Bai Minghe's brows were already furrowed.

Most of the pearls of later generations were artificially cultivated, and even used pearl powder or worse shell powder, plus some special methods to synthesize artificially.

In terms of the small net worth of the white crane in the future generations, the pearls with a diameter of 0.3 to 0.5 centimeters will not be bankrupt if you buy a truckload at will. But such a big pearl, in the Ming Dynasty, it was to launch thousands of people to harvest at a time, and hundreds of people may not be able to get it.

Originally, when he knew about Hepu, Bai Minghe just thought that the government was oppressing the people too harshly.

But now it sounds like there are too many dead people on Zhumin's side. And the current definition is a chaotic people, and there is only one line away from the rebellion.

"What's my boss here?" Bai Minghe directly used the word "goods" to describe his boss.

Green lotus, now renamed Qinghe. smiled lightly: "The young master doesn't know, your boss is still in some trouble." Hepu is under the jurisdiction of Qinzhou, but Qinzhou is under the jurisdiction of Lianzhou. According to common sense, after Qinzhou is transferred to the Lianzhou government, then Hepu should be directly under the management of the government, but because Hepu has a lot of interests, it ......"

Qinghe had already explained the official system to Bai Minghe before.

The lowest administrative unit of the regular officials of the county, further down, is the squire, which is under the condominium and does not belong to the regular officials. An ordinary state can also be understood as a large county, far exceeding the county in terms of population and economy, and the state official is from the fifth grade official. The government can be understood as a municipal-level unit, and the chief official is the prefect of Zhengsipin. Further up, there is the political secretary, which is a provincial-level unit.

Due to the decline in population and economy, Qinzhou was merged into the Lianzhou Prefecture and downgraded by half a level.

"The governor of Qinzhou, who has been an official there for six years, still has no chance of promotion this time. If you work for another three years, you will either be delegated to the county magistrate, or you will go home. After the matter of Hepu, he wanted to hand over Hepu, but the Lianzhou Mansion played a trick to turn Hepu into a lower county, and still let Qinzhou manage it. ”

Bai Fu also told Bai Minghe the news from Jinyiwei on the side.

Bai Minghe pressed his forehead: "It seems that this person is a corrupt official?" ”

"He wants to be greedy, but he doesn't have the money to be greedy. Therefore, he is a corrupt official who is poor to death. Qinzhou was originally a prefecture, but later it was reduced to a prefecture. Originally, there were 11 counties and more than 800 villages. Now there are only seven counties and more than 400 villages, and the population is only one-third of the original one. The Yao people have their own system and are not governed at all. ”

"Where did the population go?" Bai Minghe asked again.

"After the division of Annam, the border cities focused on more and more Han Chinese. Many people ran over there, and Annan used it as a barrier. Therefore, in the past, the tax of the Han people was only about one-third of that of the Ming Dynasty. And that city, the locals privately named Siming Mansion! ”

Siming, Siming! This is missing Daming.

It seems that he really escaped when Daming couldn't survive.

"Young master, let Minglu go and be a student of Shang Lu!" Bai Fu mentioned this matter again.

Bai Minghe nodded: "This trick may not be a good trick." Sending Minglu over now will definitely make Lord Yu and Lord Shang feel at ease with me. But in the future, I'm afraid that Minglu will be taught badly by them, and I only know what the saint says. ”

"Young master, Minglu itself is different from you." Bai Fu's words went straight to the point.

It was this sentence that woke up the white crane.

Yes, Bai Minglu was originally a scholar, and even had a clear taste. It is impossible for him to always be by his side, even if he is not allowed to teach him, his political views will be absolutely different from his own in the future.

"Then let's do it." Shiraima agreed.

Who would have thought that Bai Fu would even have a letter ready, and he would immediately take it out and stamp Bai Minghe's private seal in front of Bai Minghe. While encapsulating it into the envelope, Bai Fu said: "I didn't let the young master write the letter yourself, I'm afraid that you wrote it too bluntly, so I asked the young lady to write it on my behalf." ”

"Are you afraid that I will write to them?"

"Sort of!" Bai Fu laughed a few times with Bai Minghe.

Bai Minghe leaned back: "Qinghe, are the gifts for each room ready?" ”

"It's all ready, it's by head. The gifts for each room are about seventy or eighty taels of silver, which are all specialties of the capital, as well as some cloth. For the subordinates of each room, each person received a reward ranging from ten to thirty yuan, and the chief steward prepared a separate gift. Qinghe reported in a low voice.

Bai Fu also followed and said, "Young Master, you are extremely wise this time. If you come back and give a big gift, I will persuade you too. ”

"A few brothers and sisters, each of whom is only a gift of two or three taels of silver, it is enough to have a heart, and any more is definitely not a good thing. Did Shen Xiong say yes? ”

"Young master, don't worry, even the rhetoric has been put on Shen Xiong's back, and the Yin Prison has already been handed over to him." Bai Fuxin said that if he wasn't afraid of wasting a place for entering the country, he really didn't plan to take out the other one in the Bai family.

While the three of them were talking, Sun Hu ran in from outside and came to Bai Minghe: "Uncle, they are here." ”

Bai Minghe naturally knows who is coming, and it is the brothers and sisters who have received the gifts who have come to thank them, and when they receive the gifts, they should naturally thank them, which is etiquette.

Bai Minghe looked at the incense next to him, and the time for the two pillars of incense was about to arrive.

"Rewind it!" As soon as Shira-namo spoke, all the younger siblings from Shira-nato down stood up and stood at their tables. Then Bai Minglu put away everyone's exam papers and respectfully placed them on the table in front of Bai Minghe.

At this time, led by Bai Mingqi, the eldest son of the long house, the cousins of Bai Minghe entered the main hall in turn. The rest of the elephant cousins, the cousins who were older than the white crane, were all married. They have it, and their husbands come to thank them. For the younger ones, cousins, it's good to go to Sun Yuanjun.

Bai Minghe stood up and saluted: "Big brother! ”

"Minghe is not in a hurry to greet us, let's continue to test them first."

"I've already finished the exam." Bai Minghe replied, and then said to his brothers and sisters in the third room: "Go to your sister-in-law and get the gift I brought back to you." Wait a minute. ”

The white crane told the white heron to stop, and Qinghe picked up a very tight bag next to him. After opening layer by layer, there is still oil paper wrapping, and then a layer of ordinary wooden box, and then a brocade box.

"Minglu, you have to study hard."

Bai Minglu took it respectfully with both hands. But he didn't rush to open it, he wasn't in a hurry, because he knew that many of his cousins were very curious.

Sure enough, when Bai Minglu was about to put the box away, a cousin spoke: "Brother Minglu, open it and see what kind of gift it is." Such a beautiful box may be a very valuable item! ”

Bai Minglu had already received Bai Minghe's guidance, and said with some hesitation: "I'd better go back to the house and see by myself." ”

"Don't be stingy, let's open our eyes too." Everyone was a little convinced that the white crane must have given his own brother a very expensive gift.

Bai Minglu looked extremely helpless, and slowly opened the iron box.

Just a piece of paper in the box!

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, there was no silver ticket. It is impossible for Bai Minghe to give his brother a treasure banknote, so a piece of paper makes many people more curious.

A few older people approached, and after seeing it clearly, they exclaimed in amazement.

A blank prison without a name!

According to the Ming Taizu Training, there are three kinds of people who can be officials in the Ming Dynasty. The first is the imperial examination, in the early Ming Dynasty, you can be an official if you raise more than one person, because there are too few talents in the early Ming Dynasty. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it became that only Jinshi could be officials, of course, this was limited to civilian officials, and military attachés were still hereditary and military-based.

The other kind of man who can be an official is called a clerk to be an official. In modern parlance, it is to work instead of work. After completing the examination, the officials have the opportunity to become officials. It is generally difficult for officials to become officials.

The last type is that the prisoner is an official. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the outstanding students of Guozijian were definitely not lower than those who were admitted to the Jinshi, and their future achievements would not be lower than those who were admitted to the Jinshi. But there are also many prison students who will also participate in the imperial examination in order to prove themselves, and more of them will directly enter the official career after completing the study of Guozijian.

Each county, depending on the size of the county, only one to three places per year enter the primary election. Then when they arrived at the state capital, they were selected, so the number of students enrolled in the Guozijian each year was less than that of the imperial examination. Moreover, in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, it was only because of the appearance of the donation prison that Guozijian really became a hotbed for third-rate scholars.

The piece of paper in Bai Minglu's hand is a shadow prison. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was easiest to raise a prison, because originally as a lifter, he would fail to enter the Guozijian, and he himself represented a powerful person. Tribute supervisors are also outstanding talents selected by various state governments, but the number is less than that of eunuchs. The least is the shadow eunuch, which is the royal grace, and is only given to the excellent sons and nephews of the third rank and above. and the sons and nephews of highly meritorious officials.

"Thank you, brother!" Bai Minglu's attitude of thanking him is like his brother giving him a dress.

Bai Minglu was originally a person who was indifferent to fame and fortune, and he was not the kind of person who liked to get excited. His reaction, in the eyes of the other Bai family members, is a normal reaction.

But at this moment, Qinghe said suddenly: "Young master, maybe the second young master can still take the top prize!" ”

"The champion should not eat, and being an official is the right way." The white crane replied to Qinghe.

Bai Minglu just held the brocade box for a long time, and said: "I am confident, the top three in the township test." ”

"The first three are useless, and they don't want to be officials. You honestly go to the Guozijian, I will give you all the dots, study for a few years to ensure that you are a scholar of the middle school, and then start to boil the qualifications, at the age of thirty mixed to the fifth grade, after entering the Hanlin Academy, your official road is the real beginning, there is nonsense with me, it is better to read the book! ”

Bai Minghe looked unhappy. But in the hearts of the other Bai family brothers, he was happy, he seemed to feel that Bai Minglu didn't like this kind of arranged life route, and the arrogance of the young man was really stupid.