Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The major event of the country lies in worship and military service.

On Zhengdan Day, ordinary people like the Cui family will worship their ancestors, and the royal family will naturally worship their ancestors. The son of Chenghua went to Fengxian Hall to make sacrifices, salute his birth mother, Empress Dowager Zhou, and then to Fengtian Hall to be worshipped by foreign ministers and Siyi envoys.

Last year, the chiefs of the prefectures and counties were summoned for the pilgrimage. The next time they are allowed to enter Beijing, it will take three years. And Cui Que's referee is not a pastoral guard, just a second official, and he will not be able to go to Beijing for a few more rounds to report on his work. He will only be evaluated by his boss with a fluttering page to the official department.

Since there is no major plan for the investigation of Beijing this year, there have been no reports of earthquake disasters, floods and droughts-except for the red meteors falling in the west, the thunder-like tremor is an ominous omen, and the emperor Chenghua has to push it. Guo courtier, no more troubles. The emperor has nothing to worry about, and the Secretary of the Jiaofang is even more oblivious to the holy intentions, "day enters the hospital", and performs fashionable plays non-stop during the half month of the New Year holiday, and the celebration dramas of Zhengdan and Lantern Festival are to be performed. Newly written book.

When performing these plays, the actors and actresses of the Jiaofang Division also borrowed from the popular makeup and stage arrangements in Beijing today. There are cigarettes in the stage, and the appearance and exit are all blurred by layers of veil. It was all such a technique. When the **** was accompanying the emperor to watch a play, he couldn't help but sneer secretly when he saw that they were taking things seriously, as if they had learned some clever technique.

This technique outside the palace was brought up by his son, and now their father and son are almost too lazy to use it!

However, the more common the New Year's Day celebrations, the daily zaju, and the pleasures during the New Year's Day, the better his new dramas can be displayed. The high eunuch, with a group of fond-like thoughts, watched the rehearsal of Zhonggusi every day, and finally waited for the Lantern Festival.

After dinner on that day, the prince and kings visited the Aoshan Lantern Sea made in the interior, and then went to the theater to enjoy the new Lantern Festival by the Bell and Drum Division.

Before the play began, the stage was covered by heavy gauze curtains. The surrounding circle was burning with lightly smoked tower incense. Because there was no wind in the room, the smoke would sink below for a while before dispersing, making the tabletop like a fairyland.

When he first saw this arrangement, the emperor gave a compliment, but now he is accustomed to it, he just nodded and told people to start.

Bells and drums sounded one after another, and gauze curtains rose into the air one after another—this curtain was not like the plays presented by Jiaofang Si, those were hung on two pillars with ropes, sometimes covering the stage.

This wasn't a big change, except for people like Emperor Cheng Hua who liked to watch theaters for many years, the younger princes didn't notice the difference.

However, the light gauze rises layer by layer, and the thinner the gauze, the more people feel the strangeness. Originally, the dark wall and the gate to and from the stage should be seen after the gauze was opened, but this time it went straight to the last heavy gauze. The curtain is still faintly white.

The emperor finally felt something special, and watched the last heavy curtain rise up, revealing a snowy world inside. In the background is the snow-receiving pavilion where paintings are collected. In the distance there is a fairy palace, and the mountains are surrounded by snow; the top of the stage is fluttering down with heavy goose feathers, the ground is covered with white blankets, and Taichung is surrounded by a white jade-like corridor with carved columns.

A **** wearing a lotus crown, wearing a crane cloak, holding a jade, a jade medallion on his waist, and a ring of dingdong walked out of the snow. Behind him was two little gods holding a flag and holding a sword, standing in heavy snow. The audience in the Chinese court said, "Refining medicine to cultivate the real Taiqing, the purple night in the Yuxu palace..."

As soon as he entered the field, the white snow on his head gradually stopped, and a trace of snowflakes did not deceive him and the little **** behind him, but there was a warm yellow light shining from above, as if the sun was coming out of the clouds, shining on him. .

It's not uncommon to think in vain, this appearance is really a bit of a fairy. The emperor Chenghua smiled, and slowly spit out a "reward", and the palace servants spilled the money on it.

The **** on the stage was rewarded, and he acted more and more attentively, chanting a long white rhyme, a clear and clear voice, and slowly chanting a piece of celebration. The voice fell slightly, and the snowy color that could not be seen whether it was the wall or the curtain was torn apart, and a young fairy sitting on a crane crossed out.

The two wings of the crane came out from the fairy dressing room, and they could flap when they were marching. There were a few cranes on the station, awakening the sleepy little majesty who was listening to the play, and laughed lowly.

Although there are fake sedan chairs and cloth-covered artificial hills when performing Zaju in the palace, there is really no such realistic crane. The Jiutian Youyi stepped up to the stage, called Baihe to lie down, and walked with him, and the legs on his body were actually put away. The Jiutian Youyi, wearing a broad robe, walked to Master Yuxu and received the decree. He also ordered to invite all immortals.

At this time, the veil was heavily covered, enveloping the white snow, and the nine-day You Yi Envoy slowly came out through the curtain, still walking across the crane. Taking a closer look at his appearance and figure, he is the **** A Chou, the **** of the **** who was the favorite of Emperor Chenghua.

Only seeing him like this, the emperor couldn't help but laugh and said "OK". The little princes couldn't understand anything else, they felt good when they saw the crane, and they clapped their hands for reward.

The high **** was at the side of the king, with his eyelids down, his gaze secretly turned around the audience. Seeing that the emperor and several young masters were staring at the stage, even the prince who was usually not good at playing was very attentive. It was so beautiful that he risked his sweetness and secretly glanced at Liang Fang who had robbed him of the limelight.

Liang Fang was also watching the play dumbfounded, not paying attention as usual, and quickly winking at him.

The eunuchs waited in the building, Jin Yiwei was on duty outside the hall, and Xie Ying stood under the corridor, but could not see the play. Although he can’t see it, Cui Xie told him the tunes and words of these several dramas in detail. He also thought about many of the setting methods, but he heard the tune of the immortal Lu inside. Knowing where the play is sung, guessing the scene of a living fairy palace on the stage.

This fold is in the fairy palace of Master Yuxu, and when it comes to the next fold, it's time to go to Wenchang Emperor's Palace.

Xie Ying and the sound of the song sang in her heart, "With the decree of the Yuanshi Immortal Venerable, the sacred people go down", smiling and looking at the lights in the courtyard, as if seeing the lanterns outside the palace, the lanterns in the city at night, Cui Xie Walk through the lights and appreciate the appearance of the lantern guessing.

I don’t know what lights he lights up in those shops, and whether he plays any novelty...

He was secretly in love with the "oil gourd", and the stage has also changed the scene: the background is a green landscape map painted on a broad white cloth, and the ground is still covered with a snow-white blanket to create a cloud effect with the surrounding smoke screen.

The sacred feet were surrounded by white clouds, and tall flowers and trees were arranged behind them, and the ceiling fell on their heads and covered the ground. The green hills on the painting screen stretched to the nearby area, and a piece of wax sculpture made into a large stone was connected. The wax oil on the surface was sprinkled on the grass when it was dry, and it was fluffy like moss. There is a waterfall made of silk cloth between the rocks, and a human blower blows it down at the back. The surface cloth is undulating, and there is a piece of light hitting the silk cloth on the head, the brilliance flows, and it looks like water.

The three official gods and the emperor Wenchang sang vigorously to celebrate the Lantern Festival in the lower world. The emperor Chenghua, the prince, and the princes in the audience were the first to appreciate the combination of 2D and 3D, and they did not bother to listen to the drama. Squint carefully to appreciate the stage special effects.

After singing the show, the green mountains and clear waters were hidden behind the scenes. A Chou dressed as a nine-day tour ambassador, riding a crane alone, stood in front of the screen and chanted white. , Told a few jokes.

The emperor likes to listen to his jokes the most. At the beginning, he played a game on the stage to admonish Wang Zhiquan, but the emperor didn't feel that his play was not good. But today the emperor faintly saw the discoloration inside through the curtain, and he was anxious to know what the stage layout was like. He didn't even have much to listen to the jokes, and asked Gao Liang in a low voice: "Why, it's been so long, it won't open?"

The high **** hurriedly explained in a low voice: "Isn't this to make the emperor look good, are they proud to arrange it? The emperor relaxes and listens to A Chou's jokes. When the curtain opens, he must tell the emperor to look differently. Lingguan Great Emperor Palace."

The emperor waited patiently, and finally the veil slowly pulled up, revealing a pure black palace. In front of the hall stood vertical pillars painted with vermilion lacquer, with tulle curtains tied between the pillars, and bright tile lamps above the head were round like stars, and the walls showed dots of starlight, converging into a nine-day Milky Way.

The five emperors Guangji, Guanghui, Guangyou, Guangze, and Guangcheng brought ghost power and judges to the court. These princes did not ride on the white clouds at their feet. Instead, there were many spherical lights made of bright tiles on the ground where they could not hinder their feet. The lights came up from bottom to top, shining on the bodies of all the saints, without showing the lights and scenery. Dimmed.

The scenes and scenes changed so quickly and complicatedly that the viewers were overwhelmed, as if they had been changing palaces after the immortals.

The last discount is that the sacred people fall into the palace, enjoy the Aoshan and the sea of ​​lights in the palace, and celebrate the emperor's holy birthday.

The protagonist Yu Xu master Xiang Xuantian made a lot of soy sauce, and this moment finally stood up! He sang a solo "Gu Meijiu", sang "Hey Tang Yao's time", and chanted to "All the gods will wish my emperor will be healthy", suddenly he took out a golden pill from his sleeve to offer Emperor.

The emperor Chenghua liked this idea, so he asked someone to pick it up, but the senior **** had arranged it early and asked the little **** to take a red padded tray and take the golden pill.

Master Yu Xu stopped the **** again, and said: "This golden pill is not an ordinary pill. Don't move it lightly. Wait for me to open the offering to the holy emperor."

As he said, he flicked the pill, and the golden pill was broken into two halves, and a piece of gold powder was spilled from it. Emperor Cheng Hua couldn't see clearly from below, and asked, "What?"

The high **** beckoned from below, and the little **** shook the plate and turned to the front to show it to the emperor. On the bottom of the plate, someone was asked to write the words with glue in advance. After a flash, the golden powder sprinkled from the gold core stuck to the glue, and the excess gold powder fell down, leaving only the dazzling four characters "Wang Shou Wu Jiang".

The emperor Chenghua saw through his little heart, but couldn't help but rejoice, and praised: "Well done, I am interested."

This is much better than offering golden pills to the emperor. The **** Huai'en quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and the prince also felt that Gao Liang was a man who knew how to measure, to please the emperor, and not the same way as the monks who offered medicine and practiced things.

He followed his father and his younger brothers and praised "OK", nodded but couldn't help sighing: "These lights, curtains, flowers and trees, how much manpower and material resources it takes..."

The high **** was worried that he had nowhere to show his merits. Hearing that the prince thought he was spending too much money, he quickly explained: "Don't worry, you don't need to spend too much money on these things. The old slaves have been taught by the emperor for many years, how dare you do these things Spending money in a private library? The tree, the mountain, the jade pillar carving fence in the fairy palace... Looks like exquisite things from the fairy family, but in fact they are made of thin bamboo strips with a layer of leather oil on the outside. That oil is just a cheap thing for a penny and ten catties, so it looks good, so the people below have to carefully carve the style and put some colorful paint on it, which will never hurt the people."

The colored silk ribbon was wrapped around the leather oil, and he would not mention the golden oil.

Hearing the price, the prince was slightly satisfied. Because his father was a lively and theater-loving man, he nodded with a smile for fear of dissatisfying his father when he talked too much, "Gao Banban is indeed a safe one." people."

The fourth prince Zhu Youzhu asked: "How did the crane do it? Can it really carry people away?"

This is not just the little prince who is under ten years old, even Emperor Chenghua wants to know.

Gao Liang felt triumphant in his heart. He lowered his head and smiled in reply: "That is the silk crane made by the craftsman called Zhadeng, with a piece in the middle that can make people stand up. The one above seems to be cross-legged, but it is not. The leg is a petticoat made of ponytail. The bottom is tightened to hoop the legs. When the crane is pulled to the waist, the petticoat looks outwards like a lantern, covered by a robe, and looks like the legs are crossed. It's like above."

This is because when he watched the rehearsal, he had a pair of artificial legs on the crane that was unnatural, which made the actress ponder to change it. It was regarded as his own actual performance, and he talked endlessly, more vigorously than when he used the set.

The emperor Chenghua praised and said: "It's a reward. Looking back, Zhongguo Shishi, you can mention something..."

The high **** immediately thanked the emperor and asked for a reward for his son: "How can I think of such a fashionable stage trick at the age of an old slave? It is mostly my adopted son who helped it. It can win the emperor and the young men." Praise is also his lifetime glory, the old slave told him when he returned."

The emperor said "Oh" and asked Gao Su's name, age, and where he was on duty. Hearing that he was only a householder with a hundred households, and did not take on a real job, he asked Qin Chang to go to Gaofu to teach him another day, and asked Gao Su to become a householder with a real job.

The former Xie Qianhu also had some ties with their family, and he was a decent person who was able to do business and did not take credit. In the future, Gao Su will be able to take care of him.

Eunuch Gao was satisfied, thanked the emperor for his nephew, and even remembered Cui Xie's benefits.

He and his nephew have both benefited, so you can't tell Choi Xie to drink no soup, right?

He served by the emperor Chenghua, and it was extremely easy to say a good thing or two. The first two months he had just taken over Zhonggusi was a bit busy, so he didn’t care about Cui Xie for the time being. After he straightened out the people below, and made room, he found a good man who didn’t have a good friend by his side and was in a good mood. At that time, he said: "Last year, the emperor asked the slave servant to stare at the prodigy Cui Jiansheng. The slave servant took care of him every day and did not dare to forget it. Now his brother is staying at home, he is going to take the exam, and the emperor wants to listen. Do you listen to his family?"

It doesn't matter if this matter is mentioned, the emperor was really curious when he mentioned it, and he asked, "His brother is back? How is he doing at home?"

The high **** wiped his eyes and said with a touched look: "The emperor's eyes are as bright as a torch, then Cui Jiansheng is not only filial to the two elders, but also good intentions to his brother! The old slave asked people to watch his family. When his younger brother came back from the south, he was seriously ill, and he called someone to Yanyiwenyao to save him. He also personally taught his brother to read, write questions, change papers, and even dare to play tricks in front of Jin Yiwei His younger brother insisted that he became a good boy who knows and respects."

The emperor Chenghua asked: "He is, how to teach?"

Father Gao made preparations early, and asked the little **** to take a pen and paper, and write down a few pre-prepared fill-in-the-blanks, choices, and judgment questions to submit to the eunuch.

The topics are written long, regardless of the content, the number of words shows sincerity. The emperor did it on his own, and it didn't feel remote. They were all must-read Hadiths and Scripture articles of the great ancestor, and they were a kind of serious education. The emperor nodded and asked: "It really is, you love the younger brother. This is, only for the second brother, or..."

The **** Gao said: "These are all for his second brother. That little brother went to school with a man, why should he worry about it? The second brother was in poor health when he first arrived home and couldn't go out. Cui Jiansheng was busy with his studies. , I have to stay up late to teach him questions-now that the child is well raised, I told him to study with Mr. Juren, and I didn't stop giving him questions."

Yes, the more unconscious children, the more fathers...the more the brothers will take care of them. The emperor nodded, looked at the paper and said, "Like a bachelor... someday, if you ask him to enter the palace, I will give it to my prince to teach "Poems"."

Although the high **** was Cui Xie recommended by himself, he was a little surprised to hear the emperor look at him so highly.

Emperor Cheng Hua glanced at him and said simply: "It's like the story of Li Dongyang."

When Li Dongyang was a child, he was called into the palace to talk about "Shangshu" twice. Is it because he was at the same level as Hanlin when he was five or six years old? Asking Cui Xie to enter the palace to give lectures is the same, just ask him to go to the palace to give a trial, to encourage this studious boy... also to ask the prince to meet talents outside the East Palace lecturer.