This rosewood is a kind of rosewood, and it is also one of the more valuable rosewoods, and this yellow pear is the most expensive kind of rosewood.

Mahogany has been an excellent material for making furniture since ancient times because of its harder material, high strength, good wear resistance, strong durability, and its own sandalwood fragrance.

The Ming Dynasty was popular to use mahogany to make furniture, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, mahogany furniture became the object of the local tyrant squire and even the wealthy family, if anyone can have a set of authentic mahogany furniture, although it can not be as the county order Liu Shouliang said that the living immortals, but it is also a face-saving thing.

However, the growth cycle of mahogany is generally more than a few hundred years, artificial reproduction is almost impossible, only to find wild ancient trees to be felled, with a little, a little less, so, its price has been high, even, in the Ming Dynasty at this time, high-quality mahogany was fried to a sky-high price!

Liu Shouliang's vision is still quite professional, he is right, the rosewood in his hand is less than three feet long, and it will cost at least dozens of taels of silver to buy it on the market.

However, a few dozen taels of silver doesn't seem to be a generous gift, Yang Cong is a big loser, he gave a gift to the county school and taught Yan Xing to give a hundred taels of hundreds of taels at a time, and at this time he gave Liu Shouliang a rosewood worth dozens of taels of silver, is it stingy?

Of course, he wouldn't be so stingy and send such a stick.

As soon as the exclamation of the county magistrate Liu Shouliang fell, he said indifferently: "Lord of the county magistrate, if you like it, the student will let someone send you a car tomorrow." ”

A car!

When Liu Shouliang heard this, his eyes were about to pop out.

How many are the ones in a cart, at least a few thousand taels of silver!

It's not that he doesn't want it, and the problem is that the gift is too heavy, so heavy that he doesn't dare to accept it.

People give gifts but ask you to do something, the heavier the gift, the more troublesome things to do, he still has a little self-knowledge, his energy, support to die can also do the "hundreds of taels" things, thousands of taels, don't think about it.

The temptation of this cart of rosewood to him was indeed great, and he endured it for a long time before he suppressed the urge to nod, shook his head with difficulty, and said: "Young Master Yang, you are too polite, a cart of rosewood will cost thousands of taels of silver, I can't afford it." ”

Nima, how does this old man feel that calling himself Yang Gongzi sounds more responsive than calling himself a virtuous brother?

Yang Cong endured the hairy feeling, and said against his will: "Lord County Order, you still call me Qingfeng, a cart of rosewood is really nothing to me, you don't have to be polite to me." ”

Of course, Liu Shouliang knew that a cart of rosewood was nothing to this guy, what people had in the family was money, and the problem, these thousands of taels of gifts were too big for him.

He is not as insatiable as Yan Song's father and son, he dares to swallow any amount of money, a few thousand taels, he really doesn't dare to accept it, in case Yang Cong asks him to clean up the Longxi Chen family, wouldn't it be a big trouble.

He hesitated for a moment, and then reluctantly said: "Brother Qingfeng, if you don't do this, you can make me a few more, just make a Taishi chair, no more, I really can't stand it." ”

Can't stand it?

All right!

The more you can't stand it, the more you have to turn to me in the future.

Yang Cong didn't think about asking the county to order Liu Shouliang to clean up the Longxi Chen family, he knew that Liu Shouliang didn't have this ability, he just wanted Liu Shouliang to feel indebted to himself, the more he owed, the more convenient it would be to do things in the future.

He pretended to have a unique expression for the children of a rich family, and said with a little arrogance: "Lord County, you don't know, our Yang family started in the timber business, the market price of this rosewood is indeed a bit expensive, in fact, the cost is not high, our Yang family has a forest farm in Qiongzhou Mansion, and there are many rosewoods in it." This car of rosewood is really nothing, I have prepared it, if you want to look up to me, just accept it, or I will have to return it to my family, how shameless. ”

When Liu Shouliang heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, yes, this Yang family started in the timber business, and it really doesn't cost a lot of money to cut a cart of rosewood from their own forest farm, and this thing has to be sold to be counted as money.

In this way, this car of rosewood is really not worth a lot of money to this guy.

A cart of rosewood, at least a set of furniture, a whole set of furniture from rosewood, this is something he couldn't think of before.

Thinking of the happy carpenter life in the future, he nodded like a ghostly and said: "That's okay, it's disrespectful to be a brother, by the way, Brother Qingfeng, you don't always want to be called by adults, so many people see outside, if you look at me, call me Brother Junsui." ”

"Shhh , Yang Cong secretly inhaled to himself, hungry kidneys, it really takes courage to call such a white-bearded old man a brother!

He endured his nausea and said with a smile: "This, the little brother naturally can't ask for it, by the way, Brother Junsui, is there any way to report the matter of this county's trial report?" ”

Liu Shouliang nodded without hesitation and said: "This problem should not be big, according to the past practice, the official documents reported for the county examination are generally stored in the state capitals, and when the academic and political masters send someone down to supervise the examination, they will be used to verify the identity of the candidates one by one, and then they will be collected together." You have such a good relationship with Lord Xu, as long as you ask Lord Xu to inform the government inspection school, there should be no problem on the government side, I will re-record it and hand it in for replacement. ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, is it so simple?

Shi Zhixuan, the government inspection school, that is the father of the Shi Wenzhai brothers, and he doesn't even have to go through Xu Jie, he directly says hello to the Shi Wenzhai brothers, that's the same.

He said in disbelief: "Brother Junsui, can this matter be handled by the government inspection school?" ”

Liu Shouliang replied affirmatively: "Of course, the government inspection school is specially responsible for the verification and storage of official documents. ”

This matter seems to be solved like this, it's too simple!

Actually, what he thinks about is a little too complicated, whether you can pass the county test or not has no direct relationship with whether you have registered, not that if you sign up, you will definitely be able to pass the county test.

This list is to verify that the body can be used during the exam, and it is not an important official document, so the management cannot be too strict.

Yang Cong thought about it for a while, and found that he was really a little too nervous, he shook his head slightly, laughed at himself, and then arched his hand: "Then it's troublesome Brother Junsui, I will ask someone to go to Guan as soon as possible." ”

Liu Shouliang waved his hand again and again and said: "It's a trivial matter, why worry about it, by the way, Brother Qingfeng, how are you prepared, this county test will start in less than a month." ”

Get ready?

How to prepare?

When the time comes, just pick up the pen, what is there to prepare?

Yang Cong said embarrassedly: "This, the little brother really doesn't know what to prepare." ”

When Liu Shouliang heard this, he shook his head with a smile, and then patiently introduced: "Although this county examination is small, it is also a serious imperial examination, and the examination room is also quite strict. On the day of the county exam, all the students who referred to it were not allowed to leave their compartments, and you had to prepare the things to eat, drink, and lazar. Don't talk about this toilet or something, you should pay special attention to eating, don't bring any meals, because these are to be checked when you enter, and when the time comes, in order to prevent people from entraining, everything must be carefully checked several times, if you bring food, others will turn it over a few times for you by hand, then what will it become? Also, you can also prepare this trial poem in advance, so you don't have to waste time thinking about it then. ”

It turned out that there were so many Taoisms, and Yang Cong couldn't help but humbly ask: "How to prepare this trial poem?" ”

Liu Shouliang heard this, without a trace of impatience, next, he not only carefully introduced Yang Cong to the type of test poems, but also told Yang Cong in detail about his experience from the county test, the government test, the hospital test, to the township test, the meeting test, and the palace test.

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but be speechless, it turned out that the county test, the government test and the hospital test were quite simple, and the township test and the meeting test only cost people's lives.

The township examination and the general examination are three days, and there are three kinds of topics of righteousness, theory, and strategy, a total of nine articles, that is really life-threatening, and there are many people who die in the township examination and the general examination!

In addition to being surprised, he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, this gift seems to be a gift to other people's hearts, otherwise why would people bother to tell him this.

This time, he guessed wrong, the reason why Liu Shouliang took such great pains to introduce the experience of the imperial examination was not because of the rosewood, but because he went to the work of education.

In these years, the merit of education is even greater than the merit of building bridges and paving roads and building water conservancy.

Moreover, the benefits he can get are not only these, if Yang Cong really understands the Yuan or the champion, it is definitely a great character, this kind of character is very likely to be passed on in the Qing History, and when the time comes, his county order will appear in the Qing History, and then he will be famous through the ages.

Liu Shouliang must hope that this "genius" under his rule can rise all the way, and the top student in high school will allow him to shine and be famous through the ages, so he will take such pains to introduce the experience of the imperial examination to Yang Cong.

Even, he was still thinking that if Yang Cong didn't win this time, he would make a set of mahogany furniture to give gifts, no matter what, he would have to rely on this Hui'an County Commander, waiting for this "genius" to be a blockbuster!