Rebirth of Tang Dynasty as a dad

At the gate of East City in Chang’an City, a notice was pasted at the entrances of the four gates of the East City. The Imperial Medical Center recruits apprentice workers. The requirements are that they be 20 to [-] years old, have no disabilities, endure hardships and stand hard work, and must be able to read and write. of.

Originally, when everyone saw this notice, they scoffed at each other. The employment of a medical clinic is so harsh, and people who can read characters are scarce. Most young people of this age want to take part in the imperial examination to gain fame. Who will come to be an apprentice in a medical clinic?

But when people saw the treatment, they were not calm, or they immediately became overwhelmed, the apprentice treatment: a monthly salary of two taels of silver!If you do a good job and learn quickly, you will get a salary increase, and you will be awarded ten taels of silver at the end of each year.

Well!Ten taels of silver?Is it just a bonus?God, is this a medical clinic opened by the God of Wealth?Apprentices are recruited in most places without wages. In many places, apprentices with many crafts have to pay tuition fees. I am afraid that this salary is not for recruiting buddies. It is estimated that many shopkeepers are paid this way.

Roughly calculated according to the ratio of the money of the Tang Dynasty to later generations, one tael of silver is equivalent to 8000 yuan for later generations, 24 taels a year, plus a bonus of ten taels is 34 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 13. For civilians, it is definitely a huge sum of money.

With this recruitment notice, many shopkeepers of poorly managed stores are a little moved. Unfortunately, there is an age limit for them, as long as they are young.

However, the city of Chang'an has a population of millions, and except for the nobles, most of them are civilians. Many people want to try this kind of good thing, including some downcast people from poor families, as well as downgraded students, and even poor people with a little bit of literacy. Boys and even beggars all came forward when they heard about it.

However, when people came to the newly opened Imperial Medical Center to apply, they were stopped outside the door again. Because there were too many applicants, they needed to be assessed and selected for admission.

Someone recognized the person in charge of this medical clinic, who turned out to be the genius doctor Du Shaoqing. The crowd was in an uproar for a while. The famous genius doctor's son-in-law, a talented man of the Tang Dynasty, actually opened a medical clinic in the street?

Unsurprisingly, a large number of people came to apply for Du Shaoqing's name. This time, many of the extra people were not poor, and there were even some rich people and even children of minor nobles. They all wanted to cling to him. Go to Du Shaoqing's facade.

Everyone thought to themselves, the assessment is fine, but they just want to test whether we are qualified, how old we are, and whether we can read or not.

Who knew that the notice at the entrance of the medical center said that instead of taking these exams, they had to take the exam papers produced by the medical hall itself. This time, only five people were recruited, so the exam questions were difficult.

"It's not fair. Since we are here as apprentices, it means that we didn't know medical skills before. If you evaluate in this way, you can simply add a notice to the recruitment notice, saying that those with medical skills are preferred. Why bother?" Someone shouted road.

The buddy Erhu explained: "Everyone misunderstood. We don't test anything related to medical skills in this exam. It's just basic common sense, which is fair to everyone."

Well, everyone believed it for a while, so the first batch of qualified applicants were taken into the medical center, and the examination papers were distributed to start answering the questions. Everyone saw that even the examination papers were made of high-quality rice paper, which showed the sincerity of their recruitment this time.

When the test takers see the test papers, they will be confused. The first question is to briefly introduce the history of mankind that you know; the second question is who is the emperor you admire most in history?Why?The third question is to write an ancient poem or long or short sentence that you like the most; the fourth question is to write a chapter of no less than [-] words based on the most memorable person or event on the topic, and it is required to be easy to understand

Is this the recruitment assessment of the medical center, or the historical examination for revising the history books?Also, what the hell is this article?Don't all chapters require magnificent rhetoric?Is it easy to understand or a good chapter?

Looking down, the examinees were even more distraught: Question No. 11, there are chickens and rabbits in the same cage today, the number of chickens and rabbits is 35, and the number of feet is ninety, how many chickens and how many rabbits? Question No.12, as shown in the picture, there is a square with a side length of four, and there are four small circles next to each other inside. What is the area of ​​the shaded part in the picture? Question No.13, from Chang'an to Luoyang for six hundred miles, it takes six hours for one person to go to Luoyang on a fast horse

It's over, not only the history test, but also the arithmetic test?This medical clinic is not here to recruit workers, it is here to deliberately harm people.

Many candidates are full of doubts about this test paper, but Du Shaoqing has already handed over the matter to a group of guys, and he is playing with his daughter in the backyard of the hospital.

The princess Li Lizhi, who is the proprietress, looked at this examination paper, dumbfounded, and thought that this thing seems to be more difficult than the imperial examination paper. After passing this test, I am afraid that the medical center will not be able to recruit apprentices, so she moved to the back house to look for it. Du Shaoqing cleared up.

"Husband, you should correct this test paper. Don't talk about recruiting apprentices for these questions, even if you answer them yourself, you will have to rack your brains." Li Lizhi persuaded.

Du Shaoqing handed the piece of paper just written in front of him to his wife, Li Lizhi took it in a puzzled manner, and read it in a low voice: "Chu Cong, failed for three years; He went out of business again, encountered cheating first, robbers second, and bandits third; then he worked on farming, one year of severe drought, one year of severe floods, and one year of migratory locusts; he studied medicine and achieved success. I wrote a good book Fang, obeyed, and died. So he went to the underworld, waited for a long time for the king of hell to ascend to the hall, impatient, asked, the ghost soldier said: "The king read the file under his foot, laughed wildly, and was in shock in the back hall, and he did not wake up."

Princess Poof finished reading, and she was lying in front of the desk with her stomach covered and laughing. Little Xuanxuan didn't understand, so Du Shaoqing explained the joke in vernacular, and Xuanxuan couldn't straighten up laughing, "Daddy, this person is too old You're stupid, you can't do anything right!"

Du Shaoqing also smiled, recalling that the Du Shaoqing of his predecessor was probably the same as the person in the joke.

After laughing, the princess pointed to the short article and said: "From my own perspective, I should change this to read: I am studying medicine, I have achieved success, I am applying for a job in the Imperial Medical Center, and I will die when I meet the exam questions!"

Facing his wife's ridicule, Du Shaoqing didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "We are not recruiting great Confucian scholars in the imperial examination. This kind of question is not difficult at all. Youdao means that the masters are in the folk. This question is far worse than the college entrance examination. It is not as good as the high school entrance examination." , at most it is a question for junior high school exams."

The princess didn't understand the witty new words in her husband's words. Although she didn't know what the college entrance examination was, she also saw that her husband didn't want to change the difficulty, so she stopped trying to persuade her. I hope someone can answer it.

The Imperial Medical Center opened in the morning, and three groups of people took the exam in the morning, and basically all the papers were blank, so the Imperial Medical Hall in Dongshi immediately became famous in Chang'an City, and the emperor asked for a copy of the examination papers. He wanted to see the legendary How difficult are the exam questions that the people complained about.

Seeing this, Li Er was also dumbfounded, as if, as if, maybe, it was really difficult!

"Come on, call Xuanling and Shilian over here, what question did this kid ask? Why don't you black out the inside of the square?" After Li Er sent someone to deliver the decree, he looked at these questions Math problem, muttered.

Fang Xuanling is the chancellor, knowledgeable, Gao Shilian is the minister of the household department, good at arithmetic, they probably know how to answer.

Chapter 2 seems a bit difficult

In a courtyard in Chang'an City, a little girl was lying on the bed thinking about the test paper, frowning and cursing while doing the questions, "What kind of questions did this bad guy ask? He also said that if I can answer all the questions, let me answer them all." The proprietress of the pharmacy, hmph, obviously this is deliberately making things difficult for me."

Although she was cursing Du Shaoqing in fragments, the little girl seemed to have a determination not to give up, and she was still working hard on the questions.She is Du Shaoqing's engaged wife, Miss Wu Zhao.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Du Gou is coming back from the outside, so Wu Zhao's mother and daughter can no longer live in Laiguo Mansion, which will attract criticism. Du Shaoqing rented a yard for them to live in temporarily, and provided them with money and food on time. Married Wu Zhao until she was 16 years old. Originally, Du Shaoqing wanted to say maybe 20 years old, but the little girl stomped her feet and refused, so she had to force it. 16 years old is good. This age is also the legal age of marriage for women newly revised by Datang .

In the Palace of Political Affairs, after Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian got the test paper, they browsed through it first, and then the old Fang said to Gao Shilian: "You are the Secretary of the Ministry of Households who is good at counting. The previous test questions about history and chapters Leave it to me, and I will leave the rest of the arithmetic problems to you."

Gao Shilian twitched his beard, he was in a bad mood, and he was slow to speak. He was blamed by Fang Xiang, and he quickly retorted: "Fang Xiang is modest, you are the prime minister, a great talent for seeking the country, and it is definitely not a problem to mere calculations. , I just happen to have research on history, let's discuss it together."

Li Er saw it, well, what happened to the two confidant ministers today?They even started to blame each other in front of their own faces?This is not normal.

"Ahem, my dear ladies, I invite you to come here for more details. Please don't get me wrong about the area of ​​the shaded area. I know the rest of the questions by heart." Li Erqing reminded with a cough.

Gao Shilian asked in surprise: "Your Majesty, you have already solved the No. 13 problem of the collision between a fast horse and a slow horse from Chang'an to Luoyang? Forgive me for your stupidity, Your Majesty, please help me."

"Uh..." Li Er was stunned for a moment, and then said with some embarrassment: "I haven't had time to see that question, let's do it one by one."

Fang Xuanling asked curiously: "Your Majesty, where did this test paper come from? Could it be a new question type for next year's scientific examination?"

Li Er explained with a wry smile, and at the end he exhorted: "If we can't even answer the recruitment test questions for a pharmacy, wouldn't it make people laugh? Seeing this test paper, I feel that the previous scientific examinations were a bit of a joke. It has to be more difficult."

It's over, the student of the scientific examination was also shot innocently, Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian looked at each other, this could not be that His Majesty, the father-in-law, is competing with his son-in-law Du Consort.

The three monarchs and ministers in the Palace of Political Affairs studied the math problems of a test paper for a long time before they came up with two answers. After a long time, Gao Shilian proposed: "Your Majesty, there are so many test questions, why don't you let the ministers take them back for the household ministers to answer?" Do you want to get involved?"

"The old minister also wants to take it back for his colleagues to take a look at. This test paper seems quite interesting. Since it was written by Consort Du, the number one talented man, there must be many people interested in it." Fang Xuanling continued.

The two old officials tactfully offered to give up, and Li Er went down the donkey and asked them to take the test papers back, and he himself stood up and walked to the apse. After a short time, he changed into plain clothes and brought his servant, Lao Gao, in modest clothes. Coming out of the palace, he wanted to see if anyone could answer such a difficult exam question. Of course, the most important thing was that he wanted to get an answer from his son-in-law Du Shaoqing, and he didn't know what medicine was sold in this son-in-law's gourd. .

When it comes to selling medicine, Du Shaoqing has already achieved half of the success, that is, he successfully used an incident to spread his medical clinic all over the streets and alleys of Datang before it even opened. door.

Hearing her husband explain the exam in this way, Li Lizhi asked in surprise: "Husband, didn't you say that the medical clinic can't have customers like clouds? Why do you still use this method to attract customers?"

Du Shaoqing glanced at his wife in embarrassment, and then explained solemnly: "This is not to attract customers, but to let customers come here to solve their illnesses. Wouldn't it be very painful if they didn't seek medical treatment when they were sick?"

The princess covered her mouth and let out a chuckle, and instead of puncturing her husband's irrational words, she asked puzzledly with each test paper: "Husband, I see how many people have already answered a few of these test papers, why do you see them all?" Get eliminated without even looking at it?"

Du Shaoqing glanced at the pile of test papers, and said disdainfully: "Let's not talk about the few questions answered, just comment on the emperor, without exception, they all write about my old father-in-law, my majesty today. , but they are full of flattery in their teens and 20s, I guess the yamen gate is suitable for them, we are a pharmacy here, and we do a solid business, so these are not acceptable."

The princess suddenly realized, "Oh, it turns out that the husband's question is not about the answer, but has a deeper meaning. It is to use the question to examine a person's character. I have to say that this method is really brilliant."

Suddenly being praised by his wife, Du Shaoqing was still a little smug, but his smile didn't reach halfway from the corner of his mouth, and a voice came from outside the door: "Is it so unworthy of mentioning? Why can't someone admire it?"

"Ah! My daughter has met the emperor, why don't you say hello when you come?" The princess turned her head and saw that it was her father, and hurriedly saluted.

Du Shaoqing quickly got up and followed the salute, thinking that he really recited it, and he was bumped into every word he said.

"I didn't know that my father-in-law was coming, and my son-in-law was far away to welcome me."

Li Er walked into the living room of the back house of the medical center. After looking at it, he found something new. It seemed that the tables, chairs and furniture were very unique, and he didn't continue to make things difficult for his son-in-law when he commented on the emperor. After all, Li Er himself hated those mundane things. With flattery, he turned to ask about the furnishings of the living room.

Du Shaoqing explained that when customizing the furniture for the medical hall a few days ago, the carpenter specially asked the carpenter to make new ones, such as Taishi chairs and Eight Immortals tables, etc., which are generally sitting on the ground in the Tang Dynasty, and the low tables are very inconvenient for people to kneel and sit. In the long run, there will be more leg diseases, and this design solves this problem.