Be a master through ancient times

Chu Ci is studying the tabloid, which was bought from a local restaurant.Just like the restaurant in Yuanshan County back then, every once in a while, someone would be invited to talk about the big and small things that happened all over the country.

Chu Ci flipped through the pages while writing something on the paper.Although in the past, the questions in the palace examination were basically related to the policy of governing the country, the administration of officials, disaster relief, etc., but if it can be analyzed in combination with the specific situation, the article will be more touching.

Chu Ci spent the whole morning reading all the recorded events in the past two years, and then summed up a few points.

One is disaster.The snow disaster in Mobei the year before last was the biggest disaster in recent years. Except for this, it was almost all small troubles that could be handled by the local government.

The disaster relief strategy for the snow disaster in Mobei was written by Chu Ci. If this topic comes up, Chu Ci will just rewrite what he wrote last time, and he can also take advantage of the opportunity to refresh his impression.If he remembered correctly, the late emperor was seriously ill at that time, the current emperor, the former second prince handled this matter on his behalf.

However, this kind of sending questions should not come out.But no matter what kind of disaster it is, Chu Ci has a way to deal with it. Who knows that modern information is widely spread, even if you have not experienced it, you can still learn about it from TV or newspapers.

The second is the administration of officials.Mr. Zhang Songnian's "Ode to the Officials and the People" has exhausted the sorrow of the low-level bureaucrats. If there are more questions about the administration of officials, others will inevitably have the shadow of this article.

It is said that Mr. Zhang is also a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, but Chuci did not see him this time.It should be because he has already served as the chief examiner of the provincial examination. If he takes the post of the general examination again, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not play favoritism and end up with the name of selecting scholars based on affection.So he found another job for himself early on, and he will return to Beijing after he has tried it.If he returns to Beijing, Chu Ci will come to visit him, so he will not be rude.

The last is the policy of governing the country. As the saying goes, benevolent policies are used in prosperous times, and heavy codes are used in troubled times.Right now, the Great Wei Dynasty is in the transition from the old to the new, and the two parties, the Retro faction and the Reformist, are fighting each other. Although their original intentions are all for the good of the Great Wei Dynasty, they are actually not beneficial to the country.

Fortunately, His Majesty is a man of means. He sits on the mountain and watches the tigers fight, and never favors any side. He uses the method of carrots and sticks to drive both sides to make meritorious deeds, instead of defeating each other by pulling and stepping.

Since His Majesty is also a person who practiced the golden mean, Chu Ci decided his own direction, and he still had to keep it quiet and continue to be moderate, so as not to poke any party.But there must be bright spots. Too plain articles make people not interested in reading.

Alas, it is difficult!

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On April 21st, the students who stood out from the competition this time waited at the gate of the palace together, waiting for His Majesty to summon them.

There is no need for a body search in the imperial examination, firstly because no one dares to cheat in front of the Holy Master, and secondly because, since they have passed the general examination, it means that they have a ranking, and at worst they are also from the Jinshi family, so why bother?

Chu Ci and Shen Congfei stood together and whispered something.This time Xijiang Province won a total of a dozen or so winners. Although most of them were ranked quite low, they didn't care at all. No. 1 is in their Xijiang Province, the lagging behind is just a malfunction, who dares to say that their Xijiang Province is behind others?

Around Chen Shi, the palace gate in front of them slowly opened.A palace man shouted in his shrill voice: "Your Majesty has an order, please follow me to the Palace of Preserving Harmony."

The students lined up in two rows and followed the father-in-law towards the inside.Inside the vermilion gate, there is a long aisle that can't be seen at a glance. The walls on both sides are tall and solemn, blocking all the sunlight outside.

The leading eunuch was silent, walking hurriedly.The students followed behind, not daring to make a sound, but followed silently.

I don't know how many aisles and palace gates they passed, and when they stood on the square in front of the Palace of Preserving Harmony, they came back to their senses, and secretly looked at everything around them with eyes full of excitement.

After ten years of cold windows, no one asked, and once he became famous, the world knew it.

Once in this life, no matter how hard it was before, it was worth it.

"Silence! Next, all students are invited to enter the Hall of Preservation and Harmony, and they can only come forward when they read their names. The first name will be tested, and Chu Ci of Xijiang Province will come forward!"

Chu Ci made three steps in parallel, hurried forward, and then, led by a young eunuch, arrived at the gate of the Hall of Preserving Harmony.The two guards standing at the door held up their spears and searched him all over. After finding that he was not carrying any dangerous items, they let go of the crossed spears and signaled him to go in.

Chuci entered the vast hall, stood still in the middle and then respectfully knelt down and kowtowed: "Chuci from the Xijiang River, kowtow to the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

"Exemption from courtesy." The emperor sitting on the high seat coughed, and then kindly called him up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Chu Ci got up, and involuntarily raised his head to glance at the emperor, and then realized that his behavior was inappropriate, and immediately lowered his head again, pretending to be humble.

"Give Hui Yuanlang a seat."

"Here." An eunuch replied, and then led Chu Ci to the first seat on the left in the hall and sat down.

Another person came from behind, just like Chuci before, they first knelt down and then sat down.

Chu Ci took advantage of this time to secretly look at His Majesty the Emperor.

The new emperor was about 40 years old, his face looked a little pale, and his slightly slender eyes seemed calm, but in fact there was a gloomy light flashing between them.

He couldn't help but notice Chu Ci's gaze, and after only a few glances, he lowered his head.For some reason, he always felt that this His Majesty looked familiar.

More than 200 people said that more is not too much, and that less is not too much.After a quarter of an hour, they all entered the hall and took their seats.

"All the sages gathered together today will become the pillars of our Great Wei Dynasty in the future, managing the land and water. This is really a blessing for our Great Wei Dynasty."

All the students stood up, cupped their hands and said in thanks: "Thank you for your compliment, we will definitely die and die, and do our best to conquer the Great Wei Dynasty."

After finishing the scene, the emperor motioned for everyone to sit down, and then took up the ink pen, and wrote a question on the imperial edict of Ming and Huang.

The reading officer stepped forward, respectfully accepted the imperial decree, then stood on the stage, and read aloud: "It's rainy this spring, a river embankment collapsed in a certain place, floods raged, and countless farmlands and houses were submerged. People were displaced and starved to death everywhere. The ruler should How about it? What about an official? What about a citizen?"

While listening, Chu Ci wrote down the topic on paper, secretly complaining about the emperor in his heart. He thought it was only about one aspect, but he didn't expect that every aspect was involved.Whether it is governing the country, or government officials and disaster relief are included, it really saves trouble.

Although the question covered a wide range of complaints in my heart, in fact, Chu Ci was very confident in answering such a question.

He recalled some modern governance methods, and after summarizing in his mind, he began to write.

"A certain county suffered a disaster, the embankment collapsed, and the people were displaced. This is the misfortune of the country. We are deeply saddened... Those who govern the country should send food and grass from all over the country to the disaster area to relieve the hunger of the victims, and send two imperial envoys. , supervise each other along the way, so that the corruption of ink cannot be reproduced. In addition, it is necessary to dispatch officials from the Ministry of Industry who are good at building water conservancy to repair river embankments, or dig river canals to divert water. Some doctors should also be dispatched from the Imperial Hospital to avoid After the flood, the plague raged... An official needs to make a decisive decision. At the beginning of the rainstorm, he should take precautions early and order the people under his jurisdiction to move to a higher place for refuge. If the opportunity has been lost, he must calmly deal with it and order his officials Yamen servants dispatch boats to relieve victims of disasters. When food and grass are allocated by the imperial court, porridge sheds should be set up to relieve victims of disasters. Officials must check every detail, and don’t let corrupt officials and corrupt officials fall into the fire and water of the people... for Citizens should be self-improving, young and strong, cherish the old and the young, help each other in times of disaster, or set up a self-rescue team, take the people who are good at water and steer first, and rescue the neighbors..."

With a swipe of the Chu Ci, I wrote thousands of words, all words and sentences are combined with history, to participate in the creation of the future, based on the people of this dynasty, and based on the actual implementation plan as the criterion, such an article has been achieved .

He was already sitting at the first place, and the emperor could see him writing vigorously as long as he lowered his head a little.When he stopped writing, breathed a sigh of relief, and showed a confident smile on his face, the emperor noticed it.

He looked around the examination room and saw that some of the students were frowning in thought, some were leaning over to write, and no one put down their pens.He stood up from his seat and began to inspect the examination room.

Chu Ci rubbed his wrist, took out the answer sheet, and prepared to start transcribing.A shadow suddenly covered him, and Chu Ci caught a glimpse of the corner of the bright yellow clothes, his body was a little stiff.

After a while, he moved his body slightly to the side as if nothing had happened, so that the emperor could take a closer look.

The emperor was not polite, seeing that he graciously stepped aside, he directly took the article he wrote on the draft paper to read.

After reading it, the emperor put the manuscript back, with a slight anger on his face.When someone with a heart sees it, they think about it and make a secret decision.

Chu Ci didn't know the twists and turns, seeing that the manuscript paper had been put back, he began to transcribe it on the answer sheet.

When the stick of incense in front of the hall was burned out, someone came down to collect the answer sheet, carried it to the cabinet, and the ministers read the answer sheet.The emperor got up and left, everyone shouted long live and sent the emperor off respectfully.

It was almost noon at this time, the emperor sympathized with these students and gave them food in the corridor.Some students ate very politely and moved very carefully. They took a small bite of food and chewed it dozens of times before swallowing it.

They have self-knowledge, maybe today is the most glorious day in their lives, and this porch meal will also be the most solemn meal they have ever eaten.

Chuci felt a little depressed while eating these steamed soft dishes.The shape of this dish looks good, but this time it has been stewed for an unknown period of time, and it was delivered all the way from the imperial dining room, so the taste has long been lost.But he didn't dare to leave any leftovers, and he wanted to be like everyone else, not leaving a grain of rice and drinking all the vegetable soup.

After eating, they entered the Palace of Preserving Harmony for a rest.At this time, in the main hall, apart from their students, there were only a few young eunuchs.Some students walked around to communicate, and the expressions on their faces became lively.But there are still some, but they are still sitting in the same place as before.

After staying like this for an afternoon, everyone gradually became a little anxious. At this time, the eunuch's communication voice came from outside the door: "Long live God is here!"

Everyone hurriedly got up and saluted again, their hearts were extremely excited, because the time to decide their fate had come!

The emperor sat on the high platform, and several cabinet ministers also came out, sitting on the emperor's head and facing these students.

The emperor looked at the ten answer sheets in front of him and began to read them one by one.When he saw the first one, he froze for a moment, but finally finished the first one with a frown.He read down again, frowning even tighter.

He didn't read the second article, and went directly to read the third, fourth... all the way to the tenth.

"My dear friends, are these the top ten you all elected together?" the emperor asked, with an inexplicable look on his face.

"Your Majesty, these are indeed the top ten recommended by me. Each answer sheet was discussed by the five of us." Zuo Xiang has the highest official position, so he can only answer first.

The meaning of his words is clear, that is to tell the emperor, if you want to blame, you can blame everyone, but don't blame me alone.

"Your Majesty, in fact, there is still an answer sheet, and the answer is neat and clear. But...we don't know how to deal with it." The right minister got up and said.

"Oh? Why?"

"Master Wu said that this article is a taboo."

"What taboo did you commit?"

"I violated the pseudonym used by the late emperor when he went out."

"Ridiculous! How could the pseudonym used by the late Emperor Bailongyu be widely known, and use this as an excuse not to be ranked in the top ten? Isn't it ridiculous! Submit that article!"

Soon, someone brought up the article.After Tianhedi read it, he directly wrote a few words on it.

The letter: the talent of the champion!

That Mr. Wu's face is ashen, this article is suppressed by him against all opinions, he speaks with certainty, His Majesty must not like it after reading it, other adults have their own ideas, so they agree.He saw the emperor in the palace with a thin face after reading it, obviously he was not happy!

After the champion was selected, Tianhedi changed the order of the top ten answer sheets, and put the top three at the end.

"Call the names." The emperor set the ranking, and then looked at everyone with a half-smile.

"Of order." The roll call officer tremblingly removed the red paper covering No.1's name, and read aloud:

"Tianhe First Year's Palace Examination No. [-], Chu Ci, Changxi Village, Yuanshan County, Ganzhou Prefecture, Xijiang Province!"