Chapter Ninety-Four: The Autumn Exam

Zhu Zhenguo studied hard, and went to the East Lake to talk about pure love when he had nothing to do, and his life was free and easy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Time has slowly entered the autumn, in this East Lake for more than three months to stay on the Xie everyone has also returned to the capital, before leaving, and Zhu Zhenguo made an appointment, and wait until the autumn is over, Zhu Zhenguo in this person, then go to the capital to study, and meet with the beauty.

The wall of Zhujiazhuang has also been built, six or seven miles of more than two zhang high wall, although not as tall as the big city, but it is also full of magnificence, ordinary bandits will not have any idea when they see this city wall.

Now Zhujiazhuang is more lively and prosperous than before, the wharf is getting bigger and bigger, the peddlers and pawns from the south to the north are in an endless stream every day, and many old buildings and courtyards in the village are being demolished and rebuilt. Even the land route to Seokchong Province is being planned.

The training of Zhuangzi's disciples is also becoming more and more sophisticated, that is, the formation of how to attack and how to defend in the battle formation has begun to practice, gongs and drums, commands, flag commands, and Zhu Wenzhong is a lot of training is proper.

Zhu Wenzhong has been in a good mood recently, but it is because of the grassland horses that Shazhou has recently sent one after another.

At the entrance of Zhujiazhuang, I saw Zhu Wenzhong turn over and get on the horse, bind the left leg that only left the root with a cowhide rope, and carried the bow knife, his face was full of smiles that he hadn't seen for many years, and shouted: "Drive!" ”

The healthy horse jumped out of all four hooves and came out with lightning, followed by more than 20 old soldiers such as Zhu Qiang, Zhu Zhuang, and Zhu San. The speed of the horse team was fast, and it was dusty in the flat road leading from Zhujiazhuang to Qingshan County.

"Big brother, watch me perform a stunt with you!" Zhu Qiang sat firmly on the horse and galloped, but he shouted excitedly, thinking that he had not felt like riding a horse for many years.

Zhu Wenzhong didn't answer, just smiled and looked at Zhu Qiang, who rushed to the front. I don't know where in my heart, this Zhu Qiang is going to play treasure this time to show his superb riding skills.

As soon as Zhu Qiang's voice fell, the body that was originally sitting on the horse rotated, and his legs clamped hard, and the horse ran even faster, and it had reached the limit, but Zhu Qiang had already hidden his whole body on the side of the horse's belly, only using his legs to clamp the horse, and the person was hanging in the air.

Fortunately, Zhu Qiang rode this grassland horse, and he could still gallop forward quickly, if it was an ordinary horse, he was afraid that he had fallen to the side at this time.

Although Zhu Qiangren is suspended in the air, he is already extremely good, but the action has not stopped, he pulled out the two-stone hard bow that was placed in the bow bag behind the horse, and a feather arrow was already in his hand, and he shot the bow with a bow, and shouted in his mouth: "Go!" ”

The long arrow flew out, and when he looked into the distance, he was in the middle of a small tree more than a hundred paces away.

More than 20 healthy horses were still galloping, and everyone applauded: "Good!! ”

The momentum of the voice felt like it was going straight to the Nine Heavens. Zhu Wenzhong's heart was even more agitated, and he felt as if he had returned to the bloody years of the brothers galloping in the Northland Pioneer Camp more than ten years ago.

Although he only has one leg, he can't do this riding and archery stunt, he still doesn't feel sorry in his heart, and in the agitation, he also takes out his strong bow and shoots angrily, and the arrow flies straight away, and the arrow is straight to an inch in Zhu Qianggang.

"Big brother is good at archery! Ha ha... The crowd applauded again. They followed suit, and each of them held a hard bow and shot an arrow.

The small tree a hundred paces away has been pierced like a hedgehog. But this little tree is pitiful, and today it has suffered this inexplicable calamity.

The angry horse galloped wildly, and a hundred steps were coming in an instant, and the arrow target tree was already near. Everyone rode their horses in a row, and the horses were extremely fast, and they all reached sideways and reached into the air. Each of them grabbed the arrow they had shot before and put it in their quiver.

At this time, everyone in the old soldiers laughed and was very happy. Obviously, this group of comrades of the same race often played the same tricks in the pioneer camp of that Datong border town more than ten years ago. Although he rode this strong horse in the army more than ten years later, his kung fu was already good.

It's just that the flat galloping road from Zhujiazhuang to Qingshan County is only ten miles away, and I can't stand how long this healthy horse gallops, but for a quarter of an hour, it can only stop at the horse. Not to mention the soldiers, but this horse may not have had the opportunity to gallop like this for a long time, and they all seem to be unsatisfied, and their hooves are still kicking the ground and making noise.

A few months have passed, it is already late autumn, Zhu Zhenguo has been preparing for a long time in the autumn has arrived, this autumn is also called the township test, although it still sounds like a local exam, but it is very different from the previous exam.

Zhumen two generations of three students entered the examination at the same time, and the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy was even stricter. In the autumn, it is the transformation of the students in the cold window for ten years, and the promotion of people is the official body, and if you get the promotion of people, you will also have the qualification to be an official.

Zhu Zhenguo had an allusion to "Fan Jin Zhongju" in his last life, and Fan Jin, who had not been in the examination for many years, was surprised that everyone was crazy, and the fish jumped into the dragon gate again.

There are three consecutive exams in autumn, which are divided into three days. Every day is separated by two days, which makes it more prudent.

The first session is still the Sutra, but it is a test day, and the exam questions are written in large lengths. Zhu Zhenguo's main attack recently is this scripture, which he has memorized proficiently, and after preparing for the exam in recent months, it is even more difficult.

Just hope that the words are correct and legible. The time of the day is even more sufficient, and Zhu Zhenguo writes vigorously and vigorously with one stroke. After answering the book, I also checked it slowly, and if there were still a few mistakes, it was also corrected.

This correction is also troublesome, not just to correct the mistakes, but to replace a piece of paper, and re-copy all the answers on the entire paper, so as not to appear ugly in the answer sheet.

After an exam, Zhu Zhenguo watched the sunset and walked out of the gate of the Tribute Academy. waited for the two uncles and Ouyang Wenfeng, who wanted to talk about the exam, didn't get into the carriage, and slowly walked home.

Sitting in the examination room for a day, it is much more comfortable to walk around.

After two days, I will take the second exam, Moyi. Zhu Zhenguo is also relaxed, Moyi is not difficult to interpret for students in this world, but the difficult thing is to diverge their own thinking and ideas to explain.

Most of the people who study hard are people who have limited their thinking, and they are most afraid of this divergent thinking, which is also caused by the limitation of their vision. Zhu Zhenguo is different, he is a man in two lives, and he is more well-informed, explaining the meaning of the scriptures and often bringing forth the new, and there are also the thoughts of Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming and other great Confucians in the previous life, and he answers the questions like divine help.

Out of the gate of the Gongyuan Academy, Ouyang Wenfeng had already come out first, his face was relaxed, and he must have answered well. Zhu Wenguang and Zhu Wenyuan also exchanged their own answers, Zhu Zhenguo didn't think it was very good, but it was not worse than ordinary people, and his heart was also stable.

Take a two-day break and take the test again, and the retest is the key test to distinguish between the middle and the fall, which is the policy. As soon as this question is answered, it can fully show the level of the candidate, and it will be clear at a glance whether he is a good talent needed by the imperial court and the country or an ordinary pedantic scholar.

Today's policy and tax assessment also shows that the imperial court roughly knows that one of the fundamental problems of the country's weakness lies in this tax.

It's just that the things related to this tax are often too important, and the real controllers of this country are these wealthy families, and it is these wealthy families who can really receive a lot of taxes from the imperial court.

Among them, a paradox is formed, the person who solves the problem of insufficient tax is the crux of the problem of insufficient tax revenue, and is still struggling to find a way to collect taxes, but it is an infinite endless loop.

Zhu Zhenguo didn't know the crux of this problem in his heart, but he didn't know how to answer the question for a while. If you really say what you think in your heart, it will cause an uproar, and let the court find officials and scholars to collect taxes, and Ouyang Zheng, the teacher of Xuezheng University, will not directly throw it on the ground when he sees this answer sheet.

In this world, for more than a thousand years, the tax conscription of celebrities has not been collected, and the superiority of scholars is here, and even the beggars begging on the street feel that this is what it should be. Where is Zhu Zhenguo's show can be broken casually.

So how to answer this question, Zhu Zhenguo thought about it, and had to start with salt and business. He wrote down the true figure of the salt tax clearly, and made more suggestions to suggest that the imperial court should open up the thousands of years of salt official system, open up the salt market and private and commercial operations, and then high-pressure supervision, so as to not only increase the income of the imperial court, but also manage the situation of the flood of private salt.

Instead of letting the benefits of the salt market be obtained by criminals, it is better to let all good merchants participate in it for mutual benefit, and it can also reduce the price of salt for the benefit of ordinary people.

The state gets taxes, good businesses get profits, and the people get benefits. Kill a few birds with one stone. (Even in Zhu Zhenguo's previous life, the matter of the salt official camp was not canceled until before Zhu Zhenguo crossed, which was later than the abolition of the agricultural tax that lasted for thousands of years.) ）

Although Zhu Zhenguo's answer sheet also violated Zhu Jiazhuang's own interests, Zhu Zhenguo also knew that his examination paper was only in front of the case of the county Fu Xuezheng, and he would definitely not be able to enter the court. It's just a one-point answer.

After Zhu Zhenguo finished talking about salt affairs, he immediately talked about business, and business only needs to change one point, that is, to improve the social status of merchants. As the saying goes, the scholar is the highest ranking of the scholars, followed by the peasant households and artisans, and the cheapest is the merchant, and most people in the world think that the merchant is a cunning person.

Zhu Zhenguo explained that businessmen are the foundation of the economy, and the economy is the source of taxes, so businessmen are actually an important source of national taxes. Merchants communicate with different products in various places to enrich the people's living needs, so that the north can wear silk, so that the south can have wrought iron, which is also a profession for the benefit of the country and the people, not a fraudulent and cunning profession.

Zhu Zhenguo for a whole day, a 10,000-word answer sheet sprinkled, neat and tidy, flat rhyme, and extraordinary rhetoric. But it also said an extraordinary tax countermeasure.

One day the exam was over, and when he went out, several people communicated with each other, and he heard the two uncles talk about the content of their answer sheets, although they were talking about taxation in a small way, Zhu Zhenguo also nodded frequently, and he also knew that his exchanges with the two uncles in the past few months had played a role.

Ouyang Wenfeng talked about it in another direction entirely, that is, the corruption of officialdom, and the corruption of officialdom is also a crux of the lack of taxation. It's that only a child of a big family like Ouyang Wenfeng can talk about corruption in this officialdom without any burden!

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