When Miss Ge and Miss Liu saw the arrival of brother and sister Li Ziyan, they both stopped looking at each other and turned to Li Ziyan.
But they are all shy people who want to see but dare not.
Li Chu: [I have to work hard to learn from this little girl’s demeanor. 】
Li Ziyan looked at Miss Liu and Miss Ge: What's the look of a little girl's family?
Miss Liu: Ah ah... Mr. Li is looking at me.
Miss Ge: Bah, he is clearly looking at me!
Li Chu: [Wow, it’s pinching again. 】
[And the reason why they started fighting was because they all liked my eldest brother. 】
[And today Master Ge brought his daughter and Liu Daru brought his granddaughter. They all have a common purpose, which is to get married to their eldest brother. 】
Li Ziyan's scalp went numb instantly: Ah, this...can't be done!
Our good friendship, I don’t want it to change!
[The eldest brother is really counterattacking now. He used to be Hua Xu's licking dog and couldn't get ranked, but now he has attracted two noble ladies to fall in love with him! 】
Li Chu's voice was ups and downs, just like that of the storyteller outside.
Hearing Li Ziyan control over and over again, he managed to suppress the twitching corners of his mouth.
He made a serious conclusion in his heart: Don't let your sister go to teahouses in the future.
He took a deep breath and walked home to welcome Mr. Ge and Liu Daru: "It's the juniors who should be visiting you. How dare you two come to visit in person?"
The little old man Liu Daru was so excited that he didn't care about his image. He grabbed Li Ziyan's arm excitedly: "Xiannephew, do you know that it is of great significance that you can come out on top this time as an examiner!"
Dafeng was relatively backward and did not have an imperial examination system.
The imperial court mainly selected officials through recommendation. After the recommendation, a unified examination was held on August 18th every year, and 20 to 100 people were admitted each time.
Before the current emperor came to power, merchants were not eligible to take the exam and could not even sign up.
Only the two classes, scholars and peasants, went to examine for officials.
That being said, but because you need to be recommended, unless you are particularly talented and meet someone who cherishes your talent, you can only have a noble son from a poor family and enter the scholar class.
However, most of the scholars were clique-oriented and secretly xenophobic, so the officials in the imperial court were basically the descendants of fixed people and families.
Regardless of the strength of the people reported for reference by the scholar class, there are only so many people in the sect, so we can only choose from here.
Moreover, in order to protect their reputation and interests, various families will suppress poor families.
Lord Ge and Liu Daru were both from poor families, so they knew the difficulties here, so they also hoped that more people of non-scholar descent would enter the court.
The monopoly of scholars will affect and control the imperial power, and will also exploit the interests of the people.
Before Li Ziyan, Liu Daru, a peasant, was the only one who came first among the examiners. However, after Liu Daru entered the court, he secured more examiner places for the poorer children.
Now that Li Ziyan has opened up the restrictions on the descendants of merchants, how can Liu Daru not be excited.
Li Chu: [It’s hard to say, this is actually a double-edged sword. 】
[Merchants can take exams for officials and enter the court, which indeed weakens the class and improves fairness for everyone. 】
[However, it is easier for businessmen to earn profits than ordinary people who dig food in the fields. In this way, there will be a phenomenon of buying and selling officials in the future. 】
[There are only a limited number of places. In the past, ordinary people who studied hard could still have the opportunity to become officials and change careers. In this case, it will only be more difficult for ordinary people to get ahead. 】
[And most of those who use money to buy officials are not people who serve the people and the country. They will only use their power to seek greater benefits for themselves and their families. 】
[Buying an official position, whenever a corrupt official appears, the local people will only be afraid of losing their skin. 】
[Of course, there are many who pass the exam on their own, and there are also many who forget their original aspirations and become corrupt officials. 】
[This depends on whether the court has corresponding supporting systems. 】
Li Ziyan fell into deep thought after hearing Li Chu's words.
Naturally, he didn't want the situation he opened to be like that.
He wanted to be an examiner and study hard, but he just didn't want to be looked at like a "despicable businessman" anymore, and he didn't want to step on anyone.
But if the situation he opens up is like that, my sister is now a princess anyway, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't become an official.
Li Chu didn't know that her brother had such depraved thoughts. If he knew, he would definitely be heartbroken.
"Sir, do you know where the emperor will place me?" Li Ziyan asked Liu Daru.
Liu Daru shook his head: "I don't know yet."
After Li Ziyan invited Liu Daru in, he looked around and asked him in a low voice: "The emperor allows merchants to examine officials, but does he want to reform the system of selecting officials?"
Liu Daru immediately admired him even more, and kept patting him on the shoulder: "Knowing the subtleties, so..."
"good……"
"good……"
He said hello three times.
Li Ziyan knew that the emperor really wanted to reform the system of selecting officials.
Ahem...
Although the emperor has many melons, he is still a good emperor.
He still wanted to talk to the third brother more, lest the third brother follow his sister and eat too much melon, and now he doesn't want to be an examiner or hang out with the emperor.
When Miss Ge saw that Liu Daru was talking to Li Ziyan so loudly, but her father remained silent all the way, she was so angry that she glared at her father, and even murmured at Li Ziyan's back: Dad, come on up!
Otherwise Liu Daru will rob the person.
Master Ge: I also want to have sex with your father!
But Liu Daru is your father and my predecessor, so I can’t get past him.
Miss Ge: This is the time to grab a good husband, not the time to be humble.
Be humble, if you lie on the ground and use him as a footstool at other times, my daughter, I won't even say a word.
Mr. Ge: It’s really a female foreign minister.
But he didn't want his good son-in-law to be robbed, so he took big steps to follow Li Ziyan.
Everyone heard a crisp "click" sound.
The "click" sound was followed by Master Ge's wailing: "Ouch, ouch, my crotch..."
I took too big a step and stretched my hips.
Really pull the crotch.
Miss Ge hurriedly stepped forward to support Mr. Ge, almost wanting to die: "Dad, are you okay?"
Master Ge held on, "It's okay, it's okay."
Li Chu saw that his legs couldn't close together and diagnosed: "Brother, Mr. Ge needs bone correction."
It was also the first time she saw someone walking, and her bones were moved out of place.
Awesome!
As expected of someone who dared to confront the heroine for her brother.
At this moment, trying to catch up with her brother, she actually broke her own bones.
Li Ziyan was also frightened, and quickly put Li Chu on the ground, then helped Master Ge and asked someone to call the doctor.
Mr. Liu said earnestly: "Xiao Ge, you young people are so impatient that you can't even walk steadily."
Mr. Ge is about to cry but has no tears: I suspect you are always making insinuations about me.
Because Lord Ge pulled his crotch, neither Lord Ge nor Lord Liu found the chatterbox in the end to talk about getting married.
When Li Ziyan saw them off, he breathed out softly.
But before he could fully breathe out, the Li Mansion was surrounded by the Eighth Prince and his officers and soldiers.
