"Huh? Li Qiao is the head of the case! ”

"This is Li Qiao's roll, right? Over the years, his articles have been posted in public. ”

"It must be his test paper, and he is the one at the head of the case this time!"

……

The candidates who were stealing the quacks in their hearts were stunned.

What?

Li Qiao is still the head of the case?!

They opened their eyes wide to see the yellow list, and the official who was responsible for pasting the yellow list on the left side happened to shoot the upper left corner of the yellow list on the wall.

With the departure of his hand, the word Li Qiao, who was in the first column, appeared in everyone's sight.

"It's really Li Qiao!"

"Sure enough, it's him!"

……

Li Qiao: "......"

He let out a long exhale.

Fortunately, his article this time hit the hearts of the prefect and the scholar.

After relaxing, he looked up to the names of the others.

The head of the case is listed separately.

Next is the name of the first-class candidate, and the candidate in this class is a student, and there are many benefits to entering the county to study.

Soon, he found the word Xu Ying, which was at the top of the first class.

Meng Yue is in fifth place in the first class.

Xu Ying and Meng Yue not only won the show, but they were also born in the show.

Li Qiao couldn't help but smile and turned her head to congratulate the two beside her.

But at this moment, the candidate standing at the front broke out with a huge exclamation.

"Look, Li Qiao's article has been posted!"

With this exclamation, many people rushed to the location of his volume, wanting to see how his article was written.

Meng Yue and Xu Ying were also very curious, and the two of them just roughly tasted the joy of being a talent in the exam, and then squeezed the paper with the crowd.

Li Qiao: "......"

He touched his nose and squeezed out of the crowd.

In this article, he really has no bottom in his heart, and the set of theories he summarized before is not suitable for this topic.

This topic may seem small, but it is actually very large, and there are many aspects that can be written.

If he wants to stand out from the crowd of 100 candidates, he has to find an angle that no one else can think of.

Therefore, he began by expressing his attitude, he believes that the advantages of building the canal outweigh the disadvantages.

However, the drawbacks should not be overlooked.

The answer he chose was that the pros outweighed the cons, but he devoted 90 percent of his entire article to the disadvantages of building canals.

The biggest drawback of building a canal is that it costs people and money.

Although the saint wants to cultivate, he can't make up his mind, why?

Because the saint is afraid that the people will lose money and arouse the anger of the people.

Therefore, in response to this drawback, he proposed some measures.

Repairing the canal is not an overnight thing, and this matter is not in a hurry, so you can save money first, save a piece of silver to repair a section, and save a piece of silver to repair a section.

As for how the imperial court saved money, the amount of silver spent on building the canal was astronomical, and it was not something that could be solved by a food business.

Of course, vermicelli may be possible, but part of the profits from vermicelli go to farmers, some to merchants, and some to him.

It was too scattered, and even if he was willing to donate his share, it would not be enough to support the construction of the canal.

But he couldn't think of a second business that could be as lucrative as vermicelli for a while, so he thought of another way.

After the canal was built, the Cao Yun Festival was very developed, and many wharves and even towns would rise along the way.

This is an extremely large opportunity.

So, he thought it would be better to plan these docks or towns first, and then let people bid.

Whichever merchant has more money, then after the canal is repaired, he can choose a wharf to buy land and build a house or do other things.

This part of Li Qiao wrote very roughly, after all, he was only a twenty-one-year-old farmer who had never left Hexi Mansion at this time.

If you use this method to raise money, then maybe you won't waste money and money.

If you don't waste money and money, then the biggest drawback of building a canal will be gone.

However, after the canal is repaired, there will also be some drawbacks.

The canal should run through the north and south, and after the canal is repaired, it will definitely not only transport grain, which will cause a waste of resources.

Moreover, some people will definitely engage in smuggling and carrying smuggled goods on grain ships.

It's dangerous, and if the ship is overweight, it will sink the ship.

Therefore, he felt that the imperial court could issue some laws and regulations, so that merchants could transport goods through the canal in a bright manner, and the imperial court would collect the corresponding commercial taxes.

Such a canal connecting the north and the south, once merchants are allowed to transport goods, it will inevitably bring huge economic benefits, and countless people will live by transport.

When it comes to money and survival, there are many related ills.

The high-level officials at the top are corrupt and pervert the law, the middle-level officials set up checkpoints to exploit themselves, and the shipwrights at the lower levels will definitely organize themselves against the officials for their own interests.

Moreover, some people who have been exploited too hard may rise up.

In short, if it is not well managed, it is the people at the bottom who suffer.

The people at the bottom are cornered, either die in silence or fight their way out.

In addition, there are a series of troubles in repairing the canal, such as the silting up of the river for various reasons, which has to be cleaned up manually, which is a large expense......

In short, in this article, he mainly talked about the disadvantages of the construction of the Grand Canal, and the disadvantages before and after the construction were all mentioned, and the disadvantages were all mentioned, which was very comprehensive.

At the end of the article, he wrote about the benefits of building the Grand Canal, although there were many disadvantages, but there were also many benefits, so he felt that the advantages of building the Grand Canal outweighed the disadvantages.

Li Qiao was reluctant to disclose the content of the article to others before, because he felt that his article might have been written off.

He advocated that the pros outweigh the disadvantages, and as a result, he wrote all over the disadvantages, and he was worried that this article would not scratch the itch of the prefect and the academic administration, so he would not be able to get the head of the case.

Since you can't get the head of the case, then don't let others know about this article.

But unexpectedly, the prefect and the Xuezheng still named him as the head of the case.

I don't know if these two adults really like his article, or if it's for the sake of the saint's face......

Tao Zhu had already heard everyone's exclamations, and he was relieved to confirm that Li Qiao was indeed the head of the case this time.

Seeing that Li Qiao squeezed out of the crowd, he hurriedly walked towards Li Qiao.

When he came to Li Qiao, he saw that Li Qiao's expression was calm and there was no joy on his face, so he said: "I think you wrote very well, and you deserve to be the head of the case." ”

Li Qiao smiled when she heard this: "You are the head of the case in the eyes of the husband." ”

"No, even if I'm not your husband, I think you're good at writing. You are for the sake of Dasheng and for the good of the people. Tao Zhu shook his head slightly.

This person's article focuses on the shortcomings, not in case the canal is really built, then this article is tantamount to a wake-up call to the saint.

Although the man was soft-spoken, this man still wrote so.

This man hoped that the benefits of the canal would far outweigh the disadvantages, and that the people would not suffer.

With this heart alone, he felt that this article was a well-deserved number one.

Li Qiao: "......"

He was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help grabbing Tao Zhu's hand: "Brother Zhu understands me." ”

Tao Zhu smiled: "So don't be weak-hearted, you are worthy of this case." ”

"Hmm." Li Qian nodded.

He himself has a clear conscience.

As he sat in the exam room, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but he finally chose to write so.

He wanted to write like this.

As for how other candidates think of him, he doesn't care if his brain grows in someone else's head and his mouth grows on someone else's head.

As long as he doesn't curse him and Tao Zhu on the street like those two outsiders, then he won't care.

At this time, Li Ershan Li Xia, Huang Youming's father and son, Bai Yu Li Dazhong, and Shen Hua all came to Li Qiao, and they all said hello to Li Qiao.

It's the case again!

Even in the middle of the three yuan, this honor really fell on Li Qiao.

The Xu family rushed to the crowd and was overjoyed, Xu Ying was also admitted to the show!

But Xu Ying couldn't take care of his family at this time, he and Meng Yue stood in front of Li Qiao's scroll, read it three times in a row, and tasted it carefully for a while, before squeezing out of the crowd.

Xu Ying was stopped by her own family, so Meng Yue walked to Li Qiao alone.

Meng Yue's face was full of admiration: "Brother Li, whether it is the way to save money, or for the sake of the court and the people, I admire the five-body throw, absolutely, your article can be used as a model again." ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Li Qiao was very modest: "It's also a trick." ”

"What's the trick about that? As far as you wrote, I didn't know that canals could have so many ills until I saw your article. ”

The drawbacks that Meng Yue thought of were that it was hard to maintain and work, so he focused on these two items.

All he knew about the canal came from books, but his family often dug the river when they were in the conscription.

So he analyzed the shortcomings of the canal from his own point of view, he was most worried that the court would not have money and then squeeze the people, he was afraid that the court would raise taxes, and he was afraid that his own family would be affected.