Seeing that raising fish in rice fields was indeed a success, some people gathered around Shi Zhongkui and asked for the manuscript of raising fish in rice fields, while others knelt on the ground and shouted that this was a gift from God, a blessing to the people of the Zhou Dynasty, and that there would be no more famines in the world.

Shi Zhongkui was also very excited, but he knew in his heart that natural and man-made disasters could not be solved so easily.

Moreover, this harvest is just an example. Many landowners will definitely be disappointed in the future, and farmland production will decrease instead.

And people who live by water will inevitably have a more difficult life.

Fortunately, it will definitely take time to promote it. Even within three to five years, 30% of the entire rice fields in Gyeonggi will be transformed. It will be considered fast.

Overall, the merits definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

The next thing was simple. Yu Honggao and others were busy reporting the news of a bumper harvest in rice fields and fish farming.

Other dignitaries and squires all gathered around Shi Zhongkui and came to the farmyard of the Duke of Tui Kingdom.

"Boqian, quickly take out the information you wrote in your own hand."

When everyone heard this, they all started talking and looking forward to it.

I apologized and entered the study room. I used the space ten minutes ago to write the information with my mind and a pen, which became the original copy for hundreds of people.

When everyone saw that he was so easy to talk to, they felt grateful, and then the squire suggested that they erect a monument in his honor.

Some people even suggested that all the big families in the county donate a sum of money to build a small Sanyuan memorial arch and renovate the cemetery for the Daxing Shi family.

Shi Zhongkui didn't react at first, but after Jia Lian whispered an explanation in his ear, he realized that these people planned to take advantage of the opportunity of reconstruction to buy the land around the Shi family's ancestral tomb.

If my future imperial examinations and official career go smoothly, maybe someone will actually think of moving their ancestral tomb there.

And there’s no need to guess, there will definitely be a Feng Shui master who will boast about how good the Feng Shui of the Shi family’s ancestral tomb is.

When it comes to ancestral graves, even if Shi Zhongkui doesn't believe it, he still has to stand up and express his views. Besides, since heaven is here, the underworld cannot escape.

If Shi Duzi's body cannot be saved and the Shi family's ancestral land cannot be taken care of, not to mention what outsiders think, even Shi Zhongkui himself will feel bad about it.

Moreover, in ancient times, the fields and properties used to worship ancestral graves would not be confiscated by the imperial court even if the property was confiscated, unless it was for rebellion.

Officials would never put their thoughts on this.

As long as these fields are still there, my children will have the capital to cultivate, study and build a family in the future.

Therefore, Shi Zhongkui did not give in at all this time. He directly said that he would replace or buy as much of the land around his ancestral graves as possible in the future to prepare for sacrifices and supplies. At the same time, he would also set up a private school there for future generations to study.

Everyone is basically doing this kind of thing. No one thinks Shi Zhongkui is domineering, but they think it should be so.

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In the Gongyuan of the Ministry of Rites, the rural examination has ended long ago, but the chief examiner, deputy examiner and other officials and soldiers are even more busy and cautious.

In addition to the leakage of examination questions, the most common place for errors in imperial examination fraud is during the review period.

Moreover, although the chief examiner has the right to determine which paper is the first, before the paper is passed to him, it has to go through the review of 4 to 6 deputy examiners.

If the deputy examiner thinks it is OK, he will put a circle on the paper and pass it to the next deputy examiner.

Only papers with red circles in all sub-exams will be handed over to the main examiner as soon as possible.

The next step is to check for leaks and fill in the gaps to prevent some papers that the main examiner thinks are good from being missed by the deputy examiners.

Of course, if the examiner didn't want to offend anyone, it would be just a matter of routine, randomly picking out a dozen or so for inspection.

If the examiner feels that he has to be responsible for every scholar, the workload will be huge.

Moreover, after the names of the papers were anonymized in advance, all the papers were copied by the officials' family members. No one could tell from the handwriting who wrote the papers.

But those who can pass the Jinshi exam are not outstanding people for a while. Let’s not talk about emotional intelligence. Their IQ is definitely the same.

Take Shi Zhongkui as an example. Anyone who has studied that he ranked first in county examinations, government examinations, and college examinations must post the published papers.

Basically, you can tell something from his writing habits and style.

Coupled with the poem about the grass growing and the orioles flying in the February sky, it can be said that he directly outperformed all the candidates, and people knew at the first glance that the paper in his hand belonged to him.

Without thinking, the first examiner put a red circle on the paper he copied, laughed loudly, and after attracting everyone's attention, he read out the poem.

No one was stupid, and they immediately understood that it was most likely written by Shi Zhongkui.

"Compared with the song about the red crown on the head that does not need to be cut, and the body covered with snow that leads to the future; I dare not speak softly in my life, and thousands of houses are opened at once. I still like this song better."

Although it was not explicitly stated that this new poem was written by Shi Zhongkui, everyone knew what the other person meant.

Sure enough, when the paper came into his hand, he put a red circle on it without even looking at the strategy.

This time, it was Yuan Donggang, the Hanlin bachelor's degree examiner for the fifth grade, who was embarrassed and surprised.

I thought someone would definitely make things difficult for Shi Zhongkui, but I didn't expect that the two men would let him pass the sub-exam so easily.

The two deputy examiners and the other four who had not expressed their opinions laughed inwardly. They had no grudge against Shi Zhongkui and had no quarrel. Even if they wanted to cause trouble, they could only make an issue from the paper itself.

Since another poem appears that is bound to be highly publicized, as long as Shi Zhongkui's strategy does not raise any issues of principle, then it is certain that he will win the election.

And whether you can get the first place in the provincial examination, that is, Jieyuan, is a question that the examiner should consider.

In this case, no one will easily express their opinions on Shi Zhongkui's paper, lest this guy will give it a try next year and become a Jinshi and become an official in the court.

And to be honest, after the emperor selected these six officials, all from the north, to be deputy examiners, everyone vaguely understood what the emperor meant.

Once rice-field fish farming can really be realized in the north, then everyone will owe Shi Zhongkui a favor.

Examiner Yuan Donggang also vaguely understood this when he heard someone discussing how fat the Yellow River carp was while dining in the evening.

Everyone is in the same group when co-authoring.

In other words, for the sake of money, he didn't want to make things difficult for Shi Zhongkui.

But it was really up to him to decide on his own to choose Shi Zhongkui as Jie Yuan, and he was worried about the scholars' comments.

Then I thought about the heavy rain and the papers that were discarded because of the heavy rain, so I might as well ignore it for now and finish marking all the other papers with peace of mind.

If it is true that God's will is on Shi Zhongkui, and no one is better than him in this provincial examination, then if you choose him as Jieyuan, you will not only not have to worry about criticism, but it will also become a good story.

Moreover, he has become Shi Zhongkui's mentor. Not only will he be comparable to Yu Honggao in the future, at least in the officialdom, Shi Zhongkui will most likely be his helper.

In this way, five days passed by in a flash. The papers were basically revised and it was time to determine the ranking.
Chapter completed!