Daming: I have a showdown, my father-in-law is the emperor

Chapter 145 Guarding the Eunuch
In the south of Daming, Sanjiang County.

Sanjiang County is a small county located in the Huguang area, with a total population of just over [-].

At noon this day, the Sanjiang County Yamen.

The magistrate was carefully sitting beside him.

And sitting on the main seat in the lobby was a young eunuch with a white beard.

"Master Liu, you need to be more careful about recruiting students this time! The ancestors have already sent a letter to the Zha family, telling the Zha family to do a good job of supervision and avoid fraudulent activities."

After the young eunuch finished speaking, he snorted coldly, as a warning to Liu Zhixian.

Liu Zhixian was so frightened that he almost broke out in a cold sweat, and quickly promised respectfully:
"Eunuch Su, please don't worry, you have already confessed to the people below before you stepped down, and nothing dirty will happen."

Eunuch Su smiled coldly, "It's best like this."

The reason why Liuzhi County is so afraid of Eunuch Su is because Eunuch Su is the guardian eunuch of Wuchang Mansion, who is responsible for supervising local officials.

And Sanjiang County is just a small county under the jurisdiction of Wuchang Prefecture.

Therefore, the status of Liuzhi County is far from that of Duke Su.

If Eunuch Su is dissatisfied with him, he will lose his black hat if he handed over a booklet.

That's why Liu Zhixian bowed his head and bowed his head.

Eunuch Su came here today to supervise the enrollment situation of Sanjiang County.

He has received a letter from his ancestors, asking him to supervise the recruitment of officials from various places.

The ancestor that Eunuch Su mentioned just now is the great eunuch Wang Cheng'en.

Chen Fan attached great importance to the enrollment situation this time, so he asked Wang Chengen for help, and asked him to write a letter to inform the guarding eunuchs all over the country to supervise the enrollment work.

Chen Fan gave no more than three places to each county, and the number of people recruited would affect the bonus points for the political performance assessment of these county magistrates.

and so.

Chen Fan was afraid that the magistrates of these counties would just send three children to the capital for extra points.

Or it is to collect bribes from the common people and give places to the children of these bribers.

After all, the enrollment policy this time, the scholarship of ten taels of silver, and working as a government official after graduation, are extremely attractive to these ordinary people.

Therefore, Chen Fan was afraid that some common people would bribe the county magistrate and take up quotas that did not originally belong to their children.

Chen Fan has also learned about the virtues of officials in the late Ming Dynasty. Corruption was prevalent, and the price of bribery had been clearly and aboveboard.

The officials in the capital city are even better. After all, last time Chongzhen ransacked his house severely and cleaned out the black sheep of corruption.

But officials from other places in Ming Dynasty, Chen Fan didn't believe them from the bottom of his heart.

If they didn't cheat, the sun would come out in the west.

Not to mention, Chen Fan's worries were not superfluous at all.

Liu Zhixian of Sanjiang County was frowning at this moment, not because Mr. Su's presence made him restless, but because he was thinking about what to do with the thousands of taels of bribes he accepted?
After he spread the news of recruiting students, the people of Sanjiang County suddenly became overwhelmed.

Can there be such a good thing in the world?

Reading is not only free, but the court also gives money?
This is the first time the people in Sanjiang County have heard of such an unprecedented event.

therefore.

There are some people who have used their brains.

In the past two days, the threshold of Liuzhi's county mansion was almost broken.

There are too many people asking him to open the back door with money, and they all hope to send their children to the capital to study.

Even more extreme, a farmer who had been farming for half his life sold a few acres of his family's land, and then used the dozens of taels of silver to bribe Magistrate Liu, hoping that Magistrate Liu would be accommodating to his eldest son during the assessment. .

Normally, Liu Zhixian would have laughed from ear to ear when he saw these dozens of taels of silver.

But today, Liu Zhixian doesn't look down on him at all.

There are too many people giving him money, and these dozens of taels can't be lined up at all.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the merchants and horsemen in the county, I gave him 500 taels just for a quota.

Ma Yuanwai was not interested in the scholarship of ten taels of silver per year.

The main reason is that after graduation, he was arranged to work in the government as an errand, which gave Ma Yuanwai the hope of entering the gentry class.

Although Ma Yuanwai made some money through doing business.

But the social status is not high.

On the contrary, he is often abused by others, and he is a profiteer if he keeps his mouth shut.

There is no way, merchants are not welcome in Ming Dynasty.

It wasn't just Ming Dynasty. Throughout ancient times, the status of businessmen had always been very low.

The government and the court have also been sparing no effort to suppress merchants.

It can be seen from the four classes of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty that the status of merchants is lower than that of craftsmen.

The imperial court also promulgated many measures to restrict merchants. For example, descendants of merchants are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

Just this one ruled out the businessman's desire to enter the officialdom.

But now.

Ma Yuanwai saw the dawn, and he also read the conditions for enrollment.

Regardless of his origin, just this one thing made him excited.

Ma Yuanwai had a good plan and sent his son to study in the capital. After graduation, he came back and worked as an errand in the county government.

Although he is a small official, he can use the silver in his hand to pave the way for his son and become a powerful subordinate official in Sanjiang County.

In this way, after several years of management, the Ma family can become a powerful gentry in Sanjiang County.

Rather than being exploited and blackmailed by some villains like now, with no ability to fight back.

But what made Yuanwai Ma happy was that after Liu Zhixian received the money, although he did not agree to give his son a place, he revealed a few answers to the admissions test questions to him.

Ma Yuanwai looked at the three intelligence test questions and saw that he was in a daze.

These questions are so strange, he has never seen them before.

Even though Ma Yuanwai often dealt with arithmetic because of his business, it took him a long time to figure out the big cat and small cat problem about how many legs he had.

It made him doubt his life at that time.

Are such difficult questions really prepared for children under the age of 15?
Ma Yuanwai heard that there are ten questions in the intelligence test, and as long as you answer five of them correctly, you will pass and you can go to the capital to take the next test.

Yuanwai Ma doubted whether his son could answer the remaining two questions.

Just to be on the safe side.

Ma Yuanwai was willing to offer another 500 taels to buy the answers to the other two questions, but Liu Zhixian strongly disagreed.

Liu Zhixian also had his own considerations.

If I told you the answers to the five questions, and your son went to the capital to take the re-examination, but he couldn’t answer even one question in the re-examination, then he wouldn’t be revealing his truth. At that time, the court would probably punish him.

So, for the sake of his own future.

He is only willing to sell the answers to three questions. Whether you can answer the remaining two questions correctly depends on your son's own ability.

He has already given the opportunity, whether you can seize it depends on your son's ability.

In doing so, he takes less risk.

The children sent to the capital would not be just for nothing.

(End of this chapter)