The controversy that occurred in front of Kaifeng Mansion was soon reported to Li Buqi, but at the dinner party that had been scheduled to celebrate the righteousness of the teacher Zhongju, Li Buqi only thanked them for presiding over justice with a few simple words.

The few Xiucai who taught at Yixue this time may have to stand up when others ignore the facts just because of their integrity, but after all, someone spoke for Li Buqi, which is a good start.

All six teachers who took the exam in this subject passed the exam. If you pass the examination for a few jinshi, you will always be able to help Li Bu in the officialdom in the future. After all, Li Buqi has been with them for two or three years, and has subtly infiltrated many things that transcend this era, and the thoughts of these people are not exactly the same as the original Song people.

That's the harvest, it's slow, but it always works. Li Buqi thinks that his experiment is quite successful, and he is ready to do a big vote in the next step.

After the autumn, Zhou Qing also came back from Dengzhou. This time he reached the mouth of the Tumen River, where he found some natives. Because there was no translation, I didn't dare to say that it was a Jurchen, but fortunately, those natives were very interested in the iron arrowheads and glass beads in Zhou Qing's hand, so they exchanged all kinds of things, so that Zhou Qing returned with a full load.

There are not many ginseng in exchange, only a dozen large and small, and only one of them weighs more than eight taels, which is considered a treasure. In addition, there are large bundles of hides, mink, foxes, squirrels, deer, roe deer, bears, lynxes, leopards and tigers. They are all the finest furs, and these furs alone are worth tens of thousands of dollars in Jingdong Road. In addition to these, there are gold, bear bile, tiger bone, leopard bone, deer antler, deer antler, forest frog oil, cistanche, and reishi. In short, this trip is a big profit.

Of course, the best things had to be given to the emperor, and the rest was divided between Li Buqi and a few nobles who had invested in the shares according to how much capital they contributed. All of them, including the Emperor, were satisfied with the harvest of this voyage, and they were all planning to send two more ships over next year.

Compared with these economic interests, Li Buqi is more concerned about the situation on Tamna Island. Zhou Qing said that when he returned to the island, he met with Luo Tong, Shi Feng and others, and saw that they had already built some houses, cultivated fields, and learned to go to the sea to fish. Now they teach the natives on the island to farm, and the doctor who goes with them also treats the locals, and the two sides get along very well. However, Zhou Qing said that the original information on Tamluo Island was wrong, and originally thought that there were only a few thousand natives on the island, but Luo Tong and others determined that the population of the island was more than 20,000. In comparison, the population of the rebels was too thin.

There's no way around it. Li Buqi lacks local connections, and if a large number of people are mobilized, it will be easy to find out, and it will be easy to cause trouble. He could only sigh: "I can't do anything about this matter now." You can only take your time. ”

Zhou Qing said: "Officials don't have to worry about this matter, in fact, there is a way on Jingdong Road." ”

Never underestimate the creativity of your subordinates, Li Buqi immediately became interested: "Let's talk about it." ”

Zhou Qing said: "Jingdong Road is the same everywhere, and there are many escapees hiding in the deep mountains and seas. Last year, Jingdong Road was hit by another disaster, and large households took the opportunity to merge, and many people had no food and clothing. As long as the wind is released, saying that there is a place overseas where they can live, some people will naturally defect. ”

Li Buqi said: "This matter must be kept secret, so that the local government cannot find out." ”

Zhou Qing laughed: "As long as there is money, those officials will definitely be blind." ”

Li Buqi said: "Okay, you can do it." Originally, you were given the identity of a pirate, and this identity can be used appropriately to pave the way for future things. ”

Zhou Qing bowed down and said, "Yes." In the past few days, I will go back to Dengzhou to do this, and by the way, I will see how many seals have been caught. ”

After the autumn season, people from all over the country went to Beijing one after another, not only to take advantage of the fact that the weather was not the coldest to hurry, but also to inquire about the news and learn skills after arriving in Beijing.

The news that Li Buqi got from the officials of the Ministry of Rites was that there were more than 20,000 people in various places this time, and 839 people were admitted to the first subject of Jinshi and all subjects, and there would not be much in this subject, so the admission rate was about 1/30th. Therefore, the vast majority of these people will not pass the test. Among these people who can't pass the test, there is also a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and it will be of great use to select the elite in the future.

For example, many poor people are actually higher in quality than rich children, but the circle in which they live determines that their knowledge is relatively poor, and many people simply brush off the paper in the first round because no one clicks on the test-taking skills. But give them a chance to make up for these deficiencies, and they will be able to compete with those rich kids.

As the saying goes, the children of the poor are in charge of the house early. Since you are a child of a poor family, you shouldn't be diligent and indistinguishable, right? You should know a little bit about the suffering of the people, right? Li Buqi didn't dare to expect them to be able to take care of the interests of the country and the people more than the current officials, but they should be more reliable, right? Isn't it just a mouthful?

From the time the first batch of lifters arrived in Beijing, Li Buqi sent people to post notices in low-end inns everywhere and recruit booksellers to copy books for the library. The conditions are very generous, with room and board, flexible working hours, guidance for scientific examinations, and access to books from the library. The last two are too lethal to the cold door.

Of course, there are many restrictions on this recruitment condition, first of all, there must be the identity of the lifter, the second is to prove that the family is poor, and the third is Shaanxi, Jinghu, Guangnan, which has always been a place where there are fewer jinshi in the examination. In addition, the applicant must pass the exam. The exam is also divided into three steps, first of all, you must take out your proud essay for the examiner to comment, then you must pass the written test, and finally you have to pass the interview.

There are poor people in the annual examination, and some people even have no money to return to their hometowns after the exam, so they can only wander the capital and wait for the next subject to take the exam again, and the first exam is decades. Therefore, as soon as this recruitment notice was posted, it attracted some poor people to move their minds. What's more, Li Buqi still has a lot of halos on his head, although he is not welcomed by Shilin, but at least he has the reputation of being kind and charitable.

So there was an endless stream of people looking for jobs in Lijia Zhuangzi outside the city, and those who were admitted soon began to copy books, and those who were rejected would also get a pinyin "New Compilation of Zhengyun" edited by Ding Du and the book "Jade Chapter" for the examination guidance of the Ministry of Rites. This is really a great help for those who have no money to buy books, so the poor people all say that Li does not give up the benefits.

In this way, the later poor people all wanted to try their luck in Li's Zhuangzi, and some newcomers looked for fellow villagers and classmates to inquire about the news.

In the dimly lit tavern, several Shaanxi juzi in linen clothes were muttering about it. After drinking a few bowls of sour wine, a man in his early twenties said, "Actually, if you want to go, you just have to go." Li Daguan's salary is very generous, every month is consistent, food and housing are not bad, and the time for copying books is set according to the number of words, as long as the time is copied, it will not delay the travel and literary meeting. It's just that the book must not be taken out, it must be copied in the Zhuangzi, and it must not be defaced, and there are rules for everything. The best thing is that in addition to the various works in the subset of classics and histories, there are also previous exam papers, and after reading them, I realized that I would have to work hard to pass the exam. ”

"Oh, Brother Li said so, isn't the little brother even more hopeless?"

"That's not necessarily, Li Daguan is also there to prepare for the exam, he said that the test paper collection is full of top articles, such as Fan Xianggong, Ouyang Yongshu, and I can't compare. But as long as we are better than the articles in the middle and downstream, we can reach the top, so we should not be complacent. ”

"Makes sense. But I don't know what to take the test? ”

"It's not hard to rely on. If your essay is approved, it's a written test, just write an essay and answer some questions. ”

"What's the problem?"

"It's nothing. For example, if your family is farming, ask what you have planted, when you planted, when you fertilized, and so on. One of the people who took the exam at the same time as me had a home by the sea, so he wrote about fishing and boiling salt. I can see that those who do not distinguish the grains and the four bodies are not diligent will not succeed. ”

"It's that simple? What about interviews? ”

"An interview is all about giving you a book, reading a paragraph, and seeing how much you can memorize. Even if you can't memorize it, you can also say your own opinion. In addition, a few questions will be asked, most of which are related to what you answered in the written test, and you will answer them truthfully. ”

A Xiucai was puzzled: "This Li Daguan is really tricky." And what is he doing it for? ”

"Li Daguan said that his mind is very simple, that is, those who don't want to be officials are all nerds who don't understand the world and ministers who can only recite poetry."