The exam results came out soon, Brother Zhang's fourth-class jinshi, although the first time he took the exam, the fourth-class jinshi was very good, but the light was still shrouded in the top three grades.

After all, the first- and second-class jinshi are nothing, they are not examined, but ordered by the emperor, and the third-class is basically Su Shi's level, which is originally a famous family origin, so a commoner like Brother Zhang who can't even be called a poor man, the fourth-class can already be said to be the result of reaching the top, why are the examiners of all dynasties the most difficult, do you think it is really an exam? That's a matter of human sophistication and personnel changes, personnel is politics, this thing is not a joke.

The first three jinshi of this subject have basically been monopolized by the generals who assisted in the relocation of the capital, the wealthy who financed the imperial court, and the civil officials who followed the exile, so this fourth class is theoretically the only way to pass the examination.

Brother Zhang didn't go to see the list that day, because Zhao Rong had already told him about the results before the list came out, and then Zhao Zhen would hold a banquet in the palace, called the Hanlin Banquet, in order to reward the students for ten years.

"When the time comes, you should dress modestly, and don't let other students see the jokes."

Zhao Rong took out a large pile of clothes from her bag: "These are all made for you by the tailor in the palace, you can try it quickly." ”

Brother Zhang was sitting on the edge of the small stove boiling sugar at this time, because Zhao Rong loves to eat sugar, but the palace craftsmen who can make sugar have stayed in Bianliang, and now they can only use the cane juice from Jiaozhou and Lingnan to get some brown sugar, and they make the brown sugar impure in texture, with many impurities and bitter taste, so Brother Zhang has to boil some sugar for Zhao Rong every few days.

"Wait."

"My father and mother both praised it, saying that the sugar you made was finer and softer than that of the Tianzhu merchants, and asked me if I could let you cheat the recipe, so that you don't have to spend a lot of money to buy it, and the people can also find some industries."

"Don't lie." Brother Zhang was still as concise as ever: "I'll teach you." ”

In fact, even if Brother Zhang doesn't have superpowers, it's almost a living encyclopedia, he just isn't confident enough and a little introverted, and always thinks that his brain is not very good, but in fact, with a living encyclopedia like him, even if he throws it anywhere, he can live very well.

The first step is to juice the ripe sugar cane, put it in a vat, boil it into a yellow-black syrup, and then wait for it to curdle into black sugar. The second step is to pour the black sugar in the funnel with yellow mud water, the black residue flows from the funnel to the bottom, leaving hoarfrost in the funnel, which is the earliest white sugar.

Finally, take off the frosting, put it on paper and put it on hydrated lime to dry, or add water to dissolve and boil, and wait until the water completely disappears, grind it into powder, which becomes crude white sugar. If you want to further purify, you can dissolve these sugars into water twice, filter them several times and then boil them, and the resulting sugar is refined white sugar. If you want to make rock sugar, you only need to hang a yarn above the saturated solution of white sugar, and then wait for crystallization.

When Zhao Rong handed this over to Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen looked at the string of process flow charts and looked at Zhao Rong suspiciously: "Is it really so simple?" ”

Zhao Rong saw that he didn't believe it, so she directly took out the two jars behind her, this jar was fine white sugar, and the other jar was colorful rock sugar: "I watched it grow with my own eyes." ”

"I can't see that this stunned man still has these strange things."

"He knows a lot!" Zhao Rong's eyebrows fluttered when he talked about Brother Zhang: "He knows everything in the sky and on the ground." ”

Seeing his daughter's appearance, Zhao Zhen's heart is like a mirror, at this point, the stunned is full of nonsense, and his daughter will also be regarded as a guide, but I can't see that this kid still has something, and he is generous, Zhao Zhen is not the kind of emperor who hides in the deep palace and does not go out several times in his life, he is a person who likes to run around, and when he was young, he followed a few masters to travel through the rivers, and knew how much money he could earn in a year if he controlled this thing.

"What did you say to him? He would have given you something so important. ”

"Me? I said that my father told me that he wanted to deceive you into making sugar. He said he didn't need to lie, and then he taught me. ”

When Zhao Zhen heard this, the cerebral infarction almost came up, and he pointed at Zhao Rong with tears and laughter: "Do you really say that?" ”

"Well, didn't that send it to you?"

Zhao Zhen sat in front of the desk, supported his head with one hand, and hissed for a long time: "Rong'er, Rong'er...... How did you become like a stunned person? ”

"I think it's good, it's good to talk like Brother Zhang without beating around the bush."

Zhao Zhen waved his hand: "Go, go, you are going to be angry with your father." ”

"It's okay, Brother Zhang is not angry, he is very generous."

Zhao Zhen sighed, and sighed in his heart that after all, the eldest woman couldn't keep it, and before she got married, she was already a brother and a brother, if she really became a relative in the future, I don't know if this girl can have it......

However, Zhao Zhen really asked the eunuchs in the palace to test according to the method on the drawings in the afternoon, and it was successful once, looking at a large bowl of slightly yellowed white sugar, Zhao Zhen also breathed a sigh of relief, and then called the Ministry of Industry Shangshu and the waiter, so that they could see a handful of white sugar purified by themselves in the palace.

Looking at the stunned looks of those guys in the Ministry of Industry, Zhao Zhen laughed heartily, his vanity was greatly satisfied, if it wasn't for the fact that there was still a string in his head, he would probably blurt out "my virtuous son-in-law".

Finally, before dinner in the evening, he called the people from the Ministry of Officials over, and said that he would ask if there were any vacancies in the surrounding counties and counties that did not need to be very large, and there were almost thousands of households, and the people in the Ministry of Officials were stupid, do you know, and he asked if there was a vacancy in the county order, which was equivalent to a certain chairman of the committee calling the front line and ordering the machine gun squad to advance ten meters.

This is also Zhao Zhen's happiness today, to put it in normal times, he is so face-saving people categorically can't speak, and now that the emperor himself has spoken, of course, the people in the ministry don't dare to slack off, so they adjusted a circle overnight, and finally transferred an older county order to the ministry to support the elderly, and then dispatched more than a dozen people in a row, and finally vacated a similar post.

This county is Brother Zhang's nominal hometown of Yuhang County, although Yuhang Shengji, but because of the famine and the chaos in recent years, the county adds up to only more than 6,000 households, and the population is only 23,000, which is not a big place. And it is very close to the capital Lin'an, plus the place is not a poor country, it is relatively easy to manage, and the transportation is convenient, and it is convenient to move around.

Just looking at the addition of these conditions, you can imagine how many brain cells died in the group of officials.

Then the officials reported the situation to Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen did a very bad thing, that is, he bypassed the officials and directly issued a holy decree, the officials didn't mind this matter, they were just very curious about this person, what kind of relationship could make His Majesty the Emperor, who has always been obedient, personally open a back door for him?

You must know that the general lifter, even the champion is rarely directly appointed to the actual position, and the average lifter will start from the scholar and judge, and first work in the officialdom for four or five years, so that he can carry things, and there is almost no saying that he will be a county magistrate the next day after the first day of the exam......

And what's even more outrageous is here, first of all, Zhao Zhen exempted all the Qi County from paying taxes for a year, this is Hangzhou, Hangzhou, Hangzhou with heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, Hangzhou's Qi County can compare to ten counties in the ravines and ravines for a year, and he is all exempt......

In other words, in the first year, as long as the eighteen-year-old small county commander took office, as long as he didn't do anything to care about people's lives, he basically passed the assessment, what kind of person could make the emperor care about it to such a point?

It's not that they didn't suspect that this old brother was Zhao Zhen's illegitimate son, after all, the crown prince was an adopted son, and when he heard about his fate, the rest of the princes all died early......

Hey, I can't tell.

The people in the Ministry of Officials are very serious about preparing for Brother Zhang's appointment, and Brother Zhang is participating in the Hanlin Banquet at the moment, this place is the gathering place of hot-blooded teenagers, everyone is a scholar, since ancient times, literati have been despised by each other, and they are more or less disdainful of each other, even if it is a harmonious atmosphere on the surface, but secretly all kinds of arches and fires and all kinds of secret fights.

But Brother Zhang is just watching a lively, he sits alone at the farthest table, this place will hardly be seen by the emperor, so most of the people sitting at this table are toasting around with wine glasses for performance, and Brother Zhang is playing with a small carving with his head down.

Some people chant poems and don't look up, and some people sing that he shouldn't be in harmony, and the main theme is a peerless and independent.

Zhao Zhen was naturally happy to see the young people who were the same as the peacock Kaiping, but he was happy that he had been searching for Brother Zhang with his eyes, and after looking around, he found that this stunned man was actually shrunk in the corner alone, with his head down, not knowing what he was doing, nor socializing with people, nor clinging to people, he just sat like that the whole time, with a bunch of strange things in front of him, and he didn't know what they were.

As for why Brother Zhang carved a big rooster, that's not what his sister Rong liked, that day she sneaked out to go shopping, and when she came back, she secretly picked up a big rooster with a shining body, the rooster was very beautiful but couldn't be brought back to the palace, because Zhao Zhen is a dog, and the chicken rushes, so there will be no chicken-related objects in the palace.

So she can only put the beautiful big on Brother Zhang's side, every time she goes to play if Brother Zhang is busy, she will sit there and watch this big rooster for a long time, Brother Zhang saw that she liked it, so he naturally carved some of the big for her in different postures, planning to fill a box, twenty-four, and now it's a little close, which is not simply brought here to get up.

Although the Great Song Wenfeng is at its peak, almost from generation to generation has cited talents, but this generation seems to have suffered a change in the capital, and there are not many surprises in the hastily opened a subject, mostly some mediocre talents, Zhao Zhen looked at the peacock for a while and got tired of it, after all, he has known Yan Shu , Ouyang Xiu , Su Xun , Su Shi , Su Zhe , Wang Anshi , Zeng Gong , Zhang Zai , Cheng Hao , Lv Dajun , six of the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties alone became famous in his hands, and these hairs raised his literary aesthetic vision too tricky, Looking at these things, they are not young, they are really commonplace.

"Go see what that stunned guy is doing."

Zhao Zhen turned his head sideways and instructed the personal old eunuch beside him: "I didn't see him look up." ”

The old eunuch used to pretend to look at the scenery and walked around in front of Brother Zhang, and then saw him carving a big rooster there, the old eunuch said that he couldn't quite understand, so he returned to Zhao Zhen's side and reported it truthfully.

Zhao Zhen couldn't help laughing when he heard that the guy was carving the rooster, and after laughing, he whispered: "Eighty percent of the rooster is carved for Rong'er, a few days ago I saw Rong'er pinching a few wooden rooster babies, it seems that it is from his hands." ”

"Official, that stunned man's craftsmanship is okay, and the carved things are lifelike."

"Alas, it's better to be stunned than this, it seems that this stunned man is a practical person, I want to see what he can make a county look like."

In fact, as an emperor, he really likes this kind of person who has no background, no party lord, no family, no school, such people usually become the emperor's most solid right-hand man, but those who are good at dancing with long sleeves, their core interests will not be for the emperor at all, or even for the country, sometimes the interests of the family are much higher than the interests of the country, although it is not all, but there have been too many in the past dynasties, and there is nothing new under the sun.

The next day, these newcomers were about to go to the palace to be rewarded, except for Brother Zhang, who was sent out to be an official by a carriage. Lin'an is more than 300 miles away from Yuyao, and it takes about four days for the carriage to travel, which is only around Gyeonggi, so you can imagine how inconvenient the transportation has been in this era.

Brother Zhang was bumpy on the road for four days, but Zhao Rong couldn't follow this time. She wanted to come, the soft and soft had already been packed, but of course Zhao Zhen and her queen mother refused to let her trek through the mountains and rivers together, saying that her body and bones had not been raised, and now she was rashly trekking, and in the end she might not even be able to keep her life.

Therefore, on this trip, there was only one brother Zhang, two masters personally appointed by the officials, one county officer, one official, household, ceremony, soldier, criminal, and one person in charge of work, and 38 people were arrested.

This specification is unprecedented, after all, all of them are personally assigned by the officials, and they are not novices. But when he took office, Brother Zhang brought a full set of his own team......

If nothing else, just for the sake of this lord is either the son of the official family, or half of the son of the official family, no matter which one they can afford, so the cooperation must be in place to ensure that this lord is auspicious, then everything will be fine.

(End of chapter)