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These dozens of teams, and they are also guards with weapons, and they are vicious and vicious. Even if there are robbers, they dare not provoke them. The most important thing is that Lu Yuan has rich experience in walking and has already arranged the schedule. When to set off every day, how many roads to walk, and when to hit the top, they all arranged them properly. Without any twists and turns, they arrived in the capital. ▲∴▲∴

Some people here have been to the capital, such as Tao Xingyan, Yun Zhiqiu and others, and even Zhou Yu, have also visited the capital, so there was no big fuss after seeing the capital. However, it was Luo Xin's first time to come to the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Seeing the thick walls and the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he was shocked.

When I entered the capital, I saw countless eunuchs. It was almost February, and a large number of eunuchs began to flow into the capital, and it was crowded for a while.

Every student who entered the capital had hope on his face. His age was different, including young people, middle-aged people, and even old people. Looking at the crowds, Luo Xin couldn't help but feel emotion. He studied hard all his life, just for this day, all the good times in his life were spent on hard study. Countless students from all over the world went to Beijing to take the exam, but how many of them were finally passed the exam

It's really a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge

Even if you kill a single-plank bridge and win a Jinshi, how many people can finally live a happy life?

The officialdom is a place of ups and downs. Years of hard work may be exchanged for a torture, a disappointment, and even a disgrace and in prison.

But even so, it cannot stop the trend of becoming an official. As long as the family has the conditions, every parent will choose to let their sons study and take the imperial examination.

Passing the Juren does not mean that you can become an official. Although you can also become an official, you can only be a supplementary recruitment such as eighth-rank re-entry. The best opportunity is to be a seventh-rank magistrate. If you want to go further, it is impossible. If you want to truly embark on the official career, there is only one way, that is, you can get the Jinshi. Only by passing the Jinshi can you have the foundation for becoming an official.

The examination is in the capital, and the time is February. Therefore, the students who are close to the capital can set off after the New Year, while those who are far away must set off before the New Year. Even some far away students must set off several months in advance, and wait for the exam after the exam. The students who are close to the capital need to stay in the capital for two to three months, and the students who are far away need to take half a year from the day they set off.

In the 13 provinces of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 5,000 candidates. Each candidate brought a few guards and scholars, and nearly 20,000 people flocked to the capital.

Some people said, weren’t there poor scholars in ancient times? Didn’t there be poor scholars and scholars?

The poor scholars you mentioned were the situation before the provincial examination. There are only poor scholars in the world, but there are no poor scholars. Once a scholar passes the juren, many people will take Tian Qi to join as slaves, and they will get rich in an instant. Otherwise, there is a golden house in the book.

Therefore, the inns in Beijing were filled up all of a sudden, and the prices were increased by five times. Even so, many people couldn't stay in inns.

The exam every three years is called the year of the Great Competition, which is the year when the people in the capital gained. Many people freed up one or two of their homes to rent them out as guest rooms, and even Taoist temples and temples. Of course, they would not say it was for rent, but called it the money for incense and oil.

This is just a matter of residence and a matter of price. All prices in the capital are soaring, at least five times that of ordinary times. This is a season of harvest for the people in the capital, but for the candidates who are taking the exam, it is a huge consumption.

Usually, the accommodation fee in Beijing is enough for three to five taels a month, but now it costs fifteen to twenty taels. In addition, the daily meal cost, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone for reading, the cost of gatherings, the exchange of favors, the travel expenses for back and forth, and the cost of a one-time trial basically costs two hundred taels of silver.

Even if you are already a juren, you are no longer a poor scholar, and you can't afford this kind of cost for many juren. If you are a scholar who just passed the imperial examination, you will be fine, with a new slave, relatives and friends, and even a gift from the local county magistrate, you can handle this exam and it won't be too shabby. But is the Jinshi so easy to take the exam?

More than 5,000 people can only pass the exam, including three in the first class, eighty-five in the second class, and two in the three families, and two hundred and eleven in the last 10. Most of the candidates will fail, so many candidates have passed the exam every three years. People like them who have failed the exam several times will firstly not give silver to the local county magistrate every time, and secondly, they will not give silver to relatives and friends. Even the slaves who have defected to the family will try every means to leave the master's family. Therefore, such candidates who have failed repeatedly have actually become poor scholars. Although they are richer than poor scholars, their consumption is greater than poor scholars.

However, the prefectures and governments in various places still considered this for these juren. The 13 provinces have built guild halls in the capital. These guild halls are not official, but are built through donations. Usually, they are used as places for local people in various places to stay in Beijing, and they charge relatively low fees. However, in the year of the competition, these guild halls will no longer entertain anyone who has nothing to do with the examination. They are specially used to receive candidates and entourage staff, and all food and accommodation are free.

Of course, the accommodation conditions will not be good, and the food will not be good. If you want good food and accommodation, don’t stay in a guild hall and have the money to live in other places.

Therefore, candidates from all over the country chose to live in the guild hall in the end.

Luo Xin and the others naturally had no such concerns. They were directly taken by Lu Yuan to Beppu in the capital. This was where Lu Tingfang lived when he was an official in the capital. The whole garden was not big or small, with two gardens in front and back, and more than a dozen houses. This means that the Lu family has money. Otherwise, even if they were officials in the capital, most people would not have such a place of residence.

Lu Tingfang's servants and maids had already opened the door and stood at the door and looked around. They have been like this these days. When they saw Luo Xin and others riding on horseback, they immediately showed a happy smile on their faces and greeted Luo Xin.

"Old servant pays homage to my son-in-law"

Luo Xin nodded, jumped off his horse, and walked into the gate under Lu Yuan's leadership. Lu Yuan was very familiar with this place and immediately arranged for his servants to lead Jinyang Jiujie to his room.

After a few days of travel, people were trapped and horses were exhausted. Even Luo Xin, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, felt tired. He took a bath and changed his clothes, and after eating simply, everyone returned to their rooms and fell asleep.

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