Qi Baoer rolled his eyes at him, "Don't let me show such an expression now. If the contents of this memorial are true, then the Ministry of Finance has neglected its duties. What's the use of being angry now?"
Dali: "..."
He suddenly lost his strength, looked at his sister helplessly and said: "Your brother, I just have a small document."
He is still a clerk with no grade, and his experience was purely in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Qi Baoer also knew that she had offended her elder brother, but was she the one who would admit her mistake?
No.
The topic suddenly changed: "Brother, why do you have time to come to the palace today? Didn't you just come back to the capital and write poems with the other disciples?"
Dali: "..."
What else can he do to his only precious sister besides just going along with it?!
He sat down on a chair nearby and said, "I have heard some rumors in the past few days, so I came here to tell you about them."
Rumor?
Did you come here specifically to talk to her about the rumors?
Among Lao Qi's family, her eldest brother is the one who dislikes eating melons the least. It is not a trivial matter for him to pay attention to "rumors".
Qi Baoer immediately sat up straight and looked like he was listening.
"Jingzhong recently published a [no roster], and the content is actually speculating on the final policy topic for this year's exam."
The examination lasts for nine days in total, with one session in the morning and one session in the afternoon each day, and each session lasts for two hours.
The content tested is so broad that it can be said to cover all aspects of ancient and modern times and life.
The strategy mentioned by Dali, which is the last item in the first test on the first day, is somewhat similar to the composition in Qi Baoer's Chinese language in his previous life.
Qi Baoer's expression became a little more calm, "Brother, do you suspect that the test questions have been leaked?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she denied this herself, "That's impossible. The emperor only picked up the policy questions in the general exam half an hour before the exam started. Who could leak it?"
The emperor would write the question in the palace, and then the question would be sealed in a special small barrel with seals stuck on both ends of the small barrel. The question would be personally escorted by Qi Wei.
When the students delivered the questions to the examination room, it took exactly half an hour.
Everything is tight before and after, not to mention that all the candidates must have entered the examination room during the first two hours of the exam, otherwise it will really be too late.
This time, Daliang gave his sister a big look, "That's not what I meant, but because of the popularity of [no roster] recently, the candidates waiting for the exam in Beijing have been affected to some extent, and the [no roster] is expensive.
It’s outrageous, the cheapest one costs only five taels of silver, and if you turn it around a few times and sell it for dozens of taels.”
Ironically, every time the general examination takes place, there are always more students from poor families than children from aristocratic families. Not to mention dozens of taels per book, it is only five taels of silver, which is already a sky-high price for many students from poor families.
But what everyone is looking for in Beijing is a bright future, so many students from poor families are willing to eat less and drink less to buy a book to feel at ease.
Da Liang sighed and said in a very helpless tone: "Yesterday, I was having tea and chatting with several classmates in the Zhuangyuan Building. Not long after we sat down, one of the classmates passed out. When the doctor saw him, he actually said
I've been hungry for two days."
And there are many students from poor families like him.
Qi Baoer: "..."
Just, I don’t know how to evaluate it at the moment.
I can't say that those people are stupid. To be honest, for many students from poor families, when they come to participate in the examination, they are not only burdened with their own future, but also with the expectations and responsibilities of their hometown.
The reason is very simple. Many scholars who come from poor families have done so with the help of the whole village or the whole clan.
People are like this. With a lot of pressure, it’s easy to get dizzy sometimes.
But... "Brother, what do you mean by this?"
Don't worry about my little money, I'm very poor.
Being looked at by the girl with such a wary look, the eldest brother suddenly felt like he was in trouble.
"I'm just feeling upset, so I came here to have a chat with you."
Qi Baoer looked at him with eyes that said, "Do you believe it or not?"
Da Liang: "..., okay, I want you to help find out who is behind the [No Roster]?"
Although he has built up a fairly small network of connections in Beijing for many years, he has to admit that due to his status, his network can only be considered low-level in Beijing, and what he can really find out is limited.
For example, his sister's people can go in and out of various houses at will without being discovered, and his sister's secrets are buried in other people's houses. The lowest level is a manager; but if his people want to follow others, they can only
Followed from afar, as for Anzi, his sister was even more incomparable.
When Daliang learned that there was a "no-roster" thing in Beijing that became popular among the people, he guessed that the person behind it must have evil intentions. If nothing else, he had at least two purposes so far.
Reached.
It must be for money. Several of Da Liang's classmates have the "Unlisted Book" in their hands, Da Li has also seen it with his own eyes. The booklet is only the size of a man's palm, with a few thin pages, but the cheapest one is
It costs five taels of silver.
The person behind it is that the content of almost every booklet is different, but the content is indeed a good article written by a talented person, but these articles are either two independent articles, or
It's a section of the same article.
This means that those who have money will buy a few more books and try to piece together the entire article like a jigsaw puzzle. Those who have no money will buy at least one copy so that they can copy it with other readers.
In short, you don’t have to worry about sales.
——The second is to disturb the mentality of everyone.
No matter when a person is about to take an exam, the mentality is of paramount importance. People who have a stable mentality during the exam will definitely have a much greater advantage than those who have an unbalanced mentality.
As I said just now, [no roster] is firstly about guessing questions, and secondly, the article is really excellent; these two points are exactly what the candidates who participated in the examination are most interested in and look forward to.
Good articles have a strong appeal to readers, so why don't you give me a guess?
Qi Bao'er tapped her fingertips on the table, and she understood what Daliang meant, "Brother, you mean, someone wants to use this [no roster] to break down the mentality of all the officials?!"
Just like a scientist will not come out once he enters the laboratory until he can no longer hold on, for many readers, especially those who are truly talented, a good article is similar to catnip.
The attraction to hunters can easily lead their minds away.
The gimmick of guessing questions is a bit more hopeful for those candidates who want to use the imperial examination to change their family.
No matter it was the former or the latter, when they entered the examination room, the former found that they had wasted the most important review time before the exam, and the latter found that they had not guessed the question correctly at all, and they all had to do it.
Collapse.
This seemingly light [Unlisted List] has control over almost all candidates who came to participate in the examination.
"凎!~"
Qi Baoer slapped the table and stood up. In the blink of an eye, Mrs. Kung disappeared. A few breaths later, she was already in the Imperial Study Room.