Chapter 147 The Trial of the Joint Test [1]
After hearing this, Mu Zheng was shameless and muttered in some incomprehension: '' You are an official of the imperial court of the sixth rank, and also a hereditary auspicious count. We don't call you master, but what can we call you? ''
Xie Chun, with a gloomy face and an iron blue face, ignores Mu Zheng and rides back to the capital. Jie Zhen gently kicks the stunned Mu Zheng and gently scolds him, 'Fool, you are always smart. Why are you so ignorant? Didn't you hear that younger brother Chun called himself 'Master Ben'? In the future, ask them to change their names and call them Young Master Chun. Otherwise, by the end of the year, you will regret it. It's a lot of money. You are so lucky. When you meet my younger brother, the writer, go and have fun secretly. ''
Mu Zheng then understood. He agreed repeatedly and hurried to correct the villagers' name for Xie Chun. This was related to his year-end dividend, which was a lot of money. If he had to withhold it, he would regret it later.
Shortly after Xie Chun returned home, someone came to the imperial palace to proclaim: 'The emperor was sent by heaven to say that today there is a great contribution to the country by Xiang Ruibo Xie Chun
Xie Chun knelt on the ground and thanked him loudly: 'Long live my emperor, long live my emperor, long live my emperor, long live my emperor, long live my emperor.'
Xie Chun gets up from the ground and takes the imperial edict from the eunuch. Jie Zhen and others receive the imperial flying fish robe from the eunuch who is accompanying them. Xie Chun also asks the eunuch to give money to the eunuch who announced the edict. This time, the eunuch did not refuse, so she accepted the reward very freely and left after congratulating him.
The next day, Xie Chun took Xie and Shi Yong and Wei Hui to the royal shop, where they were rewarded. Everyone could not help but be shocked. There was a huge crowd of people here. The shops on both sides of the street were full of customers and prospered.
When Xie Chun learned that the shop was awarded a reward, he only had to take off the royal signboard, and a dozen shops, together with the goods and people in the shop, all belonged to his name. He could not help but be stunned and stunned on the spot. This reward from the Emperor Hongzhi was too generous.
In the spring of the sixth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, Xie Chun resigned from the Ministry of Works at the beginning of August of the fifth year of Hongzhi and prepared to take part in the examination at home. The reclaimed farmland in the new village in the south of the city has a great harvest in the autumn harvest season. Not only has the lotus root fish been harvested, but also the newly reclaimed land has been harvested.
Although the fertility of the newly reclaimed land is extremely weak, the yield of sweet potatoes is really good. Although the yield of potatoes and corn has declined, the yield is higher than that of crops planted at this time.
Both the new servants of Xie Mansion and the dignitaries, nobles and ordinary people in Beijing have changed their views on Xie Chun, from the former black earl to Xiang Ruibo, who has a precise vision and can become rich.
Dozens of acres of land outside the south gate of the city are unique to Xie Chun, who can harvest such a large grain yield. At the same time, the rich children of the powerful family are also coveted. Empress Zhang's two younger brothers have talked with Xie Chun several times to reclaim his land and use it to sublet to tenants at a high price to win greater benefits.
Xie Chun has another plan, so he politely refuses their request. Zhang's brothers hate him very much. But they are afraid that Xie Chun will be appreciated and favored by the Hongzhi Emperor. Zhang's brothers dare not provoke Xie Chun openly, so they have to secretly look for opportunities to prepare a bad move against Xie Chun.
Xie Chun asked his tenants to buy back all three kinds of crops they had harvested. They could exchange rice, rice, wheat, millet, sorghum and other crops fairly with them, or pay them copper coins of the same value. The tenants owned property and rice for the first time, and became tenants of Count Xiangrui's family. With a mountain and shelter, they all knelt on the ground gratefully, Express their heartfelt thanks to Xie Chun and his son.
Xie Chun told people to carefully select three crops. The best ones were stored in granaries as seeds, and the rest were finely processed into potato flour, sweet potato noodles, corn steamed cakes and other foods. They entered the capital market for marketing. Because they were delicious and rare, they made a lot of money.
The rich and powerful businessmen in the capital, seeing what they had in mind, were able to develop so many delicious food, and were loved by the majority of the people and the children of the wealthy families. They all asked Xie Chun for the seeds of three crops. However, Xie Chun deliberately raised the prices of three kinds of seeds, raising the prices to twice that of rice, and the supply still exceeded the demand.
Seeing that there was a profit to be made, insightful merchants bought the seeds of three crops from Shaanxi and distributed them to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, making the seeds of the three crops sell well all over the country soon, and the government followed suit, finally making the three crops widely planted in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. With the increase of grain production year by year, Daming finally got rid of hunger, Gradually entering a well-off life, of course, is a good situation that will emerge many years later.
The farmers who planted three kinds of crops by the Shaanxi Chief Executive also benefited a lot from the high prices of the merchants. Their annual harvest was five or six times higher than that of previous years, and they also took this opportunity to become small valued farmers. They were grateful, and they spread the good name of the Great Ming Dynasty auspicious auspicious uncle everywhere. Some people even set up a birth temple for Xie Chun at home, These are rumors about Yang Feng and Xie Chun.
As Xie's business staff is insufficient, Xie Chun asks Yang's business firm for help. Yang Feng misses Xie Chun very much and comes to the capital to help him regardless of the customs and criticisms of the world. As a modern person, Xie Chun's thinking is naturally very different from that of others, and he doesn't have any scruples at all. In his spare time, he talks and laughs with Yang Feng. He spent a month ago in the city villages, leaving two people lingering around one after another, Sometimes, they also exchange their experiences on music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Although it stopped in the customs and etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, it also prompted the two people to become closer and closer, and talked about love after marriage like modern people; Accompanied by his fiancee, father, Jie Zhen and others, Xie Chun had a sweet six-year Hongzhi Spring Festival, and then ushered in the triennial national scientific examination.
In the joint and palace examinations of the Ming Dynasty, because in the early examinations of the Hongwu Dynasty, both the top scholars and the top scholars were all from the south, the number of Jinshi members was also large in the south, and the number of Jinshi in the north was decreasing, which led to fraud in the imperial examination.
In the thirtieth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first ancestor of Hongwu, divided the national candidates into three scientific research districts in the north and south, with the admission ratio of 55% in the south, 35% in the north and 10% in the middle.
Xie Chun is a Shaanxi native and naturally belongs to Beibang. Six years before the Spring Festival in Hongzhi, Zhang Cheng arrived in the capital and stayed in Xie Chun's residence. Every day, he and Xie Chun carried out a sea test. Xie Chun found that Zhang Cheng's art articles were much more advanced. Sometimes he wrote articles that Xie Chun also applauded. It seems that he has worked hard over the years, and of course, Zhang Cheng is also smart and eager to learn.
The two people are friends originally, and their temperaments are very similar. Xie Chun tells Zhang Cheng some tips on writing one by one, which improves Zhang Cheng's eight part essay a lot. Knowing that Zhang Cheng has never entered the examination room, Xie Chun popularizes the rules, regulations and precautions of the examination room with him.
And in a wing room, we specially made a simulated room according to the specifications of the room in the examination room, let Zhang Cheng go in there to eat, drink, laze and write articles, and consciously let him stay in there alone for a few days to exercise his mind. Fortunately, Zhang Cheng was calm and quickly adapted to the atmosphere of the examination room.
That day Jie Chun was correcting the shortcomings in Zhang Cheng's test paper, and explained in detail how to avoid making such mistakes again. After listening carefully, Zhang Cheng once wrote an article.
Xie He came in and said to Xie Chun, 'Uncle, Mu Zheng and his wife were beaten by a gang outside the new village in the south of the city. Mu Zheng and his two sons did not dare to fight back because they were afraid of being slaves. However, the other side refused to give up. They have been making trouble in the new village in the south of the city. Many of them are powerful men of the Royal Guards. My father and uncle didn't go through such things, and they didn't know what to do? However, this group has been stirring up all the time, and the spring sowing cannot be carried out. I will report to my uncle without telling my aunt and third grandpa, and ask my uncle for advice. It just disturbs my mood when I study. It's really that I'm too incompetent to wait. ''
Xie Chun is not angry about the incompetence of Xie Zhen and others. Although they are military officers of the Royal Guards, they have never left their own side, nor have they been involved in the civil and military officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. They are just ordinary people. When it comes to officialdom matters, or those involved in officialdom, several people are afraid of their hands and feet, for fear of provoking huge opponents for Xie Chun.
The gang dares to deliberately go to the new village in the south of the city to make trouble. It seems that they must have come from a bad source. It is clear that they came for themselves. But Xie Chun thinks that Mou Bin has always had a good relationship with him. Although he said that he has resigned from the position of doushui master in the work department, he still has count Xiangrui. Ordinary people do not dare to find their own trouble. It must be some high-ranking official or noble who sent people to make trouble, The idea of dozens of acres of land.
Xie Chun waves to Xie He not to disturb Zhang Cheng. He takes Xie Zhen, Hu Jie, Xie He, Wei Hui, and Li Da with him to the new village in the south of the city on horseback. As soon as they go out, the news quickly spreads to Zhang's residence.
Zhang Heling, the marquis of Shouning, burst into laughter when he heard this. He couldn't help boasting to his second brother, Jianchangbo, Zhang Yanling: 'How about that? Second brother, Brother Fool just sent some Royal Guards to get Xie Chun out of the city. Until the exam, he was dizzy and confused. If we move around, Xie Chun will not be able to concentrate on the exam. Once he failed in the exam, he could not win the entrance exam. Although he could still take the spring exam three years later, it was a pity that the whole three years were enough to make the emperor's brother-in-law forget him. Then we can deal with Xie Chun easily. ''