Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 76
Yuan Donggang, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, was furious when he heard the sound of firecrackers, "Bold, who is so presumptuous, dare to make a lot of noise outside the Gongyuan during the period of the rural examination papers?"

It's a pity that everyone can only look at you, and he looks at him, so there is no more content.

The Gongyuan was sealed off, and no one could enter or leave, let alone deliver news.

Fortunately, Qianhu, the embroidered guard who was in charge of the guard, shouted loudly outside the correction room, "My lords, I heard some discussions from the street through the courtyard wall, please rest assured, everything is normal? "

Someone suddenly thought of something and laughed.

Others looked at it, and after a little thought, they guessed that it was probably the news of the success of rice paddy fish farming from Daxing.

It might even be a bumper harvest, otherwise no one in the capital would dare to set off firecrackers one after another to make such a big commotion on non-festive days.

Now that the rice field fish farming is successful, Shi Zhongkui's poems, four books and five classics questions, and official document questions are the best. Even though the currency policy over there has been arguing for a whole morning, everyone quickly decided to choose him as the first in the rural examination.

I believe that although there will be some rumors among scholars, for the sake of Shi Zhongkui's benefit to the country and the people, there should not be many such voices.

After all, this is tantamount to pointing out a clear way for everyone to increase production and income.

Moreover, the fish raised in their own fields can be dried and dried enough to last for a year of meat consumption.

The thought of the parents and children eating dried fish at home brought satisfied smiles to everyone's faces.

To put it bluntly, with the roads and transportation conditions of ancient times, even if you have money in many inland areas, you can't buy fish every day.

Not to mention that there are no fish to catch in winter and early spring.

At the same time, everyone has to admire Shi Zhongkui, who actually listed more than a dozen reasons at the end of the policy theory to prove that using the coins of the Great Zhou to control and influence the wealth of neighboring countries is actually helping them.

In Zhuge Liang's words, I have never seen such a brazen person.

But everyone felt vaguely in their hearts that this method of killing people without blood, or even killing them invisible, in a sense, really fits the Confucian concept of benevolence and righteousness.

On the ninth day of October, thousands of people crowded outside the Gongyuan, waiting for the release of the yellow list.

As for the restaurants around the Gongyuan, the price of vegetables has tripled today, which still can't stop a large number of dignitaries, officials, and gentry from watching the excitement.

Fortunately, this time, no one was thinking about arresting Shi Zhongkui and taking him home as his son-in-law.

After the court examination in early August, when someone wanted to snatch Shi Zhongkui at his door, Xue Pan went home and thought about making a big splash and making the whole capital know that his own sister had made a marriage contract with Shi Zhongkui.

But this matter was finally stopped by Xue Baochai.

A sentence that could not affect Shi Zhongkui's rural examination made Xue Pan stop immediately.

But after he succeeded in the rural examination and rice field fish farming, he couldn't hold back his tossing anymore.

Fortunately, this time Xue Pan used his brains and spent money to find more than a dozen well-known matchmakers in the capital, but he spread the word among the women's families in every household that Shi Zhongkui had made an appointment with Xue Baochai, and even "passed the book" news.

This made countless wives and young ladies sigh, and at the same time, they couldn't help but say some gossip about Shi Zhongkui's greed for the Xue family's wealth.

As for how to say Xue Baochai, it must be worse than this.

After hearing this, Aunt Xue was so angry that she couldn't eat. Xue Baochai guessed the reason, but it was difficult for her to say it, and it was impossible to say that she was not angry.

On the contrary, it was Xue Pan who comforted his mother and sister by saying that he was jealous of my family.

"Come out, come out."

A shout pushed the atmosphere outside the Tribute Court to a climax. Several officials and deputy examiners in red robes, accompanied by embroidered guards, ordered the small officials to post the yellow list on the bulletin board.

According to the rules, the imperial examination list is posted first, that is, the bottom 100 people, then the top 90 people, and finally the top ten.

After seeing the yellow list, some people exclaimed and jumped for joy, while others howled with excitement.

After ten years of studying hard in the cold window, only when he passed the Juren examination can he really see the rewards.

Not only have the opportunity to be an official, but also can be exempted from the land tax of thousands of acres of land.

Relatives, fellow-clansmen, and freedmen who could hardly survive would dedicate their fields to Juren's name.

The imperial court and the government collect 4% and 5% of the tax together, but Juren only collects 3% or even [-]% of the tax. The food saved can often allow farmers to live, or live better.

That's why it's said that poor scholars are high-ranking scholars. It's no wonder that countless scholars want to be selected even if their hair is gray.

It is because this is a real benefit that can be seen.

Those scholars who didn't see their names can only look forward to the second list, but if they can't see the second list, many scholars have lost their eyesight and started crying.

After the third list came out, the crowd suddenly exclaimed, "I won, Daxing Shi Boqian won four yuan in a row, four yuan in a row."

"Go and ask Xie Yuangong."

Some people ran away, even if they couldn't be the first to announce the good news, they could stand closer and grab a few more silver melon seeds.

Some people even thought that maybe Xue Dafool ​​would use gold to make golden melon seeds as wedding money when he was happy.

If you can grab three or five of these, it will be enough to cover the family's expenses for a month or two.

With a bit more luck, the rations for that year will be available.

The nobles and country gentry in the restaurants around the Gongyuan sighed greatly, and then they were full of envy for Shan Guogong's mansion and Xue's and Yu's families.

Leaving aside Liu Yuan and Ranking, neither Da Zhou nor Shun Tian Mansion in the previous dynasty had any precedents where Duke Xie Yuan failed the ranking.

In other words, as long as Shi Zhongkui doesn't commit suicide, he must be a Jinshi master.

And when thinking of Liuyuan Jidi, not to mention scholars, even nobles tremble, and their blood turns into envy.

Of course Shi Zhongkui would not stay outside the tribute courtyard, and he didn't even stay in the mansion in the capital at this time.

In his opinion, his paper on monetary policy will inevitably cause controversy between scholars and courts, and anyway, he has a high probability of being elected, so he might as well just hide in the countryside and watch the situation unfold.

It's a pity that he thought well, but someone didn't intend to make him feel better.

As I said before, after the former prince, Prince Yizhong conspired against him, there are still many diehards below who have been plotting against the current emperor.

Since the emperor's people took Shi Zhongkui as Jieyuan, he might be Huiyuan after February next year, and then the number one scholar in the palace examination.

How much honor is this six-dollar award?

And it will inevitably attract more people to study. Once the style of writing is at its peak, it is a sign of prosperity.

Officials and nobles will also return to Emperor Jinglong to a certain extent, which is of great benefit to the emperor's rule.

The best way is to kill Shi Zhongkui unconsciously.

Falling into the water, wind chill, malaria, any one of them can kill a person without arousing suspicion from the outside world.

It's a pity that after looking around, I found that Shi Zhongkui was not in the three-entry mansion in the capital and the ancestral house with only one yard.

Then I went to search for the farm in Shan Guogong's mansion, but I didn't find anyone, and Daxing Land found it.

(End of this chapter)