Datang Fenghua Road

"On September 12th, the [-]th year of Zhenguan, the whole country opened the township examination at the same time. The examination room was set up in a nearby town, supervised by township officials, and scholars from the Northeast Research Institute were used to review the papers. I hope that the subjects of the world will prepare early and send them home. Students go to the examination hall on the road, it is rare for poor families to study and expensive, and the imperial examination cannot be blocked by wind and rain!"

This is the official imperial decree of the court, similar to the notice of the opening of the exam in later generations, except that this notice is sent out in a bird letter, so the time of receiving the news is different in different places in the world.

But no matter what, everyone got the news after six days.

As a result, thousands of students set out on the road and embarked on the life journey of competing for the imperial examination. The rural examination is only the beginning, and only after passing the test can they continue.

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Datang East, all over Shandong!

Shandong is not a wealthy place in the Tang Dynasty. On the contrary, folk life is a little hard. However, it is the hometown of Confucian and Mencius history books, so there are many readers in poor folk families.

This day, morning!

"Mother, the child is gone..." A child of about thirteen or fourteen years old, carrying a heavy large package alone, stood on the narrow path and looked back, still seeing the dilapidated entrance of the village full of people.

There are 47 households in the village, 220 three people, no matter men, women, old or young, all sent him to travel for the imperial examination.

There was an old lady with a frosty face, and suddenly shouted to the child from afar: "Baby, take the test well, don't save food and drink on the road, eat all the food we have prepared for you, and you will have strength when you are full. To write good poetry..."

The mountain village is poor, and eating and drinking is a big deal in the eyes of the common people. This old lady's advice is very ordinary, but ordinary words are the most precious.

The whole village worked together and accumulated a large package of dry food, which was given to the only student in the village, so that the child could not go hungry on the way to the academic examination.

The child suddenly felt sore in his eyes, and something called tears blurred his vision.

One person went to take the imperial examination, and the whole village mobilized to help each other. Everyone was too poor, so each family could only save a little ration for him.

The big package behind him is very heavy. It contains the noodles saved by the Liu family, the wild bird eggs that the Li family has just boiled, the yams dug up from the mountain by the old lady, and the pancakes that little sister Xiaohuaer likes to eat...

The child's tears were blurred, and he glanced at the people standing at the head of the village again.

Aunt Li, Father Wang, brother Tidan who played together since childhood, sister Xiaohuaer who lives next to the house...

Although the tears blurred the eyes, the voices and smiles of the villagers clearly appeared in my mind. In the end, the voices and smiles of all the villagers gradually disappeared, turning into a face full of expectations and vicissitudes.

That's his mother-in-law!

The child suddenly let out a wailing cry and knelt on the ground with a thud.

He choked loudly and said, "Mother, the baby is gone. The King Zhao of the West Palace gave the opportunity, and the impoverished families in the world will start the imperial examination again. This time, the baby will definitely fight for the first place. I want to give my mother the honor of being a child in the imperial examination..."

Because of the distance, his mother couldn't hear what Xiaotong said, but there was a vague nature between mother and son, and the woman who had suffered so much was waving her hands and shouting loudly, "Son, take the test!"

Take the exam well!

What simple words!

However, these simple words contain the greatest hope of the poor people.

The imperial examinations selected scholars, and there were opportunities for the poor in the world. This was an opportunity to escape the sea of ​​misery without having to go to a large family, and it was also an opportunity to make one’s own children not need to face the loess and turn their backs to the sky.

Xiaotong knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, then suddenly stood up from the ground, gritted his teeth, he glanced at the people at the entrance of the village again, and resolutely turned around and ran into the distance.

Under the bright sunlight, a slightly thin figure appeared. The child was running wild with a large package on his back, and his mouth kept wailing wailing.

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In the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, Longxi was desolate.

The Loess Gaopo is fashionable and full of green plants, not the desolate and dim color of later generations.

Between the mountains, forests and ravines, there are also children who embark on the journey.

This time, it was three children, carrying a package under the leadership of a teenager.

There was a muddy dirt road behind it, and it looked particularly slippery just after the autumn rain. However, countless people were standing at the head of the village to see each other off, and some people were singing a farewell song in a loud voice.

The three children burst into tears, and the young man was also in tears.

They suddenly turned back together, knelt down on the muddy ground, and the four children wailed: "Mother, all the elders in the village, let's go, go to the scientific field to have a blog..."

The imperial decree proclaimed by the emperor to the world is clearly stated. The verses written by King Zhao of the West Palace on the imperial decree are encouraging. After ten years of cold windows, no one has asked him. He became famous all over the world. Go to Zhengfeng Mansion to test, Dao test, and even go to Chang'an to shock the palace test.

Only by striving to be the first, the poor will have a chance. The children of the poor are sensible, and they want to change the misery of their ancestors being poor...

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The southern part of the Tang Dynasty, the land of Jianghuai.

A small river trembled, a small boat slowly swam across, and the man in the boat, with all his muscles knotted, struggled to insert the pole into the water fiercely.

There were dozens of people standing on the bank of the small river in the distance, and they were waving their hands to see the boat. Examination for the imperial examination is a major event, and you must not get tired on the road."

The man who punted the boat laughed, but with a rare solemnity on his face, he answered loudly: "Second grandpa, don't worry, the boat is stable, let's go back, if you keep sending it like this, the babies will cry too. broken……"

He was right. Several boys and girls on the boat were crying at this time. The youngest child was about ten years old.

However, although she was reluctant to leave her mother, and even though she kept crying, Xiaowa did not say that I wanted to go home, but instead became more determined to take part in the rural exam.

There are a lot of dried fish on both sides of the boat. This is the food that the people in the Jianghuai region use to feed their stomachs. The dried fish lacks salt and tastes fishy, ​​but the boys and girls feel extremely cherished.

This is the old man in the village rushing to and fro. This is a piece made by each household. They don't have any money as a entanglement. These dried fish are the only food for rushing to the examination room.

Come on, imperial examinations!

Come on, imperial examinations!

We poor people are not afraid of anything. As long as we don't starve to death, we can rush forward. The King Zhao of the West Palace has given us an opportunity to persevere no matter how hard it is.

The boat was swimming slowly and continuously, and the silhouettes of the people on the shore gradually blurred. Several children suddenly took out their own books and read aloud to the sunlight.

"Sunrise in the east, its road is bright, the river flows out, the ocean rushes out, the submerged dragon emerges from the abyss, the scales and claws fly... I am a young man of the Tang Dynasty, the future is like the sea, and the future is long..."

This is the persuasion poem of King Zhao of the West Palace. It was written into the imperial decree that the emperor proclaimed to the world. The persuasion poem of His Highness is really well written. It turns out that the children of our poor families are also strong young men.

The white clouds are lingering, the dogs are changing, the boat is moving forward on the river, the sound of children's reading drowns the sound of the water, and where the sky and water meet in the distance, the sun shines on the water like fish and dragons dancing, as if I really want the poems of King Zhao As written in the book, Qianlong came out of the abyss, scales and claws flying.

Magnificent, I am a young man of the Tang Dynasty!

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Datang Southwest!

Datang Southeast!

Datang Mobei!