The lively Lantern Festival will fill the capital, because the panic caused by the Jin Prince's rebellion will be completely dispelled.
Some of the officials involved were sentenced to death, some were sentenced to exile, and some were still under investigation. Considering that the imperial examination was approaching, the emperor was not in a hurry to deal with these people. He planned to kill those who should be killed and exile those who should be exiled after the examination was over.
His behavior undoubtedly won the gratitude of the candidates in Beijing.
The imperial examination is held every three years, but how many three years are there in a lifetime
Li Qingzhi and his companions went to Beijing by boat, which was relatively easy and did not take much time. However, some scholars had to walk for a month or so to go to Beijing to take the exam!
Traveling is still very dangerous these days. It is easy to encounter robbers and get sick... Most people don't like to travel long distances.
It is not easy for these candidates to come to the capital, so they naturally hope that the examination will go smoothly.
Liu Nancheng rented a house from a farmer's house in the capital. The servant who came with him to the capital was chopping wood and cooking meat beside him.
While Lu Qingxi was selling pork at a cheap price, he also said that candidates could get pork for free.
Many scholars don't know how to cook and don't think highly of these things, but for Liu Nancheng, this is a great thing.
He went there and led
I got a large piece of meat and a pig's foot.
At this moment, his servant had lit the fire and was stewing pig's feet with soybeans.
The smell was so fragrant... Liu Nancheng couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply took the "Collected Works of Li Zixiao" in his hand and went outside, standing in the cold wind and silently reading the articles in the book.
As he was reading, he came across an allusion he had never seen before. After thinking about it, he walked out and knocked on the door of another scholar not far away.
Liu Nancheng had never seen this story before, so he didn't know about it. However, the scholar had seen it before, so he immediately introduced it to Liu Nancheng.
Liu Nancheng said with gratitude: "Brother Gu, thank you very much!"
"No need to thank me. Even Eunuch Lu is willing to help others, so of course I am willing to do the same!" said Mr. Gu.
Mr. Gu had his reasons for saying this.
After printing "Collected Works of Li Zixiao", Lu Qingxi printed some other books that were beneficial to the imperial examinations and sold them at low prices.
These even include articles written by some officials during the imperial examinations in their early years!
Ordinary scholars have no chance to see these, but now, Lu Qingxi printed them out for everyone to see!
Nowadays, many scholars are grateful to Lu Qingxi.
They compared the articles written by those Jinshi with those in the Collected Works of Li Zixiao and found that Li Qingzhi's articles were not inferior to those written by those Jinshi.
That would have been fine, but during this period, Li Qingzhi went out every day, attended parties everywhere, and left his works behind.
Li Qingzhi's calligraphy is so good! In terms of writing alone, there are still people who dare to compete with him, but as for calligraphy... Anyway, those scholars in the capital all admit that they can't compare with Li Qingzhi.
There were also some people who loved calligraphy and painting and offered to buy Li Qingzhi's calligraphy at high prices, which made Li Qingzhi even more famous.
"Li Zixiao has such literary talent, why would he need to flatter Eunuch Lu?"
"Eunuch Lu probably just admires him."
"I heard that even the eldest princess has a crush on him!"
"Even if he is Eunuch Lu's man, isn't Eunuch Lu loyal to the emperor?"