Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 2108 Counter-offer

Man Bao also simply said: "Then take the two essays, a person will always eat one or two catties of vegetables a day, and meat, even if it’s the next day, now a catty of meat, even if it’s pork, will have twelve essays. A catty, chickens, cattle and sheep are more expensive, even if you only eat half a catty of meat the next day..."

"Where you eat so much, two or two meats are enough..." Liu Shangshu said: "And don't think I don't know. Pork for twelve cents per catty is good meat. We can buy some not good meat. Pig’s head, some lean meat that is relatively firewood, and other things like water, cheap five or six pens, and expensive seven or eight pens."

  The emperor and other ministers were dumbfounded. Was the meat sold outside like that?

  Wait, why do they know so much?

  Never mind Liu Shangshu, he is Shangshu from the Ministry of Households anyway, and his subordinates send price lists every day, but Zhou Man, you are not from the Ministry of Households, and you don’t have to go out to buy vegetables. Why are you so familiar?

  Man Bao naturally knew from her father. He would go shopping with the sixth brother or the eldest brother and sister-in-law in the morning when he was okay. He occasionally bought some vegetables for the family, most of the time he bought it for restaurants.

During this time, she often lived outside the palace for the convenience of taking care of the three patients in Huangzhuang. She woke up early in the morning and sat with her father to eat breakfast. While listening to him talk about what and what today, she raised a penny. It's cheaper...

  Too much to say, Man Bao took it down.

  The two bargaining between you and me, and Xiao Yuanzheng and Lu Taiyi from time to time to help, Liu Shangshu also thinks that one hundred taels is too small, so he reluctantly mentions 600 taels.

However, the money is not directly given to the hospital, or even directly to the Ministry of Justice. Instead, he said: "When the time comes, the menu will be listed, and those who are willing to accept this item will order or take turns in these menus with three meals a day. By the end of the month, the Criminal Department will report to the Ministry of Households together with other expenses."

   Still reluctant to give money directly.

   "There are other methods, such as reducing the distance of exile, and the number of years will be calculated separately."

  Shangshu of the Criminal Department felt that this was troublesome, so he said that it is better to pay the money in one lump sum, and the treasury won’t be able to get it out of 600 taels, right?

  Liu Shangshu’s dead pig is not afraid of boiling water and said: “Yes, it’s just hard to get it out. Otherwise, the Criminal Ministry will move a bit from him. This year, the Criminal Ministry has applied for a lot of foreign funds."

  Shangshu of the Criminal Department immediately stopped speaking.

Wei knows: "Your Majesty, in addition to exile some felons to the border, they can directly change their military status. Their return to the civilian population may endanger one side, but in the army, there are sergeants under the care of them. Make some achievements."

  The emperor asked Mr. Tang, "What does Tang Qing think?"

  Lord Tang frowned and thought.

After some felons in the prison of the Ministry of Justice are escorted to work in the mines, they are really miserable, worse than the exiles. After all, they have to be seen as slaves, and most felons cannot get out alive. The mine basically died within ten years.

  Compared to being in the army, he is much more tolerant. Although he is still fighting with his fate, he may accumulate merits to punish himself.

  Even if the accumulated merits are not enough to offset the crime, the life will be much better than in the mine.

  In the end, he was going to fight with his life, so Mr. Tang no longer had any opinions and nodded.

  So everyone tentatively decided on these kinds of reward methods, and went back to get them to the Criminal Ministry to give candidates.

  The emperor was still very satisfied with the results of Zhou Man's experiment. Knowing that they were busy these two days, he asked them to go back to rest.

Man Bao got a two-day vacation, which was to make up for the last ten-day vacation. When she happily mounted her horse and walked home with her medicine box, Xiao Yuanzheng’s carriage came up from behind, and the curtain opened: "Zhou Madam, you should not be busy with other tasks in the day after tomorrow, first go to the Criminal Department to find me, and we will pick people together."

  Man Bao nodded in response.

  The carriage hurried ahead of her and left.

  She returned home, jumped off the horse and handed Chi Ji to her servants, took down the medicine box and asked, "Are they home, Bai Shan?"

  "Young Master and Young Master Er Tang went out to the Zhuangyuan Building. They also said that if Miss Man came back, she could go to the Zhuangyuan Building to play with them."

  "Is the examination of the staff not finished yet?"

The Mingjing exam was held in the capital of the first month. After the rankings were released in February, there was an exam of the Ministry of Ritual. It was very simple. Go in and let the officials of the Ministry of Ritual see that their faces were regular, the height was appropriate, and they could pass without any problems in speaking. It was the easiest An exam.

  Then there is the official selection examination of the staff.

  Bai Shan didn’t plan to choose officials, so although he passed the Jinshi examination, he didn’t even go to the Ministry of Etiquette examination. However, Chongwenguan and Guozijian still gave the students a holiday and allowed them to move freely.

  Yi Ziyang went to participate, but I don’t know how well the exam is going.

  Man Bao thought for a while, and after taking the medicine box back to the room, he rode his horse to the champion building to find them.

  Yi Ziyang is giving them exam questions for the silent punishment department. He has a good memory, so he won't forget the questions after finishing.

  Moreover, the No. 1 Scholar Building is now full of discussion topics, even if he forgets it for a while, go out and go around, and he will remember when they hear them talking.

  Bai Shan looked at the exam questions and exclaimed, “It’s really not easy.”

Yi Ziyang nodded, "Most of them are very basic questions, most of which are questions about the promotion of officials, and the other is to persuade the class to do it. It is not difficult to do it, but if you want to write it perfectly, it is not necessarily. You see here The two questions are about the head-up of the official document and the head-up and end for your majesty. To be honest, I have been confused for a while, and I don't know if it is correct."

   Feng Zongping said: "There are also examples of letting the Ministry of Criminal Justice write the case. This is even more difficult."

Yi Ziyang nodded, "But I have heard that the official selection examination of the Jingke Department is much simpler than the Jinshi Department. With some knowledge from other departments that they will use, Jinshi is a lot heavier than them. This time I don’t know how many people will be stuck."

  Bai Shandao: "It shouldn't be. Jinshi department has a small number of people. As long as the noodles are not bad, it should be fine."

  Yi Ziyang nodded, "Fortunately, there are not many difficult questions, but they are too detailed."

When   Manbao arrived, they had almost discussed it. Seeing her come in, everyone got up and sat down after seeing the ceremony, and ordered her a new meal.

  Man Bao asked Yi Ziyang, "How is your test?"

  Yi Ziyang smiled and said: "So so so."

  Man Bao smiled and said: "You still have merit in going to Xiazhou this time. If you rank higher in the official examination this time, you will take advantage of the selection of officials."

  Everyone was taken aback, and then they remembered this. Those of them who had been to Xiazhou seemed to have been rewarded by the court, Zhou Man was better than them, and they were rewarded by the palace.

  Feng Zongping lifted his spirits and asked: "So your Majesty also knows us?"

  Man Bao nodded, "Of course I know, it seems that Kong Jijiu reported it."

  　See you at nine in the evening

  (End of this chapter)