The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

The plaque of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was hung up, and the office of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was formally established.

After Li Wen handed over his work in the household department, he moved from the household department to work in the industry and commerce department.The yard in front of the government office has been tidied up. There is only a square table and a few chairs in the room, and there is a row of bookshelves next to it. This is where they work.

This department was planned and established by him alone, although there are only a few of them at present, and the personnel are not complete.However, Li Wen was quite proud of this, as if this was their child, even though the place was a little smaller, not quite what he had expected.

But even so, Li Wen was quite happy.

Shen Zijing and Su Yuan also officially entered the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and became members of it.

"How is it?" Li Wen stretched out his hand to touch Shen Zijing's arm, with a smile on his face, he stretched out his hand to the two of them, and said, "This is where we will fight from now on, and you are welcome to join us!"

"Very good." Shen Zijing put his hand on it, and Su Yuan also stretched out his hand when he saw this. "I'm glad you invited me and A Yuan over." It seemed as if the four of them were studying together and preparing for the exam together. , when I went to take the scientific examination.

After being separated for a long time, they walked back together.But now there is still one person missing, and the four of them are all together.

The three held hands together, and Li Wen shouted, "Let's work hard together!"

As young people, they all have a hard work in their hearts and want to make a career out of it.All good men want to make meritorious deeds. Rather than doing nothing all their lives, it is better to work hard. This is why Shen Zijing agreed to work with Li Wen without any hesitation at that time.

For Su Yuan, the place where Shen Zijing was was the place he was willing to go with.

Li Wen could see that there seemed to be something different between these two people, but he was too embarrassed to ask if the person concerned didn't mention it.Don't talk about others, doesn't he himself have his little secret?But does he want to find a time to take his man out to formally meet with good friends, have a meal, and introduce him to his friends?

But this matter is not in a hurry, there is always an opportunity, and they still have more important things to deal with now.

"Let's hold a small meeting first. Today is our first meeting. Every morning in the future, if everyone has time, let's hold a small meeting as much as possible to make a brief summary and plan." Li Wen asked people to sit down, and everyone had a brief meeting first.

"can."

Neither Shen Zijing nor Su Yuan had any objections, and the three sat down face to face.

"Come on, let's talk about our plans and ideas first. You can come up with any ideas you have. Let's start with me?" Seeing Shen Zijing and Su Yuan nodding, Li Wen continued, "Let me talk about the personnel arrangement first. We don't have many people here yet, but there are not many things to do.

We don't have enough manpower now, but we need to go out to deal with some things by ourselves, so what I mean is that Zijing and I are mainly responsible for the external affairs, and you are responsible for the internal affairs of the government office, A Yuan. Are you sure? question? "

This was also arranged in consideration of their personalities. He and Shen Zijing were more suitable to run outside, while Su Yuan stayed inside and dealt with internal affairs more suitable.

Shen Zijing is an extroverted person who likes to run outside. Compared to staying inside, he naturally prefers going outside.Seeing Li Wen looking at him, he nodded and said, "I'm fine."

Then only Su Yuan was left.

"I can do anything." Su Yuan said.

"Of course, the arrangement I'm talking about is only temporary. Will we always be just a few of us here?

There should be new people coming in in two days. If something happens then, we can make other arrangements. "Li Wen divided the work for everyone, he and Shen Zijing went about the external affairs, and temporarily handed over the internal affairs to Su Yuan.

Now that there is a government office to work, they can't have no one here, so they still have to leave one person to guard the place.

"Do you have anything to say?" Li Wen asked.

"I have nothing to say here." Shen Zijing looked at Su Yuan, who also shook his head, and there was nothing more to say.

"One more thing, I almost forgot to tell you."

"Ok?"

Not to mention that he almost forgot, Li Wen said, "That's right. Our Ministry of Commerce has been approved by the emperor, and it is a formal government agency in the imperial court, so our internal officials are all in the Ministry of Officials. record

... But for the two of you, I haven't prepared them for you yet. "

It's just that Li Wen hasn't filed Shen Zijing and Su Yuan with the Ministry of Officials for the time being, so they still belong to non-staff personnel, and non-staff personnel may lose some of the authority they can enjoy.

In fact, after Shen Zijing and Su Yuan passed the provincial examination, they already had the status of juren. Juren is qualified to send officials, but most of them are small officials who serve as clerical officials in the local area, which will have a great impact on future promotion. limit.However, it will be different if you pass the exam as a Juren, at least this status will be of great help in future promotions.

Both he and Lu Zhishu have passed the general examination and palace examination. One of them is the number one scholar and the other is Tanhua, but he chose to stay here in the capital, and Lu Zhishu applied to become an official in the local area.Sometimes Li Wen would also think that it would be great if Lu Zhishu stayed in the capital, at least he would have Lu Zhishu by his side to help him with whatever he wanted to do.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the two around me are not good, they must be very good!

"Aren't you still going to take the exam next year?... So I think you should wait until then to finish taking the science exam and make arrangements after you get your grades?" Li Wen made this matter clear to the two of them, of course Also ask them what they mean.

Because basically there will be no officials who have entered the establishment and go back to take the scientific examination. Isn’t the purpose of taking the imperial examination is to enter the court as an official, so since they have all entered the court as officials, why go back to take the scientific examination right?If that's the case, isn't it superfluous?

But in the long run, with the abilities of Shen Zijing and Su Yuan, there is a high probability that they will be admitted to Jinshi. Of course, it is better to get the qualification of Jinshi. In fact, this is equivalent to a diploma for later generations. It is still useful when necessary.

Of course, Li Wen told them his suggestion, and respected their own decision, "But this matter is not urgent, you can think about it... It's not a year or so." Anyway, as long as he is here, this He can still talk about the things inside, and there is always their place here.

Now that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has just been established, Li Wen dare not say what will happen in the future. At least for now, as long as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce operates well, these people will be veterans in the future, so it is not necessary to continue the exam. .But no one can guarantee what will happen in the future, and Li Wen can't guarantee it himself, so he won't give others such a guarantee.

"Ah Yuan and I will go back and discuss this matter." There was no rush on this matter, Shen Zijing didn't make a decision immediately, he looked at Su Yuan and said.

"Alright." Li Wen said.

In less than half an hour, the first regular meeting of their business department was simply finished. Li Wen asked Su Yuan to familiarize himself with the work first, sort out some internal documents of their business department, and keep them well for future records. Yong, "I have something to go out, Zijing, you can go with me, then A Yuan, I will leave this to you?"

"Okay." Su Yuan had no objection to this.

"If there is anything, you can deal with it... If you can't deal with it, you can send someone to send me a letter." He was only in those places, Li Wen explained to Su Yuan After a few words, he took Shen Zijing away.

Shen Zijing was smiling, it could be seen that he was happy to go outside.

Su Yuan, "...''

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At noon, Li Wen personally invited Cao Zhenqing and Cao Lao Hanlin out for tea, explained his intentions, and asked Cao Lao Hanlin if he would like to come to them.His face is too delicate, it's not easy to deceive people if you show it, so you still need to find someone to act as a facade, and if necessary, you can use it to bluff people. Of course, the words behind this should not be so straightforward, but tactful a little.

The reason why they went to Cao Lao Hanlin was that they were familiar with each other, and Li Wen felt that it was a waste of talent for Cao Zhenqing to stay in the Hanlin Academy for so many years.

"Hey, we are old acquaintances now, and I won't beat around the bush, lest you turn around and say that I lied to you, and when I go back next time, your house won't even let me in." Everyone is old acquaintances, and Li Wen doesn't even talk. Beat around the bush and ask directly.

"You kid, you always think of me if you have any good things."

Asked Li to ask about this kid's blessing, Cao Zhenqing took a lot of money to improve his pen. He works as a consultant for the newspaper office and has an extra income every month. It's not like there will be no rice in the pot.

Now there is no shortage of silver in the family, and the two grandchildren in the family can eat meat every day. From this point of view, Cao Zhenqing would like to thank Li Wen. This kid is very smart, and I don’t know why he thought of it. do so much

something comes out.

Cao Zhenqing might not believe someone else, but this kid came to invite him personally, Cao Zhenqing was actually a little moved, "I originally thought that I would stay in the Imperial Academy for the rest of my life, but I never thought about leaving the Imperial Academy. Yes. You kid came here today and asked me if I would like to leave the Imperial Academy and go to your place. I have to think about it carefully."

To be an official in the imperial court, you have to have connections in the back to have a chance to rise in value and sit in an important position.A person like him who has no backing and no ambition is more suitable to be in the Imperial Academy, so Cao Zhenqing just thought that it would be good to stay in the Imperial Academy and be a Hanlin, and he had no other thoughts.

Suddenly a kid came to him and asked him if he wanted to leave the Imperial Academy and go to the newly established commercial department. This really made him think about it.

"I don't know much about what you're doing, why don't you tell me first?" Cao Zhenqing doesn't discriminate against businessmen, but he doesn't understand business matters, so he might not be able to help if he goes there what a busy.

Li Wen briefly told Cao Hanlin about the affairs of the Commerce Department. After understanding Cao Hanlin's concerns, he touched his nose and dared not say that the old man would be the treasure of the government.

He knew that letting a person leave the place he was used to and go to another place would make people feel uneasy. He changed his method and said, "Why don't you come to us when you are free?" Go around there, take a look, and understand first?"

It is not necessary to rush to his side immediately.

Anyway, if there is anything that needs to be bluffed and can help, he just recruits the old Hanlin to work as a coolie, the kind that doesn't need to pay extra wages.

"All right." Cao Zhenqing laughed.