I am the king of the dead

Chapter 264 The Emperor's Palace Trial Policy Questions, Great Mathematicians' Reference

Zhu Qiyu received Yu Qian's memorabilia, those old notes are indeed very interesting.

It is an undeniable fact that Zhu Di is a great monarch.After all, the vassal king was able to rebel and enter the capital to become emperor. Looking at the long history, this is the only case.

But Zhu Di is obviously not a qualified businessman, this is not a big shortcoming.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not very good at financial affairs, and if they were good at it, they would not be poor.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty were very good at this. For example, Zhao Gou was the dung tyrant of Lin'an City.

What is a dung bully?
[The names of Deshou books are all over the city, and one Ding is worth three thousand Fu.There is no need to ask more about the brocade of lanterns, the flag of Yiyi Palace and the boat of dung. ——Zhou Mi, a man of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Qi Dong Yeyu"]

Deoksugung Palace is the palace where Zhao Gouchan lived after giving it to his adopted son.

Dung is a commodity that is in short supply. Zhao Gou works as a dung bully in Lin'an City to make money, and the dung is turned into fertilizer and sold to the countryside.

Zhao Gou also did a lot of things to get rich, such as real estate, which is one of the myths of getting rich, and he was in Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, doing a lot of real estate.For example, Qingdaoqian, one of the myths of getting rich, is actively engaged in the release of money from the people.

"Growing Wealth in a Way Song Gaozong"

In the memorabilia sent by Yu Qian, the past events of the Yongle period were written.

During the Yongle period, Macheng and Xiaogan in Hubei immigrated to Sichuan, forming a group of Hubei people in Sichuan.

They held fellowship meetings regularly in Sichuan, and elected a representative to represent those who lived in Hubei, and went home to visit relatives. Originally, there was nothing wrong with missing their hometown.

But over time, these associations have become a fixed organization, commonly known as Macheng Yue.

After the appointment in Macheng, this representative will not only carry goods, but also carry letters.

Merchants quickly established a non-governmental organization called the Minxin Bureau for this kind of non-governmental correspondence and goods exchange.

They are similar to Daming's post station, and they are responsible for business liaison, and more importantly, the distribution of goods and the exchange of funds are all undertaken by the Civil Information Bureau.

For example, Ming Dynasty's Yanyin is an important certificate for the exchange of funds.

The Ming Dynasty’s opening of salt and salt was an important means of supplementing food and grass on the frontier and regulating goods from the north and the south.

Southern merchants transported grain to the frontier, but Shanxi merchants could not do it?
Of course Shanxi merchants can.

They took advantage of Ming Dynasty's weak control over the Hetao area, and used Hetao's agricultural harvest to transport them to Datong Prefecture in exchange for salt, and send them to the south in exchange for goods from the south.

But Shanxi merchants soon discovered, why did they send grain to Datong Mansion?

Wouldn't it be good to fake Yanyin directly and send it to the south?
Since then, there have been a number of workshops for privately engraving Yanyin in the whole of Shanxi.

Shi Heng served as the commander-in-chief of the Datong Mansion. He saw that the salt sent by the court rotted in the warehouse, and no one accepted it.

After thinking about it for a while, Mr. Shi, who made money well, led his troops directly to collect taxes.

The destruction of the salt method is just like the destruction of the Baochao method.

It's not that the Ming court didn't understand financial affairs, but there were also some daring guys who took advantage of it to make a fortune.

Yu Qian asked for an order to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Zhu Qiyu proposed to ask Yu Qian to let go of the investigation, to what extent did the investigation go?
Find the palace, find the emperor's head!We must also check this matter inside and out!
Zhu Qiyu is not Zhu Di, he doesn't have that much face, he can let Daming maintain such a big business without paying the court rent.

The emperor paid grain rent to maintain the operation of the delicate structure of the imperial court. They actually want to avoid and evade taxes. How can they be spared?

"Your Majesty, Xu Youzhen reported that Zhang Qiu's canal is finished." Xing'an handed Xu Youzhen's memorial to His Majesty.

Xu Youzhen couldn't wait to go back to him, and now he has the power to control the water.

Logically speaking, Zhu Qiyu should give Xu Youzhen a silver medal for the merits of water control and the great merit of hundreds of thousands of people.

But no one in the imperial court asked him for a medal, because everyone knew that the emperor didn't like Xu Youzhen.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said: "Let him be the censor who patrols the river, inspect the Yellow River, and then present a memorial to govern the Yellow River."

"As for Chen Yi, let him come to Beijing, and he will still serve as the censor of the right capital."

Xing'an understood this. Since ancient times, Huang Heqing and the sages have said that Xu Youzhen wants to return to the dynasty?

Simple, Haiyan Heqing.

Zhu Qiyu had released Chen Yi as an official for more than a year. Chen Yi said something wrong at a private banquet. At that time, Zhu Qiyu was about to abolish Zhu Mingmendi, and there were major political activities.

Now the grass on Zhu Mingmen's grave is three feet high.

Let Chen Yi go back to Beijing to have a look!

The great emperor, is he as close to the heavens as he is, is he making great strides, is he ecstatic!

Zhu Qiyu always took Chen Yi's words and He Zhang's words to heart.

Let the emperor be blindly arrogant, misunderstand the public power of the imperial power as I and Fanshu, and then turn into Zhu Qizhen, and eventually make mistakes.

No matter what order the emperor gave, it would be extremely harmful to destroy the government, and Zhu Qiyu needed to be vigilant.

Zhu Qiyu will definitely give a heavy blow to such a thing as carrying the emperor's order and rebelling against the emperor!

Let them know that the emperor's order needs to be strictly implemented, and it must not be doubled.

"How about they manage the Zhangqiu section of the canal? Is it true that the embankment has not been broken for 30 years?" Zhu Qiyu asked curiously, is it true?How did you do it?
Xu Youzhen cherished her life very much and would not joke about such things.

Xing'an took a piece of paper, sketched a few simple strokes and said: "Please look, Your Majesty, this is the Zhangqiu section of the canal, and it is the most dangerous place on the canal."

"Xu Youzhen and Chen Yi didn't do anything for more than a year. They built a stone gate and a diversion canal."

"Every year in the dry season of autumn and winter, when the sluice gates are closed, the river channel in Zhangqiu section is repaired and dredged, and when the sluice gates are opened, the silt in the diversion channels will be cleaned and repaired."

"This is Xu Yushi's water control method that blocking is worse than sparse."

Zhu Qiyu looked at it for a long time, and found that Xu Youzhen's political consciousness was not very good, but he had a lot of wonderful ideas for water control, and it was not considered inferior to put him in the post of river management.

He nodded and said: "Send a eunuch with a pen to take a boat south to Tongzhou to see if it's done well. If it's true, it will be included in the record of Zhihepinghai as a reference for future generations. "

"Your Majesty, it's time to go to the palace for an examination. The scholars are almost here." Xing'an bowed his head and said.

The imperial examination, the selection of officials for the country, is a major event of the country.

Zhu Qiyu specially added a math subject for the palace exam, but this exam is not included in the ranking of the general exam.

He put on the twelve crowns, put on the crown, and went out of the opened gate of Tai'an Palace.

Ren Che was already waiting in front of the door, Hu Wei, as Minister of Rites, naturally had to wait outside the door, and Jiang Yuan, as the chief examiner, was also waiting with the examiners.

Zhu Qiyu got into the car, and let Hu Wei and Jiang Yuan get into the car as well.

Xing'an handed Hu Wei a volume of imperial edict, which is the question of the imperial examination.

In front of Fengtian Hall, two rows of big Han generals held yellow Sun and Moon flags, hunting under the warm wind in early summer.

Outside the Fengtian gate of the Ming Dynasty, countless tributes of the Ming Dynasty were waiting outside the gate.

Gongshi is not necessarily just the Gongshi of the past, there will also be some former Gongshi who were unable to take the palace examination due to some irresistible reasons, such as Dingyou, illness, diarrhea and other reasons.

Wu Jing is a Juren from Zhejiang this year. He has learned literary and martial arts, and the goods and the emperor's family have been the rules of the game in this land for thousands of years, and Wu Jing is no exception.

He is a student studying hard in a cold window, and he is more than [-] years old this year.

After he won the Juren, he has been in Beijing for ten consecutive years to rush for the exam, but he failed many times. This year, he finally passed the exam after a thousand years of difficulties.

After passing the general examination, becoming a Gongshi is basically equivalent to being a Jinshi. Even the worst ones are also from the same background as Jinshi, right?

He already has nearly ten years of work experience. He is responsible for the land tax and taxation of the whole province in Zhejiang Chief Commissioner. He is good at arithmetic and is from Hangzhou.

The reason why he has been unable to get a Jinshi for more than ten years is because he fell madly in love with a subject that was not valued in this era, that is, arithmetic.

For more than ten years, he has been devoting himself to collecting the great works of mathematics in the past dynasties and researching mathematics.

This is also an important means for him to be in charge of land tax and taxation in the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province and the Department of Cleaning Officials of the Zhejiang Household Department as a Juren.

The vermilion gate, which was ten feet high, was still closed.

The shadow of the corona pointed to Chen Shi, and as the sun rose, there was a burst of drum music from all around, and the gate of Chengtianmen was slowly opened.

The tributes standing by the Jinshui Bridge passed through the Fengtian Gate, under the guard of Jin Yiwei, and after being searched by Captain Jinwu and General Dahan, they went to the square to wait in front of Majesty Dan.

The officials who read the papers, the officials who received the papers, and dozens of deacons, headed by the cabinet minister Chen Xun, stood on Majesty Dan, and everyone was waiting for the arrival of the emperor.

For the imperial examination, the emperor of Ming Dynasty is the chief examiner, otherwise how can he be called the disciple of the Son of Heaven?
Chen Xun brought the cabinet from Wenyuan Pavilion. He brought the officials who read the documents, the officials who received the documents, the officials who printed the documents, the officials who held the documents, the officials who sealed the documents, the officials who supervised them, the officials who promoted them, the officials who inspected them, and the officials who supplied them. A total of 17 people are in charge of the palace test.

At a moment's notice, Zhu Qiyu's chariot finally arrived in front of Chengtianmen. In the chariot, Zhu Qiyu and Hu Wei chatted about seeing Liu Qi.

Hu Wei expressed deep concern about this, and talked about Emperor Taizu Gao, who once advocated the importance of going to extremes, luxury, and Thailand to the country. This is the law of the ancestors, and His Majesty will do it boldly.

Hu Wei made it very clear that it is easy to wash in the Ministry of Rites.

Jiang Yuan has repeatedly heard that Hu Wei's scrubbing skills are extremely superb, but today he really saw it.

As soon as His Majesty spoke about Liu Qi's suffering, Hu Ming already knew what angle His Majesty was going for, and the cooperation could not be said to be perfect, but could only be regarded as a seamless one.

Is this the strength of the 76-year-old Minister of Rites?

Jiang Yuan instantly understood that he still had a long way to go.

Hu Yu and Jiang Yuan got off the car, and asked His Majesty to get off, and then the courtiers quickly came behind His Majesty, holding ceremonial fans as high as three people.

Zhu Qiyu finally came to the Fengtian Hall amidst the endless calls, and all the tributes entered the hall, knelt down on the ground, and performed five prostrations and three kowtows.

Wu Jing was a little surprised that His Majesty came in from Chengtian Gate just like them.

"See my emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live." Many tributes bowed their heads and whispered long live.

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said, "Be flat."

"Proclamation."

Hu Wei stood up and said in a cadence and full of spirit: "Since ancient times, there have been three kings in the world, namely Dao, Virtue, and Merit. However, Dao is like Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi, Virtue is like Yao and Shun, and Gong is like Yu, Tang, Wenwu. Those who count the number of saints will not be changed forever."

In the traditional values, moral merit is the three sharp weapons of kingship.

Among them, the first in the list of meritorious deeds is Yu Dayu who controlled the water.

Therefore, Xu Youzhen has meritorious service in water control, and it should be regarded as a leading merit card.

"Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi, Yao and Shun were written in "Yi", and the traces of Yu, Tang, Wenwu and Wu are in "Book"..."

"Today, here comes Si Binxing, whose equipment is Chen Zhi, and I will personally see it."

"It is His Majesty's will in this exam that answers can be answered in both common and orthodox characters. There are no taboos. Sentences need to be added for easy reading to avoid ambiguity. Your Majesty reads each volume of this exam in person, and you can criticize the government at will."

The great emperor is not a stingy person, he can even bear the title of king of a subjugated country, as long as he speaks with reason, he can benefit the country and the people.

Of course, if the buttocks are crooked, then the buttocks have to be straightened, and if they are not straightened, they will leave the job and leave a seal.

Jiang Yuan took a deep breath and said loudly: "The exam begins!"

Chen Xun led seventeen examiners and began to distribute policy questions and answer sheets.

Answering policy questions is about the same as writing an essay.

It is necessary to be able to explain the arguments and use this as the central link to analyze the relevant governance policies from ancient times to the present, and to be able to point out the deficiencies in the current governance policies and the areas that can be improved, that is, the propositions and ideas of scholars. opinion.

Talk about the past and the present, and criticize current events.

Zhu Qiyu sat on the stage, suddenly stood up, stepped off the stage, and began to inspect.

Zhu Qiyu walked very slowly without making a sound. When he came, he had already taken off the green and purple clothes with unknown names, just because he was afraid of affecting the candidates' answering questions.

It's the same as the invigilator's mobile phone mute.

At this moment, he regained the feeling of proctoring the exam back then.

But the candidates here are all very honest, not to mention whispering, even the sitting posture is very correct.

Not to mention cheating, they are all looking at the policy questions, thinking hard about the ancient and modern strategies, and then answering the policy questions step by step.

The handwriting of these people is very correct, just like printing, the size and spacing of each word are the same.

It can be called a test of magic.

Zhu Qiyu patrolled around, stood beside Wu Jing, and immediately saw that Wu Jing's stroke was longer.

I have written nearly [-] words of policy questions, so I am voiding it...

Zhu Qiyu left the examination area and returned to the platform. Standing there, he was a huge psychological pressure on the candidates.

Near noon, after the questionnaire was collected, it was put in front of His Majesty under the eyes of everyone.

If the emperor wants to read it in person, he must do what he says. There are more than 100 sub-policy questionnaires, and each one is as clean as new.

Zhu Qiyu glanced at each one first, and the examinee named Wu Jing didn't delay answering the questions because of Zhu Qiyu's stop.

Because each one is perfect.

"Dishes passed down from Honglu Temple."

Zhu Qiyu added an arithmetic test, so the students had to eat in Fengtian Hall.

Daming can bring water and food for the imperial examination, but no student has ever brought it. I am too nervous, how can I have time to eat?

But the banquet given by the great emperor is the treatment only for senior officials above the fourth rank, and this meal has to be eaten.

Xing'an specially brought a food box for His Majesty, and His Majesty does not take any water or food in the palace, this is one of the iron rules of Tai'an Palace.

Honglu Temple cleared more than 6000 cooks, isn't it already safe?
Zhu Qiyu maintains the greatest respect for this Daming Palace, and the food made at home is delicious and hygienic.

Wu Jing's best subject - mathematics.

　Today is still the fourth watch, please... tickets!

　　
　
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