The night passed quickly, Shen Ao watched Fan Wen, and had a little grasp of Jingyi, and finally fell asleep on the desk in a drowsy manner.

I don't know when, but I heard a burst of shouts, Shen Ao opened his eyes in a daze, the room was already dark, and the candle flame was extinguished at some point, and he heard someone in his ear shouting: "Childe, Childe......"

Shen Ao raised his eyes, he couldn't see people clearly in the dark, but he could feel a big hand holding his forearm, and he recognized that the owner of the voice was Deng Long, and he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

The shouts in the distance were endless, Deng Long went to fetch the flint and lit the fire, the room instantly lit up, Shen Ao looked at his sleeve, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, this sleeve has been stained with an unknown amount of ink.

Deng Long vigilantly pushed the small window open a crack and exclaimed, "There is a fire." ”

Fire? Shen Ao leaned over and saw that a few miles away, the flames were soaring into the sky, and the smoke was billowing out, even the sparse stars and moon in the sky were overshadowed.

At this time, it was dawn, and at the turn of the moon, this fire seemed to reflect the sky red, and the screams for help were piercing, shaking the eardrums.

"It's like a granary, no, the granary is on fire!" Deng Long's face turned pale with fright, and he broke the window and said: "Look at this appearance, it is definitely not an accidental fire, I am afraid that someone set the fire at night, Gongzi, there is a chaotic party lurking in this city, I am afraid that now the brothers who command the envoy in front of the palace will immediately go to the street to impose martial law." ”

Deng Long was not wrong at all, after a stick of incense, the sound of horses' hooves on the street roared, from Shen Ao's attic over the wall of the mansion to look out, by the dawn of the morning illuminated a ray of light, countless forbidden troops armed with guns and halberds appeared on the street.

Even outside the Guogong Mansion, there is also a team of forbidden troops patrolling around to protect the safety of important mansions and yamen.

Such a big event happened, but no one expected it, Deng Long had a special identity, and he went out of the house to inquire about the news, and came back depressed.

It turned out that last night, dozens of black-clothed men suddenly appeared outside the granary and attacked the granary at night, defeated the officials guarding the warehouse, and then poured tung oil everywhere and began to set fire.

The time of the accident is the moment of the hour, the moment when the guard is the most lax; After the incident, Sanya immediately called out the talisman and sent troops to search for the traces of the thieves, but these thieves seemed to be extinct in the world, and there was no news at once, and there was no trace of them, even a few clues were left.

Deng Long said indignantly: "The magistrates of Dali Temple and the head catcher of the Criminal Department have now exploded, and there are all kinds of speculations, but in my opinion, these thieves are well-trained and should have been premeditated...... It's not that I look down on these officials and errand servants, but to find out this shocking case, I'm afraid it's even more difficult than ascending to the sky. ”

The New Year is approaching, but the murderer burned down the granary, it's too hateful, it's really not a harmonious society, Shen Ao is careful about this kind of gossip; I only heard Deng Long continue to babble: "Hey, this grain depot is one of the four major grain depots in Bianjing, the Jiangnan rice collected and stored, but this fire is burned clean, the grain of this court is only afraid that it will be tight, son, if you go to the market to collect grain now, after a few days, the price of grain will inevitably rise."

Shen Ao listened to Deng Long's analysis, and also felt that it was very reasonable, there will inevitably be a food shortage in Bianjing next year, that is, the imperial court urgently transferred grain into Beijing, and it must be coordinated and transported, but I am afraid that it will take a few months, during this period of time, the price of grain is going to rise sharply, I am afraid that some people will want to take this opportunity to make a fortune!

Shen Ao just nodded, and then said with a smile: "We don't want to participate in this kind of thing, in all dynasties, hoarding food is a big crime to kill the head, and doing this kind of thing is very damaging to yin morality, there are many places to make money, and this kind of money is still not good." ”

Deng Long nodded his head and said with a smile: "This is nature." "Silenced.

The forbidden army searched everywhere on the streets, and Shen Ao's original intention to visit Tang Xijiu and Dr. Tang was in vain, so he had to take the article he wrote last night to find Chen Ji.

Chen Ji had a bit of an idle cloud and wild crane demeanor, and he turned a deaf ear to the things of the outside world, and taught Shen Ao to sit down, but he was very unkind to Deng Long who came with him, and swept him out of the house, before taking out Shen Ao's scroll and reading it carefully.

Chen Ji's study is still extremely rigorous, and his requirements for Shen Ao are almost to the point of being harsh, and after reading Shen Ao's knowledge of one and one of ten, he can't find any mistakes or omissions for a while; smiled: "This article is well done, and if you embellish one or two places in a few places, it can be regarded as a superior scripture article." ”

Shen Ao is familiar with Chen Ji's meaning, and what Teacher Chen is best at speaking is to first raise and then suppress, first praise a little, and then scold himself for being worthless and bloody. Therefore, he did not show a little surprise and pride, and said with a straight face: "The teacher praises falsely." ”

"If only you knew!" Shen Ao's submission made Chen Ji's prepared fist encounter a pile of cotton before he could hit it, so he had to take back a few words of reprimand for him not to be proud and complacent, and said: "If you talk about the scriptures, you still talk about the word diligent practice, and you can make this question, but the next one, if there is no one to guide you, can you still do it so wonderfully?" I'll ask you one more question, and you can do it in these two days. ”

Where does Shen Ao dare to say a word, in Guozijian, he is not afraid of people, but this Chen Ji is always a little weak when facing him.

Chen Ji pondered for a moment and said: "Let's take the people's feet, gentlemen and shortcomings as the theme, you think about it, how to solve the problem." ”

When Shen Ao heard this, he immediately understood that the title came from a passage in "Yan Yuan", and the original words were the same, the person who said this was a disciple of Confucius, and if he was a disciple of Confucius in his later years. He remembered the ancients well, and when discussing politics with Lu Aigong, he proposed, "When the people are rich, how can the monarch not be enough?" The people are poor and the amount is not enough, how can the monarch be enough".

Chen Ji said this question, but it made Shen Ao secretly strange, you must know that this kind of noble people's thinking of the topic is like the carp across the river, the concept of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty that the people are precious and the society is light, has always been the object of emulation by the kings of the past dynasties, even if he does not follow suit, he must play this signboard, so there are countless topics like this, and Shen Ao has seen dozens of such model articles.

Such a popular topic, Chen Ji took it out, could it be that he wanted to take the school exam?

Shen Ao's face showed a little suspicion, the doctors took the school scriptures, and they all picked up difficulties to say, but they never took such a common question to test the school, because there are too many people who have broken this kind of question, even if they are no longer successful students, it is easy to do such a question.

Chen Ji saw Shen Ao's thoughts, and sneered: "You are easy to ask?" It is necessary to know that this kind of problem has been solved by countless people, the more so, if you want to choose a new problem-solving point, it is even more difficult, Shen Ao, think about it, what method is most suitable to use to solve the problem. ”

Shen Ao's heart froze, and he suddenly understood, this is like writing an essay, although the kind of test questions such as the flood "My Father" are simple, but if you want to write your mind and break through countless predecessors, it is ten times more difficult than other test questions, and the more ordinary the test questions, the more difficult it is to write excellent articles.

He fell into deep thought, and went through all the fan texts he saw in his heart, but he smiled bitterly, it was really not easy to break through other people's thinking and come up with a unique entry point to solve the problem.

Chen Ji saw that Shen Ao was in thought, but he didn't bother, and sat still with his eyes closed, as if he was in a state of mind.

Time passed little by little, Shen Ao suddenly raised his eyes and said, "The people are rich from below, and the king is rich from above." The wealth of the king is hidden in the people, and the people are rich, how can the king be poor alone? Chen Xianggong, how about using this sentence to solve the problem? ”

Shen Ao borrowed the idea of hiding the wealth of the people, although the slogan of this sentence has more surname components, but making a fuss is originally air-to-air, so it is more novel to solve the problem in this way.

Chen Ji chewed a sentence and nodded his head: "Yes, what about the topic?" ”

Now that the problem has been solved, the subject is much lighter, Shen Ao thought about it for a while, and said: "Gai said: the public is endowed, and it is not enough to use it; If you want to be sufficient, you must first satisfy its people? Sincerity can be a hundred acres and thorough, and the eternal festival is used to love people's hearts, tithes and levies, not for the people's self-support, then the people's power is out, not trapped in solicitation; The people's wealth is not as good as the accumulation. ”

This sentence is still the starting point for solving the problem of hiding the wealth from the people, expanding the topic, and the format is regular, but it has a little more novelty.

Chen Jifu nodded: "Yes, you can do it according to this idea, everything can't be done overnight, but you have grown a lot in the past few days, and when you are locked up in the National Prison after the New Year, you will definitely be impressive." ”

Shen Ao knew in his heart that Chen Ji's ability to talk about this had already shown that he had made rapid progress recently, and although he was happy in his heart, he looked very modest in front of Chen Ji: "There is no end to learning, and students are still very young." "To deal with a teacher like Chen Ji, you should use a big reason to block him, so that he wants to reprimand a few words, but he can't find a loophole.

Chen Ji smiled slightly and waved his hand: "You go." ”

Shen Ao led Deng Long back to do the question, he didn't know that the entire Bianjing City was now a mess.

The grain depot was burned, not only suffered heavy losses, but also an extremely serious political problem, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there were people who organized so tightly, and set fire to the heavy land of the imperial court.

What's more, the grain piled up in this grain depot is the newly transported rice from Jiangnan, and the imperial court used them for relief, reserves, and military training, and now they are all burned, which is a big deal for Zhao Ji.

In the Wenjing Pavilion, from Zhao Ji below, six or seven courtiers sat on the brocade pier, and further down, there were more than a dozen officials standing with their heads down, and in the middle, Zhang Wenxian, the head of the household, was already as pale as earth, lying on the ground and crying to ask for a tribunal.

Zhao Ji said today that he was wearing a round-necked brocade robe, holding a cup of tea in his hand, the tea was already cold, but he had not changed it.

He bit his lip, but there was a trace of cold light and composure in his eyes, the mud Bora side finally came to an end, Prince Surya was called a minister, and the two countries also exchanged state letters, and they were unconditionally ministers, neither gold and silver, nor tea, silk cloth, the mood had just improved, but unexpectedly encountered this earth-shattering thing again.

glanced at Zhang Wenxian, who was kneeling in the center without saying a word with a sad face, but Zhao Ji showed surprisingly calmness, and did not say a word from beginning to end.

The master and the guilty are silent, but several imperial historians have come out, and naturally they are impeached one after another, which says that Zhang Wenxian is negligent in guarding, and the circumstances are extenuating, and he can be punished and disposed of; The one who said that Zhang Shangshu was responsible for negligence, and the mistake was very great, and Bianjing's thirty percent of the rice was destroyed in one fell swoop, so he should be ordered to submit his resignation and return to his hometown.

There are also a few people who are shocking, and they actually propose to severely punish the officials of the household department, and all of them will be sent to prison for the crime of negligence.

The officials who were standing argued endlessly, but Zhao Ji just pursed his lips and said nothing, even the seven or eight officials who were sitting on the brocade pier were also sitting in a daze, and no one put forward any opinions.

Zhang Wenxian was uneasy in his heart, and looked up at the official family with fear, and the last trace of luck fell to the bottom, if the official family scolded him, it would be fine, but such silence and gloomy face were unprecedented, the monarch was unpredictable, maybe the next moment, it would be the wrath of thunder.

He knew in his heart that this matter was too big, even he couldn't cover it, and he couldn't afford it. But speaking of which, he is really wronged, and if such a major event happens, in addition to him being responsible, who else can he be, under the burning of all thoughts in his heart, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, and the minister is dead, please Your Majesty will adjudicate it." The usual guards of this grain depot are extremely strict, but in the past few years, the New Year is approaching, and many officials have taken leave......"

As soon as he said this, someone said: "Master Zhang, do you still have to quibble?" If the officials take leave, will this grain depot not have to be guarded? Can thieves take advantage of it? ”