Meng Yue: "..."
The smile on his face froze.
Xu Ying on the side sighed and said: "I am also worried about this. Brother Meng, tomorrow's policy discussion topic will definitely be even more difficult."
Meng Yue: "..."
He couldn't laugh anymore.
"Do your best and leave it to fate. Anyway, everyone does their best on weekdays."
Li Qiao comforted Meng Yue.
"Yes, I tried my best anyway. At worst, I will come back in three years." Meng Yue frowned. This time was not in vain. Not only did she see the bustle and prosperity of Shengjing, but she also gained experience.
Meng Yue adjusted her mentality, and when she returned, the sadness on her face had disappeared. Anyway, she had to take the last exam tomorrow, so she didn’t want to think about it anymore!
Meng Yue and Xu Ying left, and Tao Zhu looked at Li Qiao, a little worried: "Will tomorrow's policy topic lead to the 180th level of hell?"
Li Qiao let out a laugh, raised his hand to rub the knot between his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "When the soldiers come, they will cover up the water and the earth. At worst, we will come back in three years."
Tao Zhu: "..."
He couldn't laugh.
Li Qiao is different from Meng Yue. Li Qiao's insulting words offended all the candidates this year. The other candidates are all waiting to see Li Qiao's joke. Under such circumstances, Li Qiao cannot really become a joke...
Li Qiao works so hard on weekdays!
"Let's go make dinner and go to bed early. We have to get up early tomorrow."
Li Qiao felt a little unsure, but he didn't want Tao Zhu to worry, so he could only pull Tao Zhu to do other things to divert his attention.
Tao Zhu couldn't understand what Li Qiao was thinking. After dinner, the two of them washed up and went to bed.
Before going to bed, he first kissed you. After the kiss was over, he lay in Li Qiao's arms, put his ear to Li Qiao's heart, and said seriously: "No one in this class of candidates has the right to laugh at you. If someone laughs at you, we will If you argue with him, you will definitely win."
"Huh?" Li Qiao was amused by his words and raised his hand to stroke his hair: "How do you say it?"
"These questions set by the Holy Spirit, it seems, are nothing more than for the people to prosper. You have already used practical actions to hand over the answer sheet of Hexi Prefecture. Do other candidates have similar answer sheets?"
"If not, then what right do they have to laugh at you?"
Li Qiao: "..."
He was startled.
"Besides, we come from a small place, and we are still young. In terms of vision, experience, and foundation, we cannot compare with others."
"It's unfair for you to sit in the same examination room and compete with them. If they beat you, it's natural. If you have the ability, let them be born in a small mountain village and pass all the way in just five years. Stand at Shengjing."
Tao Zhu pursed his lips as he spoke.
In the past few days, he had heard a lot of cynicism outside the court. If he hadn't been afraid of affecting Li Qiao's exam, he would have definitely quarreled with those people.
"As expected of my Zhu brother, he is devoted to me." Li Qiao's heart was hotter than the kang beneath him. He patted Tao Zhu on the back: "If other people really laugh at me, then let's just talk to each other like this. They’re noisy.”
"Look up and let me kiss you."
When Tao Zhu heard this, he hummed heavily. He had already thought of his words. He was not afraid of anyone!
He arched his body upwards and looked up to find Li Qiao's lips.
I have to kiss him for a while longer, and I have to say goodbye to Li Qiao again tomorrow morning.
The next day, the weather was fine, and we could see stars all over the sky when we went to Gongyuan.
Li Qiao was searched like the previous two games, went to his dormitory, and then waited for the test papers to be handed out.
In the evening, the soldiers who handed out the test papers finally came. Li Qiao took the test paper, took a deep breath, and then looked at the words on the test paper.
Today’s session is only about policy theory.
The policy topic comes from the holy essay that was published last month.
On the sixth day of last month, Sheng Shangxin wrote a short essay, lamenting that running a country is not easy. The taxes collected every year have not yet been sent to Shengjing, so he has arranged where to spend them.
When I wrote such a short composition on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, everyone was speculating whether the Holy Spirit was in a bad mood.
But there was no other news from the palace, so many officials, including Li Qiao himself, did not take this essay seriously.
Because this short essay had no substantive content, and I heard that the Holy Spirit wrote it at night, Li Qiao thought that the Holy Spirit was emo in the middle of the night, so he wrote a piece of pure nonsense.
But I never expected that the question for this exam would actually come from this short essay!
Li Qiao has good ears. He heard a lot of gasping, grinding teeth, banging on the wooden board, etc. It was obvious that everyone was shocked by today's topic.
Because it's really...shameless.
In the past, regarding the issues of the canal and the Yellow River, the emperor used the imperial examination to collect good ideas from scholars all over the world. This is understandable, because whether it is the canal or the Yellow River, it is related to the fate of countless people and is a major event that affects future generations.
But today’s topic is how to enrich the national treasury!
Is this reaching out to the world to ask for money?
In the exam hall, begging for money from all the disciples in the world, your Majesty can really do it!
However, this topic came from the Holy One. Sitting in the Gongyuan of Shengjing, who would dare to scold the Holy One?
No one dares.
Candidates could only express their dissatisfaction by gasping and slamming the table.
How could such a big issue as filling the national treasury be left to a bunch of small groups to discuss? Thank you, Holy See, for looking up to them.
Li Qiao supported his head with one hand and gently tapped the words "replenishing the treasury" with the other hand. His eyebrows were slightly wrinkled and his brain was spinning rapidly.
Filling the national treasury is a bigger problem than the canal and the Yellow River. It is the national treasury and the entire Dasheng money bag.
It’s really difficult to fill up this money bag and still have to beat other candidates.
No wonder the first two games were so easy, I was waiting for today.
However, although this topic is big, it is not biased. Seriously speaking, this is actually an issue that every Dasheng official should consider.
With such a big question, it is too easy to widen the gap, and it is so easy to see the true level of a candidate.
But that doesn't include him.
Tao Zhu felt unfair for him and felt it was unfair to put him in the same exam as Xin Zhi and Gu Lianghan.
In fact, the candidates who were really treated unfairly were Xin Zhi, Gu Lianghan and other candidates, because he was comparing his vision and information from his previous life with these people.
This is a dimensionality reduction attack.
All I can say is thank you, Your Majesty.
If there is no Holy Master, then his road to the imperial examination will be really difficult to reach the sky.
He stood up and bowed towards the palace. Then he sat down and polished his ink. He already had a rough outline in his mind.
Write the framework, fill in the details, and make a rough draft.
Polish it and write a draft again.
After confirming that it was correct, he began to copy it on the test paper.
By the time he finished copying, it was not yet noon on the third day.
He couldn't hand in papers in advance for the general examination, so he had to wait.
Bored, he strained his ears to listen to the other candidates.
Other candidates were struggling at this time. The topic of filling the treasury was too big, and conventional methods of filling the treasury had been done in all dynasties.
For example, salt and iron monopoly, wine and wine monopoly, tax law reform, etc. Now let them, a bunch of people who have never been officials, think of other things. Isn't this really deliberately embarrassing people?
How to write this?
Bald!
big head!
Li Qiao listened to the movements of the other candidates and couldn't help but look in the direction of the palace again. The Holy Emperor was really his boss!
We sat there until the evening, when the exam was over. Soldiers came to collect the test papers, and many candidates lined up to leave the examination room.
Today, many candidates are no longer as relaxed and high-spirited as they were in the first two games. Almost everyone is dejected and sighs.
Li Qiao didn't pretend to be serious. When he saw Tao Zhu after leaving the examination room, he immediately laughed.
Tao Zhu observed the faces of other candidates and knew that the test questions this time were very difficult. He was worried in his heart, but when he saw Li Qiao's smiling face, he couldn't help but laugh too, jumped up and waved to Li Qiao.
Anyway, the exam is over, let’s go home first!
It was already dark when I got home, and I was just about to make dinner when Zhuang Wen, Meng Yue, Xu Yingchen, and Han Ning all came.
Although Zhuang Wen was extremely tired, he still managed to push on. He really wanted to know Li Qiao's answer.
Meng Yue's mentality has been adjusted, and he laughed: "What I wrote is very simple, kill corrupt officials!"
"Robbing a corrupt official's house will definitely bring you a lot of money. What a good way."
When Xu Ying heard this, she couldn't help but laugh, but there was obvious helplessness in her smile: "What I wrote was about making money from rich people, like a painting guy. The clothes he designed were very nice. When he was wearing them for shopping, several people asked him specifically. Where is he?"
Apart from the traditional means of increasing income, he really couldn't think of anything else, so he wrote on Shen Hua next to him.
He was a little unsure: "If the imperial court takes the initiative to build a cloth shop, and this cloth shop sells beautiful clothes that no one else has, then there should be many people buying it, right?"
"There will definitely be a lot of people buying it! The clothes I made are so beautiful, even Brother Qiao is satisfied."
Shen Hua couldn't help but look at Li Qiao, with a bit of pride on his face. Hey, Xu Ying actually wrote him on the paper.
This makes the Xu family very angry!
Li Qiao nodded generously: "Brother Zhu looks very good on the clothes designed by Brother Hua. I like them very much. Brother Hua is very talented in this area."
When Shen Hua heard this, he immediately became happy: "Did you hear that? Brother Qiao said yes!"
Xu Ying looked at his proud look and couldn't help but laugh: "Brother Hua is very good."
"Of course!" Shen Hua shook his head and narrowed his eyes with a smile.
"Tsk, I wrote down my small furniture business. This small business didn't make much at first, but then many out-of-town traders came to Pingcheng. Many of these traders rented houses, so my house can be dismantled. The small furniture is quite popular.”
Zhuang Wen also laughed. Although he didn't earn much, it was still a new method and different from traditional methods.
