Chapter 119 119 Drought Resistance Strategy

Zeng Yuanshu has rich experience in failing the exam, so he only knows how to comfort Wei Guangde for a moment.

After getting the exam all the way, Wei Guangde was really hit completely.

Although I had a premonition before, to be honest, Wei Guangde was still a little reluctant to believe it would become a fact.

But as he kept passing through the inn gate, Wei Guangde knew that he had really failed this time.

Fortunately, because everyone here is the youngest, no one sneered at his performance, so many people came to comfort him.

In fact, everyone's mentality is similar at this time and they are lost.

Everyone thought that it was because Wei Guangde was young, so he was so out of control after facing the blow of failure in the exam, and shed tears in public.

But only Wei Guangde knew in his heart that the tears that fell were not falling for the sake of failing the exam, but because the belief that had been established in his heart for several months collapsed.

He is not a chosen person, a son of God, or a time traveler with great luck. He accidentally came to this place.

As for the previous few exams, okay, maybe it's luck.

Of course, Wei Guangde naturally would not say it when facing the gaze of Zeng Yuanshu, Lao Kan and others.

Wiping the tears left on his face, Wei Guangde smiled, "I'm fine, I just feel that I can't be on the list. I'm a little sorry for my mother at home, and my father who is still fighting against Japanese pirates in Zhejiang."

When Zeng Yuanshu and the others heard Wei Guangde say this, he let out a relaxed breath.

In their minds, although Wei Guangde is already a scholar, he is only so old and just a child.

Perhaps, only such a child is not infected with the imperial examinations, and the dust of his career is still empty and clean.

If you fail the exam, you will not think of anything else, but your parents and elders who are eagerly looking forward to will be disappointed.

"Brother Guangde and filial son, Shilong is not as good as you."

At this time, Mr. Zhu Shilong, who had been in the limelight before, said in a low tone.

Wei Guangde didn't know that his tears set up a golden sign for him in the circle of scholars in Jiangxi - the filial son of the Ming Dynasty.

What no one knows is that in order to show the character of Jiujiang students, Zhu Shilong spread Wei Guangde's appearance everywhere, and even shared it with other candidates in the province at the subsequent Luming Banquet.

Well, the story naturally reached the ears of the Jiangxi chief examiner and many examiners in the current subject.

In the story, Wei Guangde has become a model of loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness. His father is bathing in the battlefield for the country, and his mother is also looking forward to it at home. Wei Guangde resists the pressure to participate in this year's imperial examination, from the county examination to the provincial examination.

Then, there was nothing else. After failing the provincial examination, the tears he shed were not for himself, but for his father who fought for the country on the battlefield and his mother who was waiting at home, which disappointed them.

"Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness" is the core of Confucianism and has always been praised by scholars and officials.

In "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness", "loyalty and filial piety" is the most basic, and loyalty is the foundation of building a country; filial piety is the foundation of building a family.

The word "loyalty and filial piety" supports the "building" of this country, nation and the entire family, just like "four pillars", standing firm; otherwise, the building of the country will collapse.

"Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness" is called "Five Constant" and is also the five Constant in the old saying "Three Bonds and Five Constant". The Three Bonds refer to the ruler as the subject, the father as the son, and the husband as the wife, and the five Constant is this kind of benevolence, righteousness, and etiquette.

Wisdom and trust are the foundation of one's life.

The chief examiner and the examiners heard that there was a candidate who failed the exam in this provincial examination. Naturally, no one knew what he thought, but at least on the surface, they were all regretful and sighed.

An examiner took out Wei Guangde's paper and looked carefully. Indeed, the eight-legged essay was not sophisticated enough, and it was not unfair to fail the exam. When I saw the policy and discussions later, it made people feel refreshed.

The weather is abnormal this year. There has not been heavy rain in Jiangxi since the beginning of spring, and droughts have occurred in all parts of the province.

Yes, there was another drought in Jiangxi.

In fact, if the information of this era can be as smooth as that of later generations, people will find that not only Jiangxi, but also many prefectures and counties across the country are causing disasters.

What only the senior officials in the capital know is that since the fifth year of Jiajing, there have been severe droughts in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces; in the seventh year of Jiajing, there were severe droughts in North China provinces; in Hubei, there were severe droughts, and hungry people ate together; in Sichuan, there were severe droughts; in Jiajing, there were severe droughts; in Jiajing, there were severe droughts;

In the 17th year, there was a severe drought in Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi, Fujian, Hubei, and Hunan. Hungry people gathered in the capital. In the 24th year of Jiajing, Zhejiang and Hubei, and in the 24th year of Fujian, there was a severe drought in the road. In the 20th year of Fujian, the people died of hunger.

Naturally, the current text test questions for this Jiangxi provincial examination are about asking how to deal with the current drought. This is what the candidates in the school should do if they are officials to deal with natural disasters.

The country has experienced continuous extreme droughts, and severe droughts have raging in nine provinces in the north and south, resulting in large-scale grain production reductions in areas that account for more than 70% of the national tax quota, causing the Ming court to significantly reduce the mainland taxes while

Large-scale increase in fiscal expenditures to be used for relief and border defense in the mainland, resulting in a huge fiscal deficit of the central government.

The continuous drought exposed the shortcomings of the corruption of the Ming court's salt administration, the royal family occupied the land, and the abandonment of military camps. The border supply system failed. The Ming court had to reform the salt administration, check the six ministries and even investigate the fields of Xunqizhuang.

Preparation for food and food for relief and border supply to deal with the crisis ultimately led to the start of the "Jiajing Reform".

However, all this gradually ended after Emperor Jiajing chose to practice Taoism. Perhaps he believed that if he succeeded in cultivating immortals, this series of disasters could be easily solved.

Perhaps Emperor Jiajing chose to cultivate immortality because disasters occurred repeatedly in the empire for more than ten or twenty consecutive years.

If Wei Guangde knew about the above information and someone would remind him from the side, he might think of a word he had seen: "Little Binghe in the late Ming Dynasty". No one would remind him that Wei Guangde would never have thought of going there.

What's more, even if he thinks about it, he doesn't have the ability to call the wind and rain.

Maybe some bad ideas come to mind, such as sending troops to Southeast Asia to plunder food.

However, the Ming Dynasty's military strength was not high at this time, so it was probably a sheep that could be sent to the tiger's mouth.

Wei Guangde's initial answer was actually consistent with most candidates' answers, with less taxes and extensive accumulation. He hoped to promptly submit a court to reduce money and grain, exempt people from suffering, and at the same time, he repaired water conservancy facilities to prevent floods and droughts.

He did not commit suicide and said that the drought was because there were treacherous treacherous treacherous people in the court and needed to kill them.

However, from later generations, Wei Guangde still had a little broader idea.

In fact, in later generations, there is no way to face disasters such as large-scale drought.

Digging wells or delivering water from a long distance can only solve the problem of water use for people and animals. Timely replacement of drought-resistant crops according to time is the main means to ensure agricultural harvest.

Therefore, in his answer, Wei Guangde proposed the idea of ​​setting up a supervisor to study crops, especially drought-resistant crops. In fact, it is to establish a later Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In his vision, he set up a special department to study crops and find high-quality and high-yield crops for promotion.

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Chapter completed!