After everything was done, I felt free to relax. I was about to stand up and move my body, but suddenly I found that my legs and feet were already numb.
It's okay if I don't move, but when I move, a soreness and numbness will go directly from the soles of my feet to my back. I support my legs with my hands, move them slowly a few times, and then gently tap the muscles to achieve a relaxing effect.
After a while, things gradually returned to normal.
Looking around, I noticed that the sky was getting darker and night was coming.
For dinner, we had charcoal, a small pot...it was pretty good, one or two steamed buns, stuffed with vegetables.
To be honest, this meager meal was not even enough to satisfy the hunger. Fortunately, he had the foresight to bring rice in advance and cook porridge in a small pot.
As soon as the thick and scalding hot porridge was swallowed, a feeling of warmth arose in the stomach. Sure enough, eating something hot would be a great way to warm yourself up.
Conditions were limited, so besides white rice, the only things I brought were thinly chopped pancakes with at least some meat, which I drank with porridge. It had a unique flavor!
After eating, he put out the charcoal and looked at the test questions to be done tomorrow with a candle. He roughly browsed through them and had an idea in his mind. He could think about it while sleeping.
When I woke up the next day, I did a few push-ups to warm up my body as before, and continued to work on the questions. It was the same rhythm for two days in a row.
He practiced a lot of law questions for the second exam. Most of them were questions that Li Chengyou gave him based on some cases and files from the yamen, which gave him a deeper understanding of the laws of the Daqian Dynasty.
Most of the questions on law focus on civil disputes, which are quite common and trivial matters. Maybe the candidates are worried that they have not been exposed to them. Therefore, the focus of law is not to analyze the case, but to use the law.
For example, if a person commits something, what crime should be committed according to the Daqian law? Of course, the question is superficial and does not examine in-depth. As long as the candidate is familiar with the Daqian law and has a little understanding of it, he will most likely pass.
The third round of policy analysis is a very important exam. This exam not only requires you to endorse, but also allows you to make suggestions.
Probably, the question maker will ask some questions about the problems that the Daqian Dynasty is facing, and ask the candidates to answer, what would you do and what should you do in this situation.
He felt that the question this time did not seem to be a question asked by the examiner, but rather by the ruler of the dynasty, because the general content of the question was to ask the examinee what strategies could be used to make the country prosperous and powerful so that the people could have food.
etc. content.
According to Lingyun's thinking, if you want the country to be prosperous and the people to have food, miscellaneous taxes and corvee must be reduced. However, the prerequisite for implementing this policy is that the national treasury must be full, otherwise it will not be able to bear it at all.
If the treasury was full, the emperor would definitely not ask such a question, so after thinking about it, there was only one problem, that is, the treasury was already empty, and the emperor wanted to make money. It was as simple as that.
The response method given by Ling Yun is also quite simple, which is to make a fuss about the land.
I saw him write: Farming is the foundation of the country. If the people are rich, the fields will be fertile, and if the fields are fertile, the harvest will be a hundred times easier... If the people are prosperous, the country will be rich.
The implication is that only by allowing people to eat can they manage the land better. If the land is managed well, output will increase accordingly, taxes will increase accordingly, and the national treasury will have a chance to be filled.
Among them, he proposed policies to benefit the people by implementing land extermination and inhibiting annexation. At the same time, he proposed prohibiting powerful forces from sealing off mountains and rivers and collecting rents and taxes arbitrarily, so that the people could collect wood and fish at will, thereby providing the people with extra income.
Looking at the draft of several hundred words, Ling Yun did not dare to write any more. His strategies were written extremely secretly in order not to be seen by anyone who was interested.
If he writes again, it will affect other people's jobs, which is not a good thing, so he wrote it in a very simple way, but it is a practical and effective method.
If a candidate writes a cake that involves too many people, he will probably only get a thumbs-down from the examiner.
He knows what should be written and what should not be written, and he will not just write whatever comes to mind, which is tantamount to digging a hole and jumping into it.
What he wrote only touched the cake of local powerful people. I think the examiners, who are officials in the capital, would not embarrass him.
He discussed several topics and approached them from various angles. Most of them only wrote some rather simple strategies. However, if someone is interested in reading his article, they will know that he left some suspense, which means that the article is not finished yet.
As for whether he would be approved by the examiner, he didn't know. When the test paper was collected, he relaxed mentally and felt physically exhausted. For nine days, his throat ached and there were faint symptoms of tonsillitis.
After all the soldiers have collected all the papers, they will wait for the examiner to release them. There is also a point in releasing them. They do not release them all at once, but in batches.
The release time was early in the morning, when the lights were dark and drizzle started falling from the sky. Many candidates let out silent wails.
"Hey! This time, I'm afraid it will be gone again..."
"The policy is really...deliberately making things difficult for others."
When it was Ling Yun's turn to walk out, he vaguely heard a desperate voice.
"Hello!"
At this moment, a voice sounded from behind Ling Yun, but he did not turn around. No matter whether it was calling him or not, he regarded it as blank. At this time, he just wanted to go home and lie on the bed to have a good rest.
"Hey, boy, I'm calling you. Why are you walking so fast?"
The sound continued to sound, and people on the road looked back, except Ling Yun.
"Hey kid, I'm calling you!"
The man ran up and grabbed Ling Yun's hand, stared at him and asked, "Why don't you stop?"
Ling Yun then turned around and realized that it was the person sitting opposite him. Only then did he look at this person's appearance.
Wearing a light blue brocade gown, a jade belt around his waist, and a green jade pendant on his waist, the jade pendant swayed left and right with his brisk steps.
He looks like he is in his twenties, and the flesh on his cheeks is outward, making him look a bit bloated. But if you look closely, he is indeed handsome, but it is just covered up by the flesh on his body. If he loses weight, he will definitely be a handsome man.
Ling Yun originally didn't want to talk to him, but when he saw his nostrils turned up slightly, looking a bit provocative and naughty, he couldn't help but frown and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
The man tilted his mouth and said arrogantly, "I...I just called you, why didn't you stop?"
Ling Yun felt that this man was really unreasonable. He was obviously used to being domineering at home, so he asked him why he didn't listen. They didn't know each other, so why did he stop?
"There are so many people here, how do I know you are calling me? Besides, I don't know you, so why should I stop?"
"snort!"
The man groaned, tilted his body, shook his legs and said, "My name is Zhao Yulong, you know me now."
This chapter has been completed!