"How many engineers are there in Liangxiang this time?"

Yan Chengjin thought about it carefully and said, "Not counting Xie Pi, there are only six people." ”

His Majesty's heart was shaken.

The participation of officials and displaced people in the imperial examination was a break with the ancestral system, and Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the officials, displaced people, and children of prostitutes were not allowed to see after the imperial examination.

The status of the officials was lower than that of the merchants.

Shang Jia can see the imperial examination, Liu Jian and Xie Qian are both sons of landlords, and they can also enter the officialdom.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was no bullshit in agriculture and commerce, and the status of merchants was very different from that in the early Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, it is the Xu officials, who are not allowed to respond, resulting in no one reading, and evil officials from all over the country are frequent.

Yan Chengjin feels that it is this group of people who should receive ten years of compulsory education the most.

There are only six people, which is acceptable, Emperor Hongzhi did not look at the minister kneeling on the ground, and said: "I appreciate Song Jing, the imperial court needs many people like Song Jing, don't let them be promoted, I can only appoint a herald officer, let them be promoted." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yan Chengjin bowed.

Emperor Hongzhi was a man of courage after all.

Coming out of the palace, Yan Chengjin was about to go back to the Ducha Yamen, Xie Qian chased after him with broken steps with the hem of his clothes, and was stopped by Li Dongyang from behind, and his legs were flying.

"Yu Qiao, don't make trouble."

"Binzhi, you don't know my Pi'er...... Woo, what a good person, after studying science, he became a fool. ”

Why is this kid still coming here? Li Dongyang frantically hinted to Yan Chengjin and hurried out of the palace to save Xie Qian from being beaten.

Yan Chengjin bowed slightly: "Your Majesty just said that engineers can participate in the imperial examination, Lord Xie asked Xie Pi to go to Liangxiang, and the lower officials believe that he will definitely be able to win the list." ”

Xie Pi was the Xie Yuan of the Shuntianfu Township Examination in the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, and after studying science, he didn't know it......

Xie Qian sighed.

When he returned to the house, he saw his son sitting on the bookcase, his eyes deep in thought, Xie Qian walked in, and he didn't get up to salute.

"Go to Liangxiang, Yan Chengjin's dog won't embarrass you."

Xie Qian let out a long sigh.

Xie Pi's eyes regained their brightness, turned his head slightly, and looked at his father: "Really...... It's true? ”

"If you dare to embarrass you again, my father will beat him."

The corners of Xie Pi's eyes were slightly wet, and he choked: "Dad, it's not that I don't want to participate in the Autumn Festival, but I'm just interested in science......"

"Daddy understands."

"I will be filial to you in the future." Xie Pi stood up suddenly, packed his package and went to Liangxiang.

……

In the capital, the Di newspaper came out.

Passed to Shuntian Mansion first, Liu Qing's eyes widened, all engineers from Liangxiang, regardless of officials and homeless people, can be promoted?

The officials of the third class and the sixth room were as excited as if they had seen a ghost.

If you are admitted to the exam, you will be exempted from a certain amount of taxes.

However, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it has been stipulated that officials are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, and they never dreamed that one day the conditions for participating in the imperial examination will be relaxed.

"Is it difficult to get a good township engineer?"

"I heard that only six people were admitted this time."

……

Liangxiang,

When Zhang Xian saw the Di Bao, his shoulders trembled slightly with excitement, there was no such precedent from the founding of the dynasty to the present, only Yan Da had such courage.

"Lord Yan has never said it on his lips, but he is ashamed of the people in the world in his heart."

The newspaper spread all over Liangxiang and caused a great sensation.

When the officials saw the newspaper, they were so excited that they burst into tears, especially the scribes in the sixth room, who were different from the Yatang's catch.

The Yatang's catcher can't read a single big character, and he can't participate in the imperial examination, so there's nothing to say.

But their scribes were literate and literate.

Just because of their low status, they can't participate in the imperial examination, how unfair is this.

Fan Li, the household clerk, went home on leave, entered the door with the newspaper of the house, and said to his son who was studying hard in the room: "Son, look what this is!" ”

Fan Qin read the newspaper and exclaimed: "Xu officials can also participate in the imperial examination? ”

Fan Li nodded excitedly, he had been counting on his son's hereditary errand all his life, and when he saw the Di Bao, he suddenly had hope again.

From now on, officials can also participate in the imperial examination and have the qualifications to be officials.

"Is it difficult to take the exam for an engineer who doesn't know his hometown?" Fan Qin said.

"If you can't pass the test, take the test again, my father heard that craftsmen can pass the test, why can't you pass the test?"

Fan Qin nodded, ready to go to Liangxiang to borrow books.

Liangxiang Library,

The number of people borrowing "Mechanics", "Mathematics", and "Chemistry" suddenly increased.

The Liangxiang shipyard was very busy, and a wealthy merchant came to the south of the Yangtze River, and asked for 20 boats, big yellow boats, and miscellaneous boats each.

He also asked if there was a big treasure ship that could go to sea.

"Who in Jiangnan would want so many ships, King Ning?"

Yan Chengjin fell into thought, the big treasure ship was Zheng He's ship to the Western Ocean, with a length of about one hundred and fifty meters and a width of sixty meters, like a large cruise ship.

The average businessman would not buy such a large ship.

Because Caoyun did not let this kind of ship go, it would hinder the grain ships of the imperial court.

The imperial court had clear requirements for the specifications of the transport vessels, and there was a fixed number of what ships could carry and how much cargo.

"Who is the person who bought the boat?"

"His name is Luo Pu, and he is a merchant who makes porcelain in Jiangnan." Zhang Xiandao.

I haven't heard of this person, maybe it's because King Ning found a dog leg casually in order to hide people's eyes.

For the sake of prudence, Yan Chengjin decided to sell the boat to him, and then follow the vine to see if it was King Ning.

Xie Pi came to Liangxiang again, was grateful to Yan Chengjin, and followed Song Jing day and night, for fear of missing important knowledge.

"Master Song, can you teach me how to make a Song's astronomical telescope?" Xie Pi felt that he could do it more finely and see beyond the moon.

"You don't have to call me Master Song, it's easy to make a Song's telescope, you can go to the workshop to see the craftsman."

In order to prevent the imitation of counterfeit goods in Jiangnan from being too fast, Yan Chengjin did not allow anyone other than craftsmen to enter the workshop, except for Song Jing.

In the past few days, Xie Pi has lived in Zhongguancun in Liangxiang.

The bed here is very strange, it is an iron bed, and it can sleep one person on top and one person below.

After talking, it was learned that he was born in an official family alone.

The other five were either the children of the officials or the craftsmen.

Knowing that they could participate in the imperial examination, the five of them were so excited that they held books at night and prepared to go to the grass hut area of the homeless.

"Where are you going?"

"There is a gentleman in the grass shed, named Cheng Qingshan, who is very good at learning, let's go to listen to the school, will you go?"

Seeing that all five of them were going, Xie Pi put down the original of the astronomical telescope and followed him to the grass shed area.

There was a drunken hut with people lecturing.

Suddenly, I found that the person lecturing was not Uncle Cheng?

"Uncle, how did you get to such a point?"

"Sit down and listen." Cheng Minzheng blushed.

……

Yan Fu,

Yan Chengjin was a little surprised, Wang Busui sent someone to send back a message, and the refined salt shipped to North Korea was hijacked.

"Is it an order from Yan Shanjun?"

"The little one didn't know that it was the North Korean official who took the owner away, and the owner wore out his mouth, saying that I was his son, and begged to stay for a minute before letting the little one come back."

Yan Shanjun is even more strange than Zhu Houzhao, beheaded more than 30 ministers, and turned Guozijian into a brothel, there is nothing he dare not do.

It's just that he thought that Wang Busui was an ordinary caravan, and if he robbed it, he would rob it, and he wouldn't alarm the court.

As everyone knows, this refined salt has the heel of Emperor Hongzhi.

Back in the study, Yan Chengjin wrote the advice on the booklet, and drew a brain map on a blank piece of paper, empathy, if someone opposed sending troops to North Korea, what would he say?

Half an hour later, Yan Chengjin walked out of the study.

"Prepare the sedan chair, this young master is going to enter the palace."