Chapter 123: Examination Turmoil (Ask for Collection Recommendation)

In order to make things rigorous, Shi Bin also specifically asked Wang San to make an official document, which detailed the terms of how much food donated can enjoy the reduction and exemption of dart fees. This official document was not reported, only Shi Bin, Wang San and Liu Xiancheng knew the specific content, and the rest only knew about it, or only knew part of it.

Although the county's finances are not so much, it is actually a good thing that it has encouraged merchants to transport grain for disaster relief and alleviated internal conflicts.

In the blink of an eye, in February of the sixth year of Chunyou (1246), Shi Bin had been the county magistrate for almost a year, and he was quite proud of some of the things he had done in this year. Xiangtan City has grown from a population of less than 20,000 to more than 50,000 now, and these people are almost no longer crowded in a small county.

The most exciting thing is that there are nearly 15,000 strong men in the county, 8,000 who can participate in the war after three months of training, and 2,400 professional soldiers, which can be regarded as the first strong county on Jinghu South Road.

When he was thinking about how to get the position of the general judge in Tanzhou, whether to rely on Jia Nidao or use this exam, or promise some benefits in exchange for benefits to let the general judge go by himself, Xu Feng walked in very impatiently outside the door and reported to Shi Bin that someone from Jiafu was coming.

If someone comes from Jiafu, what is the hurry? It's normal for Jia Yidao to send people to see his daughter and grandson, can he be guilty of this?

However, Xu Feng is also calm, not surprised, most likely it is a little urgent, but Shi Bin is still not in a hurry, as long as Xu Feng brings it over.

As soon as the person entered the door, Shi Bin knew why Xu Feng was in a hurry, and it turned out that the person who came was Jia Yidao's guard Erzhuang.

When I fought with him on the main street that day, I knew from Jia Ling that he was one of Jia Yidao's henchmen, and Jia Yidao sent him over to report that it seemed that the matter must be small.

"Hello uncle." Er Zhuang still looks so simple, not smiling.

But this time it was obviously not so calm, sweating profusely, and his steps were still a little vain, which made people feel that they must have walked in a hurry on the road, maybe they didn't rest at the post station, but just nibbled on a few pieces of bread outside.

Although Jia Yidao has a bad official reputation, he is a very strong person with a strong ability to do things, and he is strict, so Er Zhuang is usually very stable, but he will look like this now, which shows that the matter is indeed a little urgent.

"Erzhuang, how is my father-in-law? What have you come for today? How does it look like this? Shi Bin motioned for Er Zhuang to sit down by himself, and asked Xu Feng to make a cup of tea, and then asked, "Don't be too restrained, just be in your own home, I'm not my father-in-law, I don't have so many rules." ”

He was already a nervous person, he didn't have much concept of dignity and inferiority, and he was only slightly restrained in front of Jia Yidao, but when Shi Bin asked him to sit down, he really sat down, probably because he was too tired, and he pressed the chair out of the sound.

Er Zhuang took a breath and said: "Thank you aunt for your concern, your father-in-law is in good health, this time I was sent here to let me come to see his grandson, he hopes that you and the eldest lady will go back to Ezhou after a while, let him see his little grandson." Second, please prepare carefully for this irregular examination. ”

Looking at the daughter who had just given birth and the grandson who had just been born, this was something anyone could think of, but he didn't expect that the real purpose of making Jia Rudao hurriedly send Er Zhuang here was to ask him to prepare carefully for the exam.

In Shi Bin's memory, the official examinations after the Han and Tang dynasties were generally a small examination every year and a major examination every three years. As long as there is no major fault, civil officials are promoted every three years and military attaches are moved every five years. The general sentence is two terms, and the example is promoted to Zhizhou", "the virtuous and the foolish are equal, and the turbidity is the same".

Therefore, the twilight was gloomy and shrouded the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. Not only that, due to the poor examination class, the corpse vegetarian and redundant officials filled the court, which became a heavy burden for the people.

There is a big tree like Jia Yidao, and he is also a person that Meng Hui values, how can anyone be unfavorable to him? This was a real surprise.

Jia Rudao has never been afraid of anything else, but he is afraid of losing power. It is estimated that this time it is someone with equal or stronger power in the court who wants to compete with him for power and profit, and by the way, he will bring a "traitor and a clear monarch".

If it is said that the party henchmen are cut off, it is of course best to first take his fledgling son-in-law under the knife.

"Erzhuang, please tell me carefully who is going to trouble my father-in-law. Now he doesn't seem to have touched the interests of others, and although his attitude on the issue of resisting the Yuan is unclear, he is also leaning towards the main battle faction under the influence of Meng Dutong and me! Knowing that Jia Yidao's consistent behavior is that of fish and flesh, but now that he is a grasshopper on a vine, no one can run away from anyone, so Shi Bin asked very seriously.

"Does my uncle know about Zheng Qingzhi?"

Who doesn't know Zheng Qingzhi? The four prime ministers have contributed to the "leveling and changing" bosses. In the fifth year of Chunyou (1245), he was awarded the title of young master, and he was still a scholar of the Guanwen Palace, an envoy of Liquan and a scholar, and was awarded the title of Duke of Yueguo. Such a powerful character wants to be rectified, no wonder he is so anxious to send Erzhuang to report the news.

However, if you don't do bad things, you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, your political achievements are there, even if you are in a relationship with Jia Rudao and your son-in-law, you are not afraid that Zheng Qingzhi will send someone to provoke him.

It is estimated that Shi Bin had long expected that Shi Bin had such a proud appearance, and Er Zhuang carefully admonished: "The villain knows that my uncle is a powerful character, and he has indeed done a lot of good deeds for the benefit of the people, but you have forgotten a big thing." ”

Forgot a big thing? Is it the use of water army darts? What is a dart, and what official does not use his power for personal gain today?

Seeing that Er Zhuang looked at him very seriously, after thinking about it so carefully, he suddenly found that he had indeed forgotten a major event - a privately built weapons workshop.

Thinking of this, Shi Bin also broke out in a cold sweat. Thanks to Jia Rudao sending someone to remind him, otherwise he might really be injured by this dark arrow, and several years of struggle will not only be in vain, but most of them will be imprisoned.

"Er Zhuang, do you know who the examination official sent by Zheng Qingzhi this time is? What is the temperament? Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, Shi Bin was no longer so arrogant, and asked calmly.

Seeing that Shi Bin had become serious, knowing that he would most likely be able to cross this hurdle, Er Zhuang also put his mind at ease, and only said that the person was easy to deal with, although he was iron-faced and selfless, he had no scheming, he was a mediocre person, and he could be coaxed to pass by putting on a look, as long as he carried the three-plate axe he started.

According to Erzhuang's statement, it is indeed not so difficult to deal with, but I am afraid that the stones in the pit are smelly and hard, and they will catch the loopholes and bite them, so they asked again: "Where is this person's mediocrity?" ”

"I heard your father-in-law say that although this person is a protégé of Zheng Qingzhi and Lord Zheng, he is not entirely on his side, in fact, he is just a centrist. Uncle, the villain is not knowledgeable, so he remembers this, don't blame him. Er Zhuang scratched his head a little embarrassed and said.

"Centrist"? As soon as he heard these three words, Shi Bin immediately had a bottom in his heart. These guys are the most useless and the best to deal with, give them a few hats of virtue and goods, and send some silver money and it should be fine.

After saying these important things, Er Zhuang asked Shi Bin to take him to see Jia Ling. He is also the general of the Jia family, and of course he has some feelings with his eldest lady.

Jia Ling is holding the child every day, and almost completely ignores Shi Bin, which makes Shi Bin feel a little lost, how can there be this? It's really "forgetting my husband after giving birth to a son".

Er Zhuang entered Jia Ling's bedroom, and was relieved to see his eldest lady's happy face, in fact, Jia Rudao also asked Er Zhuang to see how his daughter was doing in Shi Bin, and verify whether it was as comfortable as she said, after all, Shi Bin was not very honest some time ago, and his wife took a concubine not long after she became pregnant, although she was a little helpless.

Of course, he knew what Er Zhuang was here for, and Shi Bin didn't want people to think that he had a ghost in his heart, so he simply said that he was busy with official business and withdrew. and beckoned Xiaoqin, who was waiting outside the door, to let her, a clever little girl, also help her say a few good words. Said to leave, but in fact retreated to an inconspicuous place where the sound of the house could be heard.

Although it is certain that Er Zhuang will not deliberately speak ill of himself, it is difficult to ensure that Jia Ling does not say a few angry words, so that Er Zhuang has no brains to bring it back and let Jia Yidao know.

"I heard that my uncle married a flat wife? The lord asked me what the hell is going on, Miss. Er Zhuang said a little unhappily.

As soon as these words came out, Jia Ling immediately became angry, snorted, and said dissatisfied: "If you don't mention it, I'm comfortable, but if you mention it, I'll be angry." It's okay to go out and wander around, and you can go out with a concubine! ”

It is certain to say that Er Zhuang was already a little angry at this time, even if he knew that Jia Yidao would definitely not do anything to Shi Bin, he would still be angry for Jia Ling, and maybe he would help him out of this breath.

"Miss, what do you mean by this little concubine? If this is my uncle's temperament, then I have to tell my lord and ask him to beat my uncle's amorous temperament. Er Zhuang said very seriously.

I really admire that Erzhuang's head can be so lacking in strings, he dares to speak like this in his Shi Bin's mansion, and dares to make it clear that he may make a small report, no wonder Jia seems to be Daoken who regards him as one of his henchmen, he is indeed a trustworthy person.

"Knock knock knock"? These words made Jia Ling and Xiaoqin sweat when they heard it. finally climbed from a tasteless military attache to a county order with real power, wouldn't it be back to its original shape if it was beaten again?

The two immediately said that they must not, especially Jia Ling. She knew that Erzhuang's temperament was very stubborn, so she explained the causes and consequences of taking Sai Xishi, and told him that some of these things were helpless.

Although he was stupid, he was not stupid, so Er Zhuang asked Xiaoqin again to give him another general idea. Xiaoqin, the girl, deliberately said that Shi Bin was tall, saying that he was trying to save his subordinates, and he could leave but did not leave; In order not to be a villain who broke his word and became fat, he married the female bandit after leaving; And in order to get rid of the troubles forever, simply taking that gang of bandits under its banner is actually a great good thing.

Shi Bin outside the house admired Xiaoqin's cleverness very much, although it was also realistic, but there were a lot of side balls. In the rules of ancient China, it was okay for the owner to abandon the car to protect the commander, and the official to break his word and get fat to the bandits, and no one would condemn them, but they would take the risk of recruiting the bandits.

Everything depends on the attitude of the evaluator, and now Jia Ling and Xiaoqin are the evaluators. They are willing to protect Shi Bin and say everything.

"In that case, I'll tell the master exactly what you said. I'm here today for my uncle's exam, what is the attitude of the eldest lady? Er Zhuang said.

"Erzhuang, you're stupid. Since the eldest lady said that her uncle was right. What other attitudes can there be? Of course, I tried my best to help my uncle evaluate in the exam class! Even if you have an opinion, you have to help your uncle keep his current official position. Xiaoqin looked at Er Zhuang a little helplessly, and wanted to see what was in his elm head.

Jia Ling also agreed with Xiaoqin's opinion, saying that marrying a concubine is a family matter, not to mention that Shi Bin is not so temperamental, and it should not affect Shi Bin's career. With these clear attitudes, Er Zhuang was no longer angry and withdrew from Jia Ling's bedroom.