Today's sun is particularly dazzling, and one by one the soldiers wearing alternate official uniforms are gathered at the entrance of the household department.

This is this year's new Keshizi, and maybe there are previous years.

Every year, there are hundreds of first-class and second-class scholars in the imperial examination, and only twenty or thirty people can really be awarded immediately, and the rest can only wait for the household department to arrange the award, most of them go to be a county official or stay in Beijing as a cultivator to slowly improve their qualifications, and finally there will be a small group of unlucky scholars, who can only wait endlessly.

Most of these people are fellow jinshi, their grades are not outstanding, and they don't know how to be flexible, that is, they give gifts to officials.

There are also a very few people who have offended the powerful.

Wang Fugui is such a person, perhaps a little more complicated, because he offended the powerful and did not give gifts to officials, of course, it is also a question of whether officials dare to accept his gifts.

He offended the youngest son of the royal family, the cousin of the lord of the country. The youngest son of the prince of Ji, although he did not inherit the position of the prince, he is also the most noble person in Beijing.

It can be said that Xu Jiao is the demon king of the mixed world in the palace, and he is the mixed demon king of Qianyue City.

Wang Fugui is the third son of his father Wang Jinhua, his father is actually a businessman strictly speaking, and he can pass the imperial examination in order for his children not to be registered in business, he stuffed a lot of money to the local officials in charge of household registration, for this reason, he also hired people to farm the land, calling himself a landlord Lao Cai, a big farmer, not a businessman.

The landlord Lao Cai's naming style is also very strong, his eldest son is called Fa Cai, the second son is called Xilai, and the third son is called Fugui. Just like the course of his life.

The first two sons did not have the brain to read, and Wang Jinhua broke twenty or thirty sticks and failed to beat them into the classroom, and dropped out of school after learning the words and returned home to run the business.

Wang Fugui is completely different from them, different from his father and brother's round figure, he has the appearance that all scholars dream of, thin and tall, delicate face, and also has the brain of a scholar.

At the age of sixteen, he participated in the imperial examination and was admitted within three years. entered Qianyue City to catch the exam, and met the youngest son of the prince Ji, Xu Chusheng.

Xu Chusheng, as his name suggests, is a brute, likes to play with young girls the most, and his methods are extremely cruel.

That day was a beautiful day, Wang Fugui went to the street outside the inn to buy a cake, and happened to bump into this Xu Chusheng and a little girl who was only ten years old and couldn't stop crying.

The reason why passers-by turned a blind eye was that the little girl's parents were happily lighting the silver taels in their purse. They sold their daughters for fifty taels of silver, if it weren't for the fact that the eldest daughter in the family was old and the younger daughter was too ugly, they would still want to sell the other daughters together, such a high price.

Wang Fuguilu roared when he saw the injustice, stuffed the cake into the hands of the small vendor, and stepped forward to stop it.

The process is not enough for outsiders either.

Wang Fugui became the head of a king pig and was beaten by someone.

Because of the injury, it took him a long time, and in the end, he only won the fifth place in the second class. This is also a good ranking, but he is not in the top three, so he doesn't pay much attention, so he was manipulated in the dark.

Three years have passed, and he has never been able to get an official position.

Xu Chusheng may not remember this person anymore, but the officials below don't dare to take this risk, in case they are seen by this master one day and remembered again, they also want to live in peace and stability.

Wang Fugui insisted on reporting to the household department for three years, but today is a little different.

The officials who were waiting with him were discussing the princess, their future lord, who was going to choose an official to go to the fief.

For these waiting alternate officials, directly becoming the princess's election official is simply a step to the sky. It's the same for all officials, the lord of Yuehua only has this one daughter, and he agreed to make her the heir early, and the princess doesn't have to be at risk of overturning like the East Palace of other countries, no matter how she overturns, she is still the heir, because there is no competitor at all.

"What are you talking about? Do you know where to elect the public? ”

The people in front saw that he was asking, although he was also afraid of the little overlord, but he would not be seen if he wanted to say something, and his sympathy for this benevolent brother prevailed, so he said: "The princess said that she was going to choose an official with practical ability to go to her fiefdom to open up wasteland, and I don't know where she will choose." ”

Wang Fugui nodded thoughtfully, he had heard of this princess. Because he was familiar with his father and brother who pretended to be a landlord since he was a child, he was extremely sensitive to farming, and some time ago the palace promoted a crop called sweet potato, and most people did not dare to try it easily, because once it failed, there was no harvest this year, and the whole family drank the northwest wind.

But he had personally seen the crop, and the sweet potatoes were now piled up in the Ministry of Industry waiting to be sown and planted. He has a fellow who is now working in the Ministry of Works, and he has a good relationship with him in the same year, although he can't speak up for him, but he will still try his best to help if he can open a convenient door.

So Wang Fugui relied on the relationship of the same year, entered the Ministry of Industry to observe this crop up close, and bought a hundred catties, dragged the dart bureau back to his father to try to sow seeds, and also attached a planting manual, which was not difficult at all.

Now that the princess is going to be an elector, he is a little eager to try it in his heart, instead of wasting time in the national capital, he really wants to become an elector and go to the princess's fiefdom, at least there are practical things to do.

But how will the princess choose the officials, and in what way?

Xu Jiao has already thought about the way to choose officials, she chooses officials to accompany her to open up wasteland, and she will not choose those who are full of people who only know what to do.

She plans to hold an exam tomorrow that will be available to anyone who wants to go to her fiefdom.

She had all the topics in mind.

On the second day, Xu Jiao requisitioned a large courtyard in the household department to start her exam.

The content of the first question of the exam is actually very simple: What is rice called when it arrives at the table?

For such a simple question, half of the people who have been cut are all scholars and wealthy children who are not diligent and have prepared a belly of poetry and songs to take the exam.

The following topics gradually increase in difficulty, including climate, topography, habits of common crops, and planting methods.

In the end, there were not many people who answered all of them, and Wang Fugui was one of them. He felt that the topic was simply tailor-made for him, and each question was extremely familiar to him.

Everyone didn't see the princess until the end of the exam, and a large number of people walked out of the household with their heads down, and today was the first time that Wang Fugui walked out of here in a cheerful and joyful mood.

Judging from the style of the title just now, this princess is indeed choosing a practical person, he has been studying since he was a child, he followed his father and brother to keep the land farming, and he also participated in the past trade.

If the princess is to select practical people who can do things, then he has a lot of confidence that he can be selected.

Besides, if it is a princess, as long as he shows enough ability, presumably the princess will not care about that Xu Chusheng, after all, the princess's line is the real master of Yuehua Kingdom.