Chapter 331: When you are poor, you think of change
The task of the two candidates now is to select undergraduate students.
Xu Jie still looked lukewarm and whispered: "I wonder if Mr. Li wants to say that article can be called the title of "?
Li Ben had a prejudice in his heart. He heard this and picked up a copy and presented it to Xu Jie with both hands and said, "Prince Ge, please read, this article is the most popular."
Xu Jie took it over and read it, and Li Ben was still stunning: "But I haven't seen such a good article in many years!"
After reading the three articles, Xu Jie raised his head and saw that everyone in the room was looking at him. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Everyone is looking at what I am doing?"
Li Ben smiled and said, "It's easy to encounter such a magical article, so you naturally have to look at how the masters evaluate it."
Xu Jie smiled, put the paper down and shook his head and said, "In the opinion of the Xia Guan Yu, please take a low ranking... I think 300 are just right."
"Why?" Li Ben was shocked. The article he recommended was indeed very well written. After using "Yu Xiuzai" several times, he wanted to sell it better than Yan Shifan and point it to Huiyuan... For a long time, Xu Jie had like a decoration, giving him an illusion, as if he had said it, and now he suddenly asked Old Man Xu to give it to him, and he was really caught off guard.
After a while of dumbfounded, Li Ben whispered: "Even if you don't take Huiyuan in this volume, you can be qualified to click him as the top ten. Now you directly throw him into the top 100 and directly bury his future. This is probably unconvincing. If you pass it out, it may damage the reputation of the adults and attract people's words."
Xu Jie laughed and said, "Has Lord Li forgotten the two hasiths of the eleventh year of Jiajing, the eleventh year?"
"How could the servant think of such a long time ago..." Li Ben said depressedly.
Xu Jie still looked at him calmly and bowed to the west garden and said, "In the 17th year of Jiajing, the emperor used scientific research articles, and his pure and elegant body disappeared. He issued an order to ban the imperial examinations. The provincial examinations used difficult and dangerous words to attract the public. Anyone who had hooked and thorned and strange habits would be demoted! In the 17th year of Jiajing, the emperor felt that there were more and more frauds in the imperial examinations, and ordered the examiners to strictly investigate the collusion between internal and external forces, clear joints, buy words, and other more than ten fraud methods. Once found out, they would be severely punished."
He said slowly, Li Ben's sweat came down. He was not a fool, so he naturally knew that his trick had been seen through by Xu Jie, and his eyes couldn't help but look begging.
Xu Jie didn't even look at him, touched his gray beard and laughed: "I am old, why should I pull two irrelevant imperial edicts together? Which one should I remove?"
Li Ben knew that Xu Jie was giving him a way out, so he kept wiping his sweat and said, "If you remove the latter one, there is no fraud, you can't take it out and scare people."
"Okay." Xu Jie nodded and smiled, "Then, Master Li has no objection to this ranking, right?"
"No objection, no objection." Li Ben only blamed himself for being troubled. Yan Shifan didn't say he wanted to win the Huiyuan, so why did he do this too much?
Only the examiner who won this paper still did not give up. He felt a clear conscience and made a final rebuttal: "Who dares to say that his article must be better than this one?"
Xu Jie said from several articles under Diandian: "These five articles are steadily better than him!"
Everyone came over and looked down. Sure enough, the phraohs of the lyrics were true. Every word was precious. It was even more valuable. It was straightforward and peaceful. It made people feel refreshed after reading it. The fatigue accumulated over the days seemed to be wiped out. Compared with that, that article can only be considered a good one and cannot be considered excellent.
Everyone knew the information, so someone whispered: "Although these articles have their own advantages, they seem to have similarities in character. They should be related to the same school."
Xu Jie nodded slightly and said, "I don't know which master taught him a master." Then he pointed out, "Then point out Huiyuan among these five people. What do you think?"
The examiners had nothing to say and nodded one after another.
"Then you guys choose to see first." After Xu Jie said that, he closed his eyes and rested.
After a long time, the examiners selected two articles and put them in front of Xu Jie and said, "These two articles are incomparable, so please decide."
When Xu Jie looked at it, he saw that the question of an article was: 'Those who are good at managing finances can gain the right way and gain the best way!' Another article was 'The way of spreading the country is nothing more than the right way of making the classics.' He smiled and said, "You guys have good eyes. These two articles are indeed difficult to match, so it is not an exaggeration to choose either one."
Everyone knew that they had chosen the right choice, so they asked, "There must be one or two, so please decide?"
Xu Jie nodded and said, "These two articles are impeccable in terms of writing, foundation, idea and thought. It is impossible to distinguish between the articles simply by commenting on the articles themselves."
Everyone nodded, all of whom showed a look of listening. If you wanted to hear what angle Xu Ge Lao divided the score from, you heard Xu Jie say: "Now we have to divide it according to the intention of His Majesty's question."
"I asked this question," Emperor Jiajing said leisurely: "It is just to ask for advice. Whoever can solve the problem with the countermeasures will be the undergraduate student." After all, it was the emperor who asked the questions, and the final explanation and decision-making power are still in the hands of the emperor... Of course, the emperor is very busy and does not read every test, and usually only passes the current ten test papers.
Xu Jie and Li Bensu, who entered the palace to report the list of the list, stood in the hall and listened to the Hadith.
Emperor Jiajing picked up the ink scroll that planned to take the first two names, and first read the article "The master discusses the way of the country" and couldn't help but exclaim: "Good calligraphy! It's as elegant as an immortal, and it seems to be better than Yan Ge Lao!" Yan Song was recognized as the number one calligrapher in 20 years, so the weight of this evaluation can be imagined.
Xu Jie and Li Ben hurriedly said, "Your Majesty has a great vision, and this person can afford to be a great master of calligraphy."
"But what I am asking for is a wise minister in governing the country, not a calligrapher." Jiajing smiled faintly and said, "I have to read the article." Then he read the article "Finance manager" again. This word is the most beautiful style of the Pavilion, which is also impeccable, but compared to that person, he has less fairy spirit and is indeed a little worse.
Let’s look at the content again. The former “transmitted to the way to enrich the country” and started to manage appropriately, emphasizing “reducing redundant staff” and “reducing expenditure”, which is to reduce expenditure; while the latter focuses on the method of focusing on both increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, and comprehensively generating wealth.
There is no doubt that both methods are the way to solve the problem, but the former is more orthodox, while the latter is more radical. If it was just ordinary, the former would naturally be more in line with the "drug of the mean" method of selecting officials in the court, and would be a better candidate. However, the times have changed. After more than 170 years of development in the Ming Dynasty, many problems have become difficult to return... At least for the Emperor Jiajing who hates trouble, he is unwilling to touch those minefields, such as the "reducing expenses of the vassal kings", "cutting redundant officials", and "eliminating palace servants" mentioned by the former. Which of the methods mentioned by the former will not cause an uproar? Will it cause a group of crying guys, like headless flies, surround themselves with themselves?
In the final analysis, it was the personal thoughts of Emperor Jiajing at work... He just wanted to try to reduce the trouble, make the country live, and give himself money and leisure to practice. As long as I can fool me when I am alive, how can I care about the flood after death?
So although Emperor Jiajing appreciated the calligraphy and writing style of this article, he just glanced at it quickly and then focused his attention on the second article...
When you see that 'It is a gentleman who has a way to make money, there is no need to harm the lower and benefit the higher, but if the classics are well-managed, you will be able to benefit the country." It means that there is no need to harm the interests of the lower people, and there is also a way to make the country rich! This is too much to the appetite. Emperor Jiajing was rejuvenated and couldn't help but sit up straight. He was afraid that he would read the wrong words, so he stretched out his hand.
Huang Jin quickly presented the reading glasses. Emperor Jiajing brought the glasses and said to him when he saw the wonderful things: 'How is it? The world is based on natural benefits. Farmland, forest, mountains, rivers and oceans are all the territory of our Ming Dynasty and the foundation of our ancestors. Why do we value farmland and neglect the rest? I always see that it is insufficient!' After reading this, the emperor couldn't help but nod and said, "Yes, in the past, we always stared at the ground and digged food, but the Ming Dynasty had only so much arable land, but we had to support more and more people and had to bear the battles from all directions. We were already overwhelmed. We should indeed think of other ways."
The two great masters said timidly: "Your Majesty is wise."
"Growing is the foundation of a country, to nourish the people; Shang is the end of a country, to enrich the country. If there is a country, it is like a tree. It is a fallacy to put the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart in the cart
"I am not talented, so I'll give you an example. Songjiang cotton cloth, Suzhou-Hangzhou silk and satin, Jiangxi porcelain, and Fujian tea are always coveted by Western Franchise people. I have once earned a lot of gold to seek it. If the Maritime Bureau is reopened and the sea routes are smooth, our Ming Dynasty's sea border can make millions of money."
"At that time, we will use infinite wealth to provide limited use, and we will always give it to the upper and lower levels. Even if there are major national affairs and major disasters in the year, we will save three or nine years and we will not lose it!"
Taking off his glasses gently, Emperor Jiajing murmured, "It's right. It's not right to waste the foundation and chase the end, but if the country's way of making money is lost, it will fall to this point today." As he said, he clicked on the paper and said, "It's really a great idea to take this as Huiyuan."
Chapter completed!