There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 273

After noon, the papers could be handed in, and Wu Youwei handed them in. After handing in, he cleaned up and he could rest for half a day.

Then I tidied up my number room, changed the toilet, stretched my waist, and moved around in the narrow number room

Before sunset, it was rolled up.

Candidates can go home and rest for a day.

As soon as the dragon gate opened, everyone lined up to go out. Many people called for friends, and many servants and book boys were looking for their masters.

More than 30 of them got together and were taken home.

One by one was indeed exhausted.

But each of them was still thinking about the content of the exam, Wu Youwei advised them to let go of the past, they handed in the papers if they passed the exam.

Concentrate on preparing for the next two tests.

There is no need to mention the small questions such as theories, tables, and edicts, and the examiner will not read them carefully. It is almost enough to use the works of sages who have memorized them.

Judgment, especially as long as you memorize the laws of the Ming Dynasty, you can do it right. After all, act according to the law, and no one can make mistakes.

Let's just look at Luo Lun, how good was the situation back then? He was the first champion hand-picked by Emperor Xianzong, and he was dispatched to the

That remote place in the south? If it weren't for the double-cropping rice and triple-cropping rice, and the overseas crops, would Luo Lun be remembered by Emperor Xianzong?

, but also two words.

So when the gun hits the head, no one dares to stand up.

The most important thing is the policy question.

Not only in the third exam, there are strategy questions, but also in the most important palace exam.

If the level of policy questions is not at the top of the second class, it is best not to take the exam after the exam is over, so as not to fall into the third class and have a difficult future

February [-]th.

Exam continues

It is still the third shift, queue up in the middle of the night, enter the venue at the fourth shift, and check.

This time Wu Youwei has learned a lot, because after the second exam, someone still brought a cheat sheet!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t admire it, you have a cheat sheet…is it useful?

Wantong is still the one who inspected Wu Youwei

It's just that this time Wu Youwei is no longer assigned to the original number room, but it's not too bad, and the number he gets is still a good one.

No air leakage, no snow leakage, sunny, far away from latrines and other places.

I won't say much about the content of the exam, we can't understand it, Wu Youwei was still cautious during the exam, he didn't want to

Wait another three years.

The second exam was still strenuous, so Wu Youwei dealt with it cautiously.

Wait until February [-]th.

It is the policy question test which is the last of the three tests.

This scene is very important, because "asking questions based on classics, righteousness or political affairs requires answers to test scholars." What is asked is the state affairs.

Since the Ming Dynasty, Cewen Jingyi has been changed to Wence.

Asking about the way of governing the country has made literati more concerned about state affairs over the past years.

The last question of the third game is four words:

君问

Grain.

Just four words, let you solve the problem and offer suggestions.

The meaning of grain and fodder is the grain for the people in the army and the fodder for the horses.

But the bottom line is still the food problem. At this time in the Ming Dynasty, there were already signs of the Little Ice Age, and the weather was erratic.

Earthquakes are frequent, and solar and lunar eclipses are constant.

The harvest is getting less and less day by day, otherwise Emperor Xianzong would not pay so much attention to farming, and if there is no food, he will be hungry.

Can you still sit still?

Yiqiao A few days ago, they talked a lot about the issue of farming. In ancient times, farming was the main thing, and agriculture received a lot of attention

, It's just that the weather is limited and the technology is not good, so we can only rely on the weather.

How can it be like the later generations? There are droughts and floods, and the government provides subsidies and monitors the grain market.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the price of grain dropped when there was a good harvest, and the farmers did not make money; if the grain was not expensive, the farmers were still hungry.

In addition, it is an ancestral system for the frontier troops of the Ming Dynasty to farm the fields. In fact, this ancestral system makes the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty more and more like farmers working in agriculture

Not soldiers on horseback.

Wu Youwei went through these messy things over and over again in his mind, and only started to write the next day: I am right...

Jun asked, naturally the subject must be right.

The country's stability depends on food.

If everyone can have a full stomach, fools will rebel.

Why did the later generations have "the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong"? It was because at that time everyone could eat enough, no matter how tattered the clothes were, at least

They are not hungry, and the reason why they are not hungry is that corn and potatoes have been popularized at that time, and the Kangxi Royal Rice in the Yongzheng period was

Let some places in the north be able to grow double-cropping rice.

The ancients said: When the granaries are full, they know etiquette.

It's not just moaning for nothing, think about it, when the grain output is high, the people will have a good life, and refugees and rebels will all

If it is reduced, taxes can also be paid enough.

By analogy, when all the taxes are collected, the court officials can be paid in full, and the soldiers can also receive food and salaries.

According to Li Dongyang, who has been an Hanlin, the current officials, the more ordinary Hanlin, give two stones of rice a month.

, The color is given to the worthless brown rice, and often not enough.

And Liu Daxia's place is not much better, let alone Liu Jian.

Li Dongyang said it was even more pitiful. He said that Hanlin is not only expensive, but also clean. He has seen many Hanlins who are very talented, but

They are very embarrassed in life. They go to other people's houses to have dinner and wine, and they can eat happily with a foot of cloth and half a salted fish.

But because they have Wu Youwei's help, they can serve a table full of chicken, duck, fish, delicious food and wine when they treat guests.

It's all because they know Wu Youwei, and the family has Wu Youwei's share, so they can save some money and live a good life, Li

Dongyang can stand upright at home.

Although it is said that Li Dongyang's wife is also very virtuous, but as a man, relying on his wife to support his family, this is hard to say!

Especially people like Liu Xuan, who have a poor family, if they only live on salary, they will have to save for a few years before they are willing to pay such a meal?

Thanks to Wu Youwei who told Liu Jian's wife about the investment business, he could get a lot of dividends every month, which made Liu Jian's family not so tight

Not only civil servants, but military generals also need it. If the frontier army has food, the soldiers will be fed, trained enough, and equipped with new equipment.

can also play more easily

Unlike now, since Emperor Yingzong was captured, the aliens outside the pass invaded the pass every year as if they had tasted the sweetness

, looting wealth, children, food, etc...

Wu Youwei's thoughts flowed like a spring, after writing and writing, he revised and corrected, and made several pieces of straw paper, and his mind was full of sleep at night

loyalty".

When Wantong was adding charcoal to him, he saw his pile of toilet paper and sighed. Fortunately, he only had one day left to try.

Otherwise, who can endure this?

Thinking of his previous mock exams, and comparing them to the present, it seems that the present is better?

During those mock exams, they used the worst environment, the most disgusting layout, and cramped exam sheds full of defecation smell...

In order to prevent everyone from unfortunately catching up with a bad number room, such as the one next to the toilet, the smell will be too much!

Noisy crowd coming and going. What if there are proctor sergeants walking back and forth, disturbing your thoughts?

Wantong remembered that the servants of the whole family were sent to go through the motions, more than once.

In comparison, the current environment is much better.

And he also remembered that Wu Youwei even had someone simulate the scene of a fire in the examination room!

It is said that they were worried. After all, there were fires before and after the Yingzong orthodox and Tianshun dynasties: the previous Shuntian rural examination only burned down the house, and the latter

Facing the fire in Chunwei in the seventh year of Tianshun, more than [-] candidates for the exam were burned and killed...

As a result, more than [-] people have practiced the ability to climb walls...

Wantong wants to laugh when he thinks of this, I really don't know what is in his head? Forcing the students to practice climbing the wall and exercise their skills

It's not a martial arts test.

At that time, people disagreed and felt that it was insulting to the gentlemen, but Wu Youwei said plausibly: such a narrow room,

People are facing each other, people are crowded, and in the high-intensity exam, if a candle is knocked over somewhere, it will be a big fire when the wind blows!

At that time, being able to climb the top of the wall might save one's life!

And if you climb up the wall, as long as you don't jump off, you are not considered a tribute courtyard!

Wu Youwei's research on the law of the Ming Dynasty is more accurate than anyone else!

The second day is the last day of the examination. After Wu Youwei got up early in the morning and packed up, he was just about to start writing when a number room in the distance

Then there was a cry: "I've hit it! I've hit it!"

The sergeants hurried over and lifted the examinee out. It was a white-haired old Juren with black marks all over his body and eyes

Flushed, disheveled hair, looks like crazy!

When reading books before, it was mentioned that some people were crazy because of the imperial examinations, such as Fan Jinzhong Ju, but this time

But seeing with one's own eyes that a person can take the Jinshi examination can also be crazy.

Moreover, the sergeants were not polite at all, they directly took a cloth towel and stuffed the examinee's mouth, then they got stuck and carried them out

The examinees leaned out of the door of the number room like birds in a cage, and paid attention to the crazy white-haired candidate.

That scene was especially funny, Wu Youwei couldn't help laughing, but he didn't dare to make a sound.

What are you looking at? Go back! Go back!" Fang Hongzhuo knocked on the door frame of the numbered room with the Xiuchun knife in his hand: "If you don't go back, you will be kicked out.

examination room!"

When I heard "drive out of the examination room", I shrank my neck.

This is the first one. Halfway through Wu Youwei's writing, two more candidates could not withstand the pressure of the examination room and were "lifted" out

go with

The more than 30 candidates who have been "simulated by Wu Youwei" countless times have nothing else to do.

There is no distraction anymore, Wu Youwei was so amazing at the time, he thought of everything, and made the children play pranks

, the children in the family were all short, sneaked over, yelled suddenly, and made people jump, but they ran away smiling.

After a few times, the students will no longer be disturbed by the sudden loud sound.

Until the time when the papers were handed in at sunset, Wu Youwei had seen all kinds of crazy examinee states.

Open the dragon gate to let the examinees go home, another scene at the door.

Wu Youwei and the others were taken home, and more than 30 people went to take a hot bath, dry their hair, and a doctor was waiting for them.

Everyone looked at it, and said it was all right. After drinking a bowl of ginseng and chicken soup, Wanfu steward arranged for him to fall asleep.

When I woke up, it was already the next day.

Wantong is on duty and will not return home for a month, and the town care envoy is not at home, so Juren will go to the house, and he will not go to rest after the exam.

After a rest, it is very pleasant to get together and talk about the world.

At the end of the three exams, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, it's decided if they pass the exam or not

The general examination is the last hurdle for entering an official through the imperial examination.

The subsequent palace examination is a matter of ranking. As long as you can enter the palace examination, you are guaranteed to be a fellow Jinshi. Many people think it is unnecessary

No longer study as hard as before the exam.

But Wu Youwei didn't. He called more than thirty candidates and began to discuss the general trend of the world. It was so big that if you entered the cabinet, what would you do?

Well; so small, how do you govern a county?

What's more, if you are convicted and demoted to a place where you don't want to shit, how will you make achievements in politics?

There are also frontier defense, river engineering, bridge and paving, etc. Wu Youwei can see that the candidates are very energetic and dedicated to the public.

However, Wu Youwei still challenged them, because Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty, was born as a poor boy, and he was very sympathetic to corrupt officials.

He hated corrupt officials to the bone, and was very harsh on officials. He calculated the salaries of officials in Ming Dynasty very accurately.

Those who can only support a family, such as chariot servants, clerks, masters, etc., have to be supported by officials themselves.

You said that if the officials are not corrupt, how can they be the officials?

So, everyone got stuck.

But Wu Youwei told them his solution eloquently: if you want to get rich, build roads first, have more children and plant more trees.

Everyone needs to work hard to grow food. Secondly, agricultural and sideline products cannot be left behind. The elderly and children cannot do heavy work, but they can feed chickens and ducks.

The work can still be done, especially for children, who want to study, and if they don’t ask them to come back with a test, at least they can read and write. The government’s government income government can’t stop it, because it’s against the law; but agricultural and sideline products It is possible to get a profit

It is more than enough to divide [-]% into the operation of the Yamen.

Everyone was stunned by Wu Youwei's plan, they never thought so much about it!

But Zhang Sheng, he listened to it, and Yang Yiqing also thought of other things, such as the possibility of planting overseas crops, the high yield, but

to feed the peasants.

Moreover, agricultural and sideline products... are worth studying....