"We're in high school?"

Haikuan and the others heard the good news loudly from the yacha, and suddenly had a feeling that the world was spinning, but they still couldn't believe the good news that suddenly fell down.

Gao Kui also felt that things were full of weirdness, after all, the candidates for Huiyuan had just been officially announced, and the level of these three people was indeed not above him.

It's just that it is impossible for these people to fake the good news, and no one dares to make such a joke on the big day, and what is even more strange is this strange ranking.

In the earlier announcement, it was clear that only 600 students were admitted in this examination, so why did "601", "602" and "603" suddenly vacate "601", "602" and "603"?

"This is the Emperor's gift!"

A bright light suddenly flashed in Xu Hong's mind, and he said loudly with joy.

Some people also reacted that the number of places admitted to the examination was 600. Now that these three people can go to high school, and they are ranked six hundred, it is naturally another gift from the emperor to them.

"Students thank the emperor!"

Chen Shou and the other three knew that this must be a gift from the emperor, which was regarded as a kind of compensation for their earlier days, or a kind of recognition for their earlier loyalty, and immediately kowtowed in the direction of the Forbidden City.

The three of them are all from the bottom, and now it is not easy to insist on a few examinations, and this time they are outside the 600 places, so it can be said that it is difficult to get the Jinshi merit in this life.

If you don't have the fame of a jinshi, and you just enter the office as a person, then you have to start from the sesame officials such as the Zhengjiupin Teaching, and usually the county is already the ceiling.

It's just that now because they showed loyalty in the case of the Marquis of Huichang, because the three of them wanted to share the emperor's worries, they actually got the emperor's favor.

Even if this fame is not so glorious, this move is equivalent to pulling them out of the quagmire, at least they can also take the magistrate of the seventh grade or the magistrate of a government as the starting point of their career.

As for how sarcastic others will be, it no longer matters, they just want to repay this emperor's favor at the moment and be a good official who loves the country and the people.

"It's sent, it's really sent!"

Shopkeeper Zhang felt like he was in a dream, just three top-level jinshi officers were already unreal, and now the emperor has given three more gifts, causing six jinshi to come out of Dongsheng Inn at once.

Dongsheng Inn not only washed away the unlucky name earlier, but now has such an amazing record, the candidates who take the examination next year must be squeezing their heads and wanting to live in their own inn.

"Really six...... Six out of all? ”

Tan Bo looked at the yacha who was announcing the good news in front of him, and suddenly had a feeling of falling from heaven to hell, and muttered to himself in disbelief.

Before the top twenty were announced, he thought his bet had been securely won, only to suffer a triple blow to his heart with Gao Kui High School.

It's just that who would have thought that the other three poor people who were obviously unworthy of lifting their shoes turned out to be specially given the name of Jinshi by the emperor.

Now, he has lost the bet, and he has to go to Beizhen Fusi to scold Zhu Ji later, and his uncle is afraid that he will pick off his skin.

Cracking sound......

Dongsheng Inn lit firecrackers again to convey the good news to the surroundings.

Originally, the inn's business was sluggish, and since Miss Qian was chased and killed, business has plummeted. It's just that now, like a dead tree in spring, six Jinshi were born at once, and it's no wonder that the shopkeeper Zhang smiled from ear to ear.

The sky in Beijing is blue and dusty.

Things were just as they guessed, just as the annunciation was in full swing, Liu Jin had already come to the Shuntian Gongyuan with a will.

Since Xu Hong, Zhang Sui and Gao Kui are high schools, there is naturally no need to interfere.

Facing that Haikuan, Chen Shou and Weng Peng were not on the list of 600, Liu Jin also conveyed his will to add these three people.

Zhu Youzhu did not intend to squeeze out other people's places, so the number of students admitted to this year's examination was no longer 600, but 603.

After Wang Yue dealt with these things, he couldn't go home immediately, but wanted to follow Liu Jin into the palace to face the saint.

Liu Jian saw that Wang Yue was so valued by the emperor, as if he had overturned the vinegar jar, and immediately secretly made up his mind to step Wang Yue into the mud again.

Wang Yue suddenly felt a vicious gaze cast behind him, but he didn't look back, but followed Liu Jin along the wide corridor and walked outside.

Since Jukuitang has not been allowed to contact the outside world, Wang Yue didn't know what was happening in the outside world at all, so he naturally didn't know that Jin Yiwei wanted to concoct a fraud case.

After listening to Liu Jin's story, Wang Yue was also secretly afraid, and found that the water in the capital was indeed very deep.

The case of the Marquis of Huichang has not been solved yet, and as a result, Ma Shu, a small Jinyi Wei Baihu, actually arrested three people who wanted to investigate the fraud case of the Huichang Trial, which was clearly aimed at himself who had just returned to the court.

At this moment, he was glad that he had met the master.

If it is really because of the loyal deeds of these six sons, they have to investigate their own fraud, then this matter is even more unjust than the crime of poetry and resentment back then.

Liu Jin led Wang Yue to the gate of Shuntian Gongyuan and pointed to the carriage lane that was parked here and waiting: "Lord Wang, please get in the car!" ”

"Good!" Wang Yue knew that Liu Jin was a popular eunuch beside the emperor, so he politely responded.

Since Suncheon Gongwonin is quite far from the West Garden, the best option is to take a horse-drawn carriage.

Wang Yue actually wanted to go on horseback, but now the capital is not as good as the place, and the capital has too many rules, so he followed Liu Jin to board the car together.

When he returned to the court this time, he knew that he still had to fight, but the enemy was hiding deeper and more secretively.

Like Ma Shu, who wants to attack himself this time, this is just a pawn of a certain force, and the person who really wants to attack him must be a political enemy.

In the confrontation with Liu Jian, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, he faintly felt that Liu Jian's city government was insufficient, and the people who really played chess were probably hidden in the shadows.

Drive!

As the groom whipped the horse, the carriage moved slowly in the direction of Xiyuan.

After Wang Yue talked to Liu Jin for a few words, he sat in the center and closed his eyes to recuperate.

He knew that the emperor was so eager to summon him, and he probably still hoped that he could break the situation for him, and things might be even more tricky than before.

In the past, when I was in Anlu, I only felt that the place was being pitted by those corrupt officials, but I slowly realized that many of the cruxes may lie in this court, and even those virtuous ministers who are full of benevolence and morality.

It's just that now that he has come back and has the full support of the emperor, he naturally has to continue to slaughter until he kills all these people and becomes honest officials.

Maybe you will understand after experiencing it, thinking of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend the country, and the simple people who worked hard, some people really deserve to go to hell.

West Garden, the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

Zhu Youji, who was wearing regular clothes, sat in front of the desk, concentrating on handling government affairs, and the whole person looked more and more mature.

Although the city of Beijing today is very lively, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally impossible to limit his vision to the capital, but to put it in the two capitals and thirteen provinces.

After the end of the war in the southwest, Huguang has attracted the most attention now, and the report of Liu Zhong, the governor of Huguang, on the Qingzhang process has just been sent to his case.

Although the progress of Huguang's Qingzhang is still very slow, Liu Zhong is like a diligent old ox plowing the land, but he does not let go of any piece of tax land that should belong to the Ming Dynasty, so that those landlords who hide their fields have nothing to hide.

In fact, many people think that with Diao Min's register, and with conscientious officials like Liu Zhong to clean up, the landlords of Huguang will definitely take the initiative to register all the hidden acres.

It's just that this kind of thinking is actually very wrong, and the greed of those local gentry is beyond imagination, and it is even more uncomfortable for them to spit out their benefits than to kill them.

Although many landlords chose to register on their own initiative, more than a dozen large landlords were registered every month, and some were even executed for their fierce confrontation with the imperial court.

People die for money, birds die for food, maybe this is the real social phenomenon.

It's just that in the face of these resistances, it is naturally the punishment that should be punished, and what needs to be executed is the execution, and clearing the acres of land will be a basic national policy of the Hongzhi Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhi faced Liu Zhong's report, so he gave instructions: "I Wenqing still does it himself, wearing the clothes of the people to go to the fields, often staying in the wilderness, and sometimes not hungry. Shi Nianqing was very difficult in Huguang, and I was very ashamed. Qing today's work is in the future, the land tax is the cornerstone of the country, and one more mu of Qingqing is beneficial to the country. Recalling the past of the monarch and the minister, Qing practiced in Huguang, I did not change my heart, I hope that Qing will cherish it more in the field, and eat it warmly! ”

Although during the period of Zhang Juzheng, the Ming court directly mobilized officials from all over the country to clean up the zhang, and it only took three or four years to complete the work of clearing the zhang.

It's just that the total acres of land in the Ming Dynasty were 7 to 800 million mu, and the total acres of land in the later dynasties were as high as 2 billion mu (there are still hidden fields), so there is every reason to suspect that Zhang Juzheng's Qingzhang was not thorough.

In fact, this is a reasonable guess, the most important thing for Qingzhang is to measure the ruler and the fairness of personnel, and there is only one Liu Zhong in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, so how can it ensure that all officials are honest and fair?

Zhu Youzhu knew that this matter must not be rushed, and only slow work can produce meticulous work.

Even if it takes Liu Zhong three years to complete the work of clearing Huguang, it is actually worth it. Liu Zhong disclosed the base number of hidden fields in Huguang, so that he could set up a benchmark for the Qingzhang in the country, and it would be difficult for other regions to be perfunctory at will.

In fact, Zhang Juzheng also took his hometown Huguang as a benchmark in his year, but he was still in a hurry, resulting in almost no change in the number of acres of land in Fujian.

Zhang Juzheng spent three or four years clearing 155 million mu, and he extended the time to five years, believing that he would be able to clear 310 million mu, thus breaking through the 1 billion mu mark and reaching half of the later dynasties.

Green smoke billowed from the copper furnace, and the air was filled with a faint smell of sandalwood.

Zhu Youzhi is now accustomed to and even likes this taste, so he continues to deal with the government affairs at hand.

In addition to Huguang, the relationship between Xuanda and Mongolia has been easing day by day, especially since he exchanged 10,000 cotton clothes with them in the cold winter last year, causing the two sides to enter the honeymoon period.

As for the disaster situation in Shanxi where snow crushed houses, there is a mature disaster relief process in this era, and I only need to ensure that the people who use it are relatively reliable.

Zhu Youzhu knew that Shanxi was very important, and was preparing to find a candidate for the governor of Shanxi, but he learned that Wang Yue had already brought it.

The government affairs of the two capitals and thirteen provinces must be dealt with, and this Ming Dynasty cannot be messed up, but this court must continue to be cleaned, especially to deal with the moths in China.

Zhu Youzhu stretched his body, and when he saw Wang Yue walking in, he smiled slightly: "Wang Qing, everyone said that the host would try to take off a layer of skin, but I look at you and you are still in good spirits!" ”

Huang Pan looked at Wang Yue's face when he came in, and he couldn't help but look at Wang Yue more.

"Your Majesty, compared with the life of the military, presiding over the examination is not a chore, and those who say that they are bitter must be hypocritical!" Wang Yue is a person who has really suffered hardships, and he responded very easily.

This......

Liu Jin, who followed in, was slightly stunned at first, and then looked at Wang Yue with complicated eyes.

The examiners who presided over the examination kept shouting that they were tired, as if they wanted half his life, but when they came to this Wang Yushi, they actually said this argument.

Once this matter spreads, it will definitely make those ministers unable to hang their faces, this one is really a noble minister who doesn't give any face at all!

Zhu Youzhu could see that Wang Yue was telling the truth, so he nodded lightly: "I have no military experience, but I also know something from the history books, I remember that Wang Qing also wrote a poem called "Self-Song", sighing that Confucian officials worship generals, it is easy to talk about soldiers and difficult to use soldiers, only the world is bitter to recruit husbands, what is behind it?" ”

"Since Your Majesty remembers the poem, the minister is flattered, and the back is: The world is as cold as the border. The hair is blown into snow by the beard, and the heart is refined into a pill through the beacon fire. The court is as fair as the sun, and there is no shame in pitching and everywhere. Wang Yue was secretly moved in his heart, but also a little shocked, first expressed his position and then recited the poems behind.

Zhu Youzhi knew that if he wanted to create a prosperous world, he couldn't let the border generals chill, but he didn't want to talk about border defense today, so he changed his words: "Today should have let you go home to recuperate, but something happened during your presiding over the exam, so I need to let you know immediately!" ”

"Your Majesty, but is it a matter of Ma Shu?" When Wang Yue came, he had already listened to Liu Jin tell what had happened, so he went straight to the point.

Zhu Youzhu felt that Wang Yue was a person who really focused on doing things, and nodded lightly: "This matter involves my personal guards, and it is not suitable for the Criminal Department and the Shuntian Mansion to intervene, so I plan to ask your Metropolitan Procuratorate to thoroughly investigate this case." After checking that Ma Shu is just a chess piece, I want you to start from Ma Shu and find out the person behind the situation who has repeatedly disrupted the court! ”

"Your Majesty, dare to ask Your Majesty, but it has been seized?" Wang Yue knew that the emperor in front of him was never an empty shelf, even if he wanted to get an emotional report.

Zhu Youzhu found out that Wang Yue was a smart person who knew how to do things, so he deliberately sold a pass: "During Wang Qing's detention in Shuntian Gongyuan, I did conduct a secret investigation, do you know who I found?" ”

"Commander of the Jinyi Guard, Zhu Ji?" Wang Yue's heart moved slightly, and he boldly guessed.

Zhu Youzhu hesitated for a moment, and then gave a direct answer: "Yes, but it's not!" Zhu Ji is very cautious, and many things are handed over to his deputy Jinyi Wei Tongzhi Yang Han to do, this time it was not Zhu Ji's order to order Jinyi Baihu Ma Shu to arrest people, but Jinyiwei Tongzhi Yang Han verbally instructed! ”

"That's a good idea! Everything is done by the people below, as long as the people below do not testify against him, then he is theoretically absolutely safe! Wang Shu was a man who knew the art of war, and nodded thoughtfully.

Zhu Youzhu saw that the matter had been said, so he simply confessed his intention and said: "I not only want Zhu Ji's incriminating evidence, but also want to find out all his accomplices in Jinyiwei, I hope you can help me clean Jinyiwei!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know if he should say it or not!" Wang Yue hesitated for a moment, and then gave up his hand seriously.

Zhu Youzhu picked up the tea cup on the table, and said lightly: "But it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”

"Jinyiwei is His Majesty's first personal guard, some of them may be disloyal in their hearts, but they definitely will not have the idea of forming a party and plotting rebellion!" Although Wang Yue does not know the specific situation, he has a clear understanding of authenticity.

Zhu Youji's main dislike is that Zhu Ji and other Jinyi guards are too close to civil officials, but some words still can't be said directly: "Wang Qing misunderstood!" I don't suspect that Jinyiwei has formed a party to rebel, but I suspect that they have formed a party for personal gain, and have even participated in the political struggle! ”

"Did Your Majesty find something?" Only then did Wang Yue understand, and even if he asked seriously.

Zhu Youzhu took a sip of tea and revealed the information: "According to my latest investigation, Zhu Ji runs a pawnshop and a gambling house. After these years of investigation, it was found that some Jinyiwei often won money when they went to his gambling house, including the son of Yang Han, the commander of Jinyiwei! ”

"Your Majesty, how does the pawnshop make money?" Wang Yue's heart moved slightly, and he asked.

Zhu Youzhu glanced at Wang Yue deeply, but he said with the intention of investigating: "I can only reveal so much to you, and the rest is up to your Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate, I hope you can hand over a satisfactory answer!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Yue knew that the pressure had fallen on him, and he said bitterly.

Liu Jin looked at the background of leaving Wang Yue, but he knew that this year's court must not be peaceful.

Although looking at this little old man with polite qualities, Wang Yue's eyes will not deceive people, and the traitors in the court are probably really unsafe.

Now the emperor has given Wang Yue the Imperial Court and the newly established search hall, and Wang Yue can point the finger at Jinyiwei, which is destined to be a bloody storm.

(End of chapter)