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[Chapter 19]

In the second test, Ning Jiang did not leave until the evening of the third day, when the gong sounded.

This is not because he really wrote by this time, in fact, his poems were already finished and he could leave in the morning.

It's just that the two games in a row are in a hurry to hand in the papers and leave as soon as the time comes, and during the palace examination, maybe there will be a boring imperial history who uses this as an excuse to complain to the Son of Heaven that he is "frivolous", which will affect his ranking in the palace examination.

After coming out, Qin Xiaoya'er was also already waiting there, Ning Jiang took her and left the square, opposite, some carriages stopped there, and some coachmen ran over and asked them if they wanted to take the car. Ning Jiang glanced at it and came to one of the carriages, driven by a hunchbacked old man. Ning Jiang glanced at him, asked about the price in the outer city, and then took the little girl and got into the carriage together.

The curtain was lowered, and the hunchbacked old man drove the horse, and the carriage slowly turned, circled, and went in the direction of Jinglongmen. In the car, there was a person who was already waiting inside, and said in a low voice: "Master! ”

It turned out to be Qin Mo, who had been missing for a long time.

Ning Jiang said: "How are things going?" ”

Qin Mo said: "I followed the master's instructions, and when I arrived at Zhongnan Mountain, I really found the Jiao Yu Daoist that the master said, and the Jiao Yu Daoist originally didn't want to see me, until I shouted the words 'Heavenly Falling Streamer'." I took out the two skyfall streamers and the design drawings of the son according to your instructions, and the old man was quite shocked when he saw the design drawings, and tried his best to inquire about the origin of the son, I naturally did not tell him, only said that he would naturally know in the future. Then, I told him that my master was willing to ask him to make the things drawn on the drawings and a few weapons at the cost of a Skyfall Streamer, and the old man saw the Skyfall Streamer and agreed without any hesitation. ”

held a box in front of Ning Jiang: "In the past three months, the people of the Daoist have not rested for a moment, and finally created this thing for Gongzi." ”

Ning Jiang nodded, in this life, although he has not really met with the Servant Daoist, but in the previous life, he was very familiar with the Servant Daoist, and naturally knew that he couldn't resist the temptation of the skyfall streamer, and he also knew that he would definitely be able to make what he wanted, no matter how strange this thing was in this era.

He looked at Qin Xiaoya'er: "How did I ask you to do what you have done in the past few days?" ”

Qin Xiaoya said: "Master, we have investigated clearly, on Qinghui Lake, several flower boats are controlled by Zhenjiguan, yes, every night, Bao Qing will go to Qinghui Lake, basically without exception." Zhenjiguan is one of the tentacles of the Quanqing faction in the capital, and those flower boats are also one of the territories where the Quanqing faction collects intelligence. ”

Ning Jiang sneered: "Qin Mo, you go to find Qin Ze and Qin Kan first, and the three of you will follow Bao Qing's line of action and design several sets of methods to assassinate him, and hand them over to me the day after tomorrow." ”

Qin Mo and Qin Xiaoya were stunned, looking at each other, Qin Mo said, "Master, don't you take the test?" ”

Ning Jiang said: "How can you not take the test?" ”

Qin Mo said: "But, aren't you still in the Tribute Courtyard the day after tomorrow?" "Tomorrow is the third session of the examination, if Ning Jiang wants to participate in the examination, it means that it will be possible to leave the Gongyuan at least until after the time of the Great Queen. Don't say that the master is just a scholar, even if the master is the top first-class master, once he enters the Tribute Academy, it doesn't mean that he can leave. Unless Ning Jiang does not participate in the third examination, it is impossible for them to see Ning Jiang the day after tomorrow.

Ning Jiang stroked the box that Qin Mo brought back, and said lightly: "It's okay, you just do what I tell you to do......"

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Back at the house, the lantern was hanging high outside, and the candlelight was flickering inside.

Ning Jiang closed the curtains, and with his left hand, he took out the Sui Hou Zhu, urging him with the fire soul, and the light of the Sui Hou jewelry was dispersed.

He slowly opened the rectangular box on the table, and illuminated it with treasure light, and in the long box, there was a flintlock musket, a pair of mandarin duck knives, and ...... A doll.

The doll looked like an eleven or twelve-year-old child, but it was almost the same as a real person, and this was the "stand-in puppet" that he designed on the drawings at the beginning of the year, and asked Qin Mo to take it, and went to find the "stand-in puppet" made by the Daoist people, which used many special materials, and used the skyfall streamer as the "meridian" of the puppet.

It can be said that there is no one else in the world who can create this stand-in puppet according to his design.

He bit the index finger of his right hand, and slowly drew strange patterns on the stand-in doll, knowing that this stand-in doll was completely surrounded by this blood-colored pattern. Then, he put down Sui Houzhu, took a few steps back, retreated to the side of the bed, and lay down.

The fire soul detached from its body and threw itself at the stand-in puppet. Suddenly, the stand-in figure sat up from the box and opened its eyes.

At that moment, it seemed as if there was a fire coming out of its eyes.

The stand-in puppet flexibly jumped off the table, opened the curtains, jumped out of the window, came outside, and slowly opened its broken arms to the full moon in the sky, as if it was a monster absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. The moonlight flowed into its body, and its bloodstains all over its body began to grow on its own, until it grew blood, skin, and hair.

Soon, a boy covered in **** stood in the courtyard under the moon like this.

Such a strange picture, if others see it, I am afraid that my scalp will be numb, and I can't believe my eyes at all.

What Ningjiang uses is actually a puppet technique used by Xiling Wuzhu, and the Miao witch of Xiling sometimes uses paper figures, scarecrows, etc. as skeletons, and a large number of beasts and even human blood as a medium, so that the controlled ghosts and monsters are attached to it and are their own envoys. It's just that this kind of puppet that is envoyed by the emperor is not flexible enough after all, and can only be used in specific environments.

And that old Dao, named Dao, is actually one of the few ink masters in this world, good at all kinds of kitsch and lewd skills, in the previous life, Ning Jiang was with his help, to create his sister's puppet, from the appearance, almost the same.

As for now, this boy puppet made by Ning Jiang with his old way, combined with Xiling's blood sacrifice technique, puppet technique, and his powerful fire soul, finally succeeded in possessing this stand-in puppet.

This stand-in puppet uses all kinds of strange materials that are rare in this world, and there is a magic circle designed by him. He opened his hands, and the mysterious energy between heaven and earth seemed to be sucked in, slowly gathering and flowing on his body......

In the middle of the night, the carriage slowly drove into the courtyard to pick up the old man in the courtyard and go to the tribute courtyard.

Ning Jiang took Qin Xiaoya'er and got into the carriage. Qin Xiaoya was holding the long box, she didn't know what was in this box, although she was curious, she didn't dare to open it secretly. And Qin Mo didn't get Ning Jiang's instructions, so he wouldn't tell anyone else about the things in the box, even if it was his brother-in-law and sister-in-law.

On the way, Ning Jiang explained some things to Qin Xiaoya'er, as well as Qin Wuyan, who was driving the car outside after making a disguise. He said: "After these are done, you will go to Xiaomeng in the evening of the day after tomorrow, and find an excuse to stay in the eldest princess's mansion and not stay outside." In addition, tell your second and third brothers that the night after tomorrow, whether they are gambling or making trouble, in short, stay in crowded places, and be sure to let others see them. As for Qin Mo, let him leave the capital temporarily the day after tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, you will come with Xiaomeng to pick me up in the evening. ”

Qin Wuyan and Qin Xiaoya didn't know what the master was going to do, but they still answered "yes".

The third test is a question of strategy.

This time, Ning Jiang was assigned to the No. 1 examination booth in the word land, and after the test paper was sent down, he opened it, and saw the test questions, first wrote a few examples of past legislation and then failed, and asked, "Since ancient times, a law has been established, a malpractice has been born, and the malpractice has been legislated for it, so the law is like a cow's hair, and the disadvantage is like a bee dancing, so what can I do?" ”

In this kind of questioning, the questions are asked in the tone of "Son of Heaven", allowing candidates to answer questions as a courtier. And this time the topic is indeed an unavoidable problem since ancient times. Ning Jiang guessed that the vast majority of candidates would most likely discuss from the aspects of morality and etiquette, believing that there are many laws and many disadvantages, and the only way to start with morality and etiquette is to make up for the disadvantages of the law...... In short, very correct nonsense, sounds very reasonable, but there is simply nothing feasible.

The policy question is different from the scriptures, which do not allow any answers that question the saints and violate the etiquette, or that all the answers, like a political class in another world, are all condemned. However, the policy question is much more relaxed, as long as it is not too shocking and deviant, and the problem is not very big, because the policy question is "use", and those who can serve as examiners in the examination are not high-ranking officials in the court, and most of them also know that "scripture" and "use" are two different things.

Holding the book of sages is to occupy the moral high ground in this era to defeat political opponents, but the rotten Confucians who really only know how to do things according to the books of sages have long been defeated. According to Ningjiang's previous research, those who only know how to talk about the ancients and the books of sages and sages in the examination usually do not get a good ranking. The reason is very simple, the purpose of the imperial examination is to select talents who govern the world, but in the three examinations, "scripture" and "poetry" cannot see a person's ability to govern the county at all, and those who are good in these two exams are more likely to be nerds.

It can be said that "policy questioning" is the only place where you can see a candidate's actual ability to govern the country in the future, if here, still rely on "correct nonsense" to select materials, then the court can really only be a nerd in the court.

It is precisely for this reason that in the strategy of the examination, the answer does not require absolute correctness, especially a problem like this that has not been solved by famous ministers in the past dynasties, and others do not expect these people who have never even governed a small county town to really have a way to solve it.

Therefore, what really matters is not right and wrong, but the "uniqueness" of opinions, and the kind of correct nonsense is difficult to score points in policy theory.

The vast majority of candidates, because they have no real political experience, can only start with morality and etiquette for such topics. As a traverser, Ning Jiang's horizons are naturally much broader than these people. He began by quoting a few words from the sages...... The main purpose is to pull the skin of the tiger and express his opinions, which is not contrary to the way of the saints. Then he began to describe his own opinions, believing that the reason why "there are many laws and many disadvantages" is not in "many laws", but in implementation.

No matter how good the "law" is, once there is a problem in its implementation, it is difficult to avoid drawbacks. The "law" can be improved through constant revision and supplementation, but if we cannot change the problem of legislation at the top and implementation at the bottom, the more laws there are, the more loopholes that officials at the bottom can exploit.

In another incident, the failure of "Wang Anshi's reform" lies in this issue, no matter how good the original intention of the reform is, it is the people below who really implement it. And the only way to solve this problem is popular supervision...... Of course, in this era, talking about public supervision is bullshit.

What is Minmin? In this era, those who are qualified to represent the "people" are actually squires, and they do not compete with the people, in fact, they do not compete with the squires. As a result, Ningjiang's sprinkled court legislation, the implementation of officials, and the supervision of the people, by extension, are actually "court legislation, execution by officials, and supervision by the squire"...... It looks beautiful, but it's absolutely **** to execute.

After all, "public supervision" is, at least theoretically, more feasible than relying on empty things such as morality and etiquette to solve problems. In terms of specific implementation, only the squires can represent the "people", and the biggest main force of the squires is the high-ranking officials who have retired from the court, and the "people's supervision system" helps them to give full play to their surplus heat...... I think this essay should be able to delight those examiners.

So, under the flowery article in Ningjiang, a theoretically feasible, beautiful-looking policy, and if it is really implemented, it will definitely bring disaster to the country and the people, and this is how it was released...... But it's definitely not his fault.

Unless the entire Confucian world is overturned and a real society ruled by law is built, otherwise it is impossible to solve the problem of "too many laws and many disadvantages", and it is useless for the gods to descend to earth.

After careful consideration of the words, Ning Jiang did not finish this policy until the afternoon of the next day. When he was done, he did not rush to correct it, but just like that, he placed it on the table, and then sat cross-legged until it was getting dark outside.

After getting up and exercising, Ning Jiang put the two tables together, lay down on himself, and slept in his clothes, but the fire soul quietly left his body and floated out.

Outside, there were several braziers, burning between the examination sheds, but not too many, and there were stone walls around them, which was to prevent fires. The fire soul passed directly through the inner wall, and several Baidao masters patrolled between the two high walls that were half a zhang apart, and Ning Jiang had a soul but no body, so these people naturally couldn't see him. With the soul body, through the opposite high wall, and then to the roll call hall, an invigilator official, sitting behind the desk drowsy, during the examination, these examiners are also like prison, can not leave the tribute court, can not be casually played.

Even if he cultivated to the Golden Soul, Ning Jiang's soul body would not be able to leave his body so far, and the wind and sun would be affected to a certain extent, but now that he had cultivated to the "Fire Soul", the wind and sun would not have much effect on his soul body. He walked out of the tribute courtyard like this, crossed the square, and drifted away without knowing it.

His soul body was like a flame burning, murderous and awe-inspiring, but no one could see it!

The moon is dark and the wind is high, just to kill!

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