Chapter 42 Palace Examination (Part 1)

I nodded and said with satisfaction: "Where is the second in the head armor? Come up and show me."

As soon as I finished speaking, a person came out of the Jinshi group and slowly walked forward a few steps: "My uncle Jian Lingtai, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu. I will pay a visit to the emperor, long live my emperor."

"Get up." I waved his hand and asked him to get up and looked at him. This man was very young, about twenty-seven or eight years old, with a jade-like face, and a bright eyebrows and eyes, revealing a faint righteousness. Seeing his steady steps and calm expressions, his surname must be a steady person.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Jian Lingtai stood up, took a step back, bowed slightly, but was very stable. If nothing unexpected happened, this person was a general and prime minister.

"Jane Eyrek, have you learned martial arts?" I lay down, looking at him.

"Report to the emperor, I am a gentleman since I was a child. I am a gentleman. I am a gentleman who thought that Wen was to cultivate oneself and establish a surname, and that Wu was to stabilize the country and settle the country. None of them was missing." Jian Lingtai replied with a constant expression and a respectful tone.

"Okay, okay." I hit my palms: "It is my great blessing to get this talent."

"Where is the third in the top armor? Come forward and show me." I became more and more excited. Jian Lingtai and Tao Ziying are both good talents. This third in the top armor should not be much worse.

After saying that, another person walked out of the crowd and walked up to me. When I saw him, I couldn't help but take a breath. This guy looked too ugly. I saw him in the exam room last time, and the influence left behind was very profound. Unexpectedly, this person was the third in the head. The man bowed and said, "I have met the emperor."

"Bold." Eunuch Mu took a step forward and scolded angrily: "When I see the emperor, I dare not kneel down and bow down." As he said that, he looked at me and waited for my will. If I nodded a little at this time, Qi Lang would probably be dragged out immediately, be punished with a court stick and drove out of the Forbidden City. He would never be hired.

I waved my hand and asked Eunuch Mu to retreat. Without showing anger on my face, I said calmly: "Qi Aiqing, for some reason, don't kneel down when I see me?"

Qi Lang had no trace of anger on his face. He said lightly: "I am a very ugly person. If I kneel down, I am afraid that I will disturb the Holy Lord."

What is this reason? Then I stopped and said, "Okay, since you don't want to kneel down, just step aside." I thought to myself, why is this guy so ungrateful? It seems that the top three in the armor have to kick him out.

Qi Lang bowed slightly and retreated to the side without saying much.

"Who is Liu Buyong, the tenth-ranked second-tier university? Come up and see me." I suddenly remembered that among the Jinshi, there was an old acquaintance of my own.

As I said, no one stood up? I couldn't find these more than a hundred Jinshis for a while. I was shocked. Didn't that guy receive the notice or did he go to court?

"Liu Buyong, the emperor asked you to come out." When Eunuch Mu saw that no one stood up in the Jinshi group, he couldn't help but shouted with utmost urge.

Those Jinshi couldn't help but look at me and I looked at you.

"Liu Buyong." Eunuch Mu shouted sharply with all his strength.

"Who, who is calling me?" Suddenly, a voice came out from the crowd and said, "Damn it, the sound is like a broken gong. It disturbed my young master's dream. Ah, sneeze, tsk, the girl in the dream is so amazing, watery, pinching it is like coming out of water."

The ministers were stunned. They didn't expect that among the Jinshi, there were such people of this kind of treasure-level figure among the ministers. They all turned their doubtful eyes to Xie Zhongyi. The poor Grand Secretary Xie had to cough twice, which was extremely embarrassing. However, they couldn't jump out and say that it was not his business, but the emperor's will. It was natural for a minister to take the blame for the emperor. They could only feel glorious and could not have any displeasure.

I also chuckled. I had known this guy as a bastard. I didn't expect that he would be so bad. However, I just liked it. I laughed and said, "Liu Buyong, get up and see me quickly."

Liu Buyong woke up at this time, and then he realized that he was in the Golden Palace. He heard my call and ran to me all the way. For those few steps, he was so tired that he was panting. He asked at me in a daze, "Your Majesty, did you call me?"

I said, he actually knew how to use the word "you" and it was considered embarrassing him. I laughed and said, "Forget it, forgot. I have convinced you. Yes, it's just that I called you."

"You beast, how did I teach you?" Liu Zhengming couldn't bear to see it anymore, so he jumped up and ran to the front, twisted Liu Buyong's ear and said, "Don't you kneel down and bow to the great ceremony."

"Oh, uncle, you hurt me." Liu Buyong grinned in pain: "I'm kneeling, can't I kneel?"

As a result, all the officials in the court were staring straight. If it weren't for the Golden Palace, they would have burst into laughter. In other words, Liu Zhenming would dare to twist his nephew's ears in this hall.

"Liu Aiqing, please calm your breath, calm your breath." I laughed: "You retreat first, I appreciate Liu Buyong's straightforwardness."

After Liu Zhenming kowtowed and apologized, he returned to his own ranks. The ministers now understood that Liu Buyong was a relative. It was because I, the emperor, who was the one who approved him to enter the ranks of Jinshi.

"My dear Liu Buyong is a native of the capital. When I bow to the emperor, I will live my emperor." Liu Buyong was quite good at bowing. Obviously, it was during this period that he was pulled over by Liu Zhenming.

"Get up, get up." I laughed and thought to myself that if there is such a living treasure in the court in the future, the atmosphere will be much more active. Don't underestimate him. Some things cannot be solved, so I will use him. If he makes trouble, those ministers will definitely not be able to deal with him.

Liu Buyong stood up and retreated aside.

"I'll take all my good friends." I walked down from the dragon throne, walked slowly down below, glanced at the new Jinshi and said, "You all say, why do you want to be an official? What are the benefits of being an official? Tao Aiqing, start with you."

Tao Ziying lowered her head and replied, "Reporting to the emperor, I think that the people in the world do not blame the natural disasters under the living standards of the people in the world [***]. The ultimate reason lies in the official position. If the official position is upright, the people will be at peace. If the official position is not upright, the people will suffer. The reason why I want to be an official is to help the court and reverse the status quo of the people in the world."

"Okay, okay. Tao Aiqing cares about the people of the world, and I am very pleased." I immediately asked, "What good strategies can Tao Aiqing be able to help the people of the world?"

"Report to the emperor, looking at our dynasty's national policy, it is mainly agricultural. Ninety percent of the people in the world are bound to the land. In this way, once a natural disaster occurs, the people will have no way to live. I believe that we should vigorously develop other industries and distract themselves from agriculture. We should comprehensively develop national strength." Tao Ziying said with a shy face.

"A group of nonsense." Someone in the court immediately jumped out and said, "Agriculture is the foundation of the world. If there is no food, how can it deal with such a large number of people? Will the divert farmers make the people all over the world starve to death? Also, if the war begins and the march is suffering from no food, how can this battle be fought?"

"Sir, you misunderstand what Late Sheng means." Tao Ziying did not look dismissive because she was scolded by the minister in public, but instead said in a calm expression: "The diversion agriculture that Late Sheng refers to is carried out on the basis of not reducing grain output. It can even be even more than before, grain output."

"Hmph, the yellow-haired boy, I don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and I speak wildly." The minister said disdainfully: "You are in vain and you are well-read, but you don't expect that you are not aware of your words. If you can increase agricultural output, our country's strength will be extremely prosperous. Why do you, the yellow-haired boy, talk about the diversion policy?"

I have already experienced Tao Ziying's cultivation skills. How could this level of insulting touch her at all? I didn't say anything, silently seeing what her ideas she had.

"Our 56 million people in our dynasty, with more than 31 million men and women, of which more than 28 million farmers. The farmland in our dynasty is 25,000 mu, and each farmer is responsible for nine mu of land. The total grain output is more than 370 million dan, and the average grain output per mu is one and a half dan. The total per capita is slightly less than seven dans of grain. Just looking at this number, it seems that you can eat enough. However, the fact is not the case. The farmer's cultivated land and the land they plant are not owned by themselves. Most of them are not the only ones.

The land is in the hands of the landlords. In this way, the real food obtained by farmers can only barely make ends meet. If they encounter a disaster and famine, the farmers will not even have enough food to eat. They have to sell their children to support their families." Tao Ziying said jokingly: "Sir, should this situation be changed? Every strong farmer produces less than fourteen dans a year. Can this adult think of something?"

I was ashamed. As the emperor, I didn't even know these data. Obviously, Tao Ziying had a lot of research on this, otherwise it would not have been possible to get out this large amount of data.

"Hmph, any person from the Ministry of Revenue can say these numbers." The minister still said disdainfully: "I asked, the grain output of my dynasty has been so low. How can it be diverted? As the data you mentioned, every time a farmer diversion is diversion, the overall grain output will be 14 ducts less. The people will not be able to eat enough."

"But, I wonder if I have ever thought about a farmer who can produce thirty deltas, or even forty deltas of grain a year, what if?" Tao Ziying said this, his eyes suddenly emitted a light that I had never seen before.
Chapter completed!