603, the new county magistrate, only eighteen years old.
The exam results came out soon. Brother Zhang was a fourth-class Jinshi. Although he was a good candidate for the fourth-class Jinshi in the first exam, the light still shone on the top three.
After all, the first and second-class Jinshi are in vain. They are not tested, but ordered by the emperor. The third-class is basically Su Shi's level. He is originally from a famous family, so a serious person like Brother Zhang can't even come from a humble family.
For a civilian who cannot be called a commoner, the fourth grade can be said to be the top result. Why is it the most difficult to be an examiner in all dynasties? Do you think it is really an exam? It is due to the sophistication of the world and changes in personnel. Personnel is politics. This thing is no joke.
The first three grades of Jinshi in this subject have basically been monopolized by the generals who helped move the capital, the rich who funded the court, and the civil servants who followed the exile, so this fourth grade is theoretically the only one who can get the exam.
Brother Zhang didn't look at the results that day, because Zhao Rong had already told him the results before the list came out, and then Zhao Zhen would hold a banquet in the palace, called the Hanlin Banquet, to reward Xinxin students for their ten years of study.
The cold window of the year.
"When the time comes, dress appropriately and don't let other students laugh at you."
Zhao Rong took out a lot of clothes from her bag: "I asked the tailor in the palace to make these for you. Please try them quickly."
Brother Zhang was sitting next to the small stove making sugar at this time, because Zhao Rong loves sugar, but the palace craftsmen who can make sugar have stayed in Bianliang. Now we can only use the cane juice obtained from Jiaozhou and Lingnan to make some brown sugar.
Moreover, they made the brown sugar impure, with many impurities, and a bitter taste, so Brother Zhang had to boil some sugar every few days to prepare it for Zhao Rong.
"I'll wait."
"My father and mother both praised you, saying that the sugar you made was finer and softer than the merchants from Zhu that day. They also asked me if I could let you trick me out of the formula, so that you don't have to spend a lot of money to buy it. People
You can also find some business."
"No need to lie." Brother Zhang remained concise and concise as always: "I will teach you."
In fact, even if Brother Zhang doesn't have super powers, he is still almost a living encyclopedia. He is just not confident enough and a little reserved. He always thinks that his brain is not very good. But in fact, he is a living encyclopedia.
It can live well if you throw it anywhere.
He completely illustrated the yellow mud water pouring method on paper. The first step is to squeeze the juice from mature sugar cane, put it into a vat, boil it over fire to make a yellow-black syrup, and then wait for it to condense into brown sugar. The second step
Just use yellow mud water to pour out the brown sugar in the funnel. The black residue flows from the funnel to the bottom, leaving white frost in the funnel. This is the earliest white sugar.
Finally, take off the icing sugar, put it on paper and place it on slaked lime to dry, or add water to dissolve it and boil it. After the water disappears completely, grind it into powder. This becomes crude white sugar. If you want to further purify it, just
Dissolve these sugars into water for a second time, filter them several times and then boil them. The sugar obtained is refined white sugar. If you want to make rock sugar, you only need to hang a yarn above the saturated solution of white sugar, and then wait
Just let it crystallize. If possible, you can put some fruit juices of various colors in it, and the crystallized rock sugar will look even better.
When Zhao Rong handed this to Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen looked at the series of process flow diagrams and looked at Zhao Rong suspiciously: "Is it really that simple?"
Seeing that he didn't believe it, Zhao Rong took out the two jars behind her. This one contained fine white sugar and the other contained colorful rock sugar: "I watched it grow with my own eyes."
"I can't tell that this idiot has all these weird things."
"He knows so much!" Zhao Rong was very happy when talking about Brother Zhang: "He knows everything in heaven and on earth."
Seeing his daughter's appearance, Zhao Zhen felt like he was in a mirror. At this point, the idiot was talking nonsense and said that his daughter would be regarded as a role model, but he couldn't tell that this kid still had something, and he was generous.
Zhao Zhen is not the kind of emperor who hides in the palace and never leaves the house more than once in his life. He really likes to run around. When he was young, he followed several masters and traveled across the rivers. He knew that if this thing
Control how much money you can earn in a year.
"How did you tell him? He would actually give you such an important thing."
"Me? I just said that my father told me to find a way to trick you into making sugar. He said there was no need to trick you, and then he taught me."
When Zhao Zhen heard this, he almost had a cerebral infarction. He pointed at Zhao Rong, dumbfounded: "Did you really say that?"
"Well, isn't this brought to you?"
Zhao Zhen sat in front of the eucalyptus, holding his head with one hand, and hissed for a long time: "Rong'er, Rong'er... you have become like a fool."
"I think it's quite good. Just like Brother Zhang, it would be better if you don't mince words."
Zhao Zhen waved his hand: "Go, go, you are going to make your father angry to death."
"It's okay. Brother Zhang is not angry. He is very generous."
Zhao Zhen let out a long sigh, feeling in his heart that after all, the girl couldn't be kept by the university. The elder brother has already passed away before they got married. If they really get married in the future, I don't know if I can get this girl...
However, in the afternoon, Zhao Zhen actually asked the palace eunuch to do a test according to the method on the drawing, and it was successful in one try. Looking at a large bowl of slightly yellowed white sugar, Zhao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, and then
He summoned the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Industry and showed them a handful of white sugar purified by the palace himself.
Seeing the dumbfounded expressions of the guys from the Ministry of Industry, Zhao Zhen laughed heartily and his vanity was greatly satisfied. If it weren't for the tension in his mind, he might have blurted out "my virtuous son-in-law".
Finally, before dinner in the evening, he called the people from the official department over and asked if there were any vacancies in the surrounding counties that did not require large vacancies. Thousands of households would be enough. The people in the official department were all stupid, you know, he alone
The emperor asked if there was a vacancy for a county magistrate. This was equivalent to a generalissimo calling the front line and ordering the machine gun squad to advance ten meters.
This is why Zhao Zhen is happy today. Normally, he would have been unable to speak for such a face-conscious person. But now that the emperor has spoken in person, the officials certainly did not dare to neglect them. They made adjustments overnight and finally managed to
An older county magistrate was transferred to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to support his elderly people, and then he transferred more than a dozen people in succession, and finally a similar position became vacant.
This county is Yuhang County, Brother Zhang’s nominal hometown. Although Yuhang was promoted to Ji, due to the continuous famine and war in recent years, the total number of households in the county is only more than 6,000, and the population is only 23,000. It is not a country.
It’s a big place. It’s also very close to Lin’an, the capital city. In addition, the place is not a remote place, so it is relatively easy to manage and has convenient transportation and convenient movement.
Just looking at the addition of these various conditions, you can imagine how many brain cells the people in the official department have lost.
Then the Ministry of Personnel reported the situation to Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen did a very bad thing, that is, he bypassed the Ministry of Personnel and directly issued the imperial edict. The Ministry of Personnel did not mind this matter, they were just particularly curious about this person.
What kind of relationship can make His Majesty the Emperor, who has always followed the rules, personally open a back door for him?
You must know that ordinary candidates, even the number one scholar, rarely take up actual positions directly. The average candidates will start as academic officials or judges. They will first have to work hard in the officialdom for four or five years before they can handle things.
There is almost no saying that you will become a county magistrate the next day after passing the exam...
What's even more outrageous is that, first of all, Zhao Zhen exempted all Ji counties from taxes for one year. This is Hangzhou, Hangzhou. There is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. The taxes for one year in Ji counties in Hangzhou can be compared to
He was exempted from traveling to ten counties in the mountains and valleys...
In other words, as long as this 18-year-old county magistrate does not care about human lives in the first year he takes office, he will basically pass the assessment. Who can make an emperor care so much?
They suspected that this young brother was Zhao Zhen's illegitimate son. After all, the current prince was an adopted son, and he had only heard of his fate not long ago. The other princes all died young...
Hey, I really can’t say for sure.
The people in the Ministry of Civil Affairs are very serious about preparing for Brother Zhang to take office, and Brother Zhang is attending the Hanlin Banquet at the moment. This place is a gathering place for passionate teenagers. Everyone is a scholar. Since ancient times, literati have looked down on each other, and there are many differences between them.
Young people are a bit disdainful, even if they are harmonious on the surface, there are all kinds of conflicts and clandestine fights secretly.
But Brother Zhang just wanted to watch the excitement. He sat alone at the farthest table. This place would hardly be seen by the emperor, so most of the people sitting at this table went around holding wine glasses and toasting for show.
Brother Zhang was playing with his big cock with his little penis, his head lowered.
Someone above him was reciting poems as a blessing, but he didn't even raise his head, and someone was singing at the top of his lungs, but he didn't respond. The main character was a peerless and independent person.
Zhao Zhen was naturally happy when he saw those young people below who looked like peacocks spreading their wings, but while he was happy, he kept searching for Brother Zhang with his eyes. After searching around, he found that this idiot was huddled in the corner alone.
Li lowered his head and didn't know what he was doing. He didn't socialize or cling to anyone. He just sat like that the whole time, with a bunch of strange things in front of him, and he didn't know what they were.
As for why Brother Zhang withered his big rooster, it was because his sister Rong liked it. She went out shopping secretly that day, and when she came back she secretly brought back a big, shining rooster. The rooster was very beautiful, but she couldn't bring it back to the palace.
Because Zhao Zhen was born in the year of the Dog and is in conflict with the Rooster, there will be no chicken-related objects in the palace.
So she could only keep that beautiful big rooster with Brother Zhang. Every time she went to play, if Brother Zhang was busy, she would sit there for a long time and watch this big rooster strolling around. When Brother Zhang saw her
She liked it, so naturally I showed her some pictures of this big rooster in different postures. I planned to fill up a box with twenty-four roosters, but it was still a little short of that, so I decided to bring it here to get it started.
Although Wenfeng in the Song Dynasty was at its peak, and almost every generation of imperial examinations produced talents, this generation seemed to have encountered the change of moving the capital. There were not many surprises in the hastily added subjects. Most of them were mediocre. Zhao Zhen watched the peacock bloom for a while.
After all, he has known Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Che, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, and Lu Dajun all his life. Six of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties became famous under his hands.
, these idiots have made his literary aesthetic vision too sophisticated. Looking at these things, they are not young, they are really ordinary.
"Go and see what that idiot is doing."
Zhao Zhen turned his head and ordered the old eunuch beside him: "I didn't see him raise his head."
The old eunuch pretended to be watching the scenery and wandered around in front of Brother Zhang. Then when he saw him wilting his big cock, the old eunuch said he couldn't understand it, so he returned to Zhao Zhen and reported the truth truthfully.
When Zhao Zhen heard that the guy was withering the rooster, he couldn't help laughing. After laughing, he whispered: "That rooster was probably withered for Ronger. A few days ago, I saw Ronger pinching a few.
The wooden cock is so precious, it seems like it was made by his hand."
"Guan Jia, that idiot's craftsmanship is quite good, and the things he makes are lifelike."
"Well, no matter how stupid you are, it's better than this show-off. It seems that this stupid guy is a practical person. Now I want to see what he can do to a county."
In fact, as an emperor, he really likes people who have no background, no party affiliation, no family status, and no school. Such people usually become the emperor's most solid right-hand man. On the contrary, those who are good at dancing are their core
The interests are not for the emperor at all, not even for the country. Sometimes the interests of the family are much higher than the interests of the country. Although it is not all, we have seen too many in the past dynasties.
Nothing new.
The next day, the candidates of these new subjects will go to the palace to receive rewards, except for Brother Zhang, who was driven out by a carriage to become an official. Lin'an is more than 300 miles away from Yuyao, and the carriage journey takes about four days. This is only in Gyeonggi Province.
Around here, you can imagine how inconvenient transportation is in this era.
Brother Zhang had been bumpy on the road for four days, but Zhao Rong could not come with him this time. She wanted to come, and all her clothes had been packed, but of course Zhao Zhen and her mother refused to let her go with them to travel across mountains and rivers, saying that it was because of her body and bones.
It hasn't been well taken care of yet, and if you trudge on hastily now, you may not even be able to save your life in the end.
Therefore, there was only one person on this trip: Brother Zhang, two masters personally appointed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, one county magistrate, one person in charge of civil affairs, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and workers, and thirty-eight arresters.
This specification is unprecedented. After all, everyone is personally appointed by the officials, and they are not newbies. They have three servants, one person, one horse, and they will be squeezed for a while after they are appointed. But when Brother Zhang took office, he brought his own
The whole team...
If not for anything else, just because this man is either the son of the official family or half the son of the official family. No matter which one they are, they cannot afford it, so the cooperation must be in place to ensure that this master is lucky and happy.