 Lang passed away early, died of illness at the age of seven, and this ranking is now vacant."

"So there aren't actually 66 grandchildren?"

"No, there are only fifty or so alive. I don't know exactly how many there are."

After the two finished their meal, Li Ye asked with a smile, "Brother didn't go to school today?"

"I'm studying in the county school. I don't have class today, so I don't bother to go."

"Is the county school so free to study?"

"Studying in the county school is very free. If you want to go, if you don't want to go, you don't go. The school doesn't care about you. The professor only takes the class and leaves after the class. Hundreds of people attend the class together. He doesn't care who comes and who doesn't. It’s your own loss if you don’t attend the lectures, anyway, the imperial examination will see the truth in the end.”

Li Ye is right when he thinks about it, isn't Qiao Bin just like this?Three days of fishing and two days of drying the net, and he can still take the polo qualification test, and he is not seen by the county school.

Li Ye himself is going to study too, and he is very interested in this aspect.

"After finishing the county school?"

"Next year, I will go to the government school to study, and then I will have to wake up at midnight and stay up in the middle of the night to prepare for the imperial examination."

"Brother don't want to try other paths?"

Li Xun sighed: "If our grandson wants to stand up, the only way is to go to study, either go to Taixue to study, or take the imperial examination, if you don't fight, there is no difference between Xiangguo's grandson and ordinary people, I suggest that you should also go to the county school to study! "

"I want to study, but it seems that it is not the county school, but the Mingde school!"

Li Xun's eyes widened all of a sudden, "No way! My virtuous brother is also a concubine! How can you go to Mingde Academy? That's a place only legitimate sons can go."

"My father is a direct son, so am I also a direct grandson?"

"Impossible. The ancestral hall put your sign in the column of grandchildren. I saw it with my own eyes yesterday. There is no mistake. Either it is a special situation, and grandfather wants to compensate you."

"Actually, I would like to go to the county school to be more free!"

"Don't be stupid. The county school is a place to dawdle. You can't learn real knowledge. Think about it. In the future, we will take part in the imperial examinations. Of course, we must learn from famous teachers. I dreamed of going to the Mingde Academy to study in the Upper School, but unfortunately I didn't." This opportunity."

Li Ye nodded, and asked again: "I just joined the family, is there anything I need to remind?"

Li Xun smiled, "There is no competition between the grandson and grandson, everyone gets along well, there are at most trivial conflicts, so you don't have to worry about anything?"

Li Ye understood what he meant, "Brother, do you mean that there is a struggle between the sons and grandsons?"

Li Xun nodded, "Competing for a place in the family, competing for grandfather's favor, competing for family resources, each of them is intriguing, and it is more intense than the imperial court!"

Speaking of this, Li Xun remembered something, and whispered: "I'm not trying to provoke the relationship between your brothers, but your half-brother Li Huai is really nothing, be careful of him!"

Two days later, Li Ye came to Mingde Academy.

There is no conflict between playing basketball and reading. The league is only a few days a year, and most of the rest of the time is free. After all, he is only 14 years old, and it is normal for him to choose to study.

Practicing martial arts is just to prepare for the troubled times, not his future. The military profession in Tang Dynasty was monopolized by Guanlong nobles and meritorious families, and it was prepared for their children.

Although martial arts was first created in the Tang Dynasty, it has not been tested for many years, so there is no hope.

Most of the children from poor families practice martial arts in order to participate in the martial arts examinations in prefectures and counties, so that they can be incorporated into the local township soldiers to guard against robbers, or be recommended to serve in the imperial army in Beijing.

Pei Min is known as the number one swordsman in Chang'an, and is known as the sword master. It is because of Lie Feng's relationship that he became the general of the Longwu Army, otherwise he can only be a big soldier.

Li Ye's grandfather was Xiangguo. If Li Ye could pass the imperial examination, his chances would be much more than others.

After thinking about it for a few days, Li Ye finally decided to accept the arrangement of his grandfather Li Linfu and study at the school.

Mingde Academy, also known as Mingde College, is one of the three major private schools in Chang'an.

There has always been a saying in Chang'an: "Humble families enter elementary schools, middle classes enter government schools, and officials enter private schools."

It means that children from poor families finish their studies after finishing elementary school, like Zhang Xiaopang's younger brother and little yellow hair, they have been in elementary school for a few years, and they can read and write, so they won't study anymore.

And Qiao Bin, Du Wang, Ma Jinsong and other wealthy children belong to the middle class. They will go to government schools to study and try their best to get closer to the power class. If they can't be officials, they will become civil servants.

There are also officials and bastards like Li Xun who also go to official schools to study, but cannot enter private schools,

A few months ago, Li Ye couldn't even study in a primary school, but in a blink of an eye, he was able to study in a prestigious private school, which made people feel a sense of destiny.

Mingde College is located in Jingshanfang next to Suzaku, close to Xingshan Temple, covering an area of ​​about [-] acres, and has more than [-] students, most of whom are the children of officials or famous families.

Mingde College is divided into an upper house and a lower house. According to Li Ye's understanding, it is the high school and the junior high school. It takes five years to complete all of them, and then you can directly enter the Taixue without taking the Taixue entrance examination.

His father, Li Dai, had already filled out the stage of study for him, the junior level of the lower house, equivalent to the first grade of junior high school, and Li Ye still had to take a basic test.

In fact, Li Dai still thought highly of his son. He thought that there should be no problem with the basic test, just memorize "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius".

But he didn't know that Li Ye had just read books for a year at the age of seven, and he knew at most fifty characters in total. Before he was hit by the stick, he had already returned 48.

Of course, Li Ye can't recite "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" now.

But Li Ye really didn't want to study at Mingde College. He wanted to go to the county school, but because of his grandfather Li Linfu's face, he had to come.

He needs freedom and a lot of his own time. There are still three years left before Li Linfu's downfall, and six years before the Anshi Rebellion. Let him squat here for five years, and the day lily will be cold.

The best way is to let the college not accept him, and then he can transfer to the county school to study.

Li Ye was sitting in the study of his husband, squinting his eyes and thinking of countermeasures.

A tall, thin gentleman with a serious expression was sitting opposite him. His name was Liang Side, and he was a junior professor in the House of Commons.

"Have you read "Thousand Characters", "Jijiu Pian" and "The Essentials of Enlightenment"?"

Li Ye shook his head.

"Can you memorize "The Analects" and "Mencius?"

Li Ye still shook his head.

Liang Side frowned, "Then what will you do?"

"Can write poetry!"

Liang Side glanced at Li Ye in surprise, and reluctantly said, "Write a poem for me!"

"Sir, please come up with a question!"

"Our tower is called Mingtai, then you can write a poem with the title "Mingtai"."

Liang Side went to the side to pour tea. Li Ye sat at the table, thought for a while, and wrote:
'Bodhi is not a tree, and the mirror is not a stand. '

He writes traditional characters. After several months of practice, he can write commonly used traditional characters.

But after writing these two sentences, Li Ye shook his head. This poem Wu Zetian appeared at the time. Although he planned to pretend to be ignorant, he didn't want to bear the reputation of stealing other people's poems. He crumpled the paper into a ball and spread it out again. sheet of paper.

After squinting his eyes and thinking for a moment, Li Ye suddenly had an idea, and he had it.

He immediately took up his pen and wrote:
A pagoda rises from the ground,

The top is small and the bottom is thick.

Someday it will be reversed,
The bottom is small and the top is thick.

After finishing writing, Li Ye put down his pen, "Please read it, sir!"

Liang Side just took a sip of tea, stepped forward to read it, and said, 'Pfft! ' He squirted the tea out of his mouth.

He widened his eyes and asked, "You wrote this?"

Li Ye smiled modestly: "Student's calligraphy is not good, let the master laugh!"

"I, I." Liang Side was speechless, put down the teacup, took the poem and ran away.

After a while, an old man came in following Liang Side. The old man was wearing a gauze cap and a dark green official uniform, which made Li Ye feel a little strange. This is obviously a private school, so why would he still wear an official uniform?
When the old man came in, he smiled and clasped his fists and said, "I'm Zhao Shu, it's my school's instruction. I thought Mr. Li would come tomorrow!"

Seeing the other party's smile fawning on Li Ye's face, he felt a little bad in his heart, as if the poem he wrote didn't work.

(End of this chapter)