Farmhouse is so old

Song Chengyun, Liu Yuancong and a group of ten people have been waiting for the imperial examination in the capital after being admitted to Juren, and the other scholars thought the same way.

Shangjing City is not only prosperous, but there are also countless literati and scholars, as well as great Confucian officials.

The other scholars all thought that they had finally come to Shangjing, and there were people to take care of them, so why not stay in Shangjing for a few more days to exchange academic ideas with other talented scholars.

Maybe you will find your own opportunity in this star-studded Shangjing City.

They are all scholars, and their brains are not too stupid. They can think about it when they turn a corner. If you make more friends, you will have another way in the future. What's more, many of these talents are also children of big families.

As long as they are not playboys, there is no harm in making good friends with them, and if something happens in the future, they can also be on top.

So everyone discussed together and waited for the ten candidates to finish the imperial examination and go back together. Wouldn't it be more beautiful to return home if one or two passed the exam?

The idea is beautiful, and the reality is also beautiful. I didn't expect that four people won the palace examination this time, and there were the number one scholar and Tanhua among them!

This is something that everyone never expected, even Song Chengyun and Liu Yuancong were puzzled.I know best in my heart how I answered my academic examination paper.

It is more than enough than the top and the bottom is more than the bottom. Although I am sure that a Jinshi is no problem, but it is not possible to have such a high grade.

Moreover, there are so many children from big families who took the exam together. They were enlightened at the age of three, wrote poems at the age of five, and were able to take the exam at the age of ten. It makes no sense that their literature skills are worse than the two of them!

Not to mention these two people, the others passed the exams also strangely, and began to have self-doubt. Could it be that what they have learned on weekdays is not as good as the two people from the countryside?

In fact, what everyone does not know is that both Song Chengyun and Liu Yuancong were appointed by the emperor.And the important reason lies in Tang Qing.

In recent years, Tang Qing had exchanged private letters with the emperor, except for the emperor's cronies, no one knew about it.

The emperor has not been on the throne for many years, and 80.00% of the ministers and generals around him are controlled by the family, and the rest are scattered in various places as low-level officials.

When the emperor came down these years, the emperor gradually realized that he had more than enough energy but not enough energy. Many of his ideas and ambitions could not be implemented.

Whenever a reform is proposed, there will always be one or two ministers who will come out to point fingers, one is not allowed and the other is not allowed, and basically everyone in the court has interests involved, and there are very few people who come out to agree with the emperor.

They were all low-ranking officials, how could they get past those treacherous and cunning ministers, they were defeated in a few strokes.

Gradually, the emperor still felt very uncomfortable. He felt like a cow being led by the nose. The ministers in the court did what they asked, and lived like a puppet.

But no matter how upset you are, you can't cut off these old people who followed you to fight the country, let alone the wildfires that can't be burned out, and the spring breeze blows again.

As a qualified emperor, he would not do such lowly things.Now the court is too kind, it can't do this.

The way of an emperor pays attention to balance. Now that the wall is falling to one side, he must find something new to stand it up.

How to fill the court with fresh blood, the answer is the imperial examination, but there are also many relatives of these ministers in the imperial examination.Therefore, the emperor must be prudent and prudent when selecting talents.

At this time, Tang Qing appeared out of thin air. Although he could not be worshiped, the medicines he developed made his prestige as emperor even higher in the army.

It goes without saying how important military power is to an emperor, so Tang Qing is like the emperor's hidden leader, slowly pushing him to a higher place.

The most important thing is that Tang Qing loves money rather than power, and he has no family behind him. The emperor is happy to believe him.

For Liu Yuancong, Song Chengyun and others before the imperial examinations started, their backgrounds were put on the emperor's desk early.

If the emperor wants to cultivate a few of his cronies, he must choose from these people without family background, but he must not let the ministers of the court see the tricks.

That's why I chose Song Chengyun and Liu Yuancong who have the best literary talents.

Of course, Song Chengyun and Liu Yuancong didn't know these things. As for the other ministers in the court, they were also fooled. They had read the examination papers of Song Chengyun and Liu Yuancong, and they were indeed well written. Although they were not too embellished, they were very pragmatic.

The emperor has favored pragmatism for the past two years, and all the ministers in the court knew it well, thinking that the two of them might have been lucky enough to be favored by the emperor.

The minister, who has always been arrogant, did not believe that the two people from the mountains could do anything big, and it was nothing to worry about, so everyone ignored it.

There is a saying that says, the person who knows you best is your enemy.These ministers have been at ease for so long that they forgot that the dragon was still asleep on the dragon chair.

Self-righteous thinking that they know the emperor best, but forget that the emperor also knows them best, so I don't blame them for being blind.

Wenshui Town has produced ten Juren this year, four Scholars, and a No. [-] Scholar and Tanhua, which caused quite a stir in the capital.

The emperor attached great importance to the people who were about to be reused, and he did not hesitate to send his own dragon boat to send back these people from Wenshui Town who had come to Beijing for the exam.

So this morning, when Zhoushan Zhouhe and the others had just left the house to inform everywhere, the emperor's dragon boat landed on the wharf of Wenshui Town, which made the people in the town very happy.

As soon as the dragon boat appeared, the ships of various commercial firms had to give way, so the majestic dragon boat could be seen docked on the shore at the wharf of Wenshui Town, and the rest of the ships did not dare to approach.

Tang Qing was even more shocked when he heard the news. Sitting in the study with the emperor's letter in a daze, Zhou Qing made a decisive decision and invited the whole town to have a banquet. Close to the marina.

Let Li Wen inform Zhou Shan and Zhou He to entrust the child to Zhang Lan and the others, while he tidied up his clothes and went to entertain the guests himself.

Others were taken aback when they saw that Zhou Qing came out to entertain, but Zhou Qing was neither humble nor overbearing, well-founded, and acted like a child of everyone, and he gradually became more relaxed.

In order to avoid the people coming to make trouble, Zhou Qing also sent people to the yamen to specially invite the yamen servants to come over to maintain order. Now Liu Shikang is only following Tang Qing's lead. After receiving Zhou Qing's notice, he immediately brought a group of brothers over to support the scene.

After the prefect Lu sent someone to announce the good news, he also came to the Qingyuan Building in well-dressed clothes to celebrate. A champion and a flower will have a bright future in the future.

Under Zhou Qing's arrangement, the people in Wenshui Town were busy in an orderly manner, and did not make any noise. Liu Shikang and others arrested some troublemakers and threw them in prison. Let them be quiet for a few days.

"Third Uncle, the few of us simply can't cook so many dishes." Zhou Chuan was anxiously looking for Zhou Qing to talk to, holding a large kitchen knife in one hand and vegetables in the other.

Zhou Qing saw that the Qingyuan building was full of people, and even the street outside was filled with tables that could not go down to a hundred tables, and the line was still growing, and people on both sides of the street closed their stalls early , just wait for Zhou Qing to call to open the table.

There are so many people, just Zhou Chuan and the three of them, they can't do it even if they are exhausted.

After Zhou Qing bowed his head and thought for a while, he arranged: "You find someone to bring the cooks and their apprentices in the town to help. In the name of your third uncle, they will not stop coming."

"Then I'll borrow more copper pots, put a charcoal fire under them, we'll make hot pot, the three of you will be in charge of frying the ingredients, and the rest will help chop the vegetables." Zhou Qing said with dry mouth, stopped to swallow, and licked With dry lips, he continued.

"It's not enough just to have hot pot. You can make some side dishes and put them aside. It's like a buffet."

As Zhou Qing blurted out ideas one after another, Zhou Chuan looked at him a little differently, yes, why didn't he think of making hot pot.

Now that autumn has passed, it is a good time to cool down, and there is nothing better than eating hot pot.Moreover, apart from the bottom material, other things are easy to handle, and it is not afraid that they will learn the craft if they ask someone to help.

They cut up the vegetables and put them aside, the table is not enough to serve them by themselves, like a buffet, it is convenient and trouble-free, otherwise they would not be able to make hundreds of tables or thousands of tables just because they were exhausted from cooking.

"It's still third uncle, you have another way." After Zhou Chuan sincerely thanked Zhou Qing, he went to make arrangements.

Zhou Qing's heart was not relaxed, and his eyes looked outside the Qingyuan Building from time to time, looking for something in the crowd.

As soon as Tang Qing learned of Song Chengyun's and Liu Yuancong's exam results, he guessed what the emperor was thinking.Taking the letter written by the emperor to him, and combining it with the clues in Ziyu's letter, it is self-evident.

"That's true!" Tang Qing held the clues that he had just extracted in his heart, and his eyes were clear.

"Sure enough, the emperor's heart is not something that can be guessed by idlers. Who would have thought that the emperor would start planning for this imperial examination two years ago?"

Tang Qing held the paper tightly, and burned them all with a torch.Now he can be regarded as a grasshopper standing on the same rope with the emperor. The emperor is good, and the people around him are good!

What's more, the ministers of the DPRK and China would never have thought that there was a person like him hiding in the dark, so they had to win this "battle for power" and there was no way out!

In fact, this is also good, and it can promote some capable and pragmatic officials from the people, instead of letting some people who don't know the grain to become officials.

No matter how well written the article is, if it cannot make the common people eat and wear warm, it is nothing more than a living bag. On the contrary, a person with mediocre writing skills but capable of doing a good job is considered a real gentleman!

The Ming Dynasty seems to be stable and prosperous now, but the people are actually poor. The frontiers are constantly being harassed by outsiders. They cannot cultivate themselves internally, and they cannot calm down the chaotic enemies externally. Sooner or later it will be cold.

When he first came to Wenshui Town, everyone's life was not good. Now under his leadership, it can be regarded as a stable life, but what about outside Wenshui Town?

There are many people who can't eat enough to eat. When will those people meet a person like him?So for these suffering people, there must be reform.

If it failed in the end, it would be a big deal for him to take Zhou Qing and his family to hide in the space, and wait for the calm outside before coming out to live.

Tang Qing is not afraid because no matter what, he still has space as a way out, and with space, everything is fine.

Under the secret passage in the study, after Tang Qing destroyed the evidence he had sorted out, he went out of the secret passage, changed into lighter clothes and walked towards the pier.

Zhou Qing stood at the gate of Qingyuan Building to welcome the congratulatory people, but the corners of his eyes kept moving back and forth among the crowd. It was not until Tang Qing came out in light clothes that a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.