Chapter 1909: Fairness in the Imperial Examinations Boosts Ambition

"I want to find more people to fill the shortage of farmers in Li's farm. What do you think?"

Li Longji was in a good mood. Brother Yi's farmers were really useful at critical moments!

Moreover, they were loyal and did not embezzle or accept bribes. The accounts were clear and not false.

"Your Majesty, people's hearts are hard to measure." Yao Chong looked embarrassed. He did not object to Li Yi recruiting people. He was afraid of going in as a spy.

"It doesn't matter. I have told Brother Yi that Brother Yi has a way to measure people's hearts." Li Longji said with a smile.

Everyone said in unison in tacit understanding: "I second the proposal!"

Li Yi said that he could measure it, and he guaranteed that he could measure it. Maybe he had measured himself. He was dedicated to the Tang Dynasty and was not afraid.

"Brother Yi has never used this method in the past, and he will not use it casually in the future."

Li Longji guaranteed that he would rest assured and would not doubt you.

"Your Majesty, what do you want to eat for lunch?" Zhang Jiuling said abruptly and changed the subject.

"Dao Ji, what do you want to eat?" Li Longji asked Zhang, you are the prefect, how did you arrange it when we came here?

"I sent someone to contact the people in Li's farm. I think they have a menu." Zhang said that I didn't prepare it and I'll cook it now.

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"Eat chicken and duck. Since the locust plague, every family in Henan has been working hard to raise poultry. There is a lot of water in Luoyang, so there are a lot of ducks."

Li Yi was just asked by a farmer. He chose to buy a lot of poultry from the people and not eat geese for the time being.

After saying that, he added: "In the past half month, I have eaten chicken and duck, and I cook them in different ways. Including hairy eggs and eggs, first steamed in a pressure cooker, and then fried or roasted."

He didn't have any other ideas in this regard, including cat meat and rat meat.

As long as the cooking method is reasonable, he can eat anything.

Oh, he doesn't eat dead children, nor does he eat placentas. He still doesn't drink other people's breast milk.

When he didn't catch up with the natural disaster, the elders at home said that the fields had been harvested, and the production team had enough food.

Some of the food had to be handed over, and the food left by themselves was not enough.

Everyone went to dig rat holes. There was food in the rat holes, and rats were caught and eaten.

As long as high temperature sterilization is used, the mice in the field will not spread the plague.

Including eating frogs, sparrows, grasshoppers, and long worms.

Even if the eggs of hatched chickens become chicks, they can be eaten after being cooked, usually fried.

Now the people of the Tang Dynasty eat everything they read in the newspaper. They must be cooked first. They cannot be roasted raw. In some places, they are not roasted well and will get sick after eating.

Li Yi calculated that there were many people coming, so he just helped the local people deal with some things.

So the lunch was decided, a full chicken feast, and a full duck feast in the evening.

Don't worry, pig farmers, at least 400,000 people will come this year.

After the meal was arranged, Li Guiheng came with Ma Jin.

"Owner!" Li Guiheng shouted, tears rolling in his eyes.

"I'm not dead, are you practicing first?" Li Yi finished his words, and there was laughter all around.

Li Guiheng's previous emotions disappeared, and he laughed: "Where is Manager Song?"

"Come here at the end of the year. He will take the imperial examination here next year. Do I know the questions for recitation? What if he doesn't get the first place?"

Li Yi said that there are blank-filling questions and a large sutra-painting question, which are the recitation content.

With the addition of mathematics and medicine, these two are relatively easy to handle. Current affairs strategy and the last poem are not a problem, especially current affairs strategy.

Li Yi wants Song De to get the first place, how to do it?

What is there that there should be no cheating in selecting talents for the country? It doesn't exist. Song De is not a pillar of the country?

What he manages is the current affairs strategy test for others, and he manages it in an orderly manner.

"Boss, cheating is not good. I think we should not give Manager Song the questions for pasting the sutra.

We must be fair. Next year, we will test all the Analects of Confucius!

The Analects of Confucius is good. There are questions about governing the country, being a person, monarchs and ministers, and wars."

Li Guiheng opposed Li Yi's revealing the questions and said with a serious face.

"Hehehe~~~" Princess Yongmu next to her couldn't help laughing out loud, and she actually laughed like a hen laying eggs.

Xiaolan also covered her face and laughed until she squatted down.

The people next to her turned their heads and looked at their bodies. They were probably all laughing.

Only Ma Jin was at a loss. What was he laughing at? What was so funny?

"Okay, fair, next year's imperial examination questions will all be from the Analects." Li Yi gave a thumbs up to praise Li Guiheng's justice and persistence.

"What do you mean?" Ma Jin asked Li Guiheng in a low voice. He found that something was wrong.

"Everyone knows the Analects and is very proficient. There is no way there will be any problems. Then we use arithmetic, medicine, and current affairs to score. As for poetry and prose, there is no conclusion as to whether they are good or not."

Li Guiheng explained, if you can't even post the Analects, how can you have the face to take the imperial examination? Should I change it to Thousand Characters?

"The Analects is simple?" Ma Jin felt hurt, very seriously.

"The interpretation is not simple, but memorizing is simple. The host has given the annotations, and the interpretation is actually not difficult." Li Guiheng talked about it again.

"Is it easy to recite the Analects?" Ma Jin was still surprised.

"Three of your four children are fine, but the remaining grandson is too young, only two years old." Li Guiheng was sure.

"My children can also take the imperial examination? Three?" Ma Jin was happy.

"Your children are far behind in the pasting questions, otherwise they would all take the Tongzi exam." Li Guiheng was helpless, you thought too much.

"Oh!" Ma Jin was disappointed, he thought his child was amazing.

"Study hard, take your child to learn how to govern the village, and then learn well, find an easy subject to take, and you will be reused if you pass the exam."

Li Yi advised Ma Jin not to focus on the first place in the Jinshi exam.

In the future, the Tang Dynasty will need more talents to go down to the grassroots level. The newspapers always introduce the current domestic and "international" situation.

It is relatively easy to take the imperial examination, and there is no problem of redundant officials.

There are few positions for county magistrates, but many other positions.

Those who pass the imperial examination will be arranged to a very low position first, and work their way up from the bottom.

"Okay, Li Dongzhu, don't worry, I will definitely ask them to learn from the good."

Encouraged, Ma Jin cheered up again.

"It is far from Xiaoluonan Village to the county school. We will set up a school next to Zuixianju. There are many children in the village. If adults are willing to learn, they are allowed to follow them."

Li Yi told Ma Jin that he would take care of it at this time, and Ma Jin would go back to arrange it, which involved Xiaoluonan Village.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Ma Jin nodded continuously, and then grinned.

...

As expected, we had chicken at noon, and ate it in Qianyuan Hall.

There was stewed mushrooms, but it was not the most important dish.

Like sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour pork with galangal, braised pork slices, boiled pork slices, spicy pork shreds, fish-flavored pork shreds...

Anything that can be made with other meats can be made with chicken, including twice-cooked pork, which is just a little leaner.

It's a buffet, you can serve yourself, eat as much as you want, and no leftovers are allowed.

Princess Yongmu, Xiaolan and Li Yi sat at a small table, and the three of them did not go to the buffet.

Li Yi made scallion chicken slices with bean sprouts as the base, which was hot and looked like a small casserole.

The three of them ate this, and ate less. They would go out to Luoshui to fish and collect water samples.

If the water sample is good, the fish will be kept for dinner. Everyone eats duck, but it doesn't mean they have to eat it.

The fish caught also need to be dissected to see the situation. It has something to do with the water quality, so it should be treated.