Traveling through Chenghan Xiandi, fortunately I have a simulator

Chapter 162 The Exchange Between Xu Shu and Zhuge Jin

Later, Zhang Ming discussed with Jia Xu and Li Ru about farming in Hedong County. They knew very little about farming. After all, it was the first time Mintun appeared in this era.

Therefore, Jia Xu and Li Ru did not give any constructive opinions. As for dealing with the wealthy family in Hedong County, they also agreed with Huangfusong's opinion, after all, this matter cannot be rushed.

The time has come to mid-April, and Guanzhong has officially come to the spring planting time.

For the people in Guanzhong in this era, spring planting is an extremely important thing, because their annual harvest depends on the crops that are harvested once a year.

In order to encourage the people's enthusiasm for spring planting, Zhang Ming came to the field with a hoe and farm tools like some emperors in later generations and planted the field for a day. I have to say that farming in this era is really tiring, even if it is only a short day. Zhang Ming felt the hardship.

Although Zhang Ming's farming behavior is just for show, the effect it brings is extremely good. People heard that even the emperor has gone to the fields, and then think of what the court has done in the past few months. The next extremely important spring planting, they really felt that the emperor cared about the people.

Of course, although Zhang Ming’s farming was only for one day, the order to persuade farmers has never stopped. With the example of the emperor personally farming, coupled with the imperial court’s order to persuade farmers, the people all leave early and return late, especially many people have to shoulder The farmland of the peasants who are digging water canals has improved a lot of efficiency with new farm tools and plows, but for those common people, this year is actually even more tiring.

Looking at the harmonious environment inside and outside Chang'an City, Zhang Ming still feels a sense of accomplishment in his heart. Although he has done a lot of great things recently and consumed a lot of people's energy, the entire Chang'an City is under his management, orderly and orderly. Develop in a good direction.

According to the news from Zhu Jun, the spring planting in Hedong County has also started. Fortunately, Da Si Nong and Zhu Jun completed the farming project in time. Although they used a lot of troops, without these troops, there would be no farming business. Tuntian, then we can only wait for the next year.

Moreover, because Zhu Jun's army suppressed Pingyang County, the five nobles in the four nearby counties all put away their courage. As the most fierce group in Hedong County, they did not know that their plot had already been known by the court. .

As for the Patriarch of the Wang Family, he has gradually forgotten about instigating Suigu's rebellion in Shangjun, except that at the beginning he was worried that Suigu would fall into the hands of the court, and the court knew about their plot from Suigu, so they attacked them, but With the end of the war and no action from the imperial court, he was relieved.

Especially when Zhu Jun's army first arrived in Pingyang County, the Patriarch of the Wang family even linked up with the four patriarchs to prepare for resistance. Unfortunately, Zhu Jun only stationed troops here, but did not take any action. , naturally gave up.

Moreover, because Zhu Jun's army was stationed here, the nobles in all counties did not dare to harass the farming business in various places openly. found, and then took corresponding measures to resolve the impact of these small actions.

At the same time, many county magistrates, county lieutenants and others in Hedong County have been killed due to the chaos caused by the Baibo bandits, so the court sent some other county magistrates, county lieutenants, and at the same time recruited local guards and Jin Yiwei sent by the court, After the county magistrate and county lieutenant were changed, the imperial court did not have to worry about the connections between the officials and the local wealthy families for a short period of time.

In fact, the production capacity of the refugees in Hedong County is not as good as that of the farmers in the Sanfu area, but under the farming system, the refugees in Hedong County are more motivated, and their land area is larger. The most important thing is that these refugees only have to farm. , other things are done by the court, so even if it is a larger area of ​​cultivated land, these refugees can completely eat it.

Liang Yan, who is a typical farmer, also doubted the farming ability of these refugees at first, but as time went by, he saw the valuable characteristics of these refugees, that is, the cherishment of farmland and their love for farming.

The reason why these refugees became refugees was not simply because of war and cholera, but more because of land annexation. They may still have land a few years ago, but sometimes, when natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, food shortages, In order to survive, he had to sell the land to local wealthy families at a low price.

Some people became tenant farmers and made a living by farming for the rich. However, they worked so hard every year, and in the end they only had enough to survive, and the surplus food was handed over to the rich.

Even more people find it difficult to become tenant farmers. After all, although the rich family has money, their land area is also limited. In the eyes of the rich family, it is already an expression of the kindness of the rich family that one tenant farmer does the work of two farmers.

Therefore, after the riots of the Baibo bandits in Hedong County, the imperial court easily recruited a sufficient number of refugees.

Recently, Chang'an City has become more lively. The students who stayed in other counties have already packed up and returned to Chang'an. As for the students who have not arrived in Chang'an City, they have also accelerated their journey. After all, the Chang'an election will end two days before the registration.

"Your Majesty, the Young Mansion has been completed, do you want to go and have a look?" Cui Ming walked in with the memorial of the Young Mansion Order.

"Let the commander of the imperial army ask the Shaofu order to go and have a look, I won't go." Zhang Ming took the memorial from Cui Ming and glanced at it for a while.

"Yes, Your Majesty." After speaking, Cui Ming left the Gaomen Hall.

"Fazheng, Yang Xiu, Zhong Yu, Shi Sunmeng, Sima Yi, in a few days, you will accompany me to watch the Chang'an election. From now on, you will be a model for the world's students, so I hope you can do well in your future work." Good example." Zhang Ming walked into the other hall and said to the five people.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The five said at the same time, and none was more excited than Yang Xiu. It was his greatest appeal to show himself in front of the students all over the world.

Later, Zhang Ming called Yang Biao.

"Teacher, have you and the commander of the Imperial Army decided on all matters concerning the Chang'an general election?" Zhang Ming asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I have already made all the decisions, we just wait for the time to come." Yang Biao said seriously.

"Okay, for this Chang'an general election, I will give full power to the Taifu. I hope that the Taifu can satisfy me and the students all over the world. After all, this is the first Chang'an general election. I am young and do not have much experience, so please trouble the Taifu." Zhang Minglue Said apologetically.

"Your Majesty, this time in Chang'an General Election, I will do my best to satisfy His Majesty, all the officials, and the students all over the world." Yang Biao promised.

The general election in Chang'an has never been a trivial matter. This point can be clearly seen from the discussions in Chang'an City today. You must know that it has been a long time since the last time students from all over the world gathered in Kyoto.

Moreover, this kind of election method in the Chang'an general election has never appeared before. In the past, Taixue recruited students basically through local recommendation, recommendation letters and other methods. Although there are many Taixue students, there is not much competition among them. Not even much communication.

But this time is different. There is competition in the general election in Chang'an. Only 2000 people can successfully enter the Taixue and enjoy the education of the Taixue. The rest can only accept the result of losing the election, and then go back in despair .

For the Chang'an general election exam, students from aristocratic families even learned from each other. This was actually not common in the past, because many students were very stubborn, and the phenomenon of ignoring literati was also very serious, which led to various tensions among students. Cliques, this phenomenon is not conducive to the dissemination of knowledge.

There are even some students who have never dabbled in the knowledge of policy theory in the past, and now they have to learn a thing or two, after all, no one knows what will appear in the test questions.

The test papers for this Chang’an general election have already been drawn up, and are currently being completed by the guards in the palace. A total of [-] copies of the test questions have been printed this time, thanks to papermaking and printing, but these two technologies are currently None of them have been spread out, and they are only used in the palace.

These guards are all fed and lodging in the palace, and they are not allowed to go out. As for the author of the question, the Sangong Jiuqing, naturally they cannot be locked up, but it is not a problem to keep them from publicizing.

The day before the general election in Chang'an, all the students from other counties came to Chang'an City. Now the price of wine shops in Chang'an City is ridiculously high, and the owner of the wine shop, Zhuo Yun, is also earning a lot of money. He also took [-]% of the profits to hit In the firm.

Xu Shu has been struggling to study recently. He heard that someone is secretly selling exam questions at a high price. A poor student like him must not be able to afford them.

It stands to reason that the students living in the free reception are poor students, and they shouldn't have any thoughts about these exam questions. After all, even if someone with connections can get the exam questions, it's not for them.

But Xu Shu heard that on the last day before the exam, these people actually sold them at the free reception under the banner of selling cheaply. Also bought a copy.

"Yuan Zhi, do you want to take a look together?" Zhuge Jin said with a smile.

"Ziyu, you are really interesting. The Zhuge family is also a big family. Why do you still believe in these things?" Xu Shu took the test paper and glanced at it.

"Actually, I've always been puzzled. As a student of an aristocratic family, Ziyu shouldn't live in a restaurant. How could he live here?" Xu Shu threw the test paper aside.

"If you don't come here, how could you meet brother Yuanzhi?" Zhuge Jin said with a smile.

It is also interesting to say that Xu Shu in history would meet Zhuge Liang two years later and form an irreversible friend. However, now that the imperial court ordered Xu Shu to come to Chang'an, he happened to meet Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin.

"Don't make fun of me as a brother. From my point of view, the talent of a brother doesn't need to read this kind of small test paper to be selected." Xu Shu joked.

"I think brother, you don't seem to need to read this kind of small test paper for your talents, but you didn't read it just now." Zhuge Jin laughed.

For Zhuge Jin, this is just a fun thing, he is still willing to buy a trail test paper, anyway, the Zhuge family is not short of money.

"However, I see that many people living here really believed in the content of this trail test paper. It's interesting to see that they are all ready." Zhuge Jin said with emotion.

There is a difference between students. Xu Shu and Zhuge Jin are all like Xueba. Although they live in the free reception room and are not discovered by others, their talents are far ahead of Chang'an students. Naturally, the trail test paper doesn't matter.

But most of the students here are from poor families, and they have only been exposed to a few Confucian classics since they were young. Whether it is the breadth or depth of knowledge, they are only at the level of scumbags. These people are more just here to try their luck. After all Free food and lodging here, if you can enter Taixue, you can continue to be free, which is equivalent to directly eating imperial food.

This is also the reason why poor students from all over the world are willing to take a gamble. Even the Lucai Academy where Xu Shu is located charges a fee.

"But brother Ziyu, you still haven't told me the reason why you live in the free reception." Xu Shu still asked relentlessly.

"It's a secret." Zhuge Jin laughed.

"By the way, brother Yuanzhi, what's your number plate?" Zhuge Jin asked.

"No. 30, Second District, Second Square." Xu Shu replied, "Brother Ziyu, what about you?"

"No. 25, Wufang, Fifth District." Zhuge Jin replied.

For all the students, the Chang'an General Election is unfamiliar, and they have never been exposed to this kind of examination method.

In the announcement a few days ago, it was clearly stated that the test location this time is in Dongxiang. The test starts at [-]:[-] in the morning and ends at [-]:[-] pm, and lasts for an hour and a half. .

In the announcement, all students will receive a number plate. This number plate is actually a seat. Of course, in order to prevent students from exchanging number plates, the Forbidden Army will record the correspondence between the number plate and the person’s name. At the same time, in order to prevent substitute exams, the name will be recorded later List the various characteristics of this person.

Although these measures cannot guarantee complete fairness and justice, they are already the best way Zhang Ming can think of. As for various guarantee measures, it is easy to implement them locally, but it is difficult to implement them in Chang'an City.

"Brother Ziyu, you said your majesty restarted Taixue, why did you make it so complicated?" Xu Shu asked.

"That's right, if it's the former Taixue, I can get in, but you may not be able to get in." Zhuge Jin laughed.

"This emperor is interesting." Xu Shu said with a smile.

"Let's go, let's go eat." Zhuge Jin pulled Xu Shu towards the free cafeteria.

Things like Xu Shu and Zhuge Jin are not uncommon. Many students have already established good friendships. Although these students come from various states and counties, they had no possibility of knowing each other in the past years, but now they come to Chang'an. They have the opportunity to make friends.

In particular, students from poor families live together every day, and the phenomenon of making friends is the most serious. In the past, students from poor families could only be attached to aristocratic and wealthy families to obtain official positions, so it is almost impossible for poor families to transform into wealthy families.

But it is different now. Students from poor families live together, eat together, have the opportunity to make friends, help each other, and exchange learning materials and experiences with each other. To a certain extent, they are saved from having to rely on wealthy families to survive.

(End of this chapter)