On March 15 of the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634 AD), the Jiaxu Branch Hall test was held in the square in front of the Huangji Hall in the Forbidden City.

I saw him smiling, and he couldn't help nodding to the Gongsheng who came forward to pay homage, as if he valued them very much, but he kept muttering in his heart: "I don't know." "I haven't heard of it." "Who are these people?" ......

The standard for him to point the champion is very simple, don't look at the literary style, don't look at the calligraphy, just see if you have left a famous history, of course, this famous history also has limitations, it must be the history he has seen or heard, if he doesn't know, even if he leaves a name in history, it is in vain.

The Gongsheng of this subject didn't seem to have very good luck, and until Zhu Cijiong was almost finished, he hadn't met anyone who had heard of it, and just when he was at a loss, a handsome young man walked to the bottom of the steps, knelt on his knees and kowtowed: "Student Chen Zilong see the emperor." ”

Zhu Cijiong was attracted to him at a glance, and his eyes gradually showed excitement, uh, this, not because he is handsome, nor because his name is a little close to the historical celebrity Zhao Zilong, mainly because Zhu Cijiong looks at him a little familiar, he has definitely seen this person!

Acquaintances are good, there are really no celebrities who are 'famous in history', and it is also a good option to order an acquaintance to be the champion.

The students below must know that the emperor's point champion is this standard, and it is estimated that they will be so angry that a mouthful of blood will spurt out, this is simply **naked cronyism!

There's no way, who calls him the emperor, if you want to be the champion, you can choose whoever is the champion, if you are not convinced, you can not come to the exam!

Zhu Cijiong looked at it for a long time and didn't remember where he had seen this handsome guy, so he had to nod and let him take the test questions first, and then asked in a low voice: "Who is this person, I seem to have seen it somewhere." ”

As soon as his words fell, Cao Huachun on the side immediately bowed down and replied: "Back to the emperor, this person is a student of Lord Xu Guangqi Xu, and he participated in the compilation of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" in the Wenhua Palace. ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he instantly recalled that he had indeed seen this Chen Zilong in Wenhua Palace, a talent, he could participate in the compilation of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" at such a young age, and he was the champion!

In fact, this Chen Zilong is still quite famous in history, he is a famous writer in the late Ming Dynasty, one of the three major poets in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, known as the Ming Poetry Palace, a generation of words, a master of the Fu, and a famous ...... of strategy. Zhu Cijiong doesn't care much about history, he is just lonely and unheard, or he won't have heard of the name for a long time, like thunder!

However, Chen Zilong was lucky, and he was inadvertently glanced at by Zhu Cijiong, and he became the champion. You must know that in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he was famous for his life in the imperial examination, he was already in high school in the autumn of the third year of Chongzhen (1630 AD), but in the fourth year of Chongzhen, he accidentally changed a word on the test paper, and he would fail the test; Chongzhen was in the seventh year of Jiazhuke, and the examiner Wen Tiren saw that he was not pleasing to the eye, and he would fail the test; It wasn't until Chongzhen's tenth year that he was named on the gold list, but he was only a third-class fellow jinshi, which was extremely inconsistent with his identity as a great writer.

In the Chongzheng Dynasty, Chen Zilong can be said to be running at the right time, not to mention that he was already a high school champion before the exam, Zhu Cijiong has even begun to think about how to train him to be the first assistant of the cabinet!

This is not Zhu Cijiong's nepotism, Chen Zilong is a student of Xu Guangqi, of course, he has a lot of points, but mainly because he participated in the compilation of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration". You must know that Xu Guangqi is not the kind of person who is nepotistic, if he has no ability, Xu Guangqi will not put him in the middle of a pile of Hanlin to compile books, what is Hanlin, it is all first-class Jinshi and first-class talents, Xu Guangqi recognizes his talent so much, Zhu Cijiong has nothing to hesitate.

Coincidentally, the current policy of this palace examination happened to be about agricultural politics, of course, this was not Zhu Cijiong's intention to cheat and open the door for Chen Zilong, he didn't know Chen Zilong's number one when he came out of the question.

Now the snow in Liaodong is melting, and the common people in Beizhili, Shandong and other provinces who are redundant because of the drought in the northwest are about to move to Liaodong, and the purpose of moving them there is to make Liaodong the northern granary of the Ming Dynasty, so as to solve the huge waste caused by the perennial south-to-north grain transfer of the Ming Dynasty.

You must know that the freight alone is more than 10 million taels of grain transported from the south, and the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty is only how much a year, and a small half of it is lost on it!

He also thought about building a railway, an investment may be more than 10 million taels, but after the completion of the cost of transportation can be reduced to a negligible extent, but as soon as he opened the map, he gave up after a general glance, this year, to repair the Yellow River Bridge or even the Yangtze River Bridge is simply impossible!

Liaodong is different, from the capital to Liaodong is close, there is no big river in the middle, Liaohe may not be able to repair, but to repair to Liaohe is equivalent to already to the grain production area, what does it matter.

The transportation cost is easy to solve, as long as the railway is repaired to Sanchahe Fort, the freight can basically be ignored. But it's useless to just solve the transportation cost, this grain production is the key, if the grain output can't come up, then everything is fake.

Therefore, this agricultural issue is naturally the top priority, Zhu Cijiong originally thought about it, to divide the Liaohe Plain from Liaodong, set up a large state directly under the imperial court, he has thought of the name, it will be called Fengtianfu, all the military tuns in Liaodong will be moved to the first line of Guangning Jin and the first line of Guanning Tieling Liaohai and other places that meet with southern Mongolia, and the principle of Liaoheping in the middle will be combined into a large special agricultural zone, specializing in agriculture, and increasing grain production.

If you want to specialize in agriculture, you naturally have to have professionals to manage it, it turns out that the local officials of the Ming Dynasty basically don't have to count on it, they have to have a way to get agriculture up a long time ago, Zhu Cijiong came up with a topic on agricultural politics is to pick out all the people who are more familiar with agricultural politics in this department, and then let Xu Guangqi train them well, and then put them in Fengtianfu to be magistrates, the second and third class should be the magistrates, and the first and third ones should be the magistrates, and the first ones are at least all general judgments and acquaintances, and the most powerful of them are directly mentioned as the prefect!

So Chen Zilong is lucky, this prefect is simply tailor-made for him, and he is even exempted from going to Xu Guangqi for training, if he is not familiar with agricultural politics, will Xu Guangqi let him edit the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration"?

Chen Zilong was still confused at this time, he didn't know that he was already the new champion, and he was going to be the prefect soon, and even as long as he didn't make mistakes, he would be promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet in about ten years!

The topic of the palace exam turned out to be about agricultural politics, which was simply out of his bowl, and he really hadn't seen anyone better than him except for his teacher, Lord Xu Guangqi, so he easily completed the strategy. Of course, he doesn't think that he is the first champion, the palace test is not only to see the content of the strategy, such as the style, calligraphy, battle format, etc., etc., must be outstanding, on the whole, he thinks that he is the second class is ironclad, and the first class also has hope, as for the champion, he can only hope that a miracle is born.

I didn't expect this miracle to be born, when the messenger of the annunciation beat the gong and drum to find him, he made the same mistake as Fan Jin, and went crazy with joy. After wandering in the streets and alleys of the capital for a few days in a daze with a big red flower, the holy decree arrived, and he was appointed as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and at the same time promoted to the bachelor of the lecture, which is normal, and the champion was in this position at the beginning.

The main job of the bachelor is to accompany the emperor when he is studying, and explain the difficulties in the book to the emperor, so after arriving at the Hanlin Academy, he immediately asked the pope what books he likes to read, although he is the champion, but he doesn't dare to say anything to understand, in case the emperor likes to read some rare books, he will stop cooking.

As a result, he was stunned! All the colleagues shook their heads and didn't know, because the emperor had never looked for them; He had to run hard to find the champion and Tanhua of the previous session, the current Master Wu Jianye and Chen Yutai, the current General Political Department, and Chen Yutai, the two of them had strange faces, just let him read more "The Beijing News"!

Well, the emperor may like to read the "Beijing News", he quickly found a bunch of "The Beijing News" and read it hard, but before he could read a few sheets, the emperor's holy edict came and summoned him to the imperial study of the Qianqing Palace to wait.

Along the way, Chen Zilong only felt that his little heart was about to jump in his throat, this was his first time talking, the emperor must not ask some strange questions!

As a result, he was stunned again, the emperor was actually reading "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration"! He is naturally familiar with this "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", and now his heart is in his stomach.

Zhu Cijiong didn't ask Chen Zilong about the content of the whole book of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", he really didn't have any interest in farming or anything, he just flipped through the catalog to see how different the crops of the Ming Dynasty were from later generations.

Flipping through him, he casually asked, "How long have you been studying with your teacher?" ”

Teacher? Chen Zilong only reacted at this time, Xu Guangqi is not only his teacher but also the emperor's teacher, of course he didn't dare to call the emperor's junior brother, this junior brother can't be called, he replied respectfully: "Back to the emperor's words, Weichen has been studying with his teacher since the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and it has been nine years now." ”

Zhu Cijiong nodded slightly, then pointed to the book in his hand and said, "Then when did you start editing this book?" ”

Chen Zilong thought about it for a while, and replied respectfully: "If you go back to the emperor, it also started from the fifth year of the Apocalypse, when the teacher retired at home and concentrated on correcting the draft of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration". ”

Zhu Cijiong smiled and said: "Maozhong doesn't have to be so restrained, I and you are also considered to be the same family, you can feel free when no one is around, so you and your teacher are still fellow villagers?" ”

Chen Zilong was a little flattered, how could this random point be arbitrary? He thought about it for a while, and then replied hesitantly: "This, well, Weichen and the teacher are all from Songjiang Mansion in Nanzhili. ”

Zhu Cijiong saw that he was still a little nervous, so he found a topic that he might be interested in and asked: "I heard that you have written poems and songs well, and you have published a lot of poetry collections, do you have any new works recently?" ”

Speaking of this learning, Chen Zilong is really much more normal, he talked about it paragraph by paragraph: "I don't dare to be the emperor so praised, those are the learning of the micro end, just entertain yourself in your spare time, Wei Chen has recently been studying the study of the world, and is collecting articles related to world affairs and national politics with a few fellow villagers, focusing on detailed military affairs and heavy economy, and editing articles about politics, military, service, finance and economics, farmland, water conservancy, school culture, rules and regulations, etc., and named "Huangming Jingshi Wen Compilation". ”

Zhu Cijiong originally wanted to study him this time to see if he was flashy, but he didn't expect that he not only knew agriculture, but also studied the economy and military, so what else was there to say, Zhu Cijiong said directly: "Well, yes, I am going to merge Liaodong Haizhou, Gaizhou, Zizai Prefecture and other places into one Zhili Prefecture, called Fengtianfu, and you will be the prefect after a while." You go and make use of your strengths and build a granary for me. ”

Chen Zilong was dumbfounded when he heard this, this, this promotion speed is too fast! It's only been a few days since I was the champion, and the revision of the Sixth Rank Hanlin Academy is just a number, and it is directly the Fifth Rank Attendant Lecturer, and this ass will become the prefect of the Fourth Rank before it is hot!