Shao Zhi's birth brought a lot of joy to the Shao family, but Shao Zhi's mother Su Ling took the initiative to leave the Shao family after she was confinement.

This surprised Xiao Rong very much. After all, Su Ling had bargained with him to get his daughter's custody, but now he is not willing to wait for his daughter to be weaned. However, he was just surprised and gave up on the in-depth study. Now the heroine cannot hinder him, and he does not plan to do system tasks anymore. The hero and the heroine seem to have no chance to be together, so he doesn't need to pay too much attention to Su Ling.

The male protagonist Jiang Li left Qingyang County and returned to the capital after attending Shao Zhi's full moon banquet.

Mr. Li stayed at Shao's family forever, and Xiao Ying followed him to learn how to take the imperial examination, while his daughter Shao Zhi was given to Shao's mother and Wang Nianyun for raising her. He only needed to go and see her when she was studying.

In a blink of an eye, a year passed, and the spring examination was approaching.

Xiao Ying said goodbye to the Shao family. This time he had to set off for the capital more than a month in advance, because Qingyang County was too far from the capital. However, this time, with Mr. Li, the teacher, and Shao's father had never been to the capital, so he did not insist on accompanying his son to take the exam.

In this way, Xiao Rong took everyone from the Shao family's hopes to go to the capital with his luggage and his teacher.

The capital is at the foot of the emperor. The city walls are tall and majestic. There is a long queue at the spacious city gate. It is the outsiders who enter the capital. When outsiders enter the capital, they need to instruct and documents to inspect the guards at the city gate one by one, so there is such a long queue. Most of the people in the team are dressed as scholars, and they should be the candidates from all over the country who come to the capital to participate in the imperial examination.

Xiao Ying, who should have been queuing with these picks, was sitting in a carriage with ordinary appearance but extraordinary inside. Although the carriage without shock absorbers was not much comfortable, the carriage could already be called luxurious.

The carriage was stopped when it reached the city gate. A guard came forward and whispered to the coachman. After learning about the identity of the carriage owner, he did not check the inside of the carriage and let it go directly.

Xiao Ying retracted his gaze from outside the carriage window and looked at Mr. Li sitting opposite him.

Mr. Li smiled at him and said, "Did you see it? There are so many candidates coming to the capital to take the exam. It is not easy to find a suitable place to live. It is better to live in my husband's house. If you have any questions about homework, you can ask me anytime."

Xiao Ying nodded and did not be polite to Mr. Li: "Then the student will disturb the teacher with shame."

"Don't disturb me, don't disturb me!" Mr. Li smiled very satisfied with his beard. He was very satisfied with his disciple, so he naturally had to plan for his disciple.

In this way, Xiao Ying moved into Mr. Li's home.

Mr. Li was an official in the capital, of course he had to buy a house in the capital. Although he was the highest, he was just a bachelor's degree in the Hanlin Academy, and the Hanlin Academy was recognized as the most precious and unlucky person. However, he has made a lot of money by publishing books and asking for calligraphy and paintings with others for so many years. The mansion he lived in the capital covers a considerable area, especially his way of making money is open and he is enjoying it without any concealment.

Xiao Ying was a little surprised when he saw this low-key and luxurious Li's mansion. He usually saw Mr. Li behaved unruly and unrestrainedly, but he didn't expect that he could enjoy life so well and his taste was very good.

However, when he and Mrs. Li entered the mansion and met Mrs. Li, he realized that it was not Mrs. Li who had a taste, but Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li, who came from a scholarly family, was also a talented woman, and she was definitely far superior to Mrs. Li in terms of life taste.

Xiao Ying only met Mrs. Li on the first day she joined the mansion with Mrs. Li. Her smile was kind and gentle, and she was very caring to him, but she never saw this master's wife again. Although there were maids coming to deliver supplements or clothes every day that it was Mrs. Li's order, Xiao Ying still vaguely felt that this master's wife probably had an average sense of her senses.

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On the day of the imperial examination, Xiao Ying said goodbye to the teacher, Mr. Li, with the examination supplies that were said to have been prepared by the teacher's mother, and moved on to the examination room.

The Imperial Examination is the last level of the imperial examination. Although there is a palace examination later, the palace examination only has the ranking and does not win people, so the Imperial Examination is quite strict. The number of soldiers patrolling alone is twice as high as that of the provincial examination.

When Xiao Huang stepped into the strict examination room, he couldn't help but look back at the pickets who were still queuing up.

He became a farmer in the morning and climbed to the emperor's hall in the evening.

In this era and society, the imperial examination is the only ladder for ordinary people to advance. The competition for the imperial examination is simply a one-plank bridge that can only pass one person at a time. Each time, only the top hundreds of people can successfully pass.

Sitting in his own examination room, Xiao Rong held the white paper he had just sent out and looked at a wooden sign with the exam questions held by a soldier in his hand holding a walkway outside the examination room, frowned slightly.

He did not expect that in addition to the simple fill-in-the-blank dictation questions in this exam, the first major question in the latter part actually involved the topic of opening up the maritime ban that has been causing a lot of controversy recently.

The general meaning of the title is: The pirates at sea are raging and repeatedly robbing and killing passing ships. Should a sea ban be opened to stop the pirates?

This world is before the sea ban, but because the sea pirates are becoming increasingly rampant, the imperial navy has never been valued and is useless, and they have the will to deal with pirates but are not strong enough. So some people in the court proposed to open a sea ban to deal with pirates. These pirates are just powerful at sea. If there are no ships going to sea, no matter how powerful they are, it is useless. Once they dare to go ashore, the garrisons of the shore cities will teach them how to be human in minutes.

The maritime ban has not been officially issued yet, but this topic has aroused discussions among the government and the public.

Before participating in the examination, Xiao Ying had heard of the sea ban, and had talked with Mr. Li, but neither he nor Mr. Li thought that this examination would actually have questions about sea ban. Although the examinations in the past also gave some questions related to actual affairs, after all, a bunch of officials who could not do practical things could be selected, right? However, there was never a question in the past that involved the most popular and latest policies.

Xiao Ying didn't have to think too much about the answer to the question of the sea ban. He knew that he must have to write about whether the sea ban should be opened. It was not only because he had used history to tell him the consequences of the sea ban when he talked about this matter with his teacher, Mr. Li.

Mr. Li is a very wise old man. Even he felt that he should not open a maritime ban, which means that there should be many officials who have the same idea as him. Xiao Ying didn't want to write a opposite answer against his heart and offend his teacher and many other officials.

However, if he wants to answer this question well, he must write it so that people can't help but agree.

And is there anything in this world that is more recognized than interests?

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"I have heard that there is an immortal island overseas called..." Xiao Rong continued writing, first writing about various legends of overseas gods, and then describing how vast and rich the land overseas is. He wrote overseas countries as weak and weak army of only a few thousand people, but they were so rich that they picked up a stone at will. He also gave examples to write about the fact that he had heard that someone was in the Central Plains and was chased by his enemies. He fled overseas to take refuge. Then he found a gold mine and made a fortune and came back to take revenge and be proud. This is a must-have routine for the cool article.

After writing, Xiao Huang gently blew the ink and read it. He felt that his writing was very inciting and nodded slightly.

He dared to write this because of his teacher Shanhai Layman. After all, who doesn’t know that Shanhai Layman likes to wander around and has published more than one travel notation, which is written in real and interesting. As for whether he has really been overseas, who cares?
Chapter completed!