A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 872 Jia Yucun

In the blink of an eye, it was the New Year, and the Lin family was a little more lively. But because the mistress of the Lin family had just passed away a few months ago, there was one less person in the family during the Spring Festival this year, and the Lin family father and daughter were inevitably a little sad.

Fortunately, Lu Cheng is here to chat with Lin Daiyu and discuss poetry and knowledge with Lin Ruhai, so the place doesn't seem lonely.

Just after the New Year, Lu Cheng began to prepare for the county examination.

The imperial examination system originated in the Sui and Tang dynasties, developed in the Song dynasty, and matured in the Ming dynasty. Today, it has formed a fairly complete examination process and entered its heyday.

If a scholar wanted to take the imperial examination, he had to first take the county examination held by the county. After passing the county examination, he could then take the prefectural examination held by the state. Only by passing the prefectural examination could he obtain the status of a tongsheng and be qualified to take the official imperial examination of the court.

Therefore, the county examination and the prefectural examination are also called the Tongsheng examination.

The Tongsheng exam mainly tests the mastery of basic knowledge such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, and the main content is mainly dictation. As long as you have a good memory and study hard, there will be no problem.

Lu Cheng naturally had no problem with such an exam.

Soon, Lu Cheng successfully passed the county examination in February and the prefectural examination in April, and won the first place in the county and prefectural examinations respectively.

If Lu Cheng can still win the first place in the college examination in August, he can be called "Little Three Prizes".

There are also the first place in the provincial examination, the first place in the metropolitan examination, the first place in the imperial examination, and the first place in the palace examination, the first place in the imperial examination.

If one can get first place in all six examinations, he will be called "Six-time Champion". In the history of Chinese imperial examinations, only two people have achieved this achievement, one in the early Ming Dynasty and the other in the Qing Dynasty.

After the results of the provincial examination were announced, Lin Ruhai asked the servants in his house to set up a table to celebrate for Lu Cheng.

At this moment, a servant from the mansion came to report: "Master, Mr. Jia has arrived."

"Please come in quickly."

Soon, a servant came in, leading a middle-aged scholar with a broad face, square mouth, sword-like eyebrows, bright eyes and extraordinary appearance.

Lin Ruhai quickly stood up to greet him: "Brother Yucun has been gone for several months. I didn't expect you to return today. Come in quickly."

"You are too polite, Mr. Dong. I also want to congratulate you for having such a good disciple. This must be Mr. Lu who just won the first place in the palace examination. He is indeed a man of extraordinary appearance and character."

Lin Ruhai also smiled slightly and introduced: "Cheng'er, this is Mr. Jia, your junior sister's mentor."

Lu Cheng stepped forward and bowed, then glanced at Jia Yucun in front of him. This man actually had a good-looking appearance.

Jia Yucun, whose real name is Jia Hua and whose pen name is Yucun, is also quite interesting, as "false words" and "false words exist" correspond exactly to Zhen Shiyin's "true things are hidden".

Zhen Shiyin, who was kind-hearted and eager to help others, eventually ended up with his family broken up and his loved ones killed.

On the contrary, Jia Yucun, who seemed to have extraordinary appearance but was actually good at disguise, insidious, cunning, and ungrateful, eventually rose step by step and even became the Grand Marshal.

Jia Yucun was originally from Huzhou. He came from a scholarly family and was once an official. Later, his family fell into decline and he became a poor scholar. He couldn't even raise enough money to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination.

Later, Jia Yucun met Zhen Shiyin. Seeing that Jia Yucun was extremely talented, Zhen Shiyin gave him fifty taels of silver as travel expenses and sent him to Beijing to take the exam.

Jia Yucun received the silver the night before and left before dawn the next day. He only asked someone to bring a message to Zhen Shiyin and then rushed to the capital to take part in the imperial examination.

Afterwards, Jia Yucun passed the imperial examination and was directly appointed as a prefectural governor, which was equivalent to the secretary of the municipal party committee of a prefecture-level city in later generations.

When ordinary Jinshi scholars were sent out to serve as officials, they usually started as county magistrates. Since Jia Yucun was able to start as a prefect, he was obviously not an ordinary Jinshi scholar, but a Hanlin scholar who was selected into the Hanlin Academy.

Hanlin academicians, also known as "the emperor's disciples", are the talents most valued by the emperor.

However, Jia Yucun had been the prefect for less than a year before he was dismissed from office because he relied on his talent, was arrogant, and was corrupt and cruel.

After that, Jia Yucun left the officialdom and traveled around. When he arrived in Yangzhou, he caught a cold and stayed there to rest. He happened to hear that the salt inspector Lin Ruhai was looking for a teacher for his daughter, so he asked his friends to help him enter the Lin residence and serve as Lin Daiyu's teacher for more than a year.

Last year, due to the death of her mother, Lin Daiyu's old illness relapsed and she could not continue her studies. Jia Yucun, her enlightenment teacher, had nothing to do, so he continued to travel and has not returned since then.

Not long ago, Jia Yucun heard that the court was going to reinstate some officials who had been dismissed. At the suggestion of a friend, Jia Yucun wanted to ask Lin Ruhai for help to fill the vacancy through his connections.

In the original novel, Lin Ruhai directly agreed to Jia Yucun's request and asked Jia Yucun to help escort Lin Daiyu to Beijing.

In order to fill the vacancy for Jia Yucun, Lin Ruhai wrote a letter, used his personal connections, and entrusted Jia Zheng of the Jia family, and eventually made Jia Yucun the prefect of Jinling.

This led to the later incident of "The Monk Who Misjudged the Gourd Case", in which Jia Yucun turned a blind eye to Zhen Yinglian, the daughter of his former benefactor Zhen Shiyin, and allowed her to be sold to "Xue Pan".

Of course, these are things to follow.

Now, when Lin Ruhai heard what Jia Yucun asked, he also nodded and agreed: "Brother Yucun has great talent, and it is indeed not right to waste it here. I will write a letter and ask you to assist me. You don't have to worry too much."

"In that case, Yucun would like to thank you. I just wonder what position your father holds now?"

"My brother-in-law and Brother Yucun are from the same genealogy, and are the grandsons of Duke Rong. The eldest brother-in-law inherited the position of a first-class general, and his name is She, with the courtesy name Enhou. The second brother-in-law is named Zheng, with the courtesy name Cunzhou, and is currently serving as a deputy minister of the Ministry of Works..."

Lin Ruhai briefly introduced his two uncles, and Jia Yucun felt relieved after hearing that.

After the banquet, Lin Ruhai wrote a letter and prepared some travel expenses and gave them to Jia Yucun. In the letter, he arranged everything properly. It can be said that he had done his best.

Lu Cheng watched all this and didn't say much.

Even though he knew that Jia Yucun was an ungrateful and despicable man, he could not say it in front of Lin Ruhai. After all, Jia Yucun was Lin Daiyu's teacher.

After seeing Jia Yucun off, Lu Cheng also planned to return to Jinling to look for Zhen Yinglian.

Those traffickers who specialize in trafficking young girls usually travel around and do not stay in one place for too long. Lu Cheng did not know where Zhen Yinglian was before, so he had no way to find her.

However, just as Jia Yucun took office as the prefect of Jinling, he encountered an incident in which Xue Pan of the Xue family and Master Feng were fighting for "Zhen Yinglian" and someone was killed.

From this, we can infer that when Jia Yucun was about to take up the post of prefect of Jinling, the human trafficker must have brought Zhen Yinglian to Jinling.

Now, Jia Yucun has just come to Beijing to fill a vacancy. It is two thousand miles from the capital, and from Kyoto to Jinling, it is almost another two thousand miles. The round trip will take a lot of time.

By then, Lu Cheng could use the excuse of returning to his hometown to worship his parents, return to Jinling, and find Zhen Yinglian...