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Zhao Ning's foundation is not bad, he was enlightened by his grandfather, and his grandfather has studied for more than 30 years, although he failed to get the honor, but the basic things are not bad.

It's just that there are few scholars in their place, and there are even fewer candidates. Zhao Ning didn't have a scholar until he was ten years old.

But that scholar's knowledge is limited, and the books that Zhao Ning can read are also limited, so his learning depth is limited, and it is naturally difficult to go further.

What Gu Jingyun loves is his diligence. Although he believes that talent is the most important thing, if you don't have talent, you need to work hard to make up for it.

And Zhao Ning happened to have this advantage.

So Gu Jingyun is willing to teach him with his heart.

Zhao Ning was very anxious to read the book, but Gu Jingyun didn't give him the book, but casually asked him about the knowledge in the book, and he nodded slightly when he saw that he answered well, but when the topic expanded a little, he needed to think, and some of them could answer , and some shook their heads directly, and if they went deeper, their eyes were full of confusion, and they didn't even know the source of the topic.

Zhao Ning was sweating profusely. He knew that Gu Jingyun was very knowledgeable and that he was better than himself, but he didn't expect to be so powerful.

Li Baolu watched from the side and was worried for him.

Gu Jingyun was silent for a moment, and said: "With your current situation, if you participate in Qiuwei, the possibility of winning is only five points, and the ranking will not be very good. If you can calm down and study with me for two months, you may have a seven-point chance." It may be possible, but it will be difficult to go further.”

It means that he will probably fail to participate in Chunwei next year.

Zhao Ning was very happy, "Seven points, that's great."

His grandfather failed the exam all his life, so he knows the difficulty of the imperial examination, and his goal is to pass the exam before the age of thirty, and the exam before the age of forty, as long as he can pass the exam before he dies, he will be very happy Satisfied.

Gu Jingyun \u0026 Li Baolu: ...

So have you lived your whole life for exams?

All day long, Gu Jingyun had been trying to find out for Zhao Ning, and he didn't ask him to read a single book.

Zhao Ning always feels a little flustered when he doesn't read a book. In the evening, after learning a section of Wu Qin Xi under Li Baolu's gaze, he stood there wearily.

Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu ignored him.

It is not a bad thing to like reading, but it is a bad thing to read like him.

The two took the reluctant Zhao Ning out for a walk. The young couple in front walked side by side, expressing their opinions on the small things sold on both sides of the street from time to time, and Zhao Ning followed behind dejectedly.

When I got home from a walk, I was having dinner. After dinner, the group went to the backyard to digest.

Gu Jingyun then asked Zhao Ning, "It is said in "Xunzi? The Way of the King": If you are greedy for profit, then hundreds of officials will take advantage of it and then take advantage of it, and take thousands of people without limit. The tax of salt tax is especially serious. In your opinion How to prevent Yan Dao from being greedy and cruel, so as to benefit the people?"

Zhao Ning was taken aback, and asked, "Which gentleman came up with this topic?"

"No, I was the one who tested you, so you can say whatever you want in your heart, don't be afraid that I will return your test paper."

Zhao Ning pursed his lips slightly, and said hesitantly: "This question is too sharp..."

"Which year are the questions in the provincial and general examinations not sharp? Stop talking nonsense and answer quickly!" Gu Jingyun said impatiently.

Zhao Ning stammered and said, "Yes, we should strengthen the supervision, and we can set up more inspectors in the Liangjiang and Lianghu areas..."

Gu Jingyun was a little disappointed, but he still listened patiently.

Then he turned his head and asked Mu Yangling, "If it were you, what would you do?"

Li Baolu bowed her head and thought for a while, "Strengthening supervision is one aspect, but the most important thing is that the imperial court fixes the price of salt. All official salt sold in the shop, no matter how many times it has been transferred in the middle, whether it is a loss or a profit, it will be sold outside. The price is not allowed to exceed a certain amount, and the minimum amount of salt that should be provided every day is also restricted. If the merchant fails to complete one of the two within a certain time limit, then the other party’s salt fee will be cancelled.”

Zhao Ning opened his mouth wide, so ruthless!

"How is this possible? If it's a loss, wouldn't it be the merchant who suffers?"

"They will find a way not to suffer. If there is no other way, then they will not be qualified for the salt class. At that time, it will be the responsibility of the local officials." Li Baolu said with a slight smile: "The cost of salt is actually not high, otherwise private salt It will not be popular, and the reason why the price of salt remains high is because officials and salt merchants colluded to raise the price of salt. I think that if the price of salt is fixed from the beginning, then the profit they share will also be fixed If they want to make more money, they can only save costs, or cut off unnecessary circulation links in the middle, or reduce the cost of drying salt.”

Gu Jingyun said to Zhao Ning: "There is nothing wrong with being well-regulated, because Confucianism teaches the way of the mean, but it is not good if you are afraid to move forward."

Gu Jingyun found a copy of the mansion from the study and reported it to him, "This is the record that the Minister of the Ministry of Households wrote to sort out the salt class and regulate the salt market this spring. Although it has not been passed, there are constant voices in the court. The selection of scholars by the country should be based on the important affairs of the country. If you are in the court and the emperor asks you, how should you answer?"

Zhao Ning pondered.

"You go back and think about it again, and give the homework to me in three days."

This is to broaden Zhao Ning's thinking, and Gu Jingyun will ask him a big question every three days.

In addition, the two of them still have half an hour of debate time every day, and Gu Jingyun often gives a direction, and the two of them will discuss along this.

In the beginning, Zhao Ning was still in a daze, so Gu Jingyun pulled Li Baolu in to join them. Zhao Ning watched their back and forth debates, and he vaguely understood after several times of going back and forth like this, and began to join in trembling.

Then Li Baolu withdrew and stood aside watching Zhao Ning being hanged and beaten by Gu Jingyun.

Seeing Gu Jingyun push Zhao Ning to a desperate situation several times, seeing him blushing and staring at Gu Jingyun with a thick neck, wishing he could rush up and beat Gu Jingyun, then he jumped out cheerfully to inform them that it was time for afternoon tea!

The township examination is in-depth, but it also focuses on the foundation. Gu Jingyun has passed Zhao Ning's exam and knows his foundation, so he will spend two hours a day consolidating his foundation, and this time accounts for the largest proportion.

He said: "The foundation is the most important and the most difficult to fix, but I don't agree with you reading and endorsing for ten hours a day. The first thing a qualified student should do is to understand his own strengths and weaknesses, and then make a schedule accordingly , review according to the plan, and then modify the plan according to what you get."

It turns out that he has lived for more than twenty years, but he is still not a qualified student?

And every day, Zhao Ning still has two hours of free time. He can arrange it by himself, or he can go shopping in Guangzhou with Gu Jingyun, or go to the inn to communicate with other candidates.

After really studying with Gu Jingyun, Zhao Ning realized that he had so much time.

Zhao Ning made rapid progress, and candidates who had close contacts with him naturally noticed it.

Because every one or two days, they will get together to discuss their studies and make progress with each other.

In the past, when everyone was discussing a problem, Zhao Ning would say two or three words, and the rest would either listen carefully to what others had to say, or simply express that he also had this question.

But during this period of time, Zhao Ning didn't say that all the questions they brought up for discussion could have something to say, but he could participate in eight of the ten questions, and even if he didn't understand the remaining two questions, he could make everyone think deeply. .

This change is particularly noticeable because it occurred so suddenly.

There are only two possibilities for this change. One is that Zhao Ning used to hide his clumsiness, but now his ability is his true level.

The second is that Zhao Ning has a good teacher to teach him.

The first one was quickly ruled out by everyone.

Zhao Ninglai has participated in the college examination three times. Last year, he stayed in the Guangzhou Mansion directly after passing the examination as a scholar. There were many people who knew him well and gathered together from time to time. Everyone even visited his study room. Ability is well understood.

So his sudden rapid progress is the second situation.

When everyone looked at Zhao Ning again, they felt jealous, jealous and envious.

Those who can get together are those who have similar abilities and can promote progress together. Now Zhao Ning suddenly walks ahead of them, which means that the possibility of Zhao Ning getting selected increases, and the possibility of them failing the ranking also increases.

After all, the number of people in the township examination is fixed, and they are selected according to their rankings. Zhao Ning is stronger than them, so naturally he has to overwhelm them.

For a moment, everyone looked at Zhao Ning with complicated eyes.

And the thoughtful one had already pulled Zhao Ning to call, "Brother Zhao, you have less time to come to the inn these days, but do you have another place to go?"

"I'm studying at home." Zhao Ning didn't notice everyone's abnormality, and warmly invited everyone, "If you have time, you can come to my house to play."

"Okay!" Everyone responded in unison.

Zhao Ning was taken aback, this sentence was just a polite remark, everyone was very busy, even the time for eating had to be squeezed out to read books, how could he have time to be a guest with his family?

So he invited everyone many times, but everyone politely declined every time.

Although Zhao Ning was stunned, he quickly realized and happily said that he would sweep the couch to welcome him.

It is very gratifying to invite classmates to play at home. Zhao Ning went home early to prepare.

He took out the money to the mother-in-law who was cooking, and said: "Prepare more food, tea and so on, and go to the street to see when fresh fruits are available, buy some and put them on the plate..."

Looking at the excited Zhao Ning, Gu Jingyun sneered lightly. He was also in the inn today, although he only heard sporadic words, it was enough for him to guess their purpose.

This is also one of the reasons why Gu Jingyun has been reluctant to have a deep friendship with the candidates. He goes to the inn every once in a while just to listen to some news and everyone's discussions.

He turned and went back to the backyard, and the Shutong at the side hurriedly followed after seeing him, and after serving tea to Gu Jingyun courteously, he asked, "Mr. Gu, do you want some snacks? The cook made chestnut cakes this morning, why don't I bring you some."

Chestnut cake is one of Li Baolu's favorite desserts recently.

Gu Jingyun glanced at the clever book boy, and said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth, "Go and bring it."

Shunxin hurriedly trotted to the kitchen to get some snacks.

Although he is not very smart, but bystanders can tell, he can see that Young Master Gu really likes his young master to teach him. During this period of time when he served young master to the inn, he often heard people say that young master has improved, but young master has little time to study Quite a lot, unlike before when he only slept for two hours a day and his face was extremely pale.

He now sleeps for three and a half hours every day, and rests for half an hour at noon every day, his face is getting more rosy, and he is full of energy.

He is not a scholar, but he is a servant, and he is still a servant who only has his master in his heart. Naturally, he knows whether the master is getting better or worse.

But Mr. Gu sneered just now, which made Shun Xin startled and felt uneasy, so he naturally wanted to flatter her, so that she could be instructed a few words.