Xu Hong swallowed and spit with difficulty, and it was difficult to hide the jealousy in his eyes at this time.

Zhang Sui was promoted from an obscure Liaodong superintendent to the governor of the Ming Dynasty because of the return of a fat grass carp and a little military merit last year.

Although so many people present have a great chance to become the governor, it only took Zhang Sui a year to achieve it, and it was personally promoted by His Majesty, and this potential is already unparalleled.

It's just that he still doesn't understand, why Zhang Sui's grass carp can grow so big in a year, and where did he put that grass carp to feed last year?

Zhang Sui found that happiness came too suddenly, and immediately solemnly stepped forward to thank him: "Your Majesty is sincere, and the ministers are willing to do their best for Your Majesty and go to the soup for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

From an ordinary child of a military family, to a high-ranking governor in one fell swoop, even after experiencing all this, it feels like a dream.

Although the governor of Luzon does not have much real power, and it is simply different from the governor of Yingtian, he knows that this position is actually more responsible.

According to his analysis, the country's strategic focus will shift to the South Seas. Although he did not know how the emperor was going to lay out the South Seas, he, the governor of Luzon, could never be a fictitious one, and he would bear a very heavy strategic role.

Today's spring is bright, and the Tingchao Pavilion stands on the east side of the 800-acre Taiye Pond.

"I am not a harsh and ungrateful king, I hope you Aiqing will do your part! In my place, there should be rewards and punishments for meritorious deeds, as long as you can make meritorious contributions to the Ming Dynasty, I will never treat you badly! Zhu Youzhu slowly walked to the guardrail, soaking up the sunlight and encouraging the courtiers below.

Xu Hong and other officials had also realized that there was indeed a Ming Jun with clear rewards and punishments in front of them, and immediately expressed their attitude together: "Ministers remember!" ”

"Stand down!"

Zhu Youzhu glanced at it condescendingly, and then commanded lightly.

He knew that if an empire wanted to be truly strong, it must not only make good use of the courtiers below, but also constantly cultivate talents, after all, talents are the cornerstone of a country's prosperity.

After this test, Liu Cunye, Qian Fu and Jin Gui are all mediocre talents who are embarrassed to use, and the shrewd Jin Gui will only evolve into a politician with empty ambitions, but there are also practical talents such as Zhang Sui, Xu Hong, Yu Ming and Qian Sen in this department.

Supposedly, the governor of Luzon should be selected from among the senior officials, but after more than two years of governance, he knew that the old seniority was more than enough and not enough to pioneer.

Like Huang Fu, the former political envoy and envoy of Jiaozhi who served as an official in Jiaozhi for 19 years, it cannot be said that Huang Fu is not a good parent official, but he does not know the national mission he is carrying at all.

Zhu Youzhu knew that it was a risk for him to boldly use Zhang Sui, but with his reputation for handing over the situation in Luzon to Huang Fu and his ilk, it was better to choose to believe in Zhang Sui, who was bloody and sharp.

Luzon is not only an important step for the Ming Dynasty to move towards the South Seas, but also an important springboard for taking the initiative to attack the sea.

Zhang Sui and the others were fortunate to see the emperor who was covered in golden light, and they only dared to glance at it, and they bowed down and followed the little yellow door to leave.

The imperial examination, which was the most important way for the empire to cultivate talents.

Due to the connection between Enke and Zhengke, although a champion was just born last year, this year's champion has also begun to be conceived.

It's as if history has gone through a cycle!

Just when Zhang Sui and the other twelve people walked towards the Xiyuan Gate, they were greeted by twelve Xinke Gongshi, and the faces of these twelve Gongshi looked worried and excited.

Liu Cunye and the others saw these twelve high-spirited figures, but they knew that these juniors were here to participate in the small Chuanyu, and their hearts swelled with different reactions.

Liu Cunye and other frustrated people can't wait for time to come back, but when they face the exam questions of Xiaochuanyu, they can't be so reckless. Although the answer may not satisfy the emperor, at least keep the top ranking.

Zhang Sui and other proud people were more of an emotion at this time, as if they participated in the Xiaochuanlu yesterday, and they were lucky to be able to abide by their hearts when facing the topic of Xiaochuanyu.

The twelve seeded players didn't understand why Liu Cunye and the others appeared here together, so they immediately gave way and bowed to these seniors at the same time.

There is no such thing as an impermeable wall, and it's no secret that the subject of last year's Enko biography is no secret.

Just when those newcomers with extraordinary backgrounds were full of confidence, this year they did not choose last year's exam questions, but arranged twelve tables in front of Tingchao Pavilion with a test paper on them.

This is like a recruitment scene in later generations, and the first question of the exam is: On a night of lightning and thunder, a little prodigy asked his grandfather: Are there ghosts in this world? Grandpa said that there are no ghosts in the world, why do you ask this question? The little prodigy replied: I just heard what the nurse said. Grandpa's face suddenly changed greatly, and he asked the little prodigy to leave quickly, and there was no nurse in our family at all. The little prodigy ran into the room and found the nurse who was doing needlework and asked, "Who are you?" Grandpa said that there is no nurse in our family at all. The nurse said: Grandpa Ling has been dead for four years, have you seen your grandfather? The little boy let out a scream of fright. The neighbor who returned from drinking outside the house was suddenly startled: "Is this house haunted?" This house hasn't been inhabited for two years! ”。 If one of them is a ghost, who is?

Xiyuan Gate, Chang Feng led Jin Wuwei to guard it here, even as a royal prince, he was conscientious and sticking to his post.

Liu Cunye and the others walked out of it smoothly, but after experiencing the ups and downs of officialdom just now, everyone's expressions were different.

Zhang Sui was supposed to go to the front, but Liu Cunye and the three seemed to feel that they were Hanlin officials, and they still walked in the front.

Qian Fu, who had been holding his breath, finally couldn't help it, and as soon as he left the range of Xiyuan Gate, he complained: "The grass carp is raised in the bathtub, and you are all doing your best to take care of it, so why should you belittle the three of us, this is unfair!" ”

Liu Cunye and Jin Gui did not speak, but they agreed with Qian Fu's statement very much.

The three of them may not have done a good enough job, but this disposition did not convince them, and they even secretly hated the tyrant who controlled their glory and wealth.

Now, the three of them have gone from the incomparably noble Hanlin official to the local sesame official, Jin Gui is not even a sesame official, this kind of gap is not acceptable to ordinary people at all.

It is precisely like this, although the three of them can't change this result, they are ten thousand unconvinced.

"Injustice? You are still not convinced, don't you still understand what you are doing wrong? When Qian Sen, the head of the household department, heard this, he immediately said with disdain.

Zhang Sui and the others didn't want to ride on the heads of Qian Fu and the others, but they frowned at this moment, but they couldn't allow others to question the current saint.

Liu Cunye held his breath all the time, and defended himself with no anger: "What did we do wrong? We choose to keep the fish by our side is loyal, but the grass carp died due to the water and soil adaptation, and the sin is not degraded! ”

In his opinion, their choice last year was not wrong, but they can't be blamed for not being able to feed grass carp, and they shouldn't be degraded because of this matter.

"Did you think you might have a better way to deal with it?" Zhang Tai, the head of the Criminal Department, was already a forty-year-old middle-aged man, and he expressed his opinion very seriously at this time.

As soon as these words came out, they immediately aroused everyone's attention and confusion.

A better way to deal with it?

Xu Hong kept the grass carp in the pond of the money house, which was enough for the grass carp to survive happily, so he didn't have such irritability, so he turned his head to look at Zhang Tai in confusion.

Qian Fu saw Zhang Tai, who was much older than himself, but suddenly reacted: "Zhang Tai, I remember that you were kept in the footbath, why are you okay this time?" ”

Hey?

Xu Hong and the others suddenly reacted, if the bathtub can't support grass carp, then the footbath is even more useless, and they couldn't help but look at Zhang Tai, who is the oldest, in confusion.

"I guess it should be that when Zhang Tai and I saw that the grass carp was dying, I returned the grass carp directly back to the Taiye Pond, and Zhang Tai's fish chose to release it directly, so His Majesty did not hold us accountable!" The young man in a similar situation reacted and immediately expressed his opinion.

Qian Sen, the head of the household department, was good at summarizing and analyzing, and nodded thoughtfully: "This analysis is very reasonable, the reason why Your Majesty belittled Liu Zhuangyuan and the three is probably because they watched the grass carp die in the bath!" ”

They encountered similar situations, and because the two groups of people did things differently, they got different results.

Zhang Tai and the other three released or returned the grass carp without being convicted, but only punished the three Hanlin officials who allowed the grass carp to die, and the truth was revealed.

It's not that the emperor did it differently, but that Liu Cunye and the three of them took the blame for themselves.

Qian Fu realized that the root of the problem might be here, but still unwillingly defended: "It's just a grass carp, how much is it worth a few dollars?" I think this time it's clearly a big fuss, deliberately targeting the three of us! ”

"Is it just a grass carp? That's the fish that Your Majesty gave us to take care of! ”

"If you can't feed yourself, you can return it or let it go immediately, Your Majesty won't blame you, but what have you done?"

"It's not terrible to do something wrong, it's terrible that you choose to be wrong to the end, which is the real reason why Your Majesty belittles you!"

……

In the face of Qian Fu's light-hearted justification, Xu Hong and the others were also ignited, but they were no longer accustomed to this role model, so they found their own opinions.

If they didn't quite understand His Majesty's approach earlier, but now after some analysis, they realized that there was nothing wrong with His Majesty's handling of Qian Fu and the other three.

"Have you three ever thought that if this grass carp is a common people, do you still think that it is unfair to be degraded this time?" Zhang Sui, who had been silent, saw that the three of them were completely unaware of their mistakes, so he tortured the soul.

Others may just think that it is an inconsequential question, but the person who wrote the question is a rare Ming Jun in a century, and the essence of letting them raise grass carp is to test their ability to "take care" of the people.

The terrible thing about Liu Shouye and the three is not that they are incompetent, but that they don't have the courage to admit their mistakes, but they choose to make a mistake on the wrong path.

If the emperor entrusts this kind of person with a heavy responsibility, it will only harm the world in the end and become another scourge of China.

It can be seen that the emperor actually knows people and makes good use of them, even if Liu Cunye's articles are good, they are indeed not qualified candidates for prime minister.

"Let's become officials, isn't it the emperor who handed over the people to us?"

"If you can't do it, but you make a mistake and let the people below die, how can Your Majesty reuse you?"

"You three better go back and reflect! Your Majesty's degrading of the three of you is already merciful to you! ”

……

Xu Hong and others sorted out the logic of Zhu Youji's belittling of Qian Fu and others, and in the face of these three former high-ranking Hanlin Academy, they no longer seemed to be politely preaching.

Qian Fu suddenly looked like a deflated ball, and he also realized that he had indeed mishandled it, in fact, he had thought about releasing the animals at that time, but he still boiled the "people" by mistake.

Jin Gui was originally a politician who knew how to forbear, but at this moment, he couldn't hold back and said: "Is the life and death of the people important?" This is clearly an excuse, which dynasty and which generation is to love the people and protect the people as the indicator of the promotion of the ministers, it can only be said that we have met an unreasonable king! ”

In his concept, although many important ministers keep saying that they want to save the world, they serve only the emperor. As for their ministers, they only need to learn how to govern the world, and they should not be assessed at all whether they love the people.

Now because he can't take care of a grass carp, he belittles them, especially demotes him to the cangist ambassador of the ninth grade, but he is a hundred unconvinced.

"Now it seems that His Majesty is extremely wise to demote you to Ambassador Cang, a person like you is not worthy of being an official of the same dynasty as me at all!" Yu Ming, the head of the Ministry of Works, had a look of disgust written on his face, and he directly reprimanded angrily.

You......

Jin Guihe had suffered such humiliation, and immediately looked at Yu Ming with resentment.

"Jin Tanhua, I don't care what you think of the people! If you dare to do anything to oppress the people in the future, even if the local governor does not punish you, I will never sit idly by! Xu Hong knew that the person in front of him was a hypocrite, and he also found that he sternly admonished.

"Jin Tanhua, think twice before you act, otherwise don't blame me for not missing the friendship of the same year!" Qian Sen and other officials realized that Tanhualang in front of them was not a fellow believer, and they also issued a warning.

Jin Gui faced the stern warnings of these same years, and only then did he realize that he was no longer a promising Hanlin editor, but had been demoted to an insignificant ambassador.

"Falling red is not a ruthless thing, turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers! Liu Zhuangyuan, do a good job of being a local magistrate, this is an official position that can really care for the people! Zhang Sui remembered that he was a fellow villager with Liu Cunye, and when he left, he admonished the authentic.

Putting aside the importance of official positions, in fact, the emperor did not kill Liu Cunye and the three of them, and even gave Liu Cunye and Qian Fu a chance.

Liu Cunye still couldn't accept this gap, and responded angrily: "Zhang Sui, since the county is so good, why don't you ask Your Majesty to be a county?" ”

"This official is the sword of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty put me in Liaodong for training, and now it is more suitable to be the governor of Luzon!" Zhang Sui solemnly bowed his hand in the direction of Tingchao Pavilion, which seemed to be natural and authentic.

After this reshuffle, all the first-class and third-class scholars of the Hongzhi Dynasty fell, and Zhang Sui, the governor of Liaodong, became the most dazzling existence of Jiyou Enke.

While arguing here, the gears of fate were quietly running, and the new Kegongshi, who was listening to the answer in front of the Chao Pavilion, faced the last question: "There are mines overseas, millions of gold, and my people have found it, who does it belong to?" ”

(End of chapter)