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After the second day of the second lunar month, the winter cold gradually receded, all things recovered, and the rain gradually increased. It was time for farmers to prepare for spring plowing. Both inside and outside Bianliang City, the atmosphere of spring river warming could be clearly felt. The tender buds sprouting on the trees, the gradually blooming flowers, the farmers and vendors entering the city to buy and sell various things for spring plowing, and the farm children following their parents into the city all made the atmosphere of spring's arrival warmer and more solid.

In addition to the major event of spring plowing, the more lively event in Bianliang City in February may be this year's spring imperial examination. The capital examination is a grand event for selecting talents for the country, said to be held every three years. However, such rules are not fixed. Sometimes the emperor feels a shortage of people, or the literary world is flourishing. In the Wu Dynasty, holding it every two or one year was not uncommon. Especially after setting the great plan for the Northern Expedition, whether it succeeded or failed, a large number of useful talents would be needed in the future. In recent years, the selection of talents has become more frequent.

Although the Ministry of Personnel has been quite troubled by various idle and redundant officials, for the emperor, truly useful talents are never too many.

Due to the approaching spring examination, the candidates who came to the capital had already gathered before the New Year. From the New Year to now, various literary gatherings have been frequent. Scholars participate in gatherings to seek opportunities to stand out, or send their works to the residences of various officials and literary giants, hoping to gain the favor of senior officials, which has become a common practice.

In fact, although in later generations, various important examinations have taken it for granted to avoid favoritism and prevent the examiners from seeing the candidates' names, but in fact, before the Wu Dynasty, such examinations were not anonymous. During the Tang Dynasty, the candidates' names were clearly known to the examiners, and the examination tested more of the student's reputation outside the examination hall and their ability to manage relationships. In a sense, this also tested the other party's interpersonal relationships and background, but there were certain reasons for selecting officials in this way.

Since the first generation of the Wu Dynasty, examinations began to be anonymous. However, the custom of candidates sending their works everywhere has not changed much. After all, good management may lead to obtaining examination questions or receiving guidance from predecessors. Even after passing the examination, these interpersonal relationships have a great effect. These things are also making the literary atmosphere in Bianliang City more and more prosperous and enthusiastic. For people who truly enjoy this kind of thing, it is indeed enjoyable.

Around the beginning of spring, some literati and scholars also ran to Ning Yi's residence to send their works and pay visits, not knowing where they found the connections.

Especially in these few days of February, several groups of students came. Some wanted to ask Ning Yi for advice on poetry, and some came to criticize Ning Yi's actions. For example, a student from the Imperial Academy named Chen Dong, a well-known talent in Bianliang, visited and criticized Ning Yi for engaging in business and not using his talents to serve the country, reading the books of sages in vain. Ning Yi was so headache that he kicked him out.

Fortunately, the other party had said what he wanted to say and did not pester him for too long. This Chen Dong was a few years older than Ning Yi and quite heroic. Among the students in the Imperial Academy and other places, although he was not the most outstanding in talent, he had always been a representative with great appeal.

When Ning Yi mentioned it to Yao Zunian, it was said that the other party had even written articles scolding the retired Grand Tutor Cai Jing several times, which was truly a hero. Of course, his luck in the imperial examination was a little worse. He had a reputation but never obtained an official position, probably due to the implicit influence of Cai Jing.

"However, Chen Dong will take the initiative to scold you, which shows that your reputation in the capital has been quite loud recently. However, for the sake of two restaurants, doing things like this, I'm a bit disappointed in you..." Wen Ren'er commented on this matter, "I can understand Chen Dong's mood very well."

The fact that such a situation has been created at this time is, in a way, Ning Yi's deliberate management. In the past few days, the news that two new works by the great talent Ning Liheng will be released at the Zhuji in the city has spread in the literary world of Bianliang. The most important thing is that Miss Shishi even turned down several important invitations for the performance of these two new works, which has caused quite a stir after these things spread.

The ninth day of February is the first exam of this year's spring examination, and January and February are the best time for the talents of Bianliang to manage their reputation. Ning Yi spread this news at the end of January, which immediately reminded many people of the many poems and lyrics he had spread during the Dragon Boat Festival a year earlier. Therefore, some people were looking forward to the content of the two new works, while others were eager to wait for the day the poems and lyrics were released, hoping to overshadow the other party with better works.

In short, no matter what kind of psychology, they have attracted enough attention to the two Zhuji named "Evening Glow" and "Rain Swallow" in Bianliang City. Although it has only been a few days, the two Zhuji have become extremely popular, and the business of briquettes and coal stoves has also expanded several times. During this period, of course, there are also those with better connections who have begun to inquire about Ning Yi's news and background.

Even if the two restaurants are full, the number of guests they can accommodate is limited after all. In terms of the hunger marketing methods of later generations, whether it is Li Shishi's name or the poems and lyrics in his hand, there is more potential to be tapped. For example, after returning home, Su Yanping and others suggested that he could create some ambiguous things with Li Shishi and visit Fanlou more often, but Ning Yi after all

knew the principle of knowing when to stop and rejected these suggestions.

"It's enough to attract enough hatred. After all, doing business is a long-term thing. I want to open a store and match it with a poem or lyric, so that everyone can follow the poems and lyrics. If in the end everyone's curiosity is drawn to Li Shishi, wouldn't all the business go to Fanlou? You guys are just coming up with bad ideas..."

Business is business.

After Tan'er, Xiaochan, Yunzhu, Jin'er and others left one after another, Ning Yi, who was guarding a big family, also felt a little lonely.

Of course, this feeling was not discouraging, but made him feel a little novel. When the spring rain fell, Ning Yi often handled things at home and took care of the children by the way. Sometimes he turned his head and said to Ningxi, who was sitting in a small car next to him: "When Dad finishes handling these things, I'll take you to find your runaway mother, okay?"

The child in the wooden car shook the small toy in her hand and nodded and clapped her hands in response with "Oh! Oh!"

"I'll spank her ass when the time comes!"

"Ah ah!"

"Look, you also think I'm right."

He smiled, picked up the brush and started writing.

When Tan'er and Xiaochan left, Xing'er also followed. Usually, it was Juan'er who stayed with the children, or the wet nurse who was hired. Ning Yi did not intend to continue such things for too long. In addition to feeling the loneliness around him, the Ning Mansion was actually quite lively.

After chatting with Ning Yi, Su Wending and others did not take the small contradictions between their husband and wife as a matter of course. In fact, they still regarded this entanglement as evidence that Ning Yi did not know how to pick up girls at all. Zhu Biao took on the responsibility of training the Ning Mansion's guards, and at the same time was curiously feeling everything in this big city of Bianliang.

On the other hand, around the New Year, relatives of the Su family also visited the Ning Mansion. One who stayed was the second son of Zhizhou Song Mao, who was related to the Su family, named Song Yongping. He ranked fourth in Song Mao's branch, and his family called him Xiao Si. It is said that he was smart since he was a child and had the reputation of a child prodigy. At the age of nineteen, he passed the examination and became a Xiucai. This time, he also came to the capital to participate in the spring examination.

This Song Yongping had previous experience of going to the capital with his father, and he was also quite experienced. He went to Beijing with two servants to make friends and send his works, which was also well-organized. He looked upright and honest, but in fact he was quite shrewd and talented. Because he was born in an official family, it can be seen that his perception of the Su family was still conservative, especially for Ning Yi, it can be seen that his perception was complicated.

The Son-in-Law of the Su family, but also has the reputation of the number one talent in Jiangning. Last year, the Su family was tragically exterminated, and he saved the entire Su clan, which shows that he is very capable, but he does not get involved in officialdom... Song Mao wanted to understand these news after all, but when it was passed on to Song Yongping, it was difficult to say what it would become.

After he came to the Ning Mansion, he was still relatively close to Su Wending and others, but an official child who passed the examination and became a Xiucai at the age of eighteen or nineteen would of course have a sense of superiority when he met these merchant relatives. On the one hand, he maintained his cultivation and politeness, and on the other hand, he was also observing Ning Yi, a person who sounded quite complicated.

However, this time he came to the capital, he encountered the matter of Su Tan'er running away from home again. It is difficult to say how great the ability of a man who cannot even suppress his own wife is, and although he is kind to his elder brothers such as Su Wending, the atmosphere in this family is also extremely relaxed and lively, but relaxed and lively means there is no majesty. For Song Yongping, a child who came from a serious official family, everything can only be thought of in this direction.

This brother-in-law... maybe he is smart, and also has the powerful means of ordinary shrewd people, but it is only merchant-like shrewdness, and I am afraid he will not be able to get on the big stage. He has no airs, and he can play with children at home alone, so there is no majesty. As a relative, he is a person who can be associated with in his spare time. However, he has many important things to do recently, so he does not have this mind to deliberately manage it.

At the beginning of February, this young scholar who lived in the Ning family evaluated his brother-in-law in this way. Although I heard that he even has a relationship with Li Shishi, and may be able to help him with something, but out of the arrogance of a literati, he does not want to take such a relationship for the time being. As for his relationship with the Right Prime Minister, in fact, Song Mao and Qin Siyuan also had dealings before. This time when he came to Beijing, before arriving at the Ning Mansion, he first visited the Right Prime Minister's Mansion with his father's letter.

For Song Yongping, who is accustomed to officialdom and knows the relationship of interests, he also understands that the interaction between merchants is not that they cannot get in touch with upper-level people. But even if they get in touch, it is only the interaction in the business world, and the other party may not take you seriously. If you have the ability, of course you don't need to ask for help. Moreover, in his opinion, even in the heart of the Right Prime Minister, the existence of his father must be higher than this brother-in-law.

Although after seeing the old man, the other party mentioned the name of his brother-in-law twice, it was of course only a means of expressing kindness...

Ning Yi of course had no intention of exploring the thoughts of this brother-in-law. If it really came to examination cheating or something, Song Mao did not speak, and his business had not reached this point. As for the degree of closeness of the relationship, since the other party came over, he would prepare a good enough examination preparation environment for him. After going to the Qin Mansion, he also mentioned this matter to Yao Zunian and others. Yao Zunian gave

some key points of the examination. On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Qin Siyuan also mentioned his brother-in-law to Ning Yi, and gave Ning Yi a few questions: "Take them back and let him take a look. But I don't know if they will be tested. Take them back and let him review them well..."

After saying this, he talked to Ning Yi about the spring plowing in the future.

Ning Yi knew Qin Siyuan's character. He would not help in this matter to cheat in the examination, because the matter was too small and there was no need for him to take action. These points that may be tested are probably what he guessed after chatting with other officials, but the reliability is naturally much greater than the outside world. After returning that day, he handed it to Song Yongping casually: "Prime Minister Qin asked me to pass it on to you, and let you rest well these few days and review it by the way. There is also this one, which was guessed by Mr. Yao Zunian from the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Song Yongping naturally knew the name of Yao Zunian. That day when he paid a visit, the old man was also there. After learning that he was Song Mao's son, he even said a few words of encouragement to him.

Looking back, when Qin Siyuan was dismissed from office, his father was also one of the people who went to visit.

That night, Song Yongping was reading books in the yard. Recalling this matter, he shook his head and smiled faintly.

It is much better to give charcoal in the snow than to add flowers to the brocade. My father's face is indeed very useful. My brother-in-law should also have benefited from this matter. After all, they are a family, and it is natural for them to benefit a little...

So the next morning, he talked and laughed even more harmoniously with Su Wending, Su Wenfang and others...

After breakfast, Ning Yi greeted Song Yongping and others and went out to Fanlou. The performances of the two Zhuji were on the sixth and seventh of the first lunar month respectively, and it was necessary to meet with Miss Shishi, who was in charge of the performance today. After Fanlou, he still had to go to the Qin Mansion to check the new news from the Secret Intelligence Division about the Fang Qifo incident in the south.

Although he decided to settle the Zhuji matter after the spring examination, he would take his child to find his mother and should not be able to wait for Fang Qifo to enter Beijing. But at least he was somewhat concerned about the recent situation of Chen Fan and others. The Ministry of Justice had made a decision to escort the prisoners to Beijing all the way, attract those who robbed the prisoners, gradually lead out the rioters, and wipe them out in one fell swoop. Two Zongbutou who were said to be very experienced and powerful were also sent to participate in this matter. In any case, he at least hoped that Chen Fan would not be trapped in this matter and lose his life.

Of course, this matter is ultimately not something he can influence. In addition to looking at the progress, he can't think of anything else...

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