Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 75
Seeing that the fish farming in the rice fields was indeed a success, some people gathered around Shi Zhongkui asking for the manuscript of the fish farming in the rice fields, while others knelt on the ground, shouting that it was a gift from God, that it was a blessing for the people of Great Zhou, and that there would be no more famine in the world.

Shi Zhongkui was also very excited, but he knew in his heart that natural disasters and man-made disasters are not so easy to solve.

Moreover, the receipt of goods this time is just an example. In the future, many landlords will be disappointed, and the production of farmland will decrease instead.

There are also people who live by water, and it is bound to be more difficult.

Fortunately, it will take time to promote it. Even within three to five years, [-]% of the rice fields in the entire capital can be transformed quickly.

Overall, the credits certainly outweigh the cons.

The next thing is easy, Yu Honggao and others are busy reporting the news of the bumper harvest of rice and fish.

The other dignitaries and country gentry surrounded Shi Zhongkui and came to the other courtyard of Shan Guogong's farm.

"Bo Qian, quickly take out the information you wrote by yourself."

When everyone heard this, they all discussed and looked forward to it.

He entered the study room with a sound of apology, and used the space before Shifen to write the materials with a pen in his mind, which became the original copy of hundreds of people.

Seeing that he was so eloquent, the crowd was grateful, and then the squire suggested that he should erect a monument for him.

Some people even suggested that all the big families in the county donate a sum of money to build a small Sanyuan archway and rebuild the cemetery for the Daxing Shi family.

Shi Zhongkui didn't realize it at first, but after Jia Lian explained in a low voice in his ear, he realized that this group of people planned to take advantage of the opportunity of rebuilding to buy the land around the Shi family's ancestral tomb.

In the future, if my subsequent imperial examinations and official career go well, maybe someone will really have the idea of ​​moving their ancestral grave there.

And there is no need to guess, there will definitely be a Fengshui master who will boast about how good the Fengshui of the Shijiazu Tomb is.

When it comes to ancestral graves, Shi Zhongkui has to stand up and say something if he doesn't believe it. Besides, since the heaven is there, the underworld can't escape.

Occupying the body of the stone nerd, if the ancestral land of the Shi family cannot be kept and taken care of, let alone outsiders' opinions, even Shi Zhongkui himself will feel sorry.

Moreover, the fields and real estate used to worship ancestors' graves in ancient times, unless it was for rebellion, the imperial court would not confiscate this property even if it ransacked the house.

Officials will not put their minds on it.

As long as these fields are still there, his descendants will have the capital to farm, study and start a family in the future.

So Shi Zhongkui did not give in at all this time, and directly said that he must replace or buy as much land as possible around the ancestral grave in the future, in order to prepare for the cost of offering sacrifices, and at the same time set up a family school for future generations to study.

Everyone is basically doing this kind of thing, no one thinks that Shi Zhongkui is domineering, but thinks it should be so.
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In the Gongyuan of the Ministry of Rites, the township examination had ended long ago, but the chief examiner, deputy examiner and other officials and soldiers became more busy and cautious.

In addition to the leakage of examination questions, the most prone to mistakes in imperial examination fraud is during the examination of papers.

And although the chief examiner has the right to determine which paper is the first, but if the paper wants to be passed to him, it has to go through 4 to 6 assistant chief examiners.

The deputy chief examiner thinks it is okay, and will make a circle on the paper and pass it to the next deputy chief examiner.

Only when all the assistant examiners have marked the papers circled in red will they be handed over to the main examiner immediately.

After that, it is to check for omissions and fill in the gaps, so that some papers that the chief examiner thinks are good are not missed by the assistant examiners.

Of course, if the examiner doesn't want to offend anyone, at most it's just a matter of routine, randomly picking out a dozen copies and checking them out.

If the examiner feels that he has to be responsible for every scholar, the workload will be heavy.

Moreover, after the names of the papers were blurred in advance, they were all copied by the officials and family members. No one could tell who wrote the papers from the handwriting.

But the person who can pass the Jinshi exam is not a momentary outstanding person, not to mention EQ, there must be no difference in IQ.

Take Shi Zhongkui as an example. Anyone who has studied him in the county test, government test, and college test must post the published papers because he is the first.

Basically, you can tell something from his writing habits and style.

In addition to the poem about the grass grows and the eagle flies to the sky in February, it can be said that it directly compares all the examinees, making people know at a glance that the paper in their hand is his.

The first examiner put a red circle on the paper that Juan copied without even thinking about it, and then laughed to attract everyone's attention before reading the poem out.

Everyone is not stupid, and immediately understood that there is a high probability that Shi Zhongkui wrote it.

"Compared to the song with the red crown on the head that doesn't need to be cut, the whole body is white and walks into the future; I don't dare to speak lightly in my life, and it opens up thousands of families. I still like this song better."

Although it was not stated clearly that this new poem was written by Shi Zhongkui, everyone knew what the other party meant.

Sure enough, when the paper was in his hands, it was circled in red without even looking at the theory.

Instead, it was Yuan Donggang, the official fifth-rank examiner and Hanlin bachelor, who was embarrassed and surprised.

I thought that someone would definitely make things difficult for Shi Zhongkui, but I didn't expect the two assistants to let him pass the exam so easily.

The two sub-examiners and the other four sub-examiners who hadn't expressed their opinions smiled inwardly. They had no feud with Shi Zhongkui, and they had no feuds. Even if they wanted to make trouble, they could only make a fuss about the paper itself.

Since it is another poem that is bound to be highly publicized, as long as Shi Zhongkui's strategy can't solve the problem of principle, then his selection is a certainty.

And whether he can get the first place in the provincial examination, that is, Jie Yuan, is a question that the examiner should consider.

That being the case, no one will easily express their opinions on Shi Zhongkui's paper, lest this guy will try it next year and bear hatred for everyone when he becomes a Jinshi and an official in the court.

And to say something that shouldn't be said, after the emperor selected these six officials, all from the north, as deputy examiners, everyone vaguely understood what the emperor meant.

Once rice field fish farming can really be realized in the north, then everyone owes Shi Zhongkui a favor.

The chief examiner, Yuan Donggang, also heard someone discussing how fat the Yellow River carp was during dinner at night, so he faintly understood it.

We all work together.

In other words, for the sake of money, he didn't want to make things difficult for Shi Zhongkui.

But it really made him decide to choose Shi Zhongkui as Jieyuan alone, and he was worried about Shilin's comments.

Then I thought of the heavy rain and the papers that were abolished because of the heavy rain, so I might as well ignore it and finish grading all the other papers with peace of mind.

If it is true that Shi Zhongkui is God's will, and no one is better than him in this provincial examination, then choosing him as Xie Yuan will not only not worry about the discussion, but it will also become a good news for a while.

Moreover, he has become Shi Zhongkui's tutor, not to mention being comparable to Yu Honggao in the future, at least in the officialdom, Shi Zhongkui will most likely be his helper.

In this way, 5 days passed in a flash, the papers were basically corrected, and it was time to determine the ranking.

The seven chief and deputy examiners gathered together again, arguing about the ranking of more than ten papers, when they suddenly heard the sound of firecrackers outside the Gong Yuan.

(End of this chapter)