The Red Mansion Is Like a Jade Gentleman

After visiting the teacher's seat, Lin Hai attended two gatherings of talented scholars.

To be honest, these gatherings of talented scholars are actually the rudiments of parties to a certain extent. Even if the saints teach gentlemen to be friends and not to be partisan, it is really rare for them to really not form a party.However, the party struggle in this dynasty is not considered serious, because it has only been a hundred years since the founding of the country, and the political resources are still sufficient to allocate, especially not long ago, the new emperor just succeeded to the throne, and a large number of officials were dismissed, but many positions were vacant.

Therefore, these scholars are very gentle now, especially those who have not entered the imperial court, have no conflicts of interests, and no differences in political opinions. Show it directly. On the surface, everyone is friendly. If you don't like someone, just stay away from him. If you want to take advantage of something verbally, it's fine, as long as you are not afraid of throwing stones at the time. Just your feet.

After waiting for Lin Hai to study hard at home for a few more days, the palace examination came as scheduled.

The location of the palace examination was in the palace, so Lin Hai got up early in the morning and drove to the gate of the palace in a carriage.

It wasn't too early or too late for Lin Hai to come. After a while, more and more Gongsheng gathered at the gate of the palace.After all the people arrived, the door of the palace slowly opened from the inside.

Five or six eunuchs came out from the inside, and the leading eunuch looked benevolent and friendly, standing in front of all the tribute students and said politely: "All tribute students, please come with the family, the palace has rules of the palace, you are not allowed to look around along the way, Shouting is not allowed."

After speaking, several eunuchs led the way and led the Gongsheng students into the palace.Lin Hai stepped into the palace with all the Gongsheng students, feeling a little dizzy.Although it's not like I haven't visited the Palace Museum before, but compared with the feeling of walking in the real palace, it's a thousand miles away.Quiet and solemn.It even made people feel a sense of oppression, a silence.

Along the way, the Gongsheng students saw countless guards in bright armor and full of energy.These guards have sharp eyes and extraordinary aura, which are obviously different from the guards patrolling the streets outside.

After walking for a while, I finally arrived at the examination room of the palace examination: Baohe Palace. I saw that the huge hall was filled with tables and chairs for the examination, and the distance between them was about ten feet.On the examination table, the names of all the tribute students were written.Everyone looked for their names and sat down.Lin Hai is No.3 in the front row.

Lin Hai glanced roughly at Gong Sheng present.There were no more than 300 people at most, and there were relevant officials and three assistant examiners standing beside them.The five assistant examiners have already taken their positions.

After a while, the emperor came in from the outside.All the candidates, together with the invigilating examiners, knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

After the emperor walked to the dragon chair and sat down, he raised his hand and said: "Everyone loves you and pays tribute to you!"

Thank you all.They all stood up.

After hearing a few words of encouragement from the emperor, he sat in his seat and waited for the paper to be issued.

At such a short time just now, out of etiquette, it was impossible for Lin Hai to raise his head to see what the Holy Majesty looked like. Therefore, the result of his gaze being level and even a little downward.I just saw a little black robe with a little golden color, and I couldn't help but curse in my heart. Sure enough, it was a lie to say on TV that the emperor wore that kind of golden court dress all year round.Which emperor can bear to wear that every day, not to mention the weight problem, the aesthetics are also tired, okay, don’t you think the color is dazzling?

The questions of the imperial examination were selected by the emperor, Lin Hai looked at the questions.Then frown.Not only Lin Hai frowned, but most of the candidates present also frowned.

The topic of the palace examination: Fengchao had a little financial problem recently.National tax collection is difficult.Let candidates speak freely about how to increase national tax revenue.

This topic is easy to say, but difficult to say.The easy part is that anyone can say a few main points, but the difficult part is that if you only talk about the big empty words, you will definitely not be able to please the emperor.If you criticize the current situation and speak harshly, you will offend many high officials.Moreover, regarding the issue of national taxation, among the many candidates, how many of them have an in-depth understanding of taxation issues?

Lin Hai was grinding the ink quietly while thinking.It is not very feasible to make a blockbuster with such a topic and say something shocking. The emperor cannot personally review the papers one by one among the [-] tributes.

What's more, the emperor learned the art of governing the country, stereotyped essays and so on, probably not many emperors or even princes are good at it. To put it bluntly, I guess even if the emperor chooses the wrong character, there is no taboo to avoid, the emperor Not necessarily visible.Therefore, according to the usual practice, eight reviewers will first circulate and evaluate the papers, and the ten papers with the most favorable comments will be selected before being sent to the imperial court, and then the emperor will determine the rankings.And with the method that the emperor always used, the eight examiners were naturally not of the same mind.

Although he will try No.3, if he wants to go the wrong way here to please the emperor, he may not be able to please the examiners. After all, although the eight examiners are not of the same mind, if their common interests are touched When the time comes, they will definitely join forces, and they will be dethroned if they can't say it, and they will fall into the top three. That's not worth the gain!

Therefore, it is necessary to think of an entry point, which can neither touch the interests of the examiners, but also please the emperor.But it is not so easy to have both fish and bear's paw, Lin Hai thought hard for a long time but still could not come up with an idea.

Suddenly Lin Hai's eyes lit up. To increase national tax revenue, the general answer is nothing more than increasing income and reducing expenditure, increasing tax items, and so on.However, these measures can only be effective for a while, and can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.Moreover, if there are more tax items to be added, the ordinary people will suffer again, and it will easily cause riots. Didn’t the previous dynasty overthrow it like this?Therefore, this method is generally not the last one, and generally the emperor with a bit of intelligence would not use this method.

But there is one thing that can be used. If it is written well, it will be a good work. The most important thing is that it does not touch the interests of important court officials. In the eyes of the emperor, such a statement is not empty talk, but very practical. possibility.

Lin Hai's method and simplicity is to encourage business.As long as commerce is developed, it will inevitably drive a local economy, which in turn can stimulate the development of agriculture.Of course, how to make business flourish requires a shrewd and capable official to implement it.Ji Yun also only explained the feasibility theoretically, without the actual operation process.

Of course, what the feudal society pursued was that the people depended on food, the country was based on the people, and agriculture was the most important part.Throughout the past dynasties, except for the Yuan Dynasty, all of them emphasized agriculture and despised business.Especially in a few dynasties, the status of merchants was extremely low.No matter how rich a businessman is, he can't wear silk when he goes out, he can only change into a rough shirt.The political status of merchants is still behind that of peasants.Of course, even in the Yuan Dynasty, which was heavy on commerce, they didn't know the real meaning of supporting commerce.It's just that the Yuan people supported the Semu people to do business and became a tool for the ruling class to make money.

A very important reason for the despise of merchants in ancient times is that merchants belonged to the floating population, and the household registration in ancient times was relatively fixed, otherwise it would be difficult to manage.The reform of the household registration system is still in a state of groping.

Therefore, Lin Hai only theoretically expounded that the tax revenue that merchants can bring to the country is actually far greater than the agricultural tax, and he did not dare to write anything about improving the status of merchants.Moreover, business was only mentioned a little bit. Lin Hai didn't intend to write the whole article on business at all. He just wrote about [-] characters briefly, and then began to write his real idea-maritime trade. customs duty.

There is no maritime ban in this dynasty, and its foreign policy is relatively open. Otherwise, maritime trade would not be so developed. In coastal provinces such as Guangdong and Fujian, foreigners often come here, and exchanges between the East and the West are actually quite frequent. of.There was even a Juzi from Suzhou who was actually a Christian.

The three elders of the Jiang family have been in charge of water transportation for decades. Although they are in Neihe, they still know more about maritime trade than people like Mr. Lin who have always been in the north.A few years ago, after the three old masters handed over the water transportation because of the seizure of the heir, they returned to Beijing to retire!Lin Hai once had the cheek to go to Jiangfu and asked him to talk about this matter.

Therefore, Lin Hai still has a little understanding of the maritime trade of this dynasty, as well as the prosperity and trade of coastal places such as Guangdong and Fujian.

Although the Feng Dynasty ended the war quickly, there were still Tartars in the north who kept harassing, and the west and south were not very peaceful, so neither Feng Taizu nor the first emperor paid much attention to the maritime trade.

The reason why Lin Hai thought of this is because the Lin family in Suzhou also has its own fleet to go to sea, and many of the western things in Lin Hai's family are from Suzhou, and they are sent over during the holidays.In addition, Lin Hai is not a real person from this world, so of course he understands the benefits of sea trade.

But even so, Lin Hai also dare not write more, because many families in the Jiang family set up ships to go to sea. Although Lin Hai proposed the concept of collecting customs duties, he did not write down the specific data on tax collection. Of course, the one who encouraged the emperor to do business , I dare not write about the royal business group!

It is just an analysis of the benefits of setting up customs duties to collect customs duties on the surface.For example, due to regional differences, the pursuit of things is different, and merchant ships can be formed to sell what they need.There are also silk and tea that have been famous since the Han Dynasty...

Borrowing ancient books and modern theories, celebrities' holy words, research on current events, and some useful experience from previous lives, combined with the current situation of the court, I finally finished this article. After the gift box was copied, I realized that most of the students around me He stopped writing, and secretly glanced at the direction of the golden dragon throne. The emperor seemed to have left.

At dusk, the winding work began.But in less than half an hour, the volume was finished.The emperor appeared again, and the students knelt down again. After leaving the hall, Lin Hai found that some students' shoulders were still shaking. Seeing this situation, he wondered if the hands holding the pens of these students were shaking when they answered the questions.

After leaving the palace gate, all the students greeted each other politely before leaving home.

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