The Coral of the Red Mansion Does Not Return

If Jia Hu said no to asking, it was true, Hegui promised.

Every day the uncle invites Ann and goes to the study, he doesn't care about the king Cheng and the prince Li, let alone the son of Prince Jing of Beijing and the grandson of Duke Niu.

Even on the day when the exams were announced, the master and his wife were walking up and down the Hall of Honor, and the lady embroidered a handkerchief that almost pricked her hand. One page, one page after another, teasing the second master from time to time.

When the officials came to announce the good news with beating gongs and drums, and the uncle won the Hui Yuan, the wife was so happy that the servants in the mansion rewarded the price for three months, and the master ordered someone to put copper coins and go to Ningrong Street, which was crowded with spectators. Sprinkle there.

The uncle heard this, although he was also very happy, but Hegui saw him slipping back to the study. Steward Lin wanted to congratulate him, but the uncle also asked someone to stop him, saying that it would not be too late after the palace examination.

Why is Hegui so clear?As for "Zuo Zhuan", the uncle sat for a quarter of an hour and couldn't sit still. He Gui went to get it himself!

Recalling Yingsong's face when he ordered the errands, in fact, his tone was just ordinary, and Hegui could hear gloating from it.

Hegui was very aggrieved and frustrated, this feeling reached its peak when the uncle rarely came out of the house, but he only brought Yingsong with him, not him.

Usually, he was the one who followed the uncle, Yingsong stayed in the mansion!Hegui bit his handkerchief in his heart and cried.

He began to doubt life.

No matter how He Guizai thinks about life, in short, the day of the palace examination will come soon.

On April 21st, the palace test.

The palace examination is held in the Palace of Preserving Harmony in the Forbidden City. All the students enter the palace at dawn, go through a roll call, unroll papers, praise, salute, and then issue policy questions.

The re-examination was also in the Palace of Preserving Harmony, so Jia Hu didn't look around, he won the first place in the examination, and his seat was at the very front.The imperial examination was proctored by the Holy Master himself, and the pressure of facing the Holy Spirit was shared by the people before the ranking test, and many people breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, Jia Hu said that the emperor's throne is far away from the main hall, so there is basically no pressure.

He was slapped in the face in a blink of an eye.

The palace examination lasted a whole day, and the papers were handed in at dusk. The emperor sat on top of his head, his eyes were full of darkness, and he would be tired of aesthetics, okay?No, less than half an hour later, Jia Hu just started talking about Celun when he heard the sound of pattering footsteps, stopping behind him.

Undoubtedly, it is the emperor, Jia Hu thought with a blank expression when he caught a glimpse of a yellow robe.

The emperor was a handsome middle-aged uncle with a handsome face, and he couldn't tell that the eldest son was almost thirty.Of course, no one dared to look directly at Tianyan.

This handsome uncle is very troubled now.

Every prince wanted the throne. He himself came to the throne after killing all his brothers. The emperor didn't expect his sons to love each other.Whoever laughs at the end, I will pass on the throne to whoever, this is the idea that the emperor has always upheld, for this reason, he parachuted several sons to the sixth department, while he himself sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight.

As for how many princes joined forces to lift him up?The emperor didn't think his ambitious sons could resist the temptation to join forces with their rivals.He also has a hole card in his hand, which can only be grasped by those who sit in this position, and that is Tsing Yi Wei.

Unlike Jin Yiwei on the bright side, Tsing Yiwei hides in the dark, only responsible for monitoring the prince and grandson, reporting their every move to the emperor, and at the same time supervising each other with Jin Yiwei to prevent them from being bribed.

The recent news that Tsing Yi Wei brought to the emperor almost ruined his good mood.

Sitting high on the throne, the emperor was obviously sizing up the scholars of Jinke, but in fact, his goal was only one, and that was Jia Hu.

Jia Hu, the son of Duke Rong, was only seventeen years old, but he did several great things one after another.

The shock brought by the cement to the emperor has not yet calmed down. The road construction has not yet seen results, but in terms of water conservancy, through the secret report of Jinyiwei, it is known that this year's spring flood in the Yellow River Basin did not cause too much damage; , the number of hands and feet that can be moved on the books is much less. For the first time, the emperor clearly understands the source and whereabouts of the treasury money, and he is not afraid of being fooled by the people below; there are also jadeite from a small southwestern country, and newly invented soap. Jia Hu borrowed channels from the imperial court. , Now it is circulated in the north and south of the river, and [-]% of it is handed over to the treasury. In just a few months, millions of silver have been obtained, accounting for [-]% of the treasury's revenue.

If it was just these, the emperor would only appreciate it and not be annoyed. What annoyed him was the news from his uncle—Master Liao Ran who became a monk in Huangjue Temple.

He sighed silently, the important weapon of the country can make the Great Zhou prosperous for a hundred years, this is what the master passed to him in private.For this reason, on the second day after divination to Jia Hu, Master Qing Ran passed away.

He looked at Jia Hu carefully.What ability does this person have that he hasn't shown?

He paced back and forth between the rows of seats in front, finally stopped behind Jia Hu, bent slightly, and looked at his answer sheet.

To the emperor's surprise, Jia Hu's excellent handwriting was actually in thin gold script that few people can write with charm.

Unruly scholars love wild grass. The emperor originally thought that a person who could unite into a king and understand that the master set a trap for his parents just to not marry a wife and have children would be either deep-minded or wild and unruly. Jia Hu's handwriting is very different from his image in the emperor's mind.

Rules and vigor, these are the two words that came to the emperor's mind after seeing Jia Hu's words.

Read his article again.

Seeing this, the emperor paused.

Looking at the corner of her clothes from the corner of her eyes, Jia Hu felt that she had overestimated her psychological quality.Can you imagine?It feels like Xi, Da, and Da are watching him write essays behind him!He took a deep breath, deep breath, the breathing sound was a bit loud, but it was very clear in the quiet hall.

He dared not take a deep breath.

Jia Hu wasn't nervous, he was just... inexplicably ashamed, showing off the knowledge of later generations in front of the ancient monarchs.

He settled down, and soon entered a state of ecstasy, as if devoting himself to every day's work.

The emperor stood behind him the whole time, only leaving for a while at noon.

At dusk, Jia Hu exited the arena under the emperor's scorching gaze, and felt profusely sweating as soon as he left the Hall of Preservation and Harmony.

This time he has spent a lot of money, Jia Hu thought to himself.There is only one question in the palace examination, Yanzheng.

Salt administration has always been a big problem. Historians have a saying that "the death of the Yuan Dynasty was caused by the chaos of the salt administration".

Less than a hundred years after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Yan government followed the old system of the Yuan Dynasty and still adopted the law. The emperor had been worried for a long time.

Before the imperial examination, Jia Hu specially asked Lin Ruhai to bet on the questions for him. There were topics such as salt administration, water conservancy, and supervision. Time is convenient for salt politics.

So looking at this topic, Jia Hu has a bottom line in his heart.

"Open the Chinese method", he wrote these three big characters in a fluttering manner.

"Wonderful!" Master Guo who was grading the paper sighed, and drew a circle on the paper.

The colleague on the side shook his head, drowsy, and said with a smile: "Master Guo, what paper is worthy of your constant sigh?"

Mr. Guo is the eldest son of the previous elder surnamed Guo, and he is considered young among all the examiners.

Hearing the sarcasm from his colleague, Mr. Guo was not angry and just passed the answer sheet.

After a while, the colleague couldn't help shouting, "This method is very feasible!" He belongs to the Ministry of Household Affairs, which is in charge of the national salt administration, and he happens to be in charge of this area.

The other examiners were all alarmed, and they passed them to read one by one, chatting with each other, and the paper was soon presented to the emperor's case.

The emperor saw that the thin gold body and the content were very familiar. It was Jia Hu's share, with a few large and small circles on it, counting them, the number of circles was exactly the number of examiners.

With a swipe of the pen, he was named the number one scholar.

The paper was not sealed, but placed in front of the case, and when several cabinet scholars came over, he motioned the little eunuch to show it to them.

Hubu Shangshu had a bitter face, looking left and right, surrounded by several elders in the court, who were older than him, and had older qualifications than him, and he was sandwiched by a young man, not to mention how discordant it was.

Standing behind him, the waiters on the left and right said, Mr. Shang Shu, you are already an old bacon, and we young people are really young.

Hubu Shangshu is 43 years old this year, and the two servants of Hubu are also in their 30s. They are really shameless people. 【Look quietly】

This answer sheet was finally passed to the officials of the household department. The secretary of the household department is worthy of being a professional. After reading it, he said, "The article is too shallow. Why don't you take this one?" , I don't know who it is, just skip the name, "Call me to talk?"

The emperor shook his head and said, "Ai Qing thinks this 'opening the Chinese law' is feasible?"

Hubu Shangshu pondered for a moment, and said pertinently: "It is feasible." He explained: "The method of opening up Chinese is essentially the same as the current introduction system, but it is more perfect, and there are not many changes. What's more, this method can solve the frontier problems. There is an urgent need for food and grass.”

The issue of food and grass for the frontier soldiers has always been a major problem for the Ministry of Household Affairs. If according to what Kaizhongfa said, the Ministry of Household Affairs made a big list to attract business, and the grain merchants transported grain to the frontier in exchange for salt imports, which would save a lot of effort.

Many elders asked for this method.

Hubu Shangshu excitedly proposed: "I don't know who wrote this article? If you can come up with such a method, you must know the salt administration very well. I implore the emperor to transfer this person to the Hubu!"

The emperor said solemnly: "I make my own decisions."

After Hubu Shangshu went back, he pondered for a while, and found out what the emperor meant, it seemed that he was not going to send people to the Hubu?I also feel that it is impossible. If such talents are not sent to the household department, will they stay in the Hanlin Academy and become moldy?

The Minister of the Household Department looked forward to the stars and the moon, and when all the Jinshi scholars were allocated, he realized with a dark face that no one came to the Household Department to report.Reluctantly, he wanted to find someone directly, but was shocked to find that the emperor tore up the name part of the answer sheet.This is, don't want others to know who it is?

Tobu Shangshu wisely kept silent.