Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 182: Top Three Prizes!

It's April now and the weather has gotten warmer.

Compared to the severe cold during the spring examination, the palace examination now is much more comfortable.

Moreover, everyone was obviously a little more relaxed about the palace examination. After all, since the second year of Jiayou, there was no longer any chance of being eliminated from the palace examination.

The candidates of the Song Dynasty had to thank the failed student Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan failed repeatedly and was dismissed from the palace examination the only time he took the examination. In anger, he fled to Western Xia and helped Li Yuanhao inflict a great defeat on the Song Dynasty.

Oh, this failed student Zhang Yuan is the same Zhang Yuan who wrote "Xia Song has never been so tall, Han Qi is not surprising enough. The whole river is filled with dragon and tiger chariots, but he is still talking about military strategies."

After Song Renzong learned about this, he realized that being dismissed from the palace examination would be too much of a blow to the candidates, so he established a rule that no one would be dismissed from the palace examination.

However, Zhang Yuan might not have gone to Western Xia just because he was dismissed from the palace examination. Such an extreme egoist would not have any sense of family and country. He would only follow the principle of whoever feeds him.

However, for the candidates from the Song Dynasty, not being eliminated in the palace examination is actually good news.

So today's palace examination seemed much more relaxed to everyone than the imperial examination.

The candidates looked quite relaxed, and the examiners and the person in charge of the on-site inspection were not particularly strict. Because there were few people in the palace examination and many invigilators, there was no need to worry about anyone cheating on the spot.

Therefore, the atmosphere during the entire examination process was much more relaxed than the imperial examination, and Su Yun also completed the examination relatively easily.

After the trials of the preliminary and final examinations, Su Yun felt that he was quite an expert in examinations. After the examinations, Su Yun thought that his results would probably be pretty good this time.

The number of people taking the palace examination is small, and the difficulty of marking the papers is also reduced a lot, so the results are released much faster than the joint examination.

The results of the provincial examinations take about a month to be announced, while the palace examinations only take ten days.

In fact, the marking time of the palace examination is estimated to be two or three days. Why did it take ten days to announce the results? Naturally, there are many considerations.

First, there is more time and it is less likely to make mistakes. Second, there may be some gaming involved in the rankings.

After all, the results of the palace examination are out, and officials will be granted according to the rankings.

To a certain extent, the palace examination is a test that determines one's future.

Ranking will continue to play an unimaginable role in the subsequent official career. When everyone's family background is similar, the promotion speed of the Jinshi with a higher ranking will be faster than that of the Jinshi with a lower ranking.

For example, when they are first appointed as officials, they are different. There is a gap at the beginning, and there are also some differences in the promotion process. Perhaps a higher-ranking Jinshi makes a little more progress than you each time, but when accumulated over a long period of time, the gap becomes very large.

Promotion in officialdom is like rowing against the current; if you don't move forward, you will move backward. When you reach a certain point, if you get promoted, the sky will be the limit for you; if you don't, you may never get promoted in your entire life.

It's cruel, but it's also true.

Just like an online literary work, Sanjiang recommendation is a watershed. If you make it to the top, your world will be different. If you can't make it, you may have to put in ten times more effort if you want to reach the heights of Sanjiang's works in the future!
Therefore, the ranking of Jinshi is the result of game theory.

Especially now that the factions within the government are complicated, those in power need to consider carefully, carefully explore the relationships between all parties, and only announce the results after ensuring that everyone can get the minimum protection.

Otherwise, problems may easily arise.

However, this has nothing to do with Su Yun. After the exam, he has completed his mission. As for what happens after that, he can only leave it to fate.

Su Yun walked out of the examination room, looked at the April weather, and stretched lazily.

Finally the exam is over!
He didn't want to go through the college entrance examination in his previous life or the imperial examination in this life again.

Although some pretentious people say that the year of the college entrance examination was a particularly difficult year for you, but when you think about it in the rest of your life, you will understand that that was youth... Bah!
I am so tired as a dog every day, so sleepy that I can’t open my eyes, so stressed that I often can’t sleep, and my face is as pale as dirt. You call this youth?

Isn't this just like telling you to a worker, look at yourself, working 996 every day, how fulfilling it is, this is the life a person should live... Do you think the worker will beat you up or not?
Su Yun didn’t know what others thought, but he didn’t want to take the exam again.

Even if there are any engineering subjects in the future, I will never take the exam. It's tiring!

Hehe, now as long as you are not dismissed from the palace examination, you will at least be considered a Jinshi. In the Song Dynasty, as long as you pass the Jinshi exam, you will be granted an official position, and you will be qualified to lie down in the future.

Well, what would be best is that the new and old parties would fight with each other, and they would both think that they are not pure, and would not give themselves important positions. In this way, they would not be demoted. Ha, then life would be comfortable.

Su Yun went home and slept for a few days to make up for the sleep he had gotten over the past year.

Su Yun didn't even know how he could be so hardworking.

He wrote Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Collected Commentaries on Mencius, and Collected Commentaries on the Four Books. In the meantime, he attended classes at the Imperial College, prepared for the imperial examinations, started a business with annual income of hundreds of thousands of strings of cash, and moved to a new home.

Hahaha, hardworking little bee.

However, Su Yun's leisurely days only lasted for a few days, because Su Zhe had already started arranging the engagement.

Although Su Che said that Su Yun didn't need to worry too much about this matter, when it came to actually doing it, it was inevitable that he would worry about it.

Weddings in the Song Dynasty were very complicated.

On the fourth day after Su Yun finished the exam, Su Zhe began to prepare for the ancestor worship. According to the etiquette of the Song Dynasty, if you get married, you must worship your ancestors before the wedding and inform them of the marriage.

The Su family’s ancestral tomb is in Meishan. It is impossible to go back there, but we can set up an altar here to pay tribute.

Although it is impossible to make things complicated when you are away from home, you should at least inform your parents.

Su Zhe was very meticulous in his work. He not only prepared the spirit tablets for Su Yun's parents, but also made the ancestral tablets for Su Yun five generations ago and had Su Yun bring them into the mansion.

Fortunately, this five-story mansion is large enough, so it is no problem to set up a small ancestral hall.

Well, with our ancestors in charge, no evil spirits dare to cause trouble.

After the ancestor worship, the next step is to accept the betrothal gift, and after accepting the betrothal gift, the next step is to accept the money, and after that, the next step is to ask for the date.

One thing after another, it's very complicated.

And Su Yun had to be involved in all these matters, which was why, even though the two families had already agreed on it before and Zhang Ruo was old, they had never done it, because they were afraid of interfering with Su Yun's imperial examination.

Now that the exams are finally over, I have put this matter on the agenda.

Because of Su Zhe's worry, Su Yun was like a puppet. He gave up thinking and let himself be manipulated. But even so, Su Yun still felt very tired.

The Zhang family is a large family in Fujian. Zhang Dun is the most promising one of his generation. When his daughter wants to become a nun, the Zhang family takes it very seriously. Although people from his hometown cannot come, most of the Zhang family members in Bianliang have become successful.

Zhang Dun's brothers of the same generation with names and surnames include Zhang Fu, Zhang Hui, Zhang Yue, Zhang Qing, Zhang Song, Zhang Tang, Zhang Hui, Zhang Chen, Zhang Xun, Zhang Gui, Zhang Ju, Zhang Bi, Zhang Chun, Zhang Hua, Zhang Da, Zhang Yi, Zhang Ge and Zhang Yun... Hehe, basically all of these people came, except for those who were serving as officials in prefectures and counties.

There are elders and younger generations. Zhang Dun’s yard is always full of people. Every time when it comes to the etiquette of greeting family members, Su Yun’s face is almost frozen with smiles.

Although we know that the list of Jinshi will be announced soon, we have tried to shorten the process as much as possible to avoid conflict with the announcement of the list of Jinshi, even so, the process is still very cumbersome.

Su Yun even suspected that the reason why Song Ren was unwilling to divorce was probably because getting married was something that happened only once in a lifetime and it was painful enough!

Su Yun remembered again why Su Shi's mother had supported her parents' marriage. Now he finally understood.

Such a complicated wedding cannot be held without money!
Su Yun spent money like water in every link. If he hadn't made an egg-filled pancake business after coming to Beijing and had abundant cash flow, he probably wouldn't even have had money for the wedding.

In fact, Zhang Dun was also feeling uncomfortable. It was true that Su Yun had to spend money, and he also spent a lot of money on marrying off his daughter.

The dowry is only the bulk of it. In fact, during the procedures such as the proposal of marriage and the payment of money, all relatives will be present, and a banquet will be held when they are present, which also costs money like water.

Zhang Dun had great ambitions, so he was honest as an official. He basically never tampered with money and basically relied on his own salary.

Although the prime minister's salary was very generous, the family had many expenses and the savings were not much, so it was a bit difficult to manage all these.

Su Yun knew about this situation, and in addition to the betrothal gift, he also gave Zhang Dun a large sum of money. After all, the betrothal gift would be brought along when his daughter got married, and Zhang Dun could not spend it.

Zhang Dun sighed: "Fortunately, I only have one daughter, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford to marry my daughter off."

Su Che fell silent after hearing this.

He recently had another daughter... making a total of five daughters.

This time, he helped Su Yun organize the wedding. Not only did he know how much money the man's family would spend on a wedding, but he also had a rough idea of ​​it.

No more reproduction!
This is what Su Che was thinking at the moment.

When Su Yun saw Su Zhe's expression, he laughed so hard that his stomach almost hurt.

He recalled that in history, when Su Che was in his later years, he really married off his daughter and became poor.

Su Che had three sons and five daughters. Later, he became a prime minister, but he could not even afford to buy a house in Bianliang.

"Ziyou had five daughters, and their debts piled up like a mountain."

When Su Shi was corresponding with his good friend Zhang Dun, he thought of his younger brother Su Zhe's recent situation and could not help but write this.

Not long ago, in order to provide a dowry for his youngest daughter, Su Che had to "sell his family property and land" and get 9400 strings of cash to make up the dowry.

Well, it is really a loss for Song Renren to have a daughter.

Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people's family background has been the first consideration whether they want to enter officialdom or marry.

Since the Five Dynasties, "family background is not considered in selecting officials, and social status is not considered in marriage."

In other words, the people of the Song Dynasty no longer attached much importance to family background when marrying off their daughters.

(End of this chapter)