My father-in-law is Kangxi

Thinking of "official documents", Fusong glanced at Zhang Tinglu.

Zhang Tinglu is going to take the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination. This is the first time this year that the papers have been divided, so the difficulty has suddenly increased.

There are hundreds of officials' children who are registered in the capital to take the exam. Before there were separate papers, they had to take the exam with the local scholars from Zhili. 30 to 40% of the candidates on the list every time were such children, which was much easier than starting a career in the local area.

After the papers were divided, there was internal competition among the officials’ children.

Shuntian Prefecture has a quota of 80 for each subject in the provincial examination. According to the admission ratio of nine civilians to one official, only eight officials' children can be on the list. However, in recent years, there have been hundreds of officials' children registered in the capital, and the difficulty has increased several times.

When you wait for the exam, it will also be divided into papers.

At that time, there were nineteen civil servants and one official. There were only a dozen places for each subject.

The history of officials' children trying to take advantage of the Shuntianfu Provincial Examination to easily pass the Guipang is over.

Zhang Ying asked again about Brother Jiu's resignation as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Fusong said: "Jiuye went to Wutai Mountain with his retinue after the year. When he came back, he left his errands in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and went to the Ministry of Household Affairs."

Zhang Ying was in his sixties and had grown a beard long ago. After listening to Fusong's words, he stroked his beard and said, "Your Majesty knows people well and is good at responsibilities. Master Jiu has economic talent."

It's just that he was working as an errand in the previous dynasty, so he would probably be knighted soon.

Because this place is far away from the capital, and the latest Di Di newspaper has not arrived yet, neither Zhang Ying nor the Fusong brothers know the news about the ninth elder brother Feng Beile.

Zhang Ying wanted to ask about the news from the court, but thinking about Fusong's identity as a member of the prince's palace, not a court official, he changed his mind and said, "Has the court come to a conclusion about Cheng Zi's sacrifice to the fields?"

It turns out that Cheng Yan, the descendant of Cheng Zi and a doctor of the Five Classics, has been offering sacrifices every year in recent years. Please give Cheng Zi a sacrificial field for the sacrificial ceremony.

Since the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism has emerged, and scholars respect Cheng Zi.

Fusong was also a scholar, so he knew about this, and said: "The Ministry of Rites did not respond. Later, I handed the document to the emperor, and the emperor was not sure. He only asked the Ministry of Rites to urge the governor to handle the matter as appropriate, so that the descendants of the Cheng family can worship him for generations to come, which is indispensable."

Zhang Ying nodded after listening.

This was also the trend of the court. It did not object to scholars respecting Cheng Zi, but it had no intention of improving Cheng Zi's status.

We must know that among the great sages of the Song Dynasty, in addition to Cheng Zi, there is also Zhu Zi, who was the sect of Confucius, Mencius, and the great master of Confucianism.

If two semi-saints are really promoted, the impact will be great in the future.

Even if the children’s emphasis on study and homework must be changed, some changes will be made.

The Fusong brothers came from afar and looked gloomy.

Zhang Ying talked to them for a quarter of an hour and then asked Zhang Tinglu to take them to the guest room to freshen up.

When the future son-in-law comes to visit, as well as the children from the in-laws' families, he should be received solemnly.

Now that the sun is setting, we can only have a family dinner tonight, and arrange the formal reception banquet for tomorrow.

The Fusong brothers followed Zhang Tinglu out.

Mrs. Yao ordered the girl next to her, "Send a message to the kitchen. In addition to adding vegetables, we will add two more pasta dishes tonight."

The staple food in Tongcheng diet is rice.

The Zhang family has lived in the capital for more than thirty years, and their tastes are relatively mixed, and they also have flour in the kitchen.

The banquet has been prepared long ago, half of it is Tongcheng specialties, and half of it is Beijing cuisine. This is because I am afraid that the brothers will not be used to it.

The brothers went to the guest room. Except for the young boy who followed, the other senior attendants and guards who followed were placed in the outer courtyard.

When Zhang Tinglu went out and only a few brothers were left, Zhu Liang asked Fu Song: "Is this the prime minister's residence? It's bigger than the courtyard in Beijing. I thought the courtyards in Jiangnan were smaller..."

Zhu Liang has never been to gardens in Jiangnan, but she has heard of them. She knows that some gardens are very small, and some cover an area of ​​half an acre.

The courtyards in the capital are wide and spacious, and the gardens of half an acre are smaller than ordinary people's gardens.

Fu Ming said: "Except for the Wu family next to 'Liuchixiang', all the Zhang family's houses are here and there. This is what the book says about living together as a family, right?"

Fusong said: "It has been three hundred years since the Zhang family moved to Tongcheng. By the time Prime Minister Zhang reached it, it was already the ninth generation. There were thirty or forty uncles and brothers of Zhang Tong's great-grandfather alone. By the time the Ting generation descended, there were eighty or ninety. people."

Zhang Ying also gave birth to seven sons, but the fifth son died young, leaving only six children.

The Zhang family has many descendants, and the whole family is on the rise.

Zhu Liang said: "But Zhang Xiang's clan has never heard of any high-ranking officials."

No matter how many clan members there are, they are still dependent on Zhang Ying and cannot provide any help.

Fu Song was often close to Zhang Tingzhan and knew more about it. He said: "To say that the Zhang family's fortune can be traced back to the previous dynasty. Around the time of the fifth generation of ancestors, the Zhang family had a Jinshi and changed their family status. Zhang Xiang's great-grandfather Both his uncle and his uncle were high-ranking officials of the third rank, but they were officials of the previous dynasty. It’s hard to mention. There was an uncle who was a high-ranking official of this dynasty. He was the Minister of the Ministry of War. He just died in his prime. At that time, Zhang Xiang took the boy test and did not borrow the title. What kind of force?"

Zhu Liang said in admiration: "This is a scholarly family, a family with many officials."

It's like the Lord's family, which has always been prosperous.

Fu Ming also said: "It's not that the father-in-law of the second master of the Zhang family also sat in the capital. The little Tongcheng is really a place of outstanding people, with so many high-ranking officials."

Fusong said: "You will know after you try it once. This industry has some experience and skills, which are passed down from generation to generation. The children have their own rules for learning, which is different from studying hard. Whether it is the Shuntianfu Township Examination , it is still the Jiangnan Provincial Examination, and those who are on the list are mainly the children of officials and gentry, and there are very few children from humble families. In the future, the Zhang family's candidates and Jinshi will be indispensable."

Zhu Liang said: "Jiangnan is rich, with many gentry and rich culture."

Fu Ming exclaimed: "When I was in the capital, I heard that Jiangnan was wealthy and had many scholars. It's really different. No wonder, given the opportunity, all the children of the capital officials had to register to take the exam."

Zhang Tinglu's uncle and nephew are all from Shuntian Prefecture.

I don’t know what will happen next.

Before there were separate papers, the Shuntianfu Rural Examination was better than the Jiangnan Rural Examination.

Let’s not talk about others, let’s talk about Zhang Ying’s third son-in-law, who was also a young scholar. As a result, he participated in the provincial examination four or five times and failed.

But it also has something to do with the province where Tongcheng is located. Tongcheng is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the children have to take the Jiangnan Provincial Examination.

For the Jiangnan Provincial Examination, the quota is said to be more than that of Shuntian Prefecture, with 135 people. However, these are the quotas for the two provinces, with Jiangsu accounting for 70% and Anhui accounting for 30%. Tongcheng is under the jurisdiction of Anqing Prefecture, Anhui Province.

After the papers were divided, the number of children of officials in the capital who took the exam was several times that of the children of officials in the Jiangnan rural examination. However, the number of admissions was less than that of the Jiangnan rural examination, so the difficulty suddenly increased.

Younger children of the Zhang family can choose again and take the exam in their place of origin.

However, Zhang Tinglu and Zhang Ruolin's uncle and nephew had already registered in Shuntian Mansion, so they could only take the exam in Shuntian Mansion.

This uncle and nephew's road to the examination should not be as smooth as that of Zhang Tingzhan and Zhang Tingyu brothers.

It was getting late, so after simply freshening up and changing clothes, the three brothers went to Zhang's house to have sex again.

One of the three of them is the future uncle, and the two are juniors of the in-laws. Not counting foreigners, they are all members of the Zhang family.

In addition to Zhang Ying and his wife, the Zhang family currently living in Tongcheng also includes the third son Zhang Tinglu and his wife, the fourth son Ting and his wife, the sixth son Tingguan and his wife, the seventh son Tingyuan, the fourth girl Zhang and the third sister's wife who now lives in her natal home.

Among the grandchildren of the Zhang family, only the eldest grandson Zhang Ruolin is married. There are about ten others, including two grandchildren and two granddaughters.

There were more than twenty people in total, and the main room was packed.

The children and grandchildren, except for a few young ones, all accompanied Zhang Ying.

The female relatives were all surrounding Mrs. Yao.

When the three brothers left the capital, Mrs. Jueluo repeatedly told them that Han people's rules were different from those in Manchuria, and they should be more polite in front of the female family members.

At present, the three Fusongs are very well-behaved and do not look towards the female family members.

On the other hand, the female family members knew that among the three young men, the oldest and best-looking one was the fourth uncle.

The sisters-in-law looked at the fourth girl and smiled.

The fourth girl pinched the handkerchief, her face flushed.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, she would leave home and follow her third brother to Beijing to get married. She didn't expect Fusong to come to Jiangnan at this time.

Third Sister Zhang stood next to her younger sister. She was in her thirties and looked a little older due to hard work in life. She and her younger sister looked like two generations apart.

Her eldest daughter is already in her prime years.

Looking at the young men in front of her, she also thought of her daughter's marriage.

It would be best if she could marry back to her parents' family, but it's a pity that she doesn't have the right age.

Either he is several years older, or he is a little younger.

At that time, we can only find a suitable candidate among our cousins.

As for other relatives, Sanjie Zhang has no intention of seeing them.

She had suffered enough and didn't want her daughter to make the same mistake again.

The Zhang family is about to prosper, and the room in her natal family is also called the "prime minister's room" by the clan members.

She has a total of eighty to ninety cousins ​​of the same generation, and she can always find suitable candidates to be her in-laws.

At that time, if their daughter is slighted, her father and brothers will be able to support the child without worrying about being a bully or meddling in the family affairs of her in-laws.

Fusong recognized a circle of people, including his brother-in-law and brother-in-law.

Among them, Fourth Master Zhang stands out.

The man who looked very thin, in his twenties, was no better than Fu Ming, who was drawing a strip, and his expression was a bit gloomy.

Fusong remembered Zhang Tingzhan's words. This Fourth Master Zhang was in poor health and did not have any career.

Logically speaking, such children from a scholarly family are usually responsible for supporting their parents, cooking and other industries. However, Fourth Master Zhang is in a weak body. Not only is he unable to take the exam, but he is also unable to shoulder the family's chores and become the rich man of the Zhang family. Idle people.

Zhang Ying and his wife are still there, and the family has not been separated. When Zhang Ying and his wife pass away and the family is separated, the fourth generation of the Zhang family will have a hard time.

Now it is Zhang Sanye and his wife who take care of the housework in their hometown.

Fusong also paid attention to Mr. Zhang Liu, the concubine of the Zhang family. One of them died in infancy, and the other was him. However, they were also brought up by Mrs. Yao. They did not have the shrinking air of the concubine, and looked more cheerful and lively.

After everyone was identified, the Fusong brothers followed Zhang Ying and his son to the front room to prepare for the banquet.

The women and children stayed in the main house.

When they arrived at the front, watching their father and brother talking to Fu Song and Zhu Liang, Zhang Liuye came over to greet Fu Ming to talk.

Mr. Zhang Liu asked: "Does the temple fair at Longfu Temple still happen every year? There is a stall called Wang Si Noodle Tea. I don't know if it is still available. Their noodle tea has two layers of sesame sauce, and it's still not mushy."

He was born in Beijing and grew up in Beijing. He returned to his hometown to study when he was ten years old. When he mentioned Beijing, he was full of nostalgia.

By the way, he was also one of the unlucky ones who had to go to Beijing to take the provincial examination.

Fu Ming nodded and said: "Fortunately, Wang Si Mian Tea Stall also comes out every year, but the people have changed. The sesame paste is not as good as before. It is still two layers, but the total is not much more than one layer of others."

Mr. Zhang Liu said with regret, "That's a pity. I'm still thinking about when I will go to the capital. I must go there and eat there twice."

I have a sister who likes to think about food. Dutong Prefecture has noodle tea recipes. There are several kinds, including those with millet noodles and millet noodles, and those with only millet noodles, those with millet noodles mixed with rice noodles, and those with millet noodles. Mixed with millet noodles.

Fu Ming said: "The recipe for noodle tea is simple. If you want to eat it, just ask someone to make it. The key to deliciousness is the good sesame sauce and the sesame oil."

A gentleman is far away from the kitchen.

From a family like the Zhang family, the children have been indifferent to outside world since they were young, and they only read the books of sages in order to prepare for their careers.

"what?"

Mr. Zhang Liu asked curiously: "Do you know how to make noodle tea? Didn't you say that it is made of millet noodles? It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. There is no millet in the south of the Yangtze River..."