[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

On March [-]th in the sixth year of Qianyuan, Xinke Scholars, like the previous one, were able to conduct palace examinations in the majestic Zichen Hall of Daming Palace.

This is the place where scholars all over the world dream of coming, and at this moment, although the Xinke Jinshi are excited, they still behave well.

This year's 260 six Jinshi were kneeling respectfully in front of the case with only socks on, writing hard.

The palace examination is no different from the general examination in the Gongyuan, it only lasts for one day, and the emperor will appear in front of the scholars at that time!

Jia Huan was the youngest, a 14-year-old child was not tall enough, and an elderly man also had a gray beard. In this life, he might retire as a county magistrate and return home after a few years.Many poor scholars lived their whole lives like this, studying hard in the front half of their bodies, and reading and bearded and graying, and retired as officials for a few years, and this is still good. More people spent their entire lives as scholars, such as Xing Xiuyan's grandfather.

Compared with them, Jia Huan had too much advantage. Since the list was released three days ago, he was a Jinshi in high school, and the house was in turmoil, so he was completely elated.But those people in Jiaojia's mansion, including Jia's mother who only regards Jia Baoyu as an eyeball, yesterday you ignored me, today I will make you unable to climb up.

Jia Baoyu folded an osmanthus flower from the garden in the mansion for her and put it in the room. It was pure filial piety. Jia Baoyu's pure filial piety was really cheap, so let him always show her pure filial piety by her side like this.

The topic of today's palace examination was Yan Chaoting's paralysis, the chief examiner Zhang Boyan personally invigilated the examination, and declared that the person who spoke was innocent.

Although Jia Huan worked in an advertising company in modern times, he didn't study design and art in college, and his entry into the industry was entirely developed in the university's mixed clubs.Later, when he was working, his senior introduced him to a big city and joined his first company.He studied marketing, and he had dabbled in a lot of books on economics. He had the opportunity to go abroad to study in graduate school, so he gnawed at the materials for this, but later heard that his mother in his hometown was seriously ill and could no longer work in the fields, so he also gave up the idea of ​​going abroad.

Jia Huan thought to himself at this moment, he is already a Jinshi anyway, if he doesn't take a gamble at this time, when will he wait?He started from the root of the land problem, leading to why there was a land annexation, including the root cause of the Jiangnan case.

People are all looking for safety and security, and the thing that can guarantee the best interests in the world now is land.If there were more profitable industries in the world, people's money would not be scrambling for land.Based on the analysis of the classic case of "The Wealth of Nations", social division of labor will not absolutely reduce agricultural output, but increase the production efficiency of each line to increase the overall wealth of the country.Coupled with the fact that sweet potatoes have been popularized for several years now, and the grain has been greatly improved, it will not be necessary to tie so many people to the land in the future.

If Daxing industrial manufacturing can generate higher income from the factory than the land, then all the money of the rich will not flow to the land, farmers will not lose their land, and there will be no refugees.The collection of taxes from industry and commerce is like the supplement of taxation from salt and iron income.

Jia Huan wrote it eloquently, but it turned out to be half-literate, and he polished it up, checked the case, and still kept the half-literate.But if it is written as a complete classical Chinese stereotype, there are still many obscure points, and the speech is not the most transparent.

Zhang Boyan has always paid close attention to Jia Huan, the "little man", but this is the first time he has seen him, and he sighed secretly: this is too young!

Gan Luo worshiped as Shangqing at the age of 12, and there are such young talents in our dynasty, but is it a sign of great prosperity in our dynasty?

However, the appearance of the people related to Jia's mansion is needless to say. In Jia Huan's original book, it is said that they are wretched, but they are poorly treated and have a bad temperament.But thinking that Jia Zheng still has half the time to come to see Aunt Zhao, it can be seen that although Aunt Zhao was born as a slave, she looks very good and has a good mood.For a beautiful woman like Tanchun with handsome eyes and eyebrows, slender shoulders and thin neck, looking forward to the sky, Jia Huan would certainly not be ugly.He has the look of an adult, and after eight years of reading poetry and books, he has further polished his temperament.

By noon, the papers were closed with anonymity, and the Xinke Scholars were released to relieve their three emergencies, and then returned to the hall to give food.

Of course, the food was not very tasty for the Gaoliang disciples, but some Jinshi from poor families had wet eyes when they tasted the meal in the Daming Palace.

In fact, there was no precedent in this dynasty for eating in the Daming Palace during the imperial examination. This is just the "grace" of Tu Yuanyi.He wants to "treat" scholars favorably, and of course those senior officials who were born in imperial examinations will not object very much.And Tu Yuanyi did this in order to stop Wenchen's mouth that he valued martial arts over literature, and it was an attitude.

Jia Huan had endured hardships, but he had seen all kinds of dinners in modern times, and even though he was not favored in Jia's mansion after crossing, he had seen Jia Baoyu's prosperous life.

Therefore, being given a meal in the Zichen Palace was neither humble nor overbearing. Now that the papers were finished, he was in the mood to look at this year's scholars. Half of them were at least 35 years old, and all of them had renewed their beards.Although there are many children from poor families, but because they are all Juren, their life is not bitter, and it is still a bit cold in March, so they all wear big wool and cotton-padded robes.

Looking at the young ones, there are many handsome guys among them, at least in Jia Huan's eyes, they are much more handsome than Jia Baoyu's round-faced pussy.

Jia Huan looked to his left side, and saw a young man, who seemed to be under 20 years old, dressed in brocade clothes, luxurious and extraordinary, his temples were cut like knives, and his black hair was like ink. Looking at his profile, his straight nose turned out to be like He was carved out of a certain country's knife in the later generations, with thick black sword eyebrows, and his long eyelashes can be seen from the profile.

Jia Huan has always disapproved of Jia Baoyu being loved by girls, thinking that he is the beauty of pustules, but this person has such a profile that even he, a man, cannot envy him.

The man seemed to have noticed his gaze, and turned his head. Seeing his face, Jia Huan couldn't help sighing, there is such a superb and peerless handsome guy in the world!

He is different from the ordinary Jinshi who is tearful because of Jun's kindness. His star eyes are as bright as stars, as if they can shine into the bottom of people's hearts.He hooked the corners of his mouth towards him, nodded slightly in greeting, and Jia Huan couldn't help nodding.

Jia Huan saw this man looking at the table on the left again, but he was also a young man in his early twenties, another handsome guy, well dressed, he vaguely felt that he had a kind face, but he was sure he had never seen him before .

Naturally, Jia Huan didn't carefully read what the other 260 Jinshi looked like, and suddenly heard the loud announcement from the eunuch of His Royal Highness: "The emperor is here..."

The Jinshi present and all the invigilators temporarily transferred by the Imperial Academy stood up and lined up neatly, tidying up their clothes. China was the country that paid the most attention to clothes in ancient times, and it was even more extreme when it came to the Zichen Palace.

Not long after, I saw a tall and tall official with a purple robe and a purple robe entering the palace.

I only felt that the moment the emperor appeared on the stage, the coercion was heavy. Jia Huan thought about meeting the emperor countless times, and he would be appreciated and reused. He was even as prosperous as Wei Xiaobao.But he didn't expect that he would feel such an ethereal thing like "regal prestige" like the ancients, and his palms were a little wet.

The emperor stepped onto the high platform, swung his sleeves, and took his seat majestically. Everyone on the field, including the court officials who followed the emperor just now, all bowed down.

"The ministers/students see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live!!" The voice shook the entire Zichen Palace, and also shook Jia Huan's heart.

This is the power of the feudal emperor.

As an unofficial Jinshi, he still gave the big gift with his forehead on the back of his hand, but he heard a cold and deep man's voice: "Pingshen."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!!"

Everyone stood up, but they didn't dare to look up at "Tian Yan" casually, but heard the emperor ask the invigilator: "Zhang Aiqing, Wang Aiqing, what is the result of this year's examination papers?"

Jia Huan couldn't help but marvel at the efficiency of ancient times. The 260 papers written by the six Jinshi were convenient for the scholars to rest, and they were given food, but it took more than an hour for them to complete one examination.

Taifu Zhang Boyan is the chief examiner this year, and Wang Jin, a scholar of Jixian Hall, is the deputy chief examiner. Both of them are rare veterans left by Gao Zongqian.

A newly promoted bachelor like Lin Ruhai has too little qualifications to be the chief examiner of Chunwei, but Li Xun, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Cabinet University, is not able to, and officials of the official department of this dynasty are not allowed to be the chief examiner of Chunwei.

In fact, it also has the function of simple separation of powers to avoid suspicion. The imperial court is presided over by the Ministry of Officials in the promotion and evaluation of officials, and it is impossible to hand over the source to the Ministry of Officials.

Zhang Boyan came out and played: "My Majesty, the ministers and the ten great scholars have rushed to review the papers and select them, and the rankings have been ranked. Now the best 11 people's papers have been selected for the Holy Majesty to read personally, so that one can be selected. No. [-], No. [-], No. [-]."

The emperor was interested and asked, "Why are there 11 people?"

Zhang Boyan said: "One of the papers written by one of them is full of vernacular, and there are also reasons for what is said, but many views and knowledge, I have never heard of it. If it is about the beauty of the article, it is not as good as it is, but the minister often listens to the sages. In the way of writing, it is better to be well-reasoned, well-founded, meaningful, and practical, and less gorgeous and empty.”

The emperor asked him to submit the ten vaguely named papers and read them one by one. Since the topic was about the imperial court's maladministration, the Jinshi indeed had some novel ideas.When it comes to the top ten Scholars, they are all talented people in the country. A pedantic and fake pedant like Jia Zheng who knows nothing can't come here.

Seeing what he wanted, Tu Yuanyi was also very happy. This year's scientific examination is very different from the one in his previous life.In order to become an official, scholars all over the world will naturally try to figure out the direction of the court. Before Tu Yuanyi ascended the throne, he was in charge of the transfer department and the House of Internal Affairs.

When he saw the half-literal article, Tu Yuanyi also knew that it was Jia Huan's article, because some of the views were novel, but he had also heard Xing Xiuyan say it for a hundred years.But Xing Xiuyan had never written such a rigorous academic article, so it was refreshing to see it at this time.

Tu Yuanyi read one by one, but he didn't choose Jia Huan's paper to be among the top three, but selected three copies from the other papers.

"This sub-article is not as good in the end, and there are many crazy words in the words. I am selected as the first class. I am afraid that other Jinshi will not accept it. But I also feel that it has merits, so I will choose it as the second class biography."

As he said that, Tu Yuanyi uncovered the vague name, and it turned out that it was "Jia Huan of Jinling Mansion, fourteen years old". Tu Yuanyi turned over his face in a natural way, expressing his surprise that this was a 14-year-old boy's article and Insightful.