What to do with a full-scale life

Chapter 604 The new county magistrate, only eighteen years old.

The test results came out soon. Brother Zhang was a fourth-class Jinshi. Although the fourth-class Jinshi was very good in the first exam, the light still shrouded the top three.

After all, first- and second-class Jinshi are useless, they are not exams, but ordered by the emperor, and third-class is basically at the level of Su Shi. For a commoner who can't be called, the fourth class can already be said to be the top achievement. Why is it the most difficult to be an examiner in all dynasties? Do you think it is really an exam?That's the sophistication of the world and the changes in personnel, and personnel is politics. This thing is not a joke.

The top three Jinshi in this subject have basically been monopolized by the generals who assisted in moving the capital, the rich and wealthy who supported the court, and the civil officials who followed in exile, so this fourth class is theoretically the only one that can be obtained through the examination.

Brother Zhang didn't go to see the list that day, because Zhao Rong had already told him the results before the list came out, and then Zhao Zhen would hold a banquet in the palace, what is it called Hanlin Banquet, to reward the ten students of the students? The cold window of the year.

"When the time comes, you should dress well, don't let other students see the joke."

Zhao Rong took out a lot of clothes from her bag: "I asked the tailor in the palace to make these for you, try it quickly."

Brother Zhang was sitting by the small stove to cook sugar, because Zhao Rong loves sugar, but the court craftsmen who can make sugar have stayed in Bianliang, and now they can only use cane juice from Jiaozhou and Lingnan to make some brown sugar. Moreover, they made the brown sugar impure, with many impurities and bitter taste, so Brother Zhang had to boil some sugar every few days for Zhao Rong to prepare.

"Wait."

"Both the father and the queen boasted, saying that the granulated sugar you make is finer and softer than that of the merchants in Najib, and asked me if I could let you cheat the formula so that you don't have to spend a lot of money to buy it, people. You can also find some industries.”

"Don't lie." Brother Zhang was still as concise as ever: "I'll teach you."

In fact, Brother Zhang is almost a living encyclopedia even without superpowers. He is just not confident enough and a little restrained. It can live very well if thrown anywhere.

He completely drew the diagram of the yellow mud water pouring method on the paper. The first step is to squeeze the juice from the mature sugar cane, put it in a tank, boil it with fire to make a yellow-black syrup, and then wait for it to condense into black sugar.The second step is to drench the black granulated sugar in the funnel with yellow mud water, and the black slag flows down from the funnel, leaving hoarfrost in the funnel, which is the earliest white sugar.

Finally, remove the icing sugar, put it on the paper and put it on the slaked lime to dry it, or add water to dissolve it and boil it. After the water completely disappears, grind it into powder, which becomes crude white sugar.If you want to further purify, dissolve these sugars in water for the second time, filter them several times, and then boil them. The sugar obtained is refined white sugar.And if you want to make rock candy, you only need to hang a yarn above the saturated solution of white sugar, and then wait for the crystallization. If you have the conditions, you can also put some fruit juices in it, and the condensed rock sugar will be more beautiful. .

When Zhao Rong handed this to Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen looked at the process flow chart and looked at Zhao Rong suspiciously: "Is it really that simple?"

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Zhao Rong took out the two jars behind her. This jar contained fine white sugar and the other contained colorful rock sugar: "I saw it grow with my own eyes."

"I can't see that this idiot has these weird things."

"He knows a lot!" Zhao Rong beamed when talking about Brother Zhang: "He knows everything in the sky and on the earth."

Seeing his daughter like this, Zhao Zhen felt like a bright mirror in his heart. At this point, even if the fool talked nonsense, his daughter would be regarded as the standard, but he couldn't tell that this kid still had something, and he was generous. Zhao Zhen is not the kind of emperor who hides in the deep palace and does not go out a few times in his life. He is a person who likes to run around. When he was young, he traveled with a few masters. Control how much money you can earn in a year.

"How did you tell him? He would give you such an important thing."

"Me? Let me say that my father told me to find a way to trick you into making sugar. He said there is no need to lie, and then he taught me."

When Zhao Zhen heard it, he almost had a cerebral palsy. He pointed at Zhao Rong dumbfounded: "You really said that?"

"Well, isn't this brought to you?"

Sitting in front of the case, Zhao Zhen propped his head with one hand, and hissed for a long time: "Rong'er, Rong'er...how come you have become such a fool."

"I think it's pretty good. It's better to talk like Brother Zhang and not beat around the bush."

Zhao Zhen waved his hand: "Go, go, you are going to piss off your father."

"It's okay, brother Zhang is not angry, he is very generous."

Zhao Zhen let out a long sigh, feeling in his heart that after all, the female college could not keep her. This brother is older than her elder brother before they get married. If they really get married in the future, I don’t know if this girl can have it...

However, in the afternoon, Zhao Zhen really asked the eunuch in the palace to do a test according to the method on the blueprint, and it succeeded once. Looking at a large bowl of slightly yellowed white sugar, Zhao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, and then It was to call the minister of the Ministry of Industry and the servant, and let them see a handful of white sugar purified by the palace itself.

Seeing the stunned looks of those guys from the Ministry of Industry, Zhao Zhen laughed heartily, and his vanity was greatly satisfied. If it wasn't for the tension in his mind, he might have blurted out "my virtuous son-in-law".

Finally, before dinner at night, he called the people from the Ministry of Officials over, and asked if there were any vacancies in the surrounding counties that did not require a large number of counties. There were almost a few thousand households. The people in the Ministry of Officials were all stupid, you know? The emperor asked if there was any vacancy for the county magistrate, which was equivalent to a committee chairman calling the front line and ordering the machine gun squad to advance ten meters.

This is why Zhao Zhen is happy today. In normal times, a person who wants face like him would definitely not be able to speak, but now that the emperor has spoken in person, of course the officials dare not neglect, so they made adjustments overnight. An older county magistrate was transferred to the Ministry of Officials to take care of the elderly, and then dispatched more than a dozen people in a row, and finally a similar post was vacated.

This county is Yuhang County, Brother Zhang's nominal hometown. Although Yuhang has been promoted, due to years of famines and wars, the total number of households in the county is only [-], and the population is only [-], which is not a single county. big place.Moreover, it is very close to Lin'an, the capital city, and the place is not a backcountry at all, so it is relatively easy to manage, and the transportation is convenient, and it is convenient to move around.

Just looking at the addition of these various conditions, one can imagine how many brain cells died in the gang of officials.

Then the official department reported the situation to Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen did a very bad thing, that is, bypassed the official department and directly issued an imperial edict. The official department didn't mind this matter. They were just very curious about this person. What kind of relationship can allow His Majesty the Emperor, who has always followed the rules, to personally open a back door for him?
You must know that the general juren, even the number one scholar, seldom take up real positions directly, and the general juren will start as a school official or judge, and first work in the officialdom for four or five years before they can handle things. There is almost no such thing as the county magistrate the day after the exam...

And what's even more outrageous is coming. First of all, Zhao Zhen exempted all Ji counties from paying taxes for one year. Passing ten counties in the valley, he exempted them all...

In other words, as long as the little county magistrate didn't do anything reckless in the first year of his tenure, he basically passed the assessment. What kind of person made the emperor care so much?

It's not that they didn't suspect that this young man was Zhao Zhen's illegitimate son. After all, the current crown prince was an adopted son, and they heard that his life was not long, and all the other princes died early...

Hey, I really can't tell.

The people in the official department are seriously preparing for the appointment of Brother Zhang, and Brother Zhang is attending the Hanlin Banquet at the moment. This place is a gathering place for passionate young people. Everyone is a scholar. Since ancient times, literati have looked down on each other. At least some people don't like it, even if they are friendly on the surface, there are all kinds of conflicts in secret.

But Brother Zhang was just watching the fun, he sat alone at the farthest table, and the place was hardly seen by the emperor, so most of the people sitting at this table toasted with wine glasses for the sake of performance, Brother Zhang was playing alone with his head down, carving a big rooster with a small scorpion.

He doesn't look up when someone on the top recites poems as a blessing, and he doesn't agree with someone who sings loudly. The main idea is to be a peerless and independent.

Zhao Zhen was naturally happy to see those young people who looked like peacocks opening their tails, but when he was happy, he kept searching for Brother Zhang with his eyes. After searching around, he found that this fool was huddled in a corner by himself. Li lowered his head and didn't know what he was doing, and he didn't socialize or cling to people, he just sat like that the whole time, with a bunch of strange things in front of him, and he didn't know what they were.

As for why Brother Zhang carved a big rooster, it’s not because his sister Rong likes it. She went out shopping secretly that day, and when she came back, she secretly brought back a big rooster with a bright body. The rooster is very beautiful but I can’t bring it back to the palace. Because Zhao Zhen is a dog, which is in opposition to the rooster, there will be no objects related to the rooster in the palace.

So she can only keep that beautiful big cock with Brother Zhang. Every time she goes to play, if Brother Zhang is busy, she will sit there and watch the big cock strolling around for a long time. Brother Zhang sees her I like it, so I carved some pictures of this big rooster in different postures for her. I plan to fill up a box, 24 of them, and it is still a little short, so why not just bring it here and start it.

Although Wenfeng was in its heyday in the Song Dynasty, almost generations of imperial examinations produced talents, but this generation seems to have encountered a change in the capital, and there are not many surprises in the hastily added subject. It is mostly mediocre. Zhao Zhen watched for a while. The screen is tired, after all, he has known Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Lu Dajun all his life, and six of the eight famous Tang and Song Dynasties have become famous in his hands. , these hairs have raised his literary aesthetic vision too tricky, and looking at these things are not young and young, it is really commonplace.

"Go and see what that idiot is doing."

Zhao Zhen turned his head to the side and said to the old eunuch next to him, "I didn't see him look up."

The old eunuch used to walk around in front of Brother Zhang pretending to be watching the scenery, and then saw him carving a big rooster there. The old eunuch said that he didn't understand it, so he returned to Zhao Zhen's side and reported the truth.

When Zhao Zhen heard that guy was carving a rooster, he couldn't help laughing out loud. After laughing, he whispered: "The rooster was probably carved for Rong'er. A few days ago, I saw Rong'er pinching a few The wooden cock baby is no good, it seems to be from his hands."

"Official, that idiot's craftsmanship is quite good, and the carved things are lifelike."

"Hey, it's better to be an idiot. It's better than this flamboyant one. It seems that this idiot is a practical person. Now I want to see how he can make a county."

In fact, as an emperor, he really likes people who have no background, no party status, no family status, and no school. Such people usually become the most solid right-hand man of the emperor, but those who are long-sleeved and good at dancing are their core. Interests are not for the emperor at all, not even for the country. Sometimes the interests of the family are far higher than the interests of the country. Nothing new.

The next day, these new recruits were about to go to the palace to receive their rewards, except for Brother Zhang, who was driven out by a carriage to become an official.Lin'an is more than 300 miles away from Yuyao, and it takes about four days to travel by horse-drawn carriage. This is only around Gyeonggi. One can imagine how inconvenient transportation is in this era.

Brother Zhang was bumpy on the road for four days, but Zhao Rong couldn't follow this time.She wanted to come, all the things had been packed, but Zhao Zhen and her mother, of course, refused her to trek along with her, saying that her body hadn't recovered well, and if she trekked rashly now, she might not even be able to save her life in the end.

So on this trip, only Brother Zhang, two masters personally appointed by the Ministry of Officials, one county magistrate, one official, household, Li, Bing, Xing, and worker were the same person, and 38 people were arrested quickly.

This specification is unprecedented. After all, everyone is personally appointed by the Ministry of Officials, and they are not newbies. If there are three servants per person, they will be squeezed out for a while after they pass.But his brother Zhang took office and brought a full team...

Not for anything else, just because this master is either the son of the official family, or the half son of the official family, no matter which one they are, they can't take care of it, so the cooperation must be in place to ensure the good luck of this master, Then everything will be fine.

(End of this chapter)