The third day of the fifth month of the tenth year of the Xuanli calendar, at the time of Chen.
The Yu Dynasty's special examination officially began at the Jixia Academy.
There are a total of 37,626 candidates in this imperial examination, which is divided into 1,000 examination rooms and lasts four hours.
This imperial examination set several records in the Yu Dynasty, one of which caused a sensation was the exam questions!
In previous imperial examinations, the questions were all based on sacred learning, but this time, there was only one policy essay.
When the examiner announced the exam rules, many students were confused.
Is this definitely a special examination?
Why does it look so casual?
Wasn't the exam supposed to last three days? How come it was over in just four hours?
Can the level of performance be determined based on just one policy paper?
But when the examiner announced again that this was the rule set by Earl Ding'an, the students quieted down.
If you think about it carefully, this was originally for the purpose of recruiting officials for the Wofeng Dao. Ding'an Bo was originally the governor of the Wofeng Dao, so of course Ding'an Bo had the final say on the rules.
What kind of policy paper will he come up with?
Some students began to look forward to it, some students were a little confused, and some students were worried.
I'm afraid all my ten years of studying were in vain!
I had hoped to get a high score on the theological essay, but now it seems there is no hope at all.
Sima Che was also shocked. Policy essay... what topic would he come up with?
As a member of a business family, she is well-informed about economic matters and is also very aware of the shortcomings of the current economic policies of the Yu Dynasty.
So she calmed down and waited for the papers to be distributed.
Yun Xiyan happened to be in the same examination room as her. He laughed when he heard this. Policy essays... Fortunately, it was not a test on sacred studies.
As for policy essays, my father said that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. He has been to many places in the Yu Dynasty, witnessed the prosperous Jiangnan and two roads, and also experienced the miserable Longyou Road and Guanxi Road.
He had stayed in the best inns, the dilapidated thatched houses of farmers, and even the ruined land temple.
He not only experienced life, he also learned to think.
Why is the gap between the rich and the poor so big?
Why do people spend their entire lives living in poverty and still have no food to eat?
Among the four classes of people, scholars, farmers, artisans and merchants, farmers are clearly ranked before artisans and merchants, but farmers are the poorest people in the world.
But the hardest working people are the farmers!
All national policies are to support agriculture, but why can’t the face of agriculture change?
He pondered this for three full years.
Until Ding'an Bo introduced the policy of promoting the simultaneous development of commerce and agriculture, he thought that merchants were already much better off than farmers. If the status of merchants was raised further, farmers would simply have no chance of survival.
But it was only after he visited Yao County and Pingling Quyi that he understood the profound meaning of Ding'an Earl's move.
Ding'an Bo uses business to lead agriculture!
Farmers are allowed to go to the fields and workshops to make money, but at the same time the farmland cannot be left idle. Therefore, during the busy farming season, farmers still have to go to the fields, but farming is no longer their main source of income.
This is what Ding Anbo said in "The Wealth of Nations" about liberating productivity!
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When the test papers were handed out, Sima Che took a look and saw, "How to Sweep the World"!
She thought carefully and put down her pen happily: We should use the economy as a broom and the people as the foundation to sweep the world!
Yun Xiyan took the test paper, looked at it, thought for a moment, and then laughed.
He also put down his pen: If you want to conquer the world, you must start by breaking all shackles!
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Fu Xiaoguan left the teaching office and walked on the quiet avenue of books.
The special examination has already begun, and the next ten days will be spent on marking the papers. Of course, the marking will be mainly done by the teachers of the Imperial College and the Imperial Academy's Teaching Office, and he only needs to do the final check.
According to the news from Wofeng Road yesterday, the number of people who moved to Wofeng Road from all over the Yu Dynasty has reached more than five million. What Fu Xiaoguan had never expected was that more than three million of the original Yi people in Wofeng Road were left behind!
If they did not withdraw, then in terms of affiliation, this part of the Yi people belonged to the Yu Dynasty.
The Yi people still live according to their original place of residence, and the more than 5 million people who have newly gone to Wofeng Road have now been roughly arranged with the assistance of Gongsun Ce, Shang Liang, Ma Xingkong and the eldest prince Yu Wentian.
The largest number of people lived in Qingzhou and Wozhou, each accounting for more than two million.
In order not to miss the spring plowing, Gongsun Ce and the other two adopted a temporary plan. Except for the fields in Wofengyuan that were planted by the third generation of the rich family, the rest of the fields that were unowned could be cultivated. Although a lot of them were still abandoned, there would still be some harvest.
The three of them had no way of taking care of such a large territory. In Fu Xiaoguan's opinion, they had done a very good job.
So he planned to keep these three people by his side and let them work in the Taoist government.
It was already May, and by the time the first group of officials were selected and arrived in Wofeng Road, it would be the end of July. The first thing they had to do was to settle all the people under their jurisdiction. The grain allocated by the Ministry of Revenue to Wofeng Road had to be distributed according to the population of each prefecture, county, and county.
Merchants will also select a location in the second half of this year, and the establishment of workshops will begin in the second half of the year.
The land under each prefecture, county and county needs to be remeasured and counted. The equal-field system is actually a very good policy, and the household contract responsibility system will be implemented in due time.
Fu Xiaoguan walked along the Avenue of Books with this thought in mind, and he reached the end. In front of him was the literary world.
He raised his head, startled.
There were originally statues of three saints above this literary world, but now there is one more!
It doesn’t matter if there is one extra one, but why does the extra one look so familiar?
He walked up and frowned... Li Chunfeng, this old bastard!
Why is the statue of Laozi placed here?
Don’t make statues of living people!
Besides, how can I, a small landlord, be on par with the three saints!
No, we have to find Li Chunfeng to tear down this statue!
Fu Xiaoguan turned around and left, and ran into Li Chunfeng head-on.
"Ding'an Earl, His Majesty has arrived."
"...No, Dean Li, was this your idea?"
Fu Xiaoguan pointed at the statue. Li Chunfeng stroked his long beard and laughed, "Back then, you won first place in the Wuchao Literary Competition, and then... the news of your death came. Therefore, the students at the academy felt that your talent and knowledge were comparable to that of a saint, and it was a great opportunity to remember you."
"But I'm not dead!"
"I know! But the incense has already burned, and it would be inappropriate to remove it... Lord Ding'an, just think of it as a memorial tablet for your immortality set up by the students of the academy."
“…”What else could Fu Xiaoguan say?
"What are you doing here, Your Majesty?"
Li Chunfeng was stunned. "He is His Majesty. How would I know what he is doing here?"
"From these students, there will be over a thousand officials selected through the Imperial Examination. They are all your Majesty's subjects. I think your Majesty's presence here is a display of your grace."
Okay, Fu Xiaoguan nodded slightly and walked towards the teaching center with Li Chunfeng.
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