Su Zhe, who was overshadowed, had the idea of decisiveness in his heart.

You do the first year of junior high school, I do the fifteenth, everyone will see.

Instead of sitting back and waiting, it is better for the Jedi to fight back.

Although the ending is doomed and it is bound to be a fiasco, Su Zhe thinks that he should be tough. lest they let anyone look down on him.

That's right, Su Zhe's personality is not sleek, but the ability to adjust contradictions is definitely not a talent that his brother Su Shi can't do.

There was only one reason why he couldn't bear it. Since the emperor thinks that the Empress Dowager Xuanren and these old courtiers are wrong, then he simply no longer let the emperor be an eyesore, and instead of letting Zhang Dian and these people break them one by one, it is better to simply solve the matter.

Before, there may have been people who made him not feel at ease.

But not anymore.

Su Shi miraculously connected the three Zhishi movements, and was finally allowed by the emperor. Without any special promotions to show grace, let alone give valuable rewards, in silence, Su Shi completed all the procedures for retirement. This made Su Zhe's heart finally relaxed. After all, the officials of Zhishi were deprived of preferential treatment at most, but Su Shi did not have preferential treatment at all.

The identity of the middle doctor is already a great humiliation for a great master in the literary world who is a household name in the Great Song Dynasty.

But for Su Zhe, this is a great comfort. At least when he was unlucky, he took care of his brother all his life and could help take care of his family.

After having no worries, Su Zhe's determination was greater.

Of course, during the palace examination, it was impossible for him to directly obstruct Li Qingchen's question, thinking that this was suspected of disrupting the imperial court's talent ceremony, and he was directly degraded to Lingnan on the previous charge of ignorance. Su Zhe didn't want to give this handle to Li Qingchen yet. Therefore, when he chose the first court meeting after the palace examination, he handed the music and delivered it directly to the court.

Bypassing the Shangshu Province and the Secretary Province, he directly asked the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces and the emperor to give a clear answer on the vertical arch hall.

Let the emperor say in person: "He hates the Empress Dowager Xuanren!" ”

Su Zhe couldn't help sneering in his heart, if the emperor really did this, the Empress Dowager Xiang would not rest. Because she should be the next one to be pulled out and whipped. But if the emperor can't say that he is dissatisfied with the Empress Dowager Xuanren, then Li Qingchen can't pour dirty water on the conservatives, because the reason is not enough, and the emperor can't support it.

In fact, the emperor did not dare to say anything bad about the Empress Dowager Xuanren at all. Although he hated it in his heart, if he was really dissatisfied with his imperial grandmother and said it in the court, then this stain would accompany the emperor for the rest of his life. Even in the clan royal family will be dissatisfied with the emperor.

How can an unfilial person be the co-master of the world?

It's just that in this way, it will be difficult for his nephew Su Guo to make a success in his career. Of course, even after Su Guo was admitted to the Jinshi, it was basically impossible to get promoted in the first six years. Six years from now, who knows what will become of the court? Besides, Su Zhe also learned some of Su Guo's thoughts, and his nephew may not like to be an official.

It may have something to do with his childhood experiences.

As for people other than Su Guo...... Li Kui has nothing to regret, in Su Zhe's opinion, Li Kui's ability is more of a quick wit. The level of Emperor Bajie was about to catch up with the eunuchs, and he was even worried that Li Kui would become the first courtier among the disciples of Sumen. As for Fan Chong, it's a bit of a pity, the first place in the provincial exam, this honor is not easy. But Fan Chong's career is definitely not smooth, and the reason should be more because of his father Fan Zuyu, rather than his Su Zhe.

Just when Su Zhe was weighing the gains and losses in his heart, Li Kui had already started the second half of the exam.

The policy theory, although the policy is first, the theory is last. But when it comes to actually writing an article, the discussion comes first, and the strategy comes last.

There will always be a lot less of a solution than a cause.

Shenzong's change did not reach the expected level, and it will definitely not be said that it is because of Shenzong's death, let alone the reason after the Empress Dowager Xuanren lowered the curtain to listen to the government.

Bypassing these two, it will be the turn of the Yuanyu Party to be unlucky.

Thinking of this, he looked at Li Kui with complicated eyes. Su Zhe was full of curiosity about this apprentice grandson carefully cultivated by the second brother. Especially after he found out that he had a clear attitude towards him, Li Kui was able to be accepted by Huang Tingjian and others, and even became a celebrity around the emperor in less than three months after entering Beijing.

But Zhou Bangyan's article is indeed a must, especially the means of touting the emperor, like the spring wind sneaking into a dream, making people inadvertently hum comfortably. However, Li Kui did not have the talent of Zhou Bangyan, but relied on mahjong and juju to gain the attention of the emperor.

In essence, today's emperor Zhao Xu doesn't look like a Ming Jun no matter how he looks at it, and he looks like a faint monarch. And Li Kui happened to be the number one traitor beside the faint monarch, and the means of bewitching the emperor made his vice minister feel cold.

At this time, Li Kui was gradually writing strategies for the better.

The title of his policy is "Governing Peace", and on the surface, this should be a strategy for governing the government and leveling the world. But if you really think so, you must have read the title, not the article. In fact, it is written about the question of the population:

"There is no one who is unhappy with the people of peace, and there is no one who is not happy with the people who have been peaceful for a long time. It has been peaceful for more than 100 years, which can be described as a long time......"

"Try to count it as a family: when Gao and Zeng, there were ten houses, one hectare of land, one person, and only two women after marrying. With ten houses for two people, one hectare of food fields, there is more than enough. If one person has three lives, and there are four fathers and sons in the life of the son, and each of them has eight wives, and eight people cannot be without the help of support, and there are no less than ten people......"

What does this mean?

Gaozu created a foundation of ten houses, a hundred acres of land, and then married one or two daughters-in-law. lived the life of a happy small landlord, the family had no worries about food and clothing, and life was very happy. The grandparents also lived happily ever after. By my father's generation, there were already four people in the family, plus seven or eight people who were bullied, and gradually the fields were not enough to cultivate, the food was not enough to eat, and life began to be difficult. Gaozu and great-ancestor can marry even a daughter-in-law, but when it comes to the son's generation, because there are too many people, they can't even eat, let alone marry a daughter-in-law to continue the family bloodline.

After this proposition is thrown, it is followed by a pass of historical data. Even if the Great Song Dynasty reclaimed a huge amount of cultivated land, compared with the Tang Dynasty during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the yield per mu did not increase much, but the population increased by tens of millions, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty would soon be unable to eat.

Coupled with natural disasters**, the foundation of the country has also been shaken.

After a series of alarmist remarks, the pen turned to tell that the increase in population brought not wealth, but social instability.

seems to be a straightforward article, but it throws a historical problem to all the high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty.

The population has increased, but the wealth that can generate wealth and sustain the people has not increased. How to break this game?

Adhering to Li Kui's long-standing urine nature, just set fires, regardless of the principle of fighting fires. He began to list the data, first of all, during the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, when the population was about 30 million, the land of China was thriving, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. He even thought that the country was rich and strong, and that he had the ability to fight foreign wars. After repeated victories, the Central Plains became the country of the Celestial Empire, and even the powerful Xiongnu court was destroyed.

But when the population increased to more than 50 million, the country collapsed.

Why?

During the Tang Dynasty, after the population exceeded 70 million, it began to decline. When it reached a peak of 80 million, the Tang Dynasty even went to extinction.

Why is that?

At the same time, when the population was less than 20 million, foreign invasions, Chinese lives were devastated, and the Central Plains were Yi, why is this?

Now that the population of the Great Song Dynasty is as high as 10,000, has it reached a situation that cannot be reversed?

How to break the game?

Writing and writing, after Li Kui found that he had complained about some irrelevant content, an eight-hundred-word policy was already full, and he continued to write, one was not allowed in time, and the exam paper could not be written, so he simply wrote the end out of context.

He didn't care how the examiners would feel when they saw it.

Anyway, his status as a jinshi has long been secure, so why bother to worry about the problems of the bigwigs?

Even if he is a Jinshi, it is said that it is already the emperor's grace to be a seven-rank official. The normal number of ways is that he will be a nine-rank official who can't enter the stream first. Many of the county orders of the Great Song Dynasty were eight-rank and ninth-grade officials, and the seventh-grade county orders were very important counties. Of course, the unlucky ones are not counted, they were squeezed out of the capital, and then they were high-ranking officials, but there are many places where they can only manage the big fart.

But if Li Kui is lucky, the eight-rank civil official, if he is awarded to a loose official, it should be Ru Linlang or Deng Shilang. But don't forget, Dr. Guozijian's official position is only eight grades, how can Li Kui He De be higher than Dr. Guozijian's official position?

Since the income is not high, Li Kui feels that it is enough to fool around, and there is no need to be too aggressive. Anyway, it's the life of a nine-grade master, what's the toss?

After carefully checking the article up and down, correcting a few mistakes, Li Kui started to transcribe the exam papers. By the time he finished writing, there would really be a tribute to hand in the papers. There are too many people in the palace examination, and it is absolutely impossible to complete the marking on the spot. Generally speaking, three days is the deadline for the release of the palace test list.

The emperor waited for Li Kui to hand in the papers, but Li Kui buried his head in his own heart, he pondered that now he handed in the papers, I am afraid that the emperor will ask for his test papers, if he sees that Li Kui does not have the emperor's intentions, I am afraid that he will suffer. Simply, grind it!

The emperor waited left and right, and did not see Li Kui hand in the papers. Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore and drove back.

When Li Kui heard the eunuch shouting: "Get up!" ”

Li Kui secretly raised his head at this time, and he suddenly found that Fan Chong was also thinking the same as him, and secretly raised his eyes to glance at him. Li Kui hehe, when the emperor's driving left the Daqing Palace, he immediately stood up and handed in the papers.

As long as Li Kui signaled to hand in the papers, an examiner would immediately come to collect Li Kui's papers, and then arrange for copying after the name was pasted on the spot.

After that, it will be handed over to the marking officer.

Li Kui finally breathed a sigh of relief and finally survived the palace test.

I don't know what the emperor will do if he knows the result.

After Li Kui handed in the papers, Fan Chong also handed in the papers, and even got up with Ma Yu and said that he wanted to hand in the papers.

The three of them left the celebration together, took the number plate from outside the palace and left the palace.

After leaving the palace, he secretly said that Ma Yu was very excited, and he had a premonition that his article did have the opportunity to win the top prize. Because Li Kui guessed the direction of the palace examination questions, this allowed him to prepare for two more days than other candidates, and this advantage could almost lay the top three seats in the palace examination for him. As for the champions...... It's really a matter of fate. Sometimes in life, if you don't want it, you can't do it. There is no fate, even if you break through the sky, you can't get it.

Of course, this opportunity was fought for by Li Kui, and he was naturally grateful to Li Kui.

On the contrary, Fan Chong obviously wrote an article that neither the examiner nor the emperor would be treated with, but he was unusually relaxed. It was as if the stone that had pressed on his chest had been removed. He remembered what his father told him when he was leaving, the court is a place of right and wrong, if Fan Chong is in high school, he will find a way to go to Longtu Pavilion, or the secretary province to write history books, one is quiet, and the other is to stay away from right and wrong.

"Genius!"

"Uncle Junior."

Li Kui heard someone shouting at him, and it turned out that Su Guo was waiting for Li Kui and them outside the Xuande Gate after handing in the papers. Ma Yu wanted to join this circle, but he also understood that the other party was afraid that he would have to say something private that he didn't want outsiders to know, so he hurriedly left.

Su Guo pulled Li Kui and Fan Chong down in a restaurant and asked for a private room. After entering the private room, he confessed to Li Kui: "Renjie, I will confess to you and Gao Yu on behalf of my third uncle, my uncle is happy and quiet, and it is not lively, so that the two of you are wronged." ”

"Uncle Xiao, if you say this, you will see the outside, if Gao Yu is here, you must punish yourself for three cups."

Su Guo took a sip in embarrassment, the amount of alcohol will be inherited, Su Shi's alcohol consumption is not good, and Su Guo will definitely not become a gentleman in wine. After taking a sip, his face turned red, as red as the sunset.

As for Li Yun, Su Guo would definitely not confess, after all, Li Yun was his disciple.

The teacher is bigger than the sky, so he doesn't need to explain anything to Li Yun.

Is Li Kui a scheming person?

He didn't care about Su Zhe's prejudice against him at all.

The three of them unconsciously talked about the palace test.

The questions of the palace exam are obviously stabbing questions, and Su Guo and Fan Chong have no choice, so they can't say that the conservatives of the Yuanyou Party are a scourge, right? It's all about their own father sitting down.

The topic formulated by Su Guo is that Uncle Bao recommends Guan Zhong, and he wrote thousands of words in a row of quotations, without any dry goods, and he didn't dare to say it, and he was very embarrassed to explain a problem.

The failure of Xining's reform was due to the lack of virtuous leadership. The lack of talent led to insufficient consideration at the court level, and ultimately led to the change of law not having a good effect.

In contrast, Fan Chong is not far behind, and he is also the number of roads that Su has passed. He is talking about the Legalist change of the law, at the time of the implementation of Zheng Guo, because of the lack of national strength, after the increase in the strength of the army, it led to the rapid consumption of national strength, resulting in the collapse of the country. And Li Kui's reform of the law in the Chu State was also easily destroyed because of the unadaptation of water and soil.

Li Kui said to Fan Chong in surprise: "Elder Brother Yuan, you are really good, even the water and soil are not adapted, it is estimated that when the prelude to the palace is right, the official family will have to fight with you!" ”

Anyway, from Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal to Wang Anshi's Xining Reform, the intentions are all good, and top-down reforms will be carried out in order for the country to get rid of the financial crisis.

But the ending was almost the same, the Qingli New Deal collapsed so quickly that Renzong didn't react, and found that the resistance to the change was too great, and even he, the emperor, was a little unbearable. Shenzong was the head of the iron, but he was not able to support Wang Anshi's reform from beginning to end, and had to tearfully depose Wang Anshi as prime minister.

Clear-eyed people can see that Wang Anshi's changes have many drawbacks. One-size-fits-all is just one of the biggest side effects. There is also the "Market Change Law", the imperial court interfered in commercial activities, which led to a great decline in the income of merchants, which discouraged the commercial enthusiasm of merchants and led to the overall contraction of commerce.

Some of the new laws, even though there was great controversy within the Fa-Reform faction, were implemented in the Great Song Dynasty. It can be said that Wang Anshi did not consider the negative effects of the new law at all, and changed the law for the sake of changing the law.

Fan Chong picked up the wine bowl, put it down suddenly, and asked Li Kui curiously: "Renjie, you can't just ask our strategy without talking about your own, right?" ”

"Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning." Li Kui said modestly that although he wrote a very big "Zhiping Policy" during the palace examination, in fact, he just took it out to scare people.

Of course, it is not just to scare people, the data listed and the results of the deduction in Li Kui's "Zhiping Policy" are true and well-documented. The social problems caused by the population problem have always been the most headache for any dynasty, but it is difficult to solve the stubborn disease. Xining's change of law is actually a problem of ending population. It's just that the method used to change the law is to rob the rich and help the poor, so there are too many opponents.

There have always been many rebel uprisings in the Great Song Dynasty, but as the population continued to increase, they became more and more frequent from the middle and late stages of Renzong. The people are easily deceived is one reason, of course, the people are very poor, and they can't eat, which is the real bane. The contradictions between the common people and the government are becoming more and more acute, mainly in taxation and forced labor, which is an irreconcilable contradiction. Robbing the rich and helping the poor treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

Li Kui couldn't help it, so he had to roughly talk about his strategy.

After Fan Chong heard this, a very bad thought lingered in his heart.

After Su Guo listened, he also had a very bad thought lingering in his heart.

In the Jiying Hall in the palace, a scribe from the Ministry of Officials who participated in the copying was copying the article, and suddenly his face changed drastically, he put down his pen, his forehead was full of cold sweat, and he shouted in surprise: "The Great Song Dynasty is over!" ”

Now, Zhang Shangying, who presided over the transcription, couldn't sit still, he didn't know what was dead or alive, could such foolish words be said casually?

Especially in the palace, this is the rhythm of looking for death!

And Zhang Shangying, under the kneeling and begging of the scribe, found that the culprit was a policy written by Gongshi, called "Zhiping Policy".

He tried to read it, and at first, it was full of contempt. Even the words of sycophants are average, what future does such a scholar have?

But reading, reading, the cold sweat on his forehead came down.

There was no way to scold the scribe with the demeanor of a Shangguan, and hurriedly went to the side hall with the scroll, the emperor, all the important ministers of the court were there, and seeing Zhang Shangying hurrying over, Li Qingchen asked funny: "Tianjue, has there been another beautiful text?" ”

Zhang Shangying didn't dare to take it, so he gave the paper to Li Qingchen and said, "Chief examiner, let's talk about it after you read it!" ”

After reading it, three words popped up in Li Qingchen's heart - straight mother thief!

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