Wei and Jin cooks

No one knows that Zhao Mingming is the crown princess, but as her friends, everyone knows that she is very talented and ambitious.

Like-minded people meet to take the national examination together.

People who can be recognized by Zhao Mingming are naturally not that weak in ability. This is the time when a hundred schools of thought are contending, and they naturally want to make achievements in their official careers. Therefore, after receiving her invitation, they agreed after a little thought.

Those who asked for leave asked for leave, those who resigned resigned, those who packed their baggage packed their baggage, and everyone headed for Luoyang from all directions.

Everyone met in Luoyang, and Zhao Mingming generously provided a big house to accommodate them.

The person who lived in looked surprised and asked: "How much does it cost to rent this house for a month? I haven't seen you for two years, and you are so rich?"

Zhao Mingming did not say that this was one of her villas, but said: "I went to the battlefield several times, and I have some trophies. Plus my salary has been saved, I still have money to rent a house. You can live here safely."

Only then did my friends remember to ask, "You are already a general and you can obviously pursue a martial arts career. Why did you go back to Beijing to take the national examination instead?"

Zhao Mingming: "The Kouman Khanate has surrendered, Dahua is strong, and there will be no more wars in the short term. It is impossible to advance through military merit. Then we can only rely on training, improving armaments, and military competitions for promotion, and promotion based on seniority. , I can’t wait.”

Moreover, the military is also undergoing reforms now.

After the establishment of the new dynasty, there were wars from time to time. For more than ten years, there were wars every now and then. With each war, the Chinese State regained all the land it had divided before, and also pushed the border lines outward.

In order to allow the army to have no worries when going on an expedition and to better accommodate disabled and retired veterans, Zhao Hanzhang placed many national workshops under the name of the army.

However, in recent years, all ethnic groups and regions have lived in harmony due to the country's prosperity and strong desire for power. There have been few wars, and various problems in the military have emerged.

The interests of the workshops, which were originally used to accommodate disabled and retired veterans, were also usurped by military generals and second-generation military officers, so Zhao Hanzhang began to reform.

Those people were all people who followed her mother through life and death. She could already predict the results of the military reforms. Although it could be carried out, it would be time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the results were far inferior to the civilian reforms.

She was just about to realize her ambition, so how could she have the patience to slowly go through it with them?

So she chose to start with civil reform. The reform plan she had discussed with Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong was about to be implemented.

Over the past five years, Zhao Hanzhang has taken the lead and embarked on tax reform.

The Ding tax was added to the land rent and land tax, and the main taxes were paid in cash. The whole country was busy and lively for three years, and finally stabilized.

The past two years have been a stable period. Zhao Hanzhang is checking for leaks and filling in the gaps, and has not carried out new reform projects.

Before returning to Beijing, the mother and daughter communicated that the reform proposal to abolish regular service would be handed over to Zhao Mingming.

Because official service is not only related to population, but also to land assets, so you can take this opportunity to check population and land assets again, which is a continuation of the new tax reform.

If Zhao Mingming can do this well, it will show that she has the ability to take charge of her own role, and Zhao Hanzhang can consider delegating power to her;

If not, Zhao Hanzhang would have to continue to train her and wipe her ass.

The imperial concubine returned to the capital after her training, and the court became lively like a frying pan falling into water. The court, which had always been relatively lively, suddenly became too active.

Zhao Hanzhang looked at the excited courtiers with red faces and bright eyes, and was very worried about the physical condition of her loved ones.

So excited, be careful of high blood pressure.

The first thing Zhao Mingming did when he returned to Beijing was to be appointed as the chief examiner of the National Examination for Talent Recruitment and concurrently as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

This is to give her the right to choose officials and allow her to choose the talents she likes from this national examination.

Zhao Mingming has been thinking about how to choose talents who can cooperate with her reforms in the past few years. She has already thought of the topic, but no one knows it except her.

Oh, maybe Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong who have been following her can guess something. After all, they all know her purpose.

But neither of them can take the national exam this year.

The poor Taoists were all killed in battle, so naturally they couldn't take advantage of their fellow Taoists, so they didn't say anything to anyone else and watched silently as their friends walked into the examination room without knowing anything.

This time the national examination was over, and the candidates who came out of the examination room all looked despairing, "Why is this year's policy analysis so difficult?"

"It's ruined, it's ruined, even one of my test papers was ruined. Is this question really written by the Crown Princess?"

“Why are the questions given by young people so difficult?”

"It's because you are young that you dare to raise such a topic, right? Just name him to discuss His Majesty's new policy."

But if the Crown Princess dares to ask directly, they must also dare to speak directly.

If you say it's all right, there seems to be no new ideas and it's hard to stand out; if you say it's not good, wouldn't that mean you are going against the emperor?

The best way is to say yes, but also to find problems with the New Deal, or to propose some continuing reforms.

But how many of the candidates have this opinion?

Among all the princes in the court, who is not smarter than them? Who doesn’t have more foresight than them?

Most of the candidates were disheartened and felt that they had failed the exam.

But there are also people who are confident and feel that this exam question is exactly what they want. They have seen all the New Deal reforms in the past five years.

The New Deal is naturally good, but there are always various problems when it is implemented at the local level.

The emperor is in the capital, so he may not be aware of the chaos underneath and thinks that the New Deal is intact. Now let them tell her the status of the New Deal in the local area.

The court, which had already become calm, became lively again because of the New Deal.

After Zhao Hanzhang finished handling government affairs, he came over to join in the fun. He picked up a test paper and saw that half of the position for policy theory was empty. Most of the written parts were flattering her. He glanced at the answers in other positions and found that other parts of his The answers were all good, so he threw them aside, flipped through other papers, and asked, "Are there any good papers?"

Zhao Mingming held up a few papers and said, "Mom, look at it."

Zhao Hanzhang took it and looked at it seriously.

Some people implicitly scolded her that the New Deal was a waste of money and people, while others openly praised the New Deal and then gave some practical suggestions.

She looked at them all carefully.

"Those who scold me are saying that people pay money and need to sell grain and cloth to vendors in order to get money to pay taxes. In some places, the price of grain and cloth is very low every summer and autumn harvest time, regardless of whether the harvest is good or not. If the harvest fails, the people will suffer.”

"It can be seen that the court is still not doing enough to stabilize prices," Zhao Hanzhang asked Zhao Mingming: "How should this matter be resolved?"

"The first is to order county governments in various places to set minimum grain and cloth prices during the summer and autumn harvests, and to invest in the purchase of grain and cloth to stabilize prices; the second is to strengthen supervision and severely punish profiteers who drive up and suppress prices."

Zhao Mingming paused and then said: "Your Majesty, I suggest that the imperial court should form a censorship group to inspect the granaries in various places, ensure that the granaries are abundant, and inspect the account books of the granaries in various places."

When Zhao Hanzhang heard this, he burst out laughing, "If you can think of checking the granary, it's not in vain that you have gone out to experience these years."

Yes, if there is a problem in stabilizing prices, we need to check the granary. What's the use of just looking at the county government?

If there is no problem with the food in the granary and the account books, how come the people's food cannot be sold for the price?

Granaries in various places have to replace old ones with new ones every year.

Zhao Hanzhang said: "I heard that Fan Lianyin's arithmetic is better than her mother. She has been idle at home since she returned to Beijing. Now that you are the left minister of the household department, I'd better leave this matter to you."

Zhao Mingming raised the corners of her lips, lowered her head and responded, asking for an official for her other friend, "Your Majesty, there are still ancestors who have great moral integrity. It is very dangerous for the censor to patrol. You may encounter robbers and bandits at some point."

Zhao Hanzhang's eyes darkened, and he nodded: "Okay, I will make Zu Daozhong the captain of the imperial army, and order him to assist in managing the household department and the Yushitai."

Fan Lianyin was hired as a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs and assistant manager Zhao Mingming.

Fan Ying also came under Zhao Mingming. For this inspection, she sent several powerful censors over to help Zhao Mingming.

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