The selection of talents in the palace is a major event for many people, especially for scholars, which is equivalent to the abolition of the previous recommendation system to a certain extent, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, it can be said to be unprecedented, which is equivalent to taking back the right to raise talents from the hands of scholars.
Although there is a reason for it, maybe only this once, but for many people, once this head is opened, it is inevitable that there will be a second or third time in the future.
But there is nothing to be done, this scene of scholars gathering in Chang'an now, it can be said that they have contributed to it, and now Liu Xie is taking advantage of the situation, and the reason is enough to make it difficult for the scholars to speak.
However, for Liu Xie, this palace selection of talents, is only for the future three studies and even the imperial examination, with such a beginning, in the future want to promote step by step, it will be much easier, for Liu Xie, the most important thing is Cai Yan They revised and sorted out the nine chapters of arithmetic into a book, it has been almost half a year, but a book to change and revise again, it takes a lot of time, even if the top talents in this area are gathered in Chang'an now, Liu Xie also didn't know if he could get the book out before the county school was established.
A large number of scholars after the inspection of the palace guards, three or five groups entered the square outside the Weiyang Palace, where a large number of tables have been placed in advance, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are readily available, Liu Xie this time is ready to imitate the rules of the examination room in later generations, as far as possible to avoid the appearance of favoritism, the examination paper will also be ordered to be sealed, the name will be sealed, and then if the paper is marked, there will be him and Yang Biao, Sima Fang and several other respected celebrities together for review, to avoid fraud and favoritism to the greatest extent.
"The questions of today's test have been placed on your desk, please answer them yourself, answer them yourself, do not speak, once you find them, they will be expelled immediately, and you can understand" Outside the main hall of Weiyang Palace, Liu Xie looked at these admiring scholars and said loudly.
"The ministers understand," the scholars hurriedly bowed.
"Start" Liu Xie waved his hand, and the guards who had already prepared struck a gong, which also meant that this exam had officially begun.
Just when the people of Chang'an gathered in Weiyang Palace to conduct the first real exam in this era, Yizhou, which was thousands of miles away, fell into a dire situation.
Time goes back to March ago, as the situation in the imperial court stabilized, the news that the scholars were subdued by Liu Xie reached Guo Jia through the special channels of the Secret Guard Mansion, and Guo Jia's plan that had been prepared for more than a year also began.
"It's worthy of Your Majesty, with this method, I'm afraid that Yang Biao's old thief has the heart to cry at the moment."
Looking at the information sent by the secret guard, Guo Jia couldn't help but laugh heartily.
"Sir, then our plan" Qin Yong looked at Guo Jia, his eyes flashing with excitement.
"Let's start, in business, you are better than me, this matter, you will have full authority to operate, with business as the sword, Your Majesty's ideas are wild, but if it can really be done, you must settle in Shuzhong, effortlessly" Guo Jia raised the corner of his mouth and chuckled.
"Huh," Qin Yong agreed excitedly.
As early as two months ago, Qin Yong had begun to secretly lay out, and various shops began to gradually increase the price of purchasing Shu brocade.
Shu brocade is a special product in Shu, the most glorious time, even exported to the Western Regions, although these years due to war, foreign sales down, but the same is a symbol of nobles, the Qin family suddenly began to raise the price to buy Shu brocade, soon attracted the attention of people with a heart, the huge influence of the Qin family played a role at this time, no need for Qin Yong to do anything, the price of Shu brocade began to rise, and even appeared in short supply.
You know, although Shu brocade is famous, but it belongs to luxury, the original output of Shu is not high, at this moment the major families began to buy largely, and the inventory in the entire market will soon bottom out.
Folk began to appear a lot of specialized weaving Shu brocade workshops, Shu in the families are also constantly producing, as long as a horse Shu brocade is produced, it is enough to make a family of three live without food and clothing for a year or even longer, and what is even crazier is that the price of Shu brocade is still rising, just one month, it is ten times more than the original, at this time, the people are not willing to sell Shu brocade, just wait for some hoarding, the price of Shu brocade is higher and then shot.
However, at this craziest time, Qin Yong suddenly put the Shu brocade that had been liked for a month suddenly into the market, and a large number of Shu brocade suddenly put into the market.
But at this time, the Qin family used the profits made from Shu brocade to start buying a large amount of grain, and transported it to the imperial court one by one.
The imperial court is going to war I don't know who spread this news, and at the same time, Guo Jia also released the contradiction between the scholars and the court little by little, the internal instability of the imperial court, and a large amount of grain and grass needed to be dispatched for the army to consume, and the imperial court had just fought with Yuan Shu, and the treasury had already been exhausted, so it was necessary to buy food through various channels.
As soon as this news came out, everyone believed it, although the news in Shuzhong was closed, but because of the salt transportation for more than a year, the contact with the imperial court was quite close, what happened recently in the imperial court, and the battle of Nanyang last year, even the people knew something, not to mention the family.
Although the imperial court needed grain and grass, it mattered to them that Liu Zhang even took the lead in purchasing a large amount of grain, preparing to sit on the ground and raise the price, and make huge profits from the hands of the imperial court.
Qin Yong is quite gentle, and the purchase of grain is purchased by commercial means, but the family is different, ninety percent of the land in Shu is theirs, and in previous years, some will be allocated to tenants, so that they can make a living and work better for themselves, but this time, seeing that Qin Yong does not ask the price, as long as there is grain, he collects as much as he wants, and scatters hundreds of thousands of millions of money every day, as if it is not money at all, but broken copper and iron, giving people the feeling that Qin Yong wants to use the entire Qin family to buy grain.
The price of grain rose from 300 yuan a stone at the beginning to 3,000 yuan a stone in just one month, and many times the Qin family's shops could not receive grain.
The grain in the hands of the tenant farmers is limited, and this thing is different from Shu brocade, and the people also have to live, so after collecting more than 100,000 stone grain at the beginning, the people in Shu have no surplus grain in their hands and sell it to the Qin family's shops.
Qin Yong, through the connections he had established in Shu during this time, bought another 100,000 stone of grain and grass from several great families at a price ten times higher than the market price, and the two families also rose from the original 3,000 yuan a stone to 5,000 yuan a stone.
"Lord, you can't let the price of grain rise again" Yizhou, Assassin Shifu, Zhang Song knelt down in front of Liu Zhang, and wailed: "If it goes up again, the people of my Shu will have no food available" At this time, Zhang Song had already discovered that there was something wrong, and in just one month, the price of grain had risen to nearly 20 times the original amount, and it was still rising.
"How can there be no food available" Liu Zhang pursed his lips disdainfully when he heard this: "The grain that Qin Yong bought was only 300,000 stones." ” Shuzhong is the country of abundance, and by the geographical advantage, the world has been in turmoil over the years, but Shuzhong is smooth and rainy, except for the Nanban area, has not suffered from the war, only 300,000 stone grain, it is impossible to affect the livelihood of the people in Shuzhong.
"But the rest of the grain is gathered in the hands of the family, and there is no surplus grain in the hands of the people, and now the high price of grain in the counties of Yizhou and even in the land of Nanban, is the income of ordinary people for a year, and I am afraid it is not enough for the family to use it for a month. " "Yongnian is a bit exaggerated."
Wu Yi shook his head and sneered: "My Yizhou is the country of abundance, the people are rich, every household has surplus grain, and now the imperial court is using soldiers, and we are doing this to make my Yizhou more rich." ” "Not bad, not bad."
Liu Zhang nodded, he was still waiting for Qin Yong to come to him at a higher price to buy grain, you know, when Liu Yan wanted to give Liu Xie a gift, Liu Zhang dared to start on it for money, at this moment the grain price market is so hot, if he wants to take action to stabilize the price of grain, not to mention whether the family is willing or not, even he is definitely not willing to suppress the price of grain at this time.
"Lord" Zhang Song knelt on the ground and said in a mournful voice: "Qin Yong is a thief who calamities the country, this person is not credible, he used the market price of Shu brocade cholera in Shu brocade, and the heads of the family have also suffered a lot of losses on this Shu brocade, have you forgotten?"
"Brother Yongnian's words are wrong."
A scribe on the side smiled and said: "Qin Yong used Shu Jin to gather funds, also to raise money to buy grain, and now these money, aren't they coming back?"
Qin Yong's money to buy 100,000 stone grains and grass before almost smashed back all the benefits made in Shu Jin before, and even lost a lot, and the resentment accumulated before because of Shu Jin's affairs naturally disappeared, and now everyone is waiting for Qin Yong, a boy who scatters wealth, to continue to scatter wealth, at this time, no one in the entire Shu will embarrass Qin Yong.
"My lord, the minister thinks that what Brother Yongnian said is good."
Wang Fu stood up and arched his hand towards Liu Zhang: "The people take food as the sky, since ancient times, the price of grain has been inflated, followed by the people's riots, Qin Yong is now wantonly raising the price of grain, and his heart can be punished."
"Not bad."
Zhao Lei also got up and said: "Although the grain in Shuzhong has not been lost, almost all of it is in the hands of the family, and the people have no food, and the people will inevitably revolt." ” "Enough" Liu Zhang stood up angrily, waved his sleeves and said: "Then Qin Yong is still in Chengdu now, if it is really as expected by Er and others, he will be arrested at that time, and there is no need to discuss this matter." ” "Lord" Zhang Song looked at Liu Zhang distractedly, at this moment, for Liu Zhang, he was completely desperate, and looked up to the sky and laughed sadly: "The lord doesn't listen to the advice, this Yizhou will be taken by others sooner or later" "Presumptuous, drive me out with a stick, and don't step into the state pastoral mansion for half a step" Liu Zhang couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, and shouted loudly.
At that moment, a samurai stepped forward, ready to drive Zhang Song away.
"No need, go by yourself" Zhang Song snorted coldly, ignored everyone, and strode out of the house, leaving Liu Zhang, who had a gloomy face, staring at the direction where Zhang Song left. t1706231537: