19. Grandma's wish

Suzhou Mansion is the strongest mansion in the Southern Zhili Imperial Examination, the first place in Suzhou Mansion is all iron-clad Xiucai, this fame Zheng family has decided, and got the fame of Xiucai, although it is not said how good, but at least you can be exempted from your own miscellaneous service, do not have to bear taxes and military service, etc., high-level Xiucai can also get the rice and silver money of the government, although it is not much, but at least enough for a person's living expenses. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The most important thing is that Xiucai's fame means that Zheng Guang can enter the most noble ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, become a member of the scholars, and thus go further, become an official, and be a herdsman for the Son of Heaven.

Zheng Yong heard well, when Zheng Jiang howled loudly, Zheng Yong heard it, he was running, he was shocked, his feet slipped, and he fell into the mud all of a sudden, Zheng Guang also heard it, stopped the big gun in his hand, and thought in his heart, he must meet Fan Qing, there are some things to ask, some things must be explained by him, a case leader, it is not so simple, not to mention Suzhou Mansion, which is the head of the case with the highest gold content in the entire southeast coast.

A large family of men, women and children all rushed to the backyard and saw Zheng Guang, Mrs. Zheng walked in front of Zheng Guang at once, came to Zheng Guang, and held Zheng Guang's hand tightly: "Good grandson, you really deserve to be a good grandson of grandma, you have lived up to your father's expectations, and you have lived up to our family, Xiucai, Xiucai!" Our Zheng family has another talent! With this fame, grandma will see who dares to bully our family! ”

What the old lady said is actually very reasonable, the Zheng family is famous, but fame is an illusory thing, many people have fame but no actual power, and fame does not mean that everyone knows at home, it is easy to be bullied to death, the Zheng family is still a private household, when Zheng Wei was still there before, there was a show of talent and fame, and there was great hope for the exam, no one dared to bully the Zheng family, but as soon as Zheng Guang left, the three families came out to dance wildly to seize the Zheng family's business, and bullied the old and weak women and children of the family enough.

If it weren't for Tang Shunzhi's help behind his back, and the Suzhou prefect helped, the Zheng family might not be able to keep it, since then, the old lady knew that the most valuable thing in the world is the fame of the scholar and the official position of the official, at least in the Ming Dynasty, with fame, even if it is the lowest level of small Xiucai, a millionaire businessman will never dare to bully you, on the contrary, there is no fame, and the rich businessman with fine clothes and food will be ruined.

The Zheng family is not short of money, but what is lacking is the fame and power to protect the family business, after Zheng Wei went, the old lady was cautious in managing the family business, and did not dare to fight with the big families at all, and suffered a lot of losses to keep today's family business, now Zheng Guang High School is the first to try the case, and the fame of the show is at your fingertips, those who are openly and secretly plotting against the Zheng family, want to bully the Zheng family without adult male hosts, but be careful!

Zheng Guang naturally knows how much this big family has expectations of himself, fame and power are the best protection for the family, and this big family supports himself like this, doesn't he expect that he can get fame and protect them in turn? Carrying the expectation for so long, the phased victory is just around the corner, how can Zheng Guang not be excited?

As for other issues, there are some rumors that Zheng Jiang has heard from the outside these days, so let Fan Qing toss and annoy himself, Zheng Guang has no interest in thinking about these things, and winning the government examination is equivalent to booking the fame of Xiucai in advance, as long as he takes the test himself, it will definitely not matter, one time is not enough, my two case leaders are finally enough, right?

This day is a day of rejoicing for the Zheng Mansion, the old lady personally ordered the kitchen to open up at full speed to celebrate, although not to invite any relatives and friends, the Zheng Mansion actually has no relatives and friends, Zheng Guang has a quiet temperament, and does not like to be noisy, the Zheng family has never feasted guests since Zheng Wei's death, but it is still okay to send some food to the neighbors, not to mention that the Zheng Mansion takes care of them, they are also helping the Zheng Mansion in their own way.

Send them some favorite meat, that is, Zheng Fu's thanks, the old lady gave an order, the kitchen was at full power, what pork, mutton, fish and meat were purchased in a big way, rabbit meat and venison and the like were also purchased, and the kitchen was in full swing, and many people were called to the kitchen to help, and they were still too busy.

Zheng Fu's actions naturally can't hide the surrounding neighbors and street vendors, the imperial examination list has always been a big thing, when the county trial list was released, they made a lot of money for a while, this time the government tried to release the list, more people came, there were more rich people, the small merchants and hawkers had long occupied the favorable terrain and began to shout, everyone regardless of whether they were in the test or not, they would still buy some things, after the end of the list, they had not taken the test and cried, and the test began to sweep the goods.

Fashion news is the most well-informed businessmen who go south and north, their natural keen sense of smell makes them a natural intelligence station, Zheng Guang after winning the county test case, once again won the first place in the 25th year of the Suzhou government trial case in Jiajing, and won the first place in Suzhou scholars, according to the past practice, Zheng Guang's talent and fame are iron, and the small Sanyuan that has not appeared in Suzhou for decades is also very likely to appear again.

The county examination is to test the real talent and learning, with the nature of elimination, the college examination is more to arrange the seats, determine the admission of the county school, in this case, really take the two first place Zheng Guang, can not get a high ranking? The gentleman has the beauty of an adult, and I believe that Nan Zhili's academic politics will not sweep away the nature of everyone, even if he is in the idea of appeasing people's hearts, Zheng Guang's little Sanyuan is almost iron.

So people kept coming to the door with gifts to congratulate Zheng Fu, wishing the Zheng family's little minister to really become a showman, then it is not a little minister, that is a minister, hahaha, congratulations!

Regardless of whether you know or don't know, many people who usually can't play with eight poles are eager to Zheng Fu, more people want to see Zheng Guang with a familiar face, what to pay attention to, everyone knows very well, since Zheng Guang has won three yuan in a row It is very possible, then the township test is also between the two middlemen, and he can't win the leader Xie Yuan, and he is also nine out of ten stable, if he gets the fame of lifting people, then he can be exempted from paying taxes!

Therefore, many families do not have children to be officials, and the landlords who are suffering from a large number of taxes will choose some excellent students, build a good relationship in advance, and wait for the family to once go to high school, and then attach their own fields to the name of this person, and get the benefits of tax exemption.

This is how the agricultural taxes of the Ming Dynasty disappeared.

The old lady who knew the truth helplessly asked Zheng Guang what he meant, this time, Zheng Guang did not choose to compromise, because this involved some factors that could not be compromised, always Zheng Guang knew that he did not accept these people, there would definitely be people to accept, and he would not choose only one person, and other people would still accept these people and steal the taxes of the Ming Dynasty, but all he could do at present was to mix with different streams.

These privileges belonging to the ruling class, for the people of the ruling class, should be very enjoyable, but unlike other privileges, every time I think of this, Zheng Guang can't feel at ease, these belong to Zhu Yuanzhang's wrong decisions when he established the country, and it is almost impossible to change them today, but at least he can not do it, so Zheng Guang made the decision not to accept these people's contributions.

The way of refusal can't be blunt, otherwise it will leave others with arrogant bad thoughts, even if you don't care, but the mouth of Youyou spreads, once Zheng Guang's crazy name becomes loud, it will not be very good.

After thinking about it, Zheng Guang copied a piece of Wang Anshi's "Hurt Zhongyong", and asked the family to stick it on the gate of Zheng's mansion, and then closed the door to thank the guests, and no one was seen.

Someone curiously stepped forward to read, only to find that it was an article written by Wang Anshi, a famous minister in the Song Dynasty, which told the tragic satirical story of the young prodigy Zhongyong from being talented to being unpopular, everyone suddenly thought of Zheng Guang's situation now, as well as the practices of his own people, and suddenly his cheeks were red, and he picked up the gift and hid his face and left, no longer coming to the door.

Zheng Guang is complaining about them, he is just a talent who has not yet glimpsed the eight characters, you are so eager to make me unable to study well, once I am out of the crowd, what you have done these days, isn't it like a joke? Therefore, I have self-knowledge, you must also be prepared, don't be so anxious to come to your arms, I don't have that ability.

In front of Zheng's house, it was only a matter of half an hour, and even those small merchants and vendors who knew a few words and had some insight saw this article, and they automatically moved their stalls to a place a little farther away from Zheng's house, so as not to let the noise of doing business affect Zheng Guang's study and exam preparation.

Compared with Zheng Guang's indifferent actions, other places are very different, as Zheng Guang expected, he does not accept it, it does not mean that others do not accept, once from a poor scholar who no one cares about to such a situation sought after by tens of thousands of people, the sudden identity transformation is not something that anyone can bear, a moment of hell and a moment of heaven, many people's simple heart of reading has changed.

It is said that Ma Yue's home, the second place in the government examination, was open for three consecutive days, and then some people continued to invite Ma Yue to participate in the banquet, and there were some so-called poetry meetings of literati and ink writers, and many people have already hit the ownership of the field to this person, and the third and fourth places are not the most popular candidates for the examination, and none of the popular candidates for the examination are like Zheng Guang.

After Zheng Guang learned about these news through Zheng Jiang, he just laughed it off, but in Fan Qing's opinion, it was very different.

"An Shou is poor, immobile as a mountain, there is no change under the great changes, but closed the door to thank guests, study with peace of mind, compared to others, you now understand why I ordered Zheng Guang to be the head of the house, right?" Fan Qing proudly showed off to his master, but before that, the master had been arguing with him for a long time with a scroll.