Chongzhen approached the candidate and began to appreciate his works, only to see that the candidate answered them one by one according to Chongzhen's questions, which was basically a whole vernacular, Chongzhen also understood it, and the first candidate's answer roughly meant this: "In ancient times, kings ruled the country by virtue, subjects submitted, the four seas returned to their hearts, and the four sides returned to obedience, but there are always individual courtiers who govern the country because of their own selfish interests, governing the country and the law is nothing, corrupting the court and damaging the prestige of the court. Let them be punished as they deserve, and at the same time recommend that Your Majesty punish the officials who have committed serious crimes, first confiscate all their property, and if the confiscated property does not reach the amount they covet, let their children continue to pay it back, and then degrade them to slavery, and in addition, Your Majesty may set up a temple of rats! Put all these corrupt officials and their families inside after their deaths, and let the people spit on them for all eternity! All of the above is to hope that Your Majesty will govern the country according to the law at the same time under the premise of governing the country according to virtue! The combination of the two is indispensable! After reading this, Chongzhen couldn't help but secretly applaud in his heart! It is a good way to punish these corrupt officials and corrupt officials in this way, just like those traitors, the most important thing for the ancient literati is reputation, which must be scolded by people for eternity, and it must be basically unwilling, and this also increases the cost of corruption and corruption, which is indeed a good way. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chongzhen nodded and then continued to look at the second one, only to see that the meaning of the above was roughly as follows: "The Tartars have now become a climate, and our dynasty has lost the best opportunity to eliminate the Tartars, and now North Korea has fallen into the hands of the Tartars, so that the Tartars can obtain a stable source of food, but even so, the Tartars are only in that corner, although his army is strong, but as long as I am Ming steadily, they still can't shake my Ming Dynasty's iron country, Your Majesty does not need to be in a hurry, when you slow down, Wechen has the following suggestions: First, although North Korea has been reduced to the territory of the Tartars, but the people in North Korea are unstable, our DPRK can send people to secretly enter the DPRK to use the will of the people of the DPRK to make trouble, destroy their grain production areas, and at the same time encourage the people of the DPRK to rise up against the rule of the Tartars, and our DPRK can secretly support their actions, and Wechen boldly suggested that a few Korean royal children can be sent back to the DPRK to lead these actions, so that the Tartars will have to send troops to operate in Korea, Then the forces on the front line in Liaodong will have to be reduced! At the same time, His Majesty can also send and General Mao to harass the rear of the Tartars, the same to achieve the purpose of weakening the Tartars, and the first line of Liaodong, but also let the Governor Yuan send troops to harass from time to time, first, to hone the combat effectiveness of the army, and secondly, to contain the Tartars' strength! increase the winning stakes for North Korea's activities; Second, the so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend, the rise of the Tartars has seriously weakened the strength of Lin Dan Khan, presumably as a descendant of the Golden Family, Lin Dan Khan will never swallow this breath easily, Your Majesty can temporarily form an alliance with Lin Dan Khan, deal with the Tartars together, and try to encourage Lin Dan Khan to attack while my Da Ming is secretly providing assistance, so that my Da Ming can get the maximum benefits! Third, Weichen has a close look at the coins launched by the imperial court, which are beautiful and practical, the common people like it very much, and almost everyone is using it, and the release of coins is in the hands of the imperial court. ”

After reading these Chongzhen couldn't help but be a little impressed by this candidate, although what was written above is basically being operated now, but it is all secretly operated, but since this candidate has already thought of it, and also mentioned some specific details, it makes Chongzhen wonder if he has also crossed over, some concepts are very close to himself, Chongzhen wants to directly make a decision and let him be the champion directly, what else to test? Chongzhen continued to praise him in his heart, and then looked at the next one. The other ministers saw that Chongzhen was there and didn't move, thinking that Chongzhen was interested in that candidate, Cheng Jiming quietly asked Sun Chengzong: "Lord Shoufu!" Who is that candidate? ”

Sun Chengzong looked at the corresponding seats and names on the scroll and said, "Xu Shilin!" ”

"Just the candidate in Qiantang, Zhejiang?" Cheng Jiming was stunned.

"This son is really good, and I have read the answers to the papers in the previous exams! If you follow the old man's previous ranking, he should be the first! As for why it is ranked at the bottom。。。。。。 Sun Chengzong smiled and didn't say anything.

Cheng Jiming also seemed to understand something, looked at the several officials standing on the other side, and then continued to look at the examination room.

"My lord! His Majesty seems to be interested in that candidate! An official whispered.

"Humph! The old man is not blind! You can see it! The other snorted quietly.

"How are you?" The man whispered.

"This talent is really good, although I am the main examiner, but there are other people! I had to put it in! The man snorted.

"Alas!" The other sighed.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't have the heart to listen to these people chatting at this time, but continued to happily watch the candidate answer the question, and the answer to the third question was: "The spread of natural disasters, this is nothing we can do, what we can do is to overcome natural disasters, Your Majesty's benevolence, for the timely deployment of disaster relief in the disaster area, these all make the people clap their hands and praise Your Majesty's benevolence, but even this is just a little alleviation of the people's hardship, and now the most lacking for my Ming is food, With food, then this natural disaster spreads again, I believe that as long as the monarch and the minister, the monarch and the people can carry it through, then where is the food the most critical! For this Weichen suggested a few points, first, before the Japanese invaders were wiped out by the army of our Celestial Empire, and then the Japanese country bowed down and confessed, Weichen thought that we could buy some food from the Japanese country, I believe that today's imperial court sailors can take this responsibility, in addition, according to Weichen's knowledge, the Nanyang area is rich in grain, and the imperial court can also find a way to import food from Nanyang to ease the needs of my Ming Dynasty. Second, in addition to relying on the purchase of food from outside, we have to rely on ourselves, in addition to the imperial court has been introducing new crops and researching new crops, we can also replant food in some areas, as far as Weichen knows, some places are no longer growing food but other crops for production, not to mention other places, on the south of the Yangtze River, where Weichen is located, many places have changed rice to mulberry, which seriously affects the production of grain, Weichen suggested that the imperial court control the cultivation of these mulberry fields, In order to meet the needs of the people, all the surplus was converted into rice fields and replanted with grain, and the same is true in other places! In addition, when it comes to the point in this question, silver is needed to buy food for disaster relief, and Wechen suggested that His Majesty should levy taxes according to the different circumstances of each place, for example, the disaster area can be reduced or even exempted from taxes, and for the wealthy places, taxes are increased to make up for the gap in this part. ”

Chongzhen saw that there was no follow-up when he found this, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled, tax increase? What taxes to increase? You should have written it in! Chongzhen was speechless in his heart.