It has been three or four days since I returned to the Princess Mansion, and Guo Nuan's residence seemed very peaceful.

Pu Shangxuan was still studying hard in his study. It seemed that ever since his uncle Pu Hao went to Silla to conquer the north, he had been immersed in the world of imperial examination review.

Occasionally, Guo Nuan would go to the study to give Pu Shangxuan some tonics during meal time. After burning the midnight oil and studying day and night, Guo Nuan was really afraid that Pu Shangxuan's thin body would suddenly be unable to endure it. Hang up.

Guo Nuan couldn't help but sigh when he recalled the time when he was studying in his youth. Especially at the critical moment of reviewing for the third year of high school, his parents would travel from his hometown to the city three or four times a week, constantly delivering gifts and ginseng to his school. Decoction, Bu Nao oral liquid, similar to Life No. 1.

What's more, once again, the mother, who was originally a highly educated person, turned out to be superstitious about folk remedies. In order to pray that her son would be admitted to a good university, she drove to a Taoist temple in a remote mountain to pray for a few blessings and luck charms. They were burned to ashes, and Guo Nuan was forced to fill two large ceramic bowls. As a result, the next day, Guo Nuan had diarrhea and collapsed, like an eggplant beaten by frost, listless.

Parents all over the world have pitiful hearts, and anyone who is a child can understand their eagerness to see their children succeed. Now Guo Nuan seems to have seen the scene where Park Sang-hyun was studying hard to prepare for the college entrance examination, just like he did back then, and he couldn't help but feel emotional.

"Brother Park, come on, this is the Shiquan Dabu soup that Brother Guo has specially cooked for you. Drink a bowl every day and keep your writing skills for the imperial examination in a month like a god, and your brain and brain will be as quick as the torrential river water. ."

"Brother Guo, what kind of soup have you cooked for me this time?" Pu Shangxuan, who was excerpting from the sage's book at his desk, heard Guo Nuan's words, his hand trembled, and the brush suddenly fell to the floor.

"It's nothing. This time, my eldest brother specially prepared the recipe from the royal doctor in the princess's palace. This is a divine soup that cost a lot of money. Just one sip will cost you a tael of silver." Guo Nuan smiled, put the big bowl on the desk, mysteriously reached Pu Shangxuan's ear, and whispered.

"What's going on in here?"

"Nothing, just a little bit of Chinese medicine, ginseng, cinnamon, Ligusticum chuanxiong, rehmannia glutinosa, poria, atractylodes, licorice, astragalus, angelica chuangui, white cloud ling, Huaisheng rehmannia, Qinghuagui, Dachuanxiong..."

"anything else?"

"Strong calf leg bones from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, fresh and tender five-month-old baby chickens from Hexi, five-hundred-year-old turtles caught along the coast of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers... **, ahem, wrong, it's sea**.

"There is also a thousand-year-old python from the tropical jungle that was transported eight hundred miles from Nanzhao... The shopkeeper of the Anqing Pharmacy in Chang'an said that it took 130 Qiang people to capture this python. Man, it took more than a dozen tribesmen to kill it. The cost was huge, and the death rate was close to twelve to one."

In order to highlight the hard-won nature of the medicine introduction, Guo Nuan vividly added hand gestures to illustrate the concept of ten to one.

"What does that have to do with making soup?" In view of Guo Nuan's enthusiastic push, Pu Shangxuan couldn't refuse, so he had to hold the bowl and pour it into his mouth one by one. While breathing, he asked vaguely.

Guo Nuan chuckled and suddenly lowered his voice conspiratorially: "I heard there is another interesting story. At that time, the people who participated in the arrest and the bodies of their companions were transported back. The clan leader counted the heads. Guess what? "

"What's going on?" Guo Nuan's mysterious tone quickly aroused Pu Shangxuan's curiosity.

"The patriarch was very puzzled at the time. Why did he only count 119 people when he clearly counted ten corpses? Why is there one missing? Could it be that one person died, but where is the body?"

"Pfft--" Park Shangxuan, who was drinking soup from a bowl, suddenly spurted out a mouthful of soup potion.

"Nonsense, other than being eaten by a python, where else could the remaining person hide?" Pu Shangxuan's head turned quickly and he came to a conclusion at once.

"Drink slowly, don't choke." Guo Nuan stretched out a finger and shook it to express his denial: "No, no, Brother Pu guessed wrong. At the same time, the patriarch also thought that the remaining person was hiding in the belly of the python.

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Guo Nuan smiled lightly and said, "Suddenly, the last clan member jumped out of the bushes beside the village. He held up his trousers with a comfortable expression and walked slowly to the clan leader."

"You brat, where did you die just now? You made everyone so worried. They all thought you were killed by a python." The clan leader was so angry that he cursed loudly.

The tribesman scratched the back of his head and said stupidly: "Chief, I finally killed a big snake just now. It was really thrilling. I almost died several times. I went to see my ancestors in advance. I was so scared that I almost pooped in my crotch...

I just squatted in the grass."

After Guo Nuan's teasing, Pu Shangxuan really couldn't laugh or cry. Fortunately, Guo Nuan was really good at cooking, and the Shiquan Dabu soup tasted really good. Pu Shangxuan drank the bowl to the ground in one go.

Pu Shangxuan and Guo Nuan both graduated from the Guozi College of Chang'an Guozijian, and they were qualified for the imperial examination.

As a commoner, the only way to become an official in the Tang Dynasty was through the civil and military examinations. Looking at Pu Sangxuan's body as a frail scholar, of course he took the civil examination.

As for martial arts, take Guo Nuan's father Guo Ziyi for example. Guo Ziyi met Li Bai by chance when he was young and was highly appreciated by the great poet. Li Bai felt that Guo was an extraordinary man and would become a great weapon in the future. Sure enough, when he was twenty years old, Guo Ziyi used martial arts to

He was promoted to a high rank and became an official in the army. He moved to the post of Jiuyuan Prefecture, and Shuofang Jiedu was the military envoy of the right army.

In addition, the civil service examination is divided into two types of examinations, one is regular subjects and the other is system subjects. The former is a regular examination, similar to the modern national civil service examination, while the latter is a special selective examination, appointed by the top leader.

The interview, in which questions are asked and selected in person, is an irregular examination. As for whether one can become an official, in addition to the talent of the person summoned, the emperor's preference also has a big deciding factor.

Generally speaking, scholars disdain to take part in the examinations held temporarily by the emperor, which are called system examinations.

For most people, they feel that only passing the regular examinations and passing the official examinations or subject selection examinations is the right path.

Of course, people who cannot eat grapes will always think that grapes are sour. In fact, there is no distinction between Zhike and Changke. When Guo Nuan heard others comparing the two subjects, he felt very disapproving and immediately sneered.

Guo Nuan popularized common knowledge about the Tang Dynasty liberal arts examinations from Pu Shangxuan. The regular examinations were mainly divided into several subjects.

There were many subjects in the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, mainly including Ming Jing, Ming Suan, Ming Fa, Ming Shu, and Jinshi. Among them, Jinshi was the most difficult to take, as the number of people officially admitted was the smallest. Other subjects were easier.

The Ming Jing Ke is mainly about the recitation of Confucian classics, and many talented people applied for the Jin Shi Ke. The most respected literary carrier in the Tang Dynasty was poetry, so the Jin Shi Ke examined calligraphy, policy theory, and the most important poems and poems.

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Guo Nuan is good at writing Song-style calligraphy. This kind of calligraphy was absolutely groundbreaking in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, he can recite a few poems by late Tang poets, such as Du Mu and Bai Juyi. As for policy theory, it is nothing more than talking about the current situation.

People's livelihood and political affairs, and propose some ways of governing the country to help the world and bring peace to the people.

Don't forget what Guo Nuan majored in university in his previous life, international trade. Guo Nuan was very happy. As the saying goes, politics and economics don't separate families. For someone who studied international trade for several years, he also worked in foreign trade.

For the professional managers of multinational companies, when they take the policy theory test and randomly tell the examiner a few pieces of later macroeconomics, microeconomics, and Marx's capital theory, wouldn't they be shocked and admired by others for being a god?

After learning about the contents of the Jinshi examination, his mind flashed and he thought about it for a while. Guo Nuan calmed down and stopped thinking about it. Maybe he didn't know that if he was so lucky, he might really be able to pass the Jinshi examination.
Chapter completed!