After the intercropping and intercropping techniques were popularized, Wei An asked Brother Wei to raise fish in two acres of paddy fields. In this way, when the rice is ripe, the fish in the paddy fields also grow. can sell for money, so that the Wei family can earn an extra amount of money. Other families also learned to raise fish in paddy fields, and although the price of fish fell, it was still able to make some money for fish farmers, and people near the county town could eat fish for very little money.

The new planting method was played by the county official to the imperial court, which was an achievement made by the area under his jurisdiction, which could be regarded as his merit, how could he not report it? However, he was not greedy for the merits of the Wei family, who knows if the Wei family will have other ways to increase the yield of farmland?

Wei An gave all the credit to Brother Wei, and after the imperial court experimented with the new planting method that was really effective, he awarded a reward to Brother Wei with 100 acres of land and 1,000 taels of silver.

Wei An is now the young master of a big family, and it stands to reason that he can enjoy it comfortably, and he doesn't have to work hard to take the imperial examination, but the problem is that not only the people in the family, but also the people in the county regard him as a literary and opera star, and if he doesn't go to the imperial examination, he will disappoint many people. With the full expectations of his family, Wei An had no choice but to continue the road of the imperial examination, and was admitted to the status of a lifter in the township examination three years later. After another four years, Wei An went to the capital to take the examination.

At this time, Wei An was already sixteen years old, and in the eyes of the ancients, he was an adult, and Brother Wei and Sister-in-law Wei had already begun to prepare to help Wei An find a wife, so frightened that Wei An packed up his package and ran away. He doesn't want to get married! Although he looks like a man, the core is still a woman, she doesn't want lilies, and she doesn't want DAN beauty, so in this life, he still won't get married.

Wei Xiangming is married, he was admitted to Xiucai two years ago, and he was engaged to the daughter of the master of the school, he got married half a year ago, and now his wife is pregnant. Wei Minghui was admitted to Tongsheng, and now he is studying hard with his brother. The Wei family is not short of money now, so they don't have to give up their studies to work.

This year's scientific examination is Enke, and the new emperor Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao has just ascended the throne, and Wei An is very interested in this little emperor who is the same age as himself. This one is the famous Lu Ban and carpenter emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The first folding bed was invented by Zhu Youxiao, and the earliest fountains and sleighs were invented by him. Just like Song Huizong, he chose the wrong profession. And during his tenure as emperor, he launched a famous traitor in history - the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian!

Thinking that he had the same surname as Wei Zhongxian, Wei An pursed his lips, but unfortunately his identity was bound and he couldn't change his surname.

Wei An came to the capital again, using one place, but in different eras, the scenery and folk customs are also different. At least the people here don't have shaved heads and have pig tails, so it won't hurt people's eyes. You must know that in the Qing Dynasty, those people, he constantly hypnotized himself, so that he would not say words that disgusted the shape of the human head and be slaughtered.

The capital of this era was also very prosperous, because it was the year of the imperial examination, and the inn was almost full of people, so Wei An rented a small courtyard, lived in it, and occasionally participated in some literary meetings with the people from the same townspeople. In the literary meeting, Wei An didn't come out most of the time, listening to other people's talk. There's no way, these people talk about writing poems and lyrics at the end, and they're okay at writing strategies, but they don't have any talent for writing poems and lyrics, so let's be a soy sauce party obediently.

"The emperor treats the Hakka family so favorably, I'm afraid it's a curse rather than a blessing."

After a group of scholars finished discussing the literature, they talked about the current facts, and now the biggest thing in the capital is that the new emperor named his nursing mother Keshi as the holy lady, and let her live in the palace, the status is comparable to the queen mother, and even the queen has to retreat in front of him. The ministers of the DPRK and China were quite worried about this, fearing that the Hakka clan would use their influence on Zhu Youxiao to interfere in politics and try their best to drive the Hakka out of the palace. Many ministers should have written to the emperor several times, but unfortunately the emperor did not react at all.

"The emperor pays attention to feelings and filial piety is commendable."

"That Ke is just the emperor's nurse, and the emperor's biological mother, the emperor shouldn't be so kind to her."

"This shows that the emperor is generous and benevolent."

"It's just a woman, what does the emperor value? Now the biggest problem is that the emperor actually reuses Wei Zhongxian's eunuch, who is a eunuch who has begun to meddle in court politics. ”

"Alas, why is our Ming eunuch party still dying? It's like cutting leeks, cutting one stubble and another stubble. ”

"There is no way, as long as there are eunuchs, the eunuchs will not die."

“……”

“……”

Everyone was discussing the eunuchs, but they didn't know that the eunuchs in their mouths were also discussing them.

Wei Zhongxian sat on the chair, and below him were all his disciples and grandchildren, smiling and honoring him one by one, making him proud and satisfied. This is the life of man. Men should be rich and powerful. Well, I don't know what happened to the eldest brother and younger brother in my hometown? After a while, let people go to their hometown to find out their news and bring them to the capital. Although of course I ran away with debts, and it was a bit unorthodox to let the debt fall on them, I would make up for them.

"Master, this is the list of students we have drawn together to participate in the entrance examination this time." Wei Zhongxian's apprentice, Wei Sanyuan, handed the booklet in his hand to Wei Zhongxian. Wei Sanyuan originally did not have the surname Wei, but changed his surname to Wei after worshipping Wei Zhongxian as his teacher.

Wei Zhongxian opened the booklet, and the name of the person was written in detail, and after the person's name, the person's place of origin, age, family status, and the results and rankings of the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination, and the township examination were written in detail.

Wei Zhongxian was still dissatisfied after reading it: "Why are there so few people?" ”

Now he has been on the same page with the Donglin Party, there are many people in the Donglin Party, and he is very prestigious among the scholars, Wei Zhongxian wants to fight with them, in addition to the eunuch party, he also wants to attract and train other non-Donglin Party readers. In this scientific expedition, he asked his subordinates to contact the lifters who came to participate in the examination and win them over. However, the reputation of the eunuchs is really not good, and no scholar wants to join the eunuchs, except those who are trying to win.

Wei Sanyuan replied with a bitter face: "The little ones have tried their best to win them over, but, but ......"

He didn't say the latter words, and Wei Zhongxian also knew what he meant, didn't he just dislike them for eunuchs? A bunch of sanctimonious guys.

"Okay, you don't have to say that I also know that those scholars look down on us eunuchs." Wei Zhongxian snorted and said, "But the level of the people you are trying to win over is too low, right?" How many are the bottom of the township test, can you still pass the exam? ”

Wei Sanyuan leaned into Wei Zhongxian's ear and said, "Master, we can provide them with the test questions first!" ”

Wei Zhongxian shook his head when he heard this: "This time the test is presided over by Yang Lian's guy, he is very strict with us, and our people can't steal the test questions." ”

Wei Sanyuan couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "Then, aren't these people useless?" ”

"It's not useless." Wei Zhongxian said, "Let them enter the officialdom first and start from petty officials, with us secretly taking care of them, they will be promoted to be our helpers sooner or later." ”

Wei Sanyuan said: "Let's arrange it." ”

Wei Zhongxian nodded, asked Wei Sanyuan to leave, and beckoned another apprentice, Li Dafu, to come up, and asked him to arrange for someone to go back to his hometown to find out about the situation of Brother Wei and younger brother Wei An.

Wei Zhongxian didn't know that his younger brother had already come to the capital.

After staying in the capital for more than a month, Wei An finally ushered in the entrance examination. Wei An's luck this time was very bad, he was assigned a stinky number, which was next to the toilet, needless to say, the smell was spring cold, and there were also flies breeding, flying into the room, affecting people's mood.

Fortunately, Wei An had participated in the previous township and county tests, and knew what inconvenience it would be to be assigned a stinky number if he was unlucky, so he had already made a super-effective insecticide and a mask with charcoal powder. Kill the flies with insecticide first, then put on a mask, and the smell will have no effect on him. With it, the lifters in the surrounding rooms also benefited, without the harassment of flies, only to endure the smell, but also to be able to answer the questions calmly.

After nine days of exams, Wei An walked out of the exam room in good condition, to the surprise of those who knew that he had been assigned a stinky number. When the examiner Yang Lian inspected the examination room, he saw Wei An wearing a mask and answering questions, and was deeply impressed by him, and specifically asked Wei An about the origin of his name.

A month later, the list will be released on a trial basis, Wei An is on the list, and Li Dafu has also returned from Wei Zhongxian's hometown to investigate the news.

"You say they're doing well now? The Wei family has also become a big family in the county? Wei Zhongxian was extremely surprised.

Li Dafu nodded: "The Wei family is the one who invented the new planting method, and was rewarded by the emperor and obtained a hundred acres of fertile land and a thousand taels of silver, so they became a rich and noble family." ”

"It turns out that Wei Zhao is really the big brother I said at the beginning!" Wei Zhongxian muttered, "But the eldest brother is not good at planting except for his strength and a few strokes?" ”

"Master, what did you say?" Li Dafu couldn't hear Wei Zhongxian's words clearly, and asked.

"Nothing." Wei Zhongxian said, "You go on, how are the rest of their family?" ”

Hopefully it's okay. At the beginning, he owed a hundred taels of silver, and in order to pay off the debt, the eldest brother would not sell his nephew and niece, right?

Li Dafu hurriedly replied: "The Wei family is rich, and they will send all three men to study in the school." Wei An, the third elder of the Wei family, is said to be a genius, he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of nine, and he was promoted at the age of twelve, and now he is sixteen years old, and he has gone to the capital to take the exam. The two sons of the eldest of the Wei family are Xiucai and Tongsheng. ”

"Wait a minute, you said that the Wei family's old three Dao capital exams were tested?" Wei Zhongxian asked.

Li Dafu nodded: "Yes." ”

Wei Zhongxian immediately said to the little eunuch beside him: "Go, check the list of tributes after this examination, whether there is Wei An from Suning County, Beizhili." ”

The little eunuch trotted out.

Wei Zhongxian said to Li Dafu: "You go on! ”