My whole family traveled across time with an encyclopedia

Chang Yuan sat on the dragon chair and listened to the reports to the court from the civil servants and generals below.

After handling the matters one by one, Chang Yuan left several ministers behind, including Ning Changrong.

The others dispersed, but these ministers remained in the hall.

These ministers are all insiders of the glass-for-food strategy.

No matter how powerful Ning Changrong is, no matter how many ideas he has, he cannot divide them into several people and use them. There must be other people to help perfect the strategy.

Chang Yuan directly asked Ning Changrong: "Ning Qing, please tell me how the glass thing is going."

Ning Changrong bowed his hands to several colleagues and said respectfully to Chang Yuan: "Reporting to your majesty, Zhang Xifan and others sent by me have visited almost all the medium-sized tribes in the grassland, and have sold eight Glazed Skys. The wolf was exchanged for a total of 20 shi of food, 30 taels of gold and silver, countless furs, and a thousand livestock.”

"At present, people have been sent to the garrison of General Wang Hanting."

Chang Yuan stroked the beard on his chin with satisfaction, and Ning Changrong continued: "The progress of the White Lotus Sect is relatively slow, but it has also exchanged 10 tons of grain for Da'an, and about [-] taels of gold and silver. At the same time, it has also made friends. We have met many high-level officials of the White Lotus Sect and can continue to provide us with some inside information."

Ning Changrong reported for a full two-quarters of an hour before explaining everything clearly in detail.

Chang Yuan Longyan was delighted: "I really didn't trust anyone wrongly."

Ning Changrong humbly raised his hands and said: "This matter is not the work of one person. Without the help and cooperation of all the adults, the matter cannot be completed."

Chang Yuan chuckled and said, "Okay, everyone deserves credit."

In one fell swoop, the court saved hundreds of thousands of loads of grain, and the granary that was originally in short supply suddenly became rich.

Chang Yuan has more trust in Ning Changrong himself, who proposed this doctrine.

Xie Hongcai was an important minister in the court and one of the ministers who made suggestions together with Ning Changrong.

He said with a smile on his face: "Master Ning's idea saved a lot of food and silver for the court. The main credit belongs to Master Ning. We are just doing some auxiliary work. Master Ning is too humble."

Several other ministers also smiled and refused to take credit.

Ning Changrong also laughed and chatted with them, coming and going.

After understanding what happened, Chang Yuan asked several other ministers to go down, but Ning Changrong stayed behind.

Chang Yuan picked up a memorial from the corner of the table, "Is this the memorial you submitted? Tell me why you suddenly want me to open Enke?"

Ning Changrong was still wondering why Chang Yuan kept him here, and it turned out that it was because of this.

He raised his hands and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the corruption in Chang County has been widely implicated. Therefore, a lot of oranges have been dealt with and a lot of positions have been vacant. Although those intern officials can temporarily replace them, in fact, the entire Da'an is still in a shortage of people. In this state, many officials wear multiple hats.”

"There is no problem at this stage, but something will happen if things go on like this."

"It's not a good thing for one official to have too much control."

Chang Yuan raised his eyebrows and immediately understood what Ning Changrong meant.

Although the current officials are very useful, many of them wear multiple hats. It can be said that they are a single-handed presence in the local area.

It is of course very easy for this kind of person to confuse the people below and start a rebellion.

He said in a deep voice: "Keep talking."

"Students in the college have already produced a group of trainee officers, but they are still a drop in the bucket for Da'an's ever-expanding territory." Ning Changrong continued: "Only Kaienke can obtain scholars, and students who pass the assessment can be directly awarded officers. .”

"As for those students in the college who have not yet completed their studies, they can also participate in this encore."

Chang Yuan said doubtfully: "But they don't have any fame."

Ning Changrong took the initiative to explain: "Your Majesty can grant them a birth certificate, so that they can participate together with those students."

"Your Majesty can also issue a decree recognizing the merits of the previous dynasty. Even if some people want to make a fuss, they will not make too big a fuss. Those who have received His Majesty's favor will actually help His Majesty suppress the disturbance."

"Those students who participated in Enke together will be given a juren background. If they can pass the subject examination, they can also be directly awarded official positions and sent out to serve as intern officials."

Chang Yuan has been thinking about Ning Changrong's words. When Ning Changrong said that he should recognize the achievements of the previous dynasty, he subconsciously resisted.

But if you don't admit it, it means that everyone has no citizenship and has to slowly go from being a child student to a scholar to a scholar. Such a torment will not be completed in a year or two.

But if he had to wait for such a long time, it would defeat his original intention of opening Enke.

With this little time to wait, the students from the college would have already graduated and could disperse to various places to serve as intern officials.

Seeing that Chang Yuan remained silent, Ning Changrong did not urge him and lowered his head to wait.

After about a stick of incense, Chang Yuan's voice came from above.

"I will do as you say. I will issue a decree to recognize the former dynasty's merit as soon as possible. However, this is only for one year. If you fail the Enke assessment this time, you will become a civilian."

After much thought, Chang Yuan came up with such a compromise.

Asking him to admit his identity as a former scholar, isn't this questioning himself?This has been his biggest setback.

Even Ning Changrong, who proposed this idea, was actually not very sure. He was surprised that Chang Yuan agreed.

"It's Your Majesty."

Chang Yuan took the initiative and asked: "What do you think should be tested in the imperial examination? Or should we just copy it from the previous dynasty?"

All dynasties in the past directly copied the system of the previous dynasty and used it directly after making some modifications.

Ning Changrong thought for a while, then raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, we are opening Enke to select useful people. If those selected are those who only know how to know and shake their heads, and don't know anything about people's livelihood, then let's choose them Come up, you might as well stay as you are.”

Chang Yuan's lips curled up slightly, "Then what do you think?"

He knew that Ning Changrong would not act without purpose.

"After thinking about it, I feel that our assessment content should focus on reality and solve problems. As long as there are mistakes in what you say, it means that the scholar should have a gap in his belly. At least he is not a nerd who can only memorize things by rote."

"It's just..." Ning Changrong was a little worried and did not continue.

Chang Yuan asked: "Just what? If you have something to say, say it quickly and don't hesitate."

Ning Changrong cupped his hands and said hesitantly: "It's just that it's hard for ordinary people to have enough to eat. Most of the people who have the opportunity to see and understand the outside world are people from wealthy families."

"If they are assessed according to this method, I am afraid that most of them will be sons of aristocratic families who have elders in their families who are officials."

After his initial contact with several aristocratic families, Chang Yuan had a bad impression of them. When Ning Changrong said this, his smiling face immediately fell.