No one knew that Zhao Mingming was the crown princess, but as her friend, everyone knew that she was very talented and ambitious.

Like-minded people meet to take the national examination together.

People who can be recognized by Zhao Mingming are naturally not weak, and at this time it is the time when a hundred schools of thought are contending, and they naturally want to make achievements in their careers, so after receiving her invitation, they agreed after a little thought.

Leave of absence, resignation of resignation, packing of baggage, everyone went to Luoyang from all directions.

Everyone met in Luoyang, and Zhao Mingming generously took out a big house to settle them.

The occupants looked surprised and asked, "How much does it cost to rent this house for a month?" I haven't seen you for two years, and you're so rich?"

Zhao Mingming didn't say that this was one of her other courtyards, and said, "I've been on the battlefield a few times, some loot, plus I've been saving it, and I still have the money to rent a house, so you can live boldly and boldly."

Only then did my friends remember and ask, "You are already a general, and you can clearly take the martial arts path, why do you want to go back to Beijing to take the national examination instead?" Zhao Mingming: "The Kouman Khanate is submissive, Dahua is strong, there will be no more wars in the short term, and it is impossible to advance with military merits, so you can only rely on military training, improve military equipment and promote officers in the army, and promote officials by seniority, I can't wait."

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Moreover, now the army is also reforming.

After the establishment of the new dynasty, there were also wars from time to time, and for more than ten years, there were fights every three or five times, and after fighting, Huaguo brought back all the land that had been divided before, and pushed the border line outward.

In order to let the army have no worries when it goes out, and can better settle the disabled and retired veterans, Zhao Hanzhang put many national workshops under the name of the army.

However, in the past few years, all nationalities and regions have lived in harmony under the strength of the country and the strong people, and there have been few wars, and various problems in the military have become apparent.

The workshop interests originally used to settle the disabled and retired veterans were also encroached upon by the generals and the second generation of the army, and Zhao Hanzhang began to reform.

Those people were all people who followed her mother from birth to death, and she could already anticipate the results of the military reform, although it could be carried out, but it would be time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the results were far inferior to the civilian reforms.

She is at the time of her ambition, how can she have the patience to grind with them slowly?

Therefore, she still chose to start with civil reform, and the reform plan that she had discussed with Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong was about to be implemented.

In the past five years, Zhao Hanzhang has taken the lead in tax reform.

The Ding tax was spread into the land rent and field tax, and the main tax was paid in silver, and the whole country was busy and lively for three years, and finally stabilized.

These two years are a period of stability, and Zhao Hanzhang is checking and filling in the gaps, and no new reform projects have been carried out.

Before returning to Beijing, the mother and daughter communicated that the reform bill of canceling the regular service would be handed over to Zhao Mingming to do.

Because regular service is not only related to the population, but also related to the assets of the acres of land, it is possible to take this opportunity to check the population and acres again, which is a continuation of the new tax reform.

If Zhao Mingming can do this well, it means that she has the ability to take charge of herself, and Zhao Hanzhang can consider delegating power to her;

If not, Zhao Hanzhang would have to continue to train her and wipe her ass.

When the imperial princess returned to Beijing after training, the court crackled like an oil pot falling into the water, and the court, which had always been relatively active, was overactive.

Zhao Hanzhang looked at the courtiers with red faces and bright eyes, and was very worried about the physical condition of her Aiqing.

So excited, beware of high blood pressure.

Zhao Mingming's first errand when he returned to Beijing was to be appointed as the chief examiner of the national examination for the recruitment examination, and concurrently served as the left waiter of the household department.

This is to give her the right to choose officials, and let her choose her favorite talents from this national examination.

Zhao Mingming has been thinking about how to choose talents who can cooperate with his reform in the past few years, and the topic has been thought about for a long time, but no one knows except her.

Oh, maybe Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong, who have been following her all the time, may be able to guess some, after all, they all know her purpose.

But neither of them can take this year's national exam.

The poor road is all killed, so naturally they can't

It was cheaper for Daoyou, so they didn't say anything, silently watching their friend step into the examination room without knowing anything.

This time, the national examination ended, and the candidates who came out of the examination room looked helpless, "Why is this year's strategy so difficult?"

"Ruined, ruined, I ruined a single test paper, is this exam question really from the princess?"

"Why is it so difficult for young people to come up with questions?"

"It's because you're young that you dare to come up with such a question, right? Directly name and discuss His Majesty's new policy."

But the queen dared to ask directly, and they had to dare to say it directly.

It's all good, it doesn't seem to be new, and it's hard to shine; If you can't say it, isn't that against the emperor?

The best thing to do is to say yes, but also to find fault with the New Deal, or to propose some sustained reforms.

But how many of the candidates have this opinion?

Who is not smarter than them? Who is not more visionary than them?

Most of the candidates were heartbroken and felt that they had failed this time.

But there are also people who are full of self-confidence, who feel that the questions in this exam are in the center, and they have seen the New Deal reform in the past five years.

The New Deal is naturally good, but there are always various problems when it comes to local implementation.

The emperor lives in the capital, and he is afraid that he does not know the chaos underneath, and thinks that the new deal is intact, so let them tell her about the local situation of the new deal.

The court, which had already calmed down, was once again lively because of the new deal. Zhao Hanzhang also came over to join in the fun after handling government affairs, picked up a test paper casually, and saw that half of the position of the policy was empty, and most of the part written was patting her ass, so he glanced at the answers in other positions and found him

When he had answered the rest of the book well, he threw it aside, flipped through the other papers, and asked, "Are there any good papers?"

Zhao Mingming came over with a few rolls, "Auntie, look."

Zhao Hanzhang took it and looked at it seriously.

There are those who implicitly scold her for the new deal for working hard and hurting money, and there are also those who openly praise the new deal and then give some practical suggestions.

She looked at them all. "One is that the people pay silver money, and they need to sell grain and cloth to merchants in order to get silver money to pay taxes, and in some places the price of grain and cloth is very low at the time of harvest in summer and autumn, regardless of the harvest

The harvest is bad, and the people are miserable."

"It can be seen that the imperial court is still not doing a good job of stabilizing prices," Zhao Hanzhang asked Zhao Mingming, "How should this matter be resolved?"

"The first is to order the county government to set the minimum price of grain and cloth during the summer and autumn harvest, and to fund the purchase of grain and cloth to stabilize prices; The second is to strengthen supervision and severely punish female businessmen who raise prices and force down prices."

Zhao Mingming paused and said, "Your Majesty, the minister suggested that the imperial court should set up an imperial history group to inspect the granaries in various places to ensure the abundance of the granaries and investigate the account books of the granaries in various places."

When Zhao Hanzhang heard this, he laughed, "If you can think of checking the granary, it is not in vain that you go out to practice for the past few years."

Yes, there is a problem in stabilizing prices, that is, to check the granary, what is the use of just staring at the county government?

If the grain and account books in the granary are fine, how can the grain of the common people not be sold at a high price?

The granaries in various places have to be replaced with new ones every year.

Zhao Hanzhang said: "I heard that Fan Lianyin's arithmetic is better than her mother's, and she has been at home since she returned to Beijing.

Zhao Mingming curled the corners of her mouth, bowed her head and answered, asking for an official for her other little friend, "Your Majesty, there is also the ancestral road, the imperial history patrol is very dangerous, and I don't know when I will encounter robbers and bandits."

Zhao Hanzhang's eyes darkened, and he nodded: "Okay, Feng Zu Dao is reappointed as the captain of the forbidden army, and he is ordered to assist in the household department and the imperial history platform."

Fan Lianyin was hired as Hubu Langzhong and assistant Zhao Mingming. Fan Ying also went to Zhao Mingming's hands, and for this inspection, she sent several interested imperial historians over to give Zhao Mingming a hand.