Ma Maocai, the governor of Yan'an Prefecture, was also in a bad mood, which also stemmed from the famine and peasant rebellion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Strictly speaking, the starting place of the peasant rebellion was not in Yan'an Prefecture, but Baishui County under the jurisdiction of Xi'an Prefecture, but the speed of the riot spread very quickly, causing the shock in many places in Yan'an Prefecture, Fugu, Yichuan and Ansai and other places have riots, and what is more terrible is that the Guyuan border army, which was originally responsible for suppressing the peasant rebellion, mutinied because of lack of pay, and as a result, most of the border troops also joined the peasant rebellion after looting the Guyuan Prefecture Treasury, resulting in the growing momentum of the riot.

The emperor was furious, and the strict order was to quickly suppress the peasant rebellion, and the actions in various parts of Shaanxi were still rapid, and the governor of Shaanxi, Li Yingzhi, mobilized a lot of guards to encircle and suppress the riotous army, among which the army led by Liu Yingyu, a member of Shangluo Dao, and Hong Chengchou, the senator of the Grain Road, had the most achievements, Liu Yingyu killed Wang Er of Baishui County, and Hong Chengchou killed Wang Daliang of Hannan, so that the peasant rebellion was gradually quelled, but it may be that the emperor was not at ease, and in March, he appointed Yang He, the imperial history of the left capital, as the governor of the three sides, and worshiped as the secretary of the military department, Commanded the extermination of the peasant rebels.

The trilateral governors controlled the governors of Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Yansui, as well as the nine general armies of Gan, Liang, Su, Xi, Ningxia, Yansui, Shendaoling, Xing'an, and Guyuan, and were stationed in Guyuan Prefecture.

After Yang He took office, he mainly adopted the policy of Huai Rou, thinking that the rebellious peasants were forced to rebel because of lack of food and clothing, so those who could surrender were all pardoned, in this case, the generals at all levels responsible for exterminating the peasant rebel army were at a loss, and some thought that it was necessary to completely exterminate the peasant rebel army and cut the grass and eradicate the roots, for example, Hong Chengchou, the senator of the Grain Road, but most of them still thought that Yang Hezhi's decision was correct, so they relaxed the encirclement and suppression of the peasant rebel army.

You must know that most of the border troops in Guyuan have joined the peasant rebel army, their combat effectiveness is good, and they are by no means comparable to the displaced people, and they are purely mutiny and rebellion, knowing that they have no way to retreat, and it is unlikely that they will be pardoned by the imperial court, so they ******** think about rebellion, which makes Yang He Huairou's policy seem very ridiculous.

In less than two months, at the end of May, the peasant rebel army, which had been gradually suppressed, began to grow again, and there were as many as 100 leaders, large and small.

Ma Maocai and Yang He had similar ideas, believing that the best way to quell the peasant rebel army was to relieve the people who had been burned and famine, and as long as the people were stabilized, the peasant rebel army would naturally gradually subside.

At the end of April, Ma Mao wrote a special memo to the imperial court, detailing the situation of the famine in various parts of Yan'an Prefecture, Ansai, which is adjacent to the Fucheng, there was a tragic scene of cannibalism, many people who starved to death, violent corpses in the wild, no one reined in, and the famine in Mizhi, Jiazhou and Fugu in the north of Yan'an Mansion was even worse, among which Fugu was the most serious.

More than a month has passed, and the imperial court has not talked about the relief of the victims, but is only concerned about the suppression of the peasant rebels, and the fateful thing is that after Yang He took office, he urged all prefectures and counties to transport military rations to Guyuan Prefecture to ensure that the army exterminated the peasant rebels and appeased the grain expenses of the surrendered peasants.

No one dares to move the grain storage in the treasury of Fuzhou County, even if they see the displaced people outside the city starving to death, they dare not open it, and if anyone moves the grain stored in the prefecture without authorization, he will not only lose his official hat, but also his life.

It is in this situation that the government test is about to begin.

There are nearly 500 people who participated in the government examination, and these people have all passed the county examination, some of them are in the past, and there are also candidates who have passed the county examination before, but have not passed the government examination.

In mid-May, the relevant preparations began, and the government school dispatched personnel to participate in the government examination, and Ma Maocai's main responsibility was to produce the exam questions.

The government examination is divided into three sessions, namely the scriptures, essays and policy discussions, starting from the fifth day of the sixth month to the end of the seventh day of the first month, which lasts three days, and all the candidates are in the Gongyuan until they complete the three exams, and will not leave.

The marking period lasted for 10 days, and the results were released on June 18.

Ma Maocai's main topic is the second essay and the third essay exam, which are two eight-strand essays, of course, the title comes from the Four Books and Five Classics, as for the first poster, it is an excerpt from the teachings of the Fuxue from the Four Books and Five Classics, which are reviewed by Ma Maocai. Compared with the other two exams, the questions are relatively simple, and there is no need for Ma Mao to write the questions himself.

Compared with the prefectural examination and the county examination, it is more strict, at least the vague name system has been adopted, but compared with the hospital examination and the township examination, the degree of freedom is still greater, and it can be seen from the question that when the prefect issues the question, although the examination questions are from the four books and five classics, it can be combined with the actual local situation to discuss many local political affairs.

In fact, the county examination and the prefect examination have always had such meanings, and the prefect and the prefect hope to get some reminders from the examination papers, so as to grasp the key when acting in government affairs, but when it comes to the college examination and above, this situation basically does not exist, that is, the examination school in terms of pure knowledge.

After passing the government examination, he was called a child, and he was considered a scholar, but he had no fame, and he could not enjoy many treatments.

Only children are eligible to participate in the college examination and win the fame of Xiucai.

Ma Maocai came up with the questions, or he still had to learn from the examination questions of the counties and counties under his jurisdiction, and the articles of the first cases of the county examinations of the states and counties must be sent to the government office, and Ma Maocai also had to read them in person, to say that there are only so many books and five classics, and I don't know how many exam questions have been produced in hundreds of years, so it is still a little difficult to come up with the questions.

In this year's government examination, there was a small accident, that is, Wu Fanhui, the head of the county examination in Mizhi County, became a controversial figure.

In mid-May, Ma Mao received a letter from Lu Weibiao, the magistrate of Mizhi County, and then the He family in Mizhi County also sent a letter, and Lu Weibiao's letter said that the dispute between the Wu family and the He family in Mizhi County was not convinced, so they framed the Wu family and Wu Fanhui, the head of the county trial.

The letter from the He family can be called a complaint, saying that Wu Fanhui, the head of the county examination, has a loss of moral character and is not qualified to participate in the government examination, and his examination qualification should be cancelled.

Ma Mao only knew a little bit about the situation in Mizhi County, and even more so about the He family, after all, the former magistrate of Mizhi County was because of friction with the He family, and finally slipped away.

At that time, Ma Maocai had not yet served as the prefect of Yan'an Prefecture, and after taking office, he was quite suspicious of such a thing, but it was a family in the county that actually forced away the prefect, which shows the huge power of the county, but Ma Maocai, who was born in a scholarly family, also knew that the power of the scholar family was not something that happened during his tenure, so there was no need to get to the bottom of it.

Ma Maocai read both letters carefully, and specially took out Wu Fanhui's article to read it carefully.

After reading it, Ma Mao had an unusual impression of this Wu Fanhui, as for whether the He family was falsely accused, Lu Weibiao's letter made it very clear.

However, the letter of the He family also mentioned a very critical matter, which Lu Weibiao did not explain, if this matter really exists, then Wu Fanhui is indeed not eligible to participate in the government examination.

There is no doubt that the county test heads of various states and counties will pass the government test, there is no doubt about this, Ma Mao will also give the face of the governors and counties under his jurisdiction, no matter what the real ability of these people is, but Ma Mao has his own principles, that is, these county test heads, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to become the head of the government test cases, unless they are really talented.

From Wu Fanhui's article, Ma Mao felt that it was not easy for a fourteen-year-old boy to be able to write such an article, closely follow the actual situation of Mizhi County and even Yan'an Prefecture, and make suggestions.

Wu Fanhui has a small hand, it looks very comfortable, look at each word carefully, it is not particularly good, at least the pen is not good, but the overall combination is very neat, giving people a good feeling.

Ma Mao quickly found the secretary of the ceremonial room and asked the candidates in Mizhi County whether they came to the government to report, and learned that there was no candidate in Mizhi County to report, and he told the secretary that if Wu Fanhui, the head of the Mizhi County trial case, came to the government to report, he wanted to see it.

The prefect's order is a holy decree for the priest of the ceremonial chamber.

After arranging these things, Ma Maocai's energy was focused on mobilizing grain to go to Guyuan Prefecture, which was not very safe on the way, and how to transport the food security of the treasury to Guyuan Prefecture still had to take a lot of effort, but fortunately, Lord Yang He, the governor of the three sides, sent a sergeant to escort the grain and grass, which also saved Ma Maocai a lot of thought.

In late May, Ma Mao focused his main attention on the prefectural examination, and the hundreds of candidates who participated in the prefectural examination should have arrived in Fucheng at this time, because these candidates have arrived one after another, and Fucheng has become much more lively.

On May 25, just after arranging the arrangement of matters related to the arrangement in the morning hall, Ma Mao had not yet sat down, and the secretary office of the ceremonial room came to report, and the candidates from Mizhi County had already come to the government office and began to report.

Ma Mao immediately thought of Wu Fanhui, the head of the Mizhi County trial case, and he took out Wu Fanhui's article again, and looked at it carefully, this time he actually sank into the article for half an hour.

Perhaps there have been a lot of things recently, and Ma Maocai's mind has almost been devoted to relieving and suppressing the peasant rebels, so he has more thoughts about Wu Fanhui's article.

At the time of the application, the secretary of the ceremonial room came to report in person, and Wu Fanhui, the head of the Mizhi County trial case, was waiting outside the ceremonial room.

Ma Mao thought for a while, and asked the priest to take Wu Fanhui to the wing room to wait.

At the beginning of the evening hall, everyone reported on the situation of acting government affairs, which lasted for most of the hour.

When he was close to the unitary, Ma Mao slowly walked towards the wing.