In court.

Emperor Xiang Yanran and the court officials had no objection to this list of national trials and passed the list.

After all, the papers were judged by Xiaohunhou, Prime Minister Kong Hanyou, Censor Wang Su, and a marquis and two three ministers, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the papers.

The next day.

Jinling Gongyuan, on the courtyard walls on both sides of the gate.

A long list of red lists was posted - the Great Chu Imperial Examination, the third round of national examination list, which was officially announced.

Thousands of scholars gathered outside the Gongyuan gate, crowded to watch the list.

Two hundred scholars were surprised and roared and laughed to the sky when they saw their names appear on the list of awards.

Such a difficult state test, and even winning the exam is like losing the luck.

"Congratulations to Brother Dongfang, the top high school list in the national examination!"

Sang Hongyang bowed.

"Haha, where! Brother Sang Hong is also very powerful. You and I have indeed won the top two places in the Gengzi imperial examination! Let's compete with each other again when the palace examination is in!"

Dongfang Su laughed.

Jia Sheng looked at the list of juren blankly and found his name among the dozens of people in the last ranking, "Jia Sheng, Jinling native, twenty."

"I'm beaten!"

"Haha, I actually passed the imperial examination!"

Jia Sheng murmured, incredible, crying and laughing, and tears flowing.

It feels like dreaming.

The national test was 20, not because he answered two questions correctly. Instead, he pieced together everything, and almost every question was scored and got two or three points.

I think Jia Sheng was nearly fifty years old and was poor for most of his life. He relied on teaching to make a living. He was fond of studying on weekdays and could not count the number of studies in the Pingwang Mansion. Now he has finally made his way and has become a formal juren of the court.

As long as you pass the juren, you will be guaranteed, and at least you can be a minor official in the county.

If you can pass the Jinshi exam in the next palace examination, it will be even more amazing. You will be a county magistrate who governs the country.

This means that Jia Sheng is finally no longer a commoner and can become an official in the court.

However, more scholars who failed the exam were crying with their heads in their arms.

These scholars came from hundreds of counties in the Great Chu Dynasty, and were full of hope, but they were eventually defeated in the national examination.

“It’s so difficult!”

"I blame Xiao Hunhou. The test questions are so difficult. How many people can answer them?...Forget it, I'll go back to read books and come to the exam again next year."

"I am going to stay in Jinling City to prepare for the next year's big test. There are many books here, so I can see some of them."

...

Two more days passed, and the fourth round of palace examination was the same.

Emperor Xiang Yanran sat high on the Golden Throne, and Cai and the eunuch were serving him.

The 200 juren selected from the National Examination were gathered in the Golden Palace, and the group seated. They did not dare to look up at the emperor, with awe in their expressions and awe-inspiring hall.

They looked nervous and were waiting for Emperor Xiang Yanran to give a question.

Palace Examination.

It is the last round of the imperial examination.

The emperor personally gave the questions and presided over the big exam, ranking the final ranking.

By the way, the results of the palace examination are the most important things in the imperial examination. Twenty Jinshi were selected from the 200 juren.

But what should be taken in the palace examination?

Emperor Xiang Yanran thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out what to take, and his face was full of helplessness.

Xiaohunhou, this kid!

What did he take to the final palace examination so hard that he could take the design of the third round of national examination?

The test questions that were given in previous years were not difficult in comparison. If he gave them too easily, wouldn’t it seem that the palace examination was not difficult?

"Your students first come to court affairs and should know that the importance of a country's government affairs is the first to be 'money and grain'. In the Gengzi Palace Examination, we took the topic of 'money and grain' to carry out countermeasures. How can we make the treasury full of money and grain?!"

Xiang Yanran thought deeply for a long time and said.

Money and grain are the core of all national affairs, and this often requires senior officials to fully understand and propose good strategies.

Only with money and food can one have a foundation for governance, and without money and food, it is easy to collapse.

Ordinary people tend to talk in general and say empty words that are impossible.

With the implementation of the new Gengzi policy, the treasury expenditures of the Great Chu Dynasty increased significantly, and the treasury was rapidly consuming the treasury's money and grain.

The usual expense is small money.

The biggest expense is war.

Once the war is to be fought, the princes are eradicated and the Huns are expeditioned, the court will spend money even more. Now the money and grain piled up with the national treasury cannot resist the expenses.

The emperor naturally prepared for the future early and prepared more good strategies to raise "money and grain".

He also looked forward to the new group of candidates selected from the imperial examination to make him look at him with admiration.

"yes!"

The two hundred priests breathed a sigh of relief, picked up their pens and wrote quickly on the white paper.

easy!

Too fucking easy.

Compared with those brain-burning national exam questions, such as "how many miles the ground reaches the moon, who falls together, who falls first, the principle of water and ice gas", etc.

Of course, it would be too easy to find a way to help the emperor get money and food.

Even those who do not understand finance at all know that the main body’s basic common sense is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

After one stick of incense, the students answered the test papers, sealed the papers, handed over them, and left the palace one after another.

The palace examination is over.

Emperor Xiang Yanran still stayed in the Golden Palace, watching the "good strategies" of the students one by one.

"Oriental Millet "Business Tax"! All merchants need to pay taxes."

"Sang Hongyang's "Salt and Iron Official Camp"! Privately allowed the management of salt and iron, and the people who sold salt and iron among the people accumulated huge wealth. The ministers believed that the salt and iron should be collected and operated by the court, and the iron and salt officials should be established."

"Zhu Maichen's "State of Military Field in the Northwest". There are many fertile fields in the northwest, which borders the Huns and the people are afraid of escaping. I suggest that migrating the people to military fields, building military fortresses, consolidating borders can also save money for long-distance food transportation and be conducive to farming and warfare."

"Salt Stories of Xiangyang, Dongguo. Xiaochen operates the salt industry and has accumulated wealth in several years. Please collect heavy taxes!"

"The Iron Structure". The little minister was a businessman in Nanyang and knew the benefits of iron smelting, which was extremely generous. I suggested to build an official iron tool."

"Zhang Peng's "Report to the Law of the Rules" please thoroughly investigate tax evasion! I have a plan for "Rewarding the Porridge and Earnings", which is too bold and asks the emperor to atone for his sins. The people of the people are suffering from having no way to serve the country. I suggest that anyone who contributes millions of wealth to the court can establish eleventh-level titles and donate money to reward his sincere desire to serve the country. This title is honor and shines on ancestors. Do not serve as an official or a fish to the people."

Xiang Yanran was shocked when he looked at these suggestions.

Talent!

Talent!

A large group of people who make money!

Think about the palace examination questions he gave last year, "I am worried!" He vaguely mentioned his worries.

As a result, only Xiao Hunhou presented the "Plan forbidden Private Crown Coins" among the 100 noble scholars in the hall.

The other scholars seemed to ask questions if they had not heard of them, and they avoided the finances and talked about other irrelevant issues.

Why?

The reason is simple!

These noble scholars of the clans, their families occupied the greatest interests of land, mountains, copper coins, salt and iron in Dachu.

The ban on salt and iron is prohibited, and the property of their nobles is naturally unhappy.

The Great Chu court wants more money, so they will definitely suffer losses, which is extremely heartbroken!

Only Xiaohunhou is not afraid of offending those powerful people, and dares to speak out the shocking "Forbidden Privately Forged Coins".

In order to avoid the early leak of this policy, Xiang Yanran even had to burn it out to avoid alarming the enemy.

However, the students selected for this imperial examination.

Too bold!

Many of them are neither nobles nor pedantic Confucian scholars, and they dare to offer any bold strategy.

Even the idea of ​​selling official porridge and titles, which must be scolded by the people of the world, dares to come up with suggestions.

This group of candidates comes from all over the world, many of whom are from poor backgrounds, obviously not so much concern.

"good!"

Emperor Xiang Yanran was overjoyed.

Unexpectedly good!
Chapter completed!