Recording things to join the army, also known as Dalu and Ducao, oversees the justice and discipline inspection of a state.

In addition, he assists the state magistrate in obtaining the family register tax book. Together with other departments, it is also in charge of the grain yard (military salaries) and the military treasury (military supplies).

The real power is the shogunate, and he manages a lot of things, and he can even intervene in the imperial examination.

Tu Hongyu is a member of the army in Yangzhou, a jinshi who was rolled out of Jiangxi, and it is needless to say that he has historical knowledge.

After correcting dozens of papers in a row, Tu Hongyu felt that it was not interesting, and the overall academic level of Yangzhou scholars was too low. In this way, if you put it in Jiangxi, you will be hanged, and at most one or two of those hundreds of people will be lifted.

Picking up the teacup, Tu Hongyu took a sip of green tea.

This thing has become popular in Yamen, at first it was just an upward and downward effect vassal elegance, and gradually found that green tea is really very convenient.

It's in the government, it's just an office drink, don't talk about any gentleman.

In particular, the administrative officers and officials had a lot of writing work to do, and the group tea was too troublesome to drink, and the steamed loose tea was too astringent. The green tea is just right, brew a cup there, and let the handyman come and add water at any time.

After drinking it for a month or two, Tu Hongyu has become completely obsessed with green tea and began to dislike the group tea for not being fresh and natural enough.

"Tu Ducao, let's look at this volume." The manager joined the army and came over with the answer sheet.

Tu Hongyu said: "Put it down." ”

The manager who joined the army also managed the prison, and was on the same level as the secretary who joined the army in terms of justice. If the prisoner is not satisfied and "said above", the two magistrates will cross-examine each other and play a supervisory role with each other.

In addition, the manager also has the right to review the case that has been completed.

It can probably be understood in this way, the state judgment supervises and balances the state, the record of joining the army divides part of the financial power of the state judgment, the manager joins the army and divides part of the judicial power of the record and the army, and the governor has the right to assign the manager to join the army to do things.

Supervise at all levels, check and balance each other.

This kind of decentralization can be seen everywhere, and the higher the level, the more obvious it is.

Tu Hongyu took it and took a look: "I heard that the faint monarch may have a virtuous minister, but I have not heard that the British lord has promoted the adulterous appearance." The virtuous ministers are also one, and the traitors are different, and the habit of chasing the top is also. The sages have words, the monarch is straightforward, Pei Ju is loyal to the Sui and the Tang, and there is no change in his nature. When the king hears of his mistakes, he turns his loyalty into loyalty; When Jun Le hears his straightness, he turns his loyalty into loyalty. It is the expression of the ruler, the appearance of the minister, and the movement of the scene......"

The small essay for the local exam, the number of words is limited to two or three hundred words, and Zhu Ming cannot play freely, so he must go straight to the topic and write clearly.

He even quoted a passage from "Zizhi Tongjian", anyway, this thing has not been around for many years, and it is estimated that there are not many examiners who have read it carefully.

Tu Hongyu really didn't see the quoted part, and he read the case and praised: "This son is talented, quite good, and should be the first in all volumes!" ”

"I'm afraid that there is a suspicion of insinuating the official family." The manager joined the army and said.

Tu Hongyu pretended not to see it, and said: "This article only talks about the Sui and Tang Dynasties, focusing on Tianbao's treacherous appearance, and mentioning Pei Ju, how can it allude to today's saints?" Thou hast been overwhelmed. ”

"Indeed." The manager smiled when he joined the army.

Tu Hongyu is also a member of the New Party, an elder in his family, and he used to have a good relationship with Cai Jing.

In recent years, the new party has split, and Cai Jing has frantically excluded dissidents, regardless of the new party and the old party, and has been deposed for hindering him from taking power. Tu Hongyu was also implicated by his elders, hated Cai Jing to death in his heart, and even hated the emperor, Zhu Ming's article was written to his heart.

The article was chosen, and it is not known who wrote it for the time being.

At this time, the local examination is not divided into poetry rooms and easy rooms, anyway, whoever is better at the scriptures will go to the papers.

The papers of hundreds of people, a total of more than 10,000 small essays, were all corrected in less than ten days.

The chief officials of Zhu Cao took the scrolls and ran to find the governor and the state judge, and everyone dismantled the name together.

Zhizhou basically doesn't care about the affairs of the examination room, but occasionally participates. There are no clear regulations on invigilation, main examination, and marking, it may be that the governor and the state judge the main exam, and Cao Guan will invigilate the exam, or it may be the opposite, and they are also engaged in grading.

So casual, it's easy to cheat.

Yangzhou is not bad, it is difficult to get into the first place, and it is better to ask the examiner to escort it if it costs money to buy the examiner to cheat.

The real cheating is Jiangnan, there are too many promising middle jinshi, and the competition for the number of people is too fierce.

Cao officials used the Zhu scroll to find the ink scroll, and soon announced: "The title of the Analects, Bai Chongyan is the first!" ”

Then he announced: "The Analects question, Min Zishun is second!" ”

Zhu Ming only took the third exam in the Analects.

Yang Zhizhou compared the three-point volume and said: "Zhu Ming's article should be judged first, but it is a pity that the foundation of art making is still a little insufficient. ”

Li Tongju took it and nodded: "That's true, after all, it's still young." It's the first time I've been in the field, and it's rare to be able to write like this. ”

To put it bluntly, when Zhu Ming was writing scriptures and righteous texts, his ideological intention was higher than his ancient literary skills, and he did not perform very well in some places, and he had to practice writing small compositions more.

Yang Zhizhou said: "Let's be the third in his Analects." ”

Next, the volume of "Mencius" was dismantled, Min Zishun was the first, Zhu Ming was the second, and Bai Chongyan was the third.

It can only be said that the eight-strand essay is extremely effective, Bai Chongyan has solved the exam in previous years, and his results were outside the five or sixth, but now he can always rank in the top three.

In the imperial examination of the Song Dynasty, what was really important was the policy theory!

took apart all the policy papers, and Zhu Ming's three strategies and one theory were all rated first, thanks to his excellent keyboard skills.

Li Tongju drew a circle on Zhu Ming's name and said with emotion: "This Zhu Chenggong is worthy of being a scholar of the Eight Elements." This year, it may not be successful, but it will be able to be named on the gold list in a few years. ”

Yang Zhizhou smiled: "You are lucky to be his master." ”

Li Tongju said: "It's just a release test, where did you come from?" ”

In the Song Dynasty, people really didn't pay attention to the masters, otherwise they would have too many teachers.

Yang Zhizhou said: "There is still incense. ”

Yang Zhizhou has received an order, no longer talks about the imperial examination, and makes an appointment with Li Tongju to drink, and the rest of the matter is handed over to Cao Guan.

The ink scroll of the person who was lifted in the middle should be sealed and sent to the Ministry of Rites in the capital for preservation. The scrolls were kept in the local government's office, and a copy was taken out and posted.

The next day, the list was released.

Zheng Fatzi borrowed his father's carriage and drove Zhu Ming and Bai Chongyan straight to the Tribute Courtyard, and Zheng Yuanyi and his sister-in-law also went out together.

Outside the Gongyuan, there are a lot of lively people, but it is far less than the scene of people in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Sister of the Li family, sister of the Wang family, sister of the Min family......" Zheng Yuanyi waved to the female relatives in the distance.

Those female dependents all accompanied their husbands or brothers to see the list, and they were dressed up quite happily.

The women got together, and the men got together, each chatting about topics of interest to each other.

Several errand officers ran, and the crowd got out of the way.

There is only one list of lifters, with only eight names, which is already all the places in the three counties of Yangzhou.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, there were very few scholars, and the candidates were admitted according to the proportion.

Now it is the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and there are too many scholars, so they can only rely on quota admission.

Kaifeng Mansion has the largest number of lifting places, and the candidates there are all Tianlong people!

Eight names, the winner is clear at a glance.

Zheng Yuanyi shouted in surprise: "Brother Zhu is the first Xie Yuan!" ”

The ladies all looked at Zhu Ming, laughing and whispering.

They were very bold, and even those who were married formed groups to surround them, blocking Zhu Ming and asking all kinds of questions.

Do good men and women kiss or not?

Shouldn't a good woman show her face?

Zhu Ming could only keep doing things and deal with these women carefully, he was about to become a friend of Yangzhou women.

"Congratulations to Brother Chenggong!" Min Zishun smiled, feeling a little lost, he was the first in the previous sessions, but now he has become the second.

Zhu Ming replied: "Joy, joy." ”

The score of the policy essay was too serious, and Bai Chongyan only took the fifth exam. The third place is Ling Guxu, and the fourth place is a candidate named Wu Changxin.

The brothers Wang Chang and Wang Wei, who followed Chen Yuan's education, all fell off the list.

But Wang Chang's knowledge is higher, and the Wang family spent money to entrust the relationship, and the governor and the state judge jointly guaranteed him to be sent to Beijing to take the exam.

The officers also begged for some money, but did not slam the door.

If it is smashed once, the door of Min Zishun's house will have to be changed once in three years.

The common people just came to see the excitement, and no one gathered around to go home. Yangzhou has not been out of Jinshi for more than 20 years, and people have long been numb, and they don't think it's strange to lift people.

Zhu Ming, the first to solve the test, seems to have no limelight, and a group of female relatives favor him.

The officers also posted the articles on lifting people, and the scholars craned their necks to read them, nodding their heads from time to time to express their admiration.

After reading Zhu Ming's strategy, Ling Guxu came over and bowed: "Brother Chenggong's article is really wonderful, and I admire it so much!" ”

"It's easy to say," Zhu Ming arched his hand, "Brother Ling's strategy is also well written." ”

Ling Gu Xu's strategy is really good, he only ranked sixth in 30 scripture questions, but he relied on the strategy to pull the score test and the third place in the exam.

To be honest, Zhu Ming felt that Ling Guxu's actual talent was likely to far exceed that of Min Zishun, Bai Chongyan and others.

It's just that Ling Gu Xu is usually more boring and doesn't talk much, so he doesn't seem to be outstanding.

The rest of the scholars, whether they were in or not, also came over to talk after reading Zhu Ming's article.

Some people even copied it on the spot, planning to take it home for study.

"Bang bang bang!"

Bidding farewell to everyone, Zhu Ming and Bai Chongyan went back in the car, and the Zheng family crackled and set off firecrackers to celebrate them.

"Two good nephews, please go to the main gate." Zheng Lan came to greet him in person.

The old gentleman was very envious in his heart, how good it would be if these two young people were his own grandsons.

The Zheng family also has a lot of children and grandchildren, and they have been cultivating them with all their strength since they were young, so why can't they produce the seeds of reading?

After eating and drinking, Zheng Hong asked the servants to bring two brand-new cages for them to go to Beijing to take the fashion book exam and change clothes.

Zheng Yuanyi put his hands on his waist, and said with a smile: "This is personally selected by me, the two elder brothers will go to Tokyo on their backs, and they will definitely be able to enter high school!" ”

"Thank you, little lady!" Bai Chongyan arched his hand.

Zhu Ming said: "The appearance is very beautiful, my sister has a heart." ”

Zheng Yuanyi smiled even more happily: "I picked it for a long time, my brother likes it." ”

Today, the sun is very poisonous, and everyone sits in the shade of the trees and drinks tea.

"Meow!"

A female cat with a couple of kittens running over.

Zheng Yuanyi hugged it twice, and then let the cat play by itself.

Playing and playing, the mother cat took the kittens one by one, put them all at Zheng Yuanyi's feet, and then ran away by herself.

Zheng Yuanyi complained: "This raccoon slave is very lazy, he doesn't know how to raise his own children, and he always throws it in front of me." ”

Zhu Ming joked and popularized science: "The cat treats you as a family member, so let you help take care of the child." When you have a child one day, the cat will also help you bring it, it is very powerful. ”

"Really?" Zheng Yuanyi reacted suddenly, blushing and said, "I haven't gotten married yet, even if I have a child, I won't let the cat help watch it." ”

Zhu Ming picked up one casually and put it on his leg, the kitten still wanted to resist, stretched out his tender paws and scratched it, but it stopped when he turned over and pressed it.

Bai Chongyan has a lot of experience in rushing for the exam, and reminded: "When you go to Beijing, you can bring one or two slaves and let them go out with tea on their backs." The cars and boats of the post stations along the way can be free of charge with the post ticket, and when passing by the card, the card will not levy taxes on those cars and boats. But don't take too many slaves, two are best, and three will upset the postman. ”

"Understood." Zhu Ming nodded.

Lifting people to carry goods through the toll station can not enjoy the privilege of tax exemption, the real tax exemption is the post car ship.

This situation has changed somewhat in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the people from all walks of life in Sichuan and Shaanxi in the Southern Song Dynasty are really tax-free. At that time, it was crazy, and the people from Sichuan transported the whole ship to Jiangnan for sale, and even those who were in the grain business. Once he was admitted to the Sichuan and Shaanxi Juren, the businessmen rushed to cooperate, and they could make a lot of money 100%.

It's like now, at most, people bring one or two slaves and carry a small amount of light goods into Beijing.

It is also necessary for the eight immortals to cross the sea, each showing their magical powers, and all of them carry local specialties. This side of Yangzhou is tea, and there are brocade, silk sand and other things in other areas.

The lifting people in the south of the Yangtze River are more interesting, and they went to the Lianghuai salt field to buy private salt, and then transported the salt to the capital as a lifter.

There are a large number of people in the south of the Yangtze River, and every year of Jinshi, there is a large amount of private salt into Beijing, which makes the imperial court repeatedly reaffirm the order, requiring the people not to bring salt into Beijing for sale.

Bai Chongyan said: "My family's best group tea this year has not been sold for a pound. I saved it all up, and I was going to sell it in Tokyo, and I didn't pay taxes halfway, and I could earn two or three hundred yuan! ”

"Hahaha, Brother Juncai is going to do business." Zhu Ming laughed.

Bai Chongyan said: "It's just selling goods by the way, but the price of goods in Tokyo is too expensive. Eat a little better, at least 100 wen a day, and you can spend a few hundred wen. If you stay in Tokyo for a month, you will lose a few dozen dollars. If you are admitted to the Jinshi, the cost will be even greater, and before the distribution of the money, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the poor children to even eat. ”

Zhu Ming said: "Then I'll take some dried shiitake mushrooms to Tokyo, I'm afraid Junzi tea will not be easy to sell." ”

Bai Chongyan also said: "In the city of Tokyo, there are many streets where you can set up stalls, but those are the ones that are really good for business. Wake up early every day and choose a suitable place. Don't set up a stall in the middle of the street, I tried, and the business is not as good as the two ends of the street. There is something else to note......"

The two gentlemen who had just been promoted actually talked about business experience, and it was also the trick of setting up a stall.

Zheng Fatzi listened with envy next to him, only at this time, he would regret that he did not study well and missed the opportunity to make money by bringing goods into Beijing duty-free.

(End of chapter)