After Li Sancai's house was raided, Li Sancai's house slaves were also punished to a certain extent, and many of them were arrested by Jinyiwei and sent to labor reform.

However, the period of labor reform is not long, generally only half a year to a year. It is purely a goose plucking, and by the way, squeezing the value of labor from defeating famous slaves.

The coolest among these people is Zhou Tongcai, and during this time, Zhou Tongcai feels that he is simply in a 'dream'.

Because the clues provided were effective, the emperor personally rewarded him with 10,000 taels of silver, which was like being hit by a pie falling from the sky.

10,000 taels of silver, the emperor's generosity made Zhou Tongcai feel incredible. He didn't know that Zhu Youxiao naturally had to be generous enough at this time in order to form an interest group with the same interests as him. In this way, a solid interest group can be formed to compete with other interest groups.

With a knife in one hand and silver in the other, it will be useless if you are stingy.

Xu Xianchun, the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, saw that Zhou Tongcai was talented in talking, and after learning that Zhou Tongcai had been admitted to Tongsheng and served as an accountant for Li Sancai, he recommended it to the emperor again.

Soon after, Zhou Tongcai was transferred by Zhu Youxiao to the tax bureau.

A literati like Zhou Tongcai, who couldn't get into the show and learned culture well, was actually Zhu Youxiao's favorite use. Because these people have no fame, they are much more pragmatic.

Nowadays, many of the big shopkeepers of big businesses in the Ming Dynasty are from this kind of literati.

If you can't get into Xiucai, it doesn't mean that the culture is not good, and one of the characteristics of the imperial examination system is that Xiucai is often the most difficult to test, and many people can't get stuck when they read Tongsheng.

If these scholars can't get into the exam, they will consider changing careers.

Scholars change jobs more distinctively, one is to study medicine, as the so-called show talent to study medicine, catch chickens in a cage. Ancient cultural people, the five elements of yin and yang, and the eight trigrams of Zhou Yi all had a foundation, and it was easier to learn medicine or something. In addition, it is to learn fortune telling, feng shui, and medicine, and use the same set of theories.

In addition to these outlets, that is, to be a bookkeeper, a shopkeeper and the like, but the shopkeeper generally needs to learn, and many of them start from apprentices.

More than 200 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the commodity economy was overflowing, and the way out in this regard was also very wide.

Studying medicine, fortune telling, and feng shui was a relatively mainstream direction of change of profession in the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, the main field of literati change was business.

To put it bluntly, these literati who can't get into the merit and fame are also educated, and they are not necessarily worse than those literati who are admitted to the examination and jinshi, often because they have been trained after changing jobs, and their ability is much stronger than those who are masters and jinshi. In recent years, many local officials have recruited Shaoxing masters, to put it bluntly, they don't care about government affairs, basically these Shaoxing masters who have no merit and fame help them, and most of them just sit in the back office and hold money, or play in the mountains and rivers all day long.

If you have a hobby, you study medicine, feng shui and other things all day long. If the officials still know how to do medicine, it will be a very face-saving thing.

In this materialistic era, Chinese medicine has begun to weaken. I don't know which SB it is, in the late Ming Dynasty, a set of 'Eight Outline Pattern Differentiation' system was developed, and the six meridian pattern differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine was frantically simplified. So much so that literati with a bit of foundation can practice medicine after concentrating on studying for half a year after changing jobs.

Traditional Chinese medicine, which can be completed quickly in half a year, naturally goes to grandma's house. But how can a literati in these years be in the mood to spend more than ten years of effort to learn the dialectics of the Six Classics when they change jobs, how can they marry a wife if they have no money?

This is the huge problem brought about by the commodity economy, and it is also the main reason for the weakening of traditional Chinese medicine. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this trend became the mainstream in the Qing Dynasty. Traditional Chinese medicine in the Qing Dynasty was basically the Eight Gang Syndrome Differentiation. Later, because the sanitary conditions were too poor, the plague was epidemic everywhere, and a 'plague school' Chinese medicine was created, which was still very good at dealing with the plague, but it basically had little effect on dealing with conventional diseases.

So much so that when Western medicine invaded, the weakened Chinese medicine was beaten to the point of losing its armor. In the 21st century, the same teaching in the University of Chinese Medicine is the Eight Principles of Syndrome Differentiation.

Fortunately, there are still many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners who know how to distinguish the six meridians and syndromes in this year, and the eight outlines of syndrome differentiation have not yet become the mainstream, but they have begun to expand the trend of popularity. Therefore, the traditional Chinese medicine in the late Ming Dynasty was quite reliable. Although the level is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, it is much stronger than the Qing Dynasty and modern times.

Zhou Tongcai, a demobilized cultural element, has not exhausted Cheng Dù who can come up with crooked reasoning and heresies in the Four Books and Five Classics, so Zhu Youxiao prefers to use this kind of talent.

At the same time, the entrance examination for the 'Royal Academy of Science and Technology' in the northern provinces was also held at the same time, and the number of children and talents in the northern provinces exceeded 8,000.

The number of literati in the Ming Dynasty who had the intention of continuing scientific research was conservatively estimated to be more than 500,000.

This is really a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, and the competition is extremely fierce. Therefore, many literati gradually participated in the imperial examination with the idea of trying their luck.

Although there is no fame in the enrollment of the Royal Academy of Science and Technology, many literati are also willing to try their luck. Although they don't know much about this Royal Academy of Science and Technology, if they have the opportunity to contact the emperor, it is equivalent to 'going straight to the heavens', and they can get in touch with the core of the Ming Dynasty's power.

More than 8,000 people competed for 300 places, and the competition was really fierce.

The exam paper is preceded by more than a hundred multiple-choice questions.

These questions are basically multiple-choice questions, such as: Do you think agriculture is important to the country? A few choice answers are then given.

There are even multiple-choice questions that ask questions such as: What is the problem today. Is Daming tax fair? Are there huge benefits to maritime trade?

After more than 100 multiple-choice questions, if you can get all of them right, you can also be overadmitted. Because it means that the candidate's concept is the same as that of the emperor.

But in order to answer these multiple-choice questions completely, you must first have the right judgment. Another is that there are a lot of misleading things in the choice answers. Even if many test takers judge the correct answer based on the facts, they are misled by the fact that the official standard answer is to tell nonsense with their eyes open, so they will fill in the wrong answer with a clear conscience.

There is a multiple-choice question or even: If the Ming Dynasty develops according to the current situation, will it perish? The answer is a great succession, answer 2: not for the time being, but the world will be divided for a long time. Answer three: Perdition.

Of these three answers, the first is to tell nonsense with your eyes open, but this is how the imperial courts of all dynasties have propagandized. The second answer is an objective law, but this is also not the correct answer, and the second answer will be chosen, which means that you are either hesitating and compromise, or you are not deep enough to understand the crisis of the Ming Dynasty. The third is the correct answer, and the candidates who will choose this answer generally have a deeper understanding of the potential crisis of Daming.

Many candidates saw this multiple-choice question and chose the first answer very decisively. The first one is the standard answer.

The following questions are divided into three sections, one is arithmetic, one is agriculture, and one is mechanical.

Arithmetic is acceptable to these candidates, and there is arithmetic in the imperial examinations, although it is similar to going through the motions, but at least there always is. The arithmetic questions in the admissions test paper of the Royal Institute of Science and Technology this time are simple and difficult, depending on how many can be answered.

The other is agriculture, which mainly tests the basic knowledge of agriculture, as well as some things that can only be discovered by observing crops with your heart. If these things can be answered correctly, it means that they are more interested in agriculture on weekdays, and it is almost certain that they will be admitted to the Royal Academy of Science and Technology.

But after a group of candidates read the exam questions in agriculture, 10,000 grass and mud horses galloped through in their minds in an instant, and if they were traversers, they would definitely scold: Fuck your mother!

Most of these scholars are industrious and indiscriminate, and many of them have never done farm work, let alone carefully observed crops.

But things are not absolute, and some candidates who are interested in agriculture are overjoyed when they see such questions. Mechanical questions are relatively simple and common-sense things.

After an exam, the candidates walked out of the examination room, and then gathered in groups to discuss the exam questions, complaining and lamenting.

The most discussed question is the multiple-choice question of whether the Ming Dynasty will perish.

Among a group of candidates who walked out of the Xi'an examination room, a young man said: "I chose the third answer. ”

"Yikes! Brother Dingwen, did you really choose the third answer to that question? Wouldn't that be endless! The examinees on the side exclaimed and said, "I heard that the new monarch is mediocre and greedy, far away from the gentleman and close to the villain." This question must be the first answer. ”

The young man smiled and said calmly: "The harm of the eight shares has been a problem for a long time, and the new monarch will learn from miscellaneous studies, and he must have a unique vision." And when you answer the questions, you can find that in each multiple-choice question, there is a sharp answer to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. If the new monarch wants someone who turns a blind eye to the chaos of the Ming Dynasty and ignores it, why would he make such a move to make this Royal Academy of Science and Technology? ”

That's not true. Xinjun is just recruiting students, not necessarily taking scholars, and entering the Royal Institute of Science and Technology, maybe he will not have a chance to get a career! Some candidates retorted.

"Then why do you need to take the test? The Holy Majesty has decreed that you will go to Coenke next year, wouldn't it be wonderful for you to go to Coenke next year? The young man chuckled, then turned to leave.

At the same time as the entrance examination of the Royal Institute of Science and Technology ended, Zhu Youxiao began to plan to mint copper coins, copper dollars, and silver dollars in the capital.

The coinage rights have been recovered from Nanking and have now been officially handed over to the Royal Bank.

Nowadays, in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, the taxes paid to the central government are first compared to fire consumption, the so-called fire consumption is that after the government collects taxes, it will smelt all kinds of fineness and size of silver out of official silver, these official silver are very large, fifty taels, sixty taels, seventy or eighty taels, one hundred taels and so on, in order to prevent silversmiths from stealing silver in smelting, each silver ingot will be marked with the name of the craftsman, as well as the weight of the silver ingot and other information.

If the silver dollar is minted, the tax will be paid directly in the future, and there will be no problem of zài fire consumption. There is another one, the silver dollar is the same in color and weight, which is convenient for the people to use, and then other low-priced metals can be added to the silver dollar, only ninety percent of a silver dollar is silver, and the common people will also accept the silver dollar because the silver dollar is more convenient.

All in all, the profits from minting are huge.

However, how to mint copper coins, large coins, copper dollars, and silver dollars is a problem that must be carefully pondered.

PS: I'm back to my hometown today, so there's only one shift. These two days may not be too stable, forgive me!