Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 73
In Tongfu's words, the examiner is famous for his literary talents, and his well-balanced and well-balanced articles are just tasteless in his eyes.

However, if there are good poems, it can add points.

Good or bad is half right, but Shi Zhongkui faintly felt that the emperor sent him here to help him. After all, he was under the impression of the outside world that his poems were strong but his writing was mediocre.

Time passed quickly unknowingly. These days, Shi Zhongkui re-entered the Tribute Court of the Ministry of Rites with a bit of uncertainty after gnawing at the articles circulated by the examiners found by the Yu family and the Xue family.

Same as last time, check the cell, then close your eyes and rest.

In the first session, the topics related to the Four Books and Five Classics were not difficult, and even compared with a whole set of books in the space, it was guaranteed that there would be no mistakes.

The poems are in line with the examiner's style, and his child is just at the age of reading.

So I wrote: The grass grows and the warbler flies to the February sky, and the willows are drunk with spring smoke when blowing the embankment.The children came back early from school, busy taking advantage of the east wind to release paper kites.

In the second round, it is easier to write various official documents, such as edicts, edicts, and forms.

When it came to the third political exam, Shi Zhongkui's head got dizzy when he saw that the topic was to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Open source often represents reform. Based on the thinking of ancient people, it is nothing more than starting with land tax, commercial tax, mining tax and opening the sea. It will inevitably offend the old forces such as nobles, landlords, and even the emperor.

The first choice for throttling is the annual expenses of officials, the consumption of the national army, and the investigation of deficits. Writing any of them is a matter of offending people.

Moreover, it offended even relatives, teachers, countless officials and gentry.

After thinking for a long time, I still can't decide what to start with.

And during this period, several groups of invigilators passed by his dormitory vaguely, and saw that he hadn't started writing, some were smiling, some were serious.

Some people even sneered.

Damn, anyway, the emperor must have lived longer. Based on the book Dream of the Red Chamber, the emperor won in the end.

Besides, the examiners are all from the emperor's side, and fools are against the examiners.

With the decision made, the rest is simple.

However, he did not dare to write about the distribution of the stalls into the mu, the return of fire consumption to the public, the integration of gentry into errands, the integration of food and the liquidation of household deficits.

A certain emperor personally arrested these policies, and they were scolded for hundreds of years and caused a lot of trouble. If he wrote it as a scholar, he would be courting death.

In this case, let’s talk about currency, write down: the reasons and benefits of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, and then list the advantages and disadvantages of the practices of ancient people from ancient times to the present.

As soon as the topic changed, the topic was brought up to the status of the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of currency, which both the ancients and the modern people neglected.

Then write down the first privilege after the dominant currency right, which is to collect huge seigniorage taxes from neighboring countries.

The second privilege is the right to regulate the gold and silver systems of neighboring countries.

It is written, and it only writes about the benefits to the country after gold, silver and copper are minted into clear weight and conversion units, and how to use the right to mint coins to search for the wealth of countries that use their own gold, silver and copper coins.

As for the banknotes, Shi Zhongkui still didn't write them after much deliberation.

One topic is too big to be written on a few sheets of paper, and the second is to explain to the ancients the principle of the gold reserve, 100% will be said to be, to help the royal family search for private wealth.

At the end, I racked my brains to think of more than a dozen items to master the right to mint coins. In fact, it is also a reason to help neighboring countries, and try to minimize some people's attacks on themselves with etiquette, righteousness, and benevolence.

Since it is helping others, it is not so easy to find fault with the old master.

There were three drumbeats, which meant that there was still a stick of incense left before the paper had to be handed in. After checking it carefully, he stopped writing.

I thought in my heart that I am a little Sanyuan anyway, as long as I don't make mistakes, I can't get away with a single person.

As for whether he can become Xie Yuangong again, it depends on God's will.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got this idea, there was a wind blowing inside and outside the cell.

After a while, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and a flash of lightning pierced the sky, followed by rumbling thunder, and the downpour fell in an instant.

Shi Zhongkui was startled, didn't he just write a super-simplified version of the currency war, does God need to react so much?

Moreover, the worshipers in the grassland are shamans, which have nothing to do with Taoism and heaven, not to mention, they are still competitors for incense.

Thinking about it this way, it shouldn't be a thunder to punish him.

Then without thinking about it, he put the paper into the space, and heard someone wailing.

Needless to say, the paper must have been blown away by the wind, or wet by the rain.

After thinking about it, he simply took off his outer robe and used himself as a hanger and the clothes as a curtain to block the cell.

When the scholars in the opposite cell saw them, they hurriedly took off their robes. Anyway, it was the end of August at this time, and the weather was already hot.

And not to mention getting in the rain, just use your body to block the hail, so that someone will not hesitate.

Seeing this, other students also started to learn, so that Shi Zhongkui's row of cells was full of robes floating, and their row had the fewest rejected papers.

Those candidates who were selected for this reason are called a grateful person, and the fact that Shi Zhongkui's papers are spotless is no longer doubted because of the word of mouth of these students.

Fortunately, the rain only fell for half a stick of incense, or about 15 minutes, and surprisingly, the heaviest rainfall was actually in the capital.

Although it was also raining around Gyeonggi, it could only be counted as moderate rain, which made Shi Zhongkui heave a sigh of relief, lest the heavy rain destroy the rice fields on the Daxing side.

After the rain stopped, the courtyard was in chaos.

The cries of the scholars, the reprimands of the invigilators and the yamen servants, and even the low-lying areas in the tribute courtyard had accumulated water up to the ankles at this time, and soon there was an unpleasant smell.

But the expressions of many scholars in Shi Zhongkui's row became ecstatic.

This rain could not increase the test scores of Shi Zhongkui and the students in the same row, but eliminated many opponents.

Shi Zhongkui suddenly felt that God was helping him.

This incident even alarmed the emperor and the cabinet. After all, the township examination in Shuntian Prefecture was held in the capital and the Gongyuan of the Ministry of Rites.

Moreover, although the Tribute Court cannot be opened until the time comes, it does not prevent the outside soldiers and officials from being informed by shouting.

The news spread to the cabinet and the palace immediately, and people like Shi Zhongkui were also told that when the papers were taken away, they all stayed where they were and waited for notification.

If it weren't for the end of August at this time and the weather was still hot, there would definitely be a large number of scholars who fell ill or even died because their bodies were wet.

For a while, the government and the opposition were arguing that according to the old practice, as long as there were rain stains or ink stains, one case would be dethroned.

It's better to open the net and leave the paper that was only wet by rain in the blank space, and there was a lot of trouble between the court and the scholar forest.

As for the answer sheet with a blotch of ink on it, none of the officials dared to say anything.

That night, the Supreme Emperor stood up and, out of sympathy for the difficulty of the imperial examination for the students, agreed to dismiss only the ink-stained answer sheets.

This must be buying people's hearts, but even so, more than 200 papers were discarded by the main examiner and the assistant examiner on the spot.

(End of this chapter)