"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm reluctant to cope, it's too difficult." Tang Shunzhi sighed and saluted after three modest times, "This topic involves a wide range of topics, but I don't know much about it, and I want to go back and turn over the history books again, hoping to understand." Ladies and gentlemen, I will take my leave. ”

He said both sentences very sincerely, and he really seemed to be preoccupied.

Now others are more relieved: it's not pretending.

The performance of the first place in the test made others breathe a sigh of relief: I was not the only one who suffered.

Tang Shunzhi really didn't pretend, he just thought of one thing: The palace exam questions are so difficult, what will be the inhumane difficulty of the system next year?

The real big guy knows that he must not answer well, but he is already starting to study the topic of next year's subject.

Yang Yiqing, Zhang Zilin, and Wang Shouren deliberately cultivated him to develop in the direction of Confucianism, and military affairs are not only military affairs, but also headache-inducing food, transportation, military order transmission, military power constraints and many other related contents. To be able to win in battle, you also need to have outstanding armor, changeable battle formations, and a deep understanding of the enemy's situation.

In comparison, the palace examination strategy questions only test the pros and cons of banking and money methods, how difficult is that?

After the palace examination, the marking will begin the next day.

From this time onwards, the temple test is no longer just a name, but a transcription.

Or is it transcribed into a simplified character and a new style.

This inconspicuous change is not only to further emphasize the importance of simplified characters in the highest examination occasions, but also to hide a small but important change: when you answer the question, do you add sentences to read? If you don't add it, the copyist will add it for you.

Although it was said in advance in the examination system, there were still more than 40 people who forgot this point because of nervousness or carelessness in this palace examination.

Now when the answer sheets of these more than 40 people are copied, the punctuation marks are added by others, and they are added in a lower position to show that he did not read the sentence in the first place - there is no need to worry about whether these people will misinterpret the original meaning, such an important palace test, even this little detail can not be remembered to do well, and these people will be directly ranked lower in principle.

In the early morning of the next day, the 500 copies of the copied answer sheets were delivered to the Wenlou.

The lineup for marking the papers is also higher than any previous one: twenty-four counselors, everyone participates.

Although there are rough men like the governors of the five prefectures, they are still given this power - anyway, it is an average score.

It's a status symbol.

“…… It's like a national policy meeting. Fei Hong is naturally the presiding, "Your Majesty has already given an edict before, this topic is difficult, and there is no good way to do it." Gongshi's answer sheet focuses on the methodical answers, problem-solving ideas, and knowledge. Secondly, his temperament is distinguished by the meaning and details of the text, and the literary style is at the end. Of course, if there is a tribute who has a unique opinion, he will be the best choice. ”

This is another clear principle of grading.

There are no questions with reference answers, so it naturally depends on the candidate's thinking and knowledge reserves.

In the first year of the full implementation of the new law, the ranking of the palace examination will be guided.

Fei Hong said solemnly: "This subject is the top three in the first class, and the article is to be published in "Ming Pao". Although Your Majesty will give the top 50 another score, our rating is also extremely important. ”

The scores given by twenty-four people plus one person are averaged, and although the score of the last person is important, it cannot be too deliberate to adjust the ranking that has appeared.

To put it bluntly, if the scores evaluated by the counselors are a little far away from the emperor's score, is it because the counselors have a problem with their vision or have they not comprehended the holy will?

At the same time, the score given by the emperor is also added to the average, and in this small matter, it is "equal" with the counselors.

If their articles are not recognized after they are published, doesn't that damage the prestige of this kind of examination system?

The marking work began, and Zhu Houxi's side did not specifically adjust the original of their answers.

He also needs to ensure a little fairness, and don't have preconceived opinions because he saw the name and article first.

Since the Minister of State has been given this power, he, the emperor, must respect their power of preliminary screening.

However, the struvite sent by Yan Song from Zhejiang, as well as the note, have been delivered in the express delivery system of official documents specially set up by the Tongyi Bureau for the important ministers of various provinces.

The north is relatively fast, and it can be reached in three or five days. South of the Yangtze River, it has also been shortened to 10 to 20 days. If it's a top priority, it can be a little bit faster.

The palace examination time is March 15, and today is March 16, and Zhu Houxi called Jin Kela over again.

"This is what I call struvite. Let's take three pieces first, one piece of grinding powder and try it directly, one piece of broken and then a soak, and one piece of my own method. Zhu Houxi asked Huang Jin to hand him three pieces, "Open a few small ridges in the Huangzhuang alone and try its efficacy." ”

"Grass People's Command."

Jin Kela turned out to be personally guided by the emperor, and the row was full, and at the same time, he felt more and more that the emperor attached importance to his "career".

After he left, Zhu Houxi continued to look at the few struvite stones left in the box.

I know that this thing must be a treasure, but how to use it, you have to try it first.

Next, there is the question of how to get it.

Undoubtedly, historical experience has told him that this thing is mainly produced on low-latitude islands, so it must be shipped by sea, and it is not necessary to dig up his own first.

However, to do it from overseas, the method and cost are things that must be considered in the long run.

Zhu Houxi's thoughts rose even higher.

As far as agricultural production and income are concerned, it is fundamental to have more land and less tax, and the new law will do just that.

Farm tools and fertilizers actually belong to the category of icing on the cake and intensive cultivation. The popularization of iron farming tools has been laid out as a practical thing to be promoted this year, and the matter of fertilizer is also being done together with the discipline of cultivating chemistry.

In fact, the importance of building water conservancy and controlling floods should be ranked ahead of these two things.

In an industry that depends on the weather for food, flood control and drought control are eternal things. In this regard, Zhu Houxi has been working on it since nearly five years ago, and he has to do it for a lifetime.

Liu Tianhe has been in the position of governor of the river for more than a year, and the Huanghuai flood has always been a haze hanging over the head of the Daming granary. Once you encounter a big flood, no matter what iron farming tools and fertilizer you have, you won't use it.

Professional water control methods and skills, Zhu Houxi can't give advice rashly.

But one thing he was sure of.

Taking his eyes off the strung stone, Zhu Houxi stood up, slowly paced to the Da Ming map in the study, and looked up at the place that provided most of the sediment to the Yellow River.

Shanxi Cheng announced the political envoy department, and its scope was much larger than that of Shanxi Province later.

Because to the north, outside the Great Wall to the west of Datong Province, many places in present-day Inner Mongolia also belong to Shanxi. Today's Hohhot City is now a very close Naturalization City Hall and Suiyuan City Hall.

Along the Great Wall to the west, Zhu Houxi remembered that the larger concept of the Loess Plateau was in the northern part of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia...... These are currently the border towns.

How can there be leisure and environment to allow the officials there to plant trees one after another? What is the benefit of planting trees there for the people there in the short term?

Therefore, although Zhu Houxi knew that the treatment of the water and soil environment there would definitely help to control the Huanghuai flood, there was no good way to start this matter.

If you want to make the Loess Plateau feel at ease to manage the environment, Zhu Houxi has only one way to go.

Push the line to the north. In the process of the slow implementation of the Nanyang Economic Strategy, as long as the idea of setting up ports overseas can be implemented, the Ming Dynasty should plan to re-establish and hurt the Northern Yuan.

To the south and to the north, this rhythm will be important.

As for intelligence, Zhu Houxi has always attached great importance to it.

Now Huang Jin saw the emperor staring there, so he stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, do you want to announce Zhang Bo again?" ”

The internal inspection factory also made contributions in the suppression of the rebellion in Huguang, and Zhang Boring was promoted to one level, and now he is the governor of the internal and external inspection factory.

"Not necessarily." Zhu Houxi shook his head, and then suddenly said, "Brother Huangwu is heroic." If it weren't for the First World War in Yingzhou, I wouldn't have had a stable time for the past few years. But now that it has taken six or seven years for Naarak Khan, the political situation in the Northern Yuan has gradually stabilized, and the northern border is going to be troublesome. Eleven years after Hongzhi, it has been almost thirty years since the Northern Yuan Dynasty cut off tribute. Although Bodi has stabilized the internal situation a little, it has only relied on smuggling in some border towns for so many years, which is not enough to satisfy many people in the Northern Yuan. ”

Huang Jin couldn't agree with anything, and he could hear that the emperor was just talking to himself and sorting out his thoughts.

But since His Majesty succeeded to the throne, the north has not always been peaceful.

In August of the sixteenth year of Zhengde, when Yang Yiqing had just arrived in the northwest, the "little prince" who was still used by the Ming people to call Dayan Khan before, but in fact the Arak Khan's son Bodi, who was now the new Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, had invaded.

In May and August of the second year of Jiajing, the Northern Yuan also invaded.

This is still the reason why Yingzhou won the great victory in the twelfth year of Zhengde, Dayan Khan and the subsequent death of Dayan Khan, and the Northern Yuan experienced the current battle between Arak Khan and his uncle for the position of Great Khan.

Although Yang Yiqing was in charge there, there was no big mess, but the north side was never calm. In the past few years, some officers and soldiers have also been killed in the border towns.

Zhu Houxi sighed a little emotionally, and felt the lack of handsome talents.

After all, he still remembered that during the Jiajing period, Mongolian soldiers came to Beijing.

This year's martial arts competition, martial arts hall test, next year's system, I don't know if I can find a few good seedlings.

……

Zhu Houxi suddenly thought of the northern military affairs from fertilizer because of Yan Song's negligence.

Yan Song's recital, in fact, is not talking about this matter, but a strategy: in places like Fujian and Zhejiang, where there are many mountains and few fields, those families who are forbidden to go to the sea do have their difficulties. Taking advantage of the implementation of the new law and the election of village sages in Zhejiang, can we set up another city department in Ningbo and the Shuangyu Islands outside Ningbo?

But this city is not continuing to deal with tributary trade - the emperor's attitude has been very clear, and there are interests between countries.

Yan Song only judged that the emperor attached great importance to struvite stones, so he gave a plan: the maritime merchant registration of the quasi-Xiangxian family was unified in Ningbo City and taxed. When leaving the port and returning to the port, the corresponding amount of struvite needs to be transported back according to the number of ships.

In order to avoid conflicts with the Guangdong City, Fujian and Zhejiang maritime merchants only traded in the direction of Luzon, Japan, and Ryukyu under the command of the Huangming Semicolon.

Zhu Houxi admired Yan Song a little.

He not only judged that he was very concerned about struvite stones, but also judged that he did not want to dig up things on the coastal islands of Daming, or judged that with the breadth of Daming's fields, his own struvite stones were not enough.

But more importantly, Yan Song took this opportunity to consolidate his network in the coastal area - if this thing is done, Fujian and Zhejiang maritime merchants will not have to be sneaky from now on, although they have eliminated the actual monopoly benefits in private before, but it is still stronger than the suppression in previous years.

How many wealthy Fujian and Zhejiang gentry will be grateful to Yan Song?

This proposal is actually a switch proposal.

Although only some village sages are allowed to do this business now, after the opening is opened, the scale will naturally get bigger and bigger. It doesn't conflict with the Emperor Mingji on the side of the Bosi in Guangdong City, and it's just a test of the emperor's intentions.

Will the large-scale foreign trade undermine His Majesty's national policy of the "Great Wall of the South Sea"?

Therefore, to let some people do it controllably, it is still a strategy headed by Huang Mingji.

Zhu Houxi has thought about the pros and cons.

Replacing the tax to be paid when returning to Hong Kong with struvite cannot be said to be costless, but it does save some costs incurred in purchasing separately. The ship goes out with the cargo and comes back with the cargo, and there are too many things that can be more profitable than this struvite stone.

This is indeed a way to initially ensure the required amount and cost, but if it is to be effective, people will always have to organize people over there to find and mine this thing in the first year, right?

Therefore, it is likely that there will be a situation where only the accounts are kept in the first year and the debts are owed. In essence, it is also beneficial to the silver turnover of the maritime family.

Encouragement is not small.

But how do you determine this ratio? How many catties of struvite can be converted into taxes?

There is also a cost to get these struvite overseas, unless you ...... Passing on the cost, let the people over there be black-hearted bosses and dig with slave-like coolies......

The last ton of struvite can be exchanged for some Ming porcelain silk or something......

Does it also help to confuse certain countries and make public resentment boil?

It was precisely because of Yan Song's proposal that he thought of another way to play chess through the South Seas, that Zhu Houxi thought of the north.

But he didn't give any advice first.

The concert was sent by the General Political Envoy, and the General Political Envoy would also send it to the State Palace. At present, these things are ostensibly only government affairs, and they are related to the new law, and Zhu Houxi has to wait for them to finish reading the papers and listen to their opinions.

When it comes to whether or not to switch or not, it is not up to the Prime Minister and Minister of State to decide for himself, and this matter must be brought to the National Policy Council.

When to switch and how to turn it on, it's a big deal.

Yan Song was only afraid that there was struvite on the Japanese side, so he said that Fujian, Zhejiang and Haimao went to the east, and Guangdong Haimao went south.

Whether there is struvite in Japan, Zhu Houxi is not clear, and there is a high probability that it is very rare.

But there is a silver mountain in Japan, and Zhu Houxi is very clear and greedy.

The palace examination has just finished the currency-related things, and in order to prepare for the future, the Ming court first needs to try its best to reserve silver.

The Japanese side has cut off trade with the Ming Dynasty for three years, do you want to use this trade to add another fire to their "Warring States Period"?

The cargo ships of the private maritime merchants, I am afraid that some of the Japanese will dare to rob a little.

If it is robbed, it will be a reason in the future.

Therefore, I am afraid that this matter will not only be discussed at the national policy meeting, but also discussed at the military affairs meeting.

"That's a lot going on." Zhu Houxi sighed, "Let's go, let's go see my children first." ”

After another winter, Zhu Houxi added two daughters.

Now, he has taken deep roots in this era, pushing Daming to glow with a new look according to his ideas.

To protect all this, Zhu Houxi has too many things to face.

Therefore, he can't be a lone husband, and he only makes his own decisions on everything, and he has to wait for the important ministers to also express their opinions.

"You sent someone to tell Yan Song that this matter has to be planned as a whole, and it is not something that can be hastily decided between the months and months. He is still young, and I often think of him, so there is no need to rush to win the hearts of the Fujian and Zhejiang gentry. ”

Huang Jin was stunned, this is a bit heavy.

And Yan Song is almost fifty years old, is he very young?

Zhu Houxi wanted to knock Yan Song.

Smart is smart, and if he is bigger, he shouldn't be on such a note just because of a struvite stone.

Although Zhu Houxi knew that struvite had a great effect, what about Fei Hong? The resetting of the Zhejiang City Bosi on the grounds of struvite is a link between Yan and Song.

Zhu Houxi also had to help him explain the role of struvite at the national policy meeting, and it was best to have the results of the preliminary experiments on Jin Kela's side as proof.

"Don't take it too seriously."

Zhu Houxi added again, after all, everyone in the local area really wants to make contributions now, and try to see if they can return to Beijing and enter the State Hall in three years - there are so three people, and they are indeed older.

But Yan Song can live to be more than eighty, what's the hurry!

Huang Jin was embarrassed after hearing this: Then what do I say?

(End of chapter)