An old lady's life

Only now did Hongye learn from Jia She what kind of danger Zhang Tao encountered in Jiangnan. Every year, the embankments in the Jiangnan area are heavily built, but most of the funds allocated by the treasury are not used. In practice, good-quality embankments are repaired every three years, while poor-quality embankments are repaired every year.Zhang Tao didn't want to be the target of public criticism, but the emperor looked at him and couldn't help him.

So his first step in going to the south of the Yangtze River was to inspect the embankments of important estuaries, and the second step was to check the accounts. Naturally, there was something tricky about it. The officials tried their best to buy Zhang Tao, but Zhang Tao didn't pay for it. Those officials have been in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and they are quite landlords. When they are fierce, killing people is just a matter of nodding their heads.

When Zhang Tao was inspecting the embankment of an estuary again, many bandits suddenly appeared. Zhang Tao was squeezed into the river on the embankment in a dangerous situation. He could swim and floated down the river, and he had to avoid people. He almost became a savage while hiding and hiding. When his subordinates found him, he was still having a high fever, and there were many wounds on his body, some of which were festered and inflamed.

This experience is really unforgettable for Zhang Tao. He has never experienced this kind of hardship in the previous 40 years.

After Zhang Tao inspected the embankments of very important estuaries in the Jiangnan area, he consulted local experienced people. Many experienced old people also told him that this year's weather is abnormal. Maybe there will be a big flood during the flood season. This embankment will definitely not stop it. live.For this reason, Zhang Tao was so worried that his hair almost fell out, but he wrote a letter to the emperor according to the details, writing in detail the current situation of these embankments, how much water impact they can withstand, and those that can be reinforced, he has already ordered. Day and night to repair without sleep, can not be reinforced, now it is too late to rebuild, so we have to find other ways to reduce the flow of the river.

Hongye murmured in his heart that Zhang Tao might not be able to return to the capital in a short time, and he might be stationed in the south of the Yangtze River and continue to supervise the construction of the embankment.This is inferred by Hongye, because Emperor Changping is considered a good monarch. Since Zhang Tao can go all out and really do practical things, then he will definitely continue to use him until this matter is completed or Zhang Tao changes.

Emperor Changping and seven cabinet scholars, officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy were revising the papers day and night. Emperor Changping also listened to Wang Wei's report of the news from Beijing, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it today.

In the Zhongzheng Hall, all the officials who corrected the papers were fighting over each other. Some officials favored the answer sheet of this examinee, while others valued the answer sheet of another examinee.

Emperor Changping saw it. He used to think it was pretty good, and it would be fair to have disputes. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that the old lady Jia in the Rongyang Hou Mansion gave her son a test paper based on the score system. Less, more efficient?He took it to heart, and decided to come down and think about it, maybe it can be tried in the Imperial College first, and it will be officially used in the scientific examination three years later?

In one night and one morning, two hundred and eight examination papers were corrected together, but the final ranking caused the officials to argue endlessly.Emperor Changping had read the examination papers that were ranked in the top ten by all the officials. The number one scholar, the second place, Tanhua, and Chuanlu were all produced from these ten examination papers. All the candidates answered well in these ten examination papers. Next, it will be up to the emperor Who do you like.

Emperor Changping didn't rank immediately. At noon, he asked the adults to eat and rest, and he let Wang Weixuan let the four sons of King Xiang, King Gong, King Zhao, and King Qin enter the palace.

My lords are silent, this is the first time that the emperor allowed the prince to participate in the imperial examination, even if the prince was in power before, the emperor did not let the prince intervene, all his elders will be arbitrary.

Emperor Changping ordered the four sons to rank the [-] test papers selected by the adults. First, King Xiangjun and King Gong read the test papers and ranked them. Seeing this, Wang also looked at the other test papers.

King Xiangjun and King Gong spent a total of two quarters of an hour ranking the twenty test papers, and then King Zhaojun and King Qin spent another quarter of an hour ranking the twenty test papers.

Each test paper has a character number, such as the font size of A, B, C, D. This font size is not based on the ranking of the test, but is added by disrupting the test paper when the paper is revised.At this time, the test papers were still vague. Emperor Changping glanced at the rankings written by his four sons. He had already read the twenty test papers. Who was good and who was bad, and what was good and what was bad. He had a steelyard in his heart.Flipping through the test paper in his hand again, thinking silently, about a quarter of an hour later, he asked: "Third brother, tell me why you are ranked like this? Do you think that the first, second, third and fourth places you ranked are better than others? ?”

The king of Xiangjun spoke eloquently and eloquently. There are many allusions to any policy theory, and it is obvious that he has read a subset of classics and history.

Emperor Changping kept silent, nodded, and looked at King Gong: "Where's the fifth?" The remaining three princes expressed their opinions one by one. In the place where the test paper candidates' names were displayed, he scanned them before ranking them.

The champion is not the first name in the test, but No.5 in the test.The second place is the first place in the test, and the third is Yu Qiu, who told him that he has more advantages in age and appearance than the No.2 in the test.

The ranking gap between the four princes and the emperor is quite large. Emperor Changping didn't make any explanation, and the four princes could only think hard.

The four princes didn't have anything to do next, but they didn't leave, they stayed at the side of the hall and watched the emperor and the ministers rank the next test papers.

Three hours later, the results of the palace examination have been released, and the Ministry of Rites will check the results overnight, and the results will be released tomorrow morning.

On the next day, at about 2:[-], the red list was posted outside the Tribute Academy, and candidates who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward.The overall ranking of this palace examination is not much different from that of the general examination. Even if the first place in the general examination becomes No. [-] in the palace examination, there is only a gap of one or two. back.

The long follower had already squeezed in, and Jia Zheng was in a panic. While he was squeezing in, someone was already reading the rankings in front of the red list. Some candidates laughed in relief, and some candidates sighed.

Before Jia Zheng squeezed to the front, a long follower squeezed out and said loudly: "Master, you are No. 16 in the second class, which is the same as your ranking in the general examination!"

Jia Zheng suddenly felt deaf and couldn't hear the sound of the outside world. Only the "No. 16 of the second class" was left in his mind and kept wandering. He woke up after a while. He was happy and silently calculated , in terms of the overall ranking, he is actually No.19, but there is not much difference from the ranking in the examination!

Two long attendants squeezed out from the crowd, one on the left and the other on the right helped Jia Zheng outside, "Master, Mr. Yu is Tanhua, and Mr. Zhou is No. 13 in the second class."

Jia Zheng heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words. Yu Qiu and Zhou He came from other places at this time. They came a little late and didn't see Jia Zheng for a while. There are three names.

"Second Master, congratulations. Brother Zhou, congratulations!" Yu Qiu bowed his hands to Jia Zheng and Zhou He, and Zhou He and Jia Zheng quickly returned the salute, and finally said in unison: "Congratulations!"

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, and discussed their studies together for three years. They had already formed a deep friendship, which was enough to last them a lifetime.

Because everyone was very busy, the three of them didn't stay outside the tribute courtyard for long. After returning home, they received the news from the announcer and went to the palace to face the saint in the afternoon.Of course, there are only three first-class and thirty second-class saints here. All the students have to meet the emperor one by one and talk with the students. Of course, due to time constraints, the time to talk with the emperor will not be very long.

Hong Ye raised her eyelids, wondering which department the emperor would send Jia Zheng to work in. If it was the Ministry of Industry, she would have nothing to say, except that Jia Zheng and the Ministry of Industry had a close relationship.

Jia Zheng was very high-spirited, so Hongye asked him the exam questions. Hongye was not interested in the previous recitation questions and poems, so she asked about the next few essays. After learning about the last two essays, Hongye thought silently. Jia Zheng went to the Ministry of Industry to make an appointment.

The question of water conservancy and river engineering, Hongye did not appear in the exam questions, but taught Jia Zheng on weekdays. When telling him about the beautiful mountains and rivers of Dafeng in his travel notes, he would pay attention to practical problems, and water conservancy and river engineering was naturally one of them. The most practical question is that Jia Zheng is a good student, and he will spend a few days studying any aspect that his mother mentions.

As for basic necessities of life, Hongye asked him to pay attention to the details of life on weekdays. She thought of cement, because she didn't know the formula, so she didn't mention cement at all. She just sighed, if there is a sticky thing that can Making the road level and making people's travel more convenient, such an invention can also be called a measure to benefit the people.Or in terms of clothing for cold protection, is there any better fabric or material that can not only protect against the cold but also be cheaper, so that everyone can afford it...

Jia Amnesty listened in silence for a while. He thought it was his mother nagging. It turned out that the content of the conversation with his mother was so helpful. He couldn't help but think about the conversation he had with his mother before. It seemed that everything was involved, and it seemed to be useless. , that's not right, it doesn't seem to be that useless, he doesn't seem to have discovered which aspect is useful.By the way, my mother likes to discuss with him about solving crimes recently.

Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Wang are very confused. They usually like to chat with their mother-in-law, especially when they hear any new rumors outside, they like to use it to chat with their mother-in-law. I like to think from a woman's point of view, and I don't like to criticize women, like the wife of a certain official in Beijing, who is also known as a jealous woman in Beijing, but the mother-in-law said that she did a good job, and her behavior did not affect The future of that high official, on the contrary, many people still trust this official.There is also the Marquis of Weiyuan in the middle of Beijing, the wives of that family are quite wise in Beijing, but the mother-in-law says they are fake, and so on.

This morning, the Rong Mansion received many congratulatory gifts again. From last year's autumn examination to this year's palace examination, Jia Zheng passed the three exams, and then his old friends sent three congratulatory gifts, although it was not as good as the Rong Mansion sent out in the past three years. Various gifts.

After lunch at noon, Jia Zheng tidied up his clothes and looked like a crown jade, but if he was younger, his face would not be so serious.At the gate of the palace, Jia Zheng met many people whom he had met with, and he, Yu Qiu and Zhou He came together naturally.

Not long after, a father-in-law in charge of the palace came to lead them into the palace to face the saint. Everyone lined up in three rows and walked around the palace with the father-in-law. They didn't have time to appreciate the scenery of the palace before. At least I can glance at it out of the corner of my eye.

When his father was not sick, Jia Zheng would go to the palace every year when the palace held a banquet. His father had been sick and bedridden for two years, and he never went to the palace again. It has been five or six years. Based on the impression the palace left on him, he found that the palace hadn't changed much.

Everyone waited quietly in the imperial study room. The emperor summoned them one by one. The time allocated to each person was different. There was time for a cup of tea, and there was a quarter of an hour. Time, there are many people behind, but none of them lasted more than a quarter of an hour.

After Yu Qiu came out, the stone in his heart fell to the ground, and the emperor didn't ask any weird questions, just asked him how many people there are in the family, are they married?After he answers the situation at home, ask him how hard he is?He replied that he didn't think it was hard at the time. Looking back now, it was indeed a bit difficult, but he met many noble people.

When it was Jia Zheng's turn, the moment Jia Zheng looked up at the emperor, he always felt that the emperor looked familiar. Where had he seen it?

Emperor Changping met Jia Zheng a few times. Last time, Jia Amnesty said that Jia Zheng was more like Jia Daishan. Now he looked carefully, Jia Zheng was only [-]% like Jia Daishan, and the other [-]% was like the old lady Jia. He thought of Jia Daishan again. The note written before his death, begging him to take care of his straightforward second son in his spare time.But now Jia Zheng passed the imperial examination by himself, not as useless as Jia Daishan said.

"Do you remember where I met you?" Jia Zheng's shocked Emperor Changping saw it, and he couldn't help being a little funny.

Jia Zheng immediately bowed his head and replied: "Reporting to the emperor, I have already remembered that I have seen the emperor in the pawnshop and Guiyuan bookstore." It turns out that the fifth master is the emperor. Jia Zheng is a little annoyed, why didn't he think of it earlier?

"Well, it's good to remember. You are very good, beyond my expectation. How did you come up with the answer to the last two questions of the palace examination paper?" Changping Emperor said a few more words.

Jia Zheng thought about it, and then honestly said which books he learned about water conservancy and river engineering from, and the data came from these books.

In terms of basic necessities of life, food, housing, transportation, and transportation, he had almost answered the exam papers, but after repeating it, he had some new ideas. Emperor Changping didn't interrupt him, and Jia Zheng almost couldn't stop.

Finally, Emperor Changping smiled and nodded: "If you are asked to go to the Ministry of Industry, are you willing?"

Jia Zheng was a little dazed, he came to his senses, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Grace: "I thank the emperor for your kindness. It is my honor to be able to do things for the emperor."

"It's not for me, it's for the people." Emperor Changping said, his tone was a little serious but with a trace of imperceptible gentleness, "Back down and call the next person."

Jia Zheng immediately said righteously: "Yes, do practical things for the emperor and the people." After that, he proposed the imperial study room, and Emperor Changping raised his eyebrows. Jia Daishan's son is not as stubborn as he said, but he still understands Flattering.

For the next time, Jia Zheng was still thinking about what he could do in the Ministry of Industry.According to the measures to benefit the people written on his examination paper, he seems to be just talking on paper.

At around dusk, after the emperor finished seeing everyone, they left the palace together. Jia Zheng returned to Rongfu, where his family was waiting for him to have dinner.After dinner, Jia Zheng told his mother and elder brother what happened to Miansheng, and knowing that Jia Zheng's future has been dusted, Jia Amnesty was very happy.

The author has something to say: Sorry, it's late today.

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