In addition to reading and studying articles, Zhang Yue also occasionally learned the skills of throwing pots and archery.
There is no way around it. There is so much time on weekdays that you can learn too many things.
The daily schedule in Taixue is like this. A moment after the fifth drum, the first tom will be played. At this time, most of the students have already gotten up and are washing and dressing in their studios. At the time of the second tom,
That is, they go to the kitchen to get food, and then they eat in their fasting rooms.
Because Zhang Yue has the habit of taking a nap during the day, he usually doesn’t get up until the second drum beat. When he washes himself, his companions in the studio help him bring back food.
After breakfast, if there are private exams or lectures, everyone should go to Chonghua Hall. If not, they will study by themselves in the furnace pavilion.
The school tradition of Taixue has always been that after every public and private examination, Hu Yuan and Zhang Yi would gather with all the students in Chonghua Hall to play music and songs until late at night.
This has always been the rule of Taixue. It is considered to be relaxation after school, and it is also a combination of work and rest.
In the afternoon, Zhang Yue would take a nap without hesitation. Everyone in his room would admire him, but anyone else would be angrily criticized by his teacher. Moreover, Zhang Yue was not taking a nap. He would sleep for at least an hour or at most two hours.
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In the evening, Zhang Yue would usually have dinner in the studio unless Taixue's little chef had extra meals.
I have to say that life in Taixue was indeed hard, but Zhang Yue could still endure it.
However, there are many people in Imperial College who are the children of officials or people from well-to-do families. How can they endure such hardships?
So they would find an excuse to sneak out at night. However, the Imperial Academy was not allowed to stay overnight without any reason. In addition to arranging for a doctor to go to the fasting every night, there was also a direct lecturer in the lecture room to register the entrance and exit of the Imperial Academy.
However, after Hu Yuan left, the atmosphere of Taixue relaxed somewhat. In order to ask for leave and stay overnight, Taixue students often signed the word "Gan Feng" on their books.
In the future, a famous imperial student entered the pavilion, and the pavilion also had rules for school officials to live directly there.
According to regulations, every night in the secret pavilion of the three halls, one of the school officials stays overnight. If there is any reason not to stay overnight, the night is called an overnight stay. According to the rules, the overnight stay cannot exceed four days, and you must enter on the fifth day.
This gives many officials an opportunity to take advantage of the dormitory duty. Whenever they want to be exempted from the dormitory, the palace officials will write the words "feeling uneasy, exempt from the dormitory" under the name of the person on duty in the duty book.
Therefore, the duty book of the night stay in the pavilion was called "harmful belly calendar" by people at that time.
This official who was born as a Taixue student also repeatedly signed exemptions. Perhaps he recalled his experience when he signed the word "Ganfeng" when he was in Taixue. So he put the two things together and jokingly called them "harmful experience".
To 'Sense of Wind Book'.
This is also a joke from the Imperial Academy, and everyone often mentions it.
For example, Huang Haoyi's health has not been good since he entered the Imperial College, and he was often a frequent visitor to "feeling the wind", which made the Imperial College of Zhisu very puzzled. How could this child be like this?
One day during the holiday, Huang Haoyi brought Yulian, who was dressed in men's clothing, into Taixue.
The rules of Taixue are that students are not allowed to see guests on weekdays, but they are allowed to see guests in the studio during holidays. However, Huang Haoyi openly brought prostitutes in. If he was found out, he would be expelled from the school, and even Zhang Yue would be implicated.
Zhang Yue reprimanded Huang Haoyi and drove the two of them out of the house.
Fortunately, Huang Haoyi hadn't gotten to the bottom of it yet. After hearing Zhang Yue's reprimand, he immediately left Taixue with Yu Lian.
Except for Huang Haoyi, there are quite a few Taixue students in Zhaishe who are attracted by their fortunes. Some of them have families in Bianjing and cannot bear the boring life in Taixue.
There are also some imperial students who are frequent visitors to brothels.
It is well known that Taixue students are popular with prostitutes, and the largest "red light district" in the Song Dynasty was right next to Taixue.
It is already a romantic thing for officials to openly engage in prostitution, let alone these young imperial students.
There is a joke in Taixue.
There was a student who stayed in a brothel all day long. One day he came home with pain in his legs. His mother pressed his legs at that time. My son studied well and often studied late at night. There was no charcoal in school, so he probably froze.
The student was immediately ashamed after hearing this and made up his mind never to go to a brothel again.
Such a story is often used by old students to warn those imperial students who love to go to brothels, and to persuade them to turn back as prodigal sons.
But Zhang Yue had nowhere to go. Occasionally when he was tired from studying, he would go shopping at night, sometimes visiting the Zhouqiao Night Market. Once he bought some Shoushan stones from there.
Zhang Yue saw that it was not expensive at that time, so he bought a lot.
Whenever I get tired from studying, I carve a few seals.
Anyway, Zhang Yue has a lot of time, and there are still six hours left to waste after going to bed.
He learned a little bit about everything. In addition to writing and calligraphy, he also studied archery, pot throwing, and seal carving.
Since there are so many hours every day, just studying is hard enough. It would also be good to have a few extracurricular hobbies. To learn other skills, just use all the skill points.
“Sanlang, are you carving seals again?”
Zhang Yue raised his head and saw Liu Ji, the chief of the restaurant. He stood up and said, "Yes, what does the chief of the restaurant have to do?"
Zhang Yue would carve a seal every two or three days, and now he had more than a dozen seals in his hand without even realizing it. As the head of the village, Liu Ji knew about Zhang Yue's carving of seals.
Liu Ji smiled and said, "Sanlang, I think your seal is very good."
“I don’t dare to take what the chief said seriously.”
Liu Jidao said: "It's not an exaggeration. Although the seals carved in this workshop are good, they are full of craftsmanship and are extremely dull in every horizontal and stroke. On the other hand, Sanlang, you are not only excellent in seal script, but you also incorporate calligraphy into the carved seals."
“If the chief has anything to say, you might as well say it directly...” Zhang Yue said with a smile.
Liu Ji smiled and said: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from Sanlang. It's like this. Yang Zhi, who knows calligraphy and learning, must know! He likes your seals..."
“Yang Zhisao?”
Who does Zhang Yue know? His name is Yang Nanzhong, and he is now teaching calligraphy at the Imperial College.
Some people say that among the famous Xiaozhuan masters today, the only ones in the world are Shao Buyi, Yang Nanzhong and Zhang Youzhi.
At the beginning, Renzong of the Song Dynasty invited Zhang Youzhi and Yang Nanzhong to carve the two-body stone scripture. It can be seen that the calligraphy of the two men was first-class in the world. And this stone scripture is now placed in Taixue.
Logically speaking, Zhang Youzhi and Yang Nanzhong should have a good relationship. But in fact, Zhang Yue has followed Zhang Youzhi for many years but has not heard a word of Yang Nazhong's name from the other party.
Liu Ji saw Zhang Yue's hesitation and couldn't help but asked: "Is there any difficulty?"
Zhang Yue thought for a while and said: "It's not a problem. If Yang Zhi wants to engrave a seal, I happen to have one and give it to the chief of the prison. The chief of the prison can handle it himself, but if in front of Yang Zhi, don't say it was from me.
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Liu Jilue thought for a while and then he understood: "Don't worry, Sanlang, I will never tell anyone about it as a gift from you."
Zhang Yue took a chapter and gave it to Liu Ji.
“Sanlang, you are such a good friend.”
Zhang Yue smiled. He slept during the day and couldn't get up when he heard the drums. Liu Ji covered it for him. Although the two pieces of seal carving took a lot of effort, they were not worth much money.
Liu Ji took out a bag of money and said, "Sanlang, please accept it for your kindness."
Zhang Yue declined and said, "Why are you talking about this among classmates? I won't accept it."
Liu Ji saw that Zhang Yue firmly refused and did not send him again.
The next day, Liu Ji came to the house again and gave Zhang Yue a new robe. He smiled and said, "Sanlang, this robe is a bit too short for me, and I am too lazy to change it. Seeing that Sanlang's clothes are old, I just gave it to you." ."
Zhang Yue saw that Liu Ji was very sincere, so he first asked, "What did Yang Zhi think of the seal yesterday?"
Liu Ji laughed and said: "Yang Zhidao liked it very much. He said that such exquisite things are really rare."
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "It's easy to say, if Yang Zhiyao asks you again, the chief of the restaurant will just give the order and I will be here in three or five days."
Liu Ji smiled and said, "Thank you so much Sanlang."
Zhang Yue then took off his robe and said, "I don't dare to accept it. The Imperial Examination is about to begin, so I would like to congratulate the Chief of the Prison Service in advance."
Liu Ji laughed when he heard this and said confidently: "I'm borrowing Saburo's good words."
After a few days, both the Imperial Examination and the Kaifeng Prefecture Examination were held.
Today’s officials can be said to be generous in their kindness.
Fan Zhongyan's reform has always talked about the disadvantages of "redundant officials", but in recent years, the officialdom has been the disadvantages of the Great Kaifeng officialdom.
Not only are there numerous Yin officials, but tribute examinations are held every two years. This subject has increased the number of Jinshi from more than 390 to more than 500.
It doesn’t matter what the burden on the court is, the scholars are quite happy anyway.
After Liu Ji changed his name, as expected, he got second place in the Imperial College Examination.
Zhang Yue was calm about this, but the following news made him extremely uneasy.
Because the first place in Kaifeng Prefecture's examination was actually... Zhang Dun.
Fuyuan!
You should know that the first place in each examination is called Jieyuan, but the first place in Kaifeng Prefecture's examination is called Fuyuan.
What does Kaifeng Prefecture Fuyuan mean?
The number of Jinshi scholars for next year will be distributed as follows: 210 Jinshi scholars from Kaifeng Prefecture, 100 Jinshi scholars from Guozijian, and 200 Jinshi scholars from the Ministry of Rites.
I haven’t heard of Fuyuan of Kaifeng Prefecture who failed the provincial examination, and Fuyuan is a frequent recipient of Jinshi’s first crown.
When Zhang Yue heard that Zhang Dun had won the title of Kaifeng Prefecture, he had mixed feelings.
In the days after entering Taixue, he had almost forgotten this brother. Even among his classmates, no one mentioned the names of Zhang Dun and Zhang Heng in front of him.
But after Zhang Dun won the title of Kaifeng Prefecture, everyone thought of Zhang Yue again.
“Sanlang, you Zhang family are really amazing. Last year the number one scholar was Zhang Ziping, and this year the top scholar in Kaifeng Prefecture is Zhang Zihou. It’s true that your Zhang family has taken over the glory every year.”
“Zhang Zihou is really remarkable. Last year, I even laughed at him for abandoning the list. Now it seems that I am really short-sighted. For a person like him, getting into the Jinshi examination is like picking something out of a bag.”
“Sanlang, do you know Zi Ping Zi Hou? At least you can recommend him to us.”
Zhang Yue thought to himself, it’s obvious that I got the official title, why are you here to congratulate me?
Zhang Yue didn't have much to say. He smiled and passed by without mentioning his relationship with the two of them. Everyone just said it.
On this day, Wu Anchi also said: "Congratulations to Sanlang. Your Zhang family will have another Jinshi."
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Erlang. To be honest, this matter is beyond my expectation."
Wu Anchi smiled and said: "If there is any surprise, don't be surprised. I will have a banquet at Wu Mansion the day after tomorrow. My brother will also invite Ziping Zihou to the door. Then everyone will sit down and talk."
Wu Anzhi was mostly polite to him at first, but now he is more enthusiastic after hearing that Zhang Dun won the Jinshi.
Zhang Yue was smiling on his face, but in his heart he was thinking, should he go to the Wu Mansion the day after tomorrow? Or should he just complain?