When Wei Xingqing sent Zheng Boyou and Princess Xuanyang to Luoyang, Gao Cheng, who was in Zhongshu Province and conducted the final ranking of candidates, set his sights on the two answer sheets whose names had been revealed.

In this imperial examination, Gao Cheng brainstormed and indeed got a lot of methods, the feasibility of comprehensive strategies and the collection of strategies, the classic science leaders were only produced between the two.

One is Wang Xi, Wang Xi proposed to Gao Cheng to establish a professional department to grasp the supply and demand situation in various places, put forward the view that the expensive should be cheap, and explained it in detail.

The so-called "emigration and cheapness" refers to the flexible collection of taxes from various localities, such as collecting coins in areas with high grain prices and rice grains in areas with low grain prices.

At the same time, he asked Gao Cheng to set up a permanent liquidation, and in good years, he bought rice and grain on a large scale, so as not to make the grain cheap and hurt the people, and in the bad harvest years, he sold a large number of grains to stabilize grain prices.

The other person is Cui Gan, who was in charge of Guangzhou and was in charge of general affairs, and was deeply touched by the government's wanton showdown and forced labor.

He traveled among the people for half a year and was well aware of the suffering of the common people's forced labor, so he proposed the method of exempting the people from military service with money, and the money obtained from the exemption was distributed proportionally between the central and local governments.

And when the imperial court needed the people to carry out conscription, such as civil engineering, building bridges and roads, controlling rivers and canals, and transferring Caogu, Cui suggested that the collected exempt money could be used to recruit the people to participate.

The use of money for labor was not Cui Gan's first initiative, and the Han law allowed the children of rich families to pay for labor on their behalf.

Cui Geng's method is equivalent to spreading the power of the rich children to the public, but he does not stop there, Cui Zhen believes that the collection of exempt money is not to generate income, but to benefit the people.

He suggested that after Gao Cheng implemented the exemption from military service with money, he issued a decree to force the government to use the money to recruit people to work according to a unified standard.

And every time you use the money to recruit people, you must leave a corresponding record, whether you built a bridge or built a road, and every expenditure must be able to be checked during the assessment.

By assessing the use of government agency funds, the central government can also see at a glance what local governments have done that year.

The amount of money for proxy service was limited, and in the past, the local government used the people's power for free, and did not cherish it, so Wei Jing recruited the people's husbands for hunting.

Nowadays, it costs money to recruit people, and it can also effectively stop the abuse of civilian power by state and county governors.

Recruiting people to work for paid labor with substitute money can greatly improve their work enthusiasm compared with unpaid labor.

As long as the central authorities can maintain their authority and ensure that the people can be exempted from forced labor by paying the exemption money, the method of substituting money for compulsory labor can solve the wanton showdown of local forced labor, and this is undoubtedly a policy for the benefit of the people.

The more Gao Cheng looked at it, the more familiar he became, and suddenly realized, isn't this Wang Anshi's recruitment method!

The conscription law allowed people who took turns to serve in the service to return to their hometowns to work in agriculture, and those who enjoyed the privilege of exemption from military service had to pay the service fee, which also increased the government's income.

The promulgation of the conscription law also made Wang Anshi angry with the privileged class, and finally laid the foundation for the failure of the law change.

However, King Xiao Gao did not have this kind of worry, he not only had to collect money from the privileged class for exemption, but even Yuan Shanjian, who lived in the palace, had to pay for King Xiao Gao.

But when it comes to his intentions, Gao Cheng does not want the government to increase revenue, and this move can prohibit the local abuse of people's power, and he is satisfied.

What's more, there is one point that Cui Zhen did not mention, but Gao Cheng himself knows very well that the implementation of the exempt money system can greatly alleviate private inflation, and even Gao Cheng may have to increase the issuance of coins to meet the people's demand for coins.

This also meant that the little king, who had a large number of coins, could live a prosperous life for a while.

However, it is also necessary to prevent good intentions from doing bad things, and although it is difficult for the people to be unable to pay for exemption from military service in the context of the uniform land system, Gao Cheng still decided to follow the principle of public voluntariness when implementing this policy in the future.

For the people who have not paid for immunization, the local government is not allowed to arbitrarily increase the distribution, and in order to save money, they will catch this group of disasters.

This is also something that Gao Cheng wants to write into the decree.

Among the two answer sheets, Wang Xi is better at the paper, but in terms of the strategies offered, Cui Zhen is more in line with his mind.

After a little hesitation, Gao Cheng finally chose Cui Zhen.

At this time, Cui Ning didn't know that he was about to get out of trouble, and he kept asking Zheng Boyou, who was locked in the cell opposite him, for news.

Gao Cheng heard about Wei Xingqing's return, but did not pay attention to it immediately, everything was temporarily focused on the imperial examination, but Zheng Boyou was first imprisoned in prison, and Princess Xuanyang was temporarily imprisoned in Yaoguang Temple pending trial.

As the time for the release of the scientific examination list approached, even if he was quite confident in his son's talent, Cui Ying couldn't help but be worried, for fear that Cui Zhen would play abnormally on the spot.

Zheng Boyou was in the mood to pay attention to Cui Ning, but he also secretly hated that he didn't have a competitive son, otherwise he might be able to come to a scientific expedition to save his father.

But what he doesn't know is that he and Cui Ning are completely different in Gao Cheng's eyes, Cui Ning is just corrupt, and Zheng Boyou actually killed good people for the crime of rebellion in order to plunder the people's wealth, this kind of thing happens, even if Zheng Boyou's son has the talent of Zaifu, he is destined not to be pardoned.

For such an evil act, it is impossible for Gao Cheng to set a precedent for pardon.

Zheng Boyou didn't even know that his eldest son Zheng Yun's Yangxia County Taishou and second son Zheng Jian would lose their official positions in the army.

Just when Gao Cheng was in Luoyang for the six admitted candidates in each of the five subjects of the imperial examination, Sizhou Muke Zhu Hunyuan had already led the three thousand parts of the clan and stepped into the capital city of Jianzhou Prefecture, and easily took over the state city with Gao Cheng's letter.

This is also the first time that Gao Cheng's forces have touched Shanxi, such a sensitive move, Gao Cheng also sent someone to Jinyang to report to Gao Huan in advance.

At this time, Gao Huan had already heard about the establishment of the state from the messenger, and he quickly sent someone to Gaodu City to inquire about the authenticity of the news and check whether Zheng Boyou had what Gao Cheng said.

There was no other reaction to Zhu Hunyuan's move to enter Jianzhou.

And the life of the officials in Jianzhou is difficult, especially the chief official Fa Cao, since the arrest of Zheng Boyou and his wife, they are afraid every day.

If it weren't for the fact that Ke Zhu Hunyuan arrived quickly, he would have packed up his soft and abandoned the official and fled, but now looking at the Ke Zhu Hunyuan troops who strictly guarded the gates, and the secret post that pretended to be an idler but was clearly monitoring him, the chief official of Fa Cao also gave up his plan to escape, and could only pin all his hopes on Zheng Boyou and his wife.

Luoyang, Zhongshu Province.

After a long day's work, Gao Cheng finally ranked a total of 300 test papers for five subjects, and although the paste paper on the answer sheet had already been torn off by him, he asked himself if he was still a talented person this time.

There are selfish motives, such as promoting Song Qindao from the seventh to the second in the Criminal Name Section.

and demoted Zu Ting from the third to the tenth in the classic department, which can be regarded as one of the court officials.

(End of chapter)