manynovel Chapter 426 Current Affairs, 3 Brother-in-law
Chapter 426 Current Affairs, 3 Brother-in-law
The emperor sighed upon hearing this, and the scene of their young marriage emerged before his eyes.
Even though it was not his original intention to marry the queen, after the wedding, they still lived in harmony for a while.
Thinking back to the time when the empress was in charge of the imperial harem and even after he ascended the throne, she also took care of the harem affairs without any mistakes. Even if she had no credit, she had worked hard, he couldn't help but feel soft-hearted.
"Go to Kunling Palace!" the emperor suddenly stood up and said.
"As you wish!" Zhou Sheng was shocked. Sure enough! What that person said about the queen eventually rising to power might be true.
The news that the emperor was heading to Kunling Palace soon reached the ears of those who were interested.
That night, how many people had their minds aroused, and how many people had trouble sleeping.
In the capital of Northern Province, Jiang Youzhen had just finished her second exam. She stood in the aisle and stretched her arms and legs, feeling that she had indeed become a lot more pampered.
This was indeed not a life for a human being. Even though it was a bit cool at night, she was already sticky from sweating so much during the day.
But the front of the cell was open, so she could only wait until everyone was asleep at night and there was no candlelight before she could quickly wipe herself.
I breathed a sigh of relief. It was almost over! There was only one last round left, three days and two nights.
"Everyone line up and draw your number, no noise allowed!"
This time Jiang Youzhen's luck was not so good. He drew a room very close to the stinky number, only two rooms away.
As soon as he walked over here, Jiang Youzhen smelled a foul odor. Even if the toilet in the bathroom was emptied once a day, how many people had used the toilet in the past few days? If it wasn't emptied every day, I'm afraid it would be full of maggots.
She wanted to ignore the odor at the tip of her nose, but unfortunately the smell would automatically penetrate into her nostrils. With a dry heave, Jiang Youzhen immediately tore off a piece of cloth from the corner of his robe and tied it behind his head, making a simple mask.
Just as I was cleaning the cell, I heard a shout from the next room: "This is so unlucky, won't it suffocate me to death?"
I can only express sympathy for this gentleman Jiang Youzhen. In fact, she herself is not much better.
The steamed buns have been eaten, and it is not suitable to eat them at this time. After all, whose steamed buns can be kept for five or six days in such weather without going bad?
Jiang Youzhen cooked some rice porridge and ate half a bowl of it with some homemade dried radish. Then he couldn't eat any more.
I don’t dare to drink liquid water, otherwise I’ll have to wait to go to the toilet!
After lying in bed in a daze all night, Jiang Youzhen got up and washed before dawn.
This time, the person sitting opposite him was a candidate in his thirties. He was sleeping soundly. He waited until Jiang Youzhen had washed up and had some porridge before he got up to change his clothes.
I don't know how the wooden board, which couldn't even stretch its legs straight, could sleep so soundly, but maybe it was because he was too tired from not getting enough sleep in the past few days because of the exams.
The third test is about policy questions, which consists of five questions. Each answer must not be less than 500 words.
These five questions are all about current affairs, and they combine the theories of Confucian classics to express opinions and views on current affairs and government affairs of the dynasty. This exam is particularly important. The dynasty attaches great importance to current affairs, and good answers to the questions directly affect the ranking.
If you have ranked among the top in the previous two exams, but you don’t do well in this one, then you will basically have no chance of getting a good ranking.
However, policy questions and questions from the Four Books have always been Jiang Youzhen's strong points.
Because there are many words in the questions, it would take a lot of time to copy down all five questions. Therefore, this dynasty directly distributes the test papers with the questions, saving the candidates from copying.
Let’s look at the first question first. “The major plan of the country is the most urgent task today. For three generations, there is no better way to manage finances than to follow a comprehensive method…”
This policy question is 300 words long and is about finance.
If we discuss this topic from the perspective of Confucian classics, we must quote from classics.
Jiang Youzhen thought for a moment before he began to write, "The way a sage governs a country is based on the principles of heaven, the rules of the earth, and the rules of man..."
The invigilators this time were Li Qian, the Censor of the Northern Province, and Guo Lun, the Deputy Censor. The Censor was of the third rank, and the Deputy Censor was of the fourth rank, both of whom were high-ranking local officials.
However, these two people were responsible for the overall inspection of the exam, but for some reason, they both came to Jiang Youzhen one after another.
Jiang Youzhen, a person who has been mentioned by both princes and court officials in the court.
Li Qian and Guo Lun just wanted to see what this student who proposed building a new wharf, opening a canal, and a new tea-trading policy was capable of.
However, upon first glance, they were both shocked. Isn't this just a young boy?
The young man in front of her was writing furiously. Even when someone was walking in front of her, she didn't even raise her head.
Li Qian looked left and right, and saw only harmless young men with bookish airs. However, both new strategies were proposed by this boy, and he couldn't help but sigh that there really were such child prodigies in this world.
He couldn't help but think of Jiang Yansong, the left governor's evaluation of Jiang Youzhen, and he suddenly had an idea.
Jiang Youzhen didn't notice anyone was watching her, she was concentrating on copying the first question.
She wrote nearly a thousand words for the first article, and it was almost noon when she finished copying it.
There was a terrible stench nearby, and Jiang Youzhen covered his mouth with a cloth, which made him feel better, but he had no appetite to eat.
Thinking that he had no appetite anyway, Jiang Youzhen stopped cooking and started writing the next article.
Jiang Fugui and his wife in Tongzhou Prefecture have been neither of them wanting to eat nor drink these past two days. They have not even been to the farm these two days and have only been tending to the flowers and plants in the house.
"I wonder how Xiaolang did in the exam!" Shen sighed.
"You've already passed the county exam, don't worry about it. But it did take a little longer this time." Jiang Fugui also sighed, and suddenly saw Shen still watering the flowers, so he quickly stopped her.
"Stop watering them! You're drowning the flowers. Xiaolang said these flowers are very important. Once they grow, we'll plant them in the farm and use them to make rouge and powder."
Jiang Fugui grabbed the shower head. If Xiaolang was really drowned, how would he explain it when he came back?
"Ouch!" Shen quickly came back to her senses.
"Ah! What do you know? This exam is very special. I heard it will take ten days! And she has to live inside. I heard she lives in a small rat hole. How can she live there? Can she bear it?"
"Mother, what is a rat hole? That's called a house. Don't tell anyone, or you'll embarrass Xiaolang."
As soon as San Ya Jiang Qiu walked into the garden, she heard Shen's words and was immediately at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"I don't understand. Anyway, they say that the room is so small that you can't even stretch your legs straight when you sleep!"
Shen was worried. Ever since her daughter started earning money, she had become spoiled. She didn't know if she could endure the situation.
"Mother, my little boy is a man. I don't think he is spoiled. As a scholar, he can endure this little hardship. When he wins the first prize in the imperial examination in the future, all these hardships will be worth it."
At this time, a man walked out of the house. This man was San Ya's husband, Jiang Youzhen's third brother-in-law, named Zhen Yuanshu.
He was from Wen County, two years older than Sanya. He was also a scholar, but his family was well-off and had a small workshop at home where he made wine.